from the district of columbia reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. mitchell: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mitchell: the bill would improve safety and transparency for our nation and railroads. our constituents expect no less, by the way. it requires notification of proper congressional committees and members of congress of the initiation of certain safety assessments of railroads and rail transit agencies. further upon completion of those safety assessments, the bill requires the federal railroad transit administration findings and recommendations be submitted to the proper committees and all affected members of congress. rail safety is critical to our nation. when the f.r.a. begins an in-depth safety assessment of a railroad, it means the agency's identified a significant serious safety problem. our constituents expect us to be advised of that. in fact keep them informed. it is important the transportation and infrast

i'll now turn the microphone over to the vice president of columbia. good morning. to each and everyone of you could allow me -- allow me to extend a warm greeting and thank you for your presence today. thank theso like to -- the president of welcome isand also excellently the president of welcome the presidents -- the presence of the u.s. vice president, mr. mike pence. underlineso like to the vice president of brazil. i wish to express the great joining theing here -- as aup as word representative of his people that. i would like to greet him with a show of hands. i would also like to thank the presence here of the vice tableer here at the head ambassador andan also to express my pleasure and gratitude for having with us two great friends of the inter-american system. talking about the secretary-general of the organization of american states, thank you for joining us. as well as the presence of our dear friend, the president of the inter-american bank. thank you for your presence. i would also like to thank several of the ministers of foreign affairs of all of the

many arrived here in neighboring columbia. news traveled where thousands of venezuelans cross daily and to columbia to secure medicine, clean water and food. maduro's government is blocking american aid shipments they are claiming his country is not a nation of beggars. the leader said he is org -- organizing aid caravans into venezuela february 23rd. that gives the military more than a week to decide whether to try to stop them. colombian president ivan duque is insuring those caravans arrive, bret. >> bret: thanks. let's talk about the situation tonight with colombian president ivan duque, marques, mr. president thank you for your time. >> it is a great president at that pleasure to be here. >> bret: how would you describe the meaning and what was the focus? >> ivan: i think it was a great meeting because first of all in columbia's strong support from the u.s. administration and out the fight against terrorism. the fight against drugs, but at the same time, we have been developing a very broad commercial and trade agenda, in

border with razil and considering to o the same in columbia.is as juan guaido is leading convoy of opposition mps. serbian clans believed to have been hit by an aarstrike as forceses move in on the last enclave. it is s time for another look at the day's b business news. -- brian quinn. the reported blocking of coal shipments at chinese ports. >> both sisis doing ththeir best to downplay the issue. halted importstt of australalian coal.l. it china sayays any e elays a e to strenhehen enviroronmental ad safety inspections. with shipments from other exporters reportedly unaffected, observers speculated the move coululde related d to ongoing tensions betweenenhina and the news may have sent the australiaa dollar plunging, but the australian government insists there are no -- there is no malicious intent. >> we are wooking as harddasswe poliiy positions china i is apppying to makk sure we can give as much confidence and% certainty to australiaian coal companies as possible. we are confident the memeasures being put in plalace are not discriminatory

between columbia and venezuela. you're seeing a row of venezuelan riot police that are effectively walking the border. my foot is on the line considered the border in the last few hours. it is closed at the moment, but the scene is extraordinarily tense. there are three venezuelan soldiers here given themselves up to columbian migration officials, accepting amnesty held out. he said if you want to join our side, we will forgive previous crimes for the maduro government. but the point about today, this is the deadline set to get from columbia tons of it from the united states to venezuela from here. the key point, that the aid continues to edge closer to where we're standing. riot police are constantly being negotiated with by protesters, sometimes simply shouted at. one man saying i haven't seen my daughter two years, i am a refugee, she's inside. another man saying someone died because i didn't have the medicine. real tragedy on the border. further down the bridge, a group of what seems to be pro-government protest

i'm sure the columbia government does not want open confrontation between venezuelan forces and columbia forces. they say here you have the bridge. but even during those clashes back there, when we were speaking to you earlier on, dana, we saw another police officer from the venezuelan side hand himself over to the columbia forces. he was met with furry from those venezuelan government protesters. but let me set the scene a little more widely for you. this was supposed to be a day of unity, getting humanitarian aide into a country from which 3.1 million people have fled because of human tar yar issues. and sad what happened, if you put aide workers moving towards the police to keep subsidized food packages coming to their family inside venezuela, we have the clashes returning here. perhaps a little less violent than an hour ago, but many injured and a scene really which will make possibly nicolas maduro feel comfortable that the lines have held, but certainly be a reason for him to be fearful there may be more of an international response. remember, consistent threats interest the white

