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Houses and all the rest. I dont know how things run anywhere else. I barely know how things run here. Those comments that he made, the reason i aired those tonight is i thought he was very succinct and clear and accurate in the way that he factually described the legal part of the obstruction case. Thats in the Mueller Report. And it was tidy and it was from an unusual source. And may the chips fall where had he may. Yeah, and i have to say its not the first time he has said things that are counter to the general flow at fox. He has in the past at several points clung to reasonable positions that were not being held by very many other voices there. Has also said insane things including about this investigation. He was the one who was saying that it was england who was spying on the trump campaign, that he had sources that were telling him. Ive been thinking about that because trump revived that this past week. He confirmed he was going to have a state visit to the uk and then the next day started ranting about this Andrew Napolitano conspiracy that england was really the true spy on the trump campaign. Maybe he wanted to get disinvited from his state visit . Andrew napolitano is explaining things in a very that is very helpful and has been a complete flut. A range of performance. At the end of the hour tonight, were going to talk about what it feels like to live in times when the president of the United States as he did again today, defended people who shouted jews will not replace us. He defended those people again today. Saying that some of those people who shouteded that are very fine people. It made me turn today to a passage in anne franks diary that i think is the most powerful description of what it feels like, what it feels like to live in the midst of this kind of thing, of this kind of talk, this kind of darkness. Much darker time that anne frank lived in but her guidance lives on and we will come to that at the end of the hour tonight. There are new details from the Washington Post tonight about how Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein was privately briefing President Trump on the russia investigation during the russia investigation and assuring the president that he was on Rod Rosenstein was on the president s side. The Washington Post describes a call between the president and Rod Rosenstein last year after New York Times report came out that said that Rod Rosenstein had suggested wearing a wire, that him wearing a wire. To record the president. According to the Washington Post, rosenstein who by one account had gotten teary eyed just before call in a meeting with trumps chief of staff sought to defuse is the volatile situation and assure the president he was on his team according to people familiar with the matter. He criticized the times report published in late september and blamed it on former deputy fbi director Andrew Mccabe whose recs formed its basis. Then he talked about special counsel robert s. Mueller iiis investigation of russias interference in the 2016 election and told the president i would make sure trump was treated fairly. People familiar with the conversation said. I give the investigation credibility, rosenstein said in the words of one Administration Official offering their own characterization of the call. I can land the plane. In the end, the president didnt trust Rod Rosenstein to land that plane alone. Who if anyone outside the Justice Department has seen portions or all of the special counsels report . Has anyone in the white house seen any of the report . Im not going to, as i say, im landing the plane right now and you know, ive been willing to discuss my my letters and the process going forward. But the reports going to be out next week. Im not going to get into the details of the process until the planes on the ground. The Washington Post reporting tonight says that President Trump eventually decided that Rod Rosenstein was on the team after all. According to a senior Administration Official. The Washington Post reports that Rod Rosenstein was willing to resign after the report of him wanting to wear a wire last year i can go, im ready to go. I can resign but i dont want to go out with a tweet. Deputy attorney general said according to one persons account. But according to the Washington Post Rod Rosenstein met with President Trump aboard air force one a few weeks later and ultimately remained at the Justice Department. The Washington Post reports that rosenstein also told the president more than once that he agreed trump was being treated unfairly. The one person familiar with the matter said rosenstein was probably referring to Media Coverage rather than the investigation itself. To keep his job, the Deputy Attorney general has worked to mollify an often angry trump while at the same time protecting the special counsels investigation of the president and his campaign. In a speech today to the National Rifle association, President Trump said that he was the victim of an attempted coup. Former cia director john brennan said this about the president s talk of a coupe. Thats the president alleging that you among others were in on the act for some kind of an attempted overthrow. How do you respond . I dont think its surprising at all that we continue to hear these sociopath thick ram blinks of this plump claiming there was an effort to prevent him from being elected and to unseat him. I welcome any type of continued investigationing in terms of what we did during that period of time we were in government. Ive testified in front of congress. You would do it again. Absolutely ill do it again. Leading off our discussion tonight three democratic members of congress, almost a quorum for a subcommittee. Congressman Lloyd Doggett of texas is a member of the house ways and means california, Jared Huffman who made news this week which we will get to in in a minute and stays a plaskett from the u. S. Virgin islands, a member of the House Oversight committee, was also a senior counsel to former Deputy Attorney