dick paul is president of christy's for europe the middle east russia and india. if anyone can explain why works of art can be so mind bogglingly expensive it's him. because it's no value of an artwork is first and foremost it's a static value it's a cultural value and that's determined by art history and the canon and today there's a consensus that because it was an interesting artist. when someone buys a piece for such a crazy price is out of love for art of minor vaniman is that my experience the overwhelming majority of collectors we encounter i know personally are indeed interested in the art and not just in art as investment though of course there are investors as well versed on the work that fetched the highest price ever was sold at christie's in new york in twenty seventeen salvator monday a portrait of jesus from around fifteen zero three ascribed by some experts to leonardo da vinci. two hundred million is bit so you are good million two hundred million two hundred thirty two of the bridge and it's big it may be a significant or even important work of a

all the different diplomatic activities you've been involved with, primarily focused on the middle east and russiare your two real specialisms. your contention is that america over the years has seen some really very effective diplomats in charge, from james baker, who you admired a great deal, through figures like colin powell to barack obama himself in more recent times. i would put it to you that actually, your account really represents how many mistakes and missteps were made during your professional lifetime. i tried to be honest about things i got right and things i got wrong. i tried to ground it not — as often is the case in memoirs, in writing what i wish i'd said or recommended, but rather what i was saying and thinking at the time, so i was able to get about 120 documents declassified, some of which are at the end of the book. so i try to present warts and all my successes and failures as a diplomat. i guess what's interesting is the degree to which you, and let's start with russia, could see that the us was probably getting wrong the structural relationship with post—soviet russia in t

middle east is a conflict between sunni and shiite islam. iran is the largest share countrshiehcountry especially i, iraq, yemen and limite. it is attempting the same thing in the middle east that russia is attempting in europe, china is attempting in east asia. although i run is not judge or not has very many serious problems. because of the weakness of the surrounding countries it is made real progress. >> in the cold war we had both an ideological conflict between western democracy and communism and authoritarianism. how could and how should american policymakers justify what is called containment 2.0. >> i think you asked two different questions. i thought you were going to ask what events going forward would be similar to those crises but you then asked how the unity states can justify containment which is an important question in the porton question is for pulse. let me answer that one and we can come back to the other one. i don't think it goes without saying that the united states will conduct a policy of 21st century containment. it is not terribly expensive, the problem is not the impact on the budget. se. for example, i do not think the united states needs anything like the

that got him to stay on after he intended to leave and the specialty of the most challenging middle east and russia. his memoir which is declassified material with an inside look at american diplomacy at the end of the cold war to the iraq war the arab spring and the iran nuclear deal and russia's reemergence as a global power player. in the situation room where the navy seals killed osama bin laden going back to washington with the remains of chris stevens or on multiple occasions with vladimir putin and then to engage in secret back channel talks with iran on the nuclear issue. these are just a few of the noteworthy moments from the exemplary career. from the entire service with the car loan - - carnegie endowment for international peace with the rns on - - science and are in detail and by doing so makes a powerful argument for why diplomacy still matters. it is a timely reminder of what can be achieved of quiet power. it also shows what is required with a sense of history and strategic insight, good judgment and intelligence dedication and diligence the review of the new york journal of books is

middle east. strategic patients on north korea and ultimatums that were repeatedly set for parties in the middle east and russia that were just made and ignored. you see when the u.s. does this we lose credibility, we are emboldening and encouraging rogue states to engage in more belligerent and destabilizing behavior. the approach by president donald trump leaves our enemies worried, leaves them guessing it has led to some significant advances in promoting international security. if we have a credible and decisive u.s. president the world is more secure and i think that is something president trump is trying to prove every day. the president does not like indefinite troop deployments. we know this when we look at the situation in syria as he has tried to balance the interest of the united states and our allies and his belief that u.s. troops should not be in situations they are indefinitely and if there are troops there the u.s. should not share all the burden. the president speaks for the vast majority of the american people when he says this and his desire that other nations have to carry the weight obviousl

if there is any concern about russia being back in the middle east or china making roads into the middle east, even if the only economic at this time. is that global june political competition relevant in the middle east? >> master, thanks. let's take a look at what russia is doing in the middle east right now. it is certainly not a force for good. it's meddling in regional conflicts and look what it has been doing in syria it kept the murder and power. it has been very unhelpful in libya, i just all press reports as amusing russia equipment, advisors, and march on tripoli. that is not helpful. i cannot imagine that if you are a citizen in any country in the region they look at russia as a model for good. i think it is destabilizing, unhelpful, i think one of the largest areas of concern is the issue of military sales. we see partners turning to russia for equipment including outside the region. the issue of trickiest purchases. focus on the hill have concerned about that. we have been engaged in key partners about the risk that they face if they pursue russian military sales. i would ar

