Yes. Look, we needed to resituate this in the global context that the events took place in what Ambassador Taylor and George Kent showed was, look, there is a struggle going on, on planet earth right now between the dictators and the despots and the autocrats and the kleptocrats on one side, and the liberal democracies on the other side.
Jamie Raskin: “Yes. Look, we needed to resituate this in the global context that the events took place in what Ambassador Taylor and…”
On the recordNovember 12, 2019
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Raskin discusses the global struggle between authoritarian regimes and liberal democracies, emphasizing Trump's actions against Ukraine.
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