the danish clot hadley was going to do it himself. he was going to kill the people in the newspaper himself. david hadley travels to britain alias kashmiri has provided him with contacts to a sleeper cell within the al qaeda terrorist network. what hadley doesn't know is that since 2009, the cell has been under surveillance by the british secret service m. i 6 picks up, had lease trail and liaison with the americans. he's now in the crosshairs of the us authorities at a crisis meeting in the white house in october 2009, the director of the ca pushes the president to take action. principals in washington dc, including the president where were briefed on what information was gathered during this investigation, whether or not to arrest hadley or to continue surveilled him. agents in chicago prepared to arrest hadley before he can return to europe to plan and attack. the agents approached him at the airport, brought him to the f. b. i headquarters in chicago and sat in the room with mister headley, and started talking with them the as the

hadley: my answer to him was, yeah, we all do.laughter] hadley: such is the life of one professor alan dershowitz, but i guess my first question for you then is, because you may not fit the mold of the political persuasion of this audience, what's a nice liberal guy like you doing it a conference like this? [laughter] prof. dershowitz: well, thank you. first of all, i love the steamboat institute. you guys represent the best of seeking liberty and freedom and due process and freedom of speech, and today, i find -- [applause] prof. dershowitz: as a classic liberal, i find today i have much more in common with classic conservatives than i do with hard left, newly woke -- [applause] we share a common commitment to principled dialogue, to principled decision-making, to the protection of views that we disagree with, to due process for those we disagree with, and if you go on a college campus today, you hear the newly woke students saying, "due process? we know who is guilty, if you're a privileged white male, you're guilty, if you're a

n extraordinary group of speakers, including the swedish foreign minister, steve hadley, former director of national andlligence james clapper, my colleague gideon monitoring the first panel. as the united states prepares to transition to a new presidential administration, the atlantic council has brought this event together to shape the thinking on u.s. leadership in the world . and what we know by listening to national,van, the new secretary of state designee tony blinken they intend to lead the , united states in quite a different direction with an emphasis on partners and allies. the united states remains committed to the idea that robust leadership and strong democratic alliances and partnerships being essential to the future. over the course of the event, we will hear from countless figures on a variety of topics. we begin today with a panel on the biden administration's opportunity to renew leadership and re-energize democratic alliances. president elect biden said he would convene democracies in the first year. and the atlantic charter, this august will mark the 80th anniversary

we know that. >> hadley?> i would think that democrats and especially even the clintons themselves would support independent coun snell this case. if their line is that she is innocent they have nothing to hide from the attorney general or anyone else. >> not after an intern and a gap dress. gary? >> well, ditto what jonas said. we've spent by estimates $20 million. what will we learn half the country think she's a crook and half think she's a saint. we will not learn more unless criminal charges have filed. they haven't been filed now, i don't think they will get done. she ran out the clock like we thought she would. >> thanks, everybody. thanks guys. special thanks to hadley and jessica for joining us. coming up after a rocky end to the first half of the year, one of our guys has the stock to help you profit off risk. if a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bac

. >> hadley gamble joining us from jerusalem. this was a highly anticipated speech, hadley.iven all the missteps by the president. it doesn't seem like there are any major missteps but he sure did focus a lot on iran. what are the major takeaways here? >> well, he certainly singled out iran, care rolin over the weekend. and european and foreign ministers that i was speaking to over the weekend seems to single that it's going to take more than talk when it comes to taking on the islamic state and basically fixing syria. let's listen in. >> we're going to move to iraq and then libya and somalia, so, we have to look at that. and holistically as well in terms we can't do thread the security threat and we can't thread the cultural and ideological threat. >> to be a proxy in syria should come at such a high price if you don't do it. the tag should stop wagging the dog. based on these negotiations hopefully when they meet at the world economic forum next spring in the middle east, we will see a difference here. >> the whole categorization you that do short-term humanitarian relief.

