but they are working with our asian pacific american caucus and the leadership of judy chew -- chu and congressional black caucus. and i do know one theng in the senate they passed comprehensive immigration reform. we passed the dream act. one couldn't -- we couldn't pass each other's. now is the time long overdue to get it done. i know if our whip steny hoyer -- where's steny? steny hoyer has his way, we will have 100% of the house democrats voting for this. thank you for that. thank you-all very much. [applause]

. ♪ "asian pacific america." and welcome to i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bayrea and cozi tv. we start off with beauty and history as we showcase the centennial celebration of hakone gardens. anyone who has visited the site in saratoga knows about the authentic look and feel of this retreat. and if you haven't seen it, you should, and hopefully our show will encourage you to pay a visit. but regardless, people may not know the full history of hakone gardens. we will explore it more in-depth today. then we turn our attention to warrior mamas, and the mama's night out event they had in fremont to unravel pediatric cancer, and what's coming up. and we wrap up with the j-pop summit, a japanese cultural festival in san francisco featuring the latest in japanese pop culture. hakone gardens has been a popular place for many of us growing up in the bay area, an oasis of japanese history, culture, and atmosphere that has never become a commercially oriented tourist spot. it is a haven for many visitors, not just japanese-americans, by the way, and it is celebrating a ce

robert handa: hello, and welcome to "asian pacific america." i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozi tv. we start our show with a man being honored soon for decades of community service in education, local, state, and federal government. long-time congressman mike honda joins us, very special because we have known each other since i was a kid at sunnyvale high school, and he was a counselor and teacher there. it's also a time for celebrating one of the nation's largest asian-american organizations, aaci, asian-americans for community involvement. we will showcase one of its youth programs today. then another celebration, the chinese historical and cultural project and its 30th anniversary, preserving the history of chinese-americans in the santa clara valley. and we looked at women of impact and the school promoting the role women have played in history. notre dame high school in san jose, a place that also develops women of impact. all that on our show today. well, mike honda is one of the most recognized and bel

there was a huge mistake.” of the east asian pacific region. there was a huge mistake. would you invite me back in one year, please? we can talk about this. we're keeping our eye on three hurricanes in the caribbean. hurricanejose hot on the heels of hurricane irma, not quite as strong as irma, but still the potential for damaging winds for the northern leeward islands by the weekend. hurricane irma is heading turks and caicos, heading through cuba on friday, eventually florida by the weekend and hurricane katia in the gulf of mexico more a rain maker, with a lot of damaging wind. back home, it's somewhat quieter over here, but still an unsettled end to the week, thanks to this area of low pressure driving the weather. and there'll be strong winds at times particularly across southern coastal counties and the north—west of scotland and northern ireland as well. here, there'll be some showers from the word go. not quite so many showers here first thing tomorrow across the eastern side of scotland, maybe some sunshine coming through, but always a lot of cloud. and showers

earlier in the day, leader hoyer and i and chairs of the aucus -- that would be the asian-pacific american caucus, , we had a very good meeting with the speaker in which we agreed to move forward in order to put forward the dream act on the floor as soon as possible. he, too, wanted to see some border initiative, which we said we would look into. we suggested to him and to this white house that the border package that passed the homeland security committee. any solution to the challenges facing the dreamers must include the bipartisan dream act as i said sponsored by representative roybal-allard. as you know, faith community, the business community have implord congress to pass the dream act and democrats and republicans and independents support action. 76% of americans support citizenship or permanent status and well over 50% citizenship with 15% backing deportation. 9% of republicans back citizenship versus 24% who support deportation. that would ust -- be enough justification. this is about who we are as americans and so many people are rallying to the dreamers. our american values, our

the msci asian-pacific regional benchmark is at a 10 year high and maintaining those gains.hat are you watching, yousef? yousef: angie, you have the lack of provocation from of korea which is also helping to support that and if you look at the key commodities including msci holding on to gains at $48 a andel flat with with oil, predictions of damages in terms of the impact of hurricane irma being overdone. those are voices from opec indicating a possible extension as well. alumina, up 3%. a bit of a rebound from the drop. , thepread for gcc bonds gulf bonds over treasuries, the benchmark is tightening a notch. the bigger picture, the emerging markets currency index, again going to the point of what you are making about the u.s. dollar is down a fifth of 1%. we are just two hours away from the opening of the emirates market. plenty to talk about. we are seeing a lot of momentum. if you pull it up on your old bloomberg, the futures are up a 10th of 1%, 115% of the three-month average is terms of volumes. it is also important to point out that for qatar, this is the lowest leve

