I thought, the part of the speech, the bulk of the speech in which he made the case for why we had to leave Afghanistan was very powerful and very compelling.

The President said today we're going to continue to fight terrorism where we find it in Afghanistan and elsewhere and we're going to keep eyes on what's going on there.

Joe Biden was concerned that the mission was shifting away from its intention, which is what he talked about today, which was to disable al-Qaeda and go after the people who had attacked the U.S.

But I do think, Anderson, he could have done more to take responsibility for what was manifestly a failure.

Yes, I mean, it is. You know, it is it is appalling. Nothing is shocking, Anderson, anymore, because you know, there's a well-established storyline here and a well-established pattern. He does not believe -- he never believed in rules or…

They were absolutely shredded by Donald Trump. We have never seen anything like this, certainly in my lifetime, I think in our history.

If this doesn't warrant disqualification from holding public office and particularly the presidency, I don't know what does.

It's about creating anxiety and then using that anxiety to justify restrictive voting laws that they feel will advantage their party and that Trump is demanding.

Yes, the arguments for that legislation around the country, are, in fact, the real election fraud. We had probably the most certifiably honest election in the history of the country and the most litigated.

This lawsuit was sort of an artifact of a previous debate. It was filed several years ago.

I think that the real battle over the Affordable Care Act ended, the day that John McCain came out on the floor of this Senate and turned his thumb down and denied Donald Trump, his dream of destroying the Affordable Care Act in 2018.

There is post-traumatic stress syndrome from Trump, and so that that is really his task and his -- and it is important because the Chinese are telling people, you know, you can't really rely on democracies and America to be consistent in…

Well, certainly on issues like this voting rights bill, they do not because they're not going to get 10 Republicans to go along with them on that.

This is fundamental to our democracy, and she is quite right. Liz Cheney is a hawk on China. She is a hawk on Russia, and she understands what a propaganda, triumph it is for them to have a former President leading his party in this…

He needs to get 50 Democrats in the Senate. He doesn't have that big margin in the House.

I think he's trying to tap into some of that. But, you know, one of the things that's also impressed me is the duality here, he is pushing very hard to get things done quickly, even if it has to be on a partisan basis. But he is not using…

He's going to tell the accomplishments that he's had. But the real purpose of this is to build public support for the phases that have yet, to come to pass this American jobs plan, and to tout this American Family Plan that he's going to…

And somehow, this becomes an issue that Republicans can run on.

I learned to be very deeply skeptical about whether things can get done, and I've done -- and I talked to Democrats and Republicans in the Senate today, Anderson, and neither side at this juncture can count to 10 Republicans to support…

Joe Manchin tried in 2013, after Newtown to make all commercial sales of guns subject to background checks.

You know, I think that he is playing this right.

I think that is -- you know, they are prioritizing action and progress.

I do think that Manchin also doesn't want to be the guy who takes Biden's program down.

He is in a unique position. He comes from a state that voted for Donald Trump by 40 points. He is a moderate and he is very clear about that.

Some of the senators don't like Joe Biden's climate policies, for example.