stuff on the vicious member of the german parliament foreign policy committee and speaks on the foreign policy for germany's left party of course is one of the correspondents in washington welcome both. let's start with you of problems between the president and his secretary of state have been rife it seems to have been a case of not whether but when. absolutely there was a time in december and january when the papers here in washington and the news networks were already speculating and saying that to listen was on his way out and probably that coverage saved him at the time because donald trump didn't want to be seen as being pushed towards this decision by the press but now he has made that decision but this problem between the two men has been coming and has been developing over a long period of time beginning there was a kind of honeymoon when there regularly mets and discussed foreign affairs but clearly then after a few months tillerson was increasingly out of the loop was not part of the on the drums in a circle he contradicted the president and the president contradicted him on

leash in the obama administration because this is us trying down defenses and appeasement of foreign policy committeeranian nuclear deal. there were two things. number one, president trump is rebuilding the military. it's called for 355 ship navy. the budget doesn't get us there, but a step in that direction. by bringing in someone like john bolton who's a conservative foreign policy hawk of the conservative movement is thrilled about. he's sending a message we will rebuild our defenses, bring in john bolton, bring in mike pompeo and have a robust american foreign policy. leland: we're 15 months into the trump administration. we see actions by those four countries that show that they realize there is a new sheriff in town where we still waiting for that? >> no, they understand things have changed. for example, the persian gulf, the iranians are not using their asbestos armor carriers and destroyers in the persian gulf. they realized after president trump watch the tomahawks on syria to display his displeasure to chemical weapons come in the iranians got that message. leland: at least in terms of the

in terms of what he has said more recently, it's more in line with what you're seeing the foreign policy committee at large. but it's true he has taken positions that would come into question, and that would certainly be one of them. depending how aggressively people go after this and start looking into his background, there will be weeks of this in terms of what he said in the past. unlike h.r. mcmaster, he has never served in the military. we keep talking about him as a warmonger and the positions he has taken is a cry toward war or march toward war. he has never implemented anything he has talked about. >> interesting too because he said everything that came before all of these positions we can dig up, we can see them in the wall street journal a little less than a month ago. the legal case for striking north korea first is how the piece is titled. >> yeah. >> he has these positions. but he said all of that was in the past. i served for you the president. i'm going to do this. but you can't ignore those things, to your point. especially as we are supposed to have this meeting. the president is

the chairman of the bush policy foreign affairs committee says that poison looks like state sponsored attempted crime as a reason may will discuss the case of the national security council meeting in the next few hours. dozens of people have been killed in government attacks and syria's eastern busa the rebel held has been under government seized since twenty thirteen . or will in the coming hours again discuss a possible cease fire. has released images that appear to show a range of villages i'm in ma being cleared to make way for military use overnight is ation says it believes an army base is being built on one of the townships that security forces a suspected of burning down last august. and in asia is trying to free up its gridlocked capital a new plan to ease the choking congestion as motorists idea to drive to work on alternate days and explains. and not a government attempt to reduce jackass those famous traffic jams every weekday from six to nine am an odd and even license plate system will take effect here on the toll road it's a system that has been used already in the city

what i came away thinking the future chairman of the foreign relations committee doesn't really agree with the president on many of these foreign policyuesness and yet his articulated goal for the committee would be not to criticize and stand up to him the way bob corker has. >> brennan: michael i want to ask you, you just wrote an in-depth piece about sort of the struggle within -- as you see it, the search for the soul of the evangelical movement in many ways. you say they have lost their interest in decency. what do you think evangelicals who support president trump make of this stormy daniels scanned scandallal? >> i think it is height of hypocrisy and we saw it with roy moore as well, it is any other democratic president had been guilty of what is alleged in these cases, the evangelicals would be, you know, off the reservation. this is a case where their morality seems to be determined by their politics. and they sees to be moral leaders in that sense. it was a tough choice for many evangelicals between hillary clinton and the president, and i understand that, but they have been the most psycho fant -- ic element of the republica

foreign policy and aid. he and i decide to make a point the by doing an event at refugee committee about keeping foreign aid strong and those arguments on a bipartisan basis are important and the last is economic. bush got this in africa. bill clinton got this. is important to make those arguments about security and economics. >> interesting. good to hear about that. we have about a minute and, on the issue of security, as you a journey intont israel and set off a series of actions that led to the downing of an f-16 and the destruction of substantial parts of the syrian air system. there is a growing threats on the border. how can the u.s. and israel confront the threat in syria and ensure that israel gets the support it needs? >> this is a wake-up call for washington that we must stand tall and we must be firm on this. has been building up the military presence in syria and lebanon and we are talk about the northern border. the first is what i was talking about, the importance of aid and keeping it's wrong for israel and the second is being firm on the sanctions against iran and enforcing them and enforcin

