>> it appears that susan rice is auditioning to be joe biden's vice president candidate.roblem and she's obviously the one that went onra national television and said that benghazi was caused a youtube video and this is not true, you can look at the underlying facts that they are very clear, not only was carter page signed on with the unmasking were unmasking people that were recorded or interceptr of u.s. persons. bill barr said very clearly in front of congress, the trump campaign was spied on and i believe bill barr more than i'll ever believe susan rice and what she saying there. liz: let's listen to former director of national intelligence richard grenell talk to us last night about how the obama administration ignored warnings and career veterans and top officials in the intelligence committee warding the obama administration and the fbi was going after trump, the trump pressure collusion based on false information. listen to that and susan rice said all that they were doing aboveboard. >> the whole steele dossier, russian collusion narrative, he knew there were voi

susan rice has everything.rticulate, as experience, is a woman of color, and i implore all democrats take a look at her. when she speaks, she speaks clear. she is not divisive. she is the best candidate. joe, if you are listening, i hope you pick susan. host: kathleen parker, columnist with "the washington post," recently brought up susan rice as a potential name that has not been spoken about as much but should be. kathleen parker writing to other susan rice and former obama senior advisor valerie jarrett. they are both qualified on both international and domestic front. neither has expands running for high office, but there are more important things. should the wolf -- worst come to pass, either woman could skip initiation. nationaled as obama's security advisor. she is on friendly freighted with political baggage more so than it. recall 2012 when rice stepped in for secretary of state hillary clinton, reporting on five sunday news shows that day. if you want to read kathleen parker's column in "the washingto

susan rice has been accused of unmasking trump team members.r acting attorney general matthew whitaker. sir, what was your reaction when you heard all that? >> well, it's a little -- i mean, it appears that susan rice is auditioning to be joe biden's vice president candidate, and, you know, she has a problem with ve erasty. she, obviously, is the one that went on national television and said that benghazi was caused by a youtube video, and i think, you know, this is just -- this isn't true. you can look -- the underlying facts, liz, are very clear. not only was carter page spied on, but these unmasks were unmasking people that were part of recordings or intercepts of u.s. persons. and so, you know, bill barr said very clearly in front of congress the trump campaign was spied on. so i believe bill barr more than i'm ever going to believe susan rice and what she's saying there. elizabeth: yeah. sir, let's listen to former director of national intelligence richard grenell talk with us last night about how the obama administration also ignored warn

i don't think susan rice is a good choice.u are advising, as i've done, with groups of politicians, you want them to avoid antagonizing the political opponent. susan rice is a very antagonistic individual, with regard, as he had said, dagen, to benghazi. there aren't just democrats that are going to vote for joe biden come november, as the polls are showing. some republicans were disillusioned with the president, the way the country's going, or with their party. you want to pick some buddy who not only perhaps will be the next president of the united states, but likability is important. also, the chemistry between him and that individual, the ability for them to work together. it does have to go beyond liking, and maybe looking at her, susan rice, secretary of defense, of state, would be better. i think kamala harris and val demings are stronger candidates. val demings because our law enforcement background, quite frankly, and kamala harris because of her experience not only as a senator but a former attorney general here in t

i think susan rice is not going to have it so my prediction is it will not be susan rice. enough? >> tucker: no, that's interesting. susan rice is smart, i will say that. i don't agree with anything susan rice says. >> tucker: she would be a great chief of staff, i don't think that will help him on what is going to be close elections. >> tucker: stacey abrams, attorney general, my call. >> may be. >> tucker: i will be in bermuda, thanks. in school districts across the country, administrators are adopting a curriculum that is explicitly anti-american and also, "the new york times" designed it. one u.s. senator says we ought to defund schools that teach our children to hate our country. that seems sensible. he will join us after the break. ♪ >> tucker: chicago, buffalo, new york, washington, d.c., and some of the school's plan to teach material 41619 project. that is in a historical curriculum based on essays published in "the new york times" magazine. it couldn't be flimsy or. students will learn if they follow the curriculum. cities like the united states actually founded

