very hard. all the pundits out there are saying they have never seen china work like they're working right now. many coal ships have been sent back. many other things have happened. some very unusual moves have been made over the last two or three hours. and i really have confidence that the president will try very hard. we don't know whether or not they're able to do that but i have absolute confidence that he will be trying very, very hard. and one of the reasons we're talking about trade deals and we're talking about all of the different things but we're slowing up a little bit. i actually told him. i said you will make a much better deal on trade if you get rid of this menace or do something about the menace of north korea, because that's what it is right now, it's a menace right now. we'll see what happens. as far as iran is concerned, i think they are doing a tremendous disservice to an agreement that was signed. it was a terrible agreement. it shouldn't have been signed. it shouldn't have

that will be something very important -- very, very special. and that will be with commerce. one of the reasons we're here today is to announce the extraordinary results of a new survey from the national association of manufacturers. your survey shows that 93% of manufacturers now have a positive outlook on the future of their business in this country -- 93%. and it was just a few months ago 56%. that's a slight difference. [laughter] [applause] that's a 20-year, record high -- highest it's been in 20 years, and it's going higher. believe me, you could come back next month, jay. [laughter] president trump: i don't know how much higher it can go. and so i'm very proud of that, and we're all very proud of that. and the manufacturers are really starting to invest big money, and a lot of things are happening. it's a new surge in optimism, which is sweeping all across our land. these survey results are a further vote of confidence in our plan to bring back jobs, lower taxes, and provide a level playing field for our workers. the manufacturing companies represent -- and represented

thank you very, very much for being with us. >>> mr. president, thank you for such a kind and warm welcome to the white house. i fondly remember the meetings we've had many years ago. and more recently, several months ago. you've always been a generous host. and i've always looked up, and we're very delighted with the way the discussions have gone thus far. and we're delighted to be here on a wonderful setting and a beautiful day which i think is a tremendous mark of how we're going to move into the future. we've had a very good round of talks today. and i'm looking forward to continuing these discussions later on in our meetings after the press conference. what i do want to say how much we deeply appreciate the close relations we have with the united states. with you, mr. president, or the american people. this is a strategic partnership that we keep very close to our hearts. and it is a partnership of so many levels that we will continue, i think, with the frank discussions we had today to improve as we face the challenges the future.

you are very, very focused.ave a lot of good relationships with people in business and generally. do people try to lean on you? everyone does. i don't mind being leaned on if it is to help somebody. i really enjoy helping people at high levels and at low levels and i feel that is very important to give to charity. i give a lot of money to charity, i try to give as much as i can. but, you know, there are times when you just have to say "that is enough," "that is all i can do." people might look at you and think to themselves, "i wonder what it is like to have all of that money." donald trump, what is it like to have all of that money? well, again, money does not buy happiness and it does not buy lots of other things, but it certainly makes life easier, and it lets me create what i want to do artistically. because i'm an artist, in a certain sense, i'm an artist. i built the greatest buildings in the world and i'm the biggest developer in new york city and i love what i am doing and i have put up great things. and

we're analyzing it very, very carefully. we'll have something to say about it in the not too distant future but iran has not lived up to the spirit of the agreement. and they have to do that. they have to do that. so we will see what happens. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president. >> translator: first of all, allow me to join president trump's words for what happened in paris. these words of condolences and closeness to the french people and this is a very delicate, delicate period for them. they are just three days before the election. as far as the question is concerned, the commitment has been made. it was made during a nato summit and we are used to respecting our commitments. we know that this will be a gradual process. it has already begun. and we know that italy has certain limitations when it comes to its budget but despite these limitations our commitment to common defense is very clear. as we said earlier, i'm very proud not only of the progress made in our financial commitment but also proud of the cont

thank you very, very much for being with us. >> mr. president, thank you for such a kind and warm welcome to the white house. i fondly remember the meetings we've had many years ago, and more recently, several months ago. you've always been a generous host and have always looked after us. we are very delighted with the way the discussions have gone so far. and we're delighted to be here in such a wonderful setting, such a beautiful day, which i think is a tremendous mark of how we're going to move into the future. we've had a very good round of talks today and i'm looking forward to continuing these discussions later on in our meetings after the press conference. what i do want to say is how much we deeply appreciate the close relations we have with the united states, with you, mr. president, and with the american people. this is a strategic partnership that we call and keep very close to our hearts and it is a partnership on so many levels that we will continue, i think, with the frank discussions that we had today, to improve on, as

