people who do know it is a lie but they choose to repeat the lie and choose to live in that alternative reality? well your exactly right. there is a tendency to think this is somehow based on education or experience or anything else. and it is not whether you went to college or where you went to college that is the most likely predictor, it is whether you consumer right-wing media. you re more likely to bring conspiracy theories about vaccines and elections. that is the problem in this country. is that we have a very well funded, very aggressive operation that is spreading these lies for profit. and political gain. and it is incredibly dangerous. there are a lot of people who know better, particularly a lot of republicans on capitol hill, but there are also a lot who believe it, whose brains have been pickled by this. that is what is so scary. it is not a grift and people are controlling the levers of powner this country. it is pretty shocking. i want to ask you about sol
people s eyes are fixed on that, because the trains are running to the main cities in the uk, manchester, birmingham, liverpool, glasgow, but they aren t running very frequently, and as you heard, around half the trains are cancelled. in terms of the unions and the government, they are not around the table talking, and the rmt s around the table talking, and the rmt s mick lynch has said that this isn tjust rmt s mick lynch has said that this isn t just about pay, rmt s mick lynch has said that this isn tjust about pay, but rmt s mick lynch has said that this isn t just about pay, but there rmt s mick lynch has said that this isn tjust about pay, but there are other things to isn tjust about pay, but there are other things t isn tjust about pay, but there are otherthinuust , ~ ., other things to considered. we don t know when it other things to considered. we don t know when it is other things to considered. we don t know when it is going other things to considered. we don t k
i want to ask you about solutions. dan, because, i ve talked to a lot of former republican friends of mind and we sound like democrats now when we re around the table talking. what do we do how democrats go we don t deserve that is not what we sound like. we just take it. yes, it is. no, it is not. but there is a mindset, if you re a republican and somebody spreads lies about you, you go after them, you annihilate, you politically annihilate them. don t sit around and go oh, my god it is just not right. so you worked for a political operation. you worked for a white house, that news how to do it right. what do you tell the people that are running both sides of pennsylvania avenue when i m alone with them and they say they just lie and what can we do?
and the risk we would be attacked from there again. a part of that second objective was to get the afghans at the table talking. women and ngos, afghan government, former leaders in afghanistan, we had the taliban. all beginning to try to pound out a set of conversations. we knew it would take years to achieve but that peace and reconciliation process was important. if you were going to create the stability you needed, bill, you had to do it. bill: if they did not live up to either side live up to the deal the deal was null and void and then you can go back to the taliban and say you broke the agreement and that did not happen. why? of course, no, we told the taliban repeatedly they were violating the agreement, bill. repeatedly. dana: what happens next, sir. and we responded and we imposed real costs on them when they did so. we impolesed costs on president