the county's only have oneth ensure off the plan. so in other words, no choice. . . publish an article with the headline, main health insurance cop oive leaves new hampshire market reeling from markets. and the main based, will no

longer be operating in new hampshire, in the exchange over just the first two quarters of this year alone. this move will leave 11,581s individuals in the granite state looking for new held plans. political reports, that one arizona county is poised to become an o'bama care ghost-town because no one can afford to sell them. that leaves 9700 people, in all ob arizona, although, with the no anticipations. q.millions need relief. here's the action that's needed. they need immediate relief from the cost of health insurance and a lack of option's the exchanges. we should do that, by giving states more flexibility, to give

individuals and their families options to purchase lower cost private health plans outside ofn obamacare and we should do that now. i intend to offer this legislation that would provide that relief. that's only to deal with the emergency of next year, of 2017 second, we need big structural change, in order to avoid a near collapse of our nation's healtht insurance market. if there's a republican in the white house what we need for repeal it and replace with step-by-step rye forms that transform the healthcare system by putting patients in charges. and giving them more choices and reducing the cost of healthcare so more people can afford it. but if there's a democrat in the white house, broad structure changes will still be necessary.

democrats want to spend morehe taxpayer dollars to prop up and the changes, and expand the role of government in your decisions. in an article last month in the journal of the a.m. a, here's what president barak obama the quote, i think congress should revisit a public plan, to compete alongside privateer insurers, in areas of the country where competition is limited. the president's proposal means more money, and more governmenta republicans know and americans have seen over the last six years that more money and more government are not the solution. they are the problem. we saw the problem ahead of time. we warned about it. we exrit sized the poor regulations that made a bad law even worse and now, now we're

ready to take action. we're ready to do something about this emergency for 2017 and for the longer term. i yield the floor. >> coming up on c-span 2, director of national intelligence, james complap per, and president barak obama speaks to youth leaders in loss. and, later, may updates parliament on the g8 summit. james clapper spoke on the role of the community and about the briefings given to the candidates. his remarks came during a security conference. that is hour. >> good morning, i will tell its a little tough to hear

backstage. but i do hear hokie football. [laughter] >> let's go. all right. wewe have a few hokies in the crowd there. a big thank you to maureen and chuck. i'm delighted to be here and i'm so, please,ed to see the partnership continue to grow. it is thriving. each year this event gets better. and the summit offers a grate service to the intelligence community to our industry partners, the press and of course the public. forumes like this foster dialogue. so i really to want thank the members of the members of the pn afen dense, which is nearly 100. thank you for being here today.

down memory-lane i recall the buzz, the first year we were in the onlyny when i participated in first director's panel. the atmosphere was electric. it was looking out on a full-house, just like today. i think that was the moment that both organizations, realize we have a hit. there's a demand for dialogue like this and there's a demand, that, they are uniquely positioned to deliver. >> so, i think these next two days are a real testament to both organizations. and i want to say thank you to all of the members for your support and your attendance here today. let me also echo chuck and maureen's appreciation for

each of the summit sponsors. we want this to be a first-class experience, and that is not possible without all of our sponsors. >> so, thank you for your support and how about a round of aplus a. [applause] >> so again i'm excited to participate in this summit. and i get to be on the other side of things to moderate our first session a. conversation with our quarterback of the intelligence community, jim complap per. last month, marked 6 years since director clapper assumed the dn i. post. an unprecedented term, longer than all of his predecessors combined. i think he has become synonomous with the position.

>> they are honored to welcome him back to the summit stage. please join me in a very warm welcome, james r. clapper junior. [applause] >> for those that could not see there was a foot stool so she could see over the podium. maybe i should use it, too. one thing i want to do, is recognize old friend and colleague, who served, steve richie. and i imagine, steve, i don't know where you are. please stand. i just would like to recognize

your tremendous service. [applause] >> when i was president of sas a, in the 1990s, and i tried to promote a combined symposium, and could never pull it off. so, this event now marks the third year in a row for this joint summit. so i want to congratulate everyone who was involved in both organizations, and putting these things on. now they're becoming the custom. so, it proves over time things do change. but i think it's clearly an idea we can say it's an idea whose time has come and that you have made stick. this has also been for me a very

useful forum to convai messages and roll out initiatives. at the first summit two years ago i rolled out the national intelligence strategy, which included the principals, and, ethics. last year, rolled out the principles of intelligence, transparency. it's not a council and a number of transparency initiatives. so this year, i realize about the only thing we'll be rolling out the door, in the next four months is me. so i thought, i would talk to what seems to be on everyone's mind, which is the forthcoming transition of our administration, and the leadership. we'll know who the next

president will be and many of the faces and names will probably change. any presidential transition is a very surerrable time. during president barak obama's inauguration, i had the unique opportunity to experience this. so just like the state of the union, when everyone who is everyone, who's anyone is on the dc mall the administration fixes a designated cabinet official, stay in an undisclosed location away from washington, dc. so that in case something terrible happens that person could assume the duty he was president. during the 2009 inauguration that person was bob gates. not me. secretary of defense bob was the only hold over cabinet official

from president barak obama's administration. i was the under secretary of defense for intelligence. so i got to be the acting person for bob. so i spent the inauguration in a cave in maryland. an experience drove home the vulnerability that we experience, when the batten is passed, in this upcoming transition will happen at a difficult time. we're facing the most complex and divert global threats that i have seen in my 53 years. so we are living in a world of an unpredictable instability, two-thirds are at some risk.

>> africa, is enormous, over 11 million square miles, and just between 2010, and 2015, 52 elections were held. more than 1130 armed conflict events occurred and two key factors, which span political, economic, and he had nick sectors and result in clashes, between varying factions. and so that led to some interventions from the u.s., and other nation states as well, as multi-national organizations.

so, africa is just one region of the world where such turmoil is presence. they can point out the potential for failure or collapses. we can't anticipate the specifics for our policy makers, and this has been a constant for this administration. and it will be, i think for the next ones, too, no matter who the president s in the coming decades, unstability will be climate change. major population centers will compete for food and resources and governments will have a difficult time controlling their territories. so, because of all these factors. after they are gone we expect some other terrorist entity to arise.

and it will control us for the foreseeable future. >> by the way our russia and china and iran and korea will challenge us. technology will be disruptive. just think about the fact that uber is the biggest taxi company and they don't own any cars. b & b is the biggest and they don't own united states properties. arfirm infell gence. self-driving cars and 3d printing, have the potential to revolutionize our lives or vulnerabilities that are very hard to predict. i think it makes a lot of people nervous that with an election cycle that's been fortier than we're used to, we'll drop a new president with new national

security leaders, into this situation. 135 days but who is counting? i know a lot of people have been feeling uncertainty, about what will happen. aa lot of ka it is a from a filing, and, on social media. >> when you pass on, to whomever succeeds this administration, some insight into the magnitude,

complexity and the gravity of what it is to lead the u.s. government. our nation has a great legacy of orderdy transition of power, going back to george washington, retiring in 1797 when he turned it over to john adams. i remember it well. because of our mission, today's i.c. is, represents a pillar of stability. in contrast to the rapid technology, and instability of the world, and uncertainty, surrounding the world, one constant, is the people of the intelligence community. over the past few years our nation has held a public conversation about our work. and how we should conduct it as a intelligence community.

i believe a lot of what has been lost in the public debate about how we conduct intelligence is why we do it in the first place. why does any nation state conduct intelligence? >> i spent time and thought on that question, and i think we conduct intelligence, at its most basic level to reduce uncertainty for our decision makers, the president, or a warfighter, in an ovalue shaped foxhole. we can't eliminate uncertainty for any decision maker and we can provide insight and analysis to help and to make uncertainty manageable. so there are national security decision makers can make educated decisions with the understanding of the risk involved. so we, our friends and allies,

can operate on the facts of the situation. that's why we're briefing the candidates, for our next president. so he or she will step in, with a good understanding. i have thought a lot about the our work through historical lens. and maybe that's because i have lived through a lot of history. despite what i said before, i wasn't there when washington turned had presidency over to adams. i was deployed at the time. only kidding. so today, considering the president of public interest in what they are doing during this transition, which is unlike anything that we have seen before, i want to shed a little light on what we're doing. first off, to dispel a myth

we're not giving any product to the candidates. the tradition of giving them classified briefings precedes. in 1952 offered the first to general eisenhower and, the newly formed c.i.a. conducted them. truman felt an obligation to do that, in how his experienced fell on his first day in office when he succeeded president roosevelt. in fact, he had known of the existence of the manhattan project until twelve days after he was sworn in. he had been the vice-president. so he wanted the successor to be a little better prepared. based on the nomination to be president, that has carried over

since 1952. the c.i.a. handle them until 2008, when the national intelligence assumed the responsibility. there are only been three elections in which briefings were offered, from both major parties. 1952, 2008 and 2016. because those are the only years in which one wasn't already receiving it as the vice-president or incumbent president. one team produces the pd b. as we always do. and separate team produces the effort to brief the candidates. in fact, in our effort to try to make sure there's no political influence, the candidate briefing team does not coordinate with the white house and only career intelligence

officers, and not political appointees. we set ground rules months before the briefing started, which the white house concurred on. we have a list of topics that we offer to each candidate, they can ask for briefing on any and all and on new topics. if we give briefs on new topics, they both have a chance. otherwise doe don't tell the campaign or the public what happens. not what topics, or gets briefed on, or how they react and not what questions get asked. we take that confidentiality so seriously, that i am still sworn to secrecy when i briefed

roosevelt -- [laughter] >> but, people all around the world, want to know the candidates are thinking. that's why we have seen attempted cyber instructions, going back more than one election cycle. we have seen it, with the network intrusion against the democratic national party. the president said experts have attributed this to the russians. i won't get on the president on this. but, i can reiterate his other point, the russians hack our systems all our time. also core secret personal systems. and so do the chinese and others. the point is, cyber will continue to be a huge problem for the next presidential

administration as it has been a challenge for this one. back to the i.c.'s role. on the day after the election the briefing process changes, and the new president elect will receive his or her briefing and identical to that to which president barak obama receives and i'll send over ground rules about how we make all that happen. later, my office will provide support, for the next generation of i.c. leaders. this is built on the precedent set by true man. i'm really glad as a citizen that he made that generous decision to better prepare his successor. i talked about the uncertainty of our world, i believe, i know, it's crucial for our next

president to step into office, on january 20th, as informed and prepared as possible to face that uncertain world. president johnson said the president's hardest task is not to do what is right. but to know what is right. having worked closely, for our current president, that's still -- that statement still holds true. knowing what is right is the president's hardest task. the i.c. can't make that decision. we wouldn't want to. when it comes to national security it's our job to give him the intelligence he needs to decide what's right. >> i believe that until this time of change when we don't know today or who it will be, what our initial prior oities

will be i'm confident that our insights will help our national leaders manage this uncertainty. for a long time to come. so, let me wrapup with a story from about 54 years ago. in 1962, about a year before i started in the intel profession. i was an air force rotc k5d debt. when i met president kennedy.. the will family residence vacation. and, so they fell out, to greet him and somehow i was in the front row of the frontline and there were maybe dozens of us against the reason.

