welcome to the atlantic council. my >>> good afternoon and welcome to the atlantic council. my name sis david livingston an i am a deputy direction or -- director here at our energy center, responsible for advanced energy and climate portfolio. as we work to build a robust program aimed at technology, policies and markets of tomorrow, it is a great pleasure to be hosting mr. devito here for an event that the department of interior plays in the advanced energy future. it is also a pleasure to be hosting this event with so many familiar faces in the audience and such a distinguished set of guests. i would like to thank the department of interior for its cooperation with this event and think our staff here at the atlantic council. especially becca -- for putting this together today. the department of interior is often overlooked. it manages 1/5 of the land in the united states, 35,000 miles of coastline, 1.7 billion acres of the outer continental shelf and it also oversees 700 million acres of subsurface minerals. it is responsible not only for managing this wealth, this natura

welcome to the atlantic council. my name is david livingston livd i am the deputy director of the center responsible for the advanced energy and climate portfolio. as we work to build a robust set of programming and technologies can the policie,policies and thf tomorrow, it is a great pleasure to be hosting him here today for an exciting event in the advanced energy future. it's also a pleasure to be hosting this event with so many familiar faces in the audience had such a distinguished set of guests. i would like to thank the department of interior for its cooperation with today's event and also our terrific staff at the atlantic council for putting this event together today. the department of interior is an often overlooked pillar of the architecture that manages one fifth of the land in the united states, 35,000 miles of coastline, 1.7 billion acres of the outer continenta outer contd also overseas 700 million acres of subsurface minerals. it is responsible not only for managing this natural capital if you will bu

joining us fred kempy the president and ceo of the atlantic council. you heard my discussion with richard about the economics of what donald trump is doing. one of the thing that's important to keep in mine with these trade associations or trade relationships is that countries that trade with each other are less likely to go to war with each other. these are national security concerns as much as they are economic concerns. >> yeah. this is a national security question. in fact, president trump has made it such, the tariffs have been leveed with the argument of article 232, which is the national security argument. that's what really rubs the canadians and the others in the g7, our nato allies, plus japan, which is de facto a nato ally. and they don't buy that they should be punished with tariffs on national securities, that they pose a national security danger to the u.s. with their aluminum and steel tariffs. the other thing about this is the g7, since its creation in 1975, in the middle of an oil crisis, an economic crisis, was -- as a demonstration o

june twelfth we'll see what happens for the moment hala thanks so much for joining us from the atlantic counciln washington d.c. . now the european union's top foreign policy official has traveled to jordan to meet the king as the country struggles to handle an economic and political crisis frederica maharani thinking of the of the second discussed a strategic partnership between the kingdom and the union the two state solution between israelis and palestinians was also on the agenda as well as the war in syria well cash strapped jordan is struggling to get on top of its debt after taking a seven hundred twenty three million dollar loan from the international monetary fund in twenty sixteen now it relies heavily on foreign aid but saudi arabia along with the fellow gulf cooperation council members have not yet renewed death three point six billion dollars distance program to jordan which expired last year as well as this analysts say saudi and the ever r.t. investors have stopped financing projects in jordan the government also blames its financial woes on the instability in the region chiefly

welcome to the atlantic council. my name is david livingston livd i am the deputy director of the center responsible for the advanced energy and climate portfolio. as we work to build a robust set of programming and technologies can the policie,policies and thf tomorrow, it is a great pleasure to be hosting him here today for an exciting

state of north carolina is dimitar becerra nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council and a research fellow at the university of north carolina chapel hill a very warm welcome to all of you mr gavin else q let me start with you more than a quarter of a century has passed without athens and skopje settling their differences so why have these two leaders prime minister process and desire have been able to come to an agreement now. well. behold the mammas noir side the prime minister zion i think that after twenty five years being in a deadlock and being kind of course. and not being able to go further within the process of european integration i think it was a it was a very it was a an imperative or a need in the necessity for the for the new government to find a way out of the blockade that greek greek side imposed in. macedonia and towards the european integration process is in twenty five years the past twenty five years was not you have tried many of tentative feet if i may say so but it was almost impossible to go further so we passed through the very difficult period of ten years

