with her husband to the united states from iraq in 2013. she is the proud mother of two children and is expecting a third. since coming to america, she has become a teacher's assistant in our public schools doing a fantastic job, i might add, preparing the next generation of young americans to make the most of this magnificent country that she too now enjoys. and i want to just congratulate you. thank you. [applause] matthew hemsley is from the united kingdom. thank you, matthew. he is an anglican pastor who came to the united states in 2006 and earned a masters degree from gordon conwell seminary in north carolina. fine place. his grandmother was an american citizen whose ancestors first came to north america in 1637. that means you beat us. you beat all of us. [laughter] as part of plymouth colony. now the hemsley family history of the united states is renewed, and the next chapter of their american story begins. matthew, it's an honor. great luck. [applause] [inaudible] is from south korea and came to the united states in 1992 to pursue

the united states wants to build a wall between mexico but it's building a -- wall. f the points made by secretary of state pompeo are in line with the language of the cold war, mccarthy, nixon. they're bringing the corlede -- cold war back. they're bringing the monroe document of 1823. -- in 1929 that the united states, which appeared destined by fate to impose misery on latin america. he predicted that. that is what the united states has done. you know, since the beginning of these unilateral and measures that are in breach of nternational law in venezuela, december of last year, you know what the cost has been? 23 billion. due to the blockade and to the persecution, to undermining our resources, and would the venezuelan economy be in this state if they had these resources? $20 million were offered through the o.a.s. then taken away. the ambassador of belgium. $1.2 billion are froze than belgium. we can't conduct any banking transactions. this is what is being done against the venezuelan people. the representative of russia was quite clear. there's no such thing as

the interior of the united states.what we found is the homicide rate in those counties is about 25% below that of the rest of the united states. if the rest of the trait was as peaceful as as border counties are in terms of the homicide rate, the would be about 5700 fewer homicides in the united states in 2017 relative to what they really were. there's crime on the border, homicide on the border, lots of different crimes that occur there but compared to the rest of the country it's more peaceful than people giveeo cret for. >> host: thankre you institute, we might people at the cato institute does. >> guest: it's a libertarian think tank based in washington, d.c. we research basically every single public policy issue from the perspective of support for free markets, limited government, individual liberty and a peaceful non-interventionist foreign policy. >> host: if you had $5.7 billion invest in solving thee immigration issue at the border, , howrd would you inves? >> guest: the number think we need to do is to make i

do you solemnly swear you will suppor t the constitution of the united states, do you swear faith and allegiance to the same. do you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or personal hesitation and to discharge those duties upon what you are about to serve? congratulations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] how was i going? thank you so much. it's an honor to be with you. . >> what a great family. . >> it is so nice to see you. [inaudible conversations] . >> nice to meet you. [inaudible conversations] . >> i was already looking up. [laughter] please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will sup port the constitution of the united states, against enemies foreign and domenstic, do you swear faith and allegiance to the same. do you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or personal hesitation and that you will well and faithfully discharge the office upon which you are about to enter so help you god? congratulations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] . >> please raise your r

is going to do once it understands where the united states or what the united states wants to do then it can act in everyone is not a man known for his patience go ahead joshua. well you're absolutely right that the kurdish problem it turns out to be a problem for everybody nobody really knows what to do with it not america not turkey not syria not iraq and and this is you know with the collapse of the syrian central state during a civil war us and in many ways handed off eastern northeastern syria to the kurds and to the wipe egypt and then america which had been helping the arab militias against assad hoping to overthrow the regime put in a pro-american regime that would make peace with israel. this completely collapsed and so the united states was left siding with the kurds to fight isis these this very reliant sunni kayleigh full group that was trying to build this big caillat and that that caused in a sense the united states to side with allies of us if you would but now that they're withdrawing everybody is no none of the regional powers want there to be an independent or autono

the thing is, here in the united states can -- not in the united states, not the people of the unitedtates, but the elite that is in power that is ruling the united states, they believe that latin america -- they want to impose their model. they want to have this presidents were also businessmen and follow the orders of the president of the united states. but we are not, so we're trying to build our own society in new terms, with equality, with access to health, to education, housing, to culture. and that is our struggle. of course, what happens is in those terms, the u.s. elite and other countries, satellite countries of the united states, they are trying to isolate venezuela, trying to stop this from happening. it is not going to happen. but this is a difficult struggle, amy. we are really looking and pressing desk president maduro has looked for dialogue. we had a dialogue process last year with the opposition in the dominican republic, hosted by the dominican republic in the former president of spain. when we reached the agreement, we were there to sign the agreement, the oppositi

