it had been turned down by the united states and the world bank. the tanzanians desperately wanted it and china understood this as an opportunity to step in and expand its influence. the united states understood what china was attempting to achieve through these aid projects surprisingly well. interestingly, what i found was that sometimes the united states tried very specifically with its own aid projects to not counted -- to counter not the economic impact of china's aid to counter the political impact of chinese aid. for instance, when china built tansam railway, the united states try to build the great north road as a market based capitalist alternative to the ame more state driven tans railway. these are the kind of competitions i highlight. who won? in reality, neither side won. in many ways, both sides lost. i think china's revolutionary model of nationbuilding did have some genuine appeal to nationalists in newly independent countries. at the same time even though china had this appeal, china never gained the status that it craved as a leade

guest: we have not asked the united states for anything, not because we do not need the united stateso respond, but we have made a general appeal to the world community that clearly what happened in barbuda and and night in dominica, probably now happening in guadeloupe with hurricane maria, is an indication of global warming. these hurricanes have become far more fierce, stronger, much larger than in the past. danger to thee caribbean. they are becoming so monstrously aroundecause the seas the caribbean are much hotter. that is global warming. as the hurricanes pick up the they becomee seas, bigger, larger, stronger. we are the victims of all of this. it is warring to us when death will reading -- worrying to us. it.re the victims of we worry that we have had to evacuate every person from barbuda which suggest we are seeing societies have existing for a long time, the footprint in their country is being obliterated. there is a danger of extinction, if these hurricanes continue like they have been. i am very worried about dominica. there has been considerable damage but am not sure ho

the president's speech today was the worst ever delivered by the united states at the united nations. it ranged from the vulgar to a muddy puddle of incoherence. >> as president of the united states, i will always put america first. just like you as the leaders of your countries will always and should always put your countries first. >> the whole point of the united nations is there will come moments where we will ask other countries to make accommodations to the world and to other countries, and sometimes their neighbors. in other words, moments where we will ask them not to put their countries first above all else. donald trump spent most of the rest of his speech talking about the countries who he firmly believes should never, ever put their countries first. countries like north korea and of course iran. >> the iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. the iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the united states has ever entered into. frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the united states. and i don't think y

the united states is one out of 193 countries in the united nations and yet we pay 22% of the entire budget and more. in fact, we pay far more than anybody realizes. the united states bears an unfair cost burden, but to be fair if it could actually accomplish all of its stated goals, especially the goal of peace this investment would easily be well worth it. major portions of the world are in conflict and some, in fact, are going to hell but the powerful people in this room, under the guidance and auspices of the united nations, can solve many of these vicious and complex problems. the american people hope that one day soon the united nations can be a much more accountable and effective advocate for human dignity and freedom around the world. in the meantime, we believe that no nation should have to bear a disproportionate share of the board and militarily or financially. nations of the world must take a greater role in secure and prosperous societies in their own region. that is why in the western hemisphere the united states stood against the corrupt destabilizing regime in cuba and

this administration will always stand with the men and women of the united states air force and know now it's my great pleasure to introduce my husband, the president of the united states, donald trump. [applause] president trump: thank you very much. at ease, at ease, please sit down. thank you, melania for that wonderful introduction and for being such an incredible emmisary for the american people. she's become very, very popular, i tell you that. very proud of her, thank you. secretary wilson, general, chief wright, general jacobson, colonel tinkert, i'm honored to join you on this really, really historic occasion, the 70th anniversary of the united states air force, the greatest air force on the face of this earth by far. [cheers and applause] president trump: before we begin, i want to say that our hearts and prayers go out to the people of london who suffered a vicious terrorist attack today. i spoke with a wonderful woman, british prime minister teresa may, this morning and relayed america's deepest sympathy as well as our absolute commitment to eradicating the terrorists from

darling of the united states at one time so if anyone in turkey hears the united states talking about freedom and democracy and these other buzzwords which have lost all of their meaning well and that's four hundred system is a good thing to have certainly in libya and saddam hussein in iraq didn't have them and i'm going to speak to you adam gary is my guest managing editor at the duran. members of the trump ministration are calling on congress to reauthorize the controversial surveillance floor to expire by the end of year let's get more on this story now from our correspondent in the states submitted was this cool seeing so up on capitol hill. well the u.s. justice department and the intelligence community are seeking a reauthorization of title seven of the foreign intelligence surveillance act this is causing a rift between proponents and civil liberties groups attorney general jeff sessions and national intelligence director daniel coats are actually urging congress to allow the federal government to carry to carry out warrantless surveillance of foreign targets they're seeking.

