chris williamson is secretary—general of the international chambers of commerce here in the uk. if we are getting doubt warning from the governor of the bank of england, that is something to ta ke bank of england, that is something to take note of? absolutely. the figures that have been published, it is all the reflection of where we've come over the last three years, i think. there are two things going on of course, in a global context, increasing action is, the us—china trade war and of course that's leading to a global slowdown. and in the uk context we have brexit and all the uncertainty of the last 3.5 yea rs. all the uncertainty of the last 3.5 years. i think there is also no surprise, they though there are the results of a enormous amount of uncertainty and we've seen a fall in export orders and interest and the attractiveness of the uk is less thanit attractiveness of the uk is less than it was, at least for the moment. is interesting because we we re moment. is interesting because we were told the weak pound would give exports to boost —— a boost and manufacturing relie

chris southworth is secretary general of the international chamber of commerce in the uk.rning, chris. good morning. it's good to see you again. i we any wiser? not really. this is the worst planning environment, deal, no deal, referendum... from a business point of view, it is the worst possible environment from them, just uncertainty. many ceos i talk to, they prepared for a no—deal brexit possibility at the end of march or disruption or whatever. they had to stockpile and get themselves ready, they've almost had a dress rehearsal for october 31, i assume there will be preparing for a worst—case scenario, which many would think is the no deal on october 31.|j scenario, which many would think is the no deal on october 31. i think it depends who you are talking to. larger companies are planning and i definitely able to plan, but small companies are still massively underprepared. every survey, 70% of smaller companies are unprepared. what are your members saying to you about all of this? real frustration. use frustration in the uk, everyone overseas is just aghast, use frus

shortly, but with me here in the studio is chris southworth, secretary general of the international chamber of commercebers viewing these developments? it was extraordinary but the priority for business is to remove no—deal as an option, that is the most damaging option for companies. if you look at the proportion of mid—size companies in the uk, these are 40% foreign owned, in every city in every region and they proportionately contribute more to the economy and jobs than small 01’ to the economy and jobs than small or large companies and they rely on the tariff free environment on the border, that is what we have to focus on. some companiesjust want to get on with it and know the state of play so they can make future plans for investment for example. what would you say to that? the chancellor as we outlined, he is due to unveil around $2.11 billion of brexit spending to support those businesses. 2,000 staff are being drafted in to help with no—deal planning. surely there are some contingency plans in place to reassure them? yes, but they are com pletely reassure them? yes, but they are completely rig

here with us is myron brilliant, head of international affairs at the chamber of commerce.ood to have you in new york. are we making progress or probably not? myron: david, great to be back on. the president is ascending two messages. he says we need a big deal that deals with intellectual property and forth technology transfers and all the issues he and the team have been talking about the past year. he is also saying to president xi, we have a good relationship. we can get a deal done so long as you come to the table. we will have to see what happens .ith the talks in early october i expect the vice premier to be in washington around the october 10 timeframe. we will not no more until after that. there was clearly a message here. no small deal, let's focus on the comprehensive deal. david: where does this business community on this? president trump talks about the farmers, who have been reasonably patient with him, but patience runs out. myron: what the business community wants person foremost is certainty. we want certainty in the markets, certainly in trading relationsh

chamber of commerce and any number of international organizations from the united nations to european union and here, the entire legal community, you wonder why there are no seminars immediately at the border working by nationally to confirm more rights on illegal aliens than american citizens themselves. lou: this is a conversation that i would love to continue and please come back as soon as you can, i know here on a national book tour and let me tell you, if you're going to read a book, make it this one. we appreciated. thank you so much. great to have you here. the president leading big and leading by example. ♪ limu emu & doug hour 36 in the stakeout. as soon as the homeowners arrive, we'll inform them that liberty mutual customizes home insurance, so they'll only pay for what they need. your turn to keep watch, limu. wake me up if you see anything. [ snoring ] [ loud squawking and siren blaring ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ lou: congress is back in town. but the trump administration has been here throughout. and in the past two weeks she h

chamber of commerce and any number of international organizations from the united nations to europeancommunity, you wonder why there are no seminars immediately at the border working by nationally to confirm more rights on illegal aliens than american citizens themselves. lou: this is a conversation that i would love to continue and please come back as soon as you can, i know here on a national book tour and let me tell you, if you're going to read a book, make it this one. we appreciated. thank you so much. great to have you here. the president leading big and leading by example. next. t. why don't we just ask geico for help with renters insurance? i didn't know geico helps with renters insurance. yeah, and we could save a bunch too. antonio! fetch computer! antonio? i'll get it. get to know geico and see how much you could save .. lou: congress is back in town. but the trump administration has been here throughout. and in the past two weeks she have been working hard and moving this country ahead toward realization of the president's goals, despite double-dealing rinos and subject v

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hand it to someone who understands the important of international trade, better than anyone else you will meet, glenn hammers of the chamber of commerce. >> tom donohue and doug ducey highlighted why we have to use the usmca over the finish line right now. from the perspective of the business community it is hard to think of an issue that has brought the business community together in a more united fashion. for every sector of arizona's academy whether it is tourism, mining, manufacturing, technology, we have an emerging high-tech sector in autos that is dependent on the supply chain. doug ducey held a press conference with his counterpart in arizona to announce a major manufacturing electric vehicle plant and one of the major reasons was the auto supply chain in sonora. through doug ducey and leadership in the arizona mexico solution we participated in the study and as the governor mentioned, 228,000 jobs rely on trade with mexico and canada and i would say a few look at the independent studies, if we get usmca over the line which is a modernization of the, and digital goods. small and medium enterprises and intellectual property. 23

