. >> joining us at the table, ofeel jaffer is the founder the national security institute at george mason university's law school, also vice president of a firm called iron net cybersecurity. good morning. jaffer. we will get started talking about cybersecurity. guest: it was started by keith alexander. we do cyber defense, so we look --behavioral threats on not just one company, but an ecosystem. host: let's talk about cyber defense. we saw the commentary piece you wrote, iranian cyber attacks are coming. considering where we are in this situation, what are you expecting in the area of cyber attacks? a the it looks like escalatory -- de situation. we responded with the death of emstom soleimani -- qass soleimani and then they had a debate internally. how big do we go. my assessment was they would come back with a response, but it would not be so big as to provoke further response from the united states and that is exactly what we saw. we saw them come back with a missile attack on u.s. facilities, but done in a way either intentionally or partially intentionally to avoid a big u.s. respo

an april trial for financial misconduct charges let's bring in george mason law school national security institutender and executive director. what happens next here, let's say the authorities in lebanon do know he's there, find him, locate him. >> well, liz he's told the world he's there in lebanon and that's what we expect is they know he's there, they indicated he entered the country legally on a valid' port which is an interesting area because there's three passports and potentially a fourth, we don't know where those are we think three are in the hands of his lawyers but look if they know he's there the question is will they extradite him and they don't have an extradition treaty in place with japan and their typical procedure in the lebanon criminal code is to not extradite citizens to other countries. >> liz: i know carlos ghosn. i've interviewed him multiple times, brilliant businessman. he was treated terribly by the japanese legal system if talking about a democracy. he was arrested and then he was held over and over again, and he didn't have access to his own attorney when they interrog

to delegitimize and to intimidate not only our intelligence community but our broader national security institutionshe washington post" underscored this morning. i think what's profoundly dangerous is the fact that it may well be working. and i think when you look at these various pieces, the fact that the intelligence community doesn't want to go to the hill, the fact that our military has gone along with some of the president's more dangerous ideas, the ban on transgender soldiers, sending thousands of troops to the border ahead of the mid-term elections in 2018 and so many other dangerous decisions, it speaks to the fact that the president may have been successful to some degree in carrying out that imtim dantimi campaign. how do you reverse that, restore our national security to where they belong. >> we don't know why the intelligence chiefs are quietly asking for this hearing to be called off this year. presumably it may have something to do with those contradictions. clint, on the story that we started this segment with, dopes and babies, the language the president reportedly used to his top m

no small task for the erosion of national security institutions, the credibility of commitments around the world to the rampant corruption across our foreign policy. today is not really about trump. not -- we need to be ambitious about advancing an affirmative agenda that advances our interests and importantly reflects our progressive values and unify the american people across generations and a video of the role of the world. it is -- and to build a 100 a plan for national security that was released later this year. our goal today is to have a substantive and interactive exchange for all of you across a number of areas including ending the wars, and complex relationship with china, advancing global human rights, tackling climate change, balancing the defense and diplomacy and many more. we are looking at everything from executive action to legislation to major policy initiatives to building human capital. there are big questions for the community to take on. how do we responsibly end the wars and ensure responsibly for the american people. how do we ensure american people can't compet

it will be no small task to fix from the has broken, erosion of our national security institutions, to our credibility around the world, to the rampant corruption across our foreign policy. but today is not really about trump, and it is not about returning to the status quo. we need to be ambitious about an agenda that advances our interest and reflects our progressive values, and that unifies the american people across generations around a positive vision for our role in the world. in doing so, it will be important we revisit some of our perceptions stop -- some of our ambitions. this won't happen unless we are ready. today kicks off a cap initiative to build a 100 day plan for national security. our goal today is to have a substantive and exchange for ideas in advancing a progressive vision across a number of areas, including ending the war's, managing our complex relationship with china, tackling climate change, rebalancing defense and diplomacy, and many more. we are thinking about executive action to major policy initiatives to building human capital. there are big questions for o

host: our guest is jamil jaffer, founder of the national security institute at george mason university'school and vice president of iron net cybersecurity. we have a call from rhonda. thank you for waiting, you are .n with mr. jaffer caller: good morning. happy new year, america. my fear with this war escalation and cybersecurity has me with almost like ptsd. i am a mess because of this whole escalation, the 200 children that were killed by accident. doesn't even have the backup that we as the united states have to protect ourselves . i am trying to say they are careless. they don't have the people we have here, so we don't make .istakes that aren't precise i am just terrified. i am not worried about them hacking my computer, i am worried about the electrical ands and our nuclear plants things like that. this is not funny and we need to take it down. we have to take the whole temperature down. they need to put people in there to help trump and his national security team. ngpublicans are really pissi me off instead of helping drum, they are watching our country go down in the toilet. half

