seeing out of vladimir putin is a little bit of desperation now to keep the troops together. let s talk about your new op-ed just released, in which you say that some of your fellow republicans, quote have lost their moral compass on foreign policy. you specifically called out ron desantis, who called the war in ukraine a territorial dispute, and said it was not a vital national interest for the united states. do you think governor desantis view on this is disqualifying for him? well, i don t think it s disqualifying, but this is a clear, it s not even a questionable, a clear vital national interest to support what is going on in ukraine. it sends a message to our enemies, if we were to back out now, that we re not resolved. it sends a message to china, if they were to take an aggressive approach to taiwan. it sends a message to our coalitions and our allies, that we are going to be there, that they can count on us. we re not just a partner. this is the united states of america. w
after him. because normally it s a misdemeanor, not a felony. and they re using a really sketchy argument to make it a felony. think about what the implication would have been in the days just before the 2016 election, if this would have come out. i think we can t ignore that either. it could have had real bearing on the election. we will never know the answer to that question. and he still broke the law. it shouldn t be, if we re going to arrest people for, you know, having marijuana, we should be arresting people for breaking the law andobs this didn t come the election but the access hollywood tape did. do you anybody saw the access hollywood tape and voted for trump and if they found out about stormy daniels, they wouldn t have. i don t think we ll ever know. it is been 20 years, today since the u.s. began bombing iraq. has the united states learned its lesson about going to war? that is next. was designed to symbolize the environments
horrific and terrifying. florida governor ron desantis this week said that the war in ukraine, he described it as a territory dispute. he said that it s not a, quote, vital national interest for the united states. you re on the senate armed services committee. do you agree? i was shocked, i think it s stunning for the florida governor who s running for president to say this. i mean, what is he saying it for? to get votes? what happened to, you know, ronald reagan s peace through strength? i mean, we need to show vladimir putin that it s unacceptable for him to invade a neighbor. this is in our national security interest for him to lose. we can t allow him to be successful. if he s able to take ukraine and win a war in ukraine, who s going to be next? it s going to be one of our nato allies. and then we re going to be putting, you know, u.s. soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines in harm s way.
so that, again, creates opportunities here at home. it secures our interests at home, when not only we say we re a leader, but we act like it, too. according to cnn polls, about 40% of republican voters are supporting donald trump right now, about 36% are supporting ron desantis. you haven t declared yesterday, so, i guess, my question is, that s a big chunk of the republican party supporting people who disagree with you on how vital ukraine is. explain to a republican voter out there, who is skeptical of why this is in the national interest, other than notions of the u.s. stands for freedom, why is this in the national interest to support the war if ukraine, to support ukraine in the war, i mean? let s walk through it. yeah, so if you let russia start come in and walk over ukraine, you put all of eastern europe at risk. you put all of our nato allies there at risk. and then when a nato ally is now
former president. it s our responsibility, right, in society, in our communities to make sure if we have something to say, we re doing it in the right way, and make sure we re making a positive effect going forward. it is going to be a political circus, a lot of unknowns, as you brought up, this could be a misdemeanor. this was tried, i believe, something similar was tried against edwards, the former presidential candidate years ago and got nowhere. this is untested, it s a question about the why they re doing it, something seven years ago. it s not a nothing, but it s moving money and how he claimed money being moved between him and his lawyer. you know, there are other issues that really take precedent in terms of where this country needs to go, what we need to do to get stuff done. there s much more pressing issues of the day. it s just unfortunate this has taken the headline. let s turn to one of those pressing issues. ukraine and russia s war against ukraine, because russian pre