interest in the middle east. we have invested more than 50 million -- $50 billion in egypt's army over the past 40 years and they did so by -- supply support to us, but recently that army has been focused more on internal repressing than regional security. saudi arabia and the uae are capable of projecting military power the on their border than the way they were decades ago, but they also do things contrary to u.s. interests. the second assumption, if we don't sell them weapons, they will turn to china or russia. the u.s. is a partner of choice not only because our equipment is far superior, but also because of long-term training, maintenance and security that comes with the sales. it's time to ask whether the threat that less arms from the u.s. will cause our partners to abandon us and turn to russia or china, whether the threat is real or a red herring. third, close military relationships with these countries, bring them into the club. it helps professionalize them, incentivizes these nations to become more re

especially in the middle east. the abraham accords provide an opportunity for such reflect and action. as the u.s. reduces our presence our role in the region must change to an active supporter. we have to rely upon the governments we have, not the ones we wish we had. we have seen our partners and allies make peace and normalize relations with our ally israel. does in egypt were critical -- those in egypt are critical to stop the rockets from hamas into israel. we have seen iran rain unguided rockets on urban centers. this complex security environment is one in which the united states must continue to shape for the sake of global energy and economic markets, our enduring counterterrorism mission. for the sake of regional stability while denying the middle east an area of russian and chinese influence. is committee will not be serving the national security interests of the american people -- this committee will not be acting as the nationals accrued interest -- in a way that grades insurmountable barriers or cratin

interests in the middle east. has it? we have invested more than $50 billion in egypt army over the last 40 years. they did provide support to us in the gulf war in 1991 but recently, that army has been focused more on internal repression than on regional security. saudi arabia and the uae are capable of projecting military power beyond their border in a way they weren't decades ago but they often do so in ways that are contrary to u.s. interests, as we've seen in yemen and libya. if we don't sell them weapons, they will turn to russia or china is the second assumption. u.s. is the partner of choice because much of our equipment is far superior to anything the chinese or russians can sell but for long-term training, maintenance and security operation that comes with those sales. it's time to ask whether the threat of less arms from the u.s. will cause our partners to abandon us and turn to russia or china and whether that threat is real or whether it's a red herring. finally a third assumption, close military relationship

security assistance in the middle east. this senate foreign relations subcommittee hearing that security cooperation with israel, the united arab emirates, egypt, and other countries in the region. sen. murphy: we will continue this hearing through the beginning of votes. other colleagues will join us. over the last 75 years, the majority of u.s. arms sales worldwide have gone to the middle east. they total more than $379 billion in sales. that is a lot of weapons into a very combustible part of the world. our sales in other forms of security systems are an important foreign policy tool for the united states to use to exercise its influence abroad. as with any foreign policy tool, it is important to continually reevaluate whether it is achieving its desired policy goals. when the cold war began as a means to counteract soviet expansion, we got into the business of supporting authoritarian regimes all over the world, in the middle east. we relied on arms sales to cement these relationships. we also need access to middle east

interests in the middle east. as it?e have invested more than $50 billion in egypt's army over the past 40 years. they provided support to us in the gulf war of 1991 but recently, the army has been focused more on internal repression than regional security. saudi arabia and the you ree -- uae are capable of military power beyond their border that they weren't decades ago but they are contrary to u.s. interests as we have seen in yemen and libya. second assumption, if we do not sell the weapons, they will turn to china or russia. the u.s. is the partner of choice not only because so much of our equipment is just far superior to anything track -- the chinese or russians can sell but long-term training, maintenance, and security cooperation that comes with them. it is time to ask whether the threat that less arms from the u.s. will cause our partners to abandon us and return to china or russia, whether that is real or just a red herring. the third assumption -- post military relationships with these countries bring them int

he first century and get more americans a chance to get into the middle class, keep those in the middle class and assure them they are staying there, help those trying to climb the ladder to get into the middle clas,s get there more easily -- class get there more easily. that is my goal and friendly my passion. that is what motivates me in working as hard as i can to get this going forward. the democratic budget, resolution is transformational, probably the most significant single piece of legislation we have seen certainly a decades and bernie sanders thinks since rose hill, and he is pushing for big change. it will cut taxes, lower costs for the american people, create good, paying jobs, invest in our future while tackling the climate change crisis. it is big, bold, strong, and it will be paid for by making our tax code more progressive and more fair without raising taxes on working families and small businesses. by asking corporations and the wealthy to pay their share. it boils the average american blood when it -- when they see multibillionaire's paying virtually no taxes. that was