you're very kind, thank you very much. you're very kind. thank you very much. thank you very much. if some people have some questions, it would be my great pleasure to answer them at your leisure. gentlemen -- you're going to call on people. >> i'll walk around with the microphone. >> thank you again, mr. stein. >> you are very welcome indeed. >> president nixon was a great advisor, more specifically an advisor to those holding office. what tv's that the device do you think he would give to president-elect donald trump and president obama for that matter? >> it is interesting. this brings up a sore spot with me. my friends a couple years ago wanted to write a book called "what would nixon do" about what would nixon do about all the foreign policy and domestic challenges we faced. we wrote a proposal -- i will get your question. we sent it to a few publishers, and nobody nibbled at it. some fellow recently did some research and came up with a brilliant discovery that richard nixon had some interface with a woman who had some interface with another person during the 1969 paris peace

powerful, very dynamic very creative women leaders. one of the issues that came up during that meeting was having women's access to captain capital. and we've been talking about it very much in a developing world context. but one of the members of the council is a canadian woman entrepreneur and she said you know what? it's just harder for a woman out there even in canada, we like to think of ourselves as an enlightened country. our prime minister is a feminist. he appointed a 50/50 gender balanced cabinet. yea for justin trudeau. [ applause ] >> but you know, as green maxima said, we are very aware that we don't have a female leader. i accept that chancellor. >> touche. so you know as queen maxima said, we are very aware in canada, i think in the united states too, that, of course, supporting women, women entrepreneurs, girls education in the developing world is a great development tool. but we have also have a lot of work still to do at home. and i very much believe that this canada/u.s. women's business council is going to take a re

it's -- it's very sad. >> you're right. it's very sad. it makes a lot of israelis sad, but the only reason why we built it was violence and terrorism. we hope that we'll be able to reach a moment where there is security and we can advance peace and those barriers can come down. >> president trump has already met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas is also invited to the white house. >> i'm very hopeful, and this is what i'm looking forward to. i'm looking forward to having leadership that will pursue peace, will pursue understanding, and people who will support them. >> we are going to build the wall! it will be a real wall! >> the honorable gemi josé gonzález lópez is consul general of the mexican consulate in san francisco. >> we should be working to have the most creative, important, innovative border in the world. it will be a region of economic growth, a region where human rights can be respected, a region where everyone can feel safe. >> what kinds of feedback are you getting

it's tense, but also very, very comic. it's also very nihilistic. that all of these people are variously untrustworthy and incompetent. they're all laughed at, from their ridiculous quotes and their foolish mannerisms. vernon keeps saying "watch and vern, watch and vern." what i liked about it, i think what ben wheatley and his film making partner amyjump managed to do is make it a cross—genre film, which they always do. 0k, yes, it's a thriller, but also a comedy, but it's a very nihilistic comedy. it's a comedy about the fact that if you take... people have compared it to, they say it's like the last movement of reservoir dogs stretched out... it's not. it's like that sequence in naked gun 21/2, when there's the close—range gunfight, with two people hiding behind the same dustbin, but it's like that that, stretched over 90 minutes. it has an absurd edge to it. it passes the six laughs test in the first ten minutes. it's passed the six laughs test in the last two minutes. you were laughing all the way through. i'm laughing at you talking about it.

taxes are collected very differently. we have state and local taxes that are very different. and understand how people think about taxes. how they reach their conclusion. the: you write about saying interviews demonstrated how much stress very poor people experience when making everyday purchase. that's the biggest tax she pays, marjorie who describes herself as poverty-stricken says, i would say sales tax. we never have enough food and everything. go by food i if i have $.50 for tax. intervieweesncome speak knowledgeably about which items are subject to sales tax. lives in mississippi where groceries are subject to sales tax. anything i can load in >> and live now to president trump in kenosha,

frances to be very professionalism very very sensitive. it is difficult especially with 2 or 3 gurn asian and patients. one person may screen and another yelling another may be escorted out of the hospital. there is object so much protocol the hospital and do and so much we can do but do our job and bring the patient to the hospital. the hospitals take care of them and look over them for medical situation but at some point or another that same patient as i observed before is someone we see again through it continuing evening. i just wanted to say again that i want to acknowledge those personnel at station 49. again commissioners, colleagues, mr. president, with your advocacy of a new station of the paramedic station 49, the bond issue it is so clear to me that we need to have that established for us to move forward in terms of continuing services. it was just interesting because things like when we to eat something we all wound up at whole foods picking food off the shelf. when it came to my necessity to viz sit the restroom we had to go t

