puerto rico became a part of the united states in 1898. and soon after, congress created a special unit of puerto rican soldiers. they went on to fight for our country valiantly, in both world wars and in korea. but throughout their service, they suffered persistent discrimination. for too long, their contribution to our history has been overlooked. so, today, today we are setting the record straight by giving them the highest award within our possession, the congressional gold medal. [applause] i know a lot of people worked very hard to make this happen. and i just want to recognize just a few of them, the people who made this happen. first of all, commissioner peer luisi. there you are. [applause] congressman bill posey. [applause] senator blumenthal. [applause] senator rubio. [applause] i also want to thank governor padea. [applause] we would like to thank secretary murphy and secretary mcdonald for joining us, as well. [applause] finally, i would like to point out today that we have here with us some borinqueneers, themselves. jose col

more than six million jobs throughout the united states. so i want to make clear that our relationship with mexico does not just benefit border communities like mine or border states like texas. you look at new york, 381,000 people depend on our relationship with mexico for the jobs that they go to each and every morning. in ohio, the number is 224,000. in the state of washington, 128,000. in fact, every single one of our 50 states has a significant trading and jobs-based dependent relationship with mexico. were we to jeopardize that with harmful rhetoric or wrongheaded policies, we would not just jeopardize this historic relationship with our partner to the south, we would jeopardize the very well being and life blood for six million american families, spread throughout this country. in fact, if we don't do a better job of facilitating the trade we have with mexico right now, we run the risk of losing the jobs we already have. the department of commerce estimates that for every minute of delay on our international ports of entry that connec

>> hinojosa: has the first latino president of the united states already been born? some say, "yes." as the youngest mayor of a top 50 u.s. city, my guest today symbolizes the emergence of a new generation of latinos in american political life-- the mayor of san antonio, texas, julian castro. i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. mayor julian castro, welcome to our program. >> thank you very much for having me. >> hinojosa: so your mom was a big time political activist in the 1960s and 1970s-- chicana activist. your brother is in state government in texas. you're the youngest mayor... or one of the youngest mayors in the country, san antonio, and people are saying, "this family has got a political future." so is that kind of the way you had it all planned out? >> oh, it's... well, that's the way that it's working right now, it seems, but not the way that we planned out. >> hinojosa: so you didn't even think, like, when you were a kid you were like, "i'm going to become a politician like my mom." >> no. you know what's interesting was that because my mother was so i

you are pursuing the what is on the agenda now is something that is affecting us, affect is the united states of america and affecting everyone. we need to build up a functioning state in libya, which is anything but easy. that's why we're working so closely and with such commitment to strengthen the unity government and why we are cooperating internationally to bring about this goal and not have different goals. so basically let's look ahead. let's look at what we want to achieve. thts -- let's try and stabilize this country. it's not easy, not at all as you -- because they have a tribal structure in libra -- libya. they have a history, well, very much their own. they have a situation there on the ground that is such that stheff never had a national army, never had a functioning state as we know it. so that's, everything, all of these things come into the equation. we have to think of that when we fry to stabilize -- try to stabilize the country and strengthen the population and we do this together with the united states the the prime minister:: first, with respect to libya, i want to be ver

there are women all over the united states, particularly in these three vulnerable states, there are women in puerto rico who are wondering if they're already pregnant, what is their situation. there are young women and not so young women who are concerned about getting pregnant at the same time bitten by a mosquito for which there are sparse resources to do mosquito control. now we want to build fences to keep out illegal aliens. okay. we want to bomb the hell out of isis and terrorists. we should because we're worried that they're coming at us. in many of those instances these are problems that have been difficult to solve. this is not difficult to solve. this is about mosquito control. and i am very concerned that we are just sitting around, that when all is said and done more is getting said than gets done. we are talking about an emergency supplemental. now, the appropriations committee has a very clear set of criteria for what is an emergency. first of all, it has to be urgent. well, the mosquito season is here. it has to be unforeseen. this was unforeseen. and it's temporary.

