>> they're so loud i can't hear you. >> saying nice things. >> oh, good. >> i have to say i'm sorry i took last night off. given everything going on in the news it was a crazy night to be away. but last night was the only night i'm going to take off from the show for my book tour which has now started. the first night was last night. that's why i took yesterday's show off but i'm here tonight live. i will be here next week even as i'm doing the other evented. thank you to nicole wallace for filling in and the news gods have rewarded me by making today just as nuts as yesterday was and perhaps even beyond as nuts. the former national security advisor susan rice is going to be here tonight. an excellent night to have here

here. she was the u.n. ambassador for the obama first term given the way the national security infrastructure of the is -- there is no one i would rather talk to about what is going on than susan rice. she will be here live here in studio with me. you might remember recently we had former secretary of state hillary clinton here on the show. she reminded me of something she said here about six months ago that created a little consternation particularly among her critics on the right. hillary clinton in an interview with me said something, laid something out as like a hypothetical, she was laying out something so crazy and so insane they were saying it was too

much. but the same thing that she said on this show, which was right criticized her for being too outlandish, it is now a prof if i, it turns out it is what we're living through. >> imagine rachael that you had one of the democratic nominees for 2020 on your show. and that person said, you know, the only other adversary of ours as good as the russians is china, so why should russia have all of the fun? and since russia is clearly backing republicans why don't question is china to back us? >> i hear by tonight ask china to -- >> that's right, and not only that, china if you're listening why don't you get trump's tax returns. i'm sure our media would rishly

-- richly reward you. so if after this candidate hypothetically says this, hours the irs officers are bombarded with incredibly sophisticated cyber tools looking for trump's tax returns and extracts them and passes them to whatever the new wikileaks happens to be and they start being unravelled and disclosed, nothing wrong with that. if you're going to let russia get away with what they did, and are still doing according to christopher ray, the current fbi director who said that last week. they're in our election systems. we're worried about 2020, he said. so hey, let's have a great power contest and let's get the chinese on the side of somebody else. just saying that shows how absurd the situation we find ourselves in. >> hillary clinton in this show about six months ago, laying out

that crazy hypothetical showing how crazy it is, what russia did in 2016, not punishing what they did, or not promising anyone, and who knew about it. saying look how absurd that is, imagine if it is china being asked to get involved in our next election. think about china being asked to get involved this time. to be clear when hillary clinton laid that out it was a hypothetical and no democratic candidate is trying to enlist china's assistance for the 2020 campaign. now, however, we knee president trump is. he apparently decided that absurd hypothetical is nowhere near too absurd for him so he proclaimed yesterday that he would like the chinese government to give him help in his reelection effort by taking

unspecified action against joe biden. he was not just idolly wishing that outloud, but one of the presidential call records secreted away into the code word protected super high security stand alone server in the white house, and the initial notes to the president's calls to the president of ukraine, and reportedly the calls from jupt, and the next one, they secreted in that super high security -- calling the president of china and asking the chinese government to help him out versus joe biden and the democrats for 2020, explicitly asking for an investigation into biden, right? one that he could use in his reelection effort. now to their credit, i guess, china today said no.

out loud. in response to that question. we don't know how the chinese president responded to that call. the records for from that call from been secreted away, but at least outloud the government is saying the chinese foreign minister said publicly today that china will not interfere in the internal affairs. we trust the american people will be able to sort out their own problems. we're having a little trouble sorting out own ore problems. so president trump made hillary clinton's hyper bollic prediction, about hurd story come true, he asked china -- on

top of that we knee president trump asked a different foreign country, yukraine for help in hs reelection in 2020. even though china said no, ukraine today appears to have said yes. the ukrainian government today announcing that under president zelensky they will launch a new audit of previous investigations including the one that the president insist they look into to slime joe biden if is possible this is not as bad as it looks. it is not necessarily him delivering what they said, we should all be humble about how we interpret nuances and ukrainian politics and law enforcement. i mean, i think we should all be

humble about that. it used to be we didn't need to be experts about that stuff. but the way this is going in terms of the president making these demands on the ukraine and ukraine appears to meet those demands, this story is not getting better, it is getting worse. what the government has ordered and it's impact. and i say that not to dubum you out, but i know that the news is moving really fast right now. it has been ten straight days of the magnitude and importance. at it's heart this is still very simple. maybe that is why it is moving so fast. there is an unrebuttable central