and, shook our hands and each of my fellow caked debts, his name, and told him which aircraft they wanted to fly in the air force and when he got to me, and he asked me what i wanted to do, and i told him i wanted to be an intelligence officer. and he paused, and looked add me, good we need more like you. and he continued down the rope line. he never gave that another thought. i, never forget it. that's the impact our work has. something i learned, as a 19-year-old or 20-year-old cadet. >> i never would have dreamed that i close my intelligence career, in the job which i brief the president. there's noah you could have told

me in 1962, that i would spend 6-plus years, briefing our first african-american president. that's something my parents would have been astowdgedded by. i look back over my half century and and see the evolution of the i.c. we are better, much, much better than when we were 53 years ago when i first took my out of office. we're better, more capable than we were 15 years ago on september 11, 2001, and better than 6 years ago when biden swore me in as the dni and i will leave it for others to grade my term paper. the reason we keep getting better is because of the people. people in this room.

the people in the i.c. their instinct to serve. the nation continues to be a rock bed constant. just as it was when i started, yes, the world changes, the threats evolve. and the technology mushrooms. our people will be a steady constant. as it will be through this transition. i could not be proud tore serve in this great community. that's something that you will keep hearing for me for another 15 days. but who is counting? thanks sprer much. [applause] >> frisk job. >> i always learn something new

we are he talks. when he heard the comment billion getting continuing education credits for this session. he said i better say something. what i learned, was a new word, that i never heard before, and that's ka it is a to filing. >> i am heartened, that you said everything will be okay. and you ended with talking about the people. so, let's start with that. 54 years later, if you were starting in the intelligence community today, what would you tell yourself now or what would you tell someone? >> well, i don't know what i would tell myself. but, i would tell people, contemplating, young people,

coming to the intelligence community, that it's a noble profession. i think. you are helping to discharge a sacred public trust. there's always a new challenge everyday. just work hard and think about one assignment ahead of the one you're in. >> good advice. i think you gave that to me about 20-some years ago. what's on the top of your list to tell the next dni? >> depends on who it is. i think, probably, at least do no harm. always good idea to assess, survey and assess how things are operating today, and then, give

some thought to the whatever changes, that the next dni may to want make, which are inevitable. hopefully, he or she will build on the legacy of what we leave just as we built on the legasift first 3-d n. is. so, i would also of course, the dni will be governed by and guided by the, whatever direction he or she gets from the next president. so that will clearly determine change. also have to remember that the congress gets a vote in any change. no matter how inconsequence sham that one macon template. >> so, speaking about the next president, let's assume you have

the opportunity to meet with the incoming president, not farfetched i would hope that would happen. what will you fell the next president on the qualities that she or he should look for in the next dni? >> well, i hope above all, it is somebody who is willing to tell truth, to be objective and to tell straight. i think that's a rock bed principal. many that's what the intelligence community is all about. >> let's shift gears. you talked about technology, and it has mushroomed. from a technology standpoint, and integration standpoint,

across the intelligence community, what's your 62nd elevator speech on eyesight. >> it's designed to take us to the next level of both integration, sharing and security. >> are we past the tipping-point? >> is it enduring, into the next administration. >> i think so. and the reason i say that is because, we have that, from the leadership, they always get the -- >> any change is human nature. but, i believe it's one of the reasons, we stuck around as long as we have, so it will be too difficult to turn off.

the major reason, though is, not because something we've been driving, as much as people are really starting to see the virtues of what is entailed with eyesight. it's not about an i.t. upgrade but changing the way we conduct our business. people are seeing the virtue of that. and that's people voting with their feet is what is really going to do it for the future. >> so, recognizing this as an unclassified forum, is there anything that you can share, where eyesight as has had an impact on the out come. >> i'll say, what we're seeing, one of the benefits of it, is, discovery. by an analyst who even, if he or

she didn't have access to particular data, the design of eyesight it will facilitate discovery that other data is available. we've seen examples of that, and highlight, of business. that is one of the great virtues of eyesight. >> continuing with technology, we are very dependent upon technology for our trade craft to do our business. do you see, as more and more technology comes in, you mentioned, arfirm intelligence. do you see a point where there will be a decrease in human intelligence collection? >> i don't think we'll ever see

a lessening of the need for human intelligence. at least not, the foreseeable future. we're always going to need that. and of course, artificial intelligence, is controversial. there are big thinkers who are very concerned about its govern nantz. and it's regulation. it is another tool for us and we'll have to adjust both in terms of others who employ artificial intelligence as well, as our using it ourselves in our work. >> we're getting a lot of good questions from the audience. thank you.

another question. you talked about the uncertainty of the world, and diversity of threats. a lot has been said over the last 3, 4, 5 years, that terrorism really dominates the resources and the efforts of the intelligence community. do we have the balance right? are we covering down on everything that we should be? the current and the more strategic. >> well that's a very good question. it's one that i have, we -- leadership is agonized over t.

we do spend a great deal of resources, both money and manpower, for the program on ct. and, that concerns me. in fact we expeu a lot of our resource on it. both money and manpower. you always worry about is the balance right? have we continued to sustain what is expected of us, which is global coverage? i do worry about the proportion, and the skewing towards the top targets. it's the non top targets that

have a habit of biting you. that is topic that we will discuss for the transition team for the next administration. >> there was a related question, let me give you the kudos, good job on the global trends, and i know that there are a lot of folks who are looking forward to the 2030 which will be released in the next couple of months. >> yeah. one of the great merits was global, it's unclass guyed and the written product is the process, that we use, to comfive. it's a lot of dialogue. a lot of outreach with not the usual suspects.

we reach out to the academics, and, foreign countries anding in a lot of people that we wouldn't normally do. so that's one of the great strentsds of this publication. impacts of -- how are we positioned to deal with impacts of such changes as climate and technology. >> i do think climate change is going to be an under pinning for a lot of national security issues. the effect on climate which drives so many things.

basics like water and food. they are going to become matters of conflict between them. so this is going to give rise to the national security insight that we'll need, to understand this, and hopefully, help anticipate t. so i think climate change is going to have a well that of an effect. i think many would agree. let's shift gears. you spoke about a revolution favor space architecture that included, fast processing, and persistence. that was something i talked about when i was director. how important is autonomy to developing this approach?

the automated tipping and cueing. >> yeah. untouched by human hands. >> we're getting there. there's some great work going on, on tipping and cueing. when we reach the point where we have persistence, in both domains, i think the, to me it's almost a no-brainer to do as much of this on an auat that time automatic and get humans out of it. the classic pattern, is, i want my picture tomorrow, and file don't get it, because, try it again. >> the real, here's my problem.

now, the view in the intelligence community, with an arc ka tech sure, will be a lot more responsesive, and agile, and it's bringing the customers along. so, this administration has been focused on space resilient, and have overhead capabilities. do you think that will transition into the next administration? well, i hope so, it would be, in the face of the evidence, what the russians and the chinese have embarked on. a very aggressive space

capabilityies that, if we're going to continue to operate in that domain, which i think we must, the investments that we have gun, and laid out or -- over the future will need to be sustained. it's hard to mj that any administration wouldn't seat merit of sustaining t. >> i think many would agree. particularly with our need. one of our tracks is about acquisition management, and, reform. how do you think we're doing in the intelligence community, if you had to give us a score? are there rules and regulations and policy that's hamper our

ablefy to procure the services and things that we need? >> well, i think we're doing pretty well, we have something on the order of 27 major systems, and programs, across the i.c. 17 in a row. and, for the most part, they're in the green. they're meeting cost performance and goals. there are certain exceptions to that. but that's been my experience in the six years that i have had this job. the congress requires very rigorous oversight by both o. difficult, and, d od. so, they get a lot of governnance.

and i think we do pretty well. unless the laws that govern this activity, it's hard to sea how we could streamline it much more than we already are. i think we do pretty well. i think, one of the things that i'm proud of, is the fact that we have sustained our percentage of about 5% in the national intelligence program for research and technology, even with the pressure of, what you always have on the now and urgent as opposed to investing in the important. i think we've, we have done a good job of that, given all the pressures of program management these days.

it is good but tu could be better. >> we had stresses, and again we've had our issues with the private sector. and hopefully we'll get over that and get past that, a key issue is encryption. and the impact that has on both law enforcement and national curety. and i'm hopeful that soldialogue will take place that we can, as we always seem to, find a balance.

>> how would you respond to the criticism of some that the intelligence community is giftive over classification. >> we're guilty. >> what are you doing to work on that? i put out a charge to the agency heads, to it involves four areas of pursuit. we're starting to get them in.

>> we want to be more france parent. and there's proposals going around, why don't we just not bother with of the exal, for simplify the system. we have embark owed a extensive de classification of historical documents. i participated, with john brennan, and again last month, for the johnson library, and nixon library, on the roll out of the de classified daily briefs. we're doing a lot more of this than we ever have in the past, in terms of de classifying as much as we k. but there's more work to be done here. another point, there will need to be, i believe, a fairly

fundamental change in the system, not just in the i.c. but across the government. basic structure is born out of hard copy paper era and the rules aren't -- are not compatible with the technology and the way we conduct our business. at some point, i think there will have to be a change, working, what i can, within the confines the surrent system. >> so that will be one of the things on your list of items. recognizing we have a cyber track, in our breakout sessions, and, yes, we'll have admiral

rogers here tomorrow, can you talk a little bit about what the community is doing, in the cyber arena? do we have enough in place to know and track cyber threat, the actors intenses, and always a hard thing to do? >> it is. do we have enough? well, the stock answer is always no. never met a collection cape bimentdty, didn't like. so yes, we can use more. intelligence support to cyber which cuts across all the i.c. components. i think our, we do well, in assessing the threat.

i think we're, more work needs to be done is in sharing with the private sector, and in more per vaisive sharing of threat data, with private sector companies, and private individuals. that's a work-in-progress. speaking of threats do you see isis as a enduring threat? >> well, isis, will be suppressed. but i think, for sometime to come it will have more extremists, organizations, which will be spawned and which we'll have to contend with. we're going to be in a state of is suppression for time to come. >> let's shift gears as we are closing here.

war three things you will tell your successor as far as priorities for the intelligence community? >> i think the -- i think frame it around the what is outlined, in the prevention act which lay us out, what the dni is supposed to do. will primary and not the excompleusive. but the primary advis soar to intelligence and security matters. manage the national intelligence program. and there's a whole set of props i will share with the next dni on that, on its management.

and, of course, try to lead the enterprise. so i would probably have, is how i'll frame the discussion. >> so 54 years, anything that still surprises you? >> not really. [laughter] >> i mean, there's -- sometimes people surprise me. that's, makes it interesting. i really can't think of things that surprise me necessarily. disstress me, concern me. but, no. >> okay.

what are you going to finish that you really wanted to as you came into the job six years ago? >> what was the question again? >> what's being left undone? >> lots of things are undone because, these jobs are, you know, you're a temporary steward of the public trust. you build on the legacy of what you inherited. and, you will pass on things to the next whoever takes over for me. all these things are journeys, it's not like, gee i'm all done with that, close the business friday. so there are any number of things that will continue to draw the attention of the dni that will need to be worked.

you know, the mantra has been which i think was the original intent of the 9/11 commission, was integration. hopefully get to the point where maybe we won't have to talk about it, it will be the default for the community. but these things are always you know, are perpetual. and, you gauge i think most people, i will, is it a little better when i started? i would like to think it is and hopefully, my successor will build on that. >> so you just said the integration word again. one of the questions here, is the structure of the intelligence community open toe mulch? >> well that's a hard thing.

we, americans are great, if we have some ill, some problem, let's reorganize. that will make it better. well, the older i have gotten, the lessen amorred i am of reorganize na sayingses. we have noticed. >> i think you better serve to make whatever organizational structure you have which is always going to be imperfect. new wiring diagrams make people on the top gloofer happy but too often, i have seen that people fail to recognize the second and third order effects. that you always have to adjust to. two of our agencies, are going

truth throws of some substantial reorganize na sayingses. and my advice to the groups that were studying them was that i just recountedded my experience, and i had down three agency level reorganizations. one at gn a, and worked pretty well. and, and then i two in the early 90s, and the second one was intended to undo the bad effects of the first one.

