or turn out to a gear steinberger from the german institute for international and security affairs a good to see you go up is this the deal that will bring about long lasting peace in libya. most probably not we have seen many deals in recent years but still it is good news it shows that the united nations has some influence on the warring parties. and the deal seems to be the result of the realisation by the conflicting libyan parties to the conflict that they care and when the problem however is to what extent the libyans can force their foreign partners to withdraw their troops and whether they really will. really have the will. to give up their alliances with all these nations that have been intervened in the conflict already exactly because as you just rightly point out this is a drawn out conflict with many outside countries involved i want to have these countries that are involved committed to allowing libya to make steps towards reconciliation. well i see no signs yet we have seen in recent months that the libyans themselves are ready to talk to each other they are ready to a

want to turn now to a gear steinberger from the german institute for international and security affairs a good to see you know is this lead deal that will bring about long lasting peace in libya. most probably not we have seen many deals in recent years still it is good news it shows that the united nations has some influence on the warring parties. and the deal seems to be given the result of the realisation by the conflicting libyan parties to the conflict that they can't when the problem however is to what extent the libyans can force their foreign partners to withdraw their troops and whether they really will. really have the will. to give up their alliances with all these nations that have been intervened in the conflict already exactly because as you just rightly point out this is a drawn out conflict with many outside countries involved i want to have these countries that are involved committed to allowing libya to make steps towards reconciliation. well i see no signs yet we have seen in recent months that the libyans themselves are ready to talk to each other they are ready to

great event in conversation with the robert o'brien assistance to the president on national security affairs, otherwise known as the national security advisor. i want to welcome all of you here who are able to join us and our audience watching on livestream. welcome toy special our very special c-span audience who be following this event on c-span2 today. we are delighted to have you here if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who has been able to participate. this will be one of the most interesting events we have done here at hudson, particularly that we are less than one week and some the election of these issues we are talking about today, questions about what america will do and where it will go from your these issues will be decided very soon so what happens here will help us to understand what takes place regardless of who it is who will be sitting in the world -- in the oval office. want to say a few words about our distinguished guest. robert o'brien graduated from the university of california berkeley. from there, he founded a law and between 19961998, officer with legal

secretary of state rogers, my assistant of national security affairs mr. kissinger ambassador lodge and i personally have met on a number of occasions with the representatives of the soviet government to get their assistance in getting meaningful negotiations started. in addition we have had extended discussions directed toward that same end with representatives of other governments which have diplomatic relations with north vietnam. none of these initiatives have to date produced results. in mid july i became convinced it was necessary to make a major move to break the deadlock in the paris talks. i spoke directly in this office where i am sitting with an individual who had known who ch minh on a personal basis. through him i sent a letter to ho chi minh. i did this throughout diplomatic channels with the hope for the making of statements fof propaganda, there might be constructive progress in making the war end. let me read to you from that letter now. dear mr. president, i realize it is difficult to communicate across the gulf of four years of war. prec

hosting this event and conversation with robert o'brien assistant to the president on the national security affairs otherwise known as national security advisor. of youto welcome all here that are able to join us and the audience watching live stream from the website but also a very special welcome to the c-span audience who will be following this event on c-span2 today we are delighted to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone that has been able to participate in this discussion. this is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that we've done here at hudson given the fact we are less than a week away from the election. the question of what america is going to do and where america is going to go from here those are going toil be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to w understand what tas place regardless of who it is and who will be sitting in the oval office come january 201st. i want to say a few words about our distinguished guest. between 1996 and 1998, o'brien was a legal officer with the united natio

great event, a conversation with robert o'brien, the assistant to the president on national security affairs, otherwise known as national security adviser. i want to welcome all of you here who were able to join us, and the audience watching live stream from the hudson website. but also a very special welcome , to our c-span audience who will be following this event on c-span2 today, and we're delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been able to participate in this discussion. this i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that we've done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that we're going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where america's going to go from here, those issues are going to be decided very, very soon. and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand as a guide to what takes place, regardless of who it is who will be sitting in the oval office come

all of them have served as assistant to the president for national security affairs. more commonly referred to as national security advisor's. we will hear their insights about harnessing national power and building interagency consensus to combat the most complicated security challenges of our time. the panel will be moderated by vivienne solana, national -- buty correspondent before we begin the panel discussion i would like to turn it over to my fellow board director michael anderson. michael is the head of strategic at sob usa and has been an invaluable partner in advancing timely debates on crucial strategic issues here at the scowcroft center. we thank you for your 11 year partnership. we look been great and forward to many more events like these in the years to come. before i turn it over, i want to remind everyone. and on theis public record and being aired on c-span . to ask questions and our moderator will choose among them during the q&a session. i would like to thank all of you .or being with us over to you, michael, and thank you. thank you, paula. it's te

