whether the bush administration, clinton administration or obama administration.tions 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 trade with

i have been in and out of the clinton administration, the bush 41 administration. i don't see how he does it. >> what's the babble you're talking about, general? what have you heard that you think is babble? >> a good bit of what's said out of the white house. we talk about we're going to handle korea. north korea has now launched its second ibcm capable missile. it probably has a dozen or more nuclear weapons. they are not going to negotiate away their nukes. the chinese are not going to strangle them economically. we are not going to conduct a conventional first strike to try to eliminate their nukes. we're going to have to find some way to live with it and enhance our ballistic missile defense. i don't understand this confidence that we're going to handle it. >> when the president says it will be handled, as he very definitively said a couple minutes ago. you're not buying it? >> not at all. i think at the end of the day, we are going to have to accommodate a fact that we have a very dangerous rogue actor. north koreans want the u.s. troops out of korea. they wa

wink and aversion of their eyes and the clinton administration set a precedent that was carried throughil the inauguration of donald trump. >> we sit here and talk about the ten million people in seoul who definitely worry about and 28,500 men and women on the border. has been there as many as 50,000. it's been the trip wire, what saved that war from ever occurring. lou: there is so much bs around this issue. half of korea's population lives within range of north korea's rockets, missiles. about 50 miles from the border, and we've known that. we didn't need a trigger. we didn't need 50,000 or 60, or 28. we need some sort of idea of what the hell do you do about a crazy little s.o.b. who insists on having an icbm with a nuclear warhead attached? >> i think trump's opening idea of getting china, making nice to china, making a deal with china, china didn't come through. lou: they haven't for a single administration. i think the president is also right, he had to try. don't you agree? >> absolutely. lou: now what? >> i would not be afraid to give nuclear weapons to japan. i think the korean

a grave i mean it's a threat but one thousand nine hundred forty two thousand and two the clinton administration gauged in negotiations to freeze the plutonium program and to buy back medium and long term. missiles i'm not an expert but those involved in those negotiations robert gallucci former defense secretary william perry believe the only alternative to war larry is negotiations to an address the threat we face and i think it's irresponsible to even talk about war in the situation when you might have thousands and thousands of south korean civilian casualties you'd have a region and for all chaos which is what i think motivates china it's terrified of a region in chaos a failed state and what that means so i think the trump administration needs to think hard about how it's going to deal with china which is a great power i don't know of continuing economic sanctions or the answer i think a negotiated settlement to deal with this crisis this threat and i hope there are wiser cooler heads in the trumpet ministration than his twitter feed might suggest to you negotiate with a mad man you know l

secretary albright when i was in the clinton administration actually had conversations with the north koreans leading to such a potential outcome. so, things can be done, but you can't do it from point of weakness. we've got to toughen up in terms of making sure that north korea is not living as good a life as they are, and i met with the south korean president when he was here in washington, and he said the north korean economy's improving because of support from china and russia. that can't continue. and we have to draw line there and say, if you're going to continue to support them, then you're going to have difficulty with us on a number -- a range of other issues because you're supporting a man that has destabilizing the entire region in the asia-pacific region and threatening the united states. we can't accept that so we want you to understand if you're going to be supporting him in this fashion, it's going to change and alter the nature of the relationship we have with you. >> so hit them where it hurts, financial. you mentioned the clinton administration, of course, all the mo

the united states never committed and george hw administration or bill clinton administration, i was part of both, this was demand driven sean democracies in central europe and they had to live behind the iron curtain and they are free countries and sought membership with both nato and eu and good that we filled this vacuum, republican and democratic administrations because putin would be preying on them now if we hadn't brought them into nato. i think if you look at tomorrow's meeting, we really saw two trumps today. we saw in the press conference, a trump that criticized the american intelligence community that was very soft on the issue of american interference on the elections, we saw a tougher president trump in the speech. i hope the tougher trump shows up tomorrow. he has to raise this issue that the russians launched a major cyber attack on our elections and have to stand by ukrainians on the sanctions, that will be the true test of tomorrow's meeting. >> let me ask you this, i want to put up a map of the baltic members of nato. let's look at he is tone ya and lithuania in pa

