overshadowed by the cavanagh controversy the trump administration unveiling a new counterterrorism strategy tonight. it is being built at a sharp departure from the obama approach. gillian turner's here to explain it. >> good evening shannon. the trump administration is having the inaugural terrorism strategy as a nation's first articulated terror strategy since 2011. the statement reads in part "as your president i'm committed to protect the united states and its interest from abroad and the threat of terrorism. under my leadership the u.s. has accelerated efforts to be terrorist. we've decimated isis and syria and iraq in the u.s. participation in the horrible i run deal." for weeks now the entire national security team has been returning to one central team. a renewed commitment what they call, foreign policy. everyone from the mike pompeo to nikki haley to the president himself has reinforced the central killer of the campaign. john bolton kicked it out a few weeks ago with his speech at the federal society and today he said this. >> we will deny terrorists the freedom to travel and communicate across international borders. this strategy stresses b

that, argue that north korea continued to build its nuclear capability when the obama administration talked strategic patience, which critics said was, basically, do nothing. they argued that the iran deal was flawed. it has since been done away with under the trump administration. they argue that he drew a red line in syria, then when chemical weapons were used, used, backed off, leaving a vacuum in syria. how do you defend that record? ms. baer: let me to you what is dangerous to our foreign policy -- michael: how to you defend that record with the obama administration? ms. baer: what's danger, michael, is a foreign policy that is conducted on twitter by a rogue president who has gutted the state department, allowed our senior ranks of diplomats to leave, is by his own admission making decisions without guidance and expertise. now, i worked in the administration, but i was also very clear i didn't agree with everything that was done, and part of my job in the administration was to advise the two different secretaries of state and the u.s. ambassador to the united nations when i tho

j mag and the jake were the obama administration and the former officials. are rather for turning general eric holder will start with jake which is take on all of this jake. i mean your first reaction is gratitude to the extraordinary men and women in law enforcement who put their lives in line every day and prevent and prevent these tragedies from becoming even bigger tragedies but you're absolutely right look this is a this is a tragic circumstance. but it's also infuriating this is not an act of god this doesn't come out of nowhere the reality is that you know the tone gets set at the top of the fish rots from the head down and when you've got a a president of the united states who talks about democrats as being the enemy instead of the opposition who calls them violent and evil who says that the the press are the enemy of the people just days after members of the press are gunned down in an in annapolis you know this kind of rhetoric it doesn't just contribute to the environment that we're seeing around us it helps to create it and it is incredibly impor

treaty according to both the obama administration and the trumpet ministration for a number of years but that doesn't mean that the treaty is not relevant anymore this treaty as you mentioned the beginning three decades old it took away thousands of of nuclear warheads from europe the european support it creates guardrails in the mechanism for us in russia no treaties are perfect implementation always has problems the danger is that when you throw away treaties and john bolton the national security advisor argued against this treaty for years. they have to be replaced with something and so right now we're on the verge of having literally just one treaty left with russia and that's the new start treaty as in regards to nuclear weapons and i think the president articulated the position that if we walk away somehow russia will come back and seek a better deal and that was the argument he made about pulling out of the transpacific pacific partnership trade deal with asia and we walked away and they haven't come back and look for us it's a very risky move what do you make of trump probabl

at the obama administration claimed russia was filing the treaty though chose to hold it together outt would prompt an arms race. the russian government denies it's a violation of the treaty. the kremlin says the u.s. decision will make the world a more dangerous place as russia will have to take measures to ensure its own security. at the chinese government says the u.s. should think twice about withdrawing. it russian state media reports ambassador bolton has met with several top russian officials and tomorrow perhaps we'll meet with russian president vladimir putin. shannon. >> shannon: at the state to partner, thank you. if there are reports make that gina haspel is traveling to turkey amid an international outcry after saudi arabia's expedition about the death of journalist khashoggi and the turkish president says his investigation will reveal the naked truth, possibly a different truth. treasury secretary steven mnuchin meets with the saudi crown prince as he continues to deny any involvement in the killing. president trump says he is not satisfied by what he has heard from the