and i and chairs of the caucus -- along with the chairs of the caucus, that would be the senate asian-pacific american caucus, hispanic, we had a very good meeting with the speaker along with the congressional black caucus. we agree to move forward it in order to try to put that dream act on the floor as soon as possible. he too wanted to see some order in -- initiatives which we said we would look into. we suggested to him and to this white house that the border security package that passed the homeland security committee. any solution to the challenges facing the dreamers must include the bipartisan dream act as i said, sponsored by representative roybal-allard. as you know, faith community, the business community have implored congress to pass the dream act and democrats and republicans and independents support action. 76% of americans support citizenship or permanent status and well over 50% citizenship with 15% backing deportation. 69% of republicans back u.s. citizenship versus 24% who support deportation. about not just the young people, that would be justification enough. this is abou

the msci asian-pacific index down for the six day in a row.il also on the retreat, after bouncing into bull market territory earlier. betty: from bloomberg's global headquarters i am betty liu in new york, where it is just after 7:00 p.m. thursday. governorof england hits back at brexit critics. mark carney says he will continue to highlight the risks. postdivorceier says trade talks are underway, and the u.k. much -- must offer more. we have breaking news in south korea. it was a data dump morning. the surplus widening. year on year, $6 billion. industrial output rising 2.7%. this is also for the month of august. that is well above what economists had estimated at a gain of 1.3%. the number to really watch is the factory output, the industrial output, 2.7%. we did see a revision and --inkage or decline, 0.2% down 0.2% in prior months. a lot of the focus is on how these numbers have been changing with the geopolitical tensions in north korea. is that going to dampen consumer demands and outlook for south korea? yvonne: mark: -- yvonne: it is i

." ♪ robert handa: hello, and welcome to "asian pacific america."handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozi tv. we start our show with a man being honored soon for decades of community service in education, local, state, and federal government. long-time congressman mike honda joins us, very special because we have known each other since i was a kid at sunnyvale high school, and he was a counselor and teacher there. it's also a time for celebrating one of the nation's largest asian-american organizations, aaci, asian-americans for community involvement. we will showcase one of its youth programs today. then another celebration, the chinese historical and cultural project and its 30th anniversary, preserving the history of chinese-americans in the santa clara valley. and we looked at women of impact and the school promoting the

hispanic caucus today under the leadership the caucus takes the lead but they're working with the asian pacific american caucus and i do know one thing passing, gore -- immigration reform we now have something that is long overdue and if he has his way we will have 100 percent >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

. ♪ "asian pacific america." and welcome to i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc baya and cozi tv. we start off with beauty and history as we showcase the centennial celebration of hakone gardens. anyone who has visited the site in saratoga knows about the authentic look and feel of this retreat. and if you haven't seen it, you should, and hopefully our show will encourage you to pay a visit. but regardless, people may not know the full history of hakone gardens. we will explore it more in-depth today. then we turn our attention to warrior mamas, and the mama's night out event they had in fremont to unravel pediatric cancer, and what's coming up. and we wrap up with the j-pop summit, a japanese cultural festival in san francisco featuring the latest in japanese pop culture.

leadership of congresswoman lujan grisham the caucuses taking the lead but they are working with asian-pacific american caucus and the congressional black caucus. i do know one thing, and the senate they pass comprehensive immigration reform. we pass the d.r.e.a.m. act. we couldn't pass each other's house and now it's the time to get it done. where is steny hoyer? is steny hoyer has this way we will have 100% of the house democrats voting for this. thank you stephanie for that. thank you all very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] we will take you back live to the floor of the u.s. senate. the senator from oklahoma a democrat is holding the floor with what they say they are going to do about 4:30 this afternoon. live coverage on c-span2. calif. mrs. feinstein: i rise to speak about dreamerrers. the deferred action

