>> i plan to do so. and as i mentioned i hope both candidates those that are willing to burn political capital and those that have plan to do so i usually don't give money to candidates i don't plan to vote for but we will see. >> i think of the governor here he would be very complementary of me our state has than blessed with republican and democratic senators and governors that have served our country well. and i thank you would be very surprised with those dinners that are placed between them are and they'll and himself because we just share good things to happen in our state i will not be shy about that. >> we never had that conversation all four of us together but it would be one where we speak about the things relative to the greatness of our state and our country. >> thank you so much for coming we hope you will visit us again and that concludes the breakfast. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

and this is the first time that i have had to do so. as always, they have had to do so.ave served our country with the greatest professionalism and bravery, and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude. we would have preferred an alternative path, but on this occasion, there is none. we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalised, either within syria, on the streets of the uk or elsewhere. we must reinstate the global consensus, that chemical weapons cannot be used. this action is absolutely in britain's national interest. the lesson of history is when the global rules and standards keep us safe come under threat, we must take a stand and defend them. that is what our country has always done, and that is what we will continue to do. i will take a number of questions. start with laura. thank you, prime minister, laura kuenssberg, bbc news. your logic is chemical attacks must not go unpunished, will you do the same again, if president assad does the same again, as you have suggested he has, and do you feel you have the public‘s consent, given that you have no

to follow that and also we'll do it. because otherwise we also would not be able to influence european policy and politics we tried to do so in the sense of more. common project war dialogue between the two sides are yours is not the only country in the e.u. that has a moderate look on sanction engressia however the sanctions get extended unanimously a year after year can there be a real difference in opinion within the e.u. about sanctions or are they protests against and will never go beyond that ration. those countries that have more intense economic relations with russia like costa of us also bigger countries like italy and so on they are not so happy about it but they will follow the european line and this is very important because otherwise also the weight of the european union also the possibilities of this of those countries with edu would be weakened and therefore i fear is this sanctions or. is not will not be changed just by discussion but by change on the ground now as you mentioned vienna is presiding in the you for the second half of the twenty a teen how can this be you. so improve years relations with russi

to fire the special counsel. >> do you believe he has the pourer to fire special counsel robert mueller? >> certainly believes he has the power to do so. >> you said the president believes he has the power to fire mueller because usually most legal experts believe that he would have to order rod rosenstein to fire mueller and rosenstein could of course refuse. >> a number of individuals in the legal community and including at the department of just justice says he has the power to do so. >> they say that only rosenstein has the power. >> we've been advised that the power has the power. i can't go beyond that. >> this comes as the president is stewing over what he says as a provocative move by mueller, perhaps nobody closer to donald trump that didn't share his last name than michael cohen, probably even closer than some that do share the last name. so this raid is hitting very close to home. federal prosecutors in manhattan obtained the search warrants for cohen after a referral from special counsel mueller and nbc news reports that rod rosenstein personally signed off on the raid. legal sources say that means mueller found evidence o

military opposition and in doubt they are to a certain extent yes of western nations so they can't agree to have a choice solution for syria so they both did do to wreck each other's death to find a political solution now this syrian attack how to push this creep out of the front pages of western papers but i still want to ask you about it i'm sure you know that russia denies any involvement and there are many people in moscow particularly in the foreign affairs ministry who believe that these calls creep all controversy was intended and other things to warrant any possibility of rapprochement between russia and the e.u. i'm not going to ask you whether you believe in that but do you think there are forces within the u.k. stablish men possibly within the american establishment who would know. one the relationship between russia and the european union to be normalized while certainly within the military establishment of the united kingdom which is now asking for a larger budget forces who are interested in bad relations between the u.k. and russia between europe and russia because does is what they need to get higher government spending and i

