openingme to the grand of the national museum of the united states army, the national museum of the united states army celebrates over 245 years of army history and honors our nations soldiers, past, present, and future in the regular army, the army reserves in the army national guard. thank you for joining us for our virtual ceremony. out of an abundance of caution during the covid-19 pandemic, there is no in person audience today and certain ceremonial elements have been prerecorded. please welcome the official party to the stage -- the secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b mccarthy. chief of staff of the army, general james c mcconville. sergeant major of the army, michael a grinstead. director of the national museum of the united states army, ms. tammy call. accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c miller. and chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a millie. now presenting the colors is the third united states infantry residents, the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. the national anthem will be performed by je

amen. >> the national museum of the united states army is a joint effort between the united states armyhe army historical foundation. the mission of the army historical foundation is to honor the american soldier by preserving the history and heritage of the united states army. from his home in massachusetts, please welcome the chairman of the army historical foundation, general retired gordon r sullivan. distinguished guests and friends and supporters of the army museum, welcome to the opening ceremony of the national museum of the united states army. this museum is a giant tribute to over 30 million soldiers who have served throughout our history as a country. i think it is important we take a moment to remember one soldier in particular. general bill herzog, whose recent passing has saddened us all. he was a dedicated soldier who served as chairman of the board for 15 years. trying to keep the campaign to build this impressive museum alive. we are grateful for his enormous effort and offer the deepest condolences to his wife and family. bill, rest in peace. it is my honor to introduc

he served the united states congress, and he also served the united states senate. he and his wife were the host during james buchanan's administration in washington, d.c.. one of south left informed their own government, they invited jefferson davis to become its first and only president. jefferson davis would accept that invitation and become the president of the confederate states of america. we are standing in the cell were jefferson davis was held at the conclusion of the american civil war. in 1865, jefferson davis received world from general roth we, a commander of the army in virginia, who no longer could hold a federal army back from attacking the city of richmond. with that news, jefferson davis drab his cabinet, sent his family on the road for their protection. jefferson davis soon after that would follow, he would finally catch up with his family, right above the florida state line. it was here where a federal mounted unit was able to capture him and his family. jefferson davis was placed on a boat, and went back up to four mineral and was incarcerated i

and what united states is still doing. despite the weakness of its president and its leader, it's still protecting those financial interests and it's still asserting its power across the world to ensure that those financial interests take priority. and of course, this is why we have a world divided between creditors and debtors. wall street to the world of creditors, and the debtors, many of whom are sovereign countries, poor countries have no voice in all of this and have virtually no power. that system is deeply, deeply unjust, and internationally. and just in the united states is going to have to do something about wall street before we can do something about rebalancing power across the world. and is, i'd like to ask you what if anything, saudi arabia managed to get out of this summit. of course, on the one hand it wants to highlight it's changing society and on the other, how to hopes people, dozen people forget about the war in yemen. and the murder of a prominent journalist did saudi arabia getting i get to get anyt

he seeved the united states congress and he also served in the united states senate. he and his wife were part of james bucanan's administration. when the south left to form their own government they invited jefferson davis to be the first and only president. he would accept that invitation and become the president of the confederate states of america. we're in the cell where jefferson davis the else at the conclusion of the civil war. he received word from general robert e. lee that they dmoucouo longer hold the confederate army. he sent his family on the road for their protection. jefferson davis would follow. he would soon catch up with his family below the florida state line if is where a federal mountain unit was placed on his family. he moved back up here to ft. monroe and incarcerated in his very cell. some people and why. he was indicted on three federal charges. one for treason. two for come police sit accompl. he had to be in a place where his last residency occurred and that would be in richmond if is here that he will stay for four months and he will remai

the last thing we need is for people to attack that confidence from within the united states. this is he doing harm in the short-term and long-term to our national security, putting us at risk. in the short term, we are seeing a very dangerous purge of national security officials at the defense department and other places. these are officials with whom i have many policy differences but they are competent, managers. they are qualified individuals and what you are seeing the president do in the throes of his administration is purging those qualified individuals and replacing them with peoples whose only credentials is loyalty to president trump, replacing competent qualified individuals with political actors. that's dangerous and anytime, especially dangerous to mess around with the top leadership of our national security agencies during the transition of power. that is what the 9/11 mission told us and yet, what you are seeing president trump do is play with matches it comes to our national security. tol put personal political peevs against thete national security interest of

