president, governor kean speaks for many americans when he writes -- and i wrote governor kean here -- quote, for the sake of our children's health, it's time for spot pruitt to go. when you're hearing that from the republican side, it's worth listening. pruitt's tenure at e.p.a. has been an unmitigateed disaster for public health, for the environment, and for the future of the planet we call home. its only value is if you have some peculiar connoisseur interest in government corruption to watch all the many ways in which industry can work its will within its supposed regulator. well, tomorrow those of us who sit on the environment and public works committee have that opportunity to put it to god use and prove how boldly pruitt is in the pockets of the polluters he is supposed to police. i sincerely my colleagues seize the opportunity. you can be sure that my democratic colleagues and i will. i yield the floor. mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. today in communities across our country young people are

. >> thank you, chair keane. i have a brief report summarizing some of what you heard from director bloom about our attendance at the conference. it was exciting to have a strong measure of staff that were not just passive participates, but shaping ideas. so we look fehr ward to the idea to send additional staff to additional sessions in the years ahead. i did want to highlight one note of a report that we were asked to submit to the acting mayor's office after the executive director's report was complete, because it speaks to some victims under discussion today. i will be happy to make that available to those on the commission, but we were asked on wednesday to provide to chief of staff's office for the acting mayor's briefing a continuity of work report. and this specifically asked for three things. one, what were the items where there were key deadlines or mile stoepz that were -- stones that were a priority in the next 30 days, next 6 months and then also 12 months. just to highlight what we provided. in the

. —— keane. kirovsk was also hit hard by the chaos of the 1990s.rvived the economic crisis because it has another incredibly valuable asset, massive deposits of appetite, all used on agricultural fertilisers. the company that now owns the mining business here dominates kirovsk. it employs one third of the local

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larry keane: i mean, no one wants to see firearms stolen from anybody. stephen: larry keane is senior vice president for government and public affairs for the national shooting sports foundation, a trade association that supports proposed legislation to increase criminal penalties for people who steal guns. larry: we think that sends a strong deterrent message to the criminals that are out there that might be thinking about this. stephen: keane says gun owners should secure their firearms, but he stopped short of saying that they bear some legal responsibility for any crimes later committed with their stolen guns. larry: it's important that you keep in mind that, you know, they're the victim of a crime. but we encourage people, when their guns are not in use, that they should be secured and made inaccessible to unauthorized users. stephen: though they would not agree to an on-camera interview, in a statement, the nra said, quote: "a law that requires reportage (of stolen or lost guns) is nothing but punitive. it does not prevent crimes from being committ

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we bring in jack keane, the chairman of institute for the study of war. want to talk to you about pakistan in particular, let me ask you about the 702 program, from your perspective, how important is it and show we have had it before 9/11? >> absolutely, if we had it before 9/11, we not -- we would've detected what they were doing. we would've been able to monitor and track their phone calls and listen to them. we have had it since, and makes all of the sense in the world. it absolutely is critical if we are going to give our intelligence agency, particularly the national security agency to monitor terrorists phone calls. >> dana: it past the house, looks like it will go to the senate and passed there as well. let me ask you about the united states making this decision to cut aid to pakistan. listen to the secretary from the state department. >> the president secretary tillerson and secretary mattis have all had conversations with packet to the light meant pakistani officials alerting them to our concerns that pakistan has not done enough to, and when i s

, general jack keane. general, good to have you with us. >> good to be here, lou. lou: this is like a -- i don't know. it's a retreat into the past suddenly. syria now with a chemical advance attack by assad again. what in the world are we going to do? the russians we thought were in hand and now their proxy is doing as he wishes, which is destroying the lives of women and children. >> well, the fact is the iranians and the russians propped up the assad regime successfully. the regime is going n nowhere. they're going to be able to stay in power. it's a fantasy when people in the administration believe that there will be a political process in geneva to resolve this to the world's favor. not happening. this thug and killer, assad, war criminal that he is, is staying in power and we don't really have a strategy to deal with it. our strategy in syria is focused on defeating isis. done a good job of that. but we don't have a strategy to deal with the rest of it which is a bigger problem. lou: and the bigger p

