the opcw did the report recently and we understand, we know we have to as a security council, hold the assad regime accountable. we have to stop the disinformation campaign coming from russia and china. that isanother area very contentious women -- within the council. more importantly, that you engage the country that once again, as we talked about, china has been helping with financial short-term situations, that we be able to engage them so they understand the findings and the facts that we are holding the assad regime accountable. if we don't stop the disinformation campaign, it will be difficult to continue told them accountable, because this is against the syrian people. we have to highlight the use of chemical weapons by the assad regime. heather: the u.s. is supporting a resolution that calls for a new constitution and elections. what can we do to re-energize that process? in fits and starts for several years now. ambassador craft: we really have to support our special envoy there. here's an is someone that we are all supporting, the like-minded countries in the council. to stop

military in a medical crisis and here's stablished a pandemic response unit within the national security council called the global security team said it would allow for and all of government response in the event of an outbreak or if a foreign epidemic got to us soil so that we would have coordination across homeland security our national security the military health and human services c.d.c. and all the various state health agencies laurie garrett advised the pandemic response team in both the obama and bush administrations the pen demick flu plan of 2005. you know look at the size of this thing this was the 1st serious attempt to come up with a pandemic plan to the united states a plan that the obama administration built on and presented to a new president in 2016 and they they handed it over together with a demonstration of what would an outbreak look like to try and bring the trump team up to speed but. almost immediately the trump team started cutting everything and so by the time you hit the f y 2018 budget. most of this whole construct was gone i think the global response team was formall

national security council it says the united states is closely monitoring any potential threats to the safety and security of a legitimate leader one by the law then as well as government boasts that it knew every detail of the incursion before it happened and with good reason. that the plan had been devised by cleveland a former chavis ally indicted by washington for drug trafficking who turned on model and then fled to colombia there he hooked up with jordan good role a former u.s. green beret and c.e.o. of a security company called silvercorp it's something 100 hours in october they presented a plan to why they ought to overthrow my little the opposition leader allegedly signed a preliminary agreement but then broke it off why the law denies it but that wasn't the end of it in late march announced that he was behind an arms cache to help overthrow mother little the colombian police had inadvertently stumbled upon days later i was extradited to the united states but not before revealing more details if the very moment i think the weapons belonged to the venezuelan people who were use

security council from agreeing on a pandemic resolution and also the news reports of threats bloodshed and forced evictions all beneath the shiny veneer of saudi arabia's planned mega city. and a virtual vigil in the us for a black man shot dead while jogging in georgia this after the arrest of a father and son is. so we're seeing the lines at the food bank stretching for kilometers within the job center is overwhelmed with people it is that physical picture of how badly the u.s. has been hit by cope with 9 now though we have a concrete figure and it's this 114.7 percent that is the unemployment rate for april which tripled from the month before put another way that is more than $20000000.00 jobs gone for some perspective if we go back this is worse than the global recession which followed the financial crisis of 2008 and if we go back further it even sets a new post war record that was previously in 1902 when unemployment originally 11 percent it's no exaggeration to go right back and say that this is the worst crisis for the u.s. economy since the great depression of the 1930 s. when

is an increasingly bitter dispute over the origins of coronavirus and its preventing the un security council from agreeing on a pandemic resolution also in the news reports of threats bloodshed and forced evictions beneath the shiny veneer of saudi arabia's planned mega city and a virtual vigil in the us for a black man shot dead while jogging in georgia after the arrest of a father and son but his murder. for weeks we have seen the lines of the food banks stretching for kilometers the job center is overwhelmed with people it is given us a picture of how badly the u.s. economy's been hit by covert 19 but now we have the most concrete figure yet and it is 14.7 percent that is the unemployment rate for april which tripled from the month before put another way we're talking about more than $20000000.00 jobs gone and some perspective now this is worse than the financial crisis old a recession which followed the financial crisis of 2008 it also creates a new post will recall that was previously set in 982 when unemployment regionally 11 percent so it is no exaggeration to say going right back thi