choose our national security, choose our democratic institutions and choose the rule of law. if you still somehow have doubts about the evidence the house presented vote for a fair trial with witnesses and evidence. if you have no doubt and just want to prove democrats wrong do the same, for the sake of showing the senate can fulfill its responsibility if for no other reason but do not make this trial a cover-up just to avoid hearing the truth you don't think you will like because everyone in this country will hear it sooner or later. the full truth will come out and each of us will forever own our decisions about whether or not we are on the right side of it. we have an opportunity tonight for a fair trial that ensures we have as much information as possible to make that decision. let's not waste it. >> senator sherrod brown. >> thank you. i'm not a lawyer but i understand when you have a trial you have the prosecution, house managers, the defense, the president's lawyers and witnesses and testimony and evidence and as my colleagues said, this is a sham trial if there are no

collins, the national institute of health has secured several funding increases. you testified before appropriations committee's but also meet privately with lawmakers to talk about why investing in medical research is urgent. usas hoping you could take behind the scenes of those conversations. lawmakers itnvince is important for public health? >> we have been fortunate the congress sees fit to increase the budget. another $2.6 billion is being added, which makes it possible to a vast array of science that otherwise would have to wait. it is part of my job to explain that. i cannot go and knock on some congressman's door, i have to be invited. and i enjoy every one of those meetings. them about is top not a special interest. most, in fact one of the critically exciting things the government does it advances human health and is a really good investment the economy. out has aar we give return of about eight dollars and $.33. aren't too many things where you can point to that kind of roi. but people do care about health. i've yet to meet anybody who doesn't have a co

collins, the national institute of health has secured several funding increases over several years and another heading into the following year. obviously, you testified before appropriations committees, but also met privately with lawmakers to talk about why investing in medical research is an important thing to do. i was hoping you could take us behind the scenes of those conversations. how do you convince lawmakers it is important for public health? particularly those who might be a little bit averse to increasing government funding? well, we have been very fortunate that over the past five years, congress has seen fit to increase the budget for nih. each one of those years, by $2 billion or $3 billion. for fy 20, another $2.6 billion is being added to our base, which makes it possible to a vast array of science that otherwise would have to wait or be done at a smaller scale. it is part of my job to explain that. i cannot go and knock on some congressmen store and say, do you have a minute? i have to be invited. but i am always glad to be invited. and i enjoy every one of those meeti

yoram schweitzer works at the institute for national security studies in tel aviv. hizbullah is definitely the most dangerous organization but it's not only organization isabella is a political party it's a social network it's a religious party and it's also an army it's a very well equipped army advanced army was sophisticated weaponry was real provided by the iranians and the syrians so we're not talking only about an organization. hezbollah was formed in the 1980 s. in the bekaa plain on the border with syria today it also controls parts of beirut and the south of the country. during the civil war the hezbollah militia force against israel after the occupied the south of the country faced with a guerrilla war of attrition the israeli army eventually pulled out of lebanon in 2000 hezbollah claimed victory. yeah. nicholas blanford is a british journalist at the time he was writing for lebanese detainees papers. to go back to the mines in mines who's back then israel was occupying a strip of south lebanon and hezbollah was engaged in a daily resistance campaign. fig

investigative wing of the justice department into a really substantial part of the national security state, an institutionreated within his own image. imagination, i think how he did that tends to emphasize a lot of these deep state terms. i think most prominently, that hoover controlled so much power and lasted for such a long time by ruling through fear, through intimidation, by creating a pure rock a sea of secrecy and that really began manipulating politics in a secretive way from behind the scenes, intimidated presidents, intimidated congressman. terms, we understand his influence on american politics to have been really a conservative to political figure -- conservative political figure who maintained this for targeting the american left or attacking liberals, particularly the communist party in the 1940's and 1950's, but moving on to the left movements of the 1960's and 1970's. this is also our scholarly image of hoover, the ultimate unaccountable bureaucrat. who wielded his power as a conservative ideologue. he is almost a rogue power, someone who had enough concentrated power to shape politics ou

