the number of individuals sanction are 843 sanctions by the united states and 121 by the united nations for iran. but only 100 u.s. sanctions and 31 u.n. sanctions for north korea. when we do impose sanctions, sanctions we impose against north korea are not competitive. in response to the sony attack president obama issued executive order 13687 which was expansive in breadth but weakly implemented. they targeted 13 north koreans on the sanctions list and ten individuals not involved in cyber warfare. that was our response to north korea. we have not imposed human right sanctions on a single north korean individual. 200,000 men, women and children in north korea and the united states hasn't imposed a human right sanctions on a human north korea leader. that is a tragedy given the grievan grievances that have been perpetrated. i want to stop the maniac of kim jong-un. i had an opportunity to go to south korea and we agreed to status quo with north korea is no longer stable. i visited the dmz and days after i departed north korea fired artillery across the border further illustrating the d

refugees who enter the united states and any of our 50 states undergo the most rigorous screening of individual that attempts to enter the united states who is not a citizen. in many cases this involves two years of work to take a look at somebody's background, collect biometric information, to make sure that these individuals are vetted before they enter the united states. what often happens is they are paired up with faith taste -- faith-based organizations that are played an important role in helping these new arrivals to the united states get their feet on the ground and get established in their community. in some ways -- the president made reference at the national prayer breakfast where he talked about how this is some of the important work that faith-based organizations across the country do every day and does not often get noticed, but he contributes to the strength of our country, a way that he united states lives up to the kinds of values we advocate for around the world, and the reason the united states can be a position to say we take in more refugees in the united states

the united states is going to act. the united states said tonight it's going to pass a very strong sanction bill, very strong message bill that we do not intend to sit back and let north korea proliferate their weapons of mass destruction. we also don't plan to sit back and let them commit gross violations of human rights. we won't sit back and allow them to attack our intellectual property through cyber attacks and that we are going to act as one, united. we're going to act, democrats and republicans, house and senate, we'll work with the administration, we're going to get this done. and then, yes, we are going to go to the international community. we are going to put pressure on our other countries. we know that the republic of korea is with us. we know that japan is with us. china needs to be with us. and we're going to go and talk to china and explain and work with them so that we can get international pressure to isolate the north korean regime until they change their course. it's critically important to our secur

russia alerted its military forces and warned that the united states is playing with fire. >> at a specialuncil, the united states, cuba and russia offered separate resolutions and traded bitter charges. >> do you, ambassador, deny to the ussr has placed and is placing medium and intermediate range missiles and sites in cuba? yes or no? don't wait for the translation. yes or no? >> i am not in an american court room, sir. therefore, i do not wish to answer a question that's put to me in the fashion in which prosecutor does. in due course, sir, you will have your replay. >> i'm prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over if that's your decision. >> each side didn't know what the other side was doing and there was a lot of room for miscalculation. >> we believe there are about 25 soviet ships moving toward cuba. if the vessel does not stop, refuses to heed the instructions, force will be applied to assure that it does stop. >> nikita khrushchev says soviet ships will never submit to the united states blockade. >> the next few days are critical. who is going to blink first? be good

leon rodriguez was confirmed by the united states senate in june, 2014, as the director of the uniteds citizenship and immigration services. he previously served as the director for the office of civil rights at the department of health and human services, a position he held from 2011 to 2014. part of that time he served as chief of staff and deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights at the department of justice. mr. kubiak assumed the role -- our next witness of assistant director for international operations at u.s. immigration and customs enforcement on june 30, 2014, and in this position he is responsible for a budget of more than $130 million and operational oversight at 63 offices and 46 countries and eight department of defense liaison offices. and finally ms. michelle bond was sworn in as assistant secretary of state for consular affairs on august 10, 2015. she leads a team of 13,000 consular professionals and almost 300 locations across the united states and around the world who protect the lives and interests of u.s. citizens abroad. i want to thank all of you for b

the united states is going to act. the united states said tonight it's going to pass a very strong sanction bill, very strong message bill that we do not intend to sit back and let north korea proliferate their weapons of mass destruction. we also don't plan to sit back and let them commit gross violations of human rights. we won't sit back and allow them to attack our intellectual property through cyber attacks and that we are going to act as one, united. we're going to act, democrats and republicans, house and senate, we'll work with the administration, we're going to get this done. and then, yes, we are going to go to the international community. we are going to put pressure on our other countries. we know that the republic of korea is with us. we know that japan is with us. china needs to be with us. and we're going to go and talk to china and explain and work with them so that we can get international pressure to isolate the north korean regime until they change their course. it's critically important to our secur

