the united states has been supportive of it. there's a u.s. envoy that has been dedicated to trying to advance the process and we have been pleased with the steps they've taken thus far. what will be important is for the central government to be formed, to take up residence in tripoli at the beacon providing for the secure the situation inside of libya. but until the time they can do that, the united states may have to take out, to carry out actions like we did overnight to protect the american people and to protect our interests in the region. and so we're going to prepared to do that, even as we continue to be strongly supportive of the political process inside of libya. >> i want to ask you about a couple of storylines, at the democratic side of the campaign. first one, i think the post sort of gave -- [inaudible] were downplaying the economic recovery and said it's a big mistake, and not more forcefully play up that recovery. does the president think that is a big mistake that they are not playing it up enough? >> i think what is good both

to wonder what the united states is doing. at kruschev and not to look at the chinese communists. >> he was saying that the russians were getting ahead of us in missiles. >> it frightens people. it's not true. but it frightens people. and it's very effective in the campaign. >> i believe the soviet union is first in outer space. you may be ahead of us in rocket trust. but we're ahead of color television. i think that television isn't as important as rocket. >> we outmissiled them 100-1. if eisenhower came forward and said this kid is not telling the truth, it would have been a different election. ♪ >> let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. >> kennedy, in his inaugural speech, did not have a single mention of a domestic issue. he came to the presidency thinking his job was to run the cold war, to defeat the russians. >> i do not shrink from this responsibility.

if you're going to use a weapon like that, outside the united states, you have debate rules of the unitednations charter. these are the rules for the resort to military force that are binding on the conflict the united states which is a full party to the united nations and to these treaties and other rules of international law. the charter says that all use of military force is prohibited, with two narrow exceptions that are in the charter itself. the security council can authorize force, which it did most recently in libya in 2011, or a state may use force in self-defense to an armed attack. if an armed attack occurs, that's what the charter says, and for such time as him until such time as the security council enters and helps to defend the country. so when the united states went to war in afghanistan after 9/11 on october 7, 2001, we did so on the basis of article 51 self-defense under the u.n. charter. that's what our letter to the security council sent. but it doesn't end there. not only do you have to have an armed attack as we did with the 9/11 attack, but your use of force in self

it has evolved to the point where there was bafflement they were not grateful to the united states for all the freedom we brought them. this to me really underscores how completely muslims are excluded from anything we think about or talk about in the united states. themve debates about without their participation, we have discussions about what they are thinking without actually hearing what they are thinking. we have constant reports about who we are killing and how many people we are killing without ever stopping and thinking about who those people are or whether they have done anything that warranted that violence. so much so it was recently revealed a couple months ago by the new york times the obama administration has adopted a new definition of militants, which says that any military aged male and a strike zone, meaning any male who dies above the age of 16 or below the age of 55, is automatically deemed a militant without knowing anything else about them. this is how we have come to think about muslims, to the extent we think about them all, they die at the hands of our violenc

the united states -- the u.n. supposedly on big issues will never do anything the united states doesn't want it to do. which sounds, well that protects everything. but in which the event in which the united nations played a most critical role, the korean conflict, the only reason that the united states was able as part of the united nations coalition to commit itself to that conflict and a we don't have to ask for war, we're simply observing our obligations as a united nations charter member is because the soviet representative happened not to be there that day because he was protesting the fact that nationalist china was still part of the security council and not the people's republic of china. so there was no one to veto anything. but notice that even there, we've got this great cause. we want to make sure that communism doesn't spread. we're going to protect american values. hadow what do you make of that? john. >> this goes along with our last point of portraying it as a defensive war in order to galvanize dome

public within in the united states and the united states congress and in the united states press and also in europe. by 1913 and certainly by 1916, europe had ceded any rejection of american hegemony, at least north of the amazon. it expanded the united states to tighten its high generalmy. it made the united states even more eager to assert, to establish stability in the region. it became even more desirable to try to impose on central america and the caribbean. when the election of 1916 occurred and wilson said he wanted to keep the united states out of war, of course there were u.s. troops in haiti in the dominican republic and in nicarag nicaragua. he didn't need -- the united states didn't need to intervene in every country in the caribbean and central america. in a way, it's a little bit like lynching. you don't need to lynch everybody. you lynch some people and that is the lesson that people learn. it is very possible to intimidate. in 1918, 1919, intensify iing american control over the region, wilson, despite his rhetoric that he was saying right at that moment in versailles

