ABC This Week interviews during 2019: on Foreign Policy
Doug Jones:
Impeachment warranted if withheld Ukraine aid helped Russia
If a president is using his office against a country that is dependent upon the United States of America, and he's doing that to withhold aid that is there to battle Russians that is a serious, serious matter. I'm trying to see if the dots get
connected. If that is the case, then I think it's a serious matter. I think it's an impeachable matter. But if those dots aren't connected and there are other explanations that I think are consistent with innocence, I will go that way too.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview for 2020 Alabama Senate race
Dec 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders:
Talk to adversaries but we need more than photo ops
I have no problem with [Trump] sitting down with Kim Jong-un in North Korea or any place else. But I don't want it simply to be a photo opportunity, the whole world's media was attracted there. What's going to happen tomorrow and the next day?
He has weakened the State Department. If we're going to bring peace to this world, we need a strong State Department, we need to move forward diplomatically, not just do photo opportunities.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview
Jun 30, 2019
Cory Booker:
Not working with allies on Iran makes us weaker
This is a president that does not have a strategy and, unfortunately, has made us weaker. We are the strongest nation on the planet earth, but our strength is magnified and multiplied when we stand in coalition with our allies, with other western
democracies. When there are strikes on tankers, we see our allies very skeptical to believe us. We are in a box, and in a corner, with an Iranian regime now racing back towards a nuclear weapon. This situation is getting more and more tense, not less.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview
Jun 23, 2019
Seth Moulton:
America leads the world when it is strong
There are a lot of dangers we face around the globe because we have a weak commander-in-chief in Donald Trump. And that's why in this race I'm taking him on, not just as president, but as commander-in-chief. We've got to start talking about how we can
make America safe and strong, from our communities to our borders to across the globe, to restoring American leadership. And you do that through strength, you do that by showing how America will make the world stronger and safer together.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview of presidential hopefuls
May 19, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard:
We need to engage in diplomacy & deescalate tensions
Nuclear strategists point out that we are at a greater risk of nuclear war now than ever before in history. And this is what I seek to change; to build relationships that are built on cooperation rather than conflict, deescalate these tensions, work
out the differences that we have. We've got to be able to work with countries like Russia and China to be able to accomplish that objective to keep the American people safe.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview of presidential hopefuls
May 19, 2019
Pete Buttigieg:
Pay attention to assessments of intelligence agencies
Q: Would you meet with Kim Jong-un?A: I think it would make more sense to have that happen in a framework of concrete achievements.
You don't just get to have a meeting, declare the nuclear threat to be over, then wind up being embarrassed and contradicted by your own intelligence chiefs.
As a military officer serving overseas, I was part of the intelligence community. And there is not a more reality-based group of people in this country.
You actually have to understand and legitimize and take seriously their assessments before you have any business having a one-on-one with the leader of a hostile foreign power like North Korea.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interviews for 2020 Democratic primary
Feb 3, 2019
Julian Castro:
Strengthen our relationship with allies to keep us safe
Today the greatest threat to our national security is the fact that this president is damaging the relationships that we've had at place in the post-World War II era, whether it's
NATO or other alliances with individual countries, that have kept us safer. The first thing that I would do if I were president, with regard to our relationships around the world, is to strengthen them. Because those alliances have helped keep us safe.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interviews for 2020 Democratic primary
Jan 6, 2019
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