Me i feel privileged to chat with an old and dear friend senator john warner. He is approaching old age. But you would never know it. Talking about old times and i was thinking about his career which is incredible with world war ii and korea but he was always willing to jump in and participate. He did a lot of things so stop but monday start in the seventies that became the head of the bicentennial commission to remember the tall ships in the wonderful celebration. And that to bring the country together we could use Something Like that. And there he went to the United States senate was elected in 1878 it was 5000 votes but that was pretty much the end of his contest but mainly he was unopposed from early 79 all the way from 2009 and then he was defeated by another warner that was completely not related. But just on a personal note and it describes his life when he ran for a senate i was already a pundit back then as the hobo no real employment that mattered in to do the things that mad
Andfather was an academic president of a college in pennsylvania. School up at a quaker which was obviously an integrated quaker school. Graduated, the family moved to atlanta which he tells me was for him a terrifying experience because of all that he had heard that happens to africanamericans. He started at Morehouse College and in 1960 was a cofounder of the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which is one of the majors for those of you are not old enough to older history, one of the major activist organizations of to know your history, one of the major activist organizations of the day. The legislature was read on ran grown redrawn and he and won. The assembly of the state of onrgia declined to seat him the grounds that he had endorsed the position against the war in vietnam and indicated that people who tried to evade the draft, while he was not going to encourage them, or people who should be commended for courage. For those reasons he was not seated in the state legislatu
To build. He did not talk about excluding muslims from coming into the United States. I think the elevated diplomacy and said very clearly it is possible we can negotiate with russia and china. And he also very much elevated the idea of not telegraphing what we are going to do, of being unpredictable. Charlie thats one of his key strengths, people say, because they dont really know, the unpredictability adds some drama to the election if he is, in fact, the nominee. The speech also had some weaknesses. For instance, he said about president obama, if president obama actually intended to weaken america, he couldnt do a better job. That is a gross overstatement. You can criticize obama for things he has done in foreignpolicy and elsewhere, but to say that his intent is to weaken america makes no sense. Trump referred to the false song of globalization, that he is only going to focus on american interests. Well, we live in a world of globalization. You cannot ignore it. Also, in terms of i
Speech is what was not there. He did not talk about the wall with mexico that he has usually promised previously promised he is going to build. He did not talk about excluding muslims from coming into the United States. Diplomacye elevated and said very clearly it is possible we can negotiate with russia and china. And he also very much elevated not telegraphing what we are going to do, of being unpredictable. Charlie thats one of his key strengths, people say, because they dont really know, the unpredictability adds some drama to the election if he is, in fact, the nominee. The speech also had some weaknesses. For instance, he said about president obama, if president obama actually intended to weaken america, he couldnt do a better job. Hat is a gross overstatement you can criticize obama for things he has done in foreignpolicy and elsewhere, but to say that his intent is to weaken america makes no sense. Where he said mp referred to the false song of globalization, that he is only go
We must secure our border. Gwen and jeb bush steps into the deep end of the pool making a case for the kind of president he would be. Each president learns from those who came before their principles, their adjustments. One thing we know is this, every president inherits a changing world and changing circumstances. Gwen can he escape the shadows cast by his father and his brother . Covering the week, michael crowley, Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent for politico, nancy youssef, Senior National security correspondent for the daily beast Pete Williams justice correspondent for nbc news and john dickerson, chief Political Correspondent and political director for slate and cbs news. Awardwinning reporting and analysis. Covering history as it happens. Live from our nations capitol this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by from a world of darkness we became a nation of light a nation powered by electricity, a nation powered by the ibew.