criminal cases against individuals, organizations, or nationstate actors that violate u.s.ederal law. there is a policy component to what i do which is to help form policies working with the congress and our inter-agency to advance rule of law issues around the world. peter: is your position political or career? >> i serve in a political office but my role is as a career employee. a little bit of both. i am a career person. servers in a political office. >> how long have you been at the doj? >> 12 years. about three years ago, i moved to main justice. encryption andd that has been in the news recently with the saudi terrorist in florida and the san bernardino shooting several years ago. what is the current thinking when it comes to encryption and the doj? >> i appreciate the question. i should emphasize that at the department of justice we believe in strong encryption. we believe in making sure that data is secure. a major part of our mission is to prosecute cyber criminals that steel data and violate u.s. law so we believe in encryption. we are worried about wa rrant proof

nationstates, russia and many have overtaken the system. when they saw the arab spring were social media rallies were occurring, people did not know each other, toppling dictators. did you think authoritarians would think that social media would just be them? no way. within months, every one of these countries going back to iran after the twitter uprising in 2009, every one of them moved into this space. first, find my opponents, track them down, infiltrate groups, destroy the system with information. we call it a troll farm, in the technical world a disinformation center. meme makers, blog posts, social media trolling and every country. the nationstates will try to affect you, they have to speak in your language. if they want to mess around in your election, they have to speak english like an american. the easiest way to spot them, they do not know how to use spellcheck, i don't know why. they make mistakes grammatically. they lay the jokes out when it doesn't fit the scenario. those were early indications of foreign interference. today we

that from the very beginning of the act from the mid- 1970s that bill was drafted between the nationstates that act was passed before as an act of war. there are some conceptual challenges that is why i would support and take those things into account that is longer-term project so with the 2002 umf keep up the sense of military action where you come down on that quick. >> we said for a long time we are involved in a decade-long war effort that is problematic. i said we need to get out of afghanistan and we need to take a close look. i'm not ready to make a comment on any specific proposal. >> it seems to me it is time to take a look at the authorization of use of military force passed in response to the terrorist attack on our country in 2001. it has been in effect for a long time and we do need to reevaluate. i'm not saying that it should not be replaced but we do need to reevaluate. >> and to tweet within the last hour and with those intentions of posture against right now. where it is headed is unpredictable the present was very close to a military strike with a missile or drone strike

be going forward, particularly as we think about election manipulation efforts going forward by nationstateswe do not know they will come after our votes. they have not done that yet. it is still something to be thinking about and getting ahead of as we look toward the november election. kevin: i think that is a great point, especially through the prism of how the intelligence community is working with the political front. it is a patchwork across this country. local elections are different from state elections, from federal elections. does that lead to confusion at the ballot box, not for voters, but for how to count these votes? jamil: i think the main issue is how to get the states to work together with one another and to work better with the federal government to protect the votes when the big election comes up in november. we know the russians are targeting it. we have heard the chinese might be looking to get involved also. what we have to do -- individual state run the elections, as they always have. the problem is individual states do not have the wherewithal just like a single compa

that was drafted with the thought that warfare was between nationstates was what about nonstate groups? that was passed before a word drone strikes and cyber attacks. there are some conceptual challenges and questions that are different from the mid-1970s and that is why the support of the role powers act, it is a longer-term project but a valuable one. >> the house in 2002, the iraq war, there is an ongoing fight to defend offense of military action against iran. can i get your position on those provisions? >> i have said for a long time we have been involved in a two decade-long war effort that is problematic. i said we need to go to afghanistan and take a close look at any theater of war in which we are still involved. i am not ready to make a commitment on any specific proposal for the house. >> seems to me it is time to take a look at the authorization for the use of military force that was passed in response to the terrorist attacks on our country in 2001. it has been in effect for a long time now and we do need to reevaluate it. i'm not saying it should be replaced but we do nee

