Susan Rice

So that's just one example of how the polarization is a vulnerability.

Another example is looking at what Russia...

and China and others have done to interfere in our domestic political processes, our electoral processes.

They can get on social media, hiding as bots and foreign trolls, and put forth misinformation and disinformation that's designed to inflame our existing differences.

Any issue that

that might be a point of difference or friction, and turn Americans against each other and exacerbate those differences.

There's nothing that our adversaries want more than to weaken us from within.

And we're doing a hell of a job of making that easy for them.

Well, I mean, let's break it down.

I think you and I would both agree that there are differences and divisions within the Republican Party.

There's a sort of what's left of the traditional conservative element of the Republican Party that has long been strong on national defense and national security and clear-eyed about who our adversaries are and who our allies are.

That still exists, but it is shrinking and it's increasingly less vocal.

And we have to very clearly question their willingness to exercise their influence, to thwart what may be this president's inclinations that are destructive of NATO and destructive of our traditional alliances and our standing in the world so far.

they have taken a pass as Trump has dismantled every facet of our soft power, such as USAID, such as Voice of America.

And they have taken a pass as Trump has sold the, or allowed to be sold the most sophisticated AI chips to China when we ought to be trying to slow down China's artificial intelligence progress, which is quickly rivaling our own.

I mean, I could go on and on, but there are so many ways in which this president is taking actions that are antithetical to the national security interests of the United States.

And I'm sure that at least half of the Republican caucus in the Senate knows it.

And they've been very reluctant to criticize, much less thwart.

many of these steps.

Now, we have an interesting moment now as we're confronting Trump's threats to Greenland and worried to follow through on those threats.