-vietnamese relations. translator: [speaking vietnamese ] >> thank you. [applause] >> we need to let the prime minister exit first and his people. [applause] >> coming up next on c-span, "washington journal" live with your phone calls and a look at the u.s. navy's maintenance challenge and internet surveillance and fisa. tonight, discussion on the state of congress with a political scientist. and former congressman mickey edwards. in one hour, new york times correspondent on the pharmaceutical lobby in washington, d.c. and we talked to william pomerantz about the investigation into russian interference in u.s. elections. and a bloomberg reporter on the u.s. retail industry. ♪ ♪ there are two differing opinions from senators on the future of the affordable care act. texas radiotold a station yesterday that a vote on the repeal of the affordable could come as early as july. jeff flake of arizona told reporters he had a hard time believing that. it is june 1. this is "washington journal." for the first hour, we will discuss the future of the paris climate ag

let me invite you to the podium. [ speaking vietnamese ] [ applause ] [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: thank you very much for that introduction and distinguished participants, distinguished vietnamese ministers, representatives of the u.s. government, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends. [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: at the invitation of president donald j. trump, i am leading the vietnamese delegation on this official visit to the united states. we have been having a series of meetings and activities in new york as well as here in washington, d.c. today. [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: i have had a series of meeting with american secretaries, members of the cabinet, and a number of major u.s. corporations. i also just before coming here had a very fruitful and successful meeting with president trump himself. [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: and i fully concur with what you said earlier, mr. carafano, that the relationship between vietnam and the united states is entering a new stage of development opening up new opportunities for advanced cooperation. [ speaking

it said that the city has been taken by the north vietnamese and the viet cong. there's a small group of americans who are trapped in the southern part of the city and there's a small group of south vietnamese soldiers trapped in the northern part of the city, but other than that, you know, this city has been taken. and that very day, general westmoreland is cabling to washington that there are no more than like 500 enemy soldiers in the city of hue, which was off by a factor of 20. and i might add, that this was not just a-- it was not a failure that was just sort after public relations problem or a communications problem. these young men, like andy, and marines were being sent and ordered to attack entrenched far superior forces. so a force of 300 marines, a company of marines was corded to attack the citadel, which is the big fortress, is the northern half of hue, that had thousands of north vietnamese and viet cong forces on the tops of the walls, at the ramparts and so, chuck meadows, captain chuck meadows led these men across the bridge, lost half of his co

almost half of vietnamese are under the age of 30. call here "the american war." those years were a defining time for just about everyone, vietnamese or american, who lived through them. and though there are still a lot of conflicted feelings back home, for most vietnamese these days, the war has become an abstraction, not even a memory. vietnam is still a poor nation, but the standard of living has improved a lot with the relaxing of hard-line communist economic policies. more and more foreign tourists every year, western chains, inevitably, are everywhere, and president obama is visiting for the first time, taking another step on the long path toward normalizing relations between the two countries. that is good. ooh, hot. ooh, i hit that chili hard. ♪ [ bells ding ] ♪ [ horn honks ] [ thunder crashes ] ♪ >> tao: nice to meet you. >> anthony: yes. >> tao: it's such a pleasure. >> anthony: oh, and we have a beer ready to go, great. >> tao: yes. so, we are doing by bottle or we are going to pour it in a glass? >> anthony: how would you

i was kind of the token vietnamese kid in my class. i remember going to, like, target and hearing a vietnamese person speak, like, two aisles down. i would run out just to see them. and so i think it's important for young people to see other people like them in media as actors, as entertainers, as elected officials, as news reporters just so they know that there are many paths and avenues available to them, and it's not just the kind of stereotypical thing that you would typically get from, you know, old school media like you're a kung fu fighter or martial artist of some sort, and i think that's important. >> yeah, we're gonna talk about stereotypes in just a bit. but first, gina, as an actress here in the bay area, can you share some of your experiences that you've had as you've gone on auditions? >> yeah, absolutely. so, auditions are always nerve-wracking, i think, for me and for a lot of other actors. and there's a sense of when you're confident and you're calm and you have this good, you know, humor about you and sense of self-aw