and what is the position of the united states? who knows. when the sg comes around, one of the other duties he performs is this duty of centralization and coordination. you cannot appeal a loss to the united states supreme court court unless you get the solicitor general's permission to do so. you cannot file an amicus brief without first getting the solicitor general's approvappro. if the sg grants permission, he or she or someone in the office, is going to be heavily involved with that case. so my virtue of playing the coordinator, the sg helps influence the position in the case. this is an important power. if you talk to former sg's they will say i remember having the fcc wanting to take a position and the nlrb wanted to take the other one and it was up to me to figure out which one would be the policy of the united states. i think you can see the power of the solicitor general in that extent. particularly if the president faces a congress he doesn't get along with maybe you will use your solicitor general to go before the court and enact

it's inconsistent with the expectations of the united states constitution. think it's also inconsistent with the expectations of the american people. the american people expect that the united states senate will do their job. and right now you have members of the united states senate suggesting that they're not going to do their job for the next 11 months. and i think that's a position that's rather difficult to justice -- justify. but that's something that they'll have to determine. they'll have to determine for themselves whether or not this is a position that they can maintain. the president certainly is intent on following through on his constitutional responsibilities. the president will do his job. and in fact his team is already hard at work preparing materials for him so he can eventually choose the best person to fill the vacancy at the supreme court. the kinds of people who would be considered for a position like this i think are well are that every debate that takes place -- well, let me say it this way. certainly in the modern era, anybody that's

in the united states. would it take to have zika established in the united states? something that every summer you have to worry about? >> zika is a little bit different than west nile. west nile has special characteristics that allowed it to be established in the united states so quickly. one is that west nile is spread by mosquitos that are very common. whereas zika is spread by mosquitos who are really in the southern part of the united states. and west nile has the ability to infect birds, which allowed it to traverse the united states very, very quickly. zika virus doesn't have that capacity. so the worst case scenario is we get zika transferred in florida, for example, the texas, mexico border, with dengay thrives. i don't see it thriving in places where the mosquito doesn't live. >> could ongoing climate change change what you just said as a prediction in >> the temperature -- temperature has a weird variation with mosquitos. sometimes it increases their rank, but also decreases their flight range a

but i think the opinion that we all value the most is what's required by the united states constitution. and the institution of the united states senate has a duty to function and ensure that the supreme court of the united states has what's required to function as the founders sbebleded. reporter: you still think there's a -- mr. earnest: founders intended. reporter: reporter: so you think there's still a chance of it? mr. earnest: absolutely. i think based on what senator kirk and collins and senator coates has also indicated that he believes that he said, if the president nominates someone, which is his choice, i think that person would deserve a hearing. senator blunt said, i certainly don't mind taking a vote on this issue. neither said coates nor senator blunt represents a state that president obama won in the re-election of 2012. neither of them would describe themselves as a moderate. both of them are conservative republicans. but both of them are out there saying publicly that if the president nominates somebody, they're ready to vote on them. again, i guess it will make for an

take for example the president of the united states. he refuses to name the enemy of radical islam even when the enemy is more unhappy and more often prepared and more is unwilling and does so over and over and over again, tells us what their motivations are. the president is not prepared to say it. not just the president but lots of people. all religions have to be equal. all countries have to be equal. ladies and gentlemen, i am here to tell you all people are equal but all cultures are not equal. all religions are not equal. you are not going to hear that at universities today. you will not hear that in classrooms at elementary school and middle school or high school. it is a crying shame and what's has it done? has it led to an america right now where so many young people don't like their country. they have bought into this nonsense, they have bought into this idea that america is an aggressive place, so much to be ashamed about, so little to be proud of that if everything it has done is in some way tainted. and yet they don't realiz

bush was president of the united states. he said -- "the duties of the senate are set forth in the constitution. nowhere in that document does it say the senate has a duty to give presidential appointees a vote." that's senator reid. i agree with him. that's exactly right. but that's not the position he appears to be taking today. the president has every right to nominate someone, but the senate has the authority to grant consent or to withhold consent, and what i and the other members of the judiciary committee on the republican side said yesterday in a letter to the majority leader is that we believe unanimously, all the republicans on the senate judiciary committee, that we should withhold consent. exercising a right and the authority recognized by senator reid in 2005. now, i have read some of the press clips. people recoil in mock horror. well, you're not even going to have a hearing? you're not even going to meet with the president's proposed nominee? well, that's right, for a very good reason, because it's not about th

