On Friday, The eleventh Hour visitor host Alicia Menendez and Matthew Dowd took time to speak about the true takeaways from the Afghanistan withdrawal: that Republicans do not care concerning the Structure and that President Biden is doing yeoman’s work.
Early on throughout the present Menendez with a decade-old analogy, “Arising… the top of the mission in Afghanistan could mark the start of Benghazi-like investigations right here at house, we’ll get into that a part of this nonetheless creating story.”
This feels like MSNBC-speak for “partisan Republican probes of Democrat safety failures.” We’ll guess there weren’t any “Benghazi-like investigations” by Democrats within the final 4 years…or that the the Choose Committee on the January 6 riots is not “Benghazi-like.”
However let’s recall Democrats are additionally calling for hearings within the Biden administration’s withdrawal. Take Sen. Robert Menendez. It isn’t like Alicia Menendez is not acquainted with his work. He is her dad.
In fact, Democrats need solutions too, however acknowledging the bipartisan condemnation of the withdrawal wouldn’t have allowed Menendez to later ask Dowd, “Republicans wasted no time coming down on Biden for the exit from Afghanistan. Critique, accountability, these include the job, however floating methods to punish the president appears counterproductive to the fast mission at hand, no?”
Dowd agreed with the hardline partisan boilerplate: “Properly, they’ve by no means let information get in the best way of something they’ve mentioned, or the rules of the Structure or what we’re supposed to face for as values of our nation. None of that will get in the best way of what they do.”
Referring to a clip Menendez performed firstly of the section, Dowd discovered a strategy to make the state of affairs about former President Trump’s ballot numbers, “So, I discover it superb that Kevin McCarthy talked a couple of president cannot govern in the event that they do not have the religion, belief, and confidence of the American folks. He served a president for 4 years that by no means, not even one day, had the religion, confidence, and belief of the vast majority of the American public.”
Trump was narrowly elected, even when the media always handled him like he wasn’t official, and always labored for his impeachment.
Whereas Biden’s scores are sliding downward, Dowd claimed we have to step above partisan politics, “I simply assume, that is once more, this isn’t a time the place we’re purported to be scoring political factors within the midst of this. We simply misplaced 13 service members within the midst, and we have evacuated 110,000 folks.”
After which he tried to attain political factors. He claimed that’s “double what folks mentioned Biden couldn’t do. I feel as of proper now, President Biden has finished yeoman’s work within the midst of this, at a time of immense dialogue and dissension. He’s finished fairly good work within the midst of this.”
Dowd’s declare that Biden is doing “yeoman’s work” is the very same partisan declare he made on CNN on Tuesday.
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Here’s a transcript for the August 27 present:
MSNBC
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
11:15 PM ET
ALICIA MENENDEZ: Arising, we’ll get an replace the doubtless highly effective Hurricane Ida. Then the top of the mission in Afghanistan could mark the start of Benghazi-like investigations right here at house, we’ll get into that a part of this nonetheless creating story.
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11:28
MENENDEZ: Republicans wasted no time coming down on Biden for the exit from Afghanistan. Critique, accountability, these include the job, however floating methods to punish the president appears counterproductive to the fast mission at hand, no?
MATTHEW DOWD: Properly, they’ve by no means let information get in the best way of something they’ve mentioned, or the rules of the Structure or what we’re supposed to face for as values of our nation. None of that will get in the best way of what they do. So, I discover it superb that Kevin McCarthy talked a couple of president cannot govern in the event that they do not have the religion, belief, and confidence of the American folks. He served a president for 4 years that by no means, not even one day, had the religion, confidence, and belief of the vast majority of the American public. I simply assume, that is once more, this isn’t a time the place we’re purported to be scoring political factors within the midst of this. We simply misplaced 13 service members within the midst, and we have evacuated 110,000 folks, double what folks mentioned that Biden could not do, double what folks mentioned Biden couldn’t do. I feel as of proper now, President Biden has finished yeoman’s work within the midst of this, at a time of immense dialogue and dissension. He’s finished fairly good work within the midst of this.