happened under murkel, too? well, in fairness, murkel actually told putin that if he invaded ukraine, nord stream problem shut down. it s not operating now. but any process to get it operating would be totally shut down. and i think, obviously, the new chancellor and because of where he comes from and the coalition he has is even at more against nord stream than chancellor murkel was. but i think the message for the germans is pretty clear and unequivocal in this particular regard. and we welcome that by our german allies. i want to put up something here casperoff wrote and get you to ask the question about what do we owe ukraine, if they are invieded? he writes, all around the world demagogues are pushing the same dangerous message, democracy is broken and should be discarded.
message they believe the illegitimate violence is more important than human rights law. looking back at the previous administration. what are the differences is how the obama administration interacted with the philippines, versus this new invitation from president trump. well, he s only been president he s only been president for more than a year. president obama was hands off with him. he recognized that this was a man who had a very serious human rights record and was not this was not the kind of person you invite to the white house. you went out to deal with him on asia issues as it came up. but it will never be the trump person to be invieded to the white house. i think all of that republicans and democrats in the house agree with that. they don t really see this person as the kind of person the united states should be doing business with. invite him to the white house and simply is amazing, most