trump did not fill that larger role in the united states.not saying we have to be visionaries around the world but we have to have some sense about the world we would like to see. steve: let me just burst you a little further on that. those five traditions require and orientation, even north america, would you believe i am a big proponent of north america. they require an orientation we it citizens look at being engaged in the world as a net positive. i am related to a lot of military families from the midwest, not on the educated over generations but they fought for the country and they felt like they fought for the country and fought the cold war but china no one -- china won. they feel left behind, and bandage, and the net positives they get from globalization are -- when you look at that international orientation that is fed a lot of donald trump druggist popularity, does that give you some pause that america may be shifting back toward more isolation, a strategic contraction if you will from a lot of these challenges in the world? >> af

but the united states says if you're going to rejoin the family of governments in the united states, if you're going to get your recognition back with the united states, you're going to sign a new treaty and that is where we have the treaty of 1866. the last treaty that we have with the united states. still in full force and effect. it has done some things and we had to give up some things. one of the things we had to give up that hastened our compromise was the ability to keep the railroads out. i'm from a little town, nobody in here knows where it is, but if you go there -- someone knows where it is. by wait this is the washington dc cherokee organization right here, they have come all of the way here, what a great thing. so if you look, that map doesn't go all of the way up. if you look at vanita, there is two railroads there. they were founded in 1871 after the civil war. the railroads start coming in, settlers start going in. what happens to cherokees when settlers start going in. i remember something like that in the state of georgia. it is the same old story over again. not ju

it's not been opposed by the corporate media in the united states and we have to remember that the same sanctions they were initiated by obama and biden and when it comes to again when it comes to u.s. policy towards iran there has always been consistency continuity has always existed the animosity towards iran has been consistent ever since the revolution so i don't think anyone any policy maker in iran is being naive again ordinary people in iran dislike trump more than biden but i think that there is there are no illusions in iran about the 2 making a big difference what do you think that depending on the results of the u.s. election what you think the prospect is of the restoration of the iran nuclear deal . i find it highly unlikely unless trump backs down if he is elected if he if he remains in office. i highly doubt that he will accept going back to the nuclear deal because iran is not going to accept any changes iran has already made more than enough concessions and has been flexible enough to reach this deal and it's not going to give anything more so either trump will

and blue states always sees the united states the bible tells us everything there is a season a time to grow tired of repeated time to sew and a time to hear oh this is the time get here on america i. do so on the goal the right words here are the time when deficient is right but it's a tough task. it is going to face a very much an uphill battle he faces a majority republican senate with some states still facing a runoff to see which senators take place take the seats their. concerns. which people were hoping for which the poll numbers working for hasn't materialized what role the has materialized is the scale of polarization in u.s. domestic politics and very much the deep rooted divides trump exposed them 4 years ago in the 26th the election and this election as they very much haven't gone away and ironically as you said all the words from biden but this is a bit of deja vu for many american listeners because we've heard these words before following the 26th election from incumbent president donald trump now it's time for america to find a division have to

united states law no longer applies to you. if you want to swear allegiance to the united states, you can have your slaves back, but if not i i am going to seize them as contraband of war because you are using them against my soldiers in the united states army. i will seize them and keep them and you can no longer have your slaves. this would create a mass of folks coming to fort monroe to seek freedom. what started out as three man became 10,000 by the end of the war in four short years. jefferson davis is a contradiction. jefferson davis, in his early life, was a graduate of the united states military academy. he served in the frontier with the added states army. he was secretary of war under president pierce. he and his wife were the host during james buchanan's administration in washington, d.c.. when the south formed their own government, they invited jefferson davis to become their first and only president. jefferson davis would accept that invitation and become president of the confederate states of america. we are stand