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>> by the clinton administration. >>do you think that the russian government preferred candidate trump over hillary? >> i know they didn't. hillary was their candidate. the reason why is they didn't like her. she was a problem for them. but she's predictable. trump was totally unpredictable. it's a russian standard that you go with predictable every single time. >> of course. it's absolutely a wise standard. >> they were going to defeat her on every front because they did it for eight years of obama. >> you don't sound like much of a putin fan. >> well, i've got to tell you this. donald trump wants to have better relations with all nations. he wants to have relations with russia. but donald trump and putin -- >>so your friend was murdered you believe by the russians. how did you respond then when you saw a sitting member of congress, jackie speier of california refer to you as putin's image consultant? >> it was putin's responsibility for media freedom. when she called me putin's image consultant, it was very clear to

thank you very much, nancy soderberg in florida, who was a national security adviser in the clinton administrationget a sense of what is coming up at 6:30pm on the body. of the four british players who started wimbledon today only two remain, johanna konta and andy murray. heather watson and alijaz bedene both lost. and we will be new zealand bringing you the latest from the lions camp ahead of the third test. but for now, on bbc news, it is time for the film review. welcome to the film review on bbc news. taking us through the week was maximo releases is mark kermode. this week we have it comes at night, which is a very creepy thriller. the midwife with catherine deneuve and catherine frot. and spider—man: homecoming. it comes at night. i have read enough to know that this is your kind of film, and so not mine. you have two minutes to persuade me. it is not ajump mine. you have two minutes to persuade me. it is not a jump scare horror like the trailers make it look like. if you expect that you will be disappointed. it is a creepy thriller. it is set after the outbreak of one unspecified played li

it was forced upon them by the clinton administration that said this is it. take it or leave it and they tried to make it work. with the tom line is, the system didn't work. what the clinton administration here, 6,000 miles away, forced on local residents who knew they would have a problem, did not work. and they quit doing it simply because they could not afford to maintain that hovercraft. the hovercraft has not been -- is for sale but no one needs a hovercraft. and that's why this community now is stuck with the decision that we made, 6,000 miles away, because we know what is right for king cove, alaska. instead of allowing them to have some kind of control over their own lives. what mr. young said is accurate. when the levees broke along the mississippi, the missouri, we didn't go to those states to encyst on it. when there are wild fires in the west, including the gentleman from arizona's home state, we don't go back to arizona and force them to pay for all of it. this is simply an amendment that is cute and it's a gotcha amendment. but it's also wrong.

what we had in the 1990's was a circumstance where the clinton administration and the gingrich-led house and the senate which was in republican hands came together to get welfare reform and spend regular straint, keep spending flat while the economy grew and revenues caught up to spending. that's how you get to surplus. that's why you think you're seeing so much focus in this administration on getting economic growth you can't cut your way to a balanced budget, can't tax your way to a balanced budget, but you can keep the growth on and grow your way. >> watch an interview with mick mulvaney tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c spand raide nd c-span.org. c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news that affects you. tomorrow, elaine donnelly will talk about the future of transgender military members in the wake of president trump's tweet calling on a ban of their service. then bill piper, of the policy alliance, that works to decriminalize drugs, will talk about plans by the trump squad mrgs to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. and amy wax will talk a

>> by the clinton administration to get involved.orked for the central election commission there trying to steer their election. and afterwards trying to help candidates. >> tucker: do you think that the russian government preferred candidate trump over candidate hillary clinton? >> i know they did. i mean, first of all, i have been told many times over by many people i know from russia and in russia that hillary was their candidate. the reason why is they didn't like her. they said she was a problem for them but she is predictable, totally predictable. donald trump they thought maybe was a better guy but he was totally unpredictable. it's a russian standard that you go with predictable every single time. >> tucker: of course. it's absolutely a wise standard. >> and you know that they were going to defeat her on every front because they did it for eight years of obama. >> tucker: your contention -- you don't sound much of a putin fan. >> you know, i have got to tell you this. donald trump wants to have better relations with all natio

. >> clinton administration got through a law that allowed victims' families of these horrible incidents to sue any nation that had been designated a sponsor of terrorism in both iran and libya on that list and that was a crucial breakthrough for you. what do we have today? we have a law that was passed last september called the justice against sponsors of terrorism act, which is aimed at saudi arabia because the victims of the 9/11 -- the families of the victims of 9/11 have been trying to sue saudi arabia for allegedly supporting some of the among the -- saudis 19 hijackers back in 1970 -- 17 years ago. allows the families to introduce suits against the government of saudi arabia in american courts. laterre we are, decades fighting the same issue with the same problems. so, this book -- if you read this book, a lot of the issues -- they are still alive and front and center of the problems justice for victims of terrorism. so that is my oh inning comments. >> it's instructing how these issues go on and on. even to the extent, you know, you talk about congress. you have to deal with the

