host: what's the best thing the united states can do to help mexico fight cartels. guest: it has to be a multidimensional strategy. the basic principles of the merida principles are sound and we need a greater intelligence corporation and transfer of resources for training purposes and we need to see perhaps less pressure on mexico in terms of stopping the flows of central american migrants. host: let's hear to callers from baldwinville, massachusetts, bob, good morning, on the independent line. caller: good morning. host: you're on the air. go ahead. caller: all right. i would like to know if there's any way -- if the mexican government can't get these people under control, why don't we just go in and do it anyway? they can't take care of them and they can't fight with them without losing against them, so you know, they're not going to be able to do anything against us [ host: you're calling for the s. to intervene mill sterile -- militarily? caller: i definitely him. if they can't take care of those people. how many thousands of people die? they have a hundred peo

united states is part of that. we have graduated more than 100 doctors, physicians for free in cuba. so let's go to recent history. december 17, 2014. both presidents, obama and rubble, announced they will start a new moment between cuba and the united states. that was big news, breaking news. everybody was talking about that. i like to say that we did not see the armageddon after that. we are still here. nothing bad happened, you know? werehe reality is that we more suspicious in cuba. i'm in the united states, trying to find one media that put the cuban speech. times" see "the new york put fidel and not raul who was the president. this is part again of what happened in our common history between cuba and the united states. after that, you have to go i believe more quick. why this happened? i really believe this happened not only because two men want to. i believe this happened because the majority of the american people, the cuban people, and even the cuban-americans support this. 1959, theack in 1960's, 1970's,

of freedom on the united states. tomorrow the united nations will appear and in cuba and the us. and 189 votes, the general assembly to end the embargo against cuba and now biden resolution, every year -- this has been happening since 1992. last year you have two votes, the united states and israel. yq this something you need to think about. cuban-americans don't want it. almost every country in the world don't support the us embargo. that is a good question, we need a good answer. our people, everybody in the society. this is - now the current administration is not only trying to keep the census but are open to new ideas. they open the door to this that allow people here to introduce us courts against everybody for using trafficking properties that were nationalized in cuba in 1959-1961. when president clinton signed this law he put a waiver to the treaty. it was not in place. every president since president clinton put the same waiver every six months. the current administration did not have a waiver. the united sta

forum of the united states.ociate members of the committee are located in the boxes to my left. i would like to ask the president's and national commanders that comprise our associate membership to stand and be recognized. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in recognizing our veterans national leadership with your applause. [applause] it is now my pleasure to introduce the executive director army national military cemeteries, ms. karen durham-aguilera. >> good morning. on behalf of the secretary of the army, welcome to arlington national cemetery. thank you, mr. vice president for being here today and for honoring our nation's veterans. welcome also to the honorable dan quayle, former vice president, and his family for attending today. [applause] to secretary defense esper, mrs. esper, secretary of the v.a. wilkie, mrs. wilkie, the senior officials before me, the duties of undersecretary of the army, the honorable jim mcpherson, chief of staff of the army, general mcconville, mrs. mcconville, welcome. mr. fran

it is a foe to the united states. i think that does not help put them in a frame of mind of working together to meet this growing challenge, and i think that's sort of in some ways the perception is the u.s. feels like it's intervening as much as china is sometimes. i know you are working hard to prevent that, but it makes it challenging to meet that. i just want to offer that as a reflection. >> let me respond to that briefly. look, as i said, this president is unique and he does speak his mind. i've been in politics all my adult life in the media used to get after all the time, you politician, you never tell us what you're thinking. boy, they got a kind of who tells them what you're thinking, all day long, all night long and bitter like the anybody. he has unique way of speaking and we here in america watched this as we got along and i tell my european friends, look, you've got to take the whole thing together, don't take a sentence, don't take your word, don't take a thought. we all have thoughts that we don't expr

discriminating way of conducting diplomacy and the united states has chosen to act unilaterally disregarding the united nations security council even its allies and the western allies do not see eye to eye with washington on this topic so obviously it will not be a precedent and the united states will probably be isolated obviously this is going to please the right wing in israel it is not going to change anything if at all it is going to give more strength to those extremists in the palestinian community who say that diplomacy is not the road for statehood and that they must act violently and therefore israelis should be against this policy announcement and not for it. u.s. secretary state my composure justified the decision saying it provides the space to find a political solution between the 2 sides however the us has issued a travel warning at the same time we have been on the ground what they think. the usa zionist position is against ethics this is our homeland and our families so we will resist as our religion says if you die fighting for your lands you are a martyr and we will contin

