what it s too political, who sensitive, we don t want to get involved. i have a real problem with that. i want to put up a map of nato and ask you, given that we do have mutual defense treaties. that s a real treaty between presidents and countries. we do have a mutual defense relationship with nato w countries. russia seems to be awfully cautious about not encroaching on a nato country.be what s th role of those bright green countries a member of which we areun in nato in this conflict? well, look, there s a big difference between a country thathe is part of the nato trea and a country like ukraine that isan not. the president hasne made it ver clear they re going to reinforce our nato allies, that s where our ships are going, our trains, all centered on putin thinking for one minute that he can go into a nato country. so the role is to reinforce. you know, i think there s a good debate to be had about what we could be doing for ukraine.
the afternoon a couple hours before the polls were slated to close. now republicans have been telling reporters all day that the polling that they have been getting back over the last couple days and weeks showed that sanford was in a vulnerable position for the first time, as you noted, in his career, hasne. i just wanto dispel one notion here. this is not going to appreciably change any sort of legislative dynamic on capitol hill. right? mark sanford is one vote in a republican conference of 235 votes. he has actually been incredibly loyal when it comes to votes and has voted for all of the president s priorities. this is about, two appear i can t get in the president s mind two appear this is about the prent not appreciating a member of congress of his own party dumping all over him consistently. and that s a fair thing to not appreciate. but to say that this is somebody who has been standing in the way of his agenda is n true. and we ll see that if another likely another repu