on the eve of the president s primary elections, i think that plays into the argument that this is about election interference, trying to keep trump off the ballot and i don t think you ought to give the defense anything to argue about. so i think this is the kind of case that i wish they could have moved quicker. that is an arm chair quarterbacking and they know about their cases and so i defer to them. but i just don t think if the goal is to try to get this tried before the election, i have a hard time seeing how we complete one. and the other argument is that is too risky in one case. but it does make sense to try to coordinate it all at once. michael moore, appreciate you joining us. and be sure to tune in for election 2024, the campaign and the courtroom tonight at 8:00 p.m. right here on cnn. meantime, still to come for us here, mandatory evacuations are underway in louisiana where wildfires are still burning. we have a look at the destruction they are leaving behind. pl
of the president s three predecessors would have done so. if we learned anything from our 20-year war in afghanistan, it s easier to get into a war than to get out of one. however, given the amount of second guessing, arm chair quarterbacking that i have seen over the last month, i fear that we haven t learned anything. we must encourage a policy that stops undefined military engagement before they can begin. i want to be sure americans at home understand the position president biden was placed in. president trump s deal with the taliban exchanged a halt in taliban offensive again our troops for a commitment that we would leave the country by may of this year. president trump, with the support of his national security team and many republican members of congress, negotiated this deal without the participation
0 i wish general austin were here. secretary austin could answer many of the questions that were proposed. but this was not a choice between either a dangerous escalation of the war, which has just been laid out, or a precipitous chaotic withdrawal that embarrassed us around the globe. to say that it was not a sign of weakness the way we left. i mean, i don t know who you re talking to. but if you re talking to our allies in nato, they would say it was a sign of weakness. if you re talking honestly to our adversaries, they will certainly say it is a sign of weakness, as will terrorist groups around the world. so i hope the lesson we learned here isn t that this was the right way to leave. hopefully, the lesson we learned here is there was a better way to leave. if the decision was made to pull out, it should not have been a precipitous chaotic and, unfortunately, deadly departure. this afternoon i will be speaking on the floor about max scobiak. he was one of 13 american soldiers, sail
ideology is correct and none other one has been correct and that god has just rewarded you with victory over a great super power because of your devotion to that ideology, you get more confident, more arrogant, and so, no. i m not confident that these calls for normality normalcy excuse me are going to continue. or be real. we may be seeing it now but that will dissolve at first contact. well, along those same lines, i feel like there s a lot of arm chair quarterbacking in the u.s. and elsewhere right now about how afghanistan having now been inevitably taken over by the taliban, the next stage is it will inevitably become a country engulfed in civil war again. what i am curious about and wondering what you are seeing is who is marshaling any force on the other side? if the afghan army just
described as very arrogant and right now because if you believe a hundred thousand percent that your religious, fundamentalist ideology is correct and no other one has been correct and that god has just rewarded you with victory over a great super power because of your devotion to that ideology you get more over confident, more arrogant, and so, no. i m not confident that these calls for normality normalcy excuse me are going to continue. we may be seeing it now but that will dissolve at first contact. well, along those same lines, i feel like there s a lot of arm chair quarterbacking in the u.s. and elsewhere right now about how afghanistan having now been inevitably taken over by the taliban, the next stage is it will inevitably become a country