what does it mean when you have the u.s. and u.s.nd allies and partners and china or another country kind of operating off of different claudette -- how should the u.s. be responding if it looks like we are fragmenting in the area of ethics? >> wow. a i will reveal my ethical shortcomings, just because not just in a bilateral sensory multilateral sense. i won't fall back on where i started in my initial comments. we've got to get the house in order here on questions like that. where are the limits that we will encounter? that has to be informed by conversations. they will be pulled in different directions, and i think there is a role claudette thin these confines to have these discussions. it's clear where the discussion ends. once we've done that, i think there is, and this is based on conversation and other areas with traditional allies and partners, i think there's prospect for a perfect alignment. maybe if the conversation of this is where we are with regard to access to our ecosystem, our markets, the ethical limits that we've e

u.s. war crimes. he faces life in prison here. we will get the latest with british writer and activist tariq ali. >> he should never have been kept in prison awaiting a trial for extradition. you should be released. amy: we will also speak wh tariq ali about his new book "the forty-year war in afghanistan: a chronicle foretold." then to the pandemic. wealthy countries have received 16 times mark of a 19 vaccines per person than poorer nations. >> the only way to get to immunity is to vaccinate the world. amy: we will speak to dr. monica gandhi who says she will not receive a booster as a health care worker because of the global vaccine inequity. we will also look at the eminent rollout of vaccines for children as young as five in the united states. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president biden is announcing a revised framework for his social spending plan today that he expects will gain the support of a

they are using u.s. military facilities, for instance, in the middle east and in europe to help facilitate the flow of those folks. but d.o.d. is really just in support in that case. and what you're seeing, again, is more of a -- an ability, both to bring folks through the state department process for providing documentation, securing -- ensuring that the documentation is accurate. you have a d.h.s.-led process on vetting and review to ensure that the right people are coming out. and then d.o.d. is providing some of the backdrop. we're not the ones lifting out. the other major thing i would flag is the standing up of the commercial side of the kabul airport. and that's an effort under way. that third countries are working with the state department to try to get that airport up and operational. and that, again, if you combine the ability for commercial aircraft to come through and move without coming to u.s. military facilities, for instance, just going through commercial air traffic, and the ability of t

that u.s. is not that new. the u.s.ame at the same time as revolutions across europe, trying to cast off emperors and kings. you have the french revolution. immigrants were looking for a better life in which we the people would be able to play a role in our society. we are throwing that way. we are enthralled to political parties that do not necessarily have our interests in mind. they're not making changes in the way that we are hoping and are in -- we are in real danger of putting everything in the hands of one person, which is the reason we had a revolution in the first place. i am basically hoping people will take a long look at what is happening. to emphasize all of the ideas of who you are and just think about the u.s. and who you want to be and the future that we want for our children and for ourselves. this is the way to get it by focusing on one person and who is that person -- is this the way to get it? our local communities, our states, there is a lot of prospects we have being agents of change. host: 10 minu

u.s. military equipment for the u.s.ved or demilitarized, made it inoperable.ad equipment the afghan nationals to get a forces equipment provided by the united states you might be thinking emission or guns or low level security force assistance was provided to the afghan military and m secury forces that was the property of government of afghanistan so that is a separate category. i dod empathize there's not advanceded equipment in the latr category. what americans think as advanced equipment is on the side of what the united states either removed or demilitarized it we've been asked by congress for a full accounting of all that and we are prepared to provide that. they came up just earlier this week in the hearings and we are moving forward to provide that information. >> you are not worried about sensitive secret technology falling into the hands of terrorists or china or russia? >> i'm not worried -- the united states u.s. military forces and others have done a very good job securing material and communications and in

any u.s. are deployed in taiwan right now? >> not as many as people thought. >> reporter: defense department records show the number of u.s. troops in taiwan increased from 10 in 2018 to 32 earlier this year. the state department asked for more marines to safeguard the unofficial u.s. embassy in ta taipei. any u.s. military presence in taiwan, big or small, is perceived by beijing as an act of aggression. u.s. marines were training tay w -- taiwanese troops, china released this video. a warning for joe biden, who vowed to defend taiwan at this cnn town hall last week. >> are you saying that the united states would come to taiwan's defense? >> yes, we have a commitment to do that. >> reporter: the white house later walked back biden's comments. they seemed to contradict the long standing u.s. policy of strategic ambiguity, leaving u.s. military involvement in taiwan an open question. >> people have different interpretation of what joe biden has said. >> do you have faith that the united states

