about the state of the afghan forces of course? i mean, because it s in eight days, in eight days they ve managed to take more than half the provinces, right, 18 provinces, there s 34 provinces in afghanistan so now they have taken the majority of provinces in the country, had a rat, canned car, helmand. physically and population weiss these are massive provinces home to massive cities. so it s really it s shocking that they could do all of that in eight days. you know, what you said, the clip was from the state department or the pentagon that you played earlier? right. the fact that he said that they were surprised. it shouldn t have taken them from surprise. everybody in afghanistan knew that the political establishment didn t have much of a plan, that there wasn t much coordination amongst the security forces.
we have to recognize all the ways that our economic system and our governmental system has swerved from deep democratic values to deep humanitarian values and what i shear deep listening. when i talk about these things, i m feeling that people are really listening very deeply. otherwise i wouldn t be here. i wouldn t be doing this unless i knew that there was something going on here. you know, last time, the political establishment didn t recognize how angry people are. this career they don t recognize how exhausted people are from the fighting and how they are looking for more inspiration and love and that s what i m representing. democrats have said they are focusing they are focusing, as polls are showing us more than anything else, on someone who can beat donald trump, people in that room and campaign trail. they talk about had a whole range of issues that you ve just mentioned but more often than not the number one issue is someone who can win in the next election so why do yo
is not the kind of people that you wish to associate with. you, me, anybody. but there really is an anger in this country and there is a sense of isolation in this country. you think the political establishment didn t want to believe that the support was out there for him. i believe that. i believe that. and i believe that the journalists of your generation as opposed to mine which goes back 50 years. we were very different in my time as journalists as compared to the ones today because we were much more aware of the low basic, sometimes despicable character of our country because many of us came out of a rough and tumble or down-and-out life. we journalists of the post-war period, of which i am a part. i started in 1953, 54. we were of the under class. you don t identify exactly the same way reporters can be so cozy. i want to read this.