hadley is there for us. hadley. >> reporter: wilford, basically what we learned over the last few hours is that an eighth suspect was allowed by french authorities to leave the country, essentially stopped, he was questioned, then he was allowed to go. so some serious questions for french authorities. we're learning from a member of the french senate who had been briefed on these events, but i also want to talk to you a little bit about the mood here in paris. what we've seen since friday is a sense of mourning, subdued city. people on the ground telling me that they're worried about their security and they're very, very worried about what the government is going to do to keep them safe. take a listen. just days after the worst terror attack in france's history, the city of light remains a city subdued. the monuments of paris once again covered with flowers and candles as the nation attempts to understand how this could have happened again. >> people really, really afraid. they are shocked. they don't unders

hadley: those are very important points. think one of the things is that it gets too much about the united states and the region and what the region wants from the united states. we think a step back look needs to begin with what the region wants for itself. what is the conversation going on in the region, what are their thoughts and expectations of what they want for themselves? that seems to us to be the starting point to then have a conversation. what might the united states and europe and other countries be able to do to help and how to make that -- how to do it in a way that is acceptable and positive for the region. we will get to that interaction. we really want to start with a better appreciation of what is going on in the region. we say the region as if it was all one thing. of course, situations are very different country to country. that is something we need to get grounded on as well. thank you. in the back there. >> i have a question. do you think that the growing anti-isis contingent throughout the region would

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hadley gamble is standing by. hadley. >> good morning, susan. french president hollande said this is a country at war with terrorism and events we have seen over the last several hours in the northern suburb of paris. they certainly reflect that. what we know of course so far is five people at least have been arrested. we know that french media reports that some of the police involved in this raid have been injured and we also know that at least two terrorists are dead. we have also been told by french police that at least one terrorist remains inside of the apartment that's been under siege now since around 4:30 al local time this morning. of course i'm standing here outside. later today french lawmakers are going to be gathering here and debating the emergency of powers that are right now in place in the streets of paris and across france. they want to extend the powers for another three months and the bigger question going forward is what that will mean for security and intelligence officials in terms of the tools they can use to go after ris

hadley. can you pull your microphone closer, please? thank you. >> i've lost my testimony skills. i apologize. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. to provide context for today's hearing, i would like, if i may, to describe briefly what appears to me to have been the underlying dynamic that lead to the recent confrontation between the united states and iran in iraq. in the fall of last year, iraqi citizens across the company -- country demonstrated in massive numbers. they protested what they saw as the corruption, sectarianism and ineffectiveness of their government. they protested the overweaning influence that iran exercises in iraq both directly and through iranian-backed militias. at least two iranian consulates in iraq were attacked and burned. demonstrations even in the shia south called for iran to leave iraq, chanting, "out, out, iran." beginning last october, kataib hezbollah began a series escalating attacks on iraqi air bases hosting u.s. forces. i believe kat

let's go back out to hadley gamble in paris. hadley. >> reporter: hey, carolyn. a lot of moving parts to this story. essentially what we know right now is the french have been ramping up attacks against islamic state positions in syria. thus far, most of these attacks, at least five have been kind of a nominal effort by the french. we know they have been big sillers of weapons to countries like iraq. they haven't been ponying up when it comes to taking action against the islamic state and syria. that is all changing right now. we heard from leaders at the g 20 summit in turkey. they were showing solidarity. they were going to grease the wheels in terms of the security, in terms of the intelligence sharing. take a listen to what president obama had to say. >> we will redouble our efforts working with other members of the coalition to bring about a peaceful transition in syria and to eliminate daesh as a force that can create so much pain and suffering for people in paris and ankora and other parts of the globe. >> reporter: president obama there basically saying t

steve hadley is not just former national security aide to president bush.you know, cautious. the second author, he is more problematic, he was an international adviser on international affairs to senator romnik when he ran for president, matthew krelnik, the posts that he held in the administration of bush jr. were not critical, but now he heads the center named after general scowcroft in the atlantic council. i think you knew skakrov, he was also very worthy and very reasonable. a very careful person, now the center named after him, steve hadley, is giving their names to calls not only to destroy the creep bridge, they do not understand why it has not yet been destroyed. dmitry, well, first of all , you know, as the classics of marxism and linism said, being is determined by consciousness, since they, so to speak, work in a magazine, or rather not in a magazine at the atlantic council, hadley does not work there, he is there. ok, but i don’t know, well , he probably gets some money there, being honorable, non -honorable, therefore atlantic money, i will te

