, is really powerful, it really centers the united states or the idea of the united states as being a welcoming haven for people who are exiles. unfortunately the history of the united states tells a somewhat different, more complicated story. the truth is we haven't always had a humanitarian impulse to welcome refugees. usually we've only done so when it's in our humanitarian national interest. usually we've been more inclined to actually reject refugees than to accept them. and to borrow the words of historian eric tang, often refugees who have been accepted for resettlement here are not only resettled but are also deeply unsettled by the experience of forced migration and resettlement in the united states. to give you an overview of what i'll talk about today, i'll give you a little bit of background about american refugee resettlement policy after the second war. and then i'm going to use that background to set up why the 1970s were such an important period of change. that's when a small group of ewiugandan refugees arrived in united states and they were followed by an even larg

problem for the united states and as. told to the audience in my alma mater the university is russia will become a part of balancing coalition so i don't understand why the united states is somehow. both china and russia but in my opinion it might cause slightly different effect same as with sanctions on russia for the ukrainian crisis which was according to john. very famous or a realistic thinker course on the side of the. on the west not on. i mean you could also throw in these a antagonizing russia and china but mark antagonizing europe is well ok that that's my point right here here here and this is in this is why i'm doing this program because i think the transatlantic experience is being seriously 10. here because i would make the argument at least 100 they're more interested in trade they were interested in europe i energy policy and you know ok you have to buy all these arms because you know they're there they're important to american politics but they don't see it as a security threat this is this is a gambit fo

the failure of the united states to vote against or to veto the united nations security council resolution state of israel that it literally deemed the western wall to be illegally occupied territory. we also inherited the jcpoa in an agreement in which the last administration released more than $100 billion to the islamic republic of iran, the world's most lethal state sponsor of terrorism and gave it a pathway to a nuclear weapon. iran used those funds to enhance its arsenal ballistic missiles and expand its malign activity throughout yemen, iraq, syria and lebanon. all the while shouting death to israel and death to america. incredibly, none of that disgraceful activity was even prohibited under the jcpoa. we did not answer office on the 50-yard line of the u.s. israel relationship. no, we found ourselves deep within our own territory and playing against the wind and so from that of vantage point we set out to work you all know what happened next. president trump fulfilled his campaign pledge the same pledge made but ignored by his predecessors and moved the united states embassy to isr

i was also surprised how much at&t helped the united states. could china make the reverse argument if they are able to build an infrastructure architecture that they could make as pervasive, couldn't they make the same argument that that provides the americans the ability? >> i think it certainly would and that is the cat and mouse game. this is not a business where trust is a wise idea. it's where you probably shouldn't trust and you should definitely verify. >> i'm width of the association for diplomatic studies and training. you have not much mentioned iran and my question is what about they are great at selling stuff and north korea also hires out to the nationstate actors and people that have the expertise for sale. how does that impact? >> this is a remarkable trend. i think they got on the cyber seecyberseen before and a lot ot was available so they hold and a lot of the capability that to say a lot of nations look around the world and say we need to compete in cyberspace as well. how can we get up to speed quickly and the groups they tu

this could have happened in the united states. the 13 original states and everybody else is a colonial append sa appendage and we'll have people not politically involved in the nation and that is the way it is. but, no, here you have the orderly process here why turning the territories into actual states. so they're also going to enter the states, the states will enter the united states on equal standing to existing states. and this actually is kind of a leap of faith here. so imagine you have the 13 colonies turn into 13 states and then admit new states on equal base. oh, really, did they go through the revolution, why do they get to be equal to the rest of us. but this is the understanding then of the people moving west, right. and as they move west, where they are, that will be incorporated into the united states. so it is this notion of the people being at the center of the legal order here. now although state governments will be similar to other states, so they have to follow certain rules, and citizens in them are going to be