starts with cyber attacks, it starts with hacking by organized crimes in these days, hacking by nationstateshacking political candidates and campaigns and think tanks. it includes disinformation campaigns. it includes the hacking of voting and elections. it includes a variety of other challenges that may not be weapons per se but when we think about all the impact of this technology on our jobs, what is it going to mean for our jobs, our children, their jobs? these are the challenges technology has created. takes us to north korea, russia and china, doesn't it? absolutely does, as well as iran. certain governments around the world are being particularly aggressive. we measure this every day, we see the attacks taking place. we have been public in saying we have seen the most attacks in the past three years coming from iran,, north korea and especially attacks more focused on our civilian infrastructure or electoral processes. microsoft'sis business interest when it comes to china? want to serve our customers when they do business in china. china is not as large a market for us as it is other

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it started now these days unfortunately with hacking by nationstates, hacking of political candidates and campaigns come of think tanks and the like. it includes disinformation campaigns. it includes the potential hacking of voting and elections. it includes a variety of other challenges that may not be weapons per se but when we think of the impact of all of this technology on our jobs, what is it going to mean for our people, our jobs, our children, their jobs? all of these are the challenges that technology has created. >> host: that takes us on our tour to north korea, russia and china, doesn't it? >> guest: it absolutely does as well as iran. we are seeing certain governments around the world being particularly aggressive. we measure this everyday. we see the attacks that are taking place. we have been public in saying we've seen for most attacks over the last few years coming home russia, north korea and iran, especially attacks that tend to be more focused on our civilian infrastructure or on our electoral processes in particular. >> host: what is microsoft business interests w

but i do believe that israel has the right to exist as the nationstate of the jewish people.d to have had you on hardtalk. thank you very much indeed. thanks for your hard questions. i appreciate hard questions, and an opportunity respond to them. hello there. we are moving into cold air more widely across the uk at the moment. yesterday, of course, we had quite a snowy scene across the northern half of the uk, notjust in scotland but also for northern england and the hills of northern ireland. further south there is still flooding, a major concern particularly on the river severn and there is a lot of rain area of cloud in the hills of wales that will be feeding into the river system. we are drawing down cold air, this is proper polar maritime air, the air coming all the way from iceland and greenland, and it will feel colder. there could well be some icy patches around overnight and into the morning, especially across the northern half of the uk. on tuesday it will be a day of sunshine and showers, those winds blowing in some showers, almost anywhere really the more frequen

it starts with hacking by organized crime these days unfortunately the hacking nationstate. hacking a political candidate and think tanks and the like. it includes disinformation campaigns. it includes potential hacking of voting and election. it includes a variety of other challenges that may not be weapons. se but when we think about the impact of all this technology on our jobs, what is it didn't mean for our people, our jobs, their children their jobs? all of these are challenges that technology is creating. >> that takes us on a tour to north korea and china, absolutely does as well as iran. we are seeing certain governments world be particularly aggressive. we measure this every day. we see the attacks that take place. we have been public and saying we've seen the most attacks over the last few years coming from russia, north korea, and iran. especially attacks that tend to be more focused on our civilian infrastructure or on our electoral processes in particular. >> what is microsoft's business interest money comes to china? >> we want to serve our customers when they

but i do believe that israel has the right to exist as the nationstate of the jewish people.to have had you on hardtalk. thank you very much indeed. thanks for your hard questions. i appreciate hard questions, and an opportunity respond to them. hello there. the weather looks set to cause a few more problems over the coming days. first of all, well, the risk of flooding hasn't diminished at all. we've got over 100 flood warnings currently in force, and we've also got a severe flood warning that's been issued. that's been put on a stretch of the river severn, this time in shrewsbury, in shropshire, and it's here later on this afternoon that we could see the river approach record levels. and there could be further flooding over the coming days. we have got more rain in the forecast as well. the other thing that you might encounter as we head into the first part of the morning is this. yes, there is the potential for some disruptive snow. let me explain. it's been getting chilly across northern parts of the country, whereas in the south, you can see some mild air here. temperatu

