the united states is one of the largest investors in sweden, and the swedish investments in the united states support over 200,000 american jobs. earlier this afternoon, i heard from several swedish business executives, some of the greatest in the world. where are you, folks, please, some of the greatest executives in the world, people i have known for a long time and know of, and they are investing tremendous amounts of money in the united states and supporting also vocational training for american workers. we are grateful for those investments and are committed to working with sweden to pursue even greater economic cooperation. we're also continuing to pursue bilateral agreements to advance mutual prosperity. i am pleased that sweden intends to procure the patriot air and missile defense system in a deal worth over $3 billion. the system will increase security and stability in the baltic sea region. a strong economic relationship strengthens security and prosperity in both of our countries, and this is just the beginning. we have a lot of things we are working on, and we are working

in the united states, people did not realize it until recently. in my view, chinese fellows associations got some extra dollars, i think that the chinese united front activity in american, australian and taiwan and japanese universities are much bigger than they were a few years ago and much bigger than we thought but not as dramatic as what we were saying, in the united states we have to be careful because of civil liberties but we need to be aware. my view is that universities should be aware of it and police themselves. the united states, the university of gorgetown, there is very little japanese press out there but the same thing is happening in japan, there have been problems with chinese professors in japanese universities had gone home for break and had their families had pressure. there is a lot of pressure on japanese universities. i think that its one of those issues where we should be comparing notes, i do not think that we should overreact. i like to have students from chiern, they are dynamic and interested -- china, they are dynamic a

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in the united states and he promised two things first he wanted to make sure that the government the iranian government that was put in place during the islamic revolution doesn't reach its fortieth birthday and also he promised them that we will celebrate two thousand and nineteen meaning him and these terrorists in tehran which you know like like some kind of conqueror you know this is this pattern of regime change i still have said it so many times so many years it's the genic genetic code of american foreign policy doesn't matter who is in office but with bolton you get it if he doesn't hold any punches here picture you know united states is already chosen decided who will be ruling iran by the end of next year. amazing bolton's expectations are mildly of a piece from robert gates' memoirs where he talks about having a go on victory parade on the red square in one thousand nine hundred one. but both of those teams are not about to come to. the national security adviser to which was seemed unlikely just a few years ago but. government is going to be chosen by people just like befo

the united states congress abdicated its responsible at that point in 1964. and 15 years ago oddly enough today, on this day, it was a war in iraq and a republican administration, and the administration lied to the american people again. and where was the congress getting out the facts? what the vice s president of the united states, saddam hussein is building weapons of mass destruction. there's a connection between saddam hussein and iraq and the 9/11. it was a lie. a it was a lie. and congress voted to approve of war based on false information. so what i say, mr. president, today, it is time for the congress to accept its constitutional responsibility or i don't know how well we will do. maybe we will screw it up as well, very possible. that's what the founding fathers suggested, and i think that they were right. we are closer to the people. the house and the senate, that is the white house. this white house or any of the white house. so the two issues today, do we accept our constitutional responsibility to vote on matters of war? i have suggested every m

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

to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle fifteen years ago this month the united states and its so-called coalition of the willing to illegally invaded in occupied iraq american troops remain there to this day and iraq continues to grapple with that fateful decision many call the invasion of iraq a blunder shouldn't we call it what it really is a crime. cross talking about fifteen years on i'm joined by my guest ken o'keefe in calgary he is a political analyst and an ex u.s. marine who renounced us citizenship in washington we have chris turney why he is a former army military police sergeant iraq war veteran and contributor to the hill and into iran we have mohammad marandi he's an associate professor at the university of toronto right jim across the rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate before we get started here i'd like to refresh everybody's memory of what happened fifteen years ago preceding the war and also because the mainstream media is largely ignoring this fifteen year. because it's certainly not an anniversary here let