the united states -- the u.n. supposedly on big issues will never do anything the united states doesn't want it to do. which sounds, well that protects everything. but in which the event in which the united nations played a most critical role, the korean conflict, the only reason that the united states was able as part of the united nations coalition to commit itself to that conflict and a we don't have to ask for war, we're simply observing our obligations as a united nations charter member is because the soviet representative happened not to be there that day because he was protesting the fact that nationalist china was still part of the security council and not the people's republic of china. so there was no one to veto anything. but notice that even there, we've got this great cause. we want to make sure that communism doesn't spread. we're going to protect american values. hadow what do you make of that? john. >> this goes along with our last point of portraying it as a defensive war in order to galvanize dom

i think we have more work to do in the united states. this bill is a great step, but also the united nations and your expression of disappointment with the united nations i think is well stated. mr. corker: i think it's good that you bring up the fact that when we began putting these sanctions in place, there was a lot of pushback because in essence for these things to work properly or have the biggest -- make the biggest difference in outcomes is you didn't have an international effort that takes place. when we began the iran sanctions process, it was unilateral, and while we stressed on the front end -- i know an amendment pass th-- passed in the committee to really port neforts to make it multilateral, over tomb it did and because of that, the world had joininged us and we were able to force a behavior change. i would have liked to have a better outcome when they got to the table. i think most people in this body would have. but this bill, to point out, does seek and does push the administration not only to implement these by mandatory

in the united states.would it take to have zika established in the united states? something that every summer you have to worry about? >> zika is a little bit different than west nile. west nile has special characteristics that allowed it to be established in the united states so quickly. one is that west nile is spread by mosquitos that are very common. whereas zika is spread by mosquitos who are really in the southern part of the united states. and west nile has the ability to infect birds, which allowed it to traverse the united states very, very quickly. zika virus doesn't have that capacity. so the worst case scenario is we get zika transferred in florida, for example, the texas, mexico border, with dengay thrives. i don't see it thriving in places where the mosquito doesn't live. >> could ongoing climate change change what you just said as a prediction in >> the temperature -- temperature has a weird variation with mosquitos. sometimes it increases their rank, but also decreases their flight range an

the majority of asylum-seekers asylum in the united states. asylum-seekers are not guaranteed legal representation, there is no due process as we understand it in our justice system. legal representation makes all the difference. in 2010, only 11% of those asylum-seekers who did not have legal representation were successful in receiving asylum. having legal representation makes all the difference, but most asylum-seekers do not have legal representation. they either cannot afford it or cannot receive pro bono representation because the system is stretched too thin. that is the first factor in the post-cold war period, something periodkes the different, asylum-seekers. terrorism is a second factor that has affected refugee and asylum policy in the post cold war period. a result, our immigration bureaucracy was completely revamped. refugeeserrorists -- are the most about it in u.s. history to prevent would-be terrorists from entering the u.s. and causing harm. the state department tells us monthss can expect 18-24 of vetting, screening before th

he is one of thousands of cubans now coming to the united states. in the number of cubans entering the united states since the announcement of new relation was the island nation. >> across the state we will see maybe 200 and something. >> reporter: don nicholas of immigrants. she said cubans are reset isling across north carolina. >> we are looking at [inaudible] wayne county. >> reporter: as relations change between united states and cuba they hope it'll be a good change for cuba and for north carolina. >> i [inaudible] >> reporter: while cubans fall under that special treatment policy they still have to wait three to six months before they can even apply for a job here in north carolina. >>> the state senate hassa the map had to be drawn after federal judges ruled that unconstitutional because this relied to much on race. the new districts give republicans a 10-3 advantage in congressional races. democrats say that is going to far in the state. that is fairly politic alley evenly divided. the house will take up the map tomorrow. >>> tomorrow is th