>> system, it is just a very, very bureaucratic system.i think the rules in congress and in particular the rules in the senate are unbelievably archaic and slow moving and in many cases unfair. in many cases you are forced to make deals that are not the deal you would make, you would make a much different kind of a deal. you are forced into situations you hate to be forced into. i also learned and this is very sad, because we have a country that we have to take care of. the democrats have been totally turned out to be a bad leader,, he is a bad leader for the country and the democrats are extremely obstructionist, all they do is obstruct and delay, even our supreme court justice as you know who i think is going to be outstanding, justin gorsuch, i think that, justin gorsuch, i think it was disgrateful the way they handled that but i am waiting for bein g pep to be approved our chief trade negotiator we can't get these people through. they are obstructionist and you know who that is hurt something it is hurting the country. >> dickerson: le

we are a very, very strong country. we are a very, very strong country. with a man i've gotten to know. i don't know putin from but i do know this gentleman, i've spent a lot of time with him over the last two days, and he is the president of china. you were there, most of you we re china. you were there, most of you were there, it was quite an interesting period of time. president xi wants to do the right thing. we had a very good bonding, we had a very good chemistry together. i think he wants to help us with north korea. we talked trade, we talked a lot of things. i said the way you will make a good trade deal is to help us with north korea otherwise we'll go it alone, that'll be all right too. going alone means going it with lots of other nations. i was very impressed with president xijinping. and i think he means well and i think he wa nts to think he means well and i think he wants to help. we'll see whether or not he does. do you feel like you have a deal with him? do you feel like you have a deal in terms of the currency manipulation, designation,

it is a very special rain and a very special happening. it is worth taking just a minute to remember what it all means. founders's incredible wisdom, they gave each branch of government a different role in our great republic. we have a congress to write the laws on behalf of the people. we have a president to enforce those laws and defend our nation. and, we have a supreme court to apply and interpret the law in a fair and impartial manner when disagreements arise. the founders separated power because they knew it was the best way to protect our citizens and keep our constitution secure. justice gorsuch, you are now and trusted with the sacred duty of .efending our constitution our country is counting on you to be wise, impartial, and fair. noterve under our laws, over them. and to safeguard the right of people to govern their own affairs. i have no doubt you will rise to the location and that the decisions you will make will not only protect our constitution today but for many generations of americans to come. in just a moment, justice go

thank you very much credit is a very important story.ning me now on an exclusive, the attorney did thomas parents, kenneth. thank you very much for being here. obviously this family is distraught, heartbroken over the loss of their son. in these cases where a person who is accused on a college campus, we see time and time again the person who was accused has essentially no right to defend themselves on a college campus, correct? >> thank you for having made. in this case in particular, thomas had no chance whatsoever to even mount a defense, let alone to have a fair process. and the consequences as just stated were absolutely devastating. he was distraught by the occurrence of the accusations, his inability to defend himself and ultimately the devastating impact it had on his life. >> martha: the media told that he could not go to that class anymore. this is what we see in many of the is harassment cases. the person who is accused basically is cut off from their life even though they have not had any due process, any opportunity to argue

very very complicated. i can't even say that i begin to understand the whole thing so we won't bore you with the details. another is a lot of regulations promulgated by the obama administration during 2016. among them, penalties that were enacted to prevent corporations from engaging what are called inversion. when they take their head quarters out of the united states and head quarter them overseas. the president wants to look at rolling back some of that. he would rather give companies incentives to stay in the united states rather than penalize them for moving their headquarters. but the one thing he will penalize is if the headquarters stay here, the manufacturing moves overseas and then the goods will come back here to the united states. >> sandra: very interesting stuff. it sounds wonky, those inversions, but this is stuff that affects all of us. >> reporter: it's interesting if you've got an mba. it's wonky for the rest 06 us. >> sandra: there you have it. i love that stuff. we'll dial into that a li

nafta has been very, very bad for our country. very, very bad for our companies and our workers.e're going to make some very big changes or we are going to get rid of nafta for once and for all. it cannot continue like this, believe me. [applause] big things will be happening on trade with other countries over the coming months. and i mean very big. we are also working with congress on tax reform and supplication. we are on time, if we get that health care approval -- press every one of your congressmen. press everybody, because we want to get that approval. it just makes the tax reform easier and it makes it better. it's going to be steeper, it is going to be bigger. that's what we want to do. we are in very good shape for tax reform. we have the concept of the plan. we're going to be announcing it soon. but health care, we have to get the health care taken care. as soon as we take care of health care we're going to march very quickly. watch, we are going to surprise you. right, steve mnuchin? secretary of treasury. [applause] stand up, sean. stand up. i had no idea. he has been

