those individuals were of course attempting to get into the united states. additional important statistics provide by dh and document in the report include the fact that between october 1, 2011, september 3030, 2017, a total of 355,345 noncitizen offenders were administratively arrested after praising been convicted of an aggravated felony for two or more crimes each punishable by more than one year of a regular felon. during the same time, according to just 372,098 372,098 noncitn offenders removed from the united states after conviction of an aggravated felony or two or more felonies. between fiscal year 2010-2017 customs and border protection,, cbp, identified and prevented deporting 72,261 for travelers on flights destined to the united states bromance presented in immigration security risk. in a statement yesterday about the report, attorney general sessions indicated that are currently thousands of terrorism related investigations into thousands of people in the united states including hundreds of people who came her as refugees. in addition, citing sur

there is a context within the russian and united states presidents on the sidelines of the asia-pacific summit in vietnam, in a joint statement of syria that our countries need each other. they are coordinating their efforts to defeat isis and achieve a stable political settlement in syria. we are united in necessity to address the challenge of nonproliferation of weapons of mass distraction. the fact that we have not reduced our efforts to resolve the iranian nuclear program and to destroy syria's chemical weapons despite our strong disagreements over the ukrainian crisis speaks volumes. today, developments surrounding north korean nuclear program are quite serious. in this regard, i would like to emphasize that russia, as well as the united states, does not accept the nuclear state of north korea. we have consistently advocated the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, but this issue can only be settled through a negotiated solution by diplomatic means. it would be inadvisable to test the strength of the north korean leadership and provoke a rash countermeasure. russia is committe

they were of course attempting to get into the united states. additional statistics provided include the fact between october 1, 2011 and septembe september 302017, a total of 355,345 noncitizens offenders were arrested after being convicted of an aggregated felony or two or more crimes each punishable by more than one year for a regular felony. during the same time. cody hs 372,098 noncitizens offenders were removed from the united states at the conviction of an aggregated felony or two or more felonies and between fiscal year 2010 and 2017 customs and border protection identified and prevented the boarding of 73,261 travelers on flight tested from the united states who may have presented a security risk. in a statement yesterday about the paper, attorney general sessions indicate that there are thousands of investigations and thousands of people in the united states including those who came here as refugees. in addition, citing surveys previously by the components that there' there is an estimato 27 other killings in the united states and an es

the. united nations security council holds an emergency session on the anti-government protests that have swept iran. turkey lashes out at america apparently threatening to drop bilateral agreements after the conviction of a turkish tanker in the u.s. that is as pakistan also backs away from its alliance with washington. extreme hardship in france that thousands of migrants are living on the streets despite president promise to find them all shelter before the two thousand and seventeen we hear some of their stories. and this man a new. story is this he still would. welcome back you're watching arch international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right an emergency u.n. security council meeting to discuss the mass anti-government protests that engulfs iran has finished up in new york the session was called by washington which has voiced its strong support for the demonstrators and tells us what was said during the meeting. the meeting was called by the united states an emerge

saudi arabia would like the united states remain there israel would like the united states to remain there to cut down assad's government and to deny the syrian government oil water and agricultural land that's what chopping syria into two and developing a long term relationship with the kurds in the north helping them it to develop greater independence will ultimately do it'll keep syria very weak this is a way to night iran the fruits of it's a victory in syria and also to bring russia down a notch so i think the united states is seeing this as a way to hurt its enemies russia and it won and to help its allies. both israel and saudi arabia the trouble is is that turkey is collateral damage here the united states' relationship with turkey is going from bad to worse and this dependence on the kurds is in a sense underlining now at the united states unfortunately i believe has looked at turkey as a last partner that it's move towards dictatorship greater islamist i'm less democracy is not something that's going to be reversed and that america can't reverse i think the united states the

