It summit of the autocrats. It was bad. So by the new york times trolling the word treason on the front page. There was a story about how this was the last straw for the republicans who had backed trump. That was the other lead story on the front page of the times that day about how trump s base had been rattled by his behavior with putin. It was a real open question whether a mistake this bad could have electoral implications for the president when he was up for reelection in 2020. And trump was apparently worried about losing the presidency, and weeks after that meeting. Not because of the putin debacle, this was the headline at axios right after the putin summit, trump fears biden 2020, losing pennsylvania. Now again, this was july of 2018. Joe biden would not enter the race for another nine months. Donald trump was spooked just by the idea, the idea of a head to head matchup with joe biden in 2020. The month before joe biden announced he was running, donald trump convened a meeting
But the core is intact and will remain intact. David, do you think this leads to expansion? well, i think that is going to be the next battle. Clearly, there is an appetite among democrats to expand coverage to strengthen the affordable care act. Those of us involved back in the day recognized then this was not the panacea and that there were gaps that needed to be filled. I think there will be future battles over this. Anderson, you know, i think the real battle over the affordable care act ended the day that john mccain came out on the floor of the senate and turned his thumb down and denied donald trump his dream of destroying the affordable care act. In 2018 this was an albatross around the necks of republicans who were seen as wanting to do away with a lot of what protected people with preexisting conditions, protected women, protected older people being discriminated against in the health care system. It really hurt them. It wasn t really an issue in the 2020 campaign. This lawsu
Including our special guest tonight 94yearold opal lee, the grandmother of juneteenth. She ll be first to tell you it was a lot of people not just me. But, boy oh, boy what a journey of pain and purpose she has had to very much help this country get to today. So today when it was signed, standing ovations. Hugs from the president. All kinds of shout outs at the white house. Prepare yourself to be inspired. A rare opportunity to be with a civil rights icon in the midst of their work. People are now getting their arms around what juneteenth means. What it will mean for them when it comes on the 19th and to be honest we re not all on the same page about tomorrow or where we need to be as a country. Now, a little bit of faqs. Juneteenth short for june 19th, 1865. Why then? that is when lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. No. It was 1863. This was more than two years later. Why? slaves were kept in servitude. That is what the civil war was about. They rejected it even after the pr
throwing his support behind moving the 2021 all-star game out of atlanta in protest of georgia s voter suppression laws ma ka raiding as election security laws in a state where there was no widespread voter fraud. i think today s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. i would strongly support them doing that. people look to them. they re leaders. look at what s happened with the nba, as well. look at what s happened across the board. the very people who are victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these various sports. and it s just not right. this is jim crow on steroids what they re doing in georgia. and 40 other states. imagine passing a law saying you cannot provide water or food for someone standing in line to vote? can t do that? come on. or you re going to close a polling place at 5:00 when working people just get off? this is about keeping ordinary folk that is grew up with from being able to vote. major league baseball didn t ma
minister boris johnson hold on? in hindsight i will talk about all of that and more with richard haass, anne applebaum and david miliband. also, stocks are volatile, inflation is stubborn, oil hits seven-year highs and china s growth starts to slow. what is going on with the economy? now we need to get inflation under control. i will talk to rana foroohar of the financial times. but first here is my take. what does vladimir putin want? it s a question washington finds hard to answer because, let s face it, we americans rarely put ourselves in other people s shoes. two important essays by dmitri trennen in foreign affairs provide some clues. both suggest that putin has stated power for over 20 years not by being a reckless gambler but rather by being careful, even rational. trenen points out that putin has watched four waves of nato expansionism since he took power. his military incursions have usually been reactions to events rather than grand initiatives of h