what the obama administration did is unilaterally changed the definition to the gender identity term. the trump administration is restoring the law. shannon: they also said they don't comment on a leaked document, commenting on anything about that but they said the broad definition of sex on a federal court in december 2016 and the obama administration did not appeal. the court order remains in full force in effect today and hhs is bound by it as we review the issue. what do you make of that explanation? >> everybody does deserve to be treated with respect. i disagree with tony and the hhs, they are split on gender orientation. on the civil rights act. we could go back 1000 years and egyptians had 3 genders identified. this is not something new, not out of the blue. it is identified more than the binary nature of gender as defined in our bible that tony and i read and broader than that and hour laws are here to protect those who are minorities and can be discriminated against. >> to talk about this definition, for federal law. >> before the midterms absolutely not and we will see what

americans, and their rights to specific services. >> brangham: just to be clear, it was the obama administration expanded rad loosened felaws about gender during obama's second term. that administration-- in response to changes ithe legal landscape and to the lived experiens of thousands of trans people-- began to recognize that a person's gender could be how ty self- identified, not just how they were born. that change, of course, led to big fights over school bathrooms and dormitories. ast president trump's team argued that those changes went too far,nd is now allegedly proposing a near-total reversal. the "new york times" obtained a draft memo that says the department of health and human services is planning to issue a legal definition of gender that is based "on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective." according to the memo, that definition would be determined at birth-- male or female-- and t changeable. the department today said they wouldn't confirm any proposedwo change, and uldn't verify the accuracy of the leaked memo, but the president today acknowledged that

his challenger, attorney for foreign policy, the state department, under the obama administration. this is a debate in which we have a lot to cover. the candidates, we want to give them to span time to answer question. how much would allow, we will allow them to have give-and-take on the issues of the day. above invite beyond what you might expect. this pivotal general election campaign, we think that is important. also to respond from one another, those will be shorter in length as always. i'll moderate and move things along. by the fit of the coin, the first question goes to you, congress and. >> talk about the toxic algae crisis. talk about what you've done, what you will continue to do but the show against the backdrop of your critique from your opponent that you've done late in the game and she notes, among other things that your scorecard from the conservation voters is a very low 23. >> number one, you and i sat in his studio year two years. i laid out to you the exact plane of how i was going to fight the issues, i said i'm going to get out there and get on the transportati

secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor and during the first term of the obama administration, professor koh served as the state department's 22nd legal advisor. his latest book is "the trump administration and international law" which is the subject of a talk today. harold will speak for about 50 minutes or so and then we'll have a period of time for questions and answers from you the audience. after the q&a. if you're interested in purchasing heralds new book, we are having a book signing in the adjacent room. feel free to stop by and have harold sign the book for you. with that, no further ado, please join me in welcoming to the podium, herald koh. [applause] >> well, thank you, sean. as we like to say in my family, my wife is also irish-american. the irish are the koreans have the west. [laughter] you brought me back to 26 years ago when i had just started as an associate at covington and burlington under the mentorship of the manly hudson troup often i was asked whether i wanted to go teach a class here at gw law school on international business transactions, which met at

of thes been the view obama administration, repeated publicly in their compliance reports to congress and amplified by this administration . most recently, secretary of defense mattis briefing the secretary of nato. but the response of the obama administration to palpable violations of the treaty was to simply keep talking. now, we are at a point in terms of russian violations, where the president has decided we are going to get out of the treaty. said, goodness, can't you just try to bring the russians back into compliance. let's review the bidding on that diplomatically. the american position is that russians are in violation of the treaty. the russian position is that they are not. russiansu bring the back into compliance when they don't think they are out of compliance to begin with? the presidentason made it unmistakably clear 10 days ago that we are going to withdraw from the inf treaty and i think that would be entirely justifiable, if i didn't even have to mention the word, china. i could also mention iran and north korea. the reason is, leaving aside some of the other -- the

critics of the obama administration note that china greatly,its capability the obama administration didn't deter that, north newark ilt up its capability, they argued that the has deal was flawed, it since been done away with, they rgued that he drew a red line in syria and when chemical weapons were used banged off. off.o you -- backed how do you defend that record? that record fend from the obama administration? >> what is dangerous to our policy is a foreign policy conducted on twitter by a gutted esident who has the state department, allowed diplomats tonks of leave is making decisions without the guidance of expertise. the i worked in administration, but i was also very clear, i didn't agree with was done, and part of my job within that advise twoion was to different secretary of state and the u.s. ambassador to the thought tions when i our policy was going off in the wrong direction, when we needed we ourse correct, when needed to either seize opportunities or mitigate risks. is any n't think there way you can look at the foreign policy of this administration nder donald trump who is