it's egg on the face of the united states, but it's not the central issue for the united states. syria is for american foreign policy. something of a side show, not, of course for the syrians. so i don't think that this is going to be the dominant issue going forward. i don't think well, talk about we'll talk about many issues. when we come back here gentlemen, we're going to go to a short break and i think that's, a break. we'll continue our discussion, the u.s. russia relations stay with r.t. keyser apart many, many times because game theory will jump to the sovereign level and you have global hash wars. countries will need to strategically geo politically get into a big point. and this is what's happening in the united states right now with all those in the bull, but at least the 2 big city, bright lights, huge opportunities and many dangers are going to be restricted to blatantly to it's also a city where up to $300000.00 crimes are committed every year for the movie must win, but it will get you most need still to the reserve least one police officer 200 residents in russia'

donald trump, it's fairto the united states. in just a four year presidency. do you thinkjoe biden, in his coming four years, will be able to undo all of the perception change that there has been about the united states? well, i think about that a lot, because i am also a european, son of a european, lived in europe, as you say. these things don't change dramatically but certainly the mere fact of biden being president and the people he will appoint, having the policies that he will announce, will give us a window in which to act. we need to seize it and i'm glad you asked that question because europe will also need to ask itself the question, how can it work with the united states in the best possible way, not giving us freebies. we're not asking for that, but think how we can really move forward the next few years to prove the case, to prove that working with allies within the multilateral system that we built after the second world war, to prove that it's a better way of improving the security and prosperity of our citizens.

he will be the 46th president of the united states. a man who at the age of 29 was elected to the united states senate, but before he could even be sworn in lost his wife and a child in a tragic car accident right before christmas. biden did not want to go to the senate. he did not want to be sworn in. he wanted to stay with his two boys who had also been severely hurt in that accident. ted kennedy talked him into moving forward with his life, told him to come to washington, d.c. it would help him move forward much like it was george h.w. bush who encouraged james baker to get involved in politics to move past the loss of his wife. joe biden took ted kennedy's advice. he went to washington, but as mike barnacle said, every night he would return home on the asella, and he would return home to make sure that nobody else was taking care of his boys. he happened to be the one that read them to sleep at night. he wanted to be the father they would wake up to in the morning. he wanted to be the dad he would play catch with them in the aftern

the united states is fighting against the united states cannot keep that in mind power while it will be certainly interesting to see how exactly does elections play out the transition of power father how how america continues with its foreign policy especially that was widely pereira cabrera associate professor at the sharp school of policy and government george mason university thank you so much for speaking to me this hour. you're watching out international we'll be back in just a moment especially with news about the u.s. . anybody who thinks that because i just won the election we our problems are over that is simply not true the problems were there for president trump they're not going away you have problems for the economy in the long run you're going to have huge debt to pay for the things you're going to do there we still have a problem in the united states which is racism we have too many young are going to american. jails are growing possessions etc so those problems have been there or wrong and simply allowed produce not does not. reduce the. well reduce our. that's underc

ambassador to the united states mr assad and president elect joe biden is that good news for europe. broadly speaking yes i think it is i think we have had a very difficult transatlantic relationship for the last 4 years. future president biden is clearly very committed to europe be very proud of his irish origins if i may say so but he also has a long history of commitment to nato to the european union and to good relations between the united states and the european union but of course we need to understand as several of your commentators have already said that he faces a very challenging situation in the united states so we are not going to see a return to what some people might have sold of as the golden era of transatlantic relations perhaps at the end of the dredges century or in the early part of the 21st century where we're going to have to reinvent this transatlantic relationship to the new realities of american politics i say we need to reinvent the transatlantic relationship how exactly do you see europe going ahead with that. well i look i think we need to recognize 2 fund

for five weeks as korean republican and united states forces under the united nation's flag font to stem the tide of north korean communist aggression, while the security council took all emergency steps in an effort to halt that aggression, a delegate of the soviet union exempted himself from deliberations and decisions. improvising on the defense of the republic of korea, and with the heroic help of the republican fighting forces, the united nations troops fought and fell back, trading space for time until more help could arrive. on august 1, a soviet delegate, for the first time since the invasion, returned to take his seat in the security council. it was the turn of the soviets to preside. he deliberately ignored the north korean communist aggression and began a systematic campaign as president to block any action on the korean war by the security council. meanwhile, the united nations troops battled the soviet armed communist invaders. the security council tried without success to prod the soviet delegate to his responsibility. as august day followed august day, the united nations c