totale energy is trading as well hadley can clarify what the comments mean. sur prices should be set in a manner we all want. whether we are a producer or consumer what does it mean, hadley? >> great to have out the program. earlier this morning, you said prices should be set in a way that provides for economic growth what do you mean by that that is the right price of the administration >> thank you for having me it is good to be with you in person look, oil prices need to be priced in such a way that we can have global growth we are in a devastating war in europe and pandemic and growth rates and demand is rising we have seen elevated prices which are now triggering economic instability so clearly we need to bring the prices down so that consumers can afford -- >> this is market manipulation that the administration says opec has been doing and needs to stop >> well, look. the market is not a free market. it is controlled or largely by combination of private companies and state-owned companies that are making these decisions we are saying look as we are goin

for more on what's happening inside paris or in france,lest get to cnbc's hadley gamble. what is going on where you are on the ground? >> reporter: we're about 30 miles from the center of paris. we're about 5 minutes from charles de gaulle airport. you can see the village where all this is taking place down the road behind me. we saw several ambulances moving towards the air. and this is a school that swa s.w.a.t. teams have been brought no to evacuate. and waiting for this terrific situation to come to an end. we understand these two kouachi brothers have been holed up for most of the afternoon in this business. french authorities have said they are not going to go in unless the hostages refuse to negotiate completely. unless the negotiations completely break down they have no intention of goingen in. also we understand these two brothers are linked to the shooter at the grocery store in paris earlier today. a grocery store was held up by heavily armed gunmen. reportedly there are hostages there. we have no detail yet on the numbers of the hostages. again the french auth

this photo was found on hadley cell phone. what they envision is an attack mumbai style that they would they will get gunmen who will storm the newspaper building in the heart of copenhagen take hostages make sure that the media is there decapitate the hostages and throw their heads out the windows and it will happen in the most peaceful unimaginable place possible which is copenhagen. had least recordings yield a detailed plan for the attack which was given the code name mickey mouse project. his preparations took him back to germany where he sought supposes in hamburg. headley had spent time in hamburg and knew about it and spent time in germany when he was involved in drug trafficking and thought that that was a place where we could find guns or people to assist them in the attacks and mark and because of that convergence of underworld involved in crime and drugs but also because it had been a place where there was a lot of islamic extremist activity during his last trip to pakistan headley sets me apart this he was keen to

hadley in before we leave.d you to rebut because this is a charge -- in my opinion, sir, and i'm a novice at this game -- vladimir putin is the enemy right now. president obama is not. that's just my view. on that point, but mr. hadley, was the russian reset a good or bad idea at the time? do you think it's helped or hurt our relationship? >> one, i think we ought to be rallying behind president obama. this is a difficult crisis. and i hope that on a bipartisan basis the congress will come around and support what he's trying to do. secondly, michael's right. there were benefits from the reset. but i think we take some responsibility here. i think the bush administration, we did do some things in the wake of georgia. but we did not use economic sanctions against russia. i think in retrospect, that was a mistake. i think secondly that the obama administration moved too quickly to start the reset. we needed a reset, of course there would be. but it probably would have been better and i would feel better if we had

the article described hadley center is a former national security adviser in the george w.sh administration. fred hiatt from the post defended the papers moved saying -- kevin connor, your response? i would like to say kudos to the washington post for covering the report and really requiring hiatt to respond. his response is absurd. it demonstrates a fuzzy understanding of conflicts of interest and ethical issues. this is a clear conflict of interest. there are relationships mike ullman to question one's motives. this clearly does and nothing hiatt said really defense against that, hiatt might have special insight into hadley's in her thinking given their perhaps on the same foreign-policy written aatt, has glowing articles about hadley in the past so this is fairly standard for him in terms of his worldview and sort of -- >> kevin connor, thank you for being with us and we will link to your report. kevin is director and cofounder public accountability initiative. he is co-author of the report titled, "conflicts of interest in the syria debate." this is democracy now!, demo

