in order to thrive, liberalism needs tougher liberals. i will stop there and thank you. >> let me just say a word. thank you. that was very interesting. very thoughtful and very bold. it must have stimulated some thoughts and questions out there. we will move into the q&a. the program has a little tradition to invite any student in the audience, whatever level you are at in your studies to ask the first question. let me invite students to raise her hand. there are microphones. just wait until someone puts one in your hand. write down front. >> please identify yourself. >> hello. i'm a sophomore in chemical engineering. i would like to ask the question, i know you focused your talk on western civilization. there has been a bernie sanders type person who wants to see better relations with north korea and we are seeing this creep up in china and the philippines. how are the set of solutions that you presented, are they the same or do we have to apply a different approach. >> that's a good question. my solutions are geared toward the develope

why is it not liberal?hat because the principal beneficiary of this wonderful, liberal international order has been china? yes, that has been the principal winner back in 1980. china accounted for perhaps 2% of the world economy, and the u.s. and canada together were about a quarter of the world economy and what are the percentages now. well, today china accounts for 18% of the world economy and the u.s. and canada together slightly less. 17% and on present trends that it would grow by 2021 and china will account for a fifth of the world economy. how can it be a liberal international order if the principal beneficiary is a one-party state run by a communist elite. and they're not the only beneficiaries. fareed wrote a terrific article about liberal democracies, the ones with elections, but no rule of law also turn out to have done rather well from the system. i actually looked at some of the measures you used in that article. i wanted to see if the world had gotten any more free since you wrote that article

you are all liberal. you are all international, and by my own experience, you are all quite orderly. it seems to me that one way of thinking about this is how difficult it by my own experience, you are would be to get you to vote in favor of what i suppose would be the opposite, which would be conservative, homegrown chaos. we are trained in the united tates at the moment. [laughter] i just want to make it clear that i am not here to defend donald trump. i am not even here to persuade you, the liberal international order is necessarily all bad. i'm just here to dissuade you that it is . now, i think there should be some fold disclosure. you and i have been amongst the beneficiaries of the liberal international order. not quite as much is peter, but some. we have had our fun over the years, i think you still go to those places. i am not going to deny that it has been pretty good. the question i want to address is whether or not it has been good for a lot of other people who may not be so well represented i

so these are liberal democrat target voters in a liberal democrat target voters in a liberal democrat 0 for the party a lot depends on how they respond to the promises of politicians. wage growth has fallen behind the cost of living for the first time in three years, according to the office for national statistics. average weekly earnings, excluding bonuses, increased by 2.1%. in the three months to march, while inflation rose by 2.3% in the year to march 2017. meanwhile, unemployment has fallen to 4.6% — its lowest level in 42 years. here's our economics editor, kamal ahmed. a business fair in leeds and good new onjob, firms hiring plenty of people as economic growth remains positive. we are continually recruiting staff, we have grown quickly over the last to two years from four to 32 people.some we have employed our new manager, and we have also employed in the last couple of months a new ground staff. at this moment in time on our company website, i think we have 15 vacancies posted. the last time we saw unemployment this low was 1975. when the price of a pint of milk was sense pen

the ma nifesto the liberal democrats to launch the manifesto just the liberal democrats to launch thehe manifesto just after 7pm this evening and full coverage of that here on bbc news. and today at 5.30pm on bbc news we will be putting your questions about the liberal democrat manifesto to the party's former leader, nick clegg. you can get in touch via twitter using the hashtag bbc ask this or text your questions to 61124 and you can e—mail us as well at: askthis@bbc.co.uk one ofjeremy corbyn‘s key allies, the leader of the unite union, len mccluskey, has said he believes that labour is now in with "a real chance" of winning the general election. in an earlier interview, mr mccluskey suggested a labour victory on 8th june would be "extraordinary". but today he said labour's manifesto was fantastic, and he was full of optimism. the interview i did with politico was a conversational piece, and it was against the backdrop of if the opinion polls are to be believed that i made those comments. of course, since then, labour launched their manifesto and it's fantastic. a manifesto for worke

