yes. he is perfectly positioned by his training, the leadership on the foreign relations committee, his devotion to these issues. this is his moment. why do we care this is democracy versus autocracies, this is a moment we haven t seen since the fall of the berlin wall. i covered reagan and the armed control negotiations. why does this matter? let s talk about that for a second. you have perspective. those of us at the table, not you all, of course, but those of us who are older, we ve seen through the decades. you are very kind. we have seen the cold war up to 1989. we saw freedom sweep across central and eastern europe. we saw authoritarianism creep back in, starting in 2014/2015. there, in central europe, we saw it here in the united states. talk about, though, how it almost seems like this is sort
someone as highly respected and intelligence he has access to is underscoring the problem we know we ll face. dana: another thing i wanted to ask. let s go to the middle east. israel s prime minister concerned over president biden s attempts to new this nuclear deal with iran. watch him here. we are deeply troubled by what we see. for israel and the ability to enforce the emergence as it seems is highly likely to create more violence, more volatile middle east. dana: this seems like the add ming is traition is determined to get this deal done. yeah, this is the same attitude largely by the same team, dana, that did the 2014/2015 deal because they were part of the obama administration and also part of the negotiating team. they were bent to have a deal
this new estimate that russia could begin a military offensive in ukraine in a matter of months with up to 175,000 troops. what can putin do with that? president putin can lose a lot of russians with that. that is the last time he invaded ukraine, back in 2014/2015, ukraine was not prepared for that invasion. ukraine is much better equipped now. its military is stronger, it has better weapons, it is better led, morale is higher, training is much higher. president putin if he sends his troops against ukranian troops will lose a lot, this gets to be very wobloody on both sides certainly. but president putin will have to contend with many casualties, many russian casualties. do you think putin underestimates ukraine? i think he does.
i m laughing because i m going to make a leap and guess i m the only member of the panel who lost their seat in congress because the district was redrawn. it happened to me in 2014/2015 as a result of a court case. it provides a good contrast to what s happening in texas. it s this. there are always going to be winners and losers in redistricting. i was a loser in it. who draws those lines that creates the winners and losers? in my case, the voters demanded through a constitutional amendment that geography dictate. i lost my seat. three other moderates lost their seats as well. in texas, partisans draw it. republicans intentionally are trying to make this as painful as possible for democrats. what s at play here in those seats because they are minority seats. what has changed is the elimination of any preclearance, there s not a suppressing of
in iowa and new hampshire, that is not going to be opportune well for the rest of the primary season as we are more and more diverse. we have heard the stories of pete buttigieg, and how well he does with the black voters or doesn t, and the irony is that amy klobuchar polls worse than him with the black voters. and so bernie sanders has been working diligently since 2014/2015 to cultivate this base. and biden is running away, but if klobuchar and buttigieg and warren do not do well tonight, when do they do well when it is more diverse? except i don t think that after tonight, any one of the seven would drop out. i did not say that. you could be running a dead man s campaign. and tom steyer is a billionaire and he is going to go on. and he has lot of people in south carolina. yes, and polls that are decent, third place behind biden and warren. and also, andrew yang has unusual constituency that is not