that is why the united states carried out a missile strike on the air base that launched the attack we appreciate the efforts of the united nations agencies that are providing vital humanitarian assistance in areas liberated from isis and we especially thank jordan turkey and lebanon for their role in hosting refugees from the syrian conflict the united states is a compassionate nation and has spent billions and billions of dollars in helping to support this effort we seek an approach to refugee resettlement that is designed to help these horribly treated people and which enables their eventual return to their home countries to be part of the rebuilding process for the cost of resettling one refugee in the united states we can assist more than ten in their home region out of the goodness of our hearts we offer financial assistance to hosting countries in the region and we support recent agreements of the g. twenty nations that will seek to host refugees as close to their home countries as possible this is the safe responsible and humanitarian approach for decades the united states has

not to be unexpected, to be expected exactly that the south koreans and the united states are trying to figure out what the north has done and how to respond to this. it's really important to understand the context when this is all happening. the united states and south korea just displayed a huge show of force, a huge warning to the north koreans, a massive flyover of u.s. war planes, u.s. bombers, fighter jets. a warning that was clearly visible to some extent from the northern side that this was what the united states has at the ready to essentially destroy the regime if they persist, if they continue these acts of defiance firing missiles, testing nuclear devic devices, yet they have still ton it. the north has still done it apparently today. the confirmation we have so far is only from the japanese side that they have concluded that this was a nuclear test. the u.s. geological survey said they have massive seismic events, one connected to the other, that happened in close proximity to each other. they have not yet said it was a nuclear or hydrogen test of any sort. however, we ha

those aircraft taking off what was uploaded on to the aircraft i mean these are things that the united states always shows nations like russia and others when they say oh this didn't happen let me let me seize on that point if that's indeed the case if the united states has this information if it's willing to share that with the russian officials why doesn't go ahead and share it with the rest of the world we have we you haven't i've seen it on i've seen it on the net what it what you want and then please you see earnings are usually what i saw was the u.s. government the pentagon released information saying here's when the aircraft launched out of that base here's when they were over the area it coincided almost exactly to the same minute that the syrian gas attack was alleged to have started to occur and all due respect the the fact that there was some bombing raids in the area is not disputed what is being disputed is what kind of gas was used and how exactly it was delivered there the means of delivery have not been established as if you had this is what the united nations says at this po

the united states is one out of one hundred ninety three countries in the united nations and yet we pay twenty two percent of the entire budget and more in fact we pay far more than anybody realizes the united states bears an unfair cost burden but to be fair if it could actually accomplish all of its stated goals especially the goal of peace this investment would easily be well worth it major portions of the world are in conflict and some in fact are going to hell but the powerful people in this room under the guidance and auspices of the united nations can solve many of these vicious and complex problems the american people hope that one day soon the united nations can be a much more accountable and effective advocate for human dignity and freedom around the world in the meantime we believe that no nation should have to bear a disproportionate share of the burden militarily or financially nations of the world must take a greater role in promoting secure and prosperous societies in their own regions that is why in the western hemisphere the united states has stood against the corrupt d

vladimir putin has told americans in a speech in china saying that the rhetoric coming out of the united states, the threats coming out of the united states, the russians don't believe those are very helpful or will persuade the north koreans to change their course and the russians view some of the military moves that the u.s. has made over the past couple weeks as quite dangerous as a provocation to themselves as well. the intercepter missiles that the u.s. put in north korea and japan were not seen well by the russians and some of the over lights as well, close to russian territories. while north korea has its main border with china it also has a border with russia. it's about 18 kilometers long but it is close to one of russia's main pacific port towns which is the port of vlad vladivostok. they say it was measured by their geological survey and the russians have now come out and say they don't believe this nuclear test poses any threat for the territory of the russian federation. the winds are such that if any radiation would have been released by the test it would blow in the other directi

