studio? i like it like this. is it you doing this? i don t even know. i m a kind of go along to get along dude. i like being with you, so if that s the cost of sharing a studio. we can raise it up, whatever you want. just feet away from each other. i ll just wear a sweater. thank you. have a good evening, chris. thank you for joining us tonight. i m ali velshi in for alex wagner. we re going to warm up in the next few minutes. president biden hasxt released s first campaign ad of 2024. and in that ad president biden makes clear what he believes will be the central issue of thisce election. i ve made the preservation of american democracy the central issue of my presidency. i believe in free and fair elections and the right to vote fairly and have your vote counted. there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement who does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now what will we do to maintain o
where pick your political opponents like john mccain and barack obama who might even have disagreements about foreign policy, they might even agree on the building blocks, nato, the collective defense of nato, the need to stand up for certain values around the world, and that was a continuum since world war iice and through the cold w. youhe started to see a trend whe republicans would politicize every aspect of national security. if barack obama was for one thing one day, they d be against it. if he switched his position it somehow, they may switch their position. and that s obviously gotten worse ever since. and donald trump s election when he came in and tore up a whole bunch of agreements obama me reached, he basically upended american policy at first hesitating to articulate the common defense of nato. the message that sent is america is not reliable. the dysfunction and toxicity in its democracy has rendered it