The enemy. but a lot of that goes back to 2009 and 2010 inside the obama administration. stanley mccrystal at the time was in charge of u.s. forces in iraq and waged a very political war on background with reporters to push president obama into the surge in afghanistan. joe biden was against that surge, and a lot of what we ve seen play out in the last week has its roots in those conversations. and what joe biden delivered today was essentially the vision that i believe he wanted to deliver in 2010, which was, we don t want to put 100,000 extra troops into afghanistan, that we want to focus on bin laden. and to be fair, if we had killed bin laden and left, it would have saved our country ten years of muddling through afghanistan where, you know, hundreds and thousands of people have been killed and billions of dollars have been wasted. jon soltz, himself an iraq war veteran, the chairman of vote vets, jon, it s nice to see you, my friend. thanks for joining us tonight. thanks for you
Called muddling through. if that show had succeeded, we had already shot like four or five episodes. we would have had to reshoot the first five episodes of friends with another actress. reporter: you going to eat this steak or argue with it? we are going forward and we ll do everything in our power to kill muddling through. tell me something. how often do we have steak on the menu? hardly ever. that s right. so what you have there is a rare steak. we said, all right. danielle steele movies up against muddling through will take out the audience that would probably be watching that sitcom on a saturday night. and it worked. saturday night. the big night. date night. saturday night. date night! now you re choking. are you all right? okay.
Name on the phone call with the ukrainian president. the vice president with a hard line on china. he goes after u.s. businesses he claims are siding with the chinese. silencing free speech, the nba is acting like a subsidiary of that authoritarian regime. no signal goes farther or is more reliable. so you can get more out of the new iphone. better battery life, new ultra-wide camera. and at t-mobile get unlimited for only $30/line for 4 lines on a network that goes farther than ever before. and right now, switch at a t-mobile store and get the new iphone 11 on us! only at t-mobile.
Mike pence taking a horde line with china. he backed protesters and taiwan s economy. pence s speech closely watched as president trump works to complete a partial trade deal. the u.s. wants to engage and not fight with china, pence cited several examples of china s bad behavior, including fentanyl in the opioid crisis and the chinese export of technology. he blasted businesses for siding with china. he pointed to nike, removing jerseys from its stores after a tweet from an executive. he criticized the nba for muddling free speech when it comes to china. nike promotes itself as a social justice champion.
But when it comes to hong kong, it prefers check its social conscience at the door and siding with the chinese communist party and silencing free speech. the nba is acting like a subsidiary of that authoritarian regime. worth noting, in 2017, the vice president he walked out of the nfl game after players exercised the same rights to free expression, taking a knee during the national anthem. commissioner adam silver responded this way. he said the nba stood up to china. adhere to our core values from the first moment to the extent there was doubt about that. we expressed that is our core values. and we re going to double down in engaging with the people of china and india and throughout africa, around the world, regardless of governments. i want to note that china asked silver to fire daniel