i think it's in the best interest of the united states and the world as a whole, that the united states negotiate rather than go back to the cold war relationship with the soviet union. i don't look at the picture as briefly as you have indicated in your question, mr. truitt. i believe that the united states has had many successes in recent years and recent months as far as the come muist movement has concerned. it didn't. we have a democracy in portugal today. a few months ago, or i should say, maybe two years ago, the soviet union looked like they had continued strength in the middle east. today, according to prime minister soviet union is weaker in the middle east than they have been in many many years, the facts are, there -- the soviet union relationship with egypt is at a low level. the soviet union relationship with syria is at a very low point. the united states today according to prime minister rescreen of israel is at a peak. >> we wanted to have the full protection of minority. we wanted to preserve human dignity in southern africa. we have taken the initiative and in souther

there's a lot of the president of the united states can do. i don't think president trump will do any of that. and i think therefore there is a pretty solid rock under girding u.s. cuban relations no matter what the rhetoric says. >> thank you very much to all three of you, fascinating conversation. thank you. >> thanks very much, great to be here. >> thank you. >> we continue our coverage of fidel castro and cuba with ben rhodes deputy national security advisor for strategic communications. ben, thank you for being on the show. fidel castro is about to be sent off to his final fairwell who is going to be represented the united states at this funeral and prosession? >> well, jeff, we're not into spinning a large presidential delegation, fidel castro is not head of state and of course is an extraordinarily controversial figure for the united states. we do have an embassy functioning in havana now and we have a very capable charge there, he will certainly be representing us at the memorial service that is going to be attend. >> will you be headi

i think it's in the best interest of the united states and the world as a whole, that the united states negotiate rather than go back to the cold war relationship with the soviet union. i don't look at the picture as briefly as you have indicated in your question, mr. truitt. i believe that the united states has had many successes in recent years and recent months as far as the come muist movement has concerned. it didn't. we have a democracy in portugal today. a few months ago, or i should say, maybe two years ago, the soviet union looked like they had continued strength in the middle east. today, according to prime minister soviet union is weaker in the middle east than they have been in many many years, the facts are, there -- the soviet union relationship with egypt is at a low level. the soviet union relationship with syria is at a very low point. the united states today according to prime minister rescreen of israel is at a peak. >> we wanted to have the full protection of minority. we wanted to preserve human dignity in southern africa. we have taken the initiative and in souther

not part oftro is the united states and he is a historically controversial figure in the united statesave some representatives at the memorial service. jeffrey: will you be heading down? i am not planning to. you are the architect of the opening to cuba. you have insight into every corner of this. why didn't president obama speak to fidel castro? was that his choice? his brother's choice? ben: raul castro, that is the president of cuba, that is who we reached agreements with. normalizing relations means doing with your counterpart. that was raul castro. we know that the dell castro -- ro.do -- fidel cast we put cuban americans at the central on our policy. jeffrey: let me ask you about this. , as soon ast issued we heard of fidel castro's death. he has been a confrontation with the united states for so long. let me read you a part of what the president said. we know that this moment bills -- philith powerful cubans with powerful emotions. neutral language. he has taken some heat for that neutral language. you just talked about the fact that many cubans and cuban-americans suffered unde

ben he tried on conflict with : the united states.n after obama was down there, he gave a robust speech. including a defense of our values, he criticized obama's trip down there. he has not been perfectly aligned with his brother in his view of normalization with the united states. jeffrey: nevertheless, d.c. why cuban-americans will look at that statement and say, you could've said more about our personal suffering? how could that have ruined the relationship between the two countries? ben we have been very : disappointed about not only into a trap that we are arguing about history with the cubans. that is an argument that has no end. it only serves those in cuba who want to take a hard line about the united states. i have spent a lot of time with cuban-americans in miami, every step of this process. including those who are critical and supportive. they understand our approach, to create as many openings as possible for commerce, travel, people getting into cuba. including cuban-americans who can send money down to cuba to have seed

united states next, carved up by european enemies. t was also led by people like mary roberts rinehart, who argued that the united date now had to get ready, whatever that meant. plan, whereby a american employers should still pay their employees who went out to get training. thomas evason created a group to get the nations industry ready to go. charles mayo of the mayo clinic teamed with doctors out of pittsburgh for medical preparedness with chapters out of 47 of 48 states. columbia university, the president ordered preparedness done on the faculty. imagine doing this today. he went to the entire faculty and said this is how the army chief staff system is wired. identify where on that system you can be most useful to the in an emergency. he did this in 1916, and every member of columbia faculty responded. this is an idea. it is not the idea to get the united states ready to fight a war but to make the united states so strong that the countries of europe would have to pay attention to what we wanted, and for reasons i would be happy t

