Extortion. Extortion usually has gun related to him lots of cash it is certainly true that trump held up something that the president of ukraine really wanted 2 things a visit to the white house which is big stuff in the International Affairs and number 2 the 400000000 dollars in military aid which he absolutely needed to protect the country against russia he held that up until the ukrainians. Really investigated the biden family and theyre the firm that biden joined as a board member in a very in my opinion kind of stupid manner to join it at all but anyway they wanted that and he wanted an investigation in 2016 of ukrainians involvement in our elections the purpose of the 2nd one was kind of strange to me it is to let putin off the hook and to say that the problem of foreign intervention was not russia it was ukraine which doesnt really affect the 2016 elections at all its again trump trying to forward and be a pansy to putin former ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley is said in seve
A pleasure to have his expertise on all of this he joins us from washington thank you for doing this can its good to see a larry youre doing great and you look great too you voight on diplomacy in defensive positions throughout your career anything close to as happening today well i think whats close to whats happening today is the integrity of those who serve in the Foreign Service and who serve our country in uniform even if the uniforms is true a striped suit because these are people who have dedicated their lives to service who sign up to help the United States who dont avoid the draft or avoid service in any way and theyre there to serve and its just sparkling to see them come forward tell the truth not try to get involved in the politics of it all but tell it like it is so i think thats the same i saw that in my most 20 years 1820 years in government and its inspiring to see larry do you think they are being in some way no online. Yes there definitely being maligned the trumpet m
In washington really thinks that erdogan was going to go put it on harms way american troops which had been keeping their presence there very small contingent had been keeping this from happening so the president obviously feeling defensive but you just saw him there and over the last couple of days hes been trying to create this narrative and he came out he said with the cease fire pause he said its a great day for civilization i solved it sounded as if he thought he had solved the conflict between the turks between turkey and the kurds obviously thats not what this does and weve seen a lot of criticism people coming out and saying what the president did twice now is he told to turkey to involve it to go after the kurds and theyre saying that was a slap in the face of the kurds and theyre saying that he did it again with this agreement to the cease fire basically giving turkey everything they want so a couple of things in that brief roundtable with the media i think its important to p
People and events in a temporal setting. You do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional posturing. That takes place in the 1850s. It was compounded by two weak president s bad decisionmaking. The political crisis of the 1850s is a term, as best i can tell, that was invented by michael holt, professor of history for many years at the niversity of virginia. In fact, the mentor to both Rachel Sheldon and me. I think i was his first phd students, and rachel maybe his final one. That is quite the bookend. The political crisis of the 1850s was a piece that ran through michaels lectures at yale, and when he joined the faculty at the university of virginia in the mid1970s. It became the basis for a book, a very influential book that he wrote, and it has had staying power in the conversation amongst scholars ever since. It is pretty easy to understand why that is so. You just have to think about what happens after the gold rush in california as the w
I am not specifically a civil war historian, but i moonlight in the field. Thatnk it is appropriate we open our discussion of the political crisis of the 1850s as the prelude to what follows in this next five days. History is fundamentally about people and events in a temporal setting. You do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional process during posturing. Weaks compounded by two president s bad decisionmaking. The political crisis of the 1850s is a term, as best i can tell, that was invented by ofhael holt, professor history for many years at the university of virginia. His first phd students, and rachel maybe his final one. That is quite the bookend. Thepolitical crisis of 1850s was a piece that ran through michaels lectures at yale, and when he joined the faculty at the university of virginia in the mid1970s. ,t became the basis for a book a very in tool influential book, that he wrote, and it has had staying power in the conversation am