the united states could not pretend that the war would not affect america or the united states would not get involved. she wrote a beautiful, lyrical letter i will show you later about this process. and fourth, by the time she came back from the united states, from europe to the united states just before the sinking of lusitania, she determined this war was a war of high principles and high ideals. it was a war of democracy against autocracy. those articles help to make her an even bigger celebrity. she came back to the united states just before the sinking of the lusitania as i noted. that sinking did not lead the united states to want to declare war on germany. a survey done of 1000 american newspapers shortly after the sinking of the lusitania found only six had editorials arguing for american entry. very few americans wanted to go to war. my daughter brought home the history textbook, the textbook said sinking of the lusitania led the united states into world war i. nothing could be further from the truth. the sing sink led americans what do you want to do about this war? what sh

i want totalk about how the united states got involved in the awwar and what the united states did to set the situation genitjennifer talked about. jennifer and i were trained by the same dissertation advisor and look at things from the ground up. that is not saying politicians are necessarily representative of what american is doing. and this is especially the situation with wilson who only won because the republican party split and won the next election by a decision so raiser thin wilson went to bed that night thinking he had lost. what i want to do is talk about the pre-war period. i don't know what any of you learned. but i learned nothing of consequence about this time period in high school, in college, or graduate school. i was taught it sinks and we go into the war two years later. obviously there is something more going on. what i want to do is show what that something more is. i want to do one prelude in response to jennifer's talk which is to say that once the war begins i think there is a very different dynamic going in the united states. some of the things jennifer talked

navy and in the united states marine corps.oday, when the boards and bars are placed on your shoulders, you will become the next link in a chain that stretches back unbroken into the mists of american history. the links before you were forged by heroes from john paul jones, stephen decatur, bull halsey, tim stockdale, and michael murphy. because of them, and through the bravery of all who have called themselves marines and sailors in our nation's history, america's freedom endures to this very day. and we honor all who have gone before you. [applause] but now, it's your turn to assume the watch. and remember, it's not just america that your predecessors protected. think today of what the world owes the united states navy and marine corps. here at the navy marine corps stadium, these stands are emblazoned top to bottom with the names of lands and seas that were consecrated by the sacrifice of american marines. i see bella wood where troops defended western europe. i see the battle of the atlantic, and the many battles of the pac

on the coast region support network across the region under the japan leadership japan and the united states together with also need to ramp up the capacity of the individual states in southeast asia mostly the philippines and vietnam to be constantly challenging and to the of modern town thank you very much. [applause] >> thanks to each of you for the concise and precise observations on the challenges and possibilities for the allies going forward copper co know a few questions for the statement on the stage then open a progressions. first off i appreciated about the two-stage approach of fourth correa because like you i am skeptical we will get much out of it. there was some help on the nsc staff pet that we cannot even expect a new pressure will change kim jong-un calculation he has a nuclear weapon. enacted do more harm than good with the deterrence and the credibility in particular. >> so your comment and others all have the one question i want to ask the panel, you said we have to be prepared to create a nuclear program then you mentioned post regional support and then to share that re

what it shows is that the united states is very, very good at imposing sanctions. lifting sanctions, however, is something we have far less experience with. so that the process of lifting the sanctions turn out to be far more complex than any party had expected. and that's resultd in a situation in the people are very disappointed. even though that was seen as the biggest weakness that they had not done as well as people had hoped for. they fltnofment because they were endorsing everything he did but because they were terrified that iran would go back to the direction of those much more hard-lined policy. host: how long is the presidential term? guest: four years. host: let's hear from new york. good morning. caller: good morning. i have a couple of comments here. my first comment is let's not kid ourselves. we negotiated the iran deal with the conservative regime in power. he was not in power. second of all, i would like to point out that in order to negotiate this deal which you find to be a triumph in allowed 3.5 allowed 3.5 million syrian men women and children

it was the united states, britain, soviet union, and china. if you know anything about the united nations, you know there are five powers. france is also one of the permanent members of the security council. ,he way this was arranged churchill was always exciting that china was not a great power, it is riddled with civil war, not a power at all. roosevelt said no, it is a power or is going to be a power. churchill said france is a power. roosevelt said in effect, stop pestering me about china and france will be a great power. on this basis more often than you might think great decisions are made. this would be the post world war world. the key to it was to get the soviet union involved. without the soviet union, then of course this system would not work. roosevelt worked hard on stalin, conferences in tehran and later -- he worked hard with stalin. she knew he was a hard case. -- he knew he was a hard case. stalin stolen -- knew was concerned about a security boundary. roosevelt's dream was at least these countries dominated by the soviet union