under crean disrupting chemicals in the united states. produce disease cost at that twice as much as in europe where the regulation is much tighter i wonder if you faced any pushback on that under study not only from the industry but also from the political class because ultimately these results are a comment on the role of the government. we know that policy predicts exposure exposure predicts disease and disease costs us all as a society what's striking about the difference in our cost estimates between the european union and the united states is the differences in policy that drive those differences in costs so in the united states we proactively required brominated flame returns to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children whereas europe proactively acted to ban those flame retardants from mus

unfortunately, the real policy of united states in the united states scomm in the not just western hemisphere is in stark contrast to those noble and just deals. it's no secret to anyone, washington's attempts to undermine nicaragua. and the internal affairs of the state were confirmed by the decision of the international court in the hague in 1986 as part of the iran contra affair. at the time the yiverts tried to find nick rack wan rebels. the chileans will never forget the role of united states in overthrowing him. an team by the united states to impose their will on other nations is being complemented with another captainer and this is just some of what washington has done just in latin america, the nations of africa, asia, middle east, of the pacific region and europe have quite a bit to add to this list. so against in background, the inventing out of anyone air of so-called evidence of interference in the united states elections as well as the accusation a lot of countries in maligned policy appeared not only absurd but practically funny. on the 20th of may of 2018, the venezuelan peopl

oversight in the united states and whereas the e.p.a. updated its regulation very recently the food and drug administration still operates on a framework that assumes that the do is prove makes the proverbial poison and the reality is that even the f.d.a. own science suggests effects at low levels of exposure one thing that absolutely astounded me and that i didn't know before is that the f.d.a. does not have the authority to up to date or or reassess the safety of chemicals we are already on the market which is quite scary knowing how much both the bio chemical and medical industries have progress doesn't mean that once the chemical is on the market it will be on the market for ever unless the producer wants to replace it with something safer well fortunately we're seeing a lot of attention to what we call the generally recognized as safe or grass loophole there are a lot of proposals underway to modernize the food drug and cosmetic act in the united states so that we can have a framework that's clearer and more protective of human heal

you mentioned them as is an american born american citizen she's a journalism graduate from the united states she studied at louisiana state university and graduated many decades ago she has decades of experience in journalism and her family are very concerned and they have very little information of what is going on they know she is detained without charge and they are very very concerned about you say you spoke to her daughter about an hour ago before you came on. what was your conversation about are you able to tell us what was said. look at the moment there are very many questions and very little what we do you know what the family do know is that magazine was taken in tunnel flight you have the correct information there in the lead up but actually many press outlets incorrectly saying that she was arrested coming into the united states that's not what happened was he was in the united states she was taking in an tunnel flight from st louis to denver where she was detained and then she was transferred to washington d.c. the only the only information and contact the family have had with ma

will the united states raise a complaint if nothing else with the havana regime? mr. bolton: as you know secretary of state pompeo discussed the o.a.s. general assembly a few days ago. we expect more in the coming days. because as both secretary mnuchin and i said, we know what the legitimate government of venezuela is. and it's our mission now to make a full reality in venezuela. what the people of venezuela themselves want. reporter: do you have -- indiscernible] reporter: if you don't mind turning your attention to the talks, the talks with china. in your opinion, where does all that stand right now? are you comfortable with progress that's been made in the last couple weeks, larry kudlow said talks over the next couple days will be -- is that your assessment? secretary mnuchin: i think we had talks between the two presidents which is an important time. e sent a team over to beijing. there were very significant discussions over that period of time. we had conversations since then. ambassador lighthizer and i are looking forward to the two days of talks. the presiden

. >> do solemnly swear to support and protect the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same? do you take this allegation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will well and faithfully discharge the office on which you are about to enter so help you god? >> i do. >> congratulations. >> said it twice. >> thank you. there is one more please. >> look forward to working with you. >> great to meet you. [inaudible conversations] >> congratulations. >> you want to be in the picture? >> i guess we do. >> administer the oath and we will have some family. please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic and bear faith and allegiance to the same? take this obligation freely without any mental reservation for purposes of innovation, to well and faithfully discharge the office upon which you are about to enter, to help you god? >> i do. >> congratulations. [inaudible conversati

