but they should not have been surprised that japan would attack the united states. in november 1941, only a few weeks before pearl harbor, joseph grew sent to telegrams, the secretary of state, warning him that japan was prepared to launch a suicidal war against the united states, and that armed conflict could come with a dangerous and dramatic suddenness. so who was joseph grew and how did he know that? in november 1941, joseph grew was 61, tall, lean, which eyebrows, a full mustache. he had been an american diplomat for almost 40 years and yet been america's ambassador to japan -- should i be using this one? can you hear me better now? no. okay, some clad i recognize i was using the wrong microphone. in any event, joseph grew had been an american diplomat for almost 40 years. he had been america's ambassador to japan for almost ten years. there are four factors that led him to send those telegrams to secretary of state cordell hull in november 1941. the first factor was a japanese economy. the united states had imposed economic sanctions on japan in an effort to cu

the reason the united states is assuming these obligations, at the end of world war ii, united states and solved japan to move the entire world forward after the conclusion of the war and they happened to absolve them of their obligation to make whole the war crimes of the people who suffered because they were inhabiting the united states territory of guam. the people suffered beheadings, forced marches, rapes and lost of incomes and their arms. and it has taken us now 76 years to finally come to this point. and i say this is historic, mr. speaker, because it in a large respect represents an original sin in terms of the inability for us to reconcile our territorial relationships in a manner that really makes for plain and simple justice. and i'm deeply moved, mr. speaker, to handle these proceedings today and to be able see 131365 come before this house once more because as we all know in this current political environment, any hurdle that legislation faces is a hurdle too much. and so as we have gone through this process and gotten to this point, there were many times i was deeply co

you do testified that it's easy to get a firearm in the united states right now. even when you have this prohibition, how are you going to be working with state and local authorities to actually enforce it? that's my first question. the second part is, even legal purchases, you mentioned person to person, but under our background check laws, roughly 40% of weapons are sold without any kind of background check if you do it online or the gun show. so how are you going to deal with those challenges? >> thank you, senator peters. we are coming out of from a couple of angles. working with the atf, working within the enterprise that forms the system. there are pathways for us to create learning functions within certain populations. we are exploring that. but as you already mentioned, it is not going to stop everything. within our own department, we have put in place additional programs and procedures going down at the installation level with our insider threat programs, training and educating the full student population on things that would be indicators of nefarious or

problem for the united states and as. told to the audience in my alma mater the university is russia will become part of balancing coalition so i don't understand why the united states is somehow. both china and russia but in my opinion it might cause slightly different effect same as with sanctions on russia for the ukrainian crisis which was according to john. very famous a realistic thinker course on the side of the. on the west not on. i mean you could also throw in these a antagonizing russia and china but mark antagonizing europe is well ok that's that's my point right here here here and this is in this is why i'm doing this program because i think the transatlantic experience is being seriously 10. here because i would make the argument at least 100 trump they are more interested in trade there are interested in europe's energy policy and oh ok you have to buy all these arms because you know they're they're important to american politics but they don't see it as a security threat this is this is a gambit for resour

the united states is now the most powerful economic state in the world. it has global interests. it is not weak and under-developed. it is a continental nation with global interests. and technology has made the world smaller. the old tradition made sense when the united states had the two greatest natural defenses in the world, the atlantic and the pacific oceans. that was our protection. but that protection is not what it used to be. military technology is changed. air power in particular allows countries to project their military power in a way that has never been true before. the world is, for all intents and purposes, smaller than it used to be. we are in greater danger from a foreign power than we ever were in the past. the world has changed. the anti-interventionists argue, well, in that case, we need better hemispheric defenses. that is what we need then. that only reinforces the idea is what we need is fortress america. we need to build up our hemispheric defenses. become so strong that no one will dare attack us. and that means every bit of military hardware we produce n