very interesting. let's have a listen. >> to speak about a situation in syria, we have to keep in mind that assad and his army is a legitimate power in syria and they are the only real power in syria that can resist terrorists on the ground. >> so, a couple of other things worth noting, greta. at the u.n. security council, they are discussing a draft resolution by russia. but the u.k. ambassador said that that draft resolution didn't even condemn the chemical weapons attack. so, that shows how far apart the two sides washington and moscow are. one other thing worth noting, this has come up as president trump meets china's president xi jinping. i just wonder if president trump, if he does launch airstrikes, isn't also sending a message to beijing. remember what president trump said about north korea. if you, china, don't take action on north korea, we will. this could be president trump showing that he is prepared to take military action wherever necessarwhenever necessary. greta? >> bill,f you'l stand

very important. i have to admit i have a bias of favoritism in some ways of great efection and respect to the san francisco fire reserves and for the fact as a stepping stone, so to speak or training formula as a member to the san francisco fire department, i don't think for the men and women who are interested know a greater training ground in my opinion than the san francisco fire reserves so again i want to acknowledge that. i as a member of the community appreciate all of the volunteerism you do, plug for the japanese american community and chery blossom festival. you listed the senior center. quh you are out there with the fire reserves and city college it is amazing the interaction that we have created there as the various members get to know each other and have that same kind of common bond, which is community services. i thank you commandser buckley, thank you very much for all of you in the command force and thank you very much to the members serviceing the san francisco fire reserve. thank

if we don't get a very large impact because the very, very slow and will signaled have, then they getto rate hikes in early 2018 within march. joe: historically speaking, many recessions they say are caused by the fed. it has been a long time since we have had a recession in this country. is there anything out there that concerns you, and what do you think could be a proximate cause we do have a short downturn? 2018,017, even probably the risk of recession to me seems quite low. when i look at the momentum in the economy, when i look at the impulses from financial conditions that we can already at, and when i also look things that preceded the price of the 2001 recession and even in early 1990's recession, all of that makes me optimistic that recession risk in the near term is pretty low. as you look out further, a lot depends on how much more labor market tightening we get. if we are really at full employment at the moment and we're seeing above trend growth, then we will see to some degree and overheating of the labor market. maybe only a little bit, maybe quite a bit more. it's jus

i am very impressed with sean. he is very good on television and very helpful., man, thank you. we'll be making big investments in rebuilding our military and repairg our badly-he depleted infrastructure that will happen soon, also. infrastructure, big infrastructure bill. probably use it with something else a little bit harder to get approved in order to get that approved. but infrastructure is coming and it is coming fast. new ships, bridges, tunnels and airplanes will be constructed with american hands, american steel, and yes, american tools. [applause] as we work to restore the american dream at home, we're also working to restore america's standing abroad. that means strengthening our partnerships, and insuring that our friends and allies pay their fair share, and that very much includes, as i have already said, in my little statement to paul, it also includes the nato companies and countries. they are really sort of letting us down in that one respect and we don't want people taking advantage of the united states. it will not happen for very much longer.

very much so. i'm very, very interested in what he gothic actually is.ly, you could lock three orfour academics in a room, with no bread or waterfor ten hours, and not let them out until they have agreed on a definition of the gothic. they'll starve, because it's something that people are constantly debating. the gothic is a feeling. it's a sensation, is not a genre. it's the feeling that there is something that we don't quite understand. am i mad, or did i just see that thing? if i am mad, is that worse than a monster? we all have fears that we, to some degree, enjoy. i mean, we enjoy treading on the edge of an abyss, in a way, in our minds, don't we? that's what we'll do. we do. i think what a really good gothic novel does, what i wanted to try to emulate, his arouse in the reader similar sensations to those felt by the characters. so, a successful gothic novel will leave the reader feeling as unnerved and as uneasy as the characters who are encountering these fears themselves. so, a reader of a gothic text like dracula would be invited to think, what

