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The law blog. he s written about law for decades and a legal analyst and joins us tonight on very short notice as we digest this breaking news. thank you for joining us. thanks for having me. so part of the reason i wanted to talk to you about this tonight is because you are not a lawyer, as best i know, but you are very good at explaining justice department norms and politics around justice department independence to those of us who aren t lawyers and don t understand this stuff intrinsically. can i just get your top line reaction to this news that the fbi director threatened to resign over this pressure on him? well, so my top line reaction is that chris wray behaved seems to have behaved with a lot of backbone here. he s under we ve known he s under enormous pressure. it s hard to stand up to the attorney general of the united states. it s harder still to stand up to the president of the united states. we knew donald trump was angry ....
Justice department norms and politics around justice deputy independence to those of us who aren t lawyers and who don t understand this stuff. can i just get your top line reaction to this news that the fbi director threatened to resign over this pressure on him? well, so my top line reaction is that chris ray behaved, seems to have behaved with a lot of backbone here. he s under we ve known he s under enormous pressure. it s hard to stand up to the attorney general of the united stat states. it s harder to stand up to the president of the united states. we knew donald trump was angry at chris ray after appointing him and we seem and it had to do with andrew mccabe, which the president hates. what we learned today from this story is that at some point and ....
Rachel. thank you. let me ask you for your top line reaction when you heard the accounts of what the president said in that room? you know, listen, the words of a president are very powerful words. and unfortunately, this president has used his words to demean and belittle, instead of uplifting people. and it is deeply troubling. it is unfortunate and it is irresponsible. simply irresponsible. the response from senators who were in the room, and i know there s a colleague yalet among senators and there s archaic rules in the way you talk about one another and assessment of another s character. so i don t want you to say anything you re uncomfortable with. but i m strike by the fact that two senators are saying these ....
That. we re not going to outsource our war fighting. i think that was a positive and i would have been very worried about the fabric of our country going forward. thank you for your time on that. afghan war veteran, contributing editor at the atlantic magazine, good to have you. thank you. joining me now is former secretary of defense who spent considerable time in afghanistan in that role. mr. carter, thank you very much for being with us. i m glad to have you here. thanks, rachel. let me ask you the same first question. your top line reaction to what the president said tonight. you bet. i heard a formula for a forever war. you heard the shift from a time-based strategy to a condition-based strategy. very opaque with regard to objectives and goals and troop levels and a seeming commitment to fight for as long as possible ....
Thank you so much for being with us tonight. glad to be with you, rachel. let me ask your top line reaction about what you heard from president trump about afghanistan. my top line reaction is that this, once again, is reaffirmation and confirmation of the fact that we are in the state of perpetual war. and this was a speech that really laid out a military-first option. he did not lay out a comprehensive strategy and in fact, i m really very disappointed because he of course campaigned by saying that he would end this war and bring our young men and women home which is what we should do. there s no military solution in afghanistan and in fact, we need to really begin to look at the costs and consequences. rachel, i have to say our brave troops have gone way beyond the call of duty and it s time to ....