i think the united states has to prove itself that it is a reliable party. >> rose: if the united states withdraws from the deal, what will iran do? yo have suggested the united states will suffer credibility issues, but what will iran do? >> we will make the appropriate decision based on the circumstances. >> rose: okay. there will be -- you see, i told you, iran is not a monolith. i will not make a decision for iran, nor will anybody else. we will have a debate in iran about the consequences. we will have a variety of views. even today, there are people in iran who believe that the united states has been less than compliant with other aspects of the deal and, therefore, iran should not stay committed to the deal. that's an argument that's being made by, in my view, a minority in iran. but that argument will gain greater momentum and greater support where the united states -- had the united states decided to leave the deal. >> rose: i want to ask one question since you said iran is not a monolith and we coknow about that. which sides are winning in iran? president rouhani was reelected.

real problem as countries look around the world if you don't have a vision as to how you see the united states place in the world and you are the president of the united states what is going to happen it's very tough for people to take you at your word and this seemed to me a very contradictory speech that left us very much where we've been in the united states these are the foreign policy for a long time which is that we will go in when it suits our interests and we will tell you what we're interested in and we want when we don't want to all his does is put a tag on it of america first sovereignty nationalism sovereignty and to me it doesn't really move us forward at all ever what did you make of the the bit about venezuela because as we know quite recently he said that all options are on the table obviously central and latin america more generally shudders at the part of american involvement in the region which is which has been undercover for the most part but it also has been about regime change as they always do we think that we could be entering another phase like that with venezuela wel

with good relationship with the united states, a good alliance with the united states that the united states has our back. the other reason why there's not much discussion of this is that china and russia are considered to be rational actors. they can make a reasonable decision. they're not rogue nations, china and russia are not -- so they have these weapons but they're rational actors and china and russia are basically friendly states to japan and so we have the nuclear deterrence of the united states and we've been able to rely on that so we haven't had to do too much by ourselves, when it comes to north korea, separate from the nuclear issue, we need to think whether they are rational or not. why does north korea want to have nukes? what does it want to have icbm? i imagine they want to maintain the kim dynasty or to ensure the continuation of the regime. i think that's one of the reasons and what will -- what would north korea do with nuclear weapons, i think there's no way they would give up their nuclear weapons and i think it's of course north korea poses a grave challe

i think it was done on a day that is meant to disrespect the united states. a day when president trump set aside to remember texas. the north korean's paper ran a piece talking about putting the entire united states under water. i don't think that was a coincidence. what we have is north korea trying to take a moment where they felt the united states could not respond. it's also a moment where they felt china would not respond. the chinese just announced the date for the 9th party congress -- the 19th party congress. a sensitive time for the chinese and xi jinping won't want to move against his north korean ally at this particular moment. robert: it will be the 6th and largest since 2006. is it meant to show they are increasing their capability? what would you read into that? >> certainly. they were not going to want a smaller test. they will want to intimidate the united states. once they feel confident in their arsenal. they will use it to break the missile defense treaty with south korea. so then north korea can absorb south korea. this is the core goal of

impending spate of war given the president's addict or just gave us it's embarrassing because the united states is violating the vienna conventions and they're breaking the laws diplomatically in diplomatic circles with the united states is doing by going in there and seizing property and searching it and having the f.b.i. crawl through air conditioned ducks and looking around for stuff is going to our viewers here that alex is talking about article twenty two from the bin vienna convention on diplomatic relations so i mean likely that it's embarrassing for the united states to exhibit behavior like this but it also shows i think that trump is out of the equation when it comes to russia although russia collusion fake news all the posturing against russia all positioning trumpets russia agent goes to show that now when it comes to anything related with the u.s. and russia relations trump is a no show he's at the equations at the generals and the wall street bankers the military industrial complex is running the show and we see where this is leading to it's leading to like victor says another col