i don't know how many vietnamese have that kind of experience.amily's hometown, i'm glad people are alive, people are living, things are happening, things are changing. we need to let the country open up and let the people have a moment of enjoyment, have a better life. >> i mean, obviously i'm an outsider, but it just seems to me as a casual observer, you can pretty much survive anything. >> that's what my brother reminds me when i used to get all upset about things happening in vietnam. he said, look, it survived 4,000 years. it will do okay. when you ask me to be hopeful, i am hopeful. because it's a young country. it's a young population. it's energetic, and that drives me, that gives me hope that makes me young, that makes me to want to believe in this country and this town. such a wonderful place to be. tone moisturizer. sy increases cell renewal. boosts skin's rosy tone - instantly. new age perfect rosy tone from l'oreal paris. and we're still worth it. "how to win at business." step one: point decisively with the arm of your glasses. abra

i was kind of the token vietnamese kid in my class. hearing a vietnamese person speak, like, two aisles down. i would run out just to see them. and so i think it's important for young people to see other people like them in media as actors, as entertainers, as elected officials, as news reporters just so they know that there are many paths and avenues available to them, and it's not just the kind of stereotypical thing that you would typically get from, you know, old school media like you're a kung fu fighter or martial artist of some sort, and i think that's important. >> yeah, we're gonna talk about stereotypes in just but first, gina, as an actress here in the bay area, can you share some of your experiences that you've had as you've gone on auditions? >> yeah, absolutely. so, auditions are always nerve-wracking, i think, for me and for a lot of other actors. and there's a sense of when you're confident and you're calm and you have this good, you know, humor about you and sense of self-awareness, then i always find that those are th

had enlisted vietnamese sourcers to sway villagers. it failed in a report without hint of irony, because the sourcers did not say what they were supposed to say. failed for lack of control over the chosen sourcers. yeah, officials were not all that happy with this. there were, you know, he rapidly realized it wasn't working and he looked to end the contract. he was certainly a very honest sort of scientist and realizing he tried this experiment and it failed. in this book, years later he said it failed for administrative reasons and in the official declassified correspondence i found over 400 memos detailing the failure of just fraud and incompetence.e i ain't having any. i view as integrity of darpa. and what was clearly not followed through with since i found the memo over 40 years later in the archives he asked, please, quote, burn this after reading. in 2012-2013 as i was working on the book i interviewed seamoorea in 1978 he had written a book which talked about the failure of pentagon-funded science in vietnam and he was suddenly

i think we're gonna have a vietnamese bakery here too, mint and basil.r food, cindy ho is the owner, and she has four--three locations, opening up another in saratoga. her food is unbelievable. damian: i bet. i'll let you open up your-- nancy: you want some chile? damian: no, you know what, actually, you know what, let me--i'll taste some. now, you have a variety of flavors and they're all unique, verdad? nancy: correct. let's put it on the plastic. damian: you can put it on the paper. talk about the uniqueness of your flavors. nancy: we're trying to--we're trying to make sure it's just the fruit, but we focus on the latino flavors. so, we do have caramelized sweet potato or caramelized fried banana. like, we just go all out when it comes to latino flavors. the mexican abuelita chocolate, it reminds you--it takes you back to christmas. and tequila ice cream, that's one of ray's favorites. ray: agave. nancy: agave. damian: and you just put tajín on this? nancy: tajín, a little bit of chile, lime, salt, y puro mango. so, it's like the traditional vasos wit

the south vietnamese people. south vietnamese all through the vietnam war or what they call the american war were trying to align themselves with the victor. they don't want to be on the wrong side when the power game is over, so the attacks all over south vietnam, the taking of whey, i think eroded a great deal of confidence the south vietnamese people had in the government. >> goldberg: mark bowden, pleasure to have you. >> thank you. >> goldberg: we continue now with foreign policy. for the first time in quite a while, our country and its leaders are questioning the underlying assumptions that governed foreign policy making since the end of world war ii especially concerning what america's role in the world should be. here to discuss these challenges from washington richard fontaine, president of the center for a new american century. here in new york is gideon rose, editor of foreign affairs magazine, and david miliband is here, president of the international rescue committee, just returned from visiting sout

