on a handful of american funded outlets and groups which include radio free asia or the national democratic institute you team up with the opposition to overthrow the man in charge you leave cambodia that's the gist but never stop made clear as want to continue demolition to topple the government has to be a young boy and you are big boy how can you you're pushed out of the old boy and you're asking for democracy and human rights so prime minister who send who first took power more than three decades ago after once losing in ny in combat ended up running for parliament with no mighty enemies on the ballot box battlefield the most daring political opponents of his can bodie in people's party have been silenced or jailed another option is to be banned from politics like this former phnom penh city council member from the c.n.r. peak to make ends meet he now has to endure the south asian heat driving that took to doing that they've got mandates and i don't care about losing power i'm sorry for not being able to serve the people who elected us that democracy in cambodia was dead when the government got r

national democratic institute and democratic parties and groups in russia on election strategy and politicalm during the time when it seemed possible that russia would become a more that russia would become a more democratic society. he was

to work with the national democratic institute as its strategic institution. and most recently as a work on up about the development about the responses to russian intelligence operations. even if we were to walk out of this hearing today and secure beyond a shadow of a doubt the infrastructure even if we were medically field. and even if the social social media companies finally put forth a good fourth effort. even then we would still not successfully do our faces. if our democratic processes are to remain secure we must think beyond knee-jerk reactions. european countries that have been most successful head in common one key point. their governments recognize that they cannot simply spot check or label their way out of crisis. for example in estonia despite a large ethnic population in a near constant barrage it would be fighting fewer footholds than did ten years ago this is partly because the government is conducting a proactive outreach to the ethnic russian population including language educational initiative. similarly there has been a growing demand fo

agency and some so-called pro-democracy groups like the national doma for democracy, the national democratic institute, and the u.s. agency for international development, has funded and directed that only media organizations, but so-called civil society groups and human rights groups to basically undermined the sandinista government and then before that, to support the u.s. -- supported the used and to tater ship. -- supported the dictatorship. we of the clean face represented by students and civil society organizations that as i mentioned are supported by the united states and a very violent group of people who have been m anning these roadblocks that are basically kept entire cities besieged and kept them in a state of terror to basically undermined support for the sandinista government and also to keep them from speaking out and to also hurt the economy. what is happening right now in nicaragua is nothing short of a coup with the entire support of the united states, civil society unit organizations that are operating in nicaragua, mrs as well as the international corporate media -- the same interna

we welcome senate democrats [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, who take their duties seriously. the judge stands ready to meet with both members -- members of both parties. the president will be participating in an event and we are excited to hold the 2018 made in america product showcase at the white house. the president is committed to policies that ensure our products are made in america. we will see items like snowboards made by never summer industries in colorado, campers made by the corporation in indiana, and f-150 trucks made by the ford motor company in michigan and baseball bats made in pennsylvania. the president celebrates every state's effort and commitment to american-made products. he is honored to have these companies here and we look forward to having you join us at that reporter: thanks. as the president considering the house intel request to declassify key sections of the with respect to the fisa document release? and will he do that declassification before the house goes into recess? ms. sanders: the president wants to remain uninvolved in t

nations, incite violence within the borders. moscow has used corruption and coercion to undermine the rule of law and democratic institutions of each of these nations. putin continues to use cyber warfare against each of these nations. we as leaders of the free world and guarantors of the international rules-based order have a duty to stand by these sovereign states and in some cases, mr. speaker, we have signed pledges to do so. their struggle for freedom is not some distant battle that does not concern our well-being. their fight for self-determination is a battle for the global order and survival of democracy in the face of foreign tyranny. specifically, putin's tyranny. nations and the people they represent have the sole right to determine their own fates. foreign bullies like putin should not threaten our dictate their way of life or the futures of those children. if we allow russia to so blatantly break international law, particularly the fundamentals of sovereignty and territorial integrity, where will it end? when will the russian bear march in the streets of some other friend? a nato ali, perhaps. we must -- a nato ally, p