myron brilliant head of international affairs at the u.s. chamber of commerce or will cost every american household between $600 and $1,000 by the end of the year. joining us now is a business journalist for forbes.com and "washington examiner". good to see you, sir. the white house seems to be moving away from the talking point and fallacy that the chinese are paying for the tariffs and now making this argument it is a national security argument to take on the chinese and not be dependent on them. how long will small businesses be able to be willing to endure the pain based on that argument? >> well, great to talk to you. it depends on the small business and how well they're positioned for this. this thing will be going on for a while. even if there is some agreement with china in the next few months that agreement will need to be reported on and validated. i'm telling my readers and community to hunker down for the price increases over the next year. don't forget this much, leland, for the past decades my clients, my readers, small and medium-sized companies

someone who understands the importance of international trade and there is some perhaps better than anyone else the presidency of the arizona chamber of commerce. take it awayof land. >> thank you governor and tom donahue and governor ducey articulate the major reasons why we need to move usmca over the finish line right now. from the perspective of the community in arizona tar to me -- hard to think of an issue that has brought the business community together in a more united fashion. for every sector of arizona's economy whether its tourism, mining, manufacturing, technology we have an emerging high-tech sector and auto that is highly dependent on the supply. governor ducey held a press conference with his counterpart the governor of pen or in arizona to announce a major manufacturing electric vehicle plant. one of the major reasons was because of the auto supply chain into nora. through governor ducey pop mess relationship in the ers on the commission we participated in the study andr is the governor mentioned 228,000 jobs rely on trade with mexico and canada. i would say if you look at some of the independent studies if we are able to get

joining us to discuss is myron brilliant, head of international affairs at the u.s. chamber of commercee been meeting with chinese officials representing american business what's your sense of the best probabilities right now for a deal >> well, sara, i was in china last week and met with the chinese premier and other government officials i was actually somewhat encouraged i had a small group of ceos with me the meeting was supposed to be 30 minutes it ended up being 75 minutes the principal message back to us is we want a deal with the united states, it's not going to be easy, there are some differences between the two sides, but we want a deal. i think this week is very importa important. it's like the point guards are in town forto set it up for the principals lighthizer and secretary mnuchin will host vice premier li hu in about two weeks. and i expect we'll have more then than we will in the next couple of days but we're on the track to having serious conversations. whether we're going to get a short-term deal or a bigger term we're going find that out. what we want to focus is on

understands the importance of international trade to arizona perhaps better than anyone else you will meet. glen hammer is the c.e.o. and president of the arizona chamber of commerce. take it away, glen. mr. hammer: thank you, governor ducey, tom donahue. they articulated the main reasons we need to move usmca over the finish line right now. from the perspective of the business community in arizona it's hard for me to think of an , issue that has done a -- that has brought the business community together in more of a -- more united fashion. for all sections of arizona economy, whether it's tourism, mining, manufacturing, technology, we have an emerging high-tech sector in autos that is highly dependent on the supply chains with sonora. in fact, governor ducey held a press conference with his counterpart, the governor of sonora, in arizona to announce a major manufacturing electric vehicle plant, louisent motors, and one of the major reasons is because of the auto supply chain in sonora. through the governor's leadership and the arizona-mexico commission, we participated in a study. as the governor mentioned, 228,000 jobs rely on trade with mexico and canada. i wou

chamber of commerce, consumer of energy alliance, and a letter in opposition by the laborers international union of north america. the chair: the gentleman's request will be covered under general leave. mr. bishop: with that, i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. grijalva: thank you, madam chair. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from utah is recognized. mr. bishop: can i ask the chairman if he has other speakers? or are we just playing games? you're done with speakers? all right. then do i have a couple more still to go through. -- i do have a couple more still to go through. i apologize for that. let me then recognize mr. graves, the gentleman from louisiana, for five minutes. the chair: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for five minutes. thank you, madam chair. i want to thank the ranking member for the recognition. to talk about this legislation. madam chair, we're talking about legislation that has to do with energy policy and

chamber commerce are huge. is is two ho0 minutes. >>> thank you for coming, my name is steph jones and director of the transnational threats project for the center for strategic and international studies. we have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject. part of the motivation i think from suzanne spaulding and i and looking at this. it was to look at some of the recent attacks, including el paso and the synagogue attacks. there has been a dialogue, debate within the u.s., about how to respond to it. what the degree of threat and how serious it is and how to respond. what we would like to do is move in the following sense. we will begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat and how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for some of these groups in the government is the racially motivated violent extremist groups. i cannot promise that panelists will use that term. just be aware, we are talking about roughly the same subject. will move into a second panel which we will debate and discuss some of the implications and ways lord and some of the issues that we have to grapple with. >> and won't read through the bios. we have tried to

chamber of commerce, is a huge reason for that. announcer 1: watch book tv every weekend on c-span2. continues.journal host: ian williams is with the center for strategic and internationaldies, he is there deputy director of the missile defense project. he is here to talk about the strikes against saudi arabia, but more broadly, iran's military capability and what we know about it. some of what we're talking about. , you have covered in the review of iran's strategic forces earlier this year. give us an idea broadly of what we think or we know, the u.s., that is, of iran's missile and are haps nuclear capability -- perhaps, nuclear capability. guest: in terms of nuclear capability, we are fairly confident it has not watched further in the direction of having nuclear capability. they have for the most part been still keeping to much of the iran nuclear agreement. they have violated the terms of the agreement in some respects, but in terms of their missile capability, is kind of a two-sided story. one hand, they are kind of hedging to have nuclear in thingsnvesting in like long-range nuclear muscles suitable to carry a nuclear weapon, but on the other hand, they are also