president of the united states. joe biden's victory of course crowns a long career in politics one that includes 2 previous failed presidential bid and areas and office as barack obama's 2nd in command is a closer look at the man who will be and charge of the white house for the next 4 years. it began half a century ago 29 joseph biden was one of the youngest candidates ever elected to the u.s. senate his success though laced with sadness when just weeks later his wife and daughter died in a car accident he remarried and made his 1st presidential bid in 1008 and again 20 years later my grandmother would you know outspread the face. he was chosen to be barack obama's running mate. the best vice president has ever had mr joe but. then he would resign to never quite reaching the nation's highest office until donald trump came along that's why the mike you see the president of the united states. that we have to with this decades of experience biden said he was the man to restore america's standing in the world but he wa

i mean, even the united states could use some help with this. we're talking about about a combined 26.2 trillion g.d.p. . that's an unbelievable amount of money. i do want to ask you about a senior european union won maker manfred whatever. who told the south china, morning post. if we look at the new china pacific trade agreement, the r.c.p., europe, and the us should see this as a wake up call to join forces. is he right in this? and do you see europe and the united states doing something coming together? moving forward with this well, i think you've touched on a very, very important point. i think this gentleman in europe is a brave, and he's afraid in the way that many of the leaders of europe are, will be europeans being what will and will biden in the illustration, make an overture to china, to develop a different kind of collaborative relationship. rather than the confrontations that characterized the trump period, if so, all those 2 countries, the united states and china could work out agreements now including this orgy to eat arrangemen

against the united states today.t's not terrorists, it's not radicalization, it's not disinformation. it's us losing our global position in the world because when we lose it, that's it, somebody else will fill the vacuum and it will be to let. >> and having a strategy go with it. >> and we will lose it if we don't know what we're doing. >> we have a bunch of questions. we had a ton of questions coming to some are addressed as i read a couple of them. let's see, do you think the growth of nonstate armed groups such as boko haram or aqim poses a threat to u.s. interest? there's many more but i'll give you those, the israel in the boko haram question. >> i think what we've seen, look on anytime you have an arab state with israel is a good thing. but towards the end i think we need to basically get to the bottom of it. how much impact that will have on arab, not much. this is i believe a pr stunt. it will help netanyahu and israel and help -- you did not show it by the way to the sign agreement. it will help him if there

united states recalls the ambassador to germany for consultation. but, in many other ways, our government's response is limited and fdr's response is limited. he's asked in a press conference, just a week after kristallnacht, november 15th of 1938, whether he would recommend a relaxation of immigration restrictions. as you can see, fdr says this is not a contemplation. we have the quota system. >> he speaks out against kristallnacht, he recalls the ambassador, actually at the urging of his secretary of labor, frances perkins. extends, or waves, the exploration date for visitors visas for about 12,000 people who are here on visitors visas. but there's no political will to try to liberalize the immigration system, the quota system, in response to kristallnacht. congress tries, in a way, which you see is robert wagner, a senator from new york, and edith norris rogers, introduced a bill known as the rack near -- wagner rogers bill, to lead in 10,000 to children a year outside of the immigration quota system. what you see is the american public is polled

embracing by the united states of netanyahu. and his feeling that there needs to be an escalation with iran in the region. you know, we saw donald trump move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. and recently we saw mike pompei oh, go on a tour of the middle east. and, you know, tout the fact that at this point, there are some governments in the arab world that have recognized israel. and it seems like the effort of the united states is to mobilize and polarize the region between israel and iran. take a listen to my palm, pale thanks to president troop. the u.s. pulled out of the dangerous nuclear review with the wrong place, crippling sanctions on the union regime and then limited the mood to go some soon. be a record speaks for itself. during the trip administration, america stands with israel like never before. now, many were hoping that things may change with joe biden in the white house after all, joe biden was vice president under barack obama, and it was the obama administration that negotiated the iran nuclear deal, which donal