the united states wants a strong united kingdom as partner. and the united kingdom is at its best when it is helping to lead a strong europe. it leverages, uk power to be part of the european union. as i wrote today, i don't believe eu moderates influence in the world, it magnifies us. eu helps us to spread british values and the single market brings extraordinary economic benefit to the yuunited kingdom. that ends up being good for america. we are more prosperous when one of our best friends or allies have a strong, stable growing economy. americans want britain influence to grow including within europe. the fact is in today's world, no nation is immuned to the challenges that david and i just discussed. in today's world solving them requires a collective action. all of our cherish our sovereignty. my country is pretty vocal about that. the u.s. also recognizes that we strengthen our security and our relationships through nato. i believe the uk strengthens our security and prosperity in the eu. the nation that made their nations felt on the w

the united states is well aware of that. and is playing a leading role in trying to resolve the situation. last one. reporter: two quick ones. let me go back -- [inaudible] -- so much has been going on between the two countries, u.s. and india. including the prime minister of india met -- [inaudible] -- and also yesterday foreign secretary of india met with the national security advisorer. [inaudible] mr. earnest: we have been in discussions with our indian counterparts about a potential visit of the prime minister to washington. those discussions continue. i don't have any updates on them at this point. but obviously the president values the working relationship he has with the prime minister and i wouldn't rule out a potential visit. he's supposed to visit, the people are still waiting for his visit. if he's going to take the first family -- [inaudible] -- because of the saudi king's death. mr. earnest: the president was quite disappointed to not have an opportunity to visit the taj mahal in his last visit to india. that h

the united states. and the question is what we are going to do with people like teresa lee that i just described earlier. you see, what happened six years ago as i joined with the republican senator richard lugar of indiana and wrote a letter to president obama saying if the congress is not going to change the law to make it possible for these young people to stay in this country, would you issue an executive order that allows them at least on a temporary basis to stay in the united states? within a year or two the president agreed to do it. he created what's known as the doca program and it basically says that young people like teresa lee that i described earlier can step forward, identify themselves to our government, submit themselves for a criminal investigation, pay a filing fee of over $500 i believe it is, and if they do, they will be given a right to stay in the united states on a temporary renewable basis for two years or three years. that is what doca is all about so that young people can purs

the alliance between the united states and the united kingdom is one of the oldest and the strongest that the world has ever known. when the u.s. and the uk stand together, we make our kcountrie more secure and make our people more prosperous and we make the world safer, and better. that is why one of the first overseas visit as president was to london. at a time of global crisis. the one thing that i knew as green as i was as a new president was that it was absolutely vital that the united states and the united kingdom working together in an international forum tackle the challenges together, and leverage our relationship to have an impact on other countries. i met with david on that visit, and he was not yet prime minister, but just as our nations share a special relationship, david and i have shared an extraordinary partnership. he has prove n to be a great friend and one of my closest and most trusted partners. over the six years or so that the our terms have overlapped, we have met or spoken more time than i can count, because we share our country's beers with each other and he

some of the first international studies policy schools that were created in the united states in the 1930s came about because of grants from the rockefeller foundation and the u.s. department of state to help the government formulate a grand strategy for the united states. so this is a place where the nexus between cacka de-- academ and policy-making is strong. and what is a grand strategy and is it achievable in the current moment or even in any moment. i think there are a number of basic components that we could point to. one is, it is an integration of parts of strategy and it involves military strategy and also diplomacy, trade, technology, economics and even humanitarian goals thrown in. into a single narrative. a single picture of the kind of world that the united states would like to create. it's a narrative that should resonate or appear to resonate with the shared values that would give it appeal, both domestically and to key allies abroad and it ought to have some durability that would make it last for perhaps more than one administration. so not surprisingly, those three tr

