mr. chair, we have one speaker card. ace washington. >> great. mr. washington? >> i know you guys are looking up at me, why is this guy up here, speaking on all these things? he ain't got into suits, no tie, no jury. right now, i'm appalled. every single development you have going on, there's some issues. not deep, but we can solve them, because this ain't the end, this is just the beginning of this set of projects. but if these projects don't adhere to your -- what you going -- hiring community and all of those things that they're supposed to do, and i don't have time to go do it, but if they don't do it -- put it this way: if they haven't done it in the past, what are you giving it to them now for? what i'm saying, case in point -- ace on the case -- what i'm saying, case on point, see, i'm not pointing fingers at nobody. it's the case that i'm working on that points to the issue. so if you all going to sit up here and give these projects to the developments that's supposed to house low income or whatever, particular for us, and they don't do it now and haven'

mr. vice chair, we have one speaker card, ice washington. >> thank you, mr. washington. >> by god. i got about ten minutes in here today. it's chopped up, but two, four, six, eight, ten. you all don't got to leave. you might want to hear what i have to say. >> emp's running. >> whenever you all want to close the show, bring on old ace, huh? but any way, i do want to say, i want to commend you all. you all are doing a wonderful job, because when you all came on this ocii, i commended all of you all, because you took over an agency in my opinion -- >> if we could have everybody be quiet in the room. >> it's okay. you know, ace talks, go ahead. no, no, i appreciate your respect. i'll talk into the mic, but what i would like to do, respectfully ask this commission, your oversight board which cancelled out, and they are he not going to meet anymore until september is ridiculous. i told you, secretary, i wanted the reports of the rops. i wants the report that you sent to sacramento telling the governor everything is okay in the city by the bay. i would like to get that before i go up the

mr. washington -- >> politics full of tricks and makings you turn to a lunatic. >> how are you? >> ace on the case in your face, in the place they call city hall. i call it silly hall. i'm here supporting mary. she knows i've been supporting her for years. we've been through some tears. looky here. she could testify. because when i met her, she started in the western addition. we call the fillmore, which i call the feel no more. hey, mary. black businesses there, the feel no more. hey, mary, place to go and get jobs, the feel no more. but i'm here supporting mary because she -- she was there and she made sure that we had work. when i say "we," black african, negro, cotton picker, whatever you want to call me. and i'm not racist. no, that's not a racist remark. it's just factual. and the factual thing is i'm here to protest on y'all meeting today. but i'm also here to tell y'all, and y'all wanted me to put it in writing. i never put nit writing to these people here. you know why? i don't need to because i was always ace in your face in the place and now they want me to put someth

mr. durbin. the senator from washington, mrs. murphy. the senator from vermont, mr. leahy. the senator from minnesota, ms. klobuchar. the senator from wisconsin, ms. baldwin. the senator from new jersey, mr. menendez. and the senator from delaware, mr. coons. the speaker: members of the escort committee will enter the chamber through the lobby doors. asst. sergeant at arms: mr. speaker, the acting dean of the diplomatic corps. asst. sergeant at arms: mr. speaker, the president's cabinet. se sergeant at arms: the president of the french republic.

mr. carney's comments in washington, the expectation is they would have to go ahead and hike in may. it seems some of those expectation also have to be pared back because of this weak data for q1. pulling up a chart of sterling, the currency is reacting to this about 0.6% weaker. cable has been struggling the last couple of days, irrespective because of that strength in the greenback. we seem to have broken to key levels here. a few people wointing to 1.3-- pointing to 1.3869 that is the story for the uk this morning not so pretty. let's look at how other foreign exchange markets are doing this morning as well.

mr. washington. so, we have, is it about the budget? your comment is about the budget? >> ok. madam speaker, deanna gage is my name. my affiliation with this project is about investments and the infrastructure for the construction and developments for our communities here locally and our city and county. and i really wanted to be able to put emphasis on a couple of things that i heard this evening that i was very -- since my stroke took my eye, the o.c.i.i., oversight, i was impressed with the balance and the infrastructure for small business enterprises looking forward to being independent such as myself, especially for housing. the compliance of contracts, insurance for consent is i would like to be able to establish a contract of consent that i can be able to get consent and obligation to be able to understand control and as merchants wanting to come in to license a forefront and establishment to take care of the household as well as work for infrastructures for contracts here locally. and basically i wanted to award some of the comments that i did hear earlier, but i reall