of the united states, is that part of what is going on and what needs to be fixed going forward and prayed to the need to do more with the policy. a more robust state department and what more than that will it take to some kind of leadership. ali soufan: i think we need to have an international strategy. what is our strategy. the world has advocated. let's start with what we always knew, east mean something. democracy. and now it seems we are so happy to drag that there have definitely been murdered of washington post journalist and dismembered them into pieces. where are we. what is our strategy. so in order to have a dip diplomatic initiative, you need to have a strategic the you overall. where is it today. we still have and they did not go away right. we have new threats emerging read from russia. new threats emerging from china. we have this kind of like power struggle that we are having with the chinese that has economic and political in the whole version of the global strategy. what do we have. where are week. we do not have relationship with our allies. who basically are looking for

and the business community of the united states, let him do that. we did not break with him, and he's now gotten more votes. and the rest of the world is beginning to wonder whether it's safe to go in or we're meeting in the us with the united states, given the strength inside the united states of a kind of society turning away from the world. and in the on itself, the professor, well, it looks like under a biden and remaster, a sham. we probably would see tariffs remain in place and doesn't look like he'd go any easier on china. is very possibly a way that he can somehow alleviate some of the tension though between the world's 2 largest economies. well, i think he has to do several things. he has the guts wave, the world that he really is somehow different that he's not going to play games with terrorists. he's not going to hug after chinese companies, executives and block chinese companies from functioning. i want reminds local that mattered in china that he threw to the leader of china as a quote, son. during the campaign, this is, as you might a

the united states needs a deal. this. this showdown in the persian gulf is, is, lucy, is the political will, to do a deal. and the world, as you alluded to,, it is in a different phase as it was 5 years ago. you know, u.s., european relations maybe aren't as good as the where it's hard to know. there was so much international diplomacy at the time was in there trying to carve this deal . do you think it can be saved? do you think they can get back to some sort of normalization, to get in a room together at this stage and say, you know what? there's too much at stake. this needs to be saved. there's a new administration, iran come to the table, let's do that. i think they're, i think it could be done. united states wants to pivot towards asia is worried about china and, and both the new secretary of state, blake and others, are state if they want to move towards china, if they don't fix this iran situation and neutralize it in some way. they're going to be stuck in the middle east. this is a quagmire for them because iran

we are the united states of united states of america and we have laws. i just want to talk a little bit about guantÁnamo and the military there is a disconnect. we want to try them. but it's hard to get around the evidence. all of these things complicate a legal process is or are they ever get to be tied. i think it will be a difficult situation. i think some of these guys went through the blast sites. a lot of it became tainted. how do you proceed with prosecuting when you're trying to classify the time that is the complexity. we still cannot prosecute some of them. it was so strong despite looking at it themselves. i was a case agent. they have more rules of evidence. and they were able to find the judge to convict them. we know we have that naturally in our own case file. and were not allowed to talk to them. because of the torture program. and now in guantÁnamo bay. it was we had one of the questions from our audience. somebody that worked in the military for more than five years. and heard frequently how damaging it was to the united states. do you

well as was widely anticipated it is the morning after the election here in the united states and we do not have a clear winner at this point a number of states have yet to declare a winner and it's not clear who will be the president for the following 4 years now at this point in the electoral college joe biden is ahead he's got 238 electoral votes donald trump only has 213 there are there are 87 electoral votes that are still up for determination the states of pennsylvania michigan georgia north carolina wisconsin and the vadra are yet to be called and this point you know both candidates if you look at the electoral map have a pretty clear possible path to victory it could go either way votes are still being counted around the country now donald trump would need $57.00 electoral votes to win joe biden being slightly ahead does not need as many votes as trump does in order to win but it's still still unclear not not yet being determined where or mail in votes in a number of states that are being counted the country is very very much on edge there were clashes in the streets of washin

the council recommended the establishment of an independent united states of indonesia at the earliest possible date. the united nations commission was instructed to assist in negotiations. a round table conference between the netherlands and indonesian republic began in the hague in 1949. with the help of the united nations commission the conference agreed on a policy of transfer of sovereignty and main points of future cooperation between the netherlands and the united states of indonesia. the united states of indonesia, embracing scores of islands and including nearly 80 million people, was a reality and late in december 1949 at the hague queen juliana of the netherlands signed the document, which transferred complete sovereignty over indonesia to the republic of the united states of indonesia and recognized it as an independent nation. the question had been peacefully resolved. the subcontinent of ind yao was another potential trouble spot after world war ii. its millions also looked forward to independence after passive resistance under british rule. great britain following a poli