what we had was a circumstance is the clinton administration and the gingrich-led house, specifically and also the senate which was a republican, came together to get some welfare reform and spending restraint to keep spending flat while the economy grew and revenues caught up to spending. that's how you get to surplus and that's why you think you're seeing so much focus in this administration on getting economic growth. you cannot cut your way to a balanced budget. you cannot tax your way to a balanced budget but keep that growth on spending and grow your way to a balanced budget. >> watch our interview with mick mulvaney, director of the office of management and budget radio and c-span c-span.org. >> sunday on "q&a," mark bowden talks about his book "way: 1968, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the vietnam war." >> the battle of hue because the tie gone military command was so out of reality what was happening on the streets. they really got a lot of young americans killed because what general westmoreland denied that the city had been taken. it was a fact that he continue

think the republicans are, you know scared of that in the end of the clinton administration.he democrats are using the same tactic. i don't think that they really believe that donald trump can be prosecuted for obstruction of justice or extortion or any of the other crimes that they have alleged against him, but i do think that they can keep him preoccupied, and keep his agenda from being satisfied. i suspect we are going to see this continue even counsel mueller decides that there's no criminal offenses that he can prosecute. >> armstrong: at what price are the democrats being do to do that. at the price of the american people having mr. trump deliver on miss promises and defeating him on the midterm election, and ultimately at the general election. have we lost all respect we the people, that these things are thinks that, it's it makes america look weak at home and abroad. >> guest: i think that is true, i think both parties have done that. number one democrats want to defeat donald trump and defeat the republican the midterm and they believe that their policies is bad for

why didn't ag sessions, goes on say, replace andrew mckay, in charge of the clinton administration got big dollars, 700,000 for his wife's political run and swamp ntatives drain the exclamation point. he was asked about the attorney general in the "wall street journal" in an interview published this morning in the pages of the "washington post," people on om other capitol hill when it comes to the statement of president has made toward the attorney general on tuesday, republicans publicly rallied to session's defense. orin hatch says he has full in jeff sessions and above all uphold the rule of law bright bart posted article saying the president's public serves n sessions "only to highlight trump's hypocrisy," president arns the could fuel concern from his base which sees sessions as best help fulfill trump's immigration policy. lawrence from illinois. thanks , you are next, for calling. caller: yeah, i got a couple about to make, one insurance mandate and the other about the argument people are a ing about insurance being right or an entitlement. concerning the insurance people are mi

>> well, i lived through ken starr and the clinton administration, as did my friend dan who is alwaysches moves ahead of me. and let me just say this. judge star just wrote an op ed for us, but bob mueller is no ken starr. ken starr came to that job without the kind of prosecutorial in the trenches experience that bob mueller has. bob mueller is also operating under a different statute than ken starr did, but it's still -- not statute. he's operating under justice department regulations. he has done nothing so far that i am aware of that in any way calls into question his legitimacy, but you see this case starting to be built by the president and his allies, his lawyer jay sekulow on sunday, the sort of glimmerings of a case against mueller and against his legitimacy because of comey. and that makes me very nervous. i think it should make republicans on the hill very nervous, because they know bob mueller is a reasonable person who is going to do a reasonable investigation. and i wonder when the president fired jim comey, it had more of an effect than he expected, more of a firestorm,

federal election or make an offense against the united states, cybercrimes hacking against the clinton administration. conspiracy with respect to espionage depending on whether information was obtained through russian spying and a level of their awareness. of the spying. as bad as everything has been, this takes us to a different -- this has crossed a threshold. that's why i say join us in asking for any electronic communications in the campaign within the family. we should assume he did not tell the president. there are no communication to that effect. maybe sew so, maybe not. let -- maybe so, maybe not. let us know. the very idea some of these people should have security clearance after misrepresenting on their disclosure form. there is an arrogance, a disregard for what is ethical. what is ethical. an ethical standard is really important. for people to say it's just politics. no. that's not just politics. you get that. you call the f.b.i. so this is -- getting back to our republicans in congress, for a long time they have -- they won't join us in the release of the president's tax return, which co

graham allison served as the defense official in both reagan and clinton administrations he's currentlyfessor of government at harvard >> i would be not quite so quick to discount the military option. i think that trump is new to the party. he tweeted from the first time he heard of this, not going to happen. and there's no question the u.s. can conduct a limited attack on the missile launching sites and prevent further test to go of icbms. i don't believe that's off the table even though i agree that it has highly uncertainly consequences. >> glor: there's a whole list of different military options one of the complicating factors is that north korea is pretty good at moving all the stuff around. >> i think the main thing is that this is a chester game in which they get to move as well. it's very limited attack would attack a launch site. and would prevent any icbm test. that's easy to do. the question is what would north korea do in response? and most people believe north korea would respond at least by artillery shells that can kill up to a million people. then our response to that wo