better roads in the years ahead it was a response he said to years of unchecked advances by the united states in missile defense. russia has always been a big nuclear state no one wanted to speak constructively with us in the past and no one wanted to listen well listen to us now one missile in development putin explained could travel the globe with unlimited range and entirely undetected by radar defense systems but those three weeks before the presidential election it was all greeted with ecstatic applause by russia's political elite president putin made a strong message to. russian audience which can be spelled out as the fall of any of this occasion in the world this prevents surrounded by aggressors but you have to be rest assured that till the country is run by a person whose name is of light given to putin. you will have nothing to worry about as well as showcasing these extraordinary new defense capabilities let me a putin speech was full of inspiring promises of investment lifting people out of poverty improving their lives in what was expected to be his last major speech before the

the fbi is charged with defending the united states against crimes. we face cyber threats and state-sponsored hackers like individuals who were indicted today. state-sponsored hackers steeler government secrets, trade secrets, our technology and ideas for military and competitive advantage. the individuals were indicting today were leaders, contractors, associates, contractors for hire and part of the madden institute based in iran. they engaged in the hacking. through more than a four-year campaign these hackers compromised approximately 144 us-based universities and 176 foreign universities and 21 countries. they targeted more than 100,000 e-mail accounts of professors around the world and ultimately were able to compromise more than 8000 accounts. scholarly worry shirts, personal e-mail account information belonging to the targeted victims was accessed and exploited. in the end, the information retrieved from the academic databases alone during the course of the separation costs the u.s. higher learning institutions approximately $3.4 billion. the s

the united states market is driving this.igher,eing gilts go you wrote a piece on this. >> with stocks buying it. often banks by this more aggressively. but this one has been dragged out about four or five weeks. the short-term supply-demand factor. vonnie: kenny market absorb all of these news items at once -- can the market absorb all of these news items at once? how do you price all of this? >> the market is bouncing around at the moment and they don't know quite which way to look. the bond yields are moving volatile.rprisingly a very economic change going through. market ishat the bond moving away from 3% 10 year yields in the united states is the most dominant factor. 2.35%.r yhiields got to the fact that they are backing away from that is encouraging. the fed is giving a bullish sign and the market can handle it. vonnie: how does correlation work? treasuries and stocks are doing their own thing. we are not even talking about oil, which has seen this massive trading handle after yesterday. all markets have their own news

into the united states . the congress acted, the president signed it and now tvp as $9 million in resources. that sort of process i think is well in place todeal with this opioid crisis . and that's the sort of thing we will see in the coming years, that once we understand we have a vulnerability, we have a gap, we have something that needs to be filled, we don't see a lot of problems getting the energy and the initiative in the innovation to be able to close that in and give our government, not only our federal government but our state and local partners as well resources they need . >> coming like to mention, we talked a lot about the criminal aspect and law enforcement and national security aspect of this as well. i'd be remiss if i didn't remind everyone of the enormous amount of energy and resources that have inputs and are being put to prevention and education aspect of this. and into treatment, leading to long-term recovery. i think everyone understands and it certainly congress and the white house hav

the united states wants an immediate cease fire more than three weeks of heavy bombing on syria's rebel held on clay. and the it warns the backing of the united nations security council if it doesn't get that the u.s. says it's prepared to take action that could draw it further into a war that also involves russia and iran so who can enforce a new cease fire and good washington go it alone with speak to our panel in a moment but first here's kristensen of the maze report from the u.n. . cities bleeding inside and dogs two weeks after agreeing to a cease fire the security council learned their words were having little effect for civilians on the ground in syria in eastern loan according to the u.n. more than one thousand have died in recent weeks amid continued shelling the united states said it was prepared to offer a second resolution calling for an immediate end to all military action in eastern guta and damascus city the massacre nikki haley backed her words with a threat we support the united nations political process that seeks to end the war in syria. but we also warn any nation t

you attack the united states and a the united states will come to our defense. and russian prime minister condemned this. that turkey had invoked not itself as the actor but nato saying this was very dangerous so from the russian perspective countries part of nato get locked into policies that they consider fundamentally threatening to their own interests. i agree with you that the central and eastern european countries desperately wanted protection from russia. but there was in my view no cost to trying george canon's approach. meaning, let us see if we can reach a mutual understanding with the russians about what sovereignty and independence would mean and central and eastern europe without involving the american military. which, of course, they consider a fundamental threat to their security. and we didn't try that. now i have yet -- [inaudible conversations] i don't think we have any choice. if you look at the situation in the baltics, for example, i have yet to reach a single military expert. we have had in come to speak at any institution for example the f

