fourth of july holiday in their districts attending parades and events and hearing directly from their constituents. senator susan collins of maine told the washington post there was only one issue along her parade route. that s unusual. it s usually a wide range of issues. i heard over and over again encouragement for my stand against the current version of the senate and house health care bills. frank, i mean, it s remarkable how history doesn t repeat itself but it rhymes but this is almost a perfect rhyming of 2009. what way? health care, it was the democrats on the wrong in 2009 getting pounded. you could go back to 1993, hillary clinton getting pounded when she tried to address health care. you know, you always hear that social security is the third realm of american politics. health care is. this is very, very personal for people and we talk about how disengaged voters are from
king, bobby kennedy, tet offensive, all the things that shaped all the institutions that we have are important for our young people to understand, and i think what ken s done here is just spectacularly important, and really will help do that over many years. ken, you often say of your work that it explains who we are. and in this case, it s also about who we thought we should be in the world and we still think about what america should be in the world, and i m thinking this morning about the fact that we get to involved in the war out of fear of communism and in 2017 with the russians manipulated our election and investigations about close ties between an administration and russia, what is it we need to know about vietnam today that shapes who we are today? mark twain said history
well-known saying about history. history doesn t repeat itself but it often rhymes. james fallow has written a piece saying in some respects, while it s too easy to talk about watergate, in some respects what we re dealing with is far more significant than a third-rate burglary intended to get information to embarrass enemies, political enemies. in this case we have something that seems to be spiraling out of conol so much more quickly than did watergate or anything else of its kind. where are we right now? no hyperbole, no nothing, not being hyperbolic, but where are we right now? joe, i would think from michael s fine reporting in the new york times we re right at the edge of title 18 section 1503 of the united states code, which is obstruction of justice. we have director como s
notion of collusion in search of evidence after blocked by courts. others disagree and finding their work disparaged by own department. jake tapper and pamela brown broke that story. get back to my panel. jon meacham, start of politicizing intelligence? well, you know, we ve said before, mark twain alleged to have said history doesn t repeat itself but it rhymes. it s rhyming yet again on what has been arguably the most significant source of distrust of government as struinstitutio the 21st century, allegations about politicizing intelligence. when you have headlines and flashes saying that the white house is looking for intelligence to justify something controversial, puts
with russia we re not all going to wonder twice about. that is a disaster. that is what you think. again you said you have no proof but history shows us the pattern is the same. jon meacham, you wanted to react. mark twain alleged to have said that history doesn t repeat itself but it does rhyme. it s rhyming at the moment. these are just big questions and they can be answered. what we haven t seen in the last my god it s only been a move, longest in american history, makes april 19865 look like a walk in the park you sound like you were there to remember it. rough one. but this administration, with the fact and alternative fact.