mr. washington, before you speak, i just wanted to indicate that because of the length of the meeting this afternoon, we're going to limit our public comments to two minutes. thank you. >> thank you. i've been triained to do three two, one, minutes. starting in may, it's going to be aceonthecase.net,.org,.com. everybody's going to be saying where's ace at? efrk everybody's going to be following me. now i'm so happy to hear that your director's going to sit down with me, so everything else is taking a bat seat. and then the other big problem is i see my buddy here. how you doing, buddy? we go way back before all you all. we go way become before the white press, when i interviewed him. that's the good guy. i'm supporting him. so i'm going to take a back seat, back there. you ain't got to worry unless i hear something that's out of order. i'm going to sit back in the back and help myself because things are starting to happen now. my name is ace, and i am on the case. >> commissioner mondejar: thank you. >> clerk: madam chair, with you have no further questions public comment. >> commissioner

mr. washington? >> you can call me ace. i'm in your place and i know how to act now. like that song saying, i've changed. i will sing it later. i'm here celebrating women's day. i was upstairs in four or five commissioners meeting and down here for my last meeting. what i have to say is politically if that's okay. i was at a mayor's forum last night. i was very disappointed. first of all, i couldn't get in. it was on castro. and i did a little monologue before i did my show how i used to come over when i was a little boy and match movies, videos, back then. but i couldn't get in. they said you had to have tickets to get ivenlt whatley -- to get in. what i will do, we're going to have a mayors candidates and we'll talk about black issues, youth and seniors. get ready, candidates. i'm ace and i'm on the case. i'm going to invite you to where i stay at. with london breed, the queen. politics full of tricks. they've been treating my queen pretty wrong. even though i don't agree with her politics, i don't like the way they're treating you, queen. i don't like it. and they'

mr. washington have you seen the plans and compared them to the agreement so we can trust your judgment, otherwise i say i need to see the plans. >> we have briefly seen the plans and they seem to be relatively modest alterations, but they are consistent with our policies and consistent with the residential guidelines and we're pretty happy with the final result. >> so could we restate the three conditions to be met. the front setback has been increased, the building elevation materials confirmed and lastly the front deck has been eliminated, is that a correct recap of the conditions? >> yes. the front setback has been increased from 15 to 17 feet. the depth of the third floor roof deck from 5-10 feet and the sponsor will have all building elevations clad in rustic siding. those are the three conditions of the neighbors. >> thank you. >> president hillis: jonas? >> clerk: on this motion, then there is a motion and second to approve the matter with conditions as has been revised and submitted by staff for the record. fong aye johnson aye koppel aye moore aye president aye. so moved, that

mr. speaker, at this time i would like to yield eight minutes to the sponsor, the gentlewoman from washington, mrs. mcmorris rogers, to introduce this piece of legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from washington is recognized for eight minutes. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you, chairman bishop. congress created the bonneville power administration or b.p.a. in 1937. on the heels of the great depression, to distribute power generated from the development of two federally authorized dams, bonneville and grand coolly dam. our dams transformed washington state. from what was a barren, dry land into one of the most productive agriculture regions in the world. these marvels of engineering also provided the pacific northwest with the nation's cheapest and most reliable energy supply. during world war ii, it was the federal power supplied by b.p.a. that was instrumental in the ramp-up of the aluminum industry, that went into boeing's b-17's and b-29's. and pourd the production of nearly 750 large ships before the end of the war. in the words of president harry truman, without grand c

the gentleman from washington. mr. newhouse: i would like to have inserted in the record the many groups that are supporting h.r. 5444 as well as the groups supporting h.r. 5445. for the taxpayer first act, the americans forax reform, coalition for efficient tax adnistration, the national reign trade council, the app association, support the taxpayer act. as far as h.r. 5445, citizens against government waste, electronic transaction association, the national taxpayers' union, the taxpayers protection alliance, freedom works, the institute for policy innovation, 60-plus association, the institute for liberty, the council for citizens against government waste, less government and the small business and entrepreneurship council all join us in supporting not only the underlying rule but the rule, but the underlying legislation as i would urge my colleagues to do. with that, i would ask mr. polis if he has any more speakers as i'm prepared to close. mr. polis: i yield four minutes to the the gentlewoman from california. the