your commentsand to susan rice earlier in this interview.ave a democratic --sidency, so much of this we have a small matter, vietnam, and the democratic party has had a different foreign policy. can joe biden, within the ark of drag the democrats back to some form of centrist tendency? mr. bolton: my comments about susan rice will probably get both of us in trouble. i will apologize in advance. i do not know what the fate of the democratic party will be. i do not think there is a scoop jackson wing of the party anymore, or even a joe lieberman wing. that is one reason i worry about donald trump. if republicans do not remain the party of a strong, peace through strength policy, i do not know who will. i think that will leave the country in jeopardy. tom: ambassador bolton, thank you for joining bloomberg surveillance this morning. just a really, extraordinary, extraordinary conversation. thisve been following russia story along with all the new york times with their repeated stories. mentioned, thero angle --times, and craig, there has been s

meredith: susan rice can certainly make that domestic case.en her time, with president obama, she was focused externally. for most americans and abiding campaign, when you hear them talk about rebuilding ties with europe and what they can do to and u.s.asia traditional allies and partners, you are hearing two things. --, domestic sources [indiscernible] -- they need to make american foreign-policy work for a domestic populist highly uncertain, concerned about future livelihoods and the resiliency of the u.s. domestic economy. with susan rice as vice president or any of the vice presidential picks joe biden might pick, what you're going to see is a focus on rebuilding at home and making a stronger case for why having a strong global presence and global relationships, including in trade and investment will be critical to building a pandemic resilient economy that has a solid growth trajectory moving forward. that has never really been done very well in recent political memory. this will be a key challenge for that administration. and thisinating

former president obama's first term susan rice was the bouncer to united nations and the second term's national security advisor. today, she is a private citizen. she is the author of tough love, my story of the things worth fighting for. and under consider his consideration to be joe biden's of vice presidential running mate. welcome back for the third time to the podcast, ambassador susan rice welcome. >> thank you so much is great to be with you. >> host: one minute before he came on air here that trump administration dropped the plan to deport international students in online classes and your reaction was to applaud. explain. >> guest: it was such a miss guided stupid decision that they took in the first place. international students are a critical part of our university structure our college campuses. they bring talent, they bring diversity, they bring resources. and to lock them out simply because their campus has decided by virtue of the pandemic that they need to conduct classes online in the fall, it was just calloused and extraordinarily counterproductive. i have not had a

jonathan: ambassador susan rice, thank you very much for coming back to the podcast. good luck. re keeping our eye out to see what happens. thank you very much again for coming on "washington post live." amb. rice: thank you for having me, jonathan. >> jeff sessions will not be returning to the u.s. senate after being defeated in alabama's republican primary runoff. the former attorney general was running to reclaim the seat he stepped down from in 2017 to serve in the trump administration. instead, former auburn university head football coach tommy tuberville will move on to face democratic senator doug jones in the general election. alreadyrville has received the endorsement of president trump. c-span's washington journal. every day we are taking your calls live on the day, on the news of the day. and we will discuss policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, new york times jim tinkersly discusses economic proposals offered by presumptive democratic nominee joe biden and the role the economy will play. aboutth connolly talks how the pandemic has impacted the op

it will not be susan rice.ugh? >> tucker: no, that's interesting. susan rice is smart. i will say that. i don't agree with anything she says. >> she might make a great chief of staff, i don't think she would be a great vice president pick for joe biden. i don't think that would help them. and what isis going to be a cloe election. >> tucker: stacey abrams, attorney general. my call. great to see you. >> no, maybe. >> tucker: i will be in bermuda, call me. thanks. well, and school district across the country, administrators are adopting a curriculum that is explicitly anti-american and it's also totally dishonest, wrong on facts, "the new york times" designed it. one u.s. senator says we ought to defund schools who hate the country, that seems sensible. joins us after the break. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: chicago, buffalo, new york, washington, d.c., some of the school district that plaintiff's materials for something called the 6019 project. an age historical curriculum based on essays based in "the new york times" magazin

former ambassador to the united nations and former national security adviser to the president obama, susan rice. you don't want to miss that interview. we'll be right back. >>> up next, my final thoughts.

