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member of the german parliament for the green party you also sits on the board just talks foreign affairs committee welcome to the program thank you for joining us we just heard those harsh words from the german foreign minister will it be only harsh words from germany or does more need to be done. and. international pressure and. i think much more caught and that is not our public global awareness what will happen to same have money and i think he had how his point of view to go back to playing his role with a view to the elections in russia this all too bad there is a specific public awareness that. makes it highly risk for the putin regime not to care about sarah it is a brave action he did but i think from his point of view it was necessary to go that way and that that will happen what everyone expected that he should it be detained the development of a riot how concerned are you about his safety now that he's back in russia i'm really concerned because i am male and the experience from the last. 10 years are there are no real limits for this stage of russia if i'm not on the moon. and mrs poli

party he is a member of the german parliament foreign affairs committee as well as think it's good to see you again what are the german government's actions over russia i mean will we just be hearing tough words from germany or is there something that can be done to force russia's hand. well i think that we are concerned for mr love on this safety it was quite a bold. courageous move him to go back to russia but he did it very consciously very deliberately also i think as a political demonstration of it's his will not to be exiled from his own country. what we have think demanded his immediate release i think what happened today is particularly yesterday's particular provocative as mr of and he is supposed to be present tomorrow morning in a in a hearing of the council of europe's parliamentary assembly legal affairs and human rights committee where he is a request it and invited to testify on his case and if there is no russian cooperation on that investigation the russians house announced it will not participate we will have to see whether they will commit missed an avanti to appear

not to or i we thank you for joining us on the north program members of the bundestag so foreign affairs committee. you're watching a d.-w. fly from lynn and those are extra the extraordinary scenes that you're a you're seeing at the moment that's the save the capitol building in washington where a pro trump supporters have stormed the building there are reports of people that she got inside in the capitol police were using pepper spray to in order to keep the crowds back it seems to have calmed down quite substantially now this came at the end of an afternoon in which donald trump had had attended a rally pushing his story that he'd been robbed of the election as inside the capitol building lawmakers lawmakers were debating were the almost of almost the final parts of the process of a joe biden assuming of the presidency which is that they were considering. the votes of the electoral college they were debating them there have been objections from republicans what happens when when that happens is we got as far as arizona there were a couple of lawmakers who objected so then they will have to go o

party is a member of the german parliament foreign affairs committee as well it's been it's good to see you again what are the german governments since over russia i mean will we just be hearing tough words from germany or is there something that can be done to force russia's hand. well i think that we are concerned for the mystery of our niece safety it was quite a bold. courageous move him to go back to russia but he did it very consciously very deliberately also i think as a political demonstration of it's his will not to be exiled from his own country. what we have demanded his immediate release i think what happened today is particularly yesterday's particular provocative as mr of and he is supposed to be present tomorrow morning in a hearing of the council of europe's parliamentary assembly legal affairs and human rights committee where he is. request it and invited to testify on his case and if there is no russian cooperation on that investigation the russians house announced it will not participate we will have to see whether they will commit missed an avanti to appear which may

party he is a member of the german parliament foreign affairs committee as well as think it's good to see you again what are the german government's actions over russia i mean will we just be hearing tough words from germany or is there something that can be done to force russia's hand. well i think that we are concerned for the mystery of our niece safety it was quite a bold. courageous move him to go back to russia but he did it very consciously very deliberately also i think as a political demonstration of it's his will not to be exiled from his own country. what we have demanded his immediate release i think what happened to day is particular yesterday's particular provocative as mr of and he is supposed to be present tomorrow morning in a in a hearing of the council of europe's parliamentary assembly legal affairs and human rights committee where he is. request it and invited to testify on his case and if there is no russian cooperation on that investigation the russians have announced they will not participate we will have to see whether they will commit missed an avanti to appe

team member of the german parliament for the green party you also sits on the bundestag foreign affairs committee welcome to the program thank you for joining us we just heard those harsh words from the german foreign minister will it be only harsh words from germany or does more need to be done. i think there is not international pressure and i think much more port and that is not our public global awareness what would happen to the same have money and i think he has from his point of view to go back to playing his role with a view to the elections in russia this all too bad there is a specific public awareness that. makes it highly risk for to putin regime not to care about sara it is a brave act when he did that i think it is from his point of view it was necessary to go that way and that that will happen what everyone expected that he should it be detained the development of a riot how concerned are you about his safety now that he is back in russia i'm really concerned because i am male and the experience from the last. 10 heroes are that there are no real limits for this stage of russian if