>> to talk about information sharing. >> it has many dimensions. i think today is unprecedented of the degree to which we are sharing with foreign partners particularly the obvious reason for that is the perception of the threat as a galvanizing

impact. i said before i would have both feet in a system where it happens and just perhaps extend dual citizenship on each other's intelligence footprint because my experience has been that we have chipped away at that and we are doing more operations which is a good thing. >> it so happens today i am meeting with the organizations and government agencies and

departments that are not formally part of the but do have equities. this is where they come into play in fostering greater sharing of the state, local, tribal, private-sector level. we've done a lot. the instrumentalities i use for that to promote that nationally are the dni reps that we have that are 12 of the fbi special agents in charge of the assistant director in charge. i think that there is more to

do. >> what will you do on the first day that you leave this position? >> sleep. >> i think she might have some other ideas. about two days at the gym 15 pounds. >> i will tell you almost every question in here had that at the bottom after the question it was thank you for your service. you have agreed to stay on through this entire administration and forward to your advice into successor and we look forward to having you

back in your capacity. [applause]

>> inet doi met donald and immey recognized he's selling you tickets to the show the amazing two headed woman. then because he was the dominant force i started asking about him and his competitors and people who work for him and some vague gamblers said i don't know anything about the casino business. president obama took part in a town hall meeting wednesday.

this is an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] it is such a pleasure to be here. please give a big round of applause for that introduction. [applause] it's wonderful to be here. i've always wanted to visit. it is said that this is where the buddhist smiled when he rested his travels and i can see why because it is beautiful and relaxed. i've just come from seeing.

the entire area is spectacular and i want to thank everyone for hosting me here today and i want to thank the people of laos. i've been touched by the hospitality that you've shown. this is my eighth visit to asia but my first to laos and i'm the first united states president to come here and with the kindness that you have shown me i'm sure that i will not be the last. others will want to come as well. and i promise i will come back when i am no longer president. [applause] and the good thing about wanting to come back, i won't have so much security. i can sit and relax and have

some food and i won't be so busy. i spend a lot of time doing business with world leaders and a need with the presidents of egg companies but i try to come and spending time with young people like you. i'm not going to do a long speech today. i want to have a conversation with you. she married a man whose parents are from malaysia and my mother worked in southeast asia.

as i drive around its familiar to me. he's met with the leaders and it's why when working together to promote peace and protect human rights, encourage sustainable development and advance the quality of women and girls and to meet challenges like climate change and other environmental issues. while presidents and prime ministers can help lay the foundation it's going to be people like you that build the future of the region and the world. here almost two thirds of you were born after 1980 which makes me feel very old. half of you were born after 1995, and to jakarta to ho chi

minh city to kuala lumpur everywhere i go i see the energy and the optimism. i've seen your interests in promoting social harmony. regardless what they look like or what religion they belong to a. you have more power to shape the future than any other generation we've known. three years ago we launched the

leaders initiative and what began as a small group of young people in the network of 100,000 from all ten countries. we had half a million young people like you and our young leaders initiative worldwide. to become the next generation of leaders and civil societies and business and government. we have regional exchanges, online networking, hands-on training, grant competitions to support the efforts in. the state and local governments and to spend time at the companies indicted even hosted some of you at the white house.

to hear from each other how you can share ideas and practices and hopefully forge partnerships and friendships that will last you a lifetime so i've been proud to see how you've made such a success. some of you started a project to teach summer school and help the farmers markets grow. some of you have worked to increase the civic engagement. to make sure that no country is left behind in today's economy and i know closing the development gap and innovation and impactful ways is what you are focused on at this summit. protecting the environment for future generations.

that'll be the third anniversary of. this is the change happening on a global scale. young people are taking over and i want to help them sustain itself. so we have a few announcements to make that focus on what you are here to talk about in the region. first a time when it's in a network world it's very important that young people have english-language training and that's why today we are launching english for all. there's a program that we will bring more to the country including laos and bring more educators for training and we are going to offer opportunities and resources to help anybody

learn english on a new website called english for all dot state .gov. second is to make sure every girl has a quality education. education. into many countries now, women and girls are not getting the same educational opportunities as men and boys. not only do they grow up healthier but the children will grow up healthy also a. coming to two more countries today we are announcing the new aussie on women's leadership

academy and each year the program will offer leadership training and mentoring for the emerging leaders from all ten countries and because we partnered with several multinational companies, the sponsor of the academy we are going to be able to empower women to take their place in society for decades to come so we are very excited about that. [applause] the stories have inspired me and will inspire you as well. the first is mimi. [applause]

she met some native american tribes and in their experience it reminded her of her own people so she decided to show a people that ladies are doing the same thing as them so they founded the center to promote and preserve the history of her people and it was made by the league of women which helps them earn a living and make sure the culture moves on through the generations and -- [applause]

the nice cowboy hat. [applause] after her experience in america she said when i came back i realized i loved the united states not because of the stuff but because of the people and the kindness so i want you to know the american people feel the same way about you. at first she wanted to learn a new language. it was a great way to empower people with a disability.

the café was to provide job opportunities for the community and i've been told great things that because my receptionist as you know in the white house a wonderful young woman named malia visited earlier this year. she is the receptionist at the white house comes up if she is the first person you meet, she signs and wants me to call you how proud she is of you. congratulations. [applause] i'm inspired by what she's doing because on the final trip as

president i want to make sure all of you. i want to finish with an inspiring story i heard last year. i welcomed them to the white house and i hope you don't mind me sharing. i wasn't sure she was here but i'm going to cover story anyway. so spend time in our city in atlanta and visited the memorial and center offering one of my heroes doctor martin luther king jr. and said she was struck by the great civil rights leader.

leadership is inside you. everyone can be a leader because everyone can serve. you don't have to have a college degree, you don't need to know more than others. all you need is a heart and soul generated by life and that is what i see in all of you and as long as i think you keep trying to answer that question doctor king asked, what are you doing for others, then i'm sure you will be leaders in your own country and have a frien as a fd partner in the united states. so thank you everybody and with that let's take some questions and comments. [applause] i'm going to do, i think we have microphones in the audience and i will call on people. i'm going to call on boys and girls and back and forth so that

it's fair. when i call on you, if you could introduce yourself and tell us where you're from and what you're doing. okay. i am here m by name asc and i'm from indonesia. we asked the youth can develop interchange and also how you sure it. >> do you think how important is your role in developing the country development and as a father.

>> i think historically it has been the key to progress and development because if you think about it, old people like me. younger people are looking to the future and they are able to say we don't have to do things the old way we can do things in new ways. there is more of a rejecting the old habits. think about the u.s. relationship with laos.

for nine years there is a secret war in which the united states was dropping bombs on this country. and this morning i came and if you are an old person that maybe your image of the united states if you're a young person now you think we have the opportunity to work with the united states in a different way and that creates new opportunities and hope and relationships, so i think the challenge for young people is to find the skills and the

resources to put your ideas into action because it's not enough just to dream about i want to educate everybody in my country or i want to build a great new business. you have to actually do the work and health plans and it's hard. so part of what we are trying to do is provide resources to young people but also help them learn from each other so that maybe there is a program we just learned. she saw a program in nicaragua and now maybe somebody in africa visits southeast asia and they have a new idea about sustainable either culture. part of wha what we want to do s make sure people aren't exchanging ideas over time, and that's very valuable.

i said i was going to call on a gentle man first. this young man was in uniform, very fancy so you have to find out -- [applause] >> good afternoon. i'm from thailand and my question is in the next ten years what do you expect people to think about the usa and why? >> my hope is that the next president will continue my policy of meeting with leaders. we are working on how can we help develop healthcare networks so that people are getting better healthcare but also so be identified if there is a disease

and we can stop it before it starts spreading to disaster relief so that if there is a typhoon there's local capacity to respond quickly to economic development and education. some of these programs don't take some years before they are approved. my hope is that in ten years people will look back and say that the engagement that we begin without them now has developed so that we have a very mature and deep relationship in all areas. i believe that the united states is and can be a great force for good in the world. but because we are such a big country, we didn't always know about other parts of the world. if you are in laos, you need to

know about thailand and china and cambodia because you are a small country and they are right next door. you need to know who they are. if you are the united states sometimes you can feel lazy and think. that's part of what i'm trying to change because this is the region that's going to grow faster than any place in the world. as the youngest population and the economy is growing faster than any place. if we are here interacting and learning from you and understanding the culture of the region then we will be left behind. we will miss an opportunity and i don't want that to happen. [applause]

i would like to ask how will you ensure [inaudible] continues after you step down plaques to disconnect to things we are going to do, we are working with the state department. it will continue after i've left the program to bring certain members to the united states to maintain the networks. we are trying to institutionalize that so that it continues after i'm gone. but i'm also going to do is in my own work as an ex- president

i hope to continue to work with young people and one of the components that i discussed with my team is how i can continue to interact with the alumni. we can share ideas and i can continue to meet with you and we can work on projects together. i will continue to stay involved, but the program itself we will continue to run through the state department, and i'm confident that it will continue to do great things. [applause] since we are in laos, let me finleftbehind a young man. >> here we go. right here.

hello mr. president. thank you for visiting us. i want to ask you if only one thing can be given, what do you want to see and how do you contribute to that? >> it's a good question. [applause] i think if there is one thing we've learned is that the most important thing for any country is its people. if there's one thing i can help to bring about, it would be improving educational standards for young people throughout la laos. and as i said before, making

sure that includes girls and not just boys because if you look at the countries that are successful, let's just take a coffee -- as an example the country that has the highest standard of living in singapore. singapore actually has very little, it doesn't have natural resources it has ports for the tiny country. and yet economically it is very successful. why is that? part of it is because it's educational levels are extremely high. and as a result, companies from around the world are interested in locating places they can find a workforce that is creative and smart and can do the job.