north koreans indeed have a far more sophisticated technology to back up of their threats and the united states seems to have a march shorter fuse which of these two factors do you find more troubling. questions here. first of all the the the fuse is now with the united states to fuse is with north korea north korea has continued to violate numerous u.n. . modest fences to not continuing with this nuclear capability they have broken several agreements with the united states they have continued to test. no other six tests for nuclear bomb apparently they've developed the hydrogen bomb in a period they have the i.c.b.m. and so it's not a question of just exposes the growth of the nuclear weapon system in north korea was saying that the united states has a short fuse i'm not sure i understand where you're going to miss them and so if it's not really surprising for anyone to see that north korea continues to violate international law there is no distance disagreement on that i think internationally but i think we have never have an american president who would express he. his displeasure over that

for most of us, this is the united states navy. the aircraft carrier, the cruiser them and destroyer. the modern deepwater navy extending american strength across the oceans of the world. but in vietnam the american navy has done an unprecedented variety of different jobs. it has held command responsibility for all support activities. with the army and has been advisor to the south vietnamese and has sent the marines to fight the land war. with the air force it flies the planes that provide airpower. and with civilian agencies it pursues a vigorous program of civic action. these are the all-around capabilities demonstrated by a modern versatile naval force in action. the american navy in vietnam. ♪ >> july, 1964. off the coast of vietnam, the u.s. seventh fleet troll the waters of the south china sea. to help the people of south vietnam defend themselves against an armed communist takeover, the united states and other countries have begun a flow of economic, technical, and financial aid. a joint civilian military effort to build a s

>> i think it is in the interests of the united states to look at the realities. tive realities. the realities in our region are crystal clear. they have been for the last 40 years. and the united states unfortunately decided to neglect those realities and has not fared well by doing that. >> javad zarif, a pleasure to have you on. >> good to be with you. >>> next on "gps," this week, the people of iraq's northern region of kurdistan will vote on whether to seek independence from baghdad. iran opposes the kurdish referendum. so does the united states. the only country that openly supports it is israel. what in the world? when we come back. you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, don't get too comfortable. we're talking to you, cost inefficiencies, and data without insights. and fragmented care, stop getting in the way of patient recovery and pay attention. every single one of you is on our list. at optum, we're partnering across the health system to tackle its biggest challenges. that's why a cutting edgeworld. university counts on centurylin

as far as i relation, it's different between the united states and the u.k. here's a large difference. i think the difference, i can only talk about defensive shoes but if you look at the united states and foreign policy, the u.k. has a number of venues in which you can think and share the same values with the united states. as far as japan is concerned i think we should be able to become more in line with the united states and be able to look more in the same pages of the united states and increase our intelligence level in order to do that. we do have a wonderful relationship with united states but in the worst scenario can japan really fully exercise its capability? that's something we need to think about. >> this is actually a good segue into an interesting question, we talked about japan's potential relationship with other u.s. allies and partners in the region. wondering if i can get a thought for me on japan and taiwan? obviously there is no formal diplomatic ties they have culturally, economically people the people, grassroots radical level they have e

they were doing it right now was that a warning against north korea was that a warning against the united states a little of both calm down the kids the adults want you to stop throwing things in the middle of this the top administration says it's going to. getting out of south korea united states c.t. they came in yesterday for you just to really u.s. and south korea yes south korea has got to be i mean they have a very reasonable president right now moon and he has got to be looking at trump who is pushing him to war and stabbing him in the back economically at the same time that last look like any of this to happen in south east south korea and japan they do not need to sort it all because in those or so the u.s. wants to fight north korea until a lot. of crime got to watch and it all goes back to what you said earlier is who are we dealing with everything with trouble are we dealing with madness are we dealing with kelly are we dealing with these wall street goldman sachs bankers no one really knows who's trying this foreign policy decision just like with this russian policy north korea poli

han been used much in the united states. reciprocal. spain is the 10th largest investor in the united states and i commend spanish business leaders for their confidence in america and the american worker and considering the fact that our stock market has just hit all-time highs, i think they probably like the united states very much right now. isn't it time for both tremendous opportunity for our world but also serious dangers. as i said at the united nations, which future really is up to us. if we empower our citizens, serve their needs and appeal to all that is best in the human spirit, then i have no doubt we will succeed like never, ever before. mr. president, i look forward to working with you to build this future of prosperity and peace for both spain and for the united states of america. thank you very much. thank you. >> [speaking spanish] >> with the people in the u.s. government after the terrible events president trump just referred to. and that took place in texas, florida, and other u.s. regions. and puerto rico. we hope and