u.s.-china economic competition. it's great to have, we're constrained by this virtual world of course but it's great to be able to pull in people from not only washington but from around the country and around the world. we're delighted to have you with us, an important topic. we're really here to roll out the reason initially we came was to roll out a report that one of my colleagues, stephanie see tbal, has just -- seagal, just produced, called degrees of separation, the subtitle a targeted approach to u.s.-china decuming. i'll introduce stephanie in a second, she'll introduce the report, she's been working on it for the last 8 months or so. it's a terrific contribution to the conversation about this charged topic of u.s.-china economic cooperation. i want to thank, before we start, the smith-richardson founding a. the smith-richardson foundation has been a generous supporter of the csis and our programs particularly. without them we couldn't do what wedo. i'm going to just turn to this

u.s.-china engagement. i think having that sort of insight from how this issue looks from capitol hill and in particular, from someone who is sitting at one of the key committees that's looking at this issue in house financial services, really valuable and a perfect segway for us now into the panel discussion and a bit more granularity as far as what is in the report, we have a great set of panelists that can help us kind of dissect a little bit more our detailed research. if i could just take five minutes or so and give you kind of the headline messages from the report itself, and then we'll dig into the details with our panelists. as matt mentioned, this report, degrees of separation, is an effort that was launched in the spring of 2020. we divided the project up into two distinct pieces. the first piece was a historical piece, resulted in a report that we issued in february of this year, and that really looked back to the late 1970's, and the normalization of relations between the u.s.

the u.s.ilitary prison at guantanamo approaches, we look at the life and legacy of the pioneering radical lawyer who spent decades in the courts and the streets fighting u.s. imperialism, including leading the effort to win habeas corpus rights for prisoners held at guantanamo. he died five years ago but his memoir was recently published. we will hear him in his own words and speak to three people who knew him well. >> all his life, mchael ratner spoke of the horrors from acrosshe world. no one was more suited to protecthe authotarianism that would emerge following 9/11. no one else had the vision, courage that he showed in sponding to the human rights crisis created by the bush administration, including his desion to intervene. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. congress has approved a bill to extend federal funding into early december, averting a government shutdown just hours before a midnight deadline t

u.s. supporting -- supreme court has said that is just fine. you can make these kinds of stops, and it does not matter that that is not really what you are interested in, and i think what has to change is that the very nature of leasing -- policing has to change. that will should be taken out. police should be used to prevent crimes. traffic stops are a problem because they disproportionately focus on people of color. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on q&a. you can listen to q&a and all of our podcasts on our new c-span app. >> next, a discussion about u.s.-china economic competition hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. it's an hour and a half. matthew: good morning from washington. i'm delighted to welcome you to this event on u.s.-china economic competition. it's great to have, we're constrained by this virtual world of course but it's great to be able to pull in people from not only washington but from around the country and around the world. we're

the u.s. is also building a coalition of nations to advocate for technology and to better secure supply chains. it is over this discussion we are having today. and there will be -- and i hope that there will be many eu countries in this cooperation on cyber crime and law enforcement collaboration. despite this important and good development, the cooperation on cybersecurity is such that [inaudible] and the u.s. is very much now. i will concentrate on for possible dimensions of such collaboration. the first is au, u.s., private sector collaboration level. and last but not least, made a level. the u.s. has [inaudible] recognition and they also have history of cybersecurity. and this collaboration is not practical. we need, as much as possible, to develop cooperation between eu and u.s. countries. as an example, the development could gather comprehensive u.s. media, and australia. building a long-standing collaboration on cybersecurity allowing new efforts to -- the resilience again cyber threats

the u.s. is leading nations to advocate for better secure supply chains. this overlays to the discussion today. i hope there will be many new countries for the cooperation on cybercrime and law enforcement collaboration. besides this important development, closer cooperation on cybersecurity of critical infrastructure between the eu and u.s. is very much needed now. i will concentrate on four possible dimensions of such collaboration. first is the eu and u.s. level. then the ce and u.s. level. then the collaboration level. last, multilateral. starting with the eu, the eu and u.s. have already spoken there position on the same special recognition of critical infrastructure and also the history of cybersecurity cooperation. this collaboration is not yet effective and practical. we need to develop systemic cooperation between eu countries within the u.s. government on this particular topic. maybe, development with ed fraud -- within fraud between the u.s., india, japan, and australia. these four