the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] thanks to his leadership, the alliance between our two countries has never been stronger. the friendship between our two people has never been deeper. i am here to convey a simple message heard of the american people, america stands with israel. [applause] we stand with israel because our causes your cause. our values are our values and your fight is our fight. we believe in right around and good over evil. we stand with israel because that's what americans have always done. so it's been since my country's earliest day. during his historic visit to jerusalem president trump declared the bond between us his woven together in the heart of our people and we have always held a special respect and admiration for the people of the book. in the story of the jews, we've always seen the story of america. it is the story of an exodus, a journey from persecution to freedom, a story that shows the power of faith in the promise of hope. my country's very first settlers also saw themselve

states to people in the united states. agents and officers asking more questions and prosecutors prosecuting more cases. will lead to a safer united states. i firmly believe that. in support of isis-related philosophies engage in ask. talk about engaging in committing acts here in the united states that were able to prevent that makes the americans safe. >> i'd like to ask about national security as it relates to the arrest of the agents. talk about the significant of that arrest and why? >> i will say that that is demonstrated in the complaint that was unrelated to the case that former officer retained classified information. as that case proceeds through the courts, i would expect to have more information about the conduct that underlies those charges and the complaint will come out. but as of now, that case was investigated before i came to the national security division. it's an important case. it goes to illegal retention of classified information so it's going to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. >> yester

seems to be such a continuation there doesn't seem to matter who's the president of the united states it's the deep state the decides who our enemies are and how those they will be dealt with ok because i do i can't the contrast is so great that i've never seen it from a candidate to a president in my lifetime go ahead michael. what candidates get captured when they move from the campaign and from their own voice however authentic or inauthentic it is and then they get a subservient into the imperial worldview of the imperial city and the courtiers or the deep state if you want to call it that instead reshape their worldview and in many ways the over arching sensibility in washington today in terms of strategy is one of tremendous anxiety and insecurity now and so a grandstanding strategy a grandstanding strategy that looks like it's doing things that looks aggressive like the war on isis it's all a wonderful kind of demonstration and display the u.s. is not going to risk a big war with either china or russia but it will grandstand hence the ten thousand or so barrett fifty caliber sn

the united states deputy secretary of defense shanahan and the u.s. undersecretary for acquisition technologies and logistics lord have both emphasized the criticality of innovation, experimentation and new technology in recent remarks and both are working to align technology development planning with modernization objectives and to accelerate these efforts. u.s. military service leadership, civilian and uniformed, have been emphasizing these very same themes. and u.s. industrial leaders have emphasized that they are today working on delivering the capabilities envisioned in the third offset discussion. i see a very similar emphasis in south korean technical planning where dapa's focus on future creation technology seeks to align industrial structures and accelerate new technology initial tiffs to shape the high technology systems that will define tomorrow's korean national security capability and capacity. the united states has put great emphasis on capturing potential national security innovation from all sources, reaching out to non-traditional sup

when the united states grows, so does the world.rican prosperity has created countless jobs all around the globe, and the drive for excellence, creativity, and innovation in the u.s. has led to important discoveries that help people everywhere live more prosperous and far healthier lives. as the united states pursues domestic reforms to unleash jobs and growth, we are also working to reform the international trading system so that it promotes broadly shared prosperity and rewards to those who play by the rules. we cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others. we support free trade, but it needs to be fair and it needs to be reciprocal, because in the end, unfair trade undermines us all. the united states will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair economic practices, including massive intellectual property theft, industrial subsidies, and pervasive state-led economic planning. these and other predatory behaviors are distorting the global markets and harming businesses and workers, not j

and all the ambassador to united nations saying the u.k. like the others are watching events very closely calling for an end to the violence and for the government to comply with its human rights obligations he did mr. president rouhani has said the people's concern is president rouhani has said the people's concerns are legitimate and he called for iran to grant special access to grant access to the un special rapporteur and then went on to talk away from the protests about the security concerns in iran and how iran has a rightful place in the modern world but that iran and regional activity is threatening international peace and security let's speak to our correspondent mike hanna who has been listening in. on what he hates the u.s. ambassador have approved of what she just heard. well she would certainly have approved of the u.k. ambassador widening out this discussion from one political protest in iran to the role the wider role that the country may or may not be playing within the region we heard there as you mentioned from the u.k. am

