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nationalism. economic national i. nationalism. that could lead to further decline.ry and i e began it ask what is patriotism decade much the 21st century. as i sphrerd the question i great d i don't have any wisdom about it so my idea was let's start a conversation about and what it sm is isn't and during that conversation remind ourselves values that have been the cohesion that held the all of together through these years. people tend to forget the values that sustained us. that is the reason i wrote the book. i have vation was that my own facebook page and another where ied news and guts try to bring context and voice to e and steady some questions. frankly, the social media site successful i said to myself maybe there are other people who are thinking about i'm thinking about which is what is patriotism. o, i decided to start writing the book and it is out. democrats call 202-748-8000. republicans call 202-748-8001 and independents call questions and ask post on the twitter feed. was theto the back what perception of patriotism and what did you find from writing

version of authoritarianism would lead to extreme nationalism, economic nationalism, racial nationalism which could lead further to decline into tribalism so i fear about the country and i began to ask myself the question, what is patriotism in the second decade of the 21st century? as i explore that question i realized i didn't have any great vision about it so my idea was let's go to conversations about what patriotism is and isn't and during that conversation, remind ourselves about the values that have been the cohesion that has held the country together through all these years. the theory before i wrote the book was that people to present the values that have sustained us over our history. though that's the reason i wrote the book. one motivation was that on social media, now i have my own facebook page and in which i tried to bring some context and perspectiveand hopefully a steady, reasonable voice to some of these questions and frankly, the social media site was so successful that i said to myself , maybe there areother people who are thinkingabout what i'm thinking about , what is patriotism? i decided to start writing the book and

i think the common ground should be well once again a legacy denuclearization stop the missile program focus on efforts to improve livelihood and improve the nation's economic status improve the nation's diplomatic status in the international community and so reach out to that very nation negotiate and consulting members in this very region that i think has always been the common ground all right thanks so much fear analysis on that one. now the economy in the kurdish region of iraq has taken a hit after the referendum on secession the central government in baghdad closed its international airspace tourists are staying away and there's been fighting between iraqi and kurdish forces stephanie decker reports from the hole while the cease fire is now in place the uncertainty continues to affect the region. the fresh air and serenity of these mountains usually attract kinds of visitors not just kurds but tourists from baghdad and elsewhere in iraq the bustling mountain resorts which would still be busy at this time of year are empty this ancient cave turned cafe used to be packed with customers and not anymore. the referendum iraqi forces and shia militias attack the peshmerga forces from

economic challenge. i think the biggest economic challenge is that as a nation, we are saving less as a fraction of our nationalthan any other country in the g20. we are not saving enough to finance our pensions. we are not saving enough to finance care for the elderly. we don't seem to know how to finance the national health service. we still have a large budget deficit. and we have a large external current account deficit. the biggest risk to the u.k. on the political side is of muddled thinking. francine: on brexit? or on everything? lord king: on all these issues. both in terms of thinking now that there is an easy way to improve people's living standards, when there is not, and in terms of thinking that now, well, we can all have a softer, cuddlier brexit. and i think this just completely fails to cope with the realities of it. i think there are two positions you could take on brexit, both of which are logically coherent, but neither of which seems to me to represent what most politicians are now saying. one is to say that we really do want to stay in the single market and the customs union, in which case

i like to jux that capos the terms it versus -- but that is not critical to national security. attacks on electricity infrastructure, attacks on communications infrastructure, that really is a national and economic security threat. and to i think, i think if we're talking about critical infrastructure, we really have to think about it in terms of operational technology, to think about the impact that can have on the life, health and safety of americans in their daily lives. >> in addition to supporting the federal government on this mission, is an owner and operator, but critical infrastructure. if you just want to jump in and react to any of this or just jump in and make a dmu few comments of your own. >> there's kind of three key points. first and foremost, leveraging in this frame work as a consistent set of standards, and even just the approach of doing an attack link, but shifting from a risk management aspect. to build on what kirsten said about the weakest link. in our country, the supplier base -- whether it be their size, their focus, or -- whatever you might say. so being able to transform that core supplier base to the same set of standards and that will then enable the ability to sha

economic security is not merely related to national security. economic security is national security, is vital to our national strength. how is that message received by you? >> a terrific message. i think the decline of the u.s. manufacturing base has been really one of the causes of the stagnation of the middle class that caused the lack of faith in our institutions and sort of undermines our basic credibility. i think a little bit the handicap he is working under is that having focused on north korea for the past nine months you are essentially laying out two goals to china and other states. you're saying we want help in north korea and help on trade. they'll come back and say you have to prioritize. >> bill: vietnam you believe is the most critical stop. others would argue beijing is the best way to analyze this. but if you were designing this trip, you would have gone to danang, vietnam first. >> absolutely. vietnam is the relationship that's changing the fastest in the region. president obama lifted the arms embargo in his last year in office. president trump has made a strong statement by going there now and where he is very popular and the u.s. is very popular. a u.s./viet

