e-mails and they concluded, i m paraphrasing, something to the effect of they were mishandled, they were inappropriately handled in terms of the classification system, but it wasn t intentional. and so after all of the drama obviously throughout 2016 on a friday, they come out and sort of discreetly and quietly announce that conclusion. yeah. and it s been interesting to see how this very same fact pattern you described is being interpreted dramatically differently on the right where many republicans are saying, well they mishandled the e-mails. clearly the amount of hysteria around this subject was not warranted. but even to this day, president trump is still talking about hillary clinton s e-mails and the missing e-mails and whether or not there s a server and ukraine and so on and so forth. so it s unlikely that the issue is going to die, but it just we have to be careful about how some of these false controversies get blown up for
two cycles that got kind of quashed were more center stage. you saw that in the most pronounced way over the future of health care in the country. you saw it around going after trump. although that was not as big of a theme as we could have seen. there s no question that they rallied around that. and i think the issue of who s really willing to fight. i thought elizabeth warren played strong some of the lesser tiered candidates at the moment as well on the issue of immigration. i thought that came through and i think this will set up the big test. which is the front runner at this early stage is someone who s a more moderate democrat. and that ll be a primary of tension here in this democratic movement. sarah, you have helped prep candidates for things like this in the past. what was your takeaway? my takeaway was that while it wasn t intentional, last night in some ways was the underdog, the second tier debate just because of the way things shifted out. joe biden is up by 20 point
insurance for americans and replace it. klobuchar is explaining why she is in favor of keeping private insurance if people want it. and they have a back and forth. i think it s a bold approach. my proposal is to do something about pharma, to take them on, to allow negotiation under medicare, to bring in less expensive drugs from other countries. pharma doesn t own me. yes, i m with bernie on medicare for all. there are a lot of politicians who say it s not possible, we can t do it, have a lot of political reasons for this. what they re really telling you is they just won t fight for it. well, health care is a basic human right. and i will fight for basic human rights. in that fight, she raised her hand. very early on in the debate said she would fight to get rid of private insurance. she did. what i think is important to note and maybe to play devil s advocate a bit to the notion
about it. we ve had a president who in a single day tweeted iran is in big trouble. no, they re not in trouble because it wasn t intentional. yes, i m going to strike you. no, i m not going to strike you, all in 24 hours. and so if you re a deference planner in tehran, what are you supposed to conclude? are you supposed to think that the u.s. is really tough mr. trump is super tough or is he a softy because he backs down? we ve seen this as a pattern, tough talk, even tough actions followed by softness and sweetness and light. what i m conditionered about is miscalculation. a defense planner might conclude in tehran these guys don t mean anything they say. they say stuff all the time and don t do anything. what does iran do? something stupid and that leads to escalation and a conflict. that s what i m worried about. if you re going to hurt iran, squeeze iran so much economically that it has to act, right, its average citizens, we heard from fred pleitgen in tehran, are feeling the
of syria or libya or yemen or places like this. yes. is there a stability issue we should be concerned about? that a massive south american economy as damaged as it is could actually fully collapse? this, i mean, this used to be the richest country in south america. and now what we re looking at is the beginnings of that. it really started to happen back in 2014. i was there on the ground. i saw the beginnings of this then. it s really only gotten worse. inflation at this point is starting to rival zimbabwe in its worst years in terms of 1 million percent inflation rates. when you look collectively, you can talk about the difference of opinion in terms of politics. but to have a country that has this much resources and that many people start to collapse and then the prospect of u.s. military intervention john bolton s paper yes, it s hard to imagine that that wasn t intentional, the little piece of paper that just happened to be in front of the map of venezuela, saying