being made in the united states. those japanese businesses have created a large number of jobs. the mutually beneficial economic relations have been built in the japan and the united states. with president trump taking on the leadership i am sure there , will be major infrastructure change made, including more trains. lots of you who have roads appreciate you would the speed, comfort and safety , with the latest technology from washington dc. to new york, where trump tower hour would it one take to write this mag-lift train from washington dc to new york. with our high level of capability we will be able to contribute to president trump's growth strategy. there will be even new jobs in -- more new jobs born in the united states. to further deepen this by lateral relation -- bilateral , there will be a dialogue held, and we have agreed on this. furthermore, in asia-pacific where we see dramatic growth, to expand free trade and investments, this will be a big chance for both japan and the united states. of course, it m

the united states commitment to nato is clear. as we speak, president trump's is developing plans to make sure the strongest military in the world becomes stronger still. mr.me are sure you secretary that in the united states, we are about the process of strengthening our military and restoring the arsenal of democracy working with members tocongress we intend increase military funding to make it possible for us to provide for the common defense of the people of the united states but also meet the obligations that we have with our treaty allies including in this his store treaty. america therefore i can say with confidence, america will do our part but europe's defense requires europe's commitment. as much as ours. at the whale summit in 2014, all 28 members of the nato alliance declared their intention to move towards a minimum security investment of 2% of their gross domestic product on defense within a decade. as a candidate for office, president trump's called attention repeatedly to the fact that for too long, for too many, t

the united states summit, we w -- the united states said, we w ill. and they help to get everyone signed up and said, we will set these benchmarks and we will start to remove trade barriers. why do you want to impose tariffs? tariffs are taxes on your own people. you want to reduce taxes, right? you want to reduce tariffs. the second thing is, about 20 years ago, an order to make an advanced manufactured good, you would have componentry for maybe four or five different countries. the raw materials, something would be made, a semi conductor in one country, robotics and together.hat all come about five different countries would form part of that. manufactured good. today, about 20 countries. so, if every country starts imposing taxes, the end good is going to end up twice, three times more costly. which takes it out of the accessible range for a lot of people. faster we canhe remove trade barriers, the faster we can get rid of taxes and terrace, the better. now, some countries are not complying. and do not comply. you have got to bring them along. you h

on the united states' wholehearted and unequivocal support of the idea of a united europe. the world would be a decidedly worse place if europe were not united. americans know best what great value it is to be united and that becoming divided is the prelude to a fall. prelude to a . it is in the interest of us all to prevent the disintegration of the west. as for our continent, in this respect, we will not invent anything better than the european union. matters, i these heard today from vice president pence, three times, yes. after such a positive discussion, both europeans and americans must simply practice what they preach. on saturday, in munich, you during your trip across europe in 1977, with your older brother, you found yourself at some point in west berlin. marveling at what you saw. and then crossing through checkpoint charlie only to see the shadow of repression hanging over people. have -- i had been living under the shadow for over 30 years. what i vividly remember from my own past is how after martial in was imposed in poland december 1981, president ronald rea

. >> no, no, no i'm not characterizing that as an illegal unit unit in any way, shape, or form whether the current situation not an illegal unit it is strictly a variance but any unit that going for conversion and it is - can permanent rent control be considered a handicapping. >> no. >> that's the key question bureau but a hardship of rent control i'm not have that vein but i want to put it on the record. >> i have two questions any other questions first is there's 3 levels of residence use above the proposed new unit is there a combination of two of the floors to a unit. >> the architect can address. >> secondly, this is a question of endorse most of cases on exposure related to corner lots and the apartments in terms of benefits of urban design having the building wrapping the corner versus a code compliant required a gap on one side or the other how does this differ from that. >> to this would be mid block it was existing legal non-conforming so not a code compliant rear yard faces on the rear yard which is not code compliant it didn't meet the requirements for the exposure after t

the united states. there is no doubt there are still some undocumented immigrants, but we are seeing a net outflow. for mexico to being asked to paper wall to keep up their citizens were not going there is completely perverse. theree are seeing is that are central americans that come up through mexico, but mexico, in addition, been doing an incredible job for the united states on its own southern border of guatemala and belize. 170 5000 central americans. those are people that did not get to the u.s.-mexico border, those of people to united states government did not have to deal with, repatriate or report. host: is the wall necessary? guest: i don't think of all is necessary and i don't think it would work, either. there are a number of experiments with balls around the world and they tend not to be successful. what we have seen on the u.s.-mexico is that whenever you build a wall in a certain area regions, migrants have to change the routes or they develop new methods. there is the old joe, build a 20