there is no u.s. presence in afghanistan and international development, where it occurs, will have to navigate a maze of legal challenges, sanctions, and unsavory actors. a lot of the discussion in recent weeks has been about how a lack of u.s. presence on the ground will require the military to conduct "over the horizon air strikes against military targets , often with uncertain intelligence." we'll need to certainly adapt to a word of over the horizon development, relying on other trusted partners to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in afghanistan. this is an entirely different set of challenges that we face. we cannot course correct anymore, but we can apply the lessons learned to development work in other conflict zones whether that's somalia, syria, libya, or the sahel. the challenges may not be at the same scale as afghanistan, but there are real commonalities that these experiences can inform. the united states government also has a critical tool to do development in conflict zones. the global

u.s. media the gang who kidnapped 17 missionaries is willing to negotiate their release for a hefty ransom. we have all the details for you. >>> and it's a spacecraft, not a missile. china denies launching a hypersonic weapon, so is it all just a cover up? >> announcer: live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with isa soares. >>> hello. welcome, everyone. it is tuesday, october 19th, and in just a few hours the u.s. house select committee investigating the january 6th attack will vote on whether to hold former trump adviser steve bannon in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with the subpoena. now, political analysts say the rare move is intended to send a message to other allies of donald trump the committee wants to sque. but trump's team isn't backing down. on monday lawyers for the former president filed a lawsuit against the committee to keep trump records tied to the insurrection a secret. now, the committee had asked the documents as part of its probe. both trump and bannon ar

the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003 to helping shape u.s. military policy during the 1980's. then, a democracynow exclusive. we speak with a prominent haitian-american immigrants rights activist appoied to iti in 2018n a remaable development. he w allied -- allowed to f backo new yo after reiving speciaparole. >> hav alwaywanted to be wi my kids and now i get a second chance to be with them again. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. former president donald trump has filed suit to stop the congressional committee investigating the capitol insurrection from receiving records about the january 6th riot, as well as trump's efforts to overturn the will of voters in the november election. trump's legal team claims the request undermines trump's executive privilege and is asking for more time to review records requests. this comes as the january 6th committee has laid out its contempt case against former trump white h

u.s. stocks rise as progress on debt talks and concern over the global energy crunchies. >> the u.s. senate get set to vote on a short-term deal. shery: china valves to continue cracking down. it says it will do whatever necessary to curb the behavior. we are seeing u.s. futures muted at the open. the s&p gained for the third consecutive session. the rally fading a little bit throughout the session after we heard news that china plans to tighten supervision over technology. the 10 year yield continued to gain ground. oil rebounding from losses. the u.s. energy department it has no plans to tap oil reserves. we continue to see the rally in commodities with oil up 15% since mid august. we also saw a rally in chinese abr. the golden dragon index gaining ground for the third session. switch out the board and you can see that it has seen the biggest jump since august after hitting the 17 month low on monday. this after the report that -- a little optimism given that we may see the potential joe

the u.s. case against him is basis, and she says the u.s. cannot guarantee the wikileaks founder will not be a suicide risk if he is extradited to face charges. covid figures on the rise. the who warns about the rates of infection as countries with no access to vaccine way more and more heavily on the world health system. -- weigh more and more heavily on the world health system. thank you for being with us. the route between france and the u.k. over fishing rights is interestingly, calls on the u.k. government to defend the she hae summoning of the french president r talks morrow and -- to discuss the disproportionate threats made to the u.k. the satellite officer will be making her way to the office tomorrow afternoon, no doubt listening to the british complaints and then presumably restating the french position. mark: the minister for european france already stating he is concerned the action is necessary. i know it is hard to predict what is next, but you have a feel as to what might happe

key focus, u.s. cpi on wednesday. and then earnings season gets under way with a number of u.s.ancials kicking things off from midweek >>> the severity of the ongoing supply chain and constraints facing it has forced some of the u.s.'s biggest retailers, including walmart, costco and home depot to chatter their own cargo ships ahead of the holiday season in hopes of getting product on shelves with the cop 26 summit now just 20 days away uk cop president has challenged china, india and saudi arabia to deliver on g-20 commitments made months ago he always also put pressure on australia, france and italy to assist countries in their climate transitions. the chamber of shipping which represents some 80% of the tonnage has unveiled plans to reach net zero by 2050 however it will require support from governments and international organizations. it comes as ports across the world suffer from severe congestion as shipping groups grapple with shortages guy platten joins us now, secretary general of the international chamber of shipping thank you for taking the time to be with us the ship

