think that he's going i think it is going to be a softer touch i think he's going to go back to iraq obama type of diplomacy but you know we don't know if joe biden has that persona and that feel we have tested him enough on the international level we've tested donald trump and some people have been excited about his approaches and others not particularly in the constitution with china over economics in technology information but we haven't tested joe biden he's been out of the circle for a while you know he was vice president and then kind of went away for a bit i'm not criticizing joe biden i'm just saying that we haven't seen him on that platform and so this is a vast need in question that americans probably haven't even asked themselves about how how he would go about stitching together unity and connections across the united states when the fabric of the u.s. is itself falling apart it is fascinating isn't it robert we could talk a lot longer but we've not propagate take a blanket. thank you time and i thank. ok well i'm going to take you over to the big screen now because we've got a

go oh all right let's go now to julius from the law our political strategist and veteran of the iraq obama campaigns of the many faced our viewers here jill is it's good to see you again there is really regret this real fear in the us tonight stores are being boarded up white the hurricanes come i mean can you believe that this is america on the eve of a presidential election. i mean it doesn't feel like it and certainly at that peaceful transfer of power something that has been completely unquestioned for 4 decades and centuries i mean that is all the sudden on the mountain but i think there's also a hopeful perspective for america and that is of course that $94000000.00 americans have already cast their vote and we expect a record turnout so again the electorate is actually mobilized joe biden have been out on the campaign trail and so tomorrow it's of course in the hands of the voters and of course also in the hands of the election volunteers the poll workers to make sure that this is a smooth electoral process and everybody will be counted help those imagine what is going on inside the

we'll begin to responsibly leave iraq to its people and forge a hard-earned peace in afghanistan. >> president obamaomes to office and two wars are raging. we're still heavily engaged in iraq and afghanistan and he wants to get us out. >> the deadly morning in iraq. >> president obama has clearly made afghanistan the focus of his foreign policy. >> u.s. forces have been in the fight now for more than seven years. >> how do we define victory? >> for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken. you cannot outlast us and we will defeat you. >> he takes over at this remarkable moment in american history we're really on the edge. we still have the threat of international terrorism looming over us. >> fire! >> in those days 9/11 was still very fresh. the president came to office with a relentless focus on al qaeda. >> he said to me one of your most important jobs is to go after bin laden. that's critical. critical to defeat al qaeda but more importantly critical to our ability to protect the american

people that they had any role in this it's not a conspiracy to make that claim or supposition that iraq obama made a few call phone calls and. there's no evidence that he hurt or send i mean i tell you how imminent already did and look i mean i know some of the people involved they don't act like they don't do that stuff and again you have to dismiss the the african-american community of south carolina and many other states and when the evidence is staring you in the face that they may have a different. so you're saying hold on spencer you're saying that the u.n. discounted african-american votes when they said this had all the earmarks of a rigged election they did not and you have to you have to actually have evidence again you can come up with a conspiracy that will explain anything but you have to have evidence to back it up and if you've got you know clear documented evidence that gives you a perfect explanation for what happened versus putting dots together the don't really connect that don't actually have solid evidence of i'll take the former ok well you know did that one of the expla

so-called execute of all orders that's what not only donald trump did a lot in his presidency but also iraq obama so there is certainly a last resort basically if you will to govern and to push through his policy ideas but it will not be easy for him. all right and we are expecting then to see joe biden and come give his speech and in the days ahead the biden campaign has been very confident about their victory why do you think they didn't want to declare victory until all those numbers were coming in as we've seen them today. well joe biden wanted to also make the make clear basically that he is having a different take on the election and what he said time and time again we have to trust the process the promises of counting the mail in ballots of course as we know the election was a very different election than all other elections before because of the cold that pandemic a lot more voters did not turn out in person but used mail in ballots so this process is finished now and that's exactly what we're seeing here right now joe biden was very optimistic since the election came out here when we rep