no single statement defines his philosophy of government more than this message on the nationstate of independence. and they associated at least rhetorically with liberty, justice, equality. it was the guiding principle of his life. the core of his belief system. he believed that the declaration of independence as one of america's foundational documents framed our national character. it gave us the exceptionalism that we continue to claim for ourselves today. the america lincoln envisioned was more aspirational than actual. in marchook office 1860 1, 2 different americas existed. one in the north and the other in the south. neither of which was particularly interested in liberty, justice and equality for all. lincoln despaired of those who would claim the declarations promise for themselves what deny it to others. on the question of liberty as a principle he wrote, in 1855, we are not what we have been. we are the political slaves of king george and wanted to be called the maxim that all men are created equal a self -- self evident truth. now when we have grown fat and lost all dread

it helps protect us against malicious cyber actors, including nationstates. my view is law enforcement needs to rethink its approach to encryption in light of the fact that congress will not act and in light of the fact there are significant cyber threats and embrace encryption set of trying to find ways so called it. thus not really what law enforcement is trying to do, but in other words, it needs to break encryption to enhance cybersecurity and therefore the security of all americans, and i think that is a better approach at this juncture. we just had another shooting in pensacola and they tried to get into the saudi have phone and they might sleeper cells. we need protection from that as well? absolutely, but there is no law that requires apple or any other company similarly situated to reengineer their systems in order to provide that access. if congress wants that and thinks it is important, congress needs to pass a law to require apple and other companies to do that. far,ess has not done so so in part i think because members of congress are reasonably

the nationstates will try to affect you, they have to speak in your language. if they want to mess around in your election, they have to speak english like an american. the easiest way to spot them, they do not know how to use spellcheck. they make mistakes grammatically. they lay the jokes out when it doesn't fit the scenario. those were early indications of foreign interference. today we have moved to the fourth generation, trolling as a service. the most groundbreaking thing is you have a wide spectrum of actors who can buy or acquire these services individually or combine them together to amplify disinformation and picked that against you -- pit that against you. everyone has its ability at their fingertips. andcan go to the dark web by social bots or hire people to troll. it is remarkable how this has gone down. next on the horizon which is just starting is essentially owning the system, and china will win. this is a combination of censorship, social scoring, say something nice about us or you do not get points, no points, no loans or jobs. scoring systems

it have all of those criteria is like this is an actual nationstate hacker group that seems to be launching disruptive attacks. in the midst of a physical war. i became kind of who was these russian hackers who was responsible for this. eyesight partners had discovered these hackers who seemed to be russian in 2014 into the group they appeared to be russian because they have actually left one of their servers open and unprotected. they had found on that server. they controlled the malware that they were planting. it seemed like they were doing pretty typical espionage stuff some other targets did not look like espionage. some of them were even in the united states and those american grid targets in fact this group would use in 2015 and 16 the first step of their blackout attack. the reason they become to called sand worm. each of those victims of the first round of attack was identified in a little snippet of the code. and each of those references was a little name from that science the science fiction novel doom. it features these monsters called sand worms. to me it was the incredibly app

moment part they created by technical and corporate innovation and partly by new rules for the nationstates and ideas of individual autonomy. a revolutionary assortment of new uses for crude. the popularity of kerosene had jettisoned illuminationalue, -- in both the u.s. and great britain, the energy transition was openly maneuvered and manipulated by the political and military establishment. as early as 1910, petroleum emerged as a strategic tool for ensuring global power. the first application for petroleum in this regard was ensuring naval supremacy. politically, the british effort at naval conversion was eventually led by winston churchill. who began as a member of parliament, and by 1910 had become the president of the trade. although he did not begin on the side of naval expansion, the early teens brought churchill a clear advantage -- an education on the advantage of oil. refueling at sea, these are the kind of advantages he later , as a coal ship used of her coal, increasingly large numbers of men had to be taken if necessary from the guns to shovel coal from remote and inconvenient