of the united states and of the state wherein they reside. it continues no state, you know this better than i, shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states, nor shall any state deny any person of life, liberty or property nor deny to any person with its jurisdiction equal protection of the laws. they may be homosexuals but they are americans. you say there should be laws specifically against this one group of americans. >> in 1986 the 14th amendment, the united states supreme court found there was no right to commit sodomy in the constitution. and to establish a right that was never recognized in this country. it is absolutely >> no support to authorize sodomy in our law. that was adopted by the supreme court by turning to international law, not the constitution. article 6 of the constitution says the supreme law of the land, not the court of european rights. our supreme court simply acted as a legislative body overturning the laws of virtually every state regarding property. w

alwaysministration will stand with the men and women of the united states air force. now it is my great pleasure to introduce my husband, the president of the united states, donald trump. president trump: you go sit down. thank you very much. at leaease. thank you for being such an incredible emissary to the american people.just become very popular. i'm very proud of her. secretary wilson, general jacobson, i am honored to join you on this really, really his 70th occasion, the anniversary of the united states air force, the greatest air force on the face of this earth by far. before we begin, i want to say our hearts and prayers go back to the people of london who suffered a vicious terrorist attack today. i spoke with a wonderful woman, british prime minister theresa may, this morning and relayed america's deepest sympathy as well as our absolute commitment to eradicating the terrorists from our planet -- radical islamic terrorism. it will be eradicated, believe me. america and our allies will never be intimidated. people, ournd our nations, and her civilization from

one, i believe this theory about russian meddling in straits weakness of the united states of americahe world, russia included, could have succeeded in making any influence in any election of the united states of america. funny, this isjust a very clever move by those people who were ina clever move by those people who were in a position to answer very inconvenient questions about the content inconvenient questions about the co nte nt of inconvenient questions about the content of what had been leaked out. suddenly, nobody is any more concentrated on the content but everybody is discussing russian meddling. bravo those who did it but this is a very cynical and disgusting move of the political technologists of the united states of america. second part of your question, yes, definitely, mrtrump is now in a very difficult position. he is very much limited by red flags which were deployed by his opponents and enemies in the congress and yes, he cannot make any move towards russian normalisation of relations with russia. though, the usa, they need this normalisation of our bilateral relati

the problem is the united states and you have to look at this broadly. be the problem for the rest of the world actually now is the containment of the united states the u.s. used to during the first cold war talk about the containment of the soviet union but no it's the containment of the united states and frankly it always has been. it's an unpredictable regime but there is absolutely no doubt that if north korea hadn't developed nuclear weapons it would have been attacked all the same thing would have happened something similar would have happened to north korea as happened to libya and iraq syria and afghanistan. and i want to play a clip from the house foreign affairs committee who met today regarding sanctions on north korea let's take a listen one of the strategies that the administration is pursuing that bring china to that point where they conclude that it is in their interest to enforce the sanctions because the danger of a conflict on the peninsula is greater than their fear of some alignment by a unified korean peninsula the united states or do

the attack probes the united -- the attack prompts the united states to strengthen its defense capabilitieshe destroyer was carrying out a patrol in those waters in -- waters and international waters when it was attacked. it continued to carry out is mission -- carry out its mission today. the president has asked the destroyer force be doubled. he has issued instructions that , in the event of a further attack of our vessel in international waters, we are to respond with the objective of destroying the attackers. the maddox resumes its patrol -- >> the maddox resumes its patrol. the next night the men on watch again detect unidentified contacts on radar. the attack from the north vietnamese boats is renewed. [fires] after a three-hour running battle in which two of the pt boats are sunk, the attackers break contact. >> my fellow americans, as president and commander in chief, it is my duty to the american people to report that renewed hostile actions against the united states' ships on the high seas in the gulf of tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the united stat