not liberal by today's standards.ames mcreynolds, louis brandeis brian: they are both from , kentucky. tell us that relationship. mr. snyder: both of them nominees of woodrow wilson. mcreynolds was wilson's attorney general, who had a liberal reputation as a trust buster, both before he joined the wilson administration and while he was in the administration. he goes on to become one of the most conservative and supremely racist and anti-semitic supreme court justices in history. but just to tell you how diverse the people were who were dining at the house of truth, when mcreynolds becomes the attorney general, he dines at the house of truth. robert valentine comes down from massachusetts, and felix frankfurter arranges a dinner with reynolds. they get into this debate about civil service -- frankfurter and mcreynolds get into this debate about civil service. of course, frankfurter thinks people should be hired based on merit. mcreynolds says, but what about all these people who have been approaching me about getting t

that is what liberals wanted.hat is why they create the house of truth, to try to save .acco and vanzetti 5'6", spoke with a slight german act. -- german accent. he came to this country not speaking a word of english and then he was number one in his class at harvard law school. he was a prosecutor under theodore roosevelt and he worked in the cap administration -- the taft administration. brian: would you have liked him personally? mr. snyder: everyone who knew felix frankfurter on a social basis like him. william mine quest, when he clerked for him, he said he was attracted to frankfurter. you'd grab people on the arm with a firm grip. he was intense. there was an exhibit about frankfurt called a passionate intensity. brian: what was louis brandeis like? mr. snyder: he was a little bit more of a cold fish. had this real reserve. it was almost a studied reserve. even his letters, they are bullet points. another, there is no feeling in those letters. brian: what was oliver wendell holmes like? mr. snyder: he was a

so these are liberal democrat target voters in a liberal democrat target seat. i am quite excited.r the party a lot depends on how they respond to the promises of politicians. mark easton reporting on the views of young people in cambridge. that is just about it from bethnal green, where the lib dems have launched their party manifesto for the general election. tim farron, the leader, on the stage, very much emphasise that hard brexit, he said, would be a time bomb underneath the economy and he said the opponents of a hard brexit and of leaving the single market, like the liberal democrats, should not roll over. that was his message. plenty more coverage of today's election campaign in the campaign wrap at 8:30pm. but, for me, back to the studio. campaign wrap coming up in about 16 minutes. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:a0pm in the papers. we will be having all the analysis. 0ur guestsjoining me tonight are the political commentatorjane merrick, and ben riley—smith, assistant political editor at the daily telegraph

that is the launch of the liberal democrats' ma nifesto the launch of the liberal democrats' manifestove. in the quiet of this to do. it is very quiet of this to do. it is very quiet here. and warm. the liberal democrats, as ben said, hope to attract young voters. the lib dems are also offering several new policies aimed at young people, including dropping the voting age to 16 and a rent—to—own housing scheme. to cambridge to see what sort of issues affecting young people. the voice of the young. so often ignored by the politicians. it is loud and clear that cambridge regional college. this could be about anything such as brexit, trish and... —— tuition... about anything such as brexit, trish and... -- tuition... what is on the mind of students here? politicians have to start appealing to young people. these young people are going to grow old. the lib dem manifesto promises young people cheaper bus fa res, promises young people cheaper bus fares, higher welfare payments, promises young people cheaper bus fares, higherwelfare payments, help with housing and vote for 16—year—olds. is low

in november -- brian: are you a liberal? mr. snyder: i guess so. liberals have rebranded themselves as progressives. i would certainly call myself a progressive. i think what happened in 1912 in the house of truth is liberals began to form these networks. networks of politicians and lawyers and journalists and artists. even though they were not in political power all the way in the 1920's up until 1932, these networks were doing a lot of work for them. they were undertaking a lot of political change. that is the major contribution of this book, to show the early developments of american liberalism, a lot of which took place at this house. brian: is this going on today, where there is a house, salons in a town like washington? mr. snyder: this is a quintessentially washington story where young, idealistic or often ivey league or college graduates come and live in a house together and have dinner parties and network with various people. they might be working on the hill or might be working as counsel to a senator. i think this