an caption for corruption helps protect us against malicious cyber actors especially including nationstates. my view is that law-enforcement needs to rethink its approach to encryption in light of the fact that congress won't act and in light of the fact that there are significant cyber threats and embrace encryption instead of trying to find ways to so-called break it and that's not really what law-enforcement is tried to do but in other words it needs to embrace encryption as a way to enhance the cybersecurity and therefore the security of all americans and i think that is a better approach at this junctu juncture. >> host: jim baker, we had another shooting down in pensacola and they tried to get into the saudi man's phone and he might have cohorts down there, sleeper cells and we need to protect him from that? >> guest: absolutely we do. but the way it is today there is no law that clearly requires apple or any other company similarly situated to reengineer their systems in order to provide data access. if congress wants that and congress thanks it's important that congress needs to pas

and the nationstates recombining. and to give up the current international boundaries which is one of the issues of the afternoon just one --dash athens to cities and what's going on with turkey or syria and so when and curtis stan exists that the current boundaries are shifted to the natural coherent ethnicity --dash ethnicity. >> generally speaking it take a little bit of issue a course you are right when you see a map and you see a straight line that is the artificial border it doesn't mean he's the arbitrary country. so long the coaster along the rivers if you consider egypt in 90 percent of the population living along the nile doesn't necessarily matter where you draw the border. egypt has a sense of being egypt if i have to go back through any of these countries from 13th century arabic literature and with lebanon or syria long before they became independent so it's a most artificial state of jordan the united arab emirates and kuwait. that many of the others have some basis in legitimacy that won't change much

and for the nationalists, the narrative was creation of a new nationstate.if you consider the experience of polish soldiers in this war, polish speakers fought on both sides of the conflict. they fought against each other, because some had been in the howard: the german army, or the austro-hungarian army, and others have fought on the russian side. how do you commemorate their experience? how do you commemorate that suffering? because the only narrative that really mattered to the state was the successful achievement of statehood. so when i go to poland now and i look in bookstores, as historians do come in the history section, i find that the section on world war ii is three or four bookshelves long, top to bottom. it is massive. the section on the people's republic of poland, the communist era coming future as , huge as well, continues to grow. and you can usually fit the number of books on the first world war ii a single shelf, sometimes fewer than that. i am pleased, however, that a lot of new work is coming out, both in polish language scholarship and i

. >> you actually see the nationstates either recombining. i hate to say tebiden was right on something but there really is three places. nobody wants to give up their boundaries. their current international boundaries which to me is one atof the issues. the different ethnicities. like i said, the kurds were promised a curtis dan they never got. they are spread over four countries and none of them want to give up - - like what's going on with turkey and syria. i guess, to you see a day like when a curtis dan exists. that things happen that the current boundaries get shifted to more natural coherent ethnicity. >> i will respond to that briefly. generally speaking, i take a little bit of issue. of course you're right when you look at a map of the middle east and you see a straight line, that's an artificial border. that doesn't mean it's an arbitrary country. most people live traditionally along the coast or along rivers. when you consider egypt and 90+ percent of the population living along the nile. it doesn't matter where you draw the border

modern legal claims have to do with recognition of a nationstate. it's recognized by the united stations after 1948 it was established by the united states and recognized after it was admitted to the un. a little bit after that. that's kind of a claim. it's a modern claim. now you are arguing does the bible give you a right, and i would say no absolutely not anymore than it gives muslims the right to certain places or the new testament gives christians the right to certain places. no, and the other issue is this. if the people have established itself as a national -- it's happened in the case of israel this has nothing to do their ancient claims. that's what every national movement does it fabricates a history going back. nationalism is real and nations are real. i think it's ernest gelder said the idea that these things go back, this is false. it's false for all nations for the french go back and trent don't go. [laughter] they may think they do that's rubbish. it's complete and utter rubbish, but they believe it to let them believe it but there is

