he had a grand flourish in mind that he knew nobody would be able to resist. in addition to vladimir putin flying personally to guatemala city to make the pitch in three languages, putin also flew to guatemala city an ice rink. russia literally flew a whole freaking functioning ice rink from moscow to guatemala in july to impress the international olympic committee. the ice rink, they set it up in guatemala city, that s where they mounted their official presentation, that s where they made the case they should get the winter olympics at their russian ice rink that they purpose built in guatemala for that occasion. that is how russia got the sochi olympics for 2014 which we now know ended up being yet another way that putin found to make his friends spectacularly rich. that was also the winter olympics where russian athletes did better than they ever had before at a winter olympics. and that, of course, is how we ended up with the russian
of time she will come out there for hillary. what do you think? she s waiting. i guess to hear more, maybe. maybe there s been some concerns about hillary s ties to wall street and whether or not she truly would be able to be there for the middle class, and would stick to her word on some of these issues. i agree with senator boxer that senator warren will come around. senator warren s message aligns with bernie sanders. it s not totally a shocker. maybe she would do it in more of a grand flourish. a solo shot. the night of february 8th we may be sitting sthant with two, mike mentioned the one huge political story, trump winning the iowa and new hampshire. if sanders wins iowa and new hampshire democratic party will face a similar earthquake situation. if elizabeth warren hasn t endorsed by then and can bernie
the ioc and this is what he told the associated press that summer about what happened with that vote. he basically said the ioc was powerless before putin s charm. he worked very hard at it. he was nice. he spoke french. he never speaks french. he spoke english. he never speaks english. the putin charisma can explain at least four votes. and i m sure the putin charisma is considerable, particularly in kgb-accented french. but putin didn t only rely on hipersonal charisma to get sochi the olympic games, to get it done that year in guatemala city. he also had kind of a trick up his sleeve. he had a grand flourish in mind that he knew nobody would be able to resist. in addition to vladimir putin flying personally to guatemala city to make the pitch in three languages, putin also flew to