know, but we have considerable investments in the united states. we have attempted to give to these flows of trade, investment, getting together those main players who are the investors in the private sector. i believe the foundations have been laid. we have deficit trade agreements which is working well. the number of colombians is very important to the united states have grown and we both believe that we can take greater advantage of those agreements in order to increase floo flow in both directions for the benefit of colombian and american people >> thank you very much everybody. thank you, thank you. >> president trump begins his first international trip tomorrow. u.s. news & world report writing that every president since ronald reagan has begun his term with a closer to home johjott to canada or mexico but the president's foreign voyage spending nine days will take him to the middle east, vatican city, belgium and italy for meetings with some of the world's most significant leaders. this will present the president with his first real test of

bush and continued by president obama the strategic economic dialogue where senior leaders in the united states and china met every six months. i had the opportunity to participate in that as assistant secretary of state under secretary of state rice. there are all kinds of different approacheses to our con subpoena -- approacheses to our concept. the most strategic was the policy developed during the bush administration by former deputy secretary of state bob zellick who went on to be the president of the world bank. what he called the responsible stakeholder model. it was received well initially in 2006. he laid it out in a big speech and then went to china focused on this. essentially the essence of that strategy was that china benefited from the u.s.-led international order and system and therefore it is in china's interest to become a responsible stakeholder in that system, to strengthen the international system that is so greatly enabled its own economic success. now, in the early days of this strategy, when it was launched, there was a lot of promise. i remember having the opportunity to

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does this mean that the united states should be present in asia, or does it mean that the united states should be absent, and let the revolutionary forces take their course? i think these are more important questions that could be asked, and i'm sure, for example, that mr. singh from india, if we asked him if the chinese happened to attack india, to whom would he first go for help? would he go to the soviet union, or would he go to the united states? i think that there are certain considerations here about stability in asia that haven't been answered. mr. collingwood: well, let's see. i called on mr. delvaque of france before. delvaque: bill has mentioned recently the necessity of the presence--or the . . . choice of the presence of the united states in asia--i think the best presence of any country in any other country is a diplomatic presence. and president johnson has mentioned the necessity of, say, normalizing the relationship between the united states and china. governor reagan, do you think this normalization is desirable? reagan; well, the only objection that i've had with some

betweens a historic day the kingdom of saudi arabia and the united states and the beginning of a turning point between the united states and the arab and islamic world. -- hisesty, the custody messy and president donald trump signed a joint strategic operation which sets the stage for a truly strategic relationship between our two countries. our relationships will evolve into a more strategic ownership, it will deal with ways to cooperate in terms of violent extremism, financing of terrorism, increasing defense capabilities, working on a defense architecture for the and then looking at how other countries can join the strategic vision that also includes trade and investment education and working in all to enhance our common interest and deal with the challenges that face both of our countries. this is unprecedented, we've not had an agreement signed by the kingdom of saudi arabia and the president to codify the relationship. this is a great compliment. in addition to the signing of this strategic vision declaration, the two countries signed a series of agreements, but commercial and gove

the united states has a comparable interest. because the balance much risks are greater for us, it really behooves china to do whatever they can, to push the north koreans, at least in the near term, to the negotiating table and then give diplomacy a chance to figure out what can be put in place to at least buy some time until we can get our hands around more permanent sorts of solutions. >> you know, senator, the only thing i would add to these very good comments is you mention said in your question the role that potentially greater economic interdependence could have in mollifying state's policies in the region, and i think while many of us teach those theories in the classroom, what's been very clear in asia is that china's growing economic interaction in the region has not had a mollifying impact, but it's actually made them leverage economic tools to their benefit in very draconian ways, whether it is economic sanctions against south korea over thaad, or tropical fruits from the philippines, or rare earth minerals to japan.

