join now we have jonah goldberg. his recent book is suicide of the west. we'll get to the subtitle in just a minute. mr. goldberg, is there a line that you can draw between your three books, liberal fascism, and now suicide of the west? >> yes. one, the most obvious is they all took an enormous amount of work by jonah goldberg. i have to tell people that this book is a bit of a prequel to liberal fascism. if i had it all to do over again there are parts of the liberal fascism i would have written differently. it is amazing how it's become kind of a totem for people to hate me on the left or to like it on the right and all of that kind of stuff. but i have changed some of my views about how intellectual history works. in liberal fascism there is a very common tendency that is true of lots of people. on the left and the right, to say they said x in the philosopher b says 500 years later they must've been influenced by philosopher a. and i know some of the stuff goes on but the intellectual connecting of the dots you know, blaming everything on russo. i do no

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hill who's at westminster jonah really another very big day in parliament just sort of talk us through what's going to happen in the coming hours. yeah that's right well fresh from that defeat on tuesday night the reason may now faces a vote of confidence on wednesday evening seven pm it's thought likely she'll win it this debate to be had in the hours preceding that of course prime minister's questions coming up not too long from now is the first time we'll see her on wednesday i'm joined to talk more about this by tobias hill elwood he's a defense minister in trees amazed and of course also a conservative party m.p. thanks for joining us is she going to survive she will big defeat yesterday and we have to move on but this is a distraction by the leader of the opposition who stands at the dispatch box but he doesn't have a unified army behind him a doesn't have visitation on bricks and he's an opportunist and that's what we're having to deal with today so was there have been divisions on the bricks at issue in the parliamentary party the conservative party i'm sure that they will it w

motion later on wednesday and it could trigger a general election where we have full coverage with jonah hill who's outside the houses of parliament barbara sara is not the prime minister's official residence in london standing straight and david chaytor is monitoring reaction in brussels home of the major institutions will go live to all of them to pull britain's report on the deadline for the prime minister to come up with a new bricks and plan. to the right two hundred and to. the nose to the left four hundred and thirty to. the two hundred and thirty vote margin of defeat was an emphatic rejection of teresa mayes bret's its strategy but still the british prime minister is refusing to resign stead throwing down a challenge to the crowd a chamber every day that passes without this issue being resolved means more uncertainty more bitterness and more rancor the government of hurt has heard what the house has said tonight but i ask members on all sides of the house to listen to the british people who want this issue settled. and to work with the government to do just that the opposition l

oh no team barber al-jazeera london journal is outside westminster in central london jonah such a reason may now faces a huge challenge to convince in your leaders to reopen negotiations but they've already said there's been no revisions to the deal. yes absolutely they have it isn't easy immediately to see how that's going to go i think the strategy is likely to be for tourism a to go to brussels and say to you leaders look the british parliament has finally reached a majority for a scenario that it will accept that it wants to see which in essence means accepting most of the provisions of the existing agreement the divorce bill thirty nine billion pounds respecting citizens' rights in hans now with workers' rights protections and environmental protections but short of or at least substantially tweaked the northern ireland backstop that mechanism that guarantees no quarter of the island of ireland that many m.p.'s fear could trap this country in an e.u. customs union indefinitely if future trade talks which a fail and the thinking will be if you recall in december the last time she went

let's cross over to our correspondent jonah hole who's at westminster in london of course jonah you know invitation by the prime minister over across party lines to try and find a way forward and that's the real problem she has doesn't see it because there's another d.-day another deadline and that's obviously next monday. yes it's not entirely clear what she's trying. but we seem to have a slight problem with that connection to general try to get back to him of course and get the updates on what's going on certainly in london but of course the ramifications of what happened over the last few days are now transpiring across europe the prime minister the prime ministers of e.u. states for example france has held a cabinet meeting to discuss ways to prepare for a no deal brics it edward phillipe says more than fifty million dollars will be invested in the french ports and airports to alleviate the impact of a so-called hard bricks in the contingency plan focuses on cross border trade and transport fronts and the rest of the e.u. insists the brits it deal agreed with the prime minister is t

