i think it's in the best interest of the united states, and the world as a whole, that the united states negotiate rather than go back to the cold war relationship with the soviet union. i don't look at the picture as bleakly as you have indicated in your question, mr. trewhitt. i believe that the united states has had many successes in recent years, in recent months, as far as the communist movement is concerned. we have been successful in portugal, where a year ago it looked like there was a very great possibility that the communists would take over in portugal. it didn't happen. we have a democracy in portugal today. a few months ago, or i should say, maybe two years ago, the soviet union looked like they had continued strength in the middle east. today, according to prime minister rabin, the soviet union is weaker in the middle east than they have been in many, many years. the facts are the soviet union relationship with egypt is at a low level. the soviet union relationship with syria is at a very low point. the united states today, according to prime minister rabin of israel, is at

the process work? united nations decides which refugees come to the united states. the united nations commissioner of refugees decides which comes to the united states, not america. they work with the state department in bringing these refugees in. the state department then works with nine federal contractors, six out of the nine are religious charities. these religious charities are not passing the bucket on sunday morning or saturday morning when they collect the 1 billion-dollar price tag and were not even talking welfare. no they are getting this from the treasury department from your pocket and my pocket in order to resettle them. so who are these federal contractors? the federal contractors are church world service, ethiopian velma council, episcopal migration administer, aid society international rescue committee, committee for refugees and immigration, lutheran immigration and refuse services, united states conference of catholic bishops, world relief corporation. these six out of the nine are religious organizations, christians and jews. these federal contra

the united states is very important for mexico just us mexico is very important for the united states. we share the busiest order of -- border of the world. crossed legally every day by more than one million people and over 400,000 vehicles. trade surpasses over half $1 trillion. we innovate and produce together. in matters of national security cooperation on a daily basis between our governments is increasingly important for both our countries to face the challenges of a complex world. the conversation we had between mr. trump and myself was very open and constructive. the purpose was to get to know each other and learn about each other's views on the bilateral relationship. on trade, i shared with mr. trump my conviction that i fully believe that nafta has been good both for the united states as well as mexico. are exports into mexico close to $200 billion. according to the u.s. chamber of commerce, over 6 million jobs in america depend on exports to mexico. mexico buys more from the united states than from germany, spain, france, italy, japan, and the united kingdom combined. many

so he is born in the united states. no question he was born in the united states. he has not been a success president. >> conway went on to say the campaign does not believe the birther issue is an issue. that voters are more focused on topics such as the economy and national security. but without question, it is still a sensitive issue for many in the african-american community, who view the birther movement as racist. trump has been trying to court the african-american vote, hillary clinton, putting pressure on trump to admit to his mistake. she addressed the issue at a baptist convention last night. >> we are facing a candidate with a long history of racial discrimination in his business. who traffics in toxic conspiracy theories, like the lie that president obama is not a true american. if he doesn't even respect all americans, how can he serve all americans. >> and clinton also taking aim at trump for another false claim. trump continues to say he was against the war in iraq before it started. despite an interview trump did with howard stern in 2002, where he

to show if you have a patient or don't have a patient, the united states has a good passion, the united states waits for the condition or better condition, the obama administration realized that. the situation between the united states and cuba. the united states loses patients and tries to respond, that is the policy to intervene in iraq. in the middle east, how us -- losing passions for the area. that is what i worry about. i hope i answered your first question. and think about taiwan, us relationship and government. so far so good. only two months. the new government's popularity just dropped. we can just wait, this new government, so far so good. it was not in a position to deal with those in taiwan and that is a reason they did not direct the consensus. and the united states, tried to make the balance between different ideologies, the best she can do to maintain the united states and also on mainland china. >> microphone please. >> the agency in hong kong, any evaluation for what taiwan could bring for strategies, the difference -- the method, all kinds of impacts. >> very tough qu

we need to put considerable effort into working with the governments of the gulf states, saudi arabia, the united emirates, bahrain, to take the kind of aggressive actions against funding for the afghan taliban and they have already taken against funding for al qaeda and the islamic state. >> thank you very much. in closing, let me just say that in addition to what you have heard today, we are producing this paper with a lot of the former commanders, a number of us in the scholarly ranks, which we hope would be of us to the next president as well. thank you all for coming here. please join me in thanking the panel. [applause] >> joining us on the phone and is back to work week with congress is bob cusack. as your colleague writes today thehill.com, capitol hill resembled a ghost town for the past two months, of course that all changed today. >> definitely. numbers are coming back into town. and a lot of the people who are closely tracked including lobbyists are no longer on vacation. it is usually a ghost town in washington in august. this was no exception. you have the convention this summer and