nation economically and using financial manipulation and market manipulation so it's on the first public i mean i thought. it has happened on the nation state level before but this is the first one that has been revealed i'll tell you first about the bank the outline prepared by bank how the law and a private luxembourg based bank owned by the family of controversial british financier david rowland laid out a scheme to drive down the value of cutter's bonds and increase the cost of insuring them with the ultimate goal of creating a currency crisis that would drain the country's cash reserve somewhere in the outline that they presented to the u.a.e. they said control the curve decide the future so the plan was that the united arab emirates would buy credit default swaps insurance on the bonds of of cutter crashing they would preserve the outline for the banks as pretend to be friendly to them pretend publicly to the press when you get the press to talk about this for ten that you're concerned about qatar and what's happening but then the plan then calls for so once you have the credit default swaps then you start shorting the bonds. how do you create the illusion that there's a mass selling of bonds by being both the buyer in the seller so many people in the financial and alice world so in the silver market for example when talking about the silver market they said there's no such thing as manipulation because for every buyer there's a seller for every seller there's a buyer so here is what this bank very politically connected bank said to the u.a.e. the plan then calls for precipitating a run on the debt of carter through a series of sham transactions to drive down the price of cutters bonds a manipulation technique known as painting the tape where players swap instruments back and forth to create the false appearance of a high volume of trees the hope is to get other traders who aren't in on the plan to see the high volume on the tape the market ticker and think that since volume is high in a period of political turmoil something important must be happening prompting them to sell the sales of the technique plan would drive the price of the bonds down creating more panic more soundly according to the plan the u.a.e. having bought credit default swaps against debt will see the value of that insurance rise as qatari debt tanked right that was trading as also known or painting the tape as another variation on this and i'm just quickly mention yes that's exactly what was going cash recently a lot of washed writing to manipulate the price but in this case as you point out this is a state being lobbied by a bank to commit financial terror on another state in an effort to manage the yield curve now why that's important is because all countries now are in debt much more than they have any equity and so they're not looking to let's say seize property sees assets or overthrow a government so much as they want to manipulate the yield curve as a says right there they want to raise the cost of borrowing to the point where the country in this case goes bankrupt and they can do that by having access to virtually unlimited supply of financial derivatives products targeting that country and forcing the old curve to trade through market manipulation. unwashed raining pain in the tank and putting the country into crisis and this is the hallmark of our in debt you know back even fifty years ago in the middle east people thought of that country's. as an oil and gas center but that's no longer the case of qatar or saudi arabia they're not oil and gas they're their debt they're in massive debt they can't pay their debt it's a debt holding entity which happens a side business in energy well actually the article points out that the problem for the plan why it was stupid is that cutter does have hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars cash so the notion they don't have debt they have cash they have so much cash because it's only a population like ten thousand people and they have all their one of the largest reserves of natural gas in the world so they have a lot of cash they hope was that because their currency is pegged to the dollar that it would be like that film role over a sort of situation which was set during the time when the us dollar was pegged to the gold that you could cause a currency crisis well they weren't able to have a currency crisis because they have so much cash that they could sustain the peg but here are the important part to what you see going on around the world in the past few years is the third element of the plan laid out by the bank to the u.a.e. the third stage of the plan would be to ramp up the p.r. machine in order to slam cutter internationally pointing to its weakening financial situation focus on the prospect of restricted access to u.s. dollar and now doubtful stability of the country the plan reads and continue to increase positions in other words keep the market cornered and feed fears about falling prices with manufactured bad news we covered that when the ruble crisis was happening two years ago when the ruble fell like sixty percent once the currency peg was. told once the ruble was allowed to float freely on the markets remember what you saw on newsnight b.b.c. almost every single night night after night was like the concern about whether or not russia would go bankrupt and just like this cover story is like the problem for that concern trolling yet it's ok to do it once but they keep on doing it and doing into it but they never had anybody point out that well the problem is that they have all this cash and they don't have any foreign bets the same with qatar they didn't have foreign debts they had all this cash so this plan was deranged it was truly deranged like it wasn't going to make any sense but you did see in a previous incarnation you saw the third stage that they were going to get you know the press to concern troll about cutter that you didn't see that when it was against you do you see it with venezuela venezuela however is has a lot of foreign that and has a currency crisis because of their they're still trying to maintain a peg were able to your point about them having a lot of cash that's great you know but if you're using that cash to defend the currency at some point you run out of cash but this plan sounded like it was dead on arrival because the cash hoard versus their ability to manipulate that market to unstable condition was incompatible with their desire to basically overthrow the country using financial weapons of mass destruction as warren buffett himself called them you know there has been an economic blockade on cutter since this plan was concocted and that has kind of worked the cost of insuring qatari debt has risen some seventy percent since may the stock market is down twenty four percent this year and heels are rising ahead of a bond offering to be made at the end of the year ahead of that the country abruptly changed how it calculates how much foreign currency reserves it has so now they're saying they have doubled the foreign currency reserves so there has been pressure on it but again the point is. now that this plan to spend exposed the press obviously you're not going to get b.b.c. newsnight to be able to a concern troll whether or not cutter could but it was all about getting the world cup transfer in the usa yeah it's all about them balls soccer balls football but you know we pressed this for years to make the market aware of the potential for financial weapons of mass destruction and financial terrorism and coups using finance in this way so i would like to take some credit for seeing the market with us and from any way we got it out a second don't go away stay right there. seemed wrong. why don't we just don't hold. me. yet to see. this day come to advocate and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. scene years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better lock with their iron i think they are and hurting one of my my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by far olds in the us and we had a thought to me as i did this this is a middle school we go through drills and we cut ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not. welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to return to our conversation with max blumenthal he's the senior editor at alter net gray zone project co-host of moderate rebels but ben norton burn a bunch of books is an actual journalist investigative journalist he's on the front line to do it stuff you not just having an opinion and crying on t.v. like most of what we see today including myself ok so let's return to our conversation max blumenthal and. first of all it can you identify a left right so what what does the left what is it like i'm so confused what is the left about these days what is it pushing for what is the left wing american political class talking about one of their issues well it makes me want to go cry on t.v. i think about it i mean what's defined as left is anything that is to the left of the republican party and so when you talk about left media they're talking about things like vox or ross story you know what i consider the left right now has really emerged as sort of an openly socialist contingency that is opposed to american empire and that you know kind of spaces that's been created through bernie sanders candidacy has expanded massively and continues you know expanding the parameters of debate in shaping the contours of discussion but it's completely frozen out in so many ways i mean we've got this are saying american socialism is that ok that's a phrase that's that was so talk about that a little bit what does that mean well i mean bernie sanders obviously depicted a certain amount of this he's a socialist bernie sanders that's his party's so that he feels embodies a left wing ethos at this time yeah and really at this time it is an ethos i mean you see very little policy very few policy proposals or workable way. to actually and knock this and implement a socialist agenda so i mean it's really an embryonic phase you're talking about nationalizing industry you're talking about ending corporate free trade and bringing jobs back home putting massive public resources into you know training workers and bringing. you know. health care and a universal living wage to the american public i mean these are basic core principles but you see everyone from you know the party for socialism in liberation to democratic socialist for america pushing for these core policies and they're even marching with union members and even working to some degree with you know the working families party and other parties that work within the democratic party so you have this constellation of groups and i think they're at an embryonic phase right now we're in a new generation where a majority of millennium goals or at least a plurality actually supports socialism if not outright communism and that you know is going to mean a generational shift in politics in twenty years prolly this generation millennial is are rejecting capitalism and they're bracing with a b