week united states president donald trump took to the airwaves on tuesday to give his thanks to the mexican people by stating his desire to designate mexico's drug cartels as terrorist organizations and as many civilians caught in the crossfire of the u.s. war on terror over the last 18 years can attest that my friends is truly the gift that just keeps on giving it really is it keeps on giving in the form of drone strikes cia black sites rendition areas and of course the ubiquitous enhanced interrogation techniques that come with being designated terrorists earlier this month after the controversial and brutal slaying of 9 dual u.s. mexican citizens including 6 children who are part of a fundamentalist mormon community living in northern mexico by drug cartel members trump well he did what trump does he took to twitter. saying this time this is the time for mexico with the help of the united states to wage war on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth we merely await a call from your great new president and despite that call never coming that didn't stop the u.s. president

you don't buy in the united states until it two-thirds of the united states senators agree. they say, that's kind of arrogant, isn't it? no, it isn't. what it does is gives america the full power, the full buy-in of an agreement. that's how you do agreements. so when it came to gcpoa, there was no agreement between iran and the united states. sometimes i convince the europeans of it, sometimes they just kind of shake their heads and say, i don't get it. i say, look, if you don't get it, let me ask you this. i have no idea how your country binds itself to another country, but, boy, i know how our country does and the jcpoa didn't do. it takes a two-thirds vote on the floor of the senate. some of them buy off and some don't. so, look, i don't -- i'm not -- the situation in syria is another situation the president did what he did. i think the thing was somewhat misunderstood. i think the fact we are maintaining troops where we are maintaining troops on the eastern side of syria maintains what we need in order to respond to a terrorist activity within syria. and i'm not uncomfor

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those in yemen the united states. and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right away military funding an army. there. because there's always a small. profit. 'd 'd 'd 'd 'd 'd 'd they the latest weapon coupled with the fighting skill of the american soldier stand ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country the american people hold off against aggression this is the big picture now to show you part of the big picture here is sergeant stuart wait. the privilege of serving the united states and uniform is no longer limited to amount. that you please by the women's army koran taking its grooming and.

he is in united states. so what is this? this is a huge mosque built on which the funds provided by turkey, the turkish state, over $110 million, ten miles from washington, d.c. in maryland. what we increasingly see, these kind of mosques in the united states and around the world as being front organizations to reach out to not only turkish diaspora in those countries, and also the muslim communities to establish connections. under normal circumstances, it was a nonpolitical organization trying to serve all muslims and turks but increasingly we see it becoming front of the political islam and the political tool for president erdogan. around the world what we see is a lot of different mosques and the office is working in those mosques paid by the state of turkey, essentially from the turkish state, carrying out spying operations against the opposition of president erdogan. in fact, because they are turkish officials the intelligence has a powerful leverage against them to force them despite even if they do not want. for these

it is a trend it to the united states. so with those sanctions in place so the question about coercion after a few years here i realized we have the opportunity in almost every area. and in that case that there is something really important that cubans don't see that nobody's going to ask you because you come from the united states they will ask for opportunities and then to say i didn't see the weaponization of the nationals for the world series. so engaging in almost every area. but again there is opportunity. and the last idea is to work together to know what happened in havana but using that for political purposes. you have to put more sanctions. and something similar happened in other countries. your diplomat suffered the same in china. even with the special that yes cuba is a small country but you will see the same reaction. so we did nothing wrong. for that is for political purposes. thank you so much. [applause] i hope we leave here wanting to end the blockade not just sitting on the information. thank you for comi

think what happening in the united states. these young iranians are exposed not just to the wonders of the universities, but to the dissidents of the 1960's students. and madecalized some them think about their own voices and their own set of concerns. this was a complication for america's relationship with iran. did not expect his young people to come home of a political consciousness. he wanted them to come home with a technocratic consciousness. engineers, doctors, not threats to his regime. revolution is a messy affair. not clear to those who are revolting what is going to happen. they don't know the endpoint. they are living through chaos and violence and turmoil and they are all vying for legitimacy. , it's notn revolution really clear who's going to take control. there's all kinds of factions. there is a democratic liberal faction, there's a parliamentary republican faction. there is an islamist faction which once a deoxy. they are all vying for control. they are all trying to find tools for legitimacy. -- when he retur