iraq. >> obama was really smart, extraordinarily articulate, but vague. >> on your website, i went therefind information about you, and i was wondering what really are your top issues? because it's not online. >> right, well, i'm not sure whether you're going to the campaign website or my senate website. >> at a health care forum, you didn't deliver, and critics say a foreign policy speech was long on vision, short on specifics. >> 2007 was a tough year for obama. he seemed to be trying to wing it. he had to demonstrate to people he really understood policy. >> that's sharpton's blackberry. is that hillary calling? >> obama is having trouble convincing democrats to say, i'm going to go with obama over clinton. they did not want to risk lose thing election. >> i'm not asking that you take me on a leap of faith. i'm asking you to look at the evidence and the record. >> we were feeling pretty good about her prospects, but our polling showed there was this obstacle for her to prove that she could indeed be commander in chief, even though she was a woman. >> when you are attacked, you have to

the obama administration, withdrawing into thousand 11 and then going back into iraq? lt. gen. mcmaster: that's exactly, we have to be capable until our most recent history. i think the trump administration's foreign policies have fallen short mainly in areas where they doubled down on the deficiencies of the obama administration policies. this was in afghanistan and particular. i know americans are frustrated. endow weather is a call to the endless wars across the political spectrum. but i think this is a failure of leadership across multiple administrations. i don't think president trump did, i don't think president obama dead, make a big effort trying to explain to the -- president obama did try to make a big effort trying to explain to the american people why we need to care in dayton, ohio or peoria, illinois about afghanistan. i think we can make that case. we can say, we are prioritizing our security here. we will prevent jihadist terrorists from ever again gaining a safe haven support base they can use to commit attacks on the scale of 9/11. but the second question to h

run his anti-elite, anti-establishment pseudopopulist campaign bashing bankers, bashing the iraq war because obama held the bankers to account, never held the architects of the iraq war to account and didn't work politically and won't work legally. joe biden was there in 2009 and should avoid the mistakes barack obama made then. >> two thoughts together here with nbc news reporting that biden's signaled he wants to avoid divisive trump investigations according to five people familiar with the discussions. how does that sit for those who voted for biden and the other hand, ramifications of charging a former sitting president, received, lest we forget, more than 73 million votes? >> yeah. i mean, i hear people say. million. ip mean, richard nixon won in a landslide. was a criminal, impeached. pardoned and avoided further prosecution. doesn't matter how many votes you win. matter the rule of law, holding people to account. alex, you're suggesting prosecute him the voter will be upset with joe biden. guess what? half don't accept his legitimacy at president. trying to appease trump supporters? tried i

from taaq or afghanwould be a mistake,g and compare possible consequences to barack obama's withdrawal in01from iraqat was surprising. there has been the secretary general of nato warning that it could lead afghanistan to become a place where international terrorists are able to form and carry out their plans. they are also warning tbut isis could d their caliphate from their. -- fromhe. this isst not the fime the president has made a big decision such as this in the lame-duckeriod. given that donald h trump yet to recognize that there is a transition happening, given that he has y to even concede, i think it has been viewed as differently. there are some commentators saying he is doing these things just to undermine joe biden's presidency, but also some people saying it allows him to say that he has fulfilled his campaign promises, if he decides to run again in people see it as a distinct possibility. laura: thank you for joining us. now, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in northern ethiopia, with nearly 30,000 people fleeing the conflict since the start o november. federal governmentthiopia's au

the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be worse than president obama's withdrawal from iraq in 2011 which fueled the rise of isis and a new round of global terrorism. reminiscent of the humiliating american departure from saigon in 1975. we would be abandoning our partners in afghanistan, the brave afghans fighting the .errorists retreat would embolden the taliban, especially the deadly wing, and risk plunging afghan women and girls back into what they experienced in the 1990's. qaedaend and scattered al would get a big propaganda victory and a renewed safe haven for plotting attacks against america. it would be welcome news to iran, which has long provided arms and support to the taliban and explicitly seeks our retreat from the middle east. wouldrganized retreat interrupt the success this administration has worked hard to compile. host: what do you make of that? the republican leader of the president's party saying this move by you could delight terrorists? guest: that was remarkable. not remarkable by historical standards because historically we have had robust debate in

consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than president obama possible withdrawal from iraq that can 2011 -- back in 2011. that fledue a new round of global terrorism. brent: we heard mcconnell speaking of this piece deal with the taliban. what are the shortcomings here? oliver: well, there are lots to talk about here. the taliban intern committed to peace talks. the peace talks began in september and lar installed just a little while after the began. with the plans of president trump to withdraw the troops from afghanistan and iraq and in particular, talking about afghanistan, that would not be a big incentive for the telemann to put any effort forth. brent: you said this is taking place in the last weeks of the trump presidency. do we know it president-elect and joe biden would do once he takes power in january? oliver: the afghan government hopes he has a topper stance on the taliban. but look, joe biden knows very well that these assignments abroad are not very popular among american voters. he is not going to send the troops back once they are withdrawn. he will certain

having a hard time sowing what the difference is between this and the mistake president obama made to leave iraq in 2011 which president trump hailed on the campaign trail, that obama should not have pulled out. that created isis. the president promised to destroy isis. leaving iraq and afghanistan with 2500 troops it's more of a focus on the number than the mission. that's a huge concern. if you have troops in peace keeping operations, the numbers should not be what you concerned with. the mission is your top concern. >> dana: tell me isis and is it reconstituting itself? they had some success finding pockets in afghanistan to rebuild. >> that's the big thing to keep in mind. isis is not just a caliphate. we get focussed on the territory they control. isis is an idea. when you give territory, it gives credence and strength to this idea of isis. they can go out and recount. when you give areas for them to plan and to build and to grow and to recount through, you have a real risk of reconstituting isis. if you think about the fact that the prophecy of these extremists believe they will face peril

the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than program obama's withdrawal from iraq back in tornado loving, which you will fuel the rug and a new round of global terrorism that was mitch mcconnell, they're now all over break this down for us. what are the concerns with a quick withdrawal? yeah, you just heard senator mitch mcconnell laying it out. basically, the united states and nato negotiated a peace deal with of ghana's town that was in february and the peace deal included a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan until 2021. the 1st of all those peace talks they stalled, and then also former acting secretary of defense. mark aspers said the time is not ready to pull the troops out of afghanistan. and he was fired, as we know, by trump. he put a loyalist in place. cristobal miller, so the announcement of pull the troops out, it was one of the 1st things we heard from him. his job is that knowledge to fulfill that plan. now there's just one big question that remains on answered, and that is how to secure stability on the ground because that withdrawal is certainly a t

the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than president obama's withdrawal from iraq back in 2011. which view will fuel the rot of isis and a new round of global terrorism? we heard mcconnell there speaking of this peace deal with the tele bond. what are the short comings here? well, there is a lot to talk about here as specially this peace deal was signed between the u.s. and the taliban. and basically the plan was a gradual withdrawal of u.s. troops until the end of 2021. now the taliban in turn committed to peace talks with the afghan government and those peace talks began september. but they later stalled just a little while after they began. and now with these news, with the planned, with the plans of president trying to withdraw the american troops from afghanistan and from the rock of course. but in particular, talking about afghanistan, that certainly would not be a big incentive for the taliban to put any effort in continuing these negotiations . and as you said earlier, this is take you please in the last weeks of the trip presidency. do we know what preside

the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than program obama's withdrawal from iraq, iraq and cornell, over which view fueled the rugs of isis and a new round of global terrorism it was mr. mcconnell, they're now all over. break this down for us. what are their concerns with a quick withdrawal you just heard senator mitch mcconnell laying it out basically the united states and they told me go should a peace deal with afghanistan. that was in february in the peace deal included a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan until 2021. the 1st of all those peace talks they stalled, and then also former acting secretary of defense mark asked for a set the time is not ready to pull the troops out of afghanistan. and he was fired, as we know by trump. he put a loyalist in place. cristobal miller, sold the announcement to pull the troops out. it was one of the 1st things we heard from him. his job is that knowledge to fulfill that plan though there is just one big question that remains on answered, and that is how to secure stability on the ground because that withdrawal is certai

