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bowing was considered a perfect occasion to demonstrate the nato military power within dangerous proximity to the soviets on nov 2nd 1983 nato launched able archer attend a command post exercise simulating a conflict escalation culminating in a nuclear attack it was followed by placing pershing 2 nuclear missiles in europe. what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows that for the 1st time since the cuban missile crisis the world was close to nuclear war. just like in 1903 the malaysian boeing crash was leveraged against the enemy. a new wave of sanctions hit russia mediately after the tragedy. the united states is imposing new sanctions and key sectors of the russian economy almost a year and 3 months later the dutch safety board published a report that is itself been flats and made 70 crashed because of. 3 well for. the today it is our strategy airplane the best the left side of the cockpit the report didn't blame any specific group or person an estimated a very wide area of 320 kilometers as a zone from which the missiles fire
bowing was considered a perfect occasion to demonstrate the nato military power within dangerous proximity to the soviets on nov 2nd 1983 nato launched able archer attend a command post exercise simulating a conflict escalation culminating in a nuclear attack it was followed by placing pershing 2 nuclear missiles in europe. what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows that for the 1st time since the...
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nato. high ranking ministers meet only rarely, but nato's work for peace goes on daily in the permanent counsel. the leaders of nato are chosen for their own ability and not for the size and power of their countries. belgium, one of the smallest nato nations, has provided its secretary-general. these men represent more than 400 million people. people diverse in background and in their way of life. brussels, capital of belgium has become the provisional capital of economic europe. an alliance within the alliance. gradually a series of interlocking communities has developed giving new vigor to old economies. town hall of amsterdam. the dutch are a hardy people with a sense of history. from the treaty to the north atlantic treaty, they have fought against threats both manmade and natural. old luxembourg, smallest nato partner with castles out of a fairy tale. but there's nothing imaginary about its fabulous steel industry. steel production per capita is the highest in the world. the peoples of these three small countries belgium, the netherlands and luxembourg have formed a customs union. a wheat field, a cathedral, o
nato. high ranking ministers meet only rarely, but nato's work for peace goes on daily in the permanent counsel. the leaders of nato are chosen for their own ability and not for the size and power of their countries. belgium, one of the smallest nato nations, has provided its secretary-general. these men represent more than 400 million people. people diverse in background and in their way of life. brussels, capital of belgium has become the provisional capital of economic europe. an alliance...
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nato's that's all nuclear weapons that's. everywhere would hit according to plan essentially russia launched $300.00 nuclear warheads with the goal of wiping out nato nato response of $180.00 nukes of its own the us launches its smorgasbord of nukes and that is the whole show bang 90000000 people wiped out in a span of 3 hours if we're not careful it's cooler heads don't prevail well and that's the problem is that you have a system set in place in which cooler heads aren't supposed to the media doesn't want most news doesn't happen saying they're thinking about this they're thinking about this and we saw the release of those pentagon documents about how we'd handle nuclear weapons what the current plans are in case this happened just earlier this year the doctrine for joint nuclear operations on the. joint chiefs of staff website back in june there was this interesting. note from that read document which said integration of nuclear weapons employment with conventional and special operations forces is essential to the success of any mission operation also according to the document the us doesn't have a no 1st use policy so we don't technically have a pol
nato's that's all nuclear weapons that's. everywhere would hit according to plan essentially russia launched $300.00 nuclear warheads with the goal of wiping out nato nato response of $180.00 nukes of its own the us launches its smorgasbord of nukes and that is the whole show bang 90000000 people wiped out in a span of 3 hours if we're not careful it's cooler heads don't prevail well and that's the problem is that you have a system set in place in which cooler heads aren't supposed to the media...
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nato alliance today? >> oh, it's very strong. nations -- democratic nations want to be part of nato. they -- no one goes out and solicits or recruits them. they come in wanting to join. and what can be a stronger statement about nato's relevance and nato's trustworthiness than natio wanting to join up?w, here have always been tensions. those are normal in alliances.al those are no between nations. so, we're going through a difficult time right now,g but the th remember is that what president trump is asking for when he says natns have to pay more is a modest investment inin the best defense in the world. 2% -- when you think of how much we spent during the cold war to prevent war, for example, and we now face a worsening security situation. so, this is -- this is normal that there mighte ome of these tensions. it's not a weakening of the alliance. >> but has nato --ha the value of nato been weakened amongst americans? there are voices on the right and the left... >> mm-hmm... >>at question the relevance and the importance of the nato alliance. >> well, it's a good question, and i think we have taken peacer foted so long that we forget that na was a contributing element, a fundamental element, in keeping the cold war
nato alliance today? >> oh, it's very strong. nations -- democratic nations want to be part of nato. they -- no one goes out and solicits or recruits them. they come in wanting to join. and what can be a stronger statement about nato's relevance and nato's trustworthiness than natio wanting to join up?w, here have always been tensions. those are normal in alliances.al those are no between nations. so, we're going through a difficult time right now,g but the th remember is that what...
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nato, based on the core idea, one for all, and all for one. that has kept all nato's allies safe and security for 70 years. no nato ally has been attacked by another nation because any potential, if they attack a nato ally the whole alliance will respond. that is the best way to keep us safe. david: of course why so many european nations which were under the soviet control wanted to get into nato. of course one of those nations is ukraine. it has been in the news. i won't ask for your opinion on the political situation but they have been trying to become a part of nato for a while. will ukraine become a part of nato? >> nato has said that we will support ukraine's reforms moving towards membership but we don't, we don't have a date. what we do is that we provie strong political support to ukraine, strong practical support to ukraine. just recently actually decided to step up the support for ukraine because ukraine is close partner and when our neighbors are more stable we are more secure and then i think it is too early to say when they will become a member. david: mr. secretary-general, i know you have a lot of a
nato, based on the core idea, one for all, and all for one. that has kept all nato's allies safe and security for 70 years. no nato ally has been attacked by another nation because any potential, if they attack a nato ally the whole alliance will respond. that is the best way to keep us safe. david: of course why so many european nations which were under the soviet control wanted to get into nato. of course one of those nations is ukraine. it has been in the news. i won't ask for your opinion...
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nato. >> yes. that the nato alliance now finds itself ill-adapted for the ryproblems of the 21st cen you also say that... sw, some might read that that you're suggesting that natos obsolete. >> i'm suggesting, are suggesting, philip and i, that maybe renovation is -- if you have a wonderful historic building, you don't want to tear it down. >> so, how would you renovate nato? >> i think one thing that's be great for nato is thusion of the east europeans, because they've given it new energy. y they actuamember what it means not to be free, and so they've given new meaning to the mission. i know that nato is trying hard to build cybersecurity capacity. i think nato has tried to reform onssues of terrorism. >> mm-hmm. >> and i think some of the impacts there have beequite good since 9/11. t looking at these new missions and saying, "how are we gonna take on these new missions?" that's what nato has got to spend more time doing. and by the way, president trumpy is right -- 're going to do the old missions, 'cause the you're going to doewoire, and missions, everybody's gonna have to pay their fair share. >> you'ra student of soviet russia, and you also, in your time
nato. >> yes. that the nato alliance now finds itself ill-adapted for the ryproblems of the 21st cen you also say that... sw, some might read that that you're suggesting that natos obsolete. >> i'm suggesting, are suggesting, philip and i, that maybe renovation is -- if you have a wonderful historic building, you don't want to tear it down. >> so, how would you renovate nato? >> i think one thing that's be great for nato is thusion of the east europeans, because they've...
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nato. u.s. support, public support for nato in order to maintain or increase u.s. commitment to nato is now at its highest level in 45 years. u.s. support for nato as an essential to american security is the highest since we first asked the question in 2002. u.s. support for appliances in -- alliances in asia and the middle east remains extremely high as does the question of whether the u.s. should use troops to defend its allies. in all of those ways, public opinion remains robustly supportive of alliances. the second way in which we have tied to maintain this order is through an open economic system based on the concept of trade. again, the u.s. public is more supportive of trade now than it has been in any time we have asked questions about trade. including belief that trade is good for the american economy. 87% of americans, that's a large number, 87% of americans think that trade is good for the u.s. economy and it's good for american companies. then finally, one of the new things we did in this report, we've been asking the question, which actually comes from gallup, so it goes
nato. u.s. support, public support for nato in order to maintain or increase u.s. commitment to nato is now at its highest level in 45 years. u.s. support for nato as an essential to american security is the highest since we first asked the question in 2002. u.s. support for appliances in -- alliances in asia and the middle east remains extremely high as does the question of whether the u.s. should use troops to defend its allies. in all of those ways, public opinion remains robustly supportive...
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nato has been watching. according to sources, quickly con included it was part of a reckless test to development an experimental cruise missile. that's according to three unnamed officials. one military intelligence official based at nato in brussels say, developing a nuclear cruise missile is something that concerns natoto official based in a western european capital says, putin wants back in the g-8. he is testing irresponsible weapons systems. a nato officials says, the current leadership of the west appears to be okay with ignoring this incident. shooting nuclear reactors into the sky, poses a danger to everyone. to follow this disastrous aggression with trump suggests russia's reinstatement means putin doesn't need to fear sanctions. now we have the latest insult to add to the injury to pile on top of the ongoing mystery here about this russian disaster. putin was at eastern economic forum. he was discussing this experimental nuclear powered missile, specifically he was saying he has discussed this experimental nuclear powered missile with u.s. president donald trump. he says he discussed it with trump because he is planning on making the united states buy it. he says the united states is going to pay for these missiles. he said at the session today alongside the leaders of india and japan, i told
nato has been watching. according to sources, quickly con included it was part of a reckless test to development an experimental cruise missile. that's according to three unnamed officials. one military intelligence official based at nato in brussels say, developing a nuclear cruise missile is something that concerns natoto official based in a western european capital says, putin wants back in the g-8. he is testing irresponsible weapons systems. a nato officials says, the current leadership of...