claim here if remains very simply that the president asked a foreign country, and now it seems foreign countries, plural, for help. for help in his reelection against the democrats. that is potentially a crime, no american can solicit something of value for use in a federal election from a foreign source whether or not the president himself can be prosecuted for such a crime. anyone else can absolute i will be prosecuted for such a crime. ask michael cohen. but the president's involvement in this scheme, his direction of this scheme. that is what the shows going to impeach him for. but there is no mystery there. it started with press reports about there being a whistle-blower claim, and then we got it, and then we got documents, and then the president's own admission, and then the president doing it again on camera in front of everybody. the factua lrgs bl basis for th

asking foreign rivals to help him in his reelection effort, it is proven. the white house and the president himself admitted it, they have done it out loud. that is done nap is the top line. that is impeachment. that is the most important thing to understand. but still there is so much movement and so many developing stories below that, right? one level blelow that top line s a tsunami of news. it has made the last ten days so packed and frenetic. let's talk now about what happened today with this news and where we're at. i think in the history books, if this all goes where it looks like it is going, today will go down in the history of the trump impeachment as the day that the core impeachment inquiry. the central issue of this

inquiry and the proceedings shifted to include not just the president himself but also vice president pence. and i think we knew this was probably inevitable once the washington post reported a couple days ago that sources close to the vice president said that vice president pence had been briefed on the fact that president trump was pressing ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden. he received those briefing materials before he, himself, went to meet with the president of ukraine where, upon, vice president pence told the ukrainians their aid would be held up until that investigation happened. that is not good for the vice president, right? that is exactly what the president is being impeached for. it really looks like he did it too, and worse, if he was the one that made it explicit. well the three chairs of the committee who's are handling the bulk of the impeachment

proceedings are confirming now that they are in this matter in is the core issue of the impeachment. approaching a foreign government for dirt on a political rival for help on the next election in this country. and vice president pence appears to be made explicit the quid pro quo. so they announced they are investigating the president as part of the impeachment proceedings. they followed up with an extensive document request. there was a brave face, a snarky scarfing. i'm sure that plays well in the white house, but vice president pence know there's is no reason to expect that he will have all of the same nooks and kracranni in the law. vice presidents have a little

bit of that immunity, but ask spiro agnew, it doesn't work the same way when they try to shield themselves with white house immunity. that is part of what is going on. so these allegations against the president, they have now expanded to include the vice president as well. the other thing that has exploded in the last 24 hours is the amount of evidence we have ant this effort to enlist foreign countries against the president's political opponents. it wasn't just a whim of the president, not just a wish that he was stating outloud or something he was saying to be deliberately oppressed. michael cohen who used to do this stuff, is inavailable for the next scheme because she

still in prison for the last one. but we have also now got tons of evidence that this is not just something that the president tried to do on his own or just with a personal lawyer as an unofficial emissary. the explosion of news is the fact that this is an order that the president gave out that was, in fact, carried out by multiple people inside the u.s. government including a number of people at very high levels of the u.s. government. so i know you hear about these texts that were released late last night. i'm not going to go through them one by one because i don't think we need to. file it all under government personnel carrying out trump's orders to do the thing for which he will be impeached. i'm not super in the weeds with the text messages either because they made clear they have not released all of them. there is no reason to focus on them as the universe of what we

have so far, we're going to get more in the future. even so, let me pull out a couple key things that i think explain why things are moving as fast as they are right now. for starteders, there is the thing that will be very uncomfortable right now for republicans in congress and for a bunch of the con seretive -- conservative media. they may be seeing that whatever the president did here, it is definitely not that bad. it is definite know impeachable or a crime because there was no quid pro quo, that's the talking point you heard all week? in the first instance that doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if there is a quid pro quo, if you ask for help, it doesn't matter if you are also asking for something in exchange.