general james comey and served as an acting Deputy Assistant attorney general at the Justice Department. And ancongresswoman plaskett, id like to start with you on your reading of this new information were getting tonight about Rod Rosensteins role within the Justice Department where you used to work and his interaction with the president. What is your interpretation of that . This is the very reason that members of congress are asking for an investigation and for testimony notwithstanding the Mueller Report being out already. This is subsequent activity that is outside of the report. We need to get to. As attorney general barr said, hes waiting till the plane has landed. Well, the plane is at the gate now. So were ready for investigations and for him to come back and give us some more detail absubstance on the process by which this report was actually made public. And congressman doingette, youve watched a lot of investigations over your career. Here we will very this report on rosenstein tonight. In effect, fighting for his job according to the white house sources and it sounds like saying whatever he needed to say to hold on to that job with the president. Its very troubling. And i think what we have to do in congress is fight for democracy. Seldom in recent decades has is democracy faced a danger as great as donald trump. And his sleazy gang. We have to be there, standing up for democracy. Recognizing that Rod Rosenstein and mr. Barr are not going to be any help here. I think our patience should be at an end. Investigate, do it respectfully but when people do not show up to testify, arrest them. Get the jail ready and get the fines ready to insure that theres enforcement. Congressman huffman, this is our first chance to talk since the reports about Speaker Pelosis Conference Call with democratic members about how to proceed at this point in the investigations of the president. What can you share with us about your contribution in that call . In that call and in other opportunities my message to colleagues and everyone who will listen to me on this is to think about the downside of not acting in this hick moment that has been forced upon us really. I am not haunted by the Political Uncertainty of moving forward and doing our job under the constitution. I am haunted by the thought of not doing that job especially as the lawlessness and defiance from this president continues unfolding every day. I want to read a report in yahoo news from Paul Rosensweig who was part of ken starrs special prosecutors team, prosecuting going after president clinton which led to his impeachment. Paul rosensweig who served as a senior counsel to ken starr said that a significant number of his former colleagues from the independent Counsel Office share his views. My view is theres ample reason right now for the House Judiciary Committee to begin an impeachment inquiry and if it were up to me, i would recommend them to impeach he said. Congress won plaskett, your reaction to that. Thats an opinion. I think we are using our Constitutional Authority as well as our constitutional obligation to investigate. Theres no constitutional obligation to impeach a president. There is a constitutional obligation for us to be a check and balance which i think were being. I dont want us to fall into the same tram that this white house falls into and many of the officials in there that they feel that they have to make themself heard and make they feel self known. The actions of rosenstein, the actions of barr are so outside the norms of normal prosecutors that i think the American People want us to move cautiously, want to us give them the full details. But not to be champing at the bit to make ourselves heard anton have our place in history in this time. I think that they want to us investigate. But they also want us to legislate at the same time. And there are many things going on in congress that the people of this country are not hearing about. Because weve become obsessed with whats happening in the Mueller Report and with this president in every tweet and every turn that he makes us follow. I want to take a look at two items in a new Washington Post poll. One is, 58 saying that yes, donald trump lied about matters involving the mueller investigation. 5 saying the president lied. And then on the other side of it, the question of should congress begin impeachment proceedings. And this is the same group thats 58 of whom said the president lied. Only 38 sorry 37 say that congress should begin impeachment proceedings. 56 saying they should not begin. Congressman doggett, what is your reaction to those polls . Well, i think that will dot has clearly committed impeachable offenses and that every day he is in office, the danger to the security of america grows. The job we have is to see that hes out of office as quickly as possible. But with every republican except mitt romney, refusing to even recognize the wrongdoing, it may be that the most effective and clearest path to do that is the 2020 election, not impeachment. At the same time, this is about more than donald trump. We really are making a decision here about lawlessness from the chief executive of this country. Were setting a standard that applies not only this year but for future president s. Im troubled. I would not take impeachment off the table. I think we need to investigate promptly and thoroughly and then make a decisioning about that. Congressman huffman, how much is the calendar one of the problems here . Were 18 months away from an election that could change the presidency. When weve looked at impeachment proceedings in the past, once you start with hearings in the Judiciary Committee, were talking the better part of the year. If they started next week, it would probably take the rest of this year. Theyre obviously not going to start next week. Nor would they probably be starting next month. And so the calendar seems to be a significant factor in trying to come up with a plan in the house of representatives. Its certainly a challenge. But lawrence, i agree with my colleagues. How we do this