new poll in the united states. just that most people are feeling stressed about the upcoming presidential elections people almost as much as total resentment climate change the concern is the media are probably blowing things out of proportion because of the the 40 percent of people say they now cut the news consumption. at the same time we're seeing democracy under threat we're seeing state actors try to meddle in us elections this is bad for democracy they want to disrupt our democracy they want to disrupt our our system they want to cause doubt in the our state it's true sions in our and our leadership donald trump circus has ruined our country and our country is all through like nothing we have ever confronted before as a nation now we can binge watch the end of america with increased attention i think that news media particularly in the united states has given. the political body i guess you'd say i don't think that that is that notable a certain level of stress around election time can prompt action everyone

united states or by any state on account of sex. so letting that sink in, when you think about the wording of the 19th amendment as it applies, giving the right to vote to women, nowhere does it say guarantees the right to vote. and that is a big difference in its achieving the right to vote for everybody. sort of what we think the 19th amendment did and the reality of what it did. so in this moment states still can find ways through which to disenfranchise voters and up to this moment, up to our contemporary moment in 2019, there are states and laws out there that are seeking to disenfranchise voters. so we're still contending, basically, the wording of this 19th amendment because it's not as specific as we would like it to be and it wouldn't be until the vote rights act of 1965 that things became very crystal clear and that people had the right to vote and were guaranteed the right to vote and not be discriminated against based upon their race. i'm standing in front of a portrait of a native american was forced to attend the carli

so that that's very lucky or it there if the united states. or or they went their order would be in in lima. arm or the structure and that's no arm and arm session or arm in concert or prick now or who we're going to meet by it's a hypocrisy in that sense the office of government accountability in the united states has documented that 70 percent of the weapons seized by the mexican police originated in the united states mexican leaders have long urged the usa to crack down on the flow of weapons into their country however attempts to do so so far have failed for decades here's the thing mexico is certainly dangerous or at least that's the message that donald trump rang out pretty loudly on the campaign trail in 2016 nearly 180000 illegal immigrants with criminal records ordered deported from our country are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens when mexico sends his people to not sending their best to sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems with us. they're bringing in drugs they're bringing i

of the united states senate.'m considering request to tbring the measure to the floo it isn't as if we are taking away an option which the minority leader, pardon me, the republican leader is using. he is not. when we look back to the debate in the effort to find compromise with president trump on this issue. every time the president leads toward daca dreamers these people intervene and stop and negotiations come to an end. it's time for us in the senate not to wait for permission slip from president trump to pass legislation. i'm prepared to bring this matter to the floor and except the decision on the amendments on the floor. and we are in the 'lminority. we will lose some of these, so be it. let the senate be the senate and deliver these measures. to argue that i should be asking to bring it to the floor because he has to go through regular order the obvious gh question is, when is senator mcconnell going to pursue regular order on a measure that's been sitting here for four months? let me say a word if i can

that is our united states.nd important is the valor and fidelity in the hearts and souls of service members, past, pren, guard of our van freedom and liberty. for 155 years, no lace can be surfaced. ple we're a great peo honoring sacrifice, and service to a grateful nation. thank you and welcome to cemetery. national >> i'd like to introduce our veteran service organization for 2019. serve for the 2019 commemoration. he catholic war veterans is incorporated that meets equirements for a veteran service organization under the code of 1986 organized under the state of new york. other er with organizations, it seeks to ote good laws om and service as they look for counselling, and employment opportunities. lemen, welcome kawalski. members and guests today is an extraordinary day. we come here to this place orsake cred purpose and said day to thank our veterans. and we're here to remember and who gave their ion full measure of devot will get a special thanks to those who return to families and ildume their lives to

americans understand that the media is very skewed and that more than 90 percent of the media in the united states presents the negative side of it so americans kind of know to look for the positive and that's the good side that's the good news if you will. united nations general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to america's economic embargo on cuba the snow lasted for nearly 30 years but us brazil and israel have voted no. president donald trump's government has begun escalating its aggression against cuba by a plain unconventional measures in order to prevent disappoint fuel to our country its goal beyond disrupting the economy is to damage a cuban family standards of living by yes it is time for the majority to be heard if you know actually demand the immediate and definitive and to the end the chronic and inhuman blockade against cuba it is time to put an end to double standards in international relations. like all nations we get to choose which countries we trade with this is our sovereign right so it is worrying that the international community in the name of protecting sovereignty continue

