senator isaacson's term runs through 2022. successor will be named until a special election occurs in 2020. announcer: defense secretary mark esper and joseph dunford held a news conference wednesday to discuss national defense strategy and other issues, including operations in afghanistan and tensions with iran. on the pentagon, this is 45 minutes.

georgia republican senator johnny isaacson is saying that he is resigning at the end of the year for health reasons. so, what happens in that state now? >> yeah. this is a big move. democrats are kind of hopeful about their prospects in georgia. they've increasingly done much better in the polls as of late. what this means is that isaacson, who will step down at the end of the year, there will be a temporary appointment that the republican governor put in place. but then the next time there's a general election, a special election will take place to replace isaacson. and that means that there will be two senate elections because david perdue, the other senator there, is up for re-election in 2020. this is a name we are hearing be floated, kaitlyn collins reporting that nick ayers is being considered. he was actually considered to the white house chief of staff but turned that job down because he wanted to hold it for a short period of time. that is in part because he knew that one or more senate seats would become open in georgia and he wanted to be considered for that. he is very cl

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i'll defer to professor isaacson on dr. kissinger.ne of the things we have to be careful of is, you know, there was that wonderful opening scene of the guns of august, barbara tuchman. if you have barbara tuchman in the tool for 703 a.m. that's pretty good. she lays out the funeral of edward vii. how that was the sign of -- she closes it with a quote that the old world ending the first world war creating the modern world and there's a royal retainer who says at the end, all the old buoys that marked the channels of our lives have been blown away. looking at the old -- >> incredible line. >> looking at the crowned heads of europe that would be destroyed by the rise of nationalism and the terror in the trenches and the modernity that came out of world war i. donald trump may not be world war i, but at least he's in the same zip code. i think all the buoys that have marked our lives in terms of our political conversations with -- are blown away. and the focus here seems to me is on the margin of plus or minus 5% or so in about six states

. >>> georgia republican johnny isaacson says he will resign his seat at the end of the year.e 74-year-old cites health challenges, revealing he fell at his apartment in july while acknowledging that his parkinson's is progressing. his replacement will be appointed and a special election in 2020. the loser in georgia's gubernat rochlt ial race, stacey abrams, has already ruled out running for isaacson's seat. >>> president trump is going after fox news. that's right, claiming that the network isn't doing enough to defend him. here is what he tweeted. just watched fox news heavily promoting democrats during their dnc communications director, with zero pushback from anchor sandra smith fox. saying the new fox news is letting a great number of people down. we have to start looking for a new news outlet. fox isn't working anymore. referencing an interview with the dnc communications director. listen. >> i think there's a lot of enthusiasm right now. you're seeing large crowd sizes for a lot of our democratic candidates. i think that any one of these candidates will be a better pre

three term republican senator johnny isaacson announced he will retire at the end of the year becauseth challenges. in terms of 2020 this means his seat will be up in a special election next november meaning georgia will have two senate seats up for re-election. it's looking like maybe democrats have a shot at flipping the senate in 2020. having both of those senate races up in the state of georgia which gives democrats two bites of that apple or a peach is a better analogy is a pretty big deal. democrats only need to net four seats to flip the senate. georgia already trending blue could be a game changer. joining us now is jamal simmons. he worked for president bill clinton and was an advisor to president barack obama's 2008 campaign. jamal, thanks for being here tonight. you know a few things about georgia having worked with a certain senator there. how likely is it that democrats can pick up one or even two seats when both are up? >> i mean, everybody needs to sober up just a little bit. this is still georgia. but georgia is now at a tipping point. i mean you saw the stacey abrams

republican senator johnny isaacson of georgia will resign his u.s. at the end of this year. lauren fox is joining me now. lauren, he is citing health reasons. >> that's right. he was diagnosed, jim, with parkinson's in 2013. he is announcing that he no longer feels like he will be able to do his job to the full extent that's necessary for his constituents. in a statement, he said it goes against every fiber of my being to leave in the middle of my internship, but i know it's the right thing to do. i will tell you on capitol hill, johnny isakson is a giant. he's someone respected by republicans in his conference. he has spoken out against the president at times when necessary. i will say, he's a senior member of the republican conference. he's someone who may not be the most outspoken. we don't think of him in the same way we might think of senator john mccain, but he was very much a person who privately speaks up in these meetings and is seen as someone that a lot of republicans go to for sort of advice and guidance. so a very big announcement here t