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superpower in the world do nato members want the number one largest sturp power minimum tmilitarilyly a communist nation we want free that is the reason we strongly believe in nato natos agree to protect and defend each other, that is good for europe that stand together also good for united states strength of may gos provides -- the fight -- military he forces strength comes by that number. united states has more friends and allies than any other power in the world because of nato. the also friends, willing to fight alongside u.s. soldiers in different missions operations, so especially in, growing china it is important as we maintain that stand up for free, open societies. >> mr. secretary general good to see you. thank you for joining us secretary general stoltenberg massive uaw strike against general motors dealerships running out of parts grady trimble in detroit with patriot now grady. reporter: maria, i am standing in front of the renaissance center gm headquarters also where the contract negotiations have been going on, we are told the two sides are closer than ever to reaching an deal, talks have moved up the chain to the top negotiations on both sides we are
superpower in the world do nato members want the number one largest sturp power minimum tmilitarilyly a communist nation we want free that is the reason we strongly believe in nato natos agree to protect and defend each other, that is good for europe that stand together also good for united states strength of may gos provides -- the fight -- military he forces strength comes by that number. united states has more friends and allies than any other power in the world because of nato. the also...
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but as we head to 9/11, the 18th anniversary, an issue like nato is on my mind because of what nato was prepared to do. and it's the only time nato involved article 5. and nick burns, who was then our ambassador to nato, we've had a slew of excellent ambassadors, nick burns, who is a professor at harvard and runs the foreign policy group for aspen newt, nick burns said he didn't ask, he was just told we're invoking article 5. that's pretty darn amazing. richard, we haven't talked about congress. you did work there in one lifetime for a hero of mine named john mccain -- >> two lifetimes. >> two lifetimes. whose voice is sorely missed right now. i would like you to think about john mccain and what john mccain taught so many of us about foreign policy. for anyone who missed this movie, another movie, john mccain was the leader of many congressional delegations on international trips. i went on at least ten of his codels to the munich security conference in munich, germany, in february. and then i've attended it another decade since. but john mccain, among other things, was the pid piper of foreign policy for congress. and he taught
but as we head to 9/11, the 18th anniversary, an issue like nato is on my mind because of what nato was prepared to do. and it's the only time nato involved article 5. and nick burns, who was then our ambassador to nato, we've had a slew of excellent ambassadors, nick burns, who is a professor at harvard and runs the foreign policy group for aspen newt, nick burns said he didn't ask, he was just told we're invoking article 5. that's pretty darn amazing. richard, we haven't talked about...
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let's put right next to it nato how is that going to work because nato needs an enemy and russia is the most convenient one i've heard all the arguments but it's true ok nato needs it needs a mission to prove it that it's a necessity to as an organisation and it's picked up on not terrorism not border security russia because that's the easiest one to fall back on and you have the baltic republics you have poland which i know very very well they go along with that they want poland want so for trump ok how is mccrone going to have to square the circle with nato with his new initiative in approaching russia go ahead emmanuelle. well i think this is exactly what we start about in moscow of course again mostly between some gay should and. more than between us and trying to tell you i think john you thought it was well we're look since to go to moscow then. the minister of defense i think france pushed away this question of nato for various reasons 1st of all the narrative of the president when he speaks about the necessity to have more robust european defense he speaks about having european capabilities now go inside nato but having more autonomy its capability
let's put right next to it nato how is that going to work because nato needs an enemy and russia is the most convenient one i've heard all the arguments but it's true ok nato needs it needs a mission to prove it that it's a necessity to as an organisation and it's picked up on not terrorism not border security russia because that's the easiest one to fall back on and you have the baltic republics you have poland which i know very very well they go along with that they want poland want so for...
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nato is obsolete. >> i'm suggeing, and we're suggesting, philip and i, that maybe renovation is -- if you have a wonderful historid building, you don't want to tear it down. >> so, how would you renovate nato?hi >> i one thing that's been great for natos the inclusion of the east europeans, because ey've given it new energy. they actually remember what it means t toe free, and so they've given new meaning to the mission.ow i hat nato is trying hard to build cybersecurity capacity. i think nato has tried to reform on issues of terrori. >> mm-hmm. >> and i think some of the impacts there have been quite good since 9/11. t looking at these new missions and saying, "how are we gonna take on these new missions?" that's what nato has got to spend more time doing. and by theay, president trump is rht -- if you're going to do the old missions, 'cause the russians are still there, and you're goi to do the new missions, everybody's gonna have to pay their fair share. >> you're a student of sovt russia, and you also, in your time as national security adviser to president bush, witnessed a real transformation in the stature and the posture that vladimir putin took on as he reasserted himself. there's concern about whetherhe nato will be strong e
nato is obsolete. >> i'm suggeing, and we're suggesting, philip and i, that maybe renovation is -- if you have a wonderful historid building, you don't want to tear it down. >> so, how would you renovate nato?hi >> i one thing that's been great for natos the inclusion of the east europeans, because ey've given it new energy. they actually remember what it means t toe free, and so they've given new meaning to the mission.ow i hat nato is trying hard to build cybersecurity...
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nato at @nato, and then it's gone. >> anthony: really? >> akram: yeah. >> anthony: how does that feel, knowing you can call in a tomahawk missile over there? >> akram: it's out of the movies. >> anthony: did anyone think it was possible that in their lifetime they were going to see the end of this son of a bitch? most people are telling me they never dreamed. >> akram: i don't know if you can call them dreams, hopes, wishes. it was just something in the sky. something i look at every night. >> anthony: right. >> akram: but when i hit that point and got into misrata and stood on gaddafi's body, any dream will come true. >> anthony: what's the situation now? >> akram: uh, it's fluid. it can swing any direction. >> anthony: well, look, what happened in benghazi a few months ago, i mean, what does this mean to the country? >> akram: i think there is a dark, mysterious hand who doesn't like this country to prosper. they see system and organization as a big enemy to them. these dark hands are slowly getting diminished. >> anthony: how -- >> akram: it's a matter of time before we can get rid of them. >> anthony: how hard do you think that's going to be? >> akram: not hard at all. we got rid of gaddafi. nothing else is hard. >> anthony: i like your attitude. the fluid situation in libya has been intensifying since our arrival, and we've had to change our behavior, constantly moving. shouldn't i be wearing, you know, one of those cool, like, journalist safari jackets at this point? so it seemed a good time, or maybe not -- let's saddle up. to go to misrata. >> man: just watch this. don't let your feet get on it. >> anthony: yeah. >> man: okay, guys, we can go. >> man: roger that. >> anthony: since the revolution, misrata's been the most secure city in libya. but over the last two weeks, in a hail of bullets and hand-thrown grenade attacks, an imam, security forces, and a police officer have all been killed. >> man on speaker: once we move forward, you can come past me. >> anthony: all along the narrow, congested highway there are checkpoints, manned mostly by local militias. and i want to stress, most of them are friendly enough. we are, however, in a hurry to get to misrata before dark. traveling at night around here is not advised. >> man 1: i would drop the camera pretty soon. >> man 2: yeah, yeah. >> man 1: stop the camera. stop that. >> man 2: oh. >> anthony: pulling into town after dark, it doesn't feel like a happy place to be right now. misrata was where some of the fiercest and most heroic struggles of the war occurred. resistance was the most determined, and the response by the gaddafi forces, especially merciless. we've just learned that earlier in the day a city councilman who was a hero of the revolution was assassinated. and it's not clear who's responsible. misrata is on full lockdown. >> man: another checkpoint. >> anthony: looking around at the price this city paid for freedom, you can see why they don't want to lose what they fought so hard for. 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(male vo) welcome to the all-new 2019 subaru forester. the longest-lasting, most trusted forester ever. we can't give you, unlimited summer, but we can give you unlimited talk, text and data for just $30 a line for 4 lines. and that comes on our newest signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable. so you can... share more sunsets. stream more videos. and stay connected with friends while you slide into fall. all for just $30/line. and for a limited time, you can get free smartphones too! come to t-mobile now and get new 4 lines of unlimited and 4 free phones for just 30 bucks a line! ♪ >> anthony: morning in misrata. >> man: how's the vibe? >> man: it's all quite quiet and, and cool at the moment. >> anthony: daylight reveals the extent of the fighting that took place here, not so long ago. ♪ >> hamid: this here used to be a vegetable market. clothes. one of gaddafi's soldier's clothes. >> anthony: he left them here and ran. >> hamid: yeah. was that, uh, what they did in tripoli? >> anthony: yeah. >> hamid: we went into the city, they just removed their clothes and ran away in the streets, so nobody would know who, who are they. >> anthony: this is hamid, one of the guys we called the misrata boys, basically militia members from the area who looked out for us here and in tripoli when things started to get hinky in neighboring algeria and in benghazi. >> anthony: that is a seriously -- up tank. >> hamid: yeah. >> anthony: his job these days is hunting down former gaddafi supporters. so the gaddafi forces rolled in. they would use these tanks to fire on -- >> hamid: around the city. >> anthony: around. >> hamid: yeah. it was full of, uh, tanks here. this was the operation room here. ♪ >> anthony: now, if you had any doubt about the terrible odds these young revolutionaries were facing during the early days of the fighting, especially in the months before natorocket. >> anthony: rocket? >> hamid: homemade. and there's a rocket here. we put it here. and fire with, uh -- >> anthony: little rocket. >> hamid: yeah. >> anthony: you had to have some serious courage to, to ride around with this thing. >> hamid: why? we trust our people. there's a lot of homemade things here. this is homemade, too. it fires a big rocket. this is grenade, homemade, this one. this was from a helicopter. >> anthony: yes. >> hamid: we got it and we put it in the cars. >> anthony: you took it off a helicopter. >> hamid: yeah. >> anthony: and you put it on a car. >> anthony: uh-huh. and do you know what this is for? you know molotov? and we fire -- >> anthony: so it's basically a crossbow that fires molotov cocktails. >> hamid: yeah, molotov and, uh, tnt sometimes. >> anthony: you're shooting this at people who have, uh, mortars. >> hamid: and tanks. >> anthony: uh, uh, tanks. >> hamid: tanks, yeah. >> anthony: you're shooting this at tanks? >> hamid: yeah. because that'
nato at @nato, and then it's gone. >> anthony: really? >> akram: yeah. >> anthony: how does that feel, knowing you can call in a tomahawk missile over there? >> akram: it's out of the movies. >> anthony: did anyone think it was possible that in their lifetime they were going to see the end of this son of a bitch? most people are telling me they never dreamed. >> akram: i don't know if you can call them dreams, hopes, wishes. it was just something in the sky....
