john herbst is director of the eurasia center. the junior partners in the endeavor. and, finally, john, i know when because we worked together at the state department for time. one of the most distinguished career professionals of this generation working not only on russia, so mythology russia, eurasia but also the middle east, all of which are highly relevant to our discussion today. finally, william ruger, vice president of research and policy at the charles koch institute as he points out is also vice president for the foundation, the charles koch foundation, so a very busy job. he's a veteran of the war in afghanistan, important to note in the second extensive academic career in areas we are talking about. so i said i wanted to discuss, organize the discussion three phases. i'm going to ask each of you in probably inverse, if you promise to give it less than one minute or one minute and two seconds in reverse order -- >> he warned us, these very strict. >> to answer at the same time to questions, to what extent should the american next american president change u

that is ian bremmer at eurasia.a and the united states of america to move away from the terrorist disruption? , china is disruption the biggest holder of u.s. debt. stephen: this is a critical relationship. the relationship for 26 years, and never has it been more critical than right now. you talk about holdings of u.s. treasuries and the trade agreement, but what about security arrangements in the western pacific? you have allies in japan, south korea, taiwan, the philippines debatable right now, but still security agreement, and trump wants to get the u.s. allies to pay more of their bill for the security blanket the united states military provides. will the allies like japan and south korea move closer to their bigger neighbor, china? will china welcomed them and get nationalistic if they are being poked and prodded by a nationalistic president in the white house? there are so many angles to look like. we don't know what kind of president donald trump will be. there is rhetoric that anticipates when they go into

. >> translator: japan highly values ties with kazakhstan which is located at the center of eurasia and possesses abundant energy resources. japan stresses the importance of bilateral cooperation in the united nations and in the field of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation. >> the leaders issued a joint statement saying their countries will urge others to ratify the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty as soon as possible. they also called on north korea to immediately halt its nuclear-related activities. >>> the loss of a loved one can push people to action, and such is the case with our next story of a japanese woman who lost her young son to tragedy. as nhk world jean-baptiste reports from ghana, she's making sure others aren't at the same risk. >> reporter: midori speaks about the importance of first aid at an event in the capital accra. >> translator: cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation can start suddenly. even with a hit in the chest by a baseball or soccer ball. >> reporter: her son died three years ago. he got into difficulties while surfing. he might have lived if

the atmosphere is stored up in northern canada, eurasia and we had a frosty start it was closer to the normal of 54 we have yet to see snowfall. almost a 1 inch deficit normal. will be a waxing gibbous moon tonight. tonight 49 degrees, partly cloudy and breezy with falling temperatures. i don't think that any lake effect will bebe problematic because we do not have all of our ducks lined up. andnd it will look like to be week.ty lots of mid to upper 50s after sending. saturday will be the coldest da of the weekend. and then lots of 50s sunday through thursday. lots of sunshine, the next fron to come through will be next friday. and that may have a bigger impactbi the following weekend, will keep an eye on it. does not seem like thanksgiving is two weeks away. it is destroy you have to see but doctors have been growing on a man's arm and begin to look like christmas, and you have something new to holger y grande, non-fat, double-shot, extra hot, gingerbread macchiat with whipped creamm. chinese doctors were able to regrowoc a man's ear on his arm plastic surgeons have it was lost in a c

all of the cold air has been bottled up in eurasia. they had these massive snowfall for two or three weeks, the block that has been holding a stationary for quite some time, it appears to be letting loose. like watching all of the water bathtub, that may happen in about ten-12 days we may be interesting time as we approach the christmas holiday, today, cloud cover that was unproductive mostly. we had just enough breaks to allow sunshine this is the first front with although the strong winds and showers , and then a another wave of moisture that well is essentially generate showers an that will be somewhat steady into early wednesday this is part of the second front of the maps in motion. the first front moving through, temperature decrease in the win shift, this next one has a larger contrast beginning late tomorrow to thursday. 57 degrees in cleveland, we should have the high temperatur in the low 40s this time of year. that represents an increase from yesterday and tha goes until the second front right about here. that front approach

