influential implementing policies that stymied their interests in ukraine? or advocating for some sort of environment or policies that would be averse to them? i think that, umm, just the general idea that obviously u.s. ambassadors, u.s. embassies, one of our most important functions is to facilitate u.s. business abroad, right, whether it s trade, whether it s commerce. that s one of the things that we do. and but, you know, everything has to be above board. we believe in a level playing ground but we obviously advocate for u.s. business. these two individuals, with hindsight, what we learned later, were looking to open up a new energy company, exporting liquified natural gas to ukra e
sounds great for a campaign. but if it s not authentic and not who you, it s going to backfire. i think she has an amazing story to tell. her service in the military compared to what mcconnell has been doing for theyears, which is single handedly destroy iing the united states senate and turning it into basically a playing ground sfr donald trump and his cronies. she just needs to be unapologetic about it and people will forgive difference if they feel like you re being authentic and have them at the core of the campaign. what they won t forgive is just thinking that a set of poll tested narratives is going to be successful. so can can a democrat win the state of kentucky being against judge kavanaugh? i think so. we have had cases before there s been these disagreements. there s no question it s a
shouldn t see the playing ground and should make the case to voters that they have solutions that aren t currently being offered by the incumbent republican strong holds. you have go ahead. well, you have to really pay attention this year to the gubernatorial race in kentucky and the gubernatorial race in louisiana. we saw doug jones of alabama it was against roy moore but a democrat won in alabama. stacey abrams in 2018, andrew gillum running for governor in florida. beto o rourke in texas, all democrats in the south and they made the calculus that many are making. instead of running to the center and running as a milquetoast democrat trying to win over the centrist republican, run to stoke the democratic base. get hispanics in georgia as well as black voters to turn out. get white liberals to turn out. build a new kind of younger,
home, by relatives, by the nuns at the catholic school i went to during my elementary years, and that a child and an adult are not on the same field, they re not on equal playing ground. and my upbringing would inform me that if nathan phillips had walked up to me as a child, i would know that my responsibility and duty to move out of the way because this is someone who is older than me and i m supposed to accord respect to my elders. and so that s what has bothered me through this entire situation, and even more so after savannah guthrie s interview with nick sandmann. when she gave him the opportunity to say, i m sorry, i should have moved out of the way, not i regret i wish we could have turned away, but just saying, you know what, i m
it has been rules that will constrain us to some extent and that makes thing mrs. predictable and gives a fairer playing ground. we look at china as a mono lith, a country that builds great infrastructure, it s a leninist system that has control of 1.3 billion people. coupled with dramatic economic growth which tends to unleash all kinds of forces within a society that it s hard to govern by command so color me skeptical that china is going to be able to operate in the world in a way that is threatening and goal oriented. it s got all kinds of problems and i suspect they ll be dealing with political instability in a