security council so what do you think the outcome will be gareth.i have no doubt that that this of ending of the ban on armaments. the ability of iran to buy armaments on the international in the international arena is going to go through it's not going to be reversed by the united states so there's no way they can do that the security council is going to have to be unanimous in order to restore that and it's impossible that that could happen i mean so so the united states is again i would just emphasize that this is part of the propaganda offensive more than anything else and this of course just just to recall a little bit of history that's extremely important the united states has been carrying out its own arms embargo and getting others to join them arms embargo against iran since iran was created back in 1079 as soon as the iran iraq war began u.s. imposed. all right well gareth porter investigative journalist thanks so much for talking to us today gareth see next time. thank you. other news making headlines today supreme court justice ruth bade

security council john homan is following developments from mexico city. right now they're sort of strung out across the atlantic the 1st one colleagues in venezuela that are sort of plotting their their routes across the ocean so the 1st one could arrive by saturday or sunday and then the one that's at the back of this sort of line of tankers could take a couple of weeks even to arrive now going back further where did this all start and it basically started because the u.s. has said to other countries listen if you're doing business with venezuela you can't do business with us it's basically called secondary sanctions and that means that other countries including companies from russia stopped or of dropped the amount of business that they do with venezuela now venezuela despite being the country with the biggest or reserves in the world has struggled to convert that into gas into gasoline and that's because of years of mismanagement so it's now casting around to see where it can get their gasoline from and since the u.s. has been cracking down on other co

here is stonier the current president of the security council invited other members to an unofficial meeting to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in europe speak 945 also marked the birth of the united nations and the multilateral system but it's a system that many believe has failed to respond in a unified manner to code 19 it's now 6 weeks since the u.n. secretary general made this call the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of what that is why today i am calling for any needed global ceasefire in all corners of the world it is thank to put out a conflict on lockdown and focus the gather on the to fight of our lives in the weeks since then an unseemly battle behind the scenes with the security council unable to agree on the words or resolution to back the secretary general's call after president trump said he would cut future funding to the world health organization u.s. negotiators blocked any reference to the w.h.o. in the resolution while china threatened to veto any resolution that didn't mention it this latest version of the u.n. draft resolution includes co

up there's an increasingly bitter dispute over the virus's origins and it's preventing the un security council from agreeing on a pandemic resolution. also in the news reports of threats bloodshed and forced evictions beneath the shiny veneer oh saudi arabia's planned megacity. and venezuela charges 2 americans with terrorism and conspiracy to overthrow the government. welcome to the program for weeks we've seen lines at the food banks stretching for miles and job centers overwhelmed with people it's given us a picture of how badly the u.s. economy has been hit by cope with 19 but now we have the most concrete figure yet 14.7 percent that's the unemployment rate for april which tripled from the month before to put it another way that's more than $20000000.00 jobs gone for perspective it's worse than the global recession which followed the 2008 financial crisis and it created a new post war record previously set in 1902 when unemployment reached nearly 11 percent so it's no exaggeration to say this is the worst crisis for the u.s. economy since the great depression of the 1930 s. when one in ev

envoy for the middle east has told the security council that israel must abandon its planned on that station of 30 percent of the occupied west bank under a deal with the united states israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin the next in palestinian land as soon as july the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called for countries to recognize the state of palestine and impose sanctions on israel jews bases at the united nations where he says the u.n. continues to support a 2 state solution in the occupied west bank. for nickel i'm laid off is the special coordinator for the middle east peace process giving his reaction to the threat of annexation clearly this has been talked about for a long time many thought that prime minister netanyahu was going to use this as an election ploy but since he's been back in office he says no definitely i am going to annex parts of the west bank the un's position on that is very clear it strongly supports a 2 state solution mr milligan off said it would be a clear breach of international law and more interesting i think was his reacti

the united nations security council has also voiced concern at china of the national security laws on the whole cold requesting an urgent meeting diplomatic to james bays has more from un headquarters in new york. it was the u.s. mission to the united nations that requested a security council meeting on hong kong a request that was immediately blocked by china but just hours later the issue was raised anyway by a guest speaker at the council the e.u.'s foreign policy chief and turning to a very recent developments which they cannot stop a bite if. i might express deep concern with the steps taken by a china regards nation or security legislation you are gone. we believe that that is not going to go for mickey with international commitments nor with the hong kong basic or the chinese position though was firm this was an internal matter none of the security council's business how come affairs are purely china's internet i.f.'s and allow no access to no interference it usual of. has nothing to do with the mandate of the thicker to cancel elsewhere u.n. headquarters where they were holdin

