Youd actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. But it was interesting. In that senate primary, that Republican Senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. He called himself a former Pentagon Expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. He said, quote, i think a lot of people, im not sure they understand the history of russia. You go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. It actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. This whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. Thats russias business, not anybody elses. And this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. He went on in some detail,
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group, led by a former republican congressman named vin weber. if the mueller effort is going to start really going after people for foreign agent registration and it is going to start ensnaring lobbying groups and other people well outside the trump campaign, is that an appropriate use of well, i m not going to speculate until i would see more facts. okay. you don t know what the relationships are, the interlocking relationships. maybe it is related, maybe it isn t related. i think it s safe not to comment on this until you saw some real facts. let me ask you about the popular perception that wleefr peop whatever people think of the investigation i saw a poll today that the public thinks he s doing the right thing. it s 2-1 it said in the newspaper. there is an increasingly widespread perception and reporting that the congressional
group, led by a former republican congressman named vin weber. if the mueller effort is going to start really going after people for foreign agent registration and it is going to start ensnaring lobbying groups and other people well outside the trump campaign, is that an appropriate use of well, i m not going to speculate until i would see more facts. okay. you don t know what the relationships are, the interlocking relationships. maybe it is related, maybe it isn t related. i think it s safe not to comment on this until you saw some real facts. let me ask you about the popular perception that whatever people think of the mueller investigation and however safe we think it is i saw a poll today that the public thinks he s doing the right thing. it s 2-1 it said in the newspaper. there is an increasingly widespread perception and reporting that the congressional