to the united states surged. exiles and their families filled american cities and prospered in places like miami's "little havana." these immigrants became a force in american politics, standing against any efforts to lift the embargo or reopen diplomatic relations. ( cheers ) all the while, castro endured. he rallied his faithful supporters in the capital with his trademark hours-long, fiery speeches full of nationalist and socialist rhetoric. >> ( speaking spanish ) >> sreenivasan: crowds of thousands turned out to listen. even with massive soviet subsidies, another dramatic economic downturn hit cuba in 1980, and castro said anyone who wanted to leave cuba could do so by boat. again, a huge wave of immigrants headed to the united states in what became known as the mariel boatlift. many of these were prisoners and convicts. but castro continued to hold a tight grip on his people through restrictions on free speech and free press. he quieted the opposition with imprisonment, and he did not deny that his jail hel

foreign policy and the role that the united states is going to play in the world. our trade and immigration. when we look at those two issues within foreign policy. like i tell my students, immigration isn't even in the books. it's not on the map. when you poll republicans and you poll americans about their critical concerns to this country right now, they will register immigration and i don't think it's just the american people. i think from the war in syria, the same concerns about immigration that's spread across europe. and all democracies are going to have to ask fundamental questions when we provide welfare benefits to people who come in. who is going to be the recipient thieves benefits and who is not. that's a fair question to ask. the second thing has to do with trade and whether or not we'll continue tong of trade as a universal good. that is not just president trump. those are very serious questions that were not addressed by either political party up until this election and really need to be rethought, regardless of who is talking about a specific agree

. >> we present the united states senator john f. kennedy's story. ♪ >> this is washington, d.c. -- official capital of the united states, unofficial capital of the free world, or the people of massachusetts visit today with senator and mrs. john f. kennedy. in this historic building, each senate and democratic battle which is its climates -- reaches its climax. the senate office building -- a handsome, white marble structure just across historic constitution avenue from the capital. here, most committees, all senators, and the vice president of the united states maintain their actual working headquarters. it is here that scores of massachusetts visitors and hundreds of massachusetts letters, telegrams, and telephone calls are received each day. john delaney about the activity. she is talking to the senator's administrative assistant. pardon me, joan. >> won't you come in? >> how many visitors do you have? >> between 50 and 100 a day. sometimes for the senate, other times for his assistance. >> what about with all the mail? >> we rec

the two similarly situated classes here are unmarried united states citizen fathers and unmarried united states citizen mothers and it could be that congress had good reasons for treating nonmarital children more leniently at least in the case of mothers than marital children because historically non-marital children were a much more vulnerable class. they were the illegitimate and they didn't have the same kind of rights and until 1940, in fact, they didn't have a statutory right to citizenship. so there could be logical reasons. >> and you think that was congress's intent in 1952. >> i think in 1940 -- >> in 1940 you think that was congress' intent? >> i think in 1940 when congress passed the statute it was concerned about non-marital children being separated at the borders from their guardian parents. the problem is that congress assumed to administrative officials that draft this statute assumed that the guardian parent was always going to be the mother. >> you can conceive the possibility of the members of congress in 1940 or 1952 taking the floor and arguing we need to discriminate

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they think everything will change when they can threaten the united states, continental united states with an icbm with a nuclear warhead. i note here that some in the u.s. defense community would agree. they think u.s. vulnerability to a new third country with nuclear weapons will alter our relationship in fundamental ways. i don't. they do. i believe the u.s. deterrent will remain credible vis-a-vis the dprk, just as it has been vis-a-vis russia and china. i believe that the u.s. extended deterrent to its allies in northeast asia, seoul, tokyo, will remain credible just as our extended deterrent in nato has remained credible vis-a-vis russia and before that, the soviet union. but here comes the interesting part. but what will change is the dprk's vulnerability. ladies and gentlemen, even those of us who are opposed to preventive war would support, indeed insist on a preemptive strike, a preemptive strike, if we judged a north korean strike against the rok, japan, or the united states as being imminent. do you see what i'm saying here? preventive war? no. preemptive strike, yes. and