a united states is fortunate we have the world's most advanced health care system in the united states it's impressive. we want to keep it that way and make certain that we are well coordinated, use common sense, and we will be able to contain the spread of this virus and the well-equipped for any future threats in a poster so i look forward to hearing from the panel. i welcome our witnesses. i'd like to turn to ranking member duckworth for her opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think if you are expert witnesses for being here today. today's hearing is an important opportunity to examine the effectiveness of our current effort to combat the zika virus and to ensure the interagency response is officially coordinated. there have been 82 reported cases of seek in the united states including for cases in my home state of illinois. today these cases have been limited to travelers returning to the united states from affected countries or from individuals who that sexual relations with returning travelers. as a new mother i understand the public's concern over the zika virus. th

in 2021, the united states was attacked. hijackers boarded planes in u.s. airports and crashed fully loaded jets in new york, virginia and pennsylvania. networks of men prepare to attack americans and america's allies, new alliances, new enemies for a new kind of wars. the u.s. and it's allies invaded afghanistan and iraq and began to pick up prisoners who weren't soldiers necessarily, not like german prisoners who end you want in camps on u.s. soil who went home after it was all over. what the bush administration calls the global war on terror didn't have objectives as clear as the unconditional surrender of japan, or protecting the nation of south vietnam. it had no specific ending, the war wasn't fought against standing armies, and by opening up a prison camp away from american soil, the u.s. moved people they picked up as prisoners into a legal vacuum. but if they were tried by the u.s. did they get the same protections as u.s. citizens in u.s. courts? when the fighting was over and they were taken prisoner, could they go home? if the people testifying

experts told us at the united states -- the united states is not ready to address cyber threats that affect the biology the biology sector. we are not sure how well pathogen data are secured. our panel recommended the u.s. government in partnership with the private sector move quickly address thely to threat. we need a national strategy. and we pathogen data to secure the data as well. although we came up with 33 recommendations to help formalize the bile defense enterprise in this country, and to make it function more effectively, there was one -- proposal event at the epicenter of building a national strategy. let me say this. we identified over 50 political appointees who are given some narrow responsibility in the area of bio defense. you can well imagine the number of agencies that have as part of their jurisdiction responsibility. we have a multiplicity of people in agencies. perhaps you can understand our most basic recommendation. our formal proposal was at the vice president of the united states as a focal point for coordinating responsibilities. we need someone at the top w

public within in the united states and the united states congress and in the united states press and also in europe. by 1913 and certainly by 1916, europe had ceded any rejection of american hegemony, at least north of the amazon. it expanded the united states to tighten its high generalmy. it made the united states even more eager to assert, to establish stability in the region. it became even more desirable to try to impose on central america and the caribbean. when the election of 1916 occurred and wilson said he wanted to keep the united states out of war, of course there were u.s. troops in haiti in the dominican republic and in nicarag nicaragua. he didn't need -- the united states didn't need to intervene in every country in the caribbean and central america. in a way, it's a little bit like lynching. you don't need to lynch everybody. you lynch some people and that is the lesson that people learn. it is very possible to intimidate. in 1918, 1919, intensify iing american control over the region, wilson, despite his rhetoric that he was saying right at that moment in versailles

. >> a solicitor general of the united states supreme court. ryan owens is here to talk about it. what is the solicitor general? >> the solicitor general is the attorney for the united statess and represents the united states interest in the supreme court and occasionally the court of appeals. it is the central figure in terms of litigating the u.s.' position before the supreme court. >> whether or not that person is an expert in the topic being discussed? it is more of a trail attorney? >> the office of it solicitor general has three layers. we have the u.s. solicitor general at the top and that is a position that is nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. so they are very good in the legal sense but well connected politically as well. the lower ranks are four deputy solicitor generals and those are folks who are experts in the sure of the area involved and below them you have the staff attorneys. what is unique about the sc's office is cases which they are involved start off with the staff attorneys who are generalist and investigate the case and do research and w

it's right here in the united states. in the past. but it is something that we have to fight against. we know it's possible. across the history of islam, different sects traditionally have lived and thrived together peacefully and in many parts of the world they do today, including here in the united states. like people of all religions, muslims living their faith in a modern pluralistic world are called upon to uphold human rights, to make sure that everyone has opportunities. that includes the aspirations of women and youth and all people. if we expect our own dignity to be respected, so must we respect the dignity of others. [ applause ] let me conclude by saying that as muslim communities stand up for the future that you believe in, that you exhibit in your daily lives, as you teach your children, america will be your partner. we will. i will do everything i can to lift up the multimrift of muslim voices that represent peace. [ applause ] >> we will continue to reach out to young muslims around the world empowering them with scien

