that was all put in place by the obama administration. i also mentioned this idea of onerous regulations that the trump administration talks about. if you look at the numbers of what happened during the obama administration, the u.s. was producing about 5.4 million barrels per day. he then goes forward with his has beengenda, which described as everything from the death rattle to u.s. oil production in the u.s. oil industry, and went from 5.4 million barrels per day to about 9.4 million barrels per day. ,t's expected to go over shattering records. .e should step back a bit all of that was during the obama administration. host: we are talking to brian scheid. host: this week smart -- this week marks four months since rick perry became the energy secretary. what impact has he had on the future of energy production in the united states? what has been his role in the trump administration here? -- guest: hereally has really push this idea of getting to our full potential as a global user of oil. coal.l gas, sixalked about the different things,

you know, dating back to the bush administration, certainly under the obama administration. these policies have been used to slow down imports from china. now, there are current problems in the global economy that we can attribute some of them to china. so we can talk about the over capacity problem in steel. the over capacity problem in aluminum. but these are really also just kind of symptoms of deeper problems which are that china is fundamentally a different type of economy than the united states, western europe, japan, korea, market oriented economies. when china came into the wto in 2001 there was an expectation that china may become more like us. more market oriented but it hasn't happened automatically. so we are at a critical juncture today, 15, 16 years after china's entry into the wto, about what to do about the fact that china has not become a market economy and are the rules of the trading system we have right now adequate to deal with that. the problems would have been there regardless of who won the 2016 election and whether or not we had the issues of steel a

administration, and even more in the sanders administration.we witnessed in the last election was a tectonic shift. committed to american engagement in the world need to be doing the hard intellectual work of thinking how to remain engaged, and yet meet the needs of the somewhere people. thank you. [applause] ms. sherman: thank you, mike. mr. isaacson: and that concludes this great debate. thank you to ambassador sherman, mike doran. we will see next year in jerusalem. ms. sherman: thank you. announcer: ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our afternoon. we will see you back in the >> in his weekly address, the president talks

policy and the asia-pacific reason -- region under the trump administration. this was in melbourne, australia. topics, climate change and trade. this is 20 minutes. >> what a pleasure it is to be back here in melbourne. today provides to share views on the trump administration in the united states, and its engagement with the end of pacific region, or as the organizers have coined my speech, "trump and asia." it is one of the most important foreign policy considerations for some time as the united states matters to australia, to our region and to the world. of the second world war, including the war in the pacific, the united states has been the instigator, promoter and the guarantor of what we call the world order. this order has underpinned international law and has defined the way states should behave in general and towards each other. globalization,ed economic integration, human rights and free and open societies. it has not always been universally applied or in force. nonetheless, the united states has been the reference point as the most powerful economy

byse countries identified the trump administration were previously identified by the obama administration under president obama. they suspended the visa waiver program for nationals from these six countries that were coming through the visa waiver countries. they have been identified by both administrations as countries that are hot that for terrorism. -- hotbeds for terrorism. we don't know what the white house has in terms of security threats, national security threats from these six countries. the president felt it was important enough to temporarily suspend a 90 day pause on pause onon and 120 day refugees from these countries. federal law allows the president to suspend immigration in cases of national security. language supreme court says a bona fide relationship with someone here in united states. you can exclude grandparents. the you think the administration is doing to narrow over reading of that supreme court order? we have our leasing the challenges start to come in. guest: that will be up for interpretation certainly. the supreme court only rolled on the conjunction. they have

administration, and even more in the sanders administration.we witnessed in the last election was a tectonic shift. committed to american engagement in the world need to be doing the hard intellectual work of thinking how to remain engaged, and yet meet the needs of the somewhere people. thank you. [applause] ms. sherman: thank you, mike. mr. isaacson: and that concludes this great debate. thank you to ambassador sherman, mike doran. we will see next year in jerusalem. ms. sherman: thank you. announcer: ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our afternoon. we will see you back in the ballroom at 6:00 p.m. ♪ c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. jackg up sunday morning, moline talks about his group's efforts to bring civility back into politics and political dialogue. then a former diplomat discusses his book, foreign service, five decades in the front line of american diplomacy, and the trump administration's foreign-policy challenges. filmmakermentary alexandra pelosi on her new film, the words