i came to the united states from guatemala to go to graduate school at penn state. go to graduate school because i thought if i got a graduate degree, i could provide a better life for my six-month-old son. maybe get a better job back in guatemala, or a job here in the united states. i got a job here. my son and i are now proud american citizens. he went back to school. two weeks ago. he has had three different kids in his middles josÉ go back to say go-- middle school back to mexico, or i can't wait to build a wall to keep people like you out. i was urging people to register to vote. a little girl said your mom must win. shi said i agree. but why do you think she must win? she was eight years old. she said two reasons. one, it is time for a girl. i said i agree. it is time for a girl. she said something that broke my heart. she also has to win because the boys in my school say if donald trump wins my dad is going to have to go back into the closet, and there are monsters there. i said there are monsters there and we are not going to let that happen. that is not rhe

this vote for the fighting sailor that wears the scars of battle, the next vice president of the united stateshn kennedy of massachusetts. [applause] >> does the state of tennessee desire recognition? >> mr. chairman -- >> tennessee. >> >> tennessee respectfully requests the opportunity for candidate albert gore to make the brief announcement. mr. chairman, with thanks to this great, free democratic convention, i request my name be withdrawn in favor of mr. kefauver. >> mr. chairman. florida now casts 17.5 sunshine votes for kefauver, -- for senator kennedy. >> senator john kennedy of massachusetts. >> ladies and gentlemen of this convention, i want to take this opportunity first to express my appreciation to democrats from all parts of the country, north and south, east and west, who have been so generous and kind to me this afternoon. i think that it proves, as nothing else could prove, what a strong and united party the democratic party is. [applause] >> secondly, i think what has happened today bears out the good judgment of governor stevenson in deciding this issue should be taken to the

not the least of which the new president-elect of the united states, donald trump.nd they both have their own words to say about that. the president calling this political period of time a bumpy phase that america is going through. and then you just heard him if you just tuned in to "outnumbered," you're hearing him call for a unified voice around the world, saying that without that we will have a meaner, harsher world. and then he looked at angela merkel who's getting ready to run for her first term as chancellor and said he wished that he would be here to help her out, but he believes she's pretty tough and handle stuff. let's start the show. i'm harris faulkner, here today, sandra smith, megyn mccain, julie roginsky and today's #oneluckyguy, you know him from the host of waters' world, jesse waters. what was all that? >> you know what i do. this is my world. don't act like you haven't seen it, harris. harris: oh. no, i like to feign it. [laughter] >> ouch. harris: you had some definite thoughts about just the context of this and what you noticed. >> well, under o

citizens, then a child born outside the united states would be a citizen of the united states as long as one of the parents had resided in the united states for any period of time. there has to absufficient connection to the united states given both parents were citizens. on the other hand if one parent were a u.s. citizen and one parent an alien congress had a markedly different approach. the u.s. citizen parent had to have resided in the united states 10 years five of which were after the age of reaching 14. congress evidently determined that because such a child would have competing claims of allegiance that a greater residency was required for the parent to establish the connection to the united states. >> is that an argument we heard case?bout in the flores mr. kneedler: it was made at the oral argument but we think it is also evident from the face of the statute as this court said with respect to another argument that the court addressed there, it is important for the court, itself, to look at the structure, text, and operation f the statute. >> the government spent most of the

in international forum, in g-20s, in g-7s, in the united states -- united nations, united states and germany are not always perfectly aligned, united states and europe are not always perfectly aligned, but the voice that speaks out on behalf of some dissident who is jailed halfway around the world, the voice who is expressing concern about some child in an afternoon village who doesn't have clean drinking water or is subject to some terrible disease, the voice that insist on rules and norms governing international affairs the voice that helps to steer the world away from war wherever possible, that's our voice. for often than not. and we're not always successful. but if that voice is absent or if that voice is divided, we will be living in a meaner, harsher, more troubled world. and we have to remember that. whoever is the u.s. president, whoever is the chancellor of germany, whoever is the leader of other european nations and other democracies around the world, they need to recognize that. there are going to be forces that argue for cynicism, for looking the other way with somebody

