policy and the asia-pacific reason -- region under the trump administration. this was in melbourne, australia. topics, climate change and trade. this is 20 minutes. >> what a pleasure it is to be back here in melbourne. today provides to share views on the trump administration in the united states, and its engagement with the end of pacific region, or as the organizers have coined my speech, "trump and asia." it is one of the most important foreign policy considerations for some time as the united states matters to australia, to our region and to the world. of the second world war, including the war in the pacific, the united states has been the instigator, promoter and the guarantor of what we call the world order. this order has underpinned international law and has defined the way states should behave in general and towards each other. globalization,ed economic integration, human rights and free and open societies. it has not always been universally applied or in force. nonetheless, the united states has been the reference point as the most powerful economy

here in one case, trump needs to sake -- take some responsibilities, or at least the administration. you know they're in the organization, and working against not just trump, but people who put them there. tillerson, there are a whole bunch of kepts in the government that need to move quicker to put their people in. eric: and these leaks, drip, drip, drip, leaks, when the media gets caught up with it, congress gets caught up with it and the rest of the agenda can't be applied because we're hung up on leaks. >> the other problems with the leaks, even mueller, the special counsel will agree, he's frustrated with the leaks, it compromises any investigation. so, i think, that you have to look at it from the legal standpoint. some of these leaks are illegal, they're felonies. leaking classified information. you have individuals within the democracy, and deep state, basically undermining our national security, it's not just about the trump administration, it's the fact that legally they should not be doing this. >> the biggest distraction to the trump agenda is trump's own tweets and the ne

today provides a timely opportunity to share views on the new trump administration in the united states and its engagement with the indo-pacific region, or as the organizers coined my topic, trump and asia. it is one of our most important foreign policy considerations for some time as the united states matters, to australia, to our region and the world. for the past 70 years, since the end of the second world war including the war in the pacific, the united states has been the instigator, the promoter and the guarantor of what we call the international rules-based order. this order has underpinned international law and has defined the way states should behave, in general, and towards each other. while the international rules-based order has embraced globalization, economic integration, the rule of law, human rights and free and open societies, it has not always been universally applied or enforced. nonetheless the united states has been the reference point, as the most powerful economy with the greatest military capability, and the only nation with the values, interests, global alliance

we will be here to make sure we provide consistent response to what is coming from the trump administration. when you have leadership that has demonstrated regularly trying to find more ways for people to have difficulty to vote, that is reasons we are pushing back in this manner. we are expanding the work under our vice chair, karen carter pearson, who is overseeing civic engagement and voter participation. to again, find more ways for people to vote. we understand, we hear this nonsensical myth of voter fraud. it is not happening. we are not seeing that. what we are seeing is that people need more opportunities to go vote and we are committed to that here at the dnc. as part of that work, we have launched the dnc commission to protect american democracy from the trump administration. we won't allow them to move forward in a manner that will hurt our communities, especially when you see the leadership is not led in a bipartisan way. their chair and vice chair are republicans. many republicans have found ways to push back against us. the commission we have pulled together is to make sure we

and what we hear from the trump administration, find more ways to people vote. we should be finding ways for people to have more access to vote. we should find ways for people to get registered. we should be talking about vote by mail, and early voting and opportunities for more of our opportunities to be engaged rather than the fear that's coming from the trump administration. as we saw, the trump administration and the commission requesting data which was obviously soundly rejected across the country in a bipartisan manner to demonstrate that is not what we should be pursuing. lastly, this is our continual attempt of demonstrating the new vision of the democratic party of saying we will come together and show our leadership in all aspects, whether it be in the federal government, the states, or cities, to say people should it be having an opportunity to vote, not have their votes taken away. so with that, great leader out of the state of missouri and across the country, the chair of our commission, jason candor. >> switch places. >> thanks, mike, i appreciate

