they say sarkozy is caught by the ghost of moammar qaddafi.kozy is an police constantly -- in police custody for the scandal linked to libyan illegal financing for his 2007 presidential campaign. there is some commentary and the european press like the spanish paper. if accusations are true, this would sack the confidence that french people have in their leaders and could damage france's international image. they say sarkozy is by far not the first french leader to be facing such scandals after he has left office. and thes have changed tolerance threshold that french people have for these kinds of scandals may be much lower than in the past. cartoonist, it's the return of the living dead in a way as you can see a skeleton of moammar qaddafi has risen from the dead and is coming back in and haunting not jus sarkozy but his former ministers , both of whom have been implicated. host: you also found a piece from the african press talking about the story. guest: totally different opinion from this piece, which is a website from guinea. in africa, t

allegedly negotiated with qaddafi's advisors for fifty million euros to be sent to france for soccer these campaigns. the money was to be received threats or because he himself as the man who would become his chief of staff of the. day. yeah bafta reported that in two thousand and seven gayay on rentedddddddddddddddddddd branch of the bank bandit body about. that was big enough for a man to stand completely operated. he said it was to store copies of sarkozy speeches. then in march two thousand and eight gael about himselflflflflfly neighborhoodod by the act itself. after receiving a wire transfer for five hundred thousand euros. officially he says the money came from the sale of three. an idiot box reports that the money actually came from one of the dock he's aid station survey. by way of an intermediary. the french businessmen alexandra he. a close ally itself because he and his predecessor jack jack judy is expected of setting up payments between france and libya. in january of this year he was arrested in britain on charges of fraud and money laundering. the french daily le mond

allegations and you may have received illegal contributions from omar qaddafi, something he has all -- always denied. sarkozy can be held by law for up to 48 hours. richelle: we are changing gears now. the 20th of f f f f f f f f f fl day of the french speaking world. >> as part of the commemorations, french president will unveil his plans for promoting the french language. it comes at a time when purists are alarmed at the way english keeps creeping into the lexicon. there was a much-maligned attempt to change theasasasasash ta it doesn't roll off the tong easily. a-, so yout also has can't use it on twitter. the french president is guilty of abusing the anglo citizens. it's not just in the language, french businesses love english names as business names. they talk to one woman who says anti-headlights company sosososososososososososs considered cooler and more modern. richelle: funky and cool, that's us. today is international happiness da >> let's stay with huffington post who has interviewed a harvard professor. he has positive psychology. he revealed someme of the secrea smile, a

former officials of coca cola qaddafi as a vengeance for his decision to go to war in libya and two thousand eleven he stressed. that all the allegations only surfaced after that date despite the fact that they're related to the presidential anden. and. he is said that all the evidence issstial fabricated and he went to great lengths to say that a document produced by the news website isn't he jeops own case by going on national tv just a day off the the duchess made that decision it would be very unusual in the united states for example or the uk. well. basically. right now. this was step number one to be put under formal investigation now the investigation continues. and of the magistrates looking into the should have to make a decision whether he should be sentenced to trial or not and so. this is a phase whe. that both sides will fights to decide you know a to tell the balance in favor of either a trial or not so you guys are because he knows he has to go on the offensive and it's his style you could see that he has been boilin. for months toel his side of the story through that old the

when we went in and launched a cruise missile attack against qaddafi, putin was furious. trump mentioned that he thought it was wrong when we overthrew saddam. i agree the way we did it was wrong, but i think he likes the idea of the dictatorship, and i think him and putin are both autocratic thinkers -- host: got you. thanks. think there are some democrats in washington who may also agree with that line. the reality is regardless of whether you think trump is an autocrat or not, he is in a democracy, and he does had a democracy, and he is the president. because of that, there are a lot of different and challenging plaguecal elements that public opinion polls, where he is lagging, anger in conflict with congress about a variety of issues, including foreign policy. there is increasing concern among u.s. allies that reserves some of his most inflammatory rhetoric for allies. autocratsr, you know, like vladimir putin. the thing i will say to that is when it comes to russia, there is an interesting juxtaposition between trump himself and the trump administration. trump, himse

or was it the chaos we saw when obama pushed out qaddafi and mubarak sparking the rise of isis in iraqnd in syria? now, what about the chaos of doubling our debt and exploding the trade deficit. is china,. >> , grew bolder and more powerful, did any of that count as chaos? well, trump, by contrast, has been very clear that we want to have better relationships with more nations, if possible. and we're not going to be anyone's pushover. look, the fact is tillerson should have tendered his resignation a long time ago. he disagreed with the president on major issues. he was opposed to the talks with the north korea. he supported the paris climate accords. he questioned the president's charlesville response. he was at odds at moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and was a fan of the iran nuclear deal. the president, of course, walls not a fan. other than that, the two were perfectly i insync. >> can you address the main headline of this story did you call the president a moron and where do you think the reports. >> i'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that. this is what i don't under