podcast coming up our team america correspondent karen fronsac brings us a look at china in the united states and a new battle over rare earth materials and then iraq war veteran former state department official matthew hoh joins us to discuss the pardoning of u.s. war criminals stay to the watching the whole. young innocence have come to a softer. myspace sleepers so putting incidents because said the idea things often do see them out as. killed but also be caught out then fortunate. i do believe the elephant smile i see it in these little ones they all say so they express some changes. in the name of. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to preserve. it you do like to be cross that's what the full screen the more can be good good i'm interested always in the waters of the hottest. first sip. much of a powerful and strong the stuff and then you have the record and what we have done is to try and identify something by that happening in the brain where the extension of the ripples

he did not want the united states to break relations with nazi germany. he did not want president roosevelt or others, to criticize nazi germany publicly. because he feared that it would provoke nazi germany to break relations. pose a problem that went out. the problem was, the guist who ran the immigration system in germany was getting 27000 plus people per year out of germany. and you can only do that if you had diplomatic relations and consoles in the country. he wanted to avoid amy sort of public clash and to that end, he did something the nursing anything like it in my studies in my diplomatic history. he got an advanced report that hitler was planning a major speech on the anniversary of his takeover of power, january 30th, hitler came to power in 1933 in the speech was january 30th, 1939. and hitler was planning a big attack on the united states and president roosevelt and the jews. guist told his nazi contacts that if they attack president roosevelt, this might lead united states to break up relations. and so that section of the speech was deleted

again, shocked, appalled, devastated, that the president of the united states would talk about any ambassador like that to a foreign head of state, and it was me. i mean, i couldn't believe it. >> the next excerpt, when the president references you, was a short one. but he said, well, she's going to go through some things. what did you think when president trump told president zelensky and you read that you were going to go through some things? >> i didn't know what to think, but i was very concerned. >> what were you concerned about? >> she's going to go through some things. it didn't sound good. it sounded like a threat. >> did you feel threatened? >> i did. >> how so? >> i didn't know exactly. it's not a very precise phrase. but i think -- it didn't feel like i was -- i really don't know how to answer the question any further, except to say that it kind of felt like a vague threat. and so i wondered what that meant. it concerned me. >> now, in the same call where the president, as you just said, threatens you, to a foreign leader, he also praises the corrupt ukrainian prosecutors who led t

my grandfather, my mother's father served in the united states marine corps. he joined the marine corps after we were attacked by pearl harbor produced 34 years old, he reached a limit. he fought at guam in nea hirosh. he fought a guaido can. my father was 17 at the time. again after we were attacked at pearl harbor, he joined the army and later the army air corps. 17 years old. my father as a young man grew up in a very poor environment, they lived a mile away from a cigar factory and after my dad would go to elementary school he would go down to the cigar factory because the family needed money per he enjoyed the assembly line when my mothe his mother my grar sarah. >> my ancestors came from russia and ukraine. so that either means on bipartisan or suspect. i do not know. i have no particular love for either country, i have a love for this country. now, i served eight years in the reagan administration. several years at the highest levels of the government. i graduated from college, i graduated from law school one or 22 years old. the new york times refers t

throughout the reigning in history has always been against democracy i mean the united states was the country together with britain that instigated the 1000 the rule against democratically elected mohamed side there right now it's no different i mean the united states has imposed a very severe sanctions on iran which is a lot of ordinary people so coming out and saying that they support these people is hypocritical in the sense that if you do support these people then you wouldn't sanction them so hard that you know they are having difficulty. with their. davey of normal lives well that's your update for now i'm resigned a lot could not be back here with a roundup of the latest headlines in 30 minutes time see them. there was an imaginary goes then an enemy out there called russia during the russia gate hoax meanwhile huawei the other 5 technologies coming out of china and other technology of china time is actually leapfrogging ahead of the us economically and now here's the the way the currency war so now that period of focusing on russia it would be is just a waste of time w

