business or personal relationships living in those economies and that's really important for us to understand as a nation. to be real time, to be able to evolve and build and leverage those relationships much more rapidly than if you are not appreciating them. if that is the strength of what the -- what the pacific council and this task force is trying to deal with. >> the economic ties are not solely limited to the west. one of the deepest here -- some of the deepest economic ties are in michigan, new hampshire -- all of the united states -- we have -- if you get central america and south america, you find the same pattern. it is not only the west linked to latin america and depends on trade to the country's south of the hemisphere, but there is a different sensibility and different ability to take relationship because latin america is fed much present in the west. it is easier to take it off the vintage of the relationship. up to aen it discussion. we have knowledgeable people if you would like to join the discussion, raise your hand. wait for a microphone. because we are filming this for c-span, pleas

personal family relationships living in those economies, and that's really important for us to understand as a nation is to be real time to be able to a golf and build those relationships and leverage them much more rapidly than perhaps if you are not quite appreciating them and so that is the strength of fighting with the pacific council and the task force is trying to deal with. >> i should know some of his work in mexico and the united states economic ties are not solely limited to the west. as a matter of fact some of the deepest economic ties are in texas and indiana and nebraska and michigan and new hampshire. although the united states is deeply tied to mexico and if you to look specifically at central america and south america and the caribbean you'd find the same pattern. it is not only the west that has lead to latin america very deep way is it depends on trade and exports to the country south of the hemisphere, but has said in different ways there is a different sensibility and perhaps a different ability to take advantage of the relationship because latin america is present in the west. i

personal family relationships living in those economies and that is really important for us to understand as a nation. it's to be real-time, to be able to evolve and build those relationships and leverage them much more rapidly than perhaps if you are not quite appreciating them. so that is the strength of i think with the pacific counsel and specifically the task force is trying to deal with. >> i should note chris wilson is sitting over here and some of his work is looked at the relationship between the mexico and united states economic ties. cannot make ties are not solely limited to the west and the deepest economic ties are in texas, indiana, nebraska and michigan and new hampshire. all of all of the united states is deeply tied to mexico and if you were to look at central america and south america and the caribbean you would find the same pattern. it is not only the west that is linked to latin america in very deep ways. it depends on trade and export to the countries south of the hemisphere but as antonia has said there is a different ability to take advantage of the relationship because latin

mentored for many of us in terms of not only understanding what our founders believed but also giving us the courage to stand on it. we have great threads to our existence today as a nation. and i would think in my opinion, greater than any threat we've ever faced, whether it's been our civil war or revolutionary war, whether it's been world war ii, whether it's been the depression, and that threat comes to us because we've spent the last 30 years in this country spending money that we did not have on things we did not absolutely need and the bill is due. if you look at generally accepted accounting principles, our government has liabilities in excess of $131 trillion, and nobody can put their hands around what $1 trillion is. and it's not just my word you should take for it, as joint chiefs of staff chairman mullens said, the greatest threat to america is not china. it's not islamic radical fundamentalism, it's not russia. it is our debt. and the painful thing for me every week in washington is to know that and to know it's true and yet not see the political class in our country address the very real problems in front of us. and there's a great lesson for it. i write ab

to church. too many guns. too few. mental illness. road rage. the national search for understanding gives us something to do and some desperate order for us to claim. as a friend at fox put it something to occupy our mind, our minds racing with thoughts who made it out the those who did not. those still in the hospital. and the funerals to come, the greening to endure. and, then, the new day, later this summer, but i guess we move on. until then it is a mad media rush which i am a part, truth be told, trying to make desperate sense of scenes played and replayed that doctors will abide their patients not to watch and i cannot blame them. it could set off depression or copycats or a disturbing sense of horrible real drama. the worse kind of reality show. but reality, however. the he is not about red or blue. and god knows i am not a psychologist or psychiatrist. but whoever you look to for guidance, say a prayer. and ask for the wisdom not so much to understand this but how, together, we can find our way to a better day. i don't know what else to say. back to what the heck happened this day. to set up this craziness. to adam with the latest in colorado. a

to understand why our government would allow something like this to happen. our state is being destroyed. our peoples help was being destroyed. we are being used as a column, like an african nationi would like to hear what he thinks about that. i would like to ask a follow-up question if i may, thank you. guest: it was interesting for me to see what happened in west virginia. i have to confess that i did not expect that i have spoken to families. they told me that is how we make our living and we don't like to do that but that is that we make money. then somebody told us that is different to europe. if you own a piece of land here, this is your land and you can do with it whatever you want. this is a little bit different. i like the people in west virginia. they were very nice, great hospitality down there. thank you. i really like the people there. host: do you have something else to follow up with? caller: i would like to ask cspan to do a segment on mount top mining. of like to tell everyone that i am a retired coal miner. he added that question with the fact that if they owned the land bridges because you owned the land does not give you the right to poison everyone downstre