hadley >> reporter: that's right, brian. hey, brian, it is hadley gamble.s is the site of four separate attacks this is one of four stabilizers that had been hit. they are keen to tell us that their rapid response getting the fires out in three to four hours is really what is responsible for the lack of further damage this is 1.2 million barrels a day knocked out of production. by the end of the weekend, they had the third back on line and they are planning to stick to those numbers by the end of september. we are talking 12 by november. brian. >> hadley, under a lot of time pressure there we appreciate it she's got to get on that bus we'll see you soon they are going fast now. i'll vamp on that. hadley at the field where it is about 1.2 million barrels a day. the big field hit was about 50 miles east of that that is 7 million. what is the status of that field, the saudis said they will fulfill all customer deliveries, there will be no disruption. oil prices are up. the question is whether or not all of that supply is coming from existing inventory. barrels

for cnbc news in london, i'm hadley gamble. >> hadley giving us that report. she's here on set still as well. let's bring another voice into the mix as well because michael harris is here as well. global head of research. what do you make about the scenarios that we were looking at? what do you make of the election that just took place and how inconclusive this was and where this leaves turkey heading into new elections? >> it wasn't inconclusive. it sent a clear message that erdogan cannot take the country where he wants to take it which is constitutional change so nothing's chakds there. a new election isn't going to change his ability to get 50%. he's fallen well short of that. he needs 50%. taking a step back, that's a fundamental positive. that's why you don't where worry about turkey falling. there's no reason they shouldn't have formed a coalition. in the 1990s we had terrible election outcome after terrible election outcome. they saw fit to form a coalition. this time the party is strategically making a mistake. the drivers remain to be seen. it's a ri

with us in muni munich hadley, what did the prime minister of the iraq tell you?> reporter: we got to talk about quite a bit of politics but we also got to talk about all of that money pledged in cue bait, $4 billion coming from turkey, $3 billion coming from the u.s. and of course, a significant investment potentially from saudi arabia as well as well, of course, with all of this money, what are the strings attached to it he seemed to be saying to me, j joumanna, he's going to be diplomatic where he puts the money. >> we have to see where the sanctions go we always have to ask for more and of course, i'm happy with it for the simple reason, there is lower oil taxes than before. all of the states are suffering with their budgets the world -- a lot in the world at last. and not that generous. having said that, i think the major motivation for this is a trust in new all they want to be that we want to make sure we are successful and they are successful, while laying down already the framework. and what we have done, i think, the worry, as i said, it's corruption, nu

cnbc's hadley gamble joins us this morning from paris. hadley, what can you tell us at this point?> this is a rapidly changing situation. we have conflicting reports coming in and out. but what i can tell you is that a massive separation is under way in a small down about 30 miles northeast of paris. it's a few minutes from charles de galle airport. we understand from reuters at least one person may be dead and several others wounded in this hostage situation. we also understand that there are at least -- that french authorities now believe the men suspected in the killings on wednesday are on the ground at the scene and we understand understand, of course, about these guys. we now know much more information about them. we know that they were on the u.s. no fly list already. we understand french intelligence was aware of them. the big question is for french authorities how much they were tracking them. we heard earlier from president

hadley, i said did we expand nato too quickly back then? forget that now. may decide, you know what, i'm a little nervous about what's going on over there now in russia. maybe i want in on nato. what is the talk about expansion? are they more open than ever? or is there an old guard thinking the nato expansion may have contributed to this crisis? >> there is no one here suggesting that nato expansion went too far. we recently added a 30th member in macedonia. there hasn't been a conversation at this summit about adding finland. finland has always had this interesting, close relationship with both europe and also with russia. i will say there is conversation, and i happen to share this view, thank goodness we did expand and add the baltics. had we not added latvia, lithuania and estonia, i think they would be in the very situation this evening than they are right now. there is, i would also point out, just, again, in speaking to fellow parliamentarians, people who i respect and have been friends with for several years now, there is real concern about what mi

