the majority of asylum-seekers asylum in the united states. asylum-seekers are not guaranteed legal representation, there is no due process as we understand it in our justice system. legal representation makes all the difference. in 2010, only 11% of those asylum-seekers who did not have legal representation were successful in receiving asylum. having legal representation makes all the difference, but most asylum-seekers do not have legal representation. they either cannot afford it or cannot receive pro bono representation because the system is stretched too thin. that is the first factor in the post-cold war period, something periodkes the different, asylum-seekers. terrorism is a second factor that has affected refugee and asylum policy in the post cold war period. a result, our immigration bureaucracy was completely revamped. refugeeserrorists -- are the most about it in u.s. history to prevent would-be terrorists from entering the u.s. and causing harm. the state department tells us monthss can expect 18-24 of vetting, screening before th

and work in the united states rather than returning to iraq. work as aand got research professor at the university of missouri, became an integral part of the columbia community. he and his wife ultimately had five children, all of them american-born u.s. citizens. the problem is beginning of the early 1990's, for the next decade, he had numerous family member still in iraq, including 11 siblings, along with his elderly mother who was blind. millions ofs and iraqis, his family members were not just suffering great deprivation, although they were, they were literally on the boundary of starvation, typically unable to feed themselves in anway that provides major stenance. th i incredibly coon among the rime sanions. althoughe wasarning aodest salary, simply uld not goodonscious live en what was rlly a lor middlelass erican existence with some discretionary funds while his family was suffering so greatly in iraq. he began to find ways to send very small amount of money back to his family in a rack, but a -- literally 10, $15, $20 per month to allo

and move them to other locations in the united states.that is the challenge that has been prohibited or the rule or proposal from the president that has been prohibited by law. to the best of our knowledge, there is no plan to close guantanamo bay area as the caller indicated, this is an important facility, one of the locations that we use in south comm. host: chris in dallas, texas, democrat. caller: the last caller stole some of my thunder. i was just wondering, how is it that republicans can get too upset now with president obama went all the has done in his administration is something that happen whenoing to he was inaugurated but he was blocked and obstructed. they had a secret meeting. it was detailed in the book called "dark money." they were going to block with the president wanted to do. president bush, president obama is following the same line of argument that president bush had planned to do a guantanamo bay and the prison. he has tried prisoners in federal court with prisoners in federal prison. republicans are not opposed to

public within in the united states and the united states congress and in the united states press and also in europe. by 1913 and certainly by 1916, europe had ceded any rejection of american hegemony, at least north of the amazon. it expanded the united states to tighten its high generalmy. it made the united states even more eager to assert, to establish stability in the region. it became even more desirable to try to impose on central america and the caribbean. when the election of 1916 occurred and wilson said he wanted to keep the united states out of war, of course there were u.s. troops in haiti in the dominican republic and in nicarag nicaragua. he didn't need -- the united states didn't need to intervene in every country in the caribbean and central america. in a way, it's a little bit like lynching. you don't need to lynch everybody. you lynch some people and that is the lesson that people learn. it is very possible to intimidate. in 1918, 1919, intensify iing american control over the region, wilson, despite his rhetoric that he was saying right at that moment in versailles

it was, i don't understand why anyone would possibly want to attack the united states. we are such a peaceful nation. all we want to do is go about living our lives with freedom and liberty, yet people seem to really hate us and it's impossible to understand why. the question that was asked of the mirkin people was -- of the american people was the famous "why do they hate us" question, and the u.s. government needed to provide an answer because people wanted to know why they were attacked. the answer was, they hate us for our freedom. what's remarkable about that, that was understandable because muslims and their grievances have been basically excluded completely from public discourse. the reason americans did not know that is because they were not subjected to it. they we never posed tit. years ler, heree a, after the united states has full-scaleo invasions and invasions of predominantly muslim countries, has bombed many others, has created a worldwide torture regime, has created a lawless prison in the middle of the ocean that has brought thousands of muslims, and ev

