>> thank you for joining us congress mark desaulnier who comes out every weekend and has town meetings and knocks on door. get out there and knock on a couple more. >> i have four things today. >> all right. now, if he's out there today doing it, what a natural way to say let's take a look at the weather, huh. >>> all right. we are taking a look at the weather, and we are starting off this morning with a red flag warning. it has not extended. this is just for the higher elevations in napa and east sonoma county. dry and warm conditions once again potentially gusting winds. you want to be mindful of that. however, elsewhere we're going to see conditions cooling much pleasant in pleasant. 93 degrees today. marine county fair, but cooler, topping out near 80 degrees. you should see plenty of sunshine in san francisco though. partly cloudy. grove festival at 66. if you're heading to the ball game, the a's game at 1:05, sunny and mild. 70 degrees for you. so again, that red flag

our argument to him and to opponents in the us congress opponents always was, if you are concerned abouts in the region, you should prevent them getting a nuclear weapon. you don't make nuclear deals with your friends. it comes down to the pragmatism you are talking about. exactly. let's look at syria, which is arguably one of the biggest foreign policy failures from your time in the white house. what the president has done there, he did... there were reprisals for the use of chemical weapons, something that president obama didn't do. yeah. well, look, president obama's concern was that a limited military strike wasn't going to improve things in syria. you wouldn't affect the course of that war, you weren't going to stop assad from killing his people with a limited cruise missile strike. trump's attacks in a way have blown that out. they blew up a runway, they re—built it the next day. but president obama had a red line, a stated red line. "if we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons being moved around or utilised, that would change my calculus or equation." and then they were u

lobbying and their target this time is of the us administration and congress. n prince met donald trump at the white house. the president announced that the us would be selling saudi arabia $12.5 billion of us military hardware. would be selling saudi arabia $12.5 billion of us military hardwarem is peanuts for you. a prominent saudi journalist fled his country in the thousand 17, following his criticisms of the country's rulers. according to him, the saudis are desperate to keep president trump on side. the saudi american public relations committee is an organisation that pushesit committee is an organisation that pushes it saudi interests in the us. its activities include a website which publishes reports on alleged support for terrorist groups by qatar. we realise we needed to have a role on educating the american people about what is going on in the middle east so, when it comes to the qatar insider, yes it is a project to make the americans aware of the fa cts to make the americans aware of the facts a re to make the americans aware of the facts are nothing

and his us congress to young trump breakthrough achieved that can avoid a trade war and save millions of jobs great for global economy so obviously that is his job to be optimistic about it to sound like this is a big deal but i wouldn't i would take it with a grain of salt and that reaction i believe also came out very soon after that press conference yesterday to join press conference in the meantime everybody has slept over this and that the french finance minister is somewhat less enthusiastic he didn't to eat but he stated that to any trade deal between the e.u. and us must be based on resi prophecy that france expects a gesture of goodwill from the u.s. side especially an aluminum and steel tariffs is that on the cards well we have to really see what follows up on this because words are one thing but actions of course need to follow and we all know that you can unfortunately currently not trust the american president and take him for his word because it has happened pretty often recently that he has promised one big thing especially in international meetings with other world lea

the world ‘s biggest technology companies facing questions in us congress.ssion saw facebook, twitter and youtube facing questions from the house judiciary committee about how they filter content and whether there is a political bias in those decisions, something that the companies have all denied. for more, i am joined something that the companies have all denied. for more, iamjoined by monica miller. fiery exchanges from executives and politicians. if you wa nt executives and politicians. if you want a taste of how contentious things are in washington, watch a few minutes of this. democrats coming offjust 80 few hours prior, this jawdropping press conference between donald trump and vladimir putin in regards to meddling in the us campaign. this is what the democrats were asking, these giants of social media, how much do they know and how much do they abuse their platforms in terms of the russians putting holes information on there. on the flipside, the republicans are saying that social media giants are censoring their material and taking it off. that is s