well aware of and therefore will try to do so chancer sébastien kurds says the country is planning touse its presence in the e.u. to work and securing its borders against new waves of migrants well this finally fixed a spat between the easter and western members over the refugee problem i think that now already all the european countries almost all the european countries are aware of is challenge of. not only refugees but migrants coming from africa coming from asian countries and if you look to the demographic development this will not become a minor problem in the future but that the problem and the challenges will increase and therefore it is necessary to overthink european politics and also to established. new instruments and tools in order to have a better control at the border. of course if you need the consensus of twenty seven countries as we have to do in european union this is a long way this is difficult this is a proses that lasts but it's there is the clear will to do so because otherwise this was a day jobs of the overall consensus within the euro and therefore i'm sure

donald trump to do something about syria when trump and he will be thrown off from syria there was very very strong criticism for the whole security and foreign establishment not to do so pressing mr trump to do something about the political solution for syria not allow iran turkey and russia to dictate what happens. with the syrian government and probably at some stage he might give in to this pressure but i don't think that it is his intention or what i consider more likely than another u.s. military attack on syria is that the united states' policy will be to wreck any a third by the russians to turks and iranians to find a political solution so that is what i see namely the united states not wanting to send thousands of troops to syria which they would need to resist the ukrainians let alone the russians what i see is that the united states is doing everything it can politically to make progress on the solution impossible what you're saying is that while being unable to contribute anything constructive and positive to the to this horrendous war they will just sabotage any progress that other parties have been trying to achieve while we have to say at the same time

likely both that the syrian regime has continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so this must be stopped we have sought to do so using every possible diplomatic channel but our efforts have been repeatedly thwarted both on the ground and in the united nations following the sarin attack in eastern damascus back in august two thousand and thirteen the syrian regime committed to dismantle its chemical weapons program and russia promised to ensure that syria did this overseen by the organization for the prosecution of chemical weapons but these commitments have not been met a recent report from the organization for the prosecution of chemical weapons has said that syria's declaration of its former chemical weapons program is incomplete this indicates that it continues to retain undeclared stocks of nerve agent or precursor of chemicals and is likely to be continuing with some chemical weapons production. the o.p.c. w. inspectors have investigated previous attacks and on four occasions decided that the regime was indeed responsible. and on each occasion when we have seen

he is deal they won with the authority to do so. to implement those policies that he announces or that he makes. he's doing what the american people asked him to do. that's to come here to change washington. border -- >> i wanted to get an update on to theional guard border. a couple of things the secretary was saying, it could happen as early as night. just wondering if you could update us. california hasn't said what they plan to do, they are still reviewing, will you go ahead with the plan? >> we hope to have a national guard on the ground. there is not a specific time -- going to be as many as it takes. we are looking at what that needs to be. inare going to move forward that process. the president thinks it's a good first step. >> really fast, what happens when the honduran caravan gets there and you have this presence what going to happen? inthe mexican government conjunction with our team and this administration has broken up a lot of that and is continuing to do so. in terms of what the specifics will look like, it will be wo

devastating impact on the entire system of international relations according to police and the kremlin so what are they going to do about it well that's of course something that i think putin is going to be weighing up at the moment the only concrete steps that we are hearing so far and this is coming from the kremlin coming from prison himself is the russia's convening an emergency meeting of the united nations security council to discuss what it calls the aggressive actions of the united states and its allies if it is just another u.n. security council meeting well that will probably get what we've had in un s.c. meetings for the last months and years which is basically a shouting match on the floor of the u.s. the with the u.s. and its allies lining up and russia on the other side with a little bit of cover from china whether we go we have gone koreans very sorry to go straight over to london where we british prime minister tree's amazing he's now let's hear what he has to say and targeted strikes to degrade the syrian regime's chemical weapons capability and deter their use. for the u.k.'s part for tornado g.r

