president joe boyden. that is what democrats are focusing on at this point. and the president all day long was saying there was no quid pro quo. democrats say you don t need that because the president was pressuring the ukrainian president to try to get dirt on former vice president joe biden. it s interesting, jim, because president trump and others in the white house have been saying well this was about overall concern about corruption in ukraine. and what s odd about that is there are plen of countries in the world that the u.s. has dealings with and sells military aid to and gives military aid to which have widespread corruption. we haven t heard the president really talk about corruption. absolutely. saudi arabia ob anywhere else. and also, if hes concerned about corruption in ukraine, if the only example he is talking about and again it s totally an alleged example. there is no evidence if he is focusing only on the bidens or joe bidden s son, it s hard to imagine that th
fareed zakaria always good to get your take. thank you. pleasure. even though president trump has had plen of world issues to attend to in week at the g-20 we know he s had at least one eye on the democratic detects. the first night he tweeted this one worded review. boring oh. on the second night he clearly found himself feeling sorry for joe biden. i thought she was given too much credit. he didn t do well. certainly. and maybe the facts weren t necessarily on his side. i think she was given too much credit for what she did. wasn t that outstanding. and i think probably he was hit harder than he should have been hit by i thought he was hit harder. let s do our own little debate deconstruction with cnn predictle writer and analyst ryan lizza and washington correspondent for new york magazine olivia knitsy.
mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. the president cited loss of life as his reason for waiving off a strike on erin. they said sir we re ready to go we d like a decision. i said i want to know before you go, how many people will be killed? in this case iranians? i said how many people are going to be killed? sir i d like to get back to you on that. great people these generals. came become, said, sir, approximately 150. and i thought about it for a second. i said, you know, they shot down an unmanned drone, plen, whatever you want to call it. and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go ahead. yeah. and i didn t like it. i didn t think it was i didn t think it was proportionate. secretary cohen was it the right call to call off the strike. i think it was the right
since the 1945. they re there for different reasons and so on. if the taliban take over just willy nily and there is no political agreement, for all the trouble we have had in afghanistan, for all the lives we lost, all the treasure that s been spent, the fact remains there are 5 million girls in school in afghanistan, women are in the parliament. women are a part of the society in way there is a relatively free press. do we just chuck it all? i mean it s a very it s a very tough problem. you have written about and i know and i know from working for the president and i had the chance to go to iraq and afghanistan with him and see the plen did young people. some of them had to do on your orders, on his orders, president bush s orders, four, five tours of duty. many lost their lives. many limbs. and many came back with
let s talk about that. i want to talk about the gender gap, harry. your analysis shows that democrats really have a huge lead with women voters. they very an over 20-point lead if you look at the high quality polls. plen represent actually favoring republicans by an eight-point margin. that creates a gender gach 30 points which if you go back since the 1958, it s the largest gender gap ever for a midterm election. in 2016, trump lost overall women overall in 2016 but won among white women. does that hold up when it comes to midterm support. it does not. democrats are winning among white women. it s not just white women, it s white women without a college degree. if you look where they voted in 2016. without a college degree. they re still voting