foreign affairs seeking information from china. the congressman wants more facts about a recent government report so he can draft a bill more intelligently and participate more effectively in the deliberations of the foreign affairs committee. this request for information is but one of,ands received each month. some of them can be answered with a word and some of them require weeks of research and book-length reports. regular or special congressional committees like the armed services committee start fireworks. the committee works over bills before they are debated or voted upon. it is another way in which congress seeks to get all of the facts before it acts on a bill. some committee hearings can be tense. sometimes they are used to air political views which are embarrassing to one of the parties in congress. they have the power under law to compet the attendance of witnesses and have them testify under oath. the chairman and members of the committee may question witnesses. open hearings on important questions attract large attendance. and, of course, the newspaper reporters are there. there are some high ranking naval officers that have been called to testify. they are checking over the statements which they are going to

time, and harry truman gets the message to engage the republican house, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee. and traditionally and isolationists. he worked all the republicans and it was a constant effort to pull the republicans and explained to them, and chamberlain did, for the design on the same region 10 years earlier. and after verse side, woodrow wilson came back and got the united states involved in the league of nations, henry cabot laws and isolationists to follow wilson, the country retreated back into the fortress american mentality, to build strength and september 1st, 1989, world war ii began and we knew the consequences of that. and he showed, he surrounded himself with the best and brightest of his time, the wisemen is at jackson and evan thomas called and the secretary of state was george c marshall, general marshall was an organizer of allied victory in world war ii, dean patches and was the undersecretary of state, the most capable, diplomat, and it was the first of stalin's design, and the containment policy. and they knew the soviet union better than anything. it is hard

member of the german parliament for the green party you also sits on the board just hogs foreign affairs committee welcome to the program thank you for joining us we just heard those harsh words from the german foreign minister will it be only harsh words from germany or does more need to be done and. international pressure and. i think much more caught and that is not our public global awareness what would happen to same have money and i think he has from his point of view to go back to playing his role with a view to the elections in iraq shot this autumn back there is a specific public awareness that. makes it highly risk for the putin regime not to care about sarah it is a brave action he did but i think from his point of view it was necessary to go back way and that that was happening what everyone expected that he should it be detained at the moment of arrival how concerned are you about his safety now that he's back in russia i'm really concerned because i am male and the experience from the last 10 years are that there are no real limits for this stage of russia if i'm not on the murder of

party is a member of the german parliament foreign affairs committee as well as because good to see you again what are the german government's actions over russia i mean will we just be hearing tough words from germany or is there something that can be done to force russia's hand. well i think that we are concerned for the midst of our nice safety it was quite a bold. courageous move him to go back to russia but he did it very consciously very deliberately also i think as a political demonstration of it's his will not to be exiled from his own country. what we have think demanded his immediate release i think what happened to day is particular yesterday's particular provocative as mr of and he is supposed to be present tomorrow morning in a hearing of the council of europe's parliamentary assembly legal affairs and human rights committee where he is. request it and invited to testify on his case and if there is no russian cooperation on that investigation the russians have announced they will not participate we will have to see whether they will commit missed an avanti to appear which m

congressman lee zeldin, a member of the foreign affairs committee, will tell us next. ♪ ♪ [♪♪] when yougar is crucial. try boost glucose control. the patented blend is clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels. boost glucose control products contain high quality protein and key nutrients to support immune health. try boost. eric: well, the united states will seo lengthen and strengthen the nuclear constraints on iran through diplomacy. press secretary jen psaki says the iranian nuclear issue will be part of president biden's early talks with foreign leaders, but there's a catch, tehran wants us to move first. new york republican congressman lee zeldin is here. so, congressman, you think the newed administration, do you think they trust iran or should they trust iran? >> definitely shouldn't trust iran and, actually, we've heard that come from even during the obama administration there was talk about how we should not trust iran, that this deal wasn't built on trust, it was going to be built on verification. that was the right attitude. however, there were several key mistakes,

discuss is republican congressman michael mccaul of texas, ranking republican on the house foreign affairs committeeod to see you. >> you, too, jake. >> what do you make of the plans to keep the fencing around the capitol? obviously, we want all of you to be safe. is that too much, do you think, to make that fencing permanent? >> well, i would make it threat based. as long as we have intelligence threats coming in, which we do. i think we'll have that through the impeachment trial in the senate. i think it's wise course of action. they tried to break into my office. and all i had was a baseball bat to defend myself. thank god the capitol police took them down. but it was a very dark day for america and a dark chapter. >> congresswoman liz cheney, the number three republican in the house, one of the only ten republicans voted to impeach. now she's under attack by fellow republicans. take a listen to what your republican colleague in the house, congressman peter meijer, who also voted to impeach, what he told me yesterday. >> if liz cheney is the person who suffers the most from the events on january

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he serves on the foreign affairs committee and a member of the problem solvers caucus.or being with me. >> good morning. good to be here. >> you were there when the siege, the insurrection happened on the capitol and you said it shook you to your core, but you were undeterred. i wonder your thoughts this morning as josh campbell reports that intelligence officials are warning that the attack on you guys last wednesday will, quote, likely motivate additional follow-up attacks by extremists throughout the year and the bulletin from the fbi also says that these efforts were viewed by those who carried them out largely as a success and will serve as a significant driver of violence. yet there you are at work again today. what do you think when you hear that? >> well, it saddens me to think that we have a president who incited this type of violence across our country. and incited a mob to go to the united states capitol and initiate a revolt against our democracy to resist the peaceful transition of power. and it resulted in five deaths. four of them are his own supporters.

