david ignatius, i need to go to you on this one.n i talk to defense officials in other countries, when i talk to ambassadors from other countries, they will be the first to say that the united states is -- our filth military feared around the world because of our massive, massive military advantage and our massive technology cal advantage and our massive advantage as far as the men and women who wear the uniform. i have no idea why anybody would be disrespectful of our men and women in uniforms on veterans day in any case. but especially in this case when our military is as powerful as it is, david. >> so, joe, on veterans day, it is a perfect time to remember just how overwhelmingly dominant the u.s. military is around the world. i travel observe with them. i have a chance to see close up the extraordinary level of training, of command and control, military struggling to adapt to the most modern technologies but beginning that process and i hope making some advances. i'll just make one point about the new announcements that we have

so let's go to work now with david ignatius. david, i loved -- i told marty, i love what he said.ver the past eight years. it has been war on both sides, political war on both sides. i'm reminded of a conversation we had with you this summer after i called president trump after the assassination attempt. i just talked to him and said, you know, politics is politics. we disagree on so many things. but just, i made a call like so many other people made a call and saying i was hoping he was doing all right. we had a discussion a couple of days later. you had a recommendation that kind of went along the lines of what marty told "the washington post" seven, eight years ago. you want to talk about that? >> we are in the news business, which means that we talk to people. that's how we -- part of how we do our jobs. we are also in the truth business. we have to hold people accountable when we see things that we think are wrong or going to hurt the country. we have to be very forthright in saying that. last week when president-elect trump named his nominees for key positions, i wrote a col

david ignatius, you're writing about this cease-fire this morning. president biden was enthusiastic about it yesterday in the rose garden when he announced that this was brokered by the united states and other partners. how did we get to this cease-fire? as keir says, we'll see how long it holds, but for now, as you write this morning, diplomacy getting a rare win in the region. >> so this was a product of many months of old-fashioned shuttle diplomacy by president biden's emissary. amos hochstein, who traveled between jerusalem and beirut, who traveled to see what the parameters of a deal to end the fighting might be. i think the truth is that the cease-fire in many ways marks a victory for israel. israel as prime minister netanyahu said yesterday has broken the back of hezbollah, killed by his account thousands of hezbollah fighters in assassinating the head of hezbollah, hassan nasrallah. netanyahu said they had destroyed the axis of the axis. so, hezbollah's very much back on its heels. as keir said, there has been a tacit blessing from iran. my

it probably sits with what david ignatius talks about, this idea, this new right, and at the same timee only one that could actually threaten the u.s. and so those early signs point to the importance of china and musk in the early days. >> we'll get to the david ignatius column in one minute. i want to talk to him also about china. i talk about the numbers and how strong america's economy is all the time. i will say, though, our only competition right now is china. >> right. >> even though we've gone far past them in the past four years, we talk about russia. they have a $1.4 trillion, maybe $1.7 trillion gdp, china is $17 trillion. the u.s. has 26, 27. the eu has 26, 27. put that together, we overpower china. but they are, as jim said, the one country that poses a real threat to the united states. >> especially where our relationships with allies break down. >>> up next, how tech created a recipe for loneliness. the author of a new piece on that troubling connection between social media and mental health. if you're living with dry amd, you may be at risk for developing geographic atro

we know david ignatius, the one area where he would like to expand and the biden administration would since october 7th, there has to be some pathway to palestinian security in the palestinian state. how does donald trump's reelection shuffle that particular bits of the puzzle? >> i am told that the saudi remain as interested in normalization with israel as a year ago, one that seemed very close before the october 7th attack. and the that trump would like to see this big deal, he kind of played the normalization as a part of the abraham accords in the beginning. he will have to find a formula that will be acceptable to the saudis that speak of's palestinian sovereignty, or pathway forward, some language that netanyahu can accept, it may break his coalition, but i think what it is coalition badly. another big movement is that netanyahu's right-wing supporters think trump's victory will be possible to annex the west bank. mike huckabee has made suggestions suggesting he might support that. if that policy is advanced, any hopes of saudi normalization, good relations with jordan go out th

and this is what david ignatius wrote in part, the presidential election is a character test for thes election makes me realize how little i understand the american character in 2024. >> yeah. no, i think it's a real question and on a morning like this, you know, to the extent that we are all trying to be introspective and want the country to move forward, trying to understand some of these issues, we've been talking a lot, and i've been talking on this broadcast a lot about ceos and whether they measure character and leadership as one and policies as a separate issue and whether the character of former president trump now our next president was disqualifying and clearly this country has said it is not disqualifying, it is something else and that there is a frustration and an anger almost about the last four years that we've lived through. i think that to some degree has to be the lesson we talk about, the flaws of kamala harris. i'm waking up talking all sorts of people in the business community trying to understand what this means and what it means going forward. also just about le