democrats might outperform what you think they would in an off year election, and that has been the one thing joe biden has been consistent on in how he operates as a candidate and president. they re looking at the same polling data we are. they know what his success measure will be. it will be those two things. jim vandehei, thank you very much, thanks for being on way too early as well. good to have you. now, to some important new reporting on the world of tech. facebook s instagram app is harmful to a number of teenagers and facebook knows it. that s the bottom line. for the past three years, the social media giant has been conducting studies into how it s photo sharing app affects its millions of young users and according to a report in the wall street journal, the company s researchers found that instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage of them.
but we ve done it many times. the problem with afghanistan it s called the graveyard of empires for a reason. anybody who has been there will tell you what the main problem is and it wasn t addressed in that speech last night and not addressing with the military really feels, which is what do you do about corruption and how do you get that government to deliver the services to the people that they need so that they don t need the taliban. he didn t address that last night because it s too hard to do. it s very hard to do, and he didn t address even what the success measure is for something less than that. he talked about everlasting peace, talked about getting rid of the tises and making economic commitments. he did not challenge the afghan government expect at the end we expect to see something, not a blank check. he didn t say what he was expecting from the afghan government either. you have a system of throwing out all these things we re going to commit ourselves