i mean, libya, what's the difference between libya and the united states? libya is a multiethnic country too. 140 different peoples. it's a failed state. it's disintegrated. why? because they don't have the overarching strong libyan identity, strong enough to hold the country together. it was really a colonial construction. but we do. this is what makes us special. >> "q&a" sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> the house today approved a $1.3 trillion spending bill that funds the government through september 30. it increases pentagon spending by $80 billion and increases democracy spending by $63 -- domestic spending by $63 billion and includes $1.6 billion for border security and it makes changes to the gun background check system. the vote was 256-167. the measure now heads to the u.s. senate. current government funding expires tomorrow at midnight, so the senate must pass and the president must sign this bill by tomorrow night to avoid a government shutdown. . the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. sessions: mr. speaker, last night at a late

we risk sending a signal to our partners that the united states is not reliable. across the world from canada to the united kingdom, president trump has damaged our credibility as a reliable partner, even to some of our most stalwart allies. we must push against those concerns and show our allies that the united states upholds its international commitments. consideration of withdrawal of support for the saudi coalition must be taken in concert with other ways in which the united states is working to end this war. the totality of u.s. policy which i fear is lacking. the solution i believe is to bolster our diplomatic humanitarian and political presence to help solve this crisis and end the human suffering. to usurp practical concerted leadership. thus far the administration's approach has effectively abdicated leadership on the global stage. while we have heard senior officials assure us that there is no military solution to this conflict, any political settlement is necessary, this administration is actively dismantling the state department and antagonizing the uni

the constructive cooperation between sweden and united states in the united nation security council. i would like to underline that the transatlantic link is strong , and it remains crucial to responding to global security challenges. non-alignedmilitary country come up but we build security in partnership with others and greatly value our broad security and defense cooperation with the united states. one important example of that is our joint efforts to fight and combat terrorism. sweden and the united states stand shoulder to shoulder in the global coalition against in the resolute support mission in afghanistan. these fight to military efforts must go hand in hand with strong political come at diplomatic, and civilian support to create sustainable results. so in conclusion, as we celebrate 200 years of diplomatic relations, we are also planning for shared prosperity and security for many , many years to come. once again, i thank you, mr. president come up a constructive and successful meeting, and for the very warm welcome that both my delegation and i received. thank you very muc

this is what the united states and the state department are trying to assess, the sincerity. doesn't seem like the u.s. will take promise of a discussion of denuclearization. it moves it along. but, again, as the sincerity is concerned they're not sure get. mike penls said in a statement, quote, all options are on the table and our posture will not change until we see credible, ver viable, and concrete stems toward deknew clee arization. officials say the u.s. has had talks with north korea, usually to have north korea go back on the agreements. others in the administration are saying they're going to continue that maximum pressure campaign. getting allies, some adversaries, to isolate north korea diplomatically in an attempt to draw kim jong-un to the negotiation table for sincere, actual negotiations. it's unclear if this is that. south korean government delivered this offer, first time that kim jong-un had met with officials from south korea. the south korean president has made better relations with north korea a priority. he ran on that, part of that was the olympic issue

to the united states. he was then convicted in a trial in 1992 and served a federal prison sentence. new charges against russians would be a second set by the mueller team against russians. the first set came last month when mueller charged 13 russians and 3 russian companies for interfering in the election. today's report follows yesterday's report that mueller's team is honing in on what donald trump knew and when he knew it about the democratic party e-mails that russia stole and whether donald trump was advised by someone outside of his campaign to urge the russians to steal hillary clinton's state department e-mails. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to the find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> joining us now julia ainsley, national security and justice reporter for nbc news. ron cline, former chief of staff, and former senior aid to president obama. also with us paul fishman a former u.s. attorney. julia, this is your reporting. you're part of the team at nbc news that discove

