u.k. independence party great always good to have you on the program thank you. the foreign minister of the netherlands has admitted that he loved by tearing vladimir putin talking to reform the soviet union the claims were made about the russian president back in two thousand and six parties. joins us now for this scene you're quite a bold to be as direct. as what it's now being called what's the background story to all of this. well when the dutch foreign minister was campaigning about two years ago he said that he overheard president putin outlining his plan to unify russia ukraine belarus and the baltic states and kazakhstan as a single country back in two thousand and six at some sort of business gathering this has been a general talking point when it comes to russia that putin is supposedly trying to bring back the soviet union but the foreign minister was working for shell at the time but his story was questioned when it was discovered that despite being part of the shell delegation he wasn't even at the two thousand and six meeting and not only that he wa

u.k. independence party. this is nigel farage. you.: thank thank you so much.hat a lovely introduction. great to be back at cpac, it really is. [applause] nigel:

u.k. independence party will be speaking at the conservative political action conference. for he begins, we will take a look back at some of the speakers from earlier in the conference, starting with interior secretary ryan zinke he and energy secretary rick perry. >> ryan zinke is served our military and served as a navy seal commander. [applause] give it up for the seals. montana'scted at-large member of congress, and is now the 52nd secretary of the interior. welcome, secretary ryan. we also have with us the secretary of energy, rick perry. [applause] >> there must be a texan in the crowd. [laughter] rick perry, unless i am wrong, you are not only the governor of texas, but the longest serving in texas history. of the air force, something i like. farmer, being a con farmer got him into politics. as ouris serving secretary of energy. they are going to make a few comments, then hopefully we have time for a few questions and answers in these critical cabinet positions. secretary perry, why don't you tell us what is going on with energy? village a great clear to -- it is a

u.k. independence party is a message hat is one they've never heard before. >> holding a referendum. >> we don't want that flag. we don't want the anthem. we don't want this political clap. >> i don't think a referendum is the answer. >> you are bullying. you are anti-democratic. you're a complete shower. >> we're not having a referendum or in or out of the european union. >> the question i want to ask, we're all going to ask, is who are you? i have never heard of you. nobody in europe had ever heard of you. i would like to ask you, president, who voted for you? >> the referendum, i don't want britain to leave the european union. >> nigel faraj says david cameron will eat his words. >> things will never be the same again. >> the u.k. has managed to win over the hearts of the majority of the british public. >> we'll give the british people a referendum. it will be an in-out referendum. my vision is for this country and the british people first and for us to divorce ourselveses from political union and to re-engage with the rest of the world. it is upbeat, it is optimistic and it is somethin

u.k. independence party m.e.p. who believes that those actions constitute meddling why is this man it's a fear in my country and my democracy if he wants to be a part of our democracy he should pay taxes in our country and stand for election in our country not of which is to win we are not a rich man's plaything these people will do whatever it takes to try and prove it's all democracy and we must not let them the fact is the british media is overwhelmingly. remain and they will give him hundreds of thousands of pounds millions of pounds with them free publicity. a sociology professor from kent university in the u.k. sais he overheard sore us on this associates bragging about their meddling in politics in numerous countries we spoke to that man for his take frank furedi. of course of the conversation they were going on about how much influence they've been able to exercise over events in the arab spring in cairo they were very proud of the role leading two zero during. the one to with the create how much impact the

u.k. independence party, nigel farage commented hot tonight we have live the epa administrator scott pruittcoverage is available online. the speeches we have covered so far online at c-span.org. while we wait for the speaking to get underway, the event to continue, we bring in a conversation to you from earlier this morning and we covered with the interior secretary, ryan zinke he. energy secretary perry. >> ryan zinke retired as a navy seal commander. yeah. given up for the seals. [applause] he was elected montana's at-large member of congress and is now of course the 52nd secretary of interior. welcome secretary ryan zinke. we also have live as the secretary of energy, rick perry. [applause] there must be a texan in the crowd. rick perry, unless i'm wrong, you are not only the governor of texas, with the longest serving governor of texas in texas history. also a veteran of the air force, something i like. a cotton farmer. being a fun farmer got him into politics. he wanted an easier job. and now is serving as our secretary of energy. they are going to make a few comments and hopefully we

u.k. independence party leader and a fox news contributor nigel faraj. morning. steve: okay. so what is the problem over there? if your national health service is funded by taxes, and i would imagine people are paying their taxes, why are they running out of money? >> well, the big problem we've got is a population crisis. caused by government policy on immigration, so we with a population of 65 million are now increasing by half a million people every single year. over three quarters of that directly attributed to immigration over the last few years. and the problem is, you know, we just haven't got enough hospitals. weave haven't got enough doctors. we haven't got enough facilities. that's one problem we've got. another big problem we've got is that the national health service has kind of moved into becoming the international health service. we're providing a lot of healthcare for people coming in to britain from all over the world. so we do need some absolutely fundamental reforms. this system that we had was set up in 1948 and actually, surprisingly

u.k. independence party. this is nigel farage. you.: thank thank you so much. what a lovely introduction. great to be back at cpac, it really is. [applause] nigel: you just saw in that life -- 25 years of my concentrated down into three minutes. [laughter] nigel: didn't i look young once? i was even quite shy when i started off, but it goes to show that sometimes the good things in life have to be fought for. they take time to come to fruition. the good things in life, in the face of opposition of the establishment are hard to achieve. but it all makes you realize that in 2016, with the brexit vote and the election of donald trump, we stopped the establishment. [applause] news: and the really good is here we are over a year on, and that revolution that you were all a part of, that revolution is still rolling. it is still rolling across the west. [applause] nigel: back in 2000, just 8% of the votes in europe went to parties, this year it is 24% of the vote or to patriotic parties, and that number can only go up. inspiration for the future is going to be the man