it was a precursor if we are looking at from the united states one of you on how the united states itself went to war within six days and created the first and only ministry of information the united states has ever had, the committee on public information coul. rob: before we get to monique, i have to make a comment that there has been a lot of new scholarship around the zimmerman telegram. one of my young scholars, who recently published a book on that, found that everything that was going on down in the mexican border, the u.s. intelligence services were convinced long before the zimmerman telegram that the germans had a hand in it. it played into some of the racial stereotypes of the era. they felt that the mexicans couldn't pull off a massacre on u.s. territory. that had to be coordinated by germans. the germans were already advising poncho villa, which we all know they weren't. about how that propaganda played into the story that the intelligence services are pitching that nobody believed. it was kind of a collision of multiple elements where, at some point, they presented the germa

now, the united states disarmed, the united states made no efforts to impose its will on the rest of the nation. can you honestly say in your heart that had the soviet union been in a comparable position with that bomb and today's red chinese in position with that bomb that the world would not today have been conquered by that force? >> which part of the war jaut the soviet union. there is no comparison really. how can you -- >> i am saying this as an evidence of the proof. we are talking, we were supposed to be talking about the image of america. i would like to point out how consistent this was with our past of no aggressive intent at a chance when for the first time perhaps in all of world's history there was a nation with the power to -- perhaps one day history might -- that was the time when the united states should have said to everyone lay down your arms and we will lay down ours. >> we have a representative from soviet union. >> it seems to me that it is very strange to hear from you that america, the only country who used to -- and didn't use it against another country. it s

laws as passed by the united states congress gave her and we had a court order to remove her and we did. we can't obey -- disobey the law. and with that i gotta run. >> thank you very much. >> thanks so much. [ applause ] >>> this week is infrastructure week in washington. up next on c-span 3, the head of amtrak and ceo of the association of american railroads talk about the state of the u.s. rail industry. after that, a federal aviation administration hearing on the nextgen project, the satellite-based air traffic control system. then president trump and the supreme court, that's from the seventh circuit judicial conference. later we'll hear from trons poretation secretary elaine

the united states and also outside the united states because the supreme court would rule that the constitution did not extend the island people because they're defined as unincorporated. so it's almost as if the u.s. is holding the island at arm's length, but yet we're not allowing the people on the island their own sovereignty. racial ideas are also an important part of understanding this moment in our history because both imperialists who supported the u.s. occupation and those who opposed it defined their and justified their positions often in racial terms. so, for example, those that supported the u.s. occupation in puerto rico often claimed that puerto ricans were inferior this intelligence to the chinese and the chinese at this moment were, of course, being exclude with the the exclusion acts from the 1880s. so one reason people were using that kind of argument in congress was because they wanted to be able to placate mainland citizens' fears that if we are to invade a foreign territory, this could open the gates to a stream of migrants to the u.s. mainland. and some congressional leader

we ought to want the united states senate to be able to accomplish its work. this is a -- it's a challenge all the time, but learning what transpired this morning on the senate floor in my view reaches another low for the united states senate. it is hard, i suppose to explain, but it takes unanimous consent for committees to meet while the united states senate is in session, and that's a request that's made on an on-going basis when the senate convenes, and it happened again this morning. and almost without exception, it's routine. the rules require that two hours after the united states senate convened, which we did at 9:30 this morning, no committee can then meet unless there is agreement. and so the majority leader today requested that that unanimous consent be granted, just like almost every other day in the united states senate. but what was different today was objection was raised by the minority whip. and apparently the explanation is the firing of the director of the f.b.i. last night. now, how the senate is functioning or not functioning seems to me t

and god bless the united states of america. thank you all. >> [applause] >> please welcome to the stage vice-chairman of the board for chevron. q&a,ncer: tonight on defense news naval warfare correspondent on the navy's scandal involving contractor fat winner francis. -- fat leonard francis. >> it shocked the culture of the navy that people were corrupted to provide information about ship movements and other things as well in exchange for not that much money but very lavish lifestyles. announcer: tonight at eight eastern on c-span's q&a. announcer: c-span's washington journal, live every day with the news and policy issues that impact you. monday morning, university of texas law school professor will join us to discuss today's hearing on the trump administration's travel ban. then richard weiss talks about the u.s. missile defense system and the border reporter for arizona republic discusses the cost of deporting illegal immigrants. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at seven eastern monday morning. join the disc