as well and as long as we have that bias the unit's domestic do that. in terms of the taking names you can go back to south carolina. that's how governed which was you all are in this for the greater good and that's what we hope. when you tell me you're going to do something and you don't, that is where you take names. when you see there's someone that promises to do something and they don't, that's where we take names. so there's no special list in my drawer. in desk. it's more observations and trying to make sure that in the past, i think the previous administration had not been very strong when it cames to international issues. had not spoken out when something was wrong. had not necessarily really moved to be part of the peace process. what you're seeing with this administration is you're going to see a lot of action, 0 lot of participation and, yes, we are going to take names. we'll call them out. that's why we called out russia and we'll continue to do that as we see other issues come up. >> one question, please. madam ambassador if the us going t

it is going to be a very exciting period of time for the united states and for the workers of the united states. because they have been truly the forgotten man and forgotten woman. it's not going to be forgotten anymore, believe me. so, our relationship with canada is outstanding. and we're going to work together to make it even better. as far as the southern border's concerned, we're going to get that worked out, we're going to make it fair, but we are going to make it so that everybody is happy. it's very important to me. thank you. thank you very much, thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. [applause] >> this week, president trump had more members of his cabinet confirmed including treasury secretary steve mnuchin who was approved monday by nearly partyline vote. he was sworn in that same evening at the white house. this is just under 10 minutes. president trump: it is my great honor tonight to present to the american people our new treasury secretary of the united states, steven mnuchin. stephen i want to congratulate , you, a lot of people wanted that position, a lot

whoever the united states he? , it's the prerogative of the american people and we work constructively and honestly and loyally for the values continue to be shaped. that is what you do. and we are ever mined old that there are 150,000 dead american soldiers buried in between japan. america is mindful of that. all of those souls who fight and died for the values that made america great. and they will never leave and should never leave the asia-pacific region. of course the dynamic shifts. america is somehow expect dead to solve every problem around the world. i get the burden can sometimes be traveling to the american people. when you lose your job in chicago or detroit and jobs end up going to china or to eastern europe. sometime you don't feel as magnanimous as you might have china has lost 19 million manufacturing jobs between 1995 and 2005. automation, robotics, companies moving their manufacturing to achieve destination with low wages. it happens. the question is how do you live the time so that all votes are

made into the united states. and the japanese businesses -- and those japanese businesses have created a large number of jobs. the mutually beneficial economic relationship has been built by japan and the united states with president trump taking on the leadership, i am sure there will be measurable investments to be made. i am sure you would appreciate the speed, comfort, and safety with the latest technology. if you ride the train from washington d.c. to new york, japan -- we will be able to contribute to trump's growth strategy. there will be more new jobs in the united states. but to further deepen bilateral economic relations between deputy prime minister axel and the vice president of japan, there will be a dialogue to be held. and we have agreed on this. furthermore, in the asia-pacific where we see dramatic growth, we will expand free trade and investment which will be a big chance for both japan and the united states. but it must be done in a fair manner. never should a state owned company backed by stat

what we also see of the united states and russia still have enormous nuclear arsenals on hand. ,he united states and russia after the new start agreement which is currently in place, they will both be allowed to 1550 strategic deployed nuclear weapons. that is more than united states and russia need to do terror a nuclear attack against one another. the important point is that in 2013, the pentagon and president looked at the nuclear deterrent requirements and they determined united states could /3 but our arsenal by 1 did not do so because president vladimir putin did not want to negotiate further reductions with the united states. president trump is an opportunity and he will conduct his own nuclear reviews on nuclear weapon policies through the course of this year and next. he has the opportunity to engage with russia and find ways to further reduce these excess nuclear arsenals. that would reduce tensions with russia. with thed even do this new start treaty in place and in a reciprocal fashion, they could both decide to further reduce the arsenals on both sides. there are a lot of obs