person and i think that if you look at what his statements have been whether it's in the middle east or with russia or wherever he does stand for a peaceful approach so i found it really fascinating and interesting that trump called him trump hasn't called him since he's been president and wanting to know what your opinion and this whole idea is that his message was well why are you spending so much money on weaponry and here i thought he was pretty shrewd and he acknowledged to the president president romney says you know you're right you ought to be worried about china because they're getting way ahead because they're smart enough not to waste too much money on their military and and he was claiming that we as americans spend too much and this is true and i think there's a you know a pamphlet put out many years ago by an austrian economist henry has what it was entitled instead of what and you know when you money when you spend money on something like military instead of what and it was mentioned introduction maybe it would have been spent on infrastructure or health care or who knows what. but e

if he's getting money from places like china or the middle east or russia that he's used to finance hisusiness activities, that raises obvious questions about whether or not he's making independent calls on all sorts of issues that involve both governments and banks and active players in all of those regions. and i think he's going to do everything he can to keep that information from coming out. >> david k. johnston, as a pulitzer prize-winning tax reporter, you know what all of us have to fear looking at our tax returns no matter how we file. but you also attained a portion of a trump tax return that we all remember that i believe was the two summary pages of the return. i'm going to put up on the screen everything that chairman neal is asking for on the business side. he's asking for eight different entities and all of both -- not just their returns, but all underlying documents the irs might have in terms of auditing any of these entities, the donald j. trump revokable trust, the djt holdings llc, djt holdings managing member llc, dttm operations llc, dttm operations managing member

middle east, particularly militarily. that is a smaller posture and a posture more tailored towards the threats you care about. a whole of government approach. throw some money at usaid. we are focusing on russia and china. we do still have interest in the middle east. we have to worry about maritime security, fighting terrorists. we have to worry about a modicum of containing conflict, how difficult that is. >> sure. i'm not sure how much i disagree with mara, how much i agree with mara. i will lay out my own thinking. you guys can figure it out. i agree with mara's original set of points about the importance of this region. every time we do try to walk away, it sucks us back in. i think, i could be wrong, but i think i'm the origin that the phrase that the middle east is not las vegas. what happens there does not stay there. >> most brilliant comments i have i read by you at some point. >> we are endlessly trying to walk away from the region because we are always trying to think about it. when you look at the threat russia,y china, by there is no question about the enormity of those threats. nevertheless, there is an immediacy to the problem of the middle east. yes, someday, we might fight a

in terms of when you look at the relationship with the saudis and -- and throughout the middle east, how is russia to get in the middle of that, stop it? >> well, yes, the united states is trying to stitch tonight a middle east strategic alliance, mesa as they call it to counter iranian influence but russia's political and military partner in the middle east is clearly iran. pushback on -- on their alliance that they have and turkey obviously, the other thing that's ironic here turkey is a member of nato and -- and they are in southern flank, the piece of terrain that that country occupies is very strategic for us at the bored line of europe and asia itself. so it significant. second largest military in nato beyond the united states, this is a very serious issue that's taking place. maria: a lot to the story actually. 6 months after hurricane florence slammed into north carolina, marines at camp lajun still waiting for building severely damaged to be fixed. the marines top officer partially blaming conditions on the diversion of resources to the u.s.-mÉxico border. this is getting complicated. wha

middle east. it can't do that today. it does have challenges, russia, iran, turkey, china as i mentioned but actually if you look at the capabilities of these four countries, they don't add up to american power. i mean, we have challenges but it don't think there's any one there to replace us. so what that means is that they will be friction and conflict, and no easy solution to the challenges we face there. i think we have to accept the fact that in many cases we have misunderstood the nature of the conflicts in the middle east. i think one of the tragedies of the iraq war was that we had no real concept. if you go back and look at the debate on iraq and what the pentagon was saying at the time, not the state department, the problem is they were just left out of the planning. there was really no understanding of how confusing and how sectarian iraq was, and why it wouldn't be a cakewalk. and even if we won the first round of the military confrontation, that was just the beginning. and, of course, it was the drawdown of forces to go into iraq, we can t

