Youd actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. But it was interesting. In that senate primary, that Republican Senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. He called himself a former Pentagon Expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. He said, quote, i think a lot of people, im not sure they understand the history of russia. You go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. It actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. This whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. Thats russias business, not anybody elses. And this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. He went on in some detail,
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true, but they were not discussions about the campaign and maybe they were discussions about the campaign, but not interference, and then he elaborated and saying that he knew of nobody having contacts with the russians and that is false in terms of what other people were admitted and it was false under oath. yes, it is serious stuff. what is the remedy when an official like the attorney general well, perm ri is a very careful standard, but it is something that would be looked at. i have not seen, but i have heard second-hand what has been reported, but i want to see all of the facts before coming to the judgment, but it is serious enough to see a cursory description of what he talked the about. i agree with franken and leahy that he has to come back. what is your reaction no the unveiling of the guilty plea of the other trump officials? obviously, when donald trump says collusion with russia is or is fake news, it is clear ly no. here you have one of the best prosecutors i
nature is not the only thing that has been giving them a hard time. last night a 22-year-old drunk driver plowed her car into two national guard on patrol. ly no serious injuries they are thinking everybody is going to be okay. up and down the river people are hoping they are going to be okay as the red river keeps rising. julie: thank you very much. for for the forecast, dominica davis live in the weather center. it was looking like that tomorrow s crest would make it one of the top five crests that they ve seen. it doesn t seem to be the case any more because it is expected to crest sometime early tomorrow at 37 feet. right now it is at 36.7, so we are almost there. the record crest that we had last year was 40.84. so it is going to be shy of that, but certainly significant flooding.