so it's wonderful if you have natural resources. it's wonderful that you are a big country with a large population. but ultimately, how successful a country is will depend on whether its people have the skills and education and division to be able to use the resources effectively. we are going to continue to work with all the countries so that we can constantly promotes [inaudible] [inaudible] technical training, training in a trade, that can be valuable as well. and this is for the united states as well. in the united states, we have some of the best universities in

the world, but one of the things i've been emphasizing we also have what is called community colleges. they are not four-year universities, they are typically two-year degrees and you can be very successful going there and finding a specialized trade or learning a very specific skill that companies are hiring for. we want to give young people a range of options. not everybody wants to study in a classroom and become a lawyer or dr.. but it's also very valuable if you have somebody that is a really skilled electrician. it's true the people that are designing software for the iphone are the best engineers but there are jobs in computer science is where you don't need

a four year degree. coding isn't that complicated once you learn how to do it. so we want to make sure that at every level young people have the ability to access a great education. and if we are able to do that, then i'm confident that we will be successful. [applause] go-ahead. >> okay. hello. i am from indonesia asking a question on behalf of the online audience. so this question is for my friend from indonesia also and asks about america is a big country with different tribes and religion and race. how do you unite them side-by-side in accordance [inaudible] >> that is a great question.

thank you very much. you're exactly right that the united states historically unless you are a native american like those that met in montana, you came from someplace else. those of you to visit the united states if you walked on the streets in los angeles or new york, you don't know what an american looks like because americans could be anything. they can be any color, any religion with a heritage from countries all around the world, and that's our greatest strength because one of the things i strongly believe is when people from different cultures intera

interact, then you're always learning something because people bring new ideas and traditions and that's why in our big cities in america you can get good food from everywhere and then sometimes people come up with new food that's a mix of different foods. the same with music. if you think about rock 'n roll or hip-hop or any -- or jazz, any american music is a blend of all these different traditions and that's part of what makes us unique. we all saw the olympic and not to brag but the united states did very well. part of this is because we are a big country and a wealthy country, so we can provide training and opportunities for our athletes. if you look at our athletes, there are two things that stand out. first of all, half, more than

half of the medals we one were from women. so we passed a law a long time ago that said if you give sports opportunities to voice to the cowboys used to give them to girls its title number nine. and we developed an excellent program for the women's athletics. the second thing is because we have people that came from everywhere, we have people of all different types for every sport, so we have really tall people that play basketball or swim, we have little people for gymnastics. [laughter] we have genetically for whatever sport, we have people who fit the sport. and that's a good metaphor for why i think we've been very successful. now, the challenge we have

because we are a people from so many different places is that sometimes we've had to deal with racism or conflict between racist ethnic groups, new immigrants, and that especially becomes a problem when the economy isn't doing well and people feel stressed. typically when people feel stress, they turn on others who don't look like them. that's true everywhere in the world. when things are going good, everyone is okay and is suddenly when things are harder, people start saying this is the fault of the chinese were the faul orf the jews or the fault of whatever.

so, one of the things we try to do is make sure that we are continually reminding ourselves that what makes an american isn't your race or skin color, but what makes an american is a set of beliefs, the belief that all men are created equal, the belief that our constitution is the law of the land and everybody has to follow it and everybody is equal so that if you are a president or you are a janitor, in the court of law you should be treated the same. we try to promote the notion that the state cannot choose sides in a religion. we have a very religious country

but part of the reason america is religious is because we don't want the state establish one religion, so everybody is free to choose the religion they practice. and so, these ideas, these principles are the things that need to be constantly strengthened and reinforced, and i think automatically that's where we need to go as a human race. this is why sometimes we talk about issues like human rights or freedom of the press for freedom oorfreedom of speech ane honest everywhere we go including here sometimes people say why you are the americans talking about these issues. it's none of their business. they shouldn't be meddling in other people's business. and also america isn't perfect. there's still racial

discrimination and its own problems. it should worry about its own problems, and i agree with that in the sense that we definitely do have problems we have to work on. we still have discrimination and situations where women are not treated equally. i think that over the long term, the only way that humans are going to be able to work together and interact and prospered and deal with the problems is if we are able to see what we have in common with each other and treat everybody with dignity and respect. and that means we have to have some principles that are not just based on our nationality. they are not just based on our tribe or religion or ethnicity.

otherwise at some point we will not be able to get along. we will have the war and conflict because that is a big human history. this is why we talk about these issues when we travel to other countries as well. it's not because we think we are better than other people. it's because we have learned from our own experiences that if you don't respect all people, or you don't respect all religions and also make sure no matter how religious you are you respect other people that have a different idea, we have learned that if that doesn't happen, we have conflict. and if you look at what's happening now in the middle east for example, that's not a

problem in the middle east isn't primarily a problem of the west versus islam. the problem increasingly is thinking that the sudanese are following the wrong path and vice versa and if you are an alibi to or christian or then you are worried about what the sunni muslims are going to do and in a place like rwanda in a matter of just a few months you saw a country killed, hundreds of thousands of people just because of those differences and that's been true in all parts of the world. so we have to fight against that and that means we have to be able to promote principles that rise above any individual

religion, nationality, race. not only successfully. not everybody in america agrees with me on this by the way. i will leave it at that. okay. what country hasn't been -- [inaudible] first of all it is a boy is turned -- boy's turn. here we go. [applause] good afternoon, mr. president.

i'm from myanmar. almost three years now and my question is [inaudible] and how does that affect your administration in action? >> what is the best impact of what? [inaudible] and how does that affect your administration. >> i don't think i can choose the best project because there've been so many good ones. i know that at the last town hall that we had, where were we? it was in ho chi minh city and before that, kuala lumpur. i'm going to point out there was

a woman who had grown up in a small village and she had somehow traveled. her family couldn't afford to get her in education and she became a migrant and traveled on her own when she was very young and because she was so driven somehow she learned english and became part of this international ngo and she had become a conservationist and traveled to the united states, learned about conservation disses and then was coming back to the communities here to help preserve the environment and to teach sustainable agriculture.

i remember just listening to her story. you asked how this is affecting me. and she was about this big. she looked very young. and i thought if a young woman who wasn't born to wealth or a famous family, she wasn't famously connected. if she could suddenly make such an impact, then that means that anybody can make an impact. and that's what inspired me as a president, the because it's not so much that her project was any better than the projects you're working on, it's just part of the point that in each of us, in each oand each of you, there isa potential to change the world. and you don't know exactly who

is here that's going to make some world changing business or organization or environmental idea. but if we empower anybody, we will benefit from the talents of those people. this is true whether you are talking about not-for-profit work with business. i just came from china from the hometown of the gentleman some of you may know. he's the founder of ali baba. so he's very wealthy now. but if you listen to jack's

story, he basically started off as somebody who couldn't get into the top universities, taught himself english because he was interested in getting to america somehow. came back, started a business that he thought nobody would actually be successful. he couldn't get funding for it but he had this idea that the internet and computers were important and now has created the biggest platform in asia for selling goods. if you look at him when he was 20-years-old, when he was your age, nobody would have predicted that he would be one of the most successful businessmen on earth. just like if you met mark

zuckerburg of facebook wouldn't have predicted he would be the most successful in business history. it's also true in politics and government. all of you have enormous potential but you have to have very specific plans and you have to work really hard and pursue those plans with determination and dedication and if what you're trying isn't working then you have to try something different and not get discouraged because very few people are successful right away. even the most successful people typically have some failures they have to learn from and not get discouraged. what other countries are their? philippines, yes the

>> were noted as the only american president who was able to protect such a large area of land and sea. how were you able to justify and reconcile the idealistic concept of economic sustainability and development without exploiting the environment? thank you very much. thi >> that is a good question because you are so populated, there's so many people here and it's growing so fast, such a young population, but you have to ask some very tough questions particularly because what we now know is that the model of development that we saw in the west using fossil fuels are not going to be sustainable. we are not going to be able to develop laos the same way as the

united states. we will have to have a different model because of all of the countries and china and india, all we are using is much wailing and gas and coal as the west when it was developing we are all going to be underwater. the environment will not survive. so, what we have to do is first of all, leapfrog over the old models. and what they mean by that is to come up with more efficient ways of doing the same thing. a good example of that although this isn't in the energy space, but it will describe what they mean if you travel through asia or africa, everybody's got a

phone. but in the west, we had to weigh all of these wines can always undergroun, alwaysunderground ce line telephone poles. that's how we communicate. now, it would make no sense to rebuild all those cables. now you just have a cell phone tower because we have new technology. what's true in communications is also true in energy. part of what you're going to have to do is develop solar power and wind power and hydropower. we have to come up with more efficient cars, more efficient appliances and this is part of what the paris agreement was all about was having each country come up with its own plans for reducing its carbon footprint

without holding the countries back from their brevity to develop and insisting the wealthy countries develop to poor countries so they can develop faster by using new technologies rather than the old ones. but i think that every country has to recognize that there is no contradiction between conservation and development if you have a good plan. the problem is that often times in order to have good planning, you have to have a government that has skills in identifying if we put a factory here, what's this going to do to the river?

if we are going to see an expansion of population, are we going to build a mass transit system so that people can travel without everybody using their own car. that requires a level of planning and participation and listening to the community. when we were in vietnam, the biggest stories was a factory. there was some sort of manufacturing company that whatever they were doing to the water it appeared as if it was killing all the fish. there were these days that thousands of fish were floating up to the surface and so there were a lot of people still depending on fish for their livelihoods. so that's not a good model over the long-term.

so, when the factory put in its application the government may have thought to itself this is great for development but if it's creating jobs for the people in the factory and destroying jobs for the people who fish, then the total sum of the development is lower than it could be and if they planned ahead of time than they could have built the factory that maybe had a filter, it might have cost a little bit more but it also would havalso would havr was maintained and supported thing for young peoplsomething e you whether you are in government or ngo, you're going to have to learn the best practices so that you can still grow but you do so in a way that can be sustained over a long period of time. the united states is still learning to do this and we've been at this a long time.

we used to have terrible pollution everywhere and we ultimately passed laws like the clean air and clean water act and what we discovered is when you set rules to preserve the environment that companies build trust and they will find new and innovative ways to make the same products and same amount of money but in a way that is good for the environment. so usually if you see the environment destroyed, it's not because it's necessary for development, it's usually because they are being lazy and not as creative as we could be about how to do it in a smarter sustainable way. [applause] any other countries we haven't caught on yet?

okay. vietnam? okay. right here. [applause] i'm from vietnam and i'd like to ask about tdp. [inaudible] it includes four countries, singapore, malaysia and vietnam. that's a far the government has sent out a faded so do we believe that it could be ratified otherwise what should have been? >> it will be ratified because it's the right thing to do. we are in a political season now

and it's difficult to get things done. congress isn't doing much right now. they are all going home and talking to their constituents trying to get reelected. ..