we were the first asian-pacific american family in our community in suburban chicago, so we faced that discriticism nation. we would have ugly racial epithets spray painted on our garage, rocks thrown to our window. we would face many taunts as i would go to school. but others overcame. my family overcame, and in part that's why i went into public service. i cared about social and economic change. >> one of the issues bubbling up again is affirmative action and african-americans and latinos seem to see it in one way, often different from asian-americans. what are your thoughts about affirmative action? >> i believe in affirmative action. we have a long ways to reach our greatest ideals that everybody gets to participate. everybody gets the embrace in our public society. some of the asian-americans are afraid because they faced that discrimination. here in san francisco, we know this city was formed in part because people were discriminated from the mining industry, from going for gold and came here and became -- own the restaurants, worked as dry cleaners, so they're afraid of the disc

for example we have over 120,000 asian pacific islander d.a.c.a. students. we have african students. we have people from all over the world, and imagine sending those folks back across the ocean as well. so this is an issue that affects every single immigrant community across the country. host: before we let you go you're on the budget committee. will a budget resolution go to the floor for a vote? gverages well, as you know, there is this tentative deal for an existential for three months, continuing resolution. we have yet to see a budget. we have a budget that passed through committees on a completely partisan basis. it is pretty clear to us that they don't have the votes for that budget. so we have yet to really see any kind of a real process or rather budget which is deeply disturbing and why i think it is so essential there was no ong-term resolution given. hverages part of the deal is money for hurricane harvey victims. what about the wild fires out west? is there emergency funding in the works for that? guest: there is not and it is something we in w

but they are working with our asian pacific american caucus and the leadership of judy chew -- chu and congressional black caucus. and i do know one theng in the senate they passed comprehensive immigration reform. we passed the dream act. one couldn't -- we couldn't pass each other's. now is the time long overdue to get it done. i know if our whip steny hoyer -- where's steny? steny hoyer has his way, we will have 100% of the house democrats voting for this. thank you for that. thank you-all very much. [applause] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] >> sunday night on q and a, the founder and c.e.o. of open the books, on how taxpayer dollars are spent and the need for government transparency. >> we have audited their checkbook for the past four years, the department of veterans affairs, last summer we found that during a period where up to 1,000 sick veterans died while waiting to see a doctor, that the v.a. spent $20 million n a hi

the msci asian-pacific index down for the six day in a row. the retreat, after bouncing into bull market territory earlier. betty: from bloomberg's global headquarters i am betty liu in new york, where it is just after 7:00 p.m. thursday. governorof england hits back at brexit critics. mark carney says he will co t

sell and so she had to really work hard we got a lot of support from film festivals like ellie asian pacific from festival camp and sort of this kind of gain momentum over time and i think a lot of is because of the immigration situation in our country and i think. i think lost in all that is the humanity the people you know the struggle of these people and i think this story is just kind of one story about a guy who does crazy things for love who is trying to figure out how to define himself in this country and it's also sad the seventy's when you know we welcomed a lot of these people to our country you know and they contributed in many ways so i hope people can relate to that can't wait to see it thank you their tails is coming back after twenty five years where you will fan as a kid yes big fan it was part of the disney afternoon so it was a great place to avoid the dogs or it was it was normal virgona joe oh yeah so you know where the nephews he was doing and louis hubert the oldest by one second there was also launchpad maclachlan. and of course uncle scrooge you know you don't have a

it is the best-performing market in the asian pacific market this quarter, and near-term target of 28,0008. let us see how this all plays out, we are down about 31 points, 35 changing of course as you see there at the top of your screen. theher thing to mention, philippines as i mentioned is also having a rally. sophie will bring you that news in just a moment to read and we have breaking news from australia, the meetings have been removed -- released from the last meeting. they are keeping their cash rate on hold at 1.5%, and the minister saying that the rba as x growth to continue. we have seen some great improvements in the unemployment rates, and the rba says solid growth and employment are good by they need to balance the risk of high household debt. we know that inflation is very weak here in australia as it is in many parts of the developed world. we also have the rba saying that there are clear signs of sydney housing easing as is the case in melbourne. note, economic data is remaining positive, conditions conducive to a big up and none mining investment for some time. growth and