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general keane, good to see you. >> good to see you, trish. trish: a leading activists in a pension fund are launching a unusual campaign against apple, challenging the tech giant to address the growing problem of so-called phone addiction amongst children. is it really the phone-maker's fault that so many young people seem addicted to their phone? what about the parents and all this? why are they not taking away the phone? we're on this story. see you here next. yes i do. true or false... type 2 diabetes more than doubles your chance of dying from a cardiovascular event, like a heart attack or a stroke. that can't be true, can it? actually, it is true. and with heart disease, your risk is even higher. in fact, cardiovascular disease is the #1 cause of death for adults with type 2 diabetes and heart disease. but there is good news. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill with a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit. jardiance is proven to both significantly reduce the chance of dying from a cardiovascular event in adults who have type 2 diabete

monrovia, herel, is africa editor fergal keane. fergal: a fanfare for the people's man who rose from the slums to become an international football star and now president of his country. george weah is the face of a changing nation. for the first time in over 70 years, power is being transferred between democratically elected leaders. can you possibly be a success as a president as a footballer? president weah: whether you only look at me as a former footballer, but i'm a human being and i strive to be excellent. and i can be successful. fergal: today he was leading a team of friends against an army selection and still scoring. it was in europe playing for teams like chelsea that he became a legend. fifa footballer of the year. george weah inherits a nation still struggling with the legacy of war. in the slum where he grew up, they are hoping he will bring jobs, health care, housing. when you come here to the streets where george weah grew up, the scale of problems facing liberia is very clear. meaningful change to take place, peace

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fergal keane, bbc news, east london.ng the anniversary of the revolution that sparked the arab spring in 2011. commemorating the overthrow of the old regime of president ben ali comes amidst social unrest over the past few days regarding tax rises and price hikes, some of which turned violent. from the capital tunis, mark lowen reports. there is a bittersweet mood as tunisians marked the seventh anniversary of their revolution, pride they brought in a democracy of a sort. but also frustration that the dreams in 2011 of a better life for all have faded. seven years on, from revolution until now, we think alongside with the tunisians themselves that politicians have done nothing. nine governments later, they had seen waves of social unrest, terror attacks, and a sharp drop in tourism. this week's protesting was sparked by austerity. around 800 people were arrested for protesting. the government has now announced a $70 million package of reforms to help poor families, hoping it will stave off more demonstrations. protest ag

fergal keane, bbc news, monrovia.nd mudslides in south west england and snow and ice causing problems elsewhere. the met office issued yellow "be aware" warnings for many parts today. tonight there's concern about ice as temperatures fall in north east england. phil bodmer reports. after the snow came the rain, and with it, flooding. the south—west bearing the brunt. police say a number of roads are affected by flood water and mud slides, like here in mudeford, north devon. at the jack russell in at swing bridge near barnstaple, they were surveying the damage caused by the flooding. the kitchen‘sjust as bad. we've turned everything. emergency services helped others. this flood water rose in barnstaple and kuhn martin. in scotland, two climbers were airlifted to safety in the highlands. the pair were winched to safety from 3000 feet after a night on the mountain in glencoe. glasgow airport closed for a brief period this afternoon, so that the runway could be cleared, after some very heavy snow. well, tonight, much of b

joining me right now fox news strategic analyst general jack keane. you and i have talked many times, general, about this but it is escalating and escalating very quickly. where do you see it going? >> secretary tillerson is on top of the situation. he said it's a tenuous situation. h.r. mcmaster, the national security advisor met with the japanese a few days ago, and also the south koreans. he says every day we're getting closer to war. cia director pompeo on fox just two weeks ago who has all the information at his disposal briefed the president on a regular basis, said the following. we're just months away from north korea having their full objective capability. so what that tells me is, we got to pull out all of the stops now. the fact that russia is backdooring north korea and helping them should not be a surprise to anybody, and for that matter if that is significant help, pressure we put on russia, it means north korea will likely escape any economic collapse and be able to sustain itself. which brings us closer to a military option. i think so