>> >> and everybody will be pour if we don't do that. so right now around the world that in some ways it is understandable because and indians countries in the wealthier countries they feel as if the old manufacturing jobs have gone to china and places with cheaper labor will were environmental standards. so even the lead the united states is still very wealthy there are places where they can go someplace else and that happens over the course of last 30 years. to know the trade wasn't good for them.

i have to explain first of all if we do nothing we will not bring those jobs back then we enter into agreements with countries like vietnam we can create new businesses and have newscasters and yes vietnam may sell shoes and shirts but we are selling software and jet engines said both countries can grow together. one of the problems we have seen is that the profits of trade have gone to the wealthy people who accompanies but not to the

workers. we have asked entries of vietnam that want to be a part of it to start raising their standards for their workers because they have more above voice of their wages. so of standards rise then they're not competing with the u.s. worker just for who can pay workers the of the east or put them in the most unsafe conditions but instead flu is working with the product that is the competition we all benefit from.

i believe we will get it done but it will always be hard. nothing is easy. nothing in the u.s. congress right now. maybe it could be worse by haven't seen a. class question? after saying so many nice things the finest the dinner i will be in trouble. i cannot hear everybody. malaysia and cambodia. that is a lot of countries.

[applause] thank you for the opportunities. and also to your wife and with the healthy kids initiative that has changed nutrition world wide. so what about the future of global health? the. >> first of all my wife will continue right thing to work on this initiative. but she will probably be more and involved internationally than she has spent now that our girls are getting older she can travel more a used to me she did

not like to go to far away for too long because she wanted to make sure the girls were doing their homework. and now that they are grown i think she will work on these issues even more. in terms of global health i think there are different stages on. and in developing countries there are things we know how to do we just have to do the embargo -- them. with clean drinking water or sanitation systems that may not be ideal or care in clinics that don't require technology, to prevent malaria, but there is a lot

of low hanging fruit that can save so many lies. because we still have infant mortality of those dying of childbirth but so that is one set of issues. the second set has to do with prosperity and as people get wealthier one, and they start to get fatter, more diseases associated with modern life. but what is interesting that problems like diabetes used to be in wealthier countries now you see that pop up in

countries like mexico that did it use to have these problems but they have changed their lifestyle and eating habits. the third set of issues deals with cancer in more or alzheimer's that really have to do with new science and new technology. one thing i have done in this invest heavily in research how can we crack the code on human genetics? we think the time will come that this person has a tendency because of the variation to develop cures

before the diseases kill them. weekend save a lot of lives by dealing with the things we know how to do. so cambodia by the way everybody looks very good in their native clothes. but i appreciate how vice anybody looks.

i am sure the question was taken by one of the of fellows. if they were implemented in the united states always that? [applause] >> that's a good question. for those of you who didn't hear the question the spain development goals based on the original set of goals keep in mind how much progress we have made over the last 20 years the number of people we have seen rise out are now able to have enough hoopla of infant mortality. soviet-made real progress

worldwide. but we have to make similar progress going forward if we have work to do in the united states and although we're still evaluating that the areas we still fall short are still too many children and poverty in the united states. but in parts of india of or china or cambodia or laos but children who are very poor. who still are not getting enough to eat. that is also connected to education. with education in a country

so wealthy i would say the way forward for us involves addressing those pockets and we have enough wealth to do that but the question is if we have the political will to make investments with four african-americans and latinos. you are still held back his starkly by discrimination. and sometimes it is harder to get the whole society as a whole.

if we be successful we have to do that because the united states by the year 2015 which is only 35 years from now will no longer be majority white. because the birth rates of the hispanic background but also asians is much faster and much higher. so the kids today that airport are not provided an opportunity that is the work force of the future and where we have to make the most progress. what was the last country? malaysia.

>> sol in solidarity not my country but in america itself that protect the insulin dash ancestral land. so my question is in what capacity to protect that ancestral land. >> that is a great question. [applause] >> the way the native americans were treated was tragic and one of these priorities is restoring an

honest and generous and respectful relationship with native american tribes. we have made the unprecedented investment to help them ideas and plans of economic development or education. that is culturally appropriate for them. and this issue of ancestral land to preserve a way of life is something we have worked very hard on. now some of these issues of laws and treaties taken not give you details on this particular case i would have

to go back to my staff to find out how we're doing. but i can tell you we have actually restored more rights upon the americans to the ancestral land bowater is, hunting grounds, we have done a lot more work on that and we have the previous 20 years and i hope this will continue as we go forward. that is an excellent question. now let me say this in closing. has been a great group thanks to the university for hosting us and the people for being such wonderful partners in this process and for all the young people here, i will tell you the same thing i tell young

people in the united states. sometimes because we have so much information from all around the world television television, computers, phones , it seems as if the world is falling apart. because we always get information there is a war here or a terrible environmental disaster there . conflict here. this horrible issue is happening. everybody shouting and everybody hates each other. you get depressed. using what is happening? but the truth is when you look at all the measures of well-being in the world, if you had a choice of when to be born and you did not know

who you were be or what nationality or male or female or religion go when in human history would be the best time to be born? that would be now the world has never been healthier healthier, wealthier, better educated, less violent, more tolerant than it is today. we don't always see that because of the terrible things happening around the world with the tragedies and injustices' and it is your job to fix tuition never be discouraged because you have more opportunity today to make a difference in the world than any generation before in my hope is you will seize that opportunity and no you'll have a strong

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administration and former secretary of state who refuses to say radical islamic terrorism. and unless you say the words he will never solve the problems. [applause] immediately after taking office all ask my generals to present to meet a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy isis. [applause] this will require military warfare but also cyber, as financial and ideological warfare as i'm paid out in my speech on defeating radical islamic terrorism several weeks ago. instead of the apology to word that president obama gives over and over i will prad leave promote our system of government and our

way of life as the best in the world just like we did with our campaign against communism during the cold war. [applause] we will show the whole world how proud we are to be americans. [applause] at the same time time, immigration security is of vital part of the national security we only want to limit people to our country that will support our values and love our people. they have to love our people. [applause] these are in fact, the pillars of a sound national security strategy unlike my opponent my foreign policy will emphasize diplomacy, and not destruction. hillary clinton legacy in

iraq, libya, syria, has only produced turmoil and suffering and death. restrictive policies have displaced millions of people then she invited the refugees into the west with no plan including veteran health care cost that this was just announced and read over the last few weeks, the price of the wars in iraq and afghanistan will total approximately $6 trillion. we could have and rebuild our country over and over again. but yet after all the money was spent clinton's policies as secretary of state left the middle east in more disarray than ever before, not even close had we done nothing we would be in a far better position.

meanwhile china and has grown more aggressive in north corrina -- north korea more belligerent. vladimir britain has no respect for president obama and has absolutely no respect for hillary clinton. sometimes it seems like there wasn't a country in the middle east that hillary clinton did not want to win made or intervene or topple her cushiest trigger happy and very unstable whether we like it or not that is what is going on. [applause] she is also reckless that she put her e-mail's on the illegal server that the enemies could probably have can probably have then her team used a technology to bleach that is basically

acid as if they will acid wash her e-mail's who does this but nobody does the even took a hammer to some of her 13 phones to cover for tracks with the obstruction of justice. these e-mail records were destroyed after she received a subpoena remember that word. after. after berger after she received a subpoena to turn them over. if you do that in private enterprise, it is a violation of the of lot and she did this after receiving the subpoena from the united states congress. and the fbi report she said she could not recall important information on 39 separate occasions she cannot remember if she has been trained in the use of classified information and

she said she did not know the letters that were confidential or classified issue cannot remember such crucial events honestly, then she is unfit to be the commander in chief to clap. [cheers and applause] >> but i have a feeling she did remember and she does know and that also makes her unfit. [applause] for contact is simply disqualified and she talks about her experience with her only foreign policy experience ended up an absolute failure berger everywhere she got involved

things got worse. so back in the middle east at the very beginning before she was sworn in, lydia safe in syria was under control egypt was ruled by a secular president and an ally of the united states. iraq was experiencing a reduction of violence the group of that would become what is now known as isis was close to be being extinguished and never would have happened being choked off by economic sanctions fast forward to today what have we gotten from the horrible decisions made by barack obama and secretary clinton? would be in it is in ruins,

our ambassador in three other brave americans are dead. isis has gained a new base of operations in taking their very valuable oil. syria is in the midst of a disastrous civil war. pices controls large portions and refugee crisis now threatens europe and the united states and hundreds of thousands of people are dead. in egypt terrorists have gained a foothold in the sinai desert near the suez canal one of the most used waterways in the zero world and isis is on the list and i ran by the way will be taking over iraq for their oil reserves.

isis has spread across the middle east and into the west. for the world largest base sponsor of terrorism they are now flush with $150 billion in cash being released and released by united states plus another 1.7 billion that we just learned about last week in cash payments with that was 400 million now it turns out $1.7 billion in cash. in other words, our country was blackmailed and exported into pay of - - paying this unheard amount of money and president lied to us worst of all the nuclear deal puts iran the number one state sponsor of radical islamic terrorism attacks us to nuclear weapons.

this is hillary clinton's foreign policy legacy but that's not all president obama and hillary clinton also overseen deep cuts in the military which tony invite more aggression really we will have it like you have never seen before and it is already happening with our adversaries jumping at the bit. history shows when america is not prepared is when the danger is by far the greatest. we want to deter and avoid in prevent conflict of our military strength we have the greatest people in the world. [applause] we have to give them the greatest equipment. under barack obama and

hillary clinton, a defense spending is on track to fall to the lowest levels since the end of world war ii we currently have the smallest army since 1940 the navy is among the smallest since 1915. one hundred years ago. the airforce is the smallest it has been since 1947 when ronald reagan left office the navy had 592 ships when barack obama took office it had 285 and today it has just 276 the average air force aircraft is 74 years old rehash second-generation b-52 bombers that their

father flew the same plane they're flying right now. this is not the united states. our army has been shrinking rapidly from 550,000 soldiers to just 479,000 today that is the decrease and they want to make it smaller. our marine corps had to hundred 2000 active marines but today 182,000 fish account is below the minimum of 308 that the need the -- the navy says is needed to execute and obama plans to reduce the army which would hamstring our ability to defend the united states. it takes 22 on average to build a major new weapon system in 2010 the united

states dates -- spent nine more defense spending currently we're spending 10% and that number is going down very rapidly. , become year president. [cheers and applause] its this reduction was done as the sequester or automatic defense budget cuts under the agreement they took half of the cuts even though it makes up only 1/6 of the budget. as soon as i take office i will have congress eliminate and submit a new budget to

rebuild the military that is so depleted. [applause] this will increase certainty as to funding to allow military leaders and most importantly we will be defended because without defenses don't have a country. [applause] and is part of removing the defense request last to offset the increase of military spending will make government leaner and more responsive to the public. [applause] of alaska savings be accomplished through common sense reform that eliminate