they're not convinced the president was born in the united states. the president, he's been president of the united states now almost eight years. our first african-american president. and 20% of the public, maybe because of donald trump's utterances over the years, is convinced, maybe he wasn't born in the united states? >> well, i do want to say, you know, it was a memo from mark penn, hillary clinton's advisers, march 19, 2007, that raise the issue -- >> we'll we're going to talk about hillary clinton's campaign manager in 2006-2007, and talk about what mark penn wrote and all of that, but there was never, ever, any evidence that hillary clinton promoted this birther issue. >> i think the idea it was raised was from the smart/penn 2007 memo. i had the honor representing a district 30% african-american. i live in a town 50% african-american in savannah, georgia. been in politics there 30 years, and if an issue is an issue among one demographic, then you as a responsible candidate need to respond to it, and i think that's what we saw today. we saw a

you be supporting the united states when this is going on? that is the context of all of these jazz musicians. you can't separate them from why the state department was putting them out there. to backtrack. thinking why africa? you know why in terms of minerals and the natural after the especially decolonization movement. the u.s. and soviet union us.ending saying align with we will send you cool stuff. and you can be our friend. that is a simple way of thinking about it. we know why africa conceptually. world werethe third some of the most hotly contested cold war spaces. you have all of the conflicts throughout the world from 1945 onward. this includes a lot of civil wars in africa in the 90's and 2000s. you have a lot of conflicts emerging even in the cold war. this bottom one may be more telling about what the u.s. was doing. as ais all cia involvement percentage of years. these countries are places where the cia was operating from 95 to 100% of those years. big presence for the cia trying to work against the soviet influence. of course th

looking then to this problem of how the united states should move ahead and where the united states is moving, i think it is well that we take the advice of a very famous campaigner. let's look at the record. is the united states standing still? is it true that this administration that senator kennedy has charged has been an administration of retreat, of defeat, of stagnation? is it true that as far as this country is concerned in everything he mentioned we have not been moving ahead? well, we have a comparison we can make. we have the record of the truman administration of 7 1/2 years and the 7 1/2 years of the eisenhower administration. when we compare these two records in the areas that senator kennedy has discussed tonight, i think we find that america has been moving ahead. let's take schools. we have built more schools in these last 7 1/2 years than we built in the previous 7 1/2, for that matter in the previous 20 years. let's take hydroelectric power. we have developed more hydroelectric power in these 7 1/2 years than was developed in any previous administration in history. le

bush, thomas pickering, the former united states ambassador to the united nations, all gree that we must be considerate of the long-term interests of our own country. and so for the foregoing reasons and those stated by the national security experts, the international law scholars, the president of the united states, i find that i must vote to . stain the president's veto and mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to override the president's veto. it is the right thing to do. it is the right thing to let american citizens have access to their courts for torts, for terrorist attacks that occur on american soil. this bill is a modest amendment to already existing exemptions to the foreign sovereign immunities act. it is the right thing to do. i urge my colleagues to join me in overriding the president's veto, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virgini

by the end of the 1960's, vietnam has become something of a mess for the united states. at the same time, you got guys like randy weston, this six foot eight, towering jazz pianist, fielding questions like how can you be supporting the united states when this is going on? that is the context of all of these jazz musicians. you can't separate them from why the state department was putting them out there. to backtrack. thinking why africa? you know why in terms of minerals and the natural resources, especially after the decolonization movement. the u.s. and soviet union descending on almost all those countries saying, yes, align with us. we will send you cool stuff. and you can be our friend. that is a simple way of thinking about it. we know why africa conceptually. we also remember that africa and the third world were some of the most hotly contested cold war spaces. so what you have here on this top map are all of the conflicts throughout the world from 1945 onward. this includes a lot of civil wars in africa in the 1990's and 2000s. you have a lot of conflicts emerging

the united states.he, tu first. so he admitted the president was worn in the united states.e, to first. so he admitted the president was worn in the united statesrst. so he admitted the president was worn in the united states. this exchange i had with him back in 2012 after the birth certificate was released. >> i don't understand why you're doubling down on this birther issue after the state of hawaii formally says this is the legitimate birth certificate he was born in hawaii, why are you going through all of this? >> a lot of people don't agree with that birth certificate. >> but if the state of hawaii says this is official, he was born in hawaii on this dates here it is, why do you deny that? >> a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. >> how can you -- >> many people do not think it was authentic. >> that was back in 2012. this is an exchange i had with donald trump in january of this year. >> his mother was a u.s. citizen. was he a natural born citizen? >> who know. who cares right now? we're talking about something else, okay? i have himy own theory on obama. some day i'll write a book and it will do successfully. >>