the guys at eurasia group see just a 20% chance.u look at the opinion polls the theresa may would win the .lection she does not have a personal mandate. she could use that as a referendum on her negotiating strategy. for her the labor party opposition, a lot of reasons to go next year against that. there are the important ones. she has repeatedly said she does not plan to go before 2020. it would require parliament to get out after that fixed term, and the public appetite for another election, i think anytime she is building a case for brexit that is against it. mark: bloomberg brexit editor simon kennedy. coming up, little corruption -- political corruption, military coups and domestic terrorism. pakistan'scts growing economy and modernizing society. ♪ vonnie: you are watching bloomberg, i am vonnie quinn. mark: i am mark barton and this is your global business report. u.s. payrolls rose by 161000 and october. it missed analysts estimates. was it good or bad? vonnie: bmw out with third-quarter earnings. mark: a quick look into paki

iran simultaneously the conflagration would spread in the near and middle east as well as throughout eurasiait was a coincidence that at this specific moment, the president of the united states is a descendent of african and christiansuslims and . this is achieved, then we need to be aware, and that is what we are doing here. the leaders of the most powerful , both on the planet allies as well as adversaries, with the exception of israel would urge him not to do this. the world would then render all deserved.ors he the current order the current survive,er would not and inevitably, it would .ollapse it would collapse. immediately. the so-called convertible currencies would lose their as instruments of the imposed bothas sweat and sacrifice without , new modese people's of distribution of resources and , education, and the direction of social processes would come to the surface peacefully. but if war were to break out, then the current social order would suddenly disappear, and the price would be infinitely greater. population may bury the nonverbal -- the nonbillable -- the nonrenewable resou

charge lichfield is an associate at eurasia group. jim lichfield is with bloomberg.ou have covered many european crises. does this feel different? is it more existential? me -- it seemso like the building blocks, the foundations of -- of postwar europe are under the spotlight in a way that they have not been since the reagan administration, --uppose, since the, um since he had his nuclear program, the missiles to germany. au have a president -- president who raised questions about nato, who wants to, you know, make friends with -- with putin. and putin obviously has -- and trump bills himself as a master negotiator. and putin has found interests in abroad. yes. francine: does this mean may need to redefine capitalism? does this mean we need a firm society, or does this mean something else? are think a lot of leaders taking note of the surprising results over the last few months and have correctly deduced that there is something wrong with the way people perceive how they are doing, how governments are delivering a just society for them. , after thees when diagnostic,

[applause] >> i also want to thank our cosponsors, the institute for your pain russia and eurasia's studies, c-span and tall of you for coming. i wish you i wish you a happy thanksgiving. thank you much. [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> up next up next on c-span two, panel discussing how the trump administration might approach the issues of biomedical innovation, healthcare, and drug pricing. that a pricing. that a look at how food companies market to children. later, in case case you just misted a conversation on russia under vladimir putin. c-span's "washington journal", live every day with new some policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, economic adviser to president-elect trump stephen moore joins us to discuss mr. trump's a proposal to lower taxes and increase the number of jobs and plans to grow the economy then robert weissman, president of the nonprofit organization public citizen will talk about their plans to fight the trump administration on deregulation. watch c-span's "washington journal" live 7:00 a.m. eastern on thursday morning. join the discussion. >

he's the chairman of the house eurasia and emerging threats subcommittee. on his website, there's a big spotlight on ideas for solving the illegal immigration crisis in this country. congressman rohrabacher is now injecting himself into this secretary of state sweepstakes that was thought to only have two players, rudy giuliani and mitt romney. but in recent days, it has seemed to broaden out and those two early frontrunners have reportedly split the transition team into two camps. that's why we are here. when mr. trump gets back to his office in manhattan, on monday, he has a full schedule. he will meet with eight people, all hoping to get some sort of new job in the administration, and monday is also the next time we need to be back on cabinet announcement watch, because after naming nominees for education secretary and u.n. secretary from his vacation spot here in florida, the transition team told us not to expect any more news from mar-a-lago. arthel? >> peter, thank you very much for that report. >>> by the way, you don't want to miss fox news sunday t

