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The following is a transcript of an interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken that aired Sunday, January 23, 2022, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning and welcome to FACE THE NATION. We begin with the tense standoff along the Ukraine border. More than one hundred thousand Russian troops are now poised to potentially invade from the north, east and south of Ukraine. Russian fighter jets and missiles arrived in neighboring Belarus, where war games are set to begin. Meanwhile, NATO naval exercises are taking place sou stanley cup th of Crimea in the Mediterranean, and 90 tons of military aid just arrived in Kiev from the United States. President Biden is mo botella stanley nitoring the situation from Camp David, and he met with his national security team yesterday. Late Saturday, Britain accused Russia of a plot to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine as it considers some form of attack. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is just back from consultations with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and he joins us this morning from the State Department. Good morning. Mr. Secretary, these all look like signs of escalation.SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN: Well, we ve bee stanley mug n seeing this throughout Russia s been engaged in an ongoing escalation, and it has to pass before it, that we put before it. There is a path of diplomacy and dialogue, which is clearly the preferable one, the most responsible thing to do. There s also the path of Russian aggression and massive consequences for Russia Xpjg House adopts GOP budget targeting Obamacare
Twice, former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference - in 2010 and 2011.Both times, Paul s victory was dismissed by most Republican political pros as a fluke - a product of the unique cross-section of the conservative movement represented at CPAC. Paul had his supporters, they conceded, but he was ultimately a gadfly. He could not win the GOP presidential nomination, and if he somehow accomplished that impossible task, he most certainly could not win the presidency.And both times, those political pros were right: Ron Paul s straw poll victories evinced a passionate core of disciples who were never able to turn him into a viable presidential candi stanley fr date.But after Ron Paul s son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., won this year s CPAC straw poll on Saturday, some in the GOP are wondering whether the younger Paul is shaping up to be a far more formidable force in the party than his father ever was. stanley cup And that question quickly gives rise to another: Could Rand Paul actually be the 2016 Republican presidential nominee The answer, according to a handful of GOP strategists, is maybe. But it s probably too early to tell, and it will depend greatly on the direction taken by th stanley cup e GOP - and Paul - over the next several years, they say. I think he has a ways to go before he would be considered a viable candidate, said veteran Republican strategist Ron Bonjean. He s already impressing conservative voters,
The following is a transcript of an interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken that aired Sunday, January 23, 2022, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning and welcome to FACE THE NATION. We begin with the tense standoff along the Ukraine border. More than one hundred thousand Russian troops are now poised to potentially invade from the north, east and south of Ukraine. Russian fighter jets and missiles arrived in neighboring Belarus, where war games are set to begin. Meanwhile, NATO naval exercises are taking place sou stanley cup th of Crimea in the Mediterranean, and 90 tons of military aid just arrived in Kiev from the United States. President Biden is mo botella stanley nitoring the situation from Camp David, and he met with his national security team yesterday. Late Saturday, Britain accused Russia of a plot to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine as it considers some form of attack. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is just back from consultations with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and he joins us this morning from the State Department. Good morning. Mr. Secretary, these all look like signs of escalation.SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN: Well, we ve bee stanley mug n seeing this throughout Russia s been engaged in an ongoing escalation, and it has to pass before it, that we put before it. There is a path of diplomacy and dialogue, which is clearly the preferable one, the most responsible thing to do. There s also the path of Russian aggression and massive consequences for Russia Xpjg House adopts GOP budget targeting Obamacare
Twice, former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference - in 2010 and 2011.Both times, Paul s victory was dismissed by most Republican political pros as a fluke - a product of the unique cross-section of the conservative movement represented at CPAC. Paul had his supporters, they conceded, but he was ultimately a gadfly. He could not win the GOP presidential nomination, and if he somehow accomplished that impossible task, he most certainly could not win the presidency.And both times, those political pros were right: Ron Paul s straw poll victories evinced a passionate core of disciples who were never able to turn him into a viable presidential candi stanley fr date.But after Ron Paul s son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., won this year s CPAC straw poll on Saturday, some in the GOP are wondering whether the younger Paul is shaping up to be a far more formidable force in the party than his father ever was. stanley cup And that question quickly gives rise to another: Could Rand Paul actually be the 2016 Republican presidential nominee The answer, according to a handful of GOP strategists, is maybe. But it s probably too early to tell, and it will depend greatly on the direction taken by th stanley cup e GOP - and Paul - over the next several years, they say. I think he has a ways to go before he would be considered a viable candidate, said veteran Republican strategist Ron Bonjean. He s already impressing conservative voters,