and this has an impact, an influence on how the west and the united states deals with the region. ean is that we need to stand hand-in-hand to confront this serious and dangerous phenomenon. charlie: you are suggesting the coalitions that the united states is part of should do more than it is doing. do you fault president obama for not doing enough? president el-sisi: i am not blaming anybody. i am just presenting my viewpoint. i say that we need to join the effort and strong will on all of allocate all the resources needed to confront effectively terrorism. egypt is the decisive element of stability if egypt is not able . to overcome its economic problems, and to be able to fight off the pressures the forces of evil to destabilize the country, that means this means this will become a threat to the region, to europe, and perhaps to the whole world. charlie: and even to your administration. president el-sisi: stability is a very important thing. you are talking about the stability and security and life of 91 million people. this is not an easy thing. egypt is a big country. in popul

[inaudible question] >> the united states does not support -- does not hack and then release documents of united russia for instance. there is no -- there is no parallel between the behavior of these two fwments. -- governments. the u.s. doesn't hack russia's servers. >> the argument we are engaging in goes to the heart of the campai campaigns and what they have become over the last ten years. undermining trust in democratic institutions and making the argument that the u.s. and western european countries did the same thing and that is not true. that is the kremlin line put out there and i think what we are experiencing here in the united states right now countries across russia, ukraine, georgia, have been experiencing many elections but right now it is incredibly brazen of the russian federation and hackers to reach out and use their cyber capabilities. this isn't new but it a broader trend in how russia tendency to m manipulate politics around the globe. i will do the next question now. yes? >> hi, i have a masters in security study from the university of college london. you express

has she the ability to direct the state department to admit 65,000 from syria mr. henshaw: the president of the united states can change the numbers after consultation with congress. chair sessions: and consultation does not mean ask our opinion. simply note it. and mean it. let me ask you this, aside from the security question that we deal with, that you do your best to check, i don't dispute that, you do not screen refugees for anything other than what threats they might make to the united states. isn't that correct? mr. henshaw: they are screened for medical issues, as well. chair sessions: i just want to discuss this a little bit. and so, i think the american people, and all of us need to think about this going for the rational immigration policy, you take into consideration the applicant's proficiency or lack of it in english, or even the literacy with regard to the country from which they come. mr. henshaw: our decisions to bring in refugees are based on their former abilities. chair sessions: you don't consider whether or not they read or write in their own language? mr. henshaw: no. chair sess

is the united states sharing details of this agreement with allies like france? if not, why not? josh: jeff, i didn't see the specific comments, but the united states has certainly been in touch with our other allies and partners to help them understand exactly what we are trying to achieve, and i think countries like france that are as committed as we are to degrading and ultimately destroying isil understand how important it is for us to try to address the root cause of the violence and chaos that's allowed isil to spread in syria. so we'll continue to communicate with our allies and partners, but the terms of this agreement and with the aims of this agreement. jeff: [inaudible] josh: well, i haven't seen the precise details of it so it's hard for me to evaluate how credible it is, but i can certainly assure you and assure anybody in france that's watching if they have questions about this arrangement we can certainly have a conversation with them about what the arrangements entail and what exactly our aims are. jeff: on another topic. a hitman testifying in manila today saying

that -- now language that says, the navigable waters of the united states and any waters that are a significant nexus to the navigable waters of the united states. think of that. the ambiguous language of waters hydrologically connected to was litigated down to the point where the courts finally ruled that it doesn't have an effectiveness, because it's too ambiguous. and so they cooked up some other ambiguous language to litigate for another couple of decades. this ambiguous language of significant nexus to the navigable waters of the united states. significant nexus. all right. what is a nexus? well, that's anything that intersects. is it one intersection, two, three, 10, is it 50, is it 100? if you could go to new orleans and track the mississippi river up to the head waters, how many significant nexus do you have or tributaries that run into the mississippi? how many of those tributaries can be traced up to creeks and streams and tile lines and wells and water lines that go up to the kitchen sink? they have defined ambiguous language that allows them to regulate the entire

