be talking or lecturing the united states about policies towards russia or maintaining the liberal world order when they're doing so much to undermine that liberal world order in europe itself i want you to take a listen now. from a man by the west. chair of the used to be head of homeland security in the united states and he and the european sitting together in washington take a look. so where this commission is about is taking a bipartisan and transatlantic approach you know taking the steps we need to begin to inoculate ourselves against these efforts and i am for size the bipartisan transatlantic nature because this is not about one party benefiting and one party losing everybody loses. now that that was just last week can you imagine u.s. president donald trump suggesting that commission and pushing for to acknowledge or stop it is that he understands that he benefited from the russian interference in our election and he can't bring himself to admit that anyone was responsible for his incredible fabulous amazing election victory other than dollars a trump so he's not going to acknowledge

possible that younger americans simply don't want to comply with the rules being imposed by the liberal order are conservatives now the rebels. r t new york. giving young children a new lease on life one mother in russia's republic of dagestan has adopted eight children proving she's a woman of her word she promised to give them a good home after her son recovered from life threatening injuries but. this. brings my son back or from. the. body and they all have different diagnosis and characters you have to leave them for a bit till we call them down then explain how to do things they've been with me for eighteen months now and we're getting better. she did the right thing my sister will always back her decision thanks for joining us on r.t. international we'll be back after this short break with plenty more stories stay with us. price precedes news and so if you have a crisis you end up with a fake name so here when you manipulation of markets and there if you have interest rates at zero and you can borrow money at zero percent you have a non-linear credit line and you can muscle prices aroun

possible that younger americans simply don't want to comply with the rules being imposed by the liberal order are conservatives now the rebels. r.t. new york. just point some commentators suggests that the democrats preoccupation with political correctness could be one of the reasons for their waning support in one recent incident a schoolgirl find that even choice of dress has become an extremely sensitive issue for some that was after she posted a picture of her traditional chinese problem i fit on social media. chatter and causing so much negativity i mean no disrespect to chinese culture i'm simply sharing my appreciation for their culture i'm not deleting my posts because i've done nothing but show my clout for the culture. the way people dress to the way they. speak about the democrat party over the last decade in america has been anything but the american will have of the democratic party is that it is on issues to create a mentality that's that's the ruling dynamic of the democrat party they go out and seek people who feel what they kind of fanned the flames of the mentality convincin

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possible that younger americans simply don't want to comply with the rules being imposed by the liberal order are conservatives now the rebels able bop and r. t. new york. debate is also raging over so-called cultural appropriation and whether it is inappropriate and idea promoted by some on the left in the latest case a young woman was criticized for posting a picture online wearing a traditional chinese dress to earth school prom. to everyone causing so much negativity i mean no disrespect to chinese culture i'm simply sharing my appreciation to their culture i'm not the leading my post because i've done nothing but show my clout for the culture or the way people dress to the way they talk about if they speak about the democrat party over the last decade america has been anything but the american people will have of the democratic party is that they focus on issues to create a mentality that's that's the ruling dynamic of the democratic party they go out and seek people who feel what they kind of fanned the flames of the mentality convincing them that they have an oppressor and then they sa

he sees his lock-term objective to weaken the united states, to destroy our institutions of the liberal orderirst and foremost nato and to push back on what he thinks is the liberal decadent west. he fancies himself as the leader of orthodox christian values. because we're tacking about senator mccain, i met vladimir putin in russia in the spring of 1991 and met senator mccain for the first time in 1996 when he was an election observer when things were much more democratic, much more democratic and moving in a democratic direction in russia. >> your book is part memoir and par history. let me ask you a question about the history side of things. john mccain talks about 2007 being a very pivotal moment, that the vladimir putin we know changed in 2007. how is that the case? >> well, he's referring to speech he gave at the munich security conference and senator mccain was sitting right in the front row so had some real drama between the two gentlemen. that's when he gave a speech saying we are an imperial power and during that period, president obama and president of russia at the time, he went b

