there s no coherency to it. it s really sad. i ve been thinking about this a lot in the last few weeks. as a reporter i ve been focused on russia and ukraine, and there s always been this expectation of american exceptionalism when you look at other societies where you see strong men rulers, and you see a society accepting things that from the outside we see as completely crazy. and now i don t have this feeling of american exceptionalism anymore because i think if what happened on january 6 and the reaction by the republican party shows that we are as easily led as anybody else. jeh, it s funny, and i m going to draw a long line here. but i can t help but wonder our inability to get the world to follow us on a diplomatic boycott on china on something that s fundamental on something we believe should be freedom
break up the coherency of the ukrainian army, and if he does, it will be a bloody battle but he should be able to achieve his objectives in a very short time. one point i would make, i think the alternative that putin is looking for is zelenskyy to stand up and say rather than go into a war i will not join nato. that s what he s trying to achieve. he s trying to bully ukraine to back down. the french president as he was leaving a meeting one of his aides gave a read out to reporters and he said he noticed vladimir putin no longer the same as the one he had seen in december of 2019. macron had found the kremlin a man at the same time stiffer, more isolated, basically gone into some sort of ideological insecurity minded drift, as his aides call it. do you see, as you assess what we know and what you know you have access to more information than we do is this a different vladimir putin or the
president biden has played a bad hand well. the thing is it still is a bad hand. they re not great cards. you were talking about the idea that the president has been able to keep nato allies together here. do you think, as some have suggested, that nato is ironically, stronger and more unified today than when he started this adventure? john, there s no question about et. i have been going to the munich security conference for well over a decade now. you know, this was by far the strongest and most coherency nato has been. every year you go to munich and they re talking about, oh, the germans aren t paying now. no bone is talking about who is paying the bill right now. the germans will spend a hell of a lot more as a oconsequence of tough sanctions than america will. they are prepared to do it. nato absolutely feels stronger.
senior cancel to donald trump kellyanne conway. former messages senator scott brown. you know, two niles plus in and you were there in the beginning what we didn t know a lot about this. more people dead this year and last year of 2021 then 2020. then we have a situation where we don t have enough testing the move had monoclonal antibodies for 18 months, and we don t have enough. they didn t see the surge coming, they said? that to me is failure, incompetence and frankly it s in coherency to me. they are deaf, blind, and stupid on every level. it s complete malfeasance by the federal government. wants to be a big government socialist when it comes to testing, one of the 1 million new cases that we have as of today. today, we had more cases than we ve had in any day during the
specifically? you said earlier, they ve given you your word, that s good enough for you, but skeptics in your own party? what is it? and secondly, do you have more to say about the south beach, miami. at the end, i ll answer your south beach question so we have some coherency, number one, i work with a lot of people in the room, i know them. everybody knows and you guys know, when certain senators tell you something, you mean it, and others you take, you discount. where i come from, my years in the senate, the single greatest currency you have is your word. keeping your word. mitt romney has never broken his word to me. you know, the senator from alaska, the senator from maine, they ve never broken their word. they re friends. the people i was with today are