matters and i want to be very clear. Nobody i know of is proposing that we just rush right to an Impeachment Vote on the floor of the house. We do need to have a sober and thoughtful and transparent hearings. We need to make our case to the American People. All of these references to polls lets remember that Public Opinion is not static. It can change. Our constitutional duty is a lot more static. And i would argue that when youre presented with the kind of facts we see before us in this situation, you have an obligation to move forward. I think a lot of that is happening in the context of these investigations. Im one member of congress who feels like it probably should be in the context of an actual impeachment inquiry but the investigations are moving, theyre moving with urgency. I can live with that for now. Congresswoman plaskett as a member of the Oversight Committee, your commit is in a normal mode is in investigative mode. Its the one committee that is almost always in investigative mode and so your committees going to be acting in an investigative mode whether the Judiciary Committee is or isnt. How do you coordinate the different tracks of investigation that the various committees are following . Ing. I think that the chairs of the committees are doing a fantastic job with that under the leadership of Speaker Pelosi and really making sure ha they each are staying within their lanes. Whether thats congressman doggett in ways and means in looking at tax issues, the Judiciary Committee, looking at the issues that they oversight over and oversight who really falled you the umbrella of pretty much all of government making sure that were picking up the pieces, as well. You know, were already looking at emoluments claws violations as well as campaign finance. Along with in terms of the obstruction of justice issues. So all of those things i think are going to be going on in parallel tracks and i agree wholeheartedly with my colleagues we are going to be methodical about this, were going to be thoughtful about this and leave nothing unturned. Individuals will have to answer to our committees. Whether they try and avoid subpoenas or not. We are going to meet our constitutional obligation and let the clips fall where they may. And we believe that the courts are going to back us up whether those be fines compelling them to appear or jailtime if necessary. I want to get to the subpoena question. Can you all stay with us for across the next commercial break . Because this is subpoena question that congresswoman plas ket brought up is the important one. That will tell us a lot about the calendar. How much delay is involved in that subpoena. Evasion game that the celebration is playing. If you could please all stay with us. Well go to commercial break now. 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President trump seems to think the Trump Administration has given more than enough testimony about donald trump. I let white House Counsel mcgahn testify. I let everybody testify. I think mcgahn excuse me, i think mcgahn was in there for 30 hours. Whoever heard of such a thing. I said i want everybody to testify. But now the president seems to be trying to stop everybody from testifying. Donald trumps refuse to cooperate with the congressional investigations is forcing democrats to examine increasingly aggressive Legal Options to enforce their oversight authority. House democrats warn that Trump Officials who refuse to comply with subpoenas could be held in contempt of congress, fined up to 25,000 a day. Possibly even jailed. As happened in the watergate investigation. The threat happened in the watergate investigation when president nixon tried to prevent his aides from testifying, senator sam irvin chairman of the Watergate Investigative Committee threatened arrest of white house staff if they did not testify to the Watergate Committee and then they did testify to the Watergate Committee. This week donald trump has stonewalled subpoenas and document teameds from committees investigating his tax rushes, the census, the recent firings from the department of homeland security. Tonight the white house agreed to a republican proposal to allow carl kline, the former head of personnel security, to sit for a voluntary transcribed interview to answer questions about how security clearances were granted to officials like Jared Kushner and ivanka trump. But that is not what chairman Elijah Cummings was requested. He wanted cline to testify before the House Oversight committee and theres no sign that the democrats will accept this proposal because there is a scheduling conflict that that would represent with William Barrs testimony on wednesday. Were back with congresswoman stacey plaskett, congressman lloyd dog yet and lloyd huffman. The tax return issue, youre on the ways and means committee. Chairman rich i neal has the absolute Legal Authority to see any tax return he wants to see. Thats written into law very clearly. What is the status tonight of that demand by chairman neal . Well, its really up to chairman neal now that hes been denied not once but twice each of these letters is just about running out the clock as youve been saying. Theyre trying to delay this may 6th deadline is phony. I hope that chairman neal will move forward expeditiously to get these returns. And whether its there or someone who refuses to come in front of the Oversight Committee or the Judiciary Committee, i think really the house needs to explore contracting for jail space. We need to send a message that this is not going to be putting peel up at the willard hotel, theyll be there with the common criminals arrested if they do not comply with the inherent power of congress toes subpoena records. And to subpoena people to come in. And whether its through arrest and jailing or through daily fines we intend to enforce these provisions and were not going to let them run out the clock. And so now, President Trump is saying he doesnt want don mcgahn to respond to chairman nadlers subpoena to testify to the Judiciary Committee but donald trump now