national security. additionally the process for d classifying information before it would automatically be declassified and numerous reports of classification have demonstrated the employees remain uneducated about the requirements and standards to be applied when the classified documents which can also lead to over classification so we recognize we have at least two major objectives. first we need to continue working on the development of the system that promotes the appropriate classification of information when identifying to begin with and it minimizes what is classified as an international matter. we need to facilitate the downgrading and classification of information to promote sharing when possible for enhanced accountability and trust. leaving aside the debate about whether the standards we use are the right ones for classification and when the information that is properly classified should be declassified because of the public interest that would outweigh the security concerns. there would be a

the audience using the definition that secretary blinken gives, the goals that we have and the national security strategy of free,open, prosperous and secure and then we compare those to the prc actions we see today that are outlined in the national defense strategy, is the indo-pacific, free and open today? and as i said early on, the writers of the national security strategy must have chosen every single word carefully and in choosing the word promote instead of say, ensure, or defend, i think the administration can always say we're successfully promoting a free and open indo-pacific. it seems like you can promote something endlessly, even if you watch it be systematically eroded. and so, i have posed a couple of questions, what does promote mean as an end and how is that translated into the national defense strategy and the military strategy. is the indo-pacific free and open today? are we promoting the continuation of something or are we perpetuating a state that currently exists today or are we promoting an ideal, something that's not a current reality, but an aspirational goal. and the pol

risk or other risk, can you explain those the national security risksk as well as economic securityto the business deals between those types of firms in the people's republic of china. >> absolutely. so china obviously is focused as we have been talking about critical foundational technologies and that disproportionate impact on the capacity for technological advancement and we talked about the technologies quantum computing and high-performance computing. and with china when and as indicated and the company in the allied country to have an office in beijing and china has laws that allow them to get access to information and other things that they have their and provides them with the opportunity to forces companies to provide information to be helpful to their intellectual property extension and to advance their own competitiveness in this area. and then get the information from our companies even outside of china and that is an issue. and then they are trying to create global supply chains what we have been discussing in a variety of technology areas or semi conductors in response

it has already been said the concept of national security, the need for basic competencies at the levelld be relatively complex, but in order to convey to the population this is a matter of information security and ideology. people should know that the state cares about them. but this is the task of journalists and talk shows, this is the task of quoting such people as i spoke about, yes, but again, the secretary of state. he talked about the fact that the main changes in concepts in the conceptual apparatus. for example, the concept of national security is supplemented by such a fundamental thesis as the state of protection of national interests for the sustainable development of society, that is formula again on this subject of remarks, that is, because one and the same terms cannot be used to raise completely different things occupied by others. if yes, sustainable social economic development. i wrote in the previous version, this remark is his task. what a talk show that captains lower these levels to the level of those people who have practically no basic competencies. well, excuse

when we do sell american products and we want that to happen, when you talk about national security, you really need to look at who are our allies and our enemies? how do we want to deal with that? i will give you an example. when i was at the united nations, when we were moving our embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, the whole world was up in arms. they condemned us, i was proud to do the u.s. veto. then we went in front of the 193 countries and they condemned us here, 128 voted against us, i was so mad. the u.s. can put the embassy wherever you want, we always put in the capital, jerusalem is the capital of israel. i went to our office, i said put a book together, the first column is 193 countries, the second column the number of times -- percentage of times they voted with the u.s. and against the u.s.. the third column, how much ornate we give them. i took that book -- foreign aid we give them. i took that book and give it to president trump. he lost his mind. flipping pages and yelling out countries. i said we should not give foreign aid based on a percentage vote at the u.n., bu