leadership from committees of jurisdiction that have questions about the actions of the trump administration as related to the rule of the law. congresswoman ranking member top democrat maxine waters, congressman s grant, congresswoman cicilline, congresswoman watson coleman, and representative hank johnson, they are here to speak from the standpoint of their committee. i am not going to characterize their remarks except to say i am proud of the work they have done. earlier this week, we saw evidence that the trump administration and the trump family eagerly intended to collude with russia, a hostile foreign-policy to influence an american election. today we learned a foreign russian agent was also present at the trump meeting. members of congress take a sacred of, i do solemnly swear, and that is to uphold the constitution of the united states with what our responsibility is. the president also takes that both. speaker ryan has avoided any response by the republicans, any positive action to uphold the constitution of the united states. in terms of our electoral system, our democracy. earlie

commitments with the south koreans that we have to meet. >> six months in, sue mi, what should the trump administrationrom the veiled attempts at the past? the obama administration probably dealing with this, the bush administration tried to deal wit, the clinton administration tried to deal with it and it didn't work. what are the lessons of the past for the trump administration to take going forward? >> i think mr. trump's already learned that even though he set many options on the table, i think he knows by now there are very few good options left or no good option actually when the foal is denuclearizing north korea. josh mentioned about potentially turning to talks. the problem is north koreans are not willing to talk to us, not about the nukes. so we don't really have a lot of option except to pursue what we've been pursuing and i think that's what he's doing is going after sanctions and now what he probably has learned, more pressure has to be applied so that means secondary sanctions against chinese banks and entities doing business with north korea. the obama administration was a little bit sh

amy: the trump administration also faced criticism from fox news host sam shepard on friday over the donald trump, jr. 's meeting. >> they tell us that nothing came of it, did not write it down, did not tell you about it because it wasn't anything, so i did not even remember it, with the russian internet or in the room at trump tower. if all that, why all of these lies? amy: that was shepard smith of fox news. on sunday, president trump attacked the media and hillary clinton and defended his son, writing -- "hillary clinton can illegally get the questions to the debate & delete 33,000 emails but my son don is being scorned by the fake news media?" and "with all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #fake news is distorting democracy in our country." trump faced protests while attending the united states women's open saturday, which was held at the trump national golf club in bedminster, new jersey. more than 100,000 people had signed on to a petition calling on the lpga to move the venue. on saturday, activists gathered outside the venue to protest

mostly heard from democrats, surprising given the skepticism that the democrats had for the trump administration, complained negotiating objectives are too vague, required to be more and they have said that they don't trust the trump dministration to raise labor standards high enough in mexico in order to make this a fair agreement or they don't trust trump administration to follow through on rhetoric, which many democrats agree with. the republican side, we've heard some unit praise, they are wants that everybody modernization of nafta to rules that allow free flow of technology, e-commerce, the things the u.s. is strong at. most respects are close to agricultural groups, farmers or benefits. they benefited from nafta, elling food and vegetables, selling beef and grain and corn system a with no limit very plump opportunity for agriculture and many businesses smoothly across borders. republicans are easy to get this one, but worried about the potential pitfalls with canada, exico and the trump administration. host: stacy calling from mclane, virginia. stacy.rning, caller: good morning, thank you

we will be watching what the trump administration does. i know the american people will be watching, and again, we need to do everything possible to make sure more people vote, not to make it harder for americans to vote. >> with that, we would be happy to answer any questions you have. you feel the concerted effort to target african-american voters, given the majority are democratic? >> yes. anybody else? [laughter] >> i think it is no coincidence that the target has been in vulnerable communities. i think it is no coincidence that the target has been in vulnerable communities of color. brown and black communities across the nation. but we can't underestimate the fact that the disabled and our senior citizens and our young folks are also disadvantaged, as well. i think if you take nothing away from this press conference come -- conference, i hope you take away the fact that we as elected officials should be about making it easier for people to vote, not making it harder. and the fact that the trump administration would put this sham of a

