well, anyway, now president trump has the national security council he needs which is very good becauseesident should have a national security council that suits his needs. president trump, unlike a lot of other presidents, he makes the decisions himself. he doesn't just pick option one, two or three that are sort of spoon fed him by the bureaucracy. is so i think now he's got the right people in the right places, and i do think that american foreign policy and national security policy will really quickly be able to implement president trump's objectives. lou: give us your sense though the -- what is being projected from the white house right now. because there is an incredible, i think an unprecedented number of crises that are contemporaneous, whether it is the wuhan virus, whether it is an intense disinformation and propaganda campaign by one of the principal powers of the world, and that is china. at the same time, taking over hong kong because that's what it is, we all know it, and we all might as well use plain english when we say it. and there is here president that needs as much

lou: and unfortunately, that wasn't elemented to the national security -- limited to the national security council fbi, the intelligence agencies. it was not in any way anything less than a strategy on the part of the obama administration to effectively maintain if not control, significant influence on the levers of power in the united states government despite the votes of the american people the previous november. it's really astonishing. and when we look at obamagate, the attacks on you by the special counsel, the attacks by certainly the special counsel, the fbi on general flynn, these efforts to take over, if you will, the national security council, it was absolutely a strategic point with the obama administration. how high did it go? we don't know. but it was president obama asking should we pass on information to general flynn. what in the world would prompt a to say that when his fbi director says we have had no ed whatsoever -- no evidence whatsoever of the general passing on classified information to the russian ambassador? the pretext was just pathetic as everything else that went on in

it is time for sunday group, former trump national security council spokesman michael, anchor of the daily briefing dana perino and the institute of politics and public service. the country is going through a tough time right now and minorities are going through the toughest time, i want to put up statistics. more than 100,000 people dead from the coronavirus, more than 40 million jobs lost and if you want to get a sense of how that is especially hit minorities in minnesota all them one third of coping cases are african-americans, although there's just 6% of the population of that state and now the george floyd case. is that why we are seeing the violent demonstrations across the country at this moment, as is the perfect storm? >> look, this is probably one of the saddest moments in this country in my lifetime. it is everything that you just said coming together, colliding in a terrible way. it is disproportionally hurting people of color in minority communities. i think it's important to recognize, there is a difference between the protesters who are out there making a legitimate po

>> y served in president obama's cabinet as national security adviser and ambassador to the you were alsos. in president clinton's national security council. anbecause of the covid pandemic that continues, we are practicing social distancing. thank you for joining me fr your home. >> good to be with you. >> you are also the co-chair of the reopen d.c. advisory group, and you are focusing on how to reopen the economy in our nation's capital. how aryou thinking about balancing the urgent need to reopenhe economy with the nd to curtail the spread of the virus? >> well, we are adsing the mayor, muriel bowser, and we're thinking aboutis ery simply. the simple point is that the health and safety of the residents of the district of columbia is paramount and we can't successfully reopen the economy without preserving and protecting to the greateste extent possi help the people of the district. and so the mayor has been quite cautious. and obviously we all have an interest in getting the economy back going in a sustainableay. but we recognize that if make a false start, if we come out of the bo too fast and too soon, we risk a major setback. d.c.,

. >> joining us, chief political analyst gloria borger and the former director of the national security council's medical and biodefense preparedness. dr. borio, you worked at the fda during the obama administration. but then you worked on medical preparedness on president trump's national security council unit that was disbanded. what's your response to what we heard from the white house press secretary? >> so there was a pandemic playbook, there is a pandemic playbook that was left behind. and i think it's important to realize, though, that this pandemic is the biggest public health crisis we've had in a century. and it's much bigger than any playbook, okay? much bigger. and i don't know that it's fair to say that had a playbook been followed, we would be in a very different situation than we are now. i don't think a playbook was a solution here. on the other hand, it's important to realize we have a third of the global cases of covid-19 here in the united states. and we have to really have a lot of work going forward to be able to change this trajectory. there are plans continued, and i think

in the national security council -- >> you mean when the cdc was there. ere in china but had to come home? >> yes. yes. an top of that inside the national security health council and one of the trump administration's first actions was to eliminate the whole team from the national security council. these are the -- this is the council that is supposed to protect us. yet they decided that health was, obviously, not the great threat that other, you know, terrorism and other things were. so in terms of intelligence failures, then there were, you know, the voices they fail to heed. i mean, all the people i talked to knew that something like this was going to happen and they actually had done table top -- [ inaudible ] sorry? >> a little bit of trouble with the connection. briefly you write more recently about scars of this pandemic of this crisis. what will the scars of this crisis be? >> well, you know, start with the fact that they're going to, you know, so many people will be lost then there's the amazing economic consequences that we're just now having to f