you know i think the united states has enough to deal with with the ongoing epidemic but the state department's turning its focus to venezuela or for gay multimillion dollar bounty for the capture of president durham supposedly for narco terrorism let's get an update on the story now from our senior correspondent ryan gets the if he's there right across the story as i just mentioned the united states has got all kinds of problems to deal with and indeed have all countries around the world to get their found time and the energy to focus on venezuela what's going on while they've made venezuela a problem for themselves for now for a very long time it is a state that when the united states says heal it doesn't come to heel and not as irritated that the americans they have done so much to try to get rid of madeira they have condemned him they have sanctioned him and his entire circle they have sanctioned the state and then there's the hope was that by shooting that israel and by depriving them of their billions in their funds and their foreign assets and their all trade by depriving them of imports

but they should not have been surprised that japan would attack the united states. in november 1941, only a few weeks before pearl harbor, joseph grew sent to telegrams, the secretary of state, warning him that japan was prepared to launch a suicidal war against the united states, and that armed conflict could come with a dangerous and dramatic suddenness. so who was joseph grew and how did he know that? in november 1941, joseph grew was 61, tall, lean, which eyebrows, a full mustache. he had been an american diplomat for almost 40 years and yet been america's ambassador to japan -- should i be using this one? can you hear me better now? no. okay, some clad i recognize i was using the wrong microphone. in any event, joseph grew had been an american diplomat for almost 40 years. he had been america's ambassador to japan for almost ten years. there are four factors that led him to send those telegrams to secretary of state cordell hull in november 1941. the first factor was a japanese economy. the united states had imposed economic sanctions on japan in an effort to cu

we started at the assistant secretary of state level as a quad, a show you, japan, india in the united states, not wishing to fight china but talking together of how we can enhance political foreign policy and military incorporation, the trump administration to its credit has elevated at the second dream state and secretary of defense level. is this how we should think about strategic military cooperation that we should be tied up with our allies not to fight the chinese but limit them. >> and to pursue coincident interest. we all have an interest in freedom of navigation. we do not have to say fight china on freedom of navigation, we are supporting the principle of freedom of navigation which is important to all the countries you mentioned. the other thing is to be careful of how we describe such things. australia is an ally, japan is a treaty ally. the indians are partners. we do not have to fourt forced e issue of people come in a formal alliance, cooperation ought to be enough and again, it comes to meeting these countries where they are. i should go back, you asked about trying to get in

i think for example like penicillin it is no longer produced in the united states been outsourced here and i'm not blaming china and i'm blaming american companies for moving their i mean they abandon workers in america for profits ok it's very easy to demonize china in this respect but dummy china wants to get rich like everybody else here so the issue of globalization open borders supply change things like that go ahead scott well i mean it look we live in a reality in a reality based world where globalization is a thing and it's not easily reversed if it can be reversed we you know we've outsourced our entire economic model is dependent upon you know getting components at the cheapest possible price. you know and yes when there is an impact if china shuts down the factories that produce the components we need are producing those components of japan shuts down if it only shuts down if any nation that produces components that are used in the american economy should stay on you know obviously there will be an impact but at the end of the day you know this coronavirus is this isn't

travellers from china and south korea helped to mitigate the worst effects of the virus here in the united states and that it is time to take these quite draconian measures and in an attempt to basically sendoff the worst effects of this virus, which the world health organization has now called a pandemic. but there is a lot of concern in there is a lot of concern in the united states that with the financial markets having gone somewhat into freefall that this could pave the way to economic recession. the darren jones lost 20% today. it's been in freefall since february, since the first announcement came out of this about this virus and the spread and its potential reach —— dowjones. the president has, of course, very much founded his reputation and been selling himself to voters ahead of the elections in november on his ability to boost the stock market. well, that now lies in tatters and that's the kind of thing that going to get to him and he's bound to be keen to get a handle on this virus if not for that reason... if not for any other reason than that reason alone. you mentioned economic mea