use by law enforcement. an identification with that accurate or not could cost people their freedom or even their lives congress must take these threats seriously hit the brakes and enact a moratorium on law enforcement use of face recognition of the american civil liberties union and compared photos of all the members of the us congress with a large database of criminal mug shots amazon's facial recognition tool made twenty eight matches all of them were false now eleven of the mismatches involve people of color prompting additional concern other union claims the tool has an in built racial bias saying the false matches were disproportionately people of color a forty percent of the mismatches involve people of color who also make up twenty percent of the people in congress we spoke to technology analyst roger cate about the issue when the software is trained to recognize faces are you have to train our corporate corpus is made up of lots of people and you for whatever reason the images are mainly cartesian people then you will be better at recognizing them learned some of the minorities of the world well repre

transit system up to par or two sarah want to take us on a little trip to find out as congress continues to fight political gridlock over various appropriations bills hot button issues that are three in the wall there's one issue both sides of the aisle agree on infrastructure in the united states is crumbling and the congress and the white house continue to battle over the trillions of dollars and much needed repairs transit systems across the u.s. are literally falling apart here in washington d.c. the metro rail system has received more marks from the federal transit administration failure to repair significant issues with their tracks there is safety features such as lighting radio connection inside their tunnels even service communication among workers have all contributed to their failing grade. i and to add fuel to mattress fires the agency is now engaged in a legal battle with the contractor that used a weak concrete mix for walls at a new station in the meantime mattress ridership continues to decline and the agency is asking for even more money two billion for the next decade u

illegal and immoral and on ethical to make it look as if it's either better or getting better or the us congress people the elected officials don't want to embrace full responsibility now as congress debates this year's military spending bill including some vague language about saudi arabia the weapons deals just keep rolling in with the lives of civilians in yemen caught in the middle caleb mop and r.t. new york. bush's former foreign secretary may have left office but that hasn't stopped him speaking out and also for the u.k.'s daily telegraph boris johnson has denounced the mare of london city tong he says khan is failing at his duty to keep london a safe sidique khan blames funding he blames the tory government he blame society he blames everyone but himself when it's his paramount duty to keep london the safe as men and crime commissioner you have to take the blame you have to take the heat . johnson was of course once the mare of london and he seems to have kept some public support well the current mazz approval rating how's flaunts compared to last year well most people there who they pre

illegal and immoral and on the go to make it look as if it's either better or getting better or the us congress people the elected officials don't want to embrace full responsibility now as congress debates this year's military spending bill including some vague language about saudi arabia the weapons deals just keep rolling in with the lives of civilians in yemen caught in the middle kaleb mop and r.t. new york the saudi led coalition started its bombing campaign against yemen in two thousand and fifteen against the rebels the coalition has conducted thousands of us strikes and some have hit civilian areas however they always denied doing that intentionally saudi arabia says that the rebels pose a threat to its borders. now the president of the european commission meet donald trump today and as many european leaders have already met with the u.s. president they may have some good advice. thank you very much i thought the speech would come just too long as you told the united states what it's all natural for many decades the united states of america sees itself as a regulatory power for the who

illegal and immoral and on the go to make it look as if it's either better or getting better or the us congress people the elected officials don't want to embrace full responsibility now as congress debates this year's military spending bill including some vague language about saudi arabia the weapons deals just keep rolling in with the lives of civilians in yemen caught in the middle here with r.t. new york. a study that coalition started its bombing campaign against yemen in twenty fifteen against two thing rebels the coalition has conducted thousands of strikes and some have hit civilian areas however they always denied doing that intentionally saudi arabia says the toothy rebels pose a threat to its borders. president of the european commission meets donald trump later in washington and one issue sure to be discussed is trade between the u.s. and the e.u. that's after america impose tariffs on european steel and aluminum imports on tuesday donald trump tweeted that he hopes the e.u. will drop all the tariffs but understands it won't happen the block doesn't seem to be that optimistic either

illegal and immoral and unethical to make it look as if it's either better or getting better or the us congress people the elected officials don't want to embrace full responsibility now as congress debates this year's military spending bill including some vague language about saudi arabia the weapons deals just keep rolling in with the lives of civilians in yemen caught in the middle caleb r.t. new york let's turn to you led coalition began its bombing campaign against yemen in twenty fifteen targeting rebels the coalition has conducted thousands of first strikes with some hitting civilian areas riyadh has always denied doing so intentionally adding the rebels pose a threat to its borders. president has met with the e.u. commission president in washington with the talks dominated by the issue of targets and trade barriers right before heading into the meeting with john claud younker u.s. president said he was optimistic a consensus could be found trump also stressed the importance of washington achieving what he sees as a fur trade deal with europe and gave some insight on the current state of

