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

but what is interesting for the united states is to do something similar. we also have nuclear weapons in the early 1990s and then to have the debate in south korea and some say the united states needs to return. >> and with the national war college so with nuclear superiority leads in only eight seconds but it is that status quo power not the revisionist power. so with 8000 so what are the implications of your theory? >> that is a great question book talks about those strategies and the united states has a first-rate capability. but but they use that even further tactical nuclear advantage during the crisis. so i think it is important for the united states to maintain but for the peak in 196,731,255 career warheads sir comes down to the new start treaty but with the new start treaty in the new agreements to roughly expand those capabilities i think that at ever structurally wasn't shut down but then we saw putin's announcement last week so why worry about that and i do think united states needs to be prepared to help me have to be prepared. >> i will close

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 should we call it what it really is a crime. 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 were announced u.s. citizenship. in washington we have. 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 you can jump in anytime you want and 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 me read a few things here i believe demolishing hussein's military

it was said after the civil war, the united states were, and after the united states is. churchill declared the united states stand at the summit of the world. i'd like you to hold that single declarative sentence in your mind as we go through this morning's lecture. there are certain premises that undermine my remarks, one that world war ii was transformational. secondly, that the transformations the united states was responsible for or participated in did not just happen, but the result of shrewdly strategic decisions about how to fight the war. thirdly, the consequences of america's t standing at the su mmit have been shaped ever since. let's go back to that remark quickly, the united states stands at the summit of the world. just improbable how that statement would have been from the point of view of 1940, just five years earlier. 1940 was the 11th year of the great depression. extrapolating backwards, the standards of poverty developed in the 1960's -- historians constructed a poverty line -- 40% of white ofseholds and 90% african-american households were below the p

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

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

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 vocational training for american workers. we are grateful for those investments and are committed to working with sweden for even greater economic cooperation. we are 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 stability in the baltic sea region. pm lofven: thank you. thank you mr. president for a warm and generous welcome. it is a true pleasure to be here at the white house. this year, sweden and the united states celebrate 200 years of diplomatic rela

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

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

the united states had particularly pushed for but we had to do 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 agreement required that. more than eighty five percent of the g.d.p. of the other countries would ratify before you would enter into force now it's only six out of the eleven and not only change that will change all this elements relative to gender with strength and the aspects related to labor rights and environment and all of that i think made it up a better agreement not because the united states left because of the reality that we wanted to continue on. and you know it to continue we had to make it a more attractive agreement and i think when that up with a better agreement but not because the west left by because of the reality that we did not want to waste the years of negotiation of a high standard agreement. new zealand's trade minister says the deal isn't perfect you'll have given this trade agreement seven out of ten. as the rating wh

the dominican republic and the united states has deep cultural ties, especially in my home state of florida. accord og 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 for americans, hosting upwards of 2 million americans as tourists last year. beyond personal and economic ties, the dominican republic finds itself at an important flash point for freedom in the region. the dominican republic is part of the 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 us 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 a leader in south america that is recovering from years of poor economic leadership. the president's election has

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

people from the eastern united states, southern united states, from mexico, from chile, from europe,rom the british isles. it includes the chinese. they're not alone in coming and they're coming for the same reasons everybody else is. they're trying to see if they can get their lucky strike. >> what kinds of numbers are we talking about over the last couple of decades of the 19th century? >> well, in the 1850s there's 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. so -- and by the mid-1850s they're the largest non-white group in the mining districts. >> what other kinds of work did they do, would they find? >> well, you know, chinese were received, i think, in the gold fields with some ambivalence. you know, not -- there wasn't racial conflict everywhere. people worked side by side and got along. but there was also conflict that is borne 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,

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 stahahl on cbs's "60 minutes." >> the publilic schools in michigan, hahave they gotten better? >> i don't know. i can'n't say overall l they hae alall gotten betr.r. >> the wholele state is not dodg well.. >> there are certaininly 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 attetending ththem. >> 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 wi

owed the united states $2 million. the united states tried for 220 years to get that money back and decided to go to war in 1846. as compensation for those debts, the name of that compensation as california, utah, nevada, new mexico, part of oklahoma, and basically 500,000 square miles of mexican territory. this is not the way, when the united states did this, it was not acting as a rogue imperial power, it was acting as what responsible states did that is because the old world order gave them the right of conquest. states had another right. if they had the right to go to work, they had the rate to threaten to go to war. this is incredibly important because it undergoes the practice that we call gunboat diplomacy. as many of you know, in the 19th century, japan was excluded, excuse me was secluded and excluded with the exception of the dutch, twice a year from trading with japan. the united states and other western powers were very upset, they claimed japanan was violating its obligation to engage in legal commerce and

