as aggressively as we do other types of crimes, and it s long past time for that to change. i know part of your insight is informed by being a federal prosecutor like myself, and the idea you think there s a need for a preprioritization of things, opposed to focusing so much maybe on drug trafficking rings, you think the priority should be on drug trafficking. is that right? we certainly need some kind of shift. heroine and fentanyl have killed a lot of people in my community too, and we have to go after that. but i think you know there is still a lot of excess dollars in capacity when it comes to prosecuting non-violent drug crime in america as a result of the war on drugs. and the nra, in particular, has always battled the atf s budget and their capabilities. and that s just a fact. uk look at it today and the dea gets three or four bucks for every dollar the atf agents get. the atf agents i worked with were some of the finest police i
ukraine, that s something that we would not announce in advance. but we do continue to be in close contact with the ukrainian government at very senior levels. the president talks regularly with president zelenskyy. secretary blinken talks with his counterpart. and the national security adviser at the white house, jake sullivan, talks nearly every day to the senior adviser to president zelenskyy. while we are not on the ground in ukraine right now, we are in close daily contact with our counterparts in the ukrainian government. well, those other leaders face the same security risks. and by the way, other diplomatic teams have been returning to ukraine. france among them. and u.s. diplomats still not here. why is the u.s. behind on this? why isn t it leading the way? look, every country has to make its own security assessments. i will say we continue to assess the situation on the ground in ukraine. obviously we want to be back in ukraine. we want to have a diplomatic presence there
senior adviser of the biden administration on covid response, andy, it s good to see you. what a night this is. i want to read a portion of this judge s ruling because she had a lot to say in deciding not to have this mask mandate. she said, wearing a mask cleans nothing. at most it traps virus drop letts, but it neither sanitizing the person wearing the mask nor sanitizing the conveyance. you say this might be more of a political decision at play here than one that s based obviously perhaps in the science. what do you think about this decision? well, look, a wyoming freedom loving organization, so to speak, found a judge in florida who, i believe, is 34 years old, was appointed after president trump lost the election, a former clerk to judge thomas, who i think who the american bar association said wasn t qualified for the court, and who is now stretching her lot beyond