joining me now from washington is barry pavel from the atlantic council.f the under secretary of defence. isa is a mistake writing to—do?|j is a mistake writing to-do? i think it is an enormous mistake. the only risky thing that has come out of the summit, i worry very much at out, the global implications, let alone the global implications, let alone the implications for the us south korea alliance. these forces are there to defend against a threat. and north korean capabilities, including nuclear, that are still existing. right now we have words and speeches. and so if you tell those forces you can no longer exercise their ability to accomplish their core mission will degrade over time. and so it really raises enormous questions to me about this very long—standing decades, very close military alliance between the united states and south korea. i know other allies of the united states are know other allies of the united states a re now know other allies of the united states are now worried about what does this mean to me? so what do you think is the view r

welcome to the atlantic council. my >>> good afternoon and welcome to the atlantic council. my name sis david livingston an i am a deputy direction or -- director here at our energy ce

welcome to the atlantic council. my >>> good afternoon and welcome to the atlantic council. my name sis david livingston an i am a deputy direction or -- director here at our energy center, responsible for advanced energy and climate portfolio. as we work to build a robust program aimed at technology, policies and markets of torr

secretary talks about the trump administration's energy dominance agenda in an event hosted by the atlantic council. this is one hour. >> good aftern

. >> with an important book in the foreign service university also senior fellow at the atlantic council and said time at the office secretary defense also served as a policy advisor on the romney presidential campaign as well as marco rubio. so the editor of the book and the one we're discussing this morning "the logic of american nuclear strategy" just recently out the past couple weeks. and just for the just a cool reason if we have to depart the building looked to me i will direct you to the back and then of course the stairs if anything happens look to me. so just as a conversation this is a new book about nuclear weapons it is very salient right now but having question to you is why do we need one more book about this nuclear strategy? it has been around for a long time so how does this work into the larger literature and what purpose does this book try to serve? >> first for hosting this event and also angst you for coming out. that is a good question there is a lot of writing over the years and theories of nuclear weapons but the theories aren't very good. so we know the second s

daniel freed, distinguished fellow at the atlantic council. >> and president trump's so focus now is that meeting on tuesday with kim jong un, a meeting he's on his way to as we speak. he said he's confident the summit will be much more than just a photo-op. >> this is a great opportunity for peace and lasting peace and prosperity. >> bill neeley is nbc news's global correspondent and he joins me now. bill? >> reporter: the world's focus is if you like shifting already from that summit in quebec, a summit of allies to the summit here in singapore of old enemies, and the stage is being set for a summit like no other. because whatever you say about this meeting, it is not a normal summit. so the advance teams from both the u.s. and north korea have arrived, the north koreans arriving at there hotel here today. there is an empty aircraft on the runway at pyongyang airport, which we believe will take kim to the summit. it is not an aircraft of his country, it's an diplomatic plane lent to kim jong un by beijing. security preparations here as you would imagine in a city that is pretty ord

this atlantic council conversation lasts an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. welcome to the atlanta council. i'm david livingston and i'm the deputy director here in our global energy center. responsible for our advanced energy and climate portfolio. as we work to build out a robust set of programming aimed at technologies, policies and the markets of tomorrow, it is a great pleasure to be hosting mr. devito here today for an excite can event on the role that the department of interior plays in america's advanced energy future. it's also a pleasure to be hosting this event today with so many familiar faces in the audience and such a distinguished set of guests. i'd like to thank the department of interior for its cooperation with today's event and i'd also like to thank our terrific staff here at the council, especially becca for putting this event together today. the don't of interior is an gamp overlooked pillar of the american energy architecture and manages a fifth of the land in the united states, 335,000-mile -- 35,000-mile money offered coast lon, and it

we've considered the csi -esque kremlin report playbook and the atlantic council kremlin trojan horsereport and we've seen groups across the ideological spectrum for the center for american progress to the thin institute and its initiative have all flagged this is a really important national security problem. i think having brought attention to it in the committee early on, we are in the position to have a recommendation to the colleagues to begin doing things about it with any luck and time to detour a little bit th of misconduct in the upcoming election. i appreciate very much how the chairman has led the subcommittee. i think this is real progress and i appreciate it very much. >> you have been terrific on this. you've obviously done your homework and the combinations of bad things are almost endless and it seems to me we need to up your game. the record will remain open for one week into the hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>> this past week with the help of cable partners in the c-span bus traveled to juneau alaska and as a part of the 5

