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Acquiescence in allowing iran to develop a nuclear weapon. it sounds like you would walk away from the table is that fair? i would be very hesitant with what i ve seen right now. i agree with what senator mcconnell just said that what we do not want to do at this point is to send a signal to the region that we are accepting the notion that eventually iran would be acquiring nuclear weapons. there are other ways that we can improve relations with iran. confidence-building gestures as we did with the soviet union over many years. you don t have to have this deal in order to move forward with them. they seem pretty optimistic this morning from europe. we ll see what they bring to the table. you are a former senator who was involved in military and foreign affairs while in office. the obama administration announced they re cutting the army back 40,000. that s outside of the sequester cuts. your reaction? well we go through these ....
Acquiescence in allowing iran to develop a nuclear weapon. it sounds like you would walk away from the table is that fair? i would be very hesitant with what i ve seen right now. i agree with what senator mcconnell just said that what we do not want to do at this point is to send a signal to the region that we are accepting the notion that eventually iran would be acquiring nuclear weapons. there are other ways that we can improve relations with iran. confidence-building gestures as we did with the soviet union over many years. you don t have to have this deal in order to move forward with them. they seem pretty optimistic this morning from europe. we ll see what they bring to the table. you are a former senator who was involved in military and foreign affairs while in office. the obama administration announced they re cutting the army back 40,000. that s outside of the sequester cuts. your reaction? well we go through these ....
. america is in the midst of a five-year commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the civil war. consider the turning point of that war the battle of gettysburg. it remains a defining moment in this country s history. with us to talk about it, msnbc contributor mike barnicle, he was there, pulitzer prize historian john meacham and he was cheering for lee and best selling author and presidential historian doris kearns goodwin. john meecham, why did gettysburg matter so much? it turned lee s army back. it ended the invasion of the north and was the turning point of the war. and at that point, though it was going to be difficult and bloody and the wilderness campaign and many, many lives would be lost, ....
So much? it turned lee s army back, ended the invasion of the north and was the turning point of the war. at that point, though it was going to be difficult and bloody and the wilderness campaign and many, many lives would be lost, in historical perspective that was the end the beginning of the end as churchhill might say of the war. and my sense, too, it resonates not only because of what happened there militarily in 1963 but because of the words spoken there. what abraham lincoln did at that battlefield was to redefine the country, rededicate it as he put it, to a jeffersonian principle and when we look back on the civil war, it s fascinating to me that so much of our understanding of what it meant came from 1863, not from 1861. ....