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

in the united states is only seven percent so you can see that just because the united states is just such in the 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 could be made to trade 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. and of course it backfired as clued said. in the end jobs were lost and gained but you know. what happened regen is still very popular and that's exactly the nose that physically 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 time 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 goodness something that was hotter ment

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

we are as determined as ever to ensure the alliance between the united states and israel endures. for many generations to come. [applaus [applause] >> so, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to the aipac stage, the prime minister of the state of israel, benjamin netanyahu [cheers and applause] ♪ >> thank you. ♪ >> thank you. >> good morning, aipac. [applause] >> it's always great to be here, but as i told president trump yesterday, it's especially great to be in america's capital now that he's recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. [applaus [applause] >> thank you, president trump for that historic decision. [applaus [applause] >> thank you for announcing another decision, to move the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem this independence day. [applaus [applause] >> as the first ambassador to have the honor of working from that embassy in jerusalem is a great american ambassador, david friedman. [applause] >> you can watch the rest of benjamin netanyahu's speech, the american-israel public affairs committee on our website, c-span.org. taking you live to the u.s. se

we have to work at getting 60 votes in the united states senate. look at the budget that we have submitted to show where we would be making cuts. the president has taken seriously his commitment to making sure the $20 trillion in debt that has been added by the last several administrations is overturned. we put forth a is fully responsible budget. we need congress to partner with us on that. >> looks like we have to go. the president is getting ready to speak on tariffs. >> president trump site in them around imposes up to $60 billion in new tariffs on china. at the white house signing ceremony, he cited unfair trade practices with china. vice president pence and u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer and commerce secretary wilbur ross were also at the signing. this is 10 minutes. president trump: well, thank you very much, everybody. this has been long in the making. you have heard many, many speeches by me and talks by me and interviews where i talk about unfair trade practices. we've lost over a fairly short period of time 60,000 factories

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

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

syria so yes so what would north korea want in exchange for denuclearization it would want the united states to withdraw its troops and pieces from south korea and of course the recognition of north korea as an independent state and boy on both counts the united states is not willing to compromise so i had it in my introduction will the deep state allow him mark ok i want to toss a another alternative view and there it is entirely possible that trump went out on his own in the deep sea it is our fight there is another possibility south korea north korea just had a very successful you know first blush spring of detente with this joint a limbic team and they're talking to each other they've agreed on a meeting in the d.m.z. between the two the two leaders and russia and china russia working with north korea and trying to working with south korea seem to be playing some type of tag team to facilitate a process and there's some evidently some real substantial things are actually being disk. about security guarantees and so on among the koreans among the corrino we have mentioned on the show mult

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

does just the right now united states is talking about spending one point two trillion dollars over the thirty years to try to develop new tactical low yield will know the one point two trillion is for the whole thing and it's mostly for the you know the newer shiny or versions of the same old same old what was remarkable in the russian side is putin's speech with a level of presidential nuclear saber rattling that we really haven't seen maybe ever in the nuclear age but certainly not since khrushchev. with these videos of weapons after weapon after weapon now none of those with perhaps one exception i would argue pose any new fundamental threats to the strategic balance there fundamentally the united states and russia are have been for decades to scorpions in a bottle each capable of destroying the other but only at the price of being destroyed itself and putin 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 so it really doesn't change t

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

the united states wants an immediate cease fire after 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 will speak to our panel in a moment but first here's question sort of amaze reports 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 n

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

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

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

you said i think of the united states was under attack. why hasn't the human knighted states found anyone to section. >> as you probably seen, 13 individuals have been named. out acretary is bringing list of sanctions on those who have been complicit in this. you're talking about the 13 individuals indicted by the special counsel? >> correct. this goes the that to others that i don't know what names are on the list. we provided intelligence information to the department of treasury for this determination, and i'm told it is coming soon. you are asked to provide analysis to support the treasury department's decision. in -- decision? know is we have been engaged in providing intelligence on the subject of continuously -- >> when they made their initial decision of release of names, they did not choose to sanction any individuals at that time. where you asked to provide analysis for them to come up with that decision? back andd have to go double check whether this was just part of a regular, ongoing provision of provision of information or whe

with the united states russia is simply trying to provide security for its citizens and to take away opportunities for the united states to a ticket without that he's put all the great powers are in competition so i get home when we get home not going to run out of the many thanks my guest here in moscow this is the in of our broadcast segments stay with us for the extended version on our you tube channel see you next time and remember across the. show seemed wrong but. just don't. let me. get to shape out the attic. and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself in taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry but only i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't li

