message to the world from the hallowed shores of normandy. well, never saying the word trump. the president implicitly warned of the threat. he believes his election your opponent poses to us democracy as for donald trump, he s using his guilty verdict on 34 counts to rile up his base on the campaign trail as some swing state voters tells cnn don t care about what happened in that new york courtroom and i ll go one-on-one with the former house speaker, nancy pelosi. she is in france for d-day commemorations and will weigh in on the president s message overseas and all of the drama with her congressional colleagues right here in washington i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics first up, a presidential complete from the cliffs pointe-du-hoc, where american soldiers turned the tide of world war ii, 80 years ago. today, joe biden is asking the american people to honor the legacy of those heroes gather here today just not just to honor those who showed
is better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. we love the way back machine here on it s also, it s a lot easier to give a speech when it s cloudy than it is when it s bright. yeah. for sure. i think the most striking thing just comparing the moments is the state of ronald reagan s republican party. what i mean, president biden, as you said, no fan in the 80s for the reagan policy, but the republican party and the standard bear donald trump, has a completely different view of america s place in the world. that is also front and center in this presidential campaign. so i think overall, if you talk to biden advisers and people who are close to him, they want him to be strong. they said strength is key to reelection. but what s unclear to me if foreign policy strength is actually as helpful on the domestic stage as it once was, because the foreign
the lens of what the president said on july 8th when he said that safety and security would happen in afghanistan. let s watch those comments. the military mission in afghanistan will conclude on august 31st. the drawdown is proceeding in a secure and orderly way prioritizing the safety of our troops as they depart. the likelihood there s going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. so the bottom line here is framed in both of those conversations. both of those sentiments from the president. that is what democrats on capitol hill want to get to the bottom of. what happened? how was this administration caught so blindsided and flat-footed by the rise of the taliban? it also has led to really an extraordinary questions of competence and credibility of this administration s foreign policy. of course, this president is someone who ran on his foreign policy strength, his relationships with allies. all of those have been put in question
swo sworn, is that an action the u.s. should condone? absolutely not? this is a journalist that contributes to the washington post, who has privileges here in the united states. the world is looking at the u.s. for leadership. our foreign policy strength is in that it s embedded in our principals and our values. and the president needs to reinforce that. and the trump administration over and over again has divorced our foreign policy from our values. and we get into trouble, and the world suffers when we do that. your republican colleague, marco rubio was on our air just a few moments ago. and he said the following about possible bipartisan senate action. have a listen. i can tell you that a separate branch of government that i belong to, the senate and congress, i believe will act in a bipartisan way. this is going to alter the relationship between the united
. in a matter of hours, the nine leading republican candidates will face off in prime time for the final debate of the year. let s look at what each candidate needs to do tonight and needs to avoid tonight. let s bring back in our panel for the dos and don ts of the debate, maeve resten is with us, cnn senior political analyst and editorial director at the national journal, ron brownstein and senior contributor to the daily caller, matt lewis. great to have you all. let s tick through, starting with donald trump. tonight he must show foreign policy substance. matt? and he can t appear out of his depths. what do you think of that analysis? that s right. there s a threshold he needs to meet. toughness equates to foreign policy strength. i think he can meet that