how the liberal democrats think the country should be run.ntre was brexit, and how it should be handled. at the heart of our manifesto is an offer to all of the people in our country that no other party is making and that is that we do not just have to accept whatever deal we get back from the brexit negotiations, but the british people, you, should have the final say. if you don't like what theresa may comes back with, you should have the right to vote to remain. the lib dems say they would spend more money on health and education paid for by higher corporation tax and a penny on income tax. on housing, they want to introduce a rent—to—own scheme for tenants, and promised to legalise and regulate cannabis. they claim this could generate £1 billion per year in tax. it's about keeping the availability of hard drugs away from cannabis, and it's about regulating cannabis so the most dangerous strands like skunk are outside of the regulated system. it is about helping those people who are vulnerable and hitting those people who are the criminals

so these are liberal democrat target voters in a liberal democrat target seat. party, a lot depends on how they respond to to promises of politicians. mark easton, bbc news, cambridge. there are new warnings that workers are facing a squeeze in living standards. the latest figures indicate that wages are not keeping pace with the cost of living. however, another set of figures show that a record number of people are now in work. a business fair in leeds and good news onjobs — firms hiring plenty of people as economic growth remains positive. we are continually recruiting staff, we have grown really quickly in the last two years from four to 32 people. we've just employed our new park manager and we've also employed in the last couple of months a new ground staff. at this moment on our company website, ithink, we have 15 vacancies posted. the last time we saw unemployment this low was 1975, when the price of a pint of milk was a princely seven pence. it was also an era of high inflation and rapidly increasing incomes. today, inflation is creeping back and incomes

my parents met in the chaotic moments of liberation, rescued by american g.i.' german prison train almost certainly destined to a fate of death. but 75 years ago, they were not my parents. they were victims of the most brutal, systematic assault by any state on any people in modern times. 1942 was a momentous year of history. it began with a conference outside berlin, where a small group of mid- to high-ranking german officials met to plan the implementation of what they called the final solution of the jewish question. there were only 15 people at the meeting. imagine that. only 15 to plan the extinction of a people. their plans focused on the establishment of extermination centers, the most famous being auschwitz-birkenau, which began its systematic killings that spring. as officials were making plans and coordinating train schedules, and as contractors worked constructing barracks, gas chambers, and crematoriums, most could not have imagined what would soon befall them, nor could the world. by august of 1942, the u.s. government received the first authoritati

labour is pointing to the liberal democrats‘s record in government.romy koren by not attending a rally. it was a mixed picture for the party yesterday. and what i would say is the party needs to do what we're doing here, go back to grassroots and build from there. the support i received from the people of greater manchester was truly quite an bling. the fact that so truly quite an bling. the fact that so many people went out to vote, i cannot tell you how much i appreciate that. it is a reflection of the work we have done over many years, built that connection with people at that local level. i would say to the party, that is the way to go, to rebuild from grassroots in the places we didn't win yesterday. what is about to happen here in greater manchester, i hope the labour party can take inspiration and breakdown. i'd be split in the party a cause for concern when there is only a few weeks till the general election? you say splits, we are fighting as one. we are fighting a general election together. now that this election is over, i didn't want it to

liberalism was changing. i am in the middle of reading a wonderful new book by brad snyder called "house of truths." it is about littman and a lot of intellectual of this period seeking to define the status of principles about civil liberties and free speech that comes out of the world war i period. we are germinating during the period of the 19 teens. it is important to think of this legacy and wilson's of what is in transition and what is being born and develop and rather as a static menu of policies that we can examine and either, you know, pass approval or rejection upon. in my remarks there and look forward to the conversation, thanks. >> so there are many things that we could continue to say to one another or places where i am attempted to chime in. i think the responsibility thing for me to do as moderator of this panel is open up the conversations to y'all and see where you would like to chime in. >> i would like to comment of the conversations of congre congress -- of racism specifically northern --

labour is pointing to the liberal democrats's reputation in government.ut nhs funding when the party manifestos, alt. the ukip reader to the mac leader... campaigning in lincolnshire this morning said he remained optimistic about ukip's prospects in the general election. there was a clear movement from us to the conservative party but that was all was going to happen. she called the selection primarily because she was to get it out of the way before negotiations start. it is easy to talk the talk and acts tough but when she is asked to walk the walk she will start to barter things away, fisheries will 90, barter things away, fisheries will go, there will be some movement on immigration and freedom of movement, she may buckle that, she will certainly buckle and a divorce bill. when people are angry, when they feel they have been let down, when they feel they are not getting the brexit they voted for on the 23rd of june, we had a good deal? they're going to return to ukip. the future of ukip is very right indeed. the campaign team of the french presidential

