Tim Kaine: “just a brief response. I will not respond to Senator Cruz's representation of Mr. Martinez's testimony before the Senate…”

“just a brief response. I will not respond to Senator Cruz's representation of Mr. Martinez's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has his opinion about what those words mean, and I think he quoted them accurately. But I would just say for anyone, you can go and look at that quote and decide for yourself whether you think that was a statement that was hostile to faith or whether that was a statement by a bank or business guy financier about what he thought were the most important issues that an international development bank should be focused on. I read those same comments as not hostile or antipathetic to faith; I view them as comments of an individual who has been in the finance industry who knows what the remit of the international development bank is and is talking about his own priorities in terms of how that bank should program their work. But I do want to respond to the first point. Senator Cruz is correct about Mr. Martinez's past. He grew up in Venezuela. He was initially in a government that apparently had a lot of promise to offer to Venezuelans because Mr. Chavez was elected by Venezuelans in a democratic election overwhelmingly. But my colleague didn't tell you the rest of the story. Mr.…”