dispute check out this very interesting opinion piece on al-jazeera dot com by dimitar from the atlantic council he believes a resolution of the dispute is the good news that badly needed but as you heard nationalists on both sides of the border very unhappy with this to find out more about why this controversy became a centerpiece of the region's politics by reading this piece on. website at al jazeera dot com and of course would love to hear from you on this and other stories we're covering on the news grid you can send your comments to any of our online platforms tweet us at a.j. english or on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news good you can also send us a whatsapp message past nine seven four five a one triple one four nine all the different ways to get in touch on your screen right now don't forget to use the hashtag a genius great not to make where they have been new steps towards ending violence that's killed at least one hundred seventy people during the last two months but embattled president daniel ortega is resisting calls for early elections so there are doubts that the poli

and former executive director of the graham talent commission, she is a senior fellow at the atlantic council. it's goat -- great to have you with us. who better to ask about the president talking about stopping the war games and let me get your reaction to that, that the united states is going to essentially end its war games with south korea and the language that the president used calling it provocative? >> first of all my biggest objection that he and we are using the word war games. that's a kim jong un moniker for our military exercises which we have conducted with our allies with the south koreansnd with the japanese, year on year on a regular schedulen order to maintain readine and deterrence. it's also aimed at any other actors that might want to challenge u.s. interests and the interests of our allies in the region. so the fact that he's from the get go saying that we're going to suspend these exercises is unsettling to me because he's highlighting that and it's unclear to me whether there's a timetable, how many rounds of our exercises is he going to suspend? what's the timetable f

and what is being done to address them we are joined now by jason marczak, director of the atlantic council's. the president said it was like taking a walk in central park crossing mexico. but i am assuming from the stories we have heard, it isa from the stories we have heard, it is a lot tougher than that? that is right, these immigrants are largely not coming here because they want to, but because they have too. they are escaping violence and fear in their own communities. we have a task force looking at what must be done to improve conditions and you need sustainable, economic development, better law and without that's, people will continue to come north. it is worth looking at the figures. look at how many came across last year in april, 15000 and then this year, compare it with this year, we are up then this year, compare it with this year, we are up over then this year, compare it with this year, we are up over 50,000. why do you think the numbers havejumped year, we are up over 50,000. why do you think the numbers have jumped so much? the numbers havejumped even looking back a few year

accounts promoting partisan political messages and most of them are attacking or bread or the atlantic council's digital forensic research lab shows that the consulting firm victory lab set up by a mexican entrepreneur called carlos merlo created automated bots to give posts high numbers with likes and also retreats but what made this really unusual was the fact that there was no other reactions or comments to this post and the think tank says that most uses came from india brazil and also in indonesia facebook and twitter have since removed the victory lap pages from the sites and there's also links to russia the new york times article here refers to digital research a manual of course you're ramos claiming that there was a russian bought driven traffic to help boost poll numbers for upper door and ramos claim that there were four point eight million mentions of the candidate on social media outside of mexico well al jazeera has not been able to independently verify this but over ago did respond on twitter with the satirical message. this is where i received my gold from moscow the opposing pol

he is also a senior fellow at the atlantic council for site and risks initiative and an georgetown.essor at he is the author of several books including "the powerhouse and pollutants labyrinth." to peopleke to thank who help -- i would like to thank those who helped make this possible. moderate a discussion between panelists and then we will have questions. a recording and transcript will be made available via our podcast. thank you for coming. [applause] steve: good morning. here.you for joining us amazing as an understatement, this panel is a fantastic panel. i am looking forward to the discussion this morning, to digging in. we are in the midst of a debate about the future of work. forces that are stagnanta crisis of wages and uncertainty about jobs in the future among the elements in the debate -- the question, is the technological cycle we are in right now the revolution in ai, the new age of automation, is it different from prior technological cycles over the last two centuries in which normal economic churn has produced enough jobs to employ everyone displaced by the new technolog

the ideas that i put forward a year ago have been advocated publicly by others including the atlantic council, the alliance for securing democracy of the german marshall fund. russia has not stopped its efforts to divide our society and use our open system against us to spread false narratives. there is every reason to believe the kremlin will again target our elections this fall and 2020. a major technology company whose problems we exploit have taken some countermeasures but not enough. other countries and malign actors are now adopting and improving on russia's methodology. china now runs disinformation campaigns and influence operations in taiwan, australia, and other neighboring countries and is working to acquire information technology assets and data sets across asia, europe, and the united states. the trump administration has taken some sanction steps to punish russia for past actions, it has not launched the kind of presidentially led whole of government effort that is needed to protect our democracy and security from maligned state actors who are intent on weapon i think the interne