byse countries identified the trump administration were previously identified by the obama administration under president obama. they suspended the visa waiver program for nationals from these six countries that were coming through the visa waiver countries. they have been identified by both administrations as countries that are hot that for terrorism. -- hotbeds for terrorism. we don't know what the white house has in terms of security threats, national security threats from these six countries. the president felt it was important enough to temporarily suspend a 90 day pause on pause onon and 120 day refugees from these countries. federal law allows the president to suspend immigration in cases of national security. language supreme court says a bona fide relationship with someone here in united states. you can exclude grandparents. the you think the administration is doing to narrow over reading of that supreme court order? we have our leasing the challenges start to come in. guest: that will be up for interpretation certainly. the supreme court only rolled on the conjunction. they have

the trump administration does not have a communications problem. it wants to believe that. president wants to believe it because he watches so much television, and he also wants to believe it because it's always thought of as the easiest thing to fix. but it is the thing communicated. you know, you can have the worst communications shop in the world. if you have peace and 3 1/2% growth, you have no problems. you can have the best communications shon in the world and if you have a russia investigation and a health care bill that carries 17% approval, your communications people can't fix it. that's the thing that the trump administration is struggling with. >> josh, we have reports tonight indicating that the president authorized anthony scaramucci to attack reince priebus any way he wanted, including going public. >> yeah, it's -- in some ways, it's obviously unprecedented. but in some ways, it's not surprising. it's entirely consistent with the way, frankly, that he and his administration are treating the attorney general right now, which is that the president of the united

we'll be here making sure that we provide consistent response back coming from the trump administration. when you have administration, such as chris, trying to find more ways for people to have difficulty to vote is the reason we're pushing back in this manner. we're expanding the work under our vice-chair karen carpenter peterson, overseeing civic engagement and voter participation. finding more ways to vote. we hear this nonsensical myth of voter fraud, it's not happening, we're not seeing that. what we're seeing is that people need more opportunities to have a chance to vote and committed to that here at dnc. we've launched a commission, dnc commission, that we'll not allow them to move forward in a manner to hurt our community. their leadership is not led in a bipartisan way. chair and vice-chair are republicans, many republicans on that commission found many ways to push back against us. the commission that we have pulled together is to make sure that we have the democratic response to demonstrate and we are serious in making sure that we push back and what we hear from the trump a

he will be here to provide consistent response from what is coming from the trump administration. when you have leadership such as chris cole buck, which has demonstrated always to have people difficult to vote. that is why we are pushing back in the manner. we are expanding the work under our vice chair, who specifically is over thing civic engagement and voter engagement. again, find more ways for people to vote. we hear this nonsensical myth of voter fraud. it is not happening. we are not seeing that. people need more opportunities to vote. we are committed to that here at the dnc. as part of that work, we have launched the commission to protect the american democracy from the trump administration. we will not allow them to move forward in a manner that will hurt our communities, especially when you see their leadership is not led in a bipartisan way. chair arehair and both republicans. the commission we have pulled together is to make sure we have the democratic response to demonstrate that we are serious in making sure we pushed back from a we hear from the trump administrati

it remains to be seen what exactly the trump administration will do about security. certainly in may, president trump signed an executive order on strengthening cyber security for infrastructure networks. there was a lot a to be undertaken about -- and it distributed on abilities and electrical grid. they are probably waiting for results of those two role in before they really chart a course that is radically different from the past administration. plan ise trump budget already out. are they moving money to this area to congress? in thethey are department of homeland security. the republican administration has requested a boost in fiscal 2018 to improve cyber security funding. however, there are cuts proposed at the department of energy, in particular, some offices particular first -- some offices for cyber security. there may -- there are democrats who worry there may not be enough attention paid to the hacking issue. good morning, gentlemen. my question is, i have heard , asialist on the military far as energy goes. their concern has been to help emp attack.ainst in