eizenhower was deeply involved in government, deeply involved in the day-to-day operations of his national security council. on foreign policy especially, he was a master of his breach and deeply involved in the details of american national security issues. but the emphasis of the scholarship that started to co-come out having read all this was to attack eisenhower for being a kind of evil genius. over here he'd overthrown the government in iran and guatemala and what about the kongo? so here we have him depicted as evil. the pendulum is constantly swinging and if your head is swimming, i'm not surprised. where's the real eisenhower? i'm a historian but i'm not interested in making ike into a saint orville lain. i wanted to find out what made him tick but what's the real meaning of thize be hour impact on the country, what impact did he have and why was he so popular? people said i like ike but why? what was it about him that they liked? i'm going to talk on on two big answers to that question. if you want to know why ike was popular, look at what he did, the accomplishments in his eight years. and i'll to

remember north korea has a nuclear weapons program it's under sanctions from the united nations security council and that is a tremendous concern for the international community what happens to those when there is some change in leadership in north korea and that's where all the speculation has been over the past week who is going to be the next leader and most of that speculation focused on kim jong un's younger sister kim your jiang that we saw in the background that we've seen assisting kim jong un with his various duties including the recent son that's that he had with south korean president in and us president donald trump. on facts in self thanks very much for the update. here in europe the country with the most coronavirus cases spankin has now surpassed 25000 deaths and the number of new infections is on the decline and the country's began easing some of its strict lockdown measures for 7 weeks only one person per household was allowed to leave their homes to go grocery shopping or walk their dog but starting today spaniards are allowed to go outside to exercise it still under strict ins

remember north korea has a nuclear weapons program it's under sanctions from the united nations security council and that is a tremendous concern for the international community what happens to those when there is some change in leadership in north korea and that's where all the speculation has been over the past week who is going to be the next leader and most of that speculation focused on kim jong un's younger sister kim your jiang that we saw in the background that we've seen assisting kim jong un with his various duties including the recent summits that he had with south korean president moon j.n. and u.s. president donald trump of thanks in self thanks very much for the update. in the u.s. more states a reopening for business amid a fierce nationwide debate over how soon coronavirus lockdown restrictions should be lifted many public health officials have warned it's still too soon for attend to normal even as protest is in some states keep up the pressure on michael latest to reopen as little consensus with different states proceeding different policies. finally a day at the beach the sand

remember north korea has a nuclear weapons program it's under sanctions from the united nations security council and that is a tremendous concern for the international community what happens to those when there is some change in leadership in north korea and that's where all the speculation has been over the past week who is going to be the next leader and most of that speculation focused on kim jong un's younger sister kim your jiang that we saw in the background that we've seen assisting kim jong un with his various duties including the recent summits that he had with south korean president in and u.s. president donald trump facts in self thanks very much for the update. a noun it's take a look at the latest developments in the chronic virus pandemic the total number of number of corona virus infections in europe now tops $1500000.00 cases according to a new tally russia and pakistan a both reporting may have biggest one day jump in the new infections france is extending its health emergency for 2 more months until july 24th the country's health minister said lifting the emergency this month w

is a big concern for the international community which has placed pyongyang under united nations security council sanctions and then also there's this issue of succession who will come next and over the past week we've heard people talk and write about kim your junk conjunctions younger sister who at 32 appears poised at some point to be the heir to the north korean regime. that's frank smith in seoul thank you frank the toughest lockdown restrictions in europe will begin to loosen their grip on public life starting today people in spain have been told to stay at home since mid march but now residents can go for walks and exercise outdoors either alone or with one member of their household the government hopes to further curbs on movement by the end of next month. we're joined now by our correspondent philip schultz in seville in southern spain yawn it's good to see you as well spain has had a very strict lock down rules in place for the past few weeks of course what's the feeling now that there being a strike. and it's a great feeling especially comes together with a significant decline in the n

consultation with the national security council, general abrams and my other thators, i have concluded the actions of the enemy in the last 100 days clearly endanger the lives of americans in vietnam right now and would constitute an unacceptable risk to those who would be there after withdrawal of another 150,000. to protect our men who are in vietnam and to guarantee the continued success of our withdrawal programs, i have >> tonight, in april 30, 1970 address from president richard nixon and announcing that u.s. and south vietnamese forces would attack north vietnamese basis in cambodia. a newnnouncement led to wave of antiwar protests on campuses. >> next on american history tv, the national constitution center in philadelphia hosts a virtual town hall about george washington's influence in shaping the constitution after the revolutionary war, and as president, his role in making it work. the center's jeffrey rosen moderates the conversation with white house historical association historian lindsay chervinsky and pulitzer prize-winning author edward larson. this and other constitut