allies no longer respect the united states and rivals don't respect the united states either. let's get a quick reaction from all of our analysts and our reporters. fareed zakaria, you listened carefully and he spoke for almost 40 minutes. what did you think? >> i thought in the main theme, he really stuck to his guns which it was populist, nationalist, protectionist. look after america first. the trade deals at the center of it. that was all familiar. but he expanded. it was sort of rambling to the point of being incoherent. he contradicted himself several times, it struck me. he said we're going to get out of nation-building but we're going to create stability. how do you do that? you get out of nation building in afghanistan, you get more instability. more instability. the allies can rely on us but be completely unpredictable and spend what it takes to rebuild the military, but we're going to pay down the debt. we're going to spread western civilization but we're not going to spread democracy. a truly bizarre statement about the greatest problem in the world is that we have

in the united states is initiating a new nuclelear arms the other nuclear arms states, of course, wheny look at our "modernization program"m" are bebeginning their own. so we need this to be rolled back. if obama goes to hiroshima, he needs to use that as an opportunity not to speak emptyty promises and rhetoric about an eventual world free of nuclelear weapons, but to make concrcrete proposals about how the united states is going to take steps in that direction and how we are going to change course. because right now, we're taking giants depth in the opposite direction. amy: what is the $1 trillion trainwnwreck, marylia kelleyey? >> it is a plan that would upgrade every single nuclear weapon in the u.s. arsenal. it will design new nuclear weapons. i talked about the long-range standoff warhead. we are also designing a new nuclear bomb that will be for deployed in nato countries called the b-6112. it is getting a new tail fin kit so it will become the first gravity dropped bomb that becomes a guided nuclear weapon. there are new options being put into nuclear weapons. submarine-launche

the president of the united states what the united states is going to do. on that matter for example i think it is fair to say maybe some point down the line there might be a uk/us trade agreement but it won't happen anytime soon because our focus is negotiating with a big block of the european union to get a trade agreement done. the uk is going to be in the back of the queue not because we don't have a special relationship but because given the heavylift on any trade agreement, not having access to a big market with a lot of countries rather than trying to do piecemeal trade agreements is hugely inefficient. now to the subject at hand. the united states is in a different hemisphere, different circumstances, different sets of relationships with its neighbors than the uk does but i can tell you this. if right now i have got access to a massive market where i felt 44% of my assets, now i am thinking about leaving the organization that gives me access to that market and is responsible for millions of jobs in my country and responsible for an enormous amount o

in this region is important to the united states. to that acres of stability. and then tried to do that going forward in the air is dealing with these underlying challenges of the instability of the last several decades and working on those issues resolving conflict peaceably because the autocratic model is broken. you have to start from the bottom up. you build trust from the bottom up not centralized capital down. so i think to give one very concrete example as other international actors deal with the refugee problem with as a push isis out of territories me to think not just what we build but how does it work for people? can we give communities the skills and platforms to manage conflict peacefully? right now while in europe. so that is one very concrete policy. because if we ignore that it gets worse. it has to be in for the long haul. >> what worries me the most analysts see dead democrats or republican that is the 21st century thinker. idle think any candidate will walk away but i do think to see that imposition of more sanctio

it was, i don't understand why anyone would possibly want to attack the united states.ewe are such a peaceful nation. all we want t do is go about livingng 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 bececause people wanted to know why they were attacked. the answer was, they hate us for our freedom. what's remarkable aboutut that, that was understandable because muslims and their grievances have beenn basically excluded completely from public discourse. the e reason americans did not know that is because they were not subjected to it. they were never exposed to it. 11 years later, here we are,, after the united states has full-scaletwo ininvasions and i invasions of predominantltly muslim couountr, has bombed many others, has created a worldwide torture regime, has created a lawless prison in the middle of the ocean that has broug

