He was lucky in his predecessor in that regard. But so we cant take the honeymoon that were in with the current team automatically continues. It will require work. It requires we learn lessons from our experience with president karzai. Especially why it turned sour. We need to be very attentive not to repeat some of the mistakes that caused that souring to occur on our part but similarly i think for the afghans if they had one of the things that i learned, and ill end with that. When i went back to afghanistan after 30plus years i thought the afghans were kind of antiforeign and maybe would not want too much america. And what i discovered in the course of the first month of my envoyship, and ryan and i had the same experience because we were there at the same time. That period was the greatest fear was fear of abandonment. Rather than on balance of sort of at that point in any case of be being kind of run by or dominated by america. Simply put, marvin it is to be the longterm Strategic
Worry much about north korea . No, sir. Okay. When i say unstable i mean unpredictable, provocative. Unpredictable, provocative, danger, why he. Thats what i meant. Willing to i think willing to be provocative as well. So in your backyard youve got dangerous, provocative, unstable with nukes in north korea, right . Yes, sir, within short distance from the capital. The leader of north korea seems to be like nuts. I dont i dont know how yall should describe the guy, but he seems nutty to me. So under sequestration at the end of the day how will your ability to defend the Korean Peninsula and our interest in that region be affected from an army point of view . Well, from from a holistic point of view sequestration would, as admiral locklear just said, end up with a smaller force, a less ready force if the army goes down to 420,000, lets say thats the number they one day hit if we dont fix southwest operation. Yes, sir. How does your theater of operations fair in terms of threats and sir,
Is kprcompromise the noble position . It does not have to happen. Prepare for pingpong tonight. This could go very late. Its our basic responsibility. You cant shut it down. My goodness. All eyes are on House Speaker boehner. If there is such an emergency, where are they . The American People are worried about their jobs. Worried about losing their jobs. Feelg under pressure. My goodness. The gop leadership zits a hostage. Democrats are not going to throw boehner a life raft. The country is so fed up with this kind of stuff. Year after year after year crisis after crisis after crisis, it has to come to an end. They understand that what theyre doing is nuts. Im alex wagner. If at first you dont succeed, try plan b, then plan c and now plan d . That is the latest reporting after the senate just rejected plan c, the third attempt by the republican led house to defund the Health Care Law by shutting down the government. To plan c, a one year delay of the individual mandate with a bonus ame
4. Trump won the other. Were still awaiting the results from several battleground states. Right now georgia, pennsylvania, nevada, north carolina, all too close to call. Arizona too early to call. So here we are. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, november 5th. Along with joe, willie and me, from the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. We will never let her stop working. Host of politicsnation and president of the National Action network, reverend al sharpton. First to pennsylvania, joe biden has cut into the lead of donald trump significantly. Around this time yesterday trump led by 700,000 votes. And now trump leads by just over 164,000 votes. With a lot of mailin ballots still being counted. We could look specifically at Philadelphia County. Home to a lot of biden voters. He currently leads by 60 and we are still waiting for more than 244,000 votes from Philadelphia County. Biden is curre
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