set up is that it is in the constitution that the electoral college selects the president of the united states. however, it's also in the constitution how the electors are allocated to the states. but how the states pick the electors is statute law. that's not set by the constitution, that is set by the individual states themselves. so now what we is this winner take alt system, 48 of the state. you would see trump would get 50% and clinton would get 50%. what we have in 48 of the 50 states is whoever gets one more vote than all of the candidates gets all of the electors. what we were talking about last weekend is a plan that try to change the way that states allocate their electors and the idea would be to change the rules so that states would change their electors not to the person who got the most votes in their state but to the candidate that got the most votes nationally. the states have the power to do that. in fact, there are 11 tastes that have passed laws to do exactly this, conditioned on the fact that enough other states passing the laws that would allow some total of the staights t

is aal russ had distinguished military fellow in one of the united states most -- and one of the united states must distinguish officers. the recipient of numerous foreign awards. introducing numerous technological innovations. commandsix operational working closely with allies in the pacific, europe and the middle east. person regarding the role of alliances and the american military. after his remarks we will briefly reconfigure the podium and a panel of experts is going to drill down into alliance dynamics in more detail. for now i would like to invite admiral roughead. [applause] admiral roughead: well, thank you, andrew. thanks to csis for the opportunity to share some alliances in american leadership. i particularly look forward to the american panelist point of view as i think it will be a great discussion. my interest in this topic is not simply because of recent campaign rhetoric that has raised questions regarding the relevance and efficacy of our alliance relationships, nor is it about all of the speculations in his new administration is it -- form. take full like so many her

it will be called the globe of the united states, the territorial expansion of the united states. it is very useful in mapping that. and it shows that east, west, geographic growth. and it shows the different nations involved. the unchese acquires the united states and quee and then it acquires the louisiana purchase from france and florida from pain and it aquires an agreement through great britain and acquires the southwest. there are a lot of nations mentioned in that. and not once, native american nation. map. single nation on our when our students look at it, is the growth of the nation happens .n the absence of many people it makes sense we look at this map and says everything falls into step lock step. we knew this was going to happen. and whether we are teaching our students and we are not blinded by hindsight. we know how the story ended. and so, given the massive jug naut, yeah, indians don't think about much of it because they are part of the expansion. 17950, john adams said in his diary, george washington, president washington, has dinner one week on four different oc

the president-elect of the united states and the president of the united states.he oval office. you see that marine guard outside the west wing. the president is in the wet wing. whenever you see that marine guard there, you know the president is somewhere in the west wing. we now know he is in the oval office with the president-elect of the united states. they're getting ready to meet with reporters. camera crews will come in. momentarily, we'll get the first statements. the first images from the president-elect and the president. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ is it a force of nature? or a sales event? the season of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. (bing) >>> welcome back. a few minutes away from the first images of the president-elect of the united states, donald trump, being sketched in the oval office by the president of it is united states, barack obama. they've been meeting almost an hour since donald trump and his entourage arrived at the white house. melania trum

here in the united states. and the second thing i thought we might address in our brief time together, was what was really going on between the two men in what david reynolds, professor david reynolds, who is head of came bridge university in england, has called the missing weeks of october 1943. when the grand alliance came dangerously close to breaking apart and could only be rescued by its great lied leaders at th summit. now, about the nature of the fdr/churchill relationship, very briefly, there are two wonderful books about that relationship, really. the first is a book by john meachem, pub listed in 2993, and sir martin gilbert's book "churchill in america" published in 2005. i new sir martin bill gert. admired him greatly. he last saw each other actually in high court. attending the great holocaust trooifl of david irving. i think we should probably use as our load star in understanding and appreciating the friendship and the relationship of fdr and churchill. using using one of the sentences in marltin

run by the united states mafia. all those casinos, all that lively dance footage we see of cuba, that was all run by the mafia. the united states mafia. and castro cleaned that out. and not only did he do that, he's revered in his country, in cuba, for changing the class system. there was a huge class system in cuba up until then. and the peasant class didn't know how to read or write. most of the people in cuba didn't know how to read and write in 1960. and in fact, they didn't have medical care of any kind. and they didn't have electricity outside of havana. spent money on those things. they have a very good education system. they have a very good medical system. and they have electricity all over the island. do they have all the freedoms that the united states has? they do not and the people there want those freedoms. and that's why many of them will be happy to see castro gone right now. but it will not change his place in history. >> i mentioned a lot of people will be celebrating that news without question. we