is a big concern for the international community which has placed pyongyang under united nations security council sanctions and then also there's this issue of succession who will come next and over the past week we've heard people talk and write about kim your junk conjunctions younger sister who at 32 appears poised at some point to be the heir to the north korean regime that's frank smith in seoul thank you frank austria has become one of the 1st countries in europe to lift many of its lock down restrictions put in place to stop the spread of the krona virus after 7 weeks where social contact was strictly regulated the country is relaxing its measures and trying to slowly return to a new normal austrians are now allowed to meet people from outside their own household but still at one meter distance. we're joined now by correspondent carrie sky ringing in the austrian capital vienna kerry it's good to see you. as of today all shops or allowed to open of course are you expecting lots of people to head out. yes there will be a lot more people on the streets and on the roads today this is the 1st

after full consultation with the national security council says and my other advisers i have concluded that the actions of the enemy clearly endangered the lives of americans who are in vietnam now, and would constitute an unacceptable risk to those who will be there after withdrawal of the other 150,000. to protect our men who were in vietnam and to guarantee the continuing success of our withdrawal of the vietnam is a shun programs, i have concluded that the time has come for action. tonight, i shall describe the actions of the enemy, the actions i will do to deal with the situation and the reasons for my decision. cambodia, a small country of 7 million people has been a neutral nation since the geneva agreement of 1954 which was signed by the government with north yet mom. american policies since then has been to scrupulously respect the neutrality of the cambodian people. we have maintained a diplomatic mission a fewer than 15 for the cambodian's capital. for the previous four years from 1965 to 1969, we did not have any diplomatic mission whatever and cambodia. for the past five y

the united nations security council has also voiced concern at china of the national security laws on the whole cold requesting an urgent meeting diplomatic to james bays has more from un headquarters in new york. it was the u.s. mission to the united nations that requested a security council meeting on hong kong a request that was immediately blocked by china but just hours later the issue was raised anyway by a guest speaker at the council the e.u.'s foreign policy chief and turning to a very recent developments which they cannot stop a bite if. i might express deep concern with the steps taken by a china regards nation or security legislation you are gone. we believe that that is not going to go for mickey with international commitments nor with the hong kong basic or the chinese position though was firm this was an internal matter none of the security council's business how come affairs are purely china's internet i.f.'s and allow no access to no interference it usual of. has nothing to do with the mandate of the thicker to cancel elsewhere u.n. headquarters where they were holdin

they include such organizations as the government accountability project, national security council. it's not just one member of the united states senate. who's here to say that it is time to finally ensure that these courageous americans, these patriots, who are willing tofo come forward when all of te incentives in american government are to stay quiet. do not put yourself at risk don't put your career in jeopardy. when all of the incentives are for them to stay quiet, we need them speaking truth more than ever before. i poses nomination because there is a long long record of not being willing to stand up for these courageous whistleblowers and i intend to vote against the nominee. senator from virginia. >> price today and strong support of william to be the first confirmed national intelligence security center. i believe the bill of the american patriot in the american success story. excel, pennsylvania, very modest means, he was the first to go to college prior to joining the fbi in 1996, his first job was with the general services administration in philadelphia. over 24 year lon

it was developed by the career staff in the national security council, asked -- i asked along with the national security adviser, we asked our staff to prepare that playbook for the next team. why? we wanted them to have the benefit of the lessons we learned during ebola and zika. 69 page playbook, it was pretty much a paint by numbers aapproach to how in the national security council, in the white house, you should respond to a pandemic outbreak. we also -- that playbook, by the way, was, of course, ignored. the obama administration left a preparedness office, staffed by career professionals whose job it was to spend 24/7 thinking and planning and preparing for exactly the scenario. what happened to that office? it was disbanded in 2018. we left a program called predict. yes it was called predict. its job, out of the cdc, was to work overseas including in china to stop epidemics before they become pandemics and to stop them before they get here. what happened to that program? it was defunded. and finally, alisyn, the fact is i spent hours in an exercise during the transition along wit

nations will make any difference on this. >> what we witnessed here today at the security council is an insult.will not be forgotten. >> standing her ground by un ambassador making it clear. ♪ she knows what american foreign policy looks like. some people see there's too much political splatter. >> i don't think its swagger. i think it's passion. i'm passionate about defending the united states. >> she says the world is respecting the united states again. >> music i didn't know that they would be elected into the legislature or the governor and i certainly never thought i would be the un ambassador. even though i am a citizen i know i am too young to stop fighting. ♪ [cheering] good evening. welcome, everyone, welcome to gw university. thank you everyone for joining us tonight. we are going to have a wonderful discussion with ambassador nikki haley. can we say thank you to her one more time, please? [applause] [cheering] thank you so much. thank you for being here. we are going to have a lovely discussion this evening with ambassador haley and we will start with about 45 minutes of questions an