institution." the national security division is declining to comment, and the capitol hill sources tell fox news directorimminently. >> shannon: all right gillian turner, thank you. this decision to pick david chris's raising eyebrows tonight. let's talk to matt whitaker who joins us live. good to see you. >> i'm going to. i think david chris's having an interesting night, there's a lot of blowback. jim jordan's office honestly questioning this as well. he called the new naz memo dishonest the carter page fisa explanation. it's hard to believe they couldn't find someone better. why they pick him? >> this was a bad pick by the court, not because -- for the obvious reasons but what it's going to causes a lack of credibility of the court, not with the court. the fisa court is now, anything they do and anything -- the forms at the fbi implements is going to be suspect because of mr. chris being involved in the situation. he's got a fairly impressive resume, he was the acting attorney general, the assistant attorney general in charge of the national security division which is an important role at the departme

lieutenant colonel james carafano, vice president for the heritage foundation, davis institute for national securitygn policy. good to have you on the program. i want to start with how much we are seeing and hearing from the ayatollah, how significant is that? >> that is huge. he has not been to public prayers according to sources, and eight years. so, him coming to public prayers in making this declaration, this seems to be all about domestic iranian politics, not really about the confrontation with the united states. it is him trying to put a strong face on the administration and on his government, and really saying, we are the ones speaking for the iranian people. look, he would not be doing that if they weren't really, really nervous about the level of anger and mistrust inside iran today. >> harris: how is that level of anger and mistrust in iran. by the way their inflation is 47%. those three days after general soleimani was killed by her u.s. forces drone, them minute all of that in the streets backed off, they went back to the realities of their economy. how much pressure is that putting on?

president of national security and international policy at the center for american progress, served on the national security council in the obama and bush administrations. also with us, quincy institute, and military analyst, retired four star general barry mccaffrey. general, in terms of chain of command, how odd is it that top military brass are openly rejecting the president's strategic statements? >> look, you know, this is a preposterous situation. general soleimani was clearly a legitimate military target. he was actively involved in attacking u.s. forces, responsible for deaths of tens of thousands of people. he was in iraq clearly to orchestrate a continuing operation to get us out of iraq. cursory analysis of the option should have resulted in people saying this isn't a very smart move. now the president has descended into the bizarre language about the wharf museums and antiquities. not only is it stupid from a military perspective, it invites retaliation. we're going to have u.s. marines guarding the smithsonian institute? it is an unprecedented adolescent view of national security interests of the united states. >> mike pompeo says we're safer today than we were a week ag

institution. the justice department national security division is declining to comment about donald trump's push back. e whole sources tell fox news director ray may be some to testify imminently. >> this decision to take david chris is raising eyebrows tonight. can he win over critics and get the job done. matt whitaker joins us live. david chris may be having an interesting night because of a lot of blowback, jim jordan questioning why david chris? he called the memo dishonest and defend the carter page fisa application. inspector general horwitz's report vindicated the nunez memo. hard to believe they couldn't find someone better? >> this was a bad pick by the court not for the obvious reasons but what it is going to cause the lack of credibility of the court. this is a question anything they do is going to be suspect because of him being involved in the situation. he has an impressive resume, the acting attorney general in charge of the national security division which is an important role at the department of justice. at the same time so critical of the president, he downplayed the ig report fin

more is a now with distinguished fellow at the .uincy institute he served on the national security staffdents ford, carter, and reagan, and was the principal white house aide for iran through the iranian revolution. so great to have you here. let's talk about the immediate situation. areou buy that what people calling this offramp or de-escalation can hold for a while and we are not likely to see more active attacks? >> there is an effort. i think the iranians tried hard to avoid getting themselves into a new round of escalation. trump appears to have accepted that gesture from the iranians. he also made some positive comments about the fact we have worked together on certain things in the past. he has never said a word about that previously. we are may be seeing a breakthrough. diplomacy, room for this is the only good thing one can see coming out of this situation. >> regardless of the de-escalation, what are the longer-term impacts of the moves made by the trump administration? series of seen a short-term actions by the administration responding to a particular issue, a particular pro

security concerns for all of us. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] >> watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> our live campaign 2020 coverage continues thursday at 7:00 p.m. eastern with president donald trump in toledo, ohio, at a keep america great rally. watch live on c-span2, on-demand at c-span.org, or listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. >> the prime minister of greece discussed relations with the u.s. and the rest of europe at the atlantic council in washington, d.c. he also talked about nato and the u.s. drone strike on the iranian general.