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how the liberal democrats think the country should be run.entre was brexit, and how it should be handled. at the heart of our manifesto is an offer to all of the people in our country that no other party is making, which is that we do not just have to accept whatever deal we get back from the brexit negotiations, but the british people, you, should have the final say. if you do not like what theresa may comes back with, you should have the right to vote to remain. the lib dems say they would spend more money on health and education paid for by higher corporation tax and a penny on income tax. 0n housing, they want to introduce a rent to own scheme for tenants, and promised to legalise and regulate cannabis. they claim this could generate £1 billion per year in tax. it's about keeping the availability of hard drugs away from cannabis, and regulating cannabis so the most dangerous strands like skunk are outside of the regulated system. it is about helping those people who are vulnerable and hitting those people who are the criminals who take ad

voices voting pro—liberal voices. we see over and over again. there is a pattern. you could argue that the sorts of things we see in turkey today could be linked to the political realities of russia today, where putin is in the ascendant. you could perhaps look at a country like egypt, where 2011 brought the arab spring and so many pro—democracy voices onto the streets in cairo, but where is egypt today? those liberal, secular, pro—democracy voices are nowhere. but here is what i think. being popular or getting the most of the votes, let's say, by numbers, isn't enough to gain legitimacy. it is not enough to make a system a democracy. and that is the biggest mistake the akp elite have been making over and over throughout the years. in short, what they are thinking is if we have the ballot box, this is democracy, is what they are saying, and i am saying no because the ballot box is only one of the requirements for a proper democracy. in addition to the ballot box, you need other things. you need rule of law, separation

they have gotten so liberal starting with truman. if roosevelt had lived another year, we would have won the korean war, but truman took all the fight out of us with his liberalism. that is why we did not win in kora. -- in korea. host: what do you think is happening today with the democratic party? check withyou colleges, then you will see that 80% of the people going to college since the truman era are all liberals. up with the dark skin at what he didok with the country. host: i'm not sure where we are going with that. jim bender chaim, do you want -- jim, do you want to try and talk about the liberal -- the democratic party notice? nowadays? guest: well, when it came to the liberal coverage of donald trump's campaign, it is unlikely that the democratic party is going to win back a lot of the house. right now, you have a democratic party that is in disarray. if you look at what happened to the democratic party during resident obama's -- president youa's eight year reign, saw big losses in the number of houses and governorships. so

what the liberal democrats are saying is that we must invest in the hospitals and schools.r future that we can reject the extreme version of brexit that theresa may, jeremy corbyn and ukip have backed and vote for a better future. there are also many people who voted remained that now except that result, something you are unwilling to do and they feel you have got to get on with it 110w feel you have got to get on with it now and many of them think theresa may is the person to do that. what is that there are many people who feel they have given up the fight. what i am saying to people is i haven‘t. if you believe that britain‘s future is better alongside oui’ britain‘s future is better alongside our neighbours in europe, if you believe that you however you voted in the referendum should have the final say on the deal, then you should not be forced to live with a deal that will damage perhaps your jobs, affect the prices of things you jobs, affect the prices of things y°u pay jobs, affect the prices of things you pay for every week, how money —— how much money we have got to

this is one of the few liberal democrats seats that is left standing.on. if that is the case, it will all be down to be in fluent ukip. politics here has been dominated by the rise of ukip. this is a very rural part of the country. big infarming, quite big in fishing, the pressures of immigration and brexit have been very big issues. in some places 65 oi’ very big issues. in some places 65 or 70% of people voted to leave and so or 70% of people voted to leave and so ukip has always commanded a lot of command here. it has 3 euros meps and in the last lecture on, it came second in many seats. in this election, it isn't standing everywhere. that is so dumb act because it doesn't have the money, but into —— that is because it doesn't have the money. but that is for another reason. it is famous for the coastline and the norfolk broads. it is not used to being at the front line of an election campaign. this take on the race could be very close. the last election, the liberal democrats norman lamb had a very reduced majority of 4000. many people voted ukip. th

