Made by the previous administration. it was made by donald trump. and the flaws of that deal, which called for an immediate exit of all u.s. troops with no lingering presence, with a limited way to do counterterrorism strikes in the future, those were from the previous administration, that agreement. and people should just keep that longer lens both offered by julian and by matt dowd as we process all the things that you, colonel jack, have talked about. it is a complicated picture. we ll look forward to the rest of president biden s interview with george stephanopolous and continue to follow this with all your help. julian barnes, colonel jack jacobs, thank you for starting us off this hour. matt dowd sticking around. when we return, much more on the breaking news of last hour. president biden calling out in some of the most direct terms to date those red state governors amid rising coronavirus cases in their states.
Familiar, says our good friend, matthew dowd, who tweeted this. quote, the response by the gop and so many democrats in d.c. to events in afghanistan underlines what i ve been saying for years. gop feels no shame and dems feel shame way too quickly. biden is right in what he is doing. support him vigorously. that is where we begin with some of our favorite reporters and friends. julian barr, also retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient and msnbc military analyst and the aforementioned matt dowd, founder of country over party who always tells it like it is. matt, i m going to start with you. you give voice to something that i think a lot of people feel. i think that this decision to leave afghanistan has the support of a wide swath of both people that may have voted for the ex-president and obviously the biden coalition. this president wants to keep the coverage and the conversation
Our sense of democracy and was a tribal country and was going to revert back to a tribal country the minute we took our hands off of it. that s the fundamental problem and that s what we need to understand. julian, some of the conversation in national security circles wasn t seriously considered by donald trump either and that was leaving a number of troops there to have eyes and ears on the ground, to make sure that al qaeda didn t regain its foothold or another terrorist group that threatened our country. the president seemed willing to address that as well, to discuss terror threats all over the world in places where we don t have the military. but it s an important piece for people to understand that for donald trump and joe biden, who saw the world in completely opposite ways, neither man had staying in afghanistan indefinitely on their to do
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attention today, a brand-new poll has him at number one. thanks to you for tuning in. just minutes ago president obama finished what was perhaps the most comprehensive call for criminal justice reform since he came to office. it was a passionate speech making the moral case for change and for everyone getting equal justice under the law. we have to have the same standards for those children as we have for our own children. if you are a parent you know there are times boys and girls are going to act out in school. and the question is are we letting principals and parents deal with one set of kids and we call the police on another set of kids? that s not the right thing to do. we have to deal with our juvenile justice system remembers our kids are different. don t just tag them as future criminals. reach out to them as future citizens. the new push comes just a day after the president granted clemency to 46 presidents serving time for nonviolent drug offenses. specific call