we also welcome the fact that the russian federation and the united states of america are prepared to work together to defeat daesh. the united nation's hopes and believes that the political will that led to this understanding is sustained. it creates a real window of opportunity which all relevant actors in the region and beyond should face to put the crisis on -- in syria on a different path and reduce the violence. let me be clear, you have been asking me and i'm ready to say that the united nations stands ready to deliver and to do what ever it can to resume the cessation of hostilities. it is expected that all parties will facilitate u.n. efforts to deliver humanitarian assistance to the population in need deceased deceased -- andeiged hard-to-reach areas. the u.n. will continue to exert all effort to that end. it is vital that the real change is felt by the ground of the syrian people. lastly, the u.n. hopes that implementation of this understanding will facilitate renewed efforts to reach a syrian owned, syrian led political sentiment of the conflict as called for in the geneva

president is actually a citizen of the united states. that's where we are this morning. if he does come out today or really anytime before the election and says he believes obama was born here, what does that do to his credibility or following? you could argue that his entire political career could be traced back to this very issue, to him being a birther. >> well, i think if he actually comes out and says president obama is born in the united states, people on the fence, maybe i can't support him because he's really kind of in some ways defamed a sitting president, that maybe i'll get with him and maybe i'll go and support him but i should say for the vast majority of people i talked to, especially voters of color, black voters and hispanic voters and whose families may be immigrants to the united states, this is something he can't get away from even if he does say on a podium, i believe barack obama is a credible president and was born in the united states. a lot of people are going to say, it's too little too late. this is something th

earnest: the american people have been dealt a setback by the united states congress. despite the president's principled position to try to prevent that from happening. that is deeply disappointing to the president of the united states. i think it's deeply disappointing to the american people. and based on the reaction in the last 24 hours from members of congress, i think they find their own conduct deeply embarrassing. they should. reporter: you don't want to offer any sort of outreach to them say, ok, fine, let's talk about it and maybe we can undo it? mr. earnest: we've been trying to persuade them to do that since april. reporter: do you think the language you used in the last day is going to help that? mr. earnest: mike, i think it is hard to persuade a member of congress who isn't willing to vote their conscience. members of congress say and now publicly admit that they're deeply concerned about the impact that this bill will have on our national security, but yet they voted for it. i don't really know what sort of elective -- legislative strategy or set of negot

and as president of the united states, you know, trump has to be smart enough to keep his feet on the ground and be able to weigh this guy on what he is doing to the united states and protect the unitestates interests. he can't get enamored by the fact that putin is nice to him and plays to his ego. >> yeah, it's almost like nixon talking about john connelly, you know? i like the cut of his gym -- >> you and i know politics, you know, politicians love to be praised by people. but when you're president of the united states you got to be very careful about being praised by putin or the head of north korea or saddam hussein, because you have to protect the united states interests, first and foremost. >> well, let's talk about this, you're pretty close to the center in terms of national security. and i always wondered how you see hillary clinton because my hunch about her, watching her from a bit away is that she is going to be a notch to the right of obama in terms of readiness to use force. is that correct? >> chris, you know, i think that -- at least my experience in the national secur

these are multi-billion-dollar claims against the united states. for some of your questions i may need to defer the question to a closed setting like the one we did for house and senate staff earlier this week. the united states and iran entered into the accords in 1981 which created the hague tribunal. it was created to address claims of u.s. nationals, but also claims between the two governments. the agreement was entered into by the carter administration. it was endorsed by the reagan administration and debated by both houses of congress. in the end, it was determined that the accords and the tribunal process were of great benefit to the united states and u.s. nationals. in the first 20 years of the process, it focused primarily on resolving claims of u.s. nationals for debt, contract, appropriation and other measures involving property rights. received over $2.5 billion in awards and settlements from that process. there was significant government to government claims also filed at the tribunal. the majority and certainly the largest were by iran

why all of a sudden the united states chooses to help the syrian armed forces. they did nothing when isol was advancing on palmyra, all of a sudden the united states decides to come to the assistance of the syrian armed forces defending them, it is quite significant and i would suggest that this happened just two days, before the arrangements, russian arrangements to come into force. the united states was negotiating for a long time. as you know, the foreign minister and secretary kerry concluded in agreement on september 9th, which actually put in force a number of agreements they negotiated for the past two months, for reasons we cannot understand, the united states did not agree to share with you -- >> there you have it, the russian ambassador to the united nations calling it quote, suspicious that the u.s. carried out this strike in syria, killing syrian regime forces at this time. calling the timing of it not accidental. responding to u.s. ambassador -- to the u.n., samantha power, calling russia's response a stunt, and grandstanding, much, much more of thi