nations and now is being backed strongly by china called the regional comprehensive economic partnership so certainly different approaches there the nations i mentioned those are remaining eleven who are hoping to get some sort of agreement signed while they're here in vietnam it probably will be far from the final agreement but they're hoping to get some sort of pacts done in principle they will be meeting the leaders of those remaining eleven nations later on friday all right wayne thank you for that now the global leaks website has released what have appears to be a plan by the united arab emirates to try to destabilize katter's economy and jeopardize its hosting of the twenty twenty two football world cup now the plan was found in the hacked e-mails belonging to the amorality ambassador to the united states yes a fellow tired and official reports from washington d.c. . you use colorful and controversial ambassador to the u.s. use of allah tiber has been at the center of leak controversies in the past in recent months it was claimed the u.a.e. paid influential think tanks to back their worldview in washington according to a series of leaked emails now it's alleged an elaborate overly ambitious plan to wage financial an economic war in qatar through bond and debt manipulation has reportedly been found on his computer according to the website the intercept they would then take these these bonds according to the plan and swap them b

advisor is now trumps economic advisor and this isn't something i would want to see done on a national level. it has really hurt kansas and i don't want to hurt the rest of the nation >> i believe undoubtedly the most important issue is education. over the past five years we've seen cuts to education every year. i think the legislative house has been doing a good job recently with the supreme court ruling trying to get those tax rates back to pre-2012 rates but i think there's more that can be done and it takes people like me speaking out. >> i think one of the biggest issues that's very important to me that needs to be worked on is more community things, excepting a lot of things, getting rid of stereotypes, whether it's gang-related or lgbt community or anything like that, i think it's very important and we need to come together because i've seen what it can do and i think it needs to happen a lot more, not just here in kansas but all over the world. >> i wish the lawmakers would realize that the time for change in washington is now in terms of term limits as well as average salaries. here in the united states they make on average $170,000. year. we need to enact