the bond between the united -- between the united states and europe embodied in the nato alliance is very important today because we live in times of turmoil and and then we need a strong alliance more than ever. we discussed our progress in the fight against terrorism. nato continues to train security forces in afghanistan. we have started to train security forces and officers in iraq. and we support the us-led coalition against isil with awacs surveillance planes. but we agree that the alliance can, and should do more, in the fight against terrorism. we also agree on the importance of higher defence spending and fairer burden-sharing in nato. this has been my top priority since i took office. europeans cannot ask the united states to commit to europe's defence if they are not willing to commit more themselves. and they are committing more. in 2016, after many years of cuts, we turned a corner. defense spending increased across europe and canada by 3.8%in real terms, or ten billion u.s. dollars more. but we still have a long way to go, so all allies must speed up their efforts to sp

the united states chooses strength. the united states chooses friendship with europe and a strong north atlantic alliance. in the name of all of the sacrifices of the generations that have gone before, who have fought and bled and died for this alliance, with confidence in all of you, and firm providence, i know the best days for america, for europe, and for the free world are yet to come. thank you for the honor of joining you today. and god bless you all. [applause] >> mr. vice president, on behalf of our participants, on behalf of so many leaders from europe, let me thank you for choosing on behalf of president trump, for this first important presentation of u.s. foreign-policy on foreign soil. we are grateful for that. thank you again. do come back if you can next year or the year after. [applause] >> sunday, on c-span's washington journal, results of our third historians serve way of presidential leadership. joining us for the discussion our historian douglas brinkley, howard university history andessor edna medfor

as the united states stood with europe through the end of the 20th century, europe stood tall with united states at the outset at the 21st. the american people will be forever grateful. i have the privilege to see our bond firsthand. two weeks after those attacks on 9/11, as a member of congress i travel to germany to participate in international conference on terrorism. i will never forget what i saw as we arrived at the american embassy in berlin. high, of flowers, 10 feet surrounding it. supportf condolences, and prayers of your people for hours. -- four ours. -- for ours. for the first and only time in its history nato invoked article five for filling our commitment to confront our common enemies together and the american people will never forget it. in the global war against radical islamic terrorists we have been bound by shared sacrifice. for the past decade and a half the nations of nato have answered the call to rid the world of this great evil. from afghanistan to iraq, to many conflicts across the globe, our sons and daughters have spot together on the field of battle. thousand

the rules about getting to the united states affect the entire united states and i find it's n unconstitutional what the trump administration has done and for the sake of uniformity of approach i'm going to apply this to the entire united states. he's a federal judge but it's unusual. >> it was only a matter of time before the trump administration responded, vowing to defend it. can they succeed? >> that's a great question. if boston appellate court that looked at the order up there ruled in favor of the trump administration so on balance the trump administration has some good arguments to bring to a higher court to say that this judge made a mistake. but the ninth circuit court is a liberal court and it's a cord that might rule against the trump administration and if that happened it will all end up in the supreme court. >> u.s. customs and border protection gave the word to major passenger carriers. >>> an airline executive tells cnn tells us they will regulate passengers with u.s. visas to travel to the united states. >>> a statement on i website reads, nationals and all refugees seeking adm

for the united states that is 3% that the united states charges with the rest of the world. mexico has a slightly higher rate so the exports would hurt more than those in the united states and of the agricultural goods it is 20% for this outcome would hurt the united states more than it would hurt mexico in terms of exports. finally mexico made it clear that it would respond to any taxes on its own. with my final comment, more productively mexico is also aggressively playing the china card and we've heard numbers imports contained 40% u.s. content and china is only 4% and mexico is using that fact with the trump administration but mexico also realizes the united states needed to remain globally competitive to reduce the trade deficit with china if needs to trade with mexico because we've produced things together and competitively. finally, if the taxes are imposed with mexico that isn't going to leave them to come back to the united states committed well to go to another low-cost producer in order to be able to compete globally and with that i will finish my remarks. thank y

united states will be the second.the fifth economy, largest economy in the world will be mexico. this is goldman sachs' projection. so, mexico is on the move, has a very solid, reliable economy. it's a very solid partner of the united states. and this is why, through the book, i try to bring in the message to us public opinion, to the regular citizen in this nation, the middle classes, what really mexico is, how mexico is doing a great effort to overcome poverty, to bring in the jobs and the opportunities to our own people. because i see a lot of misunderstanding on that and misinformation in relation to that. some say that mexican government is promoting our people to come to the united states. that's absolutely false. i mean, it would be stupid for me as president, or for felipe calderon as president, thinking like that when we need our people, when we need that talent, when we need that energy to build up a powerful, competitive economy. and plus the fact that those who come here, it's because they have a job here.

