when he came in and didn t know the afghan army would lie. how did you not know that they would run? conversely, how would you hang your entire policy on the expectation of a decent interval? the afghan army would fight, you get people out in an orderly fashion and at some point the afghan army would exhaust itself and the taliban would win and they wouldn t blame biden because it happened two years after he pulled the truce out. so what happened is, he had bad expectations of the taliban being confronted by the afghan army. didn t happen. then he already evacuated the american troops. had the most vulnerable people had been left behind. had to reship in other warriors to protect the civilians. it was a real a massive screw-up that they did a pretty good job of cleaning up by the
of misbehavior, his police department was stopping and frisking people, mostly african-american men. we took action against him. the justice department took action against him. held the police department accountable. he objected to federal interference. so he s at least practicing what he s going to say, to have all of that right at hand when a reporter asked him. he s step egg into t stepping into the ring. she s sparring. cory booker is polling at 1% so obviously as jesse jackson said, when you re on the field and have the ball, everybody s coming at you. joe biden is the front runner, the guy with the ball. cory booker is right to argue or make his argument about the ties of joe biden to incarceration. joe biden is hitting back about what happened under his mareship and also many african-american people at that time thought it was a good idea because of the
july 16th, 1995. a lot of people were thinking at the time that e-commerce was a very small channel in the adoption of it from a customer standpoint would be slow and fairly minimal. i had my questions about the business model and, you know, how viable was it? within 30 days and with no advertising other than word of mouth, amazon.com had sold books in all 50 states and 45 countries, catching jeff and mckenzie completely off guard. amazon at the beginning had no inventory. once he got an order then he would contact the book distributor and have them ship the book to seattle and then jeff would reship it. bezos was quickly outgrowing his garage set up and moved into the bigger office space with a
july 16, 1995. a lot of people were thinking at the time that e commerce was a very small channel in the adoption of it from a customer standpoint would be, you know, slow and fairly minimal. i had my questions about the business model and, you know, how viable was it. within 30 days and with no advertising other than word of mouth amazon.com had sold books in all 50 states and 45 countries catching jeff and mackenzie completely off guard. amazon at the beginning had no inventory. once he got an order he would contact the book distributor and have them ship the book to seattle and then jeff would reship it. bezos was quickly outgrowing his garage setup and moved into a bigger office space with a large warehouse a few blocks away. he drove his growing team at a
to move too quickly to take those steps. in one sense, it shouldn t come as a surprise the president moved in the direction of drawing down our troop presence in syria. on the other hand, doing so in this abrupt a manner and doing so in a way that caught allies by surprise, even caught our own troop commanders by surprise, that obviously was pretty unconventional and pretty disruptive. remember, from the early days there when trump brought mattis in to the administration, he seemed to great afekds for him. loved the nickname mad dog. loved the military profile and military background. to see where it s ended a couple years later. it s been about a year since you were there. if you could describe the relationship between the two that you observed. was there a decline? how would you describe the reship that you got to watch? clearly, the early period of the administration, the president was reliant on people around him with much more experience dealing with national security issues.