foreign policy and national security. by my way of thinking, that was the first formal expression of what came to be known as smart power. the integration of smart power and hard power in a coherent strategy, which in typical bush fashion. that is how the millennium challenge corporation came about. the influence it had on. development thinking. >> let me pick up with that. later on, how did the impacts of this new approach affect your work and the things you would take on? >> fit is wonderful to be back in the building again. this is our building but it is also the wilson center. the work is excellent. thank you for. the book it is a really good book. we saw the in cc on the ground. there were people. -- was able to get farms out for doctors, nurses, health care assistance so that -- and so that there were people who were being trained and actually at work be -- at work. the presence for people for hiv-aids was a game changer in africa. and sometimes we forget that staffing a little local village clinic makes a differenc

national security but also economic security.he semi conductor has a good business model because they can build a manufacturing facility than the united states. morris chang who used to be at texas instruments decide i'm going to build this in taiwan and we will not design any semi conductors we will just manufacture those made by other designers. great business model that were disrupted it would have a huge, huge consequence. it would all be an illusion as you can imagine. >> you mentioned ukraine were going to come to that. one more question another country so a lot of leadership with the caucus in the u.s. senate is the u.s./india relations. what role do you see india playing as a partner of the u.s.? especially it was we are trying to address from china also the relations in its own right? >> little known fact is hillary clinton and i started the u.s./india caucus in the senate. chris dodd became my partner and now mark warner. in texas we have about 500,000 indian americans their successful people in the community. the great

national security but also economic security. the semi conductor has a good business model because they can build a manufacturing facility than the united states. morris chang who used to be at texas instruments decide i'm going to build this in taiwan and we will not design any semi conductors we will just manufacture those made by other designers. great business model that were disrupted it would have a huge, huge consequence. it would all be an illusion as you can imagine. >> you mentioned ukraine were going to come to that. one more question another country so a lot of leadership with the caucus in the u.s. senate is the u.s./india relations. what role do you see india playing as a partner of the u.s.? especially it was we are trying to address from china also the relations in its own right? >> little known fact is hillary clinton and i started the u.s./india caucus in the senate. chris dodd became my partner and now mark warner. in texas we have about 500,000 indian americans their successful people in the community. the gre

you mention making sure especially when it comes to national security that we should really be pushing our own products, manufacturing, domestically and all of us here and the great state of iowa know and understand that food security is national security. so we really appreciate that. thank you. >> i do want to go into this of the topic while we talked about that because when we do sell american products and we want that to happen, when you talk about national security, you really need to r look at who our allies and you are our enemies, right? had we want to do with it.yo i'll give an example. when i was at the united nations, when we were moving our embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, the whole world was up in arms. they contend a spirit i was do the u.s. veto but then we went in front the 193 countries and they condemned us there. one had 20 or against us and i was so mad because i thought the u.s. can put our embassy anywhere we want. we always put it in the capital of the country. jerusalem is the capital of visual sweep at right to do that. i went to ourhe office and a set of wh

you can have a conversation about china witho the national security side. washington sees that economic integratiowith china is negative for our national security and it's a mixed picture. we can't decouple from china. we have to figure out how to use the kind ocoupli that we do have to advance our national security. not just play defense. host: economic figures that show imports and expor increased to 590 billion. consumers bought more chinese goods, exports from china 194 billion. guest: all of the talk about decoupling, there are areas like semi conductors where we have imposed significant restraint. new investments of slow down but overall trade has grown during the pandemic, we had almost no travel between the two countries and that will start to go. we are adjusting our relationship, not eliminating the relationship. host: as far as the adjustment, what is that look like? est: when the u.s. and china started increasing their trade relationship you saw a lot of american multinationals go. we saw that effect jobs in the united states. and he saw china u

here, look, he is the concept of national security from the point of view of national security.e talking here about the fact that we are defending the country, for example, we are harvesting. and we store a certain amount, that is, we are, in fact, preparing for some kind of emergency somewhere, but from the point of view of the region. look, in 2010 there was no fence from latvia. the corpses from latvia were not thrown to us. somehow, even such black news, and will not affect how the concept of national security will change regional politics. you know, but i don't think that at the regional level something will change conceptually. after all, each region is an integral part of our wonderful motherland. that is why we are discussing the draft of this concept. it is, of course, broadcast to every region. maybe each region has its own characteristics, but all the same , weapons were rightly said at the core, and the economy, social approaches, food security, therefore , this year a biological security section is a social thing, therefore. eh, it’s like a set of such tools, a set

