summer. that platform fight over softening the russia language and the ukraine plank. that happened about a week after one of trump s foreign policy advisers took that campaign-authorized trip to moscow. well, about a week after that platform fight, the day after the republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the u.s. presidential election from russia. the day after the republican convention ended, right before the democratic convention began we got what u.s. intelligence agencies believed to be the next big russian incursion into our election. we got the first wikileaks dump. we got the first wikileaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by russian government sources from the dnc, from the democratic party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the dnc right before the democrats started their convention. that s how the democrats got to
presidential election from russia. the day after the republican convention ended, right before the democratic convention began we got what u.s. intelligence agencies believed to be the next big russian incursion into our election. we got the first wikileaks dump. we got the first wikileaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by russian government sources from the dnc, from the democratic party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the dnc right before the democrats started their convention. that s how the democrats got to start their nominating convention, with the chair of the party resigning and the party and campaign being blindsided by selectively curated and selectively released documents designed to make the democratic party look as terrible as possible. good timing, right? good political timing if you re trying to help trump and hurt the democrats. what was particularly impressive by the trump campaign at the time is how they were so
question then becomes what s next? so, tommy, what about the prime minister of ukraine, the current inter whatever you want to call him called this a declaration of war. there are russian troops on the scene. ukraine does not have the military mite to fight back, full fledge d russian incursion. is there any scenario under which there s a conflict here or can srussia take what it wants because nobody wants a conflict with them. i can t see anywhere it involves u.s. forces. i think what we re seeing here is putin lashing out militarily in response to a massive political defeat. he lost a very close ally when he was depose d and sent from kiev and now is sending troops in. i think we need to reject, the united states needs to reject, the zero sum look at this that ukraine must choose to be russian or choose to be western. this is a sovereign nation. they should be able to live how