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policy remaining in effect today. in 2016 senator menendez, now the ranking member senate foreign relations committee criticize the international community's failure for the conflict that included support to the houthi insurgency to topple the government of yemen and he went on to say i have a sense we are creating a permissive environment and i agree with the senator we should not abandon to leave the permissive environment or a vacuum or avoid for bad actors to fill. there is one lesson i thought we learned after 911 when 3000 americans were killed when three planes were hijacked into into the world trade center and one into the pentagon one landing in pennsylvania because the passengers overwhelmed the hijackers but what happens in the middle east does not stay in the middle east and what happened in afghanistan is the taliban and provided a safe haven for osama bin laden and al qaeda and they use that safe haven to train and export their terrorist attacks against countries around the world that primarily against the united states and that is what happened on 9/11 that is why we cannot allow a safe haven in yemen. not to men

. >>> british foreign secretary boris johnson updated members on the foreign affairs committee about developments in uk foreign policy specifically russia and the recent nerve agent attack. he told lawmakers that the timing of russia's nerve agent attack in the uk was closely connected to the recent presidential election in russia. and later questioned the authenticity of the results of the election. other topics focusesed on whether the government would formerlily boycott the world cup hosted by hash. foreign policy policy in yemen and relations in the

foreign-policy and the trump administration. i want to thank my colleague, senator menendez of new jersey come recommended by the foreign relations committee, and comment first of the outset on two things that even while he said that i i just don't think are true. first, the democrats are bottling up the president widely needed nominees forcing ambassadorial position or senior department of stateos dominatio, and that we are holding key nominees. frankly, i think nothing could be further from the truth. earlier today in a business meeting our foreign relations committee which works well on a bipartisan basis voted out a whole series of ambassadors, treaties, assistant secretaries of state. second, ivers said by some pundits that democrats wish president trump ill, that we are working to do everything we can to hold them back and prevent him from being successful. so let me start by saying i think all of us know that we're strongest when we stand together and work together all of us have at some point heard the old adage that politics should stop at the water's edge and nothing would make me happier to see our foreign-policy, our military a

from new jersey, the leader of the democrats on the foreign relations committee, for asking the members to come out here to speak to the foreign policy of the trump administration. north korea is a serious and ever-worsening threat to its people, to our allies, and partners in the region, and to the united states. unfortunately, the trump administration has mismanaged our north korea policy and the potential consequences of failure are too great to ignore. north korea may have bent over backwards to appear conciliatory during the winter olympics and through its offers of talks with south korea and the united states, but kim jong-un has not stopped his dangerous activities. far from it. while the north korean regime is all smiles and opennages it's maligned behavior continues. its engineers race to perfect a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile. north korean laborers around the world, modern-day indentured servants, send paychecks home to the regime helping fund its illicit military programs. illegal ship-to-ship transfers of refined petroleum products continue. north korea's army of cyber warriors degrees more capable. a

foreign policy policy in yemen and relations in the united states. this is 2 hour, 20 minutes. >> ready. >> at your disposal. >> order, order. well to this afternoon session of the foreign affairs committee. foreign secretary thank you for coming. secretary of state thank you for coming. if we can start directly. i'm going to ask royce ton to kick offer. >> thank you chirm. foreign secretary probably an obvious line of questioning and entirely appropriate in my opinion i'm sure you'll agree, is it your assessment that president putin was directly involved in or gave the order for the recent salisbury attack. >> well, mr. smith i think as i say -- as you say rather it's exactly right that we shall begin with that subject. and i'm grateful to the committee having me along today. what the prime minister said a week ago is -- was very clear process. we gave the russians two alternatives. they could either explain how stocks of novichok could have mysteriously escaped their possession and used in salisbury or we were forced to draw the conclusion that the attempted murders that took place there, the reckless endanger of public life in this country, the first use of a nerve agent on european s