destroyers and vietnamese torpedo boats. american history tv visited the archive in george washington university to learn about numerous declassified documents. of the the director national security archive. this is where we live. we are in a room full of boxes into declassified documents. it is really an artifact. most documents are actually digital. we can look through the historians work, the inside historians work. texts of the intercepts of the north vietnamese conversation. and then listen to president johnson's phone calls as he is talking with the secretary of defense. and begin to understand to huge realities that were not known to the public at the time. one, that the north vietnamese attacks on the second of august were actually provoked by us. they wanted the unprovoked aggression presented to the american public. in fact we were running all these secret patrols. to test coastal defenses, figure out how the north vietnamese radar worked, to see how they would respond and intercept their communications. as part of

when the vietnamese were being slaughtered, the left said, go to hell.at's basically what happened. i have no respect for those leftists many whom are the leaders of the democratic party today, by the way. why would you trust bernie sanders, a life-long supporter of communist causes? he's been very consistent, by why would you trust anyone who has honeymoon in moscow when the soviet union was putting 100 billion in concentration camps. that's who the democratic party is today. bernie sanders would have been -- that's the reality. >> host: david horowitz, the day that you came out of the conservatives, what was the thet reaction of colleagues or parents? >> my mother believed that family was more important than politics and i think both my parents were very worried because the panthers threatened my life after this woman was killed and they were a vicious gang and most of the people they murdered were black, but because i was threatened they were concerned but. >> pylos every friend ever had. every last one. new never realized when you learn there but if

the vietnamese without our protection. but i realize the laugh was never the anti-war movement. and that is what motivates the. >> in your new book "big agenda" you write the pelicans need to direct their heroes that the achilles heel with the responsibility of misery and suffering. >> there is a chapter in my but called the achilles heel . democrats have a stranglehold with every killing field. chicago. baltimore. washington d.c.. 100% controlled by the democratic party. everything that is wrong with the inner-city. and those of a graduate are functionally illiterate. with the beautiful mother of four children who should not have been on the street every oppression of minorities democrats and progressives are 100 percent end until donald trump spending over 20 years with every speech from the democratic party to get their attention proposing $100 billion settlement. >> that is a big agenda with that movement that has been galvanized by that juggernaut but only if it emulates the strategy of the campaign if they stay on the attack. >> when trump look hillary clinton in the eye t

phil falcone is betting on vietnamese las vegas., what is good for them may not be popular in washington. that is ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ oliver: we are back with megan murphy to talk about more must reads. let's go to the business section. you guys assess data about brexit. megan: this is something you will see a lot more. we are on the fallout from the disastrous election in britain where instead of achieving a majority to force through a hard brexit, it is unlikely to happen now. what this graphic dissects is where a hard brexit or the inability to negotiate between britain and that you would hurt. it would hurt workers that voted for brexit. we are talking about the northeast, midlands, places where international companies have moved in and done a lot of the resurgence britain needs to maintain. those are the areas where it could hit the hardest if they failed to negotiate the trade terms. oliver: one of the overriding teams is if some of these new regimes will benefit the people that put them into power. it is a ti

mark: not just the american people, but the south vietnamese people. celfin amines come all or whatthe vietnam war, they call the american war, they are trying to align themselves with the victor. they do not want to be on the wrong side when the power game is over, and so the attacks on south vietnam, the taking of hue, i think you murdered a great deal of the confidence the south vietnamese people had in the saigon government. jeffrey: the book is "hue 1968." the magazine is "the atlantic." i recommend people read both. mark bowden, pleasure to have you. mark: thank you. ♪ jeffrey: we continue now with foreign policy. for the first time in quite a while, our country and leaders are questioning the underlying assumptions that have governed foreign policymaking since the end of world war ii, especially as they concern what america 's role in the world should be. here to discuss these challenges are, from washington, richard fontaine, the president of the center for new american security. here in new york is gideon rose, the editor of "foreign affairs m