i absolutely will ensure that he and the national security council no of your concerns and relay them as such. >> well, madame director, the security clearances in the past marijuana use, thank you issued guidance that past marijuana use was not it itself a disqualification for security clearance. why is it important that past use not be a disqualification to serve your country? it is a national security issue and we desperately need people. we have numbers of this community talking about languages that they are going to be outspoken on. we try to recruit. how many people want to find past marijuana use as not disqualifying for the national security post. >> re-recognize that many states have legalized or decriminalized ravana, and wanting to be sure that we are not to mollifying people solely for that purpose in that context, we obviously believe that we want to have the talent that exists in america. and when somebody is using experimentally, in a legal state, that is something that shouldn't on its own disqualify. we continue to qualify this from a whole person perspective. and to

do you think the national security dress up is the kind of angle washington would use? well 1st of all, i think it's wrong for the american politicians to say that this is their national security because taiwan is part of trying to how come a chinese part of their capability to in the trip in the history becomes the national security of the us. there was no logic to that. however, even if without this company, t s m. c. let's don't forget that the founding chairman of this company, the taiwanese gentleman, he made a very honest remarks part recently actually about the chip industry in china. he said in mainland china, that ship industry is perhaps only a year and a half to year and a half a year to year and a half behind the most advanced technology of the world. so it's not that far away actually try and itself is catching up the mainland government. the chinese government is now a rattling up all the resources to speed up the production of chips and to develop this industry to, to be a world lead. hopefully. so it's not that far away so, but coming back to the topic o

national security. for example, climate change remains an urgent threat that will increasingly exacerbat risks to u. national security as a physical impacts increase in geopolitical tension mount over the global response to the challenge. and now entering its fourth year the covid9 pandemic remains one of theost sigficant thres to global public health at a cost of more than 6.5 million lies and trillions of dollars in lost economic output today. in addition to direct effects of the dominican resulting in economicuman security political national surity implications of covid-19 continue to stream recovery effos presenting both known and unforeseen challens that probably willipple through society in a globalconomy during the next year and for years to come. russia's aggression agast ukraine is aggravated covid-19 related for julie's in t global enomy, raise commodity prices, fueled market volatility and contruted to food insecurity and financial instability. and theombinaon of elevated energy and food pric

staff and the national security process. the department of defense policy board and the institute of peace, steve, welcome back to the wilson center. applause ]. >> thank you. let me start a bit from the beginning of this book and it's the spring of 2008 when president bush called in josh bolton and said, you know, whoever follows me into this office and has a big challenge with a war in iraq and afghanistan and the terrorism threat and that was before we headeded into the worst financil and economic crisis since the great depression and what the president told josh is he wanted the upcoming transition to be the best transition in history and in some sense, i was in part of the transition from president ford to president carter and when speaking of him coming in, president carter's national security adviser into the oval office and then into his quarter, he found there was no staff, no depth because they've all been fired. no documents and they've all abeen taken to the ford librar. telling him about the status of the issues

foreign policy and national security. by my way of thinking that was expression ofal what came to be known as smart power. the integration of soft power and hard power in a coherent strategy which in typical bush fashion was both a bighearted and hardheaded. so that is how the millennium challenge corporation came about. that is the influence it had on development thinking. >> let me pick up with that. obviously were involved in all this. but also, later on at unicef how did the impacts of this new approach affect your work and the things she would take on? kirk so mark, it's wonderful to be i back in the building again. this is our usaid building but it's also the wilson center in your work is excellent to josh's point. and steve, thank you for the book it is remarkable. it is a really, really good book. so, we saw both pet far in the mcc on the ground. what struck you first on the ground was there were people. it was able to get funds out for doctors, nurses, health care heassistance. so there are people being trained a