. >> joining us for a closer look is atlantic council ceo with us here at post 9.you already. thanks for being with us. sounds like we are looking over your thoughts. you think maybe kim has had a shift between thinking his nuclear arsenal was an asset to maybe now a liability. >> more important than think that that is what the south korean leaders think who have met with him. he thought his nuclear weapons were going to get him regime survival and thought they were going to get him economic health and growth. he shifted his thinking and i think partly because of the maximum pressure of donald trump and the military threat which he had taken so seriously that people say intelligence people say he was moving around pyongyang more frequently than he did before he was getting a little bit worried. we hope he has decided that they are now more of a liability than an opportunity for him. that's what we will see as the negotiations pan out. >> can we even begin to contemplate the opening up of north korea's economy? the idea that it could be open for business or is that

the distinguished fellow at the atlantic council was the u.s.dor to south korea and and nato that beauty. -- deputy. thank you for joining us. momentous day. i want to bring up a quick tweak eet thesident -- tw president sent out. we have our lawsuit is -- hostages testing missiles. we will be fine. this coming off of a very awkward g7 meeting to read a lot of questions here of how this could actually affect these negotiations in singapore. is the u.s. coming here was a show of confidence or the opposite? the president exudes a lot of confidence, but i think he comes in with very uncertain ending in the international community after trashing our allies during the g7 meeting. it may convince the north koreans that he needs an agreement more than they do. that's the problem all along. agreeing to the summit was a risk worth taking. full confidence that they are really ready to denuclearize means we may have a real break down when this summit takes place in a few hours. yvonne: why do you think the u.s. is so keen on making enemies with its traditi

our guest host this morning, fred kempe of the atlantic council. mr. prime mister, s talk what this means for the region how significant is this? what do we need to see next? >> everyone is going to moan about the lack of detail in the text of the actual agreement between the two leaders, but i don't buy that i think we should give the president some credit for what's been achieved. it's only his kind of unique style which has enabled us to get to this point in the process. and we need to give a time to see what detail shakes out of the tree from here on in the bottom line is six months ago we're talking about the possibility of conflict and war. now we have an extended period of diplomacy that will be good for regional stability, in terms of perception of country risk and regional risk for investors across east asia, it's good news the final bid is you still have to have a plan "b. what happens if it doesn't work in the end that's down the track. >> i want to know more, but not the final bid as a plan b but how do we get to the verify stage. as you lo

let's bring in chief investment officer and fred kemp, president and ceo of the atlantic council.gin with you. there's a lot to unpack here, a lot of moving parts here let's start with the zte deal, which was announced earlier today by secretary ross. there are a lot of interlocking parts here, in other words, zte is a chinese company, north korea is china's sort of protege in northeast asia. talk me through this zte deal. did we do it in part to mollify the chinese before we talked to the north koreans and is it or is it not, from where you sit, a good deal? >> well, let me start with the second question first, and then i'll get quickly to the first one. first of all, they broke u.s. law. and they were going out of business and so, it is the most intrusive deal of this sort that has ever been leveled on a chinese company, $1 billion fine having external monitors, enforcement agents in your company, having to change your management, almost unheard of. but does it actually fix our problems with the chinese companies engaging inn espionage it doesn't but do we have a strategy from t