trump never worked in the united states in 1995 because she was never in the united states in 1995. s a very important point. because when these pictures of melania trump were first in "the new york post" they stated the photographs were taken in 1995 in a magazine published in 1996. the former editor of that magazine has now changed his story and moved those dates one year forward. he now says the photographs were taken in 1996 for publication in february of 1997. and attorney wilds says that his review of the documentation indicates that melania trump, quote, her first entry into the united states was on august 27th, 1996, pursuant to a b-1, b-2 visitor visa. her first h 1 b visa that authorizes employment as a mod until the united states. so if these photographs were taken after october 18th 1996, that would mean melania trump was working legally in the united states when the photographs were taken. if they were taken a year earlier, according to mr. wilds' findings she would have been working illegally because she did not obtain permission to work in the united states until octob

president, characterize the relationship with the united states, not withstanding the military aid that you received and whatever economic aid you receive which is significantly less than the military aid. what is the relationship between egypt and the united states today, because you're not seeing the president when you are here. you're seeing the prime minister of israel, you're not seeing the president of egypt. >> let me first characterize the relationship. this is the stablest, strategic relationship. the past 12 years has been a true test to the endurance and resilience of this relationship. and i understand-- i understand the concerns of youth administration regarding the region, regarding egypt. and this is who-- z this is a manifestation of a strong core of this relationship between egypt and the united states. it's not only defined by the aid. because if the whole relationship only revolved around the size of the aid, and revolved around the size of aid and characterized the nature of the relationship, this would not be a good thing. we have had strong relationships, strategic

have to come together and say this is unacceptable and this man is unfit to be president of the united states. >> one more for you brian. i mentioned harry reid, nancy pelosi was on cnn today saying flat out, guaranteeing donald trump will not be the next president of the united states. do you take that very same view point? >> we have to work hard in these next two months. we can not take anything for granted. look at the polls that have come out this week. for everything he has said, this race is extremely close. there are a lot of americans just tuning into this race and they're not aware of the things donald trump has said. >> why can't you guarantee it based upon everything you just told me about what happened today and his past? >> there are no guarantees when it comes to presidential elections in this country. we are going to have to mobilize and register voters, turn them out. >> why do you think pelosi and reid are guaranteeing it, brian? >> i don't think we can take anything for grant ed the senat races, harry reid is working to try to elect his successor in nevada, they're trying t

donald trump saying the actual words that the president of the united states was born in the united statest he is blaming clinton for starting it. that is factually inaccurate. could this hurt his loyal supporters by saying those words, or, in fact, could it give him an opening to these african-american voters? as you know, he's been reaching out to voters looking for their support. >> reporter: i think one thing we do know is that donald trump's face is not going with him. they will be with him, as he's said, until the end of i had campaign and possibly later. regarding his desire to win more minority voters, specifically black voters, this issue is just one of many that people of color have found problematic with donald trump. so even if this was a start, it's a very small start. and he has much farther to go. as you saw you yesterday, members of the congressional black caucus' political action committee thought his response was insufficient and want an apology. i don't think right now it looks like there will be significant change in a view on donald trump, at least from black lawmakers

this is the united states as well. he united states, we have some of the best universities in the world, but one of the things i've been emphasizing as we also have what are called community colleges. they are not four-year universities. they are typically two-year degrees and you can be very successful go in there and find in a specialized trade or learning a very specific skill that companies are hiring for her. and we want to give young people a range of options. not everybody wants to study and a classroom and become a lawyer or a doctor. but it is also very valuable if you have some really skilled electrician. we talk about high tech and it is true that the people who are designing software for the iphone are the best engineers, that there are jobs in computer science or you don't need a four year degree. you know ,-com,-com ma coding is not that complicated one to learn how to do it. so we want to make sure that at every level, young people have the ability to access a great education. and if we are able to do tha

we will put america first. - did you think you were capable of serving as president of the united statesd there's a reason for it. i'd spent eight years right next to the president of the united states, richard milhous nixon. you know, i'd been writing foreign policy since i'd gotten out of graduate school in 1962. i'd been in moscow with nixon. i'd been in geneva with reagan. and i had a lot of confidence in myself in my ability to communicate. - pat buchanan was a fiery editorial writer at a st. louis conservative newspaper when nixon asked him to join partly because nixon had always had difficult relations with conservatives. - i believe that one of the reasons for the deep division about vietnam is that many americans have lost confidence in what their government has told them about our policy. - when he was writing these speeches and counseling nixon, he was really speaking from the heart. - so tonight, to you, the great silent majority of my fellow americans, i ask for your support. in the silent majority, he found a phrase that really encapsulated a lot of people's view of themsel