outside the united states, it's no calmer. the president is facing serious threats and d a miscalculation could lead to all-out war. i spoke to the secretary of defense, ash carter. >> secretary carter welcome to the program. >> good to be here. >> on the eve of president trump going to davos, they put out a global survey saying the risk of military conflict is rising and it will sharply rise in 2018. what do you make of that? does that sound right to you? >> the principal place that that may be true is on the korean peninsula, elsewhere there's danger, but it may be a continuation of the past. we may see -- it's not highly probable, but never rule it out, is an incident on the korean peninsula. particularly the north korean military, sort of a doctrine to lash out if provoked. it has been that way as long as i have been working. and therefore, whether it starts with an incident between the north and south, whether it starts between -- with an incident between north korea and the united states, there's always a possibility ther

they are wards of the united states of america. baker to offer the services of the indians in the great war. >> from all over the west, we now stand 50,000 indians between the age of 17 and 55. we beg of you to give us the right to fight. we guarantee you, sir, our hearts could be no better cause than to fight for the land we love and for the freedom we share. >> chief red fox's sentiments were echoed by the seneca arthur parker, president of the society of american indians in 1917 who wrote -- >> "the american indian has common cause with the allies. the indian fights because he loves freedom, and because humanity needs the defense of the freedom-loving man. the indian fights because his country, his liberties, his ideals and his manhood are assailed by the brutal hypocrisy oppressionism. challenged, the indian has shown himself a citizen of the world and an exponent of the an ethical civilization wherein human liberty thrives." >> the outcome of the 1916 election reflected divisions in the country. winning by a slim electoral col

it will be felt throughout the united states. those negative impacts that the three of us have talked about. >> thank you very much. i'd like to focus more on the security aspects. so the three countries have cooperated in border issues, drugs, and other illegal immigration, how would -- how would exiting impact those three areas, drug cooperation, immigration, specially from central american countries and potential terrorist threats? those are key issues that citizens care about. >> i think a good place to start is precisely where mike left off which is -- it bleeds into these issues which is perceptions and you don't need to be kissinger to figure out why of all of the countries surveyed in the recent pugh poll, the country where positive favorable perception of the united states has collapsed the most would be mexico. it went two 66 to 33 in a year. and people say well how does that impact the relationship. when you have a presidential election in mexico, in less than eight months and you see what mexicans are being polled or a

i think donald trump has settled in to the realisation that the government of the united states itself not just his presidency but the government. is under attack from the deep state and the hard supporters of hillary clinton and that entire political group so i would say that if i were donald trump i would be dreamily surprised had this government shutdown not been the very first agenda item for his upon us we've got to remember that since one thousand nine hundred seventy eight until today that means forty years there have been eight teen govern downs that every second year roughly the u.s. government is shut down for political partisan reasons why would donald trump be an exception to that rule no reason this is expected and i'm sure he was prepared for it why do you think the democrats of chosen protection full immigrants a battleground here why why bring this into the fray instead of sorting out later in a separate bill. well it's pretty well known from demographic analysis of the voting trends united states most new immigrants are voting democrat so democratic party to win the ne

library was trying to mention the united states of america. and union the african union the regional called it intimate community of west african states and single girl china in particular the maldives are our friends beginning a story i want china polish here for to grow development. idea and china he also charges from president bush for support. and in the words of a president of the united states for ourselves what isn't good for the country and i'm. a lot is expected of george weah but many analysts believe that the next six months will determine which direction staging liberia and its historical success now the rich are getting richer and the poor are staying right where they are that's the conclusion of this latest annual reports on global inequality released to coincide with the start of the world economic forum in davos the antipoverty charity has found that eighty two percent of the global wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the population the three point seven billion people who make up the poorest half of th

what about here in the united states? is that breakdown still about the same, about an 80/20 that we're not seeing the r&d in clean technology and development? >> i need to come back to you for that, madam chair, but worldwide it was a surprising result. >> yeah, it is. >> i thought when i read the interviews of the business leaders and so on, i thought it was the biggest part was coming from the industry and less from the public. but public was the main driver of the r&d in clean energy. >> it's very interesting. if you learn otherwise, and particularly on the u.s. side, i'd be curious to know about that. because that is -- that's not what typically we would think. you have referenced energy security many times. you know, we think about the security that comes with abundance of supply and how we can provide security that way. you've also referenced the electricfication that we're seeing around the world. you highlight increasing digitalization of power systems that can assist with levels of efficiency that i think is impo