signed there's more to cover like these intellectual property theft issues structural issues the united states keeps arguing for china to change and that china will not it's part of its government but president trump has touted like you're saying time and time again the state of the u.s. economy in part he saying that it's due to his handling of the china trade deal that china trade war after and decides to remove some of the existing terrorists do you see any backlash. well i don't really know and frankly as a professional. columnist all my life and being a person in touch with my profession nobody with a handful of a few a very few believes that the u.s. economy is great to begin with it isn't but even if you think its failure to fully strong the war the trade war with china is not the reason for it its strength if you believe it is this spite not because of the trade war which is a hurtful phenomena so my guess is we're going to see a preliminary deal then we're going to see more deals and suddenly mr trump is going to have to change the story from the american economy is great because of t

the notion of angelo americans -- woump offensive to other nations of the world, as well as the united states. nd -- according to wallace churchill continued. hy be apologetic about angelo- american superiority? let us unite the two great angelo saxon civilizations in order to confer this benefit of freedom on the rest of the world. barely a year later, at the democratic convention in 1944, henry wallace was replaced by a little known junior senator from missouri named harry truman. had wallace remained on the ticket and succeeded franklin roosevelt nine months later, the history of the united states and the cold war might have been very different. as the temper of the war increased, churchill made another visit to washington in september after the quebec conference and feeting -- meeting with the president at hyde park. churchill this time stayed at the white house, where one senior british official reported "the prime minister's sleeping arrangements have now become quite promiscuous. he talks with the president until 2:00 a.m. and consequence -- consequently spends a large part of the day

the line and sub headline you know the united states is starting to look like a queen that's why the president needs to be impeached and removed it reminds me of the soviet dog we were standing on the border over the precipice but we must make a big step forward rate that's exactly what they say right there so that their arguments their side are also bred stiffens makes in this article ludicrous you know parents are wrong he compares for example trumps your chance to. hillary clinton he compares them to the fact that you are too much i was putting jail for abuse when she signed the deal with russia well they should have asked their own best laughed ukrainian president viktor yushchenko if the machine could deserve this she was the prime minister and she didn't fulfill your shrink as directives she didn't talk to the president as the brain is that she went to meet portman and signed that agreement without having powers to do that so any current issue would be put in jail somewhat legally don't you remember her nickname exactly gas princess i guess we got about 40 seconds hours go ahea

did the president of the united states ever state to you that he was not going to allowed aid to go tokraine unless there were investigation into bre's mama, the bidens or the 2016 election. >> no he did not. >> did ukrainians tell you that they understood that they would not be the meeting with the president of the united states military aid or foreign aid from the united states unless they undertook investigation of burisma in the bidens of the 2016 election. >> pretty much you took apart their entire case. mark: they had no case. what is the case of putting having witnesses if they won't listen to the bottom line of what the witnesses have to stay with it comes to impeachment. let's get an actual fact, we heard the testimony from the bureaucrats who said they really care about ukraine and they were really upset because donald trump was going in a different direction with policy despite the fact that 2017 he gave them the money and in 2018 he gave them the money they asked for, donald trump knows what's going on with russia and ukraine, it's donald trump up with the most severe sanct

the united states was roughly 30 electric power grids. the chinese have been detected in all three and the belief is among the military is that a crisis or conflict, they could basically turn off the lights. now, we have 16 critical infrastructures in addition to our electric grid or financial communications transportation. but when you really come down to the most critical infrastructure is our electric grid and if that goes down, we are in deep trouble. >> on a scale of one to ten, and ten being the most concerning, where are we on that scale in terms of a continued future chinese cyber attacks? >> guest: the chinese cyber for today is between seven and eight and growing. we've witnessed it in many ways, and it's going to get worse when the chinese have stolen massive amounts of data. in the book i highlight the case of a hacker who operated a network of vancouver that successfully broke into bowing and stow a $3.4 billion worth of research on the c-17 transport. this is the military's frontline transporter. i've traveled on many of the

with the united states like very much like. regular contact with the the rest of the piece to china diplomat tez also taking part in today's hot debates and he was almost attacked with accusations that the gene an important player when we speak about global security spam. actually given that one of the biggest threats is coming from south asia rejects the dialogue with the us china has never let me repeat china's never rejected the so-called meaningful dialogue anymore in the u.s. has made this so much noise about having the strength natural negotiations but let me make it clear so far until now the u.s. is never told as what exactly they want to talk about in the strand that today's gathering here in moscow is a very good chance for participants to prepare for next year is meeting to make it more productive and more effective because finish with a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world starting with a hospital room by doctors without borders or surely destroyed in yemen no casualties have been repo