national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> more live programming coming up this afternoon when former state department and national security council officials discuss u.s. policy toward iran. including the recent u.s. air strike that killed iranian general soleimani. that event hosted by new america here in washington, d.c. and live coverage starts at 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. w'd afghanistan war veteran who now studies and writes about foreign policy the cato institute, at the charles koch institute, there are tensions between the u.s. and iran and they have reached new heights. a simple question with a complicated answer, how did we

reflections off this changing national security approach off off off off off the ruling elites they're interested foster thank you for joining us. from the german institute for international and security thank you. the french government has taken the 1st step towards passing its controversial pensions reform plan president emanuel macro wants to unify more than 40 different state pension schemes into warm in the biggest reform of the pension system since the 2nd world war but the plans have sparked a battle with the unions who brought thousands of protesters onto the streets on friday in the 7th week of nationwide union action leaders say they will continue with protests of the true action for months the opposition has already called president macro to drop plans to raise the pension age to over 64 striking workers say they're ensuring their futures but many businesses in paris have been hit hard by the strikes and say that road futures are looking pretty bleak lisa lewis reports from the capital. the neighborhood around the gondolas train station in paris he's usually full of bustling restaurants but the strikes have turned the popular location into a b

the plane in the engine mid flight a lot of ukrainian institutions were quick to give their responses we've heard from the country's national security and defense council which said that they will be organizing an operational headquarters to gather more information and get to the bottom of what caused these this crash in the 1st place as for ukrainian international airlines they said that they will not be having any more flights to tehran until further notice and even president vladimir said that there is going to be an inspection of the countries of the country's entire civil fleet including a probe into the crash itself this plane is the boeing 737800 the model itself is relatively older than the more recent models but the plane that crashed itself was only built back in 2016 so the plane itself was quite quite new only about 4 years old but this model has actually had its share of crashes over the past couple years in 2016 for example over 60 people were killed in the crash where the plane was coming from dubai on route to russia and in 2010 another similar crash in india that killed over $150.00 people again same model and this

the plane in the engine made flight a lot of ukrainian institutions were quick to give their responses we've heard from the country's national security and defense council which said that they will be organizing an operational headquarters to gather more information and get to the bottom of what caused these this crash in the 1st place as for ukrainian international airlines they said that they will not be having any more flights to tehran until further notice and even president vladimir said that there is going to be an inspection of the countries of the country's entire civil fleet including a probe into the crash itself this plane is the boeing 737800 the model itself is relatively older than the more recent models but the plane that crashed itself was only built back in 2016 so the plane itself was quite quite new only about 4 years old but this model has actually had its share of crashes over the past couple years in 2016 for example over 60 people were killed in the crash where the plane was coming from dubai on route to russia and in 2010 another similar crash in india that killed over $150.00 people again same model and this

national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> more live programming coming up this afternoon when former state department and national security council officials discuss u.s. policy toward iran. including the recent u.s. air strike that killed iranian general soleimani. that event hosted by new america here in washington, d.c. and live coverage starts at 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. w'd afghanistan war veteran who now studies and writes about foreign policy the cato institute, at the charles koch institute, there are tensions between the u.s. and iran and they have reached new heights. a simple question with a complicated answer, how did we get here? guest: because we are on an escalatory spiral. a big part of this is that the united states decided to push , includingm pressure getting united states out of the joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran deal. that meant that we were putting pressure on the iranian government, and the iranian government decided to respond in various ways. through proxies and other things. we have seen a spiral. if you think back over the last couple of years, you have had the tanker tax in th

national security. if the president cared about national security, he would not have blocked military assistance to a vulnerable strategic ally to pursue a personal political favor for themselves. they've attacked every institutionf our government. they have attacked the president, the executive branch, they have attacked the judicial branch. they say they don't have time for courts. they have attacked the united states senate repeatedly. it's about time we bring this power trip in for a landing. >> cnn's athena jones with all the back and forth in the senate. here she is. >> reporter: today house impeachment managers will begin their opening arguments before the senate. but the first order is a motions. a debate and motion on motions filed. deadline is 11:00 a.m. for rebuttals for the motions. we don't expect them to have anything to do with witnesses or documents. we don't expect there to be a motion to dismiss, filed by trump's legal team, even though we the president wants this case to be over. because they don't have enough republican votes, they won't end up passing such a motion. but all of this follow as very long day on tuesday. 12/13 hours of debate over the rules governing the trial. what's interestin

performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> live now to capitol hill where this morning a house homeland security panel is investigating child deaths anti-conditions that immigration detention facilities. this is live coverage on c-span. we join it in progress. >> not having the appropriate cuff to take a blood pressure. is there pediatric equipment across the board along the border that's available if necessary? mr. hastings: we dedicated a large portion of the supplemental funding to our e.m.t.'s. we have over 1500 e.m.t.'s in the field. we have since updated them with equipment and made sure that they have everything to meet their daily needs. >> that's also part of protocol. it's required. if there is a deficiency the agency is able to fill that deficiency? mr. hastings: that's correct. >> i want to shift to infectious decisions in the stations. chief hastings, what are the protocols they have to protect both migrants and personnel .rom diseases such as the flu mr. hastings: we with our contract personnel in all nine southwest borders, 40 location, put those personnel based upon the highest v

the government one to see if there is an ability to work with private sector institutions as it relates to national securitythink the story is going away anytime soon. shery: the usmca will finally be passed in the senate. how does this play for democrats and republicans alike? by this,m struck because in a few short hours we will hear from the progressives in the democratic party, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders in particular. they have said the usmca is not aggressive enough. the warren campaign unveiled this afternoon folks who voted for trump and are now backing warren because they're trying to show farmers transitioning to progressive in this cycle. however, then we talk to the business community there saying whether a phase one trade deal is near the finish line, it's a new economic trade deal that president trump can hit in states like michigan, wisconsin, and ohio. those issues are so important to swing voters. shery: kevin cirilli, thank you so much for that update. you can always find in-depth analysis in today's big news breakers -- newsmakers on bloomberg radio. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: t

important to the president than the secretary of state in the national security adviser and chief of staff. he needs to protect the institutionidency. so, if i am asked to waive executive privilege, i will say no. the only option is to stop the trial and go to court or have the trial and go to court or have the senate decide the privilege and here's what i would tell future houses. if you go through these privileges to impeach a president before an election and come to the senate he asked me to destroy the privilege, forget it. watching proceedings following yesterday's marathon, what you expect today? it will be a bit shorter, that is for sure. yesterday was almost 13 hours and it wrapped up was almost 13 hours and it wrapped upjust was almost 13 hours and it wrapped up just before two in the morning with the chiefjustice having to admonish both sides for not being very polite to one another. their tempers afraid to make afraid at one o'clock in the morning. setting out their case, and again on friday, the president's defence team in the face of the white house counsel and others will continue doing exactly the same for the

and this is very honorable for our national security decision-making and with the counterterrorism to be held over by obama and those that are at the mccain institute and those by the trump team by obama so to see that terrorism sphere. >> so there is a consensus of the terrorism. >> and that he is with that departure. >> but the second bush term is different like the secret prisons closed 2006 with the supreme court ruling. >> that second inaugural addres address. >> yes. by the end of the second bush term so the trump team has dialed back very low compared to what obama had. >> that's one thing i wanted to mention to you. that you are a journalist and it shows you are a reporter. but you are also a researcher so also the fact that you can do research on domestic terrorism so that does affect a little bit where you take issue for what is said and done in this administration. >> we did some in particular to conduct terrorist attacks conducted by a saudi citizen in a travel ban country this is the first time there was an attack since 9/11. so the travel ban says this is a solution that people are coming out to say that they have legal permanent resi

national security advisers, but president trump's national security team has been riddled with multiple crucial staffing vacancies for months. joining me now, the executive vice president of the quincy institute of diplomacy" and shannon pettypiece. senior white house reporter for nbc news digital. welcome to both of you. shannon, i know you've been working hard this evening. first of all, give us a sense of what's going on in the white house and in the administration. we heard earlier that when news of this attack broke that there white use and theuddenly the that changed. a tweet from the president came out that says that he will be responding in the morning. >> right. well, when news of this really first broke, it was rather late at the white house. a lot of staff members had gone home. it was, you know, really pretty dark when you looked around the windows of the west wing. but, of course, that all changed once the -- this news made it back to the president. there were a number of senior officials who were brought in. and there was a sense that the president could address the nation tonight, but it seems like that was put on pause, you know, potentially as they got more information about

