john feffer from the washington based institute for policy studies says the trumpet ministration is trying to look tough to criticism it was too soft on north korea at the singapore summit it's sensitive to criticism here in the united states that it's basically giving away the show to north korea so wants to demonstrate that it is actually resolved if you will and at the same time trump administration has invested enormous amount of political capital into this process you know wants to demonstrate that the singapore summit was a success so i think that explains why on peo has the best face on the results of this meeting and trump was determined to kind of break with or policy consensus here in washington d.c. there was some sense he had to make an end run around or policy establishment i do think however that he was perhaps naive about what he could achieve in the short term this is a long term process and north korea has already said that they're not interested in this kind of complete verifiable irreversible denuclearization that they want a kind of step by step approach in which the un

well john feffer is director of foreign policy in focus at the institute for policy studies he joins us now from washington via skype thanks very much for being with us so what do you think is going on here why why are we getting to starkly different assessments of the same militia agree with well they're obviously we're two different interpretations. so ok i'm not sure if you can if he can still hear me apparently not apologies for that we'll move on for now plenty more ahead on this news out including dozens dead and injured in japan after torrential rain triggers flooding and landslides. least eight people have been killed and dozens more injured in a car bombing in the somali capital the group al-shabaab says it was behind the attack near the interior ministry building in mogadishu barbara has more. once again the city of milk edition is living through the aftermath of an attack and once again this responsible fight the armed group has been battling somalia's government for twelve yes it's launched more than half a dozen attacks this year alone and i. thought i was close to where

john for from the washington based institute for policy studies says the trumpet ministration is trying to look tough after criticism it was too soft on north korea at the singapore summit. it's sensitive to criticism here in the united states that it's basically giving away the show to north korea so wants to demonstrate that it is actually resolved if you will and at the same time trump administration has invested enormous amount of political capital into this process now wants to demonstrate that the singapore summit was a success so i think that explains why upon k.o.'s the best face on the results of this meeting trump was determined to kind of break with foreign policy consensus here in washington d.c. there was some sense he had to make an end run around foreign policy establishment i do think however that he was perhaps naive about what he could achieve in the short term this is a long term process and north korea has already said that they're not interested in this kind of complete verifiable irreversible denuclearization that they want a kind of step by step approach in which

flare up phyllis bennis is program director of the new internationalism project of the institute for policy studies in america she says the cold for calm won't hold. it's important that they use the word calm and not the word peace there has been no peace in gaza for many many decades and i think what we're seeing right now is a moment of hesitation it may be that the firing has slowed and israel doesn't yet want to acknowledge that it's a little hard to know as you know that there have been extraordinary rhetoric escalations throughout the day the minister of education after ali bennett one of the furthest right of this right wing cabinet had called earlier today for the israeli snipers on the gaza fence to fire at directly at the children who are launching some of these kites and it was the chief of the army the chief of the israeli army came back and said i can't accept that it and he's indicated he believed it was not a moral position and despite that the minister of education called again for essentially killing palestinian children so there is this incredible level of of rhetorical escalation

three million poorest americans and november two thousand and seventeen a report by the institute for policy studies found the three richest americans bezos bill gates and warren buffett were worth two hundred forty eight billion dollars combined that number is equal to the wealth of one hundred sixty million americans who make up the bottom half of the country's population when measured in dollars following the reports released senator sanders in one thousand other members of congress sent a letter to the trumpet ministration urging it to address growing poverty rates the letter says trump's one point five billion dollars in tax cuts signed into law last year quote overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and worsened inequality and while many headlines concerning the report emphasized the trump administration's role in exacerbating poverty professor alston makes this important note successive administrations including the current one have determinately rejected the idea that economic and social rights are full fledged human rights meaning if you're poor in the united states your government has never s

three million poorest americans and november two thousand and seventeen a report by the institute for policy studies found the three richest americans bezos bill gates and warren buffett were worth two hundred forty eight billion dollars combined that number is equal to the wealth of one hundred sixty million americans who make up the bottom half of the.