with discussions on black migration by columbia universities cobb. the university of delaware's tiffany. u radio. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. on lectures and history, brooklyn college professor casey johnson teaches a class on presidents lyndon johnson and richard nixon's supreme court nominations. he described johnson's plan to fill the court with liberal justices. here is a preview. >> this is highly inappropriate behavior. they should not be having private conversations with lbj. he should not be cooperating with -- he refuses himself. and you have to assume that these kinds of conversations occurred with truman and with fdr and with eisenhower. it is just that we do not have recordings of these conversations. to some extent, we have moved toward a more ethical supreme court. it is highly unlikely that in 2015, ilia kagan -- elena kagan which i with present obama. she would realize that that would be improper. nor johnson sees anything wrong with this kind of conduct in the 1960's. you have to assume -- let's say there was a

inter columbia proper. it appears that shots here. there was distressing images you are about to see, i warn you there. but it appears to be from that. so these images were what from that. are you hearing me? >> yes. i was letting you keep going. because that is quite a harrowing scene there. if you can just tell us the man with the legs, those were from rubber bullets fired from venezuelan police? >> reporter: i think that could be possibly. it didn't seem to penetrate his skin too far. maybe some kind of bird shot or shotgun pellet or some description. so i'm unclear how he got those injuries of the but we've heard a number of cracks further inside here. now, you can seal more tear gas. the problem is this will continue to escalate as the youth get more angry anthro more stones. eventually the venezuelan police will run out of tear gas, but you can see this scene turning from what people had hoped would be the free passage of aide. they are throwing rocks back. what was going to be the free passage of aide into's venezuela turned in

columbia ist of talking about this issue. how can we get that assistance into venezuela to help these desperate people? have you thought about possibly using the c as well? mr. olive: thank you. we are indeed looking for ways of distributing assistance safely and effectively within the country. we are in daily communication with interim president guaido and his team on finding those avenues to do so. we are committed to pre-positioning goods and supplies in other parts if that is necessary. we also are looking at scenarios of flying things in. today the maduro regime is not allowing access. we hope that through the diplomatic efforts we are making and the internal efforts by the interim president and his team will change that scenario shortly. will the people of venezuela see what their they willis doing -- rise of even more so and hopefully return this country to a democracy. it could be such a great country with such great natural resources. with that, i yield back. rep. engel: thank you. mr. sherman. sherman: wherever russ

this as the vice president just landed in columbia.e president will meet with the opposition leader and the interim president juan guaido along with dozens of other countries, leaders from them focused on addressing the issues and leadership in venezuela. this weekend guaido organized caravans to bring food, medicine and other aid into venezuela from columbia and brazil. maduro's government is blocking that aid. the associated press reports fighting at the border killed two people and injured 300. a senior official within guaido's interim government has urged the international community to use military force. the u.s. they say is not going down the road to using military force. secretary of state mike pompeo said the united states is looking into more sanctions against the had mad regime. >> sandra: rich edson at the white house for us this morning. thank you. >> we will subpoena the report. we'll bring bob mueller in to testify before congress. we'll take to court if necessary. and in the end i think the department understands they ar

in bogota columbia thank you so much.et ministers have said brexit should be delayed if mps don't approve the prime minster‘s deal in the coming days. in a newspaper article , the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, thejustice secretary, david gauke, and the business secretary, greg clark , say time is running out and that more leaving the european union, without a deal, would be ‘disastrous'. downing street said theresa may is working hard to get a deal, adding, "that is where the cabinet‘s energy should be focused." 0ur political correspondent, susana mendonca has more. no comment from the business secretary as he left his home earlier but greg clark's views on a no—deal brexit are now loud and clear. along with amber rudd and david gauke, he is one of three cabinet members to come out publicly against the government line. in an interview with the daily mail, they warned it would be better to seek to extend article 50 and delay our date of departure rather than crash out of the european union on march 29th. their c