well you know saudi arabia needs the united states alliance and i think the united states is playing. when it's you know it's blowing kisses in saudi arabia it's protected saudi arabia from the shop she affair to a certain degree by the president saying that it's not clear that the king is involved in ness of course pompei of his message was the people who carried out the murder have to be punished which which. plex a certain amount of pain on the crown prince because it's going to see inside the kingdom it's going to be seen as disloyalty and but on the other hand it is trying to get beyond this relationship there is talk about trying to clean up yemen situation all of these are monsters undertakings unlikely to be resolved anytime soon so the united states has a lot of heavy lifting to do to try to bring unity back to arab ranks because the arab unity is completely fallen apart over the last you know the last seven eight years. majeed tell us about iran's relationship with qatar and how that plays into the into the strategic game play if you like i mean a sense. since maybe the nine

given that the united states has said it's going to leave and i think given no no matter what the united states says because there is a sense that one way or another the united states is going to be taking off they're going to try to reach an agreement with the assad government with moscow's backing to make sure that while this is not their first choice it's still something they prefer to a turkish invasion and there. could well be what we see going forward my one couple on your thoughts if the united states leaves who fills the void well it depends on how the united states will leave actually because if there is an agreement with turkey which is something that i believe now is not is not actually. something that we should expect to have soon given the failure of the bolt on visit to to ankara today so will we still need to see actually who is going to. take advantage of this disagreement between turkey and the united states now it seems to me that we are back to square one between two of the united states concerning the area but let's assume that the americans are withdrawing without an

the united states is trying to be in a region. when they are there the only job thier doing and they have shown that they do is creation of interest groups who are risking tone during the time his tenure in the foreign ministry he. has so a meeting the. she. has dissipated in the creation of the terrorist group in syria and iraq if you recall in the. states. then trump. choose into the you who are the people who are these terrorist groups here ultimately agree with mr trump in the in these coalition he wanted to again change to the only change you followed the same policy that. created do you think you may have other things in common with mr trump and at least in the way how he conceptualizes there is no newcomer in purposes a common policy between us and the search. and there could be no more overlap of of us on how the region develops we're not. because we know that. he. has you know any policy you know or the war you're against any kind o. expansionism and any kind of his unit where you notice it or any other country now as the

welcome to worlds apart it's often said that the united nations is only as good as its member states allow it to be but what happens when those numbers state deliberately start to act institution itself its legacy the synergies that create pool for the whole is greater than the sum of its parts while to discuss that i'm now joined by the united nations secretary general until this secretary general first of all let me welcome you here in moscow thank you very much for your time let me start with congratulating you on the portugal's victory over. the did you have a chance to watch the game yes i watched the game and let's be clear we won the game but we didn't play very well exactly in that way you're living me to my next question because according to that game stats americans were better across the board in terms of the possession of the ball in terms of the shots shots and targets etc but they still lost and i wonder if. you often see this kind of dynamic of the united nations when that country puts up a good game but the final score is still not in its favor is all the time not onl

we want to ask him directly, does that mean the united states is ready to use military force against a sovereign state under a bogus pretext? here in this room we need to hear a clear answer. secretary of state pompeo claims china, russia, cuba, syria and iran are supporting maduro. his secretary of state would find time to stay in this room a little longer, he would hear directly how these countries are not there to regime, theyaduro are there to support international law. of they in the context notion of a rules-based order promoted by our colleagues, such actions of overthrowing rogue regimes are welcomed by them. internationalists qualify such ,iolations of the u.n. charter behavior unacceptable that undermines the principles of the u.n. charter and the basic norms of international behavior. we would also like to address our latin american partners. in case you continue with you actions, the illegality of what is taking place in venezuela is flagrant and leadership salutes this in following washington, rubberstamps threatening against an independent state. to resolve the venezuela

so truman stepped in with the truman doctrine to make it the policy of the united states to support some of these countries. and then that eventually led to truman's bigger foreign policy initiative, which was the martial plan, named after george marshall, who was the secretary of state at the time but, of course, had also been the leader of the military forces during world war ii. >> the only solution that i see is to establish a firm front. a more effective it will be. and the propaganda efforts to convey that this is an aggressive front, of course, are pure propaganda. >> the idea was that the united states would provide financial assistance but the european countries who agreed to join the marshall planning had to work among themselves to decide how the money would be spent. it was primarily used on big infrastructure projects that helped rebuild the infrastructure of european nations. it's considered one of the most successful foreign policy initiatives in the history of the united states. this is a letter that harry truman wrote to his wife, beth. beth spent part of the year back h