a hearing before the senate foreign relations committee is critically important and to look at the u.s. military support of the saudi coalition and our overarching u.s. policy for resolving the war in yemen. ima appreciate the chairman has also made a commitment to a markup in the committee and the near future over legislation that deals with the question of yemen. and i also welcome his commitment to markup in a ums, authorization for the use of military force in the committee. those are significant and actually will go a l long way towards an important process about how we deal with this challenge. in considering senate resolution 54, i encourage my colleagues to assess the best way to promote core u.s. in the middle east, including pushing back on iran's aggressive and destabilizing actions across the region, countering terrorism and ensuring the freedom of navigation. to achieve these goals, our long-standing policies have been to partner with members of the cooperation council to promote the security and stability of the arabian peninsula. as they consider this resolution, we must fully grasp the situation on the ground in the scope of tax on one of ou

foreign policy. and how do you have an intelligence committee reporting on one individual to the national security advisor and the national security advisor has to call him and say, excuse me, we're conducting foreign policy in an integrated way here, what are you doing? >> i'll say a couple things about this. one is murder, political murder is an opportunistic business in a lot of cases. you're looking for the opportunity to take out a rival. because kushner got in the trouble because the porter thing led to the question of security clearances. now he's vulnerable. think of all the people in the white house who don't like jared kushner. think about anybody who is a rival power center, then think of all the people out of the administration now who hate jared kushner, who were around for that first year. i don't know, say steve bannon who saw a lot of stuff over the course of the year, little less than a year that he was there. all of those people who have some reason to want jared kushner -- they're waiting for the moment. this was the moment. this is the moment where if you're going to strike at the prin

he's sure to be grilled on his policy positions for russia and iran by members of the senate foreign relations committee. >>> tillerson's ouster catching many offguard. a senior official says the president thought it was the right time for a transition ahead of talks with north korea. mr. trump addressing the korea issue during his visit to california. >> we're doing a pretty good job with korea right now. hopefully something positive will come out of it. hopefully something very positive's going to come out of it. we'll see. we're prepared for anything. >> how will tillerson's firing affect these sensitive talks? let's ask paula hancocks live in seoul with the latest. good morning, paula. >> reporter: hello, dave. it's a very good question, and it's probably one that north korea is asking itself at this point. we still haven't had any kind of public response from pyongyang since the u.s. president said yes to that meeting with kim jong-un. of course, we know that rex tillerson was more positive about engagement with north korea. he had publicly disagreed with his boss, donald trump, in the past about k

coverage of the british prime minister theresa may appearing before the british liaison committee, addressing foreign policy priorities and other issues. >> we hope to raise russia with you in the aftermath of -- salisbury incident, have a discussion on brexit and i am going to hand over straight away to the foreign affairs committee. it wasn't written down. there was no operation, no fragos. just we're going to do this and that and the other thing. when they planned the artillery preparation, they often would use artillery to, as a shield to kind of drive it. the artillery bombardment was right on the western edge of the village. they never went to the south vietnamese district chief for permission. there are free fire zones in vietnam, but not when there's an actual village that does not count. it does not count. so right there off the bat, someone should have been thinking, wait, this is not smelling right. >> i think you're right, but i think you have to have the intonation to smell before you do anything, because the first thing that should have happened was the 128, 182 weapons and 128 to 182 bodies,

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coverage of the british prime minister theresa may appearing before the british liaison committee, addressing foreign policy priorities and other issues. >> we hope to raise russia with you in the aftermath of sa-- salisbury incident, have a discussion on brexit and i am going to hand over straight away to the foreign affairs committee. >> prime minister, thank you very much for coming this afternoon. many of us have been impressed with your diplomatic results in 23 nations supporting britain's position. i am extremely grateful for that. may i go straight onto an area i hope i can encourage you to do further work on, however, russian debt sanctions. you will be aware in what seems hardly accidental timing, the russian state itself issued a debt issue a week or so ago, half that money has been bought by uk investors, and has gone to refinancing the foreign currency holdings of the vtb bank which is sanctioned. surely we can do more to stop sanction busting effectively done by the russian state. >> if i may, first of all, just to update on the number of countries who have now expelled, because i said 18 yeste