the liberal democrats made progress. well the parties have done in the local elections, we're not saying this is how the parties would have performed if there had been a general election yesterday. we're not saying that this is what's going to happen on june 8. it gives an indication of how, in these local contests, the parties have stood and by comparing these local contests with other recent contests we give some idea of who is up and who is down. peter, some thoughts on this? john, you're absolutely right that these local elections should be regarded with caution. comparing like with like, local elections in years gone by, this 11% projected conservative lead is exactly the same as they got in 1982 in the middle of the falklands war. if one looks at past patterns of local elections and national elections, the conservatives almost always do noticeably better in general elections than in the local elections that build up to them. labour never does better or in the past has never done better in national elections than in

absolutely, the liberal democrats we re absolutely, the liberal democrats were reduced from 66 seatst in the last election. they picked up one in a by—election to go into this election with nine to defend. they will be hoping that many of those seats that they lost in 2015 were lost to the conservatives. they have appropriate set message versus the hybrid brexit that theresa may is seeking. but the bar has been raised that much higher and it will make it much more difficult if ukip‘s vote has disappeared. we have not heard directly from paul nuttall, the ukip leader, and he blamed their demise on their own success. he seems to think the tories are benefiting from the furrow they have ploughed. what about the risks for the conservatives, that people look at their newspapers this morning and 90, their newspapers this morning and go, oh, well, it is all over. maybe they will think i do not need to bother turning out on the 8th of june because she has got it in the can, but even some party workers become complacent about their prospects. how big a danger do you think the conservatives th

ho chi minh and the head of the national liberation front to participate with us. that is the challenge i'm offering to you. mr. collingwood: mr. graziani of italy. graziani: yes. i mean, i think this very relevant. i think what we want to know is what the americans are doing in vietnam. i think what we want to know is what right they have to be there. by going there, they have breached the u.n. charter, the u.s. constitution, and the geneva agreements. what can you say about that? governor reagan: well, i don't think they have breached any of those agreements. as a matter of fact, by the geneva agreement, two countries were created, with the 17th parallel dividing them... students: no, no, a temporary division. governor reagan: a million people--a million people fled across the border to south vietnam. now... graziani: can i quote you a passage from the geneva agreement? "the 17th parallel dividing north from south vietnam is mere provisional military demarcation line, and should not in any way be interpreted as constituting a political or territorial boundary. th

do you believe in general there is the overall liberal media bias?. >>guest: absolutely i have said this 20 years. worked at the wall street journal and the "washingtonst post" and roll call and polit "politico". my guess is 90% of those truths zero more left of center.most i have pretty good instincts and that is the reality before most of my career they did a very good job to overcompensate for their bias and it to be so patently biased to put that into journalism i would say that changed in the last year with donald trott particularly on twitter with uc reporters who were supposed to be distant notot have an edge to their voice suddenly sitting on twitter popping off in ways that were clearly pro hillary and anti-trump part of that is because he is so harsh on the media but i don't like that because it is hard enough to keep your trusted we're doing our darndest to keep your trust the once you start to voice that on tv or twitter or facebook it makes a harder to keep that bond of trust with "the reader." >>host: is there a strict twitter policy for

then the liberals found themselves under attack and so forth. what was different from billy graham in this case was jerry falwell planned to make a mass movement and graham never did. graham was content to have his own relationship with the powerful. it came up from the grassroots, really. religious groups and between religious groups and nonreligious people. so, it all sort of happened the same time, and it was a bit delayed because of the real reaction came in 1980 as opposed to the '60s, and at that point falwell, with the help of this new right operatives from washington, dc who had their own little consecutive pacs and so forth, persuaded him to create the moral majority, and to structure it in rather sophisticated ways, and in their view it should have included conservative catholics as well as everybody else, but falwell really was only able to attract some other fundamentalists, and so he didn't really succeed in creating this mass movement. on the other hand, it made a big fuss and there warlet of southern baptists -- were a lot of sout