this was the second time the trump administration certified it was. state department spokeswoman heather nauert, while affirming iran's compliance, said they're not off the hook: >> there are still a lot of things iran is doing that are very troubling to this administration. and so we're going to try and push on the iranian regime to stop its destabilizing actions. >> brangham: in fact, the president had to be convinced by his national security team monday to agree to this step, for now. simultaneously, the administration maintained a tough posture on iran's non- nuclear activities, imposing fresh sanctions on its ballistic missile program and its most elite military unit. u.s. officials say iran's ballistic missile tests, its support for the militant group hezbollah, and its increasing "harassment" of other nation's ships in the persian gulf violate the spirit of the nuclear agreement-- though they're not expressly prohibited. >> some of the actions the iranian government has been involved with, undermine that stated goal of regional and internationa

the trump administration commission is requesting data that was obviously soundly rejected across the country in a bipartisan manner to demonstrate that is how we should -- that is what we should not be pursuing. this is our attempt to demonstrate the new vision of the democratic party, saying we will come together and show our leadership in all aspects, whether it is in the federal government or the states or the cities, to say people should have an opportunity to vote, not have their votes taken away. with that, a great leader of the state of missouri, the chair of our commission, jason. >> tanks. i appreciate it. thanks for coming. start by talking about how it is that the trump commission actually got started in the first place. it is important to remember how this started. it started with the biggest lie that a sitting president has ever told, when president trump, at the time president-elect trump, said three to five million illegal voters voted in the election. when he said that, most americans looked at that and understandably simply saw a deeply insecure human being who was t

importa ntly, the trump administration has left out two key officials in venezuela, the head of the armed, people close to president med euro —— president maduro to rise up. the trump administration have made it clear that if he continues they will roll out even stronger sanctions possibly from next week, so the result is crucial. i want to play a clip of the venezuelan opposition leader, leopoldo lopez. he has been in jail leader, leopoldo lopez. he has been injailfor leader, leopoldo lopez. he has been in jail for three leader, leopoldo lopez. he has been injailfor three years leader, leopoldo lopez. he has been in jail for three years for inciting protest. translation: in jail for three years for inciting protest. translationzlj in jail for three years for inciting protest. translation: itell in jail for three years for inciting protest. translation: i tell you that in my conviction, my fight and my determination of accompanying the venezuelan people so that together we will have a democracy. if that represents a risk for me of returning to a prison cell, i willing to take on the risk.

carried out a joint listing trail in the sea of japan. 44 states are refusing a request at the trump administrationo hand over detailed information about every voter in the country. >> states all across the country are rejecting president trump's election commission. architecthair is the of the voter suppression experts not -- efforts nationally. amy: then, we look at the showdown between qatar and its gulf neighbors -- neighbors. well i'll just zero be forced to shut down? >> regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees politically, al jazeera is a professional channel that has proven itself over the past 20 years and there is no reason to demand its closure. amy: all that and more, coming up.[532]greeting -- coming up. now, this democracy is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. korea successfully tested and intercontinental missile that extra to would be capable alaska.ng -- reaching the president said the fourth of july -- the missile was a fourth of july gift to president trump. tensions have been rising in recent months between the united states and nor

interesting that daca has proven to be another obama legislative policy that is dividing the trump and administration among themselves. they are following victims of poorly planned messaging on this. earlier in the week, secretary of homeland security kelly said the ultimate decision should fall to the attorney general. president trump says it should fall to him. i think the administration needs to internally coordinate. >> bret: charles? >> president obama is the only person to blame for this. he shouldn't bypass congress, and doing what he did, he took a lot of young people in this country, coaxed them out of the shadows and put them in a very difficult decision. because only congress can make that decision. >> originally president obama thought he didn't have the authority to do this. he changed his mind somewhere along the way. what the trump administration does with respect to daca, we are in the first step, long path to copperheads of immigration reform, something the president suggested on air force one this week with reporters. he has been sending as many signals as he possibly can that he's