but walter isaacson again, nobody here is trying to forgive joe biden.oblem with the neil kinic story, because he had problems in the past of exaggerating, in that case it was to glorify himself. in this case it was to glorify the u.s. troops. but even that being said, it seems the burden is much higher on joe biden to be exact, even in the stories he's telling to glorify others. >> absolutely. we're doing an unfair narrative here which is we're saying, okay, joe biden does gaffes so we can jump on anything in a way to be balanced. this is nothing like what trump is doing which is telling an unintentional untruth. as a historian and biographer, trust me, i talk to so many people who conflate stories not to glorify themselves but that's the way our memory works. malcolm glad well did a wonderful podcast on this, but i'm here in new orleans. i have told the story of coming back in the helicopter when i was part of the louisiana recovery authority right after the storm and circling and seeing the water around the superdome. i just asked a few nights ago som

ranking member, we have travelled together, we have legislated together, i will deeply miss johnny isaacsonc senator chris coons of delaware, thank you very much, senator. >> thank you, dana. >>> up next, u.k. prime minister boris johnson making a rare request of the queen. we'll explain next. this is the couple who wanted to get away who used expedia to book the vacation rental which led to the discovery that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up. expedia. everything you need to go. i had no idea why my mouth was constantly dry. it gave me bad breath. it was so embarrassing. now i take biotene dry mouth lozenges whenever i'm on the go, which is all the time. biotene dry mouth lozenges. freshen breath anytime, anywhere. only marco's can deliver. america's most loved pizza. hot and fresh, and right to your door. every day at marco's, get two medium, one-topping pizzas for just $6.99 each. hello to the italian way. hello primo. ♪ (music plays throughout)♪ ♪ [fa♪mers bell] (burke) a "rock and wreck." seen it. covered it. at farmers insurance, we know a thing or two because we've s

isaacson money. >> all right. let's talk politics, walter.l travel to new hampshire today as he continues to mull a potential 2020 challenge to president trump. in an interview with the post courier he'll be getting honest feedback about an honest path forward. he won't be holding public events but he warned of the quote financial storm coming our way of something -- if something doesn't change in washington. meanwhile, over on the democratic side, tulsi gabbard is taking two weeks off of campaigning to fulfill her duty in the national guard. she temporarily stepped away from the trail yesterday to participate in joint training exercises in indonesia. while her run is on pause, former vice president joe biden picked up another endorsement. former new hampshire congressman and ambassador to denmark richard sweat backed him yesterday saying he has the quote, long standing experience and dedication of a lifetime. joe? >> and so michael steele, you see what scaramucci -- anthony scaramucci said over if weekend. he has been talking about the despe

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senator isaacson's term runs through 2022. successor will be named until a special election occurs in 2020. announcer: defense secretary mark esper and joseph dunford held a news conference wednesday to discuss national defense strategy and other issues, including operations in afghanistan and tensions with iran. on the pentagon, this is 45 minutes. >> i have not seen this room filled this much in a while. >> good afternoon, everyone. it is great to be here with you in the pentagon briefing room. sec. esper: since i became the secretary of defense last month, i've had the opportunity to meet with many of you. i'm especially pleased that the chairman and i can spend time with you all here today in the briefing room. the united states military has a proud history and a great story to tell. it is my commitment to the american people, who entrust us with their sons and daughters to keep them informed of the work that our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, and apartment of defense civilians do every day to keep our nation safe

