The Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in beautiful new orleans, louisiana. We have a really superb guest with us tonight, a friend of the museum, my friend and a wonderful writer and ahor, ian toll. Ian, welcome. Thank you, rob. Ian probably is one of those people who with, you know, doesnt really need an introduction, as we like to say. You all know what that means, the introduction should be really long. Ians an extremely accomplished scholar and writer. Hes the author of six [inaudible] the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacific war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight of the gods. Hes won the Samuel Elliot morrisonward from the naval orr of the United States, hes won the william e. Colby militaryriters award, hes won the other morrison award given by the uss constitutio museum. If theres any more morrison awards out there, i fully expect to see you winning one in the not too distant future. But thanks so mu
but we won t know if that is true for months to come. cheney s campaign created a leadership action committee. how does she plan to use it? reporter: they say that she needs a type of a platform to launch the next chapter of her lil life, if you will. and they will try to find republican candidates and programs independents and others to endorse who do not support election deniers, who believe the truth. but there may be a limited number of candidates do that. and she can use this to talk about her own campaign. but listen to huh she frhow she framed it last night. the great and original champion of our party abraham lincoln was defeated in elections for the senate and the house before he won the most important election of all. lincoln ultimately pre-veiled, he saved our union and he defined our obligation as americans for all of history. v he saved our union and he defined our obligation as americans for all of history.vee saved our union and he defined our obligatio
country. i believe in the very soul of this nation, and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe in my core there isn t a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. we have to remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there s nothing beyond our capacity. that s why so many foreign companies decide to invest their make chips in america, billions of dollars. we re the best. we have to believe in ourselves again, and now i m going to take action that i ve been looking forward to doing for 18 months. [ applause ] i m going to sign the inflation reduction act. [ applause ] hey, everyone, it s john heilemann here, i forgot to say aloha, namaste, and gutentag. i m here for nicolle wallace yet again, and we are here interrupting our regularly scheduled programming which you re all too familiar with, to bring you a special bulletin regarding what president joe biden would in an earlier incarnation surely have referred to as
action problems? but taking some action. talk to each other. governors, donors, they can get together. it s not beyond the pale of possibility. no. in fact, that s a lot of what could politics is. it s operating in coordination with other people to pursue common names. that s what the party should be as a coordinated vehicle. it s felt to do that. i think the thing that looms overall this is the ultimate kind of kamikaze possibility, which is if you beat him, and you from it, he doesn t runs a roxboro style campaign. frankly, i think that s what everyone deserves. i think the nation and the republican party deserve to purge him, and deserve to lose again as it goes out and runs a kamikaze campaign. i think that s the just outcome. but that is, to me, what looms over all this discussion. i, mean i guess. so at loomed over them a bit in 2015. remember when he threatened to leave the party? point of pathetic tynice that s really ridiculous. after four years of the trump