the united states is fortunate. we have the world's most advanced health care system in the united states. it's impressive. we want to keep it that way and make certain that we're well coordinated. we use common sense that we'll be able to contain the spread of this virus and be well equipped for any future threats it may pose. so i look forward to hearing from the panel. i welcome our witnesses. i would like to turn to our ranking member, the young lady from illinois, ms. duckworth for her opening comment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you to our expert witnesses for being here today. today's hearing is an important opportunity to examine the effectiveness of our current efforts to combat the zika virus and to ensure the interagency response is sufficiently coordinated. there have been 82 reported cases of zika virus. this have been limited to people traveling to the united states from affected countries. as a new mother i understand the public's concern. the recent outbreak of this outbreak in broo sil she

by 1975 the united states senate finally ratifies the geneva protocol with the provision that the united states could still use riot control agents in humanitarian operations and herbicides around the perimeters of its bases for defensive purposes. in 1977, all the remaining agent orange stock was destroyed on jonston atol. so it was collected from all the bases and all the storage centers on the united states and u.s. military bases and taken out into the south pacific where this -- this is actually a picture of one of the ships used in operation pacer ho which was intended to incinerate all of agent orange. these operations were all overseen by epa agents and so it was not just the u.s. military in charge of this. epa had to oversee this and they had to do it out in these -- out in the pacific because they had to have high enough fires, hot enough fires to incinerate the agent down to a nontoxic component. and that's, again, a picture of operation pacer ho. so this has all probably been pretty depressing in terms of the legacy of operation ranch hand. there is a little bit of hope in t

they are checked against databases of united states law enforcement, the intelligence community, customs and border protection, state department advisory services. many of these are tools that, for example, when we talk about september 11th did not exist at that time. were not in utilization at that time. even when we talk about individuals who came in 2009, 2010, some of the most powerful tools we use now are tools that were not in existence at that time. let me talk about one particular example. it's a tool that we call the interagency check that is now used in the case of virtually every syrian who is admitted as a refugee in the case of every iraqi who is admitted as a refugee. that sort of check goes against the entire universe of intelligence holdings and law enforcement holdings of the united states. as evidence of the effectiveness of the use of those tools, alongside the 2,000 or so syrians who have been admitted, there are also 30 individuals who were denied outright because they failed either the check or the interview process. there are several hundred who are on hold as our

i'll tell you that we have an experience in the united states. we have done it with the aids movement. you know, the aids movement ... they changed the law, the way the business was done, the pharmaceutic al company agreed on that, they produced 35 drugs in 10, 15 years and they kept the price down to $18,000, and the life has been patients get involved in it, the community gets involved in it, things do change. craig vansandt: to put that in perspective, this was, if i remember right, the late 1980s, early 1990s, am i in the e ght time frame? dr. ghosh: 1980s, right. craig vansandt: not that any of us are political experts, but my take is that the chance of getting government to make the kinds of changes you're talking about with the aids issue is much less today than it was 20 years ago. dr. ghosh: i think we need to go bacto history. these were young men who shut down the fda for a day, closed the wall street for 2 days. they were young, they were dared, they vocated. they were their own advocate. the government is not going to change unless w

of the united states has what's required to function as the founders sbebleded. reporter: you still think there's a -- mr. earnest: founders intended. reporter: reporter: so you think there's still a chance of it? mr. earnest: absolutely. i think based on what senator kirk and collins and senator coates has also indicated that he believes that he said, if the president nominates someone, which is his choice, i think that person would deserve a hearing. senator blunt said, i certainly don't mind taking a vote on this issue. neither said coates nor senator blunt represents a state that president obama won in the re-election of 2012. neither of them would describe themselves as a moderate. both of them are conservative republicans. but both of them are out there saying publicly that if the president nominates somebody, they're ready to vote on them. again, i guess it will make for an interesting caucus meeting when senator mcconnell brings together the members of his senate, maybe they're having lunch right now. reporter: -- [inaudible] -- every member of the judici

the last great ocean liner bears the name, united states. it would be tragic really, tragic acknowledge we can't get her back if that happens. >> the trick is to find a developer, the vision to see the ship rat 500,000 square feet of floating waterfront property, most likely in new york her home port. >> what would it be to have her in the shadows of the statue of liberty? >> i think it would be great. it sailed from new york for 17 years and just like the statue of liberty it is a great symbol for thawnt our country offers. >> it is, susan gibbs says, the last voyage teen ship herself longs to take. >> she still has this incredible strength. you see the ship sitting there. she is held fast by these bright blue lines and you just get the sense that she's like you know i'm ready to go somewhere. she's not done. she's ready to bring in crowds again. >> that's right, don't count her out yet. since we first visited the s.s. united states, the fight to save her has risen through turbulent waters and now we're happy to hear the final chapter in he