mr carney is in washington for the annual meetings of the international monetary fund and the world bankeen speaking to our economics editor, kamal ahmed. a mixed economic bag. retail sales fell by the fastest rate for a year. there's brexit uncertainty, but wages are going up and unemployment is at record lows. for the governor of the bank of england it's a delicate balancing act. is it time to raise interest rates next month to cool the economy and bring down inflation, or wait and be cautious? the big picture for people watching is that yes, prepare for a few interest rate rises over the next few years and i think the one other thing we would say is that the biggest set of economic decisions over the course of the next few years are going to be taken in the brexit negotiations — whatever deal we end up with. and then we will adjust to the impact of those decisions. given that inflation has come down more rapidly than you expected, we've had very bad retail sales figures today, some people might say this isjust the time not to be raising interest rates. i think we're all aware of the s

mr. paulsen, and the gentlewoman from washington, ms. delbene, each will control 20 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. paulsen: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 5437, currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. paulsen: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time. mr. paulsen: mr. speaker and members, look, i rise in support of h.r. 5437, legislation that i am co-authoring and authoring with my colleague, congresswoman delbene from washington state, that will tackle identity theft. each year the i.r.s. processes over 240 million tax returns and issues more than $400 billion in refunds. this makes tax season a prime target for identity thieves who steal billions of dollars from hardworking taxpayers by filing false returns. it's all too common. more than 1.8 million people, including more than 13,

between moscow and washington are still on the rhetoric level moscow has very well listen to what u.s. president of the trump sat in his televised address an ounce in the strikes mr trump accused russian president putin personally of failing to avoid that the syrian president bashar al assad used his chemical weapons russia's u.s. ambassador in washington mr one ton of saw this precisely as a personal insult to the russian president which russia russia couldn't accept he said russian lawmakers let him get a job out of however who is the deputy head of russia's foreign affairs committee here in moscow sad that russia was likely to call for a meeting of the united nations security council the chairman of the international affairs committee of russia at the house of parliament cost ten thousand cars that chuff he sat at the strikes were a violation of international law and probably designed to prevent investigators from the global chemical weapons watching from doing their work yuri is should you mention something a very important that. the russians in syria did not use their air defense systems but should the u.s. conduct any additional strikes how might russia res

most people have never experienced before scott snyder with the council on foreign relations in washington mr schneider we appreciate your time tonight thank you. so much. farai the online retailer amazon reaches new heights daniel is here to tell us about that of the truth because you're an amazon prime member of your wow i compliment on the friend i know a certain someone is absolutely celebrating right now because the richest man in the world just got even rich jeff bezos the founder and biggest shareholder of amazon has seen another eight billion u.s. dollars added to his possible net. shares in his company have jumped by seven percent after announced a first quarter profits more than doubled compared to last year analysts say a rise in online shopping and increased demand for the firm's cloud services drove the numbers up but it's not all plain sailing the results come as amazon faces scrutiny from politicians and regulator has over its market dominance more now from our man on wall street the court. investors on wall street are not so much for quitting at this point of possible regulato

mr. washington. thank you, sir, for your comments. >> clerk: thank you. thank you for your comments. please. >> i would like to thank the board of supervisors for and to introduce myself and make a couple of comments. paul taylor. i'm running for the republican position of u.s. senator. >> clerk: sir, t no campaigningn the chamber. please proceed. >> in growing up and being adopted in my experience of governance, my parents taught me right from long an wrong and whi became a husband and father i did the same thing and as a business owner and creator and creating thousands of jobs in california and across the united states i did the same. the thing that remains the same throughout that as i move forward is this one term called being consistent. and being consistent is what my father taught me about obeying him and my son learned consistency with me teaching him how to grow up as a young man. my employees learned that from me as well. as i look to the future i'm thinking about our laws here in this country and we are inconsistent in our laws. the reason i'm here is to talk to you about

mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president of. mr. president, i come to the floor today to oppose kyle duncan's nomination to serve on the fifth circuit court of appeals. a review of mr. duncan's record, his cases, his chosen causes, show he is a dangerous, ideological nominee who has consistently been on the wrong side of women's rights, lgbtq rights and civil rights. let's start with his record arguing against women's rights and reproductive freedom. when he served as lead counsel in the infamous hobby lobby case, he argued that an employer can interfere with a woman's personal health care choices. in texas, he filed a brief in favor of abortion restrictions that would have shut down the vast majority of clinics in that state, restrictions the supreme court ultimately ruled an undue burden on women's constitutional right to safe, legal abortion. in my home state of washington, he filed a brief arguing pharmacies should be allowed to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions for ideological reasons. fortunately, his views did not pr