the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from the district of columbia, ms. norton, for ive minutes. ms. norton: madam speaker, tomorrow residents who are fortunate to live in our nation's capital will come to the capital -- capitol as part of their lobby day to ask the congress to pass the d.c. statehood bill. most americans are unaware that the americans who live in their nation's capital have the ewest rights of any americans. and that is at the same time that those 700 thousand residents who live in the nation's capital pay the highest taxes per capita. higher than the taxes of any state. and so as you might imagine the residents of the district of columbia are seeking to become union.t state of the i am so pleased that already almost 90% of democrats are on our d.c. statehood bill. 'm grateful for senator coffer who will soon introduce this same bill on the senate side. there are many reasons that no americans, no americans should fail to have equal rights if they pay equal taxes. in every war vice the nation has fought, even beyond being first per capit

societal for this contribution to the district of columbia. [applause] thank you, -- >> congresswoman. as chairman of the national endowment for the humanities, john parrish understands the impact that museums can have on a community, and on the collect the memory of our country. we are honored to have the support of the neh for this project. we are grateful to have him here as we begin our journey to create this new museum, which honors the shared stories of our past. [applause] >> shalom. i am honored to be here today on behalf of the national endowment humanities, mi dedicated colleagues on this historic occasion. a chairman, i pledge to bring back cultural infrastructure projects. these public, private partnerships not only deserve the nation's history, they are anchor investments in our community's future. i am happy that the jewish historical society of greater washington, now known as the capital jewish museum, received a quarter of a million dollar grant and our inaugural challenge match cycle. [applause] our agency has awarded seven g

attorney for the district of columbia, a federal official not chosen by the district of columbia, but by the president of the united states, district ofntially, attorney for the district of columbia. we have no say in this. and that u.s. attorney has a jurisdiction that has nothing to do with what u.s. attorneys do in other states. it's local law, 90% of what the u.s. attorney has as jurisdiction is local law like he law the d.a. would enforce. 10%, sometimes 15% of his work is federal. we want to send him back to get -- to all of his federal work, give him time to do all of that. so that we'd have a local prosecutor. that is one of the bills that this congress could pass, house and senate, and hardly think about it, because it's certainly uncontroversial. that the city have its own law enforcement officer to enforce its criminal laws. and this is a national guard rule act. that is the equivalent of what i'm speaking of when i say that the congress should have no interest, only the district. the national guard cannot be called out in the event, for example, of a hurricane or a huge sn

a columbia undergraduate groused about columbia's beleaguered core curriculum, "who is this mozart, these superior white men, the core she said" upholds the premises of white supremacy and racism. "no professor has ever defended our intellectual pat a rumoan against such shameful outbreaks of ecstatic know-nothingism, without adding some puling qualification about respecting diversity. >> that was heather mac donald author of "the diversity delusion" on book tv. you can watch the rest of the program by searching our website and searching heather mac donald book on the top of the page. you can also watch heather mac donald sunday march 3rd, noon eastern discussing her books and taking your calls. >> a look now at books that are being published this week. former deputy director of the fbi andrew mccabe recounts his career and his thoughts on the trump administration in "the threat." in alien examiners tim carney offers thoughts on why some communities in america succeed and some don't. a professor describes his journey to becoming a award-winning mathematician in "the shape of a life." jack

the president speaking at the white house with the president of columbia.if maduro refuses to leave, the president says he always has a plan b. whether that includes sending troops to columbia, the president says he never talks about that and you'll see. to testifying before the house foreign fair committee, elliot abrams. he says when the administration says all options are on the table, it doesn't mean they're going down the military road. that's not one the administration is pursuing right now. >> and democrats in that hearing criticized elliot abrams for his history in central america? >> he did for their work in -- for the reagan administration, his work during the reagan administration and that intervention in el salvador's civil war. a number member of the committee questioned his credibility. >> yes or no, do you think that massacre was a fabulous achievement? that happened under our watch. >> that is a ridiculous question. >> yes or no. >> no. i'm not going to respond to that kind of person attack. >> abrams says he was promoting democracy in that

it eventually got to the leadership in columbia. then to the -- the president send in african american one publisher of the local newspaper, john mccrea. to interview him. great learned the story in a memorandum and it landed on the desk of walter white. that took about two months. then about that time, mr. young's mother came to columbia to pick up her brother and bring him back to the bronx and shortly after that, she took him into new york to meet with the staff. that was april of 1946. >> this is probably why, everyone who jumped on board, at that time, it was the journal, five since i believe. >> they extensively covered your ankles story. >> he was on the front page a few times. >> that was the early 50s, one no. >> my friend, sherry here, told me about isaac's story several years ago. i remember seeing, i'm very educated and i never heard this story. just maybe last week or two weeks ago, i heard about some young african-american men in florida whose case had been revisited. my question is about racial as it relates to educat

