the most exhilarating experience to hear from these veterans. what it was like from them, whether practically teenagers, some of them. now, maybe 100-years-old, some of them. and or more one from baltimore, hundred and 4-years-old, mr. mountain a cough. he s from baltimore, maryland anyway, i ve seen him along the way. in any case in that in that atmosphere, the president s speech was almost prayerful. it was so beautiful in terms of the sacrifice that they made at the time the purpose of it all for democracy and freedom and the inspiration they are to us, to protect it as we go forward. he referenced the speech today, referenced, of course, the reagan speech, which is exactly halfway. it s the 80th anniversary. that was a 40th anniversary. and it was
that ronald reagan was saying. and if you remember as a young senator, he wasn t exactly a huge fan of ronald reagan s but i think he was making the point that america remains great, that it doesn t need to be made great. again and i think that he this is the whole framework of his campaign. you know, he ll talk about the economy and inflation and all the rest of it. but this is what drives joe biden is this notion of american democracy, american exceptionalism and and he was trying to be optimistic, not pessimistic. and i think that that that came through. he said, you ll never convince me america isn t great. yeah. i m glad you mentioned ronald reagan. let s play a little bit of that speech from the same spot 40 years ago we in america have learned bitter lessons from two world wars it
trump. this is about one specific senator who is, as you say, a hawk republican senator dan sullivan of alaska he and mitch mcconnell you just want to quickly put up the headline of what mcconnell said in a new york times op-ed yesterday, we cannot repeat the mistakes of the 1930s. they are trying to make the case for the party to go back to the approach of ronald reagan, but they re in the minority yeah. well, they aren t. if you look at the final vote on that military supplemental, in the end which 32 republicans, which is more than half of the republican conference did vote for it. so speaking with mcconnell about this issue, speaking with people like senator dan sullivan about this issue, they say, look, that is a majority of republicans. we did eventually get there. but it was an uphill battle and that does tell you that this sense of isolationism that obviously trump exemplify faisal, though he never also came out against a chair that military funding never came out against the
a speech and isolationism for our country brilliant speech. and the president referenced that with our own call for understanding our role in the war world. and as president reagan said at the time, it s better to prevent war than. to have to deal with the consequences of it afterward or words to that effect. so we re very proud of hasn t speech. both states speeches both days yesterday at the ceremony then in the evening at the international ceremony when he was magnificently received being brought in by president macron and then the speech, the speech today, it was about values, about patriotism, as about what america is all about and has been about but it s mostly about the veterans and the sacrifice they made for love of country. it wasn t even any question i took pride in telling them 19 1970, when i
lives. but there are asking us to care for others in our country. more than ourselves. they re not asking us to do their job they re asking us to do our job to protect freedom in our time, to defend democracy my colleagues are back with me now. it was really noteworthy how he had that play on, make america great again effectively saying america s already great. we ve heard versions of that before from not just a joe biden, but from other democrats but the context and the location of where he did that was very telling. absolutely. i mean, as we were talking about before, it s so ironic to see all the indications of reagan make america great again, was literally a reagan slogan as well. one that trump has adopted. this kind of nostalgia