so i just interviewed ambassador susan rice. i'm going to start right there since we just -- i just said good-bye to her. michael steele, if susan rice were to be the choice of joe biden, what would that do to republicans? does that make her an easy target for them or actually a slippery target for them? >> they'd lose their mind. they would absolutely lose their mind. >> flesh that out. why? >> well, because for a lot of them and this should i think in no way affect the vice president's decision, in fact a lot of women that i've talked to in the last three or four weeks are really high on ambassador rice. so there's a lot of interesting momentum around her potential elevation. but for a lot of republicans, this would be an effort to rehash her time at the u.n., her time in the administration, all sorts of things that they would love to chomp into to replay the 2008 to 2016 presidential era of barack obama. as if they wouldn't get to do that with joe biden but joe biden has already proved himself to be a somewhat slippery charac

susan rice, val demings, and michelle grisham also made television appearances. the biden campaign is ramping up ads, dropping 14 1/2 million dollars for a blitz in six battleground states. they also just spent 15 million on ads last week. the trump campaign outspent biden on digital and tv ads, nearly every week, since the start of the general election campaign in april, according to advertising analytics. republicans are getting their message out in other ways too. rnc chair mcdaniel wrote in a fox news op-ed with their unity manifes manifesto, it is clear joe biden is controlled by sanders and the rest of the radical left, singing the siren song of

joining me now is susan rice. she was national security advisor under president obama.he would be in the room, as the president received his intelligence brief, daily. she is also the author we should mention of "tough love, my story of the things worth fighting for." appreciate having you on the program tonight. >> good evening. >> i want to ask you what consequences are there for u.s. national security, when you have a president who blows up when he hears critical information or intelligence about one of his primary adversaries, russia. what does that mean for the safety and security of this country? >> well, jim, the advisers to the president, particularly national security advisor, but also secretary of defense, chief of staff, director of national intelligence. their job and my job was to brief the president. to bring to the president all that he needs to hear. not what he wants to hear. not that it's nice to hear. and, in fact, when i served president obama, he would sometimes joke that i, and others, who brought bad news were the doomsday people. but he always li

and it susan rice might be somebody that he feels comfortable with.that might excite as a progressive? >> i don't think so. i do think that she is extremely qualified not only as u.s. ambassador about national security advisor. so she has the qualifications and was even considered for secretary of state. i don't think there's any question about her capacity to deal with foreign relations and especially at this time when the president is in negative territory with russia and the like and even china, we suddenly say, we got to pay attention to foreign relations. i think she would do a strong job in any debate against vice president pence. >> dana: we will see how many shows she gets us to do as this continues on. all right, charlie hurt charlie hurt and juan williams, i will see you later. one of the kia health officials will reduce the time line for the coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year. so when can we realistically expect to see one? we invited dr. marc siegel on the show and he will be here next to talk about that. ♪ if your dry eye symptoms

welcome back for the third time susan rice. welcome. >> thank you it's great to be with you. >> about one minute before we came on air there was breaking news that the trump administration dropped a plan to deport international students in on line classes and your reaction was to applaud. >> well it was such a misguided, stupid decision that they took. international students are a critical part of our university structure on our college campuses. they bring talent. they bring diversity. they bring resources antilock down simply because there campuses have decided by virtue of the pandemic they need to conduct classes on line in the fall was callous and extraordinarily counterproductive. i haven't had a chance to read the details and the reporting on it but it looks like the trump administration saw it is their effort to defend this policy in court that was unlikely to succeed in the back down and it continues to be a victory for our colleges and universities, our students across this country and across the world. so much of our

i don't expect to tell us who you're going to pick but is there strong momentum toward susan rice?n't think anybody in the country has a better sense of what it takes to be vice president than joe biden. if looking for somebody in the process who can be the kind of partner to him that he was to barack obama and he's running a very robust process and there's a lot of women where currently qualified and women of color who are part of the process. ultimately, he will make that decision and announcement. at the end of the day he's looking for somebody to be a partner in progress with him and there's a lot of very qualified women. >> martha: doesn't help susan rice that he knows her and worked closely with her because a lot of the women he doesn't really have a real relationship with and hasn't known them. >> i think he knows quite a few of them. a lot of the women he worked with in a capacity throughout his time in the office and throughout the campaign. he actually knows a number of them quite well. again, you know, he knows what he's looking for and he's looking for somebody that he

jonathan: ambassador susan rice, thank you very much for coming back to the podcast. good luck. are keeping our eye out to see what happens. thank you very much again for coming on "washington post live." amb. rice: thank you for having me, jonathan. >> on monday, the british abbasid or to the u.s. talks about russia positive influence in the u.k. and europe. is hosted at noon eastern. watch live coverage on c-span two. online at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> watch our live, daily, unfiltered coverage of congress. president trump: our countries are linked by trade and travel. >> issues that matter for you. >> ongoing efforts to focus on a mission to save lives and meet the needs of our state and health care workers. >> along with briefings on the coronavirus pandemic, supreme court oral arguments and decisions. and says for coming out hello. >> and the latest from camping 2020. >> your calls and comments welcome. >> be a part of the conversation . if you missed any of our live coverage, watch any time on demand at c-span.org or listen on the go with