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a nato demeanor yeah nato. and. the k.k. many. of us are. finally . you know with my battle man to help. you i don't know you better. yet get some minutes think about how we in one corner. on. the medical. and the med. well. modest little what you don't know doing lemon or money. but what i said. to my limits said thank you both i know yeah yeah. the guy said to get. yes i was no money. what are they going to. but in amman. maybe a magazine. that can do it. again. and again let me know what when and why. and what i told one not that i'm ana that and if we had an affair with you which could come on no one. you know. how to go along minds and record your medical. what to do with the number who would. know what to do with it or that there were some. men it is the best that. i had in the new year to level with and i've asked a gentleman know what i've been in berlin. with and i looked to it and i thought beyond him you know what scone when i'm on the bottom and then the scone is that i've got to have it at 70 but i mean. it's. vanity. and. you know it. be
a nato demeanor yeah nato. and. the k.k. many. of us are. finally . you know with my battle man to help. you i don't know you better. yet get some minutes think about how we in one corner. on. the medical. and the med. well. modest little what you don't know doing lemon or money. but what i said. to my limits said thank you both i know yeah yeah. the guy said to get. yes i was no money. what are they going to. but in amman. maybe a magazine. that can do it. again. and again let me know what...
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nato demand. yeah nato. i know i'm what it's of a n.a.o. . it over the k.k. me. to my sig i guess again. find out. you know with my battle my to help you. i don't know yelena better but you know what it was then and now leno i was the one 0 yeah you know. both i know you have got some minutes ago but i am in one corner you were the marijuana here when the medical. were doing it and the macallan mines and. well. you modest little what you had lou noble doing lemon out of money. but what i said. to my limit said thank you both i know yeah yeah. and i'm going. to get. business and yes i was no money. what are they going to. call me a minute to sort. but i am and i am and let them in the. media magazine. and i had to. do it. again yeah. and not a. minute with within the mind. what i've done it old one not that i'm ana than to be had so with each of them one on one. you know. how to go along lines and record your medical. what to do with the number who would. know what to do with it or that there were some. of the limits and i doubt that libya meant the best that. 6 i
nato demand. yeah nato. i know i'm what it's of a n.a.o. . it over the k.k. me. to my sig i guess again. find out. you know with my battle my to help you. i don't know yelena better but you know what it was then and now leno i was the one 0 yeah you know. both i know you have got some minutes ago but i am in one corner you were the marijuana here when the medical. were doing it and the macallan mines and. well. you modest little what you had lou noble doing lemon out of money. but what i said....
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member.s a nato we are committed to our nato allies and committed to our obligations with nato. turkey is one of the nato numbers who supports the problem from that point of view. kind of --, we have we have in many areas, in terms of having relations, most of the tourists would say we receive most of the tourists from russia. francine: on the fifth generation weapons, which is a thing a lot of people want to know about, how close are you to signing something or looking at intensifying that relationship? vp oktay: it is not the fifth generation weapons. we would be talking about is 400. turkey has the right to defend herself. you know how the area is, how fragile it is. so you do not leave it to time. so we have to keep our country clear from the terrorists and also attacks from any other country, or whatever it is. especially from terror, terrorists. a need for turkey. defense systems was a need for turkey. it is still a need for turkey. [indiscernible] -- so then russia came into the picture. they have come up with a good deal. wise isis relationship it is a trade relation. not
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nato. u.s. support, public support for nato in order to maintain or increase the use commitment to nato is not at its highest level in 45 years. u.s. support for nato as an essential to american security in size since we first asked the question in 2002. u.s. support for alliances in asia and in the middle east remains extremely high, as does the question of whether the u.s. should use its troops to defend its allies. in all his ways public opinion remains robustly supportive of alliances. the second way which we try to maintain this order pursuant open economic system based on the concept of trade. and again, the u.s. public is more supportive of trade now that it has been adding time we've asked questions about trade, including on the bleep trade is good for the american economy. 87% of americans, that's, that's a large number, 87% of americans think that trade is good for the u.s. economy and it's good for american companies. and then finally one of of the things we did in this report, we've been asking the question which actually comes from dallas so goes back to 1946, should the united state
nato. u.s. support, public support for nato in order to maintain or increase the use commitment to nato is not at its highest level in 45 years. u.s. support for nato as an essential to american security in size since we first asked the question in 2002. u.s. support for alliances in asia and in the middle east remains extremely high, as does the question of whether the u.s. should use its troops to defend its allies. in all his ways public opinion remains robustly supportive of alliances. the...
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nato treaty and has since deployed troops there. up to this very day, there are still 8,000 nonu.s. nato troops in afghanistan. when that unfortunate incident happened with the american soldier being killed, the romanian soldier was killed at the same time. this has been a nato operation from day one. the idea that we should be negotiating without any regard for those who have suffered as greatly as us, who have also been attacked by isis which is now active in afghanistan, it just demonstrates that there really hasn't been a process or much thinking to the afghan policy, but more largely just demonstrates that people are free wheeling in this administration. it's not just that john bolton wasn't doing the honest brokering that a national security adviser does, it's that everyone is doing their own thing without much coordination from the president to the secretary of state to the national security adviser who became his own diplomat. henry kissinger said the only way you can avoid confrontations and disagreements between the national security adviser and the secretary of state, is if it's the same person which of course henry kissinger once was. that may be where we end up. maybe we get mike pompeo not only as secretary of state but also as national securit
nato treaty and has since deployed troops there. up to this very day, there are still 8,000 nonu.s. nato troops in afghanistan. when that unfortunate incident happened with the american soldier being killed, the romanian soldier was killed at the same time. this has been a nato operation from day one. the idea that we should be negotiating without any regard for those who have suffered as greatly as us, who have also been attacked by isis which is now active in afghanistan, it just demonstrates...
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we put out reports in defense of nato and what nato allies might do, particularly poland and the united kingdom and the capabilities that would complement and be additive to what the us would bring to a major conflict. a part of japan, australia, canada for that matter. i would like you to look at those. i won't going too many deeper than that. >> general say, building highways, we just had these studies which count the numbers of trucks that are required.sa dependent on infrastructure that don't make it in the future, where it is likely -- likely to be nasty indeed. >> talking about highways, to talk about platforms. that is a shift we are to make. the prioritization for modernization, recognizing in war fighting of the future, the command and control creates difficult to limits for potential adversaries. and adversary and a group of ships or adversary with a group of armed vehicles. if i am able to bring near simultaneously effects from all domains from subsurface on the surface of the water or the surface of the land or the air and from the area ranged from special operations, from c
we put out reports in defense of nato and what nato allies might do, particularly poland and the united kingdom and the capabilities that would complement and be additive to what the us would bring to a major conflict. a part of japan, australia, canada for that matter. i would like you to look at those. i won't going too many deeper than that. >> general say, building highways, we just had these studies which count the numbers of trucks that are required.sa dependent on infrastructure...
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nato. we are forcing it into nato. russia has every right to defend sot land that they spent much blood and treasure for in world war ii. plain and simple, it is their land and they will hold it. host: quick response? guest: let me start with fascism in ukraine. there are some worrying developments with white supremacy, fascism, and white nazism in ukraine as around the rest of the world, including our own country. in ukraine, they enjoy very little electoral support and do not have anyone in parliament. they were not able to meet the parliamentary threshold. the united states state department has categorized it as a neo-nazi hate group. we are very clear on what is going on with fascism and nazism. regarding ukraine's sovereignty, it is an independent nation and has been for 30 years. culture,s own history, and traditions. at theans would bristle idea that because they were part of the soviet union and the russian empire that they do not have a right to self-determination, which is the agreement and international law, that all nations have a right to self-determination. if ukraine wants to pursue nato european union membership, that is entirely up to ukraine and not up to larger governments that would like to sway their decision. host: let's go to john from new mexico on the independent line. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am a registered democrat book kind of float back-and-forth. i choose by candidates. this young lady is clearly a democrat trade there is no doubt about it. she is an apologist. that is fine. that is her side and i have got mine. we are kind of the same in some ways. i want to know why nothing is about the conversation where crowdstrike comes in. everything goes to mr. trump's telling the guy he wants a favor. why did that conversation have to be taken and parts moved from one place to another to make it look worse? that is the part that bugs the heck out of me. if she could address crowdstrike and maybe that part of it? guest: thank you so much. i am not motivated by any political leanings. i have studied and lived in ukraine and am hoping
nato. we are forcing it into nato. russia has every right to defend sot land that they spent much blood and treasure for in world war ii. plain and simple, it is their land and they will hold it. host: quick response? guest: let me start with fascism in ukraine. there are some worrying developments with white supremacy, fascism, and white nazism in ukraine as around the rest of the world, including our own country. in ukraine, they enjoy very little electoral support and do not have anyone in...
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actions from the peace movement but when you are looking for the preparation of the nato summit in london i can only see that nato want to enlarge the confrontation by discussing about new nuclear weapons in europe by discussing a bog more exercises at the border to russia by developing new military bases in many of the west european countries by sending more troops to the border so all signs at the time are looking that they want to allow that they do want to enlarge military confrontation to russia but i hope that we will come back to better times thanks very much for coming on the program and sharing your thoughts this hour reiner braun reiner is the president of the international peace bureau. ok un environmental environment excuse me unfit for human habitation for years to come we're talking about chernobyl the site of the world's worst nuclear accident 33 years ago nonetheless it's still draws visitors from across the globe for a brief look inside the forbidden area or roughly video agency got a rare opportunity to visit the very heart of the disaster that eerie control room at the power plants 4th reactor
actions from the peace movement but when you are looking for the preparation of the nato summit in london i can only see that nato want to enlarge the confrontation by discussing about new nuclear weapons in europe by discussing a bog more exercises at the border to russia by developing new military bases in many of the west european countries by sending more troops to the border so all signs at the time are looking that they want to allow that they do want to enlarge military confrontation to...
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nato. what some of our nato allies might do particularly poland. capabilitiesds of that would complement and be additive with u.s. would bring to a major conflict. , canadajapan, australia for that matter. i invite you to take a look at those studies. i will not go into them deeper than that here june. -- deeper than that here. says he isgrowth in building highways more than trucks. we just had these studies that counts the number of trucks that are going to be required. how much is what he said -- how dependent is it on infrastructure, on technology, which so far is not identified in detail to make it work in the future where the threats are likely to be nasty. >> great question. as you pointed out, he has been talking a lot about highways. we are still bound by our paradigms. the way we have been raised to talk about platforms. that is a shift we are having to make. multi-domain control is our number one prioritize asian for modernization. ation fortiz modernization. let me give you a vignette. in a group ofare ships or an adversary with a group
nato. what some of our nato allies might do particularly poland. capabilitiesds of that would complement and be additive with u.s. would bring to a major conflict. , canadajapan, australia for that matter. i invite you to take a look at those studies. i will not go into them deeper than that here june. -- deeper than that here. says he isgrowth in building highways more than trucks. we just had these studies that counts the number of trucks that are going to be required. how much is what he...