we're going to potentially hear now from mark meadows, robert o'brien, the former national security adviserhn ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence and sources close to the grand jury telling cbs news they're being asked about what national security levers trump was asking about in the final days. >> significant. >> highly significant. >> on the classified documents, the documents the former president was not handling properly, there was also a key what impact will it have? >> it's so rare for a judge to say to a lawyer, you now have to testify about your client in a criminal case. that happened in this classified records investigation of trump being conducted by the special counsel, two investigations at once. evan corcoran, trump's lawyer in this case, did come in for hours on friday, he didn't just talk about his broad view, he had to share audio files, notes, details about all of his conversations with trump about how trump handled those federal requests about classified documents. think back to the mar-a-lago fbi search last summer. corcoran was pressed about what was tru

gary servedy as the deputy national security advisor and deputy national economic advisor to president bush. he co-led the development and conceived and established the millennium challenge corporation to fight global poverty. he currently serves as the president of the covid collaborative. henrietta served in the single most important post in all of government administrator of usaid and was also director of the u.s. foreign assistance under secretary of state for management and of course most recently she served as the global executive director of unicef. let me begin with you. i remember when governor bush was campaigning for president. i don't remember him campaigning on these issues. how did this come to him, what caused him to embrace some of the challenges and develop some of the approaches that we are here to talk about? >> thank you for the work you do and hosting the session and for the extraordinary work that you did putting together this importanthe volume titled handof available on amazon.com. it really is a terrific piece of work. mark, you asked was this part of the bush

soy washington often times seems that economic integrationna is negative for national securitynd is a mixed picture we don't have to decoupleto from china to advance our national security. >> the economic figures tell us the imports and exports is about 691 billion and thats shoppers spent more and on that same period exports are 154 billion. >> all of the talk about decoupling certainly there has been some specific areas like semie conductors and trade has dropped new investment but actual overall trade has grown during the pandemic we had almost no travel between the two countries and that will pick up so we are adjusting the relationship and not eliminating. >> as far as the adjustment is concerned what does that look like? when us and china started to increase their relationship we saw a lot of american multinationals and the midwest and to use an export platform and a lot of the trade between the two countries and now 20 percent of that trade doing business for china and those using as part g of the global supply chain they are still there but moving to southeast asia and

there is a national security concern here, and that is by american intelligence services and national security agencies were involved with this. they are, can't, they can't get tired of re emphasizing look, this data is accessible for the, the chinese government. and we don't really are cuz we're not really comfortable of it letting this happen because they can do anything they want with this. and that is the core problem. so if the take talks he or says he never talked to any, a chinese government representatives while that doesn't really cut it, because everybody knows by dance is a chinese tech company. and it is chinese policy law that the government, hess, and authorities, they have access to their data. they have to make it somewhat when asked at least knowledgeable to the government. how would you describe the atmosphere the hearing today? as i said, not re friendly towards the tick tock see or not a lot of this is not tick. tock, manage something which you normally have really, really sell them here on the hill or in washing, nor in the united states. unity between republicans

national security 16 points, immigration by 10 points.this issue or the biden administration is going to try to make these changes and see what happens? >> i think they are in a box. i think what gillian said is exactly right with title 42 expiring next month in may, interest is potentially may be easier to get. in looking at the strategy already said going to be tougher for you to have an asylum claim in the united states, you have to make a request for asylum in any country that you pass through on the way to the u.s. so now they are in a situation where and saying you know what? it's going to be a 20-day limit, potentially on family detention that would take care of the issue vince was talking about with the children. the idea temporary does not please democrats. the biden administration position here is one that is too restrictive for democrats and not restrictive enough in terms of republicans who think we just want a hard enforcement line at the border. >> bret: meantime we had these four americans kidnapped. two of them killed, the