. >> hadley, here comes -- hadley here comes rude interruption from me. just a moment, let's take a listen as we listen to bells ringing there at the presidential palace in advance of the president. presidential pe of the president well, apparently we were able to hear the bells, they're no longer ringing and again that's the presidential castle, not the palace, i want to make that distinction, and as we look at that sea of people awaiting the arrival of president biden, you see quite a beautiful backdrop setting for the president to make this speech that will be listened to by people around the world. those two large american and polish flags there draping, showing the unity between these two countries. hadley, i'm sorry to have cut you off, but i want to ask you, shannon, at this point, the crowd there, when we spoke with you, and it was a little lighter, i'll admit in the last hour, but about how many people do you think have gathered and what do you think the tenor is? is there a excitement, is there -- are people rather tenuously awaiting what this p

for cnbc news, i'm hadley gamble. >> hadley joins us on the phone now. hadley, every day on this show we talk about sluggish global economic growth so i just wonder how does egypt monetize this investment? how do they justify it? >> well, they're calling it egypt's gifts to the world but the question is is the world ready for this. they're extremely optimistic. this opening of the new canal, many people think they're not going to get the returns they're anticipating but this is really even more about bringing egypt into a new era. they're tasked with making this economy work and he has managed to build an entirely, you know, new section on the canal. this is a mammoth undertaking and just about egyptian pride more than investment and an achievement in what a sense is in several years of economic downturn for this company and it's something that egypt felt they desperately needed and if you saw the celebration taking place you at least saw it celebrated in the ceremony and this is also about foreign governments as well. hoping for partnerships a broad and

also hadley heath manning independent women's forum president.th you, i like to begin with you, what do you make of the strategy. it could change, it could be a mix of ads and all the rest. this is a ground game. iowa is particular caucus state that warrants a good ground game. what do you think of that? >> i think that's right. i would like to sigh desantis team, work harder not to differentiate just from trump but the other gop challengers. that is the first and foremost, what he has to do first. he has to establish himself as front-runner among other gop candidates to the point where those other gop candidates are so discouraged they might leave the race. ultimately, we're headed for a repeat of 2016 if that doesn't happen. neil: these early states, doug, how do they shape up to you? a god ground game obviously matters in iowa. matters in new hampshire, south carolina, some other states, advertising does as well but does advertising lose its oomph, impact this much ahead of the game? >> no, neil, i think you need advertising to make your case

oil pick on hadley, north carolina, 9.5%.y are pretty red. >> let me explain. >> dean, your can't be anectdotal on this. look what happens when states put them in. >> a lot of studies. >> 11 states have introduced the progressive income tax in the last 60 years. all have shrunk. >> i by the way think the right network issue is a really big issue. >> it's huge. >> look north carolina just elected in 2012 their first republican governor in my lifetime. so we've been under democratic control for as long as i can remember. our first republican majority in the legislature just happened in 2010 the first time since the 1800s. if you want to look at high unemployment in north carolina, remember all of these states even if state leaders are doing the right thing, pursuing pro growth policies we have a federal administration that's against anti-growth. >> i was blaming it on individual states. let's get back to this. if we look at poverty rates who would qualify for food stamps more people in texas than anywhere else in the country. t

now hadley joins us live hadley, thank you for joining us i had a listen to your panel earlier this morning interesting to hear the saudis weigh in on president trump and his actions over the last few weeks. did the energy minister have anything specific to say about the events in iran >> reporter: this isn't the first time i've sat with the royal prince we brought you fikts first on cnbc live following those attacks, that significant damage done to the aramco facilities. a lot of questions at that time about how quickly they would be able to get back to the production levels we've seen prior to those attacks not the first time i've asked his royal highness about what all this means for the security of the region, for the security of saudi arabia's oil infrastructure again, he was really trying to emphasize that when it comes to energy, the markets bind the world together he said, when it comes to president trump's actions in this region, the president is the president and he can do whatever he wishes listen in to what else he told me this morning. >> the u.s. is a partner, a strategic part