after a period of calm, tensions are rising again in the middle east.he young nation of israel struggles to find stability as the entire region hovers on the brink of a new conflict. >> israel is still a very young country. the idea of accept be israel as part of the middle east is foreign. >> israel and its arab neighbors, egypt, jordan, syria, lebanon, were at a state of conflict since 1948. the middle east was arab for at least 2,000 years, and suddenly these immigrants come from eastern europe, and they build their own community here, and it was the new island of foreigners in the midst of the arab middle east. >> at this time, the palestinian refugee situation from the '48 war is not resolved. >> there were three kinds of palestinian refugees at the time, west bank, gaza, and then there were the palestinians who were living inside israel who stayed there after the 1948 war. >> many palestinians are still longing to go back to their homes. they're still carrying the keys to their homes in haifa and yaffa, and of course in jerusalem. >> jerusalem its

east, because the middle east changed forever.nd nations that some of them made sense, some of them don't make sense to this day. >> it stems from this arrangement that they set in action. it was concocted by the western world. >> colonial powers threw their weight behind unelected monarchs who were not chosen by the people at all. and the promise of democracy and independence has not been seen or realized in most parts of the region to this day. >> and one wonders what weould the arab world be today if it were not for what imperialism did, to snuff out the national ambitions of people, to impose regimes on them. to spoil their wealth and exploit them. imperialism committed a sin that is still taking a toll today. >> the british played everybody to their advantage. they told the jews you want a home in palpalestine, here's yo land. at the end, the british were working for the british. >> so to a large extent, the main outcome of the first world war for jerusalem is that the israel-palestinian dispute that we know so much about tod

i middle eastern crime squad. i can understand it if it was in the middle east. i just can't understand detrimental logy. and said that we never be unhappy with such a knology. we're still not happy with such minority because it actually works against old bridge building between us society and the police. i think the middle east organized crime scorned is called that name, because that is actually what it investigates and certainly some within the community that feel that's a good thing. then others also feel that it's a bad thing and that it tarnishes everyone from the least in background. i don't see it that way. i am of middle east and background myself, and i feel tarnished in any way. in july, 2006, the nation's respectful and loyalty to lebanese straightens, is made clear when israel launch has air attacks on parts of lebanon in its war against his been the howard government evacuate over 5000 straining, fitted him to his credit. john howard and the difficult circumstances evacuated these citizens in a way that was very difficult, very costly. ah, but human

the idea of accepting israel as part of the middle east is foreign. israel and arab neighbors, egypt, jordan, lebanon were at the state of colon nconflict. suddenly these immigrants come from eastern europe and they build their own community here and it was the new foreigners in the middle east. at this time the palestinian refugee situation is not resolved. there were three kinds of palestinian refugees at the time. west bank gaza and the palestinians who were living inside israel who stayed there after the 1948 war. >> many palestinians are still longing to go back to their homes. they are carrying the keys into their home and jerusalem. jerusalem itself was divided between jordan and israel which was the result of the war of 1948. jerusalem was a berlin-like divided city in most of the areas that was walls and barbed wires. when jordan occupied the whole city of jerusalem, the jews were not allowed in the city. the community of the jews were essentially kicked out of the houses. >> while jordan restricts jews from accessing from the holy site, the

the 2nd same as a turbulence in the middle east, such as bad enough. anyway, you don't want to start an investigation meant to find. perhaps one of your allies may have had a hand and the and the murder of a protagonist. in a bed investigation, but good politics. ah, the life and death of ash off mar, one has all the plot twists of a gripping spice story. one reason why he's been the subject of several books, tv, documentaries, and dramas. the truth of his life is in every sense, stranger than fiction. his marriage to the teenage daughter of the addiction president gamma loved another. his later relationship with nasa successive anwar sadat, his move to london, and the phone call to the israeli embassy offering his services. despite his role in the 1973 arab israeli war, did he tip off israel to give them a military advantage or deliberately pass on flowed information to help egypt? spy, on trader international wheeler, dealer in london, accumulating vast wealth. and in june 2007, his unexplained death. as with all spies stories, the lines between trut