sixers all presented himself at the border of the united states. what circumstances could have led to that? it's possible a smuggler threatened or exploited the family and ended up with a child and push them across the border into the arms of one of our border patrol agents. that's possible and that's something we should do everything we can to stop. that's an exploitation of a child. that child is likely to be abused in the process of immigration and something we have to do everything we can to discourage. to simply turn away children at the border is a dangerous thing. what are we going to do with the 6-year-old from honduras or el salvador or ramallah at the border when they establish their written notes or whatever that there is credible fear for returning to their country. can we ignore at? do we turn it back to their country regardless? we better be careful. awful things can happen. and what do we do with the 12 or 13-year-old girl who was a victim of rape and sexual assault in one of those countries who was sent to the united states and our b

you want jobs their life my headquarters here in doha also coming up african members of the united nations demand president trump retract his reported vulgar description of their countries accusing him of racism and xenophobia also the u.s. extends the iran nuclear deal but for the last time since president trump unless he gets changes to the international accord. i demonstrations against austerity continue in two days here almost a thousand people have been arrested. welcome to the program a new report by u.n. experts on the war in yemen show the extent to which saudi arabia and iran have intervened in the conflict the unpublished assessment presented to the security council of shopping critical of saudi led coalition airstrikes which of course the majority of civilian deaths in the war the experts findings also bolster accusations by the us that a radian weapons have been supplied to who theory rebels breaking a u.n. weapons and bargo the report further accuses the united arab emirates of running torture camps in yemen where people have been beaten and electrocute it notes that the war h

first, the involvement of the united states and the war with the united states. when we think of america's relationship with the first world war as being from 1917 to 1918, we are missing the main point. united states was deeply involved in this war in a variety of ways. much earlier than american entry in 1917. the other thing this poster is attempting to get across is it is part of the movement that began -- that was known as preparedness. but the united states should or should not do to change its own society. to change its way of thinking. in response to events with -- that were going on in europe. the question of how the united states interacted with the first world war before entry is something we have a lot of conventional wisdom on, half-baked ideas, but not really a lot of solid research. the book i worked on, "path to war," was an attempt to do this. to understand how a large, diverse, complicated society, like the united states, was responding to the events in europe, and how that response conditioned not only american entry in the war, but how american

who we are, the united states and the russian federation? i don't want to blame anybody for the current situation in russian-american relations, but today is the first official remarks by me as an ambassador of the russian federation to the united states. [applause] ambassador anatov: i am not a magician. >> mr. ambassador, i want you to stop killing in chechnya. stop killing gay people in chechnya. i want the gay people left alone in chechnya. we need to protect gay people. yes, i will be -- stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. [applause] stop killing gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. [laughter] ambassador anatov: you can see our relations are complicated. [laughter] ambassador anatov: it seems to me everybody has the right to explain what he wants, how he can see how he sees the current situation. it seems to me i also have a right to convey a few remarks to you, trying to explain how we in the russian feder

interests and trying toissipate the united states as a power inertia. also porsche rehm worse is that iran and north korea are pursuing weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. it appears that the major rivalry is an intensifying and picking up has happened steadily and these announcements made are the u.s.'s own calculations and was part of my dynamic. i believe this was already in the making and in the last couple of years especially in the last two years considerable literature appeared suggesting that the unipolar world led by the united states is giving way to multipolarity. the world was in disarray meaning the second world war, post-second world war world orr w n inx flu about to change and didn't kw what would come out of it. alison came up with the prediction that the united states and china mightht actualy be destined for war as the topic of his book unless they come up with courageous and painful decisions not to enter that. we had another book on i think it was the future of american state where we also talked at great length on the new reb

