Its been a long time for a little one, but if you have to endure all this time, maybe that be your coat. Amen. Theres both of them. There we go. Imagine if you were fortunate enough to host a show deadline white house, and it happens around this time, when finish it for me the white house. What a day. This will be the first transfer of power that deadline white house has covered. We actually came on the air the day that donald trump fired jim comey. As soon as i came off the air, brian, i hopped back on the air with you in this very studio. The rest is historic. I think this has been one of those presidencies where wieldly the hyper aging didnt hit the president , but hit everybody in the media. We saw him last night, and he looks fine. [ laughter ] but all the reporters covering it, we are a disaster. We look like weve been through a fouryear hyperaging process. Its amazing, though, watching Vice President harris to think she is one of the people we covered, because she was one of the
The ruler of his country. It didnt last. He was only 23 years old when a coup was launched against him in july 1958. In that coup, he was murdered along with much of his family. July 1958. The monarchy was deposed. Nationalists in the Iraqi Military took over. They overthrew the iraqi monarchy. That didnt last either. Five years after they killed the king and the military took over, the military was overthrown as well or at least the faction of them that had been in charge. By then it was 1963, february 1963. The group that took over iraq then and ruled it for 40 years thereafter, that was the baath party. We think of Saddam Hussein as the personification of the baath party. He in fact, took over iraq in 1979. He ruled iraq in the name of the baath party for more than two decades. But the baath party itself, they took over iraq all the way back in 1963, which was basically the exact same time that the baath party also took over next door in syria. The baath party mounted their coup in