. >> president obama is currently overseas for a multi-day trip that has included stops in the united states and the united kingdom. two spoke about u.s. german relations and answered questions on trade, defense, and the syrian refugee crisis. this is 50 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, i would like to bid a warm welcome to the president of the united states of america come a barack germany for his fifth visit to hanover. let me tell you that i am delighted to have an opportunity, not only to continue our talks but to have -- today will be a remarkable day because we will open the hanover affair and this year the united states will be part of the country. these are troubling times we would both agree and we have an opportunity to talk about the whole spectrum of international issues. we don't need to spend too much time on this, but let me tell muchbarack, that i very talks thatd, open are always based on mutual trust and we talk about the whole range of issues and reduce of that we have hope and trust and we will continue to do so. we used this opportunity here to talk about a broad spectr

that includes the united states. but even as we take steps that are required to ensure our security; even awe help turkey and greece cope with this influx in a way that is safe and humane, even as chancellor merkel and other european leaders work for an orderly immigration and resettlement process, rather than a disorderly one, even as we all need to collectively do more to invest in the sustainable development and governance in those nations from which people are fleeing so that they can succeed and prosper in their own countries, and so that we can reduce the conflicts that cause so much of the refugee crisis around the world -- chancellor merkel and others have eloquently reminded us that we cannot turn our backs on our fellow human beings who are here now, and need our help now. [applause] we have to uphold our values, not just when it's easy, but when it's hard. in germany, more than anywhere else, we learned that what the world needs is not more walls. we can't define ourselves by the barriers we build to keep

they were forced to flee to the united states. other came directly to the united states. once they came here, they heard immediately about each other. they had a social life together. they forged this intimate community in french philadelphia, these aristocratic liberal refugees. host: about what time are they arriving in the u.s. then? prof. furstenberg: they came after the war between france and britain started. they came in 1792. 1792-1793. these were incredibly turbulent years. the french revolution was causing wars across europe. the u.s. was in a state of major political turmoil over the response to the french revolution. the jeffersonian party, which would become a democratic party, and what would eventually become the federalist party were forming precisely in response to the french revolution. or just in terms of popular opinion, those probably in support of -- those strongly in support and those strongly opposed to the french revolution. the major event was the haitian revolution, which started in 1791 and continuing in these years. this major uprising of slaves

we often think of the united states as a nation of immigrants . we hear that over and over and it's partially true. i think it's worth remembering forced him all that before the united states was a nation of immigrants, it was in part a nation of slaves and slave owners, something we're wrestling with right now here at georgetown university with the renaming over the weekend of two buildings on campus named after leaders of georgetown involved in selling slaves to louisiana. that nation of immigrant stories should not obscure other aspects of our history that i think are equally significant and don't fold very well into that story. secondly, that the u.s. is not uniquely a nation of immigrants. many other countries in the americas were wrestling with a new population. they wrestled with new people, foreigners, coming to their countries and changing the demographic, social, cultural, political dimensions of the entire order. just to illustrate that, i want to give you this juxtaposition here. on the left is a photograph of ellis island in 1905. you

turbulent years in the world and the french revolution was causing wars across europe and the united states was in a state of mader -- of major political turmoil over the response of the french revolution. the jeffersonian party would become the democratic party, they were forming in response to the french revolution, should the united states take a political response or diplomatic the last major event contributing to this turmoil was the haitian revolution which started in 1791 and was continuing in these years as a major uprising of slaves in the northern frontiers which turned into a revolution against the institution of slavery itself. in towere people pouring the united states during these middle years of the 1790's. >> you said the french revolution had become too radical for these men. happening in the french revolution drove them away mark did they see themselves that way? ask technically, they were emigrating. during the time known as the terror when the party came to viewed -- some of them fred -- fled france immediately. they were opposed to it and reactionary and wanted to reins

states and united the soviet union, and their respective allies. the united states which hoped to replace the imperial powers wavered between the major colonial powers, all members of the nato alliance, and modern african nationalists whome washington hoped to court to keep radical nationalism and communism at bay. during this period, african nationalists were not paused on a global chessboard, but were historical agents in their own right. they courted outside powers and limited their seville ability to impose solutions optimal -- ir ability to impose solutions optimal to them alone. washington broke ranks when the powers byerial discounting the legitimacy -- threatened to bring about a major conflagration. france resisted american encroachment on its african sphere of influence. just as the united states sometimes disagreed with its allies for the best strategy to pursue decolonization in the in the american government. high-level officials in the administration considered anticolonial movement to be the product of external communist version. wit