>> these two ask if bible figures had a smartphone -- >> if jonah was going deep sea fishing, have youhim? >> he's having a whale of a time. >> the social media version of the bible when it's all done this is what it looks like. >> i did not see that coming. >> she's good, right? >> critters, creepy -- ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'm about to call post mates. does anyone want the fish? i'll call a bunch of them. jesus is on the way. maybe get a couple, he'll take care of it. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> sean chris and jay, what it would have been like if bible characters had smartphones. this is that layer ious. >> two fish, five loaves of bread with it? >> yes. >> just let jesus take care of the rest. he got it. >> does jesus get a blue checkmark? how does he get verified? he only has 12 followers. david is peeking at every one of bath sheba's spring break pics. >> they went there. >> they went there. >> the diy project, it's done. i'm getting these instructions from heaven. >> you would have liked that one. whatever noah does, like on it, go see it. >> i'm imagining moses parting the red sea and instagra

will go to ne barca in london derry in northern ireland but first jonah hole in london so jonah and it's widely expected that the government is going to suffer a big defeat here but the question is by how much. yes that's right i think the fact of defeat is not in question the size of defeat ease and indeed what might happen afterwards to resume a has to come up with a plan b. and just to come up with one quickly but we've got a clue about what she may do to the cabinet meeting a lengthy cabinet meeting on tuesday morning suggestions out of that cabinet meeting that series of may told her cabinet that she'd be backing this deal no matter what regardless of the size of her defeat suggesting that plan b. is very similar to plan a in other words bring them all back and get them to vote again possibly looking for some sort of intervention from the e.u. in the meantime further concessions for them we understand she rejected various other suggestions from the cabinet one involving cross party cooperation with the labor party perhaps moving towards a softer bragg's of the other suggesting a so-

jonah fisher, bbc news in kiev.t a round—up of the sport. in this famous old competition these two sides have history. this is a united side beginning to remember what they once were. they went ahead thanks to a very modern twist, the ball went in but a video replay here gave them a penalty instead, juan mata keeping his calm. despite their stuttering season in the championship, reading did create enough chances to keep this a contest. 0pportunities though they couldn't take. united could. their lead was doubled before the break, romelu lu ka ku squeezing lead was doubled before the break, romelu lukaku squeezing in a second. neither side could manage more in the second half, so united's winning run and 0le gunnar solskjaer extends to five. not back to the glory days quite yet at old trafford just yet but for manchester united things continue to look brighter. adam wild, bbc news. this competition usually throws up a shock and it didn't disappoint as league one side gillingham beat premier league strugglers cardiff

commentator: and jonah holmes is through them all! leicester tigers continue their resurgence, with a win over gloucester. good evening. the family of a man who was fatally stabbed on a train yesterday, say he was honourable and would always help others in trouble. lee pomeroy, who was 51, was attacked in front of his teenage son, just after they boarded a train in guildford in surrey. a man has been arrested, on suspicion of murder and a woman detained at the same time, is being held on suspicion of assisting an offender. our correspondent chi chi izundu has the latest. today should have been lee pomeroy‘s 52nd birthday. but instead, his family are mourning his sudden death, witnessed by his 14—year—old son. in a statement, they said, "lee took his son on a trip to london, hoping to spend some quality time with him, which was cut short by a horrific and pointless attack. he was an honest, and bright person who loved music very much. he knew history and art and he was a bachelor of science and maths. he was an honourable man and would

"after words" interviews nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> host: jonah goldberg in your book, you posit that, that everything that we take for granted, every freedom that we have, every economic advantage that we possess as americans and as people of the west, all of these are actually a radically new development in the history of humankind, number one, and and number two, are unnatural. that western civilization as we understand it, or contemporary american western democratic civilization is unnaturalwhat do you mean by that? >> guest: so, first of all, great to see you, john. >> host: following the brian lamb model we never met each other and even though we're old friends, do a podcast together and constantly exchange insults on twitter and all that. >> guest: saved your life in prison. >> host: i want to hue to the c-span. >> guest: i appreciate that. right, so, part of what i'm trying to do in the book is get people, not so much, sort of say i have all the right facts, i have the perfect version of what happened in human history and all that, i'm not claiming that. i

"after words" interviews nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> host: jonah goldberg in your

address at the summit saying brazil would become one of the top fifty countries to do business in jonah hold reports from davos. a chill has settled over down ass and that's not just the weather leaders of some of the world's biggest economies china the united states france and the u.k. have stayed away to find crises at home crises fueled by nationalism populism and those left behind by globalization it is everything the world economic forum is supposed to stand against and yet this year's big ticket visitor is brazil's new president far right nationalist valsin r.-o. here to launch what he calls a new brazil then there was a big. we intend to reduce the size of the residence state apparatus and carry out perform such as the social security reform tax reform we wish to relieve those who produce and undertake business and projects from the weight of a heavy state that's good news for business less so for those who depend on state aid it's an odd look for an annual gathering traditionally built on bridging divides it does say that there's a bit of a shift and that those major leading dem