three million poorest americans and november two thousand and seventeen a report by the institute for policy studies found the three richest americans bezos bill gates and warren buffett were worth two hundred forty eight billion dollars combined that number is equal to the wealth of one hundred sixty million americans who make up the bottom half of the country's population when measured in dollars following the reports released senator sanders the nineteen other members of congress sent a letter to the trumpet ministration urging him to address the growing poverty rates the letter says trump's one point five billion dollars in tax cut signed into law last year quote overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and worsened inequality and while many headlines concerning the report emphasized the trump administration's role in exacerbating poverty professor alston makes this important note successive administrations including the current one have determinately rejected the idea that economic and social rights are full fledged human rights meaning if you're poor in the united states your government has never

murder capital of asia sent her tree is the director of the drug policy project at the institute for policy studies he says president deter it is behaving like a desk bot. a lot of people are getting killed the there is no justice for these people and president of territory has said just recently that families can expect no justice from him if they were even suspected of being involved the drug trade so this is an open season what's going on in the philippines it seems to me it's much more of a program like inside nineteenth century russia and eastern europe less than a month rather than a modern drug war this is really about taking a cornucopia of social ills many of which are structural in nature and pinning it on to one little demographic group and saying look if we just get rid of these people just eliminate them things we want and roses again and we see a lot of autocrats and despots around the world use those kinds of tactics to further their own political power we've seen that in the united states for instance with president trump going after him as thirteen the mexican gang hitler did it to

i should mention he is also currently a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies. he will be available for immediate interviews at the conclusion of the session. we have reserved about a half hour for you to quiz our experts and we will save questions until all of the panelists are done. next, we have kevin kamps. he is a nuclear waste specialist with the organization beyond nuclear. he also works with a number of other organizations, and has been following these issues for a good deal of time. he is going to talk about some of the difficulties with storage options and also about some alternatives, for those of you who remember bonanza called haas. >> thank you bob. i apologize in advance, i'm going to have to skip some slides. bob has done a great job on the pool risks. i will try to hit the main points during my talk. one is that we oppose the current risky pool storage, but the inadequate dry cast storage. that is why we are calling for hardened on-site storage, a significant safety upgrade and security upgrade to dry cast storage. we also oppose the unnecessary

controversial walk of shame campaign for suspected drug dealers were paraded around the streets sun or tree is director of the drug policy project at the institute for policy studies he says the territories drug position is similar to the actions of a despot. a lot of people are getting killed there is no justice for these people and president has said just recently that families can expect no justice from him if they were even suspected of being involved the drug trade so this is an open season on what's going on in the philippines it seems to me it's much more of a program like in nineteenth century russia and eastern europe less than a month rather than a modern drug war this is really about taking a cornucopia of social ills many of which are structural in nature and pinning it on to one little demographic group and saying look if we just get rid of these people just eliminate them things we want and roses again and we see a lot of autocrats and despots around the world use those kinds of tactics to further their own political power we've seen that in the united states for instance with president trump going after him as thirteen the mexican gang hitler did it

mohammed stay close in the meantime thanks very much well phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies she joins us live now from washington phyllis bennis welcome back to the news here on al-jazeera is this column is this a truce or is it just a chance to reload. well it's important that they use the word calm and not the word peace there has been no peace in gaza for many many decades and i think what we're seeing right now is a moment of hesitation it may be that the firing has slowed and israel doesn't yet want to acknowledge that it's a little hard to know as we just heard from mohammed on the ground we know that there have been extraordinary rhetoric escalations throughout the day the minister of education after ali bennett one of the fergus right of this right wing cabinet had called earlier today for the israeli snipers on the gaza fence to fire at directly at the children who are launching some of these kites and it was the chief of the army the chief of the israeli army came back and said i can't accept that it and he's indicated he believed it was not a moral position and de

