Ep. 153 - Sen. Tom Cotton

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sen. Tom Cotton, Republican from Arkansas, talks with David Axelrod about why he decided to join the Army and what he learned during his deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan; his assessment of the evolving relationship between the U.S. and its European allies; and his views, as a member of the Intelligence Committee, on the ongoing investigation into possible ties between Russian officials and members of the Trump campaign. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.6	host, David Axelrod.
0:18.2	Whenever folks put together a list of up and coming Republicans, it'll always include
0:22.9	Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the youngest member of the U.S. Senate, an Army veteran of
0:27.6	the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, had a chance to sit down with them the other day to
0:32.4	talk about climate change, Russia, healthcare, and his journey from rural Arkansas to the United
0:38.7	States Senate.
0:44.5	Senator Tom Cotton, welcome.
0:46.4	Good to see you.
0:47.4	Thank you.
0:48.4	It's great to be here.
0:49.4	Thank you.
0:50.4	In reading up on you, one of the things that struck me right away was that politicians
0:57.2	like to talk, that came to you late.
1:00.6	You wrestled as a kid in Arkansas and small town Arkansas with a speech impediment.
1:07.1	I did.
1:08.1	Apparently I didn't speak until I was about three years old, which I obviously don't
1:11.4	remember, but my sister reminds me of.
1:13.8	And I can remember going into elementary school, second or third grade.
1:17.6	Other kids would go out on the playground and play around in the jungle gym, the monkey
1:21.1	bars, and I'd be in class working with a speech therapist from the school, learning how to
1:25.4	pronounce words.
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