this could turn out to be a very messy divorce. jonah fisher, bbc news, in kiev. foreign minister has dismissed speculation over a possible prisoner swap involving the former us marine paul whelan. mr whelan, who also has british, canadian and irish nationality, was arrested in russia for alleged spying. sergei ryabkov described the arrest of paul whelan as very serious and said that talk of swapping him for any russian detainee was inappropriate, counterproductive, and politically unjustified. the so—called yellow vest protesters are out on the streets of the french capital once again, their first demonstration of 2019. the number of demonstrators has dwindled since president macron granted some concessions on fuel tax, pensions, the minimum wage and overtime last month. but many people are still gathering to protest in the cities of lille and marseille, as well as paris. thousands of anti—government demonstrators have marched through hungary's capital, budapest, to protest against the policies of the far—right government of viktor orban. the demonstrations began

this could turn out to be a very messy divorce. jonah fisher, bbc news, in here.e risks of winter climbing should not be under—estimated following the deaths of two young climbers on ben nevis — britain's highest peak — in recent weeks. a student from germany died on new year's day while another young climber — from britain — died in december. here's our scotland correspondent james shaw. ben nevis, the highest mountain in the british isles and, for that reason, extremely popular with walkers and climbers. but the paths across its north face can be dangerous. this is what's known as the ledge route. on new year's day, a student from bristol university fell 500 feet down the mountain from this path and was killed. her three companions were rescued by a coastguard helicopter. the actual helicopter managed to winch them off the crag from where they were and i was below the crag, which was carn dearg buttress, where, unfortunately, she'd fallen. it was the second death in recent weeks. patrick boothroyd, who was 21, died in december. tens of thousands of people climb

while it appears that jonah jonah i'd like to ask you about the brakes a deadline and it is naming on march twenty ninth and time's running out. yeah sorry about that odio breakup their time is indeed running out for the prime minister if she loses the vote on tuesday night will then a vastly accelerated program of events comes into play as a result of votes she lost last week in parliament she'll have to come back on monday with a version of plan b. whatever that may be her own cabinet don't know what that may be it could involve rushing straight off to brussels looking for further concessions it might involve really vote on her deal at some point or even a snap general election and fees at that point will be able to say what they want to see happen next and have their plans voted upon anything from a softer form of breaks into so-called norway plus customs union single market arrangement or the nuclear possibility of a second referendum all of which will take time and it is inconceivable really at this moment that there is enough time for those things out before march twenty ninth s

host: jonah goldberg's new book. thank you for a few minutes here in miami. guest: great to be here. thank you very much. ♪

allergies with some experts predicting forty five kilometer queues once and customs check out from kent jonah hall has this report. in the dawn light a traffic jam emerges a convoy of trucks simulating the long queues for customs checks at britain's ports following a no deal brinks if. this was a live exercise operation broke the government's plan to ease congestion on major southbound routes by diverting trucks to the disused manston airfield from there forming an orderly procession through the kent countryside on smaller roads to dover port the contingency plan or traffic management measures the department of transport described it was given another label by one of the drivers involved having is a last minute thing because there was enough loser for the stock and he just wasn't tough it is a bit far off. to prove what. i get a lot to do in something. that's only as a reward but it will be done nothing like the money not even the local m.p. from the governing conservative party was particularly impressed i welcomed the both the transport ramping up wrecks it preparations but this trial is on

on march the twenty ninth but the government is not necessarily in firm charge of events jonah how al jazeera london malta will lead to rescue ships dogs that have been stranded at sea for weeks the maltese prime minister says the forty nine people on board will then be sent to eight european union countries refugees and migrants were picked up by two german charities on making the dangerous mediterranean crossing it's only malta and all of the e.u. states had refused to offer them or. now the annual consumer electronics show is happening in the united states this year that it has tumbling stock prices trade tensions and its role reynolds reports from las vegas a lack of new ideas four thousand companies from dozens of countries rolled out new products at the consumer electronics show l.g.'s new flexible t.v. screen made a big splash. l.g. has an all ad t.v. sixty five inches that rolls down and disappears from view into a box that is the first roll both flexible screen that we've seen produced from a major television manufacture the price tag around three thousand dollars this year t