i thought it was better the way it was done in the clinton administration where meetings were conducted at the principal level and chaired by the national security adviser. the discussion was more free-flowing. if there was a consensus that emerged, that was reported to the president. talk to the individuals to see where the differences were and ultimately made the decision. but he did not act in a way that constrained the debate. host: when did you start your career in the foreign service? guest: i started my career in government service in the navy 1963 and inree -- the foreign service in 1967. host: he wrote about nixon in you wrotehouse -- about nixon in the white house, the following. guest: i think that is true. i think there was a shock partly because henry kissinger continued to dominate american policies through the nixon and into the ford administration. i think the shock was minimized in the foreign policy field. it was only five or six years later, after watergate, after the loss of vietnam, that ronald reagan came in and it was morning in america again. host: with regard to

david shifted into government during the clinton administration where he served was deputy under secretary of commerce and returned to the public and founded his own advisory firm. today he is ceo and editor of the ft group which publishes foreign policy magazine and website and visiting scholar at carnegie university. he has also written several insightful books. they have included in 2005, the national security council, in 2008 super class about the global power elite, in 2012 power inc about the complex relationship between government and business. and in 2014, national and security about the making of u.s. foreign policy in an age of fear. his new book is called the great questions of tomorrow. this is a ted book. ted books are published by simon and shuster and define themselves as quote small books about big ideas. meaning they are short mf to read in a single sitting but long enough to take a deep dive into a particular topic. those topics can range from architecture to business to space travel to love. each ted book paired with a related ted talk. david's ted talk occurred a couple

really isn't that much difference with the administration said that all the way back to the clinton administration because any other wto member they have not been following that for years. but yet the trade system still exist. is important not to get hyperbolic what is going on. >> debt is very helpful in very interesting. >> and also this meshes perfectly with my beginning. i will pull the lessons back to give you my idea of what is going on with this administration trade policy to put a context around this issue of protectionism of trade remedies. i think it is deadly serious about changing the way we do with trade and our trading partners in the evidence is manifest in their actions. but i do think all of you should take a look in the wall street journal may 31st read after the president returned from the first trip to europe. if you think it is a little early to talk about the trump dr. read this. is actually lays out the doctrine that is very specifically relevant to trade entitled america first does not mean america alone. while meeting with european leaders with the trade deficits of many e

what we had in the '9 o's was a circumstance where the clinton administration and the gingrich-led house specifically and the senate which was in republican hands at the time came together to get welfare reform and spending restraint to sort of keep spending flat while the economy grew and revenues caught up to spending. that's how you get to surplus. that's why you think you're seeing so much focus in this administration on economic growth. you cannot cut your way to a balanced budget. can you not tax your way to a balanced budget but keep that growth on spending an grow your way to a balanced budget. >> watch our interview with the director of office and management and budget friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> next, the israelian police and palestinians in eastern jerusalem. the israeli police closed a mosque but later added metal detectors to the building. they were removed after protests. the mosque is part of the temple mount, a jewish christian and islamic holy site in jerusalem. taking place at u.n. headquarters in new york city this is close to

you look at the affordable care act, there was a decision made about the experience of the clinton administration. the obama administration said we are not going to try to completely remake the system. what they decided was they would take this extremely collocated health-care system -- complicated health care system and later on another player of layer ony -- player -- another layer of complexity. they said we have to get them on board, co-opt them, and we will change things, add things, but not change the fundamental structure of american health care. you wind up with something that is extremely complex. it was trying to solve many different. problems at once people don't have insurance. people who are paying too much. they were solving all these problems simultaneously, or attempting to. when you make that kind of effort at a big policy change, that is hard to explain to people. it does not reduce itself to the bumper sticker. that left an opening for republicans to say things like they will be death panels. people are naturally free to change anyway. all of us have a bias towards preserving w

s with our white house white board he talked to the lawyer who represented members of the clinton administration. >> reporter: we are back with jeffrey, so three thing that is struck you about kushners testimony in his statement number one the time that he took to testify, right? >> two hours is not a long period of time. it means he wasn't asked a lot of questions. >> reporter: why do you think that is important here? >> well, it could be there was a negotiation to limit the time period, that is we don't know about the negotiations between his attorney and the committee. >> reporter: second thing that struck you he was not under oath. >> right he still would be subject to criminal penalty for lying to congressmen but not being under oath, means he is not subject to purgery a far more drat kenyan crime. >> reporter: as to fall, the third item we should pay attention to late tonight. >> not really knowing much about the meeting allege lid and not knowing much -- allegedly and not knowing much about it in advance which would mean possibly he is pinning the blame on others or really didn't know muc