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nato wants to invite ukraine ukraine to join nato and accordingly it's something the russians should not be allowed to veto. i remember somebody in your program on the russian tv saying that he did not think that natoas ready for ukraine and talking about you. and that's one reason you are so popular on all the shows because while you are not pulling your ennobling talking about russian aggression at about à [indiscernable] take little away from ukrainian practicability to make national security decisions.but still provide russia with assurances that ukraine would not be anytime soon. >> i certainly don't rule out the possibility. this is an evolving situation and ukrainians themselves will make that decision. certainly there will be an american role in all of this and that's hard to predict how this would play out but would you describe is certainly a possibility and not necessarily a terrible possibility. >> wayne? >> john, thank you very much for your presentation which was very informative. i think i might not be the only one who detected an element of your experience in jerusalem and the subtlety of urinalysis. [laughter] because the more i look at middle east issues and ukrainian russian issu
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nato every security class talked about nato not one focused on asia. and tom christiansen is now here but why are we talking about this why are we talking pressures? when we talking about security wire we focused on m europe? because it was the cold war and that is what we did. but our generation said hold on. the dynamics play out differently in asia. the two hot wars of the cold war's were in asia and our allies feel the divisions of i europe into east and west and north and south of the korean peninsula but japan is just offshore of china and obviously the soviet union at thece time. japan was very resistant to see its own military to play a considerable role in that cold war however it did see great advantage to offer bases to the united states and no self to florence to force one - - defense forces and the essence of what contingency might motivate another country and the framing of the cold war and the korean peninsula from the very beginning was a defining possibility that might bring more to the shores of japan because it was then in 1950 and sadly today were armed forces could be used therefore a way that it could become embroiled in war so that doesn't mean all armed forces thought about that contingency because it took a long time in japan for the things we take for granted but like contingency planning or what will you do if? it takes a long time for that to be legitimate in postwar japann and that i have one chapter all about the cold war between military and civilian authorities that is very much a part of the early decades of the postwar period that things changed after the cold war ended it with that dissertation and that research the background chapter but the ay that different kinds of realities to shape what i think is a significant transformation. and how they look at their military. into be structured the way that debate has played out. and this is the early pieces and then to put the military out of the country and in coalition but the cold war brought defense forces to the forefront of japanese thinking. it was not the framing even as the prime minister to be forthright with the military and then to be in conjunction withth other partners to many in cambodia and those here and that was no diplomat that was japanese. and then they were alongside others around the world to move into a peaceful transition. that was the very beginning under the law of 1991. but today to operate across the globe across with humanitarian or disaster relief. q war. they are contentious at home but nonetheless that's what happened. they are today operating in the gulf of aiden in the antipiracy. they also the delve defense forces today have at the behest of the prime minister of course operate in conjunction with the australian military, the indian military, they visit the philippines, vietnam, singapore, many of the places where we think that war memory would preclude the japanese from sending military but night a capacity that is very different than the prewar period. the japanese today are helping the filipino military, especially on maritime capacity building. they're helping them make sure they have the ability to defend their own waters. they have visited vietnam at the invitation of the vietnamese government for similar reasoned. work very closely with australia, all across the western pacific, on intelligence gathering, surveillance, monitoring, all kinds of consultations now on the south china sea. they're both maritime partners. but they're very close security parts of the united states as -- partners of the united states as well. india another interesting story. the united states and india have been having exercises over the years. we typically think of them as maritime exercises but in fact they now engage all three of india's branch of 0 the military. japan's three branches of the self-defense force, the maritime care and ground for have a strategic conversation with their friends in new dehli and the exercised are something the japanese have been built into as part of their efforts to increase their security and strategic dialogue with india. so you have a very active self-defense force now in the region, places where you might not think that the japanese military would be all that welcome. but in fact the japanese military today is one of the best most accomplished militaries in asia and they are also very instrumental in making sure that other countries around the region feel they can turn to tokyo to help them if and when they get challenged by other growing larger parties in the region. of course the mary time area where is we see he that most conspicuously but not exclusively. i'm referring to the chinese but where the chinese military operates in southeast asia. so japan is the -- japanese military today is four or five generations after the end of world war ii and a very different military. it's very professional. i think you'll know a lot of people have asked me, why did you put that cover on your book? i would hold it inbut i don't have a copy but has provocative -- there it is -- provocative cover but the picture aside, the title is something that i thought about a long time because of my work at cfr. i live down in washington, dcs a you know. i spent a lot of time there both in the in obama areas and no he trump administration and officials would come to me and still come to me to say are the japanese rearming? are they going to build a military? ... japan has invested considerably in its military capability. without a doubt. top 10. that goes back to the 1980s. today it somewhere around seven or eight depending on how much china is spending at the moment. it slips back and forth. it's ranking within the top 10 may be slightly different year-to-year. there's no doubt about it, japan has felt it necessary and important to invest in the military as it instrument of statecraft. what's more interesting is not three militarizing of japan but the decision-making that japan has engaged in the last decade or more about how to use that military. i just walked through one of the chapters with you here about sending the forces abroad in coalition with others. the more difficult issue for japan of course has been defending and making sure their military is ready to defend, should someone put pressure, threaten, coerce or actually attack japan. i think that's the one place where you see a considerable change in japan's environment. he see two neighbors, and thinking of north korea and china, who have themselves moved their arsenals into a position of capability or increase their capabilities are sufficient to be japan. that is me north korea is about to attacked the chinese. doesn't mean Ãbbut both of those countries have invested considerably technologically and financially. in building rapidly military capabilities that undermine japanese security. we saw the most recent indication of that in 2017 when north koreans were sending barrages of missiles overtop of japan and then resending a larger test missile that could potentially reach the united states actually into japanese airspace or over japanese airspace. japanese now look at north korea and of course they worry about the nuclear peace obviously. because that will be a test for all our allies, especially our nonnuclear allies of south korea and japan but for the japanese it missile arsenal. it really lays bare the vulnerability of japanese capability. japan does not have eating,Ãdoe have missile strength of its own. it has very carefully avoided developing the kind of capability, has stayed very much in defensive mode, reactive mode. but as the japanese have watched the koreans and north koreans develop this kind of capability and proliferate the number and the kind of missiles that pyongyang has accrued over the last 5 to 10 years, it raises what i call in the book, a missile gap, it raises the question for the japanese. are they continuing, are they going to continue to subscribe to this idea that they should not purchase a strike capability? that they should not do this? this has been part of the political debate in the book. they can read it if it's not interested, politicians have debated this avs have people inside the ministry of defense and inside the defense forces. that's a threshold the japanese have yet to cross. that's one way in which the threat perception which north korea has been doing since the mid-1990s has affected the japanese thinking about their own defenses and wants might be necessary.japan has done, and done with deep investment, is engaging ballistic missile defense system. he saw last years the japanese government announced it would expand the capacity of their ballistic missile defenses to include an onshore version of what they call the ages of sure which will give japan a much greater capacity to detect, track and if necessary to shoot down any missiles coming from continental asia. there has been a lot of spending on a defensive structure, force posture, to deal with the missile threat from north korea and potentially obviously the missile threat from other parties around japan. the second area where japan has seen its threat perception intensify has been china. we've seen that in terms of the modernization of chinese nuclear forces but we saw the japanese getting very nervous in the mid-1990s about china's willingness to threaten taiwan. with potential use of force during an election campaign. the real challenge, the real wake-up call for japanese security planners and for the u.s. japan alliance was the island disputed 2010 and again in 2012. Ãbthese islands in the east china sea have a very strong emotional component, especially for the chinese people but also the japanese. china and japan have basically avoided a direct clash. let's just leave those sovereignty issue on the side but by the mid-2010 that was no longer possible as you saw it ratcheting up of not government to government tensions really, citizen to citizen tensions, protester demonstrations. fishing captains. having a few too many and decided to take on the japanese coast guard. that then galvanized i think the political leadership in both countries to a point where they could back down so now you got government forces on both sides, coast guard, not yet navy, operating within the territorial waters of those islands, which were for a long time basically were quietly managed by the two governments. today the Ãisland drive japanese defense planning. but it certainly opened up the possibility for the first time that japan might be the recipient of some kind of pressure, military pressure, from china. or some kind of military attack may be on these remote islands. before the united states was involved. i talk a lot about korea, the assumption about a contingency on the korean peninsula during the cold war it even after the cold war was always united states would respond in that japan would either be pulled in or want to support u.s. forces to the bases but never somewhere where japan would be attacked directly, that the initiation of the use of force or conflict would begin with japan. but the san cock island disputed in to raise the prospect that miscalculation, and accident, not deliberate necessary ambition but that kind of escalatory dynamic something we are seeing a little bit over there in the middle east today. that type of wrapping up of tensions can be very hard to manage. the japanese have responded with washington to shore up the u.s. japan alliance to make sure the united states and japan are on the same page in case something were to happen. and to try to figure out strategies for ds glaciation should there be that kind of crisis. but nonetheless, that challenge with china over the islands really did open the possibility that the united states might not want to go to war with china. but the united states may have different interests from japan in a conflict such as that. that's what we call the risk of abandonment. allies don't want to be entrapped by the conflicts but they don't want to be abandoned by us if they have a need for us either. that became fairly focused look at japanese security and political thinking about how do we make sure the united states and japan are deeply embedded so that possibility of abandonment is probably not going to happen. i think those two scenarios north korea and china clearly have had the biggest impact not only in the way japanese think about weapon systems and purchases. he saw the defense plan the end of last year that an uptick in annual defense budget growth for the next five years but they also have prompted a rethinking of the u.s. japan alliance. ended up grading in the dialogue between the united states and japan about how the alliance is going to work, given the new asia, given these new pressures. the book also talks in a chapter i call Ãrelying on borrowed power Ãfrom the japanese perspective on why there's more attention given today by japanese political and security planner political leaders and security planners about how to make sure the united states remains engaged. and that the conversation between the united states and japan becomes more and more closer, i wouldn't say to war fighting kind of alliance, that's what we have the rok. that's what we had with natoely still do. but that we get a little bit more concrete about what do we do should this happen?as you all may know we got 50,000 american military personnel stationed for deployed in japan. we operate the exercise with operant Ãb those are the ones that matter if you are in a crisis or have to respond quickly to a crisis. i think that's why you have a greater sense of need for conversation between the united states and japan. in the last decade or so. especially the last five years. we wrap up a little bit by giving you the two cents conclusion of the book. i work at cfr i'm not supposed to just be an academic. i'm supposed to help try to make policymakers understand what's coming next. when i sit in washington in these conversations, i'm not a policymaker, i don't sit in classified settings. all the writing in this book is open-source based on my experience not based on any classified data or anything like that.when i do sit and have these conversations and i was at cfr in washington
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to gaddafi, who was captured and tortured to death by opposition forces backed by nato and the united states, in a nato carriedention that was out somewhat reluctantly but regardrdless of that by presisit obamama at the behest and urging this was aclinton, horrific end to that regime. the notion that president trump was somehow concerned about what happened to gaddafi rather than u.s. credibility that again took a dive because it was seen by so many around the world as carrying out this absolutely illegal intervention and bombing peoplen in which so many died and so many people continue to die in libya, creating an enormous set of humanitarian crises that included a refugee aisis, it just set in motion regigional disaster acacross the middle et.t. i don't think president trump is concerned about that. >> i ask you to stay with h us s we move our next subject. phyllis is a fellow at the institute of policy studies serving on the international , and has written several books. when we come back, benjamin netanyahu has failed to annex a third of the occupied west bank. phyllis is staying with us and we wil
to gaddafi, who was captured and tortured to death by opposition forces backed by nato and the united states, in a nato carriedention that was out somewhat reluctantly but regardrdless of that by presisit obamama at the behest and urging this was aclinton, horrific end to that regime. the notion that president trump was somehow concerned about what happened to gaddafi rather than u.s. credibility that again took a dive because it was seen by so many around the world as carrying out this...