it is well over a month since he demanded a global cease fire but the fact that the un security council has been able to pass a resolution was the result of what he called a dysfunctional relationship between the major powers. tothat makes it difficult decide. it makes it difficult in many other areas for an international corporation to work. >> the secretary-general given the scale of the pandemic, do you believe that global leadership has been adequate? is a is obvious that there lack of leadership. we are divided when it is most important to be united. there is indeed a problem of leadership or if yoyou want, a disconnect in leadership and power. we see remarkable examples of leadership. where we see power, we do not not -- we do not see necessary leadership. i hope this is overcome sooner rather than later. , aat a security council demonstration of the disagreement among the world's top countries. the u.n. special envoy spoke during the virtual event. one of the ambassadors had not muted his microphone. ambassador was on a separate phone call, unaware that everyone else could hear h

the un security council has held a video conference over allegations colombia and the u.s. were involved in an edge coup attempt earlier this month the meeting was called by russia after venezuela accused the 2 nations of sending mercenaries to assassinate president nicolas maduro christensen who joins us live from new york christine ringback what evidence do they have of this and what action to the security council take. well russia called this meeting to call out the united states based on this rather lengthy letter that was sent to the security council from venezuela about a week ago alleging that 2 former u.s. soldiers who were arrested in venezuela earlier this month were working with colombia. to train forces to overthrow the government there in venezuela the documents cites confessions which were videotaped of the gentleman who were arrested who said that they were there to do that to train these forces in colombia for operations within venezuela and then to secure the airport in venezuela in caracas to return to the united states they also pointed to documents that

security council to adopt a resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the pandemic washington object as to the language and emotion referring to the world health organization the bodies are all in the pandemic is the subject of a growing dispute between the world's 2 major economic powers our diplomatic editor james has more. here stonier the current president of the security council invited other members to an unofficial meeting to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in europe speak 945 also marked the birth of the united nations and the multilateral system but it's a system that many believe has failed to respond in a unified manner to cope with 19 it's now 6 weeks since the u.n. secretary general made this call the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war that is why today i am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the worlds. it is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the to fight of all lives in the weeks since then an unseemly battle behind the scenes with the security council unable to agree on the words of

security council was told it could jeopardise the bennetts of calm in the west bank . brazil's health ministry has recommended why do use of the anti malaria drug hydroxy cure acquited to treat coronavirus patients the country's right wing president shi'a bosso naro explained it was better to quote put up a fight with a virus than accept defeat but in a regular briefing the world health organization said the drug has not proved effective against current 19 in any trial the us president revealed on monday that he'd been taking it in a bid to ward off the virus. as a top stories do stay with us the stream is next looking into the disagreements over technology to track people with coronavirus stay with us if you can i finish. rapidly ok welcome to the stream all of the squeak we are tombstones are running discussions that need slide like you have us and our ny community today having that here pracon like my laptop yet this is what you often ask is those story or is she think we should cover our escape down he is and you can see clovis run denali and claim he says that in

security council has been facing in trying to come up with a resolution on covert 19 the french have been leading those negotiations for weeks diplomats say it's a torturous process the u.s. is objecting to any reference in the resolution to the world health organization after president trump pulled funding from the global health body meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has been pushing the idea of a meeting of the 5 permanent members of the security council russia china the u.s. u.k. and france that leader level it's still low hasn't happened jamesburg days out 0 of the united nations ok let's wrap up some other top stories for you libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli has rejected a ceasefire announced by the warlords after the government of national accord says hafter has violated previous truces after said his forces would pause hostilities during the muslim holy month of ramadan his key ally the u.a.e. is calling for all sides to find a political solution to the conflict through what it describes as a supervised process after it's been trying to

humanitarian chief is calling on the security council to ensure aid continues to reach millions of people in northwest syria a resolution allowing for deliveries across syria's border with turkey is set to expire in july mark lowcock says aid has been scaled up in recent months because of the staggering levels of need and the coronavirus pandemic. cross border operation for northwest area all right i think it counts you know like lines and millions into billions in the united nations cannot reach by other means it cannot be substituted it's all right they can be we need only defeat and by the council we're going to get ruction of the spike operation and help you not carry organizations continue that's got a lot of big current needs in the public and it 19 in a delay will increase suffering and will cost lives on diplomats expect talks to renew aid access will be difficult at the start of this year syria's ally russia used its security council veto to reduce cross border aid and moscow's ambassador to the un has signaled that their position will not change the structure of picking your ind

