with border officials essentially what donald trump is trying to make and the reason he came to the callen texas is this section of the united states the border with mexico is the busiest place for illegal crossing thousands crossing into the united states illegally every week he's essentially trying to make the point that he believes his democratic opponents in congress namely chuck schumer in the senate and nettie pelosi the democratic leader in the house of representatives are downplaying a threat that they know is affecting the american public nancy and just you know that look you know winning this argument they're losing the argument badly but you know what he said about an argument is not about politics for me it's about doing the right thing. and i could i could do a lot easier things i could just get this like everyone else did he should have been done thirty years ago and twenty years ago and ten years ago and five years ago i could have done like everyone else just sort of say hey forget it a lot of the crime in our country is caused by what's coming through here people do the mo

borders well let's hear now from dominic cain who reports from berlin as she contemplates a fifteenth callen the office angle americal is in ponderous mood in her address to fellow german citizens she reflects on the year that was twenty eighteen a year which was some might say politically bruising perhaps even factoring for where her party suffered electorally in several states where she herself found herself in a situation where her government might have been toppled in a rout with people with a party that was once a staunch ally the christian social union has also made reference to the fact that democracy is something that needs to be worked on but in germany people should try to come together the tolerance should be the watchword for twenty nineteen also a reference to the future generations she says that the politicians of today merely are guardians as it were for the future she talked about the generation to follow on in some senses that's clear for her party and a. lady who is than the new christian democrat leader well she's already more popular than anglo-american so the question fo

right place fine take gas and water callen on angry crowds across france as the yellow best movement holds an eleventh weekend of rallies. and have sussed interview since being released we hear from an american iranian journalists who spend ten days in u.s. custody without charge. i was treated like that in the middle of prison most of the time i was in solitary everyone's thinking at home i got this is when like a mass murder what is going on. a very warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international the old the latest down to round up the stories that shape the week great to have you with us now our top story political crisis in venezuela has exasperated turmoil in the country and divided the woes this week that's off to the us recognize the. entries opposition leader as interim president when kwaito swore himself in as the troubled nation fleet amid massive protests i think me for bringing that up i swear to formally soon the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela with united states probably recognize national symbol president one well you know as

american side and the turkish side that bolton's discussions with president raja senior advisor abram callen here in ankara were productive it would seem in reality they weren't as productive as they would like people to believe prior to this much anticipated meeting it was announced that there would be a joint press conference held by both the turkish and the american side the eleventh hour that's press conference was cancelled when i asked the advisor to president of iran dr cullen why that was he said it was at the request of bolton who said that he needed to get back to washington quickly to deal with the border security issue the war with mexico in the standoff taking place in d.c. not necessarily the most convincing of arguments when you think of what's at stake here american military presence inside syria as well as the greater issue of what to do with syria moving forward now what is the main point of contention as far as the turks are concerned they want to continue what they say cleansing out of the eastern side of syria from what they describe as terrorist organizations have alrea

he has met with erdogan spokesman, callen. the outcome isn't clear.cted to speak ain a short while but what is clear is turkey is incensed by what john bolton said about israel in the last couple of days. that a u.s. bolt from syria would be contingent on turkey take caring of u.s. allies in syria, ypg and kurdish mission the u.s. has been supporting in its fight against isis. the problem for turkey is it considered the ypg, those kurdish fighters to be part and parcel of the kurdish parties that turkey has been fighting with for decades therefore they consider them terrorists. what we heard from president erdogan today, he said what bolton said is a serious mistake, not acceptable. president erdogan says he made a deal with president trump. he says turkey keeps its deals, it keeps its word, it expects its allies to keep their word as well. where there seems to be going at the moment, seems to be an escalation of tensions between the united states and turkey. president erdogan clearly unhappy that he thinks he got a deal, the u.s. pulling its troops o

year in states where president trump lost breaking with the president and the party on the shutdown, callens telling the "washington post," i see no reason why the bills that are ready to go should be held hostage to this debate over border security. nevertheless president trump is not backing down, making a surprise appearance in the white house briefing room to make the case for the wall. >> i have never had so much support as i have in the last week over my stance for border security and border control and for frankly the wall or the barrier. >> reporter: but the president and his press secretary leaving without taking questions. the standoff continuing as a new reality begins in washington for president trump. house democrats now in the majority and armed with subpoena power pledging oversight of the trump administration, vowing to investigate everything from alleged connections between the trump organization and russia to the president's personal finances. >> democrats, this morning, unveiling their first major piece of legislation, and it makes broad campaign finance changes as well as