34 years, and held the position of the 26th 26th assistant to at the president for national security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. he will be talking about his new pock, battlegrounds, the fight to defend the free world. with dr. michael crowe, the president of arizona state university, mccain institute trustee and a dear friend to my family. we're honored to host a pair of thoughtfully -- general mcmaster and professor crowe on what will be a timely discussion on u.s. foreign policy. >> go ahead and begin. >> great. glad to see everybody here. general mcmaster, nice to see you again. what i want to do first is say the book, fantastic piece of work. you got many tags on it. i want to say sometime relative to a set of core ideas you put out in the book, in fact some i think that are fantastic in the sense they're really concepts we should be using in this articulation of our thinking about foreign policy and national defense policy and so forth. i are difficult rated 20 questions for you. 17 i'd like to have quick answers to-that is not elongated answer

, deeply involved in the day-to-day operations of his national security council, on national security affairs, foreign policy, especially, he was a master of his brief. he was deeply involved in the details of american national security issues. but the emphasis of the scholarship that came out having read all this was to attack eisenhower for being a kind of evil genius. look here, he had overthrown the government in iran, and over here he had overthrown the government in guatemala. what about cuba, what about the congo? suddenly we had this new brand of scholarship that depicted eisenhower as a new figure, where before he was kind of a sneeze-worthy mediocrity. if your head is swimming, i'm not surprised. where is the real eisen hoye ei? i'm a historian, but i'm not interested in making him into a saint or a villain, but i want to figure out what impact did he have on the country? what's the real meaning of eisenhower for the country? what impact did he have, and also, how should we understand his political appeal? why was he so popular? people said, i like ike, but why? what was it about hi

to the successful negotiation of unfamiliar terrain, so it built this, the sprawling foreign affairs security training center in virginia. diplomats are trained how to react to hostile or dangerous situations and what to do if the situation goes from bad to well -- >> hold fire. >> reporter: rick is the senior explosives and countermeasure trainer. >> we want to show them this to understand that they need to protect themselves and a little bit of awareness goes a long way. >> is this a reality check? >> absolutely. >> reporter: the enhanced training comes after the state department had its own reality check in 2012 when four americans were killed at the u.s. consulate in benghazi. >> benghazi got a lot of focus back in washington as it should have and we did learn lessons and it did demonstrate we're sending people to some of these very challenging locations. we owe it to them as u.s. citizens to make sure they're prepared. >> todd brown is the acting assistant secretary of the diplomatic security service. he says the five-day course used to be reserved for high-risk assignments. now it's sta

would like to have in key positions, such as secretary of state, secretary of defense, national security affairs advisor at the white house? >> well, i'm not gonna name my cabinet before i get elected. i've got a little ways to go before i start doing that. but i have an adequate background, i believe. i am a graduate of the u.s. naval academy, the first military graduate since eisenhower. i've served as the governor of georgia and have traveled extensively in foreign countries and south america, central america, europe, the middle east and in japan. i've traveled the last 21 months among the people of this country. i've talked to them and i've listened. and i've seen at first hand, in a very vivid way, the deep hurt that's come to this country in the aftermath of vietnam and cambodia, chile, and pakistan, and angola, and watergate, cia revelations. what we were formerly so proud of -- the strength of our country, its moral integrity, the representation in foreign affairs of what our people are, what our constitution stands for, has been gone. and in the secrecy that has surrounded our foreign p

the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee and the senate committee on finance have requested documents relating to bobulinski's affairs with the bidens which he has provided. fox news has obtained all of that information. included in it is a text message from early may of 2017 in which bobulinkskis thanks jim biden for arranging a meeting with joe biden at the beverly hilton hotel. in there there was also a document which includes possible domestic contacts for the business venture. the list includes a number of prominent democrats including kamala harris, andrew cuomo. chuck schumer, bill de blasio of new york, klobuchar and about gavin newsom and also includes florida republican senator rick scott. however, nothing in the documents to suggest that any of the people on that list were ever contacted or were ever involved in the business venture. the president expected at the debate tonight to bring all of this up. here's the white house communications director alyssa farrah. >> i do think we are going to whether it's asked or has the opportunity to bring it up, he i