under the trump administration. we'll hear testimony from susan thornton, who serves as the acting assistant secretary for the bureau of east asian and pacific affairs. serving as chair of the subcommittee is colorado senator cory gardner, who recently introduced legislation to impose an embargo against north korea. that hearing starts live at 2:30 eastern, also on c-span 3. >>> tuesday night we will hear more from president trump as he speaks to supporters in youngstown, ohio. we will have live coverage beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern also here on c-span 3. >>> congress is expected to have a busy week with the house considering proposed sanctions against russia, iran and north korea, as well as defense related spending bills. the senate is dealing with health care legislation. watch live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate on c-span 2 and watch anytime on c-span.org. and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> next, a discussion on the future of u.s. trade policy and current trade protection measures pro

to administration?on. like everybody else they serve at the pleasure of the president so typically in the white house kitchen there will >>s, usually the executive chef and maybe the pastry chef but when a president comes in they can decide who staffs the kitchen but most presidents carry over the previous cook but they may bring an additional cook to make meals for the family. jacqueline kennedy created a second floor kitchen and dining space in the white house, she turned margaret truman's bedroom into a small kitchen and pantry because the family used to eat in the dining room and she felt it was too cavernous and not intimate enough. there is a dining space on the second floor. lyndon johnson before president obama lyndon johnson was the last president to have a second cook cooking for the family. most presidents have a white house chief executive chef do everything, cook for the family and guests and dinners. >> including recommendations for the replacement? >> sometimes they will make a recommenda

think successive administrations have failed.and have tried to negotiate confront north korea and rely on sanctions. none of this has worked particularly well. problemsk one of the is successive administrations do not follow a consistent pattern. do not know anybody has a good solution for dealing with north korea. host: we should point out sandy berger passed away two years ago. guest: i was sad about that. host: let's go to tennessee on the independent line. caller: i have a question for you. you have been under a lot of presidents. i want to know how the presidents you have ever heard stood in front of the country, and by the way, i grew up in the valley of death. student from of the country and said -- stoned in front of the country -- stood in front of the country and said a communists president was a great president. host: your response? guest: i agree that comment was unusual. i believe it is true that both reagan and george h.w. bush , buted mikael gorbachev

whether the bush administration, clinton administration or obama administration. and negotiations and the result is always the same, a continual march toward the icbm. they demonstrated that kim jong-un has now. and the real possibility that they are more than ten nuclear warheads available to them to pout on the top of the icbm. just has the feel of we tried it before and doing our best, but there are no good options available to the president. >> the administration is clear- eyed on what has not worked but feel oblicated to go one more time and put consider pressure. we have never gone after china over this and that they will and that is serious and see if that can squeeze north korea. where kim is, he made up his mind having nuclear weapons is not deterient for the united states. he needs to get the weapons to threaten the american people. he doesn't believe the administration or previous ones would conduct a preemptive strike that would lead to all out war. >> and the calculation. chinese as they continue to run hundreds of billions and a mast vast treasure in

the administration and a bad light, it is taken out -- if anything portrays the administration in a bad light, it is taken out or basically said that it is opinion, not fact. am not surprised. republicans were attacking obama during the obama administration, right? democrats attacking trump. weakeri am was filled/ democrats cannot get it together. their arguments are not strong. a lot of the russia stuff is coming from the administration itself. a lot of the news is coming now, and it is not good news. a lot of the things happening are not good things. , as faren that happens as reaction from the white house -- you had a recent experience about that. tell people about that. guest: i was on half of the foreign trip, and when i was there, we were not really getting access to senior administration officials. the president decided he wanted to leave what was going on at home, the russia investigation, at home, and he did not want to take any questions from the press. in a way, we're there to ask questions. i was speaking with ari fleischer from the bush administration. he said busyh had