by 1975 the united states senate finally ratifies the geneva protocol with the provision that the united states could still use riot control agents in humanitarian operations and herbicides around the perimeters of its bases for defensive purposes. in 1977, all the remaining agent orange stock was destroyed on jonston atol. so it was collected from all the bases and all the storage centers on the united states and u.s. military bases and taken out into the south pacific where this -- this is actually a picture of one of the ships used in operation pacer ho which was intended to incinerate all of agent orange. these operations were all overseen by epa agents and so it was not just the u.s. military in charge of this. epa had to oversee this and they had to do it out in these -- out in the pacific because they had to have high enough fires, hot enough fires to incinerate the agent down to a nontoxic component. and that's, again, a picture of operation pacer ho. so this has all probably been pretty depressing in terms of the legacy of operation ranch hand. there is a little bit of hope in t

and work in the united states rather than returning to iraq. work as aand got research professor at the university of missouri, became an integral part of the columbia community. he and his wife ultimately had five children, all of them american-born u.s. citizens. the problem is beginning of the early 1990's, for the next decade, he had numerous family member still in iraq, including 11 siblings, along with his elderly mother who was blind. millions ofs and iraqis, his family members were not just suffering great deprivation, although they were, they were literally on the boundary of starvation, typically unable to feed themselves in anway that provides major stenance. th i incredibly coon among the rime sanions. althoughe wasarning aodest salary, simply uld not goodonscious live en what was rlly a lor middlelass erican existence with some discretionary funds while his family was suffering so greatly in iraq. he began to find ways to send very small amount of money back to his family in a rack, but a -- literally 10, $15, $20 per month to allo

i'll tell you that we have an experience in the united states. we have done it with the aids movement. you know, the aids movement ... they changed the law, the way the business was done, the pharmaceutic al company agreed on that, they produced 35 drugs in 10, 15 years and they kept the price down to $18,000, and the life has been patients get involved in it, the community gets involved in it, things do change. craig vansandt: to put that in perspective, this was, if i remember right, the late 1980s, early 1990s, am i in the e ght time frame? dr. ghosh: 1980s, right. craig vansandt: not that any of us are political experts, but my take is that the chance of getting government to make the kinds of changes you're talking about with the aids issue is much less today than it was 20 years ago. dr. ghosh: i think we need to go bacto history. these were young men who shut down the fda for a day, closed the wall street for 2 days. they were young, they were dared, they vocated. they were their own advocate. the government is not going to change unless w

of the united states has what's required to function as the founders sbebleded. reporter: you still think there's a -- mr. earnest: founders intended. reporter: reporter: so you think there's still a chance of it? mr. earnest: absolutely. i think based on what senator kirk and collins and senator coates has also indicated that he believes that he said, if the president nominates someone, which is his choice, i think that person would deserve a hearing. senator blunt said, i certainly don't mind taking a vote on this issue. neither said coates nor senator blunt represents a state that president obama won in the re-election of 2012. neither of them would describe themselves as a moderate. both of them are conservative republicans. but both of them are out there saying publicly that if the president nominates somebody, they're ready to vote on them. again, i guess it will make for an interesting caucus meeting when senator mcconnell brings together the members of his senate, maybe they're having lunch right now. reporter: -- [inaudible] -- every member of the judici

the united states in particular, what we would like united states to do now is to be and to stand as they have stood before against tyrants, against dictators and hopefully, you know, jordan will benefit from the. we in jordan, we've always, always thought that peace is the only way for social development and economic development and eventually providing good news for our children and our grandchildren, and other generations to. -- [inaudible] >> i'm representing arab league in washington and a great place to be today as i am a newcomer. major commentary aware of what you were saying everything is clear to me, and thank you for the clarification. but to say the role of arab league in cairo and washington, i would like just to answer the question of my colleges asked about what is the role of united states to competitiveness and. i think the international coalition is very well known. most arab countries are joined the arab, the international coalition against daesh and the other type of terrorism. so we are all agreed that this group of daesh or al-qaeda, whatever, has nothing to do