the majority of asylum-seekers asylum in the united states. asylum-seekers are not guaranteed legal representation, there is no due process as we understand it in our justice system. legal representation makes all the difference. in 2010, only 11% of those asylum-seekers who did not have legal representation were successful in receiving asylum. having legal representation makes all the difference, but most asylum-seekers do not have legal representation. they either cannot afford it or cannot receive pro bono representation because the system is stretched too thin. that is the first factor in the post-cold war period, something periodkes the different, asylum-seekers. terrorism is a second factor that has affected refugee and asylum policy in the post cold war period. a result, our immigration bureaucracy was completely revamped. refugeeserrorists -- are the most about it in u.s. history to prevent would-be terrorists from entering the u.s. and causing harm. the state department tells us monthss can expect 18-24 of vetting, screening before the

cuban refugee program to screen the refugees to find sponsors for them, and to help them in the united states. by the time the cuban refugee program was phased out in the 1970's, the federal government had invested some $100 million into cuban refugee release. those paroled into the united states could not become permanent residents unless congress passed enabling legislation that allowed them to normalize their status. this is what congress did. congress passed the hungarian release act of 1968 and the 1960 cuban adjustment act, which allowed hungarians and humans to become permanent residents in the u.s. after living here for two years. so we begin to see the origins of the distinctive refugee policy taking place in the 1950's and 1960's. members of congress became increasingly concerned that the white house was using the parole authority to much as a backdoor to bring in people to the u.s. outside of the established immigration quota. consequently, when congress passed the hard-sell or act of 1965, they inserted a quote of 10,000 refugees per year. once again, refugee was defined as someon

the united nations and i want to go back over the points we talked about. our colleague from maryland mentioned the fact the united nations -- or the united states has a similar approach to the sanctions that brought iran to the negotiation table. the sanctions levied against iran brought them to the negotiating table. and the fact the united states has levied almost eight times more sanctions against iran than we have a regime that does poses a nuclear weapon. yng we have more work to -- i think -- but the disappointment with the united nations is well-stated. >> yeah, i think it is good that you bring up the fact that when we began putting these sanctions in place there was a lot of push back because in essence, for those things to work properly, or have make the biggest difference in outcomes is you need to have an international effort that takes place. when we began the iran sanctions process it was unilateral. and i know we passed an amendment in the banking committee with that originated things to put in place to make it multi lateral. over time it did become that way and we forced a behavior change. i would have liked a better outcome and many others b

the best. a united states is fortunate we have the world's most advanced health care system in the united states it's impressive. we want to keep it that way and make certain that we are well coordinated, use common sense, and we will be able to contain the spread of this virus and the well-equipped for any future threats in a poster so i look forward to hearing from the panel. i welcome our witnesses. i'd like to turn to ranking member duckworth for her opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think if you are expert witnesses for being here today. today's hearing is an important opportunity to examine the effectiveness of our current effort to combat the zika virus and to ensure the interagency response is officially coordinated. there have been 82 reported cases of seek in the united states including for cases in my home state of illinois. today these cases have been limited to travelers returning to the united states from affected countries or from individuals who that sexual relations with returning travelers. as a new mother i understand the public's concern over the zika virus. th

and yeteven the united states actually facilitated hernandez and wife getting pregnant. >> it is insulting to intelligence of the community here and to the people that they did so much haham. i can't see how the united states that i knew and loved could do a thing like this now. i am very disappointed and kind of not happy, just about anything hapapning relation to cuba coming from the united states government. >> this may be a rhetorical question, do you think real change can come as long as the >> no, no. the castro brothers have designed a system by which they're safe in power by controlling the people on the island by repression, by fear, by intimidation, by murder. and that is not going to change because they -- very bottom, they're very scared of their position. they know that the people of cuba will want to come together at once against them. they would lose it. and i hope that this has an end soon for the cuban people, but it is never going to come about of any of this negotiations by the government to the u.s. it is unfortunate. >> some people would argue that change is already un

that's the president of the united states. well, based on his comment, one might reasonably conclude that the white house was somehow privy and in consultation with the f.b.i. about their ongoing criminal investigation. now, subsequently i had a chance to ask director comey whether in fact that was the case and he said, absolutely not. and i believe director comey. but it's not a little matter when the president of the united states is saying, i don't see a problem here, when he actually doesn't even know the facts, and it might appear that he's trying to influence the conduct of that investigation. that's a real problem. in fact, the president's comments were out of line. the president offering his opinion on what the results of an ongoing criminal investigation might or should be. well, since that time we found out that secretary clinton had 18 e-mails between her and the president on her private e-mail server. i don't know whether the president still feels like this is not a problem but it is a big problem. i earlier outline

