100% Cotton: The Senator from Arkansas On Issues Domestic And Foreign | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this wide-ranging interview, conducted in the Hugh Scott Room in the US Capitol, Senator Cotton opines on a variety of issues, including the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine and the looming conflict with China over Taiwan.

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0:30.4	Arkansas who happens to be a Harvard man. Senator Tom Cotton on
0:35.8	Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.
0:47.0	Thomas Bryant Cotton grew up on an Arkansas farm, earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, and his JD from Harvard Law School.
0:59.0	He served in the Army, then went home.
1:01.0	He is now serving his second term in the United States Senate
1:05.2	where he is hosting me in the Hugh Scott room deep in the Capitol building.
1:09.9	Senator, thank you. Welcome, Peter.
1:13.0	It's good to have you here.
1:14.0	Senator Tom Cotton, speaking at the Commentary Magazine dinner just a few days ago,
1:19.0	and here are you speaking of the United States, Israel and Hamas.
1:22.0	Quote, our countries are... the United States, Israel and Hamas.
1:22.6	Quote, our countries are good and they are evil.
1:29.1	As the Israelis have waged war on Hamas, a just war. There have been civilian casualties in Gaza.
1:37.3	What is the right way to think about those casualties? They're much in the press of course now.
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