of the crop that the players and the countries represent. well, my history and my relationship with referees has always been, you know, terrific, so for me to comment about referees is nothing new. but obviously, you know, they go through a lot of training. and today to me wasn t as questionable as the call in the previous game. you know, i mean, clint wasn t five yards onside, it was a narrow, narrow margin for error. we got to see it 100 times on the replay, and after you see it that many times you ll say yeah, he s onside. it s part of the game. it s not as a player you don t really love it, but at the same time to stop the game for so many, you know, let s go back and look at the film, that game would last forever. and you d add video replay times to the other unknowables to the timing of the match. exactly. there s two times in the
referees? they don t look to be the cream of the crop that the players and the countries represent. my history and my relationship with referees has always been, you know, terrific, so for me to comment about referees is nothing new. but obviously, you know, they go through a lot of training. and today to me wasn t as questionable as the call in the previous game. you know, i mean, clint wasn t five yards onside, it was a narrow, narrow margin for air roar. we got to see it 100 times on the replay, and after you see it that many times you ll say yeah, he ll onside. it s part of the game. it s not as a player you don t really love it, but at the same time to stop the game for so many, you know, let s go back and look at the film, that game would last forever. and you d add video replay times to the other unknowables
they don t look to be the cream of the crop that the players and the countries represent. my history and my relationship with referees has always been, you know, terrific, so for me to comment about referees is nothing new. but obviously, you know, they go through a lot of training. and today to me wasn t as questionable as the call in the previous game. you know, i mean, clint wasn t five yards onside, it was a narrow, narrow margin for error. we got to see it 100 times on the replay, and after you see it that many times you ll say yeah, he s onside. it s part of the game. it s not as a player you don t really love it, but at the same time to stop the game for so many, you know, let s go back and look at the film, that game would last forever. and you d add video replay times to the other unknowables to the timing of the match.
vacillating and taking a long time to decide. that is a good question. making america look weak. good question, but chrystia, the question for me wasn t really that. the question was, because that s really more like a question, can lbj get the troops out in 1967 instead of asking, can a democratic president like jfk say no to the hard-liners at the pentagon on vietnam? and democratic presidents make this mistake all the time. my god, we could catalog the mistakes that republicans made, i m just saying i know the obama administration was swayed by the fact that they can t look weak on national defense. so they piled a lot of troops into afghanistan. and just like george w. bush, they didn t have an end game. don t you i mean, you understand that. yeah, i agree. on the end game point on the end game point, they have announced a deadline. so that is a difference. chuck todd, thank you. you can catch chuck on msnbc s