, is really powerful, it really centers the united states or the idea of the united states as being a welcoming haven for people who are exiles. unfortunately the history of the united states tells a somewhat different, more complicated story. the truth is we haven't always had a humanitarian impulse to welcome refugees. usually we've only done so when it's in our humanitarian national interest. usually we've been more inclined to actually reject refugees than to accept them. and to borrow the words of historian eric tang, often refugees who have been accepted for resettlement here are not only resettled but are also deeply unsettled by the experience of forced migration and resettlement in the united states. to give you an overview of what i'll talk about today, i'll give you a little bit of background about american refugee resettlement policy after the second war. and then i'm going to use that background to set up why the 1970s were such an important period of change. that's when a small group of ugandan refugees arrived in the united states and they were followed by an even lar

now, you -- you do testify that it's very easy to get a firearm in the united states right now. and even when you have this prohibition, you know, how are you going to be working with state and local authorities to, actually, enforce it? my first question. the second part is that even legal purchases -- you mentioned person to person but under our background check laws, i think roughly 40% of weapons are sold without any kind of background check. if you do it online or if you go to gun shows. so how are you going to deal with those challenges? >> thank you, senator peters. so we're coming at it from a couple of angles on the -- again, working with atf and working within the enterprise that forms the national crime system, there are pathways for us to create alerting functions within there for certain populations. we're exploring that with atf. but as you already mentioned, it's not going to stop everything. within our own department, we have put in place, additional programs and procedures going down at the installation level with our insider-threat programs and training and educ

[applause] president trump promised the united states would ensure that israel will always have the resources and tools she needed to defend herself by herself and today i am proud to report that american support for the security of the state of israel is greater than ever before and the state of israel is a stronger than ever before in its history. [applause] president trump has also taken one action after another, evidence our support for israel paid this president promised to shut down the office in washington if the palestinian authority did not take immediate steps to stop funding terrorists who murder innocent israeli civilians and when the plo did not act president trump shut it down. the plo office in washington is closed and today the taylor force act is the law of the land. [applause] this president also promised that america would no longer allow the united nations to be a forum for invective against israel. [applause] and this president delivered when he withdrew the united states from the so-called human rights council at the un and ended all u.s. contributions to andra. [cheerin

throughout the united states. westinghouse broadcasting in pittsburgh teamed up with the american medical association, the u.s. public health service, and the university of pittsburgh to produce "the silent invader." the film is from the u.s. national library of medicine's digital collections. carl: in the public interest, the westinghouse broadcasting company and the university of pittsburgh, one of the nation's major health centers, in cooperation with the american medical society and the united states public health service bring you "the silent invader," an up-to-the-minute report on asian influenza. how do you do? i'm carl ives. throughout history, mankind has been forced to wage many battles in order to protect his family or nation against misfortune, disaster, or even possible extinction. while sometimes these wars have been well, they've catastrophic. there was the catastrophe of 1918, when an influenza epidemic swept through our own nation as well as the entire world. unlike the battles of nation against n

they were resettled in the united states, and also the united kingdom and elsewhere. beginning in 1972. these ugandan asian refugees marked a turning point, and that they were quite different from their refugee predecessors. there are religiously diverse, identifying as muslim, also hindus, seek and christian. one big question worth asking, how did it go? all refugee later was a history professor, also wrote a report on the brown diaspora. you notice differences where a cause of anxiety. he noted that some problems did arise, for example, a strictly vegetarian rahm and, was given a work and up poultry processing plant, which did not go so well. point out to produced significant psychological and emotional strain, and though he praised the good intentions of the sponsors, and voluntary agencies, they said they had to be a better understanding of the needs of refugees. overall though, he said that you and asian refugees had a positive experience. i mention uganda in asian refugees, because they really set the stage, for a larger refugee population. that arrived in the 1

since the year 2000, over 1 million international military students, have been trained in the united states. we trained more than 28000 saudi students over the life of our security cooperation relationships. it is worth noting, the close to 4000 heads of state, ministers of defense, she said defense, and other general officers, received training by the united states. this delivers a lasting strategic return on our security cooperation investments. recently, arun secretary of defense discussed his personal experience training alongside foreign partners. he did in west point with students from other countries, trained at the military academy, and train alongside an officer from the african continent while he was on active duty. these experiences have shaped his strong support for foreign military and education programs, and for the department's response to the incident in pensacola. international military students can receive training and education and the united states, under a variety of programs. the department of defense and the department of state, both have authorities and appropriation