i am honored to be here, and i am particularly honored to be the first vietnamese-american woman to serve in congress. i believe in a democracy where we have a representative government, with people who represent the people they are serving. i believe in a diverse government. reporter: tell us your experience from vietnam? >> i was six years old and my brother was eight, when our parents got on a boat to escape from vietnam. experience from vietnam? here we are adrift in the south china sea when a u.s. navy ship came upon our vessel, -- a -- they refueled and helped us get to a refugee camp. a church answered our family and relocated us to virginia. they helped my parents get jobs, and they work multiple jobs to ensure that they could make ends meet and help my brother and i focus on our education. it is that moment of -- whether it is earned a pity, or just -- serendipity or providence. the u.s. navy was patrolling and ensuring freedom of navigation in the south china sea when they came upon us, and they extended their grace to stranded strangers. strangers. reporter: you bring up milita

he fled to communist china and the chinese and north vietnamese started incurring further into cambodiaafraid thatand was the cambodian government -- nixon was afraid that the cambodian might be overthrown and replaced with a pro-north vietnam communist government which would make it difficult for him to continue the program to draw from vietnam on his schedule -- withdraw from vietnam on his schedule. one thing that he wanted the special investigations unit and others to look into was whether theot people who leaked pentagon papers were then going to leak information about the secret bombing of cambodia. that was, as you say, a major concern on nixon's part. been calling from raleigh, north carolina, an independent. caller: longtime fan, first-time caller. i want to get your take on the bipartisanship of the watergate committee. we have a unique connection in north carolina to the watergate investigation as the senator led the committee. one of his aides was rufus edmonson who went on to be the attorney general of north , he has been rufus on the news down here because of all of the in

hey weren't filipinos or vietnamese or any other description. gary rim jr. was a hero trying to save others. the other six were heroes, too. serving our country and they lost their life. it was a great experience to be in providence. and the naval air base which serves our country and personnel and recruitment purposes. i'm honored to be in this congress, but more honored to represent people of the united states naval academy. i thank those seven for their valiant efforts and for giving their lives to the service of our country. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2:00 p.m. job offer before they can receive a high school diploma. ayor emanuel will discuss that proposal at the national press club in washington, d.c., at 1:00 eastern time. live here on it c-span. now on c-span, a conversation from today's "washington on job training programs. >> "washington journal" continues. host: anthony carnevale is a professor at georgetown

excited to be here, honored to be here, and, you know, i'm particularly honored to be the first vietnamese-american woman to serve in congress because i believe in a democracy where we have a representative government that we should have people who represent the people that they are serving. and so i believe in a diverse government. >> tell us about your experience from vietnam to how got to the united states. >> sure. i was six months old, my brother was 8. when my parents got on to a boat to escape communist vietnam and we got out to sea and ran out of fuel. and here we are adrift in this vast china sea when a u.s. navy ship came upon our vessel. they refueled us and resupplied us which allowed us to make it to a malaysian refugee camp. and from there a lutheran church sponsored my family and relocated us to virginia. they helped my parents get jobs and my parents worked multiple jobs to ensure that they could make ends meet and allow my brother and i to focus on our education. but it's that moment of whether it's say ren dip pity or just providence that fuels my sense of patriotism. america was

it's kind hard, hard to guess if it's religious, 'cause we're very diverse here; we have vietnamese, hispanic, white, every nationality comes here so it's kind of hard to figure out what the motive was."the deacon i spoke to doesn't have a damage estimate, but he says church staff will be meeting to decide whether to repair, replace, or leave the statue as is.(looklive)"after first getting news of the violent vandalism, about 15 people from the church prayed around this statue.and even prayed for the shooter who caused them so much emotional pain.in san leandro, spencer blake, kron four news. (justine) members of the senate intelligence committee were speaking out today... they are making their voices heard just days after former f-b-i director, james comey's dramatic testimony on capitol hill. comey accused the president of asking him to back off the investigation into former national security advisor, michael flynn and the nature of his ties to russia. president trump responded saying comey's claims "weren't true." two members of the senate intelligence committee say they believe c