lotteries have been very much a part of the united states history and raising money and the united states, but this was a lottery. ulysse down at the bottom a man named samuel blodgett was a man who started it. is going to be a great lottery. it completely and utterly failed and actually cost money. had it succeeded would've been about close to $5 million he would have gained tbilisi but actually cost the government money. but they did lower, blodget lured others into land schemes and one of those was james greenleaf from greenleaf's point, a man who was one of the most remarkable scoundrels in the history of the united states, and a great deal more should be known about him. but we can' kept returning to te picture. we've really talked passionate excuse me. we've really talked a lot -- apologize. we've really talked a lot about the federal government, and what i have chosen to call troubled governance. but now we have to think about something else. and you notice, i'm sure you have known that i left out something. and that is the slave in this picture. the slave is wearing washington del

just as the united states has a similar obligation. e are obligated to prevent any individuals from carrying out attacks from u.s. territories against any nation or state with which we are at peace. now, these governments, pakistan, somalia, yemen, are either unable or in some cases unwilling because of very deep domestic political division to prevent these individuals from operating. so my question is, what are we supposed to do? do we simply cross our hand and allow them to operate with integrity and site well, they are not operating in a summit of armed conflict, a zone of armed conflict might be syria, iraq or syria but, of course, do we allow them to operate with impunity? is that what natural law, what morality, what the law but allows? i suggest to you that when the language in the united nations charter was written in 1945, we did not have this problem. we did not have the capacity of individuals and terrorist organizations operating in these lawless areas, striking against the united states against other countries. so we have t

only the united states can do this.e have to do it in partnership with the arab world and the european allies. we have to do it with a final effort where there is stability. you don't create another void that has to be filled so young men and women have to go in one more time. this has to be a serious long-term challenge. i laid out the strategy at the reagan library. an appropriate place to talk about this. peace through strength is the moniker of president reagan. he was right. the world was a better place. the world was a better place because of the leadership of my dad as well. what would that look like. arm them with more sophisticated weapons. they are the fiercest fighters and the best trained and the strongest supporters and allies of the united states. it created a successful effort. the sunnis need to be engaged because isis will not be defeated boy a shia militia funded boy iran. it will only make things worse. you have to have a sunni-led effort and the province is a place where we were successful in buildin

he was put into the united states back in 1999. and robert amsterdam, you might've heard of this person out of london, he has an office in washington, i spoke to in regarding this man because there is now an investigation throughout the united states because of charter schools throughout the united states. that he is under investigation, he is considered a terrorist which the country of turkey put on the terrorist list it plus the country turkey is the one that hired robert amsterdam -- >> host: this is getting really complicated realty. where do you want to go with it? >> caller: is even a with the man? i feel the country of turkey is funneling terrorists out of the country of turkey into syria. >> guest: i'm not familiar with the case but i was according to isis own propagan propaganda, beginning about early 2015 isis began to complain about the fact that the turks have been much less sympathetic for people going through turkey to syria who are being recruited by isis. so turkey has begun to kind of cracked up at that. the foreig

just as the united states has a similar obligation. we are obligated to prevent any individuals from carrying out attacks from u.s. territory against any nation or state with which we are at peace. now, these governments, pakistan, somalia, yemen, are unwilling e or because of deep political dwigses to very present these individuals -- divisions to prevent these individuals from operating. the question is, what are we supposed to do? do we simply cross our hands and operate with impunity? well, we are not operating in a zone of armed conflict. a zone might be syria or iraq or afghanistan. but, of course, they move to another area and do we allow them to operate with impunity? is that what natural law, what morality, what the law really allows? and i suggest to you that when the language in the united nations charter was written in 1945, ok, we did not have this problem. we did not have the capacity of individuals and terrorist organizations operating in these lawless areas striking, ok, against the united states or against other countri