if is just help in your election that you could be impeached for, trading something doesn't matter, it's just you asking for it that matters, but if you're concerned about whether or not there was a quid pro quo, now we know from the text messages that there was a quid pro quo. that means i'll give you something if you give me something, right? it's a trade. trump's offer to ukraine, in this case, is clear in these text messages. "heard from white house. assuming president zelensky convinces trump he will investigate we will nail down date for visit to washington." that's the definition of a quid pro quo. you could do this like a john ne cochran sing song, you don't get the date unless you prove you

will investigate. then we can nail down the date. it's right there. and for bonus points, we have the ukrainian side confirms that yes, in fact, they understand that is the trade, that is the quid pro quo being agreed to. okay, once we have a date we will announce that we are investigating including among other things, burisma. so the quid pro quo thing is beside the point, but if that is your sticking point, if that is the republican and conservative media talking point, we now do have the verbatim back and forth between the trump administration and ukraine agreeing explicitly between the two sides that this s is a quid pro quo. yes, we understand it is a quid pro quo.

all right, it is also worth points out the trump administration to the ukraine saying if you want a date you have to investigate. the timestamp on text proceeded trump getting on the phone with the president of ukraine and making that same ask out of his own personal presidential mouth. when it comes to not just trading a meeting with the united states as part of this quid pro quo, when it comes to military assistance, that part of the trade, that part of the quid pro quo seems very specifically tied to vice president mike pence. part of the reason he is now being investigated in these proceedings is because of this reporting he recently had. he went over there and he didn't just ask for help in these investigations that would benefit him and president trump

in 2020, he threatened their military aid if they did not cuff up the investigations. now we know that just after vice president pence had this meeting, it was right there within hours that bill taylor sthent text back home to washington. saying are we now saying that security assistance and white house meetings are conditioned on investigations. the trump donor known as the state department official responded by saying "call me." ? a in a week he was still pressing the point that you need to call me. they responded hours later with

a lawyerly statement about how president trump had been crystal clear. bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trump's intentions. president trump himself today seized on that particular text message in his remarks to reporters when he was talking about his impeachment woes. he says that text from donlan exonerated him. he has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos. that came to a crashing end when ron johnson went to the "wall street journal" with a story that he thought was helpful. he said that same guy at the state department, gordon sonlan told him he was a little worried because it seemed like there was a quid pro quo being demanded by president trump. gordon sondland described to him

a quid pro quo. the release to the u.s. aid to ukraine was contingent on a desire by president trump and his allies. he told "the washington journal" in detail, and it was specifically about only releasing military aid to ukraine if trump got the investigations that he wanted from the ukrainian government. i think that ron johnson thinking this is helping. the guy he says told him exclusively about the quid pro quo is trump's best defense that there was no quid pro quo. johnson issued a statement disavoiidis disavowing everything he said "the wall street journal." i don't think you need to get too lost in the sauce here. the importance is that there were other people, a bunch of other people in the trump

administration that were involved and carried out this scheme to involve this other country. to help him against the democrats and joe biden. up to and including vice president mike pence. also including energy secretary rick perry who is apparently now resigning his post as a trump cabinet official. i will mention that in the document request sent tonight, one of the things they're demanding records about are two meetings at the white house, one in may, one in july, that both involved energy secretary rick perry. one was on may 23rd that including kurt volker, who testified yesterday to the impeachment committees, also gordon sondland. the only other two people in the meeting were president trump and rick perry. then in july another meeting involving the same two guys from the state department and rick perry and ukrainian government

officials. i should mention that rick perry is reportedly now resigning his post just as he turns up right in the middle of all of this stuff and we learn about all of the meetings he was involved in including people who are key witnesses in the impeachment proceedings. rick perry has said that they will comply with arequests for investigation. the department of defense says the top lawyer is collecting and preserving documents related to military aid to the ukraine because it is now involved in the impeachment inquiry. witnesses, do you meacuments, rf what happened, no one will have has much protection as the president, but the number of other people involved raises the prospect of lots of other witnesses, documents, and materials laying out what happened. we expect that flow do to

continue unabated. volker testified yesterday. tomorrow it was the head of the intelligence community. on tuesday it will be the quid pro quo guy. the european union ambassador. a week from today it will be marie yavanovik. she was fired by the trump administration because she was perceived as being in the way of the efforts to extort ukraine. so again there is core impeachment allegations, very simple. there is who else was involved in carrying it out. are they witnesses now for the impeachment proceedings. what will they hand over for materials. beyond that there is the investigation into the cover up, the attempted cover up of what happened here. that may end up being a whole separate article of impeachment.

