biggest banks could soon become one of banks or reportedly agrees to merger talks with troubled rival max baucus after years of losses for both banks. and a massive anti-government demonstrations in algeria now officials are hoping an early spring vacation to calm the student uprising at the heart of the protests. i'm calling aspen welcome to the program opposition protesters have clashed with wind power outage and are once again demanding an end to president nicolas maduro his government but has also called on his supporters to rally today as the power struggle between the two rivals intensifies. the day in caracas begins with anger and arguments the police are trying to stop opposition supporters gathering their protest i. am going to join us let's hug each other. don't shoot us don't kill us come on cops. an elderly woman faints so far the opposition has been able to demonstrate peacefully and unhindered but then the police start to use pepper spray they got a record of intimidation if you're not pushing they say they have orders to prevent us from assembling so there will be no demonstration

ambassador to china max baucus. pleasure to have you on, and as you heard, bolton was saying this was unquestionably a success. you have president trump at cpac touting it as a success, saying a lot of progress was made. trump was hoping that his charm would be able to work and get kim jong-un to denuclearize. he walked away empty-handed. was this a success? >> i think it was right for president trump to walk away from the deal that kim jong-un proposed to him. the problem was there was insufficient preparation here. the groundwork was not laid, so it's almost impossible that there is going to be an agreement. at this point we have to ask ourselves, where do we go from here? what's next? i think it's important to remember several realities. one is that we've been trying, many administrations have been trying for years to get kim jong-un to denuclearize and it hasn't worked. i was talking with the chinese minister dealing with north korea. we got nowhere. second, i think it's important to recognize that kim jong-un i

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and i was with max baucus.max baucus was in an elevator here yesterday in the capital and immediate past ambassador, and centered from montana. when a thinks i mentioned to briefly was her hearing today and he said he would be interested in following up and he could probably give us some good insights so we look forwaro those. thank you so much. >> thank you, senator carper. thank you for partnering on this report as always, and your staff. as you probably have noticed that not a lot of bipartisanship on capitol hill. we keep this committee as nonpartisan as possible, and as result we've done some pretty good work that resulted in some important legislation, as we did today. i'd like to never introduce our panel of witnesses for them. jason bair is acting director of international affairs and trade at the u.s. government accountability office. walter douglas is a deputy assistant a deputy assistant secretary for the bureau of east asian and pacific affairs at the state department. jennifer galt is a principal d