and that protect hard-earnhard-earn ed benefits for americans. government-wide and payments are estimated to be a $1,305,000,000,000 per year the amount of unpaid taxes is estimated as $385 billion. we could reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy through responsible workforce attrition. [applause] it's when employees retire they can be replaced by a smaller number of new employees. we can also stop funding programs that are not authorized by law. congress had $320 billion last year on 256 expired was and spend all of that money

just by percent of that will reduce spending by almost $200 billion over a 10 year . the military will not be exempt that bureaucracy will have to be trimmed down we have to create that strength . sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy because it gets in our way. [applause] early in my term that all nato nations promptly pay their bills which many are not now doing. [applause] only five nato countries are currently meeting the minimum of minimum 2% on the fence they can afford to do it they have to do it they

have no respect for our leadership for for our country they will be happy to do it. [applause] additionally, i will be respectfully asking countries such as germany germany, japan, south korea korea, saudi arabia, to pay more for their tremendous security we provide them. [applause] and they will fully understand their economic behemoth soleil are tremendously successful countries but we are subsidizing them by millions of dollars. finally, at our disposal from unleashing american energy the institute for

energy research as much as $36 billion annually from increased energy production. tremendous amounts. [applause] tremendous numbers of jobs and your electric bill will go down. [applause] using these new funds a loss to propose a new defense budget to meet the following long term goals. we will build an active army of around 540,000 as the army chief of staff that he needs desperately and really must have to protect our country. [applause]

we now have only 31 brigade combat teams 490,000 troops and o 1/3 of the team's are considered combat ready. that is not good i actually don't even like to say that because plenty of countries are watching us right now but we were all getting shaped up very quickly. [applause] pdf we will build the marine corps based on 36 battalions as the heritage foundation says that is the minimum needed with a major contingency right now there are only 23. we will build the navy of the surface ships as recommended by the bipartisan national defence right now we only have 276

ships and we will build an air force of 1,200 fighter aircraft that the heritage foundation again has shown to execute current missions we now have 1,113. not enough also seeking to develop a state of the art missile defense system. [cheers and applause] and, under obama clinton it has been a degraded at the very moment in the united states history and not facing the most dash and threat that we have never ever had. we'll look at iran and north korea, a terrorist, we don't

know where to look you can look been all over so we will do that we want to protect our country. [applause] and as these potential adversaries grow, u.s. military facility of asia and the middle east as well as allies are increasingly in range with united states homeland to potentially be threatened and within two years we will absolutely have real threat. we propose to rebuild of key missile defense starting with navy cruisers and a the

foundation of our defense capabilities of asia and the mill ecl, a clinton administration tries repeatedly to remove the - - them from service they refuse to modernize these aging ships they're all the tired. we will start by modernizing to provide the ballistic missile defense capability it will cost around $220 million as we seek to modernize a significant portion and it will also mean jobs for our country. [applause] and that is one of the big benefits that the soviets desperately need because as we send the navy towards the gulf we will also procure

modern destroyers designed to handle the missile defense mission in the coming years. accomplishing this with our military retooling will be a 50 state effort every state can take part to rebuild our military with developing technologies of tomorrow so the workers and the jobs will take place throughout the united states. [applause] in addition we will prove the department of defense cybercapabilities, a new threat, a new problem, very expensive we're not doing very well with cyberhillary clinton has taught us how zero vulnerable we are with cyberhacking. [applause]

has probably the only thing we have learned from hillary clinton. [laughter] this. [applause] [cheers and applause] which is why one of the first things we must do is to run for sol classification rules and all laws related to the handling of classified information. [applause] hillary clinton put her e-mail's on a secret server that nobody knew about what happened to the man who claimed the fifth? where did he go? he pledged the fifth and that is the end of him. [laughter] [cheers and applause]

she put her e-mail's on the secret server to cover-up for action of the state department never been more than one diplomat their officials up for sale. we will make it a priority to develop the cyber capabilities and recruit the best and brightest americans. one of my first directives is asking of the joint chiefs of staff of all relevant federal departments will conduct a thorough review of the united states cyberdefense and identify

all vulnerability is we have to do that immediately including the communication system and all vital infrastructure. [applause] i will then ask for a plan to really protect those full liabilities and then fix them. at the same time. we will invest heavily in offense and cybercapability including terrorist to rely heavily on communications isis is using the internet to recruit. to intercept and do all sorts of things. we have to be many steps

ahead of them and will be. these new investments of cybersecurity and the modernization of our military will occur substantial new job creation the private sector to create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow. america must be the world's dominant technological powerhouse of the 21st century and young americans including the inner cities should get these new jobs through training and education. it will happen. [applause] we must also ensure we have the best medical care, education and support for military service members and their families when they serve and return to civilian life chekhov our veterans

are not being treated well. in many cases they are being treated worse than illegal immigrants that come into our country illegal the veterans are not being treated well and by the way hillary clinton has been doing this 35 years now she says she can do it? she doesn't have a clue. [applause] the debt to our men and women in uniform is the eternal and always will be to all of those who have served this nation, i say so strongly that i will never ever let you down. [applause]

, we will protect those who protect us. very simple. [applause] and we will follow their example and work across all racial lines to create one american nation checkup together we will have one great american future the potential is of limited. [applause] freewill be one people under one god saluting one american flag. [cheers and applause]

[applause] and by the way, we love and it's our flag. [applause] america will be a prosperous generous and inclusive society. we will discard the failed policies and divisions of the past to embrace true american change to rebuild our economy and inner-city is and rebuild our country. we will bring back our jobs and we will not let our jobs go to other countries.

[applause] we will make america strong again. we will make america safe again and we will make america great again, a greater than ever before. got a glass to clap god bless you. [cheers and applause] . . [applause]

[applause] he is described by politico as hillary clinton's invisible guiding hand a statistician behind her most important strategic decisions. joining us from new york city thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me on. >> how did you come across this gentle man? >> he is hillary clinton's director of analytics and while that is a sort of innocuous sounding title it does put them at the epicenter for the campaign because she's running as everyone around her likes to say he's the one sort of in charge of the data not just parsing out the voter data about television watching, e-mail data, volunteer frequency, how often you are volunteering.

and he's the one in charge of it so interesting looking at how the clinton campaign is preparing for this. if trump ran through the primary on his gut instinct the general elections are tougher and i want to see what are the clinton people doing the answer is quite a lot versus the trump campaign that's doing hardly anything at all. >> let me take that on this onep further you said he's precise, efficient and like hillary clinton more mathematical than inspirational. >> yes. watching how elan kriegel's rule is this is about about how shes running for president. the way she defeate defeated bee sanders step-by-step, state-by-state, it's the sort of new information in the story is an algorithm that elan kriegel

and the shop created and ran the entire television ad. one of the most important people in determining where the cash went from a $60 million in tv ads in the primary and almost every single dollar after the early states of iowa and new hampshire was determined by his algorithm. and the algorithm wasn't looking for the most viewers were what is the cheapest show, it was looking for who is the most viewers on in a congressional district hillary clinton would be addicted to be at a threshold here where extra tv ads would ad flip the district to give her an extra delegate. a really complicated calculati calculation. layer it with the viewing habits of the voters and to say you know what we are going to invest $1.2 million in television ads in texas, which is what they did while bernie sanders invested zero off because she one single handedly, but she did by 30 percentage points, but they invest a ton of money in small markets because they thought

that money would flip delegates in their favor and at the end of the day that's how they beat bernie sanders, they won more delegates than all of the states one by one. >> one of the issues that arose after the campaign and the republicans feeling that they couldn't match the analytics, the data put in place by the obama campaign in 2008 but he was yielding on in 2012. where does tha that put the democratic party generally speaking, hillary clinton specifically, in 2016, and conversely where does this put the republicans? >> the democrats are far ahead. most of the responses i've respn today's republicans are despondent about the state of affairs with donald trump as their nominee because he's not investing in these data operations. it's not just a matter of impacting this year. elan kriegel was the deputy of the campaign in 2012 elevated to become the director of this cycle so he would likely b be better after four years from now. they don't have a deputy

director. they have a higher consulting firm that works with ted cruz doing something that very little comparatively. one of my favorite quotes in the story was by a guy named jack moffitt from mitt romney's campaign. back in the primaries he was telling me whoever emerged was good to be completely handicapped compared to hillary clinton. he said this is what he had with mitt romney in 2012 when they were out of the primary so far behind they couldn't catch up. his quote was you can't have a baby in three months, that's the reality of life. i've tried. >> let me ask about the analytics of data. how important is that as you point out in the story donald trump is calling it overrated. what can i do in a national general election campaign when donald trump and hillary clinton are on the news and cable channels almost 24/7? >> the closer the race the more it matters if a campaign finance

race is decided by ten points or eight percentage points, the chance of it having a better data operation and get up operation is going to make up that kind of gap. where it does make a difference is a close race like the iowa caucuses where ted cruz has a better data operation and was able to win despite trailing and know what to say to motivate them and identify the swing voters and get all of them out to the polls you can move a couple points. anywhere from two to four points but that is if both campaigns are doing it. so she could be benefiting a couple percentage points which in the closest race could make all the difference in the world. >> we learned elan kriegel is a corner office that oversees the two views of brooklyn and new

york city but what else did you learn about him and what he brings to the campaign? >> one of my favorite elements to the piece is he has scribblings and mark are kind of like a beautiful mind scene where he starts crafting the equations to run some of the algorithms. at the first armored windows as he's looking out at the city so that's one thing we've learned and another interesting thing about him he is a an unlikely person to be a senior aide and a very few decisions are made without input from his data. the campaign manager is usually data driven. they worked together on the race in 2013. elan kriegel is an unlikely person to be an advisor. ten years ago he was a producer for bill o'reilly at the peak of his anti-clinton fervor he was an antagonist running for president and that was his first

job related to politics was bill o'reilly for all people. pretty fascinating he went back to school, studied statistics and came back and rose pretty quickly to now run her analytics department. >> hillary clinton invisible guiding hand of the reporting of shane online joining us from new york. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> i will be a president for democrats, republicans and independents. >> we are going to win with education and the second amendment. >> live coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates on c-span, the c-span radio app. monday september 26 is the first presidential debate live from hofstra university then on tuesday october 4, vice presidential candidates governor

mike pence and tim kane debate in farmville virginia. and on sunday october 9, washington university in st. louis hosts the second presidential debate leading up to the third and final between hillary clinton and donald trump taking place at the university of las vegas on october 19. why is coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates on c-span.