you will become a new tourist attraction in the district of columbia. and i love the way you are doing it. you are doing it by preserving the city's first synagogue. we cannot afford to lose the city's first synagogue. you can use it in all those multiple ways, but it is very important to the history of this city that its first synagogue be preserved. and i love that you are rendering it a national gathering place, an educational space. at the same time, the structure will help us to understand how the jewish community, along with others, essentially built this city. a priceless contribution to the nation's capital. i am enormously grateful to the capital jewish museum for the way you have preserved the synagogue. i just cannot get over it. you simply picked it up and just kept moving it. [laughter] i know of no other example of this in our city. i recall your program in 2003, yet another move, but somehow i feel this is where you are going to belong. that this is the final move and we are very glad for what it means for the nation's capital, and for al

he was named dave fellow at columbia university and she lives in brooklyn. his new book recounts the lives of six individuals who survived slavery and achieved unprecedented financial success. it was between 1830 to 1927 when the last generation of black people born into slavery was reaching maturity of the small group of trailblazers emerged that included land owners, scientific innovators and very often they use their largess to provide new opportunities for their fellow african-americans. with this volume, there are layers for understanding the blood test and its implications for the american president. so, we'll be reading from the book and then sam will join in the conversation and you will have the chance to ask questions after that. please join me in welcoming to the stage. [applause] >> hello, everybody. can everybody hear me? thanks everybody for coming out tonight. and thank you for the introduction. for the excerpt i'm going to read from the book is about robert reed church was born into slavery in the mississippi delta in the high part of the cot

today it was columbia sports wear it's focused on outer wear columbia, sorrell, mountain hardware it reported a blowout quarter. you know how long we've loved this company but this was something i didn't believe going into the session the stock was already up 10% today it rocketed another $14 to 15.6%. if you're thinking that might have been some quarter you're right they delivered a monster 40 cent earnings beat off $1.28. up 70% management raised their full years sales forecast pretty substantially which is what investors want to see. can the stock keep growing let's take a look with the president and ceo. we'll learn more about this incredible quarter mr. boyle, welcome back to "mad money. >> hey, jim. thank you very much for asking me to join you today >> well, tim, i've got to tell you. we've been around talks to each other for a long time. there's no way you could have realized how great this quarter would be, right? i don't know how you had enough inventory. what a quarter >> well, you know, we spent a lot of time pinching ourselves for the last 90 days this has been terrific

for perspective and analysis, we turn to christopher batini, an adjunct professor at columbia university'sschool of international and public affairs and americans," a newsletter focused on latin america and the caribbean. we've had lots of conversations on this program about the kind of immediate crisis that ven venezuala is going through, the lack of smedicine and food on thlf, the things that the people are suffering through. in the bigger picture, how do we get here? >> a large part of it is actual politics, what happr the last 20 yeerks and the 20 years that this government has been in power. first under hugo chavez and nik last maduro. we slowly closed off all the avenues for political rticipation, they packed the supreme court, the electoral council, they have actually banned opposition parties from running. and so what effectively happened was there was no neway for the opposition to in an incrediblysirisis driven ation in which the popularity of the government has fallen there is no way for the opposition to gain any traction. so one moment the national asmbly, the last dem-- democ

she lives in columbia.s she ran for cover joking during the deadly clashes as four tear gas can nis terkca landed in her home. >> are you concerned about what is going to happen next? this is just starting in your view. >> more than 50 countries recognized guiado as the interim president. but maduro still has strong support within dership. >>> finally this half hour a lesson in civil rights taught by a class full of 5th graders. >> at the resort in the poconos of pennsylvania, reverand caldwell and his wife grace are arriving for their second honeymoon. they were greeted warmly. a sharp contrast to their first visit 60 years earlier. in 1957 they were married in north carolina and drove 8 hours only to be turned back for being black. >> how did they put it? >> first they pretended i didn't have a reservation where i actually brought a copy. and then they said if we said yes our guests would be very unhappy. >> they had to stay at a black owned hunting lodge instead. >> men with big guns. >> not what you wer