clinton administration didthe gingrich led house welfare reform and passed spending restraint to keep flat while the economy grew and revenues caught up to spending. that's why we had a surplus. that is why you are seeing so much focus on this -- in this administration on economic growth. you can grow your way to a balanced budget. compromise does begin? where do principles and? how do both parties come together on this? mr. mulvaney: you can compromise without compromising principles. you and i can find common areas to agree on without compromising our principles. when i first got here, i've met a guy named peter welch. he's fairly left-wing, a democrat from vermont. he and i were trying to save energy in federal buildings. i remember asking him why he wanted to do this with me because he was left-wing and i am not. he said i don't like wasting anymore than you do. i am at three hugger and i think wasting energy is bad for the environment. i said i don't like wasting energy either. i especially don't like the fiscal impact of that. so we found we could work together on something that

certain familiarity to all of this, irrespective of the labels we apply whether it be the clinton administration, the bush administration or the obama administration, pressure brought, negotiations attempted, deals efforted, and the result has always been the same, a continual march toward the icbm. they demonstrated kim jong-un has and will now the real responsibility that they have more than ten nuclear warheads available to them to put atop an icbm. it just has the feel of we've tried it before and we're doing our best but no good options available. >> yeah, i think the administration is clear eyed about the past and what has not worked, but they also feel obligated to go one more time but to put considerable more pressure. we have never gone after china over this, and they are, and that's serious and see if that can squeeze north korea. i mean, i think where kim is and the road he's on, he's made up his mind having nuclear weapons is not sufficient deterrence from regime change by the united states. i've got to have a weapons system that threatens the american people. he thinks he can get th

clintons have campaigned endlessly for it. the result? in almost every poll the plan's popularity has plummeted. >> health care reform became a smoking ruin. it just crashed and burned. >> the administrationedge now it was a mistake when hillary clinton's task force drafted a health care bill in secret. then sprung it on congress. >> this had been the major issue they wanted to sell to the public and the clintons understand the defeat is both policy, but it's also going to be political. >> it was a really challenging time. some of those events were beyond president clinton's control and some of them he seemed to be right in the middle of. >> there was whitewater still ticking around in the background. and then, paula jones filed a sexual harassment lawsuit. >> a former arkansas state worker accused then governor bill clinton of sexually harassing her in 1991. the white house is denying everything. >> it's just humiliating what he did to me. >> true or not, this lawsuit is a major embarrassment to president clinton. if lawyers can't get the suit dismissed, he may be forced to answer these charges under oath. >> there was scandal, scandal, scandal, scandal. it was a really concerted attempt

it's always the clinton administration -- the clintons fault here on the obama administration's fault> we're always editing the president. you know what, he is who he is, and he got elected president of the united states being that way. we're long past the moment when the great pivot was going to come -- >> oh, jeffrey. >> ancient history by now. he is who he is, and he has views that are distinctive, sometimes false, but, you know, he's not going to change. >> i would say it's not very standard, to me, with somebody from a foreign government who says, they have information on your opponent and to take that meeting. >> okay. and charles grassley is saying -- >> who thinks that it is? >> the president. >> right. >> i mean, any normal human being would understand that that's not how you operate, specifically in the world of politics, which we all know is extremely dirty, right? politics is about as dirty as it gets. this goes one step too far as far as getting -- >> his own nominee for the fbi director said this is not what you should be doing. he said, call the fbi if you do this. so p

what we had in the 1990's was a circumstance where the clinton administration and the gingrich-led housespecifically and also the senate, which was in republican hands at the time, came together to get some welfare reform and spending restraint to sort of keep spending flat, while the economy grew andriev knews caught up to spending. that's how you get to surplus and that's why you think you're seeing so much focus in this administration on getting economic growth. you cannot cut your way to a balanced budget. you cannot tax your way to balanced budget. but you can keep that growth on spending and grow your way to balanced budget. >> watch our interview with mick mulvaney, director of the office of management and budget, tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span, c-span radio, and cspan.org. >> earlier this morning, around 1:30 a.m. eastern time, senate republicans failed in their effort to repeal and replace the current health care law. three republicans opposed the measure. susan collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska, and john mccain of arizona. two independents also joined the 46 democra