in the end did the foreign affairs side ever impact domestic? . >> his domestic triumphs still stand and what should happen was truly revolutionary. and i think some people in the world are still trying to figure out how to make it happen. it's not that you have a world government but his insight was global problems require global solutions. it still makes sense to me 100 years later and the impact has diminished and people argue how important it is and what happens during world war ii fdr was the assistant secretary of the navy for the whole eight years so he's watching the president very closely and thinking would this work? if that doesn't work he learns a lot from this experience. 's or early 42 he assembled advisors and said i think we will need something like the league of nations but we have to figure out how to make it work. so he - - so they studied what worked and why didn't once roosevelt decided, he began to cultivate the other side who would likely be opposed to more international involvement. that is something wilson never did. fdr

you talk in the foreign affairs committee, you talk about foreign affairs and what could be more of foreignairs than the leader of the united states meeting with the leader of another country. what really is disturbing about all this, forget about subpoenas, yes, no, whatever, is the fact that we all know that the russians interfered in our 2016 election. we know they interfered to try to help donald trump win. and since that time there have been meetings between putin and trump and we don't know what went on. it's so many months past and we don't know what went on. you just scratch your head and say what is it? why is it that the president of the united states seems to go against our allies like the uk or germany or france and cozy up to putin. it makes no sense whatsoever. yes. you want to try to improve relations with your adversardve. no one is saying you shouldn't do that. the question is why is everything so secretive. >> what was your reaction to "the washington post" reporting that after the face to face in 2017 between trump and putin that trump took the notes from the interpreter

confidence in this administration to handle foreign affairs and foreign crisis, go ahead.nyer: i don't have confidence that president trump has our best interests at heart. i see that he wants to pull out -- wanting to pull out of nato. i hope he has been convinced that is not a good idea. our allies are pulling away from us. he did not do anything about sanctions on the russians for the poisoning and now, why should britain wanted to have anything to do with us or france? these are the things that terrify me about what he is doing because i feel as if he is compromised by putin. he seems to be an thrall to buy putin and as far as i can see, he seems to want to line his pockets. that deal he had with trump tower in moscow, that would have brought him hundreds of millions of dollars and here he was running for president of the united states and it doesn't seem to me as if he stopped having those kinds of financial interests in moscow even after he was elected. commentsi may, your about britain and france, why are you concerned? was it just about the statements of nato or ar

i thank my good friend, the distinguished chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. i listened to my friend from texas who i admire. he's defending the indefensible. partisan? i rise strongly m support of the h.r. res. po today disapproving the president's pro'sal to lift sanctions on three companies affiliated with a russian beganster oligarch. the congress passed an act in august of 2017 to hold putin and his cronies accountable for russian interference in our election. russian invasions of sovereign territories of other nations. and other maligned behavior. under that authority the treasury department office of foreign assets control sanctions a closed putin ally and several of his companies, including united company rusal and others. in doing so, the treasury department stated the trump treasury department stated, deripaska has said he does not separate himself from the russian state. he has been investigated for money laundering, and has been accused of threatening the lives of business rivals. illegally wiretapping a government official. extortion. organized cr

s foreign affairs chief suggesting she has forgotten the roots . it is friday morning here in moscow and a lot of very important stories to get to you today welcome to the program. the venezuelan president nicolas. has ordered his diplomats to leave the us you know and he was severing diplomatic ties with washington after the trumpet ministration back to opposition leader one guy doe has declared himself the interim president of the latin american country and has also accused of being america's puppet i want him to do even his way that the president is elected by washington and of course they take anyone from the street who wants to be a president nicolas maduro has cut diplomatic ties between venezuela and the united states from what we understand the venezuelan embassy in the united states in washington d.c. has closed i've decided to include diplomats who can conceal the stuff from the united states includes our embassies and consulates in that country you. know as an opposition figure he's part of the national assembly and in front of a crowd o

right after minister of foreign affairs you're kind of doing what the minister of foreign affairs couldn't do. but we work together with the ministry of foreign affairs which transmits all that said bits of information that are brought forth that might be of concern to them and even better and it happened to me personally often when i went to see my foreign counterparts i would always go business our ambassador in that country and transmit fresh analysis to the embassy so one diplomacy fails that's her secret service has come into play very good. especially useful when two countries no longer talk to you gary caldwell with the russians to. trust we have a good relationship on that ceteris part. friends as a lot of chechens who have historically requested political asylum here and we also have people who within that community or q so they can create problems and who we found at something terrorism acts in moscow and we were able to exchange. we were able to carry out procedures and through the international conditions we were able to help the russians saul's this type of problem. square sea