the united states not only could have lost the war, the united states at more than one point c pretty clearly to be careening towards a failed war effort, the most serious time in the summer of 1864 leading into the fall of 1864. we have to be able to recapture what's actually happening going forward, and not tfall victim to what i call the appomattox syndrome, starting at the end of the story and saying, of course the united states triumphed. let's read back and see how those inevitable things were coming. no. those things were not inevitable, and we should not think that. if the confederacy had won, it would have been a major western nation devoted to the perpetuation of a slaveholding society. what stopped at appomattox was not a small thing. it was a gigantic thing. the political and social conflict that follows should not be considered an extension of the war by other means. postwar violence, however grotesque at times, did not approach in scale or fury the seismic military carnage of the war years, the bloodiest incidents during reconstruction, among them the new orleans and mem

our world is getting smaller, but is it a good idea for the united states to get smaller?mir putin tested his missiles against nato. >> it was one of several such will such incidents, and it was very much like the drill you're seeing right now. >> because of the vast distances here in alaska. >> this colonel pilots this s-22 stealth raptor, fully armed and ready to go it a moment's notice. >> we can get closer and identify whatever is out there. >> what they have seen out there, russian c-2 barrier bombers, capable of carrying nuclear weapons. these encounters have become common enough lately, that error n norad places red plaques on the wall when there's an intercept. >> russia represents the greatest threat to our national security. >> russia is the only country on effort that has the ability to destroy the united states. >> we're confronting a russia that has now entered a new chapter in the cold war. >> last summer, rush that september five warships to alaskan waters. >> we had to prepare for any event that might happen understanding that the president would be here at

this is very good news for the united states. it also speaks directly to the question of our immigration debate. immigration made and makes and will make this country great. urbanization, today, half of humanity lives in urban areas. in the world of 2030, that will be 60%. 60%, 50%, what's the big deal? the big deal is it's another 1.5 million people between now and 2030 will be moving into cities. that's the equivalent of ten new york citys from green fields to the present day, ten new york citys every year. that's the extent of urbanization on the planet that is unfolding now. now, the good news is that urban environments are where ideas develop, economic growth occurs, they're the drivers of positive change. there are also the shantytowns and centers of future class warfare, if that change doesn't take place well. the pressures of urbanization lead me to the last mega trend i want to mention here, and that is the pressure on resources, energy, food, and water. all these middle class people moving to cities, there will be an in

the eu is not a united states of europe. the eu member states continue to exist as independent nations. so what is the eu? when all is said and done, my belief is that what it comes down to is that the eu is a super nationalist project. the eu member states in the interest of realizing an unprecedented degree of peace, stability and prosperity, are pooling and thus relinquishing significant elements of their national sovereignty. they are ceding large aspects to the super national institutions of the eu that are distinct from the eu member states and that function independently above the national level. the essence of the european project. not just the nuts and bolts of how the eu works but the hope behind the european dream, the heart and soul and mind of the eu is precisely this super nationalism. the process of european integration arose out of the ashes of world war ii. and the determination of european leaders that war should never again arise from european soil. that violent conflicts among european nation states, espec

he made of a pitch for the olympics to come to the united states. i like that. but if you were the president you don't go over there to make a pitch and not win. if you were the president you have to know the answer before you go over. i've president and i am going to go there but between us are we going to win? they will tell you you will be in fourth place i say thank you i appreciate that i will not go. we are dealing with babies. so we have the president of the united states go to make up pitch for the olympics we didn't come in first or second i think it was fourth who does that? are we dealing with babies? when you are the president of the united states and you want to get the olympics to come to this country and go over there and don't know the answer before hand? you are incompetent. [cheers and applause] you are incompetent. [cheers and applause] totally incompetent. here is the story. tomorrow is a big day. we will do great things. i himself funding my campaign and of all the major candidates i put in far less than any other candidate and