middle east relations. have a wonderful day everyone. thank you. >> we will be taking you to the white house for remarks by president bagging about the u.s. military efforts to evacuate americans and some afghans from afghanistan after the taliban seized control. we will take you there live. expected to start in about 10 minutes here on c-span. we will take a look at some of today's washington journal. host: can we talk

unions built the middle class.here is no doubt that trumpka helped the unions all across the country. my heart goes out to barbara, rich jr. and all the grandkids. and i might point out that, you know, i used to always kid him. he was from soft coal country. i was from hard coal country. he used to be president of the united mine workers, that is how he got started. folks, let me now turn to the events -- the day's events. i want to thank bernie for being part of some of the best workers in the world. thank you to the president of the uaw. it's good to see you. and i also want to thank the leaders of the big three companies for being here. mary barra from general motors. [applause] i think she is one of the reasons we are here. we had a long discussion on a zoom call with a bunch of labor leaders and other major business leaders, and she made a commitment. and she is keeping it. thank you very much. jim farley of ford. [applause] who, by the way, my dad was an automobile business and he did mostly general motors pr

this could totally have been middle east security. i mean, how are you know, us as and for secure in the middle east with our aircraft carriers. now they may not be able to get anywhere into the middle east, so yes, you always been developed around is joined the geo political pivot of history was a founding geo political principle that no one can ever be allowed to control eurasia, your asian land mass, the reason why is it would then become a world's island and the rest of the world kind of become a backwater. so what you see recently is kind of the realization of mckindoe's island. you have russia plus china plus central asia all the way out to the middle east. china by far the world's largest customer for oil now from the middle east. and you got what's the mic hinders island and what could a pen trade flows and could eventually create backwaters out of places like western europe. right. you know, with iran the strategy was asked to isolate them to apply sanctions. and here with the stroke of a pen, we've got an enormous addition t

he's adventurous and he loves the middle east.brilliant and intelligent officer, somebody understood how to fight war and the different forces needs to be organized and what is at stake if you don't get the local support in order to win it. if you understand lawrence of arabia. >> it is a great movie, it is not true. it is wonderful fiction that plays into the narrative that the west understands. the white guy who helps the not white guys do the right thing because they are not capable of themselves. lawrence of arabia was not at savior of arabia. he was a loyal intelligence that carried out the mission of the team. >> british intelligence recognizes how valuable lawrence can be. lawrence was sent out to establish the relation and became the liaison between the british brand and faisal. he's going to need british help. >> they need gums and ammunitions and supplies but the promise the british made to their rebellion was if you join us, we'll arm you and we'll help organize you and train you. we'll get rid of the ottoman and we'll

so what is known of the 2 men said to be of middle eastern appearance. apparently that's just what's being reported. and the 2nd wave of investigation reported that the yes they did know who they were, but then it was being kept the secret. so you know, this, you see very much in the bushes intelligence establishment cover up around this case, which is suspicious in itself. however, any criticism of the police investigation must be seen in the context of the outcome of the coroner's inquest. it declared what's called an open verdict, the legal time for a dash that is suspicious, but unexplained. if they knew, for instance, who may have had a reason to kill my one and that did not see the body politic to explore it much further than they would cover it up. and they were covered up to 2 reasons. in my opinion, firstly, that would have done the british government. no good. a man like model one who was no longer around. well, that could be thought to be just he's gone. he said no use to us. he says no harm to us anymore. let's not rock the boat. the 2nd same

east side of all the countries in the middle east. currently, syria and our republic has the greatest levels of prohibited cooperation with north korean military entities. half his ascent, the father of the current theory and death point and can assume were friends from the 1900 sixty's own. back then the north koreans helped the syrians during the war against israel and supplied them with weapons and ammunition. an important source of income right up to day. using tactics similar to those of 18th century pirates bureau, $39.00 runs ships under full flags and fate names. according to the un, north korea has dust managed to send large numbers of weapons to syria. between 20122017, at least 40 shipments from north korea passed through the suez canal. but in 2018, the us managed to have one of them intercepted. so we found something called go on its way to syria. these were acid resistant tiles, involves which could be used in chemical weapons development, but also missile fuel is highly corrosive and such tiles could be used for ballist

