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From germany seems to me, sam stein, that, yes, its very important when the two leading candidates for the republican nomination start sounding like ron paul when it food comes to being an isolationist, an america first type policy, but i wonder if were over focusing on that right now you look, at least in the senate, and even with the leadership in the house, and republicans, one after another, whether its mitch mcconnell, john fume came out yesterday talking about it lindsey graham, very aggre...

Ron DeSantis is drawing criticism from some Republicans over his claim that supporting Ukraine against Russia isn't a key US priority.

Bottom line, putin may not be winning the ukraine war, but right now he appears to be winning the republican presidential primary and the pro-russia faction of the party seemingly abandoned this advice the man they used to worship. >> we in america have learned bitter lessons from two world wars it is better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. weve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an a...

May not be a reagan person, but what he just said is true. >> yeah. >> what happened to a party that used to stand by him and that now appears to be drifting, at least in big chunks of it, toward putin >> well, i will say this was a bit of a gasp moment for many republicans when two of the leading candidates, governor ron desantis included came out and saided, hey, its not in our national interests that is maybe the biggest gasp moment ive heard going into 2024 election that isolationist, theres...

Of supporting ukraine. could this run into a major divide within the party among the potential candidates? >> i think it already is a major divide, both in congress, among republicans on capitol hill, and certainly among the people who are either already running for the republican nomination or are considering to run for it. and it really is this deep strain of isolationism that again, the former president naturally had, and is now spreading through the republican party. you do hear a lot of tha...

American as apple pie isolationism which runs strong in american politics from the very beginning. of our republic -- part of it is trumps embrace of russia, and the fact that or should during the administration was seen more as a friend, in part because russia tried to help him win the election, and definitely put the thumb on the scale during the 2016 presidential election. putin also, very ably inserts himself into our culture wars. even yesterday, when he spoke and delivered his address to t...

More resistance right now and more aid for ukraine. how does he convince people that its a worthy act a worthy duty? >> its a really important question. he has to use the bully pulpit now to keep the support that was there but is diminishing. what f.d.r. understood and he had a harder challenge than what president biden does because he wanted to give aid to england, this is the spring of 1940. isolationism is a dominant mood, neutrality acts in congress. we dont have many weapons to give but he ...

0 it was actually 108 people in the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. it all happened as the combination of protests that had started the previous november. people are protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe, a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, just episode bring ukraine closer to europe, and closer to the west. people in ukraine bought weird forward to ...

Hate me? i am a person. so what you get the sense of is not just that hes a loner, which his family told us, but this increasing feeling of isolationism, injustice collector, all of these tiny sleights or things that bothered him in his contacts have build up to the point that hes created a target list and that he is trying to re-write his story. >> really tragic outcome from all of that. john miller, thanks very much for digging into that a little bit with us. we appreciate it. a new report r...

Away from this? its a concern here in the united states _ away from this? its a concern here in the united states in _ away from this? its a concern here in the united states in particular i in the united states in particular but there isnt a lot of public appetite for the kinds of humanitarian operations that the united states is been involved in. on the front lines of. i think if 0n the front lines of. i think if you look at the fatigue around spending with respect to the ukraine conflict in t...