>> inet dongle and immediately recognized he's selling you tickets to the mermaid and the amazing two headed woman. then i started because he was the dominant force, they started asking about him and his competitors including steve and people who work with him and some big gamblers said to me he doesn't know anything about the casino business. british prime ministers theresa may updated parliament on china wednesday. she also spoke about the role of the uk on the global stage

following the road to leave the european union. this is 90 minutes. >> order. stay tuned. the prime minister. >> with permission i would like to make a statement on the g. 20 summit in china but before i turn to the g. 20, i would like to say something about the process. on the 23rd of june to british people were asked to vote on whether we should stay in the eu or leave. the majority decided to leave. our task now is to deliver the will of the british people and negotiate the best possible deal for the country. i know many people are keen toth see the progress and understand what the division will look like and we are getting off of thatat but we must also think through the issues and it's abouter

getting the kind of deal it's not about the model or the swiss model or any other country's model. it's about developing our owntr. british model. so we will not take decisions until we are ready. we will not reveal our hand prematurely and we will not provide a running commentary on every negotiation. >> i say that because that is not the best way to conduct a strong and mature negotiation to deliver the best deals to the people of the country and as the secretary osecretary of state ae european union told the house on monday but we will do is maximize the opportunities. and that's the approach i took for the g. 20 summit. it was the first time -- this was the first time the world'stf leading economy had come together since the decision to leave the eu and demonstrated

the role that we continue to play in the world with a bold, ambitious and outward looking nation. building on our strengths in the trading nation we were clear that we have to resist the retreat to protectionism and we had conversations that we could explore the trading arrangements with key partners around the world. we initiated an important. discussion responded to the rising sentiment and ensuring that the world's economies work for everyone and we continue to play our part in working with our allies to confront the global challenges of trigger for some migration. so let me take each in turn. mr. speaker, trading with partners all around the globe has been the foundation of our prosperity in the past, and it will underpin our prosperity in the future. so, under my leadership as we leave the eu, britain will seek to become the global leader in free-trade. at the summit we secured widespread agreement across the g. 20 to resist the retreat to

protectionism including a specific agreement to extend the rollback of the protectionist measures until the end of 2018. the g. 20 also committed to ratify by the end of this year the wto to reduce the costs and burdens of moving goods across g borders and agreed to do more to encourage the firms of all size in particular to take full advantage of the global supply chains. but it also continues to press the ambitious trade agendas including implementing the deal and forging agreements for japan and america. we will continue to make these arguments as long as we are members of the eu. but after we leave, we will also forge our own new trade deals and i'm pleased to say just as the uk has came to see the opportunities, so too have many international partners whoit recognize the attractiveness of doing business with the uk. the leaders in india cost south korea and singapore said they would welcome talks on removing

the barrier to trade between the country. the trade minister visited yesterday to take part in exploratory discussions on the shape of the uk australia trade deal and at the end of the summit in our bilateral of the end of the summit, she also made clear china would welcome discussions on the arrangement with the uk.. mr. speaker as we do more to advance free trade around the world, we must also do more to ensure that working people benefit the opportunity tot then create. across the world today many feel these opportunities do not seem to come to them. they see the lack of control, they have a jo job or but no job security, they have a home but worry about paying the mortgage. they are just about managing that life is hard to come and it', and it's notenough for theo take a hand of approach. approach. so i argue we need to deliver an economy that works for everyone where bold action is home and

cooperation abroad. that's why in britain we are developing a proper strategy to improve productivity in every part of the country so more people can share in the prosperity to acquire the wages and greater opportunity and to restore greater fairness we will be consulting the measures to tackle the responsibility. these would include cracking down on excessive corporate pay, corporate governance, and aggressive tax avoidance and giving employees and customers representation on companyes boards. at the g. 20, the mission of ensuring the economy works for everyone was echoed by other leaders and this is an agenda they will continue to lead in the months and years ahead. we agree to continue to fight corruption, building on the summit and do more to stop aggressive tax avoidance including stopping companies avoiding taxes by shifting profits from one jurisdiction to another. we also agreed to work togethere to address the global production and heavy industries including in the steel market and we would

establish a new forum to discusn issues such as subsidies to contribute to the market distortion. mr. speaker, all these steps are important if we are to maintain support for free trade and the open economies which are the bedrock of global growth. returning to global security, britain remains at the start and at the summit we discussed the need for the robust plans to manage the threat disbursing from iraq and libya. we call for the enforcement of the sanctions regime to limit the financing of all terrorist organizations and more action to improve the standard aviation security including the council resolution which the uk has been pursuing in which we hope will be adopted later this month. we also agree the need to confront the ideology that underpins this terrorism and that means addressing both violent and nonviolent extremism and working across borders to tackle back online.

turning to the migration crisis britain will continue to meet the poorest in the worldin including certain humanitarian efforts to support the refugees ansubvert the refugeesand who wr commitments at the summit later in new york this month. but at the g. 20 i've also argued we cannot shy away from dealing with illegal migration, and i will be returning to this at the un general assembly. we need to improve the way that we distinguish between refugees and migrants. this will enable us to benefit from the controlled economic migration and in doing so we will be able to get more hel gip to the refugees who need it and maintain popular support for doing so. this doesn't just protect our own people. by reducing the scope of the mass population movement and at the same time investing to address the drivers of the migration, we can achieve better outcomes for the migrants themselves. as part of this new approach, we also need a much more concerted effort to address modern sl

slavery. the trade often using the same criminal networks that facilitated the migration is an affront to our humanity and i want t britain's leading a globl effort. when the british people voted to leave the european union they didn't devote to leave europe. to turn or walk away from the g. 20 or any of our international partners around the world. that's never been the british way. we've always understood our success as a sovereign nation is inextricably bound in our trade stock corporation with others. by building on existing partnerships, forging new relationships in the shaping of the ambitious global role wewe will make a success for britain and for all of our partners and we will continue to strengthen the prosperity and security of all of our citizens forr generations to come and i commend the statements to the house. >> first i would like to thank the prime minister for her

statement from the g. 20 summit and giving me an advanced copy of it. i first went to china in 1998 td attend the united nations conference on human right humand in the same year the european convention of human rights was incorporated into uk law in oura human rights act. that legislation has protected the liberties of our people and told them to account which is why on this side of the house, we share the concerns of so many of the prime minister's plans revealed the human rights act. on the issues on the g. 25 minister said she wasn't going to reveal her hand on the subject. nobody would blame her because she hasn't revealed her hand or any of the governments hands on this particular thing. they are not clear on what they are trying to do. the g. 20 minutes in the wake of the european union. let's be clear the decision has been taken by the majority of

our people. our however, we cannot ignore the fact that the outcome has left the country divided with increased levels of hate crimes huge uncertainty about what comes next for the country and an extraordinary lack of planning preparation on how to navigate the post-referendum situation in relation to europe. that division has been made worse by the government ministers, political posturing and often very contradictory messages which doesn't seem to add up to a considered position. yesterday the sector said staying in a single market wases improbable. the prime ministers spokesperson said that wasn't the case. s it was one or the other. so can the prime minister told the houstellthe house what the s policy actually is? the negotiations for the withdrawal from the eu must focus on expanding trade, jobs

and investment, the social, jobd employment and environmental protections and as many colleagues are aware during the question and answer time, the uncertainty facing the universities for example the question that my friend raised is a very important one. they need uncertainty of the relationship with european universities immediately and cannot wait.h european parliament from the public from the greatest constitutional change tha but this country has embarked on for 20 years. mr. speaker, global globalization is a key issue and has to be addressed. i am pleased to g. 2 20 did address it or apparently so. the g. 20 was formed in the global financial crisis in 2008. a devastating event that was triggered by the financial sector. it's a model of running the global economy that the prime minister acknowledges has

produced huge increases in inequality and failed in its own terms. i rate this issue with president obama earlier this year and it's clear rising levels of inequality and all of our economies, fuel insecurities and people and communities are, against each other. it's been 40 years since britain has has to engage in the bilateral trade negotiations. the free trade that they minister spokbut they ministers. i urge the minister to stand with me on the trade policy to o further the agenda of the deregulation and the developing countries.

the value is human rights and human dignity. could the prime minister informed the house about the talks with chinese president in two crucial areas the first of e which i raised in the uk industry continues to face deeply challenging times. because of the damage it's doing to the steel industry in the o country and in others. to take the opportunity to explain to the house why she decided to dispose and could she also said out of the house.

it must be the number one concern and humanitarian response.. that's why i remain concerned a and to the very part of the world that most the british government continues to sell out to saudi arabia which are used to commit crimes against humanity in yemen which has been clearly detailed by the un and other independent agencies.humai

there has been results from that. >> thank you mr. speaker. we have a proud history of welcoming people into this country and there's no place inv our society for hate crime. we've already published a neww ac action plan and we are concerned about the levels of hate crime that we have seen to address thl particular concern taking place on the people here in the uk and we are very clear that the has to be in their relation to the hate crime and they should take

those allegations to the police. he talked about the issue of what we will be doing but just to reiterate it but we will be doing as we negotiate. it will be about getting the right deal from the trade inin goods and services that we wante to see that it will be a new relationship and as i've indicated in my statement. we want to get the right deal for the united kingdom.

that wouldn't be what we would achieve. she referred to the issue of steel and i did raise the issue of overproduction in the plenary session this was important because it wasn't just being raised with the chinese government committed was raised with all the leaders around aase table, the g. 20 recognized the significance of this and recognized the issue of the steps that some of the governments were taking the leading to some of the problems we had seen and that is why ther new form is being introduced which will be looking at these issues and the chinese will be sitting on that and part of those discussions. i've said it before and i will say it again i don't just take a decision without looking at the analysis. i'm looking at the details and i the analysis and a decision will be taken later this month. onto other issueon to other issi arabia i did raise with him the concerns about the report of

what happened and i insisted that they should be properly investigated. but as the opposition said in relations with saudi arabia, he referred to what happens in saudi arabia as being a threat to the safety of people here in the uk. what matters is the strength of the relationship in saudi arabia on the issues that are the sum and counterterrorism. it is that relationship that helped keep people on the streets of britain safe. and finally, can i say to the right honorable gentleman i have a theory clear view that if we are going to see prosperity and in all of the economies around the world as a way to get there is through free trade. free trade has underpinned the prosperity in this country.

i will take no lessons from the honorable gentleman to help the developing countries and those who are in poverty elsewhere in the world because this government has a fine record inh terms of what we have done in humanitarian support and education bills and others around the world and it's helping people have access to medical care, water and the resources they need, but it is free trade that underpins overgrowth. we will be the global leader in free trade and free trade is also the best anti-poverty policy. i will be unashamedly out there getting the message that we want a free trade country and i find of the labor party is turning its back on something that led to the prosperity. >> may i congratulate my honorable friend on her support for free trade. in the european union, we run a

deficit with the other 27 member states according to the office of statistics, 62 billion a year. however, we run a circus of the same goods and services with the rest of the world over 30 million up by about 10 billion last year alone. will my honorablwill my honorabd therefore continue her crusade for free trade to develop opportunities to make sure the european commission and the european union no longer continues to run the trade policy and do it very well. >> my honorable friend is right. we have the opportunity and i want to assure that we are ambitious in seizing thoseou opportunities to develop the trade deals around the world. we will be developing thatl relationship with the european union that will be obviously part of which is how we will bel trading with the eu in relationh to the goods and services, but

we have the opportunity to develop those around the rest of the world and of course we can't have those deals in place and operating until we leave the european union but we came to the preparation to make sure >>at they are there when we need them. >> can i begin by thinking that the minister for the advancedd copy of the statement. in one area i do agree that the summit was very much cast withh her own brexit brainstorming the previous week. what appeared to m to me and iti minister getting shoved into the back of the room and being briefed by the americans and the japanese and faith expressed the trade deals that this is how they are viewing it.