the u.s. at home. the witnesses today will be able to speak to the other part of the agenda, what we will be doing globally through development programs to help the world reduce carbon emissions and build resilience against a changing climate. during this hearing, i hope we will discuss the goals of our programs and what we are looking to achieve. i would like to hear about usaid and other agencies are balancing their work between climate mitigation, reducing carbon emissions, and resilience or adaptation. i strongly believe that combating climate change is critical for effective development outcomes. if we fail to take the filament into account, the roads we build will be washed away in the next hurricane season. not taking climate into account leads to less sustainable results. in short, international development is climate policy. i look forward to your testimony today. i hope the witnesses will speak about how their organizations to climate-related work and how a changing climate will affe

francine: the u.s.o take a hard line, but find eight agreement when it comes to climate change? >> there are many issues in the relationship between the u.s. and china. it is one of the most consequential relationships in the world, one of the most complicated in the world. it has different aspects to it. there is certainly a competitive aspect we know very well. there are adversarial aspects. there are also cooperative aspects. we need to deal and engage with every single one of these aspects of the relationship. climate happens to be an existential issue that affects everyone on the planet. whether the u.s., china, any other country. china, like the u.s., has great responsibility when it comes to dealing effectively with climate change. we are about 15% of global emissions. china is 36%, 37%. it is important for both of us to step up and meet our responsibilities. that means having ambitious targets for how we will actually curb climate change. it also means making sure we are contributing to help oth

u.s.-china economic competition hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. it's an hour and a half. matthew: good morning from washington. i'm delighted to welcome you to this event on u.s.-china economic competition. it's great to have, we're constrained by this virtual world of course but it's great to be able to pull in people from not only washington but from around the country and around the world. we're delighted to have you with us, an important topic. we're really here to roll out the reason initially we came was to roll out a report that one of my colleagues, stephanie see tbal, has just -- seagal, just produced, called degrees of separation, the subtitle a targeted approach to u.s.-china decuming. i'll introduce stephanie in a second, she'll introduce the report, she's been working on it for the last 8 months or so. it's a terrific contribution to the conversation about this charged topic of u.s.-china economic cooperation. i want to thank, before we start, the

but the u.s. president has landed here in rome without an agreement on his domestic agenda back in washington. house democrats once again postponing a critically important vote on his trillion dollar basic infrastructure bill. progressives and moderates among the democrats. they are at odds, brushing aside the president's plea to support what's called a framework of his larger climate and economic package. >> this framework also makes the most significant investment to deal with the climate crisis ever, ever happened beyond any other advanced nation in the world. over a billion metric tons of emission reductions. at least ten times bigger on climate than any bill that has ever passed before and enough to position us for a 50% to 52% emission reduction by the year 2030. >> president biden is scheduled to meet with the leaders of both france and italy later today. but first, just a little while from now, a visit with pope francis right here behind me at the vatican where the climate crisis is expect

u.s.-chinese discussions. >> it's great to have-- while we're constrained by the virtual world, but it's great to pull in people from not only washington, but around the country and around the world. so we're delighted to have you with us. an important topic. we're really here to roll out -- the reason we initially came was to roll out a report that one of my colleagues, stephanie segal, called the degrees of separation, the title is targeted approach to u.s.-china decoupling. i'll introduce stephanie in a moment and she'll introduce the report. she's been working on it the past 18 months and i think it's an important contribution to the conversation about this charged topic of u.s.-china economic cooperation. i want to thank before we start the smith richardson foundation, a generous supporter of csis and the economics program specifically for many years and we really appreciate it. without that support we couldn't do what we do. so thank you very much. so, i'm going to just turn to steph