is there a united states? one of the paradoxes of western history is that for an extended period, it was the history of the united states. it presented itself as the history of the united states. and the role of the west in the history, the meaning of u.s. history is the question i think the panel has been asked. >> yes, there is a united states. [laughter] >> doing bad things in the world right now. i think we have to recognize that reality. and yet, there might not always be a united states. and there hasn't always been a united states. i think that's an important part of what we're talking about. maybe in the shadows. when bill asked the question, need are we and says, we to be thinking about and asking where people are, that question might be answered differently in u.s., andears for the for the west. we should be among the many people who are doing that thinking about what those possibilities might mean. >> i think, also, if you can just go to this map here, there's a tendency, yeah, to any think about th

turkey has the second largest armed forces in nato after the united states. and they're a very strong second, i might add. i'm pleased that turkey has been steadily increasing its defense spending and close to the 2% range unlike many other countries. at this moment there are eight over 28 of the countries that are current in terms of their obligation financially. turkey has made a vital contribution to nato's resolute support mission in afghanistan and its partnership was important to our destruction of the isis caliphate. in fact, just recently when we took out al-badhdadi, and take him out, we did. turkey knew that we were going over certain areas. they were very, very helpful, good for both countries, we really appreciate it. we're grateful to president erdogan and the citizens of turkey for their cooperation in the constant struggle against terrorism, he fights it like we do. key to our security collaboration is our trade defense and military equipment program. american foreign military sales to turkey total many billions of dollars and turkey supplies c

they capitulate, but not to the united states's. -- united states. gets sailorsavy into the constantinople and they raised the american flag in istanbul. shipt becomes officially a on the register of the united states navy. january, back in istanbul and by march he is deep into humanitarian assistance. into hoover and sand soon, as well as trying to pull a american citizens that if they want to come out because of the collapse in these territories of whites aresia as the starting to collapse in the face of bolshevik offenses. permanently assigned battleships -- the permanent is on thattanbul part of the seacoast that is next to the foreign country -- quarter. three yachts, two monitors. monitors. yes. monitors. someone should do a monograph. merrimack? and the yes. they are probably using these ships in the local area and communications. all right? 1919, we have to go back to the italians. want to establish the roman empire. the roman empire owned asia. gallacia, the roman asia and so the italians have turkey and the crisis is to get those guys out,

the united states military has tremendous capacities. we don't necessarily have tremendous capacities in 1980, to engineer this kind of clandestine, special operator driven rescue attempt. the israelis had done something like it, not so far before in the earlier 1970s. we trained and learned from the israelis but we never really done anything like this before as a military. it was really hard operating in desert conditions and enemies everywhere. no clear support system. there were a lot of reasons this wasn't going to go well. from the iranian perspective it didn't go well by the will of allah. what happens is the helicopters began flying into tehran and fly over the desert they have to fly low to escape any supervision and surveillance. and just terrible luck, a dust storm, a sandstorm blows up and does a number on the mechanical components of the helicopters. and just all hell breaks loose. helicopters are grounded, they crash into each other. the operation doesn't even get to tehran, it just fails. and men die. the one military opera

with the united states like very much like. regular contact with the rest of the p 5 people to kill. china diplomat tez also taking part in today's hot debates and he was almost attacked with accusations that beijing an important player when we speak about global security especially given that one of the biggest threats is coming from south asia rejects the dialogue with the u.s. here's his answer. has never let me repeat china has never. rejected the so called meaningful dialogue with anybody in the us has made this so much noise about having the stand natural negotiations but let me make it clear so far until now the u.s. says never told us what exactly they want to talk about in this trial. in our view this is no more than a pretext so that the us can withdraw from the important international treaty. it's important to say that today's gathering here in moscow happens just months before the 2020 n.p.t. review conference in america they say is a very important event aimed at reconfirm in principles of nonproliferation treaty a