and as the list implies as the collapse to the nationstates and government. that's the second wife. and to transact in privacy but uphold the users out of a relationship with julian assange, and also the creator of bit coin dark monies silk road. or for the retired intel engineer posting manifestoes but his why raised another how. the currency is not being managed then how much currency should be produced? how is that amount verified? and how do you know that token you are transacting is real? to have prototype toy currencies to have that computational challenge and as he was not alone but there were many other people who collaborated. so he envisioned that you have verifiable work with a proof of work is cost is the volume of money to replace the system of human central banks also like a cute e-mail address. the technological roots of the project this is the design for what works and then to govern the production to contribute to be measured and verified by other people. the technological roots laid the idea how to deal with e-mail spam another challenge to create a place and preve

of the conflicts and they are looking for a chance to reset and a disorder focus on more of the nationstate threats like russia, china and iran but that has been hard to do when you were involved in interventions that are of a lengthy duration in the middle east it is difficult. >> this might be the last one. >> you touched on this briefly. what is the relationship between the career service officers and these ambassadors and the political investors? >> they work for them when they are the ambassador. and usually, there's often this relationship where you know, some political appointee who is from a different line of work maybe he was in business or in politics sometimes a. a. [inaudible] hotel magnet, exactly. they go and they are the ambassador but the real brains of the embassy is the number two tells the ambassador what to do so it is often the relationship. but for the most part, they have to get along. it's kind of an unusual relationship that's the way that it's supposed to work. >> i would add taking your point there have been some terrific ambassadors who have political appointees

nationstate to use it and open up a credit card with your information and charge a new car to it.hreat is more from a national security perspective, especially with respect to those individuals in whom the chinese intelligence services and chinese military has particular interest. paul: do you feel the united states has enough resources available to counter the sorts of hacks? yes. although, this is not just the u.s. government resource question. a lot of the hacks are of the private sector where the data is held. that is something where we have seen a lot of focus in the cybersecurity.on and a lot of resources placed in cybersecurity and a lot more collaboration between the private and public sectors. that is what it will mean moving forward. it is a constantly evolving thread. the defenses to the thread have to evolve with the threat itself. as the chinese actors get more in thet -- sophisticated hacks and in trying to hide their hacks. emily: the u.s. decided to add charges against huawei. allegations of racketeering. why add those charges in a case that will already be difficu

assassination so the question with the opium wars are a prime example and then our covert it in those nationstates. >> just with the first thing that you mentioned and wondering if it is pure myth which is part of folklore and don't go there because of the evidence is the story that people like to tell. the second question one of the relationships that we unpack and this is why it's important to distinguish because with those policy discussions actually think war through drugs overwhelms. there is always exceptions to be extraordinarily prudent facilitator of warfare but that is why they went to war so the opium wars are the first thing that comes to mind but there is a reason we fall back to the war for drugs is large in the realm of illicit drugs and largely in the places. >> not the china side as the opm connection. and with the state power and private power. and over the last five years and that it continues that there are new estimates. and different manufacturing of different parts of the world. with the 1600 so here is what we have of what happened to china after the opium wars. but just to

it is a tactic directed only against the nationstate of the jewish people and only against the jewish residents of israel. it doesn't apply to arab residents, muslim residents, christian residents. banning the act of discriminating based on national origin and religion, but i am not in favor of banning advocacy of bds as long as it is not actually practiced. of thed the president drafting of his recent executive order which was a great boon to anti-semitismng on campus akin to a anti-feminism, anti-gaia, all of the other bigotry's. but i insisted, and i did not have to fight for this, everybody agreed that the law should say this executive order must be interpreted consistent with existing law which means the first amendment. nothing in the executive order can in any way undercut the first amendment. i support the first amendment. i think it comes before anything else but the first amendment does not protect actual acts of discrimination which is what it is. mr. shrum: i was going to say i entirely agree. have a couple of other comments about it and then a question. all, i entirely di

it is beyond nationstates to hold accountable.that was my ah ha moment that human beings have a real problem with borders. you can be put indicates, killed trying to cross one. travels without a passport, having made any apology and now nations in the world are begging to draw that wealth and will do anything just to have it parked for a while in the country. that is part of this great building of wealth and equality and wealth concentration. amy: so what did mayor bloomberg say when you pressed him on his offshore investments? >> it was like, i have business all over the world. like it was such a nonstarter. it was basically his attitude was, this is not taxable, this is in transfer pricing, which is a gimmick used, i do business around the world and it is required you have licenses in those places to do building. without the receipts, without the tax return, it is impossible -- this is happening, by the way, when he was saying we needed to repeal the bush tax cuts and that everyone should pay more in taxes across the board in th

