on ukraine. i think he s reflecting reality even while he challenges the international community, naming, blaming, and shaming them to at least be aware of the inconsistencies, hypocrisies and anomalies that occurred in the deployment of those two words. aaron, do you think it s a genocide? you know, at first i reacted sort of hesitantly because i think i confused genocide with scale. that is to say in order to be genocide, something has to be a massive killing. and i think, according to the definition, genocide also has to do with intent. i think there s no doubt in
troop decline, right? a troop withdrawal or you know, i don t mean it is amazing. i remember barack obama the pentagon is never happy when the decision is, we re pulling back. and this is something that i think, in a weird way, both trump and obama would be like, yeah, the pentagon s always telling me no, which is truth. i m struck by how, you know, the how not partisan this is. i agree with joni ernst on this. that s never happened before. look, the all right from istanbul about what turkey is going to do. we know what they re going to do. this is not something they re doing lightly or hesitantly. they ve been trying to do this for two years now. and we re going to watch on television and trump s mindset, this is
but one of them that is not acceptable is to not actually investigate the allegations, which is what the chairman is at this point threatening to do. his terms include you show up on monday or we re going to have a vote and we won t talk to any of the other possible witnesses. now, i can see a lot of room for argument around the edges about what the appropriate process is, but it s very hard for me to see that the appropriate process, if you re actually interested in learning the truth, would involve voting without investigating or hearing from the two principles without hearing from anybody else who might know what happened or something about what happened. and so i say this hesitantly, but i honestly can t see any
acceptable is not to actually investigate the allegations which is what the chairman at this point is threatening to do. his terms includes you show up on monday or we are going to have al vote and we won t talk to any of the other possible witnesses. now, i can see a lot of room for arguments along the edges of what the appropriate process is. if you are interested in learning the truth, would involve voting without investigating or hearing from the two principles without hearing from anybody else who may know what happened or something about what happened. i say this hesitantly but i honestly can t see any signs of good faith here.
republican party has certainly pushed the boundaries of rhetoric political rhetoric, he has made connections to extremist groups in the policy in a way we haven t seen. what groups are you talking about? there has been many in the all the white for example, connected to white nationalism. which donald trump for his part in his campaign would refute any support from. yeah, and hesitantly, at many times when he pushed back on these kinds of endorsements. and finally, he made the entire closing argument in his campaign about a rigged little system, which will obviously fuel distrust in the electorate. so there is lots of polarization and lots of division. we are in a difficult place in american politics. guys, i have to leave it there. thank you, simone, alice, julian.