funding for great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers llp. (ethnic music) turkey was once the seat of the powerful ottoman empire. which for centuries, spanned parts of north africa, europe, and the middle east. (explosion) after world war i, brought about the collapse of that empire, turkey sought to reinvent itself. - in direct aftermath of world war i, turkey was trying to rebuild. it had lost a huge portion of it's population, it was engaged in the process of trying to create a new turkish national identity. - it turned it's face to europe, because at that time, it was fashioned by mustafa kemal ataturk to be a secular, western styled european republic. - [narrator] ataturk, a former military commander, rose to power. fostering a progressive, democratic, and secular form of government. - he saw modern civilization as fundamentally western civilization, and tried to bring turkish civilization into what he saw, as international norms. - [narrator] with the end of world war ii, the u.s. alliance with turkey, became critical. - [second narrat

funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers, llp. (upbeat music) - [narrator] there was a time when the us was a reluctant world power. foreign policy was run by the state department and the us treasury, and largely focused on advancing american commercial interests overseas. - we had american statecraft that largely relied on diplomacy and economic policy. we had secretaries of state that everybody knew their names, we had secretaries of war that nobody had ever heard of. the second world war changed all that. it really brought to the fore a unified department of defense. - policy makers talked in terms of us foreign policy, and defense policy. since world war ii and down to the present moment, policy makers tend to talk in terms of national security policy. national security policy tends to privilege, or to place particular emphasis on the role of the military in advancing us interests. - [narrator] after world war ii, george kennon, a top american diplomat in moscow, sounded the alarm over the existential threat he saw in the sovi

funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. (soft music) - [narrator] chinese history for the past 30 years has been a story of economic growth. - there's never really be an economic revolution quite like china's. the most populous country in the world also enjoying the most rapid economic growth in history. an industrial revolution is far more rapid than in britain or america, for example. - we've never seen so many people come out of poverty so quickly. we've never seen so many people go from the rural countryside into the city so quickly. what had took europe 150 years to do in the industrial revolution, china has done in 30 years. - [narrator] in 1979, chinese leader deng xiaoping called on the country to combine socialist ideology with elements of a pragmatic market economy, under the banner of socialism with chinese characteristics, reportedly telling the chinese people, to get rich is glorious. - after mao died and deng xiaoping rose to power, that was one of the great events, i think, of the 20th century. what he did wa

funding for great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers, llp.music) - [narrator] when america's founding fathers wrote the bill of rights, they enshrined freedom of the press in the very first amendment. - freedom of the press was one of the foundational elements of democracy and one of the most important elements. but the press was very different in those days, and maybe that's a good reminder when we look at our partisan bickering and polarization today. the press was very partisan. - the idea was partly an extension of political competition and partly, it believed that robust debate and argument would over time create a healthier democracy and a more informed citizenry. this was still early in the idea that the press should be fact-based. (simple piano music) - [narrator] the democratic process requires a government watchdog, an independent force that holds leaders accountable to the voters who elected them. - we have believed in our country that a free and independent press provides the best information that people can get, so they make good

look at th, u think how is this possible, and will it ever rain again, and if it rains, will it ever llphis dam again? reporter: even the water withdrawal points have been left high and dry. they need to be filled with the help of pumps. otherwise, the pipes would reinmpty. cape town is around 100 kilometers south of the reservoir. water scarcity is fa of life for the city's four million residents. restrictions on water consumption have been in place for months. residents are limited to 50 liters of water per person per day. in the inner city, many people get their supply from natural sources of water. but hundreds of thousands of people also live on the outskirts of the city. gailine johannes isn't well-off, and has alwayseeeconomical about water consumption. there's no swimming pool in the yard and just one tap in the kitchen. her family takes care not to waste a drop of water. gailine: the people here in our house, they are very precisely beusof the water that is being wasted. like children playing with the water, throwing erne wet in the street. and i also learn my child to never was

proposals were received on march 23 from deloit consulting, llp, dickerson employee benefits, inc, willers, towers, watson, and aon consulting, inc. hssf staff first reviewed the proposals for minimum qualifications. all four written proposals were submitted to the evaluation panel for review and scoring. all four firms participated in oral interviews, where they responded to two hypothetical scenarios. the scores were then combined with the

proposals were received on march 23 from deloit consulting, llp, dickerson employee benefits, inc, willers, towers, watson, and aon consulting, inc. hssf staff first reviewed the proposals for minimum qualifications. all four written proposals were submitted to the evaluation panel for review and scoring. all four firms participated in oral interviews, where they responded to two hypothetical scenarios. the scores were then combined with the scores from the written evaluation, and the top scoring firm was aon. in terms of the evaluation criteria, between the written proposals and the oral interviews, it was a total of 600 points. the evaluation, the written proposal was 300, and it looked at the clarity of the cover letter, table of contents, executive summary, the surprising actuary, and key -- supervising actuary and key staff experience, project approach and strategy to services, pricing for the services, and then, reviewing of the contract form specification proposed performance guarantees. we then held the oral interviews, and they were scored on the introduction of the firm and their

the bank that he used, first republic, to set up essential consultants llp, the company used for themoney to pay stormy daniels, among other things. you said he had to explain what it was going to be used for. why was it such a red flag when the payments didn't really seem to have to do with in a? -- that? >> when the bank allows a loan, the bank is required to establish a profile. is it going to be foreign transactions or domestic transactions, how many transactions, what kinds of customers, if it's a business, what kinds of customers does that business have? in the case of this account, what the bank had in its files was it was a real estate business, it was going to serve high net worth individual and receive wires in the amount of $1,000 to $10,000 and might receive up to 20 a month. >> that was in there? >> that was in there. >> michael cohen would have had to put that in there? >> the bank would have put that in there. >> based on consultation with him? >> they would have collected the information from the person set establishing the count. when the activity is outside of what

we welcome carmel wellso, janus capital management llc and also constance hunter kpmg llp chief economist what is going on with italy, is it limited or does it have broader consequences for investment in italy and europe? >> you can see the pressure on the currency as a function of the italian elections. in terms of the businesses in europe, they are used to dealing with more volatile political situations. alix: would you like europe investments or italy investments right now? carmel: i would like the italian investments. they have been hit harder than they should have been. europe still has a cycle ahead of it, which will extend the growth longer than anticipated. david: constance let's turn to you about the ecb. what could this mean for growth patterns in europe? therefore for the ecb as they decide what to do with monetary policy? constance: the ecb's conundrum. you have two economies in europe. germany, france, the netherlands, exceeding precrisis peaks. then you have italy, spain, portugal, greece. you have a severe recession. then the crisis, and recession, two years later and italy

right, we have the honorable robert mcdowell, former fcc commissioner but now a partner with cooley llp. thank you, gentlemen, for being here. what we're going to do in this conversation is we'll just start off with a conversation on the stage. i'll ask a few questions. the panelists will engage with each other. and then we'll move to audience questions when the time is right. so, i wanted to start, earl, with you. you're actually at commerce. commerce is driving a lot of these things. you're in the engine room. how is the reform process going? >> well, thank you for that question, and it's a pleasure to be here with everybody. it's going very well. secretary ross is, you know, just incredibly enthusiastic about this transition, the way the national space council's been reconstituted under the direction of vice president pence, you know, we have the full support of the president, which is just fantastic. so, this has been quite, i think, an engaging process for him and one he's very excited about. so, that's trickled down immediately to the department. we are moving sort of full steam a