the reason the united states is assuming these obligations, at the end of world war ii, united states and solved japan to move the entire world forward after the conclusion of the war and they happened to absolve them of their obligation to make whole the war crimes of the people who suffered because they were inhabiting the united states territory of guam. the people suffered beheadings, forced marches, rapes and lost of incomes and their arms. and it has taken us now 76 years to finally come to this point. and i say this is historic, mr. speaker, because it in a large respect represents an original sin in terms of the inability for us to reconcile our territorial relationships in a manner that really makes for plain and simple justice. and i'm deeply moved, mr. speaker, to handle these proceedings today and to be able see 131365 come before this house once more because as we all know in this current political environment, any hurdle that legislation faces is a hurdle too much. and so as we have gone through this process and gotten to this point, there were many times i was deeply co

it was also a massive project for the united states to carry out. the federal government was still quite small then. president jackson had to personally sign every plan for the united states. he spent one miserable december signing thousands of them by hand. they were still thousands behind schedule. eventually they passed a law that said some details could sign the deed. it gives you an idea of how small the federal government was. in this section, which we call the machinery of removal, we focus on how epic the project was and how successful it was in one of its goals, to create economic wealth in the united states. and a catastrophe, to imagine it could do that and that this would be a good thing for american indians. of course it was a disastrous failure. one of the things few people understand is that removal from the passage of the act until the final removal treaties were amended and changed and the final payments were made out, it actually extended nine presidential administrations. president jackson wasn't actually the president during the

they were resettled in the united states, and also the united kingdom and elsewhere. beginning in 1972. these ugandan asian refugees marked a turning point, and that they were quite different from their refugee predecessors. there are religiously diverse, identifying as muslim, also hindus, seek and christian. one big question worth asking, how did it go? all refugee later was a history professor, also wrote a report on the brown diaspora. you notice differences where a cause of anxiety. he noted that some problems did arise, for example, a strictly vegetarian rahm and, was given a work and up poultry processing plant, which did not go so well. point out to produced significant psychological and emotional strain, and though he praised the good intentions of the sponsors, and voluntary agencies, they said they had to be a better understanding of the needs of refugees. overall though, he said that you and asian refugees had a positive experience. i mention uganda in asian refugees, because they really set the stage, for a larger refugee population. that arrived in the 1

you do testified that it's easy to get a firearm in the united states right now. even when you have this prohibition, how are you going to be working with state and local authorities to actually enforce it? that's my first question. the second part is, even legal purchases, you mentioned person to person, but under our background check laws, roughly 40% of weapons are sold without any kind of background check if you do it online or the gun show. so how are you going to deal with those challenges? >> thank you, senator peters. we are coming out of from a couple of angles. working with the atf, working within the enterprise that forms the system. there are pathways for us to create learning functions within certain populations. we are exploring that. but as you already mentioned, it is not going to stop everything. within our own department, we have put in place additional programs and procedures going down at the installation level with our insider threat programs, training and educating the full student population on things that would be indicators of nefarious or

[applause] president trump promised the united states would ensure that israel will always have the resources and tools she needed to defend herself by herself and today i am proud to report that american support for the security of the state of israel is greater than ever before and the state of israel is a stronger than ever before in its history. [applause] president trump has also taken one action after another, evidence our support for israel paid this president promised to shut down the office in washington if the palestinian authority did not take immediate steps to stop funding terrorists who murder innocent israeli civilians and when the plo did not act president trump shut it down. the plo office in washington is closed and today the taylor force act is the law of the land. [applause] this president also promised that america would no longer allow the united nations to be a forum for invective against israel. [applause] and this president delivered when he withdrew the united states from the so-called human rights council at the un and ended all u.s. contributions to andra. [cheerin

now, you -- you do testify that it's very easy to get a firearm in the united states right now. and even when you have this prohibition, you know, how are you going to be working with state and local authorities to, actually, enforce it? my first question. the second part is that even legal purchases -- you mentioned person to person but under our background check laws, i think roughly 40% of weapons are sold without any kind of background check. if you do it online or if you go to gun shows. so how are you going to deal with those challenges? >> thank you, senator peters. so we're coming at it from a couple of angles on the -- again, working with atf and working within the enterprise that forms the national crime system, there are pathways for us to create alerting functions within there for certain populations. we're exploring that with atf. but as you already mentioned, it's not going to stop everything. within our own department, we have put in place, additional programs and procedures going down at the installation level with our insider-threat programs and training and educ