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them as you pointed out earlier there are one step below that of being a nato member and they do work they do joint u.s. and nato countries in military exercises now that's how they coordinate these activities of theirs so that if there is a conflict in actual conflict. and all the sides are are working together they make and. they will have that experience of coordinating a military military maneuvers and in operations but we're already providing the intelligence that would just takes they're getting more than $3000000000.00 a year from the united states i don't know what much more we can give them except a piece of paper this is we're going to do what we're already doing i mean what does this mean though the wider implications what could this mean for example for syria and the rest of the middle east. well. again if even without a piece of paper the united states probably would come to israel's assistance if it was physically attacked. and must if it was just invaded for example that certainly would the united states certainly were come to their assistance regardless because of the existing commitments we alre
them as you pointed out earlier there are one step below that of being a nato member and they do work they do joint u.s. and nato countries in military exercises now that's how they coordinate these activities of theirs so that if there is a conflict in actual conflict. and all the sides are are working together they make and. they will have that experience of coordinating a military military maneuvers and in operations but we're already providing the intelligence that would just takes they're...
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nato and other country veterans difference between the between blackwater and nato i'm sorry by saying i don't think you're that sharp that you can tell the difference between a polish guy a french guy or you need a yard and sharp to tell the difference well thank you i've always wanted a lot of time to do that you know as well you know you're going to be tracked and you're going to agree before this gets out i would kind of deal with that i'd carry on with your audience will go to the judge with a tie in the suit. so afghanistan be. fighting 20 international terrorist groups since 2014 the afghan national security forces have been doing this by themselves so how do you justify that you'll get a contract and go and do the war in afghanistan given that you're making money out of this business and you would ever want to conclude this business there and one point please do us a favor and have a bold line between the centers of the democracy is totally up to the people of afghanistan to decide who is their next president thank you are you ready for. you after yourself and you believe the a
nato and other country veterans difference between the between blackwater and nato i'm sorry by saying i don't think you're that sharp that you can tell the difference between a polish guy a french guy or you need a yard and sharp to tell the difference well thank you i've always wanted a lot of time to do that you know as well you know you're going to be tracked and you're going to agree before this gets out i would kind of deal with that i'd carry on with your audience will go to the judge...
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we in conjunction with nato allies, announced officially that georgia and ukraine would one day become part of nato. so these are all signals that according to that dominant paradigm should have caused the kremlin to say issue need to look elsewhere for my ambitions, but instead what happened? a very complicated situation, a complex system dynamics problem occurred. the georgians red all this and said, i wow, we're presenter. the president of the united states carolina about georgia. he visits me. talks to me on the phone, condoleezza rice, the national security advisedder, secretary of state, comes to georgia. wow. we matter. and certainly they're not going to let us down if we get into a problem here. they got our backs. now, we told the georgians don't get into a war. condoleezza rice said to georgian president, adopt attack, don't fall for the russian trap, right? what did he snaer he heard, yeah,ishing know-dope attack the russians, that would be bad. but the words we used said one thing. the actions we took going there, beating with him, said something else and that something else said you re
we in conjunction with nato allies, announced officially that georgia and ukraine would one day become part of nato. so these are all signals that according to that dominant paradigm should have caused the kremlin to say issue need to look elsewhere for my ambitions, but instead what happened? a very complicated situation, a complex system dynamics problem occurred. the georgians red all this and said, i wow, we're presenter. the president of the united states carolina about georgia. he visits...
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nato allies follow your lead president. meet their obligations to our common defense in nato we know their efforts will. fail. those remarks come as a daily beast article frames historical events going back a 100 years as russian interference however as more i've got now argues why stop there. there are a few legends as obscure and my idea is this one seemed leaguers the freemasons u.f.o.'s the loch ness monster and big foot there is russian meddling and with every retelling someone nods and the little twist i mean who is going to disprove them the russians have been attacking us for 100 years but moscow mich still doesn't get it now it's the daily beast turns out russian meddling is ancient lenin who already targeted western capitalism and specifically britain for a long term campaign of infiltration and subversion. you scared yet well you better be lennon himself was a bit of a medlar says the daily beast though they do say a lot of things but with every telling as i said a little something gets added in this case another 50 years to russian election meddling plus the 50 years that mr secretary of state pom
nato allies follow your lead president. meet their obligations to our common defense in nato we know their efforts will. fail. those remarks come as a daily beast article frames historical events going back a 100 years as russian interference however as more i've got now argues why stop there. there are a few legends as obscure and my idea is this one seemed leaguers the freemasons u.f.o.'s the loch ness monster and big foot there is russian meddling and with every retelling someone nods and...
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nato. if you as an ambassador to nato had heard that a united states president was discussing a political issue and military aid and linking the two, and we don't know that that is the case, but certainly there's a lot of circumstantial evidence, and senator murphy and the foreign relations committee are raising this issue right now. >> that's right, andrea. if that's what happened, if the president actually withheld american military assistance from a friendly country, ukraine, which badly needs it, in return for that government in ukraine investigating one of the president's political opponents, that's clearly wrong. it's wrong ethically, it's wrong local legally, it would be the president putting his own [ inaudible ]. >> and ambassador burns, we've had a problem with your microphone, we're going to fix that, but let me go to michael crowley because "the new york times" and "the washington post" have been trying to uncover the details of what this whistleblower complaint was. there is some confusion whether it was one phone call, a series of calls. what's your latest reporting? >> the report
nato. if you as an ambassador to nato had heard that a united states president was discussing a political issue and military aid and linking the two, and we don't know that that is the case, but certainly there's a lot of circumstantial evidence, and senator murphy and the foreign relations committee are raising this issue right now. >> that's right, andrea. if that's what happened, if the president actually withheld american military assistance from a friendly country, ukraine, which...
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we in conjunction with our nato allies announced officially that georgia and ukraine would one day become part of nato certainly they are not going to let us down if we get into a problem here. they've got our backs. we told the georgians, don't get into a war. condoleezza rice said to the georgian president, don't attack. don't fall for the russian trap. what did suckers really here? what he heard was, yes i know. don't attack the russians that would be bad. but the words were used said one thing, the actions that we took going there meeting with him said something else and that something else said, you really matter to the united states. so what did he do? he decided that he could use the security umbrella to go recover some of the separate of states and georgia that had long peeled away from the central georgian government so he attacked first, the russians were waiting for him. they knew what might be coming they counter invaded, took over these separatist territories recognize their independence so we wound up in a war that we were trying to deter. why? i would argue that it's because we had the
we in conjunction with our nato allies announced officially that georgia and ukraine would one day become part of nato certainly they are not going to let us down if we get into a problem here. they've got our backs. we told the georgians, don't get into a war. condoleezza rice said to the georgian president, don't attack. don't fall for the russian trap. what did suckers really here? what he heard was, yes i know. don't attack the russians that would be bad. but the words were used said one...