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s foreign affairs chief suggesting she's forgotten her italian roots. it is friday minus seventeen degrees celsius here in moscow a lot of important stories to get to you today welcome to the. venezuelan president nicolas maduro has ordered the closure of venezuela's embassy in the united states off the total trump recognized opposition leader one quite go as a latin american countries interim leader but otoh has accused of being washington's puppet. i wanted to do you know that his way that the president is elected by the schools they take anyone from the street who wants to be a president nicolas maduro has cut diplomatic ties between venezuela and the united states from what we understand the venezuelan embassy in the united states in washington d.c. has closed i've decided to include diplomatic and consular staff of united states includes our embassy and consulates in that country you. know as an opposition figure he's part of the national assembly and in front of a crowd of his supporters he recently took an oath and declared himself to be the inte

. >> later in this hour we will hear from eliot engel, the new chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. he has announced he wants to use his subpoena power and his investigative power in that committee to find outwe exactly what donald trump and vladimir putin have been talking about. he is trying to find different ways to find that out. andrew wise, that strikes me as an investigative mode that although it seems like relatively normal oversight for thator foreign affairs committee to ffdo, it also feeds the investigative process of what's going on here. you have pointed out there's a tremendous overlap of questions here in what robert mueller is investigating and what has emerged ing this "washington post" reporting about the president trying to hide what he says to vladimir putin, what vladimir putin says to him. >> yeah. right now i think it is important for everyone to sort of focus on a key week of events, and that was during the period for donald trump's face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin in m hamburg, germany in summer of 2017. whatme is remarkable about the chro

then if least interior minister has taken a swipe at the foreign affairs chief in iraq over migration we'll have a look at that story plus of the just after the break. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. were legal about. the right location but. who will be able through a. useful role. because really i do think in russia. again you with r.t. now there have been some fireworks flying on the final day of the annual world economic forum in davos stern words were heard from the u.s. billionaire george soros and also from the chinese representative. has more now from the swiss ski resort. billionaire philanthropist an influential investor george soros and the vice president of china's main securities regulator locked horns at the worl

i thank you, chairman engel, for your leadership in the house foreign affairs committee. i rise in support of my legislation, h.r. 328, which will strengthen cybersecurity at the state department. this legislation is known as the hack your state department act. it's introduced with my colleague, ted yoho of florida, and has received strong bipartisan support. and that's because there's no such thing as republican cybersecurity or democratic cybersecurity. it's just cybersecurity and we are behind. american institutions are under constant attack from criminals from foreign intelligence services and from everyday hackers and that's why last term i was very honored to have -- introduced the hack d.h.s. act along with senators hassan, portman, kamala harris, congressman scott harris. that legislation was signed last month. this bill focuses on the state department and it's something we need to do because we know that the state department over the years has faced mounting security threats from both criminal enterprises and state sponsored hackers. in 2014, for instance, the de

engel on his ascension to the chairmanship of the foreign affairs committee. i can't think of a better chairman to work with than mr. engel, who is always bipartisan, always says that pat sanship stops at the water's edge, and i know being in the national security committee, we will conduct ourselves with the dignity, respect for each other. we may disagree from time to time, but we will always respect each other, and i look forward, sir, to working with you in this congress. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of the bill i sponsored with mr. castro of texas, the protecting dip low mates from surveillance through consumer devices act. last year a report revealed the risks of using wearable technologies such as fitbits and apple watches, which use g.p.s. tracking. as the report stated, researchers were able to track the movements of deployed troops in overseas locations. this obviously poses an enormous security risk for our soldiers overseas. enemies could track patrol routes or discover the location of secret foreign installments. this exposure puts our dip

we spoke to the chair of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation council about this constant thing cause the chaff who believes it is clear what needs to be done. positioning in this very difficult and sensitive and fragile situation may cause further. very dangerous developments i believe that the mode of which no is being used implemented in israel is quite simple first to send signal signals to the civil society in a certain country that they believe in the worst conditions than any other country secondly to blame the government of this country for the existing problems and certainly to encourage the civil society of this country to go ahead and to start fighting the ruling to thora this instead of seeking political compromises this is what is has been done in many other situations like in libya in iraq in syria and now it does happen even again in israel society it does experience obvious problems but the position of the international community in this case should be should consist only in encouraging the political dialogue between the ruling authorities and the society i

gideon rose will discuss foreign affairs challenges facing the u.s. in 2019. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. join the discussion.