. >> a sense situation turned increasingly violent on venezuela's borders with columbia and brazil as they clashed with govement forces loyal to president nicholas mo. tammy leitner has late details. >> some of theost violent clashes yet as angry venezuelans protested maduro's decisions to block aid from neighboring brazil. bridges into the region still blocked. telemundo i in the middle of the battle. >> i'm here in columbia on the border with venezuela where four trucks c the other side and two were burned down and the situation here gets worse by the minute. >> since just yesterday, reports of severalte proers dead, killed by maduro's security forces. tensioned reached a boiling point. somef those soldiers are switching sides. now pledging he allegiance to interim president who is in columbia spearheading efforts to get aid across, .much from the united stat >> this is the third trip they made with life-saving medical supplies. arrying-17 is enough inside to help 40,000 people for three months. >> there is enougri on this flight alone to feed 2,000 people for a month. none of it ha

thankfully, the concerns and experienced in the district of columbia did take steps in 2008 to rein in and cap the rate here in d.c. at 28% interest. justther part of that, reflecting on what you share in your experiences and the stress that it caused, i just want to highlight that that type of stress, again, is not unique and is quite familiar. the same stress was happening to our active-duty military. 2006, time, prior to payday lenders set up around military bases and were targeting our active-duty soldiers, because they had this steady paycheck coming in. the u.s. department of defense found that these payday and car title loans were so dangerous that they were undermining our military readiness. and as a result in 2006, congress enacted, with bipartisan support, a 36% rate cap for these loans -- host: for the military. guest: for active-duty military, yes. we are thankful that that protection exists for active duty military, and similar to what other states have in place, so we see that is a pretty common sense, most effective way to stop these harmful practices. host: speaking of

many at taking treacherous roads into columbia. on the one hand there will be a welcoming on the human level but can those countries cope with the influx? we've seen this in other parts of the world with a massive wave of people, this or it in germany with refugees from syria, refugees from africa tried to get into italy to get access into the eu. it is a question of needing to resolve this on a diplomatic level. we have seen the new president of brazil trying to intervene, the us. it needs a viable resolution. the front page of the daily telegraph and theresa may, the british prime minister, flying to egypt for this arab league summit. 100 tory mps meanwhile are ready to force a brexit delay. is that even possible at this stage? it is possible at this stage? it is possible to us to extend article 50 up possible to us to extend article 50 up to the last minute. the eu is most likely to grant that extension but it is not going to be permanent and it will most likely be an till july to the real question is what do they think is going

keeping it in columbia. now opposition leader juan guaido, is pushing back.bryan llenas is following the developing story from atlanta. reporter: hello eric. there are new classes right now between the venezuela position and venezuela national guardsmen on the border with brazil. yesterday on the international bridge between venezuela and brazil, this was the scene. there were gunshots reported from armed gangs loyal to president nicolas maduro. it killed at least two people and wounded 22 others. some 300 venezuelans were injured in similar violent clashes throughout venezuela along the border with columbia and brazil. as the venezuela national guardsmen ordered by nicolas maduro, blocked trucks carrying u.s. humanitarian aid coming in. is not known how much made its way into venezuela. at one point on the bridge between colombia and venezuela, two minutes hearing aid trucks caught fire. desperate starving venezuelans tried to salvage as much supplies as they could. today secretary of state mike pompeo said

telemundo is in the middle of the battle. >> i'm here in columbia on the border with venezuela where four trucks crossed to the other side and two were burned down and the situation here gets worse by the minute. >> since just yesterday, reports of several protesters forces. tensions have reached a boiling point. some of those soldiers are switching sides. now pledging allegiance to the interim president who is in columbia spearheading efforts to get aid across, much from the united states. >> this is the third trip they made with life-saving medical supplies. this c-17 is carrying enough medicine to help 40,000 people for three months. >> there is enough rice on this flight alone to feed 2,000 people for a month. none of it has made its way into the country where they are starving. >> sometimes we don't have food, she said. sometimes it's difficult for me to eat. during a rally in caracas, maduro continues to insist there is no humanitarian ngrisis i directly to donald trump. nbc news. >> special counsel robert mueller filed a sentencing memo on president trump's former cagn his pro

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juan guaido is set to participate in a meeting with latin a american countrieies in columbia. he is cacalling on international backers to help free venezuela. must resign, says juan guaido. the men are in a standoff over delivery of humanitarian aid from neighboring brazil and colombia. attempts or rebuffed and around 300 people were injured in clashes at border crossing points. bogota too arrived in discuss venenezuela future. has been recognized by more than 50 countries. he is calling on the international community to consider a all measures to frere venezuela. >> venezuela wakes up emerged in a crisis. venezuela are here today. we came to help our people. onple who resist and d insist democracy and freedom. >> renewed clashes have broken out between his supporters and national guardsmen blocking the entry point. >> we want humanitarian aid to enter into venezuela. >> the nightmare is over. we do not want nicolas maduro. he has to go out. we are counting his days. that day has to be today. >> he has defied pressure to hold elections, choosing to his desk choosing to dismiss