foreign relations committee. the secretary had agreed to appear on behalf of a foreign aid appropriations bill but wound up in a two day marathon defining the administration's vietnam policymen instrumental in carrying out this policy were honored at the white house that week with the nation's highest award. >> the major and lieutenant stand in the long unbroken rank of heroes who have been this nation's pride and have been this nation's strength from the beginning, when america itself, as lafayette once said, was a dream that every man carried in his heart. i look at these two gallant marines and i see america. i see in their countenance the answer to aggression. i see in their face the certainty of freedom and i see in their presence the hope and the promise of peace. [ applause ] >> in the domestic area it was a month of concentrated activity. the president penned into law six bills. ranging from fire prevention research to veterans' pension benefits. from a visitor's center in the nation's capital to a wilderness preserve in california. along with the signing of legislation that had been passed the president turned his energies towards those proposals yet to be acted

coverage of the british prime minister theresa may appearing before the british liaison committee, addressing foreign policy priorities and other issues. >> we hope to raise russia with you in the aftermath of sa-- salisbury incident, have a discussion on brexit and i am going to hand over straight away to the foreign affairs committee. >> prime minister, thank you very much for coming this afternoon. many of us have been impressed with your diplomatic results in 23 nations supporting britain's position. i am extremely grateful for that. may i go straight onto an area i hope i can encourage you to do further work on, however, russian debt sanctions. you will be aware in what seems hardly accidental timing, the russian state itself issued a debt issue a week or so ago, half that money has been bought by uk investors, and has gone to refinancing the foreign currency holdings of the vtb bank which is sanctioned. surely we can do more to stop sanction busting effectively done by the russian state. >> if i may, first of all, just to update on the number of countries who have now expelled, because i said 18 yeste

between the state department the defense department intelligence committee national security council is a rear current problem in us foreign policy we might my institution and others participate about ten years ago trying to work on how to improve the interface between the white house and the other executive agencies because there's always problems with quite nation with but the department trying to do their own thing with imbalances and funding between apartments and so on so what we're seeing now is not something particularly new. there is a different factor in that you're the president trumps approach diplomacy is a bit different from previous presidents and he appears very comfortable with these leadership meetings peers seem very much influenced by the people who talks to in foreign governments and so much less interested in receiving detailed briefings from the state department telegin and so on so it may be somewhat exacerbated in the current administration but this this this disconnect a problem the hopefully as as are as a as adrian said well they will sort this out over the next month or so so they'll come man with a cl

foreign policy as well as leadership of this nation. >> harris: joining us now, darrell issa. he sits on the house foreign affairs committee.ould have something to say about a new secretary of state. did you hear what blumenthal's decisions are a total mystery. of course they are. they're his decisions to make. >> and a democratic senator would have never supported either of these candidates but he's missing the most important point. secretary of state tillerson has done a great job. but there's a pivot point going on. mike pompeo as director of the cia and former westpoint, number 1 graduate, obviously a former congressman i served with and served on the intelligence committee is perfectly suited as we go into deal with negotiate with north korea and make sure that we have a confirmable deal. something we don't have with iran. so sometimes the right skill set is needed. so now he will directly have a seat at the table as the president tries to take a 70-year-old problem and fix it. >> harris: wow. i like the way you put that, a confirmable deal, something we don't have with iran. we have all the side deals. i don't think p

turn over a new leaf and will start toughening up her policies particularly toward russia and ben cardin a senior member of the foreign relations committee saying that this this this action that we've seen in terms of this firing really underscores trumps inability to take advice from his advisors so the matter which is this has being done once again not sitting well with some very senior democrats on capitol hill and the reason is i mean we heard some of the mention they had been holds on a number of subjects what you think the biggest strain was. certainly north korea comes to mind in terms of where these two men differed dramatically you talked about at the start of the program there were rex tillerson once famously had to kind of didn't know i in rather in a roundabout terms calling the president a moron and it was the issue of donald trump's handling of north korea he was not comfortable with the fire and fury comments that were being made by this president not just vocally but on social media and then of course when we found out that there would be a meeting between donald trump and kim jong un date and time to be determined that r

using violence as a state policy and is using murder as a as a means of influencing outcomes as tom took an attempt to go chess they have british parliaments foreign a fast committee that there is tension tonight in germany and dad germany's new government which was formed only three days ago interior minister jose hoffa has said that he doesn't consider islam to be a part of germany well he added that the muslims who live with us are of course part of the country is a boss a chance america doesn't agree. germany's new interior minister rejects criticism of his remark that although muslims who live here have a place in germany islam does not. our country has been culturally influenced by christianity for hundreds of years so. that's why it is wrong to say that islam belongs to germany. and. chancellor angela merkel disagrees and she very quickly and publicly slap down her interior minister and party ally inspiration even if you mean you are in the four million muslims who currently live in germany practiced their religion. and they belong here just as much as their religion does. and i thought. germany's new justice minister offered a reminder that freedom of reli

