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For the soul of the nation. it comes more than three years after the then candidate biden launched his presidential campaign in that same city, focusing on a similar theme. america has always been at its best when america is acting as one american. one american. one america may be a simple notion, but it doesn t make it any less profound. this nation needs to come together. it has to come together. folks, we started this campaign, when we did, i said i was running for three reasons, the first is to restore the soul of the nation. yes. joining us now from philadelphia is nbc news white house correspondent mike, you can give us a sense or a preview of what the president plans to say tonight about that battle for the soul of america? well, mik, as you know, i ve covered the president for quite ....
Followed, and make sure that there is governor, i don t think any president has ever carted off that many documents to their house after they left the presidency. and if they had, here s the thing. they would have been arrested. the d.o.j. would have gone after them. and again, there you hear, mik, once again, the argument, i think he declassified it. no, as was pointed out, they come up with a thousand different excuses. that actually confirmed that he has them. and each excuse confirms that the last excuse was a lie. and they keep building excuse upon excuse upon excuse, that actually knocks the foundation under the previous lies that they told. each excuse, joe, confirms he had, he never says i didn t have these, i didn t do this, he only confirms that he has them, and he took them. but here s his biggest ....
Union. if you go to the reagan library, there s a famous scene of hi and gorbachev talking and hammering out their differences. ronald reagan said, i think i can work with this guy. this guy was more than just this guy. he s a brilliant statistician and very good with numbers. the common bond he mentioned when he attended ronald reagan s funeral i believe in 2004, when he said we come from different vibes, but we live. it was a great time of my life to have lived in a time with him. i m just wondering now given the fractious relationship we have with russia, if we ll ever get that back or anything akin to this. certainly not with vladimir putin. vladimir putin has fascist leanings and he s an authoritarian. mik ....
Aircraft? i don t understand why that s the red line. to me, the red line is no u.s. soldiers and no pilots should fight in ukraine. i support president biden on that. i do not believe we should be enforcing a no fly zone. that to me means we have to shoot down russian aircraft and that is declaring war on russia. but i don t understand what the differences between a javelin and a mik, they are still attacking the same tanks. and i want you to hear the voice of the ukrainians. they are pleading with us. they are the ones fighting. we say that we re all on their side but we re all on their side sitting and watching them fight alone. my view is, we should do whatever we can do without crossing the threshold of a declaration of war to support their military efforts. all right, ambassador mcfaul, sir, i appreciate your time. i want to bring into the conversation nbc news correspondent cal perry who joins us now from lviv. ....