it is the national security council european affairs director, trump administration says president trump offered a quid pro quo, president of ukraine. democracy and justice, this is one hour. >> good evening, everybody. it is wonderful to be with you again, our 27th program in this america at a crossroads serious. i'm honored to present not one but two extraordinary american heroes, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, historian and journalist, max. our conversation about the price paid by a military man in the era of trump. our program tonight is recorded by c-span, who we welcome to our zoom room. this was created as a tuesday night for democracy and justice and community kids. started after president trump's first muslim man we found to be a.in violation of our understanding of american democracy to our jewish values. established by david for decades ago, a vehicle to fight for civil discord and protection of our democratic ideals. it's a great partnership that's been able to bring 27 outstanding programs. we are all volunteering our time and appreciate our audience support in expres

he is chairman of the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee who released the reportn the biden family corruption last month. senator, it's great to have you with us. there is a story that is building that is almost as large as the, what appears to be these entirely credible revelations on the laptop computer, and that is the meddling in a presidential campaign by big tech and social media in silicon valley. i want to start, of course, with the reporting by "the new york post" of what is clearly, if true, clearly a tale of corruption on the part of the biden family. you're investigating, and where are you now, senator, if i may ask? >> hello, lou. well, let's face it, we issued our report on september 23rd, 87 pages. the mainstream media largely ignored it. they said, well, nothing illegal here. first of all, it's not my job to determine legality or illegality. our job as congress is to do oversight, gather information, to inform public opinion but also to inform the public. and really from our standpoint we thought we'd provided an awful lot of information that was q

my early piece i urged him to try to use his presidential powers primarily for national security and foreign affairseir height and instead to understand in domestic affairs that his role is really to enforce the law and then to work with congress to get legislation passed. i think what happened since 2017 to today is that i found his critics have become the ones who have, i think, gone too far in trying to stretch the constitution because a i think trump so enrages them. they've launched attack after attack on his he e jilt massey. it's trump's critics, for example, who have talked about getting rid of the electoral college, who have talked about packing the supreme court, add six new members to get to fifteen, who want to return us to a world with permanent, statutorily-protected independent counsels which, i think, criminalize our politics, who want to nationalize large parts of our economy for the green new deal and i think the effect of that has left trump, who's undeniably using the constitution more as a shield, who is using the constitution to pursue his own self-interests, but that leaves hi

will be turning over the information that he has to the senate committee on homeland security and government affairs as well as the senate committee on finance now what impact this will have on the way joe biden is viewed by the u.s. public has perhaps standing in the polls and in the lead up to the upcoming u.s. presidential election remains to be seen but this is a confirmation or further confirmation emails that were released and widespread allegations about the biden family and corruption the u.s. election is just a dozen days away now and president trump will be hoping to cut into joe biden's polling lead at the final debate later tonight will have a very different feel to the 1st round with a mute button now and used to stop the candidates from interrupting each other and the choice of topics will include the pandemic climate change and national security but not foreign policy republican say vat will deny trump the chance to attack biden over the business dealings of his son hunter which our correspondent was just talking about the controversy has been spiraling since leaked e-mails were repor

we know that today bobulinski will be talking with staff at the senate government affairs on homeland security committee. he's also talking to the fbi. he said last night met statement that he was going to surrender his electronic devices with all these documents on them to the fbi. one of the things the fbi will be looking into is whether or not any of the officers in the company, whether it bobulinski, hunter biden, jim biden or others should have registered under the foreign agents registration act. i think the final story has not yet been told. there's a big article in the "the wall street journal" that lays it out today. it's beginning to gain more traction today. >> harris: that's a good article for people to read to kind of get the timeline. john roberts, thank you. you're watching "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. hosted a. kennedy, senior editor at "the federalist," mollie hemingway. executive director of serve america pac, fox news contributor marie harf. also joining us opinion editor for "the washington times" and fox news contributor, charlie hurt. great to see all of you. a qui

alinsky says he will be handing over information to the senate committee on homeland security and government affairs as well 5 as the senate committee on finance now what impact this could have on joe biden's reputation and his standing among american voters remains to be seen but this is quite a revelation to have the former business partner of hunter biden come forward and it seems here to indicate he is confirming the authenticity of these e-mails had him up and thank you for bringing us non-story. now the u.s. election is just 12 days away and president will be hoping to cut joe biden's polling later at the final debate on thursday it will have a very different feel to the 1st round with mutes person it is to stop the candidates from interrupting each other the choice of topics will include the pandemic climate change and national security but not foreign policy and republicans say that will deny trying the chance to attack biden over the business dealings off his son hunter which our correspondent was just talking about they control the cia has been spiraling since leaked e-mails were reported