into the ministry of foreign affairs. they haven't responded to my questions and that's very typical of gandhian politicians they ignore you when you have very serious and important questions to ask they would not respond if there is a pond out thought they will respond after the facts. but this simply didn't respond to the queries and only went to simple questions responses us to what the minister would do would normally under circumstances of that nature but didn't respond there seems to be a pattern of behavior here where government institutions or business leaders don't feel the need to respond to journalists why do you think that is i think it's simply impunity i definitely did everything emails phone calls from delivered lead to. i give the whole deal what you did the world would be over a month or two and sort of quest so they hope. so with stuff bullets coming next tuesday that's really spending a lot of time at the moment helping our partners get over the line. powerful people in that part of the well really don'

uncle as minister of foreign affairs minister is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for the petition now we are recording this interview on the sidelines of the valdai forum and many of the discussions here today are about ukraine and how it's being sandwiched between russia and the west led to a conflict mongolia also finds itself but the two great powers russia and china and the us from what i understand it is a source of.

back to foreign affairs, we will hear from editor in chief gideon rose on foreign policy.here is more "washington journal" coming. >> media mogul sumner redstone and his battle for viacom. we talked with -- about her book the king of content. >> after he had a battle with prostate cancer and came through, he saw being seen with other young women as a sign of his vitality. being with them was a sign that he could tell the world i am going to live forever as he loved to say. he would go to these hollywood parties and sometimes he would go home with his grandsons date -- grandson's date. very awkward for the executives in viacom and cbs because he was still the controlling shareholder of these companies but would do really will -- really weird things. >> tonight on c-span's q&a. the senior members of the trump campaign, don jr., paul manafort, jared kushner, meeting with a russian emissary, who they were told was bringing them dirt produced by a secret operation of the russian government to harm hillary. they said yes we will meet with you and take your information. presumabl

agreeing to discuss that i'm now joined by them didn't solve but the current uncle as minister of foreign affairs and this is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for the nutrition now we are recording this interview on the sidelines of the valdai forum and many of the discussions here today are about hugh crane and how it's being sandwiched between russia and the west lots of conflict mongolia also finds itself within two great powers russia and china and yet from what i understand it is a source of development rather than discord how do you explain that well. we're developing the. ballast relationship with our neighbors and it's our priority. with russia and china we have strategic partnership and really it is a trust confidence relationship the most important thing is really the fact that you give priority to this relationship you because you're the aleutian ship on your strengths of course we're different countries that means we have differences that we do not have differences but it's very important to menage those differences and to capitalize on your strengths bu

agreeing to discuss that i'm now joined by them didn't solve but the current uncle as minister of foreign affairs and this is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for the nutrition now we are recording this interview on the sidelines of the valdai forum and many of the discussions here today i about q. crane and how it's being sandwiched between russia and the west lots of conflict mongolia also finds itself within two great powers russia and china and yet from what i understand it is a source of development rather than discord how do you explain that well. we're developing the. ballast relationship with our neighbors and it's our priority. was russia and china we have strategic partnership and really it is a trust confidence relationship the most important thing is really the fact that you give priority to this relationship you because you're the aleutian ship on your strengths of course we're different countries that means we have differences doesn't mean that we do not have differences.