aren't we going to have to look at what the trump administration is doing? >> yes.can go back and look at what the clintons did and on and on. i agree at some point we have to be in the present moment and move forward and focus on what's happening now. >> kat: i don't understand why we are talking about the clintons right now. yeah, they've gotten away with a lot. they are at the center of a lot of corruption but i don't understand how anybody can look at these emails cannot be at least bothered and not say he clearly made the wrong choice in this instance. >> i will go back to what eric was saying. i get your frustration because it does seem the media hasn't always played fair. there's been more focus on some of these small issues that have happened during the early months of the trump administration and all those years. >> kat: i think that's true but what i am trying to do is played fair now. >> eric: the russians can't go and send this lawyer and meet with trump, jr. and say here's a check for $5 million. stick it in the campaign coffers. they can't do that. >>

independent commission to investigate russian interference into the 2016 elections and ties to the trump administration. at their news briefing, leader pelosi also called for a good poking security clearance of president trump's son-in-law jared kushner. mrs. pelosi: good morning everyone. here withed to be distinguished representation of house democratic caucus. leadership from committees of jurisdiction that have questions about the actions of the trump administration as related to the rule of the law. topresswoman ranking member democrat maxine waters, congressman s grant, congresswoman cicilline, congresswoman watson coleman, and representative hank johnson, they are here to speak from the standpoint of their committee. i am not going to characterize their remarks except to say i am proud of the work they have done. sawier this week, we evidence that the trump administration and the trump eagerly intended to collude with russia, a hostile foreign-policy to influence an american election. today we learned a foreign russian agent was also present at the trump meeting. members of congress take a sacre

judge agreed with us and that's what the trump administration has decided to appeal.o here we are. >> all right. the legal battle continues. hawaii attorney general doug chin, thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >>> six members of afghanistan's all girls robotics team are in washington today after being rejected twice for u.s. visas. earlier this week the president directly intervened to sidestep the visa system. the debacle drew global attention as the administration tries to tighten entrance into the u.s. the girls are here to participate tomorrow in the three-day competition at the capital along with entrants from 157 countries. we wish them all the luck. >>> it's only been legal for two weeks and nevada is already having pot problems. the green light given to distributors after the state's supply went up in smoke. >>> next, cousins accused of committing deadly crimes. gruesome details released involving the murders of four men on a family farm in pennsylvania. (flourish spray noise) (flourish spray noise) (flourish spray noise) (flourish spray noise) the joy o

as we saw the trump administration and commission requesting data which was soundly rejected across the country in a bipartisan manner to demonstrate that is not what we should be pursuing. lastly, this is our continual attempt of demonstrating the new vision of democratic party of saying we will come together and show our leadership in all aspects whether in the federal government, the states, the cities, to say people should be having opportunity to vote, not have their votes taken away. so with that, great leader out of the state of misery come across the country that chair of our commission jason kander. >> thanks, mike duke i appreciate it. thank all of you for coming. thank you very much. let me just start by talking about how it is the trump commission got started in first place. it is important for us remember how this started. it started with the biggest lie that he sitting president has ever told when president trump at the time president-elect trump said that three to 5,000,000 illegal voters had voted intellectual. we needed that most americans look at that and understandabl

i also mentioned this idea of onerous regulations that the trump administration talks about. if you look at the numbers of what happened during the obama administration, the u.s. was producing about 5.4 million barrels per day. he then goes forward with his has beengenda, which described as everything from the death rattle to u.s. oil production in the u.s. oil industry, and went from 5.4 million barrels per day to about 9.4 million barrels per day. ,t's expected to go over shattering records. .e should step back a bit all of that was during the obama administration. host: we are talking to brian scheid. host: this week smart -- this week marks four months since rick perry became the energy secretary. what impact has he had on the future of energy production in the united states? what has been his role in the trump administration here? -- guest: hereally has really push this idea of getting to our full potential as a global user of oil. coal.l gas, sixalked about the different things, u.s. energy week. some of them were lng export approvals, which were in line with the obama a