president barack obama was born in the united states, period. ow, we all want to get back to making america strong and great again. thank you, thank you very much. thank you. [cheers and applause] jenna: donald trump giving the media what everyone was waiting for, his definitive comments about the quote, unquote birther issue and whether or not the president was born in the united states. as you know an issue many, many years ago brought up back recently by series of different interviews including our own bill o'reilly where donald trump stood on that issue and -- and whether or not that was impacting his standing with african-american voters because that has been his focuses over the last several days. so you heard it himself from donald trump himself, he says that hillary clinton start it had birther issue, that he finished. a variety of websites pointed out that hillary clinton nor her campaign started the issue in 2008 although there may have been some supporters of her unofficially linked to her who sl -- have mentioned it but it's difficult

bush, thomas pickering, the former united states ambassador to the united nations, all gree that we must be considerate of the long-term interests of our own country. and so for the foregoing reasons and those stated by the national security experts, the international law scholars, the president of the united states, i find that i must vote to . stain the president's veto and mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to override the president's veto. it is the right thing to do. it is the right thing to let american citizens have access to their courts for torts, for terrorist attacks that occur on american soil. this bill is a modest amendment to already existing exemptions to the foreign sovereign immunities act. it is the right thing to do. i urge my colleagues to join me in overriding the pres >> the veto allowing victims to sue the saudi arabian government. other issues included cyber security. h

the most important thing that the united states can do, if you consider how bad things are in 1917, what do you think the most important contribution that the united states can make? >> open up the seas back up. >> what does that mean? >> destroyers. >> open the seas back up for the british. >> in particular, what's going to be the most precious thing? where does this war have to be decided ultimately. >> on the ground. >> so what do you need? >> people. >> troops. >> that's sort of a long way to getting back to saying about mobilization. payton c. march, another unsung hero of world war i because march is the guy who is going to organize the draft. you're talking about an army of -- i think the united states army at the beginning before world war begins is less than 2,000 people. by the time the armistice comes about, there are about two million soldiers in europe, with another two million ready to go. we go from 0 to 4 million. that's payton c. march. he didn't make it into any of the readings. he's somebody we should keep in mind. that's a pretty substantial task. my old boss when i w

they are the united states government's funds, aren't they? >> no, the funds have remained in the trust fund as iranian moneys in the trust fund. the united states congress appropriated $400 million to be paid to these individuals -- >> instead of taking the money out of the fms trust fund, but by doing so, we thus own the $400 million? >> that is incorrect. i'm sorry. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. delaney for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. did the $400 million actually sit in an account, subrogated at a separate financial institution or just held by the united states government? >> the $400 million is in what is called the fms trust fund that sits in the treasury. all fms customers pay funds into there and they're separated into accounts for each customer. >> is it fungible cash or is it segregated into a separate account? when you say it's held in the treasury, is it fungible with all of the cash in the kroounls and crust tracked as a separate account or is there anyw

the president of the united states is the president of the united states. we are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president. thank you, mayor rudy giuliani. >> let's talk about the next president being someone who would be prosecuted if she wasn't a clinton. i would have prosecuted her. i have seen plenty of people prosecuted for much less, like martha stewart. >> thank you so much. >> know how many false statements she made to the fbi? they are so long i can't count them. >> the fbi had the right to review that. they did and found her not in any criminal violation. thank you, mr. mayor. we have to go on. it's a long show. joining me is "usa today" washington bureau chief susan page, msnbc terrorism analyst malcolm nance. susan, thanks for joining us. you cover all kinds of things. what do you make of that, what we just heard? >> i think that mayor giuliani was misstating some facts. in fact, donald trump was asked about whether he stood by his birther comments, birther questions about president obama just this week by r

but once the united states entered the war after pearl harbor and after the declaration of war on the united states or days after pearl harbor, the united states took over the direction of world war ii and nr reading winston churchill's memoirs, you would never believe it. i think in terms of history and historiography, the fact that winston churchill won the nobel prize was a great thing for him, for literature, but not for history. and in this fdr trilogy, i am doing my best to change history if by history but understand to look at the past and the way we interpret the past. the first volume, the mantle of command covered fdr in the first or after pearl harbor, up to the moment when american troops finally went onto the offensive and landed in north africa. the second volume takes the story several months later when the president of the united states becomes the first president in american history to fly while in office, flying across the atlantic to north africa and the first president to inspect american troops at war abroad. he flies to north africa at the beginning of this book

