international policies present and that made it harder and harder for him to be successful in a primary campaign. if the voices are missing from the other side of the bias in the foreign relations committee and if as for imhoff is saying, only those who are mindly loyal to president trump should continue to serve as republicans in the senate, then i m gravely concerned what that says for marc remaining the beacon of freedom in the world. he was pretty honest on this show yesterday, why not stick around and fight donald trump if this is how you feel. he said, plainly, i can t win. i can t win this primary fight inside the state of arizona, do you view a as an opportunity for democrats? maybe a democrat can when a seat in arizona or tennessee, if steve bannon and that wing of the party want toss primary every republican senator except for ted cruz, isn t that good for you a and the democrats? well, it s food in a narrow sense. that s right. my election was certainly
power. for more than 70 years the presidents of both parties believed that american security and prosperity were directly tied to the success of freedom in the world. they knew that the success depended in large part on u.s. leadership. the mission came naturally because it expressed the dna of american idealism. we know deep down that repression is not the wave of the future. we know that the desire for freedom is not confined to or owned by any culture. it is the inborn hope of our humanity. we know that free governments are the only way to assure that the strong are just and the weak are valued. and we know that when we lose sight of our ideals, it is not democracy that has failed, it is the failure of those charged with preserving and protecting
isis either. there is congress nervousness about getting involved. let me go to the last part about what i asked senator mccain. okay, you do it, then what? and he is willing to make the case, yeah, we have to rebuild the country. this is what we do. it s worth it. this is what we did after world war ii. is there the politics of that seem to be very risky. well, look, being president is hard. being the leader of the free world is hard. being the beacon of freedom in the world is hard. george bush understood that, barack obama shirked away from it. trump is going to find out, we re going to find out where he is on it. that is the hardest part of assuming that office is you have to make those kind of difficult decisions and lead the country. sometimes you have to take the country to a place where you convince them as you do it. and i think that george bush would be commended. now we see how hard it was. we ll find out now. candidate donald trump was said to me, look, i think as
his past drilling oil, burning fossil fuels. i think he should embrace t. realize all of the benefits we get from it and you do your business, you do what you do and all the people left economic and otherwise cultural ruling and it s called confirmation hearings. mainly what the secretary of state does day to day is go around the world and try to help the helpless. that s what america is really good at. the whole world has been there relying on us and is he a man who can do that? i wouldn t say that s the only job. certainly standing up for america s interests in the world and that in large part is standing up for freedom in the world. totally.
talking about a consult tiff council only advisory in nature. it s important to keep in mind the much broader political climate, which is one of extreme political oppression. saudi arabia is one of the top, the worst scoring countries in freedom in the world, which is our annual survey of political rights and civil liberties. that s in large part because its political life is almost non nonexiste nonexistent. given the nature of the bodies that the women would be possibly be elected to, they re not bodies with control over policy related to women in general. they re more municipal councils that relate to roads, parks, civic issues. so while those are important questions, it s not going to be an arena in which women can really push for serious policy changes in regard to women in the country.