susan rice was on meet the press yesterday. she is being considered, apparently as well, apparently on joe biden wanted short list to be vice president. she was asked by andrea mitchell. hey know, you know, you have been in the bureaucracy for a long time, but you have never actually run for an office or held an elected office. she wanted to know about her being qualified then to be the vice president. given the fact that many of her republican critics negotiation have said that she has a problem telling the truth. we saw that during benghazi and whatnot. anyway, here she is, susan rice, talking about how she would be qualified to be the next vice president of the united states. >> joe biden needs to make the decision as to who he thinks will be his best running mate. i will do my utmost drawing on my experiences years in government. years of making the bureaucracy work i have worked on multiple campaigns, presidential campaigns. i have been on the campaign trail as a surrogate. and i'm going to do everything i can to help get

susan rice. very known to joe biden.rity adviser in the obama white house worked in the state department, in the clinton administration, veteran staffer and experienced foreign policy hand. never run for elected office. would the vice president take that risk? >> well, john, we know that susan rice is among those contenders being vetted right now, and as you mentioned, she served and worked alongside joe biden as national security adviser under the obama administration. and biden is someone who really prize himself on t rid pri pri prides himself on relationships over the year. they worked closely together in the white house. something he could take into consideration as he starts to make his decision, getting closer to the final stages. you also have people like kamala harris and elizabeth warren who he has seen up close on the campaign trail. that could be items that are under, you know, his evaluation list when he starts to look at this, but right now, biden yesterday, you know, said that he is zeroing in on a decisio

why would joe biden invite the scrutiny that susan rice brings.president trump wasn't either. i think you are probably right, brian. it's at this point it's coming down to kamala harris or someone they believe can shore up the left flank because of all the tiptoeing he has to do. in the primary as if he is a moderate. running to the left to shore up his left wing base. wife would he invite another attack certainly and rightfully so what happened in benghazi not just during the event but the cover up afterwards. brian: why we box himself in to begin with i'm going to pick a woman and a woman of color. the country's most powerful ceos were grilled on capitol hill today. ainsley: they were. founder evers of amazon, facebook and google how they use their powerful and if they are conservative voices. pete: griff jenkins is d.c. where president trump is promising new action on big tech. griff, good morning. griff: good morning, pete, brian and ainsley. far cry from tuesday's barr hearing where there was partisan rancor in the judiciary committee. yester

i looked, john bolton, at the susan rice essay and the and iby leon panetta, found the mystery. you recommend president trump extricate this now, and particularly how he addresses the military at the pentagon? >> i cannot tell the president how to get out of a mess that he has created. i heard three different stories whether he told it was briefed, whether it was fake, whether it was fake by the new york times. now his advisers are contradicting them selves as well. it is just another day at the office. that's the way it works. every day is a new day, every story is a new story. what you said yesterday is interesting but it does not indicate what you say today. what it tells the russians is we are in disarray and rife for this kind of provocation not just in afghanistan but in many other places around the world. jon: is there any reason why this would be put in the daily briefing, or that it would not be follow-up -- followed up by the president himself? say this, which i do say in the book. donald trump doesn't consume intelligence the way you expect presidents to do so. everyb

without getting into what i know or don't know, i want to say i agree with susan rice on that point.s what the national security advisor should do. let me make one more point. there are not two categories of intelligence. verified over here and not verified over there. intelligence, invariably, is placed along a spectrum. the intelligence community understands this. they have high confidence in sum, medium confidence, low confidence. people will have to judge. different agencies will disagree. there's not a block of granite you carry around to show to the president that is called verified intelligence. there's a range. you deal with uncertainty. that's part of the job. >> if the susan rice essay and panetta, essay by leon i found the mixed ordinary in their heat. how would you recommend that president trump extricate himself from this now? particularly, how he addresses the military at the pentagon. >> i can't offer advice on how to get out of a mess he has created. by my count, in the last five days, he has told three different stories on whether he was briefed, whether he was told

or susan rice kamala harris and karen bass. or -- but it feels like that trio, is it fair to say right now the tea leaves say is that trio is a little bit ahead of everybody else? >> well, the trick about all this, chuck, is i think some of the public speculation tends to be a little best a lagging indicator of where things are really inside the campaign. this much is clear. we started with a long list three months ago. in the last few weeks we've been talking about a shorter list. and i think in the next 48 to 72 hours we're going to be talking about the final lists indeed. the final three or four individuals who the former vice president hopes to narrow it down to. and then in some form or fashion meet with. we know that personal execution is going to be so important. in some cases he already has that, has a personal relationship with some of these individuals. i think when you look at the karen bass meeting on the hill, or just earlier this week that could have been sort of a first date if you will. an opportunity to get the