to that end, nbc reporting there was another criminal referral about the president's behavior toward the ukraine. the top lawyer at the cia, herself, made a criminal referral of president trump's behavior to the justice department. and the justice department under bill barr did nothing about it. and this may be cya by the cia. trying to make it seem like they did the right thing here, but if there was another criminal referral of the president's behavior to the justice department, it is a even hotter spotlight that the bill barr justice department, the justice department not only declining to pursue charges against anyone involved here, but they flat out refused to even open an investigation. late tonight, the news continues

to break. the impeachment committees have now subpoenaed the white house directly. we learned that earlier this evening, and this is new. this is just in in the last few minutes as i sat down to start the show, from the "new york times," do we have it as a full screen? yes, thank you, second official is weighing whether or not to blow the whistle on ukraine dealings in is by michael schmidt. a second official is weighing whether or not to file his own whistle-blower complaint and testify to congress. he has more direct information about the first whistle-blower saying that he was using the it to get to his political rivals. the second is among those interviewed by the inspector general to corroborate the original whistle-blower. the inspector general briefed lawmakers about the initial

account, it is not clear if he told lawmakers that the second official is now considering filing a complaint. the second official met with atkinson's office and it is unclear if he needs to file a complaint to gain the legal protections. the icig michael atkinson did brief lawmakers behind closed doors today. . this again is just breaking tonight. i expect thats that story continues to develop, honestly this weekend should be nuts. republican senators are volunteering to put themselves under general anesthetic now at least until the sunday shows are over. senator marco rubio was cornered about his thoughts today. he said as far as he can tell none of this is real if is all a joke, you press are falling right into it, this isn't real? i have been trying that trick

for years now. this isn't happening, it feels awesome in the moment if you can convince yourself but then you open your eyes and you're still here and it is still unfolding. susan rice is here to join us for "the interview." that is next. "the interview." that is next ♪ (dramatic orchestra)

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there is no such thing at a short phone call with vladimir putin. in the almost three years following russia's illegal annexation of crimea. a typical phone call lasted 90 minutes prolonged by putin's monologues and the translation.

it was a game that obama found ironic but not important. and he would simply busy himself with desk work or scrabble on his ipad if putin would be slow to come to the phone. hello, vladamir, hello barack. despite the number of times they engages, they were unable to resolve differences over ukraine. that comes from a new book called "tough love" by susan rice. she was on the calls and in addition to this being legitimately inspiring and fascinating, there is nobody in the world they would rather talk to about what is going on in our world right now thank her. joining us for the interview right now is susan rice.

>> it is great to be with you. i want to talk to you about a million things. i found your book unexpectedly moving and inspiring and it made me think harder about the way i work. >> thank you, i appreciate that. >> coming from you, gl congratulations on your book, too. >> mine is darker, yours is more optimistic. >> that is an interesting contrast given our expectative roles. >> and our respective experience. i want to ask about some of your experience. i think it is important for people to hear from you as terms of a grounding and normal governance. i know you believe these impeachment proceedings are warranted. i also want to ask if you felt any differently about that over these past couple of days as the president has started to openly confessing to do this, to openly confessing to doing it with the ukraine and china, and he is daring people to hold him

accountable to it. >> i was not swift to come to a conclusion that a impeachment ir query was justified. in particular what we learned about ukraine and now china, i don't see any alternative but to follow the inquiry and the facts where they go and make a judgment. what we learned yesterday when the president today on the south lawn and said to the chinese government that he wants them to give him dirt on joe biden, which, by the way to my knowledge doesn't exist, it was even more extraordinary than what we witnessed with respect to ukraine in my judgment. china is our most formidable and committed adversary. and we're in the middle of a hot trade war. and add very fraught security

relationship. and we're fighting over kmchina if you get mive me bogus dirt, will consider a deal that we can cut to satisfy you. and the chinese are not stupid. the chinese foreign minister said piously today that we would not interfere in the american political process, and you poor people go sort yourself out, but that says you better not say a thing about hong kong because that is our internal matter. that is some leverage already. but the real concern in my judgment is that the chinese understand two things. one, we have a president who is