under the trump administration. we'll hear testimony from susan thornton, who serves as the acting assistant secretary for the bureau of east asian and pacific affairs. serving as chair of the subcommittee is colorado senator cory gardner, who recently introduced legislation to impose an embargo against north korea. that hearing starts live at 2:30 eastern, also on c-span 3. >>> tuesday night we will hear more from president trump as he speaks to supporters in youngstown, ohio. we will have live coverage beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern also here on c-span 3. >>> congress is expected to have a busy week with the house considering proposed sanctions against russia, iran and north korea, as well as defense related spending bills. the senate is dealing with health care legislation. watch live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate on c-span 2 and watch anytime on c-span.org. and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> next, a discussion on the future of u.s. trade policy and current trade protection measures pro

these obstruction tactics are carried out in the name of resisting the trump administration and playing to a radical left-wing base. >> reporter: how does it compare to the last administration. 50 trump nominees have been confirmed out of 242 nominations to key positions as of june 30th this year compared to 186 confirmations out of 336 nominations at the same point under the obama administration in 2009 but senate minority leader chuck schumer says the administration has only itself to blame telling the ap if the white house is looking for the cause of delays they need only look in the mirror. no administration has been slower in sending nominees to the senate and donald trump has nominated your people, it is apparent they are waiting longer than the last administration, 32 nominees waiting for a floor vote with 130 waiting for consideration from committees was he hopes the pace will pick up before the august recess suggesting if it doesn't the president has every right to call congress back if necessary. i think we will hear a lot more about this story in coming days. >> gop senators

the trump administration is publicizing made in america products. say the president's own businesses ignore that policy. the outgoing ethics chief say the president's appearances at a golf courses are another example of the administrations conflicting interests. >>> some of the world's brightest young minds are in washington showing off robots for a participation. just getting to the u.s. for some was a big achievement. >> reporter: in washington, you might be relieved to know robots stole the spotlight from the politicians. they were designed from teenagers from 158 countries and winning required cooperating with other nations. is winning the most important thing? >> no, definitely not. >> reporter: what's the most important thing? >> having fun. >> reporter: there was no shortage of that. some teams had more challenges than others, syrian refugees identified their nation, simply as, hope. team afghanistan. >> reporter: perhaps no group overcame more adversity as this team from afghanistan, where girls are discouraged from pursuing education, just

trump. house republicans should not be providing covers for the administration. speaker ryan should allow the house to vote on the bill and republicans should join democrats in voting for this resolutions of inquiry that will provide congress and americans with important information about the administration's dealings with russia. especially in the wake of the troubling news that broke this week regarding the trump campaign's communications with russia. all relevant facts must come to light. the united states suffered a catastrophic event in 2016 when a foreign adversary trying to interfere with our election. to do nothing as the president has done, as this republican congress has done, is to invite russia to interfere again in 2018, 2020, and beyond. it is also to invite others, perhaps the chinese, nonstate actors, to interfere with our democratic processes. that is unacceptable for the nation. i would like to introduce a wonderful congresswoman from washington state, seattle i believe? from the judiciary committee, congresswoman john paul. >> thank you so much

the trump administration asking for a meeting with the u.n. ea's ballistic missile launch. this is a meeting likely to take place tomorrow, the same day president trump leaves for europe and is looking for his high stakes economic summit in a one-on-one meeting with russian president vladimir putin. this is going to be, panel, a fascinating meeting. we don't know how this will turn out. all eyes will be on this, and because we look toward that, because we believe this is the first face-to-face meeting between president trump and vladimir putin, it's important to note he has a previous relationship with vladimir putin. >> have you ever met the guy? >> i do have a relationship and i can tell you he's very interested in what we're doing today. we just left moscow. he could not have been nicer. he was so nice and so everything. i was in moscow recently and i spoke indirectly and directly with president putin who could not have been nicer. >> you think you would be able to get along with vladimir putin. have you had any contact with him? >> yes. >>