raising the risk profile for most companies and that is if you think about the international order and the liberal international order that was premised on free trade and open markets and increased flows of goods and services it counted on american hundred american military power to protect that international order and people to get for granted for years. particularly after the collapse of the soviet union it look like one international system and everyone was playing essentially by the same rules. that system is under a lot of pressure from populism and nativism and protectionism in one of the things that i would say two companies is you don't take for granted anymore this system that provided the backdrop in which you are making your investment decisions. you now have to recognize the system itself is under a lot of strain and that is the sor sourf volatility. if you come to something like paris american presidents have used protective measures for decades. and i don't being actions against companies and protective measures like terrorists but they were usually used in a way where there was a wi

and that is if you think about the kind of international order, the liberal international order that was premised on free trade, open markets, increased flows of goods and services, it counted on american military power to protect that international order, and people took it for granted for years. particularly after the collapse of the soviet union, it looked like one international system, one international economy. everybody was playing, essentially, by the same rules. well, now that system is under a lot of pressure from populism, from nativism, from protectionism. and one of the things that i would say to companies is, you know, you don't take for granted anymore this system that provided the backdrop in which you were making all of your investment decisions. you really now have to recognize that the system itself is a source of strain, and that's the source of volatility. and if you come to something like tariffs, american presidents have used protective measures for decades. they -- anti-dumping actions against companies, protective measures like tariffs. but they were usually u

order. - [narrator] others argue far away conflicts can eventually reach american shores. - if we want to continue to enjoy the dramatic benefits of the so-called liberal world order, a rules-based order that we helped design and develop and sustain after the end of the second world war, we're gonna have to continue to invest in engaging effectively, actively, in the rest of the world. - my concern is that if america is pulling back, retrenching, stepping down from its role, if you like, herculean role, of upholding the global order it created, then other, less benign forces are going to take its place, including chaos. that's even worse than authoritarianism. - america's vital interests, the interests that touch the lives of everybody in this country, remain connected to a global set of interests. i don't think we're gonna go back into some kind of total isolationism, i think our debate is ultimately gonna be about, how do we think through a global strategy. not whether to have a global strategy. - [narrator] no matter the lens through which washington chooses to see the world, the only constant is change. the policy answers of yesterday are unlikely

revisionist or revanche just powers against they don't there's two different world orders we're talking about they refer to the liberal world order not to the un stablished world order they're talking about the world order that they believe started with bretton woods and continued up through the collapse of the soviet union and came to its biggest height of union polarity of u.s. led western hegemony during the one nine hundred ninety s. and what they're talking about is russia and china returning to positions of great power status in the world are blocking their control of the world whereas russia and china and i'm not going to stand for it k.k. from a realist perspective and of course from a relativist position of weakness little to the us prefer the rules bound system in one thousand nine hundred five established by the un. whereas the us regards the principle un prince of the security council principles un charter principles of sovereignty and non interference to be antiquated policies ok i think you are paraphrasing mr john bolton. there you know peter one of the things one of the biggest problems and we'll talk

this is from october.it "the liberal world order with its foundation in v multilateralism, its global and values, its openen societies and markets, is in danger. donald trump is the first u.s. president since world war ii to fundamentally question the ideaw and institutions of the liberal international order." ric, i would say about that, yes, he is, and yes, he's right, because america needs to focus on keeping ourselves strong and helping our allies but the multilateralism sometimes only go so far. >> i think when you look back and you see candidate donald trump in the election, hl was very clear about what taxpayers were getting and watch -- and what they were tired of paying for, because they don't always get the return that they expected. you look at agencies, multilateral agencies like the u.n. or nato, and we have paid a significant amount, and i think it is the right question to say, are we getting enough? is there enough u.s. leadership? that is exactly what president trump brought to the table with angela merkel. i do want to say this, laura, when it was all done, when we we