so the united states is stepping up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to leave office it has imposed sanctions on venezuelan state oil company blocking some seven billion dollars in assets madeira says the move is illegal and has vowed to take action it is the latest in a series of measures by the trumpet ministration to push out u.s. national security advisor john bolton has not ruled out the military option now is the time to stand for democracy and prosperity in venezuela i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president going to any violence against the. groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response it'll be my turn this shows that their objective is to take care riches what is the objective of the government of the united states take the properties from venezuela the riches of venezuela venezuela's money and later on they aspire to take away our country well let's hear now from our correspondent

the united states also is working to keep our bilateralun relationships strong. over the next few days, i'll hold in-depth discussions with the leaders of bahrain, the uae, qatar, saudi arabia, oman, and kuwait. we'll talk about our shared goals, just as i did in jordan and iraq this week, and as i did today with president sisi and foreign minister shoukry. and as we seek an even stronger partnership with egypt, we encourage president sisi to unleash the creative energy of egypt's people, unfetter the economy, and promote a free and open exchange of ideas. the progress made to date can continue. i also applaud president sisi's efforts to promote religious freedom, which stands as an example for all leaders and allo peoples of the middle east. i was happy to see our citizens, wrongly convicted of improperly operating ngos here, finally be acquitted. and we strongly support president sisi's initiative to amend egyptian law so that this does not happen again. more work certainly needs to be done to maximize the potential of the egyptian nation and its people. i'm gl

from china and united states and canada and china in terms of arrests there in this case is that again it's not their random interaction that here they are talking specifically about americans being approached by russians who seem to be friendly in the world the words of mr brennan is most unusual and it's good it's not surprising to me that someone coming from an intelligence background has that kind of perspective on russians just randomly interacting with them that said i agree with you that if you're an ordinary american who doesn't have any affiliations with the united states government who doesn't have any affiliation with what would be considered aspects of the national security sector no that's a guy that's concluded that is somewhat exaggerated i'm perfectly happy to agree i heard you say that that while you yourself dislike conspiracy theories there is just too much smoke around trump for there to be no fire how much of that smoke is genuine and how much of that is created by segments like this is genuine and how much of that is created by segments like this the last ti

the united states is now putting its money as well as its endorsement behind the venezuelan opposition posing sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company petter they say the path to sanctions relief for pad of a so is through the expeditious transfer of control to the interim president or a subsequent democratically elected government who is committed to taking concrete and meaningful actions to combat corruption but the trumpet ministration has president nicolas maduro in its sights hoping to weaken his support with the military which now controls the oil company and so far is standing behind him the duro vowed legal action to protect citgo it's us me subsidiary thumbelina. with this move that trying to steal six go promised the venezuelan people to be on alert finn is buying up today the united states has decided to take that road of stealing the company citgo from venezuela and that is an illegal drug the aim of the sanctions is to direct oil revenues to the self declared interim president and opposition leader won by del rio who's calling for a day of protest on wednesday inte

i mean fortunately and to a lot of united states servant. to the financial commitments of the un maintain their position there are as i said as you said some pretty for all areas where the us has left but in addition to the sense of all aspects the us has maintained its independently of that it's important to have a multi please city of excess and it is that equilibrium that's a loss for us to be more impartial and body sectors given how important the united states still is both to their funding and their running off and i'm sure as secretary general your had to run through several contingency plans i wonder in your planning whether you see this change post chair of the united states as something temporary that may change too or at let's say six years down the line or is it a permanent change i think it's important to recognize first of all that we have been able to maintain with the us a working relationship the best of the nikki haley has been extremely constructive in addressing the difficulties that we face i mean if the latest statement

to continue to contribute to the dangerous and often fatal effects of illicit drug use in the united states. we will continue to work with our international partners across the federal government and with our partners at the state, local and tribal levels to reduce the availability of illicit drugs in the united states and decrease the profound effects they are having in our communities. the american people should expect nothing less from us. thank you for the opportunity to testify today and i'll be happy to answer your questions. >> thank you mr. chester. miss ayala. >> chairman cornyn, ranking member durbin, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. u.s. immigration and customs enforcement govern laws governing border patrol and customs enforcement to promote homeland security. i.c.e. has three directorates, homeland security investigations, and the office of principle legal adviser employing more than 20,000 employees in over 200 offices across the u.s. and 50 countries. today i will provide i.c.e.'s perspective on the challenges we face, the sophisticated smuggling thre