president to feather his own nest, whether it's through business relationships in the middle east, with asia or russia. that hasn't played out in a very rich and robust way and i think the country has a right to know whether or not he's been an honest broker in all of this stuff. >> they sure do. do you think they will? >> i don't know. >> me neither. >> thank you so much. coming up, a whistle blower warns the trump administration's handling of security clearances has put the nation at risk. we'll assess those risks with two people who know. >>> and later, new surprising numbers in tonight from a big blue state candidate and an industrial city mayor, "the 11th hour" just getting started on a monday night. make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it starts acting in my body from the first dose and continues to work when i need it, 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes, or i

russia get to decide the output? the "wall street journal" reports that vladimir putin's influence has already been growing exponentially in the $1.7 trillion oil market, particularly in the middle east. opec, an organization that russia is not a member of, is beginning to pay attention. so much so they are calling it opec plus. the plus sign, russia. blake burman is at the white house. blake, do you get any sense that washington is worried about russia now becoming sort of the decider or the consigliere when it comes to opec in this global market? reporter: we have been speaking to folks here at the white house and at the state department throughout the day. russia is actually not a country that has come up as it relates to this decision that was rolled out earlier today by the secretary of state mike pompeo. what does this mean for your investments as well as how much you could be paying at the pump for the near future? to our floor show. phil flynn, you are always sort of on the pulse of the markets but we have a bifurcated discussion here, the consumer, the investor. >> i think for the consumer, it's going to be tough. we are going to see the highest prices for gasoline we have s

middle east in washington seems a little pass say these days. you know everything is about great power competition, national defense strategy, shifting to china and russia, but we still have real interests in the middle east. we can't give those up, and how do we think about those, and how do you think about the overall region and how you try to protect american interests in this environment where there's a lot of debate about pulling back. >> thanks for having me. and thanks for everyone who came out today. i think we're talking about the middle east. we can probably start as you already referenced, the national defense strategy, which as you know came from the national security strategy, the next year we had the nds, it does, as you mention prioritize russia and china as our near peer competitors, north korea and iran as rogue actors lastly our priority is counter terrorism. it's not the first time we've tried to pull away from the middle east and counter terrorism, 2001 obviously before the 9/11 attacks, and 211. but that's the priorities, we are committed to implementing in that order. when it comes to the pleeft, russia and china play an active par

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they've had cyber attacks from russia so they have to be very vigilant. >> host: you mentioned one of the greatest successes is in the middle east. this would take another hour. i am rhein did a bit today to minister was in russia yet again and president putin was smiling saying he's going to visit israel. this comes back to taking advantage of opportunities. when it became clear when president obama said there was a red line after the government used chemical weapons on the population and then there wasn't a red wine so i think putin understood a that and september 2014 when it looked as though they might be losing the war. russia has now established itself, and i quote a senior israeli diplomat to whom i taught saying the policy in the middle east is aggressive, flexible and cognizant of its limits. but they are now doing in which the soviets never did is they are not ideological about it. they will talk to all sides and conflicts and of course talk to iran and have a partnership in to talk to all of the major sunni states and israel. no other great power does that. until recently, they formed two partnerships with two countri

we have a situation now where many people believe that russia is trying to replace the united states as the main outside force within the middle eastimes being questioned in terms of its loyalty to the globe in terms of alliances. how do you see russia today? >> nato has to deal with a more assertive russia because we have seen that russia has heavily invested in new, modern military equipment including nuclear weapons. they have used military force against neighbors, georgia and ukraine. they are increasing their presence in the middle east, and they're also using cyber and what we call hybrid tactics to try to meddle into our democratic processes. all of this is of great concern and, therefore, nato has implemented the biggest reinforcements our collective defense since the end of the cold war with higher forces, with accommodative troops in the eastern part of the alliance and also modernizing the command structure how nato is working because we need to be able to respond and to maintain credible deterrence and defense when we see a more assertive russia. maria: yeah, which is why the president has questioned the arrangement whe

you know if you're talking about be russia russian interests in the middle east so it's should be clear that we haven't got any real strategic launch or. goals in base region i guess in libya and also in syria we have two we have two to two. main goals and and the first one we would like to use syria and libya of course at the beginning was our negotiations with the west and it should be clear that this is our main i guess a reason in the beer to use the. issues in our biggest changes miss three zero and paris and the second one we would like to to use our presence in the middle east in our relations with was a gulf countries so that did this to two reasons for us to the main reason for us i don't believe that we have any other strategic and long to our interest in the middle east north africa. right international analyst dr li or not is i have in a moscow thank you very much for your assessment thank you. let me now being up to date with some of the stories making news around the world algerian nor makers have named this. as interim president he will leave the country during a ninety d

