cable on august 29th expressing his misgives about the delay of military aid to ukraine. what do you do with that cable? i m not going to talk ukraine this morning. did you relay his concerns to the president? i came here today to talk about workforce development. this as the washington post reports that the white house pressured ukraine the pressure on ukraine, rather, went well beyond withholding military aid. it turns out in late august white house trade representative robert lighthizer recommended to restore some of ukraine s trade privileges after then national security adviser john bolton warned him the president would probably oppose anything that would help the government of kiev. joining me now is stephen piper, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, currently with stanford university. thank you for being with us. let me ask you about william taylor because you worked with
nervouses on in the white house and that the and at the state department about this meeting with putin and how they manage it because they see potential risks. stephen piper, who s worked for the national security council. there s a gray cloud for the president of the investigations about collusion so any kind of deal is going to get microscrutiny and questions about whether it s a give away to the russians. it seems like such an abrupt shift from everything that he s been doing now all of a sudden they plop him down in poland because chancellor merkel has gotten on his nerves over climate change. any sort of self-awareness of how herky jerky their foreign policy appears? well, i think you make a very important point there. it s worth noting that sarah huckabee sanders the press secretary the deputy press secretary just spoke to reporters on air force one as they prepared to touch down here in warsaw. and said that they weren t going to give any more details, reading into their m
thrifty couples are happiest and too much debt with ruin a marriage. consumer debt is an equal opportunity marriage destroyer. it doesn t matter where you live or how much you make, too much debt strains a marriage. jeffrey is an assistant professor of family consumer and human development. he researches monies and couples. i m quoting you here. your research has shown that consume debt is really, really dangerous to your love life. consumer debt is definitely a problem for married couples and all co-habiting couples. according to the marriage project at the university of virginia, couples that disagree about money once a week 30% more likely to divorce. do you fight more than once a week? your chances of going down the wrong path are right up there? what makes thrifty couples happier than everybody else? well, i think you really said it at the beginning there. thrifty couples are simply not accumulating consumer debt. we re talking about credit card debt or maybe th
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