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nato and the usa and not angels. these are the same people the u.s. military and nato has been spending sending there for the last 17 years but the difference is as a contractor they can go in attached to the same unit and live in the same valley and live and work and train and fight with those guys with afghan counterparts month after month for years so they have that continuity is that 2nd resume the afghan government they don't like your plan they say it's a nonstarter they said on the most circumstances would we allow the war to become a quote private for profit business to form afghan president hamid karzai said even when the opposes your proposal i think you would say differently if you asked him now i literally asked his office on friday and they said they're dead against it. well i've talked to other people i've talked to other people his office who disagree with. the current office and government here's a change their position is well. under no circumstance i doubt very much that ashraf ghani will win the next election but you're waiting for a change of president to get your plan. here's the thing if they don't do a plan like this if there is not a skeletal structure support supporting the afghan forces the next president going to wind up like knowledgeable that did the problem is the way you pitched it is doing was helpful to tell the afghans we're going to be like quote the east india company which violently ruled india on behalf of the british empire in the 18th and 19th century was it wise to talk about having a viceroy in charge of the country i mean you know hiding the fact that this is a colonialist project when you use language like that but here's the thing the united states has no one person that's in charge of afghan policy there's nobody that the president can turn to and say why is afghanistan after this and. yeah sure that doesn't help he doesn't control the military his intro the intelligence funding he doesn't control if i agree with do you think you know wanting someone a vice or in charge of east india company is going to go down well with brown folks . look for 250 years that security model largely work of mostly local forces with a few professional mentors only acting as a structure support but the difference is i'm not there as a colonial power these these these mentor. right the contractors and special forces veterans are serving as adjunct in the afghan forces accountable to the afghan ministry of defense and of course the president if they're flying aircraft we actually found to see the aircraft where the contractor never makes the weapons release decision it is always the afghan but he flies the plane. safety pilot ok in 2004 in afghanistan a blackwater pilot flying a plane with u.s. soldiers on board flew the plane into the side of a mountain he crashed the plane into the mountain killing 6 passengers on board including 3 u.s. soldiers the captain's last words this blackwater employee flying the plane his last words were i swear to god they wouldn't pay me if they knew how much fun this was you were paying him eric prince he'd only been in the country 2 weeks have you your employees learned any lessons from that horrific incident before you go back into afghanistan sure we operated 56 aircraft there safely for many many years we flew tens of thousands of missions safely the difficult thing is when the your customer asks you or tasks you to change your route so that the colonel on board could go view an enemy area on the way to as a deviation from the plan navigation accidents happen that's right it's a dangerous and yes there's an additional 200000 safety board on the u.s. military both said the blackwater provided is sufficient oversight and guidance to the pilots involved in the crash the widow of that colonel says that there was gross lack of judgment in managing this company who was managing the company at that time in 2000 full i just told them the former operations officer of the former operations officer 60 of the most elite helicopter you know in the world so yeah people that definitely understand aviation were in charge of the u.s. military the national transportation safety board criticised your company its role in the accident and they reinstated this and we were flying missions again within 5 days of that incident gray needed a very good job bush administration that's got nothing to do with the culpability that your company had for the deaths of those u.s. soldiers they didn't die at the hands of the taliban they died at the hands of blackwater they died at the hands of an accident made by a pilot flying in a very difficult area i mean blackwater executives were e-mailing each other at the time the e-mail came out said by necessity the initial group hired to support the afghanistan operation did not meet the criteria identified in e-mail traffic and had some background and experience shortfalls overlooked in favor of getting the requisite number of personnel on. told to start up the contract you're saying internally your own company's admitting to each other these guys on experience but need to get the contract up and running is this what you want to replicate in afghanistan now the pilots flying the mission that day had come from alaska they or they were literally high country bush policies are not people that are flying in the over the swamps of florida they were flying on when you were executives e-mailing each other saying that we have experienced shortfalls but we need to get the contract up and running what were they saying that because the transportation because the army material command was demanding the missions to support the missions here's the families felt no no no no trying to serve a customer in a very difficult place we flew tens of thousands in hundreds of thousands of missions after that safely and no incidents ok let's go to our panel here in the oxford union sean mcfate is a former private military contractor former officer in the u.s. army a professor at georgetown author of the book the new rules of war sean you've said u.s. generals have loft eric's plan for afghanistan you've called it unworkable and even magical thinking why blackwater if this was a job interview i would not give you that contract because blackwater was simply a body guard shop in iraq you've never raised or deployed a military like your advertising now i have in places and it takes hold it's a lot more sophisticated than just mentors in the field it doesn't quite require up to political leadership in kabul and they've already had message that they don't support this this is a dead deal in my opinion well and that you're mistaken because we built the entire afghan border police it was 15000 people we did all the recruiting the training the vetting and we actually had mentors that went the field with them and the success rate of these units when our guys were allowed to go with them effectively as training wheels their success rate went very very high and it worked ok so you know i guess i'm the only guy that can say i've had 56 of my own aircraft in country doing that kind of work for the u.s. military ok ghaith abdul-ahad is an award winning guardian journalist. from iraq you've covered conflicts in iraq afghanistan yemen and beyond gate how do the iraqi people remember blackwater and erik prince in your view i mean it's amazing to kind of sit here and listen to eric and speak of a block or so in the services they did in iraq because the word blackwater is synonymous with the worst of the american occupation of iraq that is not a single iraqi that i you know i mean i'm one of those barbarians that was liberated by your country but there is not a single you who would you just mention the word black was as to who would not say corruption violence and i'm not talking only about the kind of massacre but i'm talking about the whole 10 years of the existence of these muslims and i think part of the failure of the american the project and out of was due to the using of the continent is it not is a major problem that you could concede that even if your plan is a good one you shouldn't be the one doing it given the legacy you've left behind with certainly here is the thing your your math is a little skewed because the us didn't invade iraq till 2003 i sold the company in 2010 so that's certainly not 10 years the company and the company traveling what we we tracked all the vehicles where everybody was moving ok and there is dozens and dozens of times that it was brought up there was a blackwater event here blackwater went there and we didn't have people within 200 kilometers of that location the sad thing is blackwater became white clean actually became winded you know why because you became this because what we were the largest one doing you know because you were very worthwhile mission is the reason i mean you gave the work i mean in iraq now or in yemen or any of these places they don't use the word contractors something they use blackwater in yemen in wherever in somalia they don't use mercenaries ok so you've been in afghanistan reaches a lot of if you're reporting do you think afghans will welcome this plan that eric is putting on the table. i've met administrator in office wills high security officials of the count of one of them astray sions opposition and some of your own friends in afghanistan and all agree on one thing it's not going to work and i agree with you totally the 17 years have been to 2 ways the fall of the you know copy. of the soviet plan this is something we agree on however we're not getting government officials are not talking to the minister you're talking to all the letter either mistaken i meet with dozens of afghan officials both in and out of the government from all over the country be they go tariq back. and the warlords write all the people that are going to be voting in the afghan allies so we're going to get american to go one more person one more level we need to come in colonel tim collins is here tim you once commanded british troops during iraq you gave that famous speech that a lot of us remember in 2004 you quit the army and founded new century a private militia consulting company how would you evaluate what happened on his watch what's the hold it a different thing i think what we have to remember and indeed i've discussed this with that many times with the u.s. state department the u.s. military asked for services they encouraged they were enthusiastic to a point of hysteria that blackwater go into these missions when it went wrong they ran a mile and so you have to look at those people and say at a point where there was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff were visiting the facility and encouraging more and more of these services to be privatized and that always and when things went wrong they turned their back on you saying the prince about what it was scapegoated by the u.s. government well i think that as a result of the rather expensive court case that you've been through i think that was the conclusion in the end is that the criticism i as a contractor would level is that blackwater and the organization probably grew too fast there was people who went initially. we were of the highest delta force seal team 6060 some of the people who are coming in at the end of nowhere near and it's a question of who supervising them because the people when we look at them who were in court and convicted we're not of the quality we're not of the few how did they get there how did they get there while we're hearing paul quality circle 2 of the end of your beat in iraq well because there's literally not enough delta force or seal team 6 or even seals for that matter to do that mission you go to marine infantry or army infantry the one fair characterization that i will say is. blackwater did 2 types of missions you work for the state department they dictated you must drive a polished waxed suburban a big issue be armored 11000 pounds lights and sirens down the road and when you drive the same route every day that the state department tells you to it's very easy for the enemy to set up an ambush you keep saying gauge when ambushes just to be clear for the audience one study found that you black hole to open fire 1st in 84 percent of the shootings is a little defensive because you're. ok but it's not just a matter of the enemy opening fire with a firearm to attack they open fire with a trigger switch and they drive up to you and destroy you mean literally but there's also you know a 1000000 strong as it's 9 year old children taken away from work whether it's hamas in palestine in pakistan afghanistan or iraq bad guys like ambulances with explosives and kill innocent people not in the cases i cited we're going to take a break in part 2 we're going to talk to erik prince about some of his work in china and his relationship with the trumpet ministration and we're going to hear from a very patient audience here in the oxford union join us apart to. october on just. this month marks a year since the merger of the genders. maybe has some see these are big interviews are back to telling the. world leaders experts and environmentalists will assemble in ice to discuss the future of the. planet. examine us as well. and we'll bring you coverage of the announcement of the 20 nobel peace prize. october on al-jazeera. hello i missed the how with the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin saleh has spoken publicly for the 1st time about the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi he told the c.b.s. program 60 minutes that he takes responsibility for the killing because it happened under his leadership however he denies any personal involvement this week marks one year since she was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul this was a heinous crime like a loser but i take full responsibility as a leader in saudi arabia especially since it was committed by individuals working for the saudi government. when a crime is committed against a saudi citizen by officials working for the saudi government as a leader i must take responsibility for this was a mistake and i must take all actions to avoid such a thing in the future. u.s. president donald trump says he wants to meet his accuser as the push for impeachment proceedings against him gathers pace trouble made the revelation in a tweet saying the accusations are totally inaccurate and forgery and it's over a phone call in which trump asked ukraine's leader to investigate his political rival joe biden all secondary school students in hong kong us skipping classes to take part in a rally on the eve of celebrations planned in china to mark the 70th anniversary of communist party rule you're watching latest pictures from hong kong where the protests are now in their 17th week hong kong's metro stations and roads have now reopened after a weekend of that saw police fire water cannon and tear gas at protesters who in turn set fires and through petrol bombs. yemen 3 of the fighters have released what they say is video of several trips surrendering including saudi soldiers the operation is said to have taken place in the border town of nashville saudi arabia is yet to comment on the matter. a palestinian prisoner support group is it using israeli security forces of torturing a bombing suspect a lawyer for simeon says he's now on a respirator as a whole as a hospital in jerusalem protesters turned out in ramallah on sunday in support of argued and other prisoners accusing israel of barbarism and at least one person has died after a fire broke out in an overcrowded