situation and looking at history and thinking in very recent history, it didn't work out so well for qaddafin libya when he gave up his weapons. even similar -- if you look at saddam hussein as well. power for these dictatorships comes from their ability to strike back. ed: he has an extraordinary military today. he'll do a lot of damage to the south with the traditional military weapons they have on that bored they have been building up 40-50 years. the nuclear gives them a capacity to go beyond their borders and to the south. and there is some kind of a way they are not moving forward. i go back to the point. every time we stepped to this table before they have taken something from us and not given anything back in the end. we have to make sure we can verify it far more effectively. twrish * ed rollins stay with us. we are waiting on the white house, we are waiting to hear some more about the president being invited to sit down with kim jong-un from north korea. i would like to bring in retired four star general jack keane. we have been talking about this for some time now. are you encoura

and pretending to are going to walk away from nuclear weapons and perhaps faced the same fate as qaddafin in iraq is difficult. want to go down that path, and david was talking about kim jong-un being in the president's seat. what about the south korean aesident -- now you have korea-u.s. free trade deal that came about and renegotiated. there were some concessions by think it seems to be working fine for them. >> i think president moon has played this very well and it helps them talk on the same level as trump and have trump keep south korea's interest in mind. it takes away a feeling of resentment that president trump had for south korea. you run understand when for presidency he wanted to open up the doors with north korea. is it working with president trump though, what's he gives up that initiative legitimacy, you can't get back. >> i think trump is only concerned with short-term issues and him being able to solve north korea will be a welcome sight for all of the scandals he's facing. -- it might u.s. not be in their best long-term interest but it might be for trump today. shery: i

i use the libya example earlier and qaddafi were things didn't work out as well for him. is that a risk that you think kim jong un it is contemplating right now? >> i hope you would hear very clearly from the president and the secretary of state and for myself and others that we are not looking for a regime change in north korea. we are looking for north korea to step away from the saber rattling and threatening the rest of the world with attack. i think at times he believes the only way he stays in power as if he maintains nuclear weapons. i think the way he loses power if he maintains nuclear weapons. if he will step away from that, obviously want to work with the people of north korea to be able to help in a humanitarian way it is ahead, but we are not going to do that if he is a nuclear power trying to threaten the rest of his neighbors. >> trish: we will be watching it very carefully. the whole world will be watching this very carefully. hoping that something will be able to get accomplished here to keep everyone safe. thank you, senator. all right, we have the very

. >> and that didn't work out well for qaddafi in libya. >> you think about saddam hussein.n't work out well for him either. i think we're ultimately going to have to really press the chinese to intervene. i think the sanctions are hurting him and the chinese will stick with the sanctions and in fact increase where they can these sanctions, i think we're going to continue to hurt them and what we may ultimately see is an internal implosion inside of north korea as people are starving, which they're doing right now. >> trish: so maybe the chinese play ball, but then you get other rogue nations like iran. >> iran and russia as well. they have store -- historically violated the sanctions. the biggest trading partner is china. the people inside north korea are i think the key here to what is going on. if we could ultimately put kim in a situation where he's got to choose between this nuclear program or his people -- you can say he doesn't care about them to begin with. but yeah, he's going to have to care about them when they become a threat to him. keep in mind, he has a histor

does it mean for north korea to talk about denuclearization when we see what happened to muammar qaddafi, what does it mean for north korea to engage in conversations and deal making with the u.s. when we see that the u.s. is trying to pull out of the iran deal? and the third component, chris, is, is the foreign policy team in the trump administration in place to handle these high stakes matters? >> not just the foreign policy team, eddie just doing the headlines here about the complexities of what we're talking about, does the president know what he's getting himself into when he goes into talks like this? >> well, i mean, he's going to find out. as you can see by twitter -- >> that's not a very comforting answer. >> well, we all know he's not been negotiating to try to denuclearize a country, he's never done this before. this is all new territory. but what i will say is the fact that you've got to look at what north korea is doing. and one of the things that's very important to their culture and to their country is being respected. the word "respect" is a big deal to north korea. they

the probe is linked to allegations that muammar qaddafi funded his 2007 campaign.edro public is in ski has resigned after two years. he had promised -- but he faced a growing number of government scandals. he has denied any wrongdoing. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am taylor riggs. this is bloomberg. guy: thank you very much. facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg has broken his silence on the latest scandal, causing the companies shares -- company's shares to plunge. enough.say it is not then there is the russia factor and its meddling in international politics. following the poisoning of a former british spy on u.s. soil, they are calling for allies to expel russian spies. with us our martin lueck and alexander stubbs. will anyone listen to the u.k.? does it matter that the brexit story is unfolding as this story related to russia happens? the u.k. is wanting the security story to remain as strong as it always has done. we are a nato member. the e.u. is a political and trade construct and the