and it was of course arthur vandenberg, the senate chairman of the foreign affairs committee who famously first said politics should stop at the water's edge and to his credit and the republicans credit, that's exactly what they did. >> so one of the fascinating insights you have in the book is that truman succeeded at what woodrow wilson failed at . and one of the reasons the book is so powerful is you make clear how little reason there was to believe truman was a man who had the skills that hecould do this . so what is it that truman understands? you make a good case in the book that because he was a creature of the senate, he understood the value and practice of it. what else? he didn't have anyone near the kind of political base you would have thought could produce the leverage to get this done in congress so tell the story about how he weaves this magic becauseit really is a herculean achievement . >> harry truman had quite a few things going for him. and his relationship in the senate, his relationships in the senate were certainly one of them. another one was he was very plainspoke

many of us have -- and i sit on the foreign affairs committee. many of us have seen this take place before. many of us have made statements. many of us have expressed desire for those nations to have what we have. and to now find ourselves in a position with where we are looking for accountability and the attempted threat -- attempted coup of our own government is again truly heartbreaking. and i know that history will look kindly on those of us who have decided to fulfill our oath of office in defending our nation against not only foreign but domestic threats and will not look so kindly on those who have decided to coward in this moment, who have decided to choose party and viability and success over their country and over their oath of office. [indiscernible question] ms. omar: as someone who truly believes in justice, i know that there is always room for repair. there's always room for healing. there's always room for unity. but precursor to any of those things is accountability, is truth and it's justice. and without any of those things, we w

european parliament is to implement what navalny himself told us to do when he came to the foreign affairs committeehe asked us, if we want to help, this regime which is an ideological and diplomatic adversary, if you want to hurt the regime we have to touch the money, and to send a strong signal you cannot arrest opponents like that. you cannot destroy human rights like that. and, at the same time, your oligarchs spend holidays in cooked us your -- cote d'azur. 1 your tal brent: you are talking about sanctions on members of the russian government. thatas been done before and it still has not stopped president putin. why do you it would work this time? >> because it was not done ough. what we have t rember is putin's regime is an autocracy at a kleptocracy. they are thieves. they are robbers. ey stole the money of the russian people. and we need to strike thr wallets. i mean, you still have the people who enjoy the benefits of mr. putin's regime spending their money in our capitals, in our resorts. this has to stop. if you want the regime to crumble a bit, then you need to make sure that people who

point of view we are now joined by david mcallister from brussels he's the chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the european union's parliament. are you happy that iraq trump is now nearly over. well 1st of all good afternoon and like around the whole world also we in europe were shocked by the disturbing images reached us from washington and we now have 13 days to go and then on the 20th of january we will have hopefully a peaceful organized handover of power in washington and then the european union is ready to start of to strengthen the transatlantic relations with presidential biden things can only get better so at the you are relieved. of course i am and i must say that we saw yesterday how deeply divided the united states is and president trump has divided this country instead of convincing his supporters to have faith in democracy institutions and the rule of law in the united states he continued to talk about electoral fraud and thereby further incited the mob and we can only wish president biden that he succeeds in uniting this country it will be a big and difficult task to overcome

our foreign policy spokesman for the greens in germany's parliament and a member of the foreign affairs committeeand the deputy chairman of the german u.s. parliamentary group. welcome to dw, sir. can we start with your reaction to this news that the u.s. senate has gone into emergency recess as these pro-trump supporters have stormed the capitol building? >> it is absolutely shocking. it's absolutely -- that people are decided to go to the senate and then to breach even the floor of the senate and interrupt a constitutional formal process of the confirmation of the president-elect of the country. i think american democracy is strong enough and checks and balances at the end of the day are going to work but what happened this evening is a massive breach of political culture of the united states. and i hope that is going to be a wake-up call for a lot of people who supported the insighters to wake up and hopefully they will find ways to break the polarization which is leading to this situation. phil: where do you believe this incitement has come from? >> you know, i saw that the current president

representative gregory meeks the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee echoes cuban leadership said this is a nation of cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism with less than a week to go in his presidency and after he incited a domestic terror attack on the u.s. capital that's hypocrisy. so what will cuba american relations actually look like can we establish a fresh start here tell us more is professor of politics and international ations at holy names university and author of raul castro in the new cuba a close up view of change has plenty welcome. it's a pleasure. what other than trying to stick it to the obama era policy what do you think is driving the top administration's final our push to label cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism and apply heavy thinking and what does this mean for the future of cuban american diplomatic relations. very good questions their 1st question i will tell you is the most important of this issue these late meaning this issue of the drug administration is this report that they have received from extreme right wing excited in southern florida that'

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