trump obviously didn't feel that sort of a larger role in the united states. and i'm not saying we have to be missionaries around the world, but we do have to have some sense about the world that we would like to see and what we can do to advance it. so let me just ask, push you a little bit further on that. those 5 traditions require in a way, an orientation even north america, which i, you know, that i am a big proponent of. you're a big supporter of north a moment. exactly, but they require an orientation where, where citizens look at being engaged in the world is a net positive. and i have to be honest, i am related to a lot of military families from the midwest. not highly educated over generations, but they fought for the country and they felt like they fought for the country. and they fought the cold war, but china won. they feel sort of left behind a band then. and they feel like that, you know, the net plus the net positive they get from global engagement. are what they used to be. i won't call it isolationism, but i will call it ambivalence. and so w

the united states much more d. whited and i mean sure now people come out to want to celebrate and a half of the country if you have to keep in mind is no devastated and disappointed and that will be the big challenge for joe biden the next president of the united states to bring this country together again and he has what kind of reaction have we seen out on the streets have we seen protests and who is mostly coming out she protests if so. it's happy people they want to celebrate that's the majority view actually also talked to some republicans they said they disagree in many many regards with joe biden and camelot harris but they won 2 thirds donald trump out of the white house saying that he is nothing to do with then our party with the republican party people kind of awaiting a reaction no off the president of the united states from what we know is that he is still being out in virginia golfing his personal lawyer giuliani said this morning that he is not expecting donald trump to come gradual a the new preside

but what is this is the state department in the united states and the trouble troubling issues globally?, one of them is false. marriage, u.s., department of state views forced marriage as a human rights abuse. and in the case of mine is a foolish child of peace. if you are us citizen, and the victim of a fool overseas, you can, oh no to advice about what happens if you open seas. meanwhile, at home, there is a major issue. now, let me, let me bring in. let me bring in unicef, because unicef is working on this as our guest. and this is how unicef framed the challenge. they have with chart knowledge in the u.s. units have called child marriage, a healthful practice, and a violation of child rights, and believes that marriage under the age of 18 should be prohibited and all circumstances. yet, here in the united states, there's actually no federal law around child marriage. rather, each individual state is responsible for setting their own requirements. this is why unicef usa is a member of the national coalition and child marriage working on a site and you know, partners and order to hel

on good terms with the united states and in particular president. some african countries are afraid that they might not receive as much from him going to his asian as they have been receiving in the us well that's clearly an important state but what would you say is most at stake for african countries i think the african countries what is most at stake and what some of the experts have said is at stake is just the relations between the united states and africa that an african countries that most african countries have really been enjoying because outside of the big organizations like the world bank and the international wanted truth land we've also seen the united states being one of the biggest donors to many african countries and so the possibility of having a 2nd term for president on the trap is literally going to mean that some of that aid might be cut off and then looking at joe biden presidency means that it's going to revive some of those core to relationships that many african countries enjoyed in the united states before president donald t

his son, my father, served in the united states air force in world war ii and then as united states ambassador. he is my role model and my hero. his wife fled communist hungary as a young girl and helped future generations of refugees come to america. my mother builds bridges between america and the world, through arts and culture. she is my greatest champion. and my late stepfather, he was one of 900 children in his school in poland, but the only one to survive the holocaust after four years in concentration camps. at the end of the war, he made a break from the death march into the woods in bavaria. from his hiding place, he heard a deep rumbling sound. it was a tank, but instead of the iron cross, he saw painted on its side a five-pointed white star. he ran to the tank. an african american g.i. looked down at him. he got down on his knees and said the only three words in english his mother had taught him before the war, "god bless america." that's who we are. that is what america represents to the world, however imperfectly. now we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confide