national prosperity and economic growth i would say it is strewn with the dead bodies of oil-producing countries and nations throughout history. the from disease, corrupt until now. oil price volatility on banking centers, and i was wondering if you have a view on that with maybe a geopolitical patina, and ratner has written commodity exporter rather than a capital exporter as a result of shale and other things. you have a way of thinking about that and a lesson for the us and other countries? >> we're still exporting boeing area. >>. >> on that though? >> two quick reactions, first on the us, i sometimes get questions from my students like is theus going to be subject to dutch disease, is this a new worry, is the resource going to apply to america? despite the fact that this is a large industry , that the american economy is still so complex and there's so many other sectors to it. that i'm not so much concerned that we are going to bear the same effects that you have referenced in other parts of the world. however, i think that this story is still very much playing out in other parts of the world and one of the most interesting things to watch from this energy abundance is the effect that it had on both countries in saudi arabia. and so the reform efforts that we've seen conceptualized and begun to be implemented although their stalling, in saudi arabia in particular i think would have never happened without the shift in energy so it's not just that there's more energy on the market as i described in some detail in the book, it's that this shale oil for tied oil introduced a new business model. which has made it very hard for oil markets to work in the same way as they did before. though coming to terms with the fact that they don't just have tosurvive the load , but there's a totally different oil market world and so they still have time. they still have resources but the need for reform that they don't become one of these bodies along the side of the road that you described is very, very real.and i think anyone who travels to the kingdom has the opportunity to meet with the crown prince or other people, you really get the sense that they understand that reform is imperative. if they're going to survive, which doesn't mean that it's inevitable, that it's going to be successful but there's a seriousness that maybe hasn't been there before. >> the radio lady). >>. >> thank you, barbara slayton from the atlantic council. to what extent did the shale oil revolution attract from our ability to develop renewables? was it a divergent that an environmental terms is going to be expensive? >>. >> i would say and is always jumping in the queue. i would say this is still an object in debate. >> there's the very obvious point that not so much oil but natural gas is an easy substitute for renewables. >> as well as for cold. when we do the net net on the environmental side, we need to take the whole elements of the substitution into account so unquestionably in some cases we are renewables my fencing is more of a attractive. very very low natural gas. or the foreseeable future, that makes that less so. if you look at the statistics about renewable energy investment in the last few years. even in the context of very low natural gas prices, those numbers have still been quite high. there's subsidies and there's a lot of government policy in there we have to take into account but we can't really get points to a precipitate strong investment in renewable energy andattribute that to low-priced natural gas busbar. there's also , the way in which that natural gas at least for now is a complement to a lot of renewables, because their intermittent energy sources. >> that last one is important, because of the intermittency, to make sure that there has been no precipitous drop in renewable investment. the subsidies and incentives that went in an effort in 2015 are very powerful, they continue to provide great incentives combined with state mandatory requirements for renewables. >> that marches on. >>. >> ice said down from bp. >> i want to go back to the incident on assets and liabilities. i touched on the dutch disease issue as well so i'll hundred percent agree that the shower revolution has fundamentally changed the us economy. it's a huge benefit to the economy and a huge liability as it's been a massive energy importer has been neutralized. but the bid i'm struggling with that now gone out of the way is that's a huge asset. the us is still a net importer of energy. it is still one of the largest importers of oil in the world. it will carry on under most scenarios being an importer until the 2030s or so. so i understand why that liability has been neutralized but i'm not quite sure how this has become a big asset and how one can get to the world of energy dominance. >> are you speaking asset in the financial terms? or in strategic terms? >> more generalized. >> in a foreign policy context. now it's an asset and i understand the liability being neutralized but we remember the us is still a net importer of energy and it still will carry onand importing oil to many years to come . >> i was going to say, it's true that our imports have gone from that 60 percent to 21 percent and half of those come from other countries in north america. is that a preamble to your answer? >> that's great, thanks for getting those statistics out there. i'm using the phrase, this gives me an opportunity to elaborate on a point i made before that i think it's fair to say that many of the foreign policy community look at this as great, do we have a foreign-policy cudgel? and we now use energy exports to force countries to punish our adversaries or aid our allies. and we saw a little bit of that when president trump went to poland and he talked about natural gas, being able to displace russia and in the exports to europe and i think people naturally are looking for something very tangible. and my argument is that the asset component of this is more in the realm of changing the strategic environment. and augmenting american sources of hard and soft power. note that the asset. it is less of a sense that we can suddenly use exports to make others do things we want to do. there's more subtlety to the argument but my argument is that in effect that augmenting sources of hard and soft power and changing the environment in a variety of ways through markets actually has an appreciable benefit and puts america in a better position to on the whole, there's some liabilities that come with it but in a better position to advance its interests. >> so i'll put it on the side of the room. with one and then go down that side. >>. >> i was curious. so in terms of the analytics. it's true that the impact of the issue in the industry has been faster than many of us expected and the impact on safe solar authorization has been slower. and we expected. >> best for the past few years. solar has declined faster in price than oil and gas. what do you think it's a hard question, but what do you think will happen over the next decade? >> this is a question i'm going to demand dan give his answer to. >> it is interesting if you read so many of the national intelligence, he comes out of these global trend reports every four or so years and if you read the 2008 national intelligence council report, it talks about this coming energy transition and how this could change global politics but it's all about the renewable space and not about the oil and gas they swear these were already happening at that point. i think it'sright to put a big question mark around this . my sense is that there will still be technological advances. to affect the oil and gas revolution. so i wouldn't say that we are at the end of that at all, is there still some runway to be covered. so we could still expect technology to have some impact on our ability and the ability of others to produce more maybe for lower prices. will eventually come to ahalt . on the other side, there's some here and i don't know who attributes this, that technology moves much more slowly but then when it arrives, it happens much more quickly than you expect. i'm sorry? >> thank you. and so t

nation trade status. they fear that. you guys know on the economic side that's a huge issue, so that's something i think the president needs to say. your continued status as a most favored nation is in jeopardy if you continue to support korea. david: particularly in asia, people don't think of asia when they think of terror. they think of something here, in europe or the middle east, but it's growing in asia, and i think of a country like the philippines in which particularly the south, several islands, they're having a terrible time with terrorism. i imagine the president's going to try and get a united front in asia existence terrorism. >> absolutely. being in the philippines will be a great opportunity to speak with their leadership and show the world, show the asian countries that the united states is also partnering with these countries fighting terrorism. the philippines have the longest experience in fighting the jihadists, but also keep in mind that indonesia, malaysia -- although not on the trip this time -- are all facing the same terror threats. so it is important to show that the united states has asian partners in the fight against terrorism, absolutely. david: colonel schafer, let's get back to terrorism here at home because one of the most disturbing things that happened as a result of the investigation of the terrorist, the suspected terrorist is to find out about his diversity visa. >> right. david: and the fact that not only did he come here based on this lottery program, but he was able to bring over 23, about 23 of his own relatives. >> right. david: this whole program seems to be in serious need of reorganization or at least rethinking, right? >> well, we know for a fact that isis is looking for this sort of opportunity. and, yeah, look, i don't think -- you mentioned that some of the victims of the attack were argentine nationals in the world would be considered -- concerned about argentines coming here because, first off, they don't have a deep-seated hate of america. i think that's the first requirement, david. anybody who essentially is telegraphing the fact that they are not going to be assimilated, we have the rethink. and this diversity program does not allow for that. it essentially is a free ticket in. and secondly, to the point of this chain migration, look, my family came here at the beginning of the last century from spain. no one is anti-immigration. people that i know are anti the idea people can come here and murder us. there's nothing in the constitution about diversity. there's everything about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and that liberty includes the freedom from fear that you're going to be mowed by a terrorist in new york city. so this is where i think we have to rethink our priorities. i'm sorry, i disagree with chuck schumer and all these guys wanting diversity. the securit