trump administration does not.e been clear we have bigger issues now, we've got syria, a whole range of things, north korea, whatever it is. and i think trump, you know, he's going to have a real problem if he goes off script. the russians are going to come in prepared and disciplined and his aides are desperate to avoid a repeat of what went on back when he met with the russian foreign minister, russian ambassador in the oval office where he's bragging about firing the fbi director. he's joking around, taking pictures, smiling. they really want to avoid that. they're keeping it short. trump does like to freelance, i guess. and i think, you know, at some point they're going to have to reckon with the fact the >>> why is poland first up on this trip with the president. >> he's going to give a speech and i think he wants to promote natural gas exports from the u.s. to poland and the baltics and central europe. i think that's really his goal. but it's really upsetting. a lot of european leaders see this as part of pre

tes to conduct these missile tests times in a poetic way, and they said it was a gift to the trump administrationit also happened to coincide a few days after the end of the moon j in an donald trump summit in which unfortunately president moon, who had come into office and has about an 80% popularity rating, in many ways toed the line of the trump administration about maximum pressure and agreeing with the u.s. policy on north korea, which has slightly departed from his pro in gauge design and the sentiments of the south korean people. eight out of 10 want into korean dialogue. i think in many ways it was in response to that and it happened to coincide with president , and weisit to seoul --w the koreans were not which the trump administration is basically replicating. tests these korea missiles as a way to advance their capability to defend in the case of any kind of preemptive strike from the united states. we don't know if they could put a nuclear warhead on one of these that could reach the united states, but that is the point. they want to put the pressure on the united states, on the trump

we examine the trump's administration disruptive turn on the world stage, this week on "washington week." president trump: whether the west has the will to survive. do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost. robert: in europe, president trump defiantly defends the west and send a message to moscow. president trump: we want destabilizing activities and support for hostile regimes including syria and iran. robert: the president remains skeptical about russia's meddling. president trump: i think it was russia and other people and/or countries. nobody really knows for sure. robert: putin denied the charges and mr. trump is looking for a way to move forward. what does that mean? meanwhile, world leaders discuss terrorism and what to do about north korea's latest missile launch. we explore how trump's america first agenda is being received with peter baker and yeganeh torbati and nancy youssef and doyle mcmanus. >> celebrating 50 years, this is "washington week." funding is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today. and

policy toward north korea under the trump administration.e will hear testimony from susan thornton who serves as the acting assistant secretary for the bureau of east asian and pacific affairs. serving as chair of the subcommittee is colorado senator cory gardner, who recently introduced legislation to impose an embargo against north watch live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate on c-span 2. and watch any time on c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> last week the senate farris bryant committee hosted former assistant treasury secretaries to discuss the decisions and challenges involved in crafting tax legislation. officials from the clinton, bush an

juan: we end the show today with a look at one of the most key members of the trump administration jaredushner. , donald trump's son-in-law and senior adviser is, along with trump's son donald trump jr., at the center at the center of a new "new york times" story published sunday. according to the article, trump junior and jared kushner and trump's then-campaign chairman paul manafort, reportedly attended the meeting with russian lawyer. they met two weeks after trump won the election. christian is one of trump senior advisers and has assumed a prominent role. next guest wrote an article "does jared kushner even , know anything about the countries he's supposed to be doing diplomacy with?" amy wilentz has also written several books on haiti, including "farewell, fred voodoo: a letter from haiti," and she is wehner of the 2013 national book critics circle award. she also wrote "the rainy season: haiti --then and now." welcome to democracy now! jared kushner, what you know about him, his history, his experience, and how that qualifies him to be the point person on foreign-policy. some are