incredibly unstable. unpredictable, and not on his game if he ever was. and that this might be a moment from their point of view to try to steal second base from us, whether or not that is again, in a conflict zone where our forces are against each other. the economic realm, or the cyber realm, but it is also the case that the chinese might conclude that sheer an opportunity to give trump what he wants, provided we end this trade war on terms favorable to china. essentially what president is doing is proposing not very subtlely to sell out our farmers with db our manufacturing, sells out this trade war, and do it for his own personal political benefit. >> as china said, of course we would never do that, i saw that

skeptically as well. it made me wonder about whether or not there is already operative, not hypothetically, but out there an open invitation from the government that any government around the world that wants something in terms of u.s. policy may see that the way to do that is by free lancing this, by offering something to the president that he can use against his political opponents, whoever they are. that he essentially opened a market for this stuff and said that his u.s. policy was on the line. will other countries respond to that. >> that is exactly what he is doing, he is putting out an open for business side on the oval office, and he is trying to traffic in bogus dirt. >> if he will be impeached by that, very few people think that he will be removed from office for that. but if he continues to do it,

and if republicans in the senate continue to believe that he should stay in office wild he do -- while he does that sort of thing, is there a way that we the people can harden ourselves as a target to that whatever the president is willing to do to our democracy and our country, inviting other countries to do what he is inviting them to do, is there a way to be resilient against that? >> first we have to vote. we have to participate in this prosesds with all of our energy and our conviction if is not just an election that is at stake. it is deeply and truly our democracy at stake. if we have four more years of the president that is putting us on the auction block for the highest bidder, you know, who is prepared to do what he wants for his personal political or financial gain, then that is not a country that we will recognize. >> voting out elected officials and not holding them to account is a good idea. i'm worried giveen the electoral

map of the country that it won't work. the republican controlled senate will still be the republican controlled senate. i'm worried about the way that we the public were targeted in 2016, you know? i worry about what our government did or didn't do. the way we were targeted and we're soft targets and we're swayed. >> we're absolutely soft targets and one of the very important messages that i'm trying to convey in "tough love" is that our domestic political divisions are, in fact, at the most our greatest vulnerability. the russians figured that out. they figured out they could pit people against each other on race, guns, gay rights, if they can exploit those differences that exist and exacerbate them and cause us to question one another's loyalty and decency as americans, then you don't have to fire a bullet to take us

down. that is the risk that we face. so when you ask about resiliency, it is not just about voting, it is about being educated and voting. people understanding that our adversaries are trying to exploit these divisions, and that these, because we created these divisions amongst ourselves, have the ability to rectify them. the good news is that this is a problem of our own making, so it is a problem that we can solve if we listen to one another, understand each other, and change our system in ways that isolates the extremes and empowers the more moderates among us. >> if we're willing to grow up a little as a democracy. >> grow up is not just as a democracy, but as consumers of our political process. so right now it is very easy if you want to just get your news off of breitbart or buzz feed to not listen to anything else. and not talk to anybody that may

have a different perspective and not question the voracity of the information that you're consuming. how to evaluate the truth of information, how to argue, debate, and be open to alternatives. the remedies will not be swift, and i proposed some dramatic steps like mandatory national service for americans between the ages of 18 and 21. spend six months or a year, every year, working on something that serves the country and requires us to know and work alongside with and cooperate with people who come from vastly different backgrounds than we do. that is the kind of thing we need to think about if we recognize these divisions that we are suffering from, our adversaries are exploiting, are potential death nell if we don't get it together. after having said all of that i

think it is worth recalling that as dark as this moment may seem to some people, including to you and me, we're old enough and we have studied enough history to recall that we have been through worse in this country. we have been through a civil war, reconstruction, the mccarthy era, vietnam, civil rights, our cities were literally burning douwn. students were shot on campuses. we have come out worse and come out stronger and that's what this moment calls for. >> susan rice, her book is called "tough love." we'll be right back after this. stay with us. right back after s stay with us ♪

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the chapter title here has a curse word in it so i will not give you the title, but it is 22, like most in the obama administration i was hopeful that secretary clinton would win the 2016 election.