hasn't been used very much in the united states, reciprocal. spain is the 10th largest investor in the united states and i commend spanish business leaders for their confidence in america and the american worker and considering the fact that our stock market just hit all-time highs. i think they probably like the united states very much right now. this is a time for both tremendous opportunity for our world but also serious dangers. as i said, at the united nations, which future really is up to us, if we empower our citizens, serve their needs, and appeal to all that is best in the human spirit, then i have no doubt we will succeed. like never ever before. mr. president, i look forward to working with you, to build this future of prosperity and peace for both spain and for the united states of america. thank you very much. thankthank you. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: -- of my government and of that of the spanish people with the people in the u.s. government after the terrible events president trump just referred to. and the, took

i would argue, as many of my colleagues do, that no matter how necessary it is for the united states to take the fight to isis as we have in iraq and syria and other places around the world, that is not currently authorized by the united states congress. and it is a fairly extraordinary leap of statutory interpretation to think that an authorization to attack al qaeda, the perpetrators of the attacks on 9/11, allow you then to conduct a global war with almost no limits against this new enemy. and so to me if we don't reauthorize military action against isis, perhaps against other foes that we confront, then i'm not sure that congress will ever again authorize war. why? it's a lot harder to authorize military action today than it was a century ago or 50 years ago. we aren't marching conventional armies across a field against one another. we aren't signing neat peace treaties that provide a clear end to hostilities. the enemy is shadowy and diffuse and per spettual -- perpetual. and victory now is harder to define than ever before. so it is very easy for the united states congress to ju

war is never something the united states wants. south korea has strengthened its military defences after signs the north is preparing more missile launches. kensington palace announce the duke and duchess of cambridge are expecting their third child. the royal family are said to be ‘delighted'. heading for ‘a perfect storm' — a senior police official warns of the impact of staff cuts and raising crime on forces in england and wales. the northern ireland secretary james brokenshire holds separate meetings with the five stormont parties in an attempt to bring back the power—sharing executive. a red arrow salute as the the queen officially opens the new queensferry crossing. the queen was accompanied by prince philip — 53 years to the day after she opened the neighbouring forth road bridge. we are going straight to the united nations security council meeting to hear from the russian representative. translation: we cannot but regret the fact that the dprk leadership through its action to undermine the global nonproliferation regime is p

the united states is one out of 193 countries in the united nations, and yet we pay 22% of the entirethan anybody realises. the united states bears an unfair cost burden. but to be fair, if it could accomplish all of its stated goals, especially the goal of peace, this investment would easily be worth it. major portions of the world are in conflict, and some are going to hell. but the powerful people in this room, under the guidance and auspices of the united nations, can solve many of these vicious and complex problems. the american people hope that one day, the united nations can be a much more accountable and effective advocate for human dignity and freedom around the world. in the meantime, we believe that no nation should have to bear a disproportionate share of the burden, militarily or financially. nations of the world must take a greater role in promoting secure and prosperous societies in their own regions. that is why in the western hemisphere, the united states has stood against the united states has stood against the corrupt, destabilising regime in cuba and embraced the e

and to remove the possibility that the united states can use the military threats against kim jong un and against north korea the north koreans have lived with threat from the united states for their entire existence and they're trying to match the u.s. in terms of establishing a mutual nuclear deterrence with washington if i understand it correctly technically north korea and the u.s. are still at war because there was effectively a truce called many years ago between the two countries but it was never actually made into a piece as it is that something that should be revisited as part of this process to try to get north korea to pull back or at least approach the negotiating table. north korea's opening position really is that the united states should drop its hostile relationship with north korea as a prerequisite to discussing any possible denuclearization and so in essence what the north koreans are looking for is the assurance of the removal of hostility the establish of a diplomatic relationship with north korea and acceptance of north korea as a nuclear state i just don

if not, the united states has the most military power, if the united states is gone, may be that little bit of force behind the deal is gone and iran will speed ahead with its program, as it was before. there is also reporting this morning from the president of france, that when it comes to iran's regional behavior, it is not enough, the nuclear deal, and maybe some more examination of it is needed. can you give your opinion on his perspective? seems like the general reaction from the international community to president trump's speech. the bias of the yuan is toward the status quo. but they don't like the fact that president trump criticized nato, but at the same time, maybe we do need to up our defense spending. the president is going against the same time at he's causing world leaders to think about things in a different way. and it shows donald trump's impact in front of the world stage. >> you talked about his , we will show you that portion of his speech. there is donald trump at the united nations. as president of the united states, i will always put america first. just like you,