as i said, 40% of that market is in the united states. and all of this pumping creates something that is new in the history of human kind which is a surplus of human milk building up in the freezers and refrigerators of american women. i won't say anymore. building up in the refrigerators and freezers of american women. so the combination of the internet and the pump has revolutionized wet nursing whereas wet nursing would be a service now it is a product that is sold online routinely. this is a good image. i need to step back here a minute. let you think that the nestle nurses are a thing of the past. this is a store on the upper side of man hattan called yummy mummy and the owner of the store is the one in the middle. the people surrounding her are not nurses but employees and dressed in white lab coats to sell all of things they sell in their breastfeeding store like pillows, supplements, and pumps. so the phenomena of dressing people up as nurses to convince people the way we recommend your baby is medically sanctioned is not dead. it

was a student who decided to come to the united states to pursue a phd in nuclear engineering. he arrived at the university of missouri to study and obtained his phd and decided along with his wife he wanted to stay in the united states and work in the united states rather than returning to iraq. work as aand got research professor at the university of missouri, became an integral part of the columbia community. he and his wife ultimately had five children, all of them american-born u.s. citizens. the problem is beginning of the early 1990's, for the next decade, he had numerous family member still in iraq, including 11 siblings, along with his elderly mother who was blind. millions ofs and iraqis, his family members were not just suffering great deprivation, although they were, they were literally on the boundary of starvation, typically unable to feed themselves in anway that provides major stenance. th i incredibly coon among the rime sanions. althoughe wasarning aodest salary, simply uld not goodonscious live en what was rlly a lor middlelass erican existence with some discr

i think it should be put to the united states. what is the implementation of the states, looking to shelter with china, militarily over any island in the south china tale. it makes it. china is not afraid of the united states. i don't think china will back down soon, when we are faced with pressure on the south china sea. >> what is china's goal, is it to downplay the east's preps, control the shipping lane. must be to do with the construction work that's going on in the island. >> first, ever since the end of the world war ii, japan, after being militarily defeated. according to the arrangement with the allied forces, mainly the united states, surrender all the island and atolls in the china sea, to china, the republic of china. and the united states kansas in taking the islands in in the brent seabrook, and at the time -- in the south china sea. many of the countries are not cooperating. they want european powers in that part of the world. that is the history. china is not afraid with the international community. china's ownershi

the united nations. what we would like to see is that our allies from everywhere, not just from the united states, the united states, like i said, i have been a soldier for about 60 years. always a time, we have always, always experienced that magnificent support from the united states. the problem is that we would like the arab league, it's very, very important, the gulf countries, as well as europe to do more. more, not just for the war machine, but as well as for the people of jordan to try to support that conflict, which is -- it's coming out, it's getting out and becoming bigger than the government of jordan. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] professor alexander: thank you very much, general, for your insights. think issues that you raised and the challenge to jordan now on the human level as well as security. just a footnote i want to mention i think the definition of bankruptcy that we are struggling with economically as well as policymakers for many decades, one of them, as i mentioned, the definition of that you raised about the so-called islamic state, and i think, again, it is really fund

the united states and its alliance system. that does not mean china is arming for war against the united states. on what he calls food andines of supplies. it has the ability to build up the military and guarantee the security of these lines. it wants to be the guarantor. it is a challenge to the u.s. and to our alliance systems, with japan, south korea, the philippines, taiwan, and australia. host: are their specifics about what kind of military equipment we are talking about? guest: we are seeing missiles which are part of china's anti-access denial system. -- ave ability toas the take out aircraft carriers with land-based missiles. that is what this is part of. there is also the maritime domain interest. china wants to know what is going on. who is flying, sailing. there is the legitimate use of these of quitman, and then military use, which is concerning not only to the united states, but to china's neighbors. wants to gohip through the waters, they have to ?et guest: permission know. these are the global commons under u.n.