state. they were forming the united nations. they were dealing with a lot of other issues that required the secretary of state to travel to different places. when they were outside of washington he became the acting secretary of state. in the great irony as. that he was the acting secretary of state when the bombs were dropped. and then he retired and august 15, 1945. shortly after the last bomb was dropped. in those days 65 was considered old. today it's middle age. he was 65 years old and so he retired and he commanded the respect of a lot of people which goes back to the story and mentioned about the retirement party for general george c marshall. because of his stature. synecdoche. >> he was a pow. was this changed at all after they did the bombing of tokyo. did they have any connection with some of the prisoners. >> the short answer is i don't know if he have any communication but they were held more or less incommunicado in the u.s. embassy. it was a very nice embassy. they had two buildings. a lot of people that worked ins

beds the united states has 100000 intensive care unit beds for people who are sick but if this is going to be a full blown pandemic then there will be a need of double that number and they're just not there let alone testing kits the united states has compared to europe or to korea or japan or other countries not tested significantly at all ok didn't fancy ones in washington thank you for that. and as jeff and just mentioned the n.b.a. has suspended this season due to fears over the coronavirus professional basketball league games in the united states won't stop until further notice the n.b.a. is the 1st major sports competition to face complete suspension over the illness announcement came after a player tested positive for the coronavirus. italy has ordered the closure of all shops apart from food stores and pharmacies bars and restaurants main shut as part of efforts to halt the spread of a corona virus italy has the largest number of infections outside china more than 800 italians have been killed by the disease. a major airport in milan missing its travellers. silence at the heart

in localized outbreaks through the boy scout jamboree, louisiana, and all of the states in the united states. >> i didn't realize that was asian flu that hit our own jamboree in our own state. >> it was. >> not many people have died as the result of asian influenza in the rest of the world -- many do you think the same will hold true in the united states? >> we have the belief now based on the experience of asian influenza in other countries, south america at the present time where it is at epidemic proportions and as a result of the outbreaks in this country so far that it is a mild infection with a very low mortality rate, and we believe it will continue to be both a mild infection and a very low death rate. >> is there the possibility asian flu might turn into a killer? >> that is a possibility, of course, and it has happened in preceding years, in 1888 when we had a large epidemic, and eventually the 1918-19 epidemic when we had a mild influenza epidemic in the spring of 1918 and in the fall, we had a large outbreak of very virulent influenza followed by serious complications and another

it did not belong to the united states.he westernmost city in the united states of any consequence was st. louis, missouri. there were a few towns west of that, but nothing very important. other than st. louis and bits of louisiana, at the very beginning, all the states were east of the mississippi river. susan: what was the population? steve: gaining rapidly. only two or three million at the time of the revolution. by the time of my story it is getting over 20 million. by the time of the civil war just after my story, it is 31 million people. it is seen as almost doubling in a generation. the median age is very low. it is a very young country. very rapidly expanding. lots of immigrants coming from europe, from ireland, and elsewhere. a rapidly changing and evolving country. and a country where distances are shrinking. here's what i mean by that. in 1800 if you were in new york city and you wanted to travel to st. louis, it might take you six weeks to get there if you did not have some disaster on the trip. by the 1840's, i

in the united states we spend 11 percent.ht increases in food prices are rioting and instability in china that's why they did this. the chinese have learned that it was better to buy the coal mine just by the coal. it's better to divide the iron mind then the iron war. they can buy all the pork they want on the commodities market that they chose to buy this company and not only did they get this company they got all of the technology, the handling, genetics, all kinds of very sophisticated technology that this company originally got from the department of agriculture on our tax dollars. which now the chinese habit. the real problem is that the pork is now coming back into the united states with the smithfield label. you have no idea what you are really eating. they are 18 exemptions to the cool law. you go in and want to buy pork, you can't really come you look at the package you might think, packaged in the united states or process to the united states, it ultimately comes from china. i know from testimony that 85 percent of