the u.s.izer asks for its covid vaccine to be approved for children ages five to 11. it could be available in weeks. we hear the story of a family from the u.k. detained in syria after the mother took the children into islamic state territory. and the champion of south africa's apartheid struggle desmond tutu turns 90. how the young see his legacy. ♪ >> welcome to world news america on pbs in around the globe. we begin in pakistan where an earthquake has killed at least 15 people, some childr. it struck in the early morning, injuring hundreds. the prime minister has deployed the army to help with rescue efforts. the worst affected area was a southwestern province. the quake was so strong houses made of mud and bricks crumbled. we are on the scene and hav this report. >> we were in deep sleep when around 3:00 in the morning a strong earthquake jolted the city and before they could run their lives, within seconds, 100 houses and buildings collapsed. he lost the members of his family, including a

these u.s. attorneys got calls from main justice in d.c., the number two official in the united states department of justice, the trump-appointed deputy attorney general in his official capacity telling u.s. attorneys in those states to pursue these made-up claims that president trump was using to cast doubt on the election. and, yes, in the end, he threatened to quit if trump went ahead with this one crazy scheme with the letter from clark to georgia. but leading up to that, he helped trump use the justice department and federal prosecutors to pursue these claims. it wasn't just him. today, we have learned that former attorney general william barr, who received all this positive attention for his public assertions that there wasn't any significant fraud in the election -- glad you said it. what did he actually do when he was in office as attorney general? he personally weighed in and told at least one u.s. attorney that he needed to investigate. that attorney general william barr had informatio

on the contrary, u.s. humanitarian aid could be routed through highly vetted partners like the world food programme that we trust to put the interests of the afghan people first. so let me be clear. senator paul's amendment would actually raid the funding that delivers lifesaving humanitarian aid to the afghan people and they need it more than ever. secondly, afghanistan is in the grips of a dire humanitarian crisis. the economy has collapsed. one in three afghans don't know where their next meal will come. people are frayed to leave their -- are afraid to leave their homes. this amendment would also slash refugee assistance being used at this very moment to evacuate and resettle u.s. allies and partners who served alongside americans in the war on terror. likewise, senator paul is proposing we rescind the funding that supports important bipartisan priorities, like promoting regional security, countering chinese influence, and ending this pandemic. and that's not all. the amendment also jeopardizes funding

secondly, u.s. government agencies including state and aid rarely conducted sufficient monitoring and evaluation or m & e, as we call it, to understand the impacts of their development efforts. the absence of periodic reality checks created the risk of doing the wrong thing perfectly. by that, i mean a project that completed required tasks would be required successful. even though it did not achieve or contribute to broader, more important goals. if better monitoring and evaluation processes had been in place to evaluate programs, to combat corruption, develop the economy, build the afghan security forces, many of the problems that contributed to the rapid collapse of the afghan state could have been corrected. measuring success by focusing on dollars and cents is no substantive for common sense. thirdly and probably more importantly, the u.s. government did not understand the afghan political and cultural context. thereby leading to empowering corrupt power brokers and politicians, forcing inapprop

his been published in the u.s. a majority of readers will be people who live in the u.s. so what i want to do, what i wanted to do with the title and with this book as a whole is to nudge them into seeing not just cuba differently the idea is if you look at the u.s. from the outside if you look at it from cuba which has the strange entangled with the u.s., the u.s. it's different than what many americans assume it looks like. this book is a history of cuba that also serves as a mirror into the united states that is the idea. >> i think it's part of the underlying theme of the book and a lot of ways. it also reclaims america for the americas. that's a good point of explaining in that introduction. which kind of brings me too my second question. repeatedly you'd write the history that we know. there is a shadow history a lot of us don't know. this was a pattern throughout the book sense the voices have not been heard there so many beautiful quotes i had to stop writing them down. early in the book is a history has lived in opposition far richer and more human than the mix.

the u.s. got the votes on short-term stopgap debt deal. shery: another central bank has hydrates -- height rates. peru raising interest rate after already having raised the rate by 50 basis points in september, also by 25 basis points the previous month. they keep insisting that this does not imply the beginning of a tightening cycle, but, of course, we continue to see inflation shooting up. this is really a global story. we have seen mexico double its inflation target, and we have seen the tightening bias across the region, and now again. peru raising rates to 1.5%. central banks struggling with rising prices. sophie: inflation worries will also be looming. repo rates -- investors are watching a sea of repo rates will be raised -- watching to see if repo rates will be raised. the u.s. indicated there are no plans to cash in reserve, and check out treasury futures and seeing them continue to take lower. inflation sent the u.s. 10-year yield about 1.57%. in sydney, we have energy and utility st