the trump administration may need to rethink how it addresses its issues with beijing.ressure on china and organized the g-20 countries and others to pressure on china on this. i think there are forces in that the understand overcapacity is distorting their economy and something they have deal with sooner or later. with aluminum for example, we challenged the subsidies china has provided their aluminum financingin terms of and other inputs, and the trump administration has not followed through on that case. hopefully they will do that, but it needs to be an all out effort by the u.s. and the global community to underscore for china how they have to take allow market forces to play a greater role, including areas where there is overcapacity. some expect to get indication of this administration on a path forward on steel. what we you be looking in that document from the trade representative and the secretary of commerce? the trump administration is using a rarely used trade law that says we have a national security threat because of our lack of domestic pacitti for too ma

the trump administration is asking for an emergency u.n. security council meeting on north korea. is likely to take place tomorrow. the same day that president trump leaves for europe and this big meeting that he has with russian president vladimir putin at the g20 summit in germany. we now know that their first face to face encounter is going to be a formal sit down, not just an informal pull aside and we're going to talk more about that now with congressman adam smith of washington. back with us now, he's the top democrat on the house armed services committee. >>> we know, congressman, that the president has requested of his staff to give him some options that he can have at his disposal when he goes into this meeting, and part of that is possible concessions. these facilities, these compounds that were taken away from the russians by the obama administration sanctions, what kind of message does it send that the trump administration is preparing what are really possible carrots for russia? >> a very bad one. putin takes advantage of weakness, and it's very ironic that for someon

thinking about in the pentagon. >> it's the true one thing that the obama administration and the trump administrationrly conveyed. it was the single people bothering the obama people after they left and what's has this administration concerned. >> it's probably going to be the thing that bothers the next administrati administration. now they have this and now they have this leader that is very convinced this is the way he has to be strong and knows because we're so tied to the south that it's a big weakness of the united states. i guess weakness or liability that he's so close to us he could start this and make significant problems for the united states if he does that. >> i makes them feel better about the iran deal. whether it's perfect or not through really rigorous global sanctions against iran. that's not what we have against north korea now. i think the administration says let's move this more in the iran direction and not blow up the iran deal now. we have plenty of other issues. >> what's the impact on the iran deal? >> i slightly disagree. the lesson is you can't let the powers obtain nuclea

republicans have been working since day one of the trump administration to sabotage the marketplace as a pretext for re.sing trumpca i want to focus on the word cost, cost, cost feared every hition of trumpcare would americans with skyhigh deductibles, soaring out-of-pocket costs. for example, a middle-aged, middle in game -- middle income person would increase their deductible from $5,000 to $13,000 or pay hundreds or thousands more in premiums. costs are still going up with hired deductibles and higher co-pays for premiums. of4-year-old with an income -- $56,800, would be forced to pay $11,000 more for the same level of coverage he or she has today. $1700 under the affordable care over $14,000 under their bill. according to estimates, premiums for those under 40 could be up to 70% more expensive if they want maternity coverage. without covered, giving birth cost an average of 30,000 -- $30,000, or $50,000 for a c-section delivery. that is totally unacceptable. said, if mynnell site is not able to agree on an adequate replacement, some kind of action to the health insurance market mus

we are deeply disturbed by the trump administration attempt to sabotage the affordable care act a law they are trusted to uphold. despite the narrative of implosion, more than 10 million americans signed up or coverage in the aca marketplace is in 2017 and the environment uncertainty created by the trump administration's refusal to continue cost sharing payment has caused insurance to propose 2018 premium increases. the biggest economic challenge of our time is that too many people are in jobs that just do not pay them enough to live on. we cannot put american families in jeopardy by raising the cost of health care. we need a country and the health care system that works with the middle class and the vulnerable not just the wealthy and those with the most lobbyists. with back, i want to say thank you to other speakers today. thank you for your work and all you do to inform our debate and we look forward to your discussion. i will now introduce our panelists and then we will proceed with the testimony. and we will start the testimony with that elmendorf former director at the congressi