asia which is picking now to send her tree the director of the drug policy project at the institute for policy studies in washington d.c. thanks very much for being with us so what do you think these murders will be properly investigated we'll find out actually who committed them. were unusual for this case they're referred it to the national bureau of investigations which is different from the philippine national police the philippine national police has a horrible horrible record of prosecuting their own people so they have about six hundred seventy four officers who've been claimed to have been involved in human rights abuses of that about think about nineteen have been fired the rest of been given very light administrative penalties not a single one has been convicted or tried in court and convicted of human rights abuses so but is it a clear link in your view that there is it that the drug policy is linked to these these killings that i mean obviously we don't exactly know but it is it your impression of what's happening here. it's too early to say however the one of the first mayor that was kill

bob, i should mention -- is currently a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies and he like all of our panelists will be available for media interviews at the conclusion of this session. we also have reserved about half hour for you to quiz our experts up here and we will save questions until all of the panelists are done. next we have kevin camps. kevin is a nuclear waste specialist with the organization beyond nuclear. he also works with a number of other organizations and has been following these issues for a good deal of time. he's going to talk about some of the difficulties with storage options and also about some alternatives for those of you who remember bonanza, the 20th century tv program. >> i apologize in advance i will have to skip through slides, but bob has done a great job. i will fly through some images. we oppose not only the current risky pool storage but also the inadequate dry cast storage and that's why we're calling for hardened on site storage, a significant safety upgrade and security upgrade to dry cast storage. we also oppose the mountain dump and

for more on this and i were turned to good policy specialist at the institute for china america studies thank you for your time tonight a lot has developed since you and i have spoken a few days ago what's your analysis of where things are right now in an early is reported terry said one wrong move at this point which i thought was a very important statement your thoughts on all this my views are that everything is again moving in trending in a very positive direction we have american diplomats in pyongyang singapore and of course the north korean weiss chairman. meeting with secretary of state and tomorrow going coming up to washington d.c. to meet president trump at the same time as you just showed mr lavrov was then and there was also senior leaders from north korea in beijing frankly too and there is this thinking that perhaps. john might even go to beijing once prior to the meeting speculative but frankly everything is pointing in the direction to words significant progress though one cannot certainly pin down and say that june june twelfth will happen. in a sense kim jong un has a

institute for strategic studies. in, the director for nonproliferation policy on the denuclearization tasks and steps ahead. we will take questions after they speak. i want to invite tony to come up to the podium to deliver his remarks and then we will take your questions. thank you for being here. the florida shores. -- the floor is yours. kindank you for the introduction. thank you to the arms control association for hosting. theecial thank you to ambassador of the republic of korea for attending today's briefing. i am honored. we welcome this morning to the welcome news that north korea the remains of soldiers from the korean war on this the 50th anniversary of signing the armistice agreement the fighting. it seems good timing to ask again how to begin the korean peace process that has eluded us for so long. such a piece process in parallel with nuclear talks is essential if we are to make headway in the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. to understand why, we have to lifelongd the dprk's enmity with the united states or what is called the u.s.'s hostile policy. what this entails according to them

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the american policy counsel is the co-host and the third co- hosting group is the mitchell institute for aero space studies of the faa. i'm going to invite the representative of that group to come and introduce the panels he was an active proponent of the reagan policies in the 1980s and continues to be today. please come up and welcome the rest of the panel numbers. >> i'm going to say thank you when we went and set next to each other in conference of october last year. we really have to regain the legacy and understanding of it. i had the same idea yesterday. she said would you like to handle the national security aspect? before i introduce my wonderful guest, i want to lay out a couple of things. we do a project of placing nuclear fellows on capitol hill and my friend willly curtis who invited me over a period lecture. i went back and looked at a 1979 service report on nuclear weapons. this is before the soviets invaded afghanistan. every single nuclear weapon program was cut from the request. that's carter request everything from the b52 to the b1 and b2. for mx missile, there was no procurement money