ian brehmer is the president and founder of the eurasia group and ann marie slaughter is the president and ceo of the think tank new america, she was the director of policy planning at the state department under secretary clinton and president obama. jim, let me start with you. i was wondering, there are so many questions i think people have about what a president trump will do but i wondered if you could start with one of name has intrigued me which is even in this last five days donald trump went out of his way to be nice to putin, he said putin sent him a beautiful letter. russia seems to have played some role in this election. all the intelligence agencies believe that the russians were behind the hack. they have been playing similar roles in eastern europe. they have an -- in crimannexed . the europeans are nervous. what do you think the attitude will be in russia towards a trump administration? >> i don't know but i'll say what i think about it which is that i believe there are a number of circumstances in which one wants to be cordial to foreign a foreign country that is causing

the conflagration would spread in the near and middle east as well as throughout eurasia.t was a coincidence that at this specific moment, the president of the united states is a descendent of african and white, of muslims and christians. if this is achieved, then we need to be aware, and that is what we are doing here. the leaders of the most powerful nation on the planet, both allies as well as adversaries, with the exception of israel would urge him not to do this. the world would then render all of the honors he deserved. the current order the current world order would not survive, and inevitably, it would collapse. it would collapse. immediately. the so-called convertible currencies would lose their value as instruments of the system that has imposed both sweat and sacrifice without limit on the people's, new modes of distribution of resources and services, education, and the direction of social processes would come to the surface peacefully. but if war were to break out, then the current social order would suddenly disappear, and the price would be infinitely greater

is senior vice president for europe, eurasia, and the arctic and director of the europe program here at csis. from 2001 to 2005, he was a deputy secretary of state at the bureau for european and eurasian affairs. jon alterman, on my left, another senior vice president, holds the chair and global security ngo strategy and is the director of the middle east program here at csis. before joining csis, he was a member of the policy planning staff for the u.s. department of state. finally, a kissing her chair and director -- finally, a kissinger kathleen director, served as the deputy undersecretary for planning and forces. we have got a terrific lineup and we look forward to hearing your remarks. >> ok, we are still using the hand mic. thank you, andrew. congratulations on launching this project. it is both overdue and extremely timely, given her rents around the world and events here at home. , john is notion here because we had to hide him in a disclosed location, but he will be heavily involved and has given us great guidance. let me talk about our allies in the asia-pacific region. ge

heather conley is senior vice president for europe, eurasia, and the arctic and director of the europe program here at csis. from 2001 to 2005, she was a deputy secretary of state at the bureau for european and eurasian affairs. jon alterman, on my left, another senior vice president, holds the chair in global security ngo strategy and is the director of the middle east program here at csis. before joining csis, he was a member of the policy planning staff for the u.s. department of state. finally, a kissinger chair and director, kathleen served as the deputy undersecretary for planning and forces. we have got a terrific lineup and we look forward to hearing your remarks. michael: ok, we are still using the hand mic. thank you, andrew. congratulations on launching this project. it is both overdue and extremely timely, given eventa around the -- given events around the world and events here at home. i should mention, john is not here because we had to hide him in an undisclosed location, but he will be heavily involved and has given us great guidance. let me talk about our allies in the

and john haines is codirector of the eurasia program at the foreign policy research institute. i want to begin, i want to begin this discussion today with a number of important ad hocly controversial questions. and i'm going to start with miriam elder, and ask one of the big issues i think was implied in the introduction is our -- pass rush intervened in the u.s. presidential election? you can maybe tell me your views about that. >> that question can be taken in a bunch of different ways. i guess the most concrete thing to look at is the role of russian hackers and misinformation in the campaign. and it really was an extraordinary moment when the obama administration call that russia free being behind these hacks. we've seen i believe the second time ever the u.s. has actually called out a specific state actor to be involved in hacking. it fits in provoke the with russia's kind of approach to undermine stability around the world and attended in particular. it to question reality in which we are functioning. questions the basis of democracy as such. and so in that regard yes. th