as the president has said, the united states benefits from having a strong u.k. he european union. european union can continue to be a critical global hardener -- partner of the united states, on a variety of issues, economic, and national security. you recall the eu foreign minister was playing a critical important role in completing the international agreement to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. that cooperation is valuable and even more viable to us when we had an outward looking eu that has the u.k. as a member. so we have been clear about what , the united states equities are, but, you know, but obviously the british people will have an opportunity to weigh in there. >> the governors make reference earlier to meeting a couple of days ago, when they were going over the syrian refugee plan, and there were lingering concerns about the plan. can you describe in more detail what the administration's efforts are to reassure them? mr. earnest: we will give more specific information. i did not attended. it.ttend what i can tell you the administration is

the united states is going to act. the united states said tonight it's going to pass a very strong sanction bill, very strong message bill that we do not intend to sit back and let north korea proliferate their weapons of mass destruction. we also don't plan to sit back and let them commit gross violations of human rights. we won't sit back and allow them to attack our intellectual property through cyber attacks and that we are going to act as one, united. we're going to act, democrats and republicans, house and senate, we'll work with the administration, we're going to get this done. and then, yes, we are going to go to the international community. we are going to put pressure on our other countries. we know that the republic of korea is with us. we know that japan is with us. china needs to be with us. and we're going to go and talk to china and explain and work with them so that we can get international pressure to isolate the north korean regime until they change their course. it's critically important to our securi

this is not to say that the united states did not have a history of an ex-ation. certainly that's the whole 19th century story, that the united states moving westward and acquiring chunks of real estate after chunks of real estate as it moved westward, but this was almost unprecedented in that it would be jumping off the north american continent and people thought perhaps we're not quite ready for that. also, just two years before grant became president the united states purchased alaska at a pretty hefty price, $7.5 million. and many people thought, first of all, the deal was corrupt and, second of all, it was a waste of money anyway. known as seward's ice box and seward's followy. people said let's not repeat that mistake. there were charges of corruption related to santo domingo. joseph fabins and william casno, who definitely would have made more money, had the united states an ex-ed santo domingo. they were developers, as it were. as mark twain's book, "the gilded age" reminds us, business men of that type were often referred to as corrupt, even dismissed as c

. >> this next discussion of "the solicitor general and the united states supreme court." there's the book cover o your co-author to generate a wisconsin professor ryan owens. professor, what is a solicitor general? >> the solicitor general is the attorney for the united states. he or she represents the nested interests in the supreme court. occasionally in the federal circuit courts of appeals. but is really the central figure in terms of litigating the u.s. position before the supreme court. >> whether or not that perfect as an expert in the topic being discussed or not it's more of a trial attorney type of thing? >> that's a good question. the office of the solicitor general sort of as three layers to it. at the very top we've got the was solicitor general donald really. that's a position that is now made by the president confirmed by the center's list of the people who are very, very good in the legal sense but also well-connected politically. so below then you for deputy solicitors general. and those are folks who are experts in issue area that's above and below the os

the united states is going to act. the united states said tonight it's going to pass a very strong sanction bill, very strong message bill that we do not intend to sit back and let north korea proliferate their weapons of mass destruction. we also don't plan to sit back and let them commit gross violations of human rights. we won't sit back and allow them to attack our intellectual property through cyber attacks and that we are going to act as one, united. we're going to act, democrats and republicans, house and senate, we'll work with the administration, we're going to get this done. and then, yes, we are going to go to the international community. we are going to put pressure on our other countries. we know that the republic of korea is with us. we know that japan is with us. china needs to be with us. and we're going to go and talk to china and explain and work with them so that we can get international pressure to isolate the north korean regime until they change their course. it's critically important to our securi

bush was president of the united states. he said -- "the duties of the senate are set forth in the constitution. nowhere in that document does it say the senate has a duty to give presidential appointees a vote." that's senator reid. i agree with him. that's exactly right. but that's not the position he appears to be taking today. the president has every right to nominate someone, but the senate has the authority to grant consent or to withhold consent, and what i and the other members of the judiciary committee on the republican side said yesterday in a letter to the majority leader is that we believe unanimously, all the republicans on the senate judiciary committee, that we should withhold consent. exercising a right and the authority recognized by senator reid in 2005. now, i have read some of the press clips. people recoil in mock horror. well, you're not even going to have a hearing? you're not even going to meet with the president's proposed nominee? well, that's right, for a very good reason, because it's not about th