president obama's administration allowed one year of short-term plans for people who couldn't afford insurance, couldn't find it anywhere else, who might be betweene jobs. even after the affordable care act passed in 2010, president obama and the democratic congress thought it was a good enough idea to allow the short-term plans to continue that they kept them in the law. the law supporting these plans has nothing to do with the affordable care act. it was passed in the 1990s withur the purpose of giving people who need short-term option that might cost less because it has less coverage the chance to buy insurance. states can regulate these plans. states may decide what protections they should have. states may decide that the price should be. but typically in 2016, the difference between the cost of an obamacare plan was $393 a month for an oxidized obamacare plan before the short-term planm was $144. the short-term plan and what they seek to overturn which was in existence at all during the obama administration in 1990s. why should we put up with that. the urban institute up to 1.7 m

department of education. >> i came into an administration, this was the obama administration, that recognized and understood the many ways that students are impacted by discrimination based on sex and gender in schools. and they cared. >> reporter: does this administration care about survivors? >> i wish they did. >> reporter: and that, patel says, is why she quit. >> it was troubling because what i saw was so much more access to the administration for groups that worked with accused students than for groups that worked with survivors. >> reporter: does title ix give the accused due process? >> yes, it does. the 2011 and 2014 guidance documents that devos rescinded last september explicitly stated that title ix does protect the due process rights of students. but something that we're not talking about are the due process rights of complainants, of survivors of sexual violence that are also not being recognized. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the department of education told abc news they met with a variety of groups on both sides of the issue and say their focus is on restoring due process a

the fbi was weaponize by the obama administration. so it was not surprising they wanted to get control of the internet. i think that is why we should be very concerned whenever these democrat-led states get control of the internet. that is why i support the department of justice lawsuit. guest: i think the u.s. made a wise policy in the 1996 telecom act to have a hands-off policy. thee was controversy at time. the internet has been a government network. in the early 1990's it was commercialized and then finally commercial companies could use it, and then you saw the development of the web, a version of the internet that we recognize today. when congress was updating the telecom act, they had this question, do we regulate microphone system, cable system, system?another they came to the conclusion with the clinton administration to take this nonregulatory policy. technology, fast evolving, competitive. it was wise policy because it cap this young technology developing. the economic results speak for themselves. the u.s. is the global le

during the obama administration there were beheading. then beau bergdahl who was convicted of treason. we give money in exchange for him. how can there be such a difference of behavior. if you are not threatening them, what is he doing? >> he made the country respected again and feared again. he doesn't go on a worldwide tour and apologize for the greatness of america. instead he comes in and said america is great. we'll work with other countries. we have great relationships. the president developed incredible relationships from leaders all over this world. he means business. what he says he does. the promises he makes are the promises he keeps. and you saw that today with the return of pastor brunson. so many people in congress helped as well. this president turned this country around. the world has taken notice. and that's why you are seeing so many successes on a global scale. judge jeanine: i want to talk about "the washington post" columnist who is missing and some people are suspected has been murdered in the saudi consulate in tur

the obama administration loosened the legal concept of gender in federal programs including educationr largely as an individual's choice and not determined by the sex designated at birth. in 2016, the administration issued non binding guidance directing federally funded schools to allow students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity rather than their assigned sex. and that barring students amounted to discrimination under a federal law known as title ix. the trump administration revoked that and defining sex as male or female, unchangeable and determined by the genitals a person is born with. disputds clarified by genetic testing and could have an impact on an estimated 1.4 million americans who recognize themselves as a gender other than the one assigned at birth. joining us is justice department reporter katie benner, a reporter that broke this story. the administration didn't pull this out of thin air. they're basing it on a 2016 ruling by a federal judge in texas about a civil rights statute that's embedded in the obamacare. what is it about? >> so, of course. so, you

complex reasons why the obama administration supported the saudis. the almost all have to do with iran. washe obama administration reluctant and hope they could , donald trump has shown no reluctance. he has sold down -- double down. he has endorsed the saudis completely and endorsed the war completely. there is a fantasy in the trump administration that somehow if the saudis are able to defeat the houthis this will be a mortal blow to the government of iran. this is a fantasy. for iran, yemen is a magnificent strategic opportunity to bog down their number one and number two enemies, saudi arabia, united arab emirates, in a quagmire they hope will go on forever. $50 billion saudis a year to continue the war they are fighting in yemen. you want to know why saudi arabia has the third largest defense budget in the ward -- world? it is the war in yemen. what iran provides to the houthis is an unknown quantity. to give you another example, one that jamal khashoggi brought up, the houthis are firing ballistic missiles made in automotive shop repair factori