migrant camp on the greek island of less boss protesting refugees and migrants at moria camp are demanding to be transferred to mainland greece well those are the headlines now it's back to head to head. welcome back you're watching we head to head on al-jazeera english my guest today is erik prince the founder former c.e.o. of blackwater also a big supporter of and donor to president donald trump erik i want to talk to you about your relationship with present moment but before i do just very briefly your currently executive deputy chairman of frontier services group f s g a hong kong based security logistics firm that you found it why is f s g opening a training center for security guards in of all places province in china where up to a 1000000 muslim we are being held in basically concentration camps right now there is a lot of mis reporting on that the company is not opening any training facility up there that was actually discussed at a board meeting the reporting got it wrong the only there is a some kind of memorandum signed for construction services now training the company doesn't do any training of any police or security forces why did i say that at all why did your company say it was establishing training facilities it was going to sign him or you for construction without a press release march the 2nd with your name on it for contract now my name we are going names on the press release your names on the press to me several times and it says i've got the press release. china establishing training facilities and buying security equipment in vehicles. again it was for construction services this training facility if you look at the actual translation from mandarin to english it was structured services the only other is we don't need only as your company's english press release when in reality the only training service is the only thank you that. is for people like bank of china employees or china airlines employees because they travel the world and they go to dangerous places it's how you are wearing people in should know their presence was wrong there is the company has 0 footprint in china so it's not establishing the training facility it said it was establishing a march the 2nd 2800 in english language press release. the board has discussed this twice in there is not $1.00 or r. and b. allocated for anything like that ok and you've got nothing to do with what's going on with the week of muslims and 0 ok but you do have a lot to do with the chinese government so for someone who sees himself as a great american patriot veteran navy seal america 1st donald trump support isn't all that you do so much security business with the chinese government which is seen by many including by president trump as a major geopolitical adversary of the united states and that way it is not a conflict again the company doesn't do any security perceval does some training for people to avoid being a victim of a terror of a terrorism is that it's there is no blackwater sorry no no. you're right there is no way no official employee that's armed doing that kind of secure working in china your hong kong based the majority of your shirt if you really really come to me as a chinese owned is it not it's well it's retail investors everything from mutual funds in their currency chinese own yes or no i don't know if it's a majority but there's a lot of chinese ownership sure how much your company or the executives deputy trade know it's publicly listed it's all publicly disclosed tell us the fact is the company does grocery delivery trucking all through southern africa we do medivac with the biggest medivac provider but there's no conflict between working for the chinese and working for the u.s. as you want to do now in afghanistan you don't think there's a conflict there but american patriot acts veteran look america is a big trading partner of china and helping china connected logistics lines for better trade i think countries that trade together tend to not fight together ok but against sure it is a form of private military contract to form officer in the u.s. army professor at georgetown university author of the book the new rules of war short is there a conflict of interest it is a concern do you think in washington d.c. where you are based yes there is a big interest so last year the national defense strategy which is the pentagon's strategy for the world shifted the 1st time in years away from counterterrorism counterinsurgency into the threats of russia and china and we all know that china. uses its economic instruments of power to you know to to look at they did to sri lanka they took over a port as if they were a mafia don so it's not just economic trade there's also a darker aspect to it and many in washington see you as one of their sort of weapons of war and you're a chinese weapon of absolutely not and because we're not doing any kind of training building their tactical what about the leverage shown building about the economic leverage the fact is what does the company do now it does trucking in transportation from southern africa you can deliver groceries from cape town all the way up to the d.r. see we medivac we fly people all over the continent and we do significant air operations out of malta supporting hopefully oil operations in countries like iraq or pakistan or the hydro dams look the countries around the world with china shows up a lot of money a lot of people to do infrastructure projects the russians are showing up with muscle and weapons the united states is largely missed the boat the one positive change the trump administration has made is it changed the law changed last october for opec the overseas private investment corporation the only part of the u.s. government that actually makes money and now they're shifted a huge budget away from the state department of opec so that it is managed and it allows more investment also a little bit of trade with china which might put you into different comes at the same time let me ask little tim collins this question is here you are a famous officer in the british army now you're chairman of your own private security consultancy new century how do you respond to critics who say when you run these private for profit companies you're only loyal to yourselves or to your bottom lines you're not loyal to a national government and that's a problem that's that makes you conflicted what's your response to people who say that well in the day there's a thing called international law nobody does anything on that side and if they do them then the the must be held accountable the difficulty is the only people who will subject to allow themselves to be regulated all the good guys there are meshing reactivity. all over the world the reality is that many people in this room don't realize that many governments in the world particularly in pakistan india around the middle east maintain people who they pay and deploy as contractors and these are people who are committing atrocities they won't be regulated ok so let me put that point very briefly sean very briefly what's your sponsors point about regulation do you think companies like erik's are as regulated as they should be while i'm a little bit more skeptical about the power of international law in general about mercenaries because the thing about you know who is going to go into yemen and arrest all those mercenary at the u.n. and if so the mercenaries can shoot back they can kill your law enforcement and i'm not suggesting that erik's that would be eric's plan but eric as part of a broader trend of the rise of mercenaries what word is this and you know private wars wars without states that's of and what if the us partakes in this area let me ask you this you're a big supporter of donald trump you've been questioned by special counsel robert muller over the russia gate investigation he looked at your laptop and your phones i believe you've also testified to congress in november 27th and you told congress under oath that you played quote no official or really unofficial role in the trump campaign what you didn't tell congress is that on august 3rd 2016 you were at a meeting during the campaign at trump tower with don jr trump son which stephen miller then a campaign advisor to trump with george nader a former blackwater colleague of yours who acts as a back channel to the saudis there moralities you're supposed to be convicted paedophile and also joel's and israeli expert on social media manipulation how come you didn't mention that meeting to congress given it so relevant to their investigation. i did as part of the part of the investigations i certainly disclosed in the ne meetings the very new i had on in the congressional testimony you gave to the house we went through you didn't mention anything about august 26th meeting in trump tower they specifically asked you what context you have and you didn't answer that. i don't believe i was asked that question you asked whether any communicate for communications or contact with the campaign you said apart from writing papers putting up yard signs know what you said i've got the transcript of the conversation here. i might have been i think it was at trump headquarters or the campaign headquarters probably 2016 usable and israeli do a back channel to the emirates on the saudis don't jr and even militant were there to talk about iran policy you little iran policy thing that's something important to disclose to the house intelligence committee while you're under oath you did you didn't we just went through the testimony there's no mention of the trump tower meeting notice 2016 why not i don't know if they got the transcript wrong. or they got the transcript wrong so we could i don't know i remember i remember certainly does dismiss it that we didn't get you because we know that robert muller he hasn't been able to establish collusion yet but he has got a lot of guys for lying to the authorities and not telling the whole truth is that the problem now even if you accidentally didn't tell them that could come back and haunt you fully cooperated i haven't heard anybody i haven't heard from anybody in more than 9 months i mean i mean members of congress after they discover this media have talked about certain witnesses not telling the truth but you believe you told congress about this meeting even if not in the transcript just to be clear i believe so ok you had another meeting which they did talk to you about in the seychelles on the 11th jahnu 2017 a week before trump's inauguration where good old george nader was there again on behalf of the as was top russian oligarch cheryl dimitri of a close ally of law to me putin's the emirates he stole that meeting as a as a way of creating a back channel between putin's guy dimitry of and trumps you didn't they. i don't think so i was there to talk to the iraqis about somalia and some of the other problem areas that we didn't help with before was also about iran you know and it was so how did you end up with a with a russian oligarch who runs the russian direct investment fund and is seen by the admiralty as the messenger to putin they call him well i say recall the who are investors in that fund and any fund manager fun any fund manager tends to travel to where their lp their investors. need them to be but what we chatting about with the russian dude. i've talked about in testimony and that's all i meant to say but it was just a kind of accidental meeting. yes even though georgia nader your fund raising like i've said before it lasted one beer which doesn't take me very long. so you flew halfway around the world to a secret meeting in the seychelles to have one beer with. i was there to see the iranian leadership that's not what georgia nader seems to be telling the mother folks right now does that worry you that nader's country where you are a former colleague i think it's amazing for you to try to view into the miller testimony that it's my impression to i mean ok that's that's what that's what's being reported ok. i want to bring in you mentioned iran interesting enough to bring in very briefly before we move on and i know the audience waiting ghaith abdul-ahad is an award winning guardian journalist from iraq you've covered conflicts across the middle east when you hear about the emerald t.'s and trump and the saudis and the israelis what is that all about i mean mentioned iran is this all about iran i mean of course we're living kind of people say it's a cold war it's not a cold war game or between their morality so these are the israelis and the iranians on the other side and what the minorities are doing for example in yemen and i think you work with the iraqis and you advise them at one point they are actually implementing your of understand plan so if you see the morality war in the end and it is tens of thousands of most reasonable forces with skeleton troops from the immoralities a war that is being followed so viciously with no accountability whatsoever with then the big arch of fighting the iranians who did exist in yemen have you advocated using private private contractors to take on iran to the trumpet ministration you know you have people have accused of advocating the past you've talked about using private contracts to confront iran no no you see no role for blackwater s.g. in any relation to iran oh ok just to check before going to tell you what i've got asked one question last question you are part of a group of high profile trump supporters including steve bannon sheriff david clarke and others who are planning on raising private money to build a wall along the us mexico border you can have a go fund me page what i don't get though is i'm. pretty sure i heard donald trump say that mexico would be paying for the war. don't discount mexico actually paying for the wall i think most of us have but yet more and more news on that look there's a lot of places where it's federal land and in a go fund me individual effort is not possible but there's a lot of places where u.s. ranchers or u.s. landowners own land right up to the border they are sick of their farms effectively being massive transit spots for drug and criminal activity and so they would welcome that the guy who started that is a triple amputee a military veteran who started it and he's raised more than $20000000.00 and the cost per the you for the last people for money when mick when trump told us more than 100 times people have counted that mexico would pay for the wall so why do we need you in this guy and go fund me page from lied to will because i again don't discount mexico actually paying for part of that. there are things that may happen that mexico end up paying he want is entitled to the will hurt can say hey mexico is going to pay for paul to the wall part very explicitly if mexico will pay for the wall the last chapter is not written on that mark my words you will pay for the wall so then why you fund raising. you want it both ways there is going to raise money because people are frustrated they're sick of frustrated that the president can't get mexico to pay for the wall 2 years into his presidency after claiming there it is a national security issue when you have thousands of people crossing the border with a lot of drugs look america has a huge opium and you know the majority that in fact come through legal points of entry i'm talking about the funding trumps in mexico and from the wall did he lie to people when he said what used to be a bipartisan issue the democrats have made items that are to say that you didn't lie to us when he said mexico to pay for the well given your now trying to get americans to