mr >> they are learning what on earth the uk government's plans are for leading the european union. simp since then she said she's not giving a running commentary. being a full member of the european single market is not a choice. it's fundamental to business all across the united kingdom and she expects to be able to hold thback and not confirming whethr she wants them to remain a full single market. does she want the uk within the same market yes or no it's not that difficult. on trade we know that united states and every other country wants a trade deal with the european union ahead of the

united kingdom and only after the uk leads the european union. so can the prime minister tell us how many they've actuallyiree hired since the referendum on immigration we learn the promise of the points-based immigration system is being ditched and they plan to trail blaze and build a wall. on the specific funding questions they were promised a national health service would receive an extra 350 million if we vote to leave the european union this promise like the immigration promise made.

it's about the funding they were due to receive of 100 million. in 2023 there've been no commitment whatsoever to honor that funding. will she give it, no. it's been very problematic inroi recent weeks to house the deal of the situation where the prime ministers party has suggested the citizens. these totally repudiate thatad

position. she should be aware of it. will she take the opportunity to disassociate her party from this and apologize for it when we value the contribution of the european union citizens. i minister hasn't had time yet to make a statement for the house ohouse on the important mf the estates review [inaudible]

it's not obvious to me how it pertains to the g. 20. >> i will try to limit my response to the key issues. the right honorable gentleman says that it's been rejected. what the people voted for as part of the boat leave the european union was to have control over people moving from the european union into the united kingdom, the points-based system doesn't give you that control. anybody who it means anybody that meets the criteria is automatically about to enter the country it doesn't give the opportunity of control and making decisions as to whocn can enter the country and it's that degree of control, the issue of control we will be looking for.

what i saw at the g. 20, my discussion with a number of the world leaders was a great willingness to seize the opportunities that come from the uk leaving the european union to do the deals we have just been referring to and i think that we should be willing to seize those opportunities.it we should be ambitious in the deals we wish to around the world. we should be the global leader in free trade and taking those opportunities and ensuring that as we leave the european union we are able to have that relationship that would ensure growth and prosperity for them, whole united kingdom including growth and prosperity for scotland.. speaker.

>> at the g. 20 now in london is a she has delighted as i that we can now add gcc to the various parts? >> i echo the comments of my honorable friend and i'm pleased that has been reiterated. it was an issue that i discussed and i'm pleased that they are in that position. >> i think the prim thank the pr for the statements. it wouldn't have gotten a hand or a clue so wha would we take s

opportunity to reassure business and confirm that we will remain a member of the european single market or would she agree with me that we trusted the british people with a question of our departure and the question of the destination and for whatever deal she negotiated to separatee the british people in the referendum. she refers to the marks made bye the trade minister. i mentioned it in response to an earlier point. we are not able to finally sign or put into place to put into practice the trade deals withto other countries while we remain a member of the european union that is the situation. as long as they are members of the union to the point at which

we leave we will be advocates of the free trade. we will be advocates for the same deals in the european union if it is negotiating with other countries. i gave that to the eu canada trade deal and they've given a commitment to president obama in relation to the negotiation and we will play a full part but at the same time, we will be looking to have the discussions that will enable us to have the trade deals that will give us a prosperity that we want. >> i congratulate the minister in the way that she quite rightly put forth the benefitshu of free trade and i know that she will be aware and share the concerns about any consequences for the single market.s right to she's right to say that i urged

her to consider we do need some principles and what assurances can she give us about the custom duties in a single market? >> i absolutely recognize the role the industry plays in the united kingdom. i was pleased a few days ago ton see the huge success. the growth continues in that company with regards to this issue. in the trades and services to the united kingdom.

it's not to simply think o simps trying to replicate something. it's what they've been looking for and what they want to see so that we can afford to deal. there've been russian missiles. there is a banned chemical weapon. can the minister told a houser based on the discussions aboutoe

the situation whether that commitment still holds the humanitarian relief to finally get through by whatever means to the people who suffered for so long. they've made it difficult forr the delivery of the commitment. i raised directly with president putin in my discussions with h him. we've been very clear in our opposition as he won a. it's important that those reports be properly looked at but longer term, we remain committed to the political

transition and that will be a political transition without president asad. >> mr. speaker i'm very pleased to hear the prime ministers also port for free trade being the underpinning of our prosperity here in britain and across the l world. i had thought until i listened to the leader of the opposition that was widely shared on both sides of the house given the candidates and the presidential election both of which sound about free trade can she make it a policy to campaign both in the united kingdom to argue for the merits of free trade and also on the global stage. >> can i say to my honorable s friend, he expressed his supply on this side of the house wheniz the leader of opposition shows he was in favor of free trade and i suspect that there are many honorable members on the

labor party so this was the policy of the labor party. we will be advocates and strong advocates for free trade as my right honorable friend has suggested. we will be ensuring that we take that message through and as he said it underpins.egotiation bui >> they would be helpful to know more about what is valued in the negotiations and with her aims are. she talks a lot about free trade but is still resisting to say what she thinks of the freee ac trade in europe which is thele single market. so can you clear up the confusion from yesterday does she value the membership of the single market and does she think that it should be in a more objective of the negotiation and that we should be trying to stay in it if we can?

>> i've answered this on a number of occasions already today. she will find -- people ask a question and i didn't answer some of the ask the same question and we'll get the same. answer. so that it's perfectly reasonable and normal. what i would say is the aim we have to get the right field inin the trades and goods and services for the eu. so, this will be a new relationship. we will be looking at a newatiop model between the uk and european union. in the negotiations will be the best way to come out with theeco worst deal.

we firmly support. syria that as long as they don't fight over serious the worst the global security will continue and this opportunity is one that should certainly be taken. >> i absolutely agree with the comments that my friend has made. it is an important point in the opposition coming together and the meetings that are taking place here and i also agree with him but as we look at global security, what we want to see is in and to the conflict taking place. i continue to believe that the longer the conflict continues, the action of the regime is that

we saw encouraging people to join organizations to go out and potentially return to other countries and to conduct theirir terrorist attacks. we must see and ensure that we are playing our part as the uk is today in hosting the opposition in the talks. >> can i think the prime ministers for her statement and command her for her common sense realism in the approach to negotiating our exit from the european union and it isn't quite clear a lot of the criticisms that we advocated for the legitimate point of view but demonstrates a lack of respect for the decision. it's time to get on with making the best of that in the way she's proposing to do and i

would certainly offer our support for the first to try to achieve the best possible. more needs to be done to sendsen them past.in the he said i think it is a sensible way to go forward in relation to these negotiations. i want to ensure they are fullya taken into account and that is the message i gave when i visited shortly after i became prime minister in fact the message i get into all of the administrations that we want to

enjoy the interest as a whole in the united kingdom taken into account. on the issue of terrorism thatis he has mentioned, it is important that we deal with those who preach hatred. we have seen the simpsons yesterday and another individual. this whole question of the radicalization of young people in particular online or in other ways it is an important one that we need to address. we want to see the goods and sentences that give a clear message that this is not acceptable activity to be involved in both also we need to do the work that we are doing for example on the referral unit and the work we are doing in europe and the work we are doing to promote mainstream voices. again both preachers of hate. >> from her discussions with other world leaders and duchy 20, well my honorable friend and

sure your businesses are at the heart of the future trade negotiations including the many successful businesses that will be attending the job fair on friday. >> can i commend my honorable friend for holding herself there on friday. i'm sure there will be many opportunities for localn businesses and people who will be able to benefit from the jobs there. small and medium enterprises will play an important role. earlier in the summer we had a number of small and medium-sized businesses and those which struck me was the optimism about the opportunity available in the united kingdom and when he plays his part in taking up the opportunity and encouraging the prosperity for everyone in the country. >> does she accept that britain like all aging populations need

to import labor to thrive and therefore would not be an act of extreme self harm to give unfettered access to the single market to the arbitrary desire to reduce immigration? >> if it is an arbitrary desire to reduce immigration, we recognize the impact of uncontrolled immigration on people particularly those of the local end of the income scale i. and also i think the gentleman needs to consider the message the british people gave on the 23rd of june. they told us they wanted to see the government they controlak moving from the european union and the united kingdom and that is what we will do. yo >> you will see the retail

development going up and they will be pleased to know that it's 100% still being used. give us an opportunity to deal with [inaudible] but can i ask minister in particular whether she would find time next year and in particular they have some good shoe shops. [laughter] i thank i think my honorable friend may have sealed the deal. can i welcome the fact that they are using 100% uk steel. i think we need to look at thist issue not just as an individual country but globally but also

this was on the agenda for the chi 20 and has been set up with the chinese representation. >> it is the amount paid for the support they get given her statements that we now have the reporting how would she make that a priority in the chi 20? this was able to refer in my jeep 20 important issue about the tax avoidance and the work that needs to be taken. the ch g 20 had issues both to

those able to use the different jurisdictions to resist and that is being taken pushing forward on that initiative but there's other things to like providing support for the taxes such as those that are needed and it's like the out of tax initiative so we played a role. >> party the opportunity of the summit to raise the issue of modern slavery can the prime minister outlined what steps have been taken to engage with countries around the world. >> i am grateful to my honorable friend i think it is hugely important we do need to be doing

more about it. there's more that we can do with the agencies working together and other government agencies to ensure that we stamp out thehatt crime groups. and in doing that we must never forget. >> why did the prime minister tell the house that thee leadership in the market and thb thought more deeply about it than the prime minister.

as opposed to telling the truth. >> i don't recognize the picture set out this wasn't a zero-sum game and i said in other questions on this we are going to go out there and get the right deal for the united kingd. kingdom. >> is it vital that we maintain confidence. to free ourselves from burdensome regulation continue to make this case.

>> is also the case and we would welcome the vote of confidence being given in the unitednce th kingdom. this is a time to be confidence about the british economy and the fundamentals are stark and we want to encourage that to take place. leaving the european union i would expect a new prime minister to immediately trigger

a trade deal. so can i ask if confirmed that she would be able to trigger these deals by the secretary of state and which countries will be involved? >> i have been involved in the discussions on the free-trade deals that we can develop. i was doing that over the weekend in a summit with a number of countries and i listef some of them in my statement earlier. i am pleased that the opportunities we have into the willingness of other countries have to sit around the table ane talk about trade deals.

>> .. this year? perhaps explain how some of the countries are less keen on taking actions in responding to that? >> my honorable friend is right. it is important that we deal with corruption if we're going to be able to see free trade deals, people trading for around the world. but also in some countries it is sadly corruption that gets in >> >> with the coordination center here in london and in number of countries are joining us. that is one part of the action we need to take and i