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iraq. this is him during the obama administration celebrating the invasion of that country like it's been aring success. >> the wisdom of going to war with iraq will be debated for years. what is beyond debate and what news coverage of iraq failed to acknowledge is that iraq today is less violent, more democratic and more prosperous and the united states more deeply engaged there than any time in recent history. >> tucker: yeah, iraq is in great shape. good point tony blinken. you seem like a smart guy. you should be secretary of state. under joe biden we will be. not impressive. it is starting to look like the opposite, the mirror image of what donald trump ran on in 2016. policies so popular trump got elected on them despite having no background in politics and still got elected because those policies were popular and remain popular. biden is about to give us the opposite. more giveaways to china. more pointless wars in the middle east that no one outside of washington supports. massive increases in illegal immigrants and a huge drop in american wages that always is the result of that whe

biden himself has a rather fraud track record in iraq he voted in favor of the iraq invasion in 2003 he also under obama's administration in 2009 when he came into the office he was charged with with drawing the 150000 troops that were based here at that time and of course that resulted in the security vacuum which eventually enabled the rise of eisel so if biden were to win certainly many see it as you know he should be departing from the obama era policies to try to come up with a new approach towards iraq to tehran and to of course one. this is a very crucial election for the iranians in fact speaking to iranian officials and experts many of them on the show the iranian foreign policy towards the u.s. seems have been frozen it's like well let's just wait till november to see what happens here we are in but what the iranians hoping for. very much has been let's wait and see as the united states under donald trump has increased pressure on iran with more sanctions and try going to the united nations to try and reimposed those knighted nations sanctions now the iranian position has been the supreme leader

who helped design obama's drone program and is now biden's pick for director of national intelligence. california congressman ro khanna tweeted -- "flournoy supported the war in iraqnd libya, criticized obama on syria, and helped craft the surge in afghanistan. i want to support the president's picks. but will flournoy now commit to a full withdrawal from afghanistan and a ban on arms sales to the saudis to end the yemen war?" meanwhile, code pink's medea benjamin tweeted -- "if biden puts her name forward, anti-war activists should quickly launch an all-out effort to block senate confirmation. #feminismnotmilitarism" well, medea benjamin joins us right now. she is co-founder of codepink and author of several books, including "kingdom of the unjust: behind the u.s.-saudi connection." her latest book, "inside iran: the real history and politics of the islamic republic of iran." welcome back to democracy now! in a moment we're going to talk about president-elect biden's picks. this is a person who has not yet extremely come important position, the secretary of defense. can you talk about your concerns and what is going on behind the scenes, both in the grassroots co

iraq war. and then interventions by obama. it is something we regularly had done in every case no matter how we did it or why. the costs turned out greater than we thought. it was harder to deliver the objectives. >> why is the book called losing the long game. can you clarify for me whether you are making a broader argument. or it specifically doesn't work in the middl east. the book focuses on t middle east. for the most part to the extent that there is a foard-looking contemporary debate. people talk about it all the time. the gime in saudi arabia. that felt to me like the most cuent policy. it's where i have the most personal experience. this is not just aistorical exercise. but a reflection on the their own experience. that's what i thihink the middle east is most relevant. more than latin americand asia and elsewhere. it's a where i hav to direct experience. it's even harder to pull this sort of thing off in the midd seat east than elsewhere there areot long spmac coherent nationstates. other than turkey and iran. they c

obama's libya campaign and that didn't go so well. saudi arabia didn't go so well a chief adviser to biden when biden voted for the iraq war. ll says obama didn't do enough in syria. and that's to see how democratic hated police and they are anti-police but they want this guided be a cop of the entire world. greg: i thought with roque that habit. tyrus what are your thoughts in general? >> i like to see people pat themselves on the back before they do anything. i always think that's great. in a horror movie i've ever seen it so happy and great. this is the best camping site ever. oh my god we did it. let's get the camp liar. i will be right back. i'm going to go in the shed. i'll be right back. i try to keep an open mind but when i see the media, they are saving us. from what? once again and we were talking about this on the break they are going to be so thirsty for some type of drama. they will continue to go after the president because they miss him. all there'll pics with all their issues which will once again sour the american voter and they will be in the same position where they were or where they have these great plan

