still a lot of reports coming in next week we'll be covering them with you thank you very much james carter in new york. he's saying the u.s. washington is hosting be a leader of global finance this weekend two events are coming together the annual conferences of the international monetary fund and the world band plus a meeting of g twenty financial officials the talks started earlier this week and will end on sunday they will allow government officials to condemn except executives to discuss global economic trends the i.m.f. forecasts that the global economy will expand by three point six percent earlier we asked our washington bureau spondon cost phenomena if the mood was good considering the i.m.f. stock to miss. yeah absolutely the mood is very good but there was also a certain feeling of wistfulness because this is the last time that the german finance minister is here to meet his colleagues especially in the group of g twenty was of course first among equals in many ways through his authority and experience he has shaped this group also was this year the president of the group and i h

we have invested a lot of money in james earl carter to make him a top level public servant, which he done all of his life and i think crazy not to take advantage of it. i think the trump administration which is very much raring to go and certainly overstated, if anything, its intent or its ability to use military force might really benefit from somebody who has got a different approach to it. >> right. bring fresh air into the room here. i want to bring up a full screen that we have got, because carter said that he has talked to lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster, trump's security adviser. he spoke about how this idea has been at least raised indirectly to the administration. i'm just wondering, though, the problem is just as jack pointed out, errol, what if jimmy carter comes back with some kind of a deal and then you're in a bind? >> that is the thing about sending a special envoy is that it's kind of official, but it's kind of not, you know? he doesn't have any ability to make any kind of binding commitment. it is in the nature when we have seen george mitch do this in -- for exampl

to -- the question brought to mind the question the -- james earl carter junior. tend toican people respond to voices that say we need a new day but under our constitutional order. the thing about jimmy carter's was that i would never lie to you. there was a hunger for truth and honesty in government area that hunger gave us the ethics in government act of 1978 with these provisions we have been talking about. i would say have confidence in the flexibility of the constitutional order but also the basic miss of the american people. [applause] >> thank you for joining us. [indiscernible] >> representatives from twitter, facebook, and google testify before congress on tuesday and went way. as part of the investigation into russia's influence on social media and the 2016 elections. live coverage is available on c-span network. sean ajit, general counsel from twitter, general counsel from facebook, and director of law enforcement and information security from google testify before the senate judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism. on wednesday, two hearings live

to -- the question brought to mind the question the -- james earl carter junior. tend toican people respond to voices that say we need a new day but under our constitutional order. the thing about jimmy carter's was that i would never lie to you. there was a hunger for truth and honesty in government area that hunger gave us the ethics in government act of 1978 with these provisions we have been talking about. i would say have confidence in the flexibility of the constitutional order but also the basic miss of the american people. [applause] >> thank you for joining us. [indiscernible] news and policy issues that impact you. this morning, and chad elections editor nathan gonzales discusses the early outlook or campaign 2018. george washington university law professor jonathan turley talks about the indictments of three former trump campaign manager officials. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> representatives from twitter call this book, and google today and wednesday as part of the investigation into russia's in le

to -- the question brought to mind the question the -- james earl carter junior. tend toican people respond to voices that say we need a new day but under our constitutional order. the thing about jimmy carter's was that i would never lie to you. there was a hunger for truth and honesty in government area that hunger gave us the ethics in government act of 1978 with these provisions we have been talking about. i would say have confidence in the flexibility of the constitutional order but also the basic miss of the american people. [applause] >> thank you for joining us. [indiscernible] >> the u.s. house is in recess but members return at 2:00 p.m. eastern for speeches with bill debates set to begin at 5:00 p.m. members will consider four bills from the agriculture committee. two dealing with federal land sales. another to let utilities control vegetation as a way to manage wildfires and letting south carolina join a peanut standards board. members return at 2:00 p.m. eastern, just over half an hour from now. democratic national committee chair tom perez was asked

senator dianne feinstein, james clapper, even president jimmy carter does not think there was collusionboth democrats and republicans got help from russia, right, in some way? you had the fusion gps payments via from that law firm. that basically had a dnc counsel, a guy known in democrat circles who ran that law firm. the sad irony, issue here, democrats were as willing to work with russians to get information and they were slicker about it and used middlemen and now hid the payments. it is coming to the surface now. go ahead, governor? >> you made a very important point. the the per -- perkins cois law firm. this is important point i hope mueller was going after. was the fake dossier, a totally false document. was that the basis for even looking into phone calls of manafort and other election people, campaign people, in the trump campaign? if it was, then i think somebody has got to answer for having created a false basis for surveillance. because that might get all of these people off the hook, if the basis opinion which they were surveiled turns out to be utterly phony and bogus and