everybody who works for this country come of this administration, should be people who want to be here for the right reasons. you have to subvert your own ego and put the country first or lots of times you have to swallow really hard to go ahead and push forward in the agenda. only two people, only two people have been elected to anything and -- donald trump and mike pence. >> is he in trouble? >> >> there were elected on a set of ideas and promises, i work with the president and vice president, and watch them closely, and focusing on those promises. obamacare about to be revealed and replaced and 6-month, it's a president obama 60 month to pass something he was promising people a lot of goodies and had a democratic majority, should have been able to do it in 16 seconds, not 16 months and they are making good on that, the energy unleashing, the veterans administration reforms for military and veterans, job growth, tax reform we are working on, so many great things happening. stuart: the tax reform program you are working on. a couple bombshells here. the president told the wall street

the loser of the week is living the lynch and the obama administration. if this russian scandal is the massive scandal that it is, then they were the one who let the typhoid mary and to launch the whole thing. >> bret: gillian, winner or loser? >> the winner of the week is float fellow to u.s. meeting with france's first lady. i don't know if any member of the trump family has ever received praise as unanimously bright and shiny and happy. and so i thought i would, you know, give her a little shot out. my loser of the week is the congressional dress code. i think most congressional domain people didn't know it existed, but it does, it's a decades-old policy for the speakers lobby in the house and it came under fire this week and that was exposed as being this outdated sexist, impractical document. the good news is paul ryan is going to try to modernize it. >> bret: winner, jumbo the element? >> 9 miles offshore sri lanka. rescued by the sri lankan navy. who knew it had a navy? it towed him all the way home. i know some elements who to make elephants who c

the obama administration -- under the obama administration, the office of civil rights took a stepped up approach to monitoring and enforcing civil rights protections. what that meant in practice was issuing guidance, non-regulatory guidance essentially in the form of dear colleague letters putting districts on notice that in two areas in particular, allocation of resources and discipline rates -- that if it were shown that there were disproportionality between students of different racial, ethnic backgrounds or gender, that the district would be at risk of being found at fault of civil rights laws. so the key question is -- or the key thing to look for is whether the trump administration rescinds that guidance, which is something it can do overnight without a notice and comment process at all. those who argue that they should do that worry that, in particular, the policies around discipline have caused districts to be overly cautious in how they handle student behavior problems, that this has unintended consequences for all students, including those who sort of are high achievers, no

when we submitted our waiver to the prior administration, we, as many of you can attest in prior administrations, we encountered roadblocks and bureaucracy in washington d.c. and took our state two years to approve waivers and it rejected what we were trying to do. you have submitted waiver requests to washington, d.c. and had the same result. now president trump and i both believe that governors should have the freedom to design and implement the reforms in health care that will work in your states and we are going to fight to make that a reality in washington, d.c. \[applause] vice-president pence: president trump is dedicated to getting the federal government out of your way and allowing you to develop those unique solutions that will work for the people of your state. as the president told you in february, the federal government in his words shouldn't be in your way but delivering services. you will hear from secretary tom price and administrator about our president's commitment to work with each and every one of you. earlier this year, they sent a letter to every governor to affirm the pres

i've served in the bush administration.trations come and go in washington. and there's a whole new attitude this time around towards personal conflicts of interest and also towards the freedom of the press and other fundamental values we hold dear in this country. and when you have the president threatening to derail the tom warner deal because he doesn't like the press coverage he's getting from cnn, that is exactly the type of thing that needs to be reigned in. and the ethics government office has is a critical role in dealing with conflicts of interest. but if the administration doesn't want to take ethics seriously, it's a very difficult job. >> we'll get to that. but before we do, you talk about their approach toectics. earlier this year i you know because i consulted you about it at the time. his transition team which really could be boring, instead this is what we found a message of him hitting the panic button. i am not sure whether you are aware that -- at present we have no reliable lines of communication with the

you know, six months into the administration, if you look at the issues facing the administration, it'ss's fault. certainly not sean spicer's fault. neither of them told donald trump to do the interview with the "new york times." neil: by the way, the president six months in, jfk had trouble, bill clinton had trouble. >> ronald reagan changed light of people on the staff. the one word, why? how many times have you asked that about what donald trump has done? if you go crazy if you ask that. accept donald trump for what he is, he is a person that hates life inside the beltway. ain't for nothing, not just for the money he's living in new york. this is proof he's not going to, neil. >> david, he's not been a very good president. he's got good policy, not able to implement them. >> as far as executive decisions go i disagree with you strongly. he changed the way business is done in the country. >> do you think, do your people tell you, charlie gasparino, that this president would listen and that an anthony scaramucci in this case would be able to offer free, unfiltered advice and tell the p