military plane loaded with aid has landed on the border with columbia.uela's president maduro has been blocking foreign aid following weeks of violent protestrupted around the country. cnn's nick valencia aboard that flight that just touched down. how much aid are we talking about? how will it be distributed? >> we were on that c-17 as it made its way to columbia which sits on the border. this aid propositioned to help those fleeing the crisis. crisis that led up to 4 million fleeing that country. what's open the plane are basic goods. things le s like knew trinutrit biscuits, toothpaste, toothbrushes. that aren't available to venezuelans right now because of the regime. there's a lot of enthusiasm now. you hear that in the press conference going on behind me. they call this a crucial mission. comes at a very urgent time while cheildren are starving. streaming a crossing the board near columbia to try to get some refuge here. the question is how this aid will get into second vevenezuel. on february 8, that was the first stage of humanitarian supplies. th

regulalar andnd the president of columbia. okay and the president of fired white -- ideal goal they are waiting they are here also with waiting -- to no no she let go camping at the foot. where are they keyed the humanitarian aid that is going to lead intnto a lolot of the oe patient? you were going to try a class them -- after they do the other side of the border told the right now -- we are waiaiting the visit of te president. glade where t they're keeping or flooringng did humananitarian ad before taking them tomorrow -- to the other side of the border there then again and if you keep that -- no you just mentioned some of the people at this concert have been calling for freedom for venezuela but of course this event hasn't been loyal rosie it's been somewhat polarizing hasn't it and venezuela. excuse me i couldn't i couldn't hear very well yes i was just saying that of course is the band hasn't been already see it's been very divisive and venezuela hasn't it. i know we don't have any confirmation about our we cannot say tha

he cuts off all ties between columbia and venezuela. >> could be another violent day.organ we'll see you again. >>> a busy week in politics. this week will be busier as president trump travels to vietnam for his second summit with dictator kim jong-un. on saturday the special counsel's office released its sentencing memo for paul manafort grave risk of breaking the law if he's released. chuck todd is moderator of "meet the press." >> michael cohen, the president's long time fixer will be testifying in a public hearing before the house over sight committee and promised through his attorneys to tell all. he said before in december he'll not be the villain in donald trump's story, what do you expect to hear on the hill on wednesday? >> look i expect that we are not going to hear some of the questions we would like to have answers to because some of those questions, michael cohen, won't be able to answer because the special countdown's lawyer will prevent that. i think where michael cohen becomes most damaging to the president is the picture he can paint with donald trump

also, senator rubio went to columbia congressman diaz over the weekend.re at the border with venezuela and one of these bridges where venezuelans have been carrying all they can on their back and leaving the country. three million people have left venezuela in the last couple years. rubio and diaz were there with some humanitarian aid shipments, which they say are having difficulty getting into venezuela because venezuelan maduro regime and military are so far not letting it in. charles? >> phil, thank you very much. so with maduro digging in, are we at the tipping point? former state department official, christian whiteman joins us now. christian, you know, we've said this is an emergency. we've seen images. phil just talked about the background here. venezuelans, losing weight, you know, suffering minorly. we have -- we recognized juan guaido. so what happens from here if maduro refuses to budge? >> well, what we can do is basically create a number of crises to help the venezuelan people create crisis after crisis after crisis, which every one of which

tomorrow vice president pence will meet with guaido in columbia. joining me now is guaido's envoy to the united states. let me ask you, is the bulk of the aid getting through the columbian border, and why is it not getting through the brazilian border since both the columbian government and brazilian government back mr. guaido and are harsh critics of the current president -- of nicolas maduro? >> well, thank you fareed, for this opportunity. let me tell you the following. i have seen human right abuses since this regime took power particularly since 2014. but yesterday was a tragedy, a crime against humanity. what we saw yesterday was a regime killing innocent people trying to bring food and medicine to our country. so therefore, maduro is not only creating the human crisis in venezuela but also blocking the susolution of the humanitarian crisis of venezuela, and that has to be rejected by the entire community. >> again, why is it not getting through from brazil but from columbia? >> as you know yesterday three trucks reached our bridge in venezue

