he s an orphan now. stories like this are horrific to all of us. as a father, as a human being, my heart is broken for aiden, for the mccarthy family. what s worse is to see the reactions of republican politicians when stuff like this happens. we are overwhelmed by gop extremism. every day brings a new crop of ghastly statements, bold face lies and bonkers, offensive conspiracies. from republican officials, and candidates. it s difficult not to become numb to them. it s tempting to just ignore them. this is the political party that could be in control of congress in a matter of months. so, though i would much murdered voided, and i hate talking about her, we have to start today with gop congresswoman, marjorie taylor greene. she spoke in a clip from her podcast about that mass murder in highland park. a clip that went viral on twitter this week. but here s what i have to say. i mean, two shootings on july 4th. one in a rich, white neighborhood and the other a fireworks disp
americans, they also poland. all of these things are coming together and really one of the worst times in terms of our relationship with russia. yeah really is coming together all the worst times. as i mentioned you got the espionage act, the interference, the war, human rights abuses, and now we ve got prisoner issues as well. i did smile when you said we don t need to go that far back and you gave the bay of pigs you gave us the cuban missile crisis. that s kind of far back, and also kind of scary, as you say. we re at least hopefully nowhere near any color conflict right now, especially with the war in ukraine. thank you so much for your analysis, kimberly, we appreciate it. we appreciate your time. we will be back with a look ahead after a very short break. we re not done yet, don t go away. ahead after a very short and forms an antibacterial shield. try parodontax active gum health mouthwash.
russia regarding the war. here s a question for you than. you study russian history and russian relations with the west, given how bad relations are right now, put it in some context for our viewers. how bad our relations now with the warned ukraine and with the wider issues of energy, prisoners, et cetera, espionage, and appearance in elections. how about our relations between the united states and russia in a historical context and a big picture. how about to sell to be to get to how bad it is right now? i don t think we have to go back too far. we can think that s the jfk and his relationship with the bay of pigs crisis, in the cuban missile crisis, we re not quite there in terms of the threat of nuclear war. since i was a sense in the soviet union, this is the worst or relations have been with russia. we are actively committing war crimes in ukraine were supporting ukraine militarily financially. the sanctions are incredibly heavy, but we also have the problem of having high st
he hasn t addressed the magnitude of it. he s saying there s nothing he can do about it. he s the president. the economy is one thing that is a huge measure of the president. in normal times, it s one of the most important things that we look at as a measure of how we re doing. you reminded me of this. if you screw something up, say i was wrong. i screwed up. i m reminded because you have to go back to john f. kennedy after the bay of pigs crisis, a crisis that he inherited. his predecessor said, the harry truman version saying the buck stops with me. his poll numbers went up. we don t see that today. i wonder why politicians have problems acknowledging that people are pretty forgiving of that. it s an interesting thing. i think people would be forgiving if he said i got this
50 years ago, the tragedy in syria might not even penetrate what the american people were thinking about on a day-to-day basis. there was a time when, i had a financial crisis in southeast asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. today it does. so the amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different. i was watching a documentary that during the bay of pigs crisis. jfk had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. imagine that. i think it s fair to say that if something like that happens