the government that the president of the united states works in says that. and now i'm joined by josh dossey of "the washington post" who broke the news that the president was bragging about making things up in conversations with the canadian prime minister, josh. first, tell me where he did this and what he said. >> so thanks for having me. he did this last night at a fund-raiser in missouri for josh holly. the president was on a two-day trip, went to california and saw the border wall prototypes, did a fund-raiser and last night in missouri, 60 donors, gave 30 minutes of contemporaneous off the cup remarks where he ticked through foreign and domestic issues and did this as part of that speech to that fund-raiser. >> and he says, you know, relate the story, he was with canadian prime minister justin trudeau, and during negotiations he said the united states has a trade deficit with canada. then what happened? >> the president was riffing to these donors and saying when justin trudeau came and met with him at the white house, the prime minister said, preside

process because that has succeeded and you know you do the democrats and the republicans in the united states sensually everyone except the president noted states and the russian fury that i haven't seen for many years you know the russian first backed in on that and not a woman government perspective but anyway i sure would tell you you know you need to show me that proves i don't believe in secretary since i don't really in my own secret service in the cia and then you know why should i believe american war and a russian word because when cia was. when w m d's existed in iraq turned out to be bogus so why not show you show me the proof that we actually model that's the russian perspective there's a lot of proof so facebook has detailed. lowered you know hundreds of russian controlled accounts that were fostering increased polarization sort of hitting on issues that would try to divide americans and try to push people toward the republicans. twitter has revealed a lot of the same and then there's a lot of classified evidence there's really no dispute among any. serious person in the u.s. nat

isn't do that i thought you know the united states is trying to give sovereignty to iraq and it doesn't even listen to its own i mean the only the political system that it actually imposed you know shouldn't isn't it time for the u.s. to stop quote unquote helping the iraqis go ahead chris well i think that i mean president bush campaign we were going to have nation building then we had nation building on steroids i mean i think you'd be fair to look back at that but i think the biggest issues with the post with iraq was not so much the initial invasion but it was all of the post-war activities whether it was the disagreement between the pentagon and the ministration over troop levels decommissioning the iraqi military and all and frankly just the post-war governance i think that's where the problems head if iraq was a flourishing democracy today i think maybe we'd be looking at it differently but i think it's more the way that it turned out that's causing this issues but i do want to say it's a very long complex history i don't disagree at all with the the contradictory foreign

back in the united states, education secretary betsy devos struggled on sunday to explain why schools in her home state of michigan are fairing poorly under the policies she championed. devos was speaking with lesley stahl on cbs's "60 minutes." >> the public schools in michigan, have they gotten better? >> i don't know. i can't say overall they have all gotten better. >> the whole state is not doing well. >> there are certainly lots of pockets where the students are doing well -- >> your argument if you take funds away, the schools will get better is not working in michigan. you had a huge impact and influence over the direction of the school system here. >> i hesitate to talk about all schools in general because schools are made up of individual students attending them. >> the public schools here are doing worse than they did. >> michigan schools be to do better, no doubt about it. amy: meanwhile "60 minutes" is , moving forward with plans to air an interview with adult film star stephanie clifford, also known as stormy daniels, about her alleged affair she had with in 2006. daniels

exports to the united states. ok well let's get the thoughts now i think to gary he's director of the china national association of international studies and he's here with us good afternoon to you victor thanks for coming on to r.t. firstly what sir your reaction then to the announcement of these terrorists i think the tariffs to be in polls by the united states all these exporters of steel aluminum products to the united states are the wrong sanctions are the wrong thing for the united states to do and it's very counterproductive and it will arouse retaliation by the power which these terrorists will be imposed and china will also react to these. protectionist measures by the united states and we urge the u.s. government to do the right thing to protect trade free trade and to avoid using these trade the protectionist measures against trading partners in the world china has said it will retaliate what sort of retaliation would you expect. it really depends on what the united states will do china has been working