it is going to be a very period of time for the united states and for the workers of the united states. because they have been truly the forgotten man and forgotten woman. it's not going to be forgotten anymore, believe me. so, our relationship with canada is outstanding. and we're going to work together to make it even better. as far as the southern border's concerned, we're going to get that worked out, we're going to make it fair, but we are going to make it so that everybody is happy. it's very important to me. thank you. thank you very much, thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

a unique position in history of humanity has been given to the united states because the united statesembodies values. and what happened? people joined up. people wanted to join the great american dream. americans called it exceptionalism, but it was more than that. it was a promotion of a set of values that was easy to share. four corners of the earth, australia, the united kingdom, canada, of course, the anglosphere but more than that. countries all over the world walking away from communism,, walking away from socialism, walking away from totalitarianism, wanting to embrace the values that in part woodrow wilson said, was a basis upon which the united states would sacrifice its soldiers. to help deliver a better world. it's a powerful message. and what we did, we joined you. fro.from that day the fourth of july, 1918, until today we are the only country on earth that has fought side-by-side with the united states in every major conflict. the only one. we don't do it because you are the big brother. we do it because we both have the same values, the freedom of enterprise, democracy,

that shows it is very difficult to come united states as a refugee. from start to finish the process to twoetween 18 months years. so, it is very vigorous. could it be improved? could we have additional bedding measures? -- vetting measures? of course. of isis and filtration certainly taking a look at individuals is a good idea. what about the argument from the ministration that the countries on this temporary halting of refugees and immigrants like yemen and somalia do not have stable governments, syria. it is difficult to get information to vet people who come to the united states? while that's true. at refugees, the whole idea is they are escaping places of war. often instability that leads to refugees. many of these refugees have escaped to camps and other countries. we have traditionally done that. that is what the refugee program has been doing for many decades and the question really is are we going to participate as one of the world's leaders? this particularly -- particular crisis is causing instability in europe. are we going to be one of th

the united states is the champion of democracy. president trump is a great businessman, but he didn't have any experience of holding public office like lawmakers and governors before. nevertheless, he won a year-long tough campaign and was elected as the new president of the united states. this is really what dynamism of democracy means. i'd like to congratulate him on his inauguration as president. the united states has been and will continue to be a country with the most abundant opportunities in the world, and this has been so and will remain unchanged in the future as well. that is exactly why many japanese companies, including automakers, have been establishing factories and producing in various parts of the united states. last year, japan made more than $150 billion new investment in the united states, and such investment has been creating many jobs in the united states. japan and the united states have been building mutually beneficial economic relations. under president trump's leadership, large-scale investments will be ma

the united so bates has supported. the united so bates has supported.ract key allies, it stays, egypt, jordan, who has a peace treaty with jordan. surely you must be some kind of isolation now in your region. —— fear. of course not. these family oil rich dictatorships have always been on the side of the united states. they have always been an ally of the apartheid regime of israel. the fact on the ground is, though, contrary to what saying, the people in yemen have been able to push back the saudi onslaught because they do not accept saudi and germany. the people in a run have been supporting the victims, whether it is in gaza, it yemen... the destruction in gaza are also suspect is theirfault. destruction in gaza are also suspect is their fault. —— destruction in gaza are also suspect is theirfault. —— saudi oil hegemony. they then invaded iraq and afghanistan. what the americans are doing this region is a repetition of what they did in the 1980s in afghanistan, but on a greater scale. we have that message. that you think that this is not fuelling conf

the bond between the united states and nato, the united states and europe encoded in the nato alliance, is very important today because we live in times of turmoil and instability, and we need a strong alliance more than ever. and we are stronger when we stand together. during our meeting, we discussed our progress in the fighting against terrorism. nato continues to train security forces in afghanistan. we have started to train security forces and officers in iraq. and we support the u.s.-lead coalition against isil with awacs surveillance planes. but we agree the alliance can and should do more in the fight against terrorism. we also agree on the importance of higher defense spending and fairer burden sharing in nato. this has been my top priority since i took office. europeans cannot ask the united states to committee to europe's defense if they are not willing to commit more themselves. and they are committing more. in 2016, after many years of cuts, we turned a corner. defense spending increased across europe and canada by 3.8% in real terms, or $10 billion u.s. but we still have

