state for affairs under george w. bush. he also wrote the book a rope and a prayer after being kidnapped by the taliban and later released. david i want to start with you. secretary mattis apparently has insisted on a stated strategy in afghanistan. and he reportedly told the president, mr. president, we haven t fought a 16-year war so much as we fought a one-year war 16 times. what does that all mean? secretary mattis is right, there s been this haphazard approach to afghanistan. obama put a strict timeline on it. the taliban waited out the american surge. there is a big challenge for the president tonight. i agree with sara. another narrative here. throughout the campaign the president said we can t trust muslims. we don t have muslim allies. he s now going to ask the american people to send more american troops to go and fight and die in afghanistan.
couple years within her power. and the book also reads kind of like one of those presidential manifestos that comes out around this time. it talks about her hardscrabble upbringing, the values, how she s come about them, how she s struggled, how she s gotten ahead. so you know, and the answer i think certainly, you know, should fuel speculation about what her intentions are. right. and whether the answer s a beat off what she said before. ryan, you were talking to her and another author, thomas pickerty there, who s not a household name yet. but crystal he s getting here. these getting there. his book s got 200,000 copies in circulation. international best-seller. translated. making a big argument about how to deal with economic inequality. what does it mean she can go out and appear with him and do you think hillary would be as quick to do that? i do not think hillary would be as quick to do that. hillary is very careful in the choice that s she makes and in the people that
have you ever looked at someone and right away thought you know exactly what they re like and what they believe in? well, odds are you re wrong. what s on the outside and what s on the inside can be very different. the more you know. by now you may have gotten used to hearing senator elizabeth warren saying this over and over again. i am not running for president. but tonight the huffington post s ryan grimm asked her this. you write, i worry that we re running out of time. i am determined, fiercely determined to do everything i can to help us once again be the america that creates opportunities for anyone who works hard and plays by the rules. your last line of the book is i believe in us. i believe in what we can do together, in what we will do together. all we need is a fighting chance. now, i imagine some people in this room could probably think of something that you could do.
build. this is about concentrated money and power on one side but it s about our values, our voices and our votes on our side. i believe we can fight back. i believe we can win. i believe it. thank you. ryan grimm and crystal ball join me now. ryan, was she talking about winning this as a policy battle or winning a potential presidential campaign? well, she left that open. and the reason that i led there with her book is that her book really does make an unmistakable case for why she should be running for president. you know, it says i will do everything that s in my power to right what s wrong with this country, to level the playing field here. and there clearly is something that she can do in the next couple years within her power. and the book also reads kind of like one of those presidential manifestos that comes out around
this time. it talks about her hardscrabble upbringing, the values, how she s come about them, how she s struggled, how she s gotten ahead. so you know, and the answer i think certainly, you know, should fuel speculation about what her intentions are. right. and whether the answer s a beat off what she said before. ryan, you were talking to her and another author, thomas piketty there, who s not a household name yet. but crystal he s getting here. these getting there. his book s got 200,000 copies in circulation. international best-seller. translated. making a big argument about how to deal with economic inequality. what does it mean she can go out and appear with him and do you think hillary would be as quick to do that? i do not think hillary would be as quick to do that. hillary is very careful in the choice that s she makes and in the people that she allows herself to be seen with. thomas piketty s work has, as you know, really sparked a huge debate. it s been an instant