we have considerable investments in the united states. attempted to give dynamism to these flows of trade, of investment. i believe the foundations have been laid. we have the free trade agreement which is working well. the number of colombian businesses that export into the united states has grown. and we both believe that we can take greater advantage of those agreements in order to increase flow in both directions for the benefit both of the colombian and american people. president trump: thank you very much, everybody. thank you. thank you. >> at his weekly briefing, house speaker paul ryan took questions from reporters focused on the appointment of robert mueller to be the justice department's special council overseeing the russian investigation. the speaker says the unfolding situation distracted from his wants togenda, and he pass the overhaul of the nation's tax code by nations and. this is about 10 minutes.

so between japan and united states, looking at trade and economic relationships have evolved hugely, and i've explained to president trump, and i believe he understands this. and after united kingdom, when it comes to fdi and investment in united states, creating jobs and united states, japan is number two. we are making huge investments in the united states. and i have told president trump on this. and how we should expand and develop our relationship? we should create a framework. vice president pence and the deputy prime minister will have a dialogue. the other day, vice president pence visited japan. free and fair rules should be --ated together between together with the united states, and as the trade rules in the world, we have agreed on this. in the infrastructure for railways and other infrastructures, for individual projects, we have the will to move forward with collaboration and cooperation. we have agreed on this count as well. within this year, there will be a second-round of the deputy prime minister and vice president pence, a dialogue will take place. i believe without

if the soviets were building nuclear weapons, more importantly, missiles to launch them at the united statesere flying a spy plane over the soviet union called a u-2. >> i'm bill fox. united press editor in new york. a single engine u.s. air force plane with one man aboard went missing today not far from the soviet border in the rugged mountains in southeastern turkey. >> to a stunned and startled audience, khrushchev announced that an american u-2 spy plane was shot down over the soviet union. >> khrushchev made the wreckage a public exhibition. to the soviet union, this wreckage was a national cause. national outrage over the violation of soviet boundaries. >> and so, out comes the cover story. >> the department has been informed by the nasa. a u-2 weather research plane piloted by a civilian has been missing since may 1. >> eisenhower had said, no, that didn't happen, et cetera, et cetera. he had been drawn into a trap. by khrushchev. >> the soviet leader was able to show not only that they shot down the plane but they had the pilot. >> francis gary powers, an ordinary man, caught up in e

we look at the data that's not only huge regional contrast within the united states, it's also a contrast out of partisan level nationwide. even conservatives in blue states tend to take a very hardo line position on broad range of issues and the perfect examples are rudy giuliani and the christies yi blue state republicans who have a supported donald trump even though they took a very hard line stance on many issues during campaign. >> mugambi jouet. here is how you can do it. 202 is the area code. our phone numbers are on the screen, and they are 748-8200 ie you live in the east and central time zones. 748-8201 for those in the mountain and pacific time zones. we will begin taking your callse just in a minute. it is that liberal america is closer to europe and other parto of the west that conservative america on many of its political social and moral valls. -- values. it is conservative america that's an exception in the modern western world. >> exactly. conservative america are outliers in the western world because of a very different -- the role of government and human rights. and in

raw material in the united states. in wyoming specifically with, the green river basin is the world's largest area for the naturally occurring element. soda ash is a key component for manufacturing glass, soaps, chemicals. china is seeking to capture the global market share from the united states through unfair trade practices. china has given the synthetic ma makers a rebate. will you continue to highlight market subsidies like the market ash on the exports that harm -- >> thank you. the answer is yes. i look at this very much like the steel issue where they're being unfair and where they're providing unfair subsidiesubsid. this is the kind of thing that we have to strenuously object to and try to do everything we can to correct. >> we did raise it with the premier when we were there. in regard to brief, senator gardner asked a lit about that. child china lifted its ban on u.s. beef last september, technical barriers have prevented the u.s. beef from gaining access to the chinese market. in april i signed a letter on