after full consultation with the national security council, ambassador bunker, general abrams and my other advisors, i have concluded that the actions of the enemy in the last 10 days clearly endanger the lives of americans who are in vietnam now and would constitute an unacceptable risk to those who will be there after withdrawal of another 150,000. to protect our men who are in vietnam, and to guarantee the continued success of our withdrawal and vietnamization program, i have concluded that the time has come for action. tonight, i shall describe the actions of the enemy, the actions i have ordered to deal with that situation, and the reasons for my decision. cambodia -- a small country of seven million people -- has been a neutral nation since the geneva agreement of 1954, an agreement, incidentally, which was signed by the government of north vietnam. american policy since then has been to scrupulously respect the neutrality of the cambodian people. we have maintained a skeleton diplomatic mission of fewer than 15 in cambodia's capital, and that only since last august. for the pr

using the national security council as a coordinating hub, we all worked together on our pandemic plans. it would have been the scientists in the federal government leading the response but incorporating all the aspects of homeland security, fema, the department of defense, and now we are seeing more and more. the ideas that you want the experts leading the response but you don't want them doing it by one of the things i was recognizing the obama administration that we had collected some orders. there is a tendency to think of fema as only dealing with her earthquakes, but it is actually the ability to coordinate any major crisis. because this is fema's core , it can bring the tools so that hopefully next time they are brought in earlier, not after things aren't working. and then use their tools in the inter-agency relationship and all the things we do to support that agency and crisis. >> thank you. >> thank you, representatives. fema has yet to activate most of its individual assistance aid tos, which provide directly to families such as funeral assistance. what do you make of this, a

national security adviser, general. he was not -- somewhat of an honoristic general. i think robert cutler invented the role of national security adviser. he defined the purposes of the national security counciland, indeed, brought a military ethos to running the nsc. eisenhower said again and again the meetings of the national security council were the most important meetings of the government. he said that to john kennedy when they were meeting during the handover, during the transition. you have to understand the nsc, what it's all about. this is where everything happens. he said yeah, yeah, i've got bobby. i'll be fine. he didn't use it the same way eisenhower had done. bobby cutler was the man who implemented it. >> real quickly, george marshall, what the relationship with -- >> that's a lecture in itself, but marshall made eisenhower. we owe eisenhower to general marshall. and it's a story with some to it. marshall brought ike up, promoted him, gave him the biggest jobs of the war, running the european theater, getting xand in normandy, which marshall probably wanted and said mr. president, it's not up to me. roosevelt said okay, i'm going with ike. during the campaign of 1952, george m

when i was speaking to the united nations security council, i produced the new numbers of the people around the world that wewere marching to the brink of starvation. i am not talking about hungry people. -- there 821 100 million people they go to bed chroronically hungry. additional people are in the brink of starvation. out of that 130 5 million, we supported about 100 million people. m million, 3030 million depend on us 100%.%. ththat is the only food they ge. with covid, we are anticipating another 130 million people on top of the 135 million, bringing a billiononrter of pepeople mararching towardss starvation because of the economic d deterioration from covid, wars, conflflicts. this is a perfect storm. i i do wish i was exaggerating, but we are looking at what could bebe famines of biblical proportions in multiple countries. >> according to your assessments, you are talking about three dozen countries. thatat is a lot.t. >> yes. sayact, right now, i would five to six countries would be famine nonow if we were not there. we have 10 countries right off the top that have one milli

it's time. >>> the united states is now blocked the united nations security council resolution addressing global pandemic. the resolution called for a truce in war-torn countries to focus resources to tackle this coronavirus pandemic. and it comes after china pushed for the world health organization. last month president trump accuseing it of mismanaging and helping cover up the spread of coronavirus. and we're following the developments in washington. what's the reaction from u.n. diplomats? >> well, the bottom line is u.n. diplomats have been working on this for more than six weeks. this is something that they really wanted to come to fruition. the fact of the matter is they knew the u.s. did not want a record in this resolution. the back drop is that the trump administration has been really tough on the world health organization out of the pandemic. china did want a reference to the world health organization in this resolution. short of an agreement, they were not going to mention the governor by name. they were instead going to come to an agreement [ inaudible ] the u.s. press said th

counsels another national security council meeting having not met since february the government blames the pandemic but critics are warning national security cannot be postponed and the n.s.c. greatly assists the government in cross whitehall coordination of responses to acute an ongoing challenges and raise awareness of wider national security threats which otherwise might be overlooked if he does not meet these call decisionmaking functions are not guaranteed to take place to the same effect for more all of us i'm not joined by professor of risk and disaster reduction at university college london david alexander david great of you to be with us shouldn't we have a scientist in charge of assessing the risk of corona virus in our counterterrorism official i mean after all the government is guided by the science. well actually i believe that we should have an expert in militancy planning or management in charge of it and postal the i think the government's biggest mistake so far has been to sideline marginalise and starved of funds emergency plan here management which in fact had many o