so that is data on who is breastfeeding in the united states, how common it is, etc. so then they breakdown that data and they break it down by state and by demographic differences. and the demographic differences they use to sort of flight through their data are differents of race, class -- so the differences are race, economic status, marital status, and level of education. and by organizing their data that year what they show year upon year is woman who are white in higher socioeconomic status are married and are -- what is the fourth thing? have higher levels of education, thank you. those are the women who are breastfeeding. and the woman who are supposedly failing to breast feed are african-american women, poor, unmarried, and under ededucated with a high school level or less of education. when the breastfeeding report card comes out this is a story that gets picked up in newspapers across the united states. you will this story every year and the story is always the exact same one. breastfeeding rates are improving but african-americans still lack far behind. thi

it was, i don't understand why anyone would possibly want to attack the united states. we are such a peaceful nation. all we want to do is go about living our lives with freedom and liberty, yet people seem to really hate us and it's impossible to understand why. the question that was asked of the mirkin people was -- of the american people was the famous "why do they hate us" question, and the u.s. government needed to provide an answer because people wanted to know why they were attacked. the answer was, they hate us for our freedom. what's remarkable about that, that was understandable because muslims and their grievances have been basically excluded completely from public discourse. the reason americans did not know that is because they were not subjected to it. they we never posed tit. years ler, heree a, after the united states has full-scaleo invasions and invasions of predominantly muslim countries, has bombed many others, has created a worldwide torture regime, has created a lawless prison in the middle of the ocean that has brought thousands of muslims, and ev

the united states is fortunate. we have the world's most advanced health care system in the united states. it's impressive. we want to keep it that way and make certain that we're well coordinated. we use common sense that we'll be able to contain the spread of this virus and be well equipped for any future threats it may pose. so i look forward to hearing from the panel. i welcome our witnesses. i would like to turn to our ranking member, the young lady from illinois, ms. duckworth for her opening comment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you to our expert witnesses for being here today. today's hearing is an important opportunity to examine the effectiveness of our current efforts to combat the zika virus and to ensure the interagency response is sufficiently coordinated. there have been 82 reported cases of zika virus. this have been limited to people traveling to the united states from affected countries. as a new mother i understand the public's concern. the recent outbreak of this outbreak in broo sil she

the united states in particular, what we would like the united states to do now is to be and to stand as they have stood before against tyrants, against dictators, and hopefully, you know, jordan will benefit from that, because you know, we in jordan, we have always, always thought that peace is the only way for social development and economic development and eventually providing goodness for our children and our grandchildren, and other generations to come. >> thank you very much, major hadidi. i'm presenting arab league in washington and i'm very pleased to be here today as a newcomer. major, i'm very aware of what you are saying and everything is clear to me and thank you for clarification, but to say the role of arab league in cairo and washington, i would like just to answer the question my colleague just asked you about what is role of united states to combat the terrorism. i think the international coalition is very well known. most of our countries are joining the arab coalition as an international coalition against daesh and the other type of terrorism, so we are all agreed t

the other countries around the world kind of count on the united states being on the side of science and reason and commonsense, because they know if the united states does not act on big problems in smart ways, nobody will. but it's not there trump. look at the other candidates. there is not a single candidate in the republican party that thinks we should do anything about climate change. ge. will he trump them again. live at the debate ahead of the south carolina primary >>> one of the u.s. supreme >> i'll leave it to you to speculate on how this whole race is going to go. i continue to believe mr. trump will not be president and the reason is because i have a lot of faith in the american people. i think they recognize that being president is a serious job. it's not hosting a talk show or a reality show. it's not promotion. it's not marketing. it's hard. a lot of people count on us getting it right and it's not a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day. sometimes it requires you making hard decisions even when people don't like it and doing th

they are checked against databases of united states law enforcement, the intelligence community, customs and border protection, state department advisory services. many of these are tools that, for example, when we talk about september 11th did not exist at that time. were not in utilization at that time. even when we talk about individuals who came in 2009, 2010, some of the most powerful tools we use now are tools that were not in existence at that time. let me talk about one particular example. it's a tool that we call the interagency check that is now used in the case of virtually every syrian who is admitted as a refugee in the case of every iraqi who is admitted as a refugee. that sort of check goes against the entire universe of intelligence holdings and law enforcement holdings of the united states. as evidence of the effectiveness of the use of those tools, alongside the 2,000 or so syrians who have been admitted, there are also 30 individuals who were denied outright because they failed either the check or the interview process. there are several hundred who are on hold as our