mission to the united nations that requested a security council meeting on hong kong a request that was immediately blocked by china but just hours later the issue was raised anyway by a guest speaker at the council the e.u.'s foreign policy chief and turning to the very recent developments which they can not stop or of white referring to i must express deep concern with the steps taken by china regarding nation will security legislation you can't go on. we really that that is not going to go for with the with international commitments nor with the hong kong basic or the chinese position though was firm this was an internal matter none of the security council's business how come affairs are purely china's internal affairs and allow no acts to no interference it usually. has nothing to do with the mandate of the security council elsewhere at u.n. headquarters where they were holding an event about global development postcode 19 a most important player clearly didn't want to take sides are you concerned about the new security law for hong kong today i do not intend to move into areas that

relationship between the major powers and that makes it difficult for the security council to decide as it makes it difficult in many other areas for international cooperation to work secretary-general given the scale of the pandemic do you believe that global leadership has been adequate. it is obvious that there is a lack of leadership it is all is obvious the international community is divided in a moment where it would be more important than ever to be united there is indeed a problem of leadership or if you want a disconnect between leadership and poll we see remarkable examples of leadership but they are usually not associated bollard and when we see power we sometimes do not see the necessary to the ship i hope this will be overcome sooner rather than later as a security council session this week a very public demonstration of the disagreements among the world's top countries as the un syria's special envoy spoke during the virtual event one of the ambassadors had not me to this microphone in ukraine my counsel. the french ambassador was on a separate phone call unaware everyo

special coordinator nicholai mad not briefing the security council restated the un's long held position that annexation would be a serious breach of international law by israel derailing a 2 state solution but his response to palestinian president mahmoud abbas his decision to withdraw from all previous agreements and stop cooperation with israel was perhaps more surprising if i missed the only and very frankly. whatever it will assessments i listed you know reaction to this really threat that exists maybe it is certainly one thing it is a desperate cry for help it is a call for immediate action it is a cry for help from a generation of leaders that invest it their lives in building institutions and preparing the state for over a quarter of a century in the virtual session on one point there was near a green any i think see shona of any parts of the west bank including of settlements all only would represent a violation of international law one by one security council members urged israel not to pursue a policy of annexation except for one the emission of such a statement by the us amba

envoy for the middle east has told the security council that israel must abandon its planned on it's a sheen of 30 percent of the old by the west bank under a deal with the us israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin annexing palestinian land as soon as july august and president mahmoud abbas has called for countries to recognize the state of palestine and impose sanctions on israel well let's go live to our diplomatic editor james frey's who's at the united nations and james we've been hearing strong words from the u.n. special envoy what did he have to say. this was a meeting of the u.n. security council to discuss the situation many here in new york had thought that prime minister netanyahu is threat to annex parts of the west bank was an election ploy but he's now back in office and he says he's definitely going to do it that's got people worried the u.n. special envoy restating the un's position that it's firmly behind a 2 state solution and any such move by israel would be illegal under international law that's the long held position more surprising was the reactio

security council has been facing in trying to come up with a resolution on covert 19 the french have been leading those negotiations for weeks diplomats say it's a torturous process the u.s. is objecting to any reference in the resolution to the world health organization after president trump pulled funding from the global health body meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has been pushing the idea of a meeting of the 5 permanent members of the security council russia china the u.s. u.k. and france at leader level it still though hasn't happened james. spays al-jazeera of the united nations. so it's come here on al-jazeera we'll have the latest on the investigation into a discovery of decomposing bodies outside a new york funeral home. and after months of protests a plan to tackle lebanon's economic crisis but will it be enough to pull the country out of the spiral. hello there are still plenty of showers across northern areas of the middle east to take you through areas of turkey and also a few scattered showers work its way eastwards across much of iran but as a say that

libya's ongoing fighting has raised concern that the un security council.r for the u.n. criminal court said in a video briefing her team plans to apply for arrest warrants for or crimes allegedly committed in libya. we have this report from u.n. headquarters. correspondent: addressing the un security council, the chief prosecutor of the international security court said that two men she has identified as suspected of war crimes needed to be handed over straightaway. warrants for the man, they are yet to be executed. of egypt whereic one man resides, has not arrested and surrendered him. the libyan national army has neither facilitated the arrest or the surrender of the other men to the icc, nor ensured his prosecution in libya. he is reportedly under the command of the general. correspondent: also speaking in the security council meeting, the ambassador from libya, who is loyal to the government of national accord, the internationally recognized government which controls tripoli and the west of the government, and said it was time for the security council t