lawlessness in the united states. es anyone for a moment -- for a moment think that hillary clinton will revert to upholding the law if she is president of the united states? it is not going to happen. donald trump will stand as a law and order president and not only will he build up, he is mitted to building up our economy with the greatest tax plans since ronald reagan, he has committed to building up our military, which i can tell you, it has been so devastating that there were times when i would leave our committee shaking, shaking and fear for our country. i couldn't believe the level of vulnerability. do you realize that in our lifetime we have been privilege today live in the greatest economic power house that the world has ever known, the united states of america. we are privileged in the greatest military power house that the world has ever known, the united states of america. it didn't happen just because we were lucky people on this land, it happened because the people of this nation were not afraid to name

we have two parties in the united states. future and one is a party that wants to go negative, backwards, and we cannot afford -- >> let's bring in laura to respond. you brought up the notion of decline and trump being a manife manifestation of change but you believe change is necessary regardless. >> first of all, robert mentioned hitler, mousselini and stalin and -- let me talk and you have get your time again. this is what happened in a conversation about the future of america where substance issues fade away in the background and the conversation just moves to personal attacks or the most outrageous adjectives or trump is crazy and before you -- trump could go away tomorrow and maybe you would clap and strike up the band and i understand that. trump could go away tomorrow and the carnage left behind between the established cobble in washington which is comprised of democrats and republicans, that status quo that left america behind and left the working class infuriated is still going to be there. i am sure hillary clinton

>> we are a large investor in health care around world, not just in the united states. well, think about this. as people are aging and living longer than ever, the average age in the united states is increasing dramatically and around the world in developed countries, people need more health care as they get older. as a result, you're going to see more expenditures. in addition, remember, the baby boomers are aging. 65 years old, an age of retirement, 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day. not retiring, 10,000 are turning 65 every day. and as they age, they're going to need more and more health care. that's inevitable. and they're the wealthiest part of our society. they have an enormous amount of money to spend on their health care, and they will spend it on their artificial hips, knees, transplants, whatever it takes. so it's going to increase dramatically in this country and other parts of the world. trish: and what happens to obamacare as we now know it? >> i think whoever's president will make adjustment, and i think if president obama had a third term, he would ma

the united states makes up only 4.6% of the world's population. 4.6%. around 330 million. over seven billion people live on mother earth. we make up less than 5% of the population. yet we consume, the united states of america, we consume 80% of its opiates and 99% of the world's hydrocodone. 99% of the world's hydrocodone. opioid abuse jumped 287% in 11 years. in 2012 health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers. enough for every american to have a bottle of pills. think about that, enough for every american to have a bottle of opioid pain pills. misuse and abuse of prescription drugs costs the country an estimated $53.4 billion per year in lost productivity, medical costs and criminal justice. talk to any law enforcement officers in your hometown, home community, your state, they'll tell you eight out of ten, a minimum of eight out of ten of the crimes that they're report ing are drug induced, eight out of ten usually are drug induced. currently one in ten americans with substance abuse disorder receives treatment. only 10% are receiving treatment.

and they felt that that their relationship with the united states had been compromised because the united states had actually been previous to the inflation been assiging -- assisting iraq in its military combat with iran. they were looking for other sources of defense. one of the things they did was start buying military supplies, from particularly the british, rather than from the united states. and i think the one, this is a speculation, that bin laden, who had been exiled from saudi arabia, had gone to afghanistan. had been a major figure in the rejection of the soviet union from afghanistan, and had put an term together an army of 30,000 war-hardened troops and went to the kingdom and threatened civil insurrection unless it would help him in a plat. i'm not suggesting that he necessarily gave the details but it was clear he wanted to do something big in the united states that was not that was going to be adverse to u.s. interests and needed help. the saudis had people in the united states who had the capacity to render help. people like bayuomi, the man in san diego and possibly this

howing to this problem of the united states should move ahead and where the united states is moving ahead, i think it is well that we take the advice of the very famous campaigner, let's look at the record. if united states standing still? is it true that this administration has been an administration of said nation? -- retreat and stagnation? is it true that in the field of electric power and all the fields he is mentioned that we have not been moving ahead? we have a comparison we can make. we have the record of the truman the 7.5 years and of the eisenhower administration. when we compare these records, and areas that senator kennedy has discussed tonight, i think we find that america has been moving ahead. let's take school. we have built more schools in these last 7.5 years and we both in the previous 7.5. , we havetric power developed more hydroelectric power in the 7.5 years been developed in any previous administration in history. let us take hospitals. we find that more have been built in this demonstration in the previous administrations. the same is true of highways. in terms t