she felt more obliged to run for another term because of mr trump selection to defend a liberal international order when they parted for the final time ms merkel had a single tear in her eye she's all alone mr obama noted now. remember i remember us talking about obama passing the baton of the western liberal democracy world to merkel the baton that he had wanted to give to hillary clinton and it is that what that isabel i think it comes to show that barack obama and he says that in the book as well that maybe they just promoted empty cosmopolitan goldberg global liberal and that you know maybe they forgot about identity and that is something that voters in the u.s. at least were looking out for when it comes to angela merkel i think she summed it up last summer during the german campaign when she was in a beer tent in bavaria saying look we pretty much have to figure it out by ourselves on the european continent we don't have that partner anymore and i think in the in the segment just before hand with her you just covered it that you know europe is by itself when it comes to trade when it comes to

we will then inevitably and is severely undermine the liberal order that we built after world war ii.ost: you can see the on c-span, courtesy of our website, c-span.org. the idea of america first, with foreign policy, our topic until 8:00 a.m. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 independents . helen said america first is heating george washington's advice to avoid foreign entanglements. america is a republic, not an empire. america needs to rebuild its roads and bridges, not just in afghanistan. reid says threatening our allies with tariffs, it is not fair to push them into a green with the bat iranian deal or war. feed, c-span wj. richard, hello. guest: how are you doing? host: i am fine, go ahead. guest: i wanted to first say that that guy saying that you are left of center and you guys are biased, it is totally nonsense. you guys do a great job and you stay very unbiased. i that way, america first think is just a con by the republicans, the tea party. they have gotten together to come up with like a racist point of view to try to con people into b

if you think of the liberal international order that was premised on free trade, open markets, flows of goods and services, counted on american military power to protect the international order and people took it for granted for years particularly after the collapse of the soviet union, looks like an international economy. everyone was playing by the same rules. now that system is under a lot of pressure from populism, protectionism and one of the things i would say to companies, you don't take for granted anymore this system that provided the backdrop in which you are making your investment decisions. you have to recognize the system is under strain and that is the source of volatility. if you come to something like paris, american presidents have used protective measures for decades. anti-dumping actions against the company, protective measures like tariffs but they are usually used in a way that had to do with domestic politics was a presidential candidate had promised in an election that was going to protect -- there was a sort of let's do a tariff and everybody understood it was

we setup the entire post world war ii liberal order and as a win-win situation so it's time to startng signals and we'll find the right balance. neil: in the meantime, they're trying to talk up the improvement that's been made right today for veterans. we had the big whistleblower on this show yesterday, congressman , who claimed that despite alt talk and promises, wait times are still very long at prominent war hero who said that really has not changed and he's a well known figure. you think about the va, it gets $185 billion a year, it doesn't seem to be money well spent. >> right, i mean, we're working at home with our constituents here in the same thing. i was one of president trump's bold its promises you could tell he meant it, when he says we're going to take care of our vets but a year later we haven't made significant progress the people expect so we're on it and we tried to add some flexibility and it's going to take a while for that to kick in but i agree with you we're hearing the feedback and we've got to do better. neil: do you think we need a va? >> yeah, managing it i

you really need to apply it more liberally in order to smell.r own dishonesty, repeated dishonesty, is a bit like perfume that you just adjust to over time and you can't adjust to it anymore. >> there you have it. that's probably the best explanation i've heard so far. we've heard so many, we become desensitized. >> i'm no brain scientist but it certainly makes sense to me. i've interviewed people about it along the way. one influence here is the president's been saying so many untrue things, it is like he is building up his repertoire, his body of work. it is like esop's fables so they build upon each other each time he says another one. another piece that i think is consistent with what the professor is talking about, it is not entirely clear to me that the president is lying in that he doesn't necessarily know the difference between truth and fiction, that when he says something he has an ability to believe that what he is saying either is true or ought to be true. so that may be why he's not feeling that sort of negative feeling when he says