committee. andrea, this is amazing. you've studied this had foreign policy sphere for so long. has any president in history treated his or her secretary of state like a dog like this? ing. >> not that i can recall. alexander haig was fired arguably for cause. their chemistry was terrible between the two. there's no question that rex tillerson was on the outs with the president. but he had an ally in jim mattis, defense secretary. and many people in the government felt that he was at least retraining some of the president's worst impulses. he had always said that he would have to fire him to his face, that he was not going to quit. and in fact, what happened was he was fired on twitter and then that follow-up phone call as you point out from air force one. so there was no question that this was really a terrible way of executing the secretary of state and he was emotional in that appearance today. i've never seen him quite like that. josh letterman is absolutely correct. our producer abigail williams was also on the trip and said he was ebuttant in his briefing to the press corp

question would be for politics, we saw the impact on the platform of the republican national committee where foreign policyole different turn and the dollars that were involved there. how do those two pieces play out, i guess, between both of you? >> i would say there's enough blame and responsibility to go around between the white house and secretary of state but he never made appointments a condition of his job. from what i can tell as an outsider, he hasn't fought for the financial resources, he hasn't fought for the human resources. instead he's been focused on this quixotic issue of reorganizing the state department, all this at a time the world is going hell in a hand basket so there's real questions about how mr. tillerson perceives his job and he's worried about placating this white house which doesn't believe in diplomacy but the last i checked that's an important national security tool. >> the official machinery of washington, the government kind of grinds to a halt. look at the state department. there's no question there's dysfunction at the state department at the top with the appointments as y

. >>> and now, senate intelligence committee vice chair mark warner on russian foreign policy, includingity use of cyber warfare and dismafinformation a way to combat foreign policy. later, talking about the strategy and how wistern governments can respond.wistern governments can respond.ewister governments can respond.swister governments can respond.twister governments can respond.ern governments can respond. >>> good morning, everyone. my name is bill burns, i'm from the corn gi endowment. our objective is to bring carnaghi's objective for a fresh soeb are look at why and how of rush why's increasingly aggressive foreign policy and for us here in washington and around the world.why's increasi aggressive foreign policy and for us here in washington and around the world. as all of you know very well, this is not an academic issue. with every indictment, and news headline we are aware of the ongoing brazen russia meddling in our democracy, and the domestic divisions the kremlin seeks to highlight and exploit. and every single day from keef to ca raw cas, we see russia playing its hand in way

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. >>> looking into whether jared kushner's foreign business ties have influenced the president's policy. at least one member of the intelligence committee is sounding alarms as a result of the president's behavior. which included renewed attacks against attorney general jeff sessions and his portrayal on "saturday night live," here's what john brennan said on msnbc. >> i'm worried. particularly the reports of the last couple of days, he must be feeling this pressure and there's a part of me that you know, had been very angry, donald trump for the things he saudi and the things he did. i'm now moving into the realm of deep worry and concern. if we have somebody in the oval office who is unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical. we have rough waters ahead. >> for now let's go back to the president's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. nbc's correspondent kelly o'donnell is following the president in west palm beach. what's the latest on the fallout of this decision? >> good morning, alex. at this phase it's now the reaction around the world. and will u.s. allies or other nations retaliate, by setting up so

a confession to russia and one republican from the platform committee tells reuters that she remembers j.b. gordon, who was a foreign policy associate of the campaign telling her that he was going to work with candidate trump to change the verbiage about ukraine. now j.d. gordon tells fox that it's recycled garbage from nearly two years ago that came today with a fake news media. character assassination by anonymous sources and guilt by insinuation. and you can quote me on that. we just did. >> shepard: today, we got an update on president trump's a border wall proposal from u.s. customs and border protection. the acting deputy commissioner talking about 100 miles of projects for this year. he admitted it's not all wall and is not all new at all. he also could not confirm this tweet from the president a couple of days ago. president trump noting the start of his wall, the pictures are not the start of his wall at all. they are a project that was started back in 2009. not new. not the wall, an old project. but officials say the construction is new. here's the acting deputy commissioner when a reporter asked about the presid