he stood up to the united states.came the david versus goliath, withstood all of the efforts to kill him, overthrow him, and that is what he will go down in history for in many ways. cuba is in a very difficult situation today. in extraordinary transition in terms of the cuban leadership and in terms of the leadership of the united states. it is not clear where the relationship between washington and havana is going to go under .onald trump in that respect, the death of fidel now comes at an extremely delicate moment. but the world is going, i think, to remember fidel as someone who really stood for independence and sovereignty and brought a great pride in nationalism to the cuban people. bill fletcher, your immediate response when you heard that fidel castro had died? i mean, he was no longer the actual president. he had handed over power in 2006 to his younger brother raul, then formally ceded that power in 2008. much of what -- as what peter just said, we lost an audacious leader, an outspoken champion of national

the united states and russia have long experienced going back to a time of the united states and soviet union with nuclear weapons and with deterrents. but we know mistakes are still possible between us. the question here that i'm posing is what does the dprk think nuclear weapons are good for? besides deterring an enemy attacking them with nuclear weapons? or to put it differently, when is the threat of the first use of nuclear weapons by a state credible, particularly when that state is dealing with another nuclear weapon state? what good are nuclear weapons to the dprk is the question? my answer is that they are only relevant, they're only useful when national survival is at risk. they are certainly not useful for small gains. they are not credible. they are not useful to protect them against a retaliation for incident dense at the dmz or at sea. but as it turns out, my answer really isn't that important. kim is jong un's answer is important. and i expect he may expect more of his nuclear weapons capability than good appreciation for a deterrence would warrant. fourth question, does

some american fifth-graders in the united states spent as much time studying the universal declaration of human rights as they do mark twain's tom sawyer as they prepare for various state examinations. the simple act of buying coffee or a piece of fish are now often mediated through human rights concerns with fair trade and with slavers. importantly, however, the american vision of human rights 1970's looked outward rather than inward. human rights abuses happened, for americans, some place outside the united states with very few exceptions -- the gay rights movement and indigenous rights movements are two -- human rights did not become the been forr as they have the u.s. civil rights movement in the 1940's. again as i discussed in my book, , when the naacp went to court on a variety of human rights issues, u.n. protected global human rights along with u.s. -- human rights norms along with u.s. constitutional protections of rights were part of the arguments they made to judges and courts. the 1970's, or for that matter today, in most of the american contemporary social movements whethe

t gave the united states a slightly larger navy, it gave the united states a reserve officers training corps program united states a whole lot of parades. essentialhlighted the american problem. knowing that needed to be disagreeing about how to do that. it also highlighted the ineffectiveness of government and this is really what theodore roosevelt what eneral leonard wood and others are saying, if the government is incapable of preparing us, then private industry and private will do it. of course, as theodore roosevelt had done in 1898. how, in other words, can we be neutral and safe at the same time? as i said, little of that fear, little of that suspicion translated to german americans. the vast majority of them, at least since the american civil were disproportionately catholic. that is, a lot of those same german americans have come from specifically to get away from the depression system. german americans were quite proud of it, the single most assimilated group in the united immigrants and ours,"ic of this, "one of won the pulitzer certificate prize in 1920. who gives up on pla

united states. do not see that u.s. personnel will and appear in the hague, but this report serves as a document which names and shames governments and also publicizes the alleged crimes. i think the prosecutor really stresses here, the u.s. government to act upon itself, to investigate cases, and to bring to trial people who were probably responsible for these cases. it is a court of last resort, and they are trying to engage with the u.s. in order for them to start prosecutions themselves. molly: world leaders have gathered in marrakesh to push ahead on implementing the historic paris agreement with fighting global warming. the host country wanted to be a success for president elect casting a shadow over the proceedings. catherine viette tells us why. heherine: will he or won't honor the paris agreement? that is the question being asked at the conference underway in marrakesh. on the campaign trail, donald trump famously called global warming a hoax and repeatedly threatened to cancel the paris de

state senate. and joining us in washington, d.c. two guests, roseann demoro, , executive director of national nurses united and the california nurses iation/national nurses organizing committee and california state senate. larry cohen who served as a senior adviser to bernie sanders and is now the board chair of our revolution. larry cohen is the former president of communication workers of america. let's begin with you. we heard what senator sanders had to say, first calling for --ald trump to immediately to immediately make sure that steve bannon no longer works for him. your thoughts? >> well, you know, we use steve bannon literally as an enemy of the people, a divider of the nation, person who protects hate instead of the unity that donald trump has even talked about. i would start there, but i would also say our revolution board met face-to-face for two days earlier this week and the number one thing to come out of that is we will resist any attacks on immigrants that are here for any hate crimes, and we will stand together. we will not let donald trump's silo us up, come for us one at a time, unions, and then lgbt and then imm