you liberals can't stand the truth. that's the problem. those liberals can't stand the truth. i don't know what lie the president has told. that is my position. leave the president alone.live lead his family alone. i hope the girl next all the ways you can make. what is wrong with making money in this country? host: we will move on. thanks for the call. you mentioned liberty university, the president's's speech. we covered it -- the president's speech. we covered a lot yesterday. [video clip] president trump: the fact is no one achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can't be done. nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic because there are people that can't get the job done, but the future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. the future belongs to the people who follow their heart matter because critics say they truly believe in their vision. host: the president at liberty university yesterday. this editorial, comey, trump, and the gop. comey, before firing president trump tweeted the russia an

let us talk about the liberal democrats.ising income tax on all the bands by one pin1p raising income tax on all the bands by one pin 1p in the poem to these £6 billion for the nhs. what are the calculating with this? why do they think this is potentially something which the public will like? this is a actually talking about the real cost of the nhs and the cost of social care. they believe they could ever next £6 billion a year, on top of what the conservatives have been pledging. they say it will also be ring fenced in england. wheels, scotla nd ring fenced in england. wheels, scotland and northern ireland, because of devolution, they will make their own decisions on. this is really to with england. they believe they have made the political calculation, that this will be popular. after all, remember what happened with the famous bus during the european union debate. £350 million for the nhs. that seemed to go down very well. we can join ian, who has been listening tojeremy corbyn in leicester. what has been the reaction to

of lost 177, the liberal democrats of lost 31 and ukip have lost 68.omes to councils... the tories have picked up five councils, labour have lost control of three. eleanor garnier reports. it is the conservatives with the biggest cheers. tim charles brown was is duly elected as the west of england combined authority mayor. the consummate candidate made history, becoming the regional mayor. in cumbria, the tories replaced labour as the largest party. but senior conservatives are playing down expectations ahead of the general election. the turnout in local elections, though, is much, much lower. it is wrong to predict what's going to happen injune. we still have a general election to campaignforand to still have a general election to campaign for and to win after last night. but encouraging signs. the tories are celebrating in essex, too. this time around, voters turned their backs on ukip. in lincolnshire, where ukip leader paul nuttall will fight for a westminster seat next month, the party was wiped out. and with such big losses, ukip‘s future is in q

turnbull is a liberal. case, does not want to accept the refugees. >> i love nick adams by the way, austrian by birth, american by choice. we're not going the way of angela merkel in germany, we're not just going to accept a lot of refugees that we can't vet. i will say, that australia is one of your greatest allies in the work -- in the world, withhe uk, and israe one thing trump has done, that i think that 8 confounds his critics, even when he talks tough, in person he finds a way to forge a personal relationship. for example with xi of china. charles: gina, the charmed offensive has worked, to steve's point, miraculously. and i think there has been a line of folks from both sides of aisle, critics and fans of trump who want to get in meet him. make everyone feel like they came away a winner. charles: quick, steve, today, announced that president trump will go visit saudi arabia, he had nice comments for them in the rose garden, and israel and meeting the pope on the vatican, your thoughts. >> right, on t

it takes a super power to keep up the liberal world order.we can do is keep europe together to avoid the worst. we have seen before, nationalism, we have seen the 1920's and 1930's and we don't want to go back there. scott: thus dregger says the real imperative is that these two leaders lead together. burkhard dregger: it was obvious that the two of them tried to find a way of communication, a personal level of understanding and i think this process has not come to an end yet, so they're still looking for it. scott: dregger adds, this is a long-lasting relationship, forged by the assistance the u.s. provided germany after world war ii and throughout the cold war. he says the partnership won't be heavily impacted by a single president or single chancellor. nonetheless, the strain could be an unwelcome headache to merkel as she campaigns for upcoming elections in september. sharyl: i'll bet. thanks so much, scott. coming up on "full measure." why this republican senator is pushing to cut u.s. funding to the palestinians. sen. graham: it's a sic