i wasn't assure as some that she would. i first ventured this in an argument in august in 2015 with president obama. it came after trump declared his candidacy. as we bantered, i said i could see a way for trump to gain the republican nomination. no way, no way the others said, i said that will never happen. and i said there is a lot of hate out there. i was sufficiently ridiculed that i dropped the target comforted that the political experts thought i was crazy. joining us now is susan rice, ambassador to the united nations. she is out wi she is out with this new book called "tough love." you saw that coming, you weren't crazy. but when you said there is a lot of hate out there, some people can't get over where we are now,

what did you mean by where we are now? >> i meant that there are some, i hope a relatively small minority of us, who never really could reconcile themselves to having a second term successful african-american president who basically ran a scandal-free administration, happily married, a good father, all of those things that are very normal and uncomfortable for some. that's what i meant and i didn't have to be more explicit than that in that setting. but i think it is more than that. there are many aspects to what resulted in the 2016 election. i say in the book, i really don't think we can afford to discount or disparage the perspectives of our fellow americans with whom we differ.

i have to deal with that own challenge in my household with my 22-year-old son who is a traditional conservative in contrast to his parents and even more in contrast to leftist sister. so you know, in my household, we have a microcosm of our national political spectrum with my husband and i in the middle, trying to keep the dinner table from becoming a food fight. >> and that micro cosmic empathy gives you a clear view in terms of where we're going. i do feel like one of the things that is coming home to us now in a way that, i don't think we necessarily appreciate it at times. one story line among many. but now given these impeachment proceedings, it now seems like it is really coming home. is the effort waged under your tenure in the obama administration, to try to help other democracies.

fledgling democracies. to try to help other countries stand up against aggression from russia. i mean, president biden's intervention in ukraine to try to stand them up as democracy, stand them up against corruption, have been weaponized and boomeranged against him as if he was the problem. there i wonder having lived through that and seeing how it is being put in a fun house mirror now. how that feels to you and what you think the american people should understand about that time. >> we can talk about the time but let's for a second talk about the tactic. what president trump is doing, we've seen him do time and time again. it is actually a brilliant, if really devious tactic. and that is, he takes whatever is his greatest weakness. his greatest weakness being that all america views him practically as corrupt. they see him as dealing financially to his own benefit and using the presidency for that. they see his kids running around

getting sweetheart deals for the trump empire or their clothing line or whatever it is. from countries like china issuing licenses for ivanka's latest line of whatever. and he tries to turn that weakness into his perceived opponents' weakness. nobody ever in the many years joe biden has worked in washington tried to label him corrupt. he is anything but. he was one of the poorest members of the senate throughout his tenure. but this is trump's effort to jiu jitsu and to deny, deflect, lie, and what he has now is the backing of a republican party that seems to have lost its way completely. up, what was it, comatose? or with respect to ukraine, this

was a case where the vice president of the united states was acting on behalf of u.s. government policy, trans parentally articulated at the request of the president, skin with bipartisan policy emanating from congress, consistent with the agreements we had with our european partners and the imf that were together with us in trying to rout out corruption at the same time as we were trying on provide the new ukrainian government with the economic support it needed to stabilize. so we're giving them this money. we the europeans, the united states, the international financial institutions, and we want to be sure it is not going down a rat hole. that's u.s. policy. that's what joe biden was pursuing. in contrast to donald trump who was pursuing his own political interests. and trying to lenk our military assistance of almost $400 million and a white house visit to a brand new president of

ukraine who has russian troops on his territory five years in in a hot shooting war. and we're using that to undermine this guy unless he manufactures some bogus dirt on joe biden. there is a huge difference there. and this is another effort by trump to try to create some absolutely false equivalency. trump thids records of his conversations. biden's were out in the open and he talked about him publicly and they were part of u.s. government policy. there is absolutely nothing similar here. and what we need to be worried that, is that we have frighteningly a president of the united states who is not pursuing america's national security interests. in fact, taking steps contrary to our interests in order to benefit himself, and his re-election. and he is inviting countries like ukraine, but adversaries like china as he did russia in 2016 to get involved on his side

and our election campaign. and then he is sending folks lying bill barr around the world to our closest allies -- >> to try to exonerate russia what they can in 2016. >> to try to exonerate russia but more importantly to convey to them that they have to play ball with donald trump's efforts to extort information for his political purposes if they want to remain in our good graces. so we're exploiting both our allies we're getting, or soliciting help from our adversaries. it is crazy and it's dangerous. >> susan rice is the author of tough love. my stories and the things worth fighting for. a real honor to have you here. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. back motor? nope. not motor?

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