So it's a little weird to see Tim Ryan of Ohio vote for this. Tim Ryan was supposed to be a working man's Democrat, a guy who cares about bread-and-butter issues. Tim Ryan represents Youngstown and Akron. Take a look at Akron some time. It's like a war zone itself.
These are the cities that built America, crumbling and desperate now from total neglect. But don't you worry. Tim Ryan is totally committed to rebuilding Kyiv.
By the way, there was a time when Nancy Pelosi didn't want to spend billions of dollars to secure a country's borders. She said it was wasteful and morally wrong. It wasn't that long ago, by the way, it was April of 2017. See if you notice the difference.
She's for spending billions at borders now. She was opposed to it then.
PELOSI:
The wall is, in my view, immoral, expensive, unwise and when the president says, "Well, I promised a wall during my campaign," I don't think he said he was going to pass billions of dollars of cost of the wall onto the taxpayer.
Do you remember that two years ago this month, Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, running for president (she's conservative) told Americans in the first days of the riots that they deserved to suffer after George Floyd died?
"In order to heal, it needs to be personal and painful for everyone," she wrote. In the end, it was personal and painful. A lot of people died and that was good because your racism killed George Floyd. That was Nikki Haley's first reaction. She read it inThe New York Times, and she believed it. They all do.
it shouldn't shock you that Nikki Haley's first reaction to the Russia invasion and Mitch McConnell's first reaction too and the first reaction of so many other Republican leaders was that protecting Ukraine is way more important to protecting you, than protecting America. Mitch McConnell hasn't, to his credit, moved from that. He still thinks it.
I think we all agree the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war in Ukraine.
^No, the most important thing going on in the world right now is the state of your country, the one you're supposed to run, the people you're supposed to represent, whose lives are supposed to care about, the ones who can't buy food or gas,
"But that's nothing compared to Ukraine. We all agree Ukraine is the most important thing." Really? If you agree with that, you should not be sitting in the United States Senate as a Republican and yet that's their position. Of course, it's Lindsey Graham's position
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM:
And if Putin's still standing after all this, then the world is going to be a very dark place. China is going to get the wrong signal and we'll have a mess on our hands in Europe for decades to come. So, let's take out Putin by helping Ukraine.
BRET BAIER, "SPECIAL REPORT" ANCHOR:
Alright, so you're saying that that's how this ends, that Putin is removed? Is there any way?
GRAHAM:
There's no off-ramp.
BAIER:
There is no off-ramp?
GRAHAM:
No, off-ramp.
"Let's take out Putin." It's weird to see a guy live out his strange little fantasy life on TV live. Lindsey Graham won't come on the show. He's afraid. We could spend the next hour playing clips of Lindsey Graham going back 20 years, making predictions that didn't come true and resulted only in the death of American servicemen and the impoverishment of the United States. He's gotten wrong every single time and he's still out there.
Let's just take out Putin. Really? What would happen then? The country has 6,000 nuclear weapons. Would they be unsecured? You thought we had a mess on our hands when Saddam's arsenals fell into the hands of lunatics and extremists. What would happen to those 6,000 nuclear weapons if we just take out Putin? They don't even think about it. They don't care. They're high on their own supply. 