the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than president obama's withdrawal from iraq. back in 2011, which view fueled the rise of isis and a new round of global terrorism. not just for a bit of context, here is how u.s. troop numbers in afghanistan have looked since the invasion in 2001. there was a big surge under president obama who took office in 2009, reached a peak of almost 110000 troops in 2011, or the next 4 years. that was a big cuts right down to 10000, troops and then under president trying to pin some modest increases just at the end of the graph there. but when you look at the bigger picture, this is all american troops overseas. they have been on the decline for years, including as you see, a shop initial decrease when trump took office in 2017. and donald trump may be considering moves on other foreign policy issues as well. u.s. media say senior advisers managed to talk the president out of a military strike on iran's main nuclear site. warning it could trigger a wider conflict and his administration is preparing to label yemen's hooty rebels as terror

the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than president obama's withdrawal from iraq back in 2011, which you will fuel the raj of isis and a new round of global terrorism. now this plan that is being floated, we understand could be done through executive order comes just a week after the u.s. president stalled a number of loyalists inside the pentagon, presumably to potentially help carry out these plans. now we should also point out the pentagon was on track to cut troops by mid november, but this would go a step further. but the timeline is curious and maybe even not attainable, given the fact there's an enormous amount of infrastructure that needs to be dismantled. it may not be able to be done as quickly as the president is suggesting . we don't have a precise timeline, but he did tweet last month that he was hoping to have these troops home by christmas. speaking of tweets came, but he was just having a look at total transfer that he's been quite quiet and we haven't seen him in a very long time either. is there just no movement from the white house to come on th

we do not want to tell the enemy we will leave iraq on such and such a day. obamave iraq and he gives a date. i might say i'm going to be there 20 years or an eternity. we have to be unpredictable. we can't keep talking. we're going to do that, we're going to do that. remember the great general's call, the element of the surprise. what are you going to do? i don't want to tell you, oh, you don't know the answers. you know the wise guys. i don't want the enemy to no all of this stuff, right? >> so, as you can see, president trump often attacked president obama and others for announcing military plans especially involving deployments. now, he seems to be doing the same thing with the pentagon announcing that the troop levels will be reduced to 2500 in iraq and afghanistan. joining us now nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, good morning. it's great to have you on the show. i hope you can take us through the what the reaction, we have not been a country like this ours ourselves, there are a lot of people in the world who invest and put people and

the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than president obama's withdrawal from iraq back in 2011, which fueled the raj of isis and a new round of global terrorism. iran says that any attack on a stupid facilities would face a crushing response. that's following a report from the u.s. that president trump was seeking options to attack a nuclear site is set to decided against it, or the sanctions remain on the table. and the trumpet ministration is also reportedly planning to designate hemp yemen's could the rebels a terrorist organization. a foreign policy provocation says that it's another initiative in the works before joe biden takes of engender a diplomatic sources. worried that the move will disrupt international aid and u.s. peace efforts. james dorsey is from the national university of singapore as middle east institute. he believes the trump is looking for some last minute victories to cement his time in office. i think what you're seeing is that the last the next 2 months as his legacy, with other words, a legacy that will allow him to exit with successes in

we're not going to tell the enemy we're leaving iraq in such and such a day. obama gets up. d he gives a date. i would never have given a date. i might have said we're going to stay there for 20 years, we're going to stay there for eternity. we have to be unpredictable a little bit. we can't keep talking we're going to do this, we're going to do that. whatever happened? remember the great generals it was called, the element of surprise. what do you want to do? they said oh, you don't know the answer. don't know the answer. doint want the enemy to know this stuff. >> trump administration today said the troops will be out january 15. that was trump on how to do foreign policy. sure enough he did it today. leaving a challenge for the next president who assumes office at 12 noon on the 20th of january. that's our broadcast on this tuesday night. thanks for being here with us. good night. >>> tonight on all in. >> republicans move to under mine democracy in michigan. the president fires the top