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is stored communications act limited to the united states. of the government wants to use the act to unilaterally reach into a foreign land to search import private customer correspondence physically stored in a digital computer is protected by foreign law. that is a scenario -- >> correct me if it is incorrect, but we are told until this very case microsoft was complying with these disclosure orders. this case is the first time it objected. but there were past efforts of the same kind and microsoft disclosed the contents of the communications. is that so? >> yes your honor. i want to make sure the court understands this is a new phenomenon. this whole notion of crowd storage and another -- cloud storage in another country. we did not do it until 2010. so the fact that we analyzed our legal obligations and realized this is actually annexed next her territorial act unauthorized by the united states government. the fact that we were sober-minded against it -- about it should not be held against us. are assuming the answer to the question. the g

, of attacking the united states. threats like al qaeda or isis. and on that point, the best evidence we have suggests their involvement in yemen is arguably undermined our fight against isis. the state department's most recent study, its most recent country reports on terrorism says that the -- which, by the way, happens to be the authority on that subject for congress and the american people -- it says that we have inadvertently strengthened isis by killing off its antagonists, the houthis. this just reinforces the forc forceical character that they have the potential to undertake. we bomb with one hand. we give humanitarian aid with the other hand. we whack at terrorists from one group and another springs up in its place. defenders of our efforts in this war in yemen often claim that the real reason we're fighting the houthis is because they are a proxy for iran, which is the true threat to our nation and to the world. this would be perhaps a reasonable rationale but there are conflicting reports about the houthis a

my name is jeffrey berman and i am a united states attorney for the southern district of new york. today in one of the largest state sponsored hacking campaigns ever prosecuted, we have unmasked criminals who normally work in total anonymity hiding behind the ones and zeros of computer code. this massive and brazen cyber assault on the computer systems of 144 u.s. universities, 176 for universities, in 21 and dozens of government organizations and private companies, this assault was conducted on behalf of the uranium government's islamic revolutionary guard or irgc. at the indictment alleges, they were members of the institute which conducted the assault at the behest of the ih -- the irgc. the company was set up in 2013 by two defendants. and while the company's name may sound legitimate, this institute was set up for one reason only. to steal scientific resources mother countries around the world. the campaign operated in three parts. a university campaign, private company packs and -- hacks and nongovernmental hacks. 2017 the defendants hacked over hundreds of accounts around the

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

united states. long trade dispute with china the u.s. president says he is protecting american security and jobs of the markets all more convinced than he's ever starting. to do business on crystal president the. and who takes pride in soaring stocks is rattling the markets global shares plummet as the united states in ounce a hike in import tariffs for china a key supplier to its massive consumer oriented market fears are increasing the donald trump is rushing headlong into a trade war with the world's economic powerhouse in asia china has already threatened to retaliate if the united states does not back down. now after an election campaign where he pledged to address china's seventy three hundred seventy billion dollars trade surplus with the united states donald trump ordered an investigation of chinese business last year is survey among u.s. companies revealed four main gripes first they claim chinese firms require foreign companies to form partnerships in china then steal technology and close down the joint venture second chinese c

, it shrunk down to a 30 some favorable view of the united states in mexico. when i talked to colleagues and friends, they say, our sons and daughters who grew up in the post- nafta era, who looked at the united states as a close partner, a place to learn, sometimes to live in other times to go steady and come back to mexico are now taking another look at the united states through these lenses and that i think is the really dangerous potential in this current situation, we don't want to go back to that period of time where ambassador started off where we were characterized as distant neighbors. very well said. i can't emphasize enough the current opinion and the administration support on issues such as venezuela and the crisis that we are facing their as being part of that partnership that that reflects so it's not just the border issues. it's not just the immigration issues, it's not just the transnational crime organizational cooperation in terms of countering that. a chairman and cofounder of the financial integrity network, us colleague of mine at the whit