house and military perhaps at odds and the military trying to be respectful and not answer that directly. how do you think that plays out for other security issues? i don t think it plays out well. the administration, the president has made decisions that the military obviously disagrees with. he is the commander-in-chief. the policy making process at the white house is broken. after my article on thursday, the white house went out this past weekend and said we had 10 deputies meetings and ex number of meetings of the cabinet about the decision like we ve had 15 meetings. well, this has been going on for months. the president made his announcement about withdrawal in april. we re talking about they ve had over the period of six months they ve had 10 deputies meetings to discuss this kind of thing. that s ridiculous. that s not the kind of attention, that is not the kind of purposeful meeting of the government to go through these tough decisions and obviously
their lives for a cause that kept on changing, just as the four of you were saying. first it was to punish afghanistan for harboring al qaeda and causing the attacks of 9/11, then it became trying to help the people of afghanistan. then it became trying to create a greek democracy in afghanistan. all those things in the end were mistakes and if you were to ask any american 90 days ago why are we in afghanistan, they would have given the same answer most americans gave when lyndon johnson asked in 1968 why are we in vietnam. the answer we don t know and we don t think it is a great idea. katrina, curious what you think should be fixed here in the larger policy making process. you alluded to some of this earlier. but clearly this is larger than just the response to 9/11. there s something that still
senate democrats often extolling the virtues of working with republicans, of bipartisanship. i wonder, senator, do you see how weird that looks to a lot of americans, the dissghekt is your party in denial about what the gop has become? yeah. look, think there s that completely inconsistent. let me be clear about this. clearly trump is gone. he s no longer in the white house but trumpism is still alive and well, whether you see it in the hallways of congress, in the house and senate chambers or in events like you just pointed now the riverside this weekend. it is taking its toll, its impact on the policy-making process. in congress, most of the american public would ideally like to see bipartisan agreement and we ve got to try. the difference is we can t wait, wait, wait for republicans to come around. we give it a good faith effort and if they are not going to participate and reciprocate we have to move forward even if it means abolishing the filibuster and doing for the nation wha
confrontation. we saw it all over social media. you have these america first far right gop members of congress riling up people, provoking scenes like that far from their own homes and then you have senate democrats often extolling the virtues of working with republicans, of bipartisanship. i wonder, senator, do you see how weird that looks to a lot of americans, the disconnect? is your party in denial about what the gop has become? yeah. look, i think there s let me be clear about this. clearly trump is gone. he s no longer in the white house but trumpism is still alive and well, whether you see it in the hallways of congress, in the house and senate chambers or in events like you just pointed out in riverside this weekend. it is taking its toll, its impact on the policy-making process. in congress, most of the american public would ideally like to see bipartisan agreement and we ve got to try. the difference is we can t wait,