and immoral and done ethical to make it look as if it's either better or getting better or the us congress people the elected officials don't want to embrace full responsibility now as congress debates this year's military spending bill including some vague language about saudi arabia the weapons deals just keep rolling in with the lives of civilians in yemen caught in the middle table mopping r.t. new york the saudi led coalition started its bombing campaign against yemen in two thousand and fifteen against rebels the coalition has conducted thousands of air strikes and some have hit civilian areas however they always deny doing that intentionally saudi arabia says that the rebels pose a threat to its supporters. coming up in the program a right wing movement in germany that prints its own money and passports sees a surge in popularity i'll bring you that story and much more after a quick break. the pleasure fund has guaranteed returns that there's being abused by the crooks there is the guarantee to shovel it a lot of toxic garbage that is ending up is a guaranteed go because at the end

and illegal and immoral and go to make it look as if it's either better or getting better or the us congress people the elected officials don't want to embrace full responsibility now as congress debates this year's military spending bill including some vague language about saudi arabia the weapons deals just keep rolling in with the lives of civilians in yemen caught in the middle caleb r.t. new york the saudi led coalition started its bombing campaign against yemen in two thousand and fifteen against who the rebels the coalition has conducted thousands of air strikes and some have hit civilian areas however they always deny doing that intentionally saudi arabia says that with the rebels pose a threat to its borders. and the vote count is underway in pakistan's general election unofficial results from various regions are already being announced by local media a picture will start to emerge of who's leading overall in the coming hours the vote has been marred by violence despite up to eight hundred thousand police and military personnel deployed across polling stations at least thirty one pe

illegal and immoral and on ethical to make it look as if it's either better or getting better or the us congress people the elected officials don't want to embrace full responsibility now as congress debates this year's military spending bill including some vague language about saudi arabia the weapons deals just keep rolling in with the lives of civilians in yemen caught in the middle kaleb mop and r t new york the saudi led coalition started its bombing campaign against yemen in two thousand and fifteen against rebels the coalition has conducted thousands of air strikes and some have hit civilian areas however they always denied doing that intentionally saudi arabia says that with the rebels pose a threat to its supporters. that's a global update for now but don't forget it. became a camera. roughly once that showed some movie for the. future uncool videos and someone with a broken eastern. down more on string i don't roughly don't t.v. . time after time here we go underground as leaders from the world's emerging economies gather in south africa for the annual bric summit as people in britain

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welcome back three social media giants facebook google and twitter are facing us congress at the moment i've alleged political bias platforms but herring is also addressing advertising practices and fake news it comes as facebook admits that it's algorithm labeled thousands of russian uses as interested in trays that supposedly for advertising purposes and that's raising concerns over who might really want to target these uses auntie's more advanced if takes a closer look. it's simple facebook exists to serve advertisers not users not you and i said a rerun of its. advertisers pay money they want direct access to the right users the target audience you might fall into the interested in islam category or interested in homosexuality group it depends on the things you click on line which facebook tracks and then advertisers or governments can tag you but one of those categories was treason interested in treason officially russian people who facebook deemed as anti government to the russian and facebook confirmed it to us treason was included as a category given its historical significance

a group of republican lawmakers in the us congress have begun a bid to try and remove the country's deputyrseeing the special counsel investigation into allegations of russian interference in america's 2016 presidential election. it's thought highly unlikely the attempt at impeachment will succeed. japan has executed 6 more members of the aum shinrikyo cult that carried out a deadly gas attack on the tokyo subway in 1995. this morning's executions come three weeks' after the cult‘s leader, shoko asahara, and six other followers were put to death. all 13 had been on death row since their convictions back in 200a. the uk brexit secretary dominic raab and the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier will hold face—to—face talks in brussels at the end of the latest round of negotiations. both sides are stepping up plans to cope with the uk leaving without a deal in march 2019. prime minister theresa may has said the british public should take "reassurance" from government preparations for a possible no—deal brexit after it emerged plans were being developed to stockpile food and medicines. you had