security council resolution on the pandemic over a language that refers to the world health organization. but again with breaking news out of libya forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa haftar have fired dozens of rockets into tripoli is only functioning airport it's believed a civilian plane intimate take airport with it after has been trying for months to take control of the libyan capital but as attempts have been repelled by the un recognized government let's go now to tripoli were are about to go ahead is reporting live so mahmood what else do we know about these these rocket attacks. well richelle if it doesn't serve its lead in and around them pretty good airport for the past few hours and. also we're getting reports from. some neighborhoods in the city center that also were targeted by blood rockets and bill reports about the end man killed by a big rock attacks now anybody can a couple. or a crucible 2 civilians and families are going out of the streets and it's the of middle i have is calling on people living nearby or to. get home and not. some but time being you know a shell

security council and as i asked the u.s. to stop what it calls bullying practices. well hong kong's legislative council has been suspended after an incident you can see here a man entered the chamber on thursday morning and threw a bag on to the final session was poised to clean up the area tensions are high as the legislature considers a controversial bill to protect china's national anthem in hong kong well there have also been developments on another issue that's causing us china tension a canadian court has ruled an extradition case against why wait chief financial officer can go ahead she's wanted in the u.s. on charges of misleading a major bank on hallways dealings with iran. anger is spreading in the united states over the death of an unarmed black man who was pinned to the ground by police in minneapolis and just in the past few hours protesters demanding justice for george floyd have come out in their hundreds in downtown los angeles they blocked parts of a freeway and surrounded highway patrol cars and in minneapolis large crowds are out again 4 police off

security council it's u.n. ambassador called the u.s. the trouble maker of the wild while the hong kong security bell is set to be voted through on thursday that's the final day of the national people's congress in the chinese capital. how does a castro reports from washington d.c. the united states' special economic relationship with hong kong dates back to the territory's time under british rule since then and even after hong kong's return to china in 1907 the us has granted hong kong special trade protections helping it become a global commercial hub where international companies operate freely and u.s. tariffs and visa requirements imposed on mainland china don't touch but now that could change u.s. secretary of state mike pump ailes report to congress on wednesday means president trump is now free to revoke hong kong special status and treat it like the rest of china seems to be quite frustrated and angry with china about the spread of 19 around the world and blames the chinese. so he may be willing to go ahead and do this he seems.

humanitarian chief is calling on the security council to ensure aid continues to reach millions of people in northwest syria a resolution allowing for deliveries across syria's border with turkey is set to expire in july mark local says aid has been scaled up in recent months because of the staggering levels of need and the coronavirus pandemic the cross border operation from northwest syria or right either here in town so you know like line for millions of civilians in the united nations cannot reach by other means it cannot be substituted it's all right they can be renewed and only defeat and by the council will get ruction of the spike operation and help humanitarian organizations continue their. big power it needs in the process and only one in a delay will increase offering and will cut. diplomats expect talks to a new aid access will be difficult at the start of this year syria's ally russia used its security council veto to reduce cross border aid to the north east and moscow's ambassador to the un has signaled that their position will not change stop shooting your individual polit

security council meeting on the use of chemical weapons in syria it was a closed informal session but the ambassadors of the 2 countries say it should have been made public last month an inspection team from the international watchdog the o.p.c. w concluded for the 1st time at the assad regime had used chemical agents those are the headlines on al-jazeera as always we've got plenty more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com coming up next here it's inside story. is the coronavirus pandemic making it hard to treat all the diseases in africa u.n. agencies warned decades of progress in treating aids malaria and other illnesses could be reversed how do you decide what gets priority this is inside story. hello welcome to the program on boone it's a coronavirus pandemic is putting enormous strain on health systems worldwide.