national conference. we will discuss defending democratic institutions in the cradle of democracy, the city that birthed this great nation. that 2018 midterms remain a potential target for russian actors, the intelligence community has seen no evidence of a robot campaign or tampering with our election structure. or the makeup of the house and senate race. the intelligence community continues to see russia using social media, flag persona, sympathetic spokesmen, and other means to influence controversial ends of issues. this is dividing rather than targeting specific candidates. we are vigilant in our defense of our democracy. we look to strengthen the election of our security -- the security of the election system. it is clear that security of state and other officials are not standing back. they take cyber security and security in general seriously. the dhs is hoping to help our holders understand the risk they take. through efforts and building relationships, establishing trust, and understanding what it is that our stakeholders need to manage risk. we have made to dedicate progress over the last year and

i do rose and of trust in democratic institutions and in democracy. a return to after no nationalism, isolationism -- f no nationalism, isolationism, american first, this is not circumscribed to one man or one country. this is across the board and those are not the nato values established after the world -- second world war. >> let's take a listen to a soundbite from president trump at a rally this -- last week before leaving for the summit. him describing a batch of letters he sent to the other nato members. especially one letter in particular, namely to angela merkrkel. angela,a,t trurump: cannot guarantee it, but we are protecting y y, and it means a lot momore to y you that protecg us, , because i do n not know hw much protection we get by protecting you. ,hey go out a and make a gas del oil and gas f from russia where they payay billions and billions of dollars to russia, ok? they want to protect a against russia, yet they y paid billions of dollars to russia and we are the smocks paying for the whole thing -- schmuks paying for the whole thing. >> let's deconstruct that stateme

democrats still choose not to participate in this debate. i think that was it, right? thanks. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] ms. pelosi: good morning. this week the president announced his supreme court nominee, who will seek to reverse generations of progress for americans' health care and for roe v. wade. judge kavanaugh's comments make abun danltly clear -- abundantly clear that he will expansively rule against women's reproductive rights and freedoms and mto

agents for hacking the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign in 2016 raises the stakes here and puts pressure on president trump to defend american democratic institutionsd again last week at nato, president trump claims there's not much he can do to deter putin. >> he may deny it. it's one of those things. all i can do is say, "did you," and "don't do it again." but he may deny. you'll be the first to know. >> reporter: today with cbs news, he blames president obama as some of obama's own aides have, for not stopping the haking and blames the democrats themselves for being hacked. >> again, this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. and i heard that they were trying or people were trying to hack into the rnc too, the republican national committee. but we had much better defenses. i've been told that by a number of people. we had much better defenses so they couldn't. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. >> reporter: but democrats, wary of a scheduled one on one trump/putin meeting, no aides involved, are calling for this summit to be cancele

across the nato space which is erosion of trust in democratic institutions and erosion of trust in democracy itself return to kind of ethno nationalism isolationism america first poland first hungry first this first ism and this is not circumscribed to one man or one country this is across the board and those are not the natal values that were established after the second world war let me get us to all take a listen to a sound bite from president trump at abe rally that he attended last week in other words before leaving for the summit and it essentially is mr trump describing a batch of letters that he sent out to the other nato members and especially one letter in particular namely to chancellor merkel you know what. i can't guarantee. we're protecting you and it means a lot more to you then protecting us because i don't know how much for texturing we get by protecting you and then they go out and they make gas feel well and gas from russia where they paid billions and billions of dollars to russia. ok so they want to protect against russia. dollars through russia and when they're shocked at all for. the schmucks that pay for the w

russian attempts to leverage our judiciary system and democratic institutions and time to rethink the aspects of foreign sovereign immunity to all nations in the world and protects them from any sort of parody or symmetry in the ability of victims or targets to use the same court systems to then respond or go after the regimes such as putin's kremlin and may be targeting them. >> probably for you. it's very -- >> right. but, well -- a little bit of to use the legal system, you mean for u.s. government to use russian legal system the same way at russian federation is used our legal system? well, that's problem, also. because there's -- russian legal system is illegal by itself. it's a win nowhere just for us to attempt to use it. on the other hand, you also raised the issue of the immunity of, say, russian assets here if they belong to the russian federation. and things like this. and it is really important point for me, for example, as a point of part of the team because we had the international arbitration award for 50 billion and we were trying to enforce it around the globe against the russian federation. it's not that easy. i mean,