just as the united states has a similar obligation. e are obligated to prevent any individuals from carrying out attacks from u.s. territories against any nation or state with which we are at peace. now, these governments, pakistan, somalia, yemen, are either unable or in some cases unwilling because of very deep domestic political division to prevent these individuals from operating. so my question is, what are we supposed to do? do we simply cross our hand and allow them to operate with integrity and site well, they are not operating in a summit of armed conflict, a zone of armed conflict might be syria, iraq or syria but, of course, do we allow them to operate with impunity? is that what natural law, what morality, what the law but allows? i suggest to you that when the language in the united nations charter was written in 1945, we did not have this problem. we did not have the capacity of individuals and terrorist organizations operating in these lawless areas, striking against the united states against other countries. so we have t

the last great ocean liner bears the name, united states. it would be tragic really, tragic acknowledge we can't get her back if that happens. >> the trick is to find a developer, the vision to see the ship rat 500,000 square feet of floating waterfront property, most likely in new york her home port. >> what would it be to have her in the shadows of the statue of liberty? >> i think it would be great. it sailed from new york for 17 years and just like the statue of liberty it is a great symbol for thawnt our country offers. >> it is, susan gibbs says, the last voyage teen ship herself longs to take. >> she still has this incredible strength. you see the ship sitting there. she is held fast by these bright blue lines and you just get the sense that she's like you know i'm ready to go somewhere. she's not done. she's ready to bring in crowds again. >> that's right, don't count her out yet. since we first visited the s.s. united states, the fight to save her has risen through turbulent waters and now we're happy to hear the final chapter in he

possibly the first time a united states congressman has ever possibly the first time a united states congressman has ever testified in the general assembly of south carolina. myself and congressman mick mulvaney on the syrian refugee issue. south carolina does not want unvetted refugees to locate in their state but yet the obama administration continues to try to make that happen. since the syrian civil war broke out, the numbers i have are 2,693 syrian refugees have been admitted into this country. for the record, 53 of those were christian. 33 were not non-muslim. the remaining of those were muslim. mr. chairman, i'd like to submit for the record my testimony in south carolina senate last week. >> without objection so ordered. >> thank you. in 2011 or '12, mr. chairman, you and i traveled to afghanistan. and there at a forward operating base we met a gentleman that was assisting the united states military as a translator. his name was hollywood. after we left, we were contacted by a former member of congress, charles deju from hawaii, who served with that unit at that forward opera

he was put into the united states back in 1999. and robert amsterdam, you might've heard of this person out of london, he has an office in washington, i spoke to in regarding this man because there is now an investigation throughout the united states because of charter schools throughout the united states. that he is under investigation, he is considered a terrorist which the country of turkey put on the terrorist list it plus the country turkey is the one that hired robert amsterdam -- >> host: this is getting really complicated realty. where do you want to go with it? >> caller: is even a with the man? i feel the country of turkey is funneling terrorists out of the country of turkey into syria. >> guest: i'm not familiar with the case but i was according to isis own propagan propaganda, beginning about early 2015 isis began to complain about the fact that the turks have been much less sympathetic for people going through turkey to syria who are being recruited by isis. so turkey has begun to kind of cracked up at that. the foreig

i hope to spearhead that in the united states senate and think we can be a very strong voice and hope for the best senator the state has ever seen. >> that has been your biggest accomplishment as congressman? >> i think we have been able to help so many of our constituents, so many seniors. i represent the third most senior diststct in the country. yet i'm one of the youngest members and been able to b bng home $2 billion of sources for our environment for the everglades to help clean the water, to help divert -- it has been heading out to the st. lucy, killing what is the most biologically diverse estuary in the whole country, helping to bring home the resources, helping to find common ground on so many different issues. i'm a big supporter of getting our fiscal house in order and as able to start a freshman bipartisan group getting about 50% of the freshman class agree, where we can actually find some compromise, put forward a bill cled the save act where we identified $479 billion of wasteful, duplicative and fraudulent government spending, ended up getting a few of those -- a piec

lotteries have been very much a part of the united states history and raising money and the united states, but this was a lottery. ulysse down at the bottom a man named samuel blodgett was a man who started it. is going to be a great lottery. it completely and utterly failed and actually cost money. had it succeeded would've been about close to $5 million he would have gained tbilisi but actually cost the government money. but they did lower, blodget lured others into land schemes and one of those was james greenleaf from greenleaf's point, a man who was one of the most remarkable scoundrels in the history of the united states, and a great deal more should be known about him. but we can' kept returning to te picture. we've really talked passionate excuse me. we've really talked a lot -- apologize. we've really talked a lot about the federal government, and what i have chosen to call troubled governance. but now we have to think about something else. and you notice, i'm sure you have known that i left out something. and that is the slave in this picture. the slave is wearing washington del