keep the sword of freedom sheave but if she is forced to take on this fight we know where the united statesill stand. we will stand on the side of our one true democratic ally in the middle east -- the state of israel. [applause] senator menendez: these growing threats demands that we do everything we can now to push back against iran's continued aggression. i have spent the better part of my more than 2 1/2 decades in congress working to support strategic, diplomatic, multilateral efforts to confront iran. that's why last year i worked with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to author and pass the countering america's adversary through sanctions sa., also known as ca at a time when bipartisan is the norm in washington, democrats and republicans in the senate voted by a margin of 98-2 to give the administration more tools to sanction iran for its nefarious behaviors. a strong bipartisan vote. i know our success in large part is because of the aipac members in this room. yet, despite the bipartisan clairian call for action by congress, the administration has yet to fully use the tools we pr

in the united states is only seven percent so you can see that just because the united states is just such enormous market with three hundred twenty million customers mostly producing everything it needs by itself you can wage a trade war if you insist on it of course there will be always people suffering in the united states but it will not be the majority for example germany never ever to trade will it would kill the whole economy and that's not true for the united states and that's exactly the reason why is not the first president to start a trade war i mean the same was true of reagan and of course it backfired as clued said. in the end jobs were lost and gained but you know. what happened ragen is still very popular and that's exactly what knows that politically economy it's just nonsense but politically for the united states it's always a good idea for a president to start a trade will i know you can count on stating it will i want to come back a bit later to more on the economic effects but let's look at a second set of potential effects of all of this good and it's something t

and with the united states that had imposed some very very strict conditions particularly on the pharmaceutical industry while the patients that were made precisely where enabled because the united states left they had. asked for certain conditions that. did not accommodate fully some countries chile was ok because in their. bilateral agreement with the united states we had a lot of the elements that were new for other countries i. won't give names by for example there were countries i had zero protection for. the data for biological from a suitable products and they had to increase to five children i already had five years of protection for that data in the agreement with the united states so eliminating that evidently cost less political pressure in the countries when we removed about twenty. norms in the original to b.p. that. the united states had particularly pushed for but we had to do just said a a very quick rearrangement. which was an easy it took a lot of political will. because. not only did we have to change the implementation agreement because implementation agreemen

it did not specify who was a citizen. -- it's and all citizens naturalized in the united states was subjecto the laws thereof in the state in which they resided. if there is a chinese child, that child became a u.s. citizen but the parent could not. that is why the exclusion act excluded all foreign subjects from ever becoming u.s. citizen. susan: a call from brandon in south bend, indiana. hello. caller: i am a first time watcher, first time caller. to have you. what is your question? are you there? yes.r: i'm sorry. looking back at history ,nvolving chinese immigrants which there are still chinese immigrants, they are going to be south korea, north korean immigrants. we will have immigrants in this country. that is what it was built on. how do we apply these lessons we have learned from this case? susan: thank you. that is something we want to talk about. to we apply these lessons our society today? important toit is understand it applies to all persons living in the united states regardless of their citizenship status. i might say the same thing with the bill of rights, the first 10 amen

the united states was proud to be the first to recognize the state of israel in 1948.arry truman made history, president trump will make history again. thanks to the strong efforts of ambassador friedman, in may of this year, we will open the american embassy. in jerusalem. [no audio] -- [applause] vice pres. pence: president trump made his decision as he said in the best interest of the united states. he also made it clear we believe this is in the best interest of peace. by recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital, the united states has chosen fact over fiction. fact is the only true foundation for lasting peace. under president trump -- [applause] trump, thedent united states remains committed to achieving lasting peace between israelis and palestinians. in announcing his decision, the president called on all parties to maintain the status quo of jerusalem's holy sites and made taking any were not position on final status issues for thefic boundaries resolution of contested borders. the united states of america will support a two state solution. [applause] vice pre

we are significant countries and we put enough teeth we would like the united states to have stayed by they took the sovereign decision under president trump to withdraw some say in fact that by withdrawing from this agreement from the g g p the united states is related to turning point in its global leadership which some would say lack of global leadership would you agree well it's it's not what would happen one would have expected from republicans. ministration that in the past used to be always pro global trade in but times have changed. and perhaps. globalise asian has not. proven. to be beneficial to everyone but that is not because of the nature of globalization is because the nature of production and the global economy has changed is more and more innovation more and more knowledge so that there are industries of the twentieth century are of course suffering the costs of these there are no logical changes and that i guess led some states in the united states to vote for mr trump because they felt left behind why we have to do is to prove globalization is another problem that inn