fergal keane, bbc news, east london.ate his fee for reshooting scenes in a film to the legal defence fund of the time's up initiative. he'd been paid $1.5 million for reshoots for the film all the money in the world — that's because christopher plummer was brought in to replace kevin spacey, who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct. the time's up movement was recently launched against inequality, sexual harassment and abuse in response to the harvey weinstein scandal. with more, here's the bbc‘s peter bowes in los angeles. all the money in the world tells the story of the kidnapping of paul getty. kevin spacey in the original filming of the movie played his grandfather, j paul getty, but when the news of the allegations of sexual harassment came out against kevin spacey, he was dropped pretty quickly from this film even though they had actually completed it. as you say, christopher plummer was brought into play his part. that also meant that michelle williams and mark wahlberg had to be brought back as well to refi

fergal keane, bbc news, monrovia.enly in london last week. queues formed outside the church in her home city of limerick, where the singer's open coffin was lying in public, ahead of her funeral on tuesday. books of condolence have also been opened for mourners to sign. many expressed their shock and sadness at her sudden death at the age of 46. we grew up with her music, we would be of the same kind of generation and age and she will be missed. leigh i have very fond memories of herfamily. leigh i have very fond memories of her family. very sad to see her death. 46 years of age, you know. that's talent. we shared the same birthday that she was wonderful. brilliant singer. just living down the road from her but ijust think it's absolutely wonderful of her mum and her family to it's absolutely wonderful of her mum and herfamily to give us it's absolutely wonderful of her mum and her family to give us today. i think that was very, very kind of her to give us that time today. people wanted to come and support. absolutely

fergal keane, bbc news, east london.ng, having spent 29 days at sea and beating the previous record by six days. dan johnson has more. and here they go! cheering. the end of an epicjourney rowed in record time. four men who had not even been in a rowing boat 18 months ago, now not only challenge winners but the first to cross the atlantic in under than 30 days. it feels overwhelming. the challenge, as we said before, is just relentless, never—ending pain, just rowing, just the whole thing, and coming first is something that is beyond our wildest dreams. they left the canary islands 3,000 miles away and faced 40—foot waves, scorching sun and howling winds — not quite the apocalypse but a test of endurance for the four 0arsmen. surviving on rations, producing their own water, taking it in turns to eat, to sleep, and to row. it‘s amazing to complete the row. we set out as a charitable initiative for two charities, mind, and spinal research. for me personally, the mind research is commemorative of my mum and her struggle wit

fergal keane, bbc news, east london.n't talk this weekend to discuss the future of the troubled construction firm carillion. an investigation is underway in hawaii after an alert was mistakenly sent to residents phones, warning them of an imminent ballistic missile attack. dentists have accused the government of not doing enough to tackle tooth decay in england. new figures indicate there were nearly 43,000 operations to remove children's teeth last year, a 17% increase on four years ago. sport now, and time for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. thank you. starting with football. harry kane's incredible season for tottenham continues. he scored twice in a comfortable home victory over everton to become spurs record premier league goalscorer. tottenham, who are now unbeaten in six matches, remain fifth in the premier league, but are level on points with liverpool and 18 points behind leaders manchester city. both those teams play each other tomorrow. before the game we feel that the three points were massive for

fergal keane, bbc news, monrovia.iests are timed over a slalom course at wisla, in southern poland. cassocks are optional, though as you can see, most of the priests kept them on. big changes in the atmosphere today with milder airfrom the big changes in the atmosphere today with milder air from the atlantic but is it burnt into that cold air in place it brought some places significant and disruptive snow, also heavy rain, still cold enough ofan also heavy rain, still cold enough of an orphan and north—eastern areas forice of an orphan and north—eastern areas for ice at the start of tonight. then fat milder air will sweep the country. monday morning should start between three and 9 degrees, milder air in the west that will scrape the coast before moving into the continent, showers of scotland, particularly, it is mainly falling as rain at this stage, breezy wherever you are, windy in the north but for many places fine and dry. some spells of sunshine and a much better feel to the weather, much less chilly. between six