a very high priority for the united states. as i am a leader in the senate, support for israel will be non negotiable we. but we can only hope to defend israel from these threats so long as we maintain a united front. democrats and republicans together. we all know that the winds in politics are changing. they blow fiercely during the election year like this one. no matter how fiercely the winds way blow we must not let support for israel because up in the maelstrom. the friendship between the two countries must be unshakable. the friendship between and the bonds must be unbreakable. support for the friendship between our countries does not depend which party you belong to. that is plain and simple no matter what we must keep the u.s. israel relationship bipartisan. this is been a mission for me and it must be for you and all the friends of israel. so whenever i have led a piece of pro israel legislation, even when democrats had a majority in the senate, i always make sure i had a republican equal cosponsor. the foundation of a

donald trump promised the united states would ensure the united states would have the resources and toolsort american support for the security of the state of israel is greater than ever before. the state of israel is stronger than ever before in its history. donald trump has taken one action after another, support for israel. this president promised to shutdown the plo office in washington if the palestinian authority did not take steps to stop funding terrorists who murder innocent israeli civilians and when the plo did not act donald trump shut it down. the plo office in washington is closed and today the taylor is the law of the land. [applause] >> this president also promised america would no longer allow the united nations to be a forum for invective against israel. and this president delivered when he withdrew the united states from the so-called human rights council at the un and ended all us contributions. [applause] >> our administration will never tolerate the suppression, persecution or silencing of the jewish people. we have stood up to anti-semitism on the world stage and we

the 21st century has not so far at least worked out particularly well for the united states there's aadox there because we ended the 20th century, the 1990s with america the single global power. the soviet union had been defeated, people talked about a unipolar world unites it seem to dominate all. since 2000 we've had terrorism, disappointing wars in iraq and afghanistan, we had a financial crisis we've had withdrawal. it is not been a great 20 years. what's gone wrong? >> in 1991 for the first time in five years there was a single european global power there's only one global power, the united states. it was the first country the staged a revolution against imperialism, but there was. it did not have the institution managing and it did not manage it. had a world war ii model. they attacked us, we are going to hit them with everything we have. so there is no settled a anything. we have learned a great deal. barack obama and donald trump, although they would not admit it had a similar view and reduce the amounts of action to take increase the amount of action we take. gerry: is that w

i think for example like penicillin it is no longer produced in the united states been outsourced here and i'm not blaming china and i'm blaming american companies for moving their i mean they abandon workers in america for profits ok it's very easy to demonize china in this respect but dummy china wants to get rich like everybody else here so the issue of globalization open borders supply change things like that go ahead scott well i mean it look we live in a reality in a reality based world where globalization is a thing and it's not easily reversed if it can be reversed we you know we've outsourced our entire economic model is dependent upon you know getting components at the cheapest possible price. you know and yes when there is an impact if china shuts down the factories that produce the components we need are producing those components of japan shuts down if it only shuts down if any nation that produces components that are used in the american economy should stay on you know obviously there will be an impact but at the end of the day you know this coronavirus is this isn't

it could say packaged in the united states are processed in the united states but ultimately it comes from china. i know from testimony 85 percent of total off be a - - tilapia is raised in contaminated waters. so we have a problem to know what we are even buying. and the issue should they allow the sale to take place under a law called sify us and ultimately it was determined by congress it was not a national security item. >> so let's turn now the former assistant secretary at us department of commerce and with the international trade administration. before this project we were talking about the administration at the time the wto was created and in geneva and with that wto in fact there were a lot of concerned members. but most of us at that time were quite optimistic particularly about the process of china and in international trade agreement there is a potential risk but potential upside and and five years later what is the upshot of all of that? had that met our expectations? >> first i went to china in 1981. there was a horribly stricken country. it is the century of humiliation

the united states of america. who do we side with, a confederacy that split from the united states, what are the consequences? essentially a better deal. it did not help anything that the united states was not really keeping a lot of its promises during this time period. i don't know if you can imagine that, the united states and the indian tribes, but it happened. the government of the cherokee nation, wanting to remain neutral, was feeling a great deal of pressure from people who said look, the united states is not really living up to its word, and it looks like the seven nurse might have an edge, and the seven nurse are offering us -- and the southerners are offering us so much, in terms of treasure, land, and control, maybe we ought to have a better deal with that. so the folks who lined up with confederacy, they line up with stan wadie. signs any, john ross agreement with the confederacy. in 1861, i am always looking at jack to make sure i have got the date right, but 1861 as i think when he signed it. hesign