state. they were forming the united nations. they were dealing with a lot of other issues that required the secretary of state to travel to different places. when they were outside of washington he became the acting secretary of state. in the great irony as. that he was the acting secretary of state when the bombs were dropped. and then he retired and august 15, 1945. shortly after the last bomb was dropped. in those days 65 was considered old. today it's middle age. he was 65 years old and so he retired and he commanded the respect of a lot of people which goes back to the story and mentioned about the retirement party for general george c marshall. because of his stature. synecdoche. >> he was a pow. was this changed at all after they did the bombing of tokyo. did they have any connection with some of the prisoners. >> the short answer is i don't know if he have any communication but they were held more or less incommunicado in the u.s. embassy. it was a very nice embassy. they had two buildings. a lot of people that worked ins

the united states is now the most powerful economic state in the world. it has global interests. it is not weak and under-developed. it is a continental nation with global interests. and technology has made the world smaller. the old tradition made sense when the united states had the two greatest natural defenses in the world, the atlantic and the pacific oceans. that was our protection. but that protection is not what it used to be. military technology is changed. air power in particular allows countries to project their military power in a way that has never been true before. the world is, for all intents and purposes, smaller than it used to be. we are in greater danger from a foreign power than we ever were in the past. the world has changed. the anti-interventionists argue, well, in that case, we need better hemispheric defenses. that is what we need then. that only reinforces the idea is what we need is fortress america. we need to build up our hemispheric defenses. become so strong that no one will dare attack us. and that means every bit of military hardware we produce n

we are going to elect joe biden as the president of the united states.hen we are going to make america great again. please join me in welcoming obama's ambassador to ireland, mr. o'malley himself. come up, mr. ambassador. let's give him a big round of applause. mr. o'malley: what a beautiful st. louis day. we always start a week early, mr. vice president. i want to begin by welcoming each and every one of you to this very important event to kick off the boat to get out the vote for vice resident joe biden. there are many of you who came from mayor pete. and there are those who came from senator warren in senator klobuchar and sen. harris and mayor bloomberg. you are all welcome here. there is a place for you in this campaign. we need your energy. we need your dedication here we need your skill. and yes, we need your money. there is a place for everyone in this campaign. we are reaching out to all owners of the democratic party. we are looking out for all independents and we are looking out for those people used to belong that used to be called the republ

he believes similar in the united states.% fatality rate. >> 20 times as fatal as the flu. >> flu is .1% and that's 20 times as fatal. that's the big concern. >> we look at this. the u.s. has not had a mass outbreak. is it likely and what do we do to plan, prevent miss gate. >> the planning is where we should be focused right now. when we talk about the planning, it is the planning of federal government, state and local government governments health and institutions or universities like that which i work in. the planning right now needs to focus on making sure it's ready and we have tools and communication that could support them if this outbreak does grow. >> sanjay, this is what i saw and one media commentary said, we're going medieval, coronavirus, which the person meant basically they did in the middle ages, quarn teeantining people, sealing off places. the chinese have done this effectively. how come we can't do better than 600 years in some places. >> some of that, tried and true health measures they do work. the reason

this is the united states of america.] [cheering] there is nothing that we fail td to do when we set our minds to it. everybody knows who donald trump is. we choose hope over fear. we americans choose unity over division. we choose science over fiction and truth over lies. so let's take this back now. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. take it back. it's time. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ [cheering] [cheering] [cheering] out to be a campaign in which we have one candidate who is standing up for the working class and the middle class. we are going to win that election. >> for those who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. announcer: the presidential primaries and caucuses continue tuesday for six states, including idaho, michigan, mississippi, missouri, north dakota, and washington. watch our campaign 2020 coverage of the candidate speeches and results tuesday evening live on c-span, c-span.org, or listen from wherever you are on the free c-span radio app. announcer: c-span's