it's becoming very, very hard. it's been very hard to determine if we have a consistent series, i don't think it is. as a matter of fact, i identify three different series at a time, okay, and even the ones that we have does not really includes -- includes things that are not usually included in tourist expenditures or not, if you follow international, you know, guidelines for it. so that's the first thing that i think. now, the other part is that that's you never know they're giving you nominal real or what exchange rate they're using, okay. now i've tried to -- i have looked at the data and gone down to the province level to see if i can better sense of how they put it together and, you know, i -- it was monday -- mindbogglingly. some reported in pesos and some in dollars. what exchange they use? i don't know. a couple of things there. so any time you use receipts for anything including comparison to gdp, i'm not sure if it's overestimated or underestimated. there are things that go either way. it seems to have b

thank you very much indeed for that.past three years. the timing of this one is surely significant, just days before the first round of voting in the presidential election. sarah corker has been looking at political reaction to the attack. as news broke of another terror attack in france, all 11 candidates standing in sunday's presidential election were making their final television appearances. as a mark of respect, the three leading candidates have called off rallies and meetings. translation: concerning what happened tonight, i want to first and foremost say that the nation stands with the police. we are faced with an act that we can't yet totally make sense of but, sadly, it seems to resemble an act of terror. on the world—famous boulevard, a car pulled up alongside a police bus, a man got out and opened fire with an automatic weapon on police officers. marine le pen of the far right national front tweeted: jean—luc melenchon standing for the far left wrote... sentiments echoed by other candidates. translation: i lef

he was also at times very very stubborn and those times proved to be very important. and i recall very vividly, a meeting, you know, there's this argument that reagan reversed himself in 1983 where created airliner and the marines and lebanon and all of these events occurred in 1983 that told him, hey, wait a minute, this exercise that presumably attack them under the guides. and so there's a theory out there that reagan at this point, he was going to shift. at the time he would have shifted. would have been 1982. the fall of 1982 where nothing was going right. the economy -- the arm's control negotiations were going nowhere. the walk in the woods proposal had been disposed of. he lost, by the way, i think 26 seats in the elections in 1982, so if you want to look at a time when it was really bleak and my boss, bill clark, i'll grant that parenthetically. any way clark took a couple of us in the oval. we actually tried to launch a trade route, can you imagine, in the middle of the worst recession the world had seen since world war ii, we didn't get anywhere. i was supp

>> this victory is very important. it's very likely that he wins the second round, so this cannot be overestimated indeed. there was a disaster looming which with melenchon and le pen entering the finals. they were just a few percentage points apart. so from the german end, i suppose from the europe people perspective, this is a very good result. >> economically, he's quite the lib balanc liberal. he wants to make france competitive again. france has been considered the sick man of europe. but it's still apeoplime anemic. do you think macron is the right candidate to turn things around for france? >> i think his platform, what he wants to do is right in many ways. the question is, will he have the backing? will he have the backing of parliament? so he's unlikely to win the majority in the parliamentary elections. so what he's going to do about that remains to be seen. so there there be some type of -- he will need to cooperate with other parties. and there's the broader issue of whether he really has the mandate for st

they're very big.. they're very successful. well, the second question you might have is, wherere are they gonna get the money? how could workers start a collective business? with what? this is an interesting problem. where would the money come from? and guess what. there are solutions to that, too, b becaue this isn't a new idea. and there's lots of examples. i'm just going to give you one to tantalize you with the possibilities. but i'm going to choose one that comes from the real world just so you know people have tried it and done it. this time, i'm referring to something called the mamarcora law, which is a law in italy, passed in 1985. herre's what this lalaw does-- what an interesting idea, which in italy it is still on ththe books. if you become unemployed in italy, you have a choice: you can either get your weekly unemployment check the way a person in the united states does--and in italy, it runs 2-3 years that you're eligible--or you have a second option, which we don't have in the united states. the italian governmen

it was very, very, very scary. very frightening.ough her partner didn't harm her physically, he subjected her to years of mental torment. what is known as coercive control. he used to say things like he'd shoot me if he found me with another man. once he threatened me with a hammer. i used to say, i'll lock you out and he'd say, "i'll smash your windows." he had total control. the government has a straty to tackle violence against women and girls. it's earmarked at least £40 million for domestic violence services. those on the frontline say there needs to be a rethink on funding. the government is putting money in at the moment, which we're very grateful for. but it's a very short—term approach. what we need is a longer term approach and longer term investment, with a long—term strategy. so that refuges can continue to function. if that doesn't happen, refuges will close and more willoughby die. —— mo women will die. this reef udge run by the charity women's aid is so short on space that this office will soon be converted into an ex