. >> but biden's utility went beyond domestic policy as obama tasked him to handle assignments in afghanistan and also iraqn had promised to end the war. >> president-elect obama said why don't you go to iraq to get the freshest information. >> biden returned from the trip and believed it was a complete mess. >> there was no unity of purpose and he said the first thing we need do is make sure we have clear set of objectives and a clear strategy and that everyone agrees on it. >> one point of agreement was that the first order of business was sending 25,000 additional troops to afghanistan to assure the country's upcoming elections would be fair. but then came a request for even more troops. >> based on an assessment by the new commander inley crystal, e and asked for another 40,000 troops. >> the military brass were on board but not biden, who clearly never stopped asking questions and clearly got on their nerves. >> the vice president is saying to that vast array of experienced people, stop, wait a minute, we have to rethink this. >> i think he was saying slow down, there's no rush to judgment here. >> so

. >> but biden's utility went beyond domestic policy, as obama tasked him to handle assignments in afghanistan and also iraqransition, president-elect obama said why don't you go to iraq and afghanistan in january to get the freshest possible information to inform our review. >> so, that's what they did. biden returned from the trip, believing afghanistan was a complete mess and told the president. >> there was not unity of mission, unity of purpose, and he said, mr. president, the first thing we need to do is make sure that we have a clear set of objectives and a clear strategy and that everyone agrees on it. >> one point of agreement was that the first order of business was sending 25,000 additional troops to afghanistan, to ensure the country's upcoming elections would be fair. but then came a request for even more troops. >> based on an assessment by the new commander in afghanistan, stan mcchrystal, he came back to washington and asked for an additional 40,000 u.s. troops. >> the military brass were on board, but not biden, who never stopped raising questions and clearly got on their nerves. >> you had

the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than program obama's withdrawal from iraq back in 2011, which fueled the rot of isis and a new round of global terrorism. speaking of the peace deal with the towel we bond saying that the taliban they haven't lived up to there in the deal. what are the shortcomings? yes, so this peace deal that was signed between the united states and the taliban. included a gradual withdrawal of u.s. and nato troops until the end of 2021. now the taliban committed for peace talks with the afghan government and these peace talks, they began in september, but they stalled just very soon after they actually began. and now with these new things, with these new developments, the u.s. pulling out of afghanistan and of iraq. of course, that certainly does not give a big incentive for the taliban to put any effort in these peace talks. do we know why it's president elect joe biden? what he will do once he takes off there is january 20. well, interesting, lee, at 1st glance, his plans look quite similar to the ones of donald trump. he says and descri

the end of the 20th century under bill clinton made obama's serbia to stop its aggression in kosovo. under george w. bush wars in afghanistan and iraq u.s. troops are still stationed in both countries even barack obama who promised an end to stupid wars authorized the bombing of libya. that policeman role largely ended in 2016 when donald trump announced an america 1st agenda the u.s. would no longer try to solve the world's problems. he backed out of major treaties and criticised alliances like nato rattling nerves in europe and beyond. and he embraced authoritarian leaders from vladimir putin in russia to kim jong un in north korea. joe biden has promised to restore what he calls america's place at the head of the table good evening. i'll be a president will stand with our allies and friends and make it clear to our adversaries the days of cozying up to dictators is over oh it's always stand for our values of human rights and dignity and worker common purpose for more secure peaceful and prosperous world. in the middle east that means rejoining the 2015 iran nuclear deal that trump abandoned biden says that went also helped rein i

president barack obama pull troops out of iraq just before the end of his time in office, ordering an agreement and a deadline set by his republican predecessor. but republicans claim that move led to the growth of eisel, a risk one senator says, trump is taking no other to extremely important here in the next couple of months. not to have any earth shaking changes with regard to defense and foreign policy. think up or ship it is. draw down a new there. afghanistan or iraq would be a mistake. the head of need to has warned of a quick, uncoordinated withdrawal. seeing it risks lives. but it's clear donald trump wants to leave office, claiming another campaign promise has been delivered. alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. well, let's not get the view from iraq. al-jazeera is and about that. the reduction of u.s. troops in iraq to $2500.00 is not that significant in light of the drawdown that already took place earlier this year. in january, there were $5000.00 troops present in country that number was reduced to 3000 as of september. and of course, the political and security co