we also know mosquito control in the united states is not a federal function. is not even a state function by the city and county and district function and you need to get the money out to these people so they couldld be doing what they should be doing to eliminate mosquitoes and then think about a long-term strategy to protect pregnant women and then have a vaccine strategy why are we still having this conversation six months later? why are we robbing peter to pay paul so this was essentially for keeping america safe from all public health threats no matter their nature whether a mak pandemic, terrorism and as part of that my passion was for the public health preparedness program to putut money into state and local health departments and then we pulled back some of that money to support those cases. so why are we take in my analogy so if this is a preparedness infrastructure why are we taking money out of that but we should be putting that into preparedness i will leave you with a number because i'm all about observable measures. six.seven. in the last three ye

throughout the united states. westinghouse broadcasting in pittsburgh teamed up with the american medical association, the u.s. public health service, and the university of pittsburgh to produce "the silent invader." the film is from the u.s. national library of medicine's digital collections. carl: in the public interest, the westinghouse broadcasting company and the university of pittsburgh, one of the nation's major health centers, in cooperation with the american medical society and the united states public health service bring you "the silent invader," an up-to-the-minute report on asian influenza. how do you do? i'm carl ives. throughout history, mankind has been forced to wage many battles in order to protect his family or nation against misfortune, disaster, or even possible extinction. while sometimes these wars have been well, they've catastrophic. there was the catastrophe of 1918, when an influenza epidemic swept through our own nation as well as the entire world. unlike the battles of nation against n

ok and we were just listening to the american president donald trump addressing the united states an address to the nation from the white house the highlights there surprise traveled out of 30 days for all travel from europe the president saying the united failed to take the steps that were necessary to stop the spread of the corona virus and he talked about insurance companies in the united states taking it easy in terms of billing patients when it came to the corona virus and saying that he would make it easier for anti viral drugs to be made available it's not clear that science really supports that that will stop the spread of the krona virus however will he repeated again that the risk was very very low as he had said at the end of february comparing the coronavirus to the common flu and significantly not saying that this was an instance of national emergency oh he may go on to say that but it present he has not said it which would have a lot of to use a federal emergency response agency and. a whole bunch of money but let's go live now to do stephanie simons in washington said i

tell 1st who took us to the united states government has. as many border patrol and border patrol backup as there are stars in the sky. in an attempt to secure its borders the current administration is spending billions of dollars on enforcement money many argue is doing little to stop the human traffic merely rebooting it since they've closed the ports it forces people out into the secure. desert and people are dying so. it is supposed to send a message back to the villages in mexico that if you come here you'll die out of the desert it's a policy of death. they really don't know what they're facing i mean they don't know how hot and dry it is most of them if they have been here before they don't know about the desert and mostly women in high heel shoes are wedge issues and they all have one bottle of water and in this environment that is so hot and dry and desolate. if they need if they have a degree of heat exhaustion if they need to be in techno hospital me and the heat literally just codes for the brain the heart the good news we see a

the top health authorities today raise the warning level from the pandemic to high and in the united states doctors say the country is at a tipping point if the public refuses to heed the warnings now it will only be a matter of time until hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed i'm often berlin this is the day. we should be restricting our contact with other people to the extent that we can the less contact we have with other people the worst fears we're going to become infected we have proposed solutions to enable people to go home now and allow the transport of goods that are needed across you know. we have to keep cross for the transport of supplies flowing by making shared sacrifices in temporary changes we can protect the health of our people and we can protect our economy because i think our economy will come back rapidly those industrial masks that they use on construction sites are perfectly acceptable for health care workers to be protected from their respiratory disease have to be careful everybody and reduce the sense of the cost and so that's my opinion. also coming up at state p

of the united states.re in many parts of the united states. ok, thanks for that, david. david the united states. ok, thanks forthat, david. david willis in los angeles. the world health organization says europe is now the epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic. the news emerged as organised sport, both professional and amateur, across much of the uk, came to a standstill because of the outbreak. this is italy, one of the most advanced healthcare systems in the world. in the northern city of brescia, they're reduced to treating patients in warehouses and tents, because of coronavirus. italy has the worst outbreak by far in europe, but other countries are catching up. europe has now become the epicentre of the pandemic, with more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined, apart from china. denmark announced it is closing its borders to foreigners from tomorrow. nearly a dozen european countries have now imposed border controls. in spain, a state of emergency will come into effect to