the difference was the obama administration did not want to do that so you see, especially republicans, kind of between a rock and a hard place. they do not want to raise taxes to make up for the difference. but they want to cut spending, somehow, or at least impose limitations, raise the age for eligibility, that kind of thing. but in these two years they have had of a house and and my house controlled by republicans, they figured they would focus on other things rather than do something that would get so much pushback. host: al weaver? thing, thet president has shown an aversion to do anything with medicare. and social security, his campaign promise was i will not change any of this. that has really hampered mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan from doing anything on that issue. number two, he mentioned the cavanaugh situation -- kavanaugh situation. that has had a major effect. there is enthusiasm for republicans. democrats have had the energy. they have had the anger. republicans really were unable to find anything to get that going. kavanaugh seemed to spur them in that sense. tr

former obama administration attorney general eric holder but the address apparently was wrong so it was returned to deborah wasserman schultz her name is on that's what we are told from law enforcement officials was on all the packages sent out so this was the package was this is why the package was returned. officials also say that this package looks very similar to what they have experienced. and what has been sent to. liberal billionaire george soros before on monday then to the clinton family in new york on tuesday and on wednesday morning to the obama's here in washington d.c. so we're not done yet there is another package number for now and it's everybody's guess if there's more to come that's indeed a very worrying prospect there stephanie because it seems like the situation is still growing and we're just two weeks away from the midterms. yeah that's correct james has and you have with the with playing that clip from may of last year and in new york touched on this. the discussion if this is terrorism or not is one thing and of course law enforcement will look at this as as

we have armed ukraine, the obama administration has not done that. the trump administration authorized millions to arm ukraine to keep pressure on russia to get out of ukraine and out of crimea. we are unified in the house to about getting russia out of syria and his collaboration with assad and the iranians to destroy five million lives in syria. it's a disaster and it's at the hands of the bad foreign plcy of -- policy of the obama administration and connected with putin's encouragement -- incursion there. we're fighting back against the russian bear. >> mr. swafford. >> i am so happy to be having a discussion about the integrity of elections. i wish the republicans and democrats thought so when it came to foreign countries because of how much we intervene and other foreign countries. it was nice to see them show integrity on the issue. i hate it came down to bloodbath over simple semantics. i do think our cyber security needs to be intact. from what i hear and from the news keeps telling us, we had an 8-year-old or 9-year-old who was actually able

pastor andrew brunson was taken hostage during the obama administration, was released. can't help but notice that other hostages during the obama administration, otto warmbier and joshua houlton in venezuela. and it takes president trump to actually get them released. how is it those hostages, more than 15 of them as i understand, languished during the obama administration, and president trump without any ransom is able to get them released. how does he do this? >> there is a new sheriff in town. the president doesn't take anything from any other country. america is respected again. this president has shown the world he means business inner area, whether it's trade deals or crushing isis and their caliphate or talking about getting our hostages back, american citizens, back to this country. i was at joint base andrews when those three people came back from north korea. i was in north korea when joshua holt was returned. i have been there a year now in the white house and these instances stick out almost more than any other because of what this president is able to do, a

there are complex reasons why the obama administration supported the saudis. i think they almost all have to do with iraq, but if the obama administration was somewhat reluctant and kept hoping that maybe they could find a way out, donald trump has shown no relevance whatsoever. he has doubled down on the debt here and he has endorsed the saudis completely and as a consequence, he has endorsed the war completely. there is a fantasy in the trump administration that somehow if the saudis are able to defeat the houthis, this will be a mortal blow to the government of iran and this is a complete fantasy. for iran, yemen is a magnificent, strategic opportunity to bog down their number one and number two enemy. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates in a quagmire that they hope will go on forever, for good reason. they cost the saudis at least $50 billion a year to continue the war they're fighting in yemen. you want to know why saudi arabia is the third largest defense budget in the world because it's a war in yemen that cost us a fortune. the amount that iran p