there is a national security risk in that as well.values and the care of our young people because china cares about its young people. they only allow kids under -- over 14 to be on it all the time or might have some limits. if you are under 14 it is 40 minutes a day. it is wholesome content, a lot of propaganda but we don't do that here in this country. do you see that as a national security threat as well? >> china bans american social media apps like fate book and twitter. they have rules in place. we have a free market economy when it comes to information and ideas. but i agree with you entirely that the threat to kids these days. there is a very dark side to social media and to the digital age. i think we have to be vigilant about that. it is not only young boys but young girls. we have heard lots of testimony with respect to instagram in particular on the impact it has on teens and pre-teens. just a lot of social problems created with this, dana. i think that, you know, what we address is the national security implication. but i

if you're worried about national security or leaked information. good morning go ahead. caller: hello. i feel sorry for the ceo who got grilled. but banning is the answer if we can be positive and look at it. they have a right in capitalism to exercise their business. and it seems to me that everybody likes it so why would you ban it? but, i think it needs a pause to make sure that the communist chinese connections are not they are. if they are they are, then it should be banned but the problem here is communism and world globalism. it is the nature of the internet and technology to be globalized. elon musk cracked open twitter and shows all the communist in twitter and how they ranked the election and it happened with the ceo of facebook. so this is a technology issue and information is power. you find out about this in an old documentary called future shock that was released in 73. it tells you this is coming. we had 30 some odd years or better to figure out that technology can be dangerous and can be abused just like data engineering can be abused. people need to get

as senator hawley pointed out, there is no national security exception. members of congress has security clearances and no reason why the white house can't produce these documents. you need to follow the money because the question about the money and the funding, which has manifest itself in testimony from dr. fauci, that's one line that needs to be pursued. the second is the intelligence services. some of this comes through literally the intelligence services. the department of energy, health and human services. those documents are already in place. there is no reason, harris, having done this, having been the chairman of the oversight committee, there is 0 reason why any part of the administration, now that the president signed this bill, should not completely totally 100% provide those documents in short order. in a week to the united states congress. there is nothing that prohibits that at this point. >> harris: jason, the new documentary. we showed bits and pieces yesterday and we'll continue to. at one point i caught this this morning. at one point i

abbas moqtadaei, vice chairman of the parliament's national security and foreign policy commission , dr. salam and welcome to our group. allah, the merciful, the merciful to your excellencies, your colleagues and all my dear compatriots, that on this winter night, the program of the talks of divine blessings, finally, now it is winter and spring , the new and good talks of iran have been created according to this balance and the stability of the region that exists in iran, one iran. proportionation and serious politics are on the agenda. the issue here is what are the necessities and what are the reasons that the countries of the region felt that they should move towards greater interaction and convergence with each other. let me look at it from another angle after the victory of the islamic revolution. iran's power increased day by day and the governments that came from outside the region into the persian gulf region and part of the middle east and part of the regions that are adjacent to it , i slowly realized that the civilizational foundation of the islamic system is being formed

majority of tiktok users oppose banning the social media app as you have talked about the national certain security concerns this is a communications question. and why does this has such a national threat? >> our job is to make sure that americans when it comes to national security is protected. we have been very good about that. and then there is a review and we understand the popularity. we get that but the president's job is to make sure that americans national security is protected as well that's we see this president doing we will wait for the review and let them do their process. >> . >> and the president's main focus and that's what you seen him do. >> and the senate congress committee to delay the committee vote eight months after the commission nominated the faa. and then wondering why they are so intent who after eight months of being nominated still doesn't seem to convince editors. >> we think he has a qualification. there has the qualification and experience for the role. >> and the busiest airport in the world. it is a key safety mandate. and then with the confirmation and we heard to

the national security, everything in the bill suggests that this is not strictly about national security, but rather safeguarding of the dominant state directed narratives. in general, we've seen many instances of the u. s. department's national departments acting against us citizens and censoring them and surveilling upon them. we saw this with the twitter files and we saw this with the department of homeland security having a back door access to facebook. and we're seeing this now. this seems to be just tightening down the hatches making this, making it almost impossible to communicate without government surveillance at all times. fresh clashes of erupt on the streets of paris as huge crowns of protested the pension reform for a 10. stay with president mc, phone's government, deploying 13000 offices across the country, and more than 5000 in paris alone. ah . and if one person has been injured in the french capital on tuesday, the unrest fled up after the government raised the retirement age from 62 to 64 without. as those in parliament demonstrated that being confronted by offices, res