a prank then i still to come for you this if least interior minister has taken a swipe at the foreign affairs chief in iraq over migration we'll have a look at that in more detail just after the break. thanks guys are financially but they say the girl is. close to tears if this is a central plank support diagram is kind of covered right now so you stop to. seem wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days become active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. work. you the right location. oh you'll be able through. all of us fool. because related to. russia. welcome back now it is the final day of the annual world economic forum in davos and it's seen stern words to you coming from the u.s. billionaire george soros and also from the chinese representative that so let's get more on this now from the situation he joins us live from the alpine resort good afternoon nastia tell us more then what is this route back. well andrew the billionaire investor and influential person george soros and the vice presiden

elliott's long career in foreign affairs includes a long time as a senior leader in this organization. under president reagan he served as assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs. under president george w. bush he served on the national security council on human rights and international affairs, senior director for north africa and near eastern affairs. the rightsassion for and liberties of all peoples makes him a perfect fit and a valuable and timely addition. the venezuelan people have rejected, president maduro's illegitimate rule. consistent with their constitution and the people in the national assembly, the interim president has declared himself. these are the first steps on venezuela's road to liberty. elliott will be a true asset. on this issue and all others he presidento advance trump's interests and the american people. left thisiefly, i building 30 years ago this week. it is nice to be back. venezuela is the and difficult and dangerous and i cannot wait to get to work. >> we have time for questions. secretary, can you talk about in more detai

at his health is lee's interior minister and deputy prime minister has taken a swipe at the foreign affairs chief federica maurine he said she's forgotten her italian roots as the considers shutting down the italy led search and rescue operation for migrants in the mediterranean sea. the person who represents us in europe was put in that position by the tower and left quarter of the now after being appointed supergoddess how to be in the towel in the meanwhile salvini could face trial over his refusal to let a group of migrants disembark from a rescue vessel last year that after of course initially overruled a previous ruling by prosecutors to drop the charges the politician known for his hard stance on migration is suspected of abusing his power and holding people against their will which salvini reacted by taking to twitter saying that he could face up to fifteen years behind bars he also said the decision had led left him speechless adding though that he feared nothing he vowed to continue defending its borders from illegal migrants independent political analyst alexandra bruno told us a

democratic congressman eliot engel, the chair of the house foreign affairs committee telling cnn quote unquote all things are on the table. with me now, jerry connolly of virginia. a senior member of the house oversight and reform committee and is on the house foreign affairs committee. so welcome, sir. >> great to be with you. >> so the big question, will your committee subpoena the interpreter? >> i hope so. this is a very grave matter. the fact we're asking the question as you began this segment is the president of the united states a russian operative. >> extraordinary. >> is itself extraordinary. and this is, this really getting to the truth frankly is more important than precedent or executive brif ledgprivilege. the only person beside putin who witnessed the conversation was the translator. she has to be heard from. under oath. before our committee. >> so you hope so. you hope that she is subpoenaed, but despite the circumstances, there's a former rag b ben, also interpreted for bush and other presidents. the idea is his word atrociouat. suggesting it's a slippery slope, that th

wonder whether the senate is blocked by senate democrats from proceeding to consider important foreign affairs legislation, i wonder if we could still look ourselves in the mirror and call ourselves the world's greatest deliberative body. but historically we'ven about able to reach a concensus on very tough issues, far more controversial than this, because we all believe that american interests should come first and our constituents should come first and we're here to serve their interests, not merely to play political games and score political points. so it's time for our democratic friends to come back to the negotiating table so we can finally end this unnecessary and harmful shutdown and hopefully in the process, the 800,000 federal workers that missed their first paycheck last friday can get paid during this next pay period. and we can reopen the federal governme s

foreign affairs chief editor ecomog rainey but herself and he said that she'd forgotten her italian roots his words came as the e.u. consider shutting down the italian led search and rescue operation for migrants in the mediterranean. the person who represents us and europe was put in that position by the talent left because of the now off to be in the point that god how to be in the tallinn you want salvini could face trial over his refusal to let a group of migrants disembark from a rescue vessel last year that after a court in italy overruled a previous ruling by prosecutors to drop charges a politician known for his hard stance on migration is suspected of abusing his power and holding people against their will they reacted on twitter saying that he could face up to fifteen years behind bars he also said the decision had left him speechless adding though that he feared nothing about to continue defending italy's borders from illegal migrants meanwhile a new opinion poll by the world economic forum shows that italy is among the most skeptical of european countries when it comes to migr