that's "the washington post". mr. president, bipartisanship is important to move thing along in the senate, whether it's the coast guard bill or well-qualified nominees in the national security world, and it has certainly been a u.s. tradition with regard to the secretary of state that not only goes back decades but goes back centuries. so i'm hoping that my colleagues sit down, talk to mike pompeo, if they have issues with him, raise them, but let's get to the floor and let's confirm him as secretary of state because the state department needs a well-qualified individual to run that important agency and so does our country. i yield the floor. and i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk should call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia due i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. perdue: mr. president, i rise today to talk about a milestone here that just happened about th

>> washington passes. >> west virginia! >> mr.hairman, the state of west virginia passes. >> wisconsin! chairman, most delegates in this convention did not know that thousands of young people aten on the streets of chicago and for that reason and that reason alone i request a suspension of the rules for the purpose of adjournment for at 6 p.m. to relocate the convention and another state at the choosing of the democratic national convention and the president's -- >> wisconsin is not acknowledged for that purpose! announcer: don peterson, chairman of wisconsin delegation -- >> my statement, sir. we want to relocate this convention -- withey are going right on rollcall as ordered by the chairman. democratic committee met with his glasses on his four head there, came forward. they did not listen. democratic committee for men, there are with his glasses on his four head, came forward. they did not listen. >> he said, what kind of convention is this? he answered, let me ask you that, what kind of convention do we shouldthis is #>> not

trade tariffs on berlin's military spending this is the chance of a second visit to washington since mr trump took office on her first since she was reelected germany's chancellor in september. so far chancellor merkel has been unable to establish anything like a good personal rapport with donald trump in contrast to the french president emanuel mccraw who just completed a lavish three day state visit to the u.s. capital but the u.s. president brushed off perceptions that the pair don't get a law. thank you very much it's a great honor to have chancellor merkel and i will say that you can rest assured she was going to win that election and congratulations on winning and by the way in a formal congratulations that a very great victory we're working on a lot of different subjects including trade including nato including military of all types and we have a really great relationship and we actually have had a great relationship right from the beginning with some people didn't understand that but we understand it and that's what's important but very extraordinary woman and it's an honor to h

case -- >> do you think the president should have left the poor publics campaign camp on land in washington? mr. reagan: no i don't. unless they were suitable for camping. unless they were coming into an area where this was the custom and this was proper? frankly, i am in disagreement with this particular march and i am in disagreement with the governments acceptance of it on the basis not of disagreeing with the girls. i think all of us want to do all we can to lift the standard of living, to bring everyone up as high as they can be brought to enjoy the things the society of i think afford but there is a grave disillusionment coming to many people. first of all, they can persuade the congress to pass some law that can eliminate or alleviate poverty is a falsehood. many people are deluded into believing this can take place. there's nothing one with the american people are the american government pause attitude toward poverty. our record proves, we've spent billions of dollars and hundreds of programs and hundreds of programs in a legitimate effort to try to find an answer to this problem. the t

following meetings in saudi arabia and israel, mr pompeo said washington would not neglect what he describede "vast scope" of tehran‘s links with terrorism. mr pompeo was speaking in tel aviv alongside the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he reiterated president trump's threat to abandon the iran nuclear deal unless it can be strengthened. president trump has been pretty clear. the deal is very flawed he has directed the administration to fix it and if we can't fix it he will withdraw from the deal. it is pretty straightforward. unlike the past administration trump has a comprehensive strategy designed to counter the full array of threats emanating from teheran.” counter the full array of threats emanating from teheran. i appreciate the president's and your position on stopping iran's aggression in the region, that aggression has grown many fold since the signing of the deal. the people thought that you run's aggression would be moderated asa run's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the deal, the opposite has happened. and iran is trying to gobble up one country a