that -- and i quote -- "no title of nobility shall be granted by the united states and no person holding any office of trust under them shall without the consent of congress accept of any president emolument title whatever from any king, prince of any state." the president of the united states has the head of the skiver branc -- executive brancf government clearly operates an office of trust. the emolument clause clearly applies to and constrains whom ever holds the office of the prey presidency. for those who claim to value a strict interpretation of the constitution and to place upholding the constitution above partisan plirks the unambiguous reading is clear an evident. put system plirks the american public has a right to know that the president of the united states is acting in their best interest and not because he or she has received some benefit or gift from a foreign government like russia or china -- or any foreign entity. they need to know that the president of the united states is making decisions about potential trade agreements, sending troops into war, or where we spend ame

the united states protests, right? and so this is something that the consequences -- as this thing is becoming a war of attrition, you've lost your chance for annihilation, is it becoming a war of attrition? the last thing you think you'd want to do is involve an asian with the industrial capacity of the united states, although nothing like what it would be in world war ii but you still don't need any more enemies. campaign of 1916, the united states is going to get upset again and so he's supposed to play by the rules as per discussion and so this isn't really going to go anywhere either. all right. so what are the consequences for -- and why dot germans, if you can remember back to history 100, why are the germans going to change their minds in 1917? what's the big deal? what's going on by the time you get to 1917? >> there's starvation in germany. it's breaking the supply lines that need to be reopened to some degree, they need to regain access to this sea. >> if you're the germans, you're probably suffering more th

it's 60% of the people that are in the united states undocumented have overstayed their visas. exactly what happened to melania trump. so again, it's this case after case of irony of when it comes to the trump campaign. the national enquirer -- excuse me, the "wall street journal" just broke as i was about to sit down that he -- it looks like he actually had an affair with someone during his marriage with melania trump, but the national enquirer basically bought the rights to tell that story of that affair. so it's not just this idea of this hypocrisy of who he is but again, being an undocumented worker, he's constantly trying to accuse hillary clinton of having an unseemly relationship with her husband but he does the same thing but he threatens and pays people off not to come forward. >> i want to get your reaction to what caldwell and the associated press is reported tonight about melania trump's first work in the united states which apparently was done, according to the a.p., without the proper visa. >> look, if she was here on a visitor visa without the authorization to wo

but rise of the united states. by 19 money, the united states had the largest economy in the world. but the consequences of that weren't fully appreciated until by the end of world war i as american's role as military power and diplomatic power were understood and acknowledged. he was our president during that entire time who really brought that change in america's role on to before. wilson was a remarkable person to execute this activity, to execute this change. he was a deeply religious person, all of us had war, wilson has a religious man felt we had a duty to do better than to collapse into war every generation. he was a political scientist, founder of the discipline of thought, one of the first presidents of the american political science association. and so he thought that we could do better. he believed that he could govern ourselves better as a world. and the combination of those two firmly held principles in his mind and as world war i progressed there ought to be a better solution that we result, not only this war, but the wars of the future and even prevent wars in the fu

run by the united states mafia. all those casinos, all that lively dance footage we see of cuba, that was all run by the mafia. the united states mafia. and castro came cleaned that out. and not only did he do that, he's revered in his country, in cuba, for changing the class system. there was a huge class system in cuba up until then. and the peasant class didn't know how to read or write. most of the people in cuba didn't know how to read and write in 1960. and in fact, they didn't have medical care of any kind. and they didn't have electricity outside of havana.

