And now, America's number one show on pop culture and politics. This is the Michael Medved

show. Another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth.

It is a great nation that is waiting with great anticipation for a appearance by President Biden,

following his meeting with NATO leaders, the 75th anniversary of the Atlantic Alliance, why does the Atlantic Alliance still exist when the Soviet Union seems to have broken apart?

Well, there's that nasty guy Putin and other reasons. They are brought to the fore by Tom Nichols.

Tom is a staff writer at the

Atlantic and the author of the Atlantic Daily Newsletter. He is also a professor emeritus

of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught for 25 years.

He is the author recently of the death of expertise and our own

worst enemy, the assault from within on modern democracy. Tom, are they just building up this

press conference that's scheduled in a couple of hours for President Biden.

Are they building this up as a press event, or do you think this is deeply significant,

as many commentators have suggested, considering the president's need to recover from a disastrous

debate?

Well, every time the president appears now, he's going to be scrutinized.

I mean, that's something he's just never going to get away from between now and November.

And that's just kind of, you know, the law of political physics.

But it is important.

I mean, it is an important day that, you know,

NATO has survived 75 years, making it one of the most, certainly the most powerful alliance,

and I would argue the most successful military alliance in history. It's stayed together,

deterred war, helped keep the peace in Europe, defeat the

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