i hope to spearhead that in the united states senate and think we can be a very strong voice and hope for the best senator the state has ever seen. >> that has been your biggest accomplishment as congressman? >> i think we have been able to help so many of our constituents, so many seniors. i represent the third most senior diststct in the country. yet i'm one of the youngest members and been able to b bng home $2 billion of sources for our environment for the everglades to help clean the water, to help divert -- it has been heading out to the st. lucy, killing what is the most biologically diverse estuary in the whole country, helping to bring home the resources, helping to find common ground on so many different issues. i'm a big supporter of getting our fiscal house in order and as able to start a freshman bipartisan group getting about 50% of the freshman class agree, where we can actually find some compromise, put forward a bill cled the save act where we identified $479 billion of wasteful, duplicative and fraudulent government spending, ended up getting a few of those -- a piec

take for example the president of the united states. he refuses to name radical islam even when the enemy is more than happy and more than prepared and more than willing and does so over and over again and tells us what their motivations are. but the president isn't prepared to say. there's lots of people because of course all religions have to be close. all countries have to be equal. all cultures are not equal. all religions are not equal. you're not going to hear that at universities today or in the classrooms at atlanta race schools or middle schools are high schools. and it's a crying shame. and what it has done is it has led to an america right now where so many young people don't like their country. they've bought into this nonsense and this idea that america is an oppressive place and that america has so much to be ashamed about, so little to be proud of that everything that it's done is in some way changed and yet, they don't realize that they have no more clarity. they don't understand that the united states is special because

the united states in particular, what we would like, the united states to do now, is to be and to stand as they stood before against tyrants, against dictators, and hopefully jordan will benefit from that because we have always, always thought that peace is the only way for social development and economic development and eventually providing goodness for our children and grandchildren and our generations to come. >> thank you very much, major. in washington and am very pleased to be here today as a newcomer. major, i'm very aware of what you are saying and everything is clear to me. thank you for clarification. arab say the role of the league in cairo and washington, i would like to answer the question of what is role of the united states to combat the terrorism? i think international coalition is very well-known. most of our countries are joining the international coalition against da'ish and other type of terrorism. o we are all agreed that da'ish or al qaeda has o do with islam and they are very extremist and very barbarian and barbaric attacks affecting us as a muslim, thank you ver

not kansas, not colorado, not south carolina, not anywhere in the united states.resident's long-awaited plan is to work with congress to identify the most appropriate location as soon as possible according to the terms of provided by the department of defense. question, how could it take seven years to arrive at the idea to work with congress? what a novel idea. but only for this express purpose. if the president have it a suitable alternative he would have provided it in this plan. if. if he had a suitable alternative he would have presented it in 191990 when we started the plan. the plan fails to substantiate president obama's repeated claims that the guantÁnamo bay serves as a recruiting tool for jihadists, a rallying point for terrorist attacks, hindering hindering relations without allies, draining the department of defense resources. my goodness. i wrote the defense secretary carter and i have done so in the past with previous secretaries in november. to ask for intelligence reports, or data to support many of these after tatian's. i asked secretary carter i

i think it should be put to the united states. what is the implementation of the states, looking to shelter with china, militarily over any island in the south china tale. it makes it. china is not afraid of the united states. i don't think china will back down soon, when we are faced with pressure on the south china sea. >> what is china's goal, is it to downplay the east's preps, control the shipping lane. must be to do with the construction work that's going on in the island. >> first, ever since the end of the world war ii, japan, after being militarily defeated. according to the arrangement with the allied forces, mainly the united states, surrender all the island and atolls in the china sea, to china, the republic of china. and the united states kansas in taking the islands in in the brent seabrook, and at the time -- in the south china sea. many of the countries are not cooperating. they want european powers in that part of the world. that is the history. china is not afraid with the international community. china's ownershi

russia alerted its military forces and warned that the united states is playing with fire. >> at a specialuncil, the united states, cuba and russia offered separate resolutions and traded bitter charges. >> do you, ambassador, deny to the ussr has placed and is placing medium and intermediate range missiles and sites in cuba? yes or no? don't wait for the translation. yes or no? >> i am not in an american court room, sir. therefore, i do not wish to answer a question that's put to me in the fashion in which prosecutor does. in due course, sir, you will have your replay. >> i'm prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over if that's your decision. >> each side didn't know what the other side was doing and there was a lot of room for miscalculation. >> we believe there are about 25 soviet ships moving toward cuba. if the vessel does not stop, refuses to heed the instructions, force will be applied to assure that it does stop. >> nikita khrushchev says soviet ships will never submit to the united states blockade. >> the next few days are critical. who is going to blink first? be good