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now a senior fellow at the atlantic council and an nbc security analyst.off? >> that sounds good. rick, let me follow u on what senator coons said and ask you a question based onis insights. is it possible to have a deal with north korea of any significance that could lead to a complete and total denuclearization with a state department as gutted as our state department currently is? >> well, i don't know the answer to that, joe. it's obviously not a good thing thathe state department doesn't have the support, but what you have in terms of this deal is you have two guys that are famous for welshing on their debts. two guys who overpromise and underdeliver and what you have is this, you know, 200 word statement that doesn't commit anybody to anything. i think the phrase is north korea commits to work towards complete denuclearization. as senator coons said for the iran deal, the actual frame work agreement was hundreds of pages long that committed to a veryre. there's nothing like that here. in fact what we have here was the beginning of something, not the

atlantic trade war. the un's human rights council says venezuela's security forces have killed hundreds under the pretextta has refused to take in 200 migrants currently on board a mediterranean rescue ship.

atlantic trade war. the un's human rights council says venezuela's security forces have killed hundreds under the pretextfighting crime. and italy says malta has refused to take in 200 migrants currently on board a mediterranean rescue ship. the crisis over immigration rules in the united states, looks no closer to being resolved. earlier, president trump pressed the case for greater border security, appearing in a news conference with people whose family members were killed by undocumented immigrants. meanwhile, along the southern border, hundreds of children remain separated from their parents. that's despite a u—turn on the policy by president trump. the bbc‘s aleem maqbool is in el paso, texas with this report. in a detention camp close to the mexican border, the us is holding children. we saw them being trooped between tents in single file. in many cases, they were separated from their parents by immigration officials. often their mothers and fathers, who themselves are in detention, have no idea where their children are. this seven—year—old has finally been reunited with his mother after they we re

atlantic trade war. the un's human rights council says venezuela's security forces have killed hundreds under the pretextre crucial wins for switzerland and nigeria.

atlantic trade war. the un's human rights council says venezuela's security forces have killed hundreds under the pretextf fighting crime. last minute goals save brazil from embarrassment at the world cup, and there are crucial wins for switzerland and nigeria. media reports in the united states say its navy is drawing up plans to build detention centres on remote military bases, to house 25,000 illegal immigrants. the us department defence reportedly plans to build what are described as "austere" detention centres at abandoned airfields in california, alabama and arizona. meanwhile, along the southern border, in texas, hundreds of children remain separated from their parents. the bbc‘s chris buckler reports. just inside america's border, only miles from mexico, this is one of the shelters were children are being held. from there, you can see young people being a shared between the makeshift structures in what is being called a tent city. —— the air. the pictures of cages and crying that have emerged from texas last week led a trump to reverse its policy of separating migrant parents from their children.

atlantic trade war. the un's human rights council says venezuela's security forces have killed hundreds under the pretextean rescue ship.

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council, they will make a final decision. that is a very important step. we have to realize that europe ofmoving forward in spite all of the challenges and environments coming from across the atlanticit. europe is moving ahead. manus: very good day to you. it is manus in vienna. let's take the discussion about the busted -- budget a little bit further. isancial transaction tax potentially one of the funding aspects of this. wouldn't that be like shooting oneself in the foot? given that the aspiration for europe to win financial markets post-brexit. we will have to see the details. itself -- the tax in itself will go against the need for a continental europe to have its own financial market. this would be it shooting into its own foot, i think we will have something much more what -- and similar to like a stamp tax in the u.k.. anna: macron and merkel agreed to increasing the role of the european stability mechanism, the esm. questions about who will decide win this backstop can be tapped. do you think this is moving in e right direction for europe? when should that be used? >> we know that one of the important elements of the european banking union was a fiscal backstop in case of

on election and other interference by the kremlin and the kremlin trojan horse report, the atlantic council's parallel effort, there is a new report called moscow's gold, russian corruption in the uk, that was put out by the house of commons foreign affairs committee. and i'd like to ask that that report be put into the record. >> without objection, it will be. >> and i want to thank mr. wainstein for focusing on the botnet civil injunction legislation. senator graham and i have been working on that for a long time, hoping to get it into the nda bill also. it seems pretty obvious to try to shut these damn things down in the way that's been proven to work. but what i want to talk about in my time is the problem of shell corporations. because for all of the emphasis that the witnesses have put on policing and prosecuting foreign influence in our elections, you can neither police or prosecute which you cannot find. and at the moment, we have both a shell corporation problem, which was emphasized by mark zuckerberg in his testimony when he said their political advertisement authentication program