i could be anything i want including president of the united states, secretary of state, whatever i want to be. the way they did that was interesting because they have two important mantras and i repeat these to my students. no one is going to be able to throw you off your horse. secondly, they said there are no victims. the minute you describe yourself as a victim, you've given control of your life to somebody else. my father would say somebody doesn't want to sit next to you because you're black that doesn't matter as long as they move. after co- [applause] don't let somebody else's prejudice bring you down. so i say to the young women and minorities don't internalize somebody else's prejudices about you or the views about you. i think by the way, social media has contributed to this. i heard somebody say once to a group of young people, don't compare your actual life to somebody else's virtual life cosby read on social media and everybody is perfect on social media. i think they are internalizing this sense of i can't succeed, and we need to say to them life is not so easy but if you

islamic state capitol raqqa, the final main goal for the islamic state campaign and would be the culmination of this long effort that the united tates launched against the islamic state. on the other hand issue the united states has close relationship with turkey and is dead set against this considers e turkey pkk, pg to be extension of oth labeled a terrorist group and exists -- it is rebel group that exists in turkey. calls with missy ryan. leo up next, an independent, good morning. hello, how you doing? rouse, trumpl as a trying to get the heat off of him as far as his involvement russia. i think that we need to learn see thisory, napoleon, fghanistan-iraq war will eventually bring this country i thought we had more intelligent american politicians and is country, but trump afghanistan, iraq, will bring the united states down to a sneeze. leo in florida, missy ryan, the caller bringing up russia, syria a place where is russian involvement, as well. today, s of your story how much coordination is there with russia when it comes to kurdish e arming the rebels there? guest: united states and russia aintain deconfliction line i

[applause] it is only fair to the united states.e want to be treated fairly and we are behind nato all the way. but we want to be treated fairly. all of us will be more safe and secure is everyone fulfills their obligations the way they are supposed to come up right? look at this man. he is agreeing with me 100%. most people agree with me. next i attended the g7 right here in sicily and made great progress toward very, very vital goals. i laid out my vision for economic growth and fair trade in support of good paying jobs and even great paying middle-class jobs and more. and i called for much greater security and cooperation on matters of both terrorism, immigration, migration to protect our citizens. from saudi arabia to israel to nato to the g7, we made extraordinary gains on this historic trip to advance the security and prosperity of the united states, our friends, and our allies. and we paved the way for a new era of cooperation among the nations of the world to defeat the common enemy of terrorism and provide our children with

they came at a time when the united states was nothing like the power it is today. i think it takes a leap of imagination to understand the country as it was then, a week, fragile collection of 13 states, continually under siege by native and foreign powers. today, the united states is a continental and global power but then its sovereignty extended to the appellation mountains with some jutting into -- the heart was in the caribbean, that was europe's main interest. the islands that produced rich stores of sugar, coffee, all of the products that were powering the economy. it was to protect these he is it was to protect these french islands. it may have been the major reason it interview. intervene. american harbors were expected to provide naval bases in the caribbean. american resources like lumber and we would supply this sugar colonies just as they had been for so many decades supplying the british sugar colonies. it would be the strategic interest that motivated the american revolution. benefits that french authorities expected to reach after the american revolu

when the test is conducted, we need additional sanctions to be applied through the united states, united nations security council. china should properly take actions. china should understand. between the united states and understand the fact that there were talks on this regard. >> china seems to be more aggressive with south korea recently in the response to the deployment of the missiles. china deployed economic south korea,inst they seem more aggressive with south korea than they do with north korea. is this china moving in the right direction there? or are they still trying to keep a relationship with pyongyang in a way to not put much pressure on them? road form one was organized on the day the missile was launched. that china do not like that north korea chose that date. how china would receive the message of north korea, that would be the point. north korea has been provocative. the provocative behavior is what we have to stop. that, japann for with strongly appeal to china. relationship last year at the g 20 meeting, i did have a summit meeting with the chinese president. this ye

fully concur with you and what you said earlier that the relationship between vietnam and the united states is entering a new state of development and opening up new opportunities for advanced corporation. [speaking in native tongue] i also took the opportunity of my visit to celebrate the 40th anniversary of our membership to the united nations in new york and i have with me today ambassador from the public representative of vietnam to the united nations. [speaking in native tongue] let me start by thanking you for giving me the opportunity to speak here at the world renowned heritage foundation on the topic of opportunities and challenges for peace and security development in asia-pacific and the development of vietnam-us partnership. [speaking in native tongue] in 1776 declaration of independence in the united states of america president thomas jefferson wrote all men are created equal but they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [speaking in native tongue] halfway around the world and more than a c