bush was president of the united states. he said -- "the duties of the senate are set forth in the constitution. nowhere in that document does it say the senate has a duty to give presidential appointees a vote." that's senator reid. i agree with him. that's exactly right. but that's not the position he appears to be taking today. the president has every right to nominate someone, but the senate has the authority to grant consent or to withhold consent, and what i and the other members of the judiciary committee on the republican side said yesterday in a letter to the majority leader is that we believe unanimously, all the republicans on the senate judiciary committee, that we should withhold consent. exercising a right and the authority recognized by senator reid in 2005. now, i have read some of the press clips. people recoil in mock horror. well, you're not even going to have a hearing? you're not even going to meet with the president's proposed nominee? well, that's right, for a very good reason, because it's not about t

the number of individuals sanction are 843 sanctions by the united states and 121 by the united nations for iran. but only 100 u.s. sanctions and 31 u.n. sanctions for north korea. when we do impose sanctions, sanctions we impose against north korea are not competitive. in response to the sony attack president obama issued executive order 13687 which was expansive in breadth but weakly implemented. they targeted 13 north koreans on the sanctions list and ten individuals not involved in cyber warfare. that was our response to north korea. we have not imposed human right sanctions on a single north korean individual. 200,000 men, women and children in north korea and the united states hasn't imposed a human right sanctions on a human north korea leader. that is a tragedy given the grievan grievances that have been perpetrated. i want to stop the maniac of kim jong-un. i had an opportunity to go to south korea and we agreed to status quo with north korea is no longer stable. i visited the dmz and days after i departed north korea fired artillery across the border further illustrating the d

. >> do you think if he had a missile with the united states he would actually use it against us? >> i think that his stated purpose is to protect his regime. if he thought his regime were challenged he states he would use wmd. >> is it in our national security interests to allow the north koreans to develop missile technology that could hit the homeland? >> no, sir. >> would you suggest we use military force if necessary to stop that? >> if military force was necessary, yes, sir. but i think -- >> that should be on, but that should be one of options. >> yes, sir. >> do you agree with that, at myrl? >> i do. >> i want the committee to understand we're about to have to cross a road here eventually. don't you think in the coming few years we'll have to make a decision about this? does that make sense to you, admiral? >> it does senator, in my opinion. >> say in the next five years, i'm just picking a diet out of thin air here, the united states is going to have to make a tough decision regarding north korea, whether or not to let them know if you continue down the missile development

the state of michigan meanwhile has fired the head of the department of environmental quality's drinking water unit over the contamination. liane shekter smith is the only state employee fired over the crisis. the lead poisoning in flint's water began after an unelected emergency manager appointed by goveor rick yder switched flint's water supply to the corrosive flint river. governor snyder has faced increasing calls to resign. the pentagon has released nearly 200 photos relating to the abuse of prisoners by u.s. military personnel in iraq and afghanistan. the american civil liberties union has been fighting for nearly 12 years to win release of photos related to the bush administration's torture program. the released images include close-ups of bruised and lacerated body parts and bound, blindfolded prisoners. the pentagon is still withholding 1800 images which are believed to be far worse. "the washington post" and buzzfeed have identified a second member of the british cohort within the self-proclaimed islamic state who oversaw the detention, abuse and beheading of western , hostages in syria.

to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm george "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> and a very good day to you. we begin this hour with the race for the white house and the political storm that is brewing in the united states with less than a week before voters cast ballots in the states of south carolina and nevada. presidential candidates from both parties are very busy on the campaign trail, trying to sway voters in contentious races, and now the death of a supreme court justice, antonin scalia. it has raised the stakes with both parties keenly aware that filling this vacancy can tip the balance of the court. republicans continue courting evangelicals. so the big question looming over the campaigns, who will president obama nominate for the court, and what will republicans do about it? that is especially true in the state of south carolina where republicans have just come from a very contentious debate there. phil mattingly reports from the primary battleground. >> reporter: marco rubio, one of the only candidates on