timesappens only three during the entire eight years of the obama administration. for the first time in our committee's history, we had two who were rated as not qualified by the apa -- aba. for one thing, the rating was unanimous based on several instances of ethical concerns, including standards in the court, who really want to put somebody on the court, who comes there with ethical stains on the pretenseand not even a that we would hold these candidates to the same high standards we did president obama's, but not only the high standards because there are no standards anymore. democrat work with republicans to confirm qualified mainstream judges. i voted for more republicans most republican senators now serving. nomineesof today's have to move craddock support. ours, country the size of we can find well-qualified republican nominees to be judges who do not come with an ethical stain, who do not come with a lack of qualification. judge just mentioned, who turned out he did not even know how to get into the courtroom, we can do better than that. there are excellent

under the direction of the obama administration i think that's what's getting some people confused because when the f.b.i. has to go after certain things they have to they have to adhere to answers and higher powers now that being said there's always a chance in an agency as large as the f.b.i. that there could be some powers that be in policy positions or other leadership positions that perhaps take matters into their own hands or might do something and that's worth noting because if somebody in a higher policy position or the headquarters of the f.b.i. took matters saw something that their own people in the f.b.i. said just they didn't have much confidence and said hey we're going to push this through anyways to get to get a warrant then that would be problematic and that would be something worth looking into so i think he's going after them in hopes that the f.b.i. within themselves will conduct their own internal investigations to see what the source is of these either these leaks or these anon adherence to protocol all right jennifer britton always a pleasure to talk to help the situa

so some of that feedback as this sounds like the obama administration policies. how do you react? >> we have to wait and see. we have looked at the way of spectrum in the past and what has been done to get us where we are today. weather satellite systems or government systems. it's not that those things are bad it is a more prevalent part of our lives. and a decrease in mobile and wireless. taking a hard look that those worked really well but can we do better? >> so at that speech you were giving on five g talking about obstacles and removing obstacles to infrastructure , what exactly were you referring to? >> within the government we have a group led by the us department of agriculture called the big tasked by the president with the task force to look specifically ways we could improve broadband one of those was looking at federal assets the largest landowner in the united states the department of interior and all sorts of buildings that gsa has access to. bringing that to bear to that economic challenge that's one of the things we are looking at look at the permit process. and t

reporter: our first tip came during the obama administration. th the obama and trump administration have been deeply concerned about this issue of supply chain security. computer,et inside a we thought it must be about affecting consumer data. china must want siri user data. we were quickly corrected. the reason china would go through the trouble, the expense come of the time of engineering these motherboards in this way is for long-term access to sensitive networks. it is about corporate intellectual property. the theft of military secrets. that struck meng in your reporting is that it is the scale and ambition of these news that make it unlike any other chinese hacking that has gone him before. reporter: this is super complicated tech. i have covered cyber security for decades. this is the cutting edge of the cutting edge. to manipulate computer hardware and this way is so much harder then doing a software-based attack. you can teach yourself how to be a software hacker at home. you can teach yourself how to be a hardware attacker as well, but

so even though many people agreed with the obama administration's dear colleague letter, it doesn't have's how the trump administration is able to rescind that earlier policy so easily. so too can the next administration do the reverse. and this goes on and on until congress acts to change that language in title nine or enact new legislation that explicit le defines gender in a way that the con sit w constituency wants. >> i want to read you this jeff sessions comment he wrote last year. he wrote although federal law including title seven provides various protections to transgender individual, title seven does not prohibit based on gender identity per se. do you expect this change to be adopted and how would it be enforced do you think? >> i think the enforcement is going to be a tremendous question for the administration and this also had to do with the bathroom bills that were playing our country and our continuing propositions to this day and to the midterm elections. so what i think the difficulty is for the enforcement is as a great lawyer jillian wise said i can change my religion

administration unveiling a new counterterrorism strategy being billed avocet departure from the obama administration'sllian turner is here to explain it. >> reporter: the trump administration, the first fully articulated terror strategy since 2011. as your president i'm committed to protecting the united states and interests from abroad from the threat of terrorism, the us has accelerated efforts, decimated isis in syria and recommended us participation in the horrible iran deal and secure defense funding to rebuild our nation's military. for weeks now the entire national security team has been returning to one theme, renewed commitment to what they call in america first foreign-policy. everyone from mike pompeo to nikki haley to the president himself reinforce the central pillar of the campaign platform. john bolton kicked it off with a speech at the federalist society and today he said this. >> we putting our terrorists the freedom to travel and communicate across international borders. the strategy stresses better integration of national power both military and nonmilitary to combat terrorism and t