speakers at the luncheon include columbia university, tiffany a radio host. each year, there is a black history theme. this year is black migrations. sinceear marks 400 years slaves arrived in the virginia colony in 1619. we will hear about the northern and western movement of 20th century african-americans. founded in 1915. he was the second african-american to own a phd at harvard university. he was founder and editor of the knee growth history bulletin and author of more than 30 books, including the miss education of the knee growth, published in 1933 and still in print today. startingdited with black history month. it started as knee growth history week in 1926. he chose february to honor frederick douglass and abraham lincoln. both were born in february. >> you are watching live history tv on c-span three. this program should be getting underway in just a few minutes. while we wait, here are some programs coming up on c-span. >> the migration of african-americans in the united states, starting at 12:15 p.m. eastern. the annual black history luncheon with

my favorite alternative site was meridian hill in columbia heights. i don't know why they decided not to do it there but it could have been that there is already a statue of james buchanan so it seemed a little inappropriate. the battle gets down to these elaborately bearded men. uncle joe cannon the former speaker of the house who had seen abraham lincoln in illinois and john hay, that is young handsome john hay now the secretary of state and he wants south potomac park at the end of what will be a reflecting pool. then a swamp, and uncle joe says that he will be if he will ever let a memorial to lincoln be elected in that swamp. he said i would rather put it in arlington as a symbol of reconciliation and there was a period when they discussed arlington and then someone said halfway down the road between gettysburg and washington. again very very big discussions about where it was decided. finally testifies before congress and he was not approached too close to the immortals. is monument should stand alone, remote from the common habitations of man,

columbia, after the new government, doesn't seem to be too keen. there is some uncertainty about columbia's direction and thailand and indonesia to go through elections. we have to wait after election outcomes are known. the philippines may be concerned about its economic relationship, economic and political relationship with china under the current president. taiwan has been expressing very strongly to join tpp and also tpp 11 but tpp 11 members may be concerned about possible conflict with china. remember, in the case of wto entry china insisted that china should end the w to and then taiwan. china and eu may be good candidates but is it really a good idea to invite them in the absence of the united states? so, there are many, many issues to think about. prospects for the regional comprehensive economic partnership, it's among 16 countries. 10 are member states japan, china, career, india, australia and new zealand. it's not as ambitious as tpp or tpp 11 but it's a very important mega fda, because it doesn't include china and india. china, india

last week over here at the white house, president trump hosted columbia's president. both were critical of maduro for stopping aid at the border. >> i think he's making a terrible mistake by not allowing that to happen. it's showing bad things. we're trying to get food to feel that are starving. people are starving in venezuela. shows what can happen with the wrong government. >> meantime a russian deputy foreign minister met with his venezuelan counter part in moscow. neil, russia continues to stand behind maduro and his allies. neil? >> neil: thank you very much. break burbman. venezuela's opposition preparing for a show down against maduro's armed forces preventing anyone in the country from getting their hands on that aid. there's a lot of it. all bridges and roads that lead into the country have been blocked by military men and women. sometimes with trucks or just box cars. anything they can to prevent anyone from getting their hands on it. if they force the issue, what happened? claudia is here with us what do you think happens? >> el with, neil, it's going to b

just across the bordering bridge in neighboring columbia. venezuelan president has refused to let any american aid into his country. rubio warned the soldiers in venezuela of blocking the aid would be a crime against humanity. >> what is happening in venezuela is a man made crisis of epic proportions. not caused by a natural disaster be aman madewiing to starve and own people before it gives up power. we're inspired by venezuela. they remind us how valuable liberty and freedom is. >> many venezuelans have left the country. others are streaming into the columbia to buy supplies every day. they have critical shortages of the food and medicine caused in part by economic crisis, including hyperinflation over 1 million percent. >>> a special honor for a special couple. a new bill makes 1 dollar points for honoring george hush and his wi wife barbara. the former president and first lady both passed away last year. the bill is sponsored by senators from texas and maine. the two state where is the now and lled home. we're not only looking at a gorge

we welcome tim boyle, the columbia sportswear president and ceo. is did you see a trail off in your numbers for december? tim: we are global. only about 60% of our sales are in the u.s. in our outerwear business, whether trumps almost any economic indicators. we had a decent december and talked about it on our call recently. david: you did not see a weakening in december. these numberspate from what you have seen in terms of mall traffic, store traffic, things like that? tim: i'm here in portland. i've not seen the numbers yet. it is not surprising if you take one million people out of the workforce with the shutdown and tell them they will not work for a year, that is going to impact retail sales. david: give us your sense with regards the numbers -- i can tell you the control number was down 1.7% for the month. the estimate was up .4%. as apprising number to the downside. does that conform with what you see in the business overall? tim: we do not guide into recorder. we cannot talk about what the results for our company are. for our business, whe