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. >> i'll talk to former national security adviser for president obama, susan rice. >> joining me fornsight and analysis are former homeland security secretary jeh johnson, daniele pletka, and white house correspondent peter alexander. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning, and i hope you're having a happy and safe fourth of july weekend. chuck todd is away this week, but for the second consecutive night on this holiday weekend, president trump gave a divisive speech, referring to opponents among other things as marxists and looters while downplaying the surging pandemic. the coronavirus is exploding across much of the country with nine of the worst days happening in the last ten days. with 17 states now recording their single-day highs this week, many are closing down bars, restaurants, beaches, and gyms, some for a second time, while others have delayed reopenings, each as president trump says he thinks or hopes the virus will just di

joining me is susan rice, national security advisor under president obama.e in the room as the president received his intelligence brief daily. she's also the author we should mention of "tough love my story of the things worth fighting for." ambassador rice, appreciate having you on the program tonight. i want to ask you -- >> good evening, jim. >> -- what consequences are there for u.s. national security when you have a president who blows up when he hears critical information or intelligence about one of its primaried a ver sar ri adversaries, russia, what does that mean? >> the national security advisor. my job was to brief the president to bring to the president all that he needs to hear, not what he wants to hear. not that it's nice to hear and in fact, when i served president obama, he would sometimes joke that i and others who brought bad news were the doomsday people but he always listened to what we had to say and he never conveyed the impression that news was too bad to be worthy of him hearing. you don't intimidate the messengers. you welcome the

susan rice really wants to be joe biden's number two, and a shameless appearance, i don't know if any of your side. it was on "meet the press." she told this story, secretary of state mike pompeo, well, guess what. mike pompeo is here with the exclusive reaction to her charges against the administration and reminder to americans about what her ascension would bring. also tonight, what do covid deaths really mean today when they continued to plummet as the number of cases arise? of course we don't anyone to die of covid. it's a horrible thing and a tragedy, but what do these numbers really tell us? and why are the experts avoiding that truth? my medicine cabinet is here on that. the incredible news by hydroxychloroquine. the media spent the weekend lying about trumps mount rushmore speech, not at all surprising. raymond arroyo will tell us how it relates to joe biden's latest union event in ""seen and unseen"." but first, why the left lies. that's the focus of tonight's angle. democrats have reached i think the obvious conclusion that their only path, sure path to victory, is the burn

susan rice is the vp candidate gaining momentum, karl?at we talked about gaining momentum because we talked about them. interesting from two angles, my perspective. one in 2008, joe biden was sold in part as the vice presidential candidate for barack obama because he had experience in foreign policy. were talking about susan rice and is she being talked about because she has expense with foreign policy that joe biden needs on the ticket? interesting question. a second thing, she's an accomplished individual and the serious person. if you were chosen, she did meet the standard of the hard to define standard that she's capable if something happened to buy them. she will reinject a familiar issue with the race. she was a national security advisor for president obama 100 biden went on the board of burisma in the same year that joe biden was put in charge of anticorruption efforts on ukraine. i discussed the issue with her. they did not have a good answer. it did they know about the hundred biden going on the board and any disk in population f

if you read the susan rice transcript, she admits that when she was going through the transition fromto obama that they were talking to world leaders. they were meeting with world leaders. that's what you do when you're in transition. it's one of the reasons why the united states of america has an election in november and an inauguration in january. it's so we can get prepared. we're a serious country. we have to have a transition period. during the transition period is where i focused the most. there is very problematic to see that in january just weeks before inauguration of donald trump, joe biden is asking for names. he's asking for information as to who did what, who was talking to home. reading the classified information. this is not a team that's getting ready to hand off a peaceful transition of power. this is a team that were surprised that they lost and they were looking for ways to plan.p with a new i think that the ways of washington have to be called out. we are not for petty politics. but we have to be able to look at the steele dossier and all of the warnings that were