very much appreciate it. this is our second meeting since my inauguration, but our first at the white house. very special place, i can tell you that. i've gotten to know it well, long hours, very special. it's really an honor to welcome you here today, but before we begin, let me say a few words about recent events. yesterday, chemical attack. a chemical attack that was so horrific in syria against innocent people, including women, small children, and even a beautiful little babies, their deaths was an affront to humanity. these heinous actions by the assad regime cannot be tolerated. the united states stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this horrific attack and all other horrific attacks for that matter. your majesty, jordanians are known for their legendary hospitality, and we will do our very best to be equally gracious hosts. they're also known, however, i have to say this, for their fighting ability. and you are a great warrior and we appreciate it. thank you. the historical ties and close

and they were very, very active. and there were also chinese and eastern europeans in iran that we were targeted after. so that was another, something else that we were very interested in. so the iranians, however, you know, were focusedded on the united states, focused on our support to the shah, angry at the shah since 1972 with the nixon administration really getting very close to the united states. the shah was spending billions of dollars of iranian oil on weapons to be a leader of the world, and the iranian people were very poor. most of the iranians didn't have electricity, didn't have running water, didn't have sewers. they had pure -- poor be education, poor health care, and they saw the shah squandering their birthright to buy these weapons to be something that they didn't want to be. what they wanted was to have a better life. very reasonably so. and they blamed the united states were a lot of their woes. in a certain sense, rightly so, but also rather misdividedly in a lot -- misguidedly in a lot of respe

, very strong words. you know, not just that relations were at a low, but saying on chemical weapons, there is absolutely no evidence that syrian forces were responsible for those keck call weapons attacks. of course, the u.s. is citing its own intelligence evidence that russia -- that, sorry, that syria was responsible, so, you know, the gulf between these two countries is as wide as it's ever been. as wide as i ever remember it. when putin says relations are -- have degraded under trump, remember what his relationship was like with barack obama. so for him to say that about donald trump doesn't bode well for the future. brian? >> bill neely. thank you. we're fortunate to have you there for us. early evening moscow time. you saw, perhaps, the president's notes being delivered to the podium. we see his head of the council of economic advisers m cohn arriving with otherhite house aides who will file into the seats in the front row. we're probably just a few minutes away from the start of this, but enough t

it's a very tough one. what we can do is try to set a good example and do the best thing we can do, a little bit of good with the amount of aid that we're comfortable providing. >> thanks, dr. dunne. thanks mr. chairman. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you for all your testimony. dr. dunne, i think you're on the mark where you say the egyptian people didn't bargain for the kind of repressive regime they have. it's not what the egyptian people asked for. i can sense all of us are obviously frustrated, because we are struggling with how we can better use our leverage and influence with egypt, which, over a period of time has been a close ally of the united states, and i think you all made the case very well that the united states is less reliant on egypt sort of standing in the region. i think it's also fair to say that from egypt's perspective, they're a little less rely niann the united states given the support they're getting from the gulf states. so this committee is going to have to make decisions on wh

he was asked that very question very directly. listen here to his answer. >> did you authorize it, sir? >> everybody knows exactly what happened. and what i do is i authorize my military. we have the greatest military in the world, and they've done a job, as usual. so, we have given them total authorization, and that's what they're doing. >> joining me now, lieutenant colonel scott mann, a former green bert in iraq and afghanistan. he is also the author of "gamechangers: going local to defeat violent extremists." also derek sholet is former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs under president obama. thank you so much for joining me. colonel, first to you. why did it seem in that sound bite that we just heard from the president yesterday, why did it seem he had a bit of a hard time answering that question, if he authorized the strike? >> yeah, i don't know exactly why it did seem like there was a little bit of stammering there, but frankly, kate, you know, the president has been approving, and the natio

, very unlikely?think the vote will get scheduled when speaker ryan and liam mccarthy and the justices feel they're confident. if it happens this week, great, if it's next week or the week after. but i think we want to make sure we have the votes and we're headed in the right direction before putting some artificial deadline. >> would you think this week is likely? >> whenever the speaker and the leadership in the house tell us they're confident they have the votes, then we would encourage them to move forward. i'm not trying to not answer the question, but i think that's the answer. it comes down to when they feel they have the commitments to push the bill forward. >> the ones that push to try to get something on the legislative scoreboard by the 100th day, does it now look like that won't happen? >> we've been very clear here, and i think the president has been very clear in his comments that our goal is to get it done and get it done right and get it done so we have the votes. veead some background