prevent the united states from. supporting the theft of land and the expulsion of of people look i'm not a fortune teller we don't know what will happen a year two three five ten from now on what is clear is that the general assembly in the two thirds majority of member states expressed themselves self clearly on this matter and i think this. message will not go unnoticed do you think that the two state solution as adopted by the united nations is viable after what has happened. and do you fear that the. approach to try and find some sort of political resolution to what is one of the oldest conflicts ongoing conflicts in the world that this is still an option on the table after what the united states has done the two state solution is the only solution we support is the only solution that has been discussed the only solution that is clearly been negotiated and has a strong support of the united nations and other international organizations yes we are struggling now to get the process back on track but i've never been

it has deep reach into the united states. ing about the physical structure what about the very nature of society that the united states want to live in. the wall as the president embraces it with his attacks on muslims and other communities, with his resentment towards nafta, excessively about creating a physical structure but creating barriers and divisions in one's mind and promoting politics of exclusion and bigotry, the very opposite of the american dream. [applause] >> thank you so much for being here today. we're hoping it's going to be an exciting panel, thoroughly public. it's been in the news all weeklong piccolo probably be in the news as debate gets going on all the different bills for a daca six of those of a lot of things that get intertwined here, and we're hoping that will shed some light on the deeper issues that underlying the discussion over the border wall or border security, and then we want to hear from you guys, what your concerns are, what your questions are. and hopefully the congressman will be able to

and that home is the united states of america. this is one of the great moral issues of our time and it is an issue that must be dealt with now as part of the budget negotiations. it cannot be kicked down the road any longer. we must pass the dream act now as part of the current budget negotiations. mr. president, in the last six years since the daca program was established, these young people, again people who were brought to this country as infants in many cases, were finally able to breathe al sigh of relief -- breathe a sigh of relief. for the first time in their lives, they could walk the streets of this country without fear, without worrying about being arrested, without worrying about being deported. think about what it means to live in this country every single day knowing that at any moment you could be arrested or deported. and what daca finally did is give these 800,000 young people a legal status and a protection that they could go out and work, they could go to school, and they can serve in the united states military w

the united states and pakistan perhaps together, perhaps at u.s. suggestion came up with the concept of joe had aed and that's where militancy was born and created over to provide an army of militants who would fight the infidels, the communists. once the soviets left, these people stayed back in afghanistan and after 9/11, once again, the united states came to focus on that area and other places were bombed heavily and so many of them the border towards pakistan. and pakistan had to make a choice whether it wants to be part of the international coalition to fight them or not. and pakistan made that choice, and there by, the militants thoughts that pakistan was a target for that activity and that is the time about 2002, 3, that militants began to turn their guns towards pakistan. and hardly a day would pass when they would not attack one facility or installation or the other, and on the security establishments, either on the military or the intelligence faciliti facilities. from 2004 to 2014, all hell broke loose. we used to have terrorist incidents

house of representatives, the vice president of the united states and the president of the united statesause ] >> please be seated. good afternoon, everybody. it is a privilege to welcome you to the grandest hall in washington for an even grander occasion as we award the highest civilian honor that this body can bestow. i am honored to be joined today by president donald trump and vice president mike pence as well as senator elizabeth dole and second lady karen pence. i'd also like to welcome all of our congressional leaders and so many familiar faces that i see here in the audience. today, it is my honor to say, that pursuant to s1616 we award the congressional gold medal to the soldier, the legislator and the statesman from kansas, senator bob dole. [ cheers and applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] >> the congressional gold medal is one of our oldest traditions. since its founding, our country has been ushered beyond the threshold of greatness by individuals of unrivalled courage. bob dole is one of those giants. for the man from russell, it was always a question of what could he do fo

the united states declared war very late in the game.it was not bound by any international agreement. they had no plans to get involved in the area first and troops to the area. another of the vague things was this guidance. tell me what is right and i will fight for it. what is causing the united states tend up in this position? first united states is in this because of the collapse of most other systems of authority. the united states has no interest in putting it back together. it has the ability to shape its future. the universalist message if it applies in one place it must supply every place. the need to separate the united states even if the united states did not want to be involved well talk briefly about syria it has largely spun this web for itself. wondering whether you have not unconsciously spun from me from which there's no escape. it's classic and someone else for his problems yet softening a little bit. the curry is supposed to be progress the sense that it scientific rational along clearly identified methods and evidence

