[laughter] >> i think what kristine pelosi has said, it is really offensive to californians. make no mistake she and her mom control the democratic party in california. they may not officially lead it, but they control it. and when kristine poulos he says that we are not going to have a recall because this 1 party control of california is going to figure out a way to do it, i believe her actually. i think there are a whole bunch of rumors for deltoid the latest rumor, guy, is that when the newsom people heard kristine pelosi say that, they started the rumor that dianne feinstein will retire and gavin newsom will appoint himself to be the senator. the lieutenant governor will step up and the whole thing just goes away. so look, i am focused on the crisis that we have in california. we have to be really smart after a year of zoom school after a year of having everything shut down if the republican or the frustrated californian response is simply to throw all of our eggs into a recall basket i think were going to disappoint a lot of people. we need to do multiple things but i st

two weeks before the president's joint address to congress after he accepted spooker speaker pelosi. kristinr at the white house. this troop withdrawal basically ends one of our forever wars. what's the president's strategy here? we know it was the top priority for former president trump. >> that's right, steph. this is not a surprise. candidate biden and even when he was vice president under former president obama had called for a drawdown of troops in afghanistan, but had been very insistent that there needed to be a residual force left there in order to keep the peace. so what are we expecting today when we hear from president biden? well, he's going to thank the troops, their families for their service, for their sacrifice over the past two decades. he's also going to defend this strategy, steph. he is going to argue that there is no longer a military solution in afghanistan, and that the threat from al qaeda has just fundamentally changed. now already we are seeing some pushback. republican, the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell calling this a grave mistake, saying it could,