so that drew me initially to the wisemen which i did with walter isaacson, and then -- john paul jones, couple centuries before, but even he is a study in leadership, and i just -- i'm fascinated by the burdens of leadership, because it's hard. it's harder than we think. and i'm fascinated by what it's like to be a man -- usually men -- obvious live we sandra day o'connor, but up to her, men. and human fallibility and weak in enormous pressures. how do they handle it? well, some really well and some bravely and some not so well but it's the pressure that interests me and how human beings respond to the pressure of the grandiose about this global leadership. >> host: let's good back to first book with walter isaacson in 1986, "the iowaman." harien marks ache sewn, bowlan, it's. seems there was a coordination to their process and a coordination to their goal and that it was a shared goal. is just looking back a history? >> guest: no. no. i take your point. we're always looking back. imposing order on chaos, it's just years passing. i take your point. in this case, yes, actually, there wa

census process saying now that we have another open seat in georgia with the retirement of senator isaacsonr doug collins considered taking a look at it. do the democrats have any hope of taking back the senate in 2020? >> well, they could if the republicans are complacent about it. republicans, if they lose four seats, lose the senate, if they pick up alabama, which i think there's a general expectation that if they lose five seats that they now hold, they could be at risk. there's six republican seats that they are considered problematic. arizona, colorado, iowa, maine, new hampshire, and potentially georgia. now i think we have a second georgia seat. that means seven teams that are in play. it will be interesting to watch. governor kemp gets to appoint somebody to that seat. question is whether he apoeurpo a caretaker or someone who gets elected. who ever gets elected in 2020, they have to run again in 2022. >> dana: if you run for that contest you know you're running a lot and again. >> you're not going to be home and sleeping in your own bed many nights in the next four years. >> dana:

said senator isaacson. i am leaving a job a love because my health challenges are taking their toll on me, my family, and my staff. my parkinson's, the statement says, has been progressing. i am continuing physical therapy to recover from a fall in july. this week, i had surgery to remove a growth in my kidney. governor kemp will appoint a replacement, though his senate term does not expire until 2022. the sequel be on the ballot next year. coming up shortly, more on defense issues as we hear from the secretary of defense mark esper, and joint chiefs of staff general joseph done for at a news conference at the pentagon. we will have it life and it starts here on c-span. sunday night on q&a, university -- onnsylvania law school free expression and college campuses and the conflict over a piece she co-authored in the philadelphia inquirer. >> i think this is what ruffled a lot of people that not all cultures are alike. we try to tout this code of behavior is one that is to acularly functional democratic capit

he thought he would be the wise man for america -- i steal that from the title of a book by isaacson, a great writer. and he thought he would be the wise man and he would give counsel, but they ignored him. they were going off in their own direction, doing their own things for their own reasons. and so they talked to him, yeah, but they didn't do what he said. and so he did not turn out to be the wise man in retirement. yes? this better be very good. this comes directly from the military, from the army. >> nothing official. i wanted to ask you about the relationship between eisenhower and academics which you were just speaking to and in particular the book presidential power and how they cast ike for two generations of scholars as a prisoner of his staff system. and i know eisenhower scholars today use that interpretation, i was curious about your opinion of what ike thought about the academics and thought about the scholars he dealt with from the universities in the course of his presidency. >> well, he got along at columbia with a select group of active admissions. he had interests

. >>> the last thing before we go, johnny isaacson announced he'll resign due to health concerns. he'll appoint his successor and you remember the last time this happened was back in 2000 when roy barns appointed former governor miller who then famously broke with his party in 2004 and endorsed george w bush delivering a stem liner against john kerry at the republican national convention and challenging chris matthews to a dual. >> this is the man who wants to be the commander in chief of the u.s. armed forces? u.s. forces armed with what? spitballs? >> which state -- >> say to you -- >> switch parties if you're getting legislated -- >> if you ask a question. >> it's a tough question. it takes a few words. >> get out of my face. if you're going to ask me a question, step back and let me answer it. >> season tore, please. >> i wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a dual. now that would be pretty good. [ laughter ] >> that is our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being with us and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. good night from nbc new