democracy are we do not interfere in the internal affairs of the united states and we hate it when they pretend to give lessons in democracy to the world these beauts and refusal of election results were supposed to only take place in developing states things have changed over this have occurred in the us which is no longer synonymous with a stable civilised and consensus based society now just for a giggle let me read out one tweet as an official one country a calls on country b.'s leaders to show commitment to the democratic process and rule of law we urge all parties groups and individuals to engage in inclusive dialogue to find peaceful solutions to their disagreements to heal national divisions full stop it's a tweet by the u.s. embassy country a in ivory coast country b. from the 4th oh the irony there's a reason a lot of western european nations stopped doing mail in ballots a long time ago france stopped in 1975 because the process is rife with fraud and i have to tell you i think it's incumbent upon the trunk campaign to say al gore took $37.00 days to litigate florida we're go

the world that the united states did overstep. in the middle east and that the wars in afghanistan, you know, iraq in syria and libya have not gone well. there are a few things. democrats and republicans agree on today. i think one of them is it's time to reduce the u.s. footprint in the middle east. and so i think that the trend that trump started, which is to took get out of syria, pull back from afghanistan and pull back from iraq. that will continue where i think you'll see a dramatic change is on the diplomatic front. because the isolationist sentiment that trump demonstrated was coupled with a fierce unilateralism pulling out of pacts, dissing allies. and i think biden will do the opposite. you'll rejoin paris hill, rejoin the world health organization to try to renegotiate the iran nuclear deal. he'll breathe new life into nato. so the u.s. will lead and diplomatically, even as it leans back militarily. and for me, that's exactly the right formula. or is that actually a cover for covert activity? because obviously there are

but i think in positions, if it's part of the historical record, the united states officials in the united states knew, with this weaponry was going and you know, this money was going, it's very end of the out. it ended up in defense, all of them or straight to go for us. you're absolutely right, but i think it's very important to mention here that when during the terrorist acts in europe, we hear about the people who perpetrated these acts and they were active in syria, the u.s. media, the western media in general, always reports of talk as if she's 3 started in 2016 when the, their so-called islamic state official just out of to function in syria. when of course these people were active and they're also there, you know, before the, i mean, official launch an all dices. there are groups with the same ideology or pursuing the same agenda. they just didn't call themselves isis. it wasn't a hope americans would do their job for them won't be no resistance. so i agree, absolutely. with what george just said, and what you said, these policies are going to be more aggressive because trump was j

should we really rely on the united states to be our closest ally in the future?e are no guarantees in life. who knows what will happen in four years? you're right, the threat is there, that we'll return to the demagogic populism we've experienced in the united states... well, you call it a threat, i'm not calling it a threat. i'm simply saying europeans cannot take for granted a sort of multilateral approach that you and joe biden are clearly keen to offer. absolutely, i understand completely. having resided in europe for 29 years of my life, i absolutely understand that. but i can tell you, the first part of your question, are europeans happy, are they taking this is good news? absolutely. i have got a lot of messages from member states and from the commission saying that this is great news. it's time that we actually go back, as we were before, negotiating and moving forward on security and trade and other foreign policy issues. but there is no guarantee. you know, the conclusion of all of this is that we need to seize the day. we need to seize the day. and i c

it's egg on the face of the united states, but it's not the central issue for the united states. syria is for american foreign policy. something of a side show, not of course for the syrians. so i don't think that this is going to be the dominant issue going forward. i don't think not. well thought about. we'll talk about many issues. when we come back, you gentlemen, we're going to go to, a short break. nothing. that's a break. we'll continue our discussion, the u.s., russia relations stated there was a pandemic. no, certainly no borders and a slide into nationalities doesn't work. we don't have a review. we don't look like the whole world needs to be judged as coming crisis. we don't want to we can do better, we should know better. everyone is contributing to each her own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenges created with the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. during the vietnam war, u.s. forces neighboring laos. there was a secret war. and for years, the american