that's what we are supposed to have in the united states of america. [applause] mr. steyer: environmental justice. it is an emergency. this is exactly like coronavirus. deal with the facts. it is an emergency. we have to get ahead of it. day one state of emergency, do it through environmental justice. start in the communities like denmark, south carolina, where you can't drink the water without getting sick places where you can't breathe or drink the water getting sick. start in those communities because that's where the energy is and that's where the leadership is. i fought this stuff over a decade. we never lost. why is it that i passed 50% clean energy in this country and nobody else has. we start with environmental justice. we start with black and brown communities who are in the fight and provide the leadership. that's how you get things done in climate. it's a completely different attitude. it's not a top-down attitude but a grassroots bottom-up attitude. we will do it, if you are going to rebuild the country, people have to get paid to do it, that's called work

the first death in the united states. as a man in his 50s in king county in the state of washington. he had underlying medical conditions. as we've seen in china and else where, this virus is typically deadly for people who are older or people who have underlying medical conditions or both. the other county in the same state of washington, a nursing home resident. a woman in her 70s. she's now in the hospital in serious condition. also a health care worker. that worker is in their 40s and in the hospital in satisfactory condition. all of these cases are what's called community spread. none of these people had traveled to china or any coronavirus hot spot. they hadn't known anyone who traveled to china or anywhere else. it's unknown how they contracted the virus. back to you. >>> more now on south korea. home to the most cases outside of mainland china and that figure has risen just hire with a number of confirmed cases surging past 3,700. some of the vigorous efforts to try to stop the spread. soldiers are being mobilized

the united states to be a sovereign state in terms of its need for oil and gas and today as your guest mentioned they are all these companies that are actually in the red and most of them in junk status which is devastating for for for his. promise that he's going to make the united state independent this is against the objection of many people in the united states because he compromises the environment now he compromised the environment and he compromised this company by having a partnership by ways mohammad been summoned all those $500000000000.00 that he had received supposedly as an investment from from from. they have they have been destroyed in this matter miscalculation and the probably the losses for american couple a company could be more than that and probably going to be devastating for a for the u.s. company and they need a lot of time to work them out in the other side maybe the russian will feel some pain but they cannot be actually there that kind of come out winning the competition because all along. president trump who was trying to push europe to buy american shale ga

in a time of public crisis, we have seen the number of deaths in the united states doubled to more than 2,000 and we are looking at modelling that death toll is high as 100,200,000. why the president requires appreciation whether it is towards him or his administration in order for states get what they need. on the point of what these states are talking about and the criticism that the president sees. these are states that talking about not getting enough equipment from the federal government or feeling like they are bidding against other states and they need the federal government to come in and taking control of the supply chain. gretchen whitmer says to mike pence, don't call her. vice president spoke to gretchen the next day and talked to her of delivery of 112,000 of n-95 respiratories that's going to be headed to the united states. there are still so many legitimate concerns that many of these governors have and the president does not appreciate them because he does not appreciate anything that's mildly critical of his performance that reflects poorly on him. >> you did an excelle

beds the united states has 100000 incentive care unit beds for people who are sick but if this is going to be a full blown pandemic then there will be a need of double that number and they're just not there let alone testing kits the united states has compared to europe or to korea or japan or other countries not tested significantly at all ok did you stephan simmons in washington thank you for that. italy has ordered the closure of all shops apart from food stores and pharmacies all bars and restaurants are main shut as part of efforts to halt the spread of the corona virus it only has the largest number of infections outside of china more than 800 italians have been killed by the disease. a major airport in milan missing its travelers. silence at the heart of room as its elisa passes $12000.00 coronavirus cases the government is tightening its restrictions. now we are closing down all commercial activities except for grocery stores pharmacies and drugstores. then if there is no need to run and buy food in supermarkets. we will close shops. pubs and restaurants. other european capitals

open investigation they will be blocked even entering the united states and send. this news came out the state department is aggressively going against them and of course as mushtaq said the united states is not party but afghanistan is party to i.c.c. and the independent human rights commission chairwoman she welcomed the decision and aware that the afghan government is also not fully involved in this ricin investigation or would also say what happens at this very critical moment where we are talking about p.c. conservation negotiation release of prisoners right now like almost 5000 prisoners who have been accused of. killing people. exploiting bombs in afghanistan and i would say even one crimes these are the 5000 people that the taliban asked to be released and then the united states has agreed to the taliban that these 5000 taliban would be released so in such a situation where there's one on one side there's peace negotiation and another side i.c.c. open this investigation i think it's damaging i know for sure we cannot compromise legal means for political mea