policy and is using murder as a means of influencing outcomes. phil: that is the conservative mp who chairs the british parliament's foreign affairs committee. there is tension in germany's new government. the interior minister has said he does not consider islam to be part of germany. his boss, the chancellor angela merkel, made it clear she did not agree. reporter: germany's new interior minister rejects criticism of his remarks that although muslims who live here have a place in germany, islam does not. >> our country has been culturally influenced by christianity for hundreds of years. that is why it is wrong to say that islam belongs to germany. reporter: chancellor angela merkel disagrees, and she very quickly and publicly slapped down her interior minister and party ally. "4 million muslims who currently live in germany practice their religion, and they belong here just as much as their religion does." germany's new justice minister offered a reminder that freedom of religion is strictly protected in the constitution. "i think people are tired of these theoretical discussions about terminology. it is clear to everyone that we need pra

commitment to sustaining the bipartisan foundations of our foreign policy in these hyper partisan times. him and senator burr, the chair committee,lligence we'll them a debt of gratitude at this moment of testing. halloween his remarks, we will move to our pant -- following his remarks, we will move to our panel. i want to congratulate my colleagues for putting together this timely and important in joinr and -- endeavor and me in giving senator warner a warm welcome. [applause] sen. warner: thank you for that very kind introduction. it is great to see everyone here this morning. times ina number of the last few weeks, few months, that people have been kind enough to say to me or richard happy you, we are so are the adults in the room. what a low bar we have struck. [laughter] again, thank you for that introduction. we could use your steady hand in the state department these days more than ever. i'm glad you are still engaged in the fight here through this great platform you have it carnegie. you have always been a clear and strategic thinker and on behalf of all of us who continue to serve in the day job, thank you for what you'

>>> next, senate intelligence committee vice chair mark warner talking about russian foreign policy and its attempt to spread disinformation to combat western democracies. his remarks are followed by a discussion on how to counter the threat with a former cia official and a russian journalist. hosted by the carnegie endowment for international peace, this is an hour and a half. >>> good morning, everyone. my name is bill burns. i'm the president of the carnegie endowment. i'm very pleased to welcome all of you today to our launch of our new global russia project. our objective is to bring together carnegie's global network to take a fresh, sober look at the why and how of russia's increasing assertive foreign policy and the implications for us here in washington and around the world. as all of you know very well, this is not an academic issue. every single day, with every new indictment, hearing and news headline, we're reminded of the ongoing brazen russia meddling in our democracy, and the domestic divisions the kremlin seeks to highlight and exploit. and every single day from keef to

foreign policy vision. pompeo opposes the iran nuclear deal, supports keeping guantanamo bay open, and he has said the u.s. will give "no concessions" re north the republican chair of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker, says he needs to get to know pompeo. >> i've never really had much if any dealings with him, i'm not sure we've even met. >> woodruff: if he's confirmed, pompeo will also confront a troubled work force. tillerson presided over efforts to cut almost a third of the state partment's budget. in turn, the foreign service has lost 60% of its career ambassadors during t trump administration. the ambassadorship tsouth korea remains unfilled, and the ambassador to mexico announced her resignation last week. tillerson today claimed progress on north korea, syria and iraq. at the c.i.a., the president's choice to replace pompeo, deputy sti.a. director gina haspel, would become the foman to lead the agency. she is certain to face tough questions at her confirmation hearing. in 2002, haspel ran a secret so- called "black site" prison for terrorism suspects, and laterev destroyeidence of waterboarding. tompeo has also defended the c.i.a.'s use of rture. his confirmation hearing will be

so, from the get-go, when the rnc platform committee change happened, when paul manafort became -- >> became more friendly to russian foreign policy. >> yes, constantine known as k.k. came to the u.s. and visited with paul manafort, democracy had their antenna up. >> they saw this coming. this is now obviously well known to bob mueller. we learned about it in the charging documents for a dutch lawyer. do you think that we give the collusion investigation a sho short -- how we talk about it, the k.k., g.r.u., dee minds me of -- do we give short trip and are we ignoring what is right in front of our eyes, that collusion is now established between the trump campaign and the russians, and that this development is simply making that collusion more likely a conspiracy and it was between the top representative of the president's campaign and known russian intelligence officials? >> the key open question is whether there was a quid pro quo. if you guys do this, we'll do this. but look at the pattern so far. here's the list of people who had direct, or indirect connection to russian assets to the russian world. kushner, manafort, gates, st