to do. at the first opportunity, parliament will have an opportunity to question this. i will be in parliament, as i have said, on monday in order to do so. the intent of this action is that it does degrade and deter the syrian regime from taking action. we will be following up with further diplomatic efforts in relation to this wider question of the use of chemical weapons. two more. >> in light of russia continuing to use its veto, are you concerned about the ongoing effectiveness of the united nations? prime minister may: i think my message would be this about the security council. number ship of the security council, permanent membership of the security council is only given to a limited number of countries. i think it is important that those who sit around that security council table take quite seriously the responsibility they have to the wider international community for decisions that are taken. i hope that the actions being will deter and to grade the syrian regime's capability and willingness to use chemical weapons, but will also send a message to others about the use of chemical weapons. it is illegal, bands, and should not h

judge it highly likely they have continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so. this must be stopped. we have sought to do so using every possible diplomatic channel. our efforts have been thwarted on the ground and the united nations. back in august, 2013, the syrian regime committed to dismantle the chemical weapon program and russia promised to ensure that syria did this, overseen by the organization of prohibition of chemical weapons. these conditions have not been met. a recent report from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons said that syria's declaration of the former weapons program is incomplete. this indicates it continues to retain undeclared stocks of nerve agents and is likely to continue with chemical weapons production. the opcw inspectors investigated previous attacks and decided the regime was responsible. on each occasion, when we have seen every sign of chemical weapons used, any attempt to hold the perpetrators to account has been blocked by russia at the u.n. security council with six such vetoes since the start of 2017. j

s will find solutions to all the world's problems since these no nation state is that they'll do that do you subscribe to that point of view so i don't think they care and i think cities have been far more innovative the national governments and i do think there's a sense in which cities are becoming politically more important and the ideas that are generated in the world are you know i think so much of our culture and ideas come from cities and it comes from just one writer jane jacobs talked about the only place where you can see some stranger or other traveler by going to a city and so there's just so much going on ideas are generated and so cities are i think are a fulcrum of change like that but nevertheless central governments are still important very important in terms of addressing larger issues like income distribution and climate change you know what makes me concerned about this kind of discourse is the fact that they have long seen a gap that's in politics and policies and you know ideally politics is supposed to be a facilitator of policies but i think they're increasingly diverging especially in the western coun

russian relations to most pressing problem is ukraine not so much crimea because most western governments simply do your job but the fact to accept crimea is part of russia and will be so for a very long time if not for ever but the real issue is eastern ukraine is there a chance to find a solution to those territories in the regions of don't yet skinned lugansk which are not controlled by separatists here we have an agreement in minsk to agreement which would help but it doesn't work i'm sure you know russia would be perfectly content with the so-called austrian scenario let's say neutrality or some sort of knowing alignment for ukraine and i can even see europe or the majority of the e.u. member states agreeing to some form of that but i think what they agree with me that they're met for the americans that's not good enough they will continue pushing the prospect all for ukraine's nato membership if nothing else and purely for retort go purposes where is there room for concession there simply accepting nato troops on russia's border is that the only concession concession that would be required of

you keep failed to do that so now russia group western executive council to provide all information the next step. is supposed to do right now is to. make sure that the executive council requests that the u.k. provides all the information about scruples issue because. the executive council is obliged to do that so why wouldn't the u.k. provide the world with the same information it's not clear this reason is much more coalitions to the cabinet or for me especially towards the johnson in how the really established fault of russian federation in. right let's bring you right up to speed now let's go live to the hague where the o.p.c. w. meeting has now concluded after a few hours of talks peter all of us there hi there peter bring us up to speed on what can you tell us this hour. hello. well what we understand is that the russian permanent representative to the executive council alexander shogun issued a proposal this morning now that was for what is being called a. joint constructive and civilized investigation joint investigation along with other members in the united kingdom that ha

but what the president needed to do was to come to congress and said this horrific event took place. i want to take action against the caregiving authorization to do so. he did not do that. >> for the authorization be that you would be willing to give at this point? what is the scope of what you're willing to do in syria? apparently the presidents proposed was to launch tomahawk missile attacks against the facilities that stored and produced chemical weapons. all well and good. if he had asked for a specific authority, i want to launch an attack, against these facilities to deter, degrade and stop production of it and i want to do it for at least one year, and longer if necessary. he could have had that passed in congress within one day. very simple resolution. probably very close to 100 percent vote. but no, instead, he went ahead and now there is rage and controversy over his legal authority for the attack. >> from your understanding now, what is the redline for the president of when he is willing to take strikes? >> apparently, when he wakes up in the morning and says it is swell, i think i want to do it. it is willy-nilly. keep in mind that just