was the capital of the united states. it was the major metropolis of the united states in this. period. came, there were well-known figures. hamilton became a good friend of these figures. hamilton would spend a long nights discussing politics and economics during this era. one was a close friend of jefferson. washington, they all admired washington, so they all looked up to washington. and in a sense as a kind of model of the leader that they had failed to become in france. this was the kind of vision that they had had for france. washington had to be careful, because he was the president, and these people had been chased out of france. the official french ambassador in philadelphia at this point looked at them with great suspicion. that they were fomenting counterrevolution in philadelphia. he did not want washington socializing with them are meeting with them. washington would pass a note with a message through his secretary. but he did not want to invite them to dinner, because he had to worry about diplomatic consequences. >> was there any lasting influence from the french

the waters of the united states regulation would put 96.7% of my state under the e.p.a.'s regulatory jurisdiction. florida would be a competitor to that number, i would think. mr. yoho: yeah, it would be all of florida. mr. king: i have said, once you regulate waters hydrologically connected to or -- once you get to define significant nexus, that goes all the way up to the kitchen sink. we know that soil itself, whether it's underwater, it can be saturated with water, just old black iowa dirt can be 25% water, so they've got it all. this overreach of this federal government. our founding fathers envisioned that there would be a competition between the branches of government to sustain their constitutional authority in each branch. they wanted to draw as bright a line as possible between the three branches of government, with the courts being the weakest of the three. and they expected that we would jealously guard the constitutional authority. congress writes all the laws, the president's supposed to enforce all the laws. that should be pretty clear. but the president has

different in the united states.europe has to go through that process in a very serious way. >> host: we are talking to retired general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander in europe where he served from 1997-2000. general clark, donald trump the republican presidential front-runner has been critical of nato, even calling it obsolete. let's take a look at some video from donald trump from his recent "washington post" editorial be about this. >> i see nato as a good thing to have the other to the ukraine situation and i say, so ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in nato. and yet we are doing all of the lifting.y and i say what is it that germany is not dealing with nato on ukraine? why is it that other countries that are in the vicinity of the ukraine, why aren't they dealing? why are we always the one that's leading?g. potentially to world war with russia. why are we always the ones that are doing it? and i think the concept of nato is good but i do think that

arabia's interests, it's not in iraq's interests, it's not in jordan's interests, it's not in the united states' interests. so when i had saudi arabia and the other gulf countries up to camp david, our goal was to say how can we give you confidence that you are protected against any state that might attack you? how are you organized to prevent arms flowing into your country that get into the hands of provoktures or terrorists, but also how can we work on the diplomatic front to try to resolve conflicts like syria that threaten to burn down the entire region? and occasionally there will be differences in terms of tactics in how we view both u.s. policy as well as saudi policy, but that's true among all the allies and friends that we have. >> rose: back to the article for a second. it was titled "the obama doctrine." what is the obama doctrine? >> i didn't title that such. i've always shied away from labeling my foreign policy under a single banner because the hallmark, i hope, of my foreign policy has been to be very practical in thinking about how do we advance u.s. interests, how do we make su

the united states is going home, cut a deal with iran and china while you can. >> i think overall itas had that impact. you're sending the message to the rest of the world that you're basically retreating. >> later you meet with president obama and you tell him the way to compensate for force cuts in the next war is with blood. more american kids will die because of our decisions. what was his response to that? >> i think he acknowledged it. what i was pitching at a minimum was the world doesn't seem to be getting better. before you head down a path of deep cuts in defense, why don't you take it kind of slow? it was one of those things where i lost the argument. >> i think that he sees the military actually as something that is more dangerous to the world and i think that he looks at us -- i actually do. i think he looks at the united states military and sees it as a threatening application around the world than actually as a useful tool. >> how much more dangerous do you think the world is now than it was seven, eight years ago? >> i think more dangerous. far more doing rus. >> the