policy and is using murder as a as a means of influencing outcomes. as conservative m.p. tom toucan had two chairs of the british parliament foreign affairs committee. vladimir ashcroft is the london based executive director of the anti corruption foundation which is a russian a not for profit organization is a longtime associate of russian opposition leader. outspoken putin critic critic alex like the valley. received political asylum in the u.k. in twenty fifty welcome to day doubly do you have any doubt that russia was behind the attempt on circus krypton's life well definitely the choice of poison is highly sophisticated nerve agent orange interaction of russia i think it will be some time until we know for sure where there was their own agent when it was it was ordered from the top of russian leadership or whether it was revenge for their screwball being endemol agent. so scripts all came to be in britain after a spy swap so one wonders what russia has to gain from killing him. i think so was the post area that it is to assent and massett to people who become enemies of russian state and other possible theory is to send a signal to the cape thi

policy at the national foreign trade council. prior to joining, she served as vice president of the emergency committee for american trade, her experience includes working in the private sector. her experience provides a diverse group of clients, mel devices, and tracking. she appeared before the u.s. trade agency at the department of commerce and the trade protection border and the u.s. trade representative. protection and the u.s. trade the fda and consumer protection safety commission. quite the list of accolades. she worked on negotiation and implementation of a free trade agreement with respect to services and settlement obligations. served as legal counsel during the negotiations of the general agreement and participated in implementing the bill. she was a trial attorney and beinumpng. anti--dump she is a member of the district of columbia bar her she earned her bachelor's degree in history and masters in economics and her jd from yale law. [applause] thank you. it's a pleasure to be here today to talk to you about trade policy development. every minute it seems to change. provide somecan information that is current as of today. w

foreign policy. mueller is talking to individuals from qatar, turkey, russia, china, and the uae. joining me, steve cohen of tennessee, a member of the ethics and judiciary committeesk you for being on the show, sir. your reaction? >> it's a continuation for the white house being an opportunity for the president and people in the administration to make money and enjoy a rich life. we've seen it with trump keeping his business interests and not doing the traditional thing of putting it either in a blind trust or selling. jared kushner, the same thing. and they take the opportunities to travel the world and meet with influential individuals who can lend money or government who can lend money, and if it's a government, it's violating the emoluments clause. that affects jared kushner, even though he's not president, even though he doesn't draw a salary, there might be a line that he didn't take a dollar a year, he takes no salary to get away from the equitithics laws, but the emoluments clause goes beyond that. it's just agreed and griffiting. >> "the new york times" says there are two loans that jared kushner's family got, totaling over half a billion dollars, after m

committee. she'll be taking member questions about domestic and foreign policy issues.e coverage starts at 11:30 eastern this morning. >>> on c-span this week in primetime, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, perspectives on gun control from the march for our lives rally. wednesday, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, former white house communications director anthony scaramucci is interviewed by democratic political consultant bob schrum. >> when he got the job, just like building a condominium or just like building a golf course or just like developing a television show, he said, olympian, i've got this job, i've got to go down to the swamp, i've got to drain the swamp, i've got to hire people that understand the swamp, and i think what he's learned is that you're not going to drain the swamp hiring swamp monsters. >> thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, embedded journalists on their experiences in mosul, iraq, documenting the fight against isis. >> i'm trying to get you to care about someone that speaks a different language, born in a different country, has a different color skin than you do,

foreign relations committee, he's going to with askbe asked detailed questions, how much he believes the findings of russia's meddling in the election. i don't think anybody should be under elections. the foreign policy of the u.s., vis-a-vis russia is not going to be changing from one secretary to another. putin, letting him work his will in syria, in ukraine, and elsewhere. that's because the commander in chief has decreed that that's going to be the foreign policy of the united states. with regards to secretary tillerson, though, i want to make one point which is the substantive issues like iran, north korea, there's also the process issues which is the president did this via twitter. he did this in a very cowardly way. he did this in a way that only really a small man would do. someone who doesn't actually want to deal with the consequences of telling someone that their employment arrangement is not working out. i wonder what signal it sends to our add vversaries that the president is so petrified to fire someone in person, how we're going to have him negotiate with the north koreans on our behalf. i don't think it's going to work out very well, nicolle. >> i wanted to get to you, matt apuzo, on