nation's infrastructure which leads to more good-paying jobs and greater economic opportunity for working families. improving our nation's infrastructure is really just common sense. that's why i introduced a bill which was passed into law to cut red tape and reduce delays on construction projects in illinois and our surrounding states. upgrading our transportation systems will help illinoisans and all americans who depend on our roads and transit systems to get to work every day as well as businesses that need our airports, highways, and our freight network to ship their products. i'm working each day to support our hardworking middle-class families. unions have become champions for working families in and out of federal government. i thank our union representatives for all the work they do for our families, our communities, and our nation. thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. ms. warren: thank you, mr. president. last year powerful corporate interest groups actually stole ar supreme court -- stole a supreme court seat and handed it over to their hand-picked choice, neil gorsuch. now they are about to use that seat to deal a devastating blow to hardworking teachers, firefighters, and police across the country. on september 28 the supreme court announced it would hear a case called janice v.afme. afme represents public sector workers in illinois. this case will determine if the public sector that represents teachers, police officers, and firefighters in states and cities across the country can collect fees from all the employees in the workplaces they represent. many expect that justice gorsuch will deliver the deciding vote in that case, that he will force unions to represent employees who do not pay dues, and in doing so, cut off sustainable funding for public union organizing. now, judges

nation's , we have sled to number six. since last election, and i want to continue to see my nation become number one not because of it military power or its economic power, no, no because of its ideals because of its principles. because of those principles being beacon of hope for the rest of the world. thank you. [applause] plnch con, i believe there's a certain threat to our constitution which was expounded by the late justice scalia which is that you have to interpret everything in its originalist idea as if nobody else could have any idea or -- way to interpret the constitution. what do you think of scalia's position? >> no, no i agree with -- with the late justices interpretation and its point of view. it's living document we should always remember this -- that all of the changes that are taking place in our country throughout the world -- we must continue to deal request them. there is legislative process. there's constitutional process, to incorporate changes. some time when that argument is presented, it is limited to certain provisions of bill of rights not all if we need to be strict and to spread our constitutional value and trying in our documents then that should be for all provisions of the constitution. not only certain provisions of the constitution. so that is the only humble footnote i have. but i agree with justice scalia that -- constitution should be read under its provision of sense but then we are not living in 1776. 17 84. [applause] we should, we should be cognizant of that as well and that we move forward through 2017. but i agree with him. thank you. yes. >> you talk a lot about defending the constitution. i wonder what your position is in terms of the united states role in defending the universal declaration of rights, and the the values that that enshines that i think also reflect american values. >> did you understand? >> i'm sorry can you reare pete that one more time. >> what's your position on how you see the u.s. defending the universal declaration of human rights? >> oh, yes, yes. i -- look sometimes e people begin to get this impression when i speak professionally about my country about its values about its goodness about its history that somehow i'm saying that this is the perfect place on planet earth. not at all. this is not perfect place. so much to move forward with but this is the best place. compare it with the rest of the world and you will come to this conclusion that there's no other nation as united states of america declaration of human rights, international declaration of human rights. so much more needs to be done. we are falling behind because of the current circumstances we're falling behind on those commitments that we have made to the rest of the world. we are absent from the table from the world table where we used to sit. we have absent now from there. that is putting us behind instead of moving forward, we're retracting and that concerns me. but i -- but i agree that we have so much -- we have so much further to go to move our nation forward. so -- >> thank you so much may god bless you and your family for the sacrifice as next patriot of pakistan i can vouch what you said about the constitution. and that it is violated as a member of the community -- we have no right in pakistan to vote, and the parliament of pakistan has declared as nonmuslim which they have no right to do. and that is something i share with americans my friends many america that is constitu

economic freedom, and any other nation in the world. we help nations. even -- empires do not leave. this is outrageous. this is completely fallacious. one of the reasons i agreed to help trump is because of this idea that isolationism works. it does not. it did not work in pearl harbor in 1941. it did not work on september 11 in 2001. the world is a global structure. the idea that if you pull down the shutters on each coast will keep americans safe -- it does not work. we need to be cognizant of threats and deal with it. but this president is not an interventionist, but nor is he and isolationist. we sent a message to assad. it is a commonsense balance between isolationism of rand paul and interventionism of neo-cons of the the world. host: our guest is sebastian gorka, former senior at rise in the white house. he is out with a new look on jihad. i want to ask you about the president referring to senator bob corker as "little bob corker." does that seem petty in your mind? guest: what demeans the presidency is having a senator undermine a sitting republican president. this would be unheard -- it would be ungentlemanly and unseemly. the idea is you have

