Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty. President Biden claimed the country's stronger because of his work to expand NATO, support Ukraine, withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, and take on China.

In his remarks on Afghanistan, the president only briefly mentioned the 13 U.S. service members who died in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport during the withdrawal of U.S. forces, widely seen as one of the darkest moments of his presidency.

Yeah, I'd say so. And also, just factually, it's when his ratings tanked and never recovered. It basically ended his presidency.

So I realized the president is trying to shape history with his speech.

Good luck with that.

And horribly undermined his foreign policy goals, too, as America was displayed as weak and feckless.

Yeah, I was just going to say the whole, you know, the great saying, which is so true, watch what people do, not what they say.

Well, he's already done it. So he can say anything he wants. It's just kind of sad and useless, in my opinion.

And according to the Bob Woodward book, it was a real indication to Putin.

This administration does not have it to act together in terms of pushback to invading Ukraine

when he saw the pullout of Afghanistan.

Right.

Poorly that was done.

More or less undisputed outside of Morning Joe.

A lot to get to this hour, including a chat with Congressman Tom McClintock about the wildfires in California that absolutely are, to a large extent, caused by politics or exacerbated by politics, not climate change.

Policy matters?

It absolutely does.

But first, let's take a look in the China cabinet.

Which is, admittedly.

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