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. >> peter navarro, the president's trade adviser circulated a memo through the national security council, but then it went out broadly to dozens of administration officials in which he was very clear. he detailed the potential for millions of deaths, one to two million deaths, as many as 500,000. he went through the economic costs which he predicted would be staggering, in the trillions of dollars for the country. the president was told about the existence of this memo. we have been told by source, and he was irritated that these estimates had been put down on paper. >> that memo was dated january 29th. a day that also brought this. >> the white house announced the creation of a coronavirus task force to deal with the threat here in the united states. >> in the final days of january, a world health organization emergency committee praised the chinese government's leadership, commitment to transparency, and saw no need for any travel or trade restriction. and trump again told the country everything was fine. >> we think we have it very well under control. >> so the very next day after the

carroll's predict program months before this outbreak and disbanding the national security council'smic unit in 2018. a move that is so obviously backwards, donald trump himself don't even try to defend the move, instead blaming others. . >> i didn't do it. we have a group of people. you say we did that. i don't know. i'll think about it. >> the problem, though, runs far deeper. for years experts have pleaded to get ahead of this, stressing pandemics pose far more risks than other well funded governments concerns. that's a point that's been raised by the very famous like bill gates as well as lesser known pathogen experts toil away, like dr. syrah medad who warned that big cities are more vulnerable because of serology and transportation. >> you can have a virus where people feel well enough while they're infectious that they get on a plane or go to a market. >> it takes one person, one host and then you can start a whole outbreak that can lead to a pandemic. if a passenger arrives in new york city with a novel disease like 87n9 flu, kit very well begin to spread undetend. in a matte

policy girl i want to be in the room when decisions are made so i would need to be on the national security council said done. said i'm not going to be a wallflower or talking head i need to be a will to say what i think and he said exactly that's why want you to do this and was true to his word from the first day to the last day. [applause] >> i know we have a lot of young people in the audience but they asked me how i knew to ask for those things. you have to remember there is one lesson i have learned to live by and that l is pushed through the fear when challenge comes in front of you your reaction is naturally to step back but if you lean in and push through the fear you find out you are so much stronger on the other side. if i didn't push through the fear i would not become a legislator, a governor, and said i can be the un ambassador. but what you have to do is set yourself up for success. i knew what i needed in order to be successful. so don't be afraid to ask for the platform that you know will bring out the best in you. [applause] >> great advice. taking risks and challenging yourself. i

was deeply involved in government and deeply involved in the day to day operations of his national security council. he was deeply involved in the details of american national security issues. the emphasis of the scholarship that had come out was to attack eisenhower as being an evil genius. he overthrew iran and guatemala and what about the congo and cuba. this is history for you. the pendulum is constantly swinging. if your head is swimming, i'm not surprised. where's the realize? i'm a historian. i'm not interested in making ike into a saint orville l villain. what impact did he have on the country? what impact did he have and also how should we understand his political appeal? why was he so popular? people said i like ike. but why? what was it about him that they liked? i'll touch on two answers. first, i want to talk briefly about his policy achievements. the substance of his presidency was significant. if you want to know why ike was popular, look at what he did. look at his accomplishments. then i want to talk about the man and his character which was a huge part of his political success. le

advisory group, he is also a former senior director for international economic affairs for the national security counciling the reagan administration. roger, it is great to have you, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, maria. maria: let's go through the most important things that took place this week, roger, because i you have the thrift fund, a fund of 500 plus billion dollars. the goal was to take 10% of that money, $50 billion, and invest it in the msci index. the president has changed that because when you zero in and understand the companies there, you're talking about chinese companies building tanks, chinese companies building the tracking system that are tracking the uighurs who are currently in jail, all companies that are pretty much against u.s.' interest. >> that's for sure. it was the a monumental decision. i mean, this has been an area, maria, that's been largely neglected for 20 years. i mean, you can't find much on the national security and human rights dimensions of china's presence in the u.s. capital markets. you can't even find much effective march of last year on the investor pr