institute and a faculty member at george washington university and the johns hopkins school of international studies. eisenstadt, michael the fellow and director of the military and security studies program at the washington institute for near east policy. our fourth panelist will be norman rule, a former officer the central intelligence agency. he has served as national in thegence manager office of the director of national intelligence and is a senior advisor to the counter extremism project and united against nuclear iran. each panelists will deliver remarks. there will be a discussion section following the presentation. the discussion will be moderated i my colleague, the executive director of the middle east council. we have placed index cards on all of the seats. downe use these to write any questions you have as these speakers are speaking. hold up the card. our staff will collect these during the presentations and give them to him so he can consolidate questions for the discussion section. thank you for helping. with that, let me turn the panel over to david. thank you. thank you for the imitation. i am happy to be here. i'vehe last three weeks, been crashing to finish a book on taiwan's former nuclear weapons program. i cannot

and joining us now is danielle pletka, senior vice—president for foreign and defense policy studies at the american enterprise institutepress conference —— danielle. did donald trump say anything during the press conference, and result will matter here, did he say anything that will encourage vladimir putin and russia to act in ways, to act for the better? so, that's a really important question. you need to divide between what the lord trump said and what the united states is going to do. —— what donald trump said. so, no, idon't think going to do. —— what donald trump said. so, no, i don't think there is anything that formal trump said that would have suggested to vladimir putin that he will need to rein it m, putin that he will need to rein it in, stop his interference in syria and cyber activities in the united states and elsewhere. none of that. 0n the other hand, we also made no commitment to russia, and i think that, thank god, is quite important. so, you have made the point that actually, during the course of the trump administration, sanctions have been ratcheted up against moscow, they are hitting people close

eisenstadt who is the fellow and director of the military and security studies program at the washington institute for near east policy and the fourth panelist with the mormon who -- norman rule at the agency who also served as national intelligence manager for iran in the office of the director of national intelligence and is a senior adviser to the counter extremism project and united against nuclear iran. each panelist will deliver a brief opening remarks and there will then be a discussion session following the presentation by the panelist. the discussion will be motivated by my colleague doctor tom executive director of the middle east policy council. note that we have placed index cards on all the seats. please, use these to write down any questions you have as the speakers are speaking and then hold up the cards. our staff will collect these during the presentation and give them to him to consolidate the question for the discussion session. thank you for helping us with that. but he turned the panel over, turn the podium over to david. >> than >> thank you very much, richard, very happy to be here. i must confe

policy counsel is a cohost. the third cohosting group is the mitchell institute for aerospace studies of the afa, and i am going to invite the ,epresentative of that group peter hugh c to come and introduced the panel. peter, as you heard, was active on capitol hill, and inactive component of the reagan policies during the 1980's and continues to be today. please, and welcome the rest of the panel members. thank you so much. for comingu all here. i want to say particularly thank you to becky. when we went and sat together at that conference back in october of last year, i said to her, we have to regain reagan's legacy and an understanding of it. she said i had the same idea yesterday. that was how this was born, and she said would you like to handle the national security and defense aspects of reagan's legacy? before i introduce my wonderful guest, i want to lay out a couple things. first, i want to say hello to janet nolan, who i work with at george washington university. we do a project of placing nuclear fellows on capitol hill. and willie curtis, formerly within april academy -- with the naval academy, who

for you. i'm sure you appreciate it. i have a couple of studies here. one from the justice policy institute that looks at the relationship between employment and crime, and jobs and public safety. and the second study is a high school -- preschool study which is a well-known study looking at the investment -- the benefit of investments in early childhood and supporting families. i am urging you to echo the remarks of supervisors on monday about a broader definition of what public safety is. investing in jobs for homeless people. $2.8 million investment over 20 years. and increase mental health services for homeless adults and families in high need communities. at also making sure we continue the rental subsidies are folks who are already housed. 's to be stop the bleeding and don't increase homelessness in san francisco. i urge you to recall the fact that we have reached a dangerous threshold in this country where we now have more people in prison then we have people in public housing -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen: next speaker. >> hello. i