. >> plaej, i would like to bid a very warm welcome to the president of the united states of america, barack obama, here to germany on this fifth visit, fifth time to hannover and let me tell you that i'm delighted to have an opportunity not only to continue our talks, but today is going to be a very remarkable day because we're going to open the hannover fair together and the united states of america this year will be the partner country. these are turbulent times, i think we can both agree, and we have an opportunity to talk about the whole spectrum of international issues, by that our relations are excellent we don't need to spend too much time on this. let me tell you, barack, that i very much value the candor an open talks that are always based on mutual trust, we talk about the whole range of issues and we do so today as we have done many times previously and i hope and trust that we shall continue to do so. we used all of these opportunities here to -- we used this opportunity here to talk about, as i said, the broad spectrum of international issues, for example, combating terr

the united states?right. >> yes. >> but the trend by beneficiaries may lawfully work in the united states, isn't that correct? >> that's right. >> how is it possible to lawfully work in the united states without lawfully being in the united states? >> there are millions of people, millions of people other than the dapa recipients about whom this is true right now. biscuits to put up why they're reading of section 1324 is completely wrong. >> i just don't understand it. how can it be lawful to work your butt not lawful to be your? >> let me just with his around here and i'll give some sense but just have disrupted a ruling would be to accept their theory on who can lawfully work in the united states. right now since 2008, one category of people who can get work authorization our people applied for adjustment of status. we have given up 3.5 million of those to that category of people since 2008, ending the decades before it was hundreds of thousands of people that you. they are not lawfully present in the

who can be the best president of the united states. i maintain to you, i will leave cleveland as the nominee. it will happen. thank you new york, i love you. [applause] >> also speaking at the republican fundraiser in new york city on thursday, republican presidential candidate senator ted cruz of texas. new york hold its presidential primaries next tuesday. senator cruz's remarks are about 20 minutes. [applause] sen. cruz: god bless the great state of new york. [applause] i am thrilled to be here with so many friends, so many patriots, so many lovers of liberty. i have nott to you, built any buildings in new york city. but i have spent my entire life fighting to defend the constitution and the bill of rights. [applause] evening at ahis time of crisis for our nation. we are bankrupting our country. our constitutional rights are under assault each and every day, and america has receded from leadership in the world. i am here today with a word of hope and encouragement. i want to tell you, something incredible is happening all across the

they are not in the united states at all in that case. and the fear that border states may switch sides and support the confederacy is no longer pressing in lincoln's mind. they are also concerned about having a bipartisan support for emancipation policy if he ever went in that direction. knowing he could not have any bipartisan support for it. by the summer of 1862, lincoln has given up on the possibility of bipartisan support for the war generally. the democratic party in the north is opposing him, which is every kind of personal initiative. the idea of this war is that going to be one that divides the world politically. it is something lincoln more or less has abandoned. but we see is new factors making emancipation desirable, al qaeda obstacles falling by the wayside. -- all kinds of obstacles falling by the wayside. lincoln has decided but the time is right -- when the time is right, he will announce a new aim for the war effort that will add to the union human freedom. comes in come, and it september 1862 with lincoln's announcement

provides reason for concern in europe at the united states is not focused on europe, the united states is not going to continue transatlantic alliance and so on. first of all, i would like to say that the first time i visited the united states was in 1980. then i was 21 years old. no, not 21 years old. i visited the united states together with my father. he was then defense minister of norway and we traveled a week around the united states, different military base in different political think tanks and sold. i guess the same people are still around. the main issue then was the concern about that the united states was not going to be supportive of europe, and that was in 1980. so we have been concerned for many years, but we are still going strong. that means of course we should always be concerned but at the same time went to see that we're able to deliver everyday as a strong alliance, the strongest ever and the strongest in the world. we are able to liver deterrence, able to deliver collective defense that we are able to start together when actually needed. so for instance, as

visit ncicap.org] we proudly give 72 about mckinley gave those the next president of the united states -- [cheering] [applause] president obama is on a trip to a united kingdom, including the meeting with prime minister david cameron. he will stay in britain on saturday before heading to germany on sunday. the president and prime minister cameron held a joint press conference with they talked upcoming referendum on britain's membership in the european union. president obama wrote an opinion piece in the telegraph arguing for britain to stay in the eu is present is one hour. prime minister cameron: good afternoon and welcome. it is great to welcome president obama on his fifth visit to the united kingdom. barack has been president for more than seven years. i have been prime minister for nearly six years. and our two countries have been working together through some of the most difficult and troubled global times. we faced the aftermath of the banking crisis, the need to revive growth and create jobs in our economies, new threats to our security from russia in the east to the rise of is