. ♪ rishaad: a start for the asian pacific. this is against a slow pace. regional benchmark is down for a fifth day. >> the yen is falling. the government is said to be cut to 20%. -- the corporate rate is said to be cut 20%. >> they are trying to clear the skies, -- >> they are trying to bring digital payments to hong kong. also, 4000 outlets. getaad: 29 minutes until we this out of china. it is industrial profit news. this is 1094. this is the middle of last year. march of last year. the important question we're asking today is is the turnaround the supply-side reforms. we have seen exit capacity been removed on the system. we have also seen inventory overhang being reduced. there has been a rise in metal prices that are driving a stronger profits. the view from bloomberg intelligence is that it is mainly the latter. it is causing this demand and the rise in metal prices. that is what we have. haidi: the bigger the interesting -- this is a particularly interesting data point. ass translates to the same what the earnings are going to be. that is looking a

. >>> we speak with a professor that focuses on asian pacific security as north korea begins to boost their defenses. >>> from a halfway house to a life of meditation, we talk to a bay area whan who is helping to change young lives -- man who is helping to change young lives sphssments as we open up the 9:00 hour we look west towards the pacific. a little fog out there. maybe you can see the fair lawn on this tuesday morning, i keep thinking, the fair is next weekend. >>> it's a big party. there are a lot of big names coming. i do not want to name anyone because the smallest acts are big too. >> all right. very nice, also this coming weekend, the giants are back home, five games left. if they go zero and five, they lose 100 games this year, hopefully we will be okay. >> how much were the tickets. >> fire sale. >>> i wanted to begin the news cast with big news in college hoops, four college assistant basketball coaches are facing federal charges and a probe of corruption in the ncaa. it's tony bland, from the university of california, the coach from auburn, the coach from the universit

asian-pacific markets seen rising as investors move out of haven isis.he yen weekends while the dollar heads back to gains. janet yellen is a catalyst, warning of inherent risk in tightening policy to slowly. globalfrom bloomberg's headquarters, i am kathleen hays in new york, where it is just past 7:00 a.m. this tuesday. republican leaders prepare to roll out a new tax framework, but the numbers are hazy. and twitter experiments with 280 characters in a bid to have wider debate. ♪ kathleen: i don't care how many twitter characters you have come it would take a massive tweet to tweet out so much in janet yellen's speech today. when you look at the citations, the charts, 20,000 pages. i think she had one message, the fed is going to hike again, even if inflation is below target. yvonne: pretty much. i wonder what the president thinks about that twitter development. but then again, you mentioned about janet yellen. -- she is ono-part a two-part mission, normalizing the balance sheet. we saw the market move on this, futures up to 70% for december. kathleen:

asian-pacific markets seen rising as investors move out of haven isis.en weekends while the dollar heads back to gains. janet yellen is a catalyst, warning of inherent risk in tightening policy to slowly. globalfrom bloomberg's headquarters, i am kathleen hays in new york, where it is just past 7:00 a.m. this tuesday. republican leaders prepare to roll out a new tax framework, but the numbers are hazy. and twitter experiments with

prior to coming to heritage he served as a deputy assistant secretary of defense for asian and pacific affairs at the george w. bush administration. heritage he served as the assistant secretary of defense for asian and pacific affairs and the george w. bush administration. he was also serving on the staff in the house with the central intelligence agency, the state department and active-duty naval officers. please join me in welcoming peter. [applause] good afternoon, welcome to heritage and our program on iran. since 2015, a nuclear agreement iran, iraq and yemen. iran's expanding influence in these war-torn countries have been facilitated by the dividends and sanctions provided by the nuclear deal. questions like how should the united states respond, which should be done about the flawed nuclear agreement. how can the united states targeting -- target at home. running is to discuss these and other issues is jim phyllis a senior research developer for affairs and foreign policy studies here at the heritage foundation. policya foreign specialists who has written and spoken on middle e