i'll tell you that we have an experience in the united states. we have done it with the aids movement. you know, the aids movement ... they changed the law, the way the business was done, the pharmaceutic al company agreed on that, they produced 35 drugs in 10, 15 years and they kept the price down to $18,000, and the life has been patients get involved in it, the community gets involved in it, things do change. craig vansandt: to put that in perspective, this was, if i remember right, the late 1980s, early 1990s, am i in the e ght time frame? dr. ghosh: 1980s, right. craig vansandt: not that any of us are political experts, but my take is that the chance of getting government to make the kinds of changes you're talking about with the aids issue is much less today than it was 20 years ago. dr. ghosh: i think we need to go bacto history. these were young men who shut down the fda for a day, closed the wall street for 2 days. they were young, they were dared, they vocated. they were their own advocate. the government is not going to change unless we

states congressman has ever possibly the first time a united states congressman has ever testified in the general assembly of south carolina. myself and congressman mick mulvaney on the syrian refugee issue. south carolina does not want unvetted refugees to locate in their state but yet the obama administration continues to try to make that happen. since the syrian civil war broke out, the numbers i have are 2,693 syrian refugees have been admitted into this country. for the record, 53 of those were christian. 33 were not non-muslim. the remaining of those were muslim. mr. chairman, i'd like to submit for the record my testimony in south carolina senate last week. >> without objection so ordered. >> thank you. in 2011 or '12, mr. chairman, you and i traveled to afghanistan. and there at a forward operating base we met a gentleman that was assisting the united states military as a translator. his name was hollywood. after we left, we were contacted by a former member of congress, charles deju from hawaii, who served with that unit at that forward operat

socialt parties here in the united states and the communist party of the united states were powerful. they had a lot of people, and they worked together with the c.i.o. and together, they went to the government at that time, and they said 2 things: "we represent the mass of working people, and we don't want to suffer the way we're suffering in this breakdown of capitalism. you gotta do something." and they addressed themselves to a kind of middle-of-the-road democratic politician who had just gotten elected president on a program of a balanced budget-- franklin roosevelt. and they said to him, "you've gotta do something for the people." and the socialists and communists said, "you gotta do something for the people," but they added a little barb, "because we think that there's a better system, an alternative system, to capitalism. and if you keep performing as badly as you're doing in the depths of the depression, we're gonna try to establish that alternative." and they pointed across the ocean to the soviet union, said, "see? like them." that scared folks. and mr. roosevelt was a good

the threat from jihadist is very law in the united states. it has been managed and conta contained because of the actions in the u.s. government and the vigilance of the american public. >> host: when you say managed and contained what do you mean? >> guest: if we had this conversation after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks and i predicted 45 americans would be killed by jihadi terrorist that would have seemed like an optimistic projection. but that is what happened and each of the 45 deaths is a tragedy but they are not on the scale of 9/11 1 or even the pars attack. you will not hear politicians saying we managed and contained the threat. you will not hear them say by the law of averages someone is going to get one through because both of those statements are correct. >> host: you write americans suffer from historical amnesia and the golden age of terrorism was in the '70s. >> guest: yeah, there were more than a hundred hijackings and a slew of attacks by the weather underground, puerto rican nationalist, and black panthers. there was a lot of

the lower 48 states. the trend does look like it is going to rebound. across the western unitedhe opposite end of the story. we are record heat. weather tries to balance itself out. if you have extreme cold in one part of the world, you have extreme heat in another part of the world. temperatures close to 90 degrees in california. it does want to warm up toward the latter portion of the week. some places, if you're tuned in, phoenix, arizona is forecast to get around 90 fahrenheit on tuesday and wednesday. that would be the earliest ever in a calendar year to get up to 90 degrees. >> 90 degrees in l.a. >> in february, impressive. >> i'm not feeling sorry for john vause right now. >>> movie stars walk the red carpet, and britain's biggest night in film. all the grit and gram lamour ofs year's bafta awards. stay with us. caring for someone with alzheimer's means i am a lot of things. i am his guardian. i am his voice. so i asked about adding once-daily namenda xr to his current treatment for moderate to severe alzheimer's. it works differently. when added to another alzheimer's tr

when you make me president for the united states -- president of the united states, you are going to have a president that follows the constitution of the united states of america. a president that defends your first amendment right to live out the teachings of your faith and every aspect of your life. a president that defends your second amendment right to protect yourself and your families. and a president who believes our solutions are not found in any big federal government. they are found in our homes and communities and if it is in government it is at the state level. not in washington dc. for the first time in eight years you are going to have a president that follows the constitution. in my first moments in office i will cancel every single one of barack obama's unconstitutional executive orders. when you make me president we are going to have a president that embraces a free economy. my parents were not rich people. my father was a bartender and my mother was a maid. someone who had access to money used that money to open up a hotel and hire them. free enterprise works becaus

