them. so if you go back ten or 20 years and add it all up, its massive amounts of money that the united states has paid and stuffed up like nobody. this has gone on for decades by the way, many presidents, but no other president brings it up like i brought it up. many have complained about it. many have singled out germany for criticism because they are an economic powerhouse. they accuse them of funneling billions of dollars to russia even though they saw protection from the military from us. president trump: billions and billions of dollars are being paid to the country that is supposed to be protecting you. everyone is talking about it all over the world. well we are supposed to be protecting her from russia but why are you paying billions of dollars to russia for energy? why are the countries in nato, mainly germany, having a large percentage of the energy paid to
russia and if you look at it, germany is the capital of russia. despite looking at the american team, they loo
brian: i have to tell you this story. if you have a liberal law professor, a very esteemed and he s being ripped right now for writing an op-ed about supreme court nominee brett cavanaugh. kavanaugh. he was happy after the nomination was announced and he wrote a piece titled the liberal case for kavanaugh and called him qualified. in response, many have been savaging him. slate called his article complete. gq called it something that we can t air. professor, you knew when you wrote this that you would get some blowback. did you expect something like that? maybe it was a little more than i expected but it comes with the territory. i love the fact that this country has a robust, uninhabited, uninhibited debate. i would love that it it was sometimes less personal but ours is a wonderful democracy.
why do you think someone that has been labeled a perfect judge by conservatives would do a good job on the supreme court? because i think that a great judge is open-minded and changes his or her mind sometimes and i think i ve seen those virtues in kavanaugh. he s a scholar of the constitution and a great justice in particular because the supreme court focuses on constitutional issues and i think brett kavanaugh has studied the constitution deeply. i think he is a person of good character and he has been willing to admit that he has made mistakes in the past. an experienced person has made mistakes, and a really good judge or leader learns from those mistakes. brian: it so you when you use the chuck schumer declares going to be the end of roe v. wade and freedom of