to understand why our government would allow something like this to happen. our state is being destroyed. our peoples help was being destroyed. we are being used as a column, like an african nation. i would like to hear what he thinks about that. i would like to ask a follow-up question if i may, thank you. guest: it was interesting for me to see what happened in west virginia. i have to confess that i did not expect that i have spoken to families. they told me that is how we make our living and we don't like to do that but that is that we make money. then somebody told us that is different to europe. if you own a piece of land here, this is your land and you can do with it whatever you want. this is a little bit different. i like the people in west virginia. they were very nice, great hospitality down there. thank you. i really like the people there. host: do you have something else to follow up with? caller: i would like to ask cspan to do a segment on mount top mining. of like to tell everyone that i am a retired coal miner. he added that question with the fact that if they owned the land bridges because you owned the land does not give you the right to poison everyone downst

mentor for many of us in terms of not only understanding when our founders believe, but also giving us the courage to stand on it. we have great threats to our existence today as a nationi would think in my opinion, greater than any threat we have ever faced, whether it has been our civil war or revolutionary war, world war ii, the depression. that thread comes to us -- threat comes to us because we have spent the last 30 years in this country spending money that we did not have on things we did not absolutely need and the bill is due. if you look fed generally accepted accounting principles -- at generally expected accounting principles, our government has liabilities in excess of $131 trillion. nobody can put their hands around what a trillion dollars is. it is not just my word you should take for it. as joint chiefs of staff, chairman mullins said, the greatest threat to america is not china. it is not islamic radical fundamentalism. it is not russia. it is our debt. and the painful thing for me every week in washington is to know that and to know it is true, and yet not see the political class in our country address the very real problems in front of us. and there

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as we move more and more to the cloud? >> cyber is the most national security problem faces us. i think people don't really understand the degree to which these intrusions are made. because a lot of them are classified and can't be released. and in the private sector, banks, for example, that are robbed, like the royal bank of scotland of $10 million i can't remember if it was $8 or $10 million. it was in 2008 from 250atm. they didn't want the clients to know that. city bank $10 million. they didn't want their clients to know that. so cyber attacks on company after company by the thousands that people adopt know about -- don't know about it becomes extraordinarily difficult you get to critical infrastructure. the command and control systems which were taken down in eastern europe during that problem. a command and control system in the taiwan 1998 -- strait to be taken down. the electric griding with up of these throwing a country into a real turmoil can take place. the biggest venn or or -- vendors are china, russia, and some extent israeli. to put on the table. so it's really very important that we have, i think, some kind of international agreement on cyber. i even doub

as we move more and more to the cloud? >> cyberis the number one national security problem facing us and i think people don't really understand the degree to which these intrusions are made. because a lot of them are classified and cannot be released. in the private sector, banks for example that a rob like the royal bank of scotland, for $10 million, 10 or 8 million, it was in 2008 from 250 atms. they did montek lions to know that. citibank, 10 million. they did montek clients to know that, so cyberattacks companies by the thousands of people don't know about where it becomes extraordinarily difficult is where you get the critical infrastructure, the command and control which were taken down in eastern europe during that. a command-and-control system in the taiwan strait could be taken down. our command-and-control command and control system, the faa, the electric grid. all of these things that would throw a country into a real turmoil can take place. the big defenders are china, russia and to some extent israel. let me just put the cart on the table. so, it's really very important that we have i think, some kind of international agreement on cyber. i even doubt that the chinese c

as we move more to the cloud? >> cyber is the number one national security problem facing us. i think people do not really understand the degree to which these intrusions are made. because a lot of them are classified and cannot be released and in the private sector, banks, for example, that are robert like the royal bank of scotland of $10 million. -- that are robbed like the royal bank of scotland of $10 million. they did not want the client to know that. to the bank did not want their clients to know that -- citibank, did not want their clients to know that. so cyber attacks that people do not know about, where it becomes extraordinarily difficult is where you get the critical infrastructure. the command and control systems which were taken down in eastern europe during that conflagration. a command and control -- control system and to the taiwan straits. our command-and-control systems. the faa, the electric grid. all of these things that would throw a country into a real turmoil can take place. the big offenders are china, russia, and israel to some extent. so it is really very important that we have some kind of international agreement on cyber. i even doubt the tin