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has been working to try and replace this this was the attempt to do so yet again a russian veto the u.n. still has nobody that can actually provide accountability for chemical attacks we do have the fact finding mission which is able to determine whether a attack has taken place or not but it does not have the mandate to apportion blame that is what the u.s. and other members of the security council were seeking to do and that is what russia has just vetoed right but it was very interesting to hear what vessel ina benj of the russian ambassador had to say he made it clear that this was a calculated plan by the u.s. to deliberately make a proposal that was unacceptable to russia russia will be cast as the villain he said and that the impotence of the u.n. will then be used as a pretext for the u.s. to launch strikes on syrian targets does. that does all this make that more likely does that make us intervention more likely. well this argument was advanced by the russian ambassador the previous russian ambassador after the chemical attack a year ago in. which the joint vista get of mechani

absolutely right to do so. it's a dream that people have said. they have more homes built than of any. and we do need to ensure that we are helping people with homeownership seen more homes being built. i will be happy to meet with my honorable friend and others. thank you very much mister speaker. i welcome the consultation on domestic abuse. the government insists on pain universal credit into just one household account. as a special measure as it would have watched the abuse. a making split payments of universal credit. force this to be made. it's a terrible crime we must deal with. along the 85. over the next 12 years. and the merit 2000 businesses. still a single carriage really. releasing ten millionths pounds. i'm very much aware of this. so important for his constituents. we are already making investments in the a5. they connect. they have our armed forces. the numbers meeting at. there are significant shortfalls. we will retain the best men and women around office. what has gone wrong. if we look at it. we are looking at the capabilities

to make visits with you in this why do you say that? you trying to teach me about my country? that's why they are much more enticed to do so and then we followed that is why i do the it is very important because to improve the level from the different african government and then to respect the position the very practical question is as soon as you recognize that government business is just for you maybe it isn't fair but when making business with economic on a day-to-day basis how do you deal with that? let me refer to a speech that i did before let's work with several society that we created this alliance and to work directly with the ngos and those you have to assess you should provide water so that is my answer. i look to the leaders of the african people but those who work with several society education, agriculture to be more efficient and to be consist but as for my advice if i may, for your generation a lot of people from your generation in europe my recommendation would be listen to your teachers first to have a framework that you build your own judgment that is the main reason for you to be here communication is a

have an opportunity to question this and i will be in parliament as i've said on monday in order to do so. the intent of this action is that it does degrade and it does deter the syrian regime from taking action. we will be following up with further diplomatic efforts in relation to the wider question of the use of chemical weapons. two more. >> in light of russia continuing to use its veto, have they concerned about the ongoing effectiveness of the united nations? >> i think my message would be this about the security council. membership of the security council is-46 permane -- perman membership is given only to a limited number of countries. i think it is important that those who sit around that security council table take seriously the responsibility that they have to the wider international community for decisions that are taken. i hope that the action that has been taken in syria will deter and degrade the syrian regime's capability and willingness to use chemical weapons, but will also send a message to others about the use of chemical weapons. this is illegal, it is banned, it shou

to do for britain. let me be absolutely clear, we have acted because it is in our national interest to do so. it is in our national interest to prevent the further use of chemical weapons in syria

