New mexico u. S. Senate debate. Candidates working hard to earn your vote are democrat Ben Ray Lujan, republican Mark Ronchetti , and libertarian bob walsh. Moderating tonight, kobs anchors and editor in chief of the Santa Fe New Mexican. Good evening. For those of you watching on kob kob. Com, or if youre listening from our network of Radio Partners across new mexico, welcome. Chief of the Santa Fe New Mexican to the moderating team. We are delighted to have candidates who will appear on your ballot running for the open u. S. Senate seat. There will be joining us tonight. Tonight, the candidates are appearing from three locations. Mark ronchetti is with us inside our studio. Ben ray lujan is in his Campaign Office in albuquerque. Bob walsh is at his home in santa fe. Because of covid19 risks, we give candidates the option to appear from wherever they feel safest. There is a crew from kob with each remote candidate to provide timekeeping and enforce rules and provide Live Technology to
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Host director brennan, thank you for sitting down with me today. Your book provides really interesting background and detail not just about your career and on intelligence debates in the past, but very much relevant to the news of the current day. Four years later were still fighting about russian interference in 2016. Republicans and democrats are debating about whether the investigations were handled probably four years ago and whether you and Intelligence Leaders of 2016 drew the right conclusions about russia and russian actions. Your book opens with the scene after before the inauguration with first congressional leaders and then going to new york to brief trump and his team. Theres a sharp partisan divide where you brief congress. Will describe that and talk about whether that was inevitable given the politics of the moment or if something had been done differently. I was asked to brief the gang of eight when we learned about what the russians were doing. The group of congress fi
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Director brennan, thank you for sitting down with me today. Your book provides really interesting background and detail, not just about your career and on intelligence debates of the past but very much the news of our current days. Its four years later, were style fighting about russian interference in 2016. The republican and democrats are still debating whether the investigations were handled properly four years ago, whether you and Intelligence Leaders of 2016 drew the right conclusions about russian action. Your book opens with a scene after the election before the inauguration, youre briefing first congressional leaders and then go to new york to brief the trump and his team. A sharp partisan divide when you brief congress. Describe that and talk pout whether that was inevitable given the politics of the moment or could something have been done differently . Well, julien, i was asked to brief the gang of eight when we learned about what the russias were doing, the full extent of i