. >> you would be hard-pressed to disavow anything jonah said. spent a lot of time worried about politics at large and that people that he is now given everyone license to use this language i think that is wrong i don't think democrats can arguably argue against him by acting like him neither can he criticize the democrats. i wish he would not have use that language but the bigger issue is the talk of impeachment and it is premature the house leadership agrees with that. most members understand that politicalization of impeachment to do it is a very dangerous path. this is a very relevant conversation and bob mueller will let everybody know when that is. but until then they have a policy agenda to stand up to and they have an election. to beat donald trump the best way to do that is a mandate to beat him at the ballot box. they did that in 2018 and now 2020 that is where the energy needs focused. chris: a very interesting moment on friday because president trump came out to the rose garden after meeting with pelosi and said she assured me there i

let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a cathedral in the town of jonah in the southern philippines has been bombed at least twenty seven people were killed and schools wounded in the attack officials say twin blasts struck outside the church the area has seen a decades long islam islamist militancy. the un says more than fifty mass graves have been found in western democratic republic of congo after a spate of killings that it's thought the graves relate back to deadly violence between two ethnic groups that erupted in december an investigation is underway with canada's ambassador to china john mccallum has been followed by prime minister justin trudeau mccallum was sacked for suggesting that the us should drop its extradition request for who are way executive men. the chinese business woman was arrested in vancouver in december and is wanted by the u.s. on charges of violating sanctions on iran. in brazil the search to find around three hundred people missing off to a down an iron ore mine in the southwest of the country will resume at first light this

day for many of the new year were misleading you know hardy few expect no deal to be an easy ride jonah al-jazeera southeast england. the worst of the great fragile crisis may now be over but the government is still having to ask for help to pay for major projects it's now asking its own citizens the contribution towards replacing its out they to naval fleet in a massive crowdfunding scheme and as john psaropoulos reports from asons it could be a case of history repeating itself. greece's thirteen frigates form the backbone of its navy but they are now three decades old refitting them would cost more than half the price of a new fleet and without the capabilities so the heloc navy is looking for a brand new fleet and it's taking donations gallagher's a little if there's a call on great ship owners and greek citizens to contribute something from their surplus in a special account set up to acquire a new fleet of frigates and a new flagship greek defense spending has fallen by forty percent to six billion dollars during a decade of recession and even though it's still one of the biggest s

number it is a world in which inequality deepens and political leaders no longer have all the answers jonah how al-jazeera divorce switzerland taxi drivers are back on the streets of madrid protesting against services like they say rival drivers and ride hailing ups compete unfairly since they do not face the same regulations and costs protest as a block's main roads in the capital and then barcelona with their partner cars. turkey's president richard type are the ones due to hold talks with the russian leader vladimir putin on syria they're trying to find common ground despite backing opposing sides u.s. plans to withdraw its troops present yet another challenge or opportunity really challenge has more from moscow. turkey has been sending reinforcements to its border with northern syria recently it's got forces in the last rebel stronghold of it province and in aleppo province where turkey is facing off against the u.s. backed kurdish dominated s.d.f. in the northeast and donald trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria means foreign powers involved in the war or reassessing their

jonah goldberg, the review senior editor.ditorial director of the "washington examiner," richard fowler. good evening gentlemen. i'll get to some of the celebrities that jumped all in and made fools of themselves yet again, but let's start with the media. shouldn't members of our profession be better than this? >> yes, they absolutely should be. one of the problems that we have -- these problems are not exactly new. there have been motivated reason and bias in mainstream media for larry to make a very long time. we remember the memos under george w. bush, but one of the problems that we get into in this moment is that these tribal anti-trump is it leads people to leap on the slightest bit of provocation and claim that their entire worldview is justified with a morsel of news. twitter and these things accelerated and make it worse. they create a mob mentality. i don't know how you fix that, but there's more responsibility on the press. they are supposed to be the people who were not getting ahead of the facts and that is what

the to the british people so she will obviously be facing the vote of no confidence in parliament as jonah was mentioning but her real challenge over the next few days if she does as is expected to survive that vote will be to come up with a new bricks of plan one that is acceptable both to the house of commons and crucially obviously also to the european union in the brussels as far as we know she has no plans or at least has hasn't announced any plans to travel travel to brussels just yet so it looks like she's doing it the other way around whereas before she got a deal from brussels and presented it to the house now it seems that she is going to try and build consensus here in london in parliament before she goes back to brussels now it's not going to be easy her detractors say that partly this is her fault that she didn't have support in parliament because she hasn't sort consensus since the start of this process more than two years ago other people say that it is simply an impossible task that she is faced with she said something i think quite interesting at the end of the vote yester

