this then is the congo. the size of all western europe combined. it should be africa s wealthiest nation. but people forget, or never even knew, that the 20th century s first holocaust happened here when belgium s king leopold managed to bamboozle the world into giving him personal title to the congo. leopold s agents of whom the mythical kurtz was one, raided, slaughtered, mutilated and pressed into forced labor much of the population, in a bloodthirsty quest for first ivory and then rubber. when independence finally came, the belgians trashed what they could, and left behind a completely unprepared tribally divided and largely ungovernable land mass, filled with stuff that everybody in the world wanted.
david corn, of course, heidi pryzbilla and seth waxman, thank you for your various contributions to this-year-old discussion. the other big story of the day, president trump called off his summit with north korea. what have now? we ll find out whether kim jong-un is really wanting to make a deal with us or whether they want to play with us. plus, the nfl caves to trump vowing to find teams whose players kneel during data national anthem. for some players and former players it s a decision that hits them as un-american. we ll talk to one of them tonight. and trump s tribalism. he s willing to tear down the institutions of this country and stir it up distractions as his way of shielding himself from justice. he s using this, taking issue on that front. it s all about the rule of trump, not the rule of law. he wants people taking sides. tribally preferably. finally let me finish tonight with trump watch. this is hardball. or plan for tomorrow?
professor dan. i was a doctor. nowhere near as smart as this doctor but i am intrigued but we love sports and that is tribalism and i always thought that is the thing we would point of instead of biden. i m just trying to act smart. you did a great job. so everybody plays by the same rules. and we can get along tribally. and at least in principle but now that in itself is under
i don t know whose interest it is. when you make a decision like this, a big change, there should be a reason beyond, oh, but i mentioned it in the campaign and i said i would do it. so now i must do it. you make a big change like this, you have to come forward and make the case that it makes something better. that it will improve any situation there, that it will make people safer, that it will add to that decision in any way. without that, it just appears to be another antic decision made without full information. a couple more points in alabama. don t think this isn t related to alabama next week. it is related. evangelicals with their crazy ideas about israel which is, i don t know, mythical. they don t understand the situation over there, how tricky it is ethnically and tribally. they don t care because it s a religious belief. trump is playing into that this
combined. it should be africa s wealthiest nation. but people forget, or never even knew, that the 20th century s first holocaust happened here when belgium s king leopold managed to bamboozle the world into giving him personal title to the congo. leopold s agents of whom the mythical kurtz was one, raided, slaughtered, mutilated and pressed into forced labor much of the population, in a bloodthirsty quest for first ivory and then rubber. when independence finally came, the belgians trashed what they could, and left behind a completely unprepared tribally divided and largely ungovernable land mass, filled with stuff that everybody in the world wanted. and things pretty much went downhill from there.