they could send you to prison for 20 years for criticizing the united states government even if what you said was the truth. they sent a congressman to jail, or congressman, more than ten years was convicted under that law. in addition, the press certainly didn't criticize the government, they very much fell in line in terms of patriotism. there wasn't any outright censorship but it was and understood censorship. the cleveland plain dealer stated what the nation demands is treason whether thinly veiled are quite unmasked be stamped out. the providence journal carried a banner warning, this ran above the title of the newspaper every single day, every german or austrian in the united states unless known by years of association should be treated as a spy. the illinois bar association declared lawyers -- draft sister was unpatriotic and unprofessional. and of course the german language in many places, sauerkraut was renamed liberty cabbage and so forth and this kind of thing ultimately became very important in what happened later in the course of the disease. that is what was going on no

beds the united states has 100000 intensive care unit beds for people who are sick but if this is going to be a full blown pandemic then there will be a need of double that number and they're just not there let alone testing kits the united states has compared to europe or to korea or japan or other countries not tested significantly at all ok didn't fancy ones in washington thank you for that. and as jeff and just mentioned the n.b.a. has suspended this season due to fears over the coronavirus professional basketball league games in the united states won't stop until further notice the n.b.a. is the 1st major sports competition to face complete suspension over the illness announcement came after a player tested positive for the coronavirus. italy has ordered the closure of all shops apart from food stores and pharmacies bars and restaurants main shut as part of efforts to halt the spread of a corona virus italy has the largest number of infections outside china more than 800 italians have been killed by the disease. a major airport in milan missing its travellers. silence at the heart

it did not belong to the united states.he westernmost city in the united states of any consequence was st. louis, missouri. there were a few towns west of that, but nothing very important. other than st. louis and bits of louisiana, at the very beginning, all the states were east of the mississippi river. susan: what was the population? steve: gaining rapidly. only two or three million at the time of the revolution. by the time of my story it is getting over 20 million. by the time of the civil war just after my story, it is 31 million people. it is seen as almost doubling in a generation. the median age is very low. it is a very young country. very rapidly expanding. lots of immigrants coming from europe, from ireland, and elsewhere. a rapidly changing and evolving country. and a country where distances are shrinking. here's what i mean by that. in 1800 if you were in new york city and you wanted to travel to st. louis, it might take you six weeks to get there if you did not have some disaster on the trip. by the 1840's, i

you know, that discredits the united states? what damages peace, what endangers security, is not recognizing the truth. he truth must be spoken. and it's what president trump and this administration has done. [applause] the harm -- the harm -- look, the harm -- the harm to israel, the thoorm the region, the harm to the relationship for the united states and israel comes from denying that jerusalem is the capital of israel. it was 100% necessary following president abbas's 2017 remarks at the u.n. what damages and discredits the united states and our relationship with israel is denying that palestinian terrorism has been the real obstacle to peace. [applause] and it -- and it discredits this relationship when you deny that the settlement issue is a political dispew and not a political puzzle. and i'll have more to say about that in just a moment. and finally, the u.n. the u.n. still calls them the high counselor and michelle bashelay. they released the data base of companies doing business in east jerusalem and israeli settlement

the race remaining people are looking ahead to march 3rd super tuesday as people all across the united states 14 different states will be voting on the nominees so quite an exciting turn of events people didn't see this coming people wonder what will indeed happen when people go to the polls across the country. coming out of saturday yes joe biden did great but we cannot necessarily say that those numbers were pure joe biden it's a very red state donald trump just the night before it urged people to cross over he was fine both for joe biden it is to the republicans advantage to see a brokered convention a chaotic democratic race here on out so you have to wonder since saturday night and booted judge looking at and seeing as internals was there actually a conversation and said listen you're young you've got a lot more forward for you and history and history and politics maybe if you help us out here make sure that our party stays our party along establishment lines you might have a place in 20 years and we will forget you have to just think of the timing how all of this is happening going into