the immigration policy of the united states is, of course, a matter for the government, the united states, but on the face of it, this executive order has consequences for some british citizens. for this reason, i spoke yesterday to the u.s. my honorablen, and friend, the home secretary, has today spoken to general kelly, the secretary of homeland security. i am able to provide the following verifications. thateneral principle is all british passport holders remain welcomed to travel to the u.s. assurances from the u.s. embassy that this executive order will make no difference to any british passport holder, irrespective of their country of birth, or whether they hold another passport. in any case, the executive order is a temporary measure that is intended to last for 90 days until the u.s. system has added new security precautions. this is, of course, highly controversial policy which has repeat, thisnd, i is not an approach that this government would take. let me conclude by reminding the house of the vital importance of this country's alliance with the united states, which i am sure o

if he taxes imports to the united states coming from mexico, we will tax exports of the united states you know, we have an even—even situation on trading. we sell every year to the united states close to 300 billion us dollars‘ worth of goods and products. and they sell to mexico almost the equivalent amount. so, nobody will win in a trade war. everybody will lose, starting with the us consumer, that will have to pay 20% more for the car he's buying, 20% more for the guacamole that he's buying, 20% more for the tequila that he's buying... i dare say that americans can live with a little less guacamole and a little less tequila. but the fact is your economy is, per capita, more dependent on your trading relationship with the united states than the united states is on you. so, when it comes down to that raw thing about leverage, the us has the leverage, you don't. yeah. you're right. we all lose. but look at this, we have a trade agreement with europe. we have a trade agreement with britain including with the european union. if britain gets out, still, we can put together a trade agreem

the united states is a global power. we are not a regional power, we are a global power and we have to balance interest and commitment across multiple theaters. the fact that asia's strategic weight is growing and increasing importance goes back, the recognition of that goes back across multiple administrations, at least 15 years, backing the recognition of capabilities has proven challenging. the challenge for the top priority, economic, geopolitical, military. not just a majority of the world, military spending, the economies in asia. asia is increasingly the scene of competition, the chinese military modernization. china has moved from being a continental power, largely self regarding to a composite or amphibious power, more oriented -- posing challenges to the united states and challenges for our allies as well. as a result we can no longer take for granted our ability to project power into the western pacific. we shouldn't think there is some impermeable wall to doing so but we should no longer take that for granted

so the united states exports to mexico would hurt more than mexican exports to the united states.an agricultural goods, mexico's compliant rate is 20%. so this outcome would hurt the united states more than it would hurt mexico in terms of experts -- exports. and finally mexico's made it clear that it will respond to any u.s. import taxes with taxes of its own on trade. with my final comment, more productively, mexico is also aggressively playing the china carpet we've all heard the numbers that imports from mexico into the united states contain 40% u.s. content. china is only 4%. mexico is using that fact with the trump administration but mexico also realizes that the united states needs it to remain globally competitive. if the united states wants to reduce the trade deficit with china it needs to trade with mexico because we produce things together and produce things competitively together. and finally if taxes are imposed on trade with mexico, it's not going to leave those job to come back to the united states. it will lead those jobs to go to another low-cost producer in orde

i served as united states attorney 12 years, assisted united states attorney for a little over two years. ideag that time, the very of the great leaders in washington leading those departments i served under makes it almost impossible for me to conceive i might -- i am that person, and will have the opportunity and that responsibility. i understand the seriousness of it. i have an interest in law enforcement, i have an interest in the rule of law. so i want to thank those of you who supported me and had confidence in me and moving us forward. i want to thank president donald trump. he believes in the rule of law. he believes in protecting the american people from crime and violence. he believes in a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest. and within bounds, those are things that may from time to time, before us, the office of attorney general. and i look forward to lawfully and properly advancing those share.hat we as a body the american people believe in. the attorney general -- this is a law enforcement office, first and foremost. people expect us to be those wh

the bond between the united states and nato -- between the united states and europe and the nato lines is very important today because we live in times of turmoil and instability and we need a strong alliance more than ever. and we are stronger when we stand together. during our meeting we discussed our progress in the fight against terrorism. nato continues to train security forces in afghanistan. we have started to train security officers in iraq and we support the u.s.-led coalition against isil but we agree on fair burden sharing in nato. this has been my top priority sense i took office. europeans cannot ask the united states to commit to europe's defense if they do not commit more themselves. and they are committing more. in 2016 after many years of cuts, we turned a corner. defense spending increased in europe and canada by 2.8% or $10 billion. but we still have a long way to go. all allies must speed up their efforts to spend 2% of gdp on defense. this will be an important point when allied leaders meet here in brussels in may. so mr. vice president, thank you for our excellent

