the results. that is not to say they had an impact on the results. the president won fair and square. it was an attack on america. those are the words of republican senator john mccain. two, his open contempt for the investigation followed up by the fact he demanded loyalty of the fbi director who is responsible for that probe. demanded loyalty of a person who runs an independent agency who gets a ten-year term so he can be independent of politics or the political party of a president. we must focus on the act. no matter the future of the russia investigation. this act is done in such a way that these two facts combine to undermine the democratic institutions. full stop. a.b., the president when k counter of the white house in
embedded with the troops in kandahar this fall. we talked about this. the president saying that the progress made is fragile and reversible. a lot of this depends on the progress of training these afghan troops. you ve got a stunning article where essentially our commanders are dealing with afghan troops who are high as a kite on hasheesh. high, lazy, poorly trained. when i went down i asked specifically what a good unit looked like. show me good afghans. i was told these guys were among the a agains had. these were people trying to smuggle eight-foot-high poppy plants on to the base. they never wore their body armor. they never really had their weapons correctly. what you saw among the american troops were real contempt for these afghans, open contempt and admiration for the taliban, which i found why admiration?