the legislative branch to reassert its authority during the obama years was happy to radio obama administration expanded regulations contrary to the intent of congress about they should pull that back requiring the house and the senate to affirm regulations going forward so yes checks and balances the epa is another issue so that's important but on the other hand, this election is about two worldviews which direction will be go? the direction of the resistance to replace president trump or take us back to the obama years and then some? and to partner or keep working with like minded people and protect our god-given rights and i hope he will talk about those issues today. >> what do you see as the role of congress pertaining to the white house quick. >> something i have committed to doing thank you for putting this together it's a great chance to see a contrast of approaches and could not be more fundamental it is what the house of representatives was designed to be one of the many ways that washington is dysfunctional right now it is hyper- partisan because people are unwilling to work across t

united states congress it needs to reassert its authority i was not happy with the way the obama administration expanded regulations contrary to the intent of the congress the reins act would require the house and senate to affirm major regulations moving forward. checks and balances the epa is another area i did not agree with president obama so that's important this is about two fundamental choices do we go the direction of the resistance to replace trump or take us back to the obama years? that is where my opponent t9 is i want to move in the right direction to make a safe and to sustain agriculture and we will talk about those issues today. >> let's let dan feehan speak for himself what is the role of congress pertaining to the white house? feehan: a great way to speak for oneself. thank you for putting this together. it is a great contrast of approaches and substance. i am running to be an independent voice in washington d.c. that is what the house was designed to me it is dysfunctional right now because it is hyper- partisan people are unwilling to work across the aisle i have been pretty

i have worked closely with the obama administration.the greatest accomplishments of my career in washington. making it possible for millions of people to have insurance. >> i have a district that has huge problems with immigrants. some of the things the president has done is against what i think our country ought to be doing. the dreamer act. these are people who were brought here when they were children. you cannot

we have armed the ukraine with defensive weapons, the obama administration would not do that, but from administration as authorized hundred $50 million are ukrainians keep the pressure on putin get out of the ukraine and crimea. and finally, we are unified in the house about getting russia out of syria and his collaboration with hassan and the iranians to destroy 5 million lives in syria. it's a disaster and its hands of the bad policy of the obama administration connected with you in person there. so we're fighting back against the russians there. >> mister swafford, 2 minutes to be having a conversation about the integrity of election. i wish the democrats and republicans would also when it came to foreign countries because of how much we intervene in those countries and how muchwe manipulate everyone else's elections, it was nice to see them show some integrity on the issue . i hate it came down to such a bloodbath over simple semantics, but i do think that our cyber security needs to be intact. from what i hear and from what the news keep telling us, we had an 8-year-old or 9-year-

during the obama administration, we had a war against agriculture. part of that was led by the epa under obama who put out this waters of the united states, a complete overreach. we had people in minnesota with buffer strips and everything else. it has gone too far. they don't give farmers credit for being good stewards of the land. farmers don't want to waste their fertilizer, they don't want to do that. it costs them money. they are good stewards of the land and we need to work together. but what needs to happen for someone who wants to represent southern minnesota, keep the input costs of farming down. get rid of the onerous regulations in washington. let's have the reins act. does dan support that, i don't know. he never will address it. we should sunset -- it is a balance. i don't take the premise that every lake and stream in southern minnesota is polluted to the point of no return. i think many of them are clean, it depends on the standards. dan feehan you could probably : demonstrate through science, i imagine? jim hagedorn it depends on the

there was one aby the obama administration which was not administered. the proposal to directly reduce prices to the average and other developing countries has not been proposed before. the event will begin with secretary azar's presentation about the new proposal. then i will join him on stage to engage in a conversation about the proposal, and after that he will take some questions from the audience. alex azar was sworn in as president trump's secretary of health and human services in january 2018. his current tenure at hhs is a second tour of duty at the department after serving as general counsel and then deputy secretary in the 2000s. he has spent his career working in senior health care leadership roles involving public and private sector, the latter including time at william leyland company. it's a pleasure to introduce you to the 24th health and human services, alex azar. [ applause ] >> thank you, paul, for that introduction. it is nice to be at the brookings institution because there are very few point of impact -- people who get as excited as