outbreaks from iowa to the boy scout jam berry b b jamboree in pennsylvania and throughout the united states. >> i didn't realize that was actually the asian flu that hit that jamboree in our own state. that it was asian flu. >> that's right. >> dr. bernie, not many died from asian influenza in the rest of the world. do you think the same will hold true here in the united states? >> we have the belief now based upon the experience of asian influenza in the other countries, in south america at the present time where it is an epidemic proportions and as a result of the outbreaks in this country so far. that it is a mild infection, and with a very low mortality rate, and we believe it will continue to be both a mild infection and have a very low death rate. >> well, is it a possibility that asian flu might turn into, if i might use the word, a killer? >> well, that is a possibility, of course, and that has happened in preceding years when we have had epidemics. back in 1888 when we had a large epidemic, and then many of us recall the 1989-19 epidemic when we had a mild influenza epidemic in the

we are people from within united states, and people coming to the united states included. it's pretty amazing. there is this optimistic vision of the country, one based on that faith, and that economic economics, he's able to gamble on that expansion, he thinks, it's necessary for the basic order of this country. how presidents did this, it was pretty controversial at the time. i believe this is overstepping presidential authority to be doing this, and jefferson was like whatever. he goes ahead and does this. because he thinks this is so absolutely crucial, given the way he is understanding politics, law and economy here. he is really hoping he's going to secure the nation's political future this way. this is his legacy to all of us. and subsequent law, established settlement of this land on similar terms is set out in the northwest territorial ordinance. although the issue of slavery remains unresolved. out of this louisiana purchase, if you continue to fly over the midwest, you still see all of the blocks of land, and the northwest territorial ordinance. but the louisian

we have to bring a back to the united states. call your member of congress and say this is what we need to do. host: let's take coronavirus out of the discussion. we were are talking about the same drug shortages before the coronavirus hit. the drugs we were talking about previously were drugs like heffron. is there still a shortage right now? are there other drugs out there that there are shortages of immediately and what drugs do you see coming up because of what is going on in china that there may be a shortage of in the future? guest: two days ago, the indian government announced that it is banning the export of 26 products to the world because they cannot get the core components to make them from china from its generic industry. host: anything big we should know about? the ingredient for important antibiotics and other antibiotics. we know that for a fact. we are talking about countries arefrica, europe, asia that affected by this. this is what happens when you have a centralized global supply chain in a single pedigree -- a

united states is there. and syria some of the country are there. and some time there colliding interest between the major powers made the situation even worse and arguably has real other criticism of kurdish groups across the whole spectrum for their different positions what is your position for instance on the assassination by don't trumps forces of customs or a money of the arabian general because as far as i understand it london has never condemned the assassination well we were really concerned about these situations because we want to maintain a good relationship with everyone. and we don't want iraq to become a battlefield for these major powers to settle their differences on iraqi soil so at the beginning when the incident happened we. we try to play a role in the escalating the situation and surprise and condemn these as nation london had their view on that incident and they made the statement on the incident and you should ask the government of britain about this question i reserve the figure thanks so much for having me and i don't know i

united states of course are you considering closing borders of the united states also used canada has not closer to the united states so we're working very closely with canada and. >>but they have not close and they have closed it to the world but they have not closer to the united that are both in the us plan for to say that

this is the united states of america.] [cheering] there is nothing that we fail td to do when we set our minds to it. everybody knows who donald trump is. we choose hope over fear. we americans choose unity over division. we choose science over fiction and truth over lies. so let's take this back now. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. take it back. it's time. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ [cheering] [cheering] [cheering] it comes out to be a campaign in which we have one candidate standing up to the working-class and middle-class we are going to win that election. this is your campaign. a look at efforts to combat global disinformation campaigns and propaganda, particularly from china and russia. the senate foreign relations subcommittee hearing is just under two hours.