reporter: the white house says president trump has the authority to fire mueller. >> he has the power to do soeporter: that seems to contradict justice department regulations that give rod rosenstein the authority to fire mueller. >> we have been advise the td t president has power to do so. >> he believes mueller crossed a line when they raided offices and residence of michael cohen, the case referred by mueller. rosenstein signing off on search warrants, saying they're interested in payments to two women who say they were paid off to stay silent about alleged affairs with president trump. stormy daniels and karen macdougal. those payments could lead to election fraud or bank fraud charges. the white house denies both women's accusations. after unleashing a blistering attack. >> an attack on our country in a true sense, an attack on what we all stand for. why don't i justifier mueller? i think it is a disgrace what's going on, we'll see what happens. >> reporter: and tweeting a total witch-hunt and attorney/client privilege is dead. bipartisan calls for mueller to stay in place. >> i am confi

the question is whether he will be deterred to do so, and even if he is deterred to do so, and even iff months? will he used chemical weapons again? i think to terence is very limited. that is the key here, this was an action of components. we are trying to compel assad, telling him not to do that again or else. if you do it again, we will punish you again. this is a tit—for—tat kind of game that has been going on for years and yea rs. that has been going on for years and years. finally the drug administration have said enough is enough. you set yourself there, question, which i will put to you, was with room out of washington initially, first of all saying it was a one—off strike and then said that them saying they are locked and loaded, ready to go. do you think the assad regime will say, ok, this has happened, we know what the response will be, we will be less likely to use it again if they did use of the first time. you alluded to the fact that the americans have new sanctions in place to compel the russian regime as well to basically this and its support for the assad regime, orat

we have further to go there, clearly, so make sure we're fully representative, but i think it shows we are doingwell. would you go so far as to agree with rear admiral alex burton who said "we are in danger of losing our status as a credible military power, unless spending is increased", is that something you recognise? we are an immensely credible and capable air force. so if we look at operations against daesh, we would be number two in the coalition, alongside the united states, but number two in the coalition has meant that on occasions we have been providing up to 40% of the capability. at the same time we have been not only defending the skies around the united kingdom, but in support of of our nato allies, in the northern and southern flanks of nato, and we have engaged across the world. right now, the raf is engaged in 13 operations in 21 countries around the world, a tremendous effort. so i don't worry about our credibility right now. but the world is changing. it is adapting very quickly, people have noticed where we are strong, they've noticeded in recent conflict our strength in the

we will take these anywhere we have the funding to do so. we have taken them to the east coast and the gulf coast, her when they make landfall, obviously to look at severe weather here in the central and southern lance. taken our radars to vancouver to scan snowfall during the olympics. we have also disassembled these radars and sent them across oceans to do a variety of different projects. we sent one of these radars to france to do a lightning and precipitation project. doalso sent these to tropical rainfall experiments. anywhere that we have funding, we will take these. they are not just locked to the ground here in the u.s. we will take them anywhere we have funding to do so. this is why our severe weather here in here is so good radar technology was developed during the early days of world war ii. primarily in england, contributions from the united states, and the idea was to detect planes and went on to detect missiles later, but mostly to detect planes and some rains in early days. the weather was not something that they wanted, it was

if you want to cover your body you should be free to do so and she don't want to cover to cover your body you shouldn't be forced to do so and you should be supported in having the right of removing it's you know the head scarf or whatever covers it. it's really it's a very posh realizing way of seeing women saying that ok we have a way. we see freedom means being dressed in that way and we would have to muslim women to understand that freedom is uncovering and we will even force you to uncover to make you understand that all feminism is right that it's very ethnocentric and very patronizing. feminism to me because we are. you said that i was muslim i don't cover myself but i don't want everybody to look like me i can totally understand that some women in my family would like to cover and we are belonging to the same family who are still missing and i don't want to. criticize them because they are they have their own we are as women all right so let's talk about feminism now because you have written extensively and you talk a lot about women's rights you campai