no special envoy.stant e they haven't been nominated or confirmed for secretary of defense for asian pacificaffairs. i mean absolutely no disrespect to the individuals who may be holding these positions on an interim or acting basis. some of them are excellent. we all know that senateen confirmation provides to instability. when it comes to international affairs, and alliance preservation, personnel is policy. i am heartened that irresponsible parties. [inaudible] that experienced national security professionals like the white house chief of staff, john kelly, the secretary of defense james mattis and the national security advisor, hr mcmaster seem to be gaining an influence. nevertheless, the fact remains you need subject matter experts in place at every level in the national security bureaucracy to develop and execute policy, to reassure allies and deter adversaries. the administration has been severely lacking in this respect.self my second concern is this. too many members of the administration, including the president himself do not appreciate that the rhetoric they use and the actions

the previous president of the asian-pacific region. he will serve as interim ceo.ecall all the details. industry peers say equifax. numerous warned of vulnerabilities. equifax is either incapable or incompetent but did not seem to act. adding insult to injury. we did weeks to tell the american public that social security numbers, names, addresses, dates of birth had all been stolen. that time lag may have made us all more vulnerable to identity theft. no specific cases have been reported yet. but theres were problems with the equifax website where people were supposed to be able to check whether their details were at risk. ftc is investigating the hack. department of justice started a criminal probe into potential insider trading of top three executives, executives sold $2 million worth of stocks after the hack and before the company went public with us. those three high-ranking individuals said they had no knowledge of the breach. it, seems very doubtful given their positions but that is what the department of justice is looking into. and we've been following the

so joining us now a terrorism expert, also a security director at the asian pacific foundation. you so much for being with us again. first of all i want to get to this terror threat at being at critical. is that precautionary or when they heighten the level to that regard especially after a terror attack, do you anticipate there will be more and will they be soon? >> so the decision to raise the threat level to critical is decided by what's called a joint terrorism analysis center. it's a fusion center that amalgamates the law enforcement community. the last time it was raised to critical is following the manchester concert held by aryan th a grande. the reason why they've raise t it now is because they know for a fact that there are people out there that were connected to this plot, so the threat has hood to be raised because individuals can assemble one explosion -- explosive device they could potentially assemble others and it may be reduced over time but until authorities complete their investigation it will remain at critical. >> they're characterizing this arrest of this 1

yes, the members of the congressional black caucus and the congressional hispanic caucus and the asian pacific american caucus all met today, and the members of the congressional hispanic caucus have a lot of reservation, because they're fearful they're going to have to vote for something that might enhance border security measure, and as a result hurt the parents of dreamers. i talked to the chair woman of the congressional hispanic caucus today, and she told me she would be okay with having two separate bills, one that deals spifically with the dream act and another that deals with border security. i'm told by aides that would be the case, because they would want their members to be able to vote for the dream act while not being able to vote for the border secure measure. >> yang: yamiche alcindor, thanks very much. >> sreenivasan: in the day's other news, power crews across florida worked all-out for another day, trying to turn the lights back on. by this evening, just under five million people were still in the dark. meanwhile, the confirmed death toll rose to 70, and president trump made

about, but it's certainly true and this applies to chinese foreign policy, particularly in the asian pacific. china's abilities, military abilities are much greater now. xi jinping took over a much stronger country than 2002 and if your capabilities are stronger, you've got more willingness to take a coercive position rather than an seductive or pseudo-seductive one. >> that's great and i would like to stick with you because you brought up the distinction between cyclical and secular, differences in terms of how the party has approached its policy making. and so given the obvious importance of taiwan for the ccp, the issue as seen from beijing's perspective has always been management at a high level and leadership serves as an indicator of such changes. so what has or hasn't changed in how the leadership transitions approach taiwan policy? is this transition that we're approaching right now unprecedented or are there parallels in the past that we can draw from to infer what the future may have in store? show >> i don't know that i see distinct parallels. i think that after '96 and what they

the other thing is we'll set the asian pacific region with more u.s. forces and more u.s. sailors. china, that's not in their interest so we want them to do something about it. and i think you'll see a serious discussion of they're not very good military options but i think you'll see more of a discussion of, well, is there anything we might be able to do? it's all calculated to try and get china activated. >> you talk about the u.n. speak which will likely focus heavily on north korea. i assume iran will play a significant part in this president's discussions. >> they have a very strong ballistic missile relationship, at the very least. the president is clearly chafing at the law that requires him every 90 days to say iran is in compliance with president obama's iranian-negotiated nuclear deal. it feels like the president is trying to get out from that. he'll want to highlight a lot of iranian activities in the region, aligned influence with hezbollah and the like. >> as you watch this president domestically he's the self-styled dealmaker in chief, right? when you watch him as it