according to the new york times, for every $100 in white family wealth, black families hold just $5.04. an economic policy institute studyows, more than one- in four black households have zero or negative net worth, compared to less than one- in -ten white families. (ken) washington correspondent morgan wright tells us the maryland congressional delegation is examining ways to close the racial wealth gap in that state and beyond. studies show a significant wealth gap between african americans and white americans... and maryland senator ben cardin says this racial wealth gap is unacceptable... when we deny people their full economic opportunity their full ability to participate it's not only wrong for the individual but our community loses. senator cardin says low wage jobs are the number one factor... and he says federal government policy simply does not promote an equal opportunity in america we have well-intended programs but they're not accomplishing the objectives that they're aimed to do . we've developed policy in a universal lens - diane bell-mckoy with associated black charities not understanding that, that polic

institutional design. even a straightforward policy choice as to when to mainstream children with disabilities in so-called normal classrooms has consequences for patterns of fear and aggression. we need to study the issues and then on the basis of what we understands, choose the policy that produce hope, love and cooperation and avoid those with hatred and discuss. sometimes we can only produce better behavior while it shows beneath the surface. sometimes we can actually alter how people see one another and how they feel as mainstreaming kids with disabilities surely has done. it helps to start young. philosophy doesn't dictate concrete policy choices, these must be contextual, the fruit of a partnership between philosophy history political science and sociology, but it gives us a sense of who we are, what problems lie in our path and where we should be heading. it's methods involving respect and reciprocity also model some important aspects of where we should be going. i believe it's not too strange or bold to link the philosophical approach to america's problem with the method of nonviolent political change as exemplified in the life and work of martin luther king jr. who figures largely in

institute for international studies. she codirects the center for international security and cooperation and she is a professor of political science. before coming to stanford she was a professor of public policy and she served on president clinton's national security council. today's discussion will be in moderated by andrea mitchell. she is nbc news chief foreign correspondent and she host andrea mitchell reports each day on msnbc. she has covered seven presidential administrations, capitol hill, state department, the intelligence services in every presidential campaign since 1980. her achievements in journalism are genuinely innumerable which is why she received the 2017 courage in journalism lifetime achievement award from the international women's media foundation. >> thank you so much. it's a great privilege for me too be here with two scholars, leaders, public policy experts who i admire so greatly. congratulations on the book. we want talk about the book political risk and then some questions about news of the day and then questions from all of you. i see a lot of friends and people whom i know well from foreign policy in the audience as well. it's great to have doctor rice here and on

policy council is a co-host. the third co-hosting group is the mitchell institute for aerospace studies of the afa. i'm going to invite the representative of that group, peter doosy, to come and introduce the panel. peter was active with senator nun on capitol hill and a proponent of the reagan policies during the '80s and continues to be so today. peter, please come up. >> thank you all for coming here. i want to say thank you to becky. when which went and sat next to each other at a conference i think back in october of last year, i said to her, we really have to regain reagan's legacy and she said, i had the same idea yesterday. that's how this was born. she said would you like to handle the national security and defense aspects of reagan's legacy? before i introduced my wonderful guests here, i want to lay out a couple of things. i want to say hello to jan nolan at george washington university. we do a project together. and my friend who is now retired, who invited me over a period of six years to lecture at the naval academy on nuclear deterrence. i was extraordinarily honored to do that. i we

three million poorest americans and november two thousand and seventeen a report by the institute for policy studies found the three richest americans bezos bill gates and warren buffett were worth two hundred forty eight billion dollars combined that number is equal to the wealth of one hundred sixty million americans who make up the bottom half of the country's population when measured in dollars following the reports released senator sanders in one thousand other members of congress sent a letter to the trumpet ministration urging him to address the growing poverty rates the letter says trump's one point five billion dollars in tax cut signed into law last year quote overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and worsened inequality and while many headlines concerning the report emphasized the trunk administration's role in exacerbating poverty professor alston makes this important note successive administrations including the current one have determinately rejected the idea that economic and social rights are full fledged human rights meaning if you're poor in the united states your government has nev