wants to publicly testify about don mccubans testimony. Lets listen to what the president said today about don mcgahns testimony. I never told don mcgahn to fire mueller. If i wanted to fire mueller, i would have done it myself. Its very simple. I had the right to and frankly, whether i did or he did, we had the absolute right to fire mueller. So congresswoman plaskett, thats the president of the United States. Accusing former white House Counsel don mcgahn of lying under oath to special counsel robert mueller. Because the Mueller Report says that don mcgahn did indeed they will them that donald trump told him to fire robert mueller. And so how can don mcgahn now not testify to the Judiciary Committee now that the president is out there repeatedly, this isnt the first time, saying that don mcgahn in effect lied to the special counsel . Well, im sure the committees are going to be asking attorney mcgahn, mr. Mcgahn to give to justify what he said and to really try and firm up those statements. But i want everybody to remember that the president is not speaking under oath when hes talking to the press. And when he answered questions that the special counsel gave him, he only answered the questions related to the russia investigation. And refused to answer any questions related to the obstruction of justice. So we ves no statements from the president under oath written under the investigation that relate to the obstruction of justice. And until he does so, his word cant be taken as being truthful at this point. And congress man huffman, whats so important about what congresswoman plaskett just said is that one of the questions the president obviously would have been asked is, did you call up don mcgahn twice on a weekend and twice tell him to fire this the special prosecutor . In other words, he would have been asked to say what he said today under oath. Well, and the only thing we have from this president under oath are his written answers where he suddenly cape down with a terrible case of amnesia every time he was asked a question. This is president is not interested in going under oath and being transparents. Hes certainly not interested in in being accountable to the rule of law. I think its gut check time for the United States congress. He is testing us. He have trying to see if we have the stomaching to do our job and to enforce the law. Its a heck of a moment. Congressman doggett, what about that in the timetable on subpoena and subpoena enforcement, what does that look liking . Well, we need to move forward expeditiously. When the chief of staff for the president says well never get the tax returns, we dont need to hear much more. We should be ready to move forward on it. When the president says hell erect a stonewall here and wont permit anyone to testify, thats get the subpoenas out. Lets set a short timetable on them, get them over there, ask them to tell the truth. I believe some of these officials will decide to comply with the subpoenas instead of complying with a president who is a man of his last word and who lies about everything. And they shouldntics pose themselves to jail time and criminal fines because of willingness to follow this man. Thank you all very much for joining and staying for some extra time on our friday neat hear. Stacey plaskett, lloyd doggest, lloyd huffman, thank you all very much. Today donald trump once again stucking to his belief that people who were shouting jews will not replace us are very fine people. Because they all love general robert e. Lee just as much as donald trump does. Thats next. Bleech aww awww its the easiest because its the cheesiest. Kraft for the win win. You wouldnt accept from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. 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And thats when we heard the words of the president of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation. He said there were some very fine people on both sides. Very fine people on both sides . With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And here was the Trump Reelection Campaigns response to joe biden today. If you look at what i said, you will see that that question was answered perfectly. And i was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to robert e. Lee, a great general whether you like it or not, he was one of the great generals. I have spoken to many generals here right at the white house and many people thought of the generals, they think he was maybe their favorite general. People were there protesting the taking down of the monument of robert e. Lee. Everybody knows that. Favorite general . I dont know. I like generals who dont kill americans. And robert e. Lee killed more americans than any general in any army in the history of the world. And every day that robert e. Lee was killing hundreds of thousands of americans and ordering hundreds of thousands of americans to their deaths in hopeless battle against the United States of america, robert e. Lee was committing treason against the United States of america. And every day robert e. Lee was killing hundreds of thousands of americans he was also a slave owner who tortured his slaves. And donald trump is right that the people he said were very fine people were in charlottesville to mock other things worship robert e. Lee specifically because robert e. Lee killed hundreds of thousands of americans so that he could continue to be a slave owner who could continue to torture his slaves whenever he felt like it. Thats what Donald Trumps very fine people love about robert e. Lee. Some of them say they have no problem with killing americans. One of them did kill an american in charlottesville. Heather heyer. One of the leaders of the racist antisemitic mob that trump says includes very fine people told vice news well wa effing kill these people if we have to, and after he said that, Heather Heyer was killed. One of them did exactly what that man said they would do. Donald trump said today exactly, exactly what he would have said if he were the president of the Confederate States of america instead of the United States of america. And after this break, well be joined by ron klain and aisha moody mills to consider how Donald Trumps offensive behavior and comments as president will now be catching up to him in the president ial campaign. But i can tell you Liberty Mutual customized my Car Insurance so i only pay for what i need. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. So chantix can help you quit slow turkey. 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And now the president ial candidates are coming at him for what he has actually said and done as president of the United States. Joining our discussion now ron klain, senior aide to Vice President biden. And to president obama when they were in the white house and democratic strategist aisha moodie mills a fellow at Harvards Kennedy school. And aisha, the president today said that he got that answer perfectly right. He didnt repeat it. He didnt go into the same words again, but what hes saying was right was ta there were very fine people on both sides which means he believes that some of those people who we saw chanting jews will not replace us and other things were very fine people. This is a pattern of the president , right . Where he embraces White Supremacists he embraces nazi sympathizers and then says oh well, you know, theyre all kind of fine people. Heres the challenge we have not yet reconciled in america the fact that the civil war was about something that was far deeper than the economic condition of the south that we like to talk about. And that absolutely was a fundamental moral test for us around how we think about certain communities in this country. And weve never really faced that headon. Weve never really dealt with and talked about the legacy of racism of antisympathetic sentiment. And the president is not in any position to want to even have that conversation. I think its important for us to understand our history and to be reminded that that rally that happened there in charlottesville was created by White Supremacists. The entire intention of it was an opportunity to show strength among people who believe in white power. It wasnt simply about a monument. In fact, in the organizing of it very little conversation was being had around the robert e. Lee monument. Its important for us to use this moment to actually confront headon what was this is time period about, what was this war about, who were these people and im so thankful to you for actually in your previous monologue talking about the fact that this is someone who killed more americans on american soil than anyone else. And yet, there are still people who have reverence for them. Thats a real conversation and a real soul searching we should be having as a nation. I think its important. Ron klain, the president talks about favorite generals today. He cant think of any from world war ii who will be rated the nazi death camps. He cant think of any of those generals he thinks of the treasonous robert e. Lee who killed more americans than any other general in history. Yeah, you know, its amazing on a lot of levels. First of all you see the consequence of Vice President biden and other democrats putting pressure on trump on some of his statements. And you see him default back to his two competencies spreading hatred and lies elevating a slave owning treasonous general as a hero which he obviously is not and telling the lie that many active generals tell him all the time legal is their favorite general. Obviously thats not truant white house cant provide any names of generals who say that. So this is a president who got to the white house by spreading hatred and spreading lies who maintains power by spreading hatred and spreading lies and is going to run a campaign in 2020 of spreading hatred and spreading lies. Its important for democrats to stand up to that and i think they are. Lets look at bill welds Campaign Announcement video. This is the republican who is running against donald trump in the republican primaries and his announcement video hit the president on a larger range of issues than joe biden did. Lets watch this. Today we need bill weld more than ever. Because america deserves better. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured okay. I dont know what i say uh, i dont remember. I moved on her like a. [ bleep ] i couldnt get there and she was married. When youre a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Whatever you want. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. You also had people that were very fine beam on both sides. Thats always the worst one, i hell shah very fine people on both sides. Its all bad. I dont know at this point i can say theres a worse one because its all bad. The republicans are really, really showing up as had hypocrites right now. This was was a party of socalled family val yous. When you watch those clips and look at the person they referee that so many of the leaders who frankly refuse to push back against, this man is certainly hanging out with racists and White Supremacists and racists and nazis think he is one of them. He is defiling women in the worst quay way. Hes making fun of people with different disabilities and no ones saying anything on his side. So far for bill weld 0 run this ad i think its great and important. Im hoping that the moral center of the Republican Party rises up and looks at this and says this isnt quite who we want to be, someone that represents our values. Such a great point because when donald trump first said there were very fine people on both sides, there was some republican objection to that. There were some republicans who then stepped up and said hes not speaking for me on that. But none today. The president can say it again a couple of years later and now that hes in campaign mode, there wont be a single republican who objects to the way he said that today. One thing weve seen is the collapse of the moral center of the Republican Party whether its mitt romney being the only one to take trump to task for the Mueller Report and others who criticize different of