of course the cia had efforts against al qaeda around the middle east in the years leading up to that. but in essence, the war on terrorism has been a bait and switch. from the very beginning the bush had been a straight inflated belt -- center foreign minister to warn the americans of an impending attack. and then from there they immediately conflate to bin laden and his of radicals with saddam hussein the atheist dictator of iraq. a land where the word no al qaeda members were there never been a suicide bombing in the entire history of the country. they use the fear of terrorism and the fear of a completely phony, fake, dishonestly claimed alliance between saddam hussain and osama bin laden to life the people of the united states into that war. and from there, by the way the former chief of the bin laden unit said if afghanistan was all bin laden ever once had, america going to iraq to attack what bin laden called the socialist infidel, saddam hussein was a hope for an unexpected gift to bin laden. by taking the side of the shiites there america drove the population into the arms of

the army not just arabs but muslims from the philippines, the united states, especially the middle east who all traveled to afghanistan to help fight against the soviet union. then went america permanently occupied saudi arabia and preparation for iraq or one and then permanently throughout the 1990s and the rest of the 20th century and continued to bomb iraq from those in saudi arabia, that is what caused osama bin laden and their group to turn against their former patrons, the united states of america. it was first and for monthly basis in salary while used to bomb iraq in the 1990s pre-support for israel the occupation of palestine at that time lebanon. support for dictators around the middle east such as the king and saudi arabia and el presidente of egypt. seat pressure on those nations to keep production high and oil prices artificially low to subsidize our economy at their expense. and bin laden criticized bin laden for turning a blind eye on russia, china, india and pakistan for their wars and suppression of muslims. the bill clinton government supported the al qaeda forces in b

largest customer for oil novel, middle east. and you got what's the mic hinders island and what could a pen trade flows and could eventually create backwaters out of places like western europe. right. you know, with iran the strategy was asked to isolate them to apply sanctions. and here with the stroke of a pen, we've got an enormous addition to the shanghai cooperation organization, which fills in the missing piece and the one bed one, road initiative. and also why just a, you know, the economies of scale. there's a certain, gustavo, here, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, dan, and you mentioned aircraft carrier. so those aircraft carriers were prevented from going in. now they'll be able to, to, to get right and will be denied access essentially from that area. and that is america's flagship deterrent. i mean that's all i really use. so this is a total game changing moment in history and it harkins back to as you point out what's been talked about 100 years ago. geopolitically what we can expect from something l

ah, we're sounding enough canister more fighting in the middle of lush regard. one of the cities the town about and is trying to capture. i've got the sounds. government says special forces and us air strikes, a helping troops on the street 1000. the civilians, meanwhile, fled to neighboring candor. ha, mobile, james, base diplomatic editor and cobble. james, if there are usa strikes and special forces involved, and clearly this is getting pretty big. it is being a very serious situation for days now and ask a guy. and i think there is a scenario where the government might lose that 1st provincial capital. and that's why they're sending absolutely all that they have to try and change the situation on the ground. but were told from government sources. ready that they managed to clear an area, but then they never managed to hold it. the taliban come straight back and they come straight back. now with fighting around the intelligence headquarters, african intelligence in the center of laska and also around the prison. the speculation is the tunnel that might be abl

it was a horrible decision, going into the middle east. i know the bush family will not be happy, but i believe it was the worst decision in history of our country, but we decided to go into the middle east. it turned out to be quicksand. we have destroyed the middle east, and is a bigger disaster now than it was 20 years ago. it was a horrible decision. it cost trillions of dollars. i like to look at both sides. millions of lives. it's no different than it was. it is much worse. it has been blown to pieces. it is the worst decision ever made. you could strike as retribution, and it could be a big strike as reservation for the world trade center, but we got stuck in there like quicksand. i have heard as many as 40,000 americans and the taliban -- good fighters. i will give them credit for that. they've been fighting for 1000 years. that is what they do. the taliban has circled the airport, and who knows if they are going to treat us right? former president donald trump on sean hannity's program last night. >> he is asking who is responsibl