this meme is callen your boys are lit and you're the designated driver." [ laughter and applause ] here'son. his meme says, "when you spot that old navy mannequin without clothes." [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: ooh-la-la. >> jimmy: next is a photo of en prestrump. his meme says "when you nailin' that fonzie impression." aaayy! [ laughter ] next is a photo of som monkey their meme is called "when you're in 'the bachelor' hot tub, but not gntting atn." [ laughter and applause ] next up is a photo of german chancellor angela merkel. her meme says, "when you're the first person in the fifth grade to hit puberty." [ laughter ] next, here's a photo of two hamsters. their meme says, " into the club and your frenemy is wearing the same outfit." [ light laughter ] and finally, here's a photo of a german ski jumper from the nordic world cup. his meme says, "when you in the shower and someone flushes the toilet." [ laughter ] that was "this week in memes." [ cheers and applause ] we'll be right back with kerry washington, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ free free, free. free. uh... free.

american side and the turkish side that bolton's discussions with president raja senior advisor abram callen here in ankara were productive it would seem in reality they weren't as productive as they would like people to believe prior to this much anticipated meeting it was announced that there would be a joint press conference held by both the turkish and the american side the eleventh hour that's press conference was cancelled when i asked the advisor to president of iran dr cullen why that was he said it was at the request of bolton who said that he needed to get back to washington quickly to deal with the border security issue the war with mexico in the standoff taking place in d.c. not necessarily the most convincing of arguments when you think of what's at stake here american military presence inside syria as well as the greater issue of what to do with syria moving forward now what is the main point of contention as far as the turks are concerned they want to continue what they say cleansing out of the eastern side of syria from what they describe as terrorist organizations have alrea

had to be hammered and that's why probably the meeting went for over two hours between bolton and callen it's because there's a lot of things to be handled here and there's a lot of no once yes the democrats insist on coordinations that the turks whatever make whatever move they make has to be coordinated with americans even after they would or the troops. and to that there should be separation to. id and and the kurds in general the turks say look we have hammered all of this with trump and my urdu and says my point of reference is not some advisor it's not the secular state my point of reference is the american president i spoke to the american president and we agreed and any agreement should commit both parties to what has been agreed so that's why i think there though on the turkish president is quite upset with the americans because if they keep if propping like this the turkey cannot have a strategy based on their agreement and is there something to be said about the timing of all of this when you have both in turkey and at the same time you have michael pale in jordan starting out

now of course you can see how the influence of multi-culturism from 1905 horace callen originally rather despised an attack by people like john dewy, didn't really flourish until in1970s but became the reigning ideology and under its influence things like trouble politics. civic education went out the window. then, of course, the publicdying which were not free universal education but free universal education that taught the first things of the american experiment. no longer did. but in terms of the original motto, a plurbus unim or you had left was the plurbus and the vulcanization but no unu, machine. the 19th century people have been given a scrap of paper could write maybe 10-12 first principles, whatever their background, linguistic, all makers would agree of. i have tested it out with some co's today and some college students and very few, and set in the good colleges didn't get much beyond one or two. the unum is no longer there. i have listened to the immigration debate for 30 years. people are talking walls in sanctuary cities. hardly anyone talks about civic education and what

american side and the turkish side that bolton's discussions with president senior advisor abram callen here in ankara were productive it would seem in reality they weren't as productive as they would like people to believe prior to this much anticipated meeting it was announced that there would be a joint press conference held by both the turkish and the american side the eleventh hour that's press conference was canceled when i asked the advisor to president of iran dr cullen why that was he said it was at the request of bolton who said that he needed to get back to washington quickly to deal with the border security issue the war with mexico in the standoff taking place in d.c. not necessarily the most convincing of arguments when you think of what's at stake here american military presence inside syria as well as the greater issue of what to do with syria moving forward now what is the main point of contention as far as the turks are concerned they want to continue what they say cleansing out of the eastern side of syria from what they describe as terrorist organizations have alread