coverage continues tomorrow live on c-span with talks from ceo of girls who code fema administrator, former ceo of microsoft and tesla spacex ceo elon musk. live coverage of national governors association against of our morning at 9:30 a.m. eastern on our companion network c-span. >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome everybody. i want to once again thank governor ray mondo and all the citizens of the great state of rhode island. this is a record number of governors. this is a record number of attendees that we have here today. i am not honor to introduce the vice president of united states of america who as you know i year ago sat right with us, voted on our nga resolutions but most and poorly as a governor he understands the challenges that we all face, how to grow our economies, how to build an infrastructure of transportation, how to make sure that our children are getting the best quality education. you understand we want to work together in a bipartisan way. want to work together on infrastructure. we want to work together on tax reform and we want to work together on healthcar

previous administration. not the administration's decision to bring a case against sugar from mexico that was heard under the previous administration. the fact that these cases are examples of this, canadian lumber case as some no, the fifth time we had cases. there is an intrinsic policy problem between the us and canada goes beyond the 1980s when the first case was brought, and a brief border war over it. these are not new issues, same with sugar from mexico. there was an agreement that was where the agreement was being enforced on the mexican side long before donald trump was elected. does this reflect a trump administration initiative? not really. the main thing to keep in mind as you look at what is going on is separate the rhetoric from the reality. this administration talk about trade in a different way than past administrations, there is not that much difference. when this administration, the wto decisions, any wto member does not follow every decision, has not been following for years. and the tradin

the trump administration has focused on north korea as one of its highest priorities. the dprk represents a profound threat to the stability and peace of the indo-pacific region today. it continues to thumb its nose at the united nations security council that has passed numerous resolutions banning the development and testing of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. it is vital that all u.n. member states and particularly the permanent five of the security council take all possible steps to send a message to north korea that it must halt its illegal behavior and focus on improving the welfare of its impoverished and long-suffering people. the trump administration is urging china to play a more constructive role in the pursuit of an enduring peace on the korean peninsula. the international landscape is uncertain, there are evident shifts in power between states and the scale and pace of technological advances is disrupting how we live, work and communicate. the government is working on a foreign policy white paper to be released later this year. this white paper will

i don't believe this administration will be defined by russia. in the final a sl-- analysis i think mr. mueller will find there is no collusion there may have been wrongdoing by individuals. the administration will be defined by what it does or fails to get done. and right now the ice is thin. and when it breaks it is going to break pretty damn dramically unless they begin to deliver. they do get about 14 months. you get the fall and the first quarter of 18 but after that, nothing happens and you don't want to go into the mid terms with your party staying at home angry and the other party marching in the streets. that is a recipe for a waive. >> trump as president will be defined between now and right before the mid term elections, six months before the mid term election. >> absent some extraordinary crisis abroad, yes. >> hugh is absolutely right. we all send enormous amounts of time talking about the russian investigation. that dominates theadlines. but i do think when votedders go to vote in 2018 in the congressional mid terms, i agree 100%. i

but it's a critical role for the trump administration to look at. the second part is that during the obama administration, there were many of the political jobs where you would normally fill them up with your people, your beliefs, switched over to career positions making it very difficult and the third part of this is you have individuals who have been in these agencies for 20-something years. they've dug their heels in and you look at veterans affairs and they have basically moved on regulations, that have-- and overreach of federal government that have impacted tens of thousands of veterans and in issues like providing them education. eric: i want to bring this out to juan. i think the most famous recent leaker in the world who also got fired, james comey. >> i don't know if comey was a leaker when he had been doing his job. he had already been fired when he leaked. according to corey lewandowski, detrimental to the trump administration, he's not talking about someone violating a-- >> r. >> what's the difference. the integrity of the organization,