fergal keane, bbc news, east london. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come. days off the record for rowing across the atlantic. day one of operation desert storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attacks since the second world war. tobacco is america's oldest industry, and it's one of its biggest, but the industry is nervous of this report. this may tend to make people want to stop smoking cigarettes. there is not a street that is unaffected. huge parts of kobe were simply demolished as buildings crashed into one another. this woman said she'd been given no help and no advice by the authorities. she stood outside the ruins of her business. tens of thousands of black children in south africa have taken advantage of laws, passed by the country's new multiracial government, and enrolled at formerly white schools. tonight sees the 9,610th performance of her long—running play, the mousetrap. when they heard about her death today, the management considered whether to cancel tonight's performance, but agatha christie would have been the

maria: as you've said 50% of the planes in the navy are unflyable general jack keane we need more time such a pleasure thank you sir. >> good talking to you. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. maria: welcome back. senate republicans could present their immigration outline as early as tuesday this week. the plan calls for a boost in border security and provides a solution for daca but president trump says no daca deal without the border wall funding. he's asking congress for $18 billion to build that wall. my next guest met with president trump last week along with other senators to talk about immigration. he

all up in this thing steve kean professor of economics at kingston university in the u.k. joins us live on the program to offer his take good to see you steve how would you assess donald trump's economic policies there so seems to be a bridging respect from his critics that you know jobs are being created markets are up but he is protectionist to the core disney is he doing as much good for america as he claims. of course not because he always dramatically exaggerates everything that's been his business practice all the way through and he got quite a bit of bad press from that in new york for quite some time before he ran for president but he i am actually in favor of his industrial attitudes because he doesn't see free trade is being a vehicle of growth and frankly when you look at the economic theory behind it it's not just nonsense only economists could believe the nonsense that spouted support for a tried what gives you growth is investment and industrialization and actually to some extent what he's doing help america invest slightly more but of course the rest of what

maria: as you've said 50% of the planes in the navy are unflyable general jack keane we need more time such a pleasure thank you sir. >> good talking to you. maria: we'll be right back. started searching for her words. and my brother ray and i started searching for answers. (vo) when it's time to navigate in-home care, follow that bright star. because brightstar care earns the same accreditation as the best hospitals. and brightstar care means an rn will customize a plan that evolves with mom's changing needs. (woman) because dad made us promise we'd keep mom at home. (vo) call 844-4-brightstar for your free home care planning guide. laying here so traffic can safely navigate around this broken-down rv. really? a road flare? it's my new year's resolution. now i'm all about safety and stuff. you're not even going to try to catch something on fire? no...no i'm not. i'm going to miss you, man. yeah. i'm going to miss me too. ♪ maria: welcome back. senate republicans could present their immigration outline as early as tuesday this week. the plan calls for a boost in border security and pro

retired four-star general jack keane. jim jordan, house judiciary committee. we have howard kurtz on ground breaking meeting. neil: it was historic. speaking of the market, historic today. the dow posting fourth record close of the new year and its 75th under president trump. nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. open the bottles of champagne, here we go again. is 2018 going to be like 2017? >> why not. it has been a lot of fun. you mentioned great stats. how about the 92nd record close since election day when we were hovering around 18,300. here we are at 25,386 today. records across the board, david and melissa. did notice the russell is down just fractionally. that doesn't close with a high. across the board gains. interestingly enough only some sectors gained. we'll watch for the financial earnings later in the week. look at 10-year treasury bond this is very telling. moves above the 2.5% level. that is the highest in 10 months. this is all based on a stronger economy. rising energy, oil above 63 bucks, passing of sweeping tax cuts. we