i used to go on tv a lot during the obama administration and i would never criticize president obama by the way, he was a duly elected president and that entitled him to my respect as a person but his policies were fair game and i went after those policies viciously because ithought they were hurting my company, they were hurting my employees, hurting american workers in the american economy . i wanted him to succeed but i thought the policies he was pursuing would cause him to fail. that's not the case with the criticism of president trump today. the left isn't afraid president trump's going to fail, they're afraid president trump is going to succeed. god bless him if he isn't succeeding in spades. those interviews i used to do that elizabeth mentioned, the interview would inevitably, they tell me to say andy, people are dropping out of the labor force. they can't find good jobs, they can't support their families and here you are hiring entry-level jobs. why don't you pay them enough that they can support their families and i tried to explain how an entry-level job doesn't produce e

aspects of this proposal mirrored one from the obama administration. it was not implement it due to composition in congress and a number of proposals -- over the last few years. the proposal to directly reduce prices for the average and other developing countries has not been proposed before. the event will begin with secretary azar presentation and that's a new proposal. and i will join them on stage to engage in a conversation about the proposal and after that he will take some questions from the audience. alex azar was sworn in as president trump sector of health and human services in january 2018. his current tenure at hhs is a second tour of duty at the department, after serving as general counsel and then deputy secretary in the 2000s. he spent his career working in senior healthcare leadership roles in both public and private sectors. the latter including type in eli lilly and company. it's a pleasure to introduce you to the 24th u.s. secretary of health and human services alex azar. [applause] >> thank you, paul. well, thank you paul for that i

jordan: our first tip came during the obama administration. th the obama and trump administration have been deeply concerned about this issue of supply chain security. what happens is, once you get inside a computer, we thought it must be about theft of consumer data. apple was hit. the siri division was hit. china must want siri user data. we were quickly corrected. by several sources said, that is not what this is about. the reason china would go through the trouble, the expense, the cost, the time of engineering these motherboards in this way is for long-term access to sensitive networks. it is about theft of corporate intellectual property, the theft of military secrets. and long-term stealth access to sensitive networks. carol: one thing that struck me in your reporting is that it is the scale and ambition of these news that make it unlike any other chinese hacking that has gone on before. jordan: this is super complicated tech. i have covered cyber security for over a decade, as has mike riley who co-authored the report. we have never see

he worked in the defense department during the obama administration. thanks very much both of you for being here today. >> happy to be here. won't have a lot of rules this hour, but i want to give each of you a fair chance to stake your views. i got quite a few questions, so i will get to those. supportereen a strong of president trump. he was in rochester. back the president 100% or a check on power on the executive branch? i've beenrn: campaigning and for my whole life believed in certain conservative and fundamental positions as far as defending the constitution and other things and it so happens the campaign i run -- rain in 2016 matched up on the issues with donald trump. i am pleased he is our president thewe are moving country in right direction. i have set for a long time, the legislative branch needs to reassert its authority in many areas. during the obama years, i wasn't the obama the way administration had expanded regulations contrary to the intent of the congress. i thought they needed to pull that back. i supported the reins act which to

according to the department of health and human services 20,000 children were placed by the obama administrationse their parents were incarcerated. in 2015 it was 21,000. this policy has been around since the clinton era. the obama white house faced a surge of illegal border crossers. the separation when that happened, it's not a new trump policy. it has been put in place because the parent may not be their parents. they could be drug traffickers and sex traffickers. >> that's right. and we have to act in the best interest of the child. are they the chilled? are they being used as mules? are they being abused? it does no good for the child to be taken on this sojourn, if you will, at great harm to the child. liz: the president is getting hammers on this policy. is it a trump-generated policy? is president trump enforcing it? >> president trump put orders out to try as best we can to keep children together unless there is cause to believe they should be separated. the president is trying to deal with a situation that is not our own. these children and these parents are being used by a number of i

heather: during obama administration 500,000 were let in the united states.ce officer shot and killed in cold blood in orange county . >> antjuan had cop cars all over the house, 4 or 5 year's old, that's what he knew what he wanted to do. i know the job that i signed up for and i know that i can go to work and not come home. heather: police desperately searching for 18tefarry manor wanted for custody. 42 police officers officers killed in line of duty this year, that's 7 more of last year. top u.s. general recovering after being shot in an insider attack in afghanistan and the pentagon now revealing that army general was wounded by taliban terrorist in assault that left two afghany officials dead last week, general 30-year-old veteran who oversees nato training in southern afghanistan. the call for action growing amid a world of skepticism over what really happened the columnist jamal khashoggi at now the saudi government is offering a new version of events, doug lizader. >> good morning, rejecting the official saudi explanation that jamal khashoggi was kill