pay i don't believe the president has lied and like i said the last chapter of mexico paying for the wall is not done yet ok mark my word i will wait for them ok but in the meantime americans are going to pay for it through your fund raising let's go to our audience who's been waiting very patiently i'm going to go to the front here and i'm going to the back gentleman here with the band. being originally iraq and having spent some time in iraq i've seen how iraqis still shudder at the name blackwater reminded of the endless aggression the use of weapons as call homes or even the use of tear gas as call traffic control do you not think that blackwater has a role to play in perpetuating violence in iraq as well as laying the foundation for the creation of al qaida in isis there's 110000 iraqi civilians have died after blackwater and involvement in iraq blackwater was not the problem in iraq a very sick tarion government dominated by iranian units that have been pounding on the sunni's and pounding on the kurds is probably the thing that led to the crop of basis but even if that's part of it most military experts into the us military experts agree that high profile incidents whether it's abu ghraib did help act as a recruiting sergeant for groups like isis that didn't exist before the u.s. invaded iraq so something like the missile square massacre that is still remembered in baghdad may well have done helped people say you know what i'm going to go join an insurgent group that's how americans treat of private contractors shoot 9 year old kids in the street shoot mothers with their children i think massive unemployment and an iraqi government that is you know when i'm not disputing that i'm agreeing with you i was saying when you discount them in iraq you sitting at home seeing the missile square massacre didn't think you know what i might as well go join the insurgency this is how americans treat as innocent people no that's not you know look there is a justice a process that served there is actually accountability lots of investigation for that but like i said that's what i always want to ask that you don't answer the question as if iraq you sitting at home sees the missile square massacre you don't think that might incite him to join in a surge in there of course bad news travels fast and irritates people really about news is what this gentleman suggesting but we did not create 110000 iraqi civilians that were murdered ok. xabi and the iranian let's go back to the audience gentlemen here in the red tide. i'd like to ask what you thing some of president trump's greatest for and policy achievements have been thus far and what he should focus on for the next 2 years to secure reelection. well you know the president he campaigned against endless wars and the pentagon look there is a real military industrial complex but he's trying to stop that he is trying to remove or reduce the u.s. presence in afghanistan and in syria he's been getting the north koreans to the table and if you can actually go she an end to the korean war it will be a magnificent 1st step and i think if that's if that's the case then the u.s. should be willing to pull all troops out of south korea and the u.s. presence in korea which we've been we've had for 77 years you're not a fan of iran is going to briefly should you negotiate with iran to why is it that iran is the evil regime nobody should talk to them but north korea i send them love letters he sends me love letters. to my knowledge i think there certainly is still back channel negotiations with the iranians as well but you know they continue to do. you know questionable things in syria ok let's go to let's go to the lady here in the gentleman there. hi this is also with regards to the august 3rd meeting of the 16 you said that you mentioned it in your task to need to the house intelligence committee i have the transcript right here of the testimony on the 30th of november 2016 you didn't i could read from it if we don't have time for you to read the past so why didn't you why you why are you saying you did when you can have another go answering this question why didn't you mention it in your test i mean it was nothing to hide not all the discussion that there was trust transcribed and that's a fact ok your answers to the questions suggest that there was no involvement that they asked you for example have you had any me any meetings with the u.a.e. delegation prior to the official meeting and the august 3rd meeting was prior to say georgia now there is a representative. respond like i said not everything was transcribed from that discussion you weren't there. you've been very kind of i admire you be very forthcoming to that on this issue you're very i want to say much are you worried are you worried about milo no not at all now ok. let's go back to the audience let's go to the gentleman there. i was caught up in this was going back to covering a story at the time was mayhem as you know we saw people getting killed my own brother was injured no we discussed this with you before but just going back one listens have you from it. if done things differently then if you knew what you know i'm sure i wouldn't i wouldn't ever do security for the state department again it just wasn't worth it it wasn't worth the damage or the horror of the company if we were going to do it i would have insisted like we did for any angio work that we did is that we have cameras ok because the camera serves as a 3rd party neutral observer because it's very easy to 2nd guess something that happens you know days ago or weeks or months ago but it's very different and you have to make a split 2nd don't say you're saying. hemmer is that the implication being that you don't accept you did anything wrong that i had there been cameras your men would be vindicated if that was not what you're saying to be explicit about look because i've been found guilty in american courts and in the courts you don't like but they've been found guilty in american court after the 4th time of trying ok they've been found guilty in american court and we had numerous other incidents where there was a shooting and we were accused and when it was all square and we believe your men did anything wrong and when law enforcement authorities viewed the tapes there was no problem believing this was square human did anything wrong so very simple question in hindsight sure if it's an innocent civilian every innocent civilian that's killed is a tragedy is a horror and we try very hard to avoid that that's why 40 when 41 men died doing that mission shielding other people from enemy bullets who were trying to kill them and slaughter them or hang them in a grid and burn them going to some more questions lady there with a hand up do it for my friend to come to you yes i was a us television journalist in iraq during and after the invasion i saw blackwater people humiliate and terrorize iraqis. they were hostile to journalists and they were hostile to n.g.o.s why should you get a contract to do the same thing in afghanistan thank you thank you how did you know that they were blackwater personnel very very clearly walking around not just driving cars walking around they were blackwater as journalists we knew who blackwater was let us know they were not soldiers they were blackwater if they were there was literally i'm sorry there was hundreds and hundreds of companies employing u.s. nato and other country veterans difference between the between blackwater and nato i'm sorry by saying i don't think you're that sharp that you can tell the difference between a polish guy a french guy or you name your that sharp to tell the difference well thank you thank you very much i did time to go but i'm sure you are going to be very retract if you're going to agree before this because i would carry on with your i carry on with you wouldn't go to the debate with a tie in the suit. so i've got to be in war since i was in one fighting 20 international terrorist groups since 2014 the afghan national security forces have been doing this by themselves so how do you justify that you'll get a contract and go and do the war in afghanistan given that you're making money out of this business and you don't ever want to conclude this business there and one point please do us a favor and have a bold line between the centers of the democracy is totally up to the people of afghanistan to decide wh
nato and the usa and not angels. these are the same people the u.s. military and nato has been spending sending there for the last 17 years but the difference is as a contractor they can go in attached to the same unit and live in the same valley and live and work and train and fight with those guys with afghan counterparts month after month for years so they have that continuity is that 2nd resume the afghan government they don't like your plan they say it's a nonstarter they said on the most...
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nato, georgia is still on the list, they still want to become a nato member. and the origin vegal invasion o georgia came about because the georgians were offered a conditional member in natont at the time, was pushing it really hard. it didn't come to pass because the russians invaded and they continue to occupy 20% of georgia's territory. but this is a very dangerous situation. unfortunately it's yet again, i would say, a g7 failure, because they should have been talking about ukraine and georgia and a lot of things that russia is doing wrong rather than even having to discuss the possibility of reallowing, reinviting russia into the g7. >> president trump had them basically wasting their time on a discussion, and then vladimir putin, to show his gratitude for how hard donald trump worked for him at the g7, trying to get him back in the group, he does this. you mentioned the first incursion into georgia. let's listen to what republican presidential candidate john mccain had to say about that then and just imagine what has happened to republicanism since john mccain said this and where donald trump is now. let's listen to this. >> i know from speaking this morning to the
nato, georgia is still on the list, they still want to become a nato member. and the origin vegal invasion o georgia came about because the georgians were offered a conditional member in natont at the time, was pushing it really hard. it didn't come to pass because the russians invaded and they continue to occupy 20% of georgia's territory. but this is a very dangerous situation. unfortunately it's yet again, i would say, a g7 failure, because they should have been talking about ukraine and...
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nato. under the new u.s.-backed proposal, american contributions to nato would fall from 22% to almost 16% beginning in 2021.ny would be forced to increase its share from 15 to 16%. perhaps they could actually pay what they're obligated to, that would be a very refreshing turn of events. british prime minister boris johnson suffering defeat, parliament voting to block his no-deal brexit. law makers trying to prevent johnson from pulling the country out of the european union without a plan in place. you can what was theresa may doing all that time? well, that's your answer. parliament today also voted against johnson's motion to hold a snap election for october 15th. he's in a mess. the justice department here, speaking of messes, facing increasing pressure in court and on capitol hill to release key documents pertaining to the origins of the fbi's russia collusion investigation. the special counsel investigation. the senate judiciary committee now asking for declassification of documents related to michael flynn and flynn's legal team is asking a court to review part of the inspector general's spending repor
nato. under the new u.s.-backed proposal, american contributions to nato would fall from 22% to almost 16% beginning in 2021.ny would be forced to increase its share from 15 to 16%. perhaps they could actually pay what they're obligated to, that would be a very refreshing turn of events. british prime minister boris johnson suffering defeat, parliament voting to block his no-deal brexit. law makers trying to prevent johnson from pulling the country out of the european union without a plan in...
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we, in conjunction with our nato allies we announced officially that georgia and ukraine would one day become part of nato these are all signals that according to that dominant paradigm should have caused the kremlin to say, that's not where i want to go i want to look elsewhere for my ambitions. but instead what happened? a very complicated situation, a complex system dynamic problem occurred. the georgians read all this and said, wow, we are important. the president of the united states cares about georgia. he visits me. he talks to me on the phone. condoleezza rice the national security advisor, secretary of state comes to georgia. wow. we matter. in her certainly they are not going to let us down if we get into a problem. they've got our backs. we told the georgians, don't get into a war. condoleezza rice said to the georgian president, don't attack. don't fall for the russian trap. what he heard was, i know, don't attack the russians, that would be bad. but the words we use said one thing, the actions that we took going there when meeting with him said something else and that something else said you
we, in conjunction with our nato allies we announced officially that georgia and ukraine would one day become part of nato these are all signals that according to that dominant paradigm should have caused the kremlin to say, that's not where i want to go i want to look elsewhere for my ambitions. but instead what happened? a very complicated situation, a complex system dynamic problem occurred. the georgians read all this and said, wow, we are important. the president of the united states cares...
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nato allies follow your lead president and. meet their obligations to our common defense in nato we know their efforts will fail. but it is unclear what information pen's is basing his claims on but there is a whole history lesson of alleged russian interference into western politics that has been published by the daily beast according to the article russia has been practicing something for 100 years art is more against the takes a look there are a few legends as obscure and my idea is this what seems leaders the freemasons u.f.o.'s the loch ness monster and big foot there is russian meddling and with every retelling someone now adds another little twist i mean who is going to disprove them the russians have been attacking us for 100 years but moscow mitch still doesn't get it now it's the daily beast turns out russian meddling is ancient lenin who already targeted western capsule isn't and specifically britain for a long term campaign of infiltration and subversion you scared yet well you better be lenin himself was a bit of a medlar says the daily beast though they do say a lot of things but with every telling
nato allies follow your lead president and. meet their obligations to our common defense in nato we know their efforts will fail. but it is unclear what information pen's is basing his claims on but there is a whole history lesson of alleged russian interference into western politics that has been published by the daily beast according to the article russia has been practicing something for 100 years art is more against the takes a look there are a few legends as obscure and my idea is this...