joining us is jack keane chairman for the institute.ew year to you. >> happy new year to you. >> lou: i was stunned to hear various members of the obama administration suggest to president trump and his advisors that they not say anything about it is street demonstrations in iran. >> the fact they were quiet in the summer of 2009 when 3 million people demonstrated in iran. and first public of protest against the islamic state and the fact that we did not support that and no moral clarity. i was embarrassed as an american. and these are apologyist for that policy statement. president trump has done the right thing. we have moral clarity on the issue. this is a repressive regime and a regime that has taken the money that they have and used that money to advance the foreign policy on lebanon, syria and iraq and yemen. and their citizens resent it and they are frustrated and unemployment is off of the charts and gas line and fuel prices and what impress says me about the protest, it's not the urban elite in teheran that protest over the sto

joining us, four-star general jajack keane, great to have you here. >> good to be here.start with iranian protest, i was stunned to hear various members of obama administration suggest to president trump and his advisers they not say anything about the street demonstration in iran. >> the fact they were quiet in summer of 2009, 3 mello mel miln people demonstrating first public display of protest against the islamist state, and we did not support that and had no moral clarity on it, i was embarrassed as an american. president trump has done the right thing, we have moral clarity on the issue, this is a repressive regime, a regime that has taken the money they have, and used to to advance their foreign policy and lebanon and syria and iraq and yemen. they are squandering the opportunity to improve quality of life experience for their citizens, and their citizens present it. --s resense it, about what impresseds he about protest, it is not urban elite that are protesting. this is cut through political social contours of the state. there are tens -- >> widespread. >> very w

. —— keane. kirovsk was also hit hard by the chaos of the 1990s.ause it has another incredibly valuable asset, massive deposits of appetite, all used on agricultural fertilisers. the company that now owns the mining business here dominates kirovsk. it employs one third of the local workforce and has funded much of the infrastructure. it is also trying to diversify the local economy. to encourage the tourists to come, they've even reopened the local airport. again it is dependent on the company. if the plan is to work there will be challenges. the last two decades have been a struggle and it is still not easy to make ends meet. the 1990s also spell the demise of the once grand kirovsk railway station. it's ruined the side looms over the town. —— its ruined facade. as i know still how precarious the future could be. could kirovsk go the way of kadykchan? it is tended to see the parallels. if kadykchan relied on call and the state, kirovsk is no less dependent. its reserves of apatit are expected to last for another 80 years, longer than the sovereign

connell mcshane and strategic analyst, general jack keane. great to see you. good morning. >> good to be here. maria: a bounce back talking about the trouble in terms of canada upset over the nafta talk and china perhaps buying fewer of our treasuries. >> i think this is just the beginning. if you read donald trumps national security advisory company clearly identify a major strategic competitor, not just economic with the geopolitically and militarily. this may be to begin trade talks. maria: one of the top stories when you look at markets yesterday. markets down 16 points. train for we talked about people looking for excuses to trade back a little bit. i think the general had done what a lot of people in the market with market participants were talking about yesterday that maybe the china thing was overblown and it was more political messaging than actual market maneuvers that if we do something bigger, they may just want to get in the presidency or if they don't forget about us. we hold a lot of your debt. >> china has said wait a minute, we're talking abou

our africa editor, fergal keane, was at the rally. to know how the wind has changed in south africa, then listen to this. jacob zuma... booing. ..and... booing continues. booed by his own party, jacob zuma is increasingly isolated. even supporters acknowledge his days as the country's president are numbered. the crowds have a different hero now — the new anc leader cyril ramaphosa — businessman, skilled negotiator, who's promised to end the capture of the state by a corrupt elite. we are going to confront corruption and state capture in all its forms. the investigation and prosecution of those who are responsible will be given top priority. we are resolute in our commitment to make this the year in which we build our movement and turn around the economy of south africa. not since the end of apartheid in 1994 have i seen such a hunger for change in south africa. we've heard a lot of promises from politicians. do you believe him? yeah, we have to believe him, he's our president, our new president. hopefully, they can fix everything is b