she previously served as a senior special adviser to the us state department on east asian and pacificd from the state department and us secretary of state rex tillerson is a call for russia and china to take direct actions themselves against north korea and these launchers. how likely is that, do you think? i think we may have lost the line to washington. that seems to have frozen on dr hwang. we will try to get her back and get the latest from washington and the american response. for now, we will move on. up to 1,000 people are still missing in sierra leone after the devastating mudslide that hit the city of freetown last month. more than 500 people are known to have died in the disaster. thousands more have had to leave their homes. 0ur correspondent umaru fofana has been to freetown, to meet some of the survivors and find out how they're coping. the scale of this disaster is immense. no warnings, no time to escape. they all died. the whole family, they all died. one month on, a steady stream of grieving people still return to thing site, with photographs of those who were killed.

my name is ben wilson i'm an , asian pacific strategist. i want you to elaborate on your sense of national humiliation, because everybody says -- is a reaction to 10 amend -- tiananmen. could you contrast that? >> ok. you have two minutes to answer. gregg: yes. [laughter] gregg: i will do my best. latin america, china was very interested in latin america, but it was not -- i tried to focus my book not just on where china was interested in or where it carried out initiatives but where the u.s. also saw china as a threat. so it -- they both, so it was only in areas where there was competition that i focused on. and i do not think there was really competition between the u.s. and china in latin america, at least during the time i was talking about. the u.s. was much more concerned about fidel castro and the extent the soviets in latin america. the example about namibia, this issue about china bringing its own labor, i think that is something that has become more and more of a problem in contemporary chinese projects than it was in the 60's. i

he was kitchener and is a membee firm's management committee and cochairs the asian pacific managemente other changes as well changes inhad some singapore, goldman naming a ceo, so a shakeup when it comes to leadership here in asia. we will get more details as they become available. on the eve of its 50th anniversary, it's cofounder and publisher is not getting ready to celebrate. instead, he is looking to sell. given the declining state of print magazines, why would an investor want to buy rolling stone? did you use the word iconic. that is a word that gets thrown around, but this is an iconic for decades has been at the top of the list of music publications, certainly in the has built a journalism brand as well, publishing the works of top novelists, journalists, big, famous names from norman mailer, hunter s thompson, people like that. they have drawn at lot of attention to big issues on the onrnalism side while staying top of the pop culture and music industry. it is also a tarnished icon. it is hard to keep up in such a digitalth things being now and people spending more time on t

leadership, helping to vabs american interests in the asian -- advance america's interest in the asian-pacific. part of that is our work with asean. the association of southeast asian nations. this organization has worked to promote stability, prosperity and peace among the countries of southeast asia. it's in our only strategic -- own strategic interest to see stronger countries, closer partnerships, healthier economies, so our own success in asia is closely tied to the success of asean and its members. this resolution underscores the accomplishments of asean as it marks its 50th anniversary. . it sends a signal to our partners in south asia, southeast asia, that the united states is committed to peace and prosperity in the region and it puts congress on record saying, in this challenging time, the united states must remain engaged around the world, particularly in the asia pacific. the administration's budget proposed a 46% cut to assistance in east asia and the pacific. i think this would be a grave mistake. what kind of impact would that have on american mcbacked initiatives to having a po

. >>> we speak with a professor that focuses on asian pacific security as north korea begins to boostefenses. >>> from a halfway house to a life of meditation, we talk to a bay area whan who is helping to change young lives -- man who is helping to change young lives sphssments as we open up the 9:00 hour we look west towards the pacific. a little fog out there. maybe you can see the fair

the previous president of the asian pacific region serving as interim ceo. could have been avoided. numerous warning of its vulnerabilities. either incapable or competent but did not seem to lack said the ftc is investigating the cyberattack. the department of justice launching a criminal probe into insider training of three high-ranking executives. the stock 1% today has lost about a third of its value since the hack became known in september. i want to point out it not just the ceo. there were some firings or forced retirement last week as well. two of the people in charge of the actual technology were let go. back to you. neil: if i remember, he was supposed to be up on capitol hill to testify. doing a feel make any executive available because he was out of there. >> the company has not said. i'm personally assuming it's the acting ceo. to your point, as we said out as of today and i was crystal clear. >> a lot has been made back and forth. we are waiting to hear from the president and of course the spanish prime minister. the timing of which come tomorro