i think, by the trump administration to take very strong measures. >> to calm economic concerns, the crown prince directed saudi ministers on tuesday to ensure that national and multi nationalpanies were not disrupted, including those tied to individuals under investigation. that includes prince al waleed. just to check, i went online to see if there were any rooms opening any time soon. no availabilities until mid-december so it may give us a sense of how long these men will be on lockdown. >> it is said they're not allowing phone calls to come into the hotel. >> you don't think of arrest and ritz carlton in the same sentence anywhere. >> not too many people do. >>> three ucla players, including the younger brother of lakers star lonzo ball were reportedly arrested in china, accused of a crime that normally leads to prison time. ahead, how it could be months before the freshman players are allo >>> the co-founders of the popular clothing company lularoe are defending their business after a series of complaints. >> ahead and only on "cbs this morning," their response to a $1 billion lawsuit alleging that the company is a pyramid scheme. why they call that claim an uneducate

economic nationalism, what would you say? >> i'd say, take a hike. you don't run national policy on the basis of what's good for you politically. you try to do the right thing for the country. fortunately i president's broadly done that and surrounded by very good people. look, i'm a big admirer of general mcmasters, admirer of general kelly, big admirer are my friend, former congressman michael pompeo at the cia. i think rex tillerson is hugely underrated. those are the people that i think will give him good advice and frankly the president is taking good advice when he's gotten it. done more on north korea than any other president before him. his stance on afghanistan showed great maturity of judgment. actually changed his position having heard the arguments. i haven't seen him fall for those sorts of things. i don't think he'll fall if he gets that kind of advice again. you don't run the country on the basis of trying to win an election. you try to do what's right for the country and then you will win the election. >> put your pollster hat on for me. last year donald trump got 46% of the country. didn't get 50%. obviously neither did hillary clinton. what i'm getting at here is, how d

national security and economic stability. she offers our nation the credentials required, experience, expertise, national/international perspective and public and private sector experience in the mission space, end quote. mr. chairman, i echo those strong sentiments. i believe her work ethic, her experience and her leadership is what's needed in homeland security and needed now. i'm sure we'll have a fruitful discussion with the nominee today. i look forward to asking a few questions myself. i hope we can move this nomination very quickly through the senate so we can get her to work as the next secretary of homeland security at a critical time. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator portman. ms. nielson it is the tradition of this committee to swear in witness. please stand and raise your right hand. do you swear the testimony you will give before this committee will be the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god. >> i do. >> be seated. kirstjen nielsen is currently the principal deputy staff to president trump and was the chief-of-staff to then secretary john kelly the department of homeland security. ms. nielson served in the bush administration special assistant to the president and senior di

i thank the chairman and the meeting is adjourned. >>> coming up later today, first at noon eastern national economic council director gary cohn will speak. national security advisor hr mcmaster will join sarah sanders at today's white house briefing. he'll preview the president's upcoming trip to asia. then congressional democrats hold a news conference on the republican's tax plan. >>> he's been called one of the premier clhroniclers of our age. michael lewis will be our guest sunday on "in depth." >> what all the books have aside is they're interesting characters to me in interesting situations. so the trick is that if you can attach the reader to the character at the beginning of the book, they'll follow that character anywhere. trust me that there is no one in america who would want to read my description of collateralized debt obligations. so it's a very, very powerful device that is, you know, the origins of literature. >> mr. lewis is the author of several books including "liar's poker," "moneyball," "the big short." we'll take your calls, tweets and facebook questions. watch sunday live in noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span 2.

i think there's a lot we can do working together to address that challenge, not just to our national security but economic security and our viability as a nati nation. now, addressing our serious fiscal issues doesn't mean we have to turn our backs on the median four-person household, the typical family. in all of the congressional districts represented on this committee and truly the typical family in our country. the statistics show there's relief for every american family, the median american family that we all represent here. my colleague from oregon's district $2300 per family. a lot of benefits for those who don't itemize. low and middle income americans, two-thirds of his district. if we go down the list, we'll see the same in every district represented on this committee and in every district in our country. also there's a lot in this bill that is important in the sense of growing our economy and making it more likely we can work together to address fiscal challenges. a lot of americans are worried, rightly so, about american corporations and foreign corporations exploiting our existing laws and existing rules to shift jobs and profits overs

economic advisor. this isn't something i want to see done on a national level. it hurt kansas. i don't want to see it hurt the rest of the nation. >> the most important issue for our state right now is education. in the last five years you've seen cuts to education every single year. every single budget proposed. i think the legislative house has been doing a good job with the supreme court ruling of trying to get the tax rates back to pre-2012 rates. there's always more that can be done. i think that takes ordinary people like me speaking out. >> i think one of the biggest issues that's very important to me needs to be worked on is maybe a bit more community things. accepting a lot of things. getting rid of stereotypes whether it's gang related or lgbt community. i think that's very important. we need to come together because i've seen what it can do and i think it needs to happen a lot more. not just here in kansas but all over the world, definitely. >> i wish that lawmakers would realize that the time for change in washington is now. in terms of term limits as well as average salary. who in the united states makes $170,000 a

