to resolve itself in court. the larger problem for the country is, what s wrong with us? when you hear this man, when you look at this man, how is it that he maintains such solid support in the republican party? it s a mystery that we have to resolve. we have to find out the answer to it because it poses a clear and present danger to our democracy. we ve already seen that once. a return would be curtains for the united states of america. no question. doris kearns goodwin oh, doris, go ahead. i was just going to say, i ve been looking at various announcement speeches from the earlier republicans. you look at bush 41, he say, i don t hate government. i m proud of my service. i want government to work for all the people. you look at bush 43, he said, i want prosperity for all. i want a conservative ideology with a compassionate heart. where is that republican party? those are the people we need to do what mike is saying, to go forward and bring us out of this
the left and staffers from bernie, this and that i ll tell you they are not the ones who wrote this speech tonight. this was about the concerns that old school democrats, old school americans have around the kitchen table. it was a speech for the next election. it was extraordinary. what do you think, david? perhaps the best sign of joe biden s political career. wow. i really mean that. so i ve had the fortune of being in the chamber for maybe 15 of these speeches, and we ve all watched the last couple of decades. one of the most memorable state of the union addresses you have to go back to bush 43 and tonight joe biden conjured up, i know it s a little controversial to say there s a bit of ronald reagan in joe biden tonight where he used his age and his wisdom and his maturity to deliver what the american people
archives. this doesn t happen a lot. it is true that from time to time high-level officials will find a folder in the back of a closet. there are incidents where a widow of a high-level official found something. there s a story where a university was given papers for a high-level official and then going through them years later, they found documents. but if you go back, bush 41, this did not happen. bush 43, no. clinton, no. obama, no. dick cheney, no. so there are honest mistakes. there are situations like what happened with donald trump where it seems that he wanted to hold on to some things. he thought everything was his. but this is not usual for presidents and vice presidents. andy mccabe, if i could get you to respond to what you just heard from jamie gangel, because that is a question many are asking, how common is this of
two special counsels, about their handling of documents. in a word, never. when you talk to former presidents, vice presidents, people at the archives, it is true, unclassified papers, things happen. folders go astray. mistakes are made. honest mistakes are made, but looking back, we ve reached out. you know, bush 41, bush 43, clinton, obama, quayle, cheney, we ve never seen anything like this before. can i just go back to the word cooperation here when you were talking to chairman rogers. the reality is this is one area where these two things are completely different. we don t know yet what s in this second batch of documents that were found, how sensitive it is. right. what the national security implications were, but as soon as they discovered there was a
the president of the united states to lay it out and show that iran was involved in this. you have intelligence information, available to you like obama had or clinton had, just like bush 43, just like trump had, you haven t had this all along. william barr came out before he left because he was involved in it when he was attorney general in 2,020. eric, just connect the dots. the only way we are going to get the truth, and i believe this, we are 34 years later, front page news, that is because of the dedication of the families who always told politicians you are in it for power and wealth, we are in it for our families. you can t win, so do what is right, mister president. step forward, don t give political speak, tell it like it is. you know what is going on. tell us when the intelligence termination will be made available.