other nationstates have an interest in interfering in our next election.st be unified in our fight against anyone who tries to undermine the very foundations of our democracy. our priorities should be preventing and deterring any of our adversaries -- adversaries from attacking us. if attacks happen, we must respond swiftly. it.democracy depends on we know who our allies are and we know who are adversaries are. we must come together as a nation to protect our voting systems from our enemies. i will be listening to how the fbi plans to counter these threats and secure our elections. i will also be listening for your plans to counter attempts to undermine our elections from within. president trump undercuts the progress with a statement or tweet that spreads misinformation or directly invites our adversaries to meddle in our elections. you may not be able to control the conduct -- the content of the president twitter account but our government has not been late into protecting every -- hasn's right to vote an obligation to protect every american's right to v

the homeland to be more dynamic than ever before to respond to emerging threats from the nationstates. dhs is also helping with response to the coronavirus today the risk to americans remains relatively low we will continue to implement measures designed to keep it that way. including all flights in china to preselected airports for medical screening that was set up in a very rapid fashion using contracts and we continue to provide those at the 11 airports forgot will now highlight a specific handful of priorities of the budget the department must continue to grow digital defense is cybersecurity threats grow in scope and severity to have the enhance posture on election security to preserve the electoral process against interference of any kind investing one.7 billion of the cybersecurity agency to strengthen cyberand infrastructure security mission an increase of 150 million from the president's fy 20 budget request the security of the nation's border is a priority for the department the budget includes 3 billion of approximately border wall system as well as technology and staffing

dominant people and nationstates develop conventions for conflict.or and defeat in recognizing violence as a regular, if unfortunate feature political struggle. but between the powerful from those they dominate my daily habits, there is no limit to the lengths they go to maintain their supremacy. they will commit atrocities and massacres to be sure, they'll disavow them too. bill refused to admit their combatants are legitimate enemies and they will get rid of the paths of less powerful people. because slaveholders wrote the first draft of this history, subsequent history has the different point of view. i from the margins, tacky's revolt as a fresh perspective on the periods political landscape. in the study of slavery, the exploration of politics has taken a rise to be the coming of general emancipation. which points to post revolutionary era in atlantic history. the 19th century, when the process of emancipation can both hades from it's become to be seen as a discrete effort which through freedom was an animated force of historical change. althoug

over or covert reason for a particular war and i'm not talking about nonstate entities but actual nationstates or the equivalent. >> just on the first thing you mentioned, hashish and assassins, it's a famous story. i don't include it partly because there's actually debate whether it'speriod, that it's just part of folklore. so i don't go there because the evidence and much of the discussion of it is the fact that it's a mythical story like to tell you the second question or actually your main question is one of the relationships that i unpacked and identify as more for drugs and this is why i think it's very important to distinguish between war for drugs versus war through drugs because in the current current policy debate and that's this gets to jim's discussion of policy, i think war through drugs overwhelms the importance of war for drugs. historically and today. there's always extensions and exceptions but for the most part drugs have been this potent literally facilitator of warfare. >> .. but all the went to the present i think today it's, the war for drug is in the realm of illicit dru

of nationst budgets from saudi arabia to kaz extent. full results from the iowa caucus.d has been's erased over bernie sanders. they're not declaring a winner due to tight margins. the calls are usually considered official the results were not delayed due to problems in the results.to report markets are unprepared for a pickup in inflation according to ken griffin he did comment further on why he sees the lack of readiness, but expectations of continued low inflation have emboldened investors. that has pushed the yield to historic lows. the middle east is facing a financial reckoning, according to the imf. hits peak oil demand levels. the region could become a net-debtor. -- says countries need to think more long-term and more strategically. global news, 24 hours a day on air, on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. mass -- matt? matt: thank you very much. we want to point out credit suisse. after the shock resignation of the ceo and the ascension of thomas gottstein to the top seat has