i know you have former national security adviser susan rice on the show this morning. you will be talking about that widely reported russia bounty story, where american intelligence officials say russia's intel agency paid bounties to taliban-linked militants to kill american troops in afghanistan. white house says the president was not personally briefed on this. in your experience in washington covering administrations, does that sound credible? number two, now that they are aware of the intelligence, what is the administration doing about it? >> those are the issues exactly, willie. it was in his daily brief. he didn't read it. they say he was not orally briefed about it. why not? was that because the intelligence officials are afraid to tell him anything that is negative about vladimir putin because he blows up over that? why isn't he doing anything? if it was important to put in the daily brief, daily intelligence, why didn't they act on it? why didn't they brief him? why did they let him have six phone call with vladimir putin and after the written briefing and n

. >> sandra: as far as who is the top choice, susan rice has moved to the top of the list.ere if the announcement is expected soon? >> who knows. this goes down to personal chemistry between the candidate and his prospective running mate. we know that kamala harris had a great relationship with joe biden's son beau biden who is the attorney general in delaware. susan rice on the other hand is someone who has worked rather closely with him in the white house and she was a national security advisor. now that does represent some challenges with him and she was of course the famous full ginsberg on tv shows after benghazi said this was all spontaneous reaction to a video that nobody in the middle east actually saw, rather than what it really was which was a deliberate attempt by extremist elements to deal the u.s. a big body blow. and she knew that. she knew what she was saying on those programs was not correct but there is also another interesting angle here. remember she was a national security advisor, when hunter biden goes on the board of burisma, and when the vice preside

joining me now is the former national security adviser under president obama ambassador susan rice. e is also the auth are on of "tough love." my story of the things worth fighting for. ambassador rice, welcome back to "meet the press" and a happy holiday weekend to you. thanks for being with us. >> same to you, andrewa. good morning and happy fourth weekend. >> thank you. on this fourth of july weekend, the story of the russian intelligence, the intelligence that russia organized bounties to target american soldiers and coalition officers in afghanistan, the president has now referred to this as a hoax. what message does that send to vladimir putin? >> andryea, the message to vladimir putin is you can kill american servicen with absolute impunity. the president of the united states has demonstrated absolutely callous disregard for the safety and security of american forces in the war zone and there's no explanation for this. why ten days after the story was first published and the president's claiming he hadn't been briefed has he not come out and said to the american people my top

she likes susan rice. i still stand by my original going on the record to say that senator kamala harris would be the best pick for vice president biden. but, look, all of the names i've mentioned and all the names aagree with congresswoman edwards,s that an embarrassment of ish ares here for former vice president joe biden. any of the people we've been talking about would be superb. >> well, i just want to say, jonathan, i haven't met aunt gloria but i met your mother on zoom last week on your birthday celebration. listening to everyone in your family and to donna edwards. so joe biden will pick the eventual choice of course. >>> leave it there, because governor ron desantis in florida has, in the villages by the way, where that white power protest was last week the president retweeted is now speaking. let's listen. >> -- that's very, very important. mortality is very, very clear skewing heavily in that direction. those are folks that need support. we'll talk about expansion of testing very robust now. so

welcome back for the third time to the podcast ambassador susan rice. >> thank you so much, it is great with you. >> one minute before we came on air, there was breaking news that the trump administration dropped plans to import international students to online classes in your reaction was to applaud. >> it was such a misguided stupid decision that they took in the first place, international students are a critical part of our university structure, our college campuses. they bring talent, diversity, resources and to lock them out simply because their campuses have decided by virtue of the pandemic that they need to conduct classes online in the fall was callused and extraordinarily counterproductive. i am not a chance to read in detail the reporting on it but it looks like the trump administration saw that their effort to defend this policy in court was unlikely to succeed and they back down and it seems to be a victory for our colleges and universities, our students are crossed this country and across the world. so much of our appeal and competitiveness and soft power depends on the pe