the multilateral institution, japan needs like-minded nations, like the european nations and african nations, and as i told you about the difficulty to gain in the permanent seat in security council, actually, the african nations hold the key. today, the african nations are closing to the chinese government, but i think the relationship between the african nations and china relations are small. in order -- in order to take the initiative, japan needs like-minded nations and a need to gain the trust from the u.n. members as much as possible. let me a little bit talk about the classes in the general assembly. yes. okay. dr. segal pointed out, now in general assembly, general assembly can be divided into the two big clusters. one cluster is formulated by china. russia is closing to china cluster. african nations are absorbed by the china cluster. in the other big cluster is made by -- initiated by european nations and japan is one of the cluster members. you asked, isolated, not excluded from the historic perspective, this tendency hasn't changed. the united states has isolated itself from any other cluster. today, close to some pacific nations. in this way, today japan's li

national security correspondent, katie will williams. watch cspan2 news washington journal live at seven eastern on wednesday morning. join the discussion. afghanistan war veteran who is now studies of foreign policy at the cato t institute in this , regard tension between u.s. ad ron have reached new heights. civil question with maybe a complicated answered. and we get get here. >> we got here because were in escalatory spiral. being part of this that the united states but decided to push with maximum pressure campaign including

national security at risk. congress and nasa and industry partners and educational institutions must work together to prepare a 21st century workforce to a continue that the economy remains innovative and strong. thank you for joining us today to discuss this important issue. since established nasa has had productive partnerships with universities across the country because we advanced technologies for the space program and aerospace industry must continue these two have a strong workforce. starting with educating students giving them research opportunities to excel in the stonefield. universities across the country work on important projects such as mission monitoring, research andnd analysis. in my home state of arizona, arizona university and northern arizona university all work with nasa to further mission big and small. innovative ideas and new opportunities come to students when the administrator testified earlier this year he said nasa has had amazing success when it comes to university engagement to develop these programs and projects. for example the mission marks the first time the university has led

national security decision-making which is holding over, particularly when it comes to counterterrorism, mike blogger was held over by obama even though george w. bush appointed him to the national counterterrorism Ãb now the cane institute with us closely here. he was held over by the trump team form obama and before that, bush. you see in the counterterrorism sphere there's kind of a lot of, you come out of this tradition. >> true continuity. >> there is a kind of consensus about what we should be doing on counterterrorism. >> except that of course obama was a departure from some of that continuity but you are saying that trump is continuous with that departure. >> i think you are right but i would copycaveat that. >> the prisons were close to 2006 were supreme court rulings allowed prisoners à >> after the second inaugural address, the second inaugural address was the height of the difference in that it paled off. >> by the end of the second bush term when obama ramps up dramatically. actually trump and then we checked this Ãbthe chalk team is actually dial back the program in pakistan for levels that are very large. they ramped it up in places like somalia. >> in fact, that's one thing i wanted to mention to you i no

more important to the president that is secretary of state and national security adviser and chief of staff. he needs to protect the institutionilege, i will say no. the option is to stop the trial and go to court or have the senate decide the privilege. and here's what i'm going to tell if you want to blow through these privileges, if you come to the senate asked me to destroy the privilege, forget it. i'm not can endure this kind of behaviour, so the only option available to the senate now is to recognise the privilege and that is the end of bolton's testimony, or stop the trial and send it to court which they should've done to begin with. i am not going to legitimise what i think is a dangerous process. so i'm not going to trade executive privilege. hunter biden, if he has got a decent lawyer at all, he will claim the fifth amendment because you get $50,000 a month getting in 2014 you get $50,000 a month getting in 201a to you get $50,000 a month getting in 2014 to do what? and when your company gets investigated by the ukrainian prosecutor the same to you get on the phone to the state department and your business partner m

it is theiry institutional power -- constitutional power but republicans say it endangers national securityw have more than $41 trillion of assets under management. the group is pushing corporate ties to disclose c02 emissions. this is bloomberg. anna, matt? anna: thank you. more on one of our top stories, tensions between iran and the united states. guest's research focused on foreign policy and international security. it development overnight, seems the u.s. intelligence services first flagged that they were thinking it was most likely that this aircraft was taken down by a missile, inadvertently perhaps by the iranians. does that in itself, the suggestion from u.s. intelligence, does that damage, risk the relationship further between the u.s. and iran? >> i actually don't think this in and of itself damages the relationship between the u.s. and iran. it certainly adds to the toll and tragedy of what we have seen over the last two weeks, but this was not the u.s. shooting rann an iranian plane or i butting down a u.s. plain, this was a ukrainian plane shot down, with a passenger manifest

