journalists, laura ling and hanna lee, who were detained earlier in north korea. defense secretary robert gates signed an order yesterday creating a cyber command to oversee pewter networks. -- to oversee computer networks. the new headquarters will be based at fort meade, maryland, just outside washington, d.c., and will be under the offices -- the auspices of the u.s. strategic command and the last -- the u.s. strategic command. finally, south carolina governor mark sanford is telling the newspaper that he was in argentina during his unexplained five-day absence, not hiking along the absent -- not hiking along the appalachian trail. he told a state newspaper that he arrived at the airport today. he said the last minute decision was because he wanted to do something exotic. governor sanford said he returned after a five-day absence because the trip turned into more of a fuss than he ever expected. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest is "wall street journal" reporter sudeep reddy. thank you for

and so as you talk about the ideas and suggestions, i want to and i think senator joe hanna said it clearly, it is on you and i can only look at what has been done in your comments today so i want to take a couple of steps. if you want to quickly comment on the convention that is great. in and i'm not going to read the agenda because you know was there and the things you covered, but it just seems that that should have been for front. maybe it was in your agenda on your website does not show that. it seems such an important issue. >> if i might, to that point, senator, hour -- the reason why raa was created and every year for the last 34 years has been to promote the safety within the industry, the safety directors of our member airlines need for the entire length of that conference. that is a meeting at which everything is sharon it again to protect these issues with the faa, with members of the ntsb that are there and is not a public meeting so that they can share those experiences. and so you're exactly correct, that was not on the public website. they meet for 10 hours a day in a window

we trey a lot with china, it is a huge investor in the hanna. remember when hillary was talking about this was a risk. my view is that a lot investments and it will make them think twice about bombing us. if we have a huge integrated stake in these countries through economics, my view is that this will make them much less likely to do politically disruptive defense and plus, the whole history of embargoes. has been fraught with the lawyer. the only thing that is clear every time you use protectionism is that you suffered enormously. protectionism hurts the protector as well as the country against which they are protecting. and that is what has happened. i think he will find almost all the literature in economics to support exactly what i'm describing there. it is a failed tool, protectionism and it actually hurts the political process. it does not make north korea like us better. it does not make cuba like this better and it does not make zimbabwe work better. >> if we engage in offshore drilling, 4250% of our oil from countries that don't like