public opinion in the united states, and united states congress, in the united states press, and alsoin europe. by 1913, and certainly by 1916, rejectionsseated any of american hegemony in at least north of the amazon. the war in europe expanded the opportunity for the united gemini,o tighten it's a and also made the united states even more -- the u.s. government to assert andr establish stability in the region, where there was so much turmoil in europe, it became even more desirable to try to impose what americans considered stable governments in the countries of central america and the caribbean. when the election of 1916 occurred, and wilson said that he wanted to keep united states out of war, of course, there were u.s. troops in haiti. in the dominican republic, and in nicaragua. he didn't need -- the united states didn't need to intervene in every country. in the caribbean and central way, it's a in a little like lynching. you don't need to lynch everybody. you lynch some people, and that is the lesson that people learn. it is very possible to intimidate. in 1918-1919, intensify

states senate in june, 2014, as the director of the uniteds citizenship and immigration services. he previously served as the director for the office of civil rights at the department of health and human services, a position he held from 2011 to 2014. part of that time he served as chief of staff and deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights at the department of justice. mr. kubiak assumed the role -- our next witness of assistant director for international operations at u.s. immigration and customs enforcement on june 30, 2014, and in this position he is responsible for a budget of more than $130 million and operational oversight at 63 offices and 46 countries and eight department of defense liaison offices. and finally ms. michelle bond was sworn in as assistant secretary of state for consular affairs on august 10, 2015. she leads a team of 13,000 consular professionals and almost 300 locations across the united states and around the world who protect the lives and interests of u.s. citizens abroad. i want to thank all of you for b

you're going to hear from the brother of the next president of the united states. i like bushes. bush values are south carolina values. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, george w. bush. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you all. thank you. sit down unless you don't have a seat. i'm -- laura and i are thrilled to be here. i want to thank senator graham for his friendship, for his leadership. lindsey loves south carolina, and he loves our country, and we're fortunate that you sent him up to the united states senate. i want to thank the singing ag commissioner. he's got a heck of a voice. if you ever have a contest about who can sing the best among the ag commissioners across the united states of america, you win. mark sanford is here. i appreciate mark coming. i appreciate you being here, mark. there's a lot of famous people here. i've got to bring up my friend david wilkins from greenville. david was our ambassador to canada. former speaker of the house and a dear friend of laura and mine. thank you for coming down and being with us. thank you

for the united states to interrogate terrorist suspects. in recent years, for example, there have been operations reported in the media that we know about where the united states has smashed suspects -- snatched suspects off the street in suburban areas. for example, one in 2013 was snatched from his home in a suburb of tripoli by u.s. military forces, held and interrogated aboard a u.s. navy counsel,out effectively incommunicado, and it appears in federal court in the united states to face charges and trial. and that entire period of holding, treatment, interrogation, is effectively erased once that happens because of the challenges -- because of the difficulty of challenging that treatment and federal court. that is one hybrid way the u.s. is relying on wartime authorities, problematic ones, to sort of take people up far from recognized war zones and hold and interrogate them without charge, without counsel, you know, effectively secretly, and then bring prosecution was stuck so we know those things are happening. so the suggestion that we

the united states is fortunate. we have the world's most advanced health care system in the united states. it's impressive. we want to keep it that way and make certain that we're well coordinated. we use common sense that we'll be able to contain the spread of this virus and be well equipped for any future threats it may pose. so i look forward to hearing from the panel. i welcome our witnesses. i would like to turn to our ranking member, the young lady from illinois, ms. duckworth for her opening comment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you to our expert witnesses for being here today. today's hearing is an important opportunity to examine the effectiveness of our current efforts to combat the zika virus and to ensure the interagency response is sufficiently coordinated. there have been 82 reported cases of zika virus. this have been limited to people traveling to the united states from affected countries. as a new mother i understand the public's concern. the recent outbreak of this outbreak in broo sil shed

lotteries have been very much a part of the united states history and raising money and the united states, but this was a lottery. ulysse down at the bottom a man named samuel blodgett was a man who started it. is going to be a great lottery. it completely and utterly failed and actually cost money. had it succeeded would've been about close to $5 million he would have gained tbilisi but actually cost the government money. but they did lower, blodget lured others into land schemes and one of those was james greenleaf from greenleaf's point, a man who was one of the most remarkable scoundrels in the history of the united states, and a great deal more should be known about him. but we can' kept returning to te picture. we've really talked passionate excuse me. we've really talked a lot -- apologize. we've really talked a lot about the federal government, and what i have chosen to call troubled governance. but now we have to think about something else. and you notice, i'm sure you have known that i left out something. and that is the slave in this picture. the slave is wearing washington del