national security and economic stability. kirstjen offers our nation the credentials required of a secretary, which is experience, equities, and homeland security policy operations, and public and private sector experience." mr. chairman, i echo those strong sentiments. i believe her work ethic and experience and leadership is what is needed in homeland now.ity, and needed i'm sure we will have a fruitful discussion with the nominee today. i look forward to asking questions myself. i hope we can move this quickly out of committee and into the senate to get her to work as the next secretary of homeland security at a critical time. thank you here it -- thank you. >> thank you, senator portman. ms. nielsen, please stand and raise your right hand. do you swear this testimony you will give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? ms. nielsen: i do. >> kirstjen nielsen is currently the principal deputy chief of staff to president trump, and prior to that to john kelly for the department of homeland security. she holds a bachelor degree from the georgetown university's of foreign service, and a jd degree from the school of law. ms. nielsen: thank you. mr. chairman, ranking member mccaskill, distinguished members . i'm humbled and grateful for the trust the president has placed in me to lead the men and women. i want to thank senator rubio and portman for their kind words. thank you to secretary's rich and chertoff for their statements. it was an honor to serve and work with them and i look forward to the continued .artnership finally, i want to thank general kelly for the leadership. if you could allow me to introduce members of my family here with me today. my father james, my sister, miney, my aunt and uncle, -- one of my cousins, who managed to get here from germany. i would also like to thank mrs. kelly for her support in being here for me today. i was raised to believe in our country and its founding principles and ideas to serve our country and appreciate and be thankful every day for the freedoms we hold dear as americans. i'm thankful for their unwavering love and support throughout my life. thank you for your continued encouragement and traveling so far to be here today. if confirmed as the next security,of homeland it will be the greatest honor to again work with and support the remarkable men and women of the department. i just simply can't say enough about the incredible work of the people of dhs. many of them put their lives on the line daily to ensure the security of the nation. over more than two decades, i dedicated my career to working on homeland security issues. after working on security issues for senator connie mack , i practiced current -- corporate transactional law, when i learned how private sectional operations are -- my service in the executive branch began in 2002 at the transportation security administration. it was an honor to work alongside and counselor -- countless public servants who tackled the top security challenges we had after the tragic attacks of september 11, and later helped to stand up the department of homeland security. i was commissioned by president bush to serve as special assistant to the president for homeland security, and as senior director for preparedness prepend -- invention and response. charged with inter-agency policy ordination, i led the development of new national policy articulating the roles of all levels of government and the private sector in protecting our nation. during this time, the nation experienced t

nation better than we found it. we can and should address other domestic priorities in dire need like our nation's infrastructure, the economic security of children and seniors and sustainable employment for the middle class. i and my colleagues are ready to work in god faith on -- good faith on tax reform, but we cannot do that until we abandon the recklessness that led to this republican tax bill. mr. president, we are all here and committed to defend our nation, but this bill will make it virtually impossible to do what we know we must do. there are unavoidable costs in our national security that are not even counted in this bill. we are committed, frankly, and we have done so on the armed services committee, to increase the size of our military forces. every additional 10,000 service members costs roughly $1.8 billion per year. where will we get that money when we're going $1.5 trillion in debt to provide tax cuts for the wealthiest americans? we want a 355-ship navy. there have been estimates that it will create $1 there will a year. where will we get that when we have given $1.5 trillion to the wealthiest americans. we have to modernize our submarines and aircraft. there are estimates that will costs dz 400 billion -- $400 billion per year. where will we get that since we have given $1.5 trillion to the wealthiest americans many we have overseas operations in iraq. over a 10-year period, $10 billion needs to be paid. syria, that's $13 bil

economic freedom, and any other nation in the world. we help nations. even -- empires do not leave. this is outrageous. this is completely fallacious. one of the reasons i agreed to help trump is because of this idea that isolationism works. it does not. it did not work in pearl harbor in 1941. it did not work on september 11 in 2001. the world is a global structure. the idea that if you pull down the shutters on each coast will keep americans safe -- it does not work. we need to be cognizant of threats and deal with it. but this president is not an interventionist, but nor is he and isolationist. we sent a message to assad. it is a commonsense balance between isolationism of rand paul and interventionism of neo-cons of the the world. host: our guest is sebastian gorka, former senior at rise in the white house. he is out with a new look on jihad. i want to ask you about the president referring to senator bob corker as "little bob corker." does that seem petty in your mind? guest: what demeans the presidency is having a senator undermine a sitting republican president. this would be unheard -- it would be ungentlemanly and unseemly. the idea is you have