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you have republican senator ron johnson, the chair of the senate homeland security and governmental affairsommittee, he seemingly was prodded by fox to add an even more salacious speculation. >> this is absolutely appalling behavior by the senator, but it was prompted by mar iia bartiro, that she shuts are invented. this is a gop fantasy, the most disgusting kind of gop fantasy, trying to link biden to pedophilia. we have seen the president retweeting ideas like that. it is -- i wonder how we can ever get back to a norm at political culture where there's so many smears being spread, including by fox anchors, including by gop senators. it was more bartiromo's fault for prompting it, but it was even more inappropriate for him to go along with the interview. >> it is a question that certainly at some point this country is going to have to reckon with. brighton stelter, thank you. the. >>> after a chaotic first debate, a covid diagnosis, a cancellation, competing town has, they will face off one last time. the final presidential debate is coming. >>> a stimulus stalemate s. nancy pelosi's self-

and certainly i sat next to senator johnson the chairman of the homeland security and government affairs committee. i'm a ranking member. we sat close to each other when he was cloerly infected with covid-19. i protect others and stay isolated for a period of time. it's the proper thing to do. >> how safe do you feel now as a member of the senate in terms of being protected from covid-19? >> just in your general work on capitol hill. >> certainly i take protections and make sure the staff is working virtually. it's a concern when you have three members of the senate that come down with the coronavirus. clearly some of the protocols must not have been followed by the senators and raises a host of questions. they have meetings within the republican caucus. i'm not mart of those a a democrat. they don't necessarily wear a mask during meetings. if it spreads across the republican caucus. we are working together. we go to the floor together when we stro when we vote. this are hearings. i'm concerned about staff and folks that work on capitol hill from the police to the folks that keep it clea

security. and foreign affairs. i'd like to serve on the armed services. commerce. and conducting oversight and investigation to root out fraud, abuse and corruption. within the federal government. >> democratic candidate for u.s. senate in georgia. thanks very much. >> pleasure. thank you. >> for more on georgia senate races let's continue. a political reporter with the atlanta journal constitution. good evening. >> thanks if for having me. >> thought on what we just just heard? >> when he first started running in 2017 for a special election district in northern atlanta. he had a more moderate message. after he entered the race. then a moderate message. he's running statewide after stacey abrams example in 2018. you can be a democrat who embraces liberal positions and continued sood so. polls are showing it's working out. he's neck in neck in every major poll we have seen. >> talk about that for a minute. the fact they are neck in neck. it gives some candidates in a different situation. in georgia that's a sign of progress. that means his campaign is working. >> ex

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biden campaign so far doesn't dispute the authenticity of the emails, listen homeland security and government affairs committee is investigating this story, just unfolding at a very slow pace. we will be watching through the next couple days, back to you. >> folks at the new york post coming up to dig into what they dug into. we are getting more reaction to accusations that hunter biden served as a potential contact between the top burisma executive and his father while his father was vice president. interesting reaction from the biden campaign, not an outright denial about these claims, jack-year-old has the latest live from wilmington, delaware. >> the senate homeland security committee is investigating a laptop and hard drive brought forward by whistleblower we spoke to who says hunter biden brought the electronics to the store containing damaging material, he says he went to political operatives after the fbi buried the investigation. john paul met isaac uses a monocle to repair computers. he cannot confirm it was hunter biden who dropped off the laptop but a man identifying himself as the former

the senate homeland security an governmental affairs committee have requested documents relate to bobulinski's business dealings with that biden's. fox news have also obtained all of those documents. there are hundreds of them. we are beginning the process of going through them. among them is a text message in which bobulinski thanks jim biden for arranging a meeting with joe biden at the beverly hills hotel. may of 2017 is long after joe biden left office for the documents also include an e-mai regarding possible domestic contacts for the business venture, the list includes a number of prominent democrats including kamala harris, chuck schumer, bill de blasio, and gavin newsom. it also includes the republican senator from florida, rick scott , however there is nothing in these documents to suggest that people on that list were ever contacted or we're ever involved in that business adventure. fox news has also confirmed tha hunter biden's laptop and the hard drive were dropped off at the computer repair shop in wilmington, delaware were and are rather in the possession of the fbi, and we're so