look at the susan rice essay and also the essay by leon panetta.ound them extraordinary in their heat. how would you recommend president trump extricate himself from this now, and particularly how he addresses the military at the pentagon. how: i can't offer advice to get out of a mess he has effectively created. in the last five days he has told three different stories whether he was briefed, whether he was told it was fake, whether it is fake news by "the new york times," a whole range of things, and his advisers are now contradicting themselves as well. how do i view that in terms of the trump residency? it is just another day at the office -- of the trump presidency? it is just another day at the office. every day is a new story, what you say today is interesting but it does not dictate anything. what it says to the russians is we are in disarray, rife for the provocation not just in afghanistan but in many other places around the world. jon: on this particular intelligence, is there any reason why intelligence like this would be put into the p

my first guest is susan rice,, susan former national security advisor and u.n. sador for president obama, and new york times bestselling author of "tough love." we spoke about joe biden's vice presidential prospects and the legacy of john lewis. ambassador rice, welcome to "the daily distancing show." >> it's great to be with you, trevor, thanks. >> trevor: it's a very different way to be with one another, and during this time, i've realized it's also a very different way for us to mourn the passing of people that we admired or cared about. most recently, john lewis. when you lookt at his legacy and his life and what we need to continue doing today, how far tuning we are on continuing that journey and creating that "good trouble," as he called it? >> well, i hope john lewis' legacy will be to give us all a kick in the pants and remind us that we can be much better than we are, especially than we are today. you know, he had such warmth and such humanity and such courage, and he never, never quit fighting, and he knew that he was leaving us at a moment when we were

without getting into what i knew or did not know, i agree with susan rice.is what the national security advisor should do. there are not two categories of intelligence, verified over here and not over there. intelligence invariably is placed along a spectrum and the community understands this. they have high confidence in some, medium confidence, low confidence. people will have to judge and different agencies will disagree. there is not a block of granite to show to the president that is verified intelligence. there is a range. you deal with uncertainty. that is part of the job. ricei looked at the susan essay and the one by the on pennetta. i found them extraordinary in their heat. how do you recommend president trump extricate himself from this now in particular how he addresses the military at the pentagon? >> i can't advise how to get out of a mess he has created. he has told three different stories whether he was briefed, whether he was told it was fake, whether it is fake news by the new york times, a whole range of things. his advisors are contradict

national security adviser to president obama, susan rice. great to see you. president trump yesterday was talking about coronavirus testing. he said if you test more, you have more cases and all that stuff. he also made an assertion about the obama administration and testing. i want to play that for you. here it is. >> if you know biden and obama stopped their testing. they just stopped it. i'm sure you know that. you don't want to report it. but they stopped testing. right in the middle they just went, no more testing. and on a much lesser problem than the problem we have. >> so, what's he talking about? >> first of all, good morning, mika, everybody else. it's good to be back with you. i have no idea what he's talking about. it's completely pathetic. the reality is that on donald trump's watch, over 135,000 americans are dead. our infection rates are skyrocketing, surging past any other country in the world. and this is largely due to donald trump's own indifference and incompetence. and now his willful disregard for the lives of americans

beyond that, it was absolutely fascinating to hear from john bolton, in agreement with susan rice. something, we always keep up with the dizzying pace of news out of washington, but that was something that folks should take a minute to let that sink in. up until yesterday, that is something we never thought we would have heard. lisa: we are hearing more about some bipartisan efforts when it comes to, as you were talking about, news and reports of the russian bounties on the heads of american soldiers. how much of a bipartisan effort is there in terms of re-upping the enhanced unemployment benefits. the market is certainly counting on this, and domestically, even if we get a big jobs beat in about an hour, we are still looking at a hugely damaged labor market. kevin: you know this better than anybody, in terms of crunching the numbers on economic indicators, because when you look at how these states are having to issue more closures, whether it is in california, arizona, there are parts of the country where many republicans are saying reopen the economy and put people back to work,

susan rice? what about john kerry? samantha power? of course not. remember what you are seeing on the streets that leftward lurch of the democratic party is they are a against you. it's not just that they despised from, sure, they do. but they despise you, your patriotism, your churchgoing, your judean christian values, your belief and personal responsibility and work ethic. your big families, your suvs, your guns, all of it. because you represent the old america at that they want to destroy, root and branch. when they say systemic racism, that means the system, the culture. it has to be taken down. it has to be eradicated and replaced by one that they create in the image of aoc in the squad. the parties leaders. >> and i quote, a [bleep] [bleep] it is a culture of lack of impunity, of accepting a violent and violent language against women. >> [bleep]! [cheers and applause] >> we cannot stop a criminal justice. we must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it. >> this is about true reparations. so yes, i suppo