national security. ur posion in the treasury department? were assistant secretary for investment security, what did you do in that role? guest: that role was created from an overhaul by congrs in 2018 of a national security team that is vital to u.s. national security that screens foreign investment for potential malicious foreign investment into our technology companies and their infrastructure that might compromise it. the assistant secretary was created by that statute to oversee the committee and its work. host: how does the treasury department screen a foreign investor whether in china or elwhere to invest in techlogy ithe u.s.? >> guest: the secretary of the treasury is the chair of the committee. it's made up of nine agencies total that come together and do due diligence together. it is largely a voluntary process. companies that are investing in the united states that might see there's a potential for the governmento have some concerns about the assets theyre buyg in the united states will submit of filg with the government and treas

that for example, the national security advisor lead in the context of securing paul recessive again, his release that often happen only effectively when it's away from the spotlight and when it's truly a private discussion, it's not, it's not pastoring, it's instead a genuine back and forth about how we start from a situation that we as a government find unsustainable and get to an outcome that's mutually satisfactory . josh, i will tell our audience that you are the founding executive director of something called the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection. it's always been a reminder to me that not every nation's constitution, not every nation's legal infrastructure is the same. and that an arrest a conviction in a foreign country say egypt or saudi arabia or singapore may look unjust to some americans are just as an arrest or conviction of a foreign national. in u. s. courts can look unjust to those other countries. how much do we need to wave into this, this at your real expert in this area? and i want to be open. in fact, as we talk to a global audience here, that t

one with massive national security implications and human health implications. as we've seen 110,000 americans die from fentanyl just last year. all of that fentanyl, by the way, comes from mexico. no mystery where it's coming from. it's not made in china anymore. it's made in mexico. and so perhaps this redefinition helps hide it, obscure it. but it still doesn't help. look, this is making it worse. what you're doing is making a lot of things worse. and i'm concerned that this shows up in a number of areas. i'm going to talk about some of those today. shows up in your use of parole. it shows up on issues related to asylum. and it shows up in issues related to the detention of asylum applicants. let's talk about patrol first. in one of these efforts to disguise the political impact, to diffuse the political impact and disguise what's actually happening, you started to rename things and rebrand them so that the numbers seem to be improving more than they actually are but they aren't. it's come to my attention that you've created at least 13 new patrol programs --

national security policy making. one example they go into a great deal of detail about is china's aggressive fishing activities, how those have contributed to overfishing more than any other nation. this has led to increasingly hostile fishing disputes between china and its neighbors, as well as along the coast of africa, latin america, threatening economic food security and sovereignty. in the view of the reports offers, the i see needs greater capacity to analyze the negative effects of illegal fishing activities, as well as a whole host of other causes of ecological disruption. it needs to elevate the relative importance of ecological security issues within the ic prioritization framework. have you had a chance to look at that? could you commit to work with me to try to implement some of the recommendations included in that report? >> yes, absolutely, senator. i did see the report. actually, i thought it was excellent, we have given to our national intelligence manager for global issues, who's focused on these iss

it can be effective from the dimensions of national security.can also be effective from the cultural aspect . it can also be effective from the political aspect. there was a claim that the united states made in 2016 that in fact russia was able to influence our election process by creating a number of robotic banks on imam's social networks. we have not been seen to determine how open the person who owns the platform has to influence the political trends of different countries. among the experts in the field of virtual space , khamenei has also been added to our group. the vine how much of security is economic and how much is cultural, and the judge says, i opened the security and technical angles to the topic in school. greetings and respect to you and all the viewers of the program . that we should not forget that in all, both in the european union and in the united states, what is proposed as the reason for banning and limiting the ability to monitor cyber security threats is the second and socially important data collection and only data tha