we have not done this because president trump asked us to do so. we did it because we believe it's the right thing to do, and we are not alone. there's international support for the action we take in. nato issued a statement in a number of countries in the region. over the weekend i spoke to a range of world leaders and quitting chancellor merkel, and prime minister's in the union council president. all express support to the approval of the actions. >> the speed we acted was essential to alleviate further suffering and maintain the vital security of our operation. this was a limited, targeted strike on a legal basis is been used before. a decision which required the evaluation of intelligence much of which cannot be shared with parliament. were clear the government was acting quickly. i'm clear that it's parliament's responsibility to hold the to account for such decision the parliament will do so. my responsibility as prime minister to make these decisions. i've been clear this military action was not about intervene with the civil war or about re

and medical and mental health care without actually providing any funding from the state for us to do so. we do not need another top down unfunded mandate. i do not understand a reason to voting to support the bill without having an opportunity to fully hear from all stakeholders. this does not seem to be a responsible way to address such a serious issue. if there's a claim that we have adequate mental health services, i'm not sure then why during the budget committee hearing almost everybody that came up, department including, stated that we don't have enough money, enough mental health service, the resolution that is authored by supervisor cohen, chair of the budget committee, has a budget ask for the mayor to increase the budget for mental health services because it's inadequate and i agree with that. so for this reason i cannot support, allowing the resolution to move forward without the benefit of community hearing and i'm hoping that president breed, that you'll schedule a resolution for hearing at committee and once again, i'm not saying i'm against this, but certainly would like

however, knowing oui’ goodwill to do so. called partners, we cannot really count on the goodwill. —— on their. also making news today: the us president has agreed to keep american troops in syria for a little while longer to help in the fight to defeat isis, according to a senior administration official. president trump had signaled his desire to pull them out. there are about 2000 us troops in syria. the duke of edinburgh has undergone a hip replacement surgery operation at a private hospital in london. in a statement, buckingham palace said the duke, who's 96, was comfortable and in good spirits. saudi arabia will open its first cinema in decades in the next two weeks. it's part of a deal that the saudis have done with amc — the world's largest cinema chain. the plan is to open up to a0 cinemas in some 15 saudi cities over the next five years. it's been revealed that as many as 87 million users may have had their personal information shared with the data firm, cambridge analytica. within the last few hours, facebook‘s chief

. >> i certainly believe he has the power to do so. the president has been clear that he thinks that this is gone too far and beyond that i don't have anything to add. >> reporter: the other looming question is whether the president could force out or constrain mueller by firing attorney general jeff sessions or deputy attorney rod rosenstein. who could name a different special prosecutor. asked about the fate of sessions, who showed up at of all places a celebration for the alabama college football team -- >> mr. attorney general, have you spoken to the president today. >> not today. roll tide. >> reporter: the white house didn't exactly hold back the blitz of questions. >> i think the president was pretty clear about his frustrations when he spoke about that last night. >> while the raid at the office of the president's personal attorney michael cohen was ordered bit u.s. attorney's office in new york and not mueller, mr. trump is outraged at the special counsel. according to justice department rules, rosenstein, a republican, had had

w team is able to visit duma to gather information to make that assessment and they are currently being prevented from doing so by the regime and the russians it cannot attribute responsibility this is because russia vetoed in november twenty seventh an extension of the joint investigator a mechanism set up to do this and last week in the wake of the duma attack it again vetoed a new un s.c. resolution to reestablish such a mechanism and even if we had o.p.c. w.'s findings and a mechanism to attribute for as long as russia continues to veto the u.n. security council still would not be able to act so mr speaker we cannot wait to alleviate further humanitarian suffering caused by chemical weapons attacks second will we not just following orders from america let me be absolutely clear we have acted because it is in our national interest. it is in our national interest to prevent the further use of chemical weapons in syria and to uphold and defend the global consensus that these weapons should not be used so we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalized either within syria on the streets of the