this notion that the president can impose that will tear us rather than have to go through the us congress well once again the idea here is that trump is just slashing and burning his way through everything i said is also a trump got elected that this would be a test of the u.s. constitution it would be an acid test acid test of the us constitution so i mean this is what he's doing he's pushing the constitution to the very edge and really forcing congress and the american people to either go to court and defend the constitution or rewrite the constitution but he believes that america is on the was on the precipice of completely being annihilated in global trade and being eviscerated from the face of the earth and so he's taking policies to protect america and make america great again and he's not taking any prisoners he's just it's a scorched earth policy he'll go he's the my lai incident of presidents now just go in there drop acid and go bizerk he doesn't care so it's up to the rest of the world to take action or get out of the way well of course up until trump it was only kim jong un wh

the us congress is due to pass a motion of censure against nicaragua this week.nue in office until elections in 2021, defying calls for his resignation. translation: we were elected by the voters. so, there have been electoral period. there are term limits. and our electoral period ends with the elections of 2021, when we will have our next election. and then we will have to see who will be voted in for the new administration. mr ortega there. the family of an australian woman shot dead by minneapolis police last year is suing the city and several officers for $50 million in damages. justine ruszczyk died lastjuly after calling police to report a suspected crime near her house. she was shot dead by minneapolis officer mohamed noor as she approached the patrol car. mr noor, who's since left the police service, was charged with third degree murder and second—degree manslaughter. mr noor‘s lawyers say he will plead not guilty, arguing he used reasonable force. a spokesperson for the city of minneapolis says it's reviewing the lawsuit. the former white house spokesma

crawling all around slimy lobbyist calling calling all around the city whole state legislatures in the us congress and the white house reporting in washington d.c. dan cohen r t. that's it for this time but we have lots more on tap for next time as part of our special look at the u.s. infrastructure deficit please join us you always catch boom bust on direct t.v. channel three twenty one dish network channel two eighty or streaming twenty four seven on pluto t.v. the free t.v. app channel one thirty two or as always hit us up at youtube dot com boom bust r.t. ok next time. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then. no no no reconsider standing five hundred meters away they could see that civilians were around a few minutes later they began bombing the area killing people. and an air strike in afghanistan killed fourteen people including children are two speaks to witnesses at the scene. investigative journalist a group of red fish shines a light on germany's arms trade claiming that not e

this notion that the president can impose that will tear us rather than have to go through the us congress well once again the idea here is that trump is just slashing and burning his way through everything i said.

didn't have international support, he didn't have domestic support from congress and he had the us congressld be unconstitutional. he made a determination. "if i act in that capacity and without that support, what i think is already an unlikely course in being able to change things in syria with our military, it will definitely fail. i can't be sustain it without that support." he went to congress to get their support and couldn't. do you accept that as a result, he and america were seen to look weak. i accept that, there is no question but i also think he would say to me, going to war someplace to show that you do not look weak is not a good reason to go to war. if you look at american history, that's how we stayed in vietnam for years after we should've left, bombing cambodia and laos, just to show we were tough and we weren't weak. he was willing to take that criticism rather than get into a war that he thought couldn't succeed. but there were consequences, not least spelt out by his own secretary of defence, robert gates. i think that russian president putin saw the united states withdr

what he found was he didn't have international support, any of the us congress saying it would be unconstitutional that capacity and without that support, what is an unlikely course in being able to change things, will definitely fail. he went to congress to get their support. you accept that as a result, he and america we re that as a result, he and america were seen that as a result, he and america were seen to be weak. there is no question but i also think he would say to me, going to war someplace to show that you do not look weak is not a good way to go to war. if you look at american history, that is why we stayed in vietnam's, just to show we were tough and we were not weak. he was willing to take that criticism rather than get into a war that he thought couldn't succeed. but there were consequences, not least spelt out by his own secretary of defence, robert gates. which i think that russian president putin saw the united states withdrawing from around the world, and president 0bama's actions not embraced the rhetoric and its ascent a message that the us was in retreat. did it emboldened r