here, the delegation is reported to be from the united states. in keeping with the festival theme, the russian hosts release hundreds of white doffs, the age-old symbol of peace. and the daytime entertainment climaxes with a spectacular display of precision formation. [music] [marching band music] >> delegates also sightsee in the kremlin during some of the daylight hours and this is the tipping -- cizzing ceremony as the boys selects the girls by throwing a scarf around them, sort of a soviet version of "drop the handkerchief." [marching band music] >> some are entertained at the ballet. [flutey music] >> outside in the streets and parts of the city, there is entertainment of all kinds. hold everything. it's undulating uallen. the curvaceous cutie. but it's back to the stadium for the grand propaganda finale. here is a symbol of destruction. the tail of the bomb looks like an american eagle. hope must be eliminated, the bomb and the eagle. the cards say peace in russian, peace in english, and peace in france. >> mr. allen, what percentage of the

unit granted two units but not two units that families can live if this proposal, in fact, removed one family-sized dwelling unit most people have roots they want to sense of community building this anomalous style house with a developer who didn't probably plan to live there or have an investment in living in the community really undoes the feel of the communities and making that a place where people with families, and misrepresent generational feel of the block take into consideration we need to preserve the mr. cook and communities like this so house and maintain more families who can raise their children and have the opportunity that i had to raise my daughter in a family-friendly misrepresent generational community thanks. >> thank you >> next speaker, please. >> engage my name is jason a resident on 26 street and live across the street from the proposed project i'm not here to stop the project i want to a reasonable sized home my main objection the roof deck during the preapplication meeting he expressions my concerns about the roof deck and it will negatively impacting the archi

my father was married in the united states. i studied in the united states. i worked in the united states. i visited america more times than i visited france. it is a country i love tremendously. all of this, i suspect could change but we are well aware of the deep connection and affection that people have for america and its people. we are also aware of the challenges that exist in that country. and the contentious manner of the election that led to donald trump. means, i think, that of course, one would expect the leader of the free world to come to britain but on the terms and basis for which that is done. for those reasons i think an official visit might have been appropriate but to afford this man, after seven days, a state visit is why so many people have petitions. i'm not going to give way, it is only five minutes. because i wanty to remind the chamber about the taken andamerica has the contribution of african-americans in the united states of america. i want to remind the chamber that there are many african-americans in america sitting at home in fea

and have unit 2a an onsite dedicated housing unit on the basement and first floor eliminated the carking to create a 2012 living space provided the required number of bike that concludes my remarks on site and forcing the tenants of the building to rely on public infrastructure for transportation and on the site plans currently all of the 15 street frontage that is the longest piece of the frontage is clear-cut we are eliminating that be curve cut to have 4 on-street parking for the neighborhood and new streetscaping improvements along the pedestrian corridor on 1 street we're applying for the the better streets plan for that corridor. >> i think the one thing that gabriel said that hit home a loss of two jobs with the after all we spent 3 months trying to find a local business we signed a letter the intent with jason with runs the sidewalk juicy hires at risk latino youth according to his projections we offered 13 or 14 jobs and want to hold him accountable so there are two jobs lost in the all repair and 13 jobs added to the in the juice bar and maintenance on the building. >> is t

united states. it is a testament to the fact that the american dream is very much alive for those willing to work for it. >> all c-span programs are available at the span.org on our homepage or searching the video library. >> now, members of the british house of commons debate donald trump to the u.k. this portion of the debate is 90 minutes. >> listen and observe, but if i have any of stage the when, i will clear the public gallery. >> thank you very much. and it is a pleasure to serve under your company as a distinct parliamentarian, mr. walker. i beg to move that the petitions 178844 and 171928 are considered by this house. could i thank the petitions committe to allow me to introduce these petitions? there has been a great deal of misunderstanding about their nature. one is signed by nearly 300 people, which says that donald trump should be invited to make an official state visit because he is the leader of the free world and the u.k. is a country that supports free speech and does not believe t