throughout the reigning in history has always been against democracy i mean the united states was the country together with britain that instigated the 1000 the rule against democratically elected mohamed side there right now it's no different i mean the united states has imposed a very severe sanctions on iran which is worth a lot of ordinary people so coming out and saying that they support these people is hypocritical in the sense that if you do support these people then you wouldn't sanction them so hard that you know they are having difficulty. with their. david normal my. ok let's go back to our top story this evening on julian assange shits get analysis now from neil clark journalist and broadcaster it was me live on the line. for getting into neil firstly to make it would you make of the dropping of the i won't say charge because the word charges wasn't evidence for charges dropping of the possible case against julian assange because this is what started all of his troubles really the that the suggestion that he might be in trouble on allegations of rape is all gone is

i see the future of the united states of america. today we heard the arguments in the supreme court. it's my prayer that they'll come down our way for the good of those who stand behind me and so many others. but it's also my prayer that it comes down our way for the good of the united states of america. what's at stake here is not just their fate. what's at stake there is our values as americans. immigrants from all over the world who came to this country and said we can make this a bert place and thank goodness our parents and grandparents believed that and let us -- led us to this moment. now we have to move forward. we know what we face. bob menendez, you know what our problem is in the senate. we have a good bill, an excellent bill passed by the u.s. house of representatives. it's sitting on the calendar in the united states senate. senator menendez and i will be making unanimous consent request this week to bring this measure to the floor. [applause] senator durbin: i can tell you -- i can tell you it's an uphill battle, but we

you need to understand the united states in the 1950s.o understand california in the 1850s, that's a thing apart. new york in the 1850s doesn't give you any useful guidance to california in the 1850s. but houston in the 1950s, california in the 1950s, pittsburgh in the 1950s, they're all sort of of a piece. the other thing is by the end of this period, in fact, in the career of theodore roosevelt, you can see the west as understood historically fade into memory x. i called my book on theodore roosevelt long ago, the title was the last romantic because he benefited from the fact that the west was fading into a kind of romantic memory. and he, he arrived for the first time in the west in time to kill the last buffalo in the vicinity of madura dakota territory. now, the fact that it was the last didn't prevent him from shooting it. [laughter] he wanted to get his trophy. but it did make him into a conservationist x. so theodore roosevelt became the advocate of national parks and all this stuff. but he, but the reason he did that was, was the

guest all the way from the united states the secretary of state might bump aoe himself but behind this facade of handshakes and mutual joy hides a nasty in the block's fabric and that is between the believers in the alliance and heretics who dare question the relevance of the block and this whole aggravation it stems from right here from france when president emmanuel mccrone dared to assume dare to say that the bloke is experiencing and i quote brain death what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of mater only works if the guarantor of the last resort functions as such i'd argue that we should reassess the reality of what is in the light of the commitments of the united states and now since early november when that happened this jab is still hurting with the nato for instance secretary-general stoltenberg has felt the urge on tuesday to comment on those words and essentially he said that europe is defenseless without nato either cannot defend europe well my friends words didn't sit well with other members of the block to for instance the us ambassador to nato she said tha

it reads the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied by the united states or by any state on of sex. when you think about the wording of the 19th amendment, nowhere does it say, "guaranteed the right to vote." a big difference in achieving the right to vote for everybody. what we think the 19th amendment did and the reality of what it did. in this moment states can still find ways through which to disenfranchise voters. into our contemporary moment 2019 there are states and laws out there seeking disenfranchised voters. they are still contending with the wording of this 19th amendment because it is not as specific as we would like it to be. it wouldn't be until the voting rights act of 1965 that things became crystal clear. and that people had the right to vote and guaranteed the right to vote and not be discriminated against based upon their race. i'm standing in front of a portrait, who, like other native americans, was forced to attend carlisle boarding school, which created assimilation of native by not allowing them to have -- not allowing them to speak

the only place that they call home is the united states of america. that shouldn't be controversial. it is just a fact. but this administration doesn't like facts and they don't seem to like rules or walls or following the rules either. but the supreme court has the opportunity to enforce the rule and follow the law. the supreme court has the ability to defend our democracy and our system of checks and balances. the only fact trump knows is that he wins when he puts some americans against others. we will not let that divide us or turn our backs on our neighbors. we cannot let that system when. a house divided against itself cannot stand. now daca has never been enough to protect the dreamers in the long run. it's a temporary solution. but right now it is all that these upstanding men and women have. they are american in every single way except for on paper. they are just as american as those that arrived on the mayflower. they are just as american as you and i. and they deserve the simple perfection. president trump is very fond of talking about the m