he said the president was born in the united states. s unequivocal. >> here's the problem, corey, even if you are right. >> -- >> you are still wrong. >> i'm going to agree with you, corey and say on the facts is it likely that a clinton operative tried to plant something is that more likely than a reporter lying about it, so great, you are correct. so that was in 2007. why is donald trump following the leadership of after low-level clinton operative or high-level clinton operative four, five, six, seven, almost a decade later. at some point you have to take responsibility for your own candidate's decision making. the only thing you can say now is to continue to point back and pointing back to somebody no one has heard of or cares about to justify your candidate's by hair shows you he has nothing to stand on and sad you won't admit, that yeah, guess what he saw an opportunity to demagogue and undermine someone who's a commander in chief of our military and the president of our country and he saw a political advantage in it. he took it as

i was happy to host the first asean summit in the united states. meeting here in laos was our eighth meeting. this marks my ninth to the asean region. together, the united states and asean forged a partnership guided by key principles. including asean will remain central to peace, prosperity and progress in the asian pacific. the united states is firmly part of the asia summit and we worked to make the organization the leading forum for maritime security. we are guided by the shared vision we put forward. open, dynamics and competitive economies. mutual security and peaceful resolution to disputes and human rights where all nations play by the same rules. that is the vision we advanced here. we are stepping up efforts to increase trade and investment as part of the initiative i announced, u.s./asean connect. so it is easier to start new ventures together. more to connect entrepreneurs in the digital economies. more to connect clean energy projects as we pursue a low carbon future. all of which will reinforce the region's continued economic integrati

richard: this is arguably the number one national security threat that faces the united states over the next five years, possibly facing the next president of the united states. charlie: why? mostrd: this is the closed, most militarized society on the face of the earth. it has committed, in some ways, a slow-motion genocide against its people. they have posed a military threat for decades, i should know. the division at the 30th parallel, now, on top of it all, you've got a fast growing nuclear program, not just nuclear material, but as you said, ballistic missiles that could launch from a number of platforms, from land or from submarines. and they are working hard on shrinking the size of the warheads. i think it is a question of the national security advisor walks into the oval office and says mr. president or madam president, we now face the imminence of a nuclear -- charlie: what do we do? richard: it's hard to sanction a society that is already so without. secondly, negotiations. that hasn't worked. what can we do? we are building defensive systems. there are two big issues. one is

that's the legislation that's being proposed here in the united states congress. even the pope has suggested that because of this crisis in brazil that the steadfast opposition of the vatican to contraception may need to be pushed aside, but not here in the united states. come on. let's get real. let's understand the nature of this crisis. and the zika virus is not ransmitted only, only by mosquitoes. we are discovering that the transmission can come in many, many different ways. many different ways. so what are we doing about it? nothing. we are spending time talking about impeaching the i.r.s. commissioner. come on. in the history of this nation, only one person other than a president has been impeached. and that was back in the 18 70's, secretary of war. an i.r.s. commissioner isn't even a cabinet member. we are spending our time on hat. we are where, 20 days, little less, from the end of the fiscal year, when we have to fund government. we are less than what 17 days ay from the ability of the centers for disease control to continue to research and to address th

today, the united states and russia are announcing a plan which we today the united states and russia announcing a plan we hope will reduce violence, easy suffering and resume movement -- rds a negotiated peace and a political transition in syria. as itieve that the plan is set forth, if implemented, if followed, have the ability to provide a turning point. the suffering that we have witnessed in syria over the course of more than five years now is beyond inhumane. people have all seen the pictures. tortured.ldren, gas. on aorld has been shocked constant basis by what we have witnessed. administration, the united states, is going the extra mile because we believe that russia and my colleague have the capability to press the assad regime to stop this conflict and to come to the table and make peace. working together, russia and the united states and our teams have a more what we think is prescriptive and far-reaching approach than we have been able to put together to date. if,i want to emphasize the if the plan's implementation in good faith, if the stakeholders do the things that are

and the baltic states, and the obama himself, the president was in poland this week reinforcing the commitment of the united states to defend the periphery putin. >> what about security issues within europe. is it going to have any effect there? one of the issues driving voters was this fear of security of terrorism of these so-called open borders in that sense. >> guest: i don't think that the issue of security really is affected by the by the brexit, there's been complaints because there's no belgium and france, and oftentimes information is not shared completely. i don't think that is effective. great britain is part of five eyes, this is the united states, canada, australia, and new zealand share the intelligence. and we gather most of it through the security agency and great britain itself has been less dangerous. if you look at the historical who travel to syria. the most prominent death of an am peed campaigning about remaining in the u.s. but another british advocate for brexit. i don't think that the terror impish uwill be affected. but i want to underscore, a lot of these things are what we call a