this idea, obviously, they re trying, i think to try to put this idea back in the tube. this idea of naming stacey abrams as a running mate. bit does seem to me, kasie that the biden people are worrying about the right things. they know he s got the excitement issue or the youth issue, whatever you want to call it, they know there s going to be a lot of they re worried that day one is going to be his best day and they re trying to figure out how to mitigate that. on one hand, they re self-aware, but this now looks very weak. i think, chuck, that you re right on the one hand. this is a team that s been with biden for a long time and they know him well. they know his strengths, they know his weaknesses. and they are trying to manage for them. however, i do think in the past couple of weeks, it has presented as the old way of running a presidential campaign, with a brain trust of people who have been in the business for a long time, who float trial balloons, who talk to reporters behi
we d have to look at what the structure is, can you do? how much can you do with half the troops gone? you can still do something. i always felt that biden s plan was a workable idea back in 2009, we went the other way with trying to reinforce it, but we never put enough troops in to do a good job. the afghanistan is a question mark. i do think that secretary mattis did the right thing for himself and for the country. he s been disempowered by having been ignored, his advice ignored by the president. he can t be effective in that role, he can t be effective with allies, he can t be effective with the white house. and so it s the he s doing the smart thing and the right thing. i know it s upsetting for the country. the country has to face the consequences of the election of 2016 and deal with the reality of the man that s in the white house. so let me bring phil in here, let me read another excerpt of the letter and get your take,
to really work that mission. i don t know who s coming out, we d have to look at what the structure is, can you do? how much can you do with half the troops gone? you can still do something. i always felt that biden s plan was a workable idea back in 2009, we went the other way with trying to reinforce it, but we never put enough troops in to do a good job. the afghanistan is a question mark. i do think that secretary mattis did the right thing for himself and for the country. he s been disempowered by having been ignored, his advice ignored by the president. he can t be effective in that role, he can t be effective with allies, he can t be effective with the white house. and so it s the he s doing the smart thing and the right thing. i know it s upsetting for the country. the country has to face the consequences of the election of 2016 and deal with the reality
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normalized conduit for communication, and i ve been an advocate for a long time of having intersections established in pyongyang and washington at a level below an embassy but a diplomatic presence nonetheless just as we had in havana, cuba for decades to deal with the government we didn t recognize. so ambassador hill, what s missing in this? do you think that communications channels that play out between diplomats rather than places like twitter in the case of the president would be better? do you agree with director clapper, former director clapper s assessment? i think it would be better, but let me mention the following. the chinese had this idea back in 2006. i took it back to washington. everyone hate the the idea of setting up some u.s. interest group, but finally they agreed. i went back to the north koreans and i said to the now senior vice minister who has come up on the net a couple times lately. good news.