but the united states still had a problem.ry truman remembered from his war i experience, he came back and he set up a with his friend, jacobson, and that business went a depression after world war i. one of truman's goals at the end war was tond world try to have a rational, logical the militaryof economy back to a peace time economy. people had earned money during the war, but there was nothing to spend it on during the war. lot of pent-up-up part of consumers to spend money on the war to buy things. that, of course, would put extreme pressure on prices and prices would go up. so truman was trying to use the kind of balance all this out and make a smoother reconversion from a military time economy.eace now, even though truman was very unions, hetive of faced a real backlash from unions and workers after the war this.e of and so he had this habit of diaryg what we call entries. written onually just loose-leaf pieces of paper. but in this particular one, truman is venting his anger at andunions for opposing him his post-war ec

that role has historically been played by the united states and i believe united states, even with the changes in the distribution of power, even with the rise of other act remains the only actor in the world today capable of continuing to play that role. and in order to do so, it cannot be seen as just a normal great power looking out only for its own interest. to effectively play that role it has to be an unusual great power, a great power that looks out for the common interest as well as his own interest. and so exceptionalism comes into the picture in that important way. and then secondly, at a moment when the debate over the future of american foreign policy within the united states is being shaped by this what i believe to be a false and some ways dog whistling choice between nationalism and globalism, with the idea of exceptionalism can contribute to is the idea that there is no inconsistency between american patriotism and american internationalism, which is to say that for the american people, they can see a larger purpose that goes beyond simply looking out for the us at the

the united states army.t is a warehouse supervisor. a strong guy, a smart guy, and they have a beautiful 4-year-old son, who was born here, in the united states, robert, congratulations. thank you. [ applause ] >> marcell, ramos ramirez is from bolivia, and has a beautiful lawful permanent resident of the united states, and has been since 2013. he is the co-owner of a staffing company with his son, histo mar the business is thriving and he it is doing very well and he is expanding in all different ways and he says in the united states you can achieve anything that you want, and i am a perfect example. in ord in other words, he is making a lot of money. marcell, thank you very much. >> you've been listening in there to the president speaking at a naturalization ceremony inside the white house today. welcoming some members from south korea, japan, and bolivia, to the united states. they are now american citizens. the irony here is that it comes on a day in which the president is set to address the nation about

we cannot repatriate the profit from our company, the united states, to invested in food and medicinen venezuela. amy: citgo, venezuelan state oil company, has been using for many years and the united states to support for people in their program staff oil in the winter. >> and we intend to keep on using it for this in the united states. but most of the profit annually should b be said to vevenezuela. we cannot do i it. it has to be in the united states banks. because of the sanctions. amy: y you mention russia. on wednesday, sergey lavrov expressed concerns over u.s. meddling in venezuela. >> we heard talk that allows for military involvement in venezuela. talklk that the unitited statesl now recognize as a president of venezuela, not nicolas maduro, but the representative of the parliament. all of this is very alarming and all this shows is that the approach of undermining governments the united states does not like stays on as a priority of their activity in latin america and other regions. amy: if you can talk about the significance of lavrov weighing in andnd alslso the latest ne

we, the united states, command each of these efforts. and for all nations to continue the work for the full array of the regimes activity. the work to curb the regimes deadly ambitions is not confined to the middle east. america's friends and partners from south korea to poland have joined our effort to stop the wave of regional destruction and global campaigns of terror. countries across the globe have cut iranian oil imports to zero and are working toward that goal. private companies in france germany britain and elsewhere have all calculated enriching themselves through work with the regime is bad for business. and bad for the people of their own countries. in yemen, we have assisted our coalition partners as they take the lead in preventing and arranging expansion that would be disastrous for world trade. and regional security. as is always the case with america, our engagement has also been coupled with robust humanitarian aid. he supported the un talks to put yemen on the path to peace. in lebanon, hezbollah remains a major presenc

from president and also this speech from russia they are again provoking the united states so that might end up in the scenario we don't want to see there the german foreign minister hard to moscow has been in washington and he's laid down germany's position is very clear on that as well an exclusive interview with the w mission or target we're not neutral on the question of venezuela we're on one glide to side because we have serious difficulties recognizing mcdougal's reelection is this is a feat it's obvious that there were so many irregularities in the election process that we can only speak to a limited degree of a democratic election that's why we're calling for fresh elections for the national assembly to assume responsibility for and for the force of constitutional law to be restored to venezuela we've made that known together with our european partners that's going to be our policy in the coming days and i expect this will be made very clear we are not neutral as regards this question we support what why do is doing your description does for us ok the german foreign m