democrats still choose not to participate in this debate. i think that was it, right? thanks. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] ms. pelosi: good morning. this week the president announced his supreme court nominee, who will seek to reverse generations of progress for americans' health care and for roe v. wade. judge kavanaugh's comments make abun danltly clear -- abundantly clear that he will expansively rule against women's reproductive rights and freedoms and move to destroy roe v. wade. a speech praising rehnquist for his dissent. he gave a speech, not probably well known, but praising chief justice rehnquist for his dissent in roe v. wade. again, you'll know he ruled against a young undocumented woman's right to choose. and, again, those two issues, i think such an impact on people's personal lives that are imminently in danger. the roe v. wade and health care. but in addition to that, the overarching concern about separation of power, checks and balances. his cow-towing to

agents for hacking the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign in 2016 raises the stakes here and puts pressure on president trump to defend american democratic institutions. but as he showed again last week at nato, president trump claims there's not much he can do to deter putin. >> he may deny it. i mean, it's one of those things. all i can do is say, did you and don't do it again. but he may deny it. i mean, we'll -- you'll be the first to know. >> reporter: and today with cbs news, he blames president obama as some of obama's own aides have, for not stopping the hacking. and even blames the democrats themselves for being hacked. >> again, this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration, and i heard that they were trying or people were trying to hack into the rnc, too. the republican national committee. but we had much better defenses, i have been told that by a number of people. we had much better defenses so they couldn't. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. >> reporter: democrats wary of a scheduled one-on-one trump/putin meeting, no aides in

mike became an activist, helping to support place like the national institute and opened up the moscow office supporting russia's early democratic stirrings. mike then came back to stanford as an assistant professor of political science in 1995. to the hoover institution where he is now the peter and helen senior fellow and to the institute where he has served as director of the center on democracy development in the rule of law and the deputy director of the institute. again, a position i now hold. i feel that my trajectory is quite good! [laughter] since 2015 has been director of the freeman institute. mike's first trip to the soviet union as i mentioned in 1983, as a sophomore, would be the first of hundreds of visits to the soviet union and then russia, culminating of course, as his arrival in moscow as president obama is ambassador in january 2012. which he held until march 2014. although, as he is careful to note, and i can feel his presence here, he got out before crimea was taken by putin so it did not happen on his watch. [laughter] prior to that he served as a close advisor to obama during his campaign. flying with him

democrat from florida. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] he speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. once again we come to you to ask wisdom, patience, and peace for the members of the peam's house. -- people's house. as they encounter their constituents over this weekend, endow them with grace and understanding, especially of those issues which are most pressing. please keep all who work for the people's house in good health. that they might faithfully fulfill the great responsibility given them in their service to the work of the capitol. bless us this day and every day . may all that is done here this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. for what purpose does the gentlem

in any national election committee must be forming rejected by the international community such as the un as he and the e.u. are you any democratic government and institution of wayne hey has the latest now from penn. the overriding sentiment from critics of the government in cambodia independent observers to all of this country is that cambodia must now be regarded as a one party all thora tarion state and when you look at the results of sunday's election it's difficult to argue against that given that the cambodian people's party of prime minister hun sen won almost all of the seats in the national assembly only two other small opposition parties won seats and neither of those parties can be considered a real threat to the rule of the c.p.p. or the prime minister who has been running this country for thirty three years we've seen some strongly worded statements from the cambodian national rescue party that is the party that was dissolved late last year banned from taking part in sunday's election the vice president of that party mousavi saying that it is the death of democracy in this country the result must be rejected democracy has been replaced by out

national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] a look at our live coverage today. house minority whip steny hoyer talks about the democratsit in america plan to create jobs and spur economic growth. that is followed by the house at noon eastern for general speeches with legislative business at 2:00. on c-span2 there is a discussion on combating violent extremism. at 3:00 the senate returns to consider the nomination of robert wilkie to be the next secretary of veterans affairs. tore is a confirmation vote follow. on c-span3, nasa administrator join to smoke his predecessors to mark the space agency's 60th anniversary. later in the day, u.n. ambassador nikki haley and israel possibly as an for the u.s. attend --