but yet here clark saying there may be executive privilege. a bogus legal argument. highly, highly important for us to know what went on there. and the committee only has a year to do this. in case anything happens mid-terms, because if republicans win the house, they re going to shut it down and we won t get accountability you mentioned. yeah. you talk about clark. these are figures that might be less politically famous, so to speak. might not have spent years in front of the camera, but these were the people that went farrest in trying to execute the coup. for a range of reasons, donald trump was not as effective in the upper echelon in the military, but you don t have to be a student of world history to understand that the guns can be dangerous in one way, and the prosecutors can be dangerous in another way but have power to indict, arrest, put political prisoners and journalists in jail. the farther this president got
themselves from germany, a reporter asked the president if he had a message for poland. you tell me if it looks like trump knows what the warsaw uprising was. do you have a message for poland on the anniversary of the warsaw uprising? well, i have a lot of respect for poland. as you know, the people of poland like me, and i like them. and i m going to be going to poland fairly soon. okay. as we noted before, donald trump is not exactly a student of world history or geography, in particular the united kingdom. what some people say is great britain and some people remember a word you don t hear too much is the worried england, which is a piece of it. i have great respect for the uk, united kingdom. great respect. people call it britain. they call it great britain. they call it they used to call it england, different parts. but the uk. great respect. to be joined by the leaders
they react to his language, his rhetoric, his inflammatory tweets. that seems to be what a lot of the fighting is about examine they ve really gotten away to substantive discussions about how we should best handle immigration or health care or taxes. michael, when it isn t the president talking in the public space, the guy eating up all the voids and filling all the space is steve bannon, who he is name has ever never appeared on a ballot and i know you ve spent time reading and thinking and write being about him and talking to folks about him. we can say this. he loves a fight. he loves any fight. yeah. they don t have to be contemporary fights. he loves the fights of yor. he does. he s fascinated by conflict, revolution, war. he s a history buff. he s kind of a student of world history. some people would say that he s
kind of a student of world history, some people would say that he s sort of half student. he draws unusual lessons, reads eclectically. and comes to unusual conclusions, he s clearly fascinated. the palapanesian war is an obsession of his. he wrote an essay before he went to work for donald trump about the rivalry between breitbart and fox news. i think he has this sort of revolutionary constant conflict warfare mentality. that is playing out now in american politics, this is how he operates. you can see where he hassed kinship with donald trump, who on a less historically oriented level. this rivs on constant conflict. it s always a battle.
he said, not the trump versus mccain ridiculous narrative that some people are talking about. no. tonight i m obsessed with what mccain was really saying last night. i m obsessed as a student of world history. and of american politics. this is what he was saying in philadelphia where he was being honored with the liberty medal by the national constitution center. mccain was talking about politics in the age of trump but wasn t criticizing the president personally. he was talking about the direction of where we re headed as a nation and as a world. he was talking about what america the role america could play in the world and the war america has played in the world in the 20th century. time i implore people to will into what he was saying. this is not about bipartisanship, this is his take of america s role in the world. with all our flaws, all our mistakes, with all the frail tees of human nature as much on