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likely very cheaply. to come from the russian perspective there quite concert of a future trajectory and not sure whether it will hold out with the level of international remains. i think for them to do is establish links and ties of the taliban for what happens to the taliban doesn't when they take a large percentage of us afghanistan. that's a negative, this basically shows you that russia hedging is best at the very least which is not a good sign for us. >> is watching russian tv program on saturday. they were interviewing a leading russia form policy expert with close ties to the russian leadership. she was asked what should russia do in response to the policy. first we cannot retreat. if we retreat there would be more and more and we cannot do it. second, we should not -- she said we do not have at the moment in particular military to compete with the united states globally. then she said the globe is a huge place and can they do something and do it in a meaningful way without making a public announc

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>> very much so. very much so he. i want to comment also that he did this when he said i will make speeches and give talks, never did he accept a nickel for all the talks he made. that frugality also extended to mrs. nixon when she was the only first lady -- former first lady ever to give up secret service. >> i argued with her and argued with her hell i'll take you shopping what are you talking about. no, no, it's costing the taxpayers money we don't want to do that. he did what he said would he do. >> your chief of staff for the first four years of the post-presidency. how deliberate were each of the steps he took along the way as these two men were helping him right the mem otherwise how deliberate was the plan that rolled out. >> i had nothing to do with memoirs i have a hard time writing letters to my kids. at the beginning it was not a period of elation. all of us were a bit down on the very first day. he showed the way by coming in coat and type as 7:30 in the morning. we all followed suit and we do d that from

we had a very good bonding. i think we had a very good chemistry together. i think he wants to help us with north korea. we talked trade. we talked a lot of things, and i said the way you're going to make a good trade deal is to help us with north korea. otherwise we're just going to go it alone, that will be all right, too, but going it alone means going with lots of other nations, but i was very impressed president xi, and i think he means well and i think he wants to help. we'll see whether or not he does. >> do you feel like you have a deal with him, and if i could -- do you feel like you have a deal with him in terms of the currency manipulation designation and have your views changed on putin? >> we're going to see. we're going to see about that, and i'll also see about putin over a period of time. be a fantastic thing if we got along with putin and if we got along with russia, and that could happen, and it may not happen or it may be just the opposite. i can only tell you what i would like to do. i would love to be able to get along with everybody. ri

of the fbi is very, very good at that.very good at smoking these folks out, very good i could the talk for you to the primary objective of a person, especially a western carbonell, to limit the amount of time they spend in jail. they have a tendency to make deals to do that. i don't expect it will be as difficult as it would, say with a man like khalid sheikh mohammed, the mastermind behind 9/11. >> martha: any idea whether this is a foreign entity who has worked their way in or someone who has political agenda? we have seen both scenarios. what is your gut tell you as you look of a situation? >> i think it is impossible to know. it's entirely possible, wikileaks has been around enough time, they could have convinced someone to go through the whole process of getting it. the other problem i think we have is a culture now is that we have made it sexy to reveal these kind of secrets. so the sort of subculture in the united states has turned these folks into heroes. that gets people acting as if they were moles, when in fact

if the united states is considering air strikes it‘s going to need to be very, very careful and very go somewhere they were much safer than they are now. nothing is being discussed in that sort of detail but the problem with safe zones is who enforces them, you would effectively be declaring war on syria in order to do that because presumably you would have to be protecting people at some point from the syrian regime so again there are a number of players here, and it‘s a question of how you go about managing this extremely complex and dynamic situation. thank you jane for the moment. are you tonight‘s the night to celebrate the best of gaming — with the british academy gaming awards. 50 games are being recognised within an industry which makes more money than film and music combined. just take a look at these numbers: sales worth over £a billion pounds in the uk. more than 12,000 people directly employed by more than 2000 companies. and according to the industry — 18 million of us are games players. well our correspondent chris foxx is awards ceremony in east london for us. what lie

so, it's very, very unique, very particular, and i invite everybody to see it. we'll have it open 'til may the 28th, and please come. it's free. damian: yeah. edgar: admission is free. damian: is it a special--not that you're an artist, but is it a special talent to produce that kind of art? you mentioned, i don't wanna say scraps, but using the leftover material from other artists. edgar: well, just, i'm telling you, manually, the talent--i've seen her working. manually, the talent is tremendous. it's extremely labor-intensive. on top of that, she can became creative by using leftovers from other artists. so, what other artists would toss away, she would rescue them and put them together, and that's where the creativity comes in. and so, it's a lot of merit and a lot of--it's very special. just look at the images. it's all done that way and labor-intensive. i saw her at her studio in mexico. it's tremendous. damian: are you in partnerships with any museums in mexico? edgar: well, we're affiliated to the smithsonian museum. we're very proud of that affiliation.