school, delta vista middle school. police officers on scene as well as those crews you see in the neon vests and hard hats. they've been examining those tracks for more than an hour now. police say all crossing signals were operating correctly at the time of the crash. >> i just heard a big crunch, and i looked over, and the car flew off the road, and then a tire was going, and then debris was hitting my truck. i called 911. >> reporter: this woman was just one car away from this mangled lexus that ended up colliding with a freight train shortly before 1:00 p.m. in oakley. inside the car, a 12 year old boy who died and 19-year-old woman who was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition, according to the east contra costa fire district. the crash happened at the intersection of east cypress road and main street, one block away from the delta vista middle school campus. >> heartbreaking. i've got children that go to school over here. >> very a grandson that attends that same middle school. >> reporter: the east con

you will go from the middle to lowtory middle 80s. that is quite a change for the past couple of days, hot spots, topping out at 90 degrees. middle 60s in the city, upper 60s and 70s for the east bay. upper 70s for the north bay. a 20 degree drop compared to today's high temperature over 100. it will still be hot inland and lake county but not as hot. every drop does count. temperatures will bounce back a little bit on wednesday and settle into a slightly below average pattern by the time the weekend rolls around. the same pattern for inland and north bay. we get to enjoy a pleasant august weekend and hopefully we can get through without the fire threat causing problems. >>> lance's teammates are getting to know the rookie quarterback better. one of the targets met him in s and the giants feasted on cupcakes the last 6. now the toughest stretch of the season has begun. highlights of emergency planning for kids. we can't predict when an emergency will happen. so that's why it's important to make a plan with your parents. here are a few

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kind of right in the middle of it right in the middle of about. yeah about federal february 16th is drop date. so yeah, exactly. so it's 10 days on corregidor. so yeah, but yeah about the middle. yeah, and i think when macarthur comes the battle of manila's as pretty much ended like that day. yeah. is there anything in your book about the 503rd drop in new guinea at nadzab? i make a reference to it. it was a i make a conscious effort really to we try to write this book as close to just corregidor as i could. i honestly i'm not a historian. i'm a reporter so i tried to write this as much like a reporter would if i was there with them versus trying to do like a real history book? very good, very good. can you tell me who built the melinta tunnel? the americans built a little they dug it out after they took over corregidor after the spanish-american war in 1898. now a corregidor of veteran once took pains to explain to me that the large part of the 503rd were not professional soldiers civilians in uniform. how do you compare the world war ii men with

the middle table is always something that's very keenly watched by spectators. i imagine arbitrations as well. it's important to note though that every different, every country has a different agenda. when it comes to the metal, the traditional superpowers of sports, america, china and russia would always be looking to use a middle table to start their own spin on society that their own social model is better than others. but when it comes to nations, particularly britain coming out of the backdrop of what seems to be a very confused and bonded branch of process. many experts deemed to be a very, very poor mishandling of the corporate and demick. this is something that bars johnson and his peers in the conservative government can cling on to say, look, we're doing something right. you know, i'm not exactly sure how they're translate. 15 or 16 gold medals and the political capital. but that's the job of the politicians to do. this trickles all the way down to states that wouldn't be as large or establish does. the britons of the world are to china's are the ameri

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what made corregidor work is the fact they did jump on top, into the middle of the defenses. they have the high ground. because when you see it, it looks like a tadpole that's cresting a bit with its head. so those two hills are really difficult to fight over. the easiest way to take the island was to take it from the top. they had the perfect way to do it. >> now how hard it fight to the japanese give during the recapture of corregidor? did they fight to the death like they did during the battle of manila? >> yes, absolutely. lieutenant endo, in the middle of the book, he organizes most of the defenders into a bonsai charge. and it really was the turning point of the battle. it forces colonel jones to compress his lines. they realize these guys were too spread out. but that battle was hinging a bit in the beginning. it had the bonsai charge worked, if it worked, it might be different book. they fought hard and until the end. it was a nastier fight because of the fact these tunnels were concrete, a lot of it was flame throwers and white phosphorus grenades. there's a couple r

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