nation's pay the central mission of the treasury. last autumn, i launched the national productivity investment funds to provide an additional £23 billion of investment over five years, to upgrade the economic infrastructure for the 21st century. today i announce i will extend the fund a further year and expand it to over £31 billion. meaning that public investment under this government will on average be £25 billion per year higher in real term5 than under the last labour government. we are allocating a further £2.3 billion for investment in r&b and will increase the main rnd tax credit to 12% —— r&d. to drive up investment across the economy to 2.4% of gdp. britain is the world's sixth—largest economy. london is the number one international financial services sector and we have some of the world's best companies and a commanding position in a raft of tech and digital industries that will form the backbone of the global economy. tho5e will form the backbone of the global economy. those who under estimate britain do so at their peril. because we will harness this potential and turn it into the high—paid, high productivity jobs potential and turn it into the high—paid, high productivityjobs of tomorrow. others may choose to reject the future, we choose to embrace it. a new tech business is founded in britain every hour. i wa nt founded in britain every hour. i want that to be every half—hour. today, we invest over £500 million ina range today, we invest over £500 million in a range of initiatives from artificial intelligence to five g and fourfibre artificial intelligence to five g and four fibre broadband artificial intelligence to five g and fourfibre broadband and artificial intelligence to five g and four fibre broadband and support regulation with the new pioneer fund and a new geospatial data commission to develop... you should listen. to develop a strategy for using the government location data to support economic growth and to help tech start—ups reach scale we asked for a review of availability of capital. today we are publishing an action plan to unlock over £20 billion of new investment in uk knowledge intensive scale up businesses including through a new fund in the british business bank seeded with £2.5 billion of public money by facilitating pension—fund access to long—term investment 5um by doubling investments limit5 long—term investment 5um by doubling investments limits for knowledge intensive companies while ensuring el intensive companies while ensuring eisi5 intensive companies while ensuring e! s is not used as a shelter for low risk capital preservation 5cheme5. low risk capital preservation schemes. we stand ready to step in to replace european investment fund lending is necessary. there is perhaps no technology as symbolic of the revolution gathering pace as d riverless the revolution gathering pace as driverless vehicles. they surely do not want me to make thejoke they surely do not want me to make the joke about the labour party again, mr deputy speaker? i know jeremy clarkson does not like them but there are many other good reasons to pursue this technology. today, we step up support for it. i'm sorry, jeremy, definitely not the first time you have been snubbed by hammond and may. allah future —— ourfuture —— our future vehicles will be d riverless —— our future vehicles will be driverless but there they will be electric first and that is a change that needs to come as soon as possible for the planet. we will establish a £400 million structure fund and invest an extra hundred million per plug—in car grant and more for r&d. i will clarify the law so that people who charge electric vehicles at work will not face a benefit in kind charge from next year. the tax system can play an important role in protecting our environment. we owe it to our children the air they breathe is clea n children the air they breathe is clean and we published the air quality plan this year and said then we would fund it through taxes on new diesel cars. from april 2018, the first year rate for diesel cars that do not meet the latest standards will go up by £1 and the existing supplement in company car tax will increase by one percentage point and drivers buying a new car will avoid this charge as soon as manufacturers bring forward the next generation of cleaner diesels. we only apply this measure to cars. before the headline writers start to limberup, let me before the headline writers start to limber up, let me be clear. no white van man or woman will be hit by these measures. this levy will fund a new £220 million cleaner fund to provide support for the implementation of local air quality plans, improving the quality of air in cities and towns in the uk. our air quality is sadly not our only environmental challenge. audiences in the country glued to blue planet have been reminded of the problems of plastics pollution. the uk lead the world on climate change agreements and pioneers protecting marine environment and i want us to bea marine environment and i want us to be a world leader in tackling the scourge of plastic littering the planet and oceans. with my right honourable friend the environment secretary i will investigate how the tax system and charges on single use plastic items can reduce waste. we cannot keep our promise to the next generation to build an economy fit for the future unless we ensure our planet has a future. meeting the challenge of change head on means giving our people the confidence to embrace it and the skills to reap the rewards and we have a plan to do so. we are delivering 3 million apprenticeships by 2020 thanks to the apprenticeship levy and i will review the flexibility levy payers have to spend this. we are introducing t levels and i am providing £20 million to support colleges to prepare for them. knowledge of maths is key to the high—tech, cutting edge jobs knowledge of maths is key to the high—tech, cutting edgejobs in our digital economy. it is useful in less glamorous roles like front line politics! we will expand the teaching for mastery of maths programme to further 3000 schools and provide 40 million to train maths teachers and introduce a £600 maths teachers and introduce a £600 maths premium for schools for every additional people who takes a level maths and invite proposals for new maths and invite proposals for new maths schools across england so highly talented young mathematicians can release their potential wherever they live and what ever their background. more maths for everyone. don't let anyone say i don't know how to show the nationence teachers to 12,000. and we will work with industry to create a new national centre for computing. but mr deputy speaker, rapid technological change means we also need to help people we train during their working lives, ensuring our workforce is equipped with the skills they need for the workplace of the future. today, my right honourable friend the education secretary and i are launching an historic partnership between government, the cbi historic partnership between government, the cb! and the tuc to set the strategic direction for a national retraining scheme. its first priority will be to boost digital skills and support expansion of the construction centre. to make a start immediately, we will invest £30 million in the development of digital skills distance learning courses, so people can learn wherever they are and whenever they want. i'm pleased to be able to accept the representation that i have received from the tuc, to continue to fund union learn which i recognise as a v

economic advisor. this isn't something i want to see done on a national level. it hurt kansas. i don't want to see it hurt the rest of the nation. >> the most important issue for our state right now is education. in the last five years you've seen cuts to education every single year. every single budget proposed. i think the legislative house has been doing a good job with the supreme court ruling of trying to get the tax rates back to pre-2012 rates. there's always more that can be done. i think that takes ordinary people like me speaking out. >> i think one of the biggest issues that's very important to me needs to be worked on is maybe a bit more community things. accepting a lot of things. getting rid of stereotypes whether it's gang related or lgbt community. i think that's very important. we need to come together because i've seen what it can do and i think it needs to happen a lot more. not just here in kansas but all over the world, definitely. >> i wish that lawmakers would realize that the time for change in washington is now. in terms of term limits as well as average salary. who in the united states makes $170,000 a