security council the chief prosecutor for the international criminal court told the u.n. in a video briefing that her team plans to apply for new arrest warrants in its investigation of alleged war crimes committed in libya al-jazeera is diplomatic editor james bays reports from u.n. headquarters in new york. addressing the un security council the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court for 2 bensouda said that 2 men she's already identified as suspected of war crimes needed to be handed over straight away arrest warrants for mr hallett and mr mcdonald were fairly yet to be executed the arab republic of egypt where mr ham is believed to resign but has not arrested and surrendered him to the court. as libyan national army has neither facilitated the arrest and surrender of mr fairlie to the i.c.c. law ensured his genuine investigation and prosecution in libya mr foley is reported to be under the command of general have. also speaking in the security council meeting the ambassador for libya who is loyal to the government of national accord the internationally r

the un humanitarian chief is calling on the security council to ensure aid continues to reach millions of people in northwest syria resolution allowing for deliveries across syria's border with turkey is set to expire in july mark lowcock says aid has been scaled up in recent months because of the staggering levels of need and the coronavirus pandemic. across the border of operation for northwest area all right i did it in town so you know like minds of millions of civilians in the united nations cannot reach by other means it cannot be substituted it's all right they must be when you. only defeat him by the council will he gets ruction of the spy cooperation and help humanitarian organizations continue there's a lot of big current needs in the problem and. a delay will increase offering and will cost the lives palestinian president mahmoud abbas says palestine will not be bound by agreements with israel and the us because of israel's planning sation of 30 percent of the occupied west bank addressing an emergency meeting of his cabinet august described the u.s. as israel's part in crim

humanitarian chief is calling on the security council to ensure aid continues to reach millions of people in northwest syria a resolution allowing for deliveries across syria's border with turkey is set to expire in july mog lowcock says aid has been scaled up in recent months because of the staggering levels of need and the coronavirus pandemic across the border of operation from north korea all right i think it counts you know like lines a 1000000 times to the indians in the united nations cannot reach by other means it cannot be substituted it's all right they must be we need only dictate and by the council will only get ruction of the michael ration and help humanitarian organizations continue to get a lot of big current needs in the process and only 19 in a delay will increase offering and will cost lives taiwan's president has delivered her inauguration speech where she is called on china to find ways the 2 can co-exist psion ones pro independence party won elections in a january by a landslide promising to stand up to beijing it claims taiwan as its own and has fought to keep it fr

you were the number two in that security council, and they obviously knew something, many things that with a self-serving, nonsensical memo to self. your thoughts. >> look, that memo that she wrote to herself just a few minutes before she walked out the door and a few minutes before general flynn and i walked into the door of the west wing, it's like the 13th chime of a clock, lou. it's extraordinary in and of itself, and it calls into question all which preceded it. she would never is are written that memo to the record unless they knew they had something -- they'd done a lot of things wrong, and they were trying to cover up. at one point she says president obama's questioning the fbi director should, is in any reason we should not share with general flynn and the new team any information on russia. and they're acting as if, well, this has just come up. so when general flynn and i met with susan rice four weeks before that and met several times with susan rice, were you supposed to go over all the issues that are ongoing. it's a handover thing. what did they not talk about? she would

security council after china goes ahead with new security laws for hong kong. hello there are still plenty of clouds and some rather heavy rain showers across well central and eastern areas of europe meanwhile out across even northern sections out towards the west of us a good case guys in the last few hours now look at this is right up there in northern finland and this time of year the sun will not set properly again until the middle of july so the 15th of july is the next sunrise meanwhile further to the south in london we've got tower bridge really lit up very nicely the deep blue sky behind plenty of deep blue skies across much of northern germany the low countries france the u.k. down across into spain and portugal fought in the portugal that have some heat in place for 6 states including the capital because the temperature is also very high there's a heat wave in place not the same across much of the southeast and in fact as we go through soften in particular very heavy rain back in the forecast across northern sections ukraine pushing up into boundaries

, you know, every president should have a national security council that suits his needs.mp, unlike a lot of other presidents, he makes the decisions himself. he doesn't just pick option one, two or three that are sort of spoon fed him by the bureaucracy. is so i think now he's got the right people in the right places, and i do think that american foreign policy and national security policy will really quickly be able to implement president trump's objectives. lou: give us your sense though the -- what is being projected from the white house right now. because there is an incredible, i think an unprecedented number of crises that are contemporaneous, whether it is the wuhan virus, whether it is an intense disinformation and propaganda campaign by one of the principal powers of the world, and that is china. at the same time, taking over hong kong because that's what it is, we all know it, and we all might as well use plain english when we say it. and there is here president that needs as much counsel, as much help and support as he possibly can get. we are not necessarily h