brian: what happened to kevin williamson? ms. andrews: he is back at the national review.s someone who has been a woman at a workplace where kevin williamson has worked, he is not only a great coworker, but gives a lot of energy to mentorship for all of the journalists in his office, men or women. which is not something everybody does. brian: going back to your experience at yale political union, were you able to bring in speakers that you did not agree with? how free were you to do what you wanted? ms. andrews: in my day, there was a lot of lively debate that was oriented toward issues. there was none of this shouting people down. the result was a great mix and sometimes surprises happened. we had a guest from the sierra club go up and give an impassioned case for conservation and he was astonished that i gave a seconding speech as an ally, and unlikely ally from the conservative side wants to save trees. i think that atmosphere has changed, even at just the past five years. i went to australia, and i come back and i go to alumni events and the stories i hear are very dif

in your piece, you talk about jeffrey kohlberg, the editor of atlantic magazine and kevin williamson. can you explain that story? ms. andrews: kevin williamson was a colleague of mine at national review and had been hired as one of the very few conservative writers. he was going to be a house writer contribute a regular column. four days after he took the job, he was fired. not for anything he had done a someone but because found an old audio recording where he had given his views on abortion, which he said is a form of murder and should carry the same punishment, which was mediaistorted in social into something about kevin williamson supports lynch justice for pregnant teenagers. the left-wing mob wanted him to be fired, and he was. brian: you call it a left-wing mob. didn't the same thing happened to the weekly standard where the bob did not like the fact that no crystals magazine was not pro trump, so all of a sudden there is no longer a magazine? ms. andrews: i think people who own things are allowed to do with them what they decide is best and i think that was an editorial adjust

great britain of being on the phone did for many years under successive governments and if if kevin williamson is going to bring more funding to charm for she will bring it on when you know we welcome now we know we have the best forces in the wild the brain on the founders as i've said by excessive government and let's hope is good to which way but i mean looking at the phone being a something in the range of about seven billion pounds in the black that was a black hole. i think machine more to do with governor williamson pushing to be the next leader of the tory party saying why see singling out you think china and russia. ali a rot in the seventies trying to be the sman the world still sman you know why are we getting involved with any of this we shouldn't be getting involved with china or russia or the other another threat to us as far as i can see the moments when we should be looking at building our armed forces bill now around we're building a the air force up on the navy as a defense force looking after our own country once we leave the european union but as we say within the brics the

why germany's foreign minister was enough underlined begin by greeting her british counterpart kevin williamson and emphasizing the strong partnership between their countries despite brics that there is no better place there is no better time to underline the friendship between our two countries germany and the u.k. they stand together shoulder by shoulder as all soldiers do every day in their missions the next williamson emphasized that the u.k. and the european union will continue to work closely in the area of security and nato. for while the united kingdom is leaving the european union i want to start by saying our commitments to european security remain steadfast. one immediate and uniting challenge is how to deal with russia because of new russian nuclear myside the us has withdrawn from the nuclear arms treaty i n f. worries that a new cold war might begin. in munich strictly guarded by a show horse hotel top politicians and experts are meeting to discuss how a second world war could be averted germany wants to do all it can to save the i.n.f. treaty foreign minister held talks with russ

soldiers funding aside this speech sounded somewhat detached from reality in other aspects as well kevin williamson spoke about bragg's it being a great moment in the you case history which is sound somewhat optimistic given the chaotic situation that the break process is in right now and it is. to seize the opportunities that brics it brings we will build new alliances rekindle old ones and most importantly make it clear that we are of the contrary that we act when required we should be the nation that people turn to when the world needs leadership he also spoke of britain being ready to intervene to protect the international rules based order which seem to completely close over the interventions that britain has taken part in that haven't quite gone to plan for example iraq afghanistan libya to name but a few. we spoke to chris nine from the stop the war coalition who says that the u.k. is aligning its military missions with america's well the deputy leader of the you can depend his party mike who can believe the reasoning behind the plan doesn't quite have the. what williamston is doing is posit

why germany's foreign minister was enough underlined begin by greeting her british counterpart kevin williamson and emphasizing the strong partnership between their countries despite brics that there is no better place there is no better time to underline the friendship between our two countries germany and the u.k. stand together shoulder by shoulder as our soldiers do every day in their missions the next williamson emphasized that the u.k. and the european union will continue to work closely in the area of security and nato. for while the united kingdom is leaving the european union i want to start by saying our commitments to european security remain steadfast. one immediate and uniting challenge is how to deal with russia because of new russian nuclear myside the us has withdrawn from the nuclear arms treaty i n f europe worries that a new cold war might begin. in munich strictly guarded by a show horse hotel top politicians and experts are meeting to discuss how a second cold war could be averted germany wants to do all it can to save the nuclear arms treaty i n f foreign minister held tal

have you with us germany's defense minister was enough on the line and her british counterpart kevin williamson have kicked off the munich security conference it's a three days of high stakes debate in closed door meetings the event is bringing together an unprecedented number of international decision makers including the largest u.s. delegation ever a multitude of international. organizations are also represented including the international monetary fund the world bank and. while the german defense minister as we said kicked things off emphasizing the importance of partners cooperation our correspondents with us here in mexico with us here in studio and simon young is over in munich let's listen first to what the defense minister german defense minister had to say about the importance of nato and cooperation. partnership makes it stronger and it increases our sovereign national because in our partnership interests are consistent with our values and well to assume. the world is zero sum game. and we see the opportunity for growing together and two minds prospering together in those partnership

distinct pleasure to inaugurate this year's conference with my colleague from the united kingdom kevin williamson there is no better place there is no better time to underline the friendship between our two countries germany and the u.k. stand together shoulder by shoulder as i was soldiers to have every day in their missions are typhoons and euro fighters are patrolling the baltic skies we need to win we have agreed to deepen our partnership even for them especially in the context of brags that we signed our joint vision statement in october in germany and i'm looking forward to our meeting in oxford at the end of the next month minded on one town. and gentlemen this if we had living in a time where we had no need to have apartments of apartments matter we are currently witnessing major changes in terms of technological progress climate change and just tribulation of wealth and prosperity and when it comes to the global balance of power. all these changes that we experience they do bear uncertainty but at the same time many opportunities all nations are currently striving to find partners to hel

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williamson and the nike sneaker fiasco. it's friday. "varney & company" is about to begin. stuart: intrigue at under armour. a bombshell report from the "wall street journal" says ceo kevin plank seeks advice from msnbc anchor stephanie ruehle, sometimes overstepping others in favor of her advice. ash and susan are with me. ash, first of all, should he be taking outside advise? ashley: he takes advice from a lot of people all the time. the fact he took this advice was clearly a mistake, both on the response to the mucking of the under armour steph curry basketball shoe and also her advice he should stay closer to president trump which in the end he had to distance himself from president trump. you know, this is a difficult one. should he be taking outside advice? he can take whatever advice he wants. stuart: overruling his own board members and executives in favor of an anchor? ashley: that's his prerogative. that's why he's ceo. susan: i have a problem when there's underperformance of the business and the shares. the stock has tanked in recent years, it hit a record high of $50, last year hit $15. when you make -- i think when you make corporate missteps on the advice o