From Afghanistan To Covid, Biden Faces Most Turbulent Week In Office - The 11th Hour - MSNBC

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With plenty of criticism and chaos in Kabul along with a worsening Covid pandemic, Pres. Biden just experienced his most difficult week in office so far. NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss joins us to discuss. Aired on 08/20/2021.

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1. These are PRECISELY the kinds of weeks that prove whether a president is ready for the job or not

And Biden is certainly doing all he can, given the near-impossible circumstances on both fronts:

Afghanistan, with an uncooperative Taliban; and Covid, with even more uncooperative Repug governors.

Mistakes will inevitably be made in these crisis situations - but at least we have a president ON the job during all this.

Needy Amin would be on his golf cart right now, zipping from hole to hole (not counting Ivanka).

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2. Did you catch the very end? I thought Michael Beschloss' last statement summed it up

He was asked which scenario was the most dangerous for our country, the current difficulty about getting out of a failed war or the attack on our democracy on January 6th. He answered definitively that it's the latter.