meanwhile the senate homeland security and government affairs committee is investigating the story. could be unfolding at a very slow pace. we'll be watching throughout the next couple days. back to you. >> shannon: we've got some folks from "the new york post" coming up. kevin, thank you. we are getting more reaction to accusations that hunter biden served as a potential contact between a top burisma executive as father. interesting reaction from the biden campaign. not an outright denial about some of these claims. correspondent jacqui heinrich has the latest from wilmington, delaware. good evening. >> good evening. the senate homeland security committee is investigating a laptop and a hard drive brought forward by whistle-blower who we spoke to appear he says hunter biden brought the electronic here to this story containing damaging materials. he says he went t to little cooperatives after the fbi buried the investigation. john paul macisaac is legally blind and uses a monoculture repair computers. he cannot confirm it was hunter biden who dropped off the laptop but says a man id

that often the third debate is about foreign affairs and of all the topics listed like race in america, climate change, american families, national security amongst them. that is what donald trump ‘s camp wanted because they believe they are on strong round with his base and supporters talking about some of the policies that he has implemented overseas like pulling out of the paris climate agreement, making the american embassy moved to jerusalem and acknowledging jerusalem and acknowledging jerusalem as the capital of israel, those are just two of the many policies he has implemented overseas. they believe the president is on strong ground and they want to attackjoe biden over some of his overseas policies. thank you for now. the us supreme court has allowed the battleground state of pennsylvania to extend its postal vote deadline for november's presidential election. the ruling rejects a bid by the republican party to block the request from a lower court. the supreme court judges were split evenly on the vote, leaving the earlier decision in place. the ruling allows officials to count postal ballots received three days after election da

is democratic senator from michigan, garry peters, the ranking member of the homeland security and governmental affairs committee. he serves on the committee with senator johnson. senator peters, let me get your reaction to the news we heard this hour, the president is being discharged. >> we're certainly glad that he is hopefully feeling much better and is on the road to mending and being discharged. i hope we continue to have complete transparency. i know that's something very difficult from the white house to do and there are a lot of conflicting stories. certainly the american people have the right to know the health of the president of the united states. from a national security perspective, the commander-in-chief needs to be completely transparent as to how he's feeling and his capabilities. >> do you believe the medical doctors about his conditions? >> i have no basis not to believe that. you want to believe what the physicians are saying but clearly there were some gaps in what they were saying. other professionals, other medical doctors continue to have questions that they believe have not bee

country in the morning that temporarily self-proclaimed leaders of the internal affairs bodies and the country's security committee left their posts however the law enforcement's edge and says a clear that they control the situation in the country at the moment crowds of people and be observed only on the square the city is controlled by people's guards which are created from among the active citizens there will be internal troops to take them through the city will be clear in the next few hours but if people who are in the square do not intend to disperse he was one of special for us today from the city. state an urgency is also been declared in sudan in central africa now after some of the worst flooding there in years so many it means lives proving even more of a challenge of what was already one of the world's poorest nations. or rather i've got nothing out of the water has destroyed all of our house furniture and belongings they were glowing lost in the floor being evacuated from our homes to safer places several houses were in time it's truly a menace to save some furniture because the rest was tak

security architecture. young says inter-korean affairs, the opportunity to consolidate credentials. but we talked today about the lingering tensions with japan. relationship with south korea's neighbors make it difficult, to be honest. be verythis could complicated. all right, with that, we are out of time. we are little over time. marc fornks to coming on the show a third time. we really appreciate it. thanks to victor, of course, and sue, great stuff. you always bolt over the high on the show.r you marc, your team is doing well. i think we have a slide -- i don't know if we can bring it -- there you are throwing out the first pitch at the game. i think that you brought them good luck. the best.e dinos you are doing well. the dinos are doing well. it's a twofer. not a triple whammy, a twofer. it has been insightful. another great episode of the capital cable. we will see you in two weeks. >> thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite

one of my top priorities is the ranking member of the homeland security and governmental affairs subcommittee on federal spending oversight. in seeking a bipartisan path to improving our fiscal standing congress must also strengthen and protect social security and medicare while making it absolutely clear that seniors will receive the full benefits that they have earned over a lifetime of work. overall it is clear that once we have recovered from covid-19 the sooner we address the national debt the better. as shown by cbo and gao the difficulties of addressing the baseball outlook only compound over time making it all the more pressing that we work together in a bipartisan way to get through the crisis and then develop fiscally responsible long-term plans. senator cassidy and look forward to working with you and the other members of the finance committee and i took forward to hearing from direct your slagle and comptroller general zardaro on ways to control her baseball outlook. senate thank you senator hassan i think rookie member biden would like to speak. >> thank you very much mr. chairma