administration. even before the trump administration came into effect, governments used antidumping and countervailing duties quite a bit and the united states is no different. over the last couple of years, the united states has used these to restrict slightly more important than normal, but nothing really outside of the ordinary. the united states has not used them all that much. with one exception -- the exception is to do with imports from china. the main target of the united states use of both anti-dumping and countervailing duties is china's succession into the deputy of -- wto. really for united states, these trade remedy policies have been an anti-china policy to deal with imports coming in from china. even though china's export growth has been tremendous, by my estimates as of the end of 2016, about 9% of u.s. imports from china are being dealt with through these types of policies, through antidumping countervailing duties. trumpclaims by the administration that no previous administration ha

administration. absolute failed philosophy. it was heir to a point of view after the end of the cold war that, for lack of a better term i will call, the end of history viewpoint, advanced by francis according to this view, our elite decided that things like alliance, credible use of force, military deterrence and so on were outmoded, often counterproductive, and damaging to the united states. if you doubt me, just go back and read the u.n. generalissimo speeches that president obama -- the un's general assembly speeches that president obama gave year after year. we are no longer in an age when one country can dominate another, and so forth. this is a philosophy that led the administration to reach out to enemies and distance itself from friends. we saw that in the iran deal. president obama's attitude for the middle east is that it was an arena populated by friends and potential friends. he went to a great extent to win over the potential friends like iran, at the expense of israel. to do this, he h

>> there were only two chiefs of staff in the bush administration, bush 43 administration.d for both, andy card and john bolton. as assistant to the president woe could go to the president whenever we wanted but that's a chaotic process so all of us, we all coordinated everything through the chief of staff and that is good for a couple of reasons. it's good for the president because you have a one-stop filter and it's good for the staff to know that you have somebody you can go to. it's very important that that person have the confidence of the staff, that you know the chief of staff is an honest broker that you can go to them with concerns or ideas or requests to see the president or requests to talk to the cabinet, whatever it might be, the fact that they're an honest broker makes a huge difference and i think one of the things that happened unfortunately for reince priebus is it was clear because that the president did not have his back, that he didn't have full confidence in him which then allowed the staff to sort of all melt away and figure out a way to get around the

now, is it going to be a member of the administration? it would have to be, these were only ones with the access to the collection. lou: as we look forward to possibilities, i realize they are many. but is it your sense that executive privilege can be be aserred here. any -- asserted here? >> no, i don't think that there is any motivation to invoke executive privilege, only the president can actually invoke it. you have a new president who wants to accomplish the opposite, to uncover the information. it was the white house and white house counsel's office that found out that all of this unmasking was taking place. they did their own investigation. they said, wait a minute. what is going on here? they notified congress, here we are. >> and trump administration may have its day after all against those who have acted directly against their interests. >> as they should, this not just a crime against the names revealed, this is a crime tbrean against the people, this is something that should never been done, this is hypersensitive and private

the administration and secretary gotten pushback in? >> some would think that our european allies and our partners and friend would only be interested in adhering to the agreement. that's not our experience. they are concerned about the destabilizing activities that iran is in. this does not affect the united states and united states' interests. reporter: willingness? >> i know we have those conversations and the conversations are ongoing. reporter: the president was considering not certifying this. and he met with the secretary -- >> there were meetings at the white house yesterday and the meetings took place for a period of time and the secretary and the president had conversations the e ended up spending up hill. reporter: did secretary tillerson spoke to the president? >> they had a series of conversations. reporter: did he make that argument? was that part of what he wanted to do? >> i think the secretary and president are in line with one another. anything else on iran? we're done with iran. middle east peace. let's see what we ca