from our own jim acosta, so far there isn't a scheduled briefing involving the president of the united states while he is there in saudi arabia, however, you're looking at live pictures there from riyadh, the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson will be speaking in part of a briefing, still unclear whether he's going to make a statement and leave out of the room, but reporters are likely to ask some kind of question as it pertains to russia. clarissa, the president, however is focussed on delivering a speech to majority muslim audience tomorrow. some of them representatives from countries listed on the president's initial travel ban. and furthermore, the speech is largely written by steven miller. who has gotten a lot of credit or blame, whichever way you want to look at it for some of the language that president has used in terms of, you know, islam not being a friend of the u.s. so, given all of that, what is the reception of the muslim country leaders and how does that differ from the audience of citizens of these mostly muslim nations who are part of this meeting? >> well, fred, i think

from them as much as i can, but i also want to work directly with you and other members of the united states senate and your staff. >> thank you. >> thank you. senator young. >> governor, thanks so much for your willingness to serve. i thank your family for their years of service as well to the state of iowa. we're glad to have someone who has a personal relationship with the president of china who's put themselves forward as well. >> i enjoyed our visit together. one of the things we talked about was north korea and you've also touched on this very important topic in your prepared statement indicating that china could play a critical role in convincing north korea to dismantle its nuclear missile programs. what more specifically do you think that china could or should do to push north korea to take the necessary steps with respect to its missile and nuclear programs? china, as you know, is a neighbor of north korea. they are major trading partner with north korea. they have recently put some restrictions on importing coal from north korea. i think there's other things they can do diplomatic

or the united states taxpayer.o, we are working on it, and i will tell you a big difference from last year -- money is actually starting to pour into nato from countries that would not have been doing with they are doing now had i not been elected. money is starting to pour. [applause] pres. trump: it is only fair to the united states. we want to be treated fairly. we are behind nato all the way, but we want to be treated fairly. all of us will be more safe and secure if everyone fulfills their obligations the way they are supposed to, right? there, he is agreeing with me 100%. g7 rightttended the here in sicily, and i made great progress towards vital goals. forid out my vision economic fair trade and good paying jobs and more. i called for much greater security and cooperation on matters of both terrorism, immigration, migration, to protect our citizens from saudi arabia to israel to nato to the g7. danes on -- wec made extraordinary gains on this historic trip. paved the way for a new era of cooperation among th

and the united states, and investment creating jobs in the united states, japan is number two, we are making huge investments in the united states and i have told president trump on this, and how should we expand and develop our relationship? we should create a framework, vice president pence and deputy prime minister aso will have a dialogue and the other day, vice president pence visited japan free and fair rules should be created together between -- together with the united states and as the trade rules in the world we have agreed on this and the infrastructure for railways and other infrastructures for individual projects with le move forward in collaboration and cooperation we have agreed on this count as well. and within this year there will be the sound round of deputy minister aso and vice president pence will take place. i think without a doubt meeting the interests of the united states and japan we will have good discussion out of. that. >> president trump prefers bilateral trade arrangements to tpp and nafta. is there a possibility there for a bilateral u.s./japan free trad

united states, both militarily, securitywise, intelligencewise, but also economically. that's something that the president of the united states can understand, the language of economic trade, economic benefit is something that is going to be considered as a win because when we're talking about president trump certainly with foreign policy issues, things can be put in categories of wins and losses. so if you can come back from the saudi trip with hundreds of billions of dollars of arms sales, potentially billions of dollars of investments from saudi oil companies and energy companies, additional billions of dollars from other gulf abe rab countries, i understand the government is expected to make similar announcements in the coming weeks about potential investments in the united states. all of those can be translated back here domestically as a win that president trump went over there and was able to secure those billions of dollars of contracts. but the flip side to that is the saudis and the arab countries are going to expect trump to meet them on important issues. amo

it has deployed troops there, including the united states. but so has germany, canada, great britain. all three are leading the diplomas into the balkan states. in order to demonstrate the reality of what article 5 is. the russia threat was barely mentioned in the statement the president made. it is that combination, and unwillingness to recognize the degree to which russia does pose a danger to nato and combined with an unwillingness to declare article 5 as a solemn treaty commitment of the united states. charlie: you used to be there. you know what member states and the nato representatives think. what would you say about the reception today to the president's speech? >> i think there is a great deal of anxiety. this is an alliance that works in one way and one way only, which is when the united states leads. to get 28 countries to agree on anything requires somebody like the united states, a major power, to bring these countries along, to be a leader. it does not help to be a scolder when you are not willing at the same time to be leading.

