Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Bennet on Foreign Policy and National Security Priorities

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator from Colorado and a current Democratic presidential candidate. Morell and Bennet discuss the state of American politics and the ideologies and objectives that would define a Bennet administration. Bennet, who was recently added to the Senate Intelligence Committee, discusses the state of U.S. election security and his priorities for confronting Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Bennet also discusses his views of alliances and plans for bolstering global stability.

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0:35.3	Your mission is ours.
0:37.4	The first visit I would make if our elected president would be to Europe to say, we are
0:41.7	here to defend Western democracy.
0:43.8	We're with you.
0:44.8	We don't view you as some sort of liability, but together we have to push back on Russia,
0:50.3	on China.
0:54.8	Putin and Xi both would like to see Donald Trump re-elected because they have been able
0:59.1	to enhance their roles in the world as a result of Donald Trump being elected.
1:04.1	And to pay us as a failing democracy.
1:05.7	And to pay us as a failing democracy.
1:07.6	And four more years of that is probably really good from their point of view.
1:11.9	And whether we like it or not, we are in a contest with China for the future of the world.
1:18.9	And they are acting like that and we are not.
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