yeah, totally pathetic, laura. tony blinken, like his boss joe biden, is sticking a kick me sign on uncle sam s back. they should tell that person to pack his bags and head straight to china where china is committing against religious and ethnic minorities. where they are engaged in a systematic sterilization of minority women so they can t reproduce. or, barring that, the systematic rape of them so they produce han chinese, to say nothing of what they have done to hong kong over the last year, or to christians who are simply trying to worship god in their homes throughout china. that is where the u.s. should be focusing on human rights abuses. they should not be coming to the united states, and it is disgraceful that joe biden and tony blinken have asked them to do so. laura: but senator, doesn t this have an actual effect on our national security, our secretary of state, by allowing this to happen on u.s. soil, with the u.n. and their track record on human rights, looking the o
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Resuming the upward climb, though at a lesser slope. Looks like the Midwest did it, from the regional data. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. Is the virus gathering itself for another leap?
do that. of course when you re the front-runner like joe biden, you re going to be the one as you indicated who has the kick me sign on your back. but there is a way to do this where you re not attacking every single policy monumental some of these policies were monumental like the passage of obamacare, that president obama, who still has a 97% approval rating, that you can go about attacking these policies, criticizing them without attacking the person who actually put them in office. i think some of the candidates on the stage last night, some folks, this is probably going to be their last debate. perhaps mayor bill de blasio was in a hail mary mode trying to figure out how can i still have a viral moment that might catapult me to the next debate. but i m not sure that going at it the way that they did made a lot of sense. and to your point, look, it does give donald trump a talking point tonight. i m sure he s going to go into his rally and talk about the fact that he was not re
when you re going in to meet with a candidate to talk about how we re going to approach the debates, what attacks you re going to lodge, how you re going to draw a contrast, it s fine to do that. of course when you re the front-runner like joe biden, you re going to be the one as you indicated who has the kick me sign on your back. but there is a way to do this where you re not attacking every single policy monumental some of these policies were monumental like the passage of obamacare, that president obama, who still has a 97% approval rating, that you can go about attacking these policies, criticizing them without attacking the person who actually put them in office. i think some of the candidates on the stage last night, some folks, this is probably going to be their last debate. perhaps mayor bill de blasio was in a hail mary mode trying to figure out how can i still have a viral moment that might catapult me to the next debate. but i m not sure that going at it the way that th
ideals we lose. that s been true for decades. and yet, we put this kick me sign on us and pay for it as well. sean: one of the things that frustrates me is by the way, beyond they re in new york right now, you can t budge in new york. good exercise. you ve got tow walk everywhere. sean: we have good lives. that s not the point. i don t think they have done anything effective in terms of what their mission was. i would think at some point, i like your idea about doing it voluntarily but a bigger point is if they can t function and have a sense of right and wrong when you put iran on the u.n. human rights commission what could go wrong? sean: a country that kills gays and lesbians, persecutes christians and jews, talks about wiping israel off the map. how do you put them on the human rights commission? the united states should resign from the human rights