president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. what happens when the president disregards the court s rulings as illegitimate, when he disregards the rule of law? that breaks our republic. president trump is a 76-year-old man, he is not an impressionable child. to my republican colleens, you are defending the indefensible. there will come a day when donald trump is gone, but your dishonor whether remain. no man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again. he is unfit for any office. hi, everyone, so, 5:00 in new york. if the disgraced twice impeached four times indicted ex-president has a nemesis or counter, someone who will hold his feet to the fire with facts, it is indisputable done most capably by liz cheney. she was that was just a bit of what she had to say and do there, fearless. viewers of this program are well versed in cheney s remarkable work in shaping
Eric and Eliot host Melvyn P. Leffler, the Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia to discuss his new book, Confronting Saddam: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq. Mel describes why he decided to write the book and his findings that Bush rather than a cabal…
Eliot and Eric welcome back Duke Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Program on American Grand Strategy, Peter Feaver, pinch-hitting for Meghan O’Sullivan (whose illness prevented her from joining us) to discuss Hand Off, a book that Peter and Meghan (along with SOTR guest Will…
against terry mcauliffe in all these ads is about him objecting to parents saying some people said don t teach toni morrison s beloved, it makes white people feel guilty about slavery, that s just craziness. this has become a proxy for injecting race into politics in a southern state and i think that you have to look at it in that context. i mean, it s a wind and nod wink and nod. it s about protecting officials who have been intimidated, even assaulted. we should not tolerate that as an american society. we can t have that happening against public officials. chris: brett, your response. end conde rice put it well on view and spoke from her perspective and i think i commend that sound bite to everyone who speaks that she speaks from her point of view.
ensuring the safety of americans over there, for ensuring the safety of the afghan translators, making sure women and children would be taken care of and to that point, it seems like the biden administration has been caught so offguard and surprised by the events that we ve seen unfold and i m not really sure why. because take a listen to what senate minority leader mitch mcconnell had of to say back on may 6th, warning this could happen. there s a high likelihood that the taliban will be back in control of the country, maybe as early as the end of the year. we will end up in a situation much like we found ourselves in, both hillary clinton and conde rice, two former secretaries of state expressed the same concern. he went on to say he worries about the afghan women and girls. we ve seen women s faces white washed over on store fronts and public places. what does the future look like