the united states' interest -- and i think some do -- if you think that the united states right now for our own interest should be involved in the civil war in yemen being led by saudi arabia, then members of the united states senate should have the courage to vote for u.s. participation in that war. nothing more complicated than that. you want to come to the floor of the senate, make the case why you think it is good public policy for us to be involved in that civil war in yemen, come to the floor and oppose our resolution. but what i hope very much that we will not see today is the tabling of this motion and the refusal by members of the senate to vote up or down as to whether or not we wish to continue aiding saudi arabia in this humanitarian disaster. if you believe, as i do, that we should not get sucked into this civil war, which has already caused so much human suffering, please vote against tabling the motion to discharge and vote with us on final passage. if you believe that the united states should continue to assist saudi arabia in this war, i urge you to have the courage to

you know one of the things that if you look at the client states in the in the alliances of the united states was created around. the globe these client states do like the status quo for the most part south korea and this moment may be a little bit different because they might see it some kind of diplomatic opening and want to take it and washington say no but like look at japan you know look at saudi arabia look at israel i mean they're all fat and happy i mean the american taxpayer pays for it. they don't even have to be particularly loyal allies thinking there's a wide avenue of maneuver for them in many cases and the united states if you look at like in the pacific here you know they could easily be pulled into a conflict that it was not there but it's one thing but because of all of its alliances here i mean this these all these entangling alliances are very dangerous for the united states but for a country that voted for a man that wanted america first go ahead. interesting it's i mean we have like seven hundred bases around the world. be sickly ringing around surrounding your rants rou

positive for the united states and actually very positive for other countries also. we have some of our great business leaders and leaders, period, right behind me. i may ask marillyn lockheed, the leading women's business executive in this country, according to many, and we buy billions and billions of dollars worth of that beautiful f- 35. it's stealth. you cannot see it, is that correct? ms. hewson: that is correct. president trump: marillyn, say a few words. ms. hewson: this is a very important moment in our country which we are protecting our intellectual property. as been expressed, that is a threat to us. if we have that stolen from our companies because that is the lifeblood of our companies so we very much welcome the action on the part of the administration and president of the united states. thank you. president trump: thank you, marillyn. this is the first of many. this was number one but this is the first of many. thank you all very much. marillyn. >> special counsel robert mueller, sir? \[inaudible] today,your lawyer resign mr. president. [inaudible] bo

from the eastern united states, from the southern united states, people from mexico, , from chil, fromurope, from the british isles. hundreds of thousands of people showing up in california and it includes the chinese. they are not about income and the coming really for the same reason everybody else is, sit the can their lucky strike. >> what kinds of numbers are we talking about over the last couple of decades of the 19 century? >> the the 1850s there's probaby upwards of 20,000 chinese who come. it's not a huge number compared to the overall population but chinese comprise about 20% of the mining population. and by the mid-1850s they are the largest nonwhite group in the mining district. >> what other kinds of work do they do? what we define? >> chinese received i think in the goldfields with some ambivalence. there was a racial conflict everywhere. people ask work side by side and got there's also conflict that was born out of competition, and the easiest way to compete with somebody else is to hurl some kind of racial slur at them, that they don't belong there, they are not americ

and its possible advantage to the united states so i think that the president is going to stand firmly against governments that are going to try to meddle in our elections certainly or any governments that are going to try to meddle with us economically or any governments that are going to try unfair trade practices against the united states certainly in these sorts of crimes of war or nuclear threat are going to be met swiftly and abruptly by this president he is fearless in that and he's made that clear but on the other hand if they can if there's a place for us to negotiate even with governments as rogue and ridiculous as north korea the president is going to try to stand on the side of united states and eliminate that nuclear threat and i think that's what any president of any country should always be doing for their own country it's just that it's been a long time since america had a president that cared more about america than they did about foreign nations and that's why you can do grown prince mohammed bin solomon in saudi arabia when trump surely knows of fifteen of the

