time for you, two and a half seconds before the camera goes on. but i need that little glide time. just take it in through your it s a breathing thing? all right. well, we are going to see how this hour works then. well done, my friend. thank you, rachel. thanks, lawrence. full disclosure, tom melanowski is a friend of mine. he s going to be joining us this hour. he was born in poland when it was in communist control. when he was 6 years old he fled to the united states with his mother, grew up in new jersey. i met tom when we both started working for senator daniel patrick moynihan around the same time in 1988. tom has spent his life concerned with human rights in his work in senator moynihan s office and then in president clinton s national security council where he was a senior director and then as the chief advocate for human rights watch and then as
time for you, two and a half seconds before the camera goes on. but i need that little glide time. just take it in through your it s a breathing thing? all right. well, we are going to see how this hour works then. well done, my friend. thank you, rachel. thanks, lawrence. full disclosure, tom melanowskism melanowski is a friend of mine. he s going to be joining us this hour. he was born in poland when it was in communist control. when he was 6 years old he fled to the united states with his mother, grew up in new jersey. i met tom when we both started working for senator daniel patrick moynihan around the same time in 1988. tom has spent his life concerned with human rights in his work in senator moynihan s office and then in president clinton s national security council where he was a senior director and then as the chief advocate for
taliban. as we make progress in these negotiations, we will be able to reduce our troop s presence and focus on counter-terrorism. we do not know whether we ll achieve an agreement but we do know that after two decades of war, the hour has come to at least try for peace, and the other side would like to do the same thing. it s time. it s time. joining us now, a member of the house, budget. he has a breathing thing going, noticed that? when he s reading prompter, he doesn t like it, makes him think too much and gets nervous and he starts going it s a thing. we didn t have to go that deep. i was saying. when he s talking he never has that problem but hates the prompter, being told what to say and being told what to read.
reminding yourself these people work for you, that they represent you, and when they no longer represent your interests it s time to let them go. i want to ask you lastly, if i could that s our democracy, a living, breathing thing. talking about democrats, party of ideas and ideals. what happened to the happy warrior to the eternal optimist of yore? is there a place for him in this party today? how do you reckon with that looking at the republican party going down this course? there is, but the tactic that a lot of republicans have who were once previously the happy warriors, your lindsey grahams, for example, and your bill cassidys, they re policy guys. they re pretty middle of the road, stayed, demure, keep emotions in check. they were, in the case of lindsey graham. not anymore, but it didn t happen in a vacuum. they have seen and responded to tactics from democrats and seen their base say, okay. we want to see a little blood in your veins, and they ve
can i mention a long shot? thomas hardiman. he was from the court of appeals in pennsylvania. really attractive judge in the gorsuch mode. again, that s the thing. president has gorsuch behind him. he s turned out to be a really significant force. he s written some terrific decisions that some democrats happen to like. so if with that behind him, with that as a model for the president, somebody like thomas hardiman might be the right pick. it s important to it s not necessarily about the individual rulings. what we re looking for, someone that sees on the right, they re looking for people that have a very strict interpretation, not trying to create law. on the left they feel the constitution is a living breathing thing and you change it overtop. just so you understand the difference. secretary of state pompeo on his way to north korea to meet with kim jong-un again. this as it seems the north is