ought they knew how they were used at the united states because they were the defender of the liberal economic order. it's a source of greater uncertainty and you see it in market, responses of various countries. theth twitter account, i'd whetr the president didn't have a twitter account. i'm a dinosaur in outlay. i think it's really the structural change is in d many ways more important source of volatility. >> another example would be brexit.ld the actual vote and the aftermathut in the political difficulties in the u.k. right now resigning on monday, as a potential party leader is now out. you've got disordered now within the e.u. >> it's a really interesting example of one of the challenges of anticipating risk. if you look at the polls in the weeks before brexit, almost heree dozenpl polls, roughly evenly split in terms of remain versus brexit. it actually was a very close to call case, but the betting markets didn't call it that way. so why is that the case? we talk about how this is perhaps an example of something that affects many people in government to sell his business, which is optimism

people whothat general, the support the liberal international order, many of them are in the south and midwest. free much, if you are producing raw commodities, you want free trade. producer or cotton a farmer or you are in mining, in the 1940's and 1950's, you want free trade. caught in nets smith, south carolina, he is representing the textile. textile industries are against free trade. 12 clayton is a texas cotton who has created a general fs and trade,tarif but those who want to control free trade me lots and lots of government authority and government preferential treatment and government intervention in order to get all of those, and that is part of what runs them into eisenhower, who is actually somewhat of a libertarian conservatism, which hitchcock's book points out. then take it to the political side, the twoian most authoritarian things america does in the 1950's art mccarthyist and jim crow, in terms of government intervention to police the everyday social lives of citizens. those are the two most authoritarian trends in the 1950's, and the old guard republicans and the old

trump that the united states is not going to be that leader of the western world that in the liberal democratic orderny years. >> i know you spent your career -- phil rucker has a great piece out, and i've heard similar things, that he plans to talk an as yet unrealized achievement in north korea to the country as the midterm message for voting in republicans and keeping a republican majority. how does that make you feel? does it make you feel squeamish -- obviously the north koreans have access to media. the president hasn't denied this. does that make you uncomfortable? where do you think that takes us in our diplomacy? >> a lot of things president trump does makes me uncomfortable. he is a show man, a successful show man. he is on the world stage and he is able to convince people by just repeated statements of his about what he -- how he views the world and how he views -- how he pursues the policies. so, i am concerned when there are issues such as the iranian nuclear program that we had as a result of our very close work with our allies, partners, and even all the members of the u.n. security co

control of my life and the nation is in control of its faith even as you preserve some of the liberal international order. the second thing is that we need to fight for an inclusive sense of nationalism and patriotism but rather accepting exclusive nationalism all the way going to do other end, if nationalism is so dangerous, let's get rid of it entirely, i think we should proudly stand up for notion of nationalism, yes, something special about the national community f something happens to people in houston, i should solidarity to them. if something happens to people in puerto rico, they too are my patriots and should help them get over a terrifying storm. that has to be inclusiveness. germans, italians, across racial and ethnic lines. the third thing i want to say is the response of social media, the temptation now is to sense -- and i get the temptation because many of you that i don't think have a place in public discourse. there's no institution whom i trust to determine what the views are and that's always been the best argument for free speech, stability and social media as well. so what should we

order but he thought if he must back near the dollar the costs liberate are philistine order. who will fill how to get the. city. the. nine hundred fifteen a secret memorandum was presented to the british cabinet under the title the future of palestine. it was drafted by herbert samuel a british politician and zionist committed to palestine becoming a home for the jewish people. in the document samuel advised that the time was not right for the establishment of a ton of us jewish state in palestine. he recommended instead to palestine be an excuse to the british empire describing this as the most welcome solution to the supporters of the zionist movement. expressed the hope that under british rule and over time more jews would settle in the land and grow into a majority among what he called the mohammedan of arab race. samuel's recommendations were taken into account in the secret british french agreement formulated by british politicians some monks like and french diplomat. pico. the psychs pekoe agreement opened the way for the establishment of a jewish state. in one thousan