Bob Amsterdam

the Nigerians would welcome American assistance with open arms.

So this is unlike Ukraine, which is destroying its church, or Armenia, which is destroying its church.

Here you have a government that wants to protect its populace, doesn't have the resources.

Nobody's going to deny Nigeria's been racked by corruption all the years I've known it, but they want a new deal, a new relationship with Washington.

and in part to assist them in protecting Christians.

So when I read some of what I've been reading, you know, I'm never going to say that Ted Cruz isn't a brilliant man.

But I'm going to say I might have a little more time in Nigeria than he does.

And I would welcome him to speak to the foreign minister or others.

Because one thing America doesn't need are more enemies, right?

Africa is the future.

I have said it time and time again.

I'm privileged to be counsel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

We, you know, my firm has spent many years, we've just, we're still trying to defend the opposition leader of Tanzania, Tundu Lisu, who's been illegally jailed.

A thousand are dead protesting completely bogus, fraudulent elections.

And to the credit of the United States, at least in the Senate, they've spoken out.

Foreign Relations Committee has spoken out.

We need our administration and we certainly need the EU to stop funding this grotesque government in Tanzania.

But we have to stop looking at Africa as a security concern alone.

And we have to recognize that between their minerals and between the entrepreneurial spirit, Nigerian lawyers are as good or better than American lawyers or British lawyers.

I mean, there is an incredible infrastructure of intelligence in Nigeria that we don't know anything about.