hadley very excited about it. but he also knows he's moving into a much more dangerous and difficult world which is doing an attack on the west and doing it for al qaeda. and sure enough that will be his downfall. the terrorist ilyas kashmiri connected headley with an al qaeda cell in person but this cell had been under surveillance by the british secret service since two thousand and nine richard kemp was previously intelligence coordinator for the u.k. government. one thing that many people don't really understand is the fluidity of islamic terrorists they're happy to move from organization to organization the important thing is not so much to trace groups and even networks is to trace individuals on their movements and their connections with with other people the u.k. is foreign intelligence service m i six picked up head lease trail and shared its information with the u.s. now headley was in the crosshairs of u.s. investigators in october two thousand and nine an emergency meeting was held at the white house d

hadley: i want to go toamr, and then we will go to the audience. lawrence of arabia said i am a river to my people. you are saying a legitimacy based on satisfying what the people expect from their government and increasingly that includes participation in a role in fashioning their own uture. get that. i've spent three three-hour sessions in the last 14 months and i tried to make this argument that this is a source of legitimacy. this is what he must do if over the long-term he's going to bring stability and prosperity. and i have not yet made the sale. what you hear is what you would expect, given the trauma that egypt has been through, i understand what you are saying, but you need to understand this is a difficult time, there is extremism at the door, and the middle east cannot stand a breakdown in order of a country of 90 million people. if you think refugee flows are bad now, you just wait until egypt breaks down. so what is the argument you make to one who sincerely believes, and which he is risking his life, how do you make the argument to

hadley. >> good morning, wilfred. right now police confirming that at least one person, one terrorists remains in the apartment that has been the focus of this on going raid since around 4:30 a.m. this morning. five people have been arrested. one woman killed herself by detonating an explosive vest. earlier today during this raid. we also know that police and military personnel are swarming that area that they're trying to keep journalists out of the area. they told everyone to stay inside of their homes. they closed down schools in the area as well trying to keep people safe. this is a bigger question about the new security measures that the president wants to put in place. later today they'll be debating this at the assembly. they'll be trying to decide whether an emergency state will be in for another three months in france and what new tools that will give to security and intelligence personnel. >> two paris bound air france planes from the u.s. were deverted last night due to bomb threats made from the ground. on

heath manning the director of policy for independent the independent women's forum hadley thank you so much for being with us really appreciate your time and before we get to it can you tell us just a little bit about your organization your history. current independent women's forum is a twenty five year old organization based in washington d.c. and our mission is to give out issues of importance to women and family and that of course tax reform and health reform in that bucket but now on to health care i'm not sure if it's going to happen or not be a see a portion it looks like it might but you know if the individual mandate is goes computing is killed what happens to that what happens to the country then what gets put in its place remember the president was going to repeal and replace what doesn't seem like there's any replace now so what happens do you think. it's a fascinating issue for people who like to study help policy of course the individual mandate and itself isn't really a solution in terms of health policy it's sort of the side effect or a symptom once you create regula

i agree with steve hadley's point. we've got to strengthen the democratic core and reach out beyond it. i also want to. point that a community of democracies or alliances of democracies have to be inclusive, and they have to address current problems, not look back. question fors a practitioners. i was thinking about the summit of democracies or summit for democracies, and i just had a panic attack over a biden at this duration -- biden administration debating for months who is on the invitation list and who is not and spending sight ofs and losing what we are trying to accomplish. i think the idea of strengthening the core of democracy and reaching out beyond india is spot on. how do you do that? how do you strengthen the core without getting into debates about, is mexico a democracy or not? do you invite poland and not hungary? how do you keep this from being all europeans and americans? if you could advise the incoming biden administration, which is going to have to face campaign -- it's happening soon. what is your

hadley: have i got it right? >> exactly. mr. hadley: we've talked about --, and i want to pick up on something amr said, you talked about the failures of states to govern effectively led to the collapse or civil war in iraq, syria, and libya. and yemen. so one question is -- are other states in the region at risk? have we seen the last of the dominoes, or are there other dominoes that potentially could fall, and if so, what will bring that about? tammy: that is a crucial question, because for all that are international attention is focused on the eggs that have already fallen off the wall, others are up there wobbling, and there have been another of analytical attempts to sketch out what did those broken eggs have been common. you have seen some arguments about republics being more vulnerable than monarchies, for example. what i see in the places that i would say today are still vulnerable, it's those places where, as we saw in egypt, you have an aging leader with no clearer succession plan, and certainly no transparent, account