the united states is 1 out of 193 countries in the united nations and yet we pay 22% of the entire budget and more. in fact, we pay far more than anybody realizes. the united states bears an unfair cost burden but to be fair, if it could actually accomplish all of its stated goals, especially the goal of peace, this investment would easily be well worth it. major portions of the world are in conflict and some, in fact, are going to hell, but the powerful people in this room under the guidance and auspices of the united nations can solve many of these vicious and complex problems. the american people hope that one day soon the united nations can be a much more accountable and effective advocate for human dignity and freedom around the world. in the meantime, we believe that no nation should have to bear a disproportionate share of the burden militarily or financially. nations of the world must take a greater role in promoting secure and prosperous societies in their own regions. that is why in the western hemisphere the united states has stood against the corrupt destabilizing regime in cu

what should the united states be concerned about? >> we should be concerned about individuals in the united states copping what they say in berlin, sweden, barcelona, london and other locations across france. the late spokesman said that if you cannotyo attack in come to syria and iraq, attack the western infidels with the knife, with the vehicle, so all of these options remain open. we've seen that inside of europe and other places where an individual can rent people. you'll never know what that person is to until the last second. there individuals with lowndivia signatures, they don't give off science they will attack. that's what we should worry about. and other things including 45000 europeans with european passports who are under the visa waiver program i can travel to the united states. that doesn't mean they just walk in without someone spotting them. congress is looking at this now. the visa waiver program is essential to our economy and culture and family ties. it is a potential vulnerability was somebody europeans going to f

the state of russian. why he hates the magnitsky act so much he doesn't keep that $200 billion in russia where it's unsafe, he keeps it in the united states and london and switzerland and france and et cetera. what the magnitsky act does imposes sanctions, financial sanctions on people like vladimir putin. so he believes, in his own mind, this the most personal assault on his personal net worth that could ever exist. so when the magnitsky act was passed, he went crazy, absolutely crazy. he banned adoptions put sergei magnitsky on trial after they killed him, in the first ever trial of a dead man, pursuing to the ends of the earth, this whole thing is really, really upseting to vladimir putin. >> to be clear vladimir putin, according to your book and others, has business interests in a lot of businesses. in other words, people either pay him as shares of company or some kind of kickback scheme, but these are people all over the world. they have places in miami an new york and london and all sorts of places. the magnitsky act prevents them from banking and doing business in the united states and other countries where there's a simila

they enjoyed maximum -- under the protection of the united states and the region. for iran, this was a blessing in disguise. the united states had defeated saddam, and the united states had removed the taliban in afghanistan, two of iran's main rivals at the time. and in the process they head weakened-to-the point it was increasingly difficult for it to uphold the policy of isolating iran. instead what we saw was iran was unleashed. but as long as the united states contained -- refused negotiations and refused to recognize iran this, iranians could not lock in this new favorable geopolitical circumstance. what they needed was a crisis, something that would force the united states to the table, and that would enable negotiations that by definition would cause the united states to end its policy of regime change and come to terms with iraq. iranians wanted this recognition for very same reason the israelis did not want to see iran get the wreck nation. that recognition would put an end to decades of american policy of isolating iran. now, ironically, the iranians and

there by the united states geologic surveys. me indicate it registered as a 6.3 or so magnitude earthquake. that gives you an idea of the power of these blasts. the other tests happening here are missiles, ballistic missiles, long-range missiles. two tests in july and a week ago a flight over of a missile that flew from north korea over japan, the first time that had happened. a missile that flew some 17 mur miles. the missile that was fired earlier last week went to the north but it has a range that could have hit guam, many experts believe. now this nuclear test if that is what it is, and many experts think happened is another round in the escalation between north korea, united states, south korea and japan. north korea wants to be seen as a player and recognized for their nuclear prowess. their nuclear capability as the ultimate weapon in their arsenal because they fear that the united states and south korea are trying to take over the korean peninsula. remember on the korean peninsula, the korean war from the 1950s is still o