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i served in the bush administration. i've seen a lot of administrations come and go in washington.nd there is a whole new titide in time around toward personal conflicts of interest and also toward the freedom of the press and other fundamental values we hold deer in this country. when you have the president just this week threatening to derail the att -- dsh the time warner deal because he doesn't like the presses knch o kwonch from krn krn that is exactly the type of thing that needs to be reined in and the office of government ethics has a critical role in dealing with conflicts of interest. but if the administration doesn't want to take ethics seriously it's a very difficult job for wamter and others in his position. i'm not surprised to see him go. >> you negligenced that i want to get to that i'm glad you brought up the issue around the merger. but before we do. we talked about the approach to ethics by the white house. he o i consulted you for your expertise about this at the time process we put in a freedom of information request to look into his dealings with the in white

that was the policy of the obama administration and theoretically the policy of the trump administrationhere anything to talk about before this large precondition is met, which is basically you give up and we will talk to you? i think there may be some movement in that direction. first of all will come more sanctions. susan: it is a large diplomatic undertaking for an administration that does not yet have a fully formed state department, that does not seem interested in being coercive in international diplomacy and coalitions. can they pull this off? do they have anyone in charge of the north korean crisis? karen: they have a state department envoy in charge of relations with north korea. he has been traveling around. there were secret talks held in oslo earlier this year that ultimately led to the unfortunate situation with otto warmbier, the american hostage in north korea, being released and his death. you do not see the national security council staffed up the -- beyond this one envoy office. i think that is increasingly a problem as crises spread across the world. you don't have peo

in my administration with administration officials over the last 12 hours or so the idea that perhaps president will acknowledge vladimir putin, joan, the state, the current state of that u.s./russia relationship. the president, just last month or the month before called it it essentially at a low point. i want to get your take on that. how you see this meeting going. >> i have no idea. i know i am not supposed to say that, hallie. >> you can say anything you want. i was depressed to hear noel say she doesn't think russian interference is going to come up. i think that has to be the top agenda item. it's independence day. we should be talking about why our president won't do more about this and why so far we heard that they may just leave it entirely off the table. i don't think you can defend our interests without talking about that. and without threatening more action if it happens, again. or maybe more action the more we learn about it. but, you know, everything we hear from the administration, from the intelligence agencies is the president doesn't ask questions about this. he's n

it fits a pattern that we've seen with the administration. he failed to dispose his meetings with the russian government in testimony before congress, and yesterday, the department of justice released a heavily redacted document that suggest that the attorney general failed to disclose any contacts with foreign governments on his security clearance application. this is the form he submitted. it is blank. calling into question whether the nations top law enforcement office should even have a security clearance. our resolution of inquiry on the judiciary committee forces the house committee on the judiciary to take up the systematic problems on this administration's conflicts of interest in collusion with russia. it is appalling, frankly, that the house judiciary committee has abdicated its duty to hold the trump administration accountable and refuse to even consider asking for answers on the trump ties to russia. the house judiciary committee should follow the example of republican leaders on the senate judiciary committee, who are taking acti

so while congress has moved the obama administration from an action to some action, the trump administration has the opportunity to use these authorities to build maximum leverage with not only pyongyang, but with beijing. i'm encouraged by the actions the united states took to designate a chinese financial institution, this should just be the beginning. the administration with congressional support should make it clear to any entity doing business with north korea they won't be able to do business with the united states. a report released last month by an independent organization identified over 5,000 chinese companies that are doing business with north korea. these chinese companies are responsible for $7 billion in trade with north korea. moreover, the report found that only ten of these companies, ten of these companies control 30% of chinese exports to north korea in 2016. one of these companies alone was responsible for 10% of total imports from north korea. some companies were found to have satellite offices in the united states. according to recent disclosures from 2009-2017, north k

trump administration. ? i'm notcretary sanders: aware of that. >> is there no chaos at the white house? how would you describe what happened over the course of the past 10 days? of course you will agree with your boss that there is no chaos. press secretary sanders: if you want to see chaos, come to my house with three preschoolers, this doesn't hold a candle to that. this is not an open invitation to come to my house but if you guys want to schedule babysitting time, i will be happy to work that out. >> does the president regret hiring anthony scaramucci? press secretary sanders: i am not getting into that. >> you already did. you are basically laying this on scaramucci. press secretary sanders: i think i have been very clear that the president felt that it was inappropriate. both anthony and general kelly came to a mutual agreement. two questions. to burden general kelly with that line of secession? that is the president? press secretary sanders: that is the president. a mutuallys was agreed conversation t