he told our manu raju that to do so would be inappropriate. top gop lawmakers say they don't see any need to protect mueller, even as democrats say that needs to be done. >> i do talk to the president on a regular basis. and i can tell you that he is not talking about firing bob mueller. >> i have no reason to believe that that's going to happen. i have assurances that it's not. i've been talking to people in the white house about it. >> but here's what president trump himself said on monday. >> why don't i just fire mueller? >> yeah, just fire the guy. >> well, i think it's a disgrace what's going on. we'll see what happens. >> that's not a "no." "outfront" now, democratic senator from virginia, mark warner. he is the ranking member of the senate intelligence committee. and senator, i appreciate your time tonight. senator warner, your colleague, john cornyn, the number two republican in the senate is with the president right now. he says it would be inappropriate to bring mueller up to president trump at dinner tonight. do you agree? inappropr

remember china does want to appear and be taken seriously as the next global leader in iran and to do so it needs to play by the rules and it doesn't intend to have that image tanishq at right now given the very may tense situation between the two countries and rang in singapore and only parts reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange thank you to both of you to slovakia now where the recent murder of journalist young girlfriend has sparked outrage courts have been investigating corruption which is running deep in the country and it's fueled by billions of euros from the european union money that's supposed to foster economic growth regularly attracts violent criminals who for example take over large areas of arable land a reporter sent us this exclusive report your i bet ash was badly beaten up along this track he brought the printed smartphone pictures with him as evidence a competitor sent a group of armed thugs cut down his rapeseed and drove the fifty eight year old off the land he had leased state owned fields he'd farmed for decades his rival obviously had good connections to th

but, i want to do so much better than that.that would be women in the royal air force. we have got a government target of 15%. at the time, but that target was that, the raf had already surpassed that, the raf had already surpassed that, and last year, 20% of people recruited into the raf were women, and they are from every branch and trade, everything is open to everybody. it is not perfect, and we have got further to go there. clearly in order to be fully representative, but i think it shows that we are doing pretty well. would you go as far to agree with an expert to say that we are in danger of losing our state is as a credible military power, and less spending is increased. do you recognise that? we are very credible and capable. if you look at operations against the ias. on occasions, we have been providing up to 48% capability. at the same time, we have been defending the skies around the united kingdom, but the support around nato allies, and northern southern flags of nato. we have been engaged across the world. right

to do that. mr. richardson: i don't think so. i believe that the finis definin of denuclearizdeion for both is different. for the united states it is dismantling his weapons. he is not going to do that. he may freeze them. and then he ll probably haggle a lot on inspections and verification. that is where we shouldn't let him off the hook. but maybe long-term denuclearization he is ready to do, but if that is thease he is going to ask for a lot in return. if we thought the marshall plan was very costly after wod war ii, wait until you hear what the north koreans ask for. christian: do you think, in thef wordonald trump, kim jong-un is truly an open and honorable man? mr. richardson: well, you know, he goes from one extreme to the other. this is what is dangerous -- whatever the president is feeling as he is tweeting, that is not how you conduct foreign policy. i don't think necessarily those characterizations are accurate either way. when kim jong-un has become an -- what kim jong-un has done is be,me an international pari rabble-

to do the same. and i would ask other members who wish to speak to the nomination to do so when the actual vote takeseak. i certainly want to accommodate people who wish to do so. before speaking in support of our secretary of state nominee. i want to talk a little bit about our committee very briefly. this committee was established in 1816 as one of the original standing committees of the senate. we hold jurisdiction over legislation concerning the conduct of u.s. foreign policy, including foreign assistance, treaties, declarations of war, among other matters. we are also responsible for oversight of the state department and review of executive branch nominations that carry out u.s. diplomacy, including the secretary of state. and as we know, i mean this committee has been an island in a sea of partisanship. we have continued to conduct our business in a very bipartisan way. always, always beginning with republicans and democrats working together to come to a good end. i want to give a little history on nomination votes. john kerry was confirmed by a vote of 94 to 3 on the senate floor. this committ