these are very precise weapons. it's not in conceivable you could put one, two, three tomahawks into those shelters and obliterate what was inside. 59 tomahawks sounds but right. i think it sends the right message without risking a lot of collateral damage. >> admiral, they said the 59 cruise missiles targeted aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage and radars. if they hit all of that, it would have been a pretty successful operation, right? >> without question. my guess is they used nearly 60 tomahawks to launch these strikes that they probably hit all that stuff and therefore can say i think truthfully that they very much had a degradation effect on the syrian air force, particularly at that base. it's a significant set of targets and a significant number of missiles to go get it. >> let me bring in our other military analyst who is with us, general hertling. the statement also said and it's very significant, the statement says "this air base was used to score chemical weapons and sy

she is very very tied to her country. they love the ending to an extremely compelling book i must say. and a read that is hard at times but that brings the sense that you better who they are with you much more. i want to come a little bit to some of the future. the whole theory crisis as part of a series of initiative last year on the international scene. president obama, the only meeting in the un general simile. there is a commitment not to prepare the refugee contract agreement between countries for 2018. that is too long almost serious what we are sinful countries right now in europe, here, kenya was to send people back here pakistan is doing same. among the countries of this world you think you have determination to really try to get this refugee compact which will change and improve the way we are treating refugees right now? what hope do we have on this effort? will contribute to it of course but what we're seeing today in reality in the field, is not extremely positive. >> i do think there is a realization that th

, very hard. of the reasons that we're talking about trade deals and we're talking about all of the different things but we're slowing up a little bit. i actually told him. i said you will make a much better deal on trade if you get rid of this menace of north korea, because that is what it is. it's a menace right now. so we'll see what happens. as far as iran is concerned i think they're doing a tremendous disservice to an agreement that was signed. it was a terrible agreement. it should not have been signed or negotiated the way it was negotiated. i'm alor was a bad one, as bad as i have ever seen negotiated. they are not living up to the spirit of the agreement. i can tell you that. and we're analyzing it very, very carefully and we'll have something to say about it in the not too distant future. but iran has not lived up to the spirit of the agreement. and they have to do that. they have to do that. so we will see what happens. a strong europe is very, very important to me as president of the

it is very visible., there were police that are were questioning us, it seems very organised. there is a lot of police presence all over. what sort of reassu ra nces presence all over. what sort of reassurances though, are people hoping for, from the authorities, from the government?” hoping for, from the authorities, from the government? i think people wa nt to from the government? i think people want to feel safe. i think that the police presence right now is reassuring people, and i think that the people do have faith in the government, to deep pete safe. —— keep people safe. how wear have people been for the last few years about the risk of terrorism, the threat against sweden? yes, i think it has been something that has become more prominent in sweden. sweden is seen as a very safe country. it speaks for europe in general, that becoming more of a risk every where it i don't think it speaks for sweden itself. we appreciate you talking to us, it must have been very distressing we are grateful for you

this is an area they wanted to get after very badly. very remote. very mountainous.etreating into caves and tunnels so it's becoming clear this is a weapon they thought they could use here and get the effect they wanted. all of this, wolf, comes as the trump administration, in fact, is considering the possibility of sending additional troops to afghanistan, u.s. troops, to help train the afghan forces even more, advise and assist them. they've been making progress against the taliban, making progress against isis. but still it is a very -- after all these years, it is a very long road ahead for afghan forces to take all of this on themselves. and we saw today that the u.s. was able to deliver what it believes was a very decisive blow to the isis forces there. but there will be reconnaissance missions over thi

he's working very hard. i can say that all the pundents have said they have not seen china working like now. some unusual moves over the last two or three hours, i really have confidence that the president will try very hard, we don't know whether or not they're able to do that but i have absolutely conferenidence he will be trying very, very hard and one of the reasons that we are talking about trade deals and all of the different things but we are slowing up a little bit. i told them, you will make a much better deal on trade. we'll see chaps and as far as iran is concerned, i think they are doing a tremendous disservice to an agreement that was signed and it was a terrible agreement. it should not have been signed or negotiated the way it is negotiated on all four agreements. that's as bad as i have seen negotiated. they have not living up to the spirit of the agreement, i can tell you that. we are analyzing it very carefully and we'll have something to say about it in the not too distance future. iran ha