russia and the u.s. are too great superpowers the reality is the u.a.e. has done this integral to the middle east that as well u.a.e. has been doing this for a very long time trying to talk about russia living a red line and trying to fend off russian influence in the u.a.e. is center stage of the smoke and mirrors game to be playing with a troubled ministration after two years what is really been happening in the in the u.n. obviously is the way in the french have been applying a lot of the family pressure trying to get us back on board and giving them tacit military approval now the way the libyans interpret this is the last four years the u.n. has been trying to negotiate a political deal but some reason whenever it comes to combination and sanctions he seems to get away scot free don't you remember that after the libyan national army by their own admission not very libyan army sudanese darker and rebels a full partner of the last couple of years it's not national because it's in different parts of the country and gets quiet going and goes missing and it's not an army considering the fact that

in the middle east in the far east was north korea with europe with russia i think it shows that the united states wants to obtain more that it can obtain in today's. international situation and for me it's a sign of a certain weakness of the united states they are making very high bets and then they have to go away with very modest results but as of this month seventieth anniversary of the nato alliance do you think that compliance with nato no longer means then compliance with washington. the united states is a key member of nato and i don't see that need again function without an active participation of the united states i have to remind you that seventy five percent of the rockets and bombs and missiles that. fell on libya into sales and eleven were of american production. nato is. more than on two servers depending on the united states financially so the united states carry the most important financial burden of keeping nato alive and functioning so i think that there are some discords between the european capitals and washington i think they are mostly personal i mean european

the security council the great britain and the united states and france and russia are all actively at war in the middle east they're selling millions and billions of dollars of arms they're actively fighting in places like yemen and syria and other places so that and libya the french and libya and so the idea that the i.c.c. will actually hold accountable people all over the world at an equal level of justice is not a very realistic one i fortunately that's why it's been mostly hapless african tyrants who've been put on trial with a couple from former yugoslavia so this is the problem that we see a kind of a double standard and it's not easy to see how almost hassan bashir will be held accountable mr. cadman i do want to bring you end on this now because i know that you would you know you have a lot to do with i.c.c. but before i do mr shaunie what do you make of that you know the fact that the. the i.c.c. and who has power and the international criminal court make up the pennant members of the un security council who are also involved in different conflicts around the world including. conflicting policies.

independent who has built a global enterprise in 77 countries, understands the world, russia, china, syria, the middle eastole aspect and has proven you can build a company and reward your people at the same time? so what do i believe? the american people are going to say to all the republicans and all the democrats if you don't work with this independent person who's running for president, we're going to fire you. >> so you're running for president? >> i'm not -- that's the question, yes or no. i'm not here to say that today, but i'm cautiously optimistic. i'm going to bus to kansas. i've been traveling the country for the last almost 11 weeks, a different city every day. i'm inspired by the american people. if this system is broken, we can fix it but we can't fix it with the ideology of parties. i'm not here to talk about the uk and france. i love america and we can fix these problem. >> thank you for being with us. >> what a spirited conversation. >> that's what it's about. a respectful spirited conversation. that is what the united states is about. howard shultz, thank you very much. >>> we'll be right

leadership skills who has built a global enterprise in 77 countries, understands the world, russia, china, syria, the middle eastect, and has proven you can build a company and reward your people at the same time. so, what do i believe? the american people are going to say to all the republicans and all the democrats, if you don't work with this independent person who's running for president, we're going to fire you. >> all right, despite our best efforts to get him to answer, schultz wouldn't give stephanie or me a firm yes or no when we asked if he was actually going to jump into the presidential race. the democratic presidential candidates have moosly been focusing their stump speeches on healthcare and economic issues while president trump's been talking about immigration and border security. the president is in southern california today to critvisit a section of force in calexico. he just arrived at a meeting with law enforcement officers protecting the border. immigration is also a big topic for presidential candidates, former texas congressman beto o'rourke who used to represent a border district has been

direction as to where saudi arabia will go after they meet with the partners in the middle east as well as with russian from the u.s., obviously not going to well with some important oil consumers, thinking china. how has the reaction been? china has been the biggest push back to the trump administration. the u.s. government is stepping up right of line. you are also seeing turkey echo that message. while the government said they will work with the u.s. government to extend, potentially expand -- extend these waivers and do negotiation, the companies, the importers of crude from iran and china, japan and south korea and india are looking at other options. they see this as going to stop the exports from iran, putting pressure on them. the companies are looking in other places. were they are looking a saudi arabia as well as the united states to say one. while the government's in china -- stayingeing competitive about what they have done, the companies are looking for different options going forward. asia energy reporter, thank you. -- staying with singapore, giving us their hints about who will be the

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