washington post." the post pulled the cartoon because it was a pro eisenhower paper and mr. block was pro stevenson and very adamant about that in his cartoons. and they felt that mr. block's opinion of eisenhower failing to control mccarthy and nixon went too far and might perhaps persuade voters not to vote for him. and so it didn't run. it did run in the areas where mr. block was sinned indicatea . but what you need to know is washington post readers missed it. they knew it had appeared elsewhere and not in their hometown paper and they were angry. and "the washington post" ran every single cartoon that mr. block chose to draw after that. he had a lot of power at the post as a cartoonist. we can see that mr. block's art style has evolved from that mid western tight pen and ink drawing to a very loose drawing style, but much more loose he oouss a lot of graphite, a lot of ink brush. and he's using a board, a step willed board. so it grabs the pencil and gives it a nice texture. and he used whiteout both as a way to control his mistakes, but also to enhance his image. so, f

steel an alum in tariffs and the war in syria and chancellor merkel's second visit to washington since mr trump took office. it's all could moments during their first meeting at the white house that still sums up the utter lack of political chemistry between i'm going to machall and donald trump. when trump simply didn't react as merkel asked him to shake hands thank you. german chancellor i'm going to america's reputation as the global leader who keeps the world strong men on the straight and narrow simply doesn't seem to apply to this u.s. president who insists on setting the pace and direction of global politics. observers say trump's erratic decision making challenges merkel's political style to confront even partners with very harsh positions to threaten and then to undo and sort of go back into a more co-operative mood and i would say he has kept european partners pretty much on their toes trump upstaged his nato allies by talking about money rather than values twenty three of the twenty eight member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they're supposed t

mr. goodlatte: at this time i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from washington, mr. newhouse. actually, three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman recognized for three minutes. mr. newhouse: i thank the gentleman from virginia for yielding me time today. i rise in strong support of the balanced budget amendment offered by my friend and colleague, congressman goodlatte. reining in the federal debt is not a partisan issue. the majority of americans are united in consistently supporting a requirement to balance the federal budget. our national debt has surpassed a record $22 trillion. you've heard that several times today. that's more than $64,000 for every man, woman, and child in this clint. it's more than $174,000 of debt for every u.s. taxpayer. if we continue to let this number grow, we will continue to dig a deeper hole for our children and our grandchildren. since i came to congress in 2015, i've worked to ensure the government does not spend above its means. i've co-sponsored several resolutions in support of an amendment to the u.s. constitution to b

trade tariffs and berlin's military spending this is the chancellor's second visit to washington since mr trump took office so far she has been unable to establish a good personal the poor though in contrast to french president emanuel mccraw who just completed a lavish three day visit in the u.s. capital and read. more on this that former boris foreman who is a professor of political science at the bard college in lynn and d.-w. correspondent accustomed phenomena joins us from washington welcome both let's start with you boris foreman what does chancellor merkel hope to achieve in this three hour meeting that emanuel mccraw couldn't in history days that's the big question i mean mccraw is known to have a good relationship as you just said to donald trump but he was invited and was a long sort of moral ritual also him speaking in front of congress something that hasn't happened to french leaders speaking in front of congress for fifty eight years so there was a lot of pomp and circumstance perhaps that's the advantage of a glimmer a call that she can act in the shadow of what just happene

charleston, really great state but you both won your general elects and showed up here in washington, both kind of mr. something i going to washington. remember that feeling well. big class of republicans. 85 new folks coming in, so i know that just had to be chaotic. how did you meet and tell us about the experience, the orientation, hiring staff, learning your way around. trey, start us off. >> just the word overwhelming. i had no legislative branch experience, so i was relying upon jeff and mick and tim to help me there, and they were tremendously helpful. historically large class, but make no mistake, he was arguably the best known member of that incoming freshman class. duffy from mtv fame, but he was the elvis presley of that class, and very gracious -- didn't sing like elvis presley. i think you were at the president of your freshman class. >> yes. >> back home that's a big deal and i remember hem declining the opportunity to run for appreciate -- for freshman class president. he didn't run and i thought, well, that's a curious strategy decision that you would not. what better to go back home

mr. defazio: i would yield one minute to the gentleman from washington, my neighbor to the north. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise today in support of my amendment, which would modify the airport improvement program, to require the f.a.a. to explicitly consider the emergency preparedness needs of the communities served when reviewing an airport's master plan. currently the f.a.a. relies primarily on number of planements when making their fund determinations under the a.i.p. that disadvantages rural airports like fairchild airport in thigh mayorga district, which serves as a critical component of the state and fema's emergency response plan for the region, but has relatively few inplainments. mr. kilmer: this would help ensure that fairchild and other airports like it are able to secure the funding necessary to maintain their runway and other critical infrastructure so that the resources are available when disaster strikes. this matters to folks in my neck of the woods who live in the shadow of the zone. wh