eclipsing even the united states. i urge you to compliment them on their significant leadership in pledging to shut down the illegal ivory markets and find ways we can explore the africa continent and that you continue to advocate for our values in china and in how we both engage in africa. >> i appreciate your bringing that issue up. and i think they have made a commitment now to stop this illegal trade in ivory. i think that is critically important. before i came back as governor, i was president of a medical school. and i actually went to africa and we have a number of doctors and medical people that volunteer and even our medical students from the university provide healthcare in africa. i think it's critically important that we work together. i will be glad to compliment them on what they're doing in africa. i think we need to look at opportunities to collaborate wherever we can. i'm appreciative of the americans who donate their service and time to help improve drinking water and to help improve conditions for p

he did not commit the united states to back article five, which is a treaty commitment of the united he did not embrace the idea of common values that this alliance stands together in the way that secretary-general stoltenberg and chancellor merkel talked about freedom, about democracy, about the rule of law as the foundation of the common values of the transatlantic alliance and that it is about the defense of those values and the solidarity that lies behind it that is the essence of nato. and instead, we saw a lecture of the kind we saw during the campaign about how the united states is paying more than others and how important it is -- and it is important -- that europe do more. but if this is a transactional relationship, then it's not just about what europe should do, it's bus what the united states commits to do and understanding that the threat to europe comes from russia today as much, if probably more, than it comes from terrorism, and that the united states is prepared as the leader of nato to be there for the defense of europe. >> nic robertson, i want to bring you in. he

and the beginning of a turning point between the united states and the arab and islamic world. -- hisesty, the custody messy and president donald trump signed a joint strategic operation which sets the stage for a truly strategic relationship between our two countries. our relationships will evolve into a more strategic ownership, it will deal with ways to cooperate in terms of violent extremism, financing of terrorism, increasing defense capabilities, working on a defense architecture for the and then looking at how other countries can join the strategic vision that also includes trade and investment education and working in all to enhance our common interest and deal with the challenges that face both of our countries. this is unprecedented, we've not had an agreement signed by the kingdom of saudi arabia and the president to codify the relationship. this is a great compliment. in addition to the signing of this strategic vision declaration, the two countries signed a series of agreements, but commercial and government that involve trade investment, that involve infrastructur

that's an average compared to 1100 across the united states.alf and divide it and shows the united states as a whole as far as the land area, about 10 million square kilometers of land. look at the fatality numbers across the united states for tornadoes every year. 72 versus five in europe. again, shows you the significance. land masses similar but again the conditions more favorable on the united states ends. there's a storm system that could spark additional water spouts across parts of the greek isles. no injuries or fatalities. far smaller than their u.s. counterparts. >> when do you see something like that? >> not often. >> thanks. >>> thank you for being with us this hour for "cnn newsroom." early start is next. for viewers here in the united states. >> for everyone else, stay tuned for more news with fax foster. you're watching cnn, the world's news leader. have a great day. sometimes you just know when you hit a home run. that's how i feel about blue-emu pain relief spray. odorless and fast-acting. it soothes all my muscle aches and pai

did the united states ever do that? chelsea: not that i know of. there were some unusual experiments with animals in war in the 1950's and 1960's, where they tried to use animals more as formal weapons, but that was not a big thing for the united states. the united states used more traditional roles for war dogs that they continue to use today. bill: did any of the training ever begin to get pushback in america from organizations like the aspca or other animal where -- animal welfare groups. chelsea: there has always been pushback in varying degrees in the united states, and in britain during world war i and world war ii, but one of the things to keep in mind is that during those wars, it was a great sense of patriotism, and so the animal welfare groups are more interested in being involved with the war effort and supporting the troops and supporting the animals that were in combat, so there was a lot of fundraising and sending of medical supplies to the veterinary corps. the pushback was more of an issue of we know you need supplies, we will give