number one, we didn't have the liberal media and the democrats and the liberals telling us we were poorly, i was blessed with parents and people around me that gave me that winning state of mind that dr. carson talked about, and that is what has allowed me to achieve beyond my own american dream. so he's exactly right. now, if i could come in on mark zuckerberg. >> kimberly: yes, please. >> why doesn't he just send all the poor people a check and stop spending my money, ok? go ahead, mark. we're not going to stop you. secondly, if you had a guarant guaranteeed -- guaranteed minimum income of people, what would be their incentive to exceed on things based upon their own abilities? that's not the way this society was built. that's not the way this society should grow going forward. he is dead wrong. ezonics -- it's easier for a billionaire to say give everybody a check. but, no, i believe in the model that we've used for hundreds of years and that is you achieve your american dream based upon your own motivation, your own inspiration and your own aspiration like i and millions of other pe

ho chi minh and the head of the national liberation front to participate with us. that is the challenge i'm offering to you. >> i mean, i think this is very relevant. what we want to knows what the americans are doing now. what we want to know is what rights have to be there. by going there, they have breached a u.n. charter, the u.s. constitution, and the geneva agreement. what can you say about that macro senator kennedy: -- that? senator kennedy: i do not believe they have breached any of those agreements. two countries were created with a 17th parallel dividing line. one million people fled across the border to south vietnam. the 17th parallel dividing is a from south vietnam military demarcation line that should not anyway be interpreted as a military established boundary. arms in any nation are prohibited. senator kennedy: when i said this, i am not talking about geneva saidt that this up, but once the demarcation line was set up, was it not mr. ho chi minh and the the enemy that closed that border after one million people fled. did they not make a country th

let's speak tojulian huppert from the liberal democrats.lot of people in this country think that all drugs are dangerous and that all drugs are dangerous and that they should never be legalised. for 15 years though almost we have had a system where cannabis and other drugs were legal, tobacco and alcohol which are very dangerous and illegal but everything else wasn't and it hasn't stopped people from having cannabis. millions of people have used and still use cannabis, it just hasn't worked. what it has done is given in full to criminal gangs who make a huge amount of money out of this and develop more and more potent and harmful strains, skunks and space so the policy has made things much much worse. i don't want criminal gangs deciding who gets to have this, anyone with £20 can get it, i wanted to be regulated so it is safer for people. when you talk about skunk being a more dangerous form of cannabis than maybe was around 20 years ago, only saying that that was not then be legalised? absolutely. there are two components that you find can

they have gone so liberal starting with truman. if roosevelt would have lived another year we would have won the korean war but truman took all the fight out of us. what is liberalism and that is why we didn't win in korea. >> what is the problem with the democratic party today? >> caller: you will see 80% of the people going to college since the truman era are all liberals. >> do you want to talk about the history of the democratic party and where it is today. >> guest: you had a democratic party in disarray. you had president obama and great for the obama brand, but if you look at what happened to the democratic party during the eight year rein you saw masses lossess at the state level, house and senate level, and you have a democratic party that is having its own identity crisis. can democrats accommodate the modern democrats so they can win swing districts? this is the question for democrats because if they don't do they they will not not have the success they want to have in the mid-term election. it is so early. they are star

as another lesson from that is apart from the liberal democrats' revival and success liberal democratse leader of the scottish national party, nicola sturgeon, said her party enjoyed an emphatic victory. the snp vote has held up our share of the seats have held up, and we will be the largest party in more councils, perhaps a majority of that is not absolutely killer yet. there is not absolutely killer yet. there is not absolutely killer yet. there is no way that anyone can spin this as any thing other than a clear and emphatic win for the snp. in in pole position to protect local services the length and breadth of the country and gives as a springboard for the general election. earlier today we heard from caroline lucas — co—leader of the green party. she explained why parties from the left needed to continue working together to transform the democratic voting system. essentially it is our incredibly undemocratic electoral system which is forcing the parties to have to discuss ways in which they can manage this tactically to try and ensure that there is a fairer representation of who i

the liberal democrats have launched their party manifesto in east london.tim farron called on voters to support his party and ensure they get a choice about britain's future relationship with europe. i believe that our children will have a brighter future if we are inside the european union. that they will be safer and better off. that our economy will be stronger and our country will have more influence in the world. butjust because i believe that doesn't mean i think people who voted to leave are bad people. of course they're not. wejust disagree. one ofjeremy corbyn‘s key allies, the unite leader len mccluskey, says he is now full of optimism about labour's general election hopes despite saying in an interview he could not see the party winning. it was against the backdrop of if the opinion polls are to be believed that i made those comments. of course since then labour have launched their manifesto, it is a fantastic manifesto. theresa may has brushed aside questions about whether the chancellor philip hammond will keep hisjob if the conservatives win t