national security council during the george w. bush administration. n he a senior fellow at the hudson institute, a think tank in washington, d.c.tart with i guess i have to get your response. the iranian revolutionaryauard corps isng credit for these attacks and saying that these are rocket attacks from iran into iraq at u.s. bases. could we get youe?r respo >> yes, this is probably the first event that we will see of a slew of others, nick. the u.s. set a new bar by killing qassim soleimani, who we can all agree was a horrific human being, who was democrat stroffic for u.s. nationa i securierest, but in killing him, it's a new bar, and now the iranians are starting to retaliate, and i suspect we will see a lot more in and around the region over the coming days, weeks, and potentially months. >> schifrin: michael doran, some critics of this attack, as you know well, were worried out cycle of escalation happening after this attack. you have that worry, especially now as w see as mara karlin said, perhaps the first of a few attacks from iran.l >> w it didn't start with the attack on qassim soleimani. the iranians had been escalat

national security council until the end of october. he‘s now a senior fellow at the thinktank — the hudson institute.out compromising national security, what do you say to that? i heard the exact opposite. he mentioned the importance of protecting britain‘s privacy and the importance of protecting the security of the british people, the only way to do that is exclude huawei. i took it as an encouraging sign. there are some politicians here who are saying we should embrace this because 56 is a vital for britain‘s interests, especially post—brexit, vital for the economy and we cannot afford not to do this. i think that is right, there‘s often a tension in terms of and trade, lennon had a saying capital still sell the rope with which we will hang them. —— lenin had a saying. the security of the five eyes and western alliance, we cannot allow it to get in the way of protecting health data, personal data, financial data of the british people and in order to do those things and protect those key equities you have to exclude huawei, as the united states has and australia has come as japan has a new zealand.

practice, the president's erratic leadership and failure to invest in the very institutions we need to promote american national security have sowed chaos and increasingly left america alone. our nation has faced great challenges before, and yet having served nearly three decades in congress, i cannot recall a time when so many of them were of our own making and as predictable as they were avoidable. simply put, president trump's foreign policy, like president trump himself, is completely shortsighted, self-interested, and transactional. the president's abandonment of our core values has already eroded america's standing abroad. near the end of the last administration, the gallup organization found that 48% of respondents in more than 100 countries worldwide had confidence in the united states. today it's gone from 48% to it hovers around 31%. furthermore, more people around the world likely trust, according to the poll, china or russia than the united states. now, i know that national security is not a popularity contest, but the erosion of america's standing in the world matters because it makes it less safe for ameri

institute of politics and public service. a former democratic congresswoman donna edwards and former trump national security council spokespersonon. michael, does the decision to escalate dramatically and i think we would agree it was a dramatic escalation to take out qasem soleimani, does it make the u.s. more safe or less safe, and if iran decides -- keeps its promise to retaliate dramatically, does the trump administration have a strategy? >> i don't know that i would necessarily agree that this was a dramatic escalation. you could interpret it as a justified kinds of things that iran has been doing without much of a response. the main point i would want to make here is the iranian regime since 1979 has a history of getting very aggressive, getting used to not facing pushback, not getting retaliation and when they finally do get pushed back the next ten to back down and go into turtle mode for a little while and that may yet happen again. we've seen that happen in the past. they haven't faced much retaliation for, as you said, spending the enormous windfall they got out of the iran deal all around the middle east, creating p

is interesting because an institute says taiwan has the highest rate -- among the highest rates of cyberattacks in the world. get a load of this figure. the national securityu reports approximately 30 million cyberattacks a month hit taiwan. that is about a million a day. the national bureau also saying that 60% of those attacks are coming from china. tech doingt is big about the increased misinformation? is -- it is an interesting topic. fake news is an issue anywhere in the world if you want to use that term. what is interesting about the taking overow it is the narrative here. it is bigger and better integration with china economically a plus? if you look at the latest numbers, the taiwanese economy is doing really well with the opposition to china candidate in office. the taiwanese economy was expected to grow last year at two and a half percent. 2020. to 3% in the u.s.-china trade were has benefited taiwan. -- morenufacturers have manufacturers have come back to taiwan. there has been lots of foreign investment as well. then, there is the uptick in the chip cycle, which is benefiting the likes of taiwan's semi conductor. hong kong is a big issue. chin