which u.s. objectives are impacted by a particular activity and does that activity advance or hinder u.s. objectives. that's step two. at this point, one should evaluate restrictions. what's the likelihood that you could get others to go along should the united states move in the direction of restricting an activity. any efforts to restrict an activity should also be consistent with rule of law. something we can't lose sight of in looking to either endorse or restrict certain activities. those are the four basic components to the frame work. the report itself has key findings that are general across all sectors and then a few that are specific to the case studies that we looked at. risk assessment and u.s. objectives and whether or not they are advanced by a particular activity. one take away is they are subjective. they can be educated but they are very subjective. i think there needs to be an appreciation of that going in. that there are different perspectives on an activity and that influence

of u.s.-china economic engagement and competition, but hopefully more conversations to come, thanks to everybody for tuning in and taking part in the conversation. thanks so much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, announcer: coming up, joint hearing examining climate change strategy. earlier today, the covid response team giving an update on the pandemic and booster shots. after that, cyber threats. later, an arkansas representative talks about the state of u.s.-china economic relations. next, joint hearing on the u.s. climate change policy and strategy, followed by two subcommittees. >> good morning. thank you to our witnesses. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] please keep your video functional on it all times. members are responsible for muting and uny

a u.s. official called the zurich discussions more substantive than previous meetings between the biden administration and beijing. democrats in the u.s. meanwhile had signaled that they will accept senate republican leader mitch mcconnell's offer to raise the u.s. debt ceiling into december. the deal would alleviate the immediate risk of a government default, but raises the prospect of yet another political fight near the end of the year. mcconnell said the senate vote could be possible. the ecb said to be studying a new bond buying program to prevent any market turmoil when emergency purchases are phased out next year. the plan would replace the existing crisis tool and complement an older open ended qe scheme that is acquiring $200 billion in debt every month. an ecb spokesperson declined to comment on the report. during china's golden week, national vacation is down by about one third on pre-pandemic levels. this has measures to contain coronavirus outbreaks are weighing on tourism and s

when the u.s. announced -- when president nixon announced that the dollar was no longer linked to gold, when that happened, the allies went crazy. they couldn't understand how the u.s. could do it. as if that wasn't bad enough or if that wasn't a big enough shock, nixon said that until the allies agree to a substantial u.s. devaluation, we would put 10% tariffs on all their sales to the u.s. so a 10% across the board tariff. connolly loved this. this was real demonstration of american leverage. but the europeans and japanese felt this was enormous bad faith, that we had led the world in terms of freedom and here we are putting up a protectionist barrier. the allies were very upset. kissinger had to be brought in to keep the alliance intact. you had nixon, who didn't know much about the global economy forging a common position among people who had very different views. he was very skillful. i have a lot of friends who have read this book, and they say, have you tried to rehabilitate nixon? no. i'm j

told u.s.orneys in michigan and pennsylvania, that the justice department resources should be used to check it. out to go try to substantiate it to substance these non claims that were coming from the white house. these claims about voter fraud in michigan in pennsylvania didn't bubble up from local law enforcement efforts in michigan in pennsylvania. and that's how they got to the u.s. attorney's office there, no these u.s. attorneys got calls from maine justice in d.c., the number two official in the united states department of justice, a trump appointed deputy in his official capacity, telling -- that president trump was using to cast doubt the election, and yes, in the end, he threatened to quit if trump went ahead with this one crazy scheme, involving jeff clark in the letter to georgia sure, but, leading up to, that he helped trump use the justice department, and federal prosecutors office, offices, to pursue these claims, and it wasn't just donahue. today we have learned, that former att

and the u.s. is also building a coalition of nations to advocate for and invest in cyber technology and better secure supply chains. and it's offense the discussion that we are having today, and they will be -- and i hope that there will be many eu countries in this for the cooperation on cyber crime and law enforcement collaboration. and despite this important and good development, the-- critical structure particularly between the eu and the u.s. is very much needed now and i will concentrate on four possibledy mentions of such collaboration. first is eu-u.s. level and then ce level and private sector collaboration level and last but not least, nato level. starting with the eu, and even the eu and the u.s. have focused their attention on the same type, with special recognition of threats for critical infrastructure and they also have history of cyber security cooperation. in the view of many in experts, this collaboration is not in that and practical. we need as soon as possible to develop cooper