refugees who enter the united states and any of our 50 states undergo the most rigorous screening of individual that attempts to enter the united states who is not a citizen. in many cases this involves two years of work to take a look at somebody's background, collect biometric information, to make sure that these individuals are vetted before they enter the united states. what often happens is they are paired up with faith taste -- faith-based organizations that are played an important role in helping these new arrivals to the united states get their feet on the ground and get established in their community. in some ways -- the president made reference at the national prayer breakfast where he talked about how this is some of the important work that faith-based organizations across the country do every day and does not often get noticed, but he contributes to the strength of our country, a way that he united states lives up to the kinds of values we advocate for around the world, and the reason the united states can be a position to say we take in more refugees in the united states

the united states is going to act. the united states said tonight it's going to pass a very strong sanction bill, very strong message bill that we do not intend to sit back and let north korea proliferate their weapons of mass destruction. we also don't plan to sit back and let them commit gross violations of human rights. we won't sit back and allow them to attack our intellectual property through cyber attacks and that we are going to act as one, united. we're going to act, democrats and republicans, house and senate, we'll work with the administration, we're going to get this done. and then, yes, we are going to go to the international community. we are going to put pressure on our other countries. we know that the republic of korea is with us. we know that japan is with us. china needs to be with us. and we're going to go and talk to china and explain and work with them so that we can get international pressure to isolate the north korean regime until they change their course. it's critically important to our secur

northern virginia went to join a pakistani talibans. >> how many investigations are underway in the united states? >> guest: the fbi says 900 in all 50 states. >> host: 900 separate people? >> guest: 900 investigations. we are not seeing the kind of groups like the 9/11 attackers. they are so-called lone wolf usually. married couple in san bernardino, and boston bombing two brothers. so that is 2015 did see more jihadi terrorism cases than any year since 9/11. >> host: those 900 cases -- how do you define jihad? >> guest: the people i profile in the book say it is a war against the people of islam and another meaning that is the spiritual struggle you have internally to act in an islamic nature which is what most people chose. the minority view is the perceived wars against islam. >> host: nidal malik hasan. who is he and where is he now? >> guest: i just got a letter to a colleague from nidal hasan who is in fort levanworth. he is facing the death penalty, although it is unlikely to be carried out, for killing 12 is civilians at fort hood. his family ran businesses and he is typical of the profi

. >> looking at the united states is a problematic framework for looking at our past.e are part of a circulation of people and ideas that cross oceans across continents and countries. with the reformers of the progressive era working dialog with their counterparts those involved with the paula c. to collaborate to shaped by their encounters of economic development in colombia of zero or in indiana in the '50s or '60s. and then to be sealed off is to miss a lot. but of course, all nations have different trajectories and i wouldn't go so far to say we will forget about national borders and that commonality. but it has to do with political culture and religion in the history of slavery in the united states. war russia or germany or vietnam. >> i do think ameritech is exceptional but not for the reasons that people usually say. is the place where ideas can grow to become the people they could not have been and that is what we have to remember and to be extremely unwelcoming so we are exceptional only in the way in every country in place has its history. this should not mea

in order for the administration to transfer detainees to the united states it would require a change in federal law. current federal law prohibit this is administration or any administration from transferring states. we gotten reaction from mitch mcconnell. he said this is ill-considered crusade to goes guantanamo bay. they need congress and congress doesn't seem like it is biting. >> president says he is sensitive to many americans who are worried about terrorism. i think that would be all of us. we already have some terrorists here in this country who have gone through the legal system, in his words, he said, we manage them just fine. rich edson, thank you very much. please stay tuned to this fox news channel and this coverage of the story and all the day's breaking news both on cable and broadcast. news when you want it online all the time on foxnews.com. i'm harris faulkner in new york. the. >> this has been a give-away of a flat-screen tv. >>> what is one to do when in gum alley? >> you can't go to gum alley in california and not leave your mark. >> see what prankster rich fergus