senator isaacson has suffered a series of health setbacks and will be resigning his senate seat halfway his six-year term. he issued a statement saying he really did not want to leave the senate but with the mounting health challenges i am facing i have concluded i will not be able to do the job over the long-term in the manner the citizen of georgia deserve. it goes against every fiber my being to leave in the middle of my senate term but i know it's the right thing to do on behalf of my state. this now means senator isakson's seat will be on the ballot in georgia where the other republican senator david perdue is running for his reelection next year, and president trump's numbers in georgia had already been encouraging to democrats for what was supposed to be a campaign for one georgia senate seat but will now be a campaign for two senate seats. donald trump's approval is now below 50% in georgia, his approval rating is at 49%, his disapproval rating at 47%. democrats were encouraged by the latest polling in another state, arizona, showing democratic candidate mark kelly ahead of appo

walter isaacson, author of leonardo da vinci writes jerrod coming treats us to some of the most colorful episodes in our history. the historic importance of the leaders and highlights the greatness of tr, truman and lyndon johnson. why america is a resilient nation and the constitution living document lessons very powerful for today. join me in welcoming jerrod cohen. [applause] >> thank you for having me. i can't think of a better place to give a talk about this book then this incredible bookstore. when i lived in dc it was my favoriteen placeere in some time and i love the backdrop of these books tonight. before that, four years working at the foreign policy. some people ask me when i told them i'm writing a book the past five and a half years they say is that it took about a cyber war, no, i you said about forein policy, no, what is it about, it's about dead presidents, and it's confusing to them and anybody unless you grew up with me. when i was 8-years-old my parents bought me a children's book called the buck stops here and there was one of these wonderful books a different page fo

georgia who, of course, is a republican, brian kemp is going to appoint somebody to the seat when isaacsonbly that will be a republican, but it also triggers a special election that will coincide with the normally scheduled november election. so this senate seat and whoever is appointed by the governor probably will be up in 2020. and for democrats, that's interesting news because georgia is a state they've been starting to look a little bit more closely at as a potentially competitive state. in 2012 this was a safely republican state. mitt romney won by 8 points. that margin came down in 2016 to 5 points. in 2018, democrats weren't able to win statewide but they got close, to within about 50,000 votes in the governor's race. this is a state where demographics are changing and suburbs particularly around atlanta are moving more and more away from donald trump. democrats are looking at georgia maybe in the presidential race, maybe when it comes to the u.s. senate this could be an opportunity for them in 2020. by the way, this means there's going to be two shots for democrats in georgia. dav

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the senator is personally committed to these issues and i'm sure the same goes for senator isaacson. i think if anything can get done, we will get it done. >> i will ask everyone to stay seated while the congressmen get out of here and while we we set the stage for the next panel. i want to give you around of applause. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> thank. i appreciate it. [indistinct conversations] >> so we have a lot to process therefrom what the congressman said. i have already talked about this on this stage and unfortunately we are still talking about it because it has not advanced. let me introduce the panel quickly, i will ask you to talk about what you're doing. to my side, the founder of a consulting company enforced house veterans affairs director. mike hutchins, chief officer of combined arm. with -- let me start with you. when we are talking about this act and talking about looking at benefits currently, we are talking about a very different way of thinking about what the v.a. delivers and provides to veterans. shifting from that idea of sending checks out and maki

so that drew me initially to the wisemen which i did with walter isaacson, and then -- john paul much everybody and example of joan a couple of centimeters ago on leadership. i am fascinated by the burdens of leadership becausef it's har. [laughter] it is harder than we think. i am fascinated by what it's like to be a man, usually men obviously senator in my last book story. to her, man. human weakness is enormous pressure and how do they handle it. some really well and some bravely and some not so well. but it's the pressure that interest me. how do human beingse respond to grandiose global leadership. let's go back to the first book, came out in 1986, wiseman. it seems looking back now, that there was a coordination to their process and a coordination to their goal and that was a shared goal. i was just looking back. >> no no no. i get your. >> imposing order on chaos. actually it's just year's passing. i take your.but in this case, it is actually a shared worldview. the worldview was it is america's time. it had been britons, [laughter] in the 19th century was basically world brita