nations security council to convene because there were riots inside the united states but the united states seems to think that each it has the moral responsibility to protect protesters in iran when they don't even predict their own people at home good that's exactly what the russian representative to the united nations and the united nations chastised nikki haley about should be should that investigate further should and should we invested by investigate occupy wall street or these matters for internet and what happened with that shooting in las vegas i'd like to know something about that maybe the u.n. can help us find out what happened. in ferguson i think would be a good idea. these protests are completely there's hasn't been a story since russia gate well i mean there are so many of them stories actually that the press has gotten so wrong and the press was baiting the press the commentary at the foreign policy blog in the u.s. where babying as one regime change regime change freedom i mean really iranians of course is they want the sanctions to. force the uranium people to chan

the united nations is the u.s. dismisses a russian proposal to create a new body tossed when investigating suspected chemical incidents in syria it comes off the us secretary of state play moscow is ultimately responsible for all chemical attacks in the country says trying to fifteen but we're not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth of the fact that the u.s. proposal right from the start reveals the truth that they do not need. the u.s. government's aid chief says the scale of destruction in the syrian city of raka is almost beyond description after america's devastating bombing campaign against islamic state. and there's an outcry in the sporting world over the potential exclusion of a number of russian athletes from the upcoming winter olympics. it's seven o'clock here in moscow and you're watching altie international live from our studio with me welcome to the program there's been a fiery exchange between russia and america at the united nations over who is to bla

they would be occupied by the united states. britain's withdraw in 1783 open a new chapter of racist violence and colonization of the comment. the creation of the united states constitution begin in 1785, but the document was not approved by all the states until 1791. meanwhile, the interim continental congress cuts work on a plan for colonization over the mountain range. that was before it was even seized. the land ordinance of 1785 established a centralized system for surveying and distribute in land with seized native lands being auctioned off to the highest bidder. the northwest, referring to the ohio country, called the northwest ordinance of 1787 set forth a colonization procedure for annexation via military occupation, transforming into territorial status under federal control and finally statehood when white settlers outnumbered the native people or the mexican inhabitants. these were the first laws of the incipient republic, revealing the motive for those desiring independence. it was a blueprint for taking the north ame

in may god continue to bless the united states of america. [applause] israeli national newspaper showing vice president pence in the old city of jerusalem and reporting it took place without the presence of any israeli political leaders. the vice president met with the vice president. here are their joint remarks.

it is said that before the civil war, the united states were and after the civil war, the united states was. hold the simple declared of sentence in your mind as we go through this morning's lecture. there are certain premises that underlie my remarks as morning. the first is that world war ii was transformational in a true a dramatic way, both in the life of the planet. transformations that the united states was responsible for and participated in did not just happen to they considered decisions during the war. let's go back to that remark again. the united states stand at this moment at the summit of the world. improbablest how that statement would have been from the point of view of 1940, just five years earlier. year of the 11th great depression, which began in 1929. by extrapolating backward, the standards of poverty developed in the 1960's, historians reconstruct at a party line. we believe 45% of white households and 95% of african-american households were under the party line. 11 years of depression, one hoover administration and two roosevelt administrations had not lifted the

if the united kingdomm and the united statates decided tomorrow morning not to buy south african goods, not to buy south african gold, to put an embargo on oil, if our investors and capitalists would withdraw their support for that racial tyranny that we find there, then apartheid wowould be brought to an endn. today, dr. king's cicity temple address, decembmber 7th, 1964, in londo. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war r and pepeace report. i'm amamy goodman. amy odmaman: today iss the federal holiday honoriring dr. martin luther king. he was bororn january 15th, 192. he was assassinated april 4th, 1968, at the lorraine motel in memphis, tennessee. he was just 39 years old. while dr. king is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause ofof the poor, organizing the poor people's campaign to address issues of economic justice. dr. king was also a fierce critic of u.s. foreign policy and the vi