scats quo, are we to authorize war in all of the seaters that various presidents have taken us or should congress limit scope of war that we find ourselves involved in. here corker came authorization fails us, the corker-kane authorization merely codifies and actually expands the current theaters of war. corker-kane authorize in over 20 countries. hardly sounds like we will have any less war. equally concerning is that corker came or transfers enumerated power from congress to the president. article 1 section a gives congress the sole pow the other declare war. corker came initially authorizes war against 8 groups but says to the president, hey, you, get back to us, give us an initial list in case we missed anyone that we are currently at war with and if you want to add any associated forces to the list, please send us a report. so this transfers power to name the enemy and it's location from congress to the president, worst yet, that declares war from simple majority, affirmative vote to require a super majority veto proof vote to disapprove of presidential wars. so if the president fines a new

this notion that the president can impose that will tear us rather than have to go through the us congress well once again the idea here is that trump is just slashing and burning his way through everything i said is also a trump got elected that this would be a test of the us constitution it would be an acid test acid test of the us constitution so i mean this is what he's doing he's pushing the constitution to the very edge and really forcing congress and the american people to either go to court and defend the constitution or rewrite the constitution but he believes that america is on the was on the precipice of completely being annihilated in global trade and being eviscerated from the face of the earth and so he's taking policies to protect america and make america great again and he's not taking any prisoners he's just it's a scorched earth policy he'll go he's the my lai incident of presidents now just go in there drop acid and go bizerk he doesn't care so it's up to the rest of the world to take action or get out of the way well of course up until trump it was only kim jong un who

this notion that the president can impose that will tear us rather than have to go through the us congress well once again the idea here is that trump is just slashing and burning his way through everything i said is also a trump got elected that this would be a test of the u.s. constitution it would be an acid test acid test of the us constitution so i mean this is what he's doing he's pushing the constitution to the very edge and really forcing congress and the american people to either go to court and defend the constitution or rewrite the constitution but he believes that america is on the was on the precipice of completely being annihilated in global trade and being eviscerated from the face of the earth and so he's taking policies to protect america and make america great again and he's not taking any prisoners he's just it's a scorched earth policy he'll go he's the my lai incident of presidents now just go in there drop acid and go bizerk he doesn't care so it's up to the rest of the world to take action or get out of the way well of course up until trump it was only kim jong un wh

after the attacks on 9/11, president bush asked congress to authorize war on anyone who aided and abetted those who attacked us. if you read the authorization it is very specific. congress insisted on narrowing the mandate to use force against only those who attacked us, planned the attack, or harbored the attackers. forces authorized against unnamed entities but they are nearly defined. the authorization was not given for global war on terror or radical islamist or separatist or insurgents and various civil wars. authorization was not given for associated forces. againstation was solely the people who attacked us on 9/11 and anyone who helped or harbored them. it is safe to say no when in congress believed they were voting for a worldwide war on terrorism and 20-odd countries that would go on for decades. intellectually honest observers have complained that the 9/11 authorization of war does not authorize the wars being fought throughout dozens of countries throughout africa, the middle east, and the south pacific. basically, the expansionism has occurred without required constitutional authorization. wish to

we, all of us in the congress. >> thank you, so much. just highlighting what our colleagues have said about the important role of the , and ournce community national security a long time some in thed with intelligence community a long time ago on preventing hostile --ions against this protection against terrorism and other things, which have taken time. stage since that but all along, our members of the intelligence committee have acted with great risk to their personal lives and with great courage for their country. and again, for our republican colleagues to be frivolous about identifying them is really, so wrong.ery i just want to recall, that since the president made his statement in helsinki, this director of national intelligence side, the role of the intelligence community is to provide the best information and fact-based assessments of to the policymakers. after the president said what he said, denigrating our intelligence committee, he said, -- his appointee said -- we have been clear in our assessment of russian meddling in the

i disagree with the way the president is using those powers. congress has the responsibility of oversight, so i do believe we should exercise oversight responsibility, particularly with this president. shery: while all of this is happening, judge kavanagh continues to make his rounds in congress. paul's right now for you at a comfortable place for november, but there are democratic senators facing reelections in places that mr. trump carried by double digit. are you concerned that some may defect? sen. cardin: this is not about the november elections, this is about the next generation and decisions made by the supreme court that will affect your rights, whether the supreme court will be that independent body that will protect your constitutional rights against the abuse of power by the president of the united states or by congress or by corporate america. this nominee could very well give donald trump a rubber stamp on his excessive powers. so this is an extremely important vote for our future, and each senator needs to evaluate what justice kavanagh wo