his positions during the 2016 campaign. Now falling fully into line. This is Donald Trumps Republican Party. Bill weld notwithstanding. And they are going to renominate donald trump and they are going to run donald trump and run behind donald trump on the agenda of a man who believes that robert lee is a great hero. Of a man who believes that there were fine people on both sides in charlottesville. And you know, as Vice President biden said this is a battle for the soul of america. It is a battle for the soul of america. Were going to have to make a decision as a country as to which side were on. We know what side Donald Trumps on. We know what side his supporters are on that line up behind this agenda and we need to make it clear what side the majority of the American People are on. Were going to leave it there. Before we do, let me make one point about bill weld and the reason i keep bringing him back into these conversations. History shows that when a president is challenged from within his own party, in the primaries, if that challenger stays in the racist just beyond new hampshire, that president will lose in the general election. Its just an automatic acformula at this point. Its never been defied. And so people who are hoping for a change in presidency should be paying attention to the Weld Campaign as well as those democratic campaigns. Aisha, ron, thank you both very much for joining us on this friday night. Appreciate it. And when we come back, at the end of the hour, we will just stop the news talk for a couple minutes to just consider what it feels like to live in a country where the president says that some of the people who shouted jews will not replace it are very fine people. What does it feel like to live in that kind of darkness . There are some historical models for us to look to and we will do that at the end of the hour tonight. 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If you really liked president obama, if he agreed with what you believed you wanted for america, the last couple years have been the darkest years in American History as you have personally experienced it if youre 14 years old. So how does that feel . How does darkness feel . America was in a very dark place when i was 4 years old and getting darker. The body count in vietnam was growing, my brother was worried about being drafted, my other brother was eager to enter combat, where he died in 1969. Most men tried to avoid service in that war. A draft card in your pocket felt like a death sentence. I remember people talking about avoiding service, or protesting the war, and a few people talking about why they want today serve in the war, but i never heard anyone talk about after the war. No talk about after the war. The darkness of the war was so complete that the generals fighting the war and the reporters covering the war talked about the light at the end of the tunnel and whether or not we could see it or not. And none of us could see it. But it was such a dark time that the most optimistic phrasing you could get out of our commanders in the vietnam war was that they could see sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel. The light at the end of the tunnel that they could see and we couldnt gave us no hope in the darkness. And i know that is the way these days feel for some people. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, 18 months from now you are guaranteed an end to the darkness of trumpism and a president who defends people who say jews will not replace us. Just 18 months from now if enough people show up to vote to change the president. Most people disapprove of donald trump today and every day of his presidency, especially the days he defends nazis and racists. I cant promise he wont be reelected, but you cannot pretent ypr pretend you dont see the light at the end of the tunnel. If the end of the vietnam war was just 18 months away, my cousin johnny would be alive today, he would be a grandfather. If you told me the end of the war was just 18 months away, i would have been thrilled and filled with optimism about the future and about what this country could be after the vietnam war. But that is not what it felt like then. That is not what i felt like. I felt what many of you, certainly many 14yearolds, might be feeling tonight on a night when once again the president of United States defended these people. Jews will not replace us. Jews will not replace us. Blood and soil. Some of them were very fine people the president said. They all shouted jews will not replace us, all of them, and donald trump says that some of them are very fine people. It was a dark day in america when that happened and it was a dark moment in america again today when the president defended those people and defended those words about those people again today. The most powerful dripgs of what i read was written by a 14yearold girl in our diary on monday evening, november 8th, 1943, ann frank was living with her family in hiding in an attic in amsterdam living in fear that the nazis could barge in at any moment. He is woetrote i simply cant imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about after the war, but it is as if i was talking about a castle in the air, something that could never come true. The castle in the air is only 18 months away when anne frank wrote that. It ended 18 months after he is wrote that it felts like something that could never come true. Anne frank should be with us tonight as a 90yearold great grandmother that can tell us that we have seen darker days than these. But he is left us her diary and her strength, and those of us who have lived long enough know that 18 months is not too long of a time to have to wait for a castle in the air. That is tonights last word, the 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, questions about what Rod Rosenstein has been up to behind the scenes. Including a tearful moment. And a ominous report tonight in the New York Times. Russian hackers gained access to at least one florida elections network, but which one . And joe bidens decidedly