in 2016 it was russia, but now of course there are many other nationstates that could be involved, including china, north korea and iran. i think people are particularly worried about iran at the fewest assassination of the iranian general -- latest assassination. to get packed with the russians in particular trying to do, and as many of the intelligence agencies and the senate intelligence committee have written, it's this long-standing part of the russian active measures efforts that will go back to the beginning of the soviet union where the attempts were made to destabilize western liberal democracy. it's really the internet that's made that much more feasible to pull off, and they are trying to fan the flames of divisive this all over western democracies. that includes not only the 2016 elections, but also brexit, the recent french elections, the catalan catalog separatist movement and many other places around the world. and although congress has i said broad authority to regulate a lot about when elections are held and how they work, there are not any federal statutes that really apply

without the united states' assistance, their survival as a nationstate is in jeopardy. when you look at the record president trump made clear that military assistance was contingent on political favors. if the united states was to provide military assistance to ukraine they needed to start the investigation. by start the investigation i mean announce it. president trump actually didn't want an investigation in good faith. that would have proven how ludicrous his conspiracy ,heories were about the bidens the email server, and all that. all he wanted was the announcement to do the same kind of damage to the biden campaign that the announcement of comey of an investigation into hillary clinton did to her campaign. panel heefore the brought up what we should really be talking about. by chance everyone was available february 18, the day after president's day. here we are. there are a few holidays we have in this country other than the fourth of july that moore underscores the sig nificance of our country more than president's day. without george washington's leadership there

without the united states' assistance, their survival as a nationstate is in jeopardy. when you look at the record , president trump made clear that a, military assistance was contingent on political favors. so, if the united states was to provide military assistance to ukraine, they needed to start the investigation. by start the investigation i mean announce it. president trump actually didn't want an investigation in good faith. because, of course, that would have proven how ludicrous his conspiracy theories were about the bidens, the email server, and all of that. all he wanted was the announcement to do the same kind of damage to the biden campaign that fbi director comey's announcement into hillary of an investigation into hillary clinton had done to her campaign. goodtor pratt: that is a point. i had some written questions but i talked with representative raskin and he brought up what we should really be talking about. let me put it in context. this, by chance, everybody was available february 18, the day after president's day. and here we are. there are a few ho

how do you play these nationstate technology companies?ory world goes after them in a hard way. lineis it at the revenue where their revenue and potential revenue seems just so outside that you could have a comfort in owning them? steve: they are oligopolies so the pressure you have in other sectors, you do not have. francine: what about retail? , macy's anything closing a lot of the stores. steve: we do almost nothing in retail these days. francine: what do you do that is changed in the last six months? i am trying to figure out where you are seeing opportunities or what you are worrying about. steve: the biggest opportunities are on the long side, and you can be selectively short individual companies where the fundamentals are deteriorating, but you have to be selective. tom: within the market -- i want to come back to the central bank view you started -- stated, low rates forever -- steve roach would say this is the definition of the third pillar, asset inflicted by the fed. is it a bubble characteristic? -- 1999og is back to 99 and 200

from some of the speakers earlier a little bit about what we were learning about russian and other nationstate deployment but can you give us what we know about our elections from the senate intelligence committee volume ? >> absolutely and thank you to and and governor risch. i want to start out because we do with some information about the senate intelligence committee report because the senate select committee on intelligence as been doing a in depth and very comprehensive investigation into the 2016 elections interference. obviously recent news has focused a lot in terms of what we are reviewing to happen in 2020 and what type of election interference activities might take place over the course of the next several months, but the intelligence committee report has done a valuable service in showing us a little bit of a roadmap of what we could see again and i think it hasn't gotten enough of a billing so i want to highlight a fewthings that it did . so so far, three volumes of the senate intelligence committee's work have been released . those three volumes have been declassified and so the