or it -- united states. first, the facts with regards to pakistan, there is an excellent new book on the shaw -- shah. he is a pakistani international detailedat has information about the authority structure in pakistan. it is clear from his book and my research that the united states explicit clear and authorization of the elected president of pakistan. we had some cooperation and quid pro quo negotiating. you let us kill our guy, and we will let you kill the guy you want to kill. that is the poker-playing dealmaking that is offensive, hopefully, to every american from members of the i.s.i. cia ifco were to ask the they could kill some of their druglords in miami on vacation because it would be an easier whereto send a drone than they are, having a good time all the waters of miami, because the u.s. cannot control its borders. can the cia give mexico authorization? we have given them drones to take out a guy. this is the same as asking i.s .i. for permission to kill somebody on their territory. in yemen, we

>> the united states government or the united states naval academy if i ran this in the world i think i would probably put off the next two nuclear powered aircraft carriers. >> i say that because. they can make a political statement, the carrier arriving at the scene. it limits the number of places and times you can do that. it means you can react to fight crises around the world there may be sick someday. you have 20 or 30 more on active duty so we would have the capability and flexibility to respond to the crises but that is absolutely a personal opinion and certainly not to be considered as part of the official government policy and with that i will stop. [applause] we have the u.s. navy and the history available for signing outside the editorial we will introduce you to carney lawn. >> i am the senior white house first one that i started in 1958 which it was an amazing year. i got accolades from nelson mandela and when he met me he picked me up and swung me around and said you're not as big as i thought you were. they spent six months there and made about 18 trips covering the mi

the united states in particular, what we would like, the united states to do now, is to be and to stand as they stood before against tyrants, against dictators, and hopefully jordan will benefit from that because we have always, always thought that peace is the only way for social development and economic development and eventually providing goodness for our children and grandchildren and our generations to come. >> thank you very much, major. in washington and am very pleased to be here today as a newcomer. major, i'm very aware of what you are saying and everything is clear to me. thank you for clarification. arab say the role of the league in cairo and washington, i would like to answer the question of what is role of the united states to combat the terrorism? i think international coalition is very well-known. most of our countries are joining the international coalition against da'ish and other type of terrorism. o we are all agreed that da'ish or al qaeda has o do with islam and they are very extremist and very barbarian and barbaric attacks affecting us as a muslim, thank you ver

by the united states. reporter: enforcement actions. mr. earnest: enforcement actions brought by the united states. the reason this is relevant is that there are concerns by some opponents of t.p.p. who suggest that the president somehow has not been as aggressive as he should be in looking after the interests of the united states when it comes to international trade. but the fact of the matter is, the united states has brought more enforcement actions to the w.t.o. than any other member of the wmple t.o. and each one that's been decided has been resolved in our favor. so it's an indication not just of how rigorous the administration has been in putting forward enforcement actions to protect the american economy, it also shows we've been successful in protecting the u.s. economy. reporter: t.p.p. also raised concerns that they'd be able to en-- less able to enforce their own rules about standards if we were subject to an international body and that was born out in the w.t.o.'s decision in country of origin labeling, wasn't it? mr. earnest:

only the united states can do this.e have to do it in partnership with the arab world and the european allies. we have to do it with a final effort where there is stability. you don't create another void that has to be filled so young men and women have to go in one more time. this has to be a serious long-term challenge. i laid out the strategy at the reagan library. an appropriate place to talk about this. peace through strength is the moniker of president reagan. he was right. the world was a better place. the world was a better place because of the leadership of my dad as well. what would that look like. arm them with more sophisticated weapons. they are the fiercest fighters and the best trained and the strongest supporters and allies of the united states. it created a successful effort. the sunnis need to be engaged because isis will not be defeated boy a shia militia funded boy iran. it will only make things worse. you have to have a sunni-led effort and the province is a place where we were successful in buildin