the united states -- the u.n. supposedly on big issues will never do anything the united states doesn't want it to do. which sounds, well that protects everything. but in which the event in which the united nations played a most critical role, the korean conflict, the only reason that the united states was able as part of the united nations coalition to commit itself to that conflict and a we don't have to ask for war, we're simply observing our obligations as a united nations charter member is because the soviet representative happened not to be there that day because he was protesting the fact that nationalist china was still part of the security council and not the people's republic of china. so there was no one to veto anything. but notice that even there, we've got this great cause. we want to make sure that communism doesn't spread. we're going to protect american values. hadow what do you make of that? john. >> this goes along with our last point of portraying it as a defensive war in order to galvanize dom

leon rodriguez was confirmed by the united states senate in june, 2014, as the director of the uniteds citizenship and immigration services. he previously served as the director for the office of civil rights at the department of health and human services, a position he held from 2011 to 2014. part of that time he served as chief of staff and deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights at the department of justice. mr. kubiak assumed the role -- our next witness of assistant director for international operations at u.s. immigration and customs enforcement on june 30, 2014, and in this position he is responsible for a budget of more than $130 million and operational oversight at 63 offices and 46 countries and eight department of defense liaison offices. and finally ms. michelle bond was sworn in as assistant secretary of state for consular affairs on august 10, 2015. she leads a team of 13,000 consular professionals and almost 300 locations across the united states and around the world who protect the lives and interests of u.s. citizens abroad. i want to thank all of you for b

the united states is going to act. the united states said tonight it's going to pass a very strong sanction bill, very strong message bill that we do not intend to sit back and let north korea proliferate their weapons of mass destruction. we also don't plan to sit back and let them commit gross violations of human rights. we won't sit back and allow them to attack our intellectual property through cyber attacks and that we are going to act as one, united. we're going to act, democrats and republicans, house and senate, we'll work with the administration, we're going to get this done. and then, yes, we are going to go to the international community. we are going to put pressure on our other countries. we know that the republic of korea is with us. we know that japan is with us. china needs to be with us. and we're going to go and talk to china and explain and work with them so that we can get international pressure to isolate the north korean regime until they change their course. it's critically important to our secur

grant believed that down the road when the united states -- when wars were going on, the united states would probably not be involved in them primarily and that generally speaking and that as a neutral, we would want to be able do as many things as possible, particularly in the area of trade. the fact that the treaty of washington and the geneva arbitration gave a relatively narrow definition on the restrictions of the restrictions of neutral -- on neutrals during time of war, worked to the united states advantage, grant believed. another attempt to fill a strategic vision was grant's attempt to annex santo domingo, the dominican republic. had an unstable government, revolving door government, revolution every other week practically. even before grant became president, its beleaguered president asked the united states to annex it. grant didn't invent this idea. as was sometimes alleged. it's another thing he inherited. when he became president, they renewed their offer as it were and grant investigated it. once again, he brought to bear certain considerations of a strategic nature in t

after his death, the united states was extremely keen on returning anderson's body to the united states from cuba. there was a funeral here in early november, about 1800 local people attended the funeral. he is buried in woodlawn cemetery here in greenville, south carolina. major anderson was 35 at the time of his death. a father to two sons and had a daughter who'se name was robin, on the way. his wife received a letter from president kennedy. it has a handwritten message from the president on it -- your husband's mission was of the greatest importance but i know how deeply you must feel his loss. greenvillehere in are extremely proud and continue to take great route -- great pride in anderson. as a journalist in the 1960's commented, he died so that thousands, millions of us did not have to carry that sets quite an example. tour staffties recently traveled to greenville, south carolina to learn about its rich history. learn more about greenville and other stops of our tory on -- of our tour on c-span. you're watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> the bl

the united states that was its resource. asening left-hand had been at the under of the french and war, seven years war 20 years earlier the united states war and it wasng broke. and to build a nation it needed as land offered the those coffers.ll build the infrastructure of the in theand give direction nation's growth. he united states -- and i say this in all my classes -- is a on indian land. is that not rhetoric, that is just a fact. it was all native american land. now it is not. fact is an important determinant of many things in and manyerican history things in george washington's life. apologize for i the quality of some of my images. rudimenta essarily rudimentary. most inept person when it comes to computers and my know it. once did one of those fancy bullet points and one of my stuck up his s and and said hey, professor, did your daughter do that for you. and your point is? happening.u what is its nited states got independence from britain, then t built a nation moving westward. though i always think of george wash