secretary carter pointed me to the fact that the current secretary, james mattis, has acknowledged and tried to explain what happened with these green berets in niger and that means, de facto, there's no reason, no prohibition on u.s. officials, civilian officials, not being allowed to talk about it. so the question remains, the question is sharpened, why the president has been pretending for two weeks now that this didn't happen. for the last two weeks he has not admitted this happened. he has said nothing about the loss of these four american soldiers. today in the rose garden when he was asked he still had nothing to say about it. that was his chance, right? but what he came back with was this lie about barack obama never calling the families of fallen soldiers. there are hundreds of u.s. special operations forces currently operating in niger. we have hundreds of troops operating in somalia. somalia just suffered one of the worst recent attacks. the truck bombing in mogadishu, the death toll is over 300 people already. the size is 2 or 3 football fields reduced to rubble. in a civil

joining us now, james fallos for "the atlantic" and former speech writer for president carter and daniel day washington kroo correspondent for "the toronto star." jim, having worked in a white house i can only imagine what it feels like to you to watch a president in these rooms, the cabinet room and the rose garden with this just relentless stream about lies about anything. >> as you know, in normal circumstances anything that comes out of a president's mouth is so hyper checked and the idea to make a mistake is something that everybody takes seriously and then the business about the soldiers. as you know, there's nothing that presidents regardless of party take as more as a grave obligation as the troops fighting and dying under their command and republican or democrat, every previous president in touch with the soldiers, casualties and families right away. >> when he said today that president obama never made any calls about this, he immediately got a tweet from an obama staffer saying that that was an absolute lie. >> and it's a lie of the gravest sort. for somebody who bears this co

david axelrod with us, also former carter white house speech writer and current "atlantic" magazine national correspondent, james fallon. david, do you think the president is serious about getting the fcc to take action against news organizations or is this just him, you know, venting? >> i don't know whether he's serious or not. and i don't know if he really knows what his authorities are. he often makes these comments, sort of, without knowledge of how the system works. it's interesting, i heard him earlier on your air on tape, saying about north korea. well, i get to decide, and that's the way the system works. the way our system works, also, is he doesn't get to pull licenses, because he doesn't like what's being said. in fact, if he had -- if he read history, which he concedes he does not, what he would know is this has been -- that's a bedrock principle of our democracy. this is what our founding fathers talked about. the need for a scrutinizing, independent free press. and of course, it is enshrined in the first amendment. so, i don't know if he's serious about that or not. i don't know, you know, i'm beg

so is carter page and so is donald trump, for the reason that elizabeth holtzman told you that he fired james comey as head of the fbi and the question is, did he do that in order to halt this investigation? >> how about you, pamela? what are your expectations for tomorrow? >> i think that it will be really interesting and, you know, apart from the guess work about who this first indictment is for, i think we should be watching really closely at how the white house reacts to this. the president's tweets this morning, the answers coming from the president's spokesperson sarah sanders, they all basically show that the white house is scared and that their strategy right now is sort of to muddy the waters and make people think that the intelligence community hasn't already confirmed and decided that the russians did get involved in this election in order to help donald trump. in order to hurt our democracy. and so i think they're really trying to muddy the waters here and the accusations really don't even make sense, but i think that it is important, again, going back to your interview with the f

james ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( darya ) san jose police have arrested a serial robbery suspect. now they are looking for more possible victims. 21-year-old lawrence cartergeted elderly east indian and asian women. investigators say he would yank gold chains off their necks. police have released this surveillance video they say shows one of the robberies. investigators tell kron four carter may be responsible for several other heists in san jose and possibly other bay area cities. ( darya ) in san francisco... a woman was shot while parking her car in the bayview district over the weekend. it happened on northridge road near ingalls street. police say a car drove up to the woman. that's when someone inside the car fired the gun at her. the woman was taken to the hospital. she is expected to be okay. the shooter is still on the loose. ( james ) police in scottsdale, arizona say a's catcher bruce maxwell showed signs of being drunk when he was arrested. this is maxwell from his court appearance sunday... he's facing a charge of aggravated assault. investigators say he was arrested saturday night after he pointed a gun at a woman who delivered food to his h

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