. - [cooper] opec is seen as a bad actor and has a bad reputation in the united states and in western countries in general because of the 1973 oil embargo and the oil shock that flowed through the 1970's. the entire world economy was destabilized. and, for the first time, oil was used a weapon by the producers against consumers. - [narrator] saudi arabia is a swing producer of oil. having the excess capacity to balance the market, or manipulate price by increasing or decreasing production. - [chanis] saudi arabia is by far the single most important factor in the oil market over any period of time. their policies today, and how much they invest, will be the single most important factor determining the price of oil in five or ten years. - [spindle] it's not only the biggest producer within opec by quite a ways, but it is the one country within opec that's consistently been willing to hold back some ability to produce; it's what it's called its spare capacity. - [cooper] they've been able to come in at pivotal moments to either drain or flood the system at will. that has given them enorm

well yes if one believes the international community's not just the united states and israel i think that is the consensus but i would add that this partisanship this taking sides goes back long before the trumpets ministration it goes back all the way to every administration actually after the kennedy administration when u.s. presidents have cast their vetoes in united nations resolutions demanding the contamination of settlements and settlements to me are even maybe more important to some degree than the jerusalem decision per se and they have been going on those expansions that lang grab has been going on unabated for the last decades and no u.s. president has stopped that and that's the fact that they are complete and what trump is doing now i think is just you know making a big show out of it in a way but the deterioration of what the so-called peace process process is has been going on for a long time so i don't think it's as revolutionary in that sense and just to commit cumulation of ministrations past ok would you agree with that broadly speaking this is the u.s. just laying

the united states is already a partner with pakistan and china. most of these projects which are being done, general electric is providing. [inaudible] the technology. in the last few months alone, if the american companies, they are all situating themselves to benefit from what's about to come up. >> and just to share for this group, what was the growth rate in 2017 for the last couple years, don' think people know. >> they've improved to 6% for 2018. >> last year was over 5%. it has been constant in these massive investments allow us to move on to make special economic doors along the corridor and we think it would be very helpful if the united states stayed engaged. corporate america is a really making up their own mind and we want them there. we had these good relations, they believed that people like me, that our relations with china and the united states. [inaudible] we've had relations since 1949 when they gained independence and with the united states since 1947 when they became the first country to set up an embassy in palestine. i think w

equals the united states and japan certainly isn't a poor country by any standard south korea is what for its size and population is remarkably successful and very rich by the way why can't they just carry their load for their own security just because what did what does the us get out of it i mean if something happens in the us you think everyone's going to come to the us is aid from europe and south korea and japan i don't think so why would they go ahead. i think that's a great point i think president trump is challenge to nato and europe to put more financial resources into their own defense and i think that would be a thing that we should be supporting but i want to go back a step i think we're still continuing to emit many many different factors for example you know we sort of discuss the u.s. in this sort of dystopian light and the tone in this this vision people want to come to the united states people are risking their lives to try and they're dying trying to get out of places like north korea where their governments and their the way they behave is absolutely zero freedom no

as the united states becomes weaker, we have chosen it with h.w. bush that ended the american nuclear testing program who didhe republicans that. unilaterally ended the testing program. we can start it up. chosen not to do that uni literally. the best thing we can do is have robust, credible, nuclear threat. whohat other countries don't have them continue to belief they don't need them because they rely on the united states. me when people start saying that we can perhaps just having a north korea nuclear program. as soon as you get comfortable and you move to a containment strategy, who is going to want nuclear weapons in this region. is going to want at at the least the united states to deploy tactical nuclear weapons which we withdrew. if there's nuclear weapons in south korea, who else is going to want nuclear weapons? who is saying it? who is whispering it? who is going to be really upset when japan has nuclear weapons? see the problems we're running into? that's a powder keg almost literally and figuratively. it is a very scary situation. what