it includes investments in public health data system pushed for by senators kane king and isaacson's,to better protect families against public health risks. and would ensure that state local and tribal health departments have important guidance on the cd prevention efforts. thanks to senators john and scott. it also proven includes proposal to help expand the echo of medicine bonsallo which regarding opium crisis. help address even more healthcare needs. in includes proposals to update electronic health records, make health data more accessible to providers and patients alike, and it would take a much-needed step to respond to our countries maternal mortality mortality prices. providing implicit bias training you women of color in particular, are dying at an acceptably higher rates. overall, this bill offers a lot of good bipartisan steps. mr. chairman i hope we can continue to improve by continuing to work on proposals such as sender baldwin and smith and zero cassie's important drug price transparency bill. i do want to say, to be clear, for really going to bring down costs across t

effective according to the most up-to-date information available and this islegislation that senr isaacsonnd i have worked on for many years now, at least several years. we are hoping we can get it done. mr. chairman, for the record, i wanted to ask you to commit to pushing ahead and finding a way to pass this legislation, so-called over-the-counter monogram legislation. >> you know that i think it's very important and would like to find a way to pass it so thank you for the question. >> i appreciate that and i'm glad that on the record. >> not that it was essential but were grateful for that work and trying to move it forward. i want to move to a question about some developments that have played out over several years now but something even more alarming that just arose in the last couple of weeks. we know this committee is engaged in a process to try to bring down the cost of healthcare as well as the cost of prescription drugs. while that has happened to things i think are undermining those efforts. one is what can only be described as sabotaged by the administration. sabotaging the hea

he is facing health challenges and the governor will appoint someone to replace senator isaacson. planning to resign at the end of 2019. linda is next from festus, missouri. go ahead. caller: yes, i am on medicare. i agree with the lady several calls ago. medicare is not free. i think everybody needs to understand that. andb, theye part a $135 out of my social security for me to have medicare. plus i bought a supplemental plan because you have a 20% cap. if you don't have some kind of medicare supplemental plan, you are going to be responsible for hospitalu go into the to have something done. if you don't have a supplement to plan. if medicare refuses to cover something, you're supplement the plan will not cover it either. i just wanted to make that clear. it is not free. that i neverng is understood if we are talking about the well-being. while your eye care in your dental care, especially when you get older is not included in medicare. when i was an individual that headed to my company. i had great eye care coverage and great dental coverage. i see that you wear glasses and bern

but walter isaacson, i don't understand the republican party where they are right now.e sent home in a year and a half. i believe donald trump will be sent home in a year and a half, but where are these people that have had more moral poses in the past? where is ben sasse when the president of the united states laughs and tells a joke, when somebody in his audience answers a question what do we do with immigrants and the answer is shoot them, and then the president laughs as does everybody else in the audience before starting to cheer. where's jodi ernst when white supremacists come out and cheer for donald trump's language? again, she represents iowa, a swing state. cory gardner represents colorado, a swing state. thom tillis represents north carolina, a swing state. susan collins represents maine, a swing state. john cornyn himself who's up for re-election in texas and an increasingly purple texas, where is john cornyn right now? and calling out this divisive language, this hate speech, the laughing at jokes about shooting immigrants. the chants of sending them back.

tinkerers, glass blowers or writers of both fiction and nonfiction and this reminds me of walter isaacsonert einstein was the most important person of the 20th century but not the most brilliant scientist of his mind. but he thought creatively. he envisioned like himself jumping off of trains and trying to figure out how certain things lined up. and he didn't sit there reading books and at chalkboards. he would use his imagination and that of course led to the theory of relativitrelativity. >> you're right. it looks like nobel laureates are 22 times more than typical scientists to have the serious aesthetic avocations basically. and as i write, a lot of those who study it noticed it. one scientist calls it a net work of enterprise, that the really creative people tend to have. where they have different things going on. and from the outside those can look like distractions but they usually end up in forming their thinking so one of the quotes i loved is from the spanish nobel laureate and he said about all of the pursuits that the creative thinkers would have, he said to him who observes t