again i would seize interior minister and deputy prime minister has taken a swipe at the foreign affairs chief more grainy matter salving he said she'd forgotten her italian roots his words came as the e.u. considers shutting down the italian led search and rescue operation for migrants in the mediterranean. the person who represents us and europe was put in that position by the talent left in the quarter of the now off to be in the point it forgot how to be in italian. meanwhile salvia he could face trial over his refusal to let a group of migrants disembark from a vessel last year that after a court in italy did overrule a previous ruling by prosecutors to drop the charges the politician known for his hard stance on migration is suspected of abusing his power and holding people against their will or sell the needed react on twitter saying he could face up to fifteen years behind bars he also said the decision had left him speechless adding though that he feared nothing he wanted to continue to defending is lee's borders from illegal migrants meanwhile a new opinion poll by the world ec

s foreign affairs chief it's about migration and other issues but back in just a mum. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamped each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he loans to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only. those who are legally in the right location. who oh it will be able through of. us who knew all about her secret between did i do so in russia. i'm going to join us today for this program a recently released american iranian journalist is urging people to join her protest in washington d.c. later on friday after she was held for ten days in u.s. custody. he spoke to watts he's afshin rattansi

other news to the russia's foreign affairs ministry some of the japanese buster over statements coming from tokyo but the status of those disputed southern coral islands has got across this in your trunk is it one pick at all through this dispute been going on for a long time is that what's the latest fix it sounds like it's wrapped up again well first of all the paradox is that russia and japan are still technically at war there has been no peace agreement since world war two and when nazi germany and their allies japan back then were defeated the. this group of tiny islands one thousand kilometers north of tokyo became russian territory territory administered by russia under international law japan though still considers the islands it's all well and sorry so what really annoyed the russian diplomats here was some of the things that the japanese prime minister just said shinzo abi told japanese t.v. that tokyo has no intention to resettle the russians that are living on the islands that's a rather quirky thing to say given the fact that the islands are still administered by russia an

we also hear from leaders of the venezuelan opposition parties, and former house foreign affairs committee chair ed royce. from the atlantic council in washington, this is an hour and a half. >> good morning. i'm fred kemp. i'm president and ceo of the atlantic council. you can see by the overflow crowd, by the cameras in the back of the room, that we're involved at this moment not really in an event but really a moment of history that we are all trying to understand and all trying to understand how we can help them move in the right direction. i'm going to be very brief because there's so much else to do in this morning. d at this moment not really in an event but a moment of history that we are all trying to understand all trying to understand how we can help move in the right direction. i'm going to be very brief because there's so much else to do this morning. i was just speaking to julio for these, the representative of the interim government in venezuela and the former president of the venezuelan national assembly. and he will say this on the record here as well but he told me i coul

with us to discuss her feature piece in "foreign affairs," the most recent "foreign affairs," "the stealthpower: how china hid its foreign ambitions." what profited you to write about china? trump and thent administration had clearly laid out the fact that we were now in a power competition with china. for many people like myself, this was a welcome move, but people want to know why did he take so long for this to be the case? china has been in competition with us for two decades. so this explains why it took so long. host: the cover of "foreign affairs" is "who will run the world: america, china, and the global order." where previously had china fit in in the so-called global order? guest: the purpose of my pieces to question how we are thinking about china and the global order. historically, when a rising power is building power, they do it in a distinct way. today, we are trying to figure out -- what is china doing in the order? what type of order is china going to build when the time comes? right now, it is to exploit the u.s. order to build their own power. host: give us some ways tha

it is for me, and i want you to know it will be for the house foreign affairs committee going forward. as a model goes for the newspaper that published mr. kushogi's column, the washington post in a quote, democracy dies in darkness. so i want to thank you for providing the light against that darkness and i'm proud with you in that important work. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> i want to thank all the speakers who have spoken so sternly and courageously today. in closing i just thought i would say something about, just remember the man that we are honoring today. he is a muslim. he is an arab. is a saudi. and yet, the most precious thing to him was freedom, freedom of the press in particular but freedom. he was fighting for freedom and what this tells us is that this is a universal value. it's not just dumping american. but he loved america, because embodied freedom and i think it's incumbent on all of us to cherish our country as much as he did. and to show that we will support him in his fight to bring freedom to his own people. so thank you all for coming. [ applause ] >>> to