last week back in the district i had an opportunity to testify before the south carolina state senate, possibly the first time a united states congressman has ever testified in the general assemble of south carolina, myself and congressman on the syrian refugee issue. south carolina does not want unvetted syrian refugees to locate in their state but yet, administration continues to try to make that happen. since the syrian civil war broke out the numbers i have are 2,693 syrian refugees have been admitted into this country. for the record, 53 of those were christian. 33 were nonmuslim. the remaining of those were muslim. mr. chairman, i would like to submit for the record, testimony from last week. >> without objection. >> thank you. >> in 2011 or 12, mr. chairman, you and i traveled to afghanistan. and there at a operating base we met a gentleman that was assisting the united states military. as a translator. his name was hollywood. after we left, we were contacted by a former member of congress from hawaii who served with that unit at that operating base knew hollywood well and saw him want to pick up a gun and figh

possible foreign prosecution, and work with congress to bring the other 46 to a secure facility in the united states. obama argues moving the detainees to a super max prison in the united states would save $85 million a year over the cost of guantanamo, and in such cases, such as dzhokar tsarnaev, showed that the u.s. can and does convict and incarcerate accused terrorists in the courts. >> part of my message to the american people, we're already holding a bunch of dangerous terrorists here in the united states because we threw the book at them and there of been no incidents. we have managed it just fine. >> reporter: as the president marshaled his arguments for closing gitmo, there's one thicthing that he didn't mentio, something that the white house doesn't want to talk about. that the president under his final ternal could as commander in chief, issue executive order and bring the remaining detainees to u.s. soil and close guantanamo, but that could cause a political crisis. >> guantanamo, this time on the program, nancy hollander, the defense attorney for guantanamo prisoner, [ audio difficultie

and the united nations are 843 and 121 by -- 843 sanctions by the united states, 121 sanctions by the united nations for iran, but only 100 u.s. sanctions and 31 u.n. sanctions for north korea. when we do impose sanctions, sanctions that we impose against north korea is often repetitive or ineffectual. again, quoting from the heritage foundation reports, in response to the north korean cyber attack on sony, president barack obama issued executive order 13687 in which, although expansive in its legal breadth, was only weakly implemented. the administration targeted 13 north korean entities, three organizations which were already on the u.s. sanctions list and ten individuals not involved in cyber warfare. that was our response to north korea. and to date, we have not imposed specific human rights sanctions on a single north korean individual. 200,000 men, women and children in political gulags in north korea and the united states has not imposed a specific human rights sanction on a single north korean leader. it's a disgrace, given the gravity of the abuses being perpetrated by this r

when i am president of the united states we are going to undertake a reagan-style military. of the u.s. chanting "u.s.a., u.s.a."] senator rubio: when i'm president of the united states, we are going to have a real war on terror, not the fake war on now.r going on right the best intelligence agencies in the world are going to find them. the best military in the world is going to destroy them, and if we capture any of them alive they are not getting a court hearing in manhattan. they do not have the right to remain silent. and we're not bringing them to georgia. they are going to guantÁnamo. [applause] when i'm president of the united states, our allies will know we are allies. the other night at the debate we had this discussion about israel. the only pro-american free enterprise democracy in the middle east, the only one -- donald trump said i'm going to be neutral about it. i'm not going to be neutral. side.n israel's i am on israel's side. i am laughing because somebody brought a boot with a high heel, i didn't wear those today. soon enough they'll be back. don't worry. i'

it's not that common in the united states. but it is common in a number of countries around the world. what are some of those contributes? >> well, i would like to back up and say that the data we're looking at and the data from the united nations 2014 more than 700 million women around the world today were married at children. 15million girls a year. that's striking, certainly, but i want to emphasize that the data we have for the global picture is much more comprehensive than we have domestically. they've done some studies, and they've seen 3,000 cases of forced child marriage in the united states within a four-year period. but the data isn't great here. there is great activists working on that. globally, you know, we see the highest rates of the practice happening in sub-sahara africa, the numbers there are higher there and south asia, but this is an every-where problem. >> 2016, and it's hard to imagine that when you look at that video that it's going on. is this willational? i know in some societies it's partly religion an