ukraine under that philosophy. first of all, they support u.s. engagement and moral engagement in the world. americans generally and conservatives are not isolationist. they are reluctant internationalists. they want to lead in the world but have to have someone make to case why it is in america s national interest. what s encouraging about the survey the support for ukraine is strong despite the fact nobody is making that case to them. that s the job of the commander-in-chief. when is the last time you saw joe biden give a major address not saying we ll support ukraine but here is why this is in america s national interest. the consequences of success and failure and why this benefits us to help them. he doesn t do it. yet the american people strongly support ukraine. imagine if someone was making the case. bret: peace through strength and that s in here as well. 85% say a strong military is key for the u.s. no doubt. republican party continues to be
dana: short lived rebellion have people showing support for ukraine. the episode over the weekend renewed the debate over the war in ukraine. they ripped gop frontrunners. the two leading republican nominees for president donald trump and ron desantis, policy on ukraine is wrong. i wish they would stop fighting with american companies like disney and be more interested in supporting our allies against attacks against democracy. other republican candidates pushed more support for ukraine. the former president boasted his personal relationships with the presidents of russia and ukraine could end this conflict. before i even arrive at the oval office i will have the horrible war between russia and ukraine totally settled.
bret: we are lucky to have condoleezza rice and brilliant about assessing the situation in russia. how do you see it? a rattlesnake backed up against the wall with putin? are we in a more dangerous situation? i don t think so. there was a coup against gorbachev, a lot of instability in russia. putin is in trouble and russians see the war is a disaster. they re not blind. it comes at a time when ukraine is launching a counter offensive and they have an opportunity to take back their territory. the big problem that they have in ukraine right now is the biden administration still is not giving them the weapons they need to prevail, to win a counter offensive you need tanks, air power and you need long range artillery. things the united states is denying ukraine. if he had f-16s now imagine the territory they would be taking. bret: thank you both for your time.
it. no doubt, bret. thank you for having me on. i think what surprised me is not that there are people who are worried about the support of ukraine using american taxpayer dollars to help kiev but when you give them information and tell them that 82% of the territory in ukraine is with ukraine and held onto the territory. the amount of money we ve given amounts to 3% of the u.s. defense budget and that we depleted the russian military you see a huge swing 15 points or more saying it s worth it and support ukraine including republican voters. bret: what is in here, marc, americans believe the u.s. should withdraw international affairs and washington with meaning the priorities should be at home more attention on problems at home. you wrote a column about america first. why it fits in to support
abnormal for the president s party choose abnormalfor the president s party choose a house of congress and and historically it is quite common and it would mean that president biden s agenda would be stopped, basically, he would no longer have the ability to pursue his agenda, such as advancing social security payments, taxing the rich in order to pay for it but even all things like climate legislation, policy on ukraine, all of it could change if the republicans take the house and i think waters a bit less usual in this particular round when it comes to the houses of congress as you have a growing wing of hard right candidates on the republican side and if that expands in the house that could be given more divisiveness than there is already as there will be more investigations of democrats of various policy on political issues and some calling for the impeachment of president biden, so i think you can expect that to take or play more of a role thanit that to take or play more of a rol