stats, i believe these might be from pugh poll. 92.6% recipients of daca are latino, but 3.5% are asian, pacificre black. you, your farmmily originally ce from panama. tell us your story. >> thank you for the invitation. i think for me personally and also us at undocublack is also immigration is a racial justice issue. blackness as well because over 565,000 black undocumented folks across the country, some have daca, some of us fall under other statuses like tps that are also under threat right now. >> and that's temporary protected status protecting haitian migrants. >> haitians, somolians. i'm also a young black man living in the city of baltimore and there are particular nuances and consequences of that. >> can you talk about that? one is policing. how does it complicate interacting with police when you add blackness, which is already, you know, an issue, when it comes to policing, but also undocumented status? >> i think with daca right now is a perfect example. i know statistically i'm more likely to be picked up for anything, right? what does it mean to lose that protection that i have and

so too are our allies, like south korea and japan and in asian pacific region which has enjoyed decades of peace and prosperity in large part because of the credibility of u.s. security guarantees and a broader commitment to the region. we cannot afford to fail them. we have to get this right. and i'm hopeful that with steady american leadership working in a bipartisan manner we will get this right. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> the gentleman yields back and because of the significance of the issues under consideration in this hearing and the importance of the north korean threat to our homeland and to the interests of our country, a number of members from the, from the full committee have expressed interest in participation in today's subcommittee hearing. and so i ask for unanimous consent that members on the full committee but not on this subcommittee may join in this hearing. without objection, that is ordered. today we welcome the testimony of a distinguished panel of witnesses. first david albright, the founder and president of the institute of science and national security. he's

particularly with regards to the seventh fleet operations in the indo asian pacific region. chairman whitman and i recently returned from japan, where we visited and met with vice admiral sawyer and saw the damage to the uss fitzgerald firsthand. thank you to our witnesses for joining us today. andand boxall, i appreciated our meeting and look forward to the discussion. critical to aiding our oversight mission on this committee. the recent mishaps of the uss fitzgerald and the uss john mccain resulted not only in significant damage to the ,essels, but also the tragic tragic loss of life of 17 american sailors. earlier in the year, we saw two additional mishaps, avoidable as i understand it, also involving surface ships assigned to the seventh fleet. while investigations into the specific mishaps are still ongoing and the navy is in the midst of conducting two separate copperheads of reviews of surface fleet operations, i am interested to learn of the initial findings and the foundational challenges that need to be addressed to reverse the concerning trend that we are seeing

let's go to former assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs, christopher hill. so great to have you here, ambassador, on this day and on this topic. let me just start very generally. what do you make of this? >> i think it's an extremely serious development. i mean, they've been working on it for some time and frankly they don't care about being isolated or condemned, but they might care about things that people might do about it, and i think that's why the u.s. really needs to double down with china and figure out what we can actually do. >> when you look at what they are claiming and again we're waiting for independent confirmation and indications what the united states and japan might be doing in terms of the sniffing planes that are going to look for isotopes that potentially could be leaking out of this test site in north korea, but they are claiming it to be a hydrogen bomb. they are claiming that it is also miniaturized. they are claiming that they can put it on top of a delivery device, an icbm, icbm that could reach the united states, reach u.s. territo

working with you in the future. >> thank you. >> representative ted yoho of florida, chairman of the asian pacific subcommittee. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you for being here deputy secretary sullivan. i was in a meeting about a year ago a lot of retired generals talking about a major titanic shift of world powers and the state department being around since 1789 as the first cabinet agency. with you in the position you're in now, you're able to step back, look at the state department as a whole, probably that it's never been looked at before in reform. i would have to ask, when is the last time there's been a major transformation or renomar state department? >> there have been efforts at reform that have not been successful as they should have been including in the mid-90s. i would contrast that with efforts of reform to department of defense where i've also served that have been more successful in this same time period. the defense department has done a better job. >> this is an unprecedented moment in time. i look forward to working through this to reform it and find out what works wel