handoff represents an incredible resources from care about national security. with safe and washington as the obama administration took office together with contemporary reflections do stand the test of time the unprecedented clemson to how the bush administration managed an array of international challenges and with profound transnational threats to dominate the foreign policy agenda even more importantly it eliminates the general public and scholars and practitioners the complexity that has a historic shift of a international order they are relevant today as we live through a transition from the 9/11 era dominated by counterterrorism and threats to the homeland and even more of a dangerous landscape between great power rivals to the united states in that respect it is fitting that brookings would launch a handoff falling on the one-year invasion of ukraine the conversation today comes on the heels of a historic visit inactive for zone to meet with president zelensky to have an unwavering and flagging equip to and territorial integrity. with their own counterv

it is under such conditions that we discuss, a matters of national security. on monday, the president had a meeting, and from this security of the republic of belarus, there are two very important directions discussed. this is an interesting project, an updated concept of national security and such a new people's militia for the belarusian rumor. here, if you look at what caught on the most, what caused the greatest resonance. and here's what we noticed. this, of course, these are the words of the president that belarusian peacefulness is not a synonym for sacrifice, immediately the message is that every man should and not only a man should be able to handle weapons in order to protect at least his own family. and what caught the eye of many is that, in the vein of discussions of national security , they touched on the topic of values ​​and traditions. that is , it is also around the discussion, the topics of security. well, at the same time, everything, and our concept, it will be open. that is, anyone, including those from abroad, will be able to get acquaint

with national security threats. some officials will say they did not downplay the issue and they put a lot of emphasis on it, but that program was closed down. host: alan in hawaii on the line for independent. good morning. caller: good morning. it's great to speak to you and to warren. i'm having deja vu because back in 2020 of april we had robert on, i spoken to him. he answered in the affirmative that he thought was a high probability that a lab leak could have been an introduction of the virus in china, that was before anyone understood what the potential scenarios where. my thought would be with all the information coming out again, it's going to be recycled until china is willing to reveal the necessary data to pin it down, is how we work with organizations that also submitting funding to lapse in china. people are concerned about these processes and they need to be considered -- the other part is the intelligence agencies but you're not talking about the cdc epidemic intelligence service which also should hav

it has nothing to do with national security.ike i said we are covered with chinese technology in all levels of our society even in the military. it is all chinese technology. so that argument is all about the money. host: enough said. steve it is your turn in tennessee. caller: thank you i have three points to make. first of all, the hearing yesterday that i watched was an absolute disgrace on the part of our congress. it was mostly grandstanding and never less a talk. as for tiktok itself, it needs to be divested for many interest in china. we have more than a dozen or so major social media companies. and they'll do the same thing. that leads me to point number three. congress has failed on its face to do anything about the dangers associated with social media. about half of social media probably does some good and provides a platform for people to speak their varied opinions, the other half of it is a flaming disaster. it hurts children, it hurts our elections, there is so much false, dangerous, garbage on social media. unfort

simon national security our guest is the founder of the nationalhe security institute of george mason university law school, jamil jaffer thanks for your time. >> thanks pedro.

for sadat shabiri, the sda news agency, the meeting hall of the supreme national security council is going to the uae today . more interactions and relations with iran in relation to the second half of february. the president's visit to china and the signing of a cooperation document , a new chapter in the relations between the two countries. a few days ago, the visit of the president of belarus to sign 8 cooperation documents . it is open and it is a fact that independent and strong and continues on its path, these relations and goings-on while the media turned blue for the isolation of iran is the isolation of the islamic republic. the revolution of the authorities and its line, dozens of countries from all over the world sent different congratulatory messages to the president, sending messages from the far east , from the far east , the emperor of japan, wishing happiness to the people of iran. last year , he mentioned and wrote that he hopes for the cooperation of the two the side called for the expansion of cooperation for strategic partnership, and mr. putin emphasized on the c