some american fifth-graders in the united states spent as much time studying the universal declaration of human rights as they do mark twain's tom sawyer as they prepare for various state examinations. the simple act of buying coffee or fish are now often mediated through human rights concerns for fair trade. importantly, however, the american vision of human rights in the next 70's looked outward rather than inward. human rights abuses happened, for americans, in a place outside the united states with very few exceptions -- the gay rights movement and the indigenous rights movements to name two. as i discussed in my book, when the naacp went to court on a variety of human rights issues, u.n. protected global human rights along with u.s. constitutional protection of rights were a part of the arguments they made in court. and most of the american contemporary social movements, whether you look at the occupied protests or black lives matter, the central driving optic of structural arguments about universaland not guarantees of global human rights. that too seems to me is a legacy of the

it gave the united states and navy and it gave the united states a lot of parades. but it highlighted the central american problem. knowing that we needed to be prepared but disagreeing about how to do it. it also highlighted the essential ineffectiveness of government, and this is really what theater roosevelt, what general leonard wood, and others are saying. if the government is incompatible in preparing us, then others. how, in other words, can we be neutral and safe at the same time? now, as i said, a little of that fear, a little of that suspicion, translated to german-americans, the vast majority of them, at least since the civil war, were non-prussian and disproportionately catholic. a lot of those same americans came from germany, specifically to get away from the prussian system. german-americans were also and quite proud of the single most assimilated group in the united states among immigrants, and then the pulitzer prize in 1920. it depicted the wheeler family living in the press, whose son gives up plans to study in germany because of how were plus he

well, look at the -- seems in your words to come from the united states. look at the european parliament. we -- there are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions. who are sort of preaching policies of -- well, very unfriendly policies. we have them here in europe too. we have them here in germany too. and to take up where the president left off, digitization is a disruptive force, a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change, transformation of a society. look at the history of the printing press, when this was invented what sort of consequences this had or industrialization, what sort of consequences that had. very often it led to enormous transformational processes within individual societies. it took a while until societies learned how to find the right kind of policies to contain this and to manage and steer this. and i think we live in a period of profound transformation. very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies. now, when we, for example, see shifts of huge p

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isis is a creature of the united states. the united states, turkey, saudi arabia are supporting isis. he is holding the line against isis. charlie: what his is argument isis a creation of the united states and saudi arabia? dexter: this is a story they tell themselves. you have the united states, saudi arabia, turkey -- it is true they have been supported rebel groups who are fighting assad. the united states is not supporting isis. american soldiers are dying. charlie: the al-nusra group? dexter: maybe not primarily, but there are so many groups fighting syria. you have al-nusra, the al qaeda affiliate. charlie: we support supporting them. dexter: we don't support al-nusra, but a lot of the money and arms that have been pumped into syria has gone to them. assad ands president the syrian government to say look, the united states and all of their allies are supporting the evil isis. charlie: they say that because you are fighting me and therefore supporting them because my enemy is them. dexter: basically. charlie: it is real

we saw it as part of the vote here in the united states. it is now a major issue in the french elections. so it is really becoming a very critical issue as to whether nations are going to look inward. you can look inward but you are still going to have the refugees. refugees are in danger of their life. that's the reason they become refugees. that's why people are leaving syria and risking things like traveling over dangerous waters and hostile communities. they do that because they have no choice by the millions. >> with the civil war continuing in syria, those numbers are going to continue. the impact on europe has been dramatic. i understand that. the impact on the united states has been minuscule, if at all. so, yes, as i said earlier, the united states is the leader of the free world. o we believe in human rights. we believe that people should be able to live and raise their family without fear of their children being kidnapped as soldiers or killed and that women have the right to go to school and be educated in advance. that's what w

this would order them to vote according to the vote for the person who got to most votes in the united statesat's correct lawrence. how many states adopted this so far? >> these laws will go into effect when states are 105 more pass the same law. we hope it will happen in time for the 2020 election. >> so one of the beauties is you do not need all 50 states or even necessarily a majority of states to approve this. you just need enough to get to 270 electoral votes. >> that's correct. it would be a combination of states that would get -- have 270 electoral votes which in practice would be a majority of the states. >> yeah. let's listen to what elizabeth warren said today about this. >> i want to be clear. i think hillary clinton ran on very much the same argument i just think donald trump made it aggressively. and do remember at the end of the day hillary clinton actually got more americans to vote for her than donald trump did. >> that is what needs to be remembered. hillary clinton got more votes. john, the world looks at us and cannot fathom what is this electoral college and how does the p

here in the united states, the president of the united states, barack obama, struck a neutral tone.rt of his statement. at this time at fidel castro's passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the cuban people. we know this people fills cubans in cuba and the people in the united states recalling the countless ways in which fidel castro altered the course of individual lives, families and of the cuban nation. much more terse response coming from the president-elect donald trump who has openly opposed restoring ties with cuba. he called him a brutal dictator saying that while cuba remains a toe tal arian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long and toward a future in which the wonderful cuban -- ted cruz has ties to cuba and he said fidel castro's death cannot bring back his thousands of victims shall nor can it bring comfort to their families. today we remember them and honor the brave souls who fought the lonely fight against a brutal communist dictatorship he imposed on cuba. >>> the political response frp russia in stark contrast t

