two school aged children who live with her in washington. they understand what this fight is about. they had to probably grow up a little bit faster during this year, and most ukrainian children did. it s a source of inspiration for me. i learned a lot from my kids right in the middle of georgetown. ukraine s embassy sits in the heart of georgetown in a historic building that was once home to revolutionary war. general forrest president george washington visit in this very room. this is the room where washington and others drew the outlines of what became dc america s capital proud, especially now when we fight for our independence. own. a building that has seen people who fought for your independence is remarkable. we ll be right back. why burn a candle when you
centered you. because you supported this this bipartisan bill. yeah bipartisan. it s tough to work with with colleagues in today s environment, you know you you want to demonize one another. that doesn t help us. move the ball forward. we have to look beyond that. you know, going going back to canada? what s happening in tennessee? you know, we have to have an area where people can can have non violent protests. i think that s important to democracy. i think it s important to our republic that we have those speak out the vocal in a non violent way. once it turns into a violent aspect of it. we have to. we have to cut that out. it has to be at a point. where how do we come together? how do we bring this country together for the betterment of everybody to include keeping our kids safe in school? congressman let me ask you about what happened in new york this past week, the former president was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records allegedly to hide hush money payments to
goes. oh gosh, you can t. why would you attack someone else within the own party and so to hear them actually saying no, i don t want you. donald trump attacking other republicans is interesting. it suggests. maybe that asymmetry is less present. maybe there is more room for someone like desantis or nikki haley or whatever to take a little bit too. needle donald trump a little bit more. take care. thank you. so much for coming. welcome to the to the state of the union roundtable. you worked for bernie sanders as a senior adviser. you know something about fighting in a primary. yeah there s supposed to be good fights in primaries. i feel like you know, i m watching what s going on the right, though, and you re feeling like a loss of moral conversation. you used to have moral conversation in politics. you have legal conversations. i appreciate that. there s concerns over whether the case and the statute of limitations and other issues are at play. but what happened to moral leadership? d
they intend to attack us was there but you never completely believe until unfortunately, samson, horrific, like what happens. i would wake up every morning and think was that a bad dream? but we work literally 24 7. your background is in finance when you came to the united states as ambassador. your goal was about business and about getting investment in ukraine. i definitely didn t have all the knowledge about all the military capabilities. now i know them. by names, codes, you know, and everything else, but yes, i became a wartime ambassador. not something i was preparing myself for, but i don t think you can ever be really prepared for it. but i think my previous finance experience experience is actually very useful. how that would have helped that we have been receiving from the u. s. from president biden. congress on a strong bipartisan basis is about security assistance, but also budget the systems. on most days she s working outside the
impeachment through a house that is run by republicans, you know , i think it s a it s a perfect there is the question of the politics of what we are doing. and there s the question of the course. and the accountability and the structures of what we are doing. i admit it is a it is very difficult to see a path in a republican party that refuses to hold itself accountable and, in fact breaches the law itself. for all of their talk of a crime wave and democrats, republicans talking about crime waves across the country. the crime wave is within the republican party. it is within all of the what we are seeing. we have we have seen. we are seeing breaking of the law by conservative members of the court. we are seeing a former president of the united states just indicted in the in recent days. i mean, we need to hold our systems accountable and i do not believe that we should be refusing to do that. for political reasons. i believe