we will never -- >> eric: they're looking at at saddasaddam hussein, qaddafi.m jong un will surrender his nuclear weapons or as you say, these are incremental baby steps? >> that's a question i get asked all the time. here's what i say. i've been to north korea. i've met with north korean officials. i never say never when it comes to north korea. if the single leader changes his mind, than anything is possible. obviously that's not a step that's going to come up front. if it happens at awcialtion wile the final step that comes and it will be because there's been enough practice built up that they feel they can do it. from the end of the korean war for 40 years they enjoyed the deterrents they had from their conventional forces. they didn't have nuclear weapons but neither the u.s. nor south h korea invaded them. there's other ways to provide for defense without nuclear weapons. >> eric: maybe if they're assured with the regime's survival, potentially that could happen. jim walsh, good to see you. >> good to see you, eric. thank you. >> arthel: here at home, out

look what happened to saddam hussein and moammar qaddafi. we're trying it figure that out. maybe all u.s. forces off the korean peninsula. remove our nuclear umbrella over japan and south korea. who knows what else may go. they will think we'll reduce our nuclear weapons but keep a minimum credible deterrent. there are a lot of possibilities from the meeting at the end of next month between north and south. charles: peter, thank you very much. always appreciate your expertise. >> thank you. charles: the president in ohio will push a infrastructure plan. fox business will take you there live. i will break it down tonight 6:00 p.m. eastern. to make you money. i hope you're staying the course in this market and prepared to makerm even more money. ensated. our philosophy is one of service, not sales... that's why i'm independent. charles schwab is proud to support more independent financial advisors and their clients than anyone else. visit findyourindependentadvisor.com charles: infrastructure stocks in big-time rally mode as president trump gets set to tout his $1.5 trillion

ultimately think that kim jong un deeply believes that the only way he survives and doesn't become qaddafisaddam hussein as if he has nuclear weapons. if he gets them up, there's no reason why they won't come in after him. there's two things happening here. number one, the pressure of the sanctions is so intense and the fear that donald trump will attack him militarily is so deep, and there is so many complaints about his elites around him that he is forced to do something to buy time and create some sense of hope that things might improve. the other thing that might be happening is, he's luring us into these negotiations and then he will make demands that he knows we will never agree to like the u.s. abandoning south korea. at that point, he will go to the world and say i'm very reasonable, i met with the president, i'm willing to be flexible, but these guys don't want to deal with me. that's designed to get the international community to back off sanctions. i think the second option is probably the likeliest. time will tell. i hope i'm wrong by the way. we all want peace, but i don't thi

external threat is central to that weapons program and the lessons he's taken away from the likes of qaddafi that have given up programs puts him at risk and it was surprising to see that in the paper this morning and we'll see where the talks go. sen. cruz: thank you good >> thank you, senator cruz. let me make a comment about that. i'm glad you brought that up, senator cruz, we talked about this earlier and general ashley and i had a disagreement about this. let me tell you why i feel a little differently than both of you. i, too, have been here while you've been here, dan, and we've listened to this and seen this movie before and all that but you have to keep in mind that kim jong-un just came off of eight years with someone -- a policy of appeasement from the obama administration, then all of a sudden when the response came on pressing the button and he responded in a very, very straightforward way -- he being our president -- then all of a sudden the phone call went down to south korea, yeah, we want to participate with you in the winter olympics and i was watching this because i was th

when we went in and launched a cruise missile attack against qaddafi, putin was furious.mp mentioned that he thought it was wrong when we overthrew saddam. i agree the way we did it was wrong, but i think he likes the idea of the dictatorship, and i think him and putin are both autocratic thinkers -- host: got you. thanks. think there are some democrats in washington who may also agree with that line. the reality is regardless of whether you think trump is an autocrat or not, he is in a democracy, and he does had a democracy, and he is the president. because of that, there are a lot of different and challenging plaguecal elements that public opinion polls, where he is lagging, anger in conflict with congress about a variety of issues, including foreign policy. there is increasing concern among u.s. allies that reserves some of his most inflammatory rhetoric for allies. autocratsr, you know, like vladimir putin. the thing i will say to that is when it comes to russia, there is an interesting juxtaposition between trump himself and the trump administration. trump, himself,

qaddafi, he gave up his nukes. we let him get slaughtered. syria, the same thing. we participate in these little proxy things. the majority of americans probably don't know we have forces in 40 different countries. we are droning people all over the world. i don't think the cold war has ever -- is ever going to end it. it's the only way to conduct business because a conventional war is never going to work. host: ron is in new york city. go ahead. caller: thank you for c-span. economy is comparable to the size of italy. the remember correctly in 80's, afghanistan broke the back of the russian economy. lost my thought there. thank you for c-span. host: call back again. it's just after 7:30 a.m. on the east coast. question, is this the cold war back? we are asking this in the wake of the expulsion of russian diplomats yesterday. briefing, they discussed the expulsion and what it means for relations. past after theof attack and the expulsion, what took so long? >> we coordinated with over one dozen allies who one of his to be a joint effort. we are joining the european

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