outbreaks from iowa to the boy scout jam berry b b jamboree in pennsylvania and throughout the united states. >> i didn't realize that was actually the asian flu that hit that jamboree in our own state. that it was asian flu. >> that's right. >> dr. bernie, not many died from asian influenza in the rest of the world. do you think the same will hold true here in the united states? >> we have the belief now based upon the experience of asian influenza in the other countries, in south america at the present time where it is an epidemic proportions and as a result of the outbreaks in this country so far. that it is a mild infection, and with a very low mortality rate, and we believe it will continue to be both a mild infection and have a very low death rate. >> well, is it a possibility that asian flu might turn into, if i might use the word, a killer? >> well, that is a possibility, of course, and that has happened in preceding years when we have had epidemics. back in 1888 when we had a large epidemic, and then many of us recall the 1989-19 epidemic when we had a mild influenza epidemic in the

donald trump promised the united states would ensure the united states would have the resources and toolsort american support for the security of the state of israel is greater than ever before. the state of israel is stronger than ever before in its history. donald trump has taken one action after another, support for israel. this president promised to shutdown the plo office in washington if the palestinian authority did not take steps to stop funding terrorists who murder innocent israeli civilians and when the plo did not act donald trump shut it down. the plo office in washington is closed and today the taylor is the law of the land. [applause] >> this president also promised america would no longer allow the united nations to be a forum for invective against israel. and this president delivered when he withdrew the united states from the so-called human rights council at the un and ended all us contributions. [applause] >> our administration will never tolerate the suppression, persecution or silencing of the jewish people. we have stood up to anti-semitism on the world stage and we

back in the united states, u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning will soon be released from jail after one year behind bars on contempt charges for refusing to cooperate in a federal grand d jury investigatn into wikileaks. the order for her immediate relelease comes one day after manning was s hospitalized in virginia after she reportedly attempted suicide at a federal prison in alexandria. on thursday, judge anthony j trenga wrote -- the court finds ms. manning's appearance before the grand jury is no longer needed, in light of which her detention no longer serves any coercive purpose." judge trenga, however, rejected a request to cancel the fines imposed against manning for refusing to testify. manning will now have to pay $256,000. in 2013, chelsea manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking documents and video to wikileaks showing evidence of u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan. president obama granted her clemency in n 2017. a vocal supporter of donald trump was sentenced wednesday to a one-y

not through the united states congress. and the reason for much of this inaction is the supreme court's decision in citizens united. i won't belabor the point because i know my colleague from hawaii was kind enough to let me go ahead of her. let me repeat this. ten donors after citizens united have contributed over the past decade $1.2 billion to our policy. that has created a corruption of inaction in the united states senate. it's not corruption that you see because it's a corruption of inaction. it's a bill that's not introduced. it's the committee hearing that's not held. it's the vote that's never taken for fear that if you do that, some billionaire is going to drop $30 million on your race and run a primary against you in your next election. do you want to know why we could have a senate in the united states that votes on only 22 amendments in a year? that's the reason. you want to know why we have a senate where 75% of the votes are personnel votes and 25% are actually on amendments? that's the reason. and we have to

he was president of the united states. on that day, he was a supporting player to the most amos statesman honor. did he feel, as the british journalist suspected at the time, wistful envy in the immense shadow of churchill? cook fought later that the truman doctrine was conceived of the president listened to churchill's call for action. one can only wonder, but there is a pleasing symmetry to the fact that precisely one year later, the president would announce his own vision for confronting the new scourge of communist tyranny. churchill would return to downing street has prime minister in 1951. he would focus almost all of his remaining energies on brokering a piece with the russians. he in his country would play only a supporting role in the drama to come. without either of them being fully aware of it, the baton of world leadership was being passed from churchill to truman on the dusty plains of missouri. the united states would take up the burden formally born by britain, as peace. per 10 he become americana. the briti