when the president came to office we had about 170,000 americans in harm s way in rairk and afghanistan. he vowed to end both wars responsibly and that s exactly what we re doing and we ve been on a very deliberate trajectory in afghanistan to continuously draw down our troops after we built up afghanistan s capacity to deal with its own security problems. we ve seen them deal very effectively with the recent elections and we believe the mission going forward in 2015 with the support they ll get from our troops and from the nato mission that will continue, will help them to continue to do that job. tony, i guess this is an incredibly complicated situation and i think you can make the argument either way. we know from reports that there are a lot of afghanistan citizens who are deciding on who they ll electricity for their next leader based in large part regarding their decision on the bilateral security agreement. not because they think u.s. forces have their presence has been fl
transmissable. and there could be around 60,000 cases and 850 days each day. joining us now to make sense of it is ted lieu, former obama white house health director and tim miller, writer at large for the bullwork. i have to start with you, my mind is blown. everyone is excited, everyone is saying it will be the most turnt summer ever and now we are facing another potential shutdown. do you think the country at this point will have a shutdown in october? or will we just get used to nearly thousand people dying every day? yeah, tiffany, you are in good company, a lot of our minds are blown too. i don t think we are going to get to a shoutdown. i do think we will see continuing rolling mask mandates or mask requirements in doors and i think that s the responsible thing to do. and that could hit us before
they ve been silenced but the maga wing of the party. the pro-insurrection of the party and not because it s so ridiculous that they don t need to talk about it but because the voters are taking it so seriously if they roll their eyes in public there will be retribution and scared about that politically and i think some scared in the most literal sense so look. to your question on whether that side is winning i think if you go back to mid-november of 2016 or 2020, excuse me, and there were just a few of us on the show and the bullwork and not taking the lies that seriously of donald trump and if you told people november 15th fast forward seven months and the capitol will be stormed, donald trump will be maintaining that he is going to be put back in
they re saying they don t have any special privilege to shield them from cooperating. what s steve bannon doing? testing this for some other reasons only he knows. he s invited back on the beat if he wants to explain them. he s trying to pick a fight with the government, the legislative and executive branch with this new attorney general to take this all away to trial, to risk himself going to jail. whatever the reason is, because i m not here to speculate, i could tell you, according to trump s daughter what the reason isn t. it ain t executive privilege. i want to bring in our guest staff writer for the new york times magazine emily baslan and editor-at-large with the the bullwork, ed kristol. as a veteran of the white house, bill, what does it tell you where the kids, i don t say it pejoratively the kids and the children of donald trump, son-in-law of donald trump, the staff, family members are
these cases serve as a bullwork of privacy rights that protect all americans from over involvement of the government in their lives. and to me, that s extraordinarily important. next, i d like to address the president s promise to appoint a nominee blessed by the nra. in reviewing your judicial opinions and documents, it s pretty clear your views go well beyond simply being pro gun. and i d like to straighten that out. it s my understanding that during a lecture at notre dame law school, you said you would be the quote first to act knowledge that most other lower judges supreme court judges have disagreed with your views on the second amendment. for example in direct of colombia, v. heller, you wrote that unless guns were regulated