president of the united states. we did it we did it very lovely there in her running clothes and celebrating this moment so as the news of broke of joe biden's victory president almost trump was out getting some practice in on the golf course as we have heard he had left the white house early on saturday while the votes were still being counted and we know that he's been at the national golf course in sterling virginia as biden's win in pennsylvania was called effectively winning him the white house after hearing the news we know that trump a continued golfing but is now on his way back to the white house and we will be following that closely to bring you the latest. we're going to bring in detail you correspondent stefan simons in philadelphia which is in pennsylvania that grand prize that has pushed joe biden over the edge to the magic $270.00 electoral college votes that he needs jeff i understand you've been speaking to some trump supporters and some biden supporters there. all told you. this side of the street

that's really a stunning charge in the united states of america. that's the kind of thing you hear about in banana republics and dishonest elections. surely united states senators would have some evidence that in the world's premiere, premiere democracy an entire state's election was not conducted honestly as they say. surely you must think that those senators have incredible, substantial and weighty proof of such scandalous and alarming allegation but you would be wrong. those two senators provided no evidence, not even a shred, to back up their claims. three lonely republican senators, three in total have congratulated the next president and vice president of the united states on their victory and called on the nation to come together. the rest have been silent or outright sympathetic toward the president's completely unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. so look, here's where we are. every major media outlet, including fox news has projected that joe biden will be the next president of the united states. kamala harris will be the next vice p

whereas in europe vote it is always inside everyone's free everyone who vote in the united states sunday is a jewish holiday and they would make it a national holiday booting day so you have to go to wednesday for example now there's a pandemic it is dangerous it is literally dangerous to do and stand in huge lines of people with the very little social distancing suit you will you vote as democrats have been urging their supporters to do you mail your vote and it's lost 150000 votes have been confirmed sue for are lost in this election and they're still counting there this potentially tens and tens of thousands more even election as clues as this. where every vote matters they've lost so many already democrat officials never believe they could win this election honestly i really believe that that's why they did the mail in ballots with this tremendous corruption and fraud going on that's why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots they refused to include any requirement to verify signatures i get is or even determine whether they're eligible or it was a vote it is

it's egg on the face of the united states, but it's not the central issue for the united states. syria is for american foreign policy. something of a side show, not of course for the syrians. so i don't think that this is going to be the dominant issue going forward. i don't think not. well, thought about, we'll talk about many issues. when we come back here gentlemen,, we're going to go to a short break and we'll continue our discussion. the u.s., russia relations stay with me. during the vietnam war, u.s. forces also bombs in neighboring laos. there was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know how much going to focus on every back country per capita of the ball. as soon as history, millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country. we don't think going to continue to happen again. even today, kids in laos full victim to bombs dropped decades ago. is the u.s. making amends for that tragedy and what help to the people need in that little land on the pandemic? no, certainly no borders to nationalities has emerged with world b

in the united states. at the time called a fifth column. americans are asked by gallup, do you believe that the americans are organizing a fifth column on this, country and 71% or meghan say yes. and you start to see this fear of spies play out in a popular culture, and in a political culture. the first american movie, big studio movie to take on nazism, is a warner brothers movie from 1939 called confessions of a nazi spy. we're showing the trailer here, it's based on a true story of a nazi spy who lived in the united states. nurse >> i am a nazi spy. i am one of thousands stationed in every part of the united states to steal the secrets of your national defense. there are five stations in all of the navy area of brooklyn, philadelphia, newport. there are nazi agents in airplanes in factories, buffalo, seattle, washington. united states inspector is one of the secrets for the german nor's nurse spies. a trial in the united states several cord, first brought to the attention of a startled nation, it is ama

unique vantage you see first-hand evidence of what i have been saying for many years, that the united states of america has no better friend than the state of israel. and you can attest to that in a variety of ways. but you also worked hard to prove the other thing that i'm saying for many years and you contributed to it personally, that israel has no better friend in the world than the united states of america. and over the last four years under president trump and his remarkable team, led by you and ambassador freidman and jared kushner and others, israel he israel's alliance with the u.s. has reached unprecedented heights. thanks to president trump, the u.s. recognized jerusalem as israel's capital and moved its embassy here. thanks to president trump, the united states recognized is really sovereignty over the golan heights. thanks to president trump, the u.s. pulled out of the danger area's nuclear deal with iran. president trump, the united states proposed the first plan for peace between israelis and palestinians that was realistic truly, and thanks to president trump, israel was able