he showed up in washington and both kind of mr. smith going to washington.i remember that feeling as well. the class of republicans, 85 new folks coming in so i know that just had to be chaotic. how did you meet? tell us about the experience, the orientation, hiring staffs, putting your way around. trey, start us off. >> just the word overwhelming. i had no legislative branch experience so i was relying upon jeff and nick and tim came to p me there, and they were tremendously helpful. it was historically large class but make no mistake, he was arguably the best known member of the incoming freshman class. duffy from mtv fame, but he was the elvis presley of that class, and very gracious. didn't sing like elvis preston but i think you with the president of the freshman class if memory serves me correctly. >> right. >> back home that's a really big deal and i remember him declining the opportunity to run for freshman class president. he would appoint by acclamation. it would've been no a vote thao popular he was. but he didn't run and i thought that's the curi

they would have big problems so this didn't sound too mr mccraw will be trying so judgment chancellor angela merkel when she will be in washington on friday and i guess the british also will try their pods through prime minister may so there's a concerted european effort here to convince mr trump to stay in the agreement. on trade of course the united states introduced these new trade tariffs against the world and then exempted the e.u. but only until the first of may and what was life was happen there. we simply don't know the german finance minister and vice chancellor on upshaw's was here in washington last week he talked to vice president pens and the economic advisor to mr trump larry could low and he seemed sort of a mistake but he also said i don't know if this is going to work out mr mccraw is at a meeting with donald trump and some of his cabinet members just a few minutes ago also pointed out that france as one of the representatives of the european union was very much interested in a solution here. also point out i guess on friday so once again here germany and france working as a tag team to convince the americans. t

mr. block was syndicated and other newspapers. what you also need to know is post"the washington readers missed it. it did not appear in their hometown papers, and they were angry. everyashington post" ran cartoon mr. block chose to run after that. arean see that mr. block's style has evolved -- art style has evolved to a much more loose style. using a stiff board. it grabs the pencil and gives it a nice texture. he used white out both as a way to control his mistakes and also to enhance his image. , being guided by president kennedy, he has budget written in white out on top of the ink and pencil so that it stands out in his cartoon. for mostas hard cartoonists to draw. he was a handsome looking fellow. even as late as 1962, they had big errors ornd big noses or something that stood out to make him look funny. so he kind of looks generically handsome in the entirety of his administration. that does not mean that mr. block did not find fault to pick with him. this cartoon is about the kennedy administration's desire endmplement tax cuts but special privileges for people who had benefited from specia

mr. putin. >> washington post reported that trump was livid the u.s. expelled so many russian diploma diplomats. the u.s. expelled 60 russian diplomats. we're looking at the numbers. france expelled four. germany expelled four. the uk expelled 23. what do you make of this that the president was so angry that the u.s. expelled so many russian diplomats in light of the new details? >> clearly what action we took was rather mild compared to what mr. putin has done here in america. i think we had to be even stronger in our message to mr. putin that we won't tolerate this type of behavior whether it is interfering if our elections or interfering in our own sovereignty or what they did in uk in regards to trying to poison individual. russia is the actor. it's mr. putin. he's the bad actor. we need to take action against him. >> let me switch gears and talk about another sensitive issue. the president's nominee to run the department of veteran affairs. are these new allegations against ronny jackson's behavior disqualifying? >> understand they are being made

standing alongside the israeli prime minister, mr pompeo said washington would not neglect what he described‘s links with terrorism. and he reiterated president trump's threat to abandon the iran nuclear deal unless it can be strengthened. members of a migrant caravan have scaled the mexican—us border fence to protest on top of it. the group of around 400 hondurans, guatemalans and salvadorans have angered president trump during their month—long journey across mexico. he repeatedly called on mexico to stop them before they reached the border. these pictures are from the canadian city of toronto, where a vigil has been taking place for the victims of the van attack a week ago that left ten people dead. a 25—year—old man, alek minassian, has been accused of deliberately driving into pedestrians. officials say he had no links to known terror groups but he had posted on social media referencing a misogynistic online community before the attack, known as incel. this vigil, which is being attended by prime ministerjustin trudeau, also celebrates the diversity of canadian society. china's ding junh