that's what the united states wants. we want to facilitate both the palestinian authority and israelis coming together, being accountable and moving forward for peace. and that's what we're going to continue to sport. >> madam ambassador -- >> [inaudible] ambassador, since you are a member of the administration, many people -- i'm from kurdistan region of iraq, and as you know, kurds are main partner of united states in fight of terrorism in both syria and iraq. they want clarity. what is the administration's policy in what does this administration want to do in iraq and in syria when it come toss the fighting of terrorism and isis? >> well, i think, first, we want to stop the violence. that's the biggest thing, stop the violence and bring stability to the area. but you seeing that the administration is starting to develop plans and actions. it's not just about what are the talking points on this area going to be, it's what are the actions are we going to do to facilitate peace and stability, and that's where the focus o

used to before the judge to say the united states is ready. i represent the united states of america in a litigation. this is a big deal. so when i would say to youbjecte friends and colleagues, thatd -- i feel it in my bones i hope and pray i can be worthy of the trust and that will give you my best. and let me comment on the heated debate that we had an aunt in a was an intense election no doubt about that strong feelings have baddi expressed throughout the process. sometimes we have philosophical disagreements what is right to romney what the law says are dozens say. got words are not tools to be manipulated i believe they have an objective meeting so we have differences about that. on but that is what elections are about. i have always enjoyed a debate or participating in the body where we are free to speak and advocate for the values that we have but i don't take we have such classical disagreement that we cannot get together. i tried to keep my disagreements from being personal. i always try to be courteous tim my colleagues. but still t

the united states. an extremely unfair transaction. we're going to work with mexico, we're going to make it a fair deal for both parties. i think that we're going to get along very well with mexico. they understand and we understand, you probably have noticed that ford is making billions of dollars of new investments in this country. you saw intel the other day announce that, because of what i've been doing and what i'm doing in terms of regulation, lowering taxes, etc., they're coming in with billions and billions of dollars of investment and thousands and thousands of jobs. general motors like-wise is expanding plants and going to build new plants. fiat chrysler was at a meeting where they're doing the same. we have so many people that want to come into the united states. it's actually very exciting. i think it's going to be a very exciting period of time for the united states and for the workers of the united states. because they have been truly the forgotten man and forgotten woman. it's not going t

being made into the united states. those japanese businesses have created large numbers of jobs. the mutually beneficial economic relations have been built by japan and the united states with president "outnumbered" taking on the leadership, i am sure that they will be bigger investments made including the passing of trade peer those of you who have been in japan, i'm sure you will enjoy the speed, comfort, and safety with the latest magnetic levitation technology from washington, d.c., to trump tower, only one hour it would take if you rode the train from washington, d.c., to new york. japan with our high level of technical capability, we will be able to complete under president trump good strategy, even more good jobs being born in the united states. but to further deepen these bilateral economic relations between the deputy prime minister and vice president pence, there will be a dialogue to help, we have agreed on this. furthermore, in asia pacific where we see dramatic growth to expand free trade and investment, t

the attorney general of the united states is the lawyer for the people of the united states, not donald trump's personal lawyer. it's called the rule of law, not the rule of trump. but it is the rule of law that is at stake when the nomination of senator sessions is in question to run the department of justice. i have told my constituents that senator sessions must be judged based on the totality of his record as united states attorney, as alabama's attorney general and as united states senator. a review of that record, including two days of hearings before the senate judiciary committee, demonstrates anything but the commitment to the equal and impartial administration of justice and an independence from the president that we must demand from the nation's top law enforcement officer. senator sessions' record spanning decades of public office reflects hostility to important constitutional rights, hostility to laws intended to protect people of color, hostility to laws intended to protect women, hostility to laws intended to protect the lgbtq community. and hostility to laws intended to

lacking because of the not saudi arabia there's not egypt, tub key or no why is united, is united states making a big mistake. >> i told you -- for the third time that to be list of the seven countries in question was not down up by the trump administration but obama administration when they applied they are restricted measure on people traveling from those countries. >> i'm grateful to the foreign secretary and colleagues. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i find myself in a unfortunate position. during my response from bank to foreign secretary statement, who afforded me respect was noises to what i was saying which i find disrespectful this is an opportunity if that's not the case to set the record straight. if it is the case, to know whether that is indeed in order. >> thank you fort the honorable lady forgiving advanced courtesy of it. >> mr. speaker, i thank the honorable lady. i thought that in her question to the foreign secretary she snapped at him a bit so i offered a k. salute. and i apologize if she was offended. >> i think we should leave it -- leave it there. i thapg the honorable