understand what s going on. one of the almost jokes over the decades was that israel was lucky to have the palestinians as an enemy, because if they made peace with the palestinians, the israelis, the jews would tear themselves apart. that s what s happening now. they are tearing themselves apart. they haven t got peace with the palestinians. they are getting the worst of both worlds. as richard said, this issue has been kicked down the road. one thing i would like to pick up on what richard said he summed up the opposition in one word, secular. he was trying to find one word that said it all. it s not this is not a battle between the secular and religious. that s the wrong way to look at it. demonstrators there s plenty of religious people among the demonstrators. arabs, not so much, but they are there in numbers. this is a fight between those people who want to defend democracy. there are plenty of people on the right who understand that. they are demonstrating in the
fault things were and how credible their solutions are. fin fault things were and how credible their solutions are. their solutions are. on the fixing art, their solutions are. on the fixing part. there their solutions are. on the fixing part. there is their solutions are. on the fixing part. there is a their solutions are. on the fixing part, there is a role their solutions are. on the fixing part, there is a role for - their solutions are. on the fixing part, there is a role for public i part, there is a role for public policy through budgets and other stuff to repair the damage done. as richard said, right now it is a pretty leisurely pass back to restoring pre pandemic levels of income, five years plus. is there a case for pressing the accelerator, to speed data recovery? yes, i think there is, some of that was in the budget, more is needed. christiana, when ou budget, more is needed. christiana, when you look budget, more is needed. christiana, when you look at budget
against china. it just doesn t happen by itself. it s all about alliances. it s all about partnering. that s the only way to deal with these authoritarian threats to world order as we ve known it. that s my big take away. if doubts seep in about our staying power, that will unravel things, and that s why it s important to see the bipartisan support that jim was talking about. people have to have confidence, not just today but that we ll still be there tomorrow. what have we learned over the past 20 years ago we ve learned that america first, which is used for an excuse to come home to be isolationist, to pretend the world s problems are going to solve themselves, always leads to disaster. we ve learned that america can t lead from behind. leading from behind doesn t work as well. america, it is still the power, as richard said, that the countries across the world look to for leadership.
noneconomic problems, it s poor government leadership. gianno there s not a lot salvageable from the democrats on that right now because for now, they control everything in washington. it isn t, just to slightly push back on what richard said, donald trump was trying to push the prescription drug reform. democrats and the pharmaceutical companies were pushing back on that. democrats won t work on that particular issue. i ll tell you, it is not much salvageable. i know according to cnn at least that republicans have an 80-year advantage in terms of their. [indiscernible] super majority in congress in some way, shape or form. those are good things, i think, for the american people, but at the same time as a conservative, i must always caution my fellow conservatives that if you, in fact, do take back the majority, then we need to have something actually offered to the american people and don t fumble the bag
viewers who may not understand the historical significance of this, the eu talking about fast membership. you know, in the cold war you had berlin. berlin was on the razor s edge of world war iii because of the divide through the center of berlin. here we ve had ukraine in this really second cold war. we didn t realize vladimir putin was fighting it but he was fighting it, and as richard said, his entire his attacks in 2014, his attacks this year had one purpose and that purpose was to stop ukraine from moving west, stop ukraine from becoming a european, modern, capitalistic, free, democratic country. the fact that the eu came in this past weekend and said, here is the application, it is not going to take years, it is going to take weeks, you will be a member of the eu, hard to overstate the significance of that. vladimir putin, as we have said