us. congress should step up and end this terrible policy. we cannot forget that thousands, maybe even millions of people in this country are served by water systems that violate the safe water drinking act. congress should invest in rebuilding community water infrastructure. we cannot forget that there are nearly one school shooting a week this year in schools. congress needs to dump the n.r.a. and pass reasonable gun laws. mr. speaker, ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away, and each moment we fail to act puts humans' lives at risk and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> i rise today in honor of one of my hometown's finest. p.w. ice of iconic eam, l.p.w. holmes jr. has passed away at the age of 72. following his service in the marine corps, his experience in the hospitality industry , he took a risk and opened p.w.'s in 1993. it was named after his two sons, philip iii and wayne he believed ice c

unfortunately we in the congress enabled us. we authorize enormous intrusivee government programs and give agencies the money and the staff to run them. it is no wonder that there are more than 180,000 pages of administrative regulations and glad that president trump has taken or made cutting the revelatory burden one of his top priorities. lasting reform is going to significant structural changes. think about this. more than two people work for the federal government and thate does not even include contractors and active-duty military personnel. according to a 2015 study the actual size of the government workforce is estimated at more than 9 million and remember what i said about the tendency of those with power to seek more. that seems to be the primary purpose of a nonelected bureaucrat and these folks fight tooth and nail to safeguard their pet programs even when the programs don't work. i have seen evidence of agency leaders ordering subordinates to spend money that they do not need just so they can justify having it in the

. >> fitzgerald denies the holocaust ever happened and he says that israel uses congress and american soldiers in their quest for world domination. abc 7 news reporter lilian kim has more. >> republican john fitzgerald of concord is hoping to unseat another congressman. many have never heard from him. when voter ann nicholson listened to a call supporting his candidacy, it brought her tears. >> unfortunately, our world is going in the way of big lies right now. it's very troubling time to be alive. >> the robo call says it was paid for by the road to power.com which has had racist messages in the past. he said i have no affiliation to road to power or any of his, their affiliates or organizations. >> the rhetoric is similar to what he said last month in a podcast. >> it all started with what i'd say jewish control and supremacy and that lovely state, country called israel that does all these horrible atrocities and blames them on everybody else and vilifies everybody else. >> it's not going to resonate in california, contra costa county. people are open-minded tolerant good people. >>

all of us in the congress. >> thank you so much and just highlighting what our colleagues have said about the important role of the intelligence community and our national security. a long time ago when i first went on the intelligence committee our work was about forced protection, how we tried to prevent initialization of hostilities but also if we were to engage how we protected our force. so many things, terrorism, et cetera have taken center antiterrorism center stage since that time, but all along our members of the intelligence committee had acted with great risk to their personal lives and with great courage for our country and again, for our republican colleagues to be frivolous about identifying them is really so very, very wrong. i just want to recall that since the president made his statement in helsinki, his director of national intelligence said, the role of the intelligence community is to provide the best information and fact based assessments possible for the president and policy makers. now this is what he said. now after the president said what he said, denigrating our

what is the appropriate framework for us to use in congress to approach the legislation. that is a very difficult question. >> people have the ability to issue the private currencies. i think just like dr. michael said. one can't make something illegal just because it might be used for illegal purposes. what i'm arguing is that i believe that the central bank does a good job at providing payment services not only does at the interbank level but also for small payments. i think they should continue to provide that. in the future date that might involve some of these new technologies but issued by the central bank. to remain competitive with those payment devices. as opposed to some of the private currencies which are less able to monitor. >> the to make the gentleman's time has expired. it seems like some think tanks demand that we do things that make the federal government less able to meet its financial obligations and then they demand that we have an extensive and expensive foreign policy that costs well over a trillion dollars there is no way to square that unless we a

the us congress and its allies would not accept the notion that president trump could accept the annexationsion. what is different this time is that president trump's use appear to be different of those of his senior advisers than those of the bipartisan consensus in congress. some members of congress have urged for him not to have this small eating but it is not really inappropriate for a president to do. —— small meeting. he has to reflect the views. president trump should not just ask about election interference, he should make a strong representation about election interference. with what consequences? the consequences would be that there could be increased sanctions or pressure continues to interfere. last saturday the secretary of homeland security in the united states said that, thus far, at this point, before the mid—term elections in november, russian interference is at a lesser scale and scope than it was in 2016. that may be a positive sign but, if russia continues to interfere in 2018, the mid—term elections, the congressional elections in the united states, that will probably c