he went against the surplus with china and the united states.ade agreement. he said all these agreements are horrible for the united states and he's only beginning to fighting for europe, asia, places that have surplus in the united states. joining us, analyst gloria borger, trump economic advise stephen moore. the markets aren't very happy with word of these tariffs. ronna, let's start with you. the fear is that china will retaliate specifically with u.s. exports to china. that's the major fear right now. this could lead to a major trade war. >> yeah, i have no doubt there is going to be retaliation. i'm sure the chinese are going to target important and iconic u.s. brands. there's already been discussions of that. the big fear, of course, is that this is just the beginning of a more global trade war. you know, we've already heard trans-atlantic fighting europ n europeans if they get involved. trade wars don't have winners. the president said trade wars are easy to win. they don't have winners. trade wars were prolonged in the last 20 years. yo

as far as the solution, this will be obviously an issue for the united states senate. but i do think this will force pressure to continue to see more rules changes in the united states senate. reporter: specifically, marc, does the president still feel -- do you still feel -- do you feel that rule 22 should be amended or eliminated to prevent what you're describing which are national security ramifications? you have a number of positions that you are arguing are essential to the national security of the united states and you say this is something democrats are obstructing to. republicans have 51 votes. what should happen? marc: i think that the united states senate is going to continue so have internal conversations about potential rule changes. i think that's a very fair question. i want to be respectful have a white house determine what the united states senate rules should be. continuing to highlight it and recognize the level of obstruction, i think it continues to put more pressure on the senate to address this internally. reporter: are you concerned about -- are

stronger nafta would boost not only free trade but also the national security interests of the united states. trade issues are at the top priority for senator sasse and we look forward to hearing your thoughts. senator ben sasse represents, of course, the great state of nebraska. we were having a chat about walking beans and doing various things to corn which i dare not talk about because i don't fully understand what he was talking about, but he's a fifth generation nebraskaen. he comes to the senate having spent the previous five years as a college president. making him one of the youngest college presidents in the nation at just 35 years old. the 130-year-old lutheran college was on the verge of bankruptcy when he arrived one but it became one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in the country. most -- he does so with straight talk and with strong determination. he has worked with the boston consulting group mckenzie and company as well as private equity firms and not for profit organizations to tackle some of the failing strategies across a broad array of sectors and nat

the memory of when call and powell representing united states in dressed that very body the u.n. security council holding the vials of powder that he said were chemical weapons from iraq he reminded the council and pointed out that it at this point now we have the united kingdom coming was simply a letter and that that there seems to be a history of rather unsubstantiated allegations against different countries regarding chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction from the united states and the u.k. this is the russian representative responding to the words from the u.s. and the u.k. was even when we were living in a very special time in front of our eyes incredible things are happening the process of replacing the presumption of innocence with the presumption of guilt is taking place this criminal law principle is being transferred into international relations envoy halley as an experienced chemist has talked about crimes committed by russia we've known for years that for you in order to determine the guilty party no investigation is needed today the best kind of proof is s

the dominican republic and the united states has deep cultural ties, especially in my home state of florida. according to pew, dominicans are the fifth largest hispanic group in the united states, with nearly 2 million in the year 2015. it also happens to be a popular tourist destination, hosting 2 million american tourists last year. beyond personal and economic ties, the dominican republic find itself at a flash point. part of a group of countries that receive subsidized oil from a dictatorship in venezuela. and if we want venezuela to return to the prosperous constitutional democracy that its people deserve and that it was just a few decades ago, it is important for other democracies in the region, such as the dominican republic, to support the democratic aspirations and the human rights of their brothers and sisters in venezuela in forums like the oas and the united nations. argentina is the leader in south america that is recovering from years of poor economic leadership. percent president mac re's election has shown a commitment to stronger bilateral relations with the united states a

