walter russell mead, wall street journal a couple days ago. i highlighted it and cut it out. it's a pleasure to be with you. great to be back and hudson. thanks for asking me too be here. i know the director has to get out quickly as you can imagine his schedule is packed so if the audience could sit while he leaves quickly to get on to whatever he's doing next, i don't think he can tell us what he's doing next, but thank you again for coming. we really appreciate it. [applause] as he leaves, i just want to thank everybody in hudson. meeting together, it's a terrific opportunity and an honor for us and we hope the folks watching this in streaming enjoyed it and were sorry we couldn't take questions from the audience, but i did my best to channel what i hope are the questions on most people's mind. thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] earlier today deputy attorney general rod rosenstein announced that special counsel robert muller has indicted 12 russian intelligence officers in the 2016 hacking. he is overseeing the special counsel investig

walter russell mead, wall street journal a couple days ago. i highlighted it and cut it out. it's a pleasure to be with you. great to be back and hudson -- great to be back in hudson. thank you for asking me to be here. >> i know the director has to get out quickly as you can imagine his schedule is packed, so if the audience could sit while he leaves quickly to get onto whatever he's doing next -- i don't think you can tell us what he is doing next -- but, thank you again for coming. we really appreciate it. [applause] and, as he leaves, i just want to thank everybody in hudson. meeting together, it's a terrific opportunity and an honor for us, and i hope that the folks who are watching this in streaming enjoyed it. we are sorry we couldn't take questions from the audience, but i did my best to channel what i hope other questions on most minds. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible] >> tonight, it is my honor and privilege to announce that i will nominate judge brett kavanaugh the united states supreme court. >> mr. president, i am grateful to you. i am humbled by our c

please join me in welcoming ambassador gutierrez and walter russell mead. [applause] let me say one other housekeeping thing. you should have cards on your seats which you can jot down questions so we can do these quickly and smoothly to get in as many as possible. i know there are a lot of issues. someone will come along and collect them during the program and pass them to walter, who will be able to ask those questions at the end of the program. use the cards and we will get everybody in as much as we can. thank you. walter: thank you for the introduction and thank you, ambassador, for joining us. i should say the ambassador has some urgent business to do. when we finish the program, he will need to exit so he can get to the telephone. apparently this is a day where important calls are being made. geronimo, if i can call you that. amb. gutierrez fernandez: by all means. walter: this is a really interesting moment in mexican history and the history of u.s. mexican relations. from your perspective as a longtime participant in mexican politics and now as amb

. >> walter russell mead. "the wall street journal" a couple of days ago. anyway thank you. pleasure to be with you. >> great to be with you. and i know the director has to get out quick leap that is you can imagine his schedule is packed so the audience could set all the leads quickly to get onto whatever he is doing next. i don't think he will tell us what he is doing next and thank you again for coming. really appreciate it. [applause] as he leaves i want to thank everybody for coming. it's a terrific opportunity and i'm honored for us and hope that the veaux watching this were streaming enjoyed it. i did my best to channel what i hoped were the questions that are on most peoples minds here. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> tonight it is my honor and privilege to announce that i will nominate judge brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. >> mr. president i'm grateful to you and i'm humbled by your confidence in me. brett kavanaugh the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit. president trump dominate for t

as walter russell mead wrote in "american interest" last year,r, if he was really a russian mole, held be doing things like the following. limiting fracking as much as possible. blocking oil and gas pipelines. cutting u.s. military spending. and trying to tamp down pensions with russia's ally, iran. trump is doing none of that. so the selective indignation on the left is truly hilarious. they keep changing their story. for decades they favored a conciliatory stance, first toward the soviet union, and then toward the russian federation, and now they are ale pretending to care about russiaw and casting trump as a putin surrogate. but it's good to remember just a few years ago, how certain liberals reacted when then presidential candidate mitt romney suggested that russia was a foe. >> the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> in many of the areas where we are working to solve problems, russia has been an ally. >> governor romney's answer was incredibly revealing. he acts like he thinks the cold war is still on. ru