infelt too many of us congress that the divide between the federal dirt -- federal reserve response abilitiesnd those related to monetary policy was not as explicit as it should have been. there seemed to be a high risk that federal reserve regulations were not being given the necessary oversight and evaluations. there were more and more regulations coming out. the position filled by vice chair corals, i would like to hear how things have changed at the federal reserve. a vicefind that having chair for supervision has allowed you to focus more on ?onetary policy does it help prevent inappropriate overlap of the fence roles? -- fed's roles? now that you have distinguished supervisory roles in the fed. mr. powell: let me say, it is great to have vice chair corals in his role. i know he was confirmed yesterday. him 20 fivewith years ago. he has been great. we think of the roles as pretty complementry actually. we think that essentially that financial systems more broadly and the banking system is the transmission channel for monetary policy. we think we have learned a lot about what is going on

some prominent republican and democratic members of the us congress strongly criticised president trumpver a strong warning to president putin about meddling in american elections, saying trump has sent a message of weakness to moscow. senator lindsey graham, a senior republican and member -- paul —— paul ryan said that russia must be held accountable on in violent attacks on democracy. senatorjohn mccain said today s press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. it is clear the summit in helsinki was a tragic mistake. senator lindsey graham, a senior republican and member of the senate tweeted earlier saying... the talks come days after after the justice department announced the indictments of a dozen russian intelligence operatives for allegedly hacking democratic targets in the 2016 us presidential election. when asked whether he would extradite the 12 russians allegedly involved in election meddling. putin instead detailed a plan, which trump later described as an incredible offer. translation: we can offer that the app

it, before congress has granted them any authority to useit. congress never said you could use catchers to catch all of the telephones, including the telephones inside homes, and find out who is talking in the neighborhood and emulate a cell phone tower, and yet they are using it. originally that was considered law-enforcement sensitive, no one was allowed to know how they work. they are black boxes. we are still trying to figure out how much of this is used, which departments. remote access or hacking is another example. no one affirmatively said in congress, law enforcement, you can access computers or you can use child pornography to try to catch individuals engaged in child pornography activities, and yet they are using the technology. i workede forward -- for hewlett-packard for eight years, and our lifecycle was very short for our product. i would like to see congress step up and say when new technologies come out -- this is the position number of states have taken with regard to drones -- unless they have affirmatively been granted pe

so what can congress do now? joining us is democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut.enator, thanks so much for being here. you tweeted a suggestion yesterday. you said if you're on the trump national security team and you've been out there saying how strong trump is on russia and how serious our commitment is to nato, how do you not resign after the last four days? >> well, listen, i'll leave it to each member of his national security cabinet to make the decision for themselves. but some of that was just personal advice. i have a couple friends, people that i respect, who have been fairly hard liners on russia over the course of their career who are potentially ruining their careers by staying with this president who is siding with russia over the united states. so, every member of his cabinet will make the decision for themselves. i just don't understand how you can sit by and let this president do this. i've listened to a lot of his folks at the state department, at the nsc, at the department of commerce, tell us everything is right, tell us that the president is go

members of congress and house of representatives agreed on legislation that would prevent a drawdown of u.s. troops on the korean peninsula without congressional approval. this could hamper us down the road. some of it could be mitigated if there was more clarity for congress. and what elements does the south korean government have concerns about. for the second part of my remarks, i want to say a little bit about congress. overlooked inten terms of the role they can play in north korean diplomacy. right now congress like the american people at large are butined to support talks, they are suspicious of the trump administration's ability to carry out successful negotiations. they are frustrated over the lack of knowledge they have received about the process to date. where that confluence of events could lead us, congress putting up roadblocks that hinder the negotiations, and cause problems immediately, or set the united states up to overcome roadblocks in the future. three quick areas i want to address, first, i hope this would also be self-evident, if you look at the history of the u.s. congress, it is not. now is not the time for new sanctions. we have particularly with t