we as the united states are blessed to have canada and mexico as neighbors. hould take advantage of that and what i said is that when some people see russia as a friend, and mexico as the enemy, that world has been turned upside down. >> and one last question, because we are running out of time time. >> i work for the ritter foundation, and we cover things like land rights, and vulnerable people, and trafficking and such. so i want to ask you about the wall, but also the threat of the wall. if you could address a little bit how that has had the impact or what sort of impact it has had on the life along the border, and the working condition, and the labor conditions among both the people with documents and the people who don't have documents who are frighten ed about the situation >> vonda? >> yes, it is not just the wall, but the broad are rhetoric of the trump administration. and so it is not just the latino community, but it is the muslim residents which has created a significant atmosphere of fear and for many people terror. we saw it immediately in the hou

this government shutdown here in the united states. you see democrats blaming republicans and republicans blaming democrats. with regards to leadership, the u.s. president actually had thoughts on leadership in the face of a shutdown before he became president. let's listen and we'll talk about it on the other side. >> problems start from the top and have to get solved from the top. the president is the leader and he has to get everybody in a room and lead. >> if there is a shutdown, it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the united states. he's the one that has to get people together. >> from the president's mouth. some are asking about the president's leadership and where it is now. >> we know from president trump and citizen trump's style, he's flip-flopped, depending on the situation and always going to put himself in a good light as having provided the best possible leadership and anybody who disagrees with him, there's got to be something negative about them. i think, when we look at the back and forth of the

thank you. >> thank you. >> the president of the united states. [applaus [applause] >> tuesday night, president donald trump gives his first state of the union address to congress and the nation. join us on c-span for a preview of the evening starting at 8 p.m. eastern, and then the state of the union speech live at 9 p.m. following the speech, the democratic response from congressman joe kennedy. we'll also hear your reaction and from members of congress. president trump's state of the union address, tuesday night, live on c-span. listen live on the free c-span radio app and available live and on demand on your desk top, phone or tablet at c-span.org. and live now to the annual state of the net conference, an all day forum looking at challenges to internet policy in 2018. this is hosted by the internet education foundation. minnesota senator amy cloeb char will look at this and elaine duch and yahoo! futurist author and we'll hear from the internet caucus and hear from the ceo of an application start-up that rescue workers in texas used to find an

>> so far, we have rule of law in the united states. le of law is one of the things that is at least at times alleviated the ill effects of the trump presidency in this first year. and the 25th amendment, which has never been brought forth as a reality in the united states, is extremely difficult to do, and you have his circle of people -- >> which is to remove a president. >> right, because of his incapacity. but the cabinet has to do that. the vice president of the united states has to do this. this is not something that the democratic minority does in congress. it's very different from impeachment. but that's one discussion that's accelerated as a result. i should say about the michael wolff book that so much of what's in it, trump's odd behavior, his narcissism, his lack of attention span, the fact that he doesn't read, his television obsession, his furi s furies, his temper, we've been reading about this in "the new york times," the "washington post," "the new yorker," for a long, long time. >> people have been asking this and genui

later on he came to the united states naval war college as president. as instrumental in the delivery of educational content for the purposes of informing our future strategy. united states naval war college here in newport is really the center of the u.s. navy of the 21st century. it is through these doors from 1884 to the present day that the great american naval thinkers came through to learn about their profession. the other thing we teach at the naval war college is we're not really here to fight the future war. we are trying to figure out strategic ways to avoid future wars through seapower. v >> are cities towards staff traveled to newport, rhode island, to learn about its history. learn about newport and other stops at c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. civil war,the stephen hood, author of john ofl hood, talks about some the misconceptions surrounding the general. he discusses his access to john bell heard's personal papers and how his work has brought new information to the deba

the united states. listen. >> no longer can we compound the attacks on truth with our silent ak wee yes sense. no longer can we turn a blind eye or deaf ear to those assaults on our institutions. an american president who cannot take criticism, who must constantly distract and distort, who must find someone else to blame, is charting a very dangerous path. and a congress that fails to act as a check on the president adds to that danger. >> gloria, it was a very, very powerful speech. >> it was a powerful speech. it was something obviously that he's given now that he's not running for re-election, i might remind you. but i do think that he is trying to kind of zwrgin up some sense among republicans that's their obligation, as members of the president's party, to fight him when he does things like call the press the enemy of the people. we saw john mccain's op ed today in the "new york times" where he echoed that sentiment and talked about the importance of a free press in this country. i think it will fal