number it is a world in which inequality deepens and political leaders no longer have all the answers jonah how al-jazeera davus switzerland mexico's president mandela door has responded to last week's pipeline blast with social reforms ninety six people were killed while illegally gathering fuel on friday or says he'll help poor areas where people are more likely to steal fuel he said he'll focus on jobs pensions and credit for foreigners. ten thousand children are being represented in a class action lawsuit targeting the trumpet ministration the southern poverty law center filed a claim in defense of children separated from their families under a policy introduced in april they say the children were held in more than one hundred detention centers away from their parents and also claims the separation was a deliberate way to deter families from immigrating castro has more from washington d.c. . the lawsuit points to this secret draft memo written by government officials more than a year ago but only leaked to the public last week as the so-called smoking gun the memos titled policy options

>> on the comment, i would be hard-pressed to disagree with anything jonah said.t of time talking and wearing about the politics at large and that he has now given license to everyone to use this language and i think that is wrong but i don't think democrats can effectively argue against him by acting like him . nor can he criticized democrats for acting like him. so i wish he wouldn't have used that language. but i think the bigger issue here is the talk of impeachment. i do think it's premature. i think most democratic leadership agree with that. most members of house democratic leadership understand the politicization of impeachment, the way tom stier is doing. the way some members are doing it is a very dangerous path to go down. there may come a time when this is a relevant conversation and bob mueller will let everyone know when that time is. until then, democrats have a policy agenda to push. a policy agenda to stand up to and they have an election to win. if they want to beat donald trump, the best way to do that and have a mandate behind her own agenda is

we'll confirm, jonah, that he watched it. >> good afternoon again. ashley lindsay, planning department staff. the case before you is a request for conditional use authorization to install a new at&t mobility macro wireless telecommunication facility at 2990 24th street. the project includes installation of two new fiber enclosures, 24 radio you nits and one g.p.s. antenna on the rooftop. ancillary equipment will be located at ground level and all equipment will be screened and painted to match the existing building. the project site is located within the n.c.t. zoning district at the northeast corner of harrison street and 24th street. the three-story building was constructed in 1989 and is within the special use district. the present use of the building is residential with ground floor commercial. the wireless siding goidslines identify different building districts and uses for the sighing of wireless communication facilities. based on the zoning and land use, the proposed wireless facility is a location preference by a site, mixed use building and

. >> all right, jonah. one, i'm very supportive of our nomination of commissioner melgar and commission koppel as president and vice president. thank you, all, for making this relatively easy and straightforward. we face a lot of complicated issues. obviously affordability, gentrification, housing crisis is always on our mind and i think we tackle it in a thoughtful way and that's a testament to everybody here. so, thank you and thank you for the kind words. i look forward to you both leading this commission. i've learned a lot from you commissioner melgar in our short time on this commission. so looking forward to doing more of that. >> commissioners, seeing nothing further, there is a motion that has been sected to elect commissioner melgar as president. on that motion -- [roll call] >> so move. >> that vote was still -- >> that motion -- [laughter] >> and give us a minute because we'll do the ceremonial moving of the seats. >> yes. >> you need to do -- >> oh, vice president. sorry. yeah. i was ready to g

none of it all that surprising when you take into account who founded buzz feed jonah peretti founder and c.e.o. and apparently noted fraudster the big obstacle has revealed how mr peretti in two thousand and three stole the identity of a well known gun activist set up a website in his name and sent out hundreds of thousands of emails pretending to be someone he was not in an effort to sway public opinion on gun control in effect a massive fake news this information campaign he was sued for that and settled eventually. after a year and a half we finally reached a legal settlement peretti also apologized to gold blacks and took down jeff gold black dot com i received an undisclosed monetary settlement or take mr parities other little stunt detailed in the article this upset some student had set up a dating website rejection hard line with a similar name to his own dating website rejection line bred he set up a website legibly for the express purpose of defaming someone ruining a person's reputation emails contained multiple lies about me and to trade me is an arrogant jerk who was brag

