the country is on fire, what can i do to reduce the heat? that picks up on everything we see from the donald, that s classic trump. the former president is not somebody that will reduce the heat simply because he can or should, as a leader, an elder statesman. instead, trump back channels a nefarious message that sounds like a threat and a transaction. he was saying, in effect, according to this report, i m going to make him an offer he can t refuse. only it seems that merrick garland did refuse trump s offer, and since thursday, he has done nothing to reduce the heat with predictable consequences. on thursday, unarmed trump supporter who attacked the fbi field office, in cincinnati ohio was killed after a six hour standoff. and just this morning, a man that crashed his car into a barricade outside of the u.s. capitol before firing shots into the air from his burning car, and then turning the gun on himself. he turned the gun on himself. and breaking tonight, a new joint inte
taliban took over kabul, the capital the canister. they did that america s longest war would finally come to an end. a new study puts that were on the united states s long history of military interventions almost 400 in total into context. joining me to discuss at all this peter. a professor at the school of journalism of the city college of new york. he s also the editor at large for the jewish currents and msnbc political analyst. doug it is called the binary notebook. peter, thanks for joining me this evening. i want to get your reaction to the top lines from that study. almost 400 military interventions and total with half occurring since world war ii, a quarter since the end of the cold war. wasn t the end of the cold war supposed to bring peace to the