united states acting on the representation of their negotiations? sarah: again, i can't get into the details of the preparations and the progress being made but i can tell you we're continuing to move forward in hopes of taking -- having the meeting take place. reporter: seizing the opportunity offered by marc's presence here today, my understanding and from several people in congress that the administration has been asking lawmakers to hold off on sanctions saying the executive branch powers are sufficient should the need arise to impose more but also inflating the situation. would either you or marc address that? sarah: i know that we are continuing our maximum pressure campaign on north korea. we're continuing to ask our allies to engage in that maximum pressure campaign, not to let up at any point for any reason until we see real progress on the promises that have been made by the north koreans. beyond that i can't say more. take one last question. reporter: we are entering the 15th month of this administration. why is there a need for change in

it's perceived as the united states campaign. were radicalizing united yemen people against the united states. that's new information that suggest some of our partners though not directly working with al qaeda are starting to harm some unsavory militias inside yemen that are filled with the type of people and extremists individuals that could easily turn and take the training they received from the coalitions against the united states. so if you care about this you should supporter resolution. we need to have a debate on the lack of authorization for military force. it's time for congress to step up and do her duty. the administration told us that their letter to us that we do not have the authority as united states congress to weigh in on military activity unless there are two armies firing at each other on the ground in an area of conflict. that's the administration's definition of hostility. that has been used by democrats and republicans. the problem is that would allow the united states through executive decision only to wage

fundamentally the united states and russia are have been for decades to scorpions in a bottle each capable of destroying the other but all the at the price of being destroyed itself. said well these weapons will overcome u.s. missile defenses u.s. missile defenses were totally ineffective against russian forces already so they'll be more effective against russian forces. hello and welcome to cross talk more all things are considered peter lavelle with the appointment of john bolton is the new national security advisor should we expect more stupid wars of choice from sense he wants success but everything associated with bolton's name is a failure the war party is again in charge. crosstalk in the war party i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have a draw levitch he's a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst we spoke nick international right gentlemen as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want a

to represent the united states. if confirmed, i look forward to working with the white house, secretary tillerson and your talented and dedicated staff to lead our engagement with such an important regional ally and partner. i would like to take this opportunity to thank my family who are with me today. my wonderful husband richard, our children arthur, his wife karla, ariel, alexandra and julia and my mom carolyn. i would also like to acknowledge my late father, archie, whose lifelong passion was to host young exchange student ambassadors in our home and whose vision enabled me to go to high school in france as an exchange student and later to the school of international service in washington, d.c. my family sustained me throughout the many challenges and opportunities in my life, and without their support i would not be able to undertake this next and exciting stage of my career. i began one of my first professional positions here on the hill at the joint economic committee in this very building. after obtaining m

if both sides agreed united states of america will support the two state solution. ambassador vision for peace. and know this. united states of america will never compromise the safety and security of the jewish state of israel. [applause] we know that peace is possible and to make the very difficult decision and to have the privilege to travel to egypt and jordan and to enjoy the fruits of peace. to speak with america's great friends king abdullah of jordan with the predecessors who fortunate into conflict in their time. president trump convened an unprecedented gathering of leaders for more than 50 nations of the arab islamic summits. as we saw the winds of change are blowing across the middle east. long-standing enemies our partners old foes are finding new ground for cooperation and descendents of isaac and ishmael are coming together of the president said history's great test thankful for those forces of terrorism and we will meet that together. [applause] radical islamic terrorism knows no borders nations across the middle east. expect no creed stealing the li

- but the turks did cooperate with the united states, logistically allowed it's airspace to be used, over time, the united states and turkey did coordinate in order to help improve turkish security as a result of the invasion. - [narrator] as eu remained elusive, erdogan saw less reason to continue the implementation of democratic reforms. - quotes made by nicholas sarkozy, angela markel, people saying, you know, "well, turkey will never be a full member, "we'll have to have a special relationship." "well, they don't necessarily belong in a christian club." things like that. those words were quite significant in how akp politicians thought about their future prospects within the eu. (speaking in german) - [female translator] we can't accept everyone into europe as a full a member. this is why, our joint position, is a privilege partnership for turkey, but no full membership. (speaking in turkish) - [male translator] they have been stringing turkey along for many years. they are not showing a clear intention. while many countries, which are smaller, and hold less power than turkey, ha