. >> reporter: a top nfl prospect in fulsome high school grad jonah williams says his first stop lastht was in and out with a hefty order. >> four by fours, two flying dutchmen, neopolitan shake. >> reporter: there were 20 clemson players there, too, with mixed reviews. >> disappointment -- >> not good. >> reporter: as some tigers took pictures with the national championship trophy, they say the trophy they beat alabama for two years ago was displayed in their team meeting room all week. >> inspiration a little, you know, extra motivation to win it. i think we've done it once, and to have this opportunity again is really awesome. >> reporter: no matter the outcome, a clemson star wide out wants to explore the bay area right after the game. >> going to the golden gate bridge, seems like 45 minutes away. whenever the game gets over, if we win or -- we lose, hopefully we win. >> reporter: in san jose, ian cull, nbc bay area news. >> the two teams get into town yesterday. they're probably expecting great california weather. and they get hit with all this rain. >> yeah. >> and wind -- >> t

first working day for many of the new year were misleading hardy few expect no deal to be an easy ride jonah al-jazeera southeast england. u.s. and chinese they go see eight years of hell their first face to face talks and suppose countries agree to a truce to try to resolve their trade that this feud deputy trade representative geoffrey garish lead the talks on the u.s. side but few details have emerged from the meeting the two sides will continue talks on tuesday the french government is hardening its stance on unofficial demonstrations proposing legislation to toughen sanctions on protesters it's in response to the yellow vests protests across france that started in mid november and have often turned violent the prime minister told french t.v. that cracking down on unsanctioned them stations would protect the right to legitimate protest. we need to preserve the right to demonstrate and from us and we must sanction those who want to infringe on this right to demonstrate that's why the government favors updating the law in order to sanction those who do not respect this obligation to play a

digital revolution but the focus has also been on some of the big names who are out there more than jonah hill in davos. a chill has settled over down ass and that's not just the weather leaders of some of the world's biggest economies china the united states france and the u.k. have stayed away to find crises at home crises fueled by nationalism populism and those left behind by globalization it is everything the world economic forum is supposed to stand against and yet this year's big ticket visitor is brazil's new president far right nationalist ball son r.-o. here to launch what he calls a new brazil then there was a big. we intend to reduce the size of the resin state apparatus and carry out a form such as the social security reform the tax reform we wish to relieve those who produce and undertake business and projects from the weight of a heavy state that's good news for business less so for those who depend on state aid it's an odd look for an annual gathering traditionally built on bridging divides it does say that there's a bit of a shift and that those major leading democracies

reason perhaps for optimism that out of crisis comes opportunity and in opportunity there is hope jonah all al-jazeera at davos switzerland. well perhaps there is some hope in our story off the break embarking on a journey to clean up the ocean a sailing vessel made entirely of recycled ocean plastic. the situation for our workers is absolutely better today than it was just a. lessons from a wild couple going to hear about how changing the way work as a treat in globally that's coming up with joe in sport. business updates brought to you by qatar where we're going places together. business updates brought to you by qatar where we're going places together. welcome back the dow is a traditional sailing vessel of the indian ocean but history has just been made in kenya where they've made the first hour of recycled plastic instead of wood it's just set sail for. johnny to raise awareness of plastic pollution i'm going to doe is that to par. this is the boot up the heart of what is being hailed as a plus to cripple ition flip flop as it's called is the world's first doll made and highly over

to be no deal planning this is it it is a scenario that many believe would be a national disaster jonah thank you now u.s. network c.b.s. has broadcast an interview with egyptian president despite a request by cairo not to air it abdel fattah el-sisi told sixty minutes his country's military was cooperated with the israelis in the sinai and he also denied human rights abuses done estabrook reports. u.s. television network c.b.s. said the egyptian government demanded it not air an interview with journalist scott pelley in which egyptian president el-sisi said his government and israel are cooperating in the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant would you say that this is the deepest and closest cooperation that you've ever had with israel side that is correct. the air force sometimes needs to cross to the israeli side and that's why we have a wide range of coordination with israel other than a slightly futile sequence it's been estimated there are about a thousand terrorists and showing up with more than a billion dollars in u.s. military aid to every year why haven't yo

approve a whole set of program regulations which would guide the development of the program, and i know jonah lee worked on that as well as colleagues. he can speak a little bit more. my understanding is over the last two years it has been a process of developing guidelines , and targeting projects that these funds would be used for. >> i would add to that it has been a long process, but it has been the one that we want to get right, and the good news is right now, as we are going into the market, rates are looking very favourable. in the meantime, we have also been able to work with our sponsors and partners to generate the pipelines. we wouldn't want to go out into the market and issue before we were ready to use it, otherwise a city would be incurring a significant debt service expense without having the loans ready to close. right now we have a significant pipeline that we are ready to make loans to, and it is quite timely, although of course, had we been able to do it a year earlier before that, we would have. >> thank you. >> any other questions? singing none, let's ask our budget legis