i think it should be put to the united states. what is the implementation of the states, looking to shelter with china, militarily over any island in the south china tale. it makes it. china is not afraid of the united states. i don't think china will back down soon, when we are faced with pressure on the south china sea. >> what is china's goal, is it to downplay the east's preps, control the shipping lane. must be to do with the construction work that's going on in the island. >> first, ever since the end of the world war ii, japan, after being militarily defeated. according to the arrangement with the allied forces, mainly the united states, surrender all the island and atolls in the china sea, to china, the republic of china. and the united states kansas in taking the islands in in the brent seabrook, and at the time -- in the south china sea. many of the countries are not cooperating. they want european powers in that part of the world. that is the history. china is not afraid with the international community. china's ownershi

the state of michigan meanwhile has fired the head of the department of environmental quality's drinking water unit over the contamination. liane shekter smith is the only state employee fired over the crisis. the lead poisoning in flint's water began after an unelected emergency manager appointed by goveor rick yder switched flint's water supply to the corrosive flint river. governor snyder has faced increasing calls to resign. the pentagon has released nearly 200 photos relating to the abuse of prisoners by u.s. military personnel in iraq and afghanistan. the american civil liberties union has been fighting for nearly 12 years to win release of photos related to the bush administration's torture program. the released images include close-ups of bruised and lacerated body parts and bound, blindfolded prisoners. the pentagon is still withholding 1800 images which are believed to be far worse. "the washington post" and buzzfeed have identified a second member of the british cohort within the self-proclaimed islamic state who oversaw the detention, abuse and beheading of western , hostages in syria.

socialt parties here in the united states and the communist party of the united states were powerful. they had a lot of people, and they worked together with the c.i.o. and together, they went to the government at that time, and they said 2 things: "we represent the mass of working people, and we don't want to suffer the way we're suffering in this breakdown of capitalism. you gotta do something." and they addressed themselves to a kind of middle-of-the-road democratic politician who had just gotten elected president on a program of a balanced budget-- franklin roosevelt. and they said to him, "you've gotta do something for the people." and the socialists and communists said, "you gotta do something for the people," but they added a little barb, "because we think that there's a better system, an alternative system, to capitalism. and if you keep performing as badly as you're doing in the depths of the depression, we're gonna try to establish that alternative." and they pointed across the ocean to the soviet union, said, "see? like them." that scared folks. and mr. roosevelt was a good

three cano, you get politicians engaging the kinsey and the united states don't have --t many latino population officeholders. you have to be engaged. the more important it is to get involved if you want to change things. we are working in 28 different states across the country going torture door and doing mailing campaigns and getting phone calls. shopping centers and community fairs and festivals registering voters because we think this is critical to explain to our community how important it is. we don't care who they vote for but we hope they are involved and engaged. host: we will try to get in a few more callers. carlos, in columbia, maryland, go ahead. caller: good evening. i am a latino and came here was 13 years old. my plans brought me here. citizen.a i have a work permit that was given to me. currently, i am a student at the i'mersity of maryland in working toward an associates degree in engineering. country has made it very difficult for me to go to school. i have been in school since middle school. i just feel very offended by the way the law treats us and is not giving u

to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm george "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> and a very good day to you. we begin this hour with the race for the white house and the political storm that is brewing in the united states with less than a week before voters cast ballots in the states of south carolina and nevada. presidential candidates from both parties are very busy on the campaign trail, trying to sway voters in contentious races, and now the death of a supreme court justice, antonin scalia. it has raised the stakes with both parties keenly aware that filling this vacancy can tip the balance of the court. republicans continue courting evangelicals. so the big question looming over the campaigns, who will president obama nominate for the court, and what will republicans do about it? that is especially true in the state of south carolina where republicans have just come from a very contentious debate there. phil mattingly reports from the primary battleground. >> reporter: marco rubio, one of the only candidates on

the united states has treaty obligations to defend them.er it was wise to extend those treaty obligations so far east, that's 15 years in the past. >> and nobody ever leaves nato? >> and nobody ever leave necessitating. the obligation to defend them, russia is right there and these countries are very vulnerable. particularly lath via aand estonia. we are going to build up cs they will train with the baltics and they'll go home and we'll put equipment into warehouses so that if we ever had to get there we could fly the people in, the equipment would already be there. that makes aa statement to the russians about u.s. commitment. because the problem is if the russians could get to riga in three days which is what the estimates are, csis did a study on this, so did rand, and they essentially kick us out of the baltics, fighting our way back in is much, much more costly. it's much better to defend forward. >> in conversations that go on around this is there somebody in the room that is saying, come on they are not only in nato, they ar have eur