meaning the united states had a lucky location. because of that someday, maybe someday soon it would become a great nation. it was very important it keeps self remote from all of these european royals. i think of adams as someone who needs these principles with the doctrine. he was a senator in the early 19th century. he was a supporter of the louisiana purchase at a time when virtually everyone else saw a rightly that it would dilute the power of new england. it was this incredible gift that america had received that would allow it to fill its destiny as a continental nation. when he was secretary of state 12 years later he drove a ruthless bargain. a line across the pacific. it was a hypothetical thing. he thought it was the greatest achievement of his life in america had made its connection to the pacific ocean. if you think of his time as president, very ambitious domestic agenda of a government driven expansionary policy. on the one side of adopting policies that drive america and would achieve greatness. we can talk later abo

in one of the great defensive stands in the history of the united states army, the united states army holds off all korean attacks and holds the perimeter august 1, 1950. in a couple cases, they are down to their last reserves. absolutely incredible stand. macarthur haslas troops in japan trying to figure out what to do. he can lead them in, but he is planning on a counterstrike. he has to advance just a little bit to seoul, cut the north korean supply line, and he has a good chance of destroying the north korean army. the problem is they have some of the highest tides in the world and can only be landed on a couple days a month. the next day is on september 15. joint chiefs of staff in washington are convinced this is not a good idea. mcarthur says they would not expect it. it is a crazy place to land. that means it is a great idea. the first marine division land here september 15, 1950. they retake seoul two weeks later and destroy the bulk of the north korean army right here. they are pushed back to the 48th parallel by october 1. at this point, the un security council has a new re

state of california. ultimately, it is the congress, the senate, as well as the house, and the president of the united s states do with his issue and it with the conference of immigration reform package that will allow these individuals to finally be legalized and allow them to really be part of the social fabric of who we are as a nation. amy: i want to bring in tindouf -- bring in roseann demoro. you tweeted this summary from bernie sanders' speech last night -- "the american people believe in progressive policies. we need to reform the democratic party." what kinds of reforms do you believe he is calling for? he is talking about making demands. talked about bill kristol, republican spoiler, renegade jew. all of these comments as steve bannon, but also talked about how to work. those are headlines from he hadrt news, which we had it. your thoughts, roseann demoro? >> thank you for having us on. before i answered your question, i want to thank you for your courage. the hearts andon minds of this nation. the nation is an entirely different place and people like to pretend. this is -- where this nation is, peop

during his reign, thousands of cubans fled for the united states. health problems forced him to resign the presidency in 2008. he named his brother raul as his successor back then. raul has been running the country for ten years. as our correspondent was telling us, it's been a fairly smooth transition because fidel castro wasn't running the country anymore. >> right. cnn has team coverage this hour. we have our dedicated correspondent to cuba following fidel castro's death, patrick op man is live this hour. elise abbott is following the reaction in washington. our foreign affairs correspondent. bring in a columnist with the "miami herald" joining us now on the found. armando, i want to point out armando is a columnist and a critic of castro. i want to get your reaction from miami at this breaking news we are following. >> well, as i said earlier on twitter, i am shedding tears tonight, but they are tears of joy. hell has a special place for fidel castro and there's one less vacancy in hell tonight. >> armando salguerro on the line with us. let's ta

the united states is a revolutionary power, not a status will power. it has been revolutionizing the world. republicanism is not to be pragmatic in the context of the world as it existed. the republicanism is a good description of adams' since of himself, when he looked at the republicanizing mission of the french revolution, he saw nothing but harbor and disruption. americans who thought their own republicanism was reflected in the french revolution, adams had a reaction that was -- >> that's not really a republican revolution for adams. james: the french were looking -- proclaiming everywhere they went, they were creating republics, and adams thought that was madness. >> i always thought john quincy adams ran a couple of the nastiest political campaigns in our history, and how can you call him a moralist when he reminds me very much of what's going on right now? defend do you want to adams' political campaign? james: ok. i would say you are half right. thing which isa brutal and ugly, you are morally responsible or it. it is still different from rich