in the united states.t would it take to have zika established in the united states? something that every summer you have to worry about? >> zika is a little bit different than west nile. west nile has special characteristics that allowed it to be established in the united states so quickly. one is that west nile is spread by mosquitos that are very common. whereas zika is spread by mosquitos who are really in the southern part of the united states. and west nile has the ability to infect birds, which allowed it to traverse the united states very, very quickly. zika virus doesn't have that capacity. so the worst case scenario is we get zika transferred in florida, for example, the texas, mexico border, with dengay thrives. i don't see it thriving in places where the mosquito doesn't live. >> could ongoing climate change change what you just said as a prediction in >> the temperature -- temperature has a weird variation with mosquitos. sometimes it increases their rank, but also decreases their flight range

south korea was closer to china than it was to the united states. you have the south korean president going to the military parade last year. >> we were wondering why that was happening but now it seems to be going in the different direction. >> the south koreans are furious, that happened just a couple of weeks ago and so what we are seeing is south korea move very close to the united states, which is exactly what beijing doesn't want and we're seeing this country after country. >> on the other hand, beijing is directly snubbing the united states. secretary kerry cait came out and said what -- came out and said that china is making direct contradictory actions defense their statements with the united states. >> and at a time when china needs the international community more than ever. its economy is tumbling and much more difficult to when china is opposing countries in the region because of these missile defense battery and also all the other things that china is doing at the same time. >> forget supporting acknowledge you have general kane coming

in the united states, it is one third. in the united states, two thirds are capital markets.ne third is capital markets in europe. it has always been thus since i have been in business, over 40 years. never had as robust capital markets as they should. i do not understand why that is, but it has always been that way, so i do not think there is much to learn on the capital market side, from europe to the u.s. it is something the u.s. is very good at. one of the interesting things is because the european banks in effect served as a capital market, they can put up an entire tranche of lending that has subordinated debt in effect buried within a bank loan. we do not do that in the united states. we separate those, which allows the markets to develop in a much more robust fashion.

a united states is fortunate we have the world's most advanced health care system in the united states it's impressive. we want to keep it that way and make certain that we are well coordinated, use common sense, and we will be able to contain the spread of this virus and the well-equipped for any future threats in a poster so i look forward to hearing from the panel. i welcome our witnesses. i'd like to turn to ranking member duckworth for her opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think if you are expert witnesses for being here today. today's hearing is an important opportunity to examine the effectiveness of our current effort to combat the zika virus and to ensure the interagency response is officially coordinated. there have been 82 reported cases of seek in the united states including for cases in my home state of illinois. today these cases have been limited to travelers returning to the united states from affected countries or from individuals who that sexual relations with returning travelers. as a new mother i understand the public's concern over the zika virus. th

i think we have more work to do in the united states. this bill is a great step, but also the united nations and your expression of disappointment with the united nations i think is well stated. mr. corker: i think it's good that you bring up the fact that when we began putting these sanctions in place, there was a lot of pushback because in essence for these things to work properly or have the biggest -- make the biggest difference in outcomes is you didn't have an international effort that takes place. when we began the iran sanctions process, it was unilateral, and while we stressed on the front end -- i know an amendment pass th-- passed in the committee to really port neforts to make it multilateral, over tomb it did and because of that, the world had joininged us and we were able to force a behavior change. i would have liked to have a better outcome when they got to the table. i think most people in this body would have. but this bill, to point out, does seek and does push the administration not only to implement these by mandatory

very well thought of in cuba and the united states.we are comfortable with jeff, but we will certainly be addressing the question in a couple months. u.s., vietnam relations were normalized, we heard a lot about how the previous approach had failed and this would lead to greater openness. you read report now and it is just ghastly. -- say twoy to critics who say you are in effect putting american businesses in the service of an authoritarian regime and will prop itself up that way? vietnam is not 90 miles from florida. that, you know, -- americann risk businesses can bring is greater opportunity for cubans, greater , yes, if it improves there'll be far more good things for the cuban people. that american business is a net-positive for the cuban people and that over time will bring about real benefits and improvements in their lives. there are certain sectors, obviously, where we can make a critical difference. would say isg i that part of what is different is we have a cuban-american community that is deeply invested in the future of c