but we had a staff meeting in stephen hadley gave me grt advice. he was one of the first people i went to. henry and connie and stephen gave me good advice. at the senior staff meeting i would say peace through strength works. american weakness is provocative. senior directors will say they thought it was -- but it was real. ife don't get our submarine fleet maintained and out deployed, if we don't start having hypersonic missile deployments, it's important today as it was two years ago, if we don't start acting, we can talk all we want, we could talk about democracy and national order, i've never known anybody who wants to fight and die for the oil space for international order. until the free world gets its act together and show strength, we won't deteour adversaries and we will end up in a blockade or some gray zone tactics of assassination of taiwanese leaders in taipei. then we will have a very hard time responding to it. we need to get our act together. >> two more topics, about 10 minutes left. i know this is l very serious stuff. guarantee

let me begin by thanking my fantastic cochairs, steve hadley and madeleine albright.hen we started this project, steve and madeleine told each of us working group chairs not to be afraid to ask the questions and to challenge our assumptions . i think recognizing that in the middle east, this is a moment of truly historic transition, and i think the questions of for the region and for those of us outside who care about the region and have a stake in the region, that questioning of assumptions is even more important today than it was when we started the project, so i really want to thank you both for a fantastic process. i want to thank my fellow working group members in the region and all over the u.s. and europe, we managed to meet virtually and in person and i learned a great deal from all of them. they are listed in the report, so i hope you will take a look and share my appreciation. it may seem as though today's focusis an odd choice for , maybe it's not a propitious time to talk about governance in the middle east, after all, we are dealing with the region in byl

hadley has an important guest.dley >> i am indeed thank you very much for that i'm joined by the u.s. secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin mr. secretary, thank you very much for joining cnbc. i want to kick off by asking you what has been happening over the last several days, the war of words between tehran and washington we've seen the latest round of sanctions coming out walk us through the next steps for your government? >> thank you it's great to be here with you again. i think you know we continue to have the strongest sanctions ever this week the president signed a new executive order giving treasury even broader authorities to put on sanctions to the supreme leader's office and assets held by them. i announced this week specific sanctions against individuals that have been responsible for bad activity we believe the economic sanctions are working. the president is willing to have conversations. he doesn't want war but the president is determined to enforce the u.s. and our allies interests in the region.

let's get out to hadley live from milan she has been covering all things energy hadley, i understand you have been talking to people in the corporate world and all options are on the table in europe to shore up energy supplies this winter and in the months beyond. how are corporates thinking about the role that they can play in europe's quest to become energy secure in the months ahead? >> reporter: julianna, it is fascinating con vversations the last couple days you say all options are on the table in terms of the policy response the folks i'm talking to here say good luck to them. there is serious investment needed we are talking about three to five years of pain depending which city we heard from the and germans helping each other out historic moment of energy sharing. this all goes back to the individual decisions by poli polic policymakers we have seen germany bringing to france and uk outside of the eu now. and i'm speaking to one earlier in terms of who is sitting pretty which is spain and portugal have a different dynamic and outlook with the pain they will be feeling as a re

hadley gamble, our friend at cnbc. hadley, 180 million -- i owe mitch mcconnell said it's a drop in the bucket, but this is the most we've ever done, which means we'll be spending money as a government to replenish it, obviously, as fast as we're emptying our reserves here. what is this going to do to the markets? >> okay. essentially what we know is that 20 million barrels per day is what americans generally consume. that's the number. this is going to add eventually 1 million barrels per day to that number. that's going to basically be free oil. but eventually the united states will purchase back around $80 a barrel to replenish the spr. but this is the biggest release we've ever seen in u.s. history. 180 million barrels per day. that dwarfs the last two releases, around 40 million to 60 million barrels per day. those releases, remember, they moved the market just slightly, what we would call a blip. think about this more broadly. this is a president that is under severe political pressure. he's also attempting to pu