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

i figured you might want to hear from the president of the united states what i think the united states is going to do. and on that matter, for example, i think it's fair to say that maybe some point down the line, there might be a uk/u.s. trade agreement but it's not going to happen anytime soon because our focus is in negotiating with a big block of the european union to get a trade agreement done. and u.k. is going to be in the back of the queue. not because we don't have a special relationship, but because given the heavy lift on any trade agreement, us having access to a big market with a lot of countries rather than trying to do piecemeal trade agreements is hugely inefficient. now to the subject at hand, obviously, the united states is in a different hemisphere, a different circumstance, a different set of relationships with its neighbors than the u.k. does, but i can tell you this. if right now, i've got access to a massive market where i sell 44% of my exports, and now i'm thinking about leaving the organization that gives me access to that market, and that is responsible for m

so i've come here today to the heart of europe to say that the united states and the entire world needs a strong and prosperous and democratic and united europe. [ applause ] and perhaps you need an outsider, somebody who's not european, to remind you of the magnitude of what you have achieved. the progress that i described was made possible in large measure by ideals that originated on this continent in a great enlightenment and the founding of new republics. of course, that progress didn't travel a straight line. in the last century, twice in just 30 years, the forces of empire and intolerance and extreme nationalism consumed this continent. and cities like this were largely reduced to rubble. tens of millions of men and women and children were killed. but from the ruins of the second world war, our nation set out to remake the world, to build a new international order and the institutions to uphold it. our united nations to prevent another world war and advanced a more just and lasting peace. a world bank and an international monetary fund to promote prosperity for all peoples. a uni

the united states is carrying out military action in both human and libya. secretary of state the first half of his year in turn trying to achieve a deal on middle east peace. we give billions of dollars of aid to countries in the region. iran deal consumed a senior -- at that a great deal of great deal of senior politicians attention. the second point i will make. ultimately the fear of the slippery slope. the idea that even a relatively modest amount of engagement, particularly military engagement will lead to another iraq and all the catastrophic publications. 150,000 american troops, casualties, etc.. president to be very skeptical. first he to the american forces out of iraq and was very hesitant to get back in after toppling muammar gaddafi is libya. in conducting most military activities through drone strikes, airstrikes, things like that. it is part of this broader, green strategy that robin described and that our moderator described, rebalance toward asia and not have strategic distraction in the quagmires that animate the middle east today. but i th

supreme court hearing oral argument in the united states versus texas. texas being one of 26 states sue to block the president executive actions on immigration. .. watching live coverage from c-span's camera crews just outside the u.s. supreme court. also argued before the court today, representative for republican lawmakers in the u.s. house after the house filed an amicus brief to the court, an unprecedented move by the u.s. house supporting the states in this case. the president plans to a unauthorized immigrants who are parents of citizens or lawful residents to apply for program called dapa. the supreme court has to decide if the states in this case for stating whether or not they have been harmed in some way by the president's plan before deciding on the merit of the united states v. texas. [chanting] [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inau

the alliance between the united states and the united kingdom is one of the oldest and one of the strongest that the world's ever known. when the u.s. and the u.k. stand together, we make our countries more secure, we make our people more prosperous, and we make the world safer and better. that's one of the reasons why my first overseas visit as president more than seven years ago was here to london. at a time of global crisis. and the one thing i knew, as green as i was as a new president, was that it was absolutely vital that the united states and the united kingdom concern working together in an international forum -- tackle the challenges that lie ahead. our success depended on our ability to coordinate and to be able to leverage our relationship to have an impact on other countries. i met with david on that visit. he wasn't yet prime minister. finish but just as our nations share a special relationship, david and i have shared an extraordinary partnership. he has proven to be a great friend and is one of my closest and most trusted partners. over the six years or so that our terms have