is a war going on and we blame the united states completely the trump administration you have. the secretary of state the vice president calling for an overthrow of mother what about those people watching all say well we've seen how terrible the situation is in in the country and we hear that the duros a dictator and he wasn't you know legitimately really acted the best thing is if he goes well this is the united states speaking the u.s. if they don't they're not happy with an election then they intervene and decide to overthrow or find other means to destabilize the country it was elected twice there were other opposition parties that were allowed to run some chose not to and there are. contending forces in the country it's a polarized situation but it's thanks largely to the united states and to venice well in corporations that have carried out years of hoarding of economic destabilisation but now we see the hand of the united states openly calling for a coup president trump illegally declaring recognition for one was why though who is not the president it was in two thousand

it has to be able to pass the united states senate, it has to be signed by the president of the united states, unless 2/3 of the house and the senate are willing to override the -- his veto and frankly i don't think my friends have 2/3 majority either here, they certainly don't in the united states senate. so i have a modest proposal, probably the people that are producing this legislation here should sit town and talk with the united states senate. ahead of time. and say can we split the difference here? can we find some common ground? actually the president did that in december. literally sent the vice president to negotiations to say, we don't -- we would loik to get $5 billion. we think that's the appropriate amount. but what if we settled at $2.5 billion. that's no. that's a normal, reasonable compromise, it's called splitting the divens. the president tried to do that i do nend my -- commend my friends, i know they're sears about want -- wanting to reopen the government, we would love to work with them on getting that cone but it's going to entail compromise. frankly over the nex

because if you want to help the united states, it becomes very hard to figure out where the united states is going and what is considered helpful. >> bob, i got a and two things to this. one is, the trump administration now has two years under its belt from january 2017, now to january 2019. and i think it's worth asking with two years gone by what sort of a trump document for the foreign policy? and what is increasingly looking like is a foreign policy that looks a lot like, not isolationism, because i wouldn't call it isolationism but it's much more one of what you might call restraint. and that is a foreign policy that minimizes the use of military forces in some areas and for him, the middle east and i think south asia are areas where he does not see a strategic interest, at least at this point. china represents slightly a slightly different situation where i think the president, and you can see both with the trade wars and the way he speaks about china, is an area where he sees some competition. and so i think that since, we see a deployment of military forces in the asia-pacific reg

because it's an easy conduit coming through mexico to get into the united states ok david let me just bring lincoln into the conversation lincoln david says the number is wrong and that the president is right to say that there is a security crisis a humanitarian crisis at the southern border your thoughts. well there is i mean there is he is right there are people dying in the desert that is a humanitarian crisis that's one that didn't start recently it's been going on for a very long time i think it's an odd way for a president the president to try to frame this donald trump wants a border wall because he ran around the country in two thousand and sixteen to cheering crowds saying build the wall build the wall there's no rational policy reason to do this even the numbers that the my colleague in florida has stated that suggest that the work is being done there apprehending people this is been going on for a long time since september eleventh two thousand and one if you want to talk about security our security forces whether it's the border patrol whether it's other local law

this year the ranking of the united states is finally on the rise.as we have already heard, we moved from a low of 18th last year to 12th this year. that is good, but not good enough. no one is out there chanting we are number 12, we are number 12! number 12 is better to be sure, but why are we not number 1? or at least in the top 10. maybe that should be our goal for next year as we get the united states in the top 10 of the index of economic freedom. of course we should not strive to increase our ranking simply based on pride. we should increase our ranking because of the real-world tangible benefits. the index over 25 years has shown without exception or doubt that the more economic freedom a society has, the healthier it is the cleaner the environment, and the higher the member standards of living. basically it increases if you get more economic freedom and basically it goes down if freedom is reduced. the statistics bear this out. if economic freedom has increased over the past 25 years and we have heard today, human development including indica

defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic? that you will bare true faith to the same and take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office you're about to enter, so help you god. >> i do. >> congratulations. >> it's an honor to be with you today. congratulations. >> would you like to? >> how are you? >> we're just going to do a reena reenactment. >> happy new year. >> thank you. it's an honor. great to meet you. >> four months. >> i saw the crihristmas card b i didn't believe it. >> i'm going to administer the oath and you can look at him for that. >> do you swore you will support and defend the constitution against all enmists and dmisic? will you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation, purpose of evasion and that you're well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you're about to enter, so help you god? >> i do. >> congratulations. >> let me have you all turn this way. >> am i in th