hadley gamble is at the nato summit for us. hadley, the it seems like a cease-fire is close. >> that's what we're hearing, but, of course, the fighting in eastern ukraine could really mean that everything will end up as a major makeup to this afternoon's plans. what we've been hearing from nato, leaders, a fresh round of sanctions is on the table. it could be announced as early as this afternoon. we're hearing more on the isis threat. david cameron said russia is ripping up the rule book. to be fair, was it naive to think that russia was really going to play by those rules? one country that doesn't really put itself out there in terms of alliances when it comes to the military and when it comes to its own defenses, finland. i had a chance to speak to the finland foreign minutester and i asked him about that strange agreement that they have. they're not part of the nato allianc alliance, actually. i said you have a long border with russia. what does that mean? does that mean europeans should be spending more on their own defense

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>> hadley, thanks.go anywhere he's going to the -- that trip took him by the uae over the weekend. they rolled out the red carpet the two countries signed deals hadley is still with us live from abu dhabi hadley >> absolutely, willem. 13 mou's and agreements from agriculture to finance they involved e-commerce, solar energy and oil i caught up with the co-ceo of gm listen to what he had to say. >> the first -- -- re-elected this year. we saw agreements being signed from energy to commerce to technology ours is the only one in financial services we're very happy to have the chance to set up the platform here to serve investment and financing needs of chinese enterprises going overseas. >> the emirates rolling out the red carpet for xi ping we had a kmcommemorative stance it's pretty clear that these initiatives are really working, certainly for the gulf states. it was interesting that he came to abu dhabi and not to saudi arabia guys >> thanks, hadley for that a new nbc journal poll shows 44% of register

hadley was the national security advisor under george w. bush. what do you make of this first two weeks of trump's foreign policy? what's your general reaction? >> well, i have to say, my general reaction is it's been fairly chaotic. that it's unclear in terms of what some of the bilateral diplomacy that's taken place. what the effect has been in terms of the telephone calls and also the tweeting. also, i think, in many ways, the big issue from a foreign policy perspective has been the immigration question which i have to say was not -- was really unprepared and didn't look into the unintended consequences of it and was based on untruths. i'm having some trouble with this first few days of the the trump presidency. >> steve, teething troubles or more than that? >> i think the role out of some of these executive orders has not been as smooth as it should have been. the mechanics were not worked out. it's pretty clear. i think you need to step back and ask what was the trump administration trying to do. we have to recognize this was a populist move

hadley gamble joining us live out of paris. what's going on with the markets. >> let's check in on the markets since we came off the strong rally during the wednesday session on fed minute which is are indicating that we are in a rate hike. where's the u.s. future's boards guys? we're looking at the implied open verses the previous close. here we go. we're up 7.5 points. dow jones higher by 69 points and the dow is on a three day winning streak and dow and s&p seeing the best day since the end of october. here's the lead you're getting from the european side and we're in rally mode today. up and down so far this week but when it comes to the actual ftse 10 at the end of this aisle, we have been on a pretty goodwining streak so ftse mib up 1%. cac 40 higher by similar levels and german dax up by levels and ftse 100 on a multiday winning streak. the dollar of course moving in line with the expectations. the hike expectations from the federal reserve so we have been seeing the dollar move higher versus a lot of their most traded p

hadley: it is a pleasure to be with all of you this afternoon. i want to thank madeleine for the pleasure and privilege to work with you once again on one of our bipartisan policy initiatives. it is an important and exciting prospect. what we want to distinguish this project from others is to start with the views perspectives, and interests of the citizens and leaders in the regions on the problems of the region and the challenges it faces. for that reason, the theme of the event is "a view from the region," and we want to address a number of questions that would be the basis of our work. what are the underlying causes of the current crisis in the middle east? why have so many countries seen their governments collapse or be overthrown? what explains the rise of extremism in the region? what sort of government would people in the region be willing to support and fight for? what do the people of the region need to help resolve the current crisis? and how can the united states europe, and the rest of the world help? this is not your typical panel ev