trump has been meeting with columbia's president who says this obstruction is a crim against humanitye president has given the military another 10 days to let supplies through. naomi grimley has beenollowing the story. >> with candles and murmured prayers, venezuelan students stage a 12our vigil to remember their friends who died in antigovernmenprotests over the last nine years. -- five years. the wife of an imprisoned opposition politician sa she is proud of them because they have not given up hope. over the border in columbia, hundreds of venezuelans chant e words "humanitarian aid to." -- eight." "-- humanitarian ai usaid has been piling up at the border, but the bridge crossing has been barricaded by the venezuelan military under the orders of president nicolas maduro. >> it's terrible, because the icd is needed urgently for the hospital, for cl because above all the children and the elderly need it. >> at the border blockade, veneelan soldiers look disciplid and defiant. a government official arrives to give them moral report and tell the media that no convoys will be passing to

jelani cobb professor of journalism at columbia university. dr. cobb will introduce our distinguished panel. [applause] >> in the world of broadcasting, when stuff goes wrong on television, nothing goes wrong, we have a director there to tell us to stretch. so, i'm going to talk about some stuff, ok? oh, all right. dr. jelani cobb. [applause] >> [indiscernible] >> ok. good afternoon. hold on. how are you all doing? let's do that again. good afternoon. >> good afternoon! dr. cobb: all right. it is good to see you all. i have the honor of moderating the discussion we are going to have here for a little bit. let me start by giving a general greeting to everyone here who has taught me because i see a lot of my mentors and people i have known and people who are responsible. thank you. i appreciate that. people who are responsible for me being able to participate in this discussion. and i will just tell you something that should get to the heart of the matter of why you are here and the mission asalh has fulfilled for so many years. a reporter,ung man,

people are wondering is if there might be some sort of us military deployment, a limited one to columbianitarian aid convoy that is being blocked. the issue of foreign intervention has really become intertwined with humanitarian aid, trucks full of food and medicine from both the us and columbia have arrived on the border between colombia and venezuela, that happened last week but they have gone no further, the military is blocking the route and, we know the opposition leaders as they were going get that aid in bringing across the border next week, we'll have to see if that happens, we also know that america has plans to try and geta know that america has plans to try and get a via this brazilian province and into venezuela from the south, we'll have to see if that works. meanwhile, venezuelans allied to the opposition are in washington for meetings about how to get aid into the country. this is one of them. translation: the aid is on time but not forever, we need to alleviate suffering immediately while rebuilding a productive economy that is been devastated by corruption, bad managemen

it has put a massive strain on the city and across columbia really, over one million venezuelans haveis has begun and over three million in total have left, 40,000 a day coming just to buy toilet roll, eggs, basic foods they can't get across the border. where are all these people going to stay? many of them stay in rooms they rent with another 20 or 30 people and they pay a few dollars in the evening to share a room. many people will sleep in the street. it really seems of desperation. people are selling hair in order to buy bus tickets, to eat, selling their bodies in some cases, doing whatever they can in order to survive. president maduro has told the bbc he thinks the us would like to invade venezuela. do any of the people you have talked to see the americans as being an unwelcome influence on the situation? a few individuals have expressed concern this could be a trojan horse for the us to enter venezuela as one of maduro's compatriots had said. but most really don't care at this stage if there are political strings attached. theyjust want to see the aid and for themselves to eat

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amount to bolivar's just over one peso in columbia.the severe economic crisis continues to grip venezuela, hyperinflation pushed up the prices of everyday items. a kilo of rice cost 220,000 boulevards, leavingg many ennis violent -- meaning many that -- meaning many venezuelans are going hungry. >> you can get flour, sugar, rice, oil. you cannot even buy a bag of rice. >> nicolas maduro's bids to bolster the economy has failed to slow down the economic freefall. for some, the worthless currency has other uses. across the border in columbia, this artist is transforming his boulevards into bagsgs and purs. >> google admitted i it forgot o tell users of the homeme alarm system that the technology contained a mimicrophone. the boy's assistant would be available on the nest guard which controls security sensors. that came as a surprise to some users add -- as it hadn't previously been mentioned the equipment had a built in microphone. google said it was never intended to be - [male narrator] coming up on reel south. - can i have a kiss? - [

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