Concept of the festival. Its my first [inaudible] pardon . [inaudible] okay. My First Experience here and a pleasure to be here. The book is george f. Kennan an American Life, and as dan mentioned, it took 30 years to write. You might wonder why thats the case. I can point out in my defense that i have actually taken a shorter period of time to write my life of George Kennan than robert caro took to write his life on Lyndon Johnson. [applause] but, of course, hes written four volumes at this point, and ive only done one. One other point, by way of comparison between the two president s, robert caro does not have to explain who Lyndon Johnson was. Sometimes i have to explain who George Kennan was because he was never president of the United States. He was never secretary of state. His highest level position in government of the as ambassador to the soviet union and to yugoslavia. He, himself, would have [dogs barking] [laughter] he, himself, would have said these were failed ambassadors
On capitol hill senator are speaking out about whether to authorize strikes on chemical weapons in syria. Members of the house heard from the secretary of state behind closed doors, he wants congress to hold syria accountable. As Congress Considers the options, newly released polls show the u. S. Strike against syria is losing ground, but russia has offered up an 11th u. S. Military action. And syria is demanding the u. S. Prove its chemical weapons acquisition. But we begin with president obama tonight. Mike viqueira joins us from the white house. Mike . They call it the bully pulpit and wih good reason. The president did a round robin interview today. He laid out his case. Many of the themes and points we are likely to hear in that address tomorrow night, we understand it will be the east room. But everything on hold at the time being, john. That after the Russian Foreign minister put forward the proposal after meeting bilaterally with the syrian Prime Minister to gather up these che
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Often out of Pure Petulanc yeah. But he also lashes out at people to send a message to other people, do not cross me. That is a thing that can work if youre six months out and trying to get people in line. But 30 days out . And if youre on the rise . Not if youre flailing. 30 days out, all hes doing is making more enemies, all hes doing is sending the message of disarray. I totally agree, and not getting back the republicans you were talking about. And another thing people are still talking about, on this very topic, is House Speaker paul ryans telling House Republicans yesterday that they should feel free to flee from donald trump, if that is whats necessary to save their skins and thereby help their party retain its majority in the lower chamber. We are told that ryan, despite what he said yesterday, still hasnt ruled out rescinding his endorsement of trump at some point in the future, but ryan so far has shied away from public spats with his partys nominee. Donald trump has not. Tod
That was donald trumping to hell with men. Until next week after we have an amazing weekend. We say to you sayanora. Coming up, hardball with Chris Matthews. Trump versus ryan. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews back in washington. Paul ryan is the speaker holding back to support donald trump. Today ryan invited trump to meet with him next week. Trump has shown no effort to make nice with ryan. He said paul ryan said i inherited something very special, the Republican Party. Wrong. I didnt inherit it. I won it with millions of vot s
voters. Trump said he was surprised by ryans criticism. I was really surprised by it. Its fine. He can do whatever he wants to do. Many other people were surprised. Some were really surprised by it and not happy about it. I will tell you i have many endorsements from yesterday. Theyre coming in left and right. Hes one of the only ones really surprising. In an interview trump also dismissed ryan saying some people think hes better off without