that is one of the reasons why i oppose parties like the liberal democrats.hey stand ready to prop up jeremy corbyn‘s coalition of chaos, to see the brexit process stall and reopen the old battles of the past. and remember, it may say liberal democrat on the ballot but it is jeremy corbyn with you get, who gets the benefit. at the last election the benefit. at the last election the south west made the difference. between a strong majority government and a week, unstable coalition. the other parties are lining up to prop up other parties are lining up to prop upjeremy other parties are lining up to prop up jeremy corbyn and other parties are lining up to prop upjeremy corbyn and disrupt our brexit negotiations and that would bea brexit negotiations and that would be a recipe for drift, and disaster over, and division over what would be very crucial years for this country. and that is why this election is so important. we need to secure the leadership the country needs. leadership, stability, doing the right thing for britain. and thatis the right thing for bri

the liberal democrats would have hoped. been raised that much higher, it is going to make it that much more difficult if ukip‘s vote has just disappeared. we have not heard directly from paul nuttall the ukip litre yet. he put out a statement blaming their demise in the county council elections on their own successful stop leaving their own successful stop leaving the tories are benefiting from the photo they have ploughed. what about the risks here for the conservatives that people look at their newspapers this morning and see it is all over. maybe not all the think they do not need to bother turning out on the 8th ofjune because she has got it in the can but also that even some of the party workers become even a little bit complacent about their prospects. how big a danger do you think that it's the conservatives? if you listen to the language of preserved asbo people out and about yesterday, they were talking down the fact that they had won 563 seats —— conservative spokespeople. yesterday we had labour who had done pret

i will say, the statement tries to politicize it right away calling him a liberal reporter. he is not. he is a well respected reporter for a well respected outlet. this should not be a partisan thing. on the hill, republicans and democrats are interviewed by us reporters constantly with our phones and recorders in their faces. i have never seen anyone react repomotely like that. >> it is -- inserting liberal in there clearly there's a reason they did that. >> there is a reason. he is running for congress. to call somebody a liberal who you just body slammed is probably one of the best ways to get out of it, i would presume, if there's any way to get out of it. he is a candidate who has embraced donald trump who wholehearted wholeheartedly. that means that he has embraced his health care package. the question was about how many -- the cbo score which showed 23 million people will not have health care. that's not a good question for him. his opponent, who by the way is an underdog and i would argue remains an underdog in this race, has embraced barack obama's affordable care a

and that means fighting off any suggestion of a liberal democrat revival.ies think brexit could be their winning card. in many cornish seats, ukip performed strongly two years ago, but recent local elections show them on the slide and the tories are ready and waiting to plunder their votes. last time i voted for ukip because i wanted out of the european union. so, i think the conservatives will take us through. how do you think ukip will do in the south—west now? their main thing was to get us out of the european union and they've managed that. so, theirjob is done really, i think. what do you think of theresa may? very strong woman, very strong woman. i'm going to vote labour. he is genuine, isn't he? he's going to be looking out for my interests. labour's always struggled to convert votes into seats in this region and in most constituencies, it's a long way back for the lib dems. no wonder, privately, conservatives are sounding confident about their chances. vicky young, bbc news, cornwall. football now, and hull city have relegated from the premier leagu

the liberal democrats are asking. said they will increase all income tax band by one percentage point to raise £6 billion ring fenced for health and social care in england. if we want the best health and social care for our families, our loved ones, going into the future and we have to provide the money to pay for it. everyone else is pretending it can be done on the cheap. it cannot. the party says someone earning under £25,000 next year will pay £133 more in tax annually. on a salary of £100,000, the income tax bill would increase by £883. taking the focus away from wrecks it, this is the liberal democrats main pitch on tax and spending. they think it will be popular despite the risk of already committing to tax rises because of voters concerns about the state of the nhs. health is a devolved policy area. scotland has its own powers of income tax. there is no doubt the nhs and social care are under pressure across the uk with demand soaring and budgets squeezed. over the past few years, spending in the nhs has not a