among liberals in the democratic party who feel like if only she or bernie sanders had been numbered last time around, they believe they would have had a better chance of defeating the kind of campaign donald trump ran. a lot of this james, will depend on what kind of presidency we see with donald trump. it s too early to predict weather someone more centrist or more liberal and progressive/to use that mo men calculate tour would have a better shot against donald trump if he s seeking re-election. there are two interesting pieces in the book relating to her potentially running in the future. number one, she pulls her punches on the democratic party and never explains why she feels hillary clinton lost. she says they lost. she doesn t give a prescription where democrats need to go, more centrist or progressive. she gets into the weeds on a few policy issues. second, when you saw why she did not run for president last time, that conversation she mentioned
but what is the best and most honest way to do that? joining me now from washington is james and a retired u.s. army captain wes. wes, i ll start with you. i m sure you were watching the super bowl. when you saw that budweiser ad air, what were your thoughts? i shared a lot of the same frustrations he had. i direct mine in a different place. my frustration wasn t with budweiser. my frustration was we can all smile and celebrate and cry as these reunions happen. it is not just about the first day back or the first week back. it is about what happens to vets as we are months and years
returned to combat. the vast majority of our friends and families have no connection to it whatsoever. that s the larger, bigger part of the conversation that s been missed. james, you have an provocative column. there were two moments in the state of the union. one was the standing ovation for corey ramsburg and then the president s state that we must end permanent war footing. we have not reconciled this. i wonder what you think needs to be done for us to, i guess, reconcile us on the national level. do we need better leadership or
the end of the day, we have to have a set of standards we believe in, we have to have titles and journalists that operate to the highest possible standard and we have to make sure when they don t live up to that that they are held to account. so what kind of standards are they living up to over at fox news? what am i missing here? well, the standards that this committee was asking good old james about is james, why did you pay a million dollars hush money to somebody who had been a victim of this phone hacking? the problem james had was he couldn t say he paid a million dollars to the one victim and paid 20,000 or $30,000 to everybody else because we know that this one victim was a special case who could lower the boom on news corp. he knew that. that s why he paid the money. then you have to ask yourself is it believable that daddy didn t know that his son james had paid out the equivalent of $2 million as he puts it to settle a civil suit and rupert just doesn t know about that
listen to this. the end of the day, we have to have a set of standards we believe in, we have to have titles and journalists that operate to the highest possible standard and we have to make sure when they don t live up to that that they are held to account. so what kind of standards are they living up to over at fox news? what am i missing here? well, the standards that this committee was asking good old james about is james, why did you pay a million dollars hush money to somebody who had been a victim of this phone hacking? the problem james had was he couldn t say he paid a million dollars to the one victim and paid 20,000 or $30,000 to everybody else because we know that this one victim was a special case who could lower the boom on news corp. he knew that. that s why he paid the money. then you have to ask yourself is it believable that daddy didn t know that his son james had paid out the equivalent of $2 million as he puts it to settle a civil suit and rupert just doesn t