the vietnamese were amazingly close. they love americans. they love us more than we love us. you can feel it every time i go over there. i'm reminded of that. things have a way of changing. leadership changes. the attitude of people around the world, including us, will change. the results of the iranian elections give me some encouragement. i hope some day some of those young iranian people who admire this country might have a chance to p come here and -- to come here and visit the -- the other night, ironically, today is the last day we had a lot of young people here in this chamber, mr. president, who are leaving us. we paul them pages. some are sitting down here. i walked in earlier today and these -- one, two, three, four, five, six, seven doors, and when we're having votes, a lot of senators coming in, we have two pages stationed at every door and we have pages that are down here at the foot of the presiding officer on either side and i try to shake their hands and say good-bye and thank them for their service during what has really been, as you know, mr. president, a ch

a north vietnamese offensive at the start of the year convinced many that america was losing the war.at he wouldn't seek another term. >>roger: the president was overwhelmed by the war. the mud of indochina would pretty much end his great society. i uh, hated the war and uh, by the end of the administration i hated johnson as well. >>dick: it was a year of gut-wrenching calamities. martin luther king, jr. was assassinated. bobby kennedy entered the presidential race. he, too, was gunned down. with his death, the democratic nomination would go to vice president hubert humphrey. >>hubert: it doesn't make any difference where you are from. it's what you stand for. >>dick: bad news for nixon was the entry into the race of alabama governor george wallace. america's most outspoken segregationist was running as an indeent. >>boo! >>dick: he threatened to cost nixon precious southern votes. nixon, it seemed, could kiss his southern strategy goodbye. >>dick: nixon was back, but had yet to secure the republican nomination. the convention in miami beach was the first for the gop south of the mas

<"it's kind hard, hard to guess if it's religious, 'cause we're very diverse here; we have vietnamese, hispanic, white, every nationality comes here so it's kind of hard to figure out what the motive was.">( james ) police have not yet released any information about the man they arrested in connection with the shooting. a deacon at the church does not have an estimate for the damage. he says church staff will meet to decide whether to repair, replace or leave the statue as is. (mark) the alameda county sheriff's department needs help finding a man who went missing in lake tahoe. deputies say dan pham got in his kayak last thursday at lester beach and has not been seen since. his brother is a sheriffs deputy in alameda county. search efforts by the el dorado county sheriff, the u-s coast guard and state agencies were unable to find him. (mark) a 19-year-old texas mother has been charged in the death of her two daughters after leaving them inside a hot car for several hours. investigators say amanda hawkins intentionally left her one and two-year-old girls inside the car from tuesday ni

he's first generation vietnamese-american. or would that be vietnamese-hawaiian?cated. >> mark: i actually cooked on the east coast for three years and people would always be like, "oh, you're from hawaii, you're hawaiian!" and i was like, "no, no, no, no. i'm second generation japanese." "no, no but you're from hawaii that makes you hawaiian." and it was like, "no." and then what i realize is like here in hawaii we identify ourselves ethnically versus geographically. like, there's no way that he and i would call ourselves hawaiian. we'd get our ass kicked. by a hawaiian. >> anthony: how many generations does it take? i mean, who qualifies as hawaiian in your view? >> mark: to me a hawaiian is a kanaka maoli, is a native of the land. it's in your blood, your koko. you come from a lineage of native hawaiian people. >> anthony: what's your feeling here? >> andrew: i do feel like i'm hawaiian in a sense. you know, because it's, like, my place. but culturally it's a different story. >> anthony: well let me ask you this, you're saying you're not hawaiian? >> mark: no.

i found myself more sympathetic with the vietnamese people than i thought that i would ever be.nd little by little, i was starting to discover what vietnam had done. for example, i discovered how the vietnamese fought against the french, how they colonized themselves. i came back to chicago and i found it -- amy: you gotot a bronze star. >> i got a bronze star for that. amy: what was your brother doing during this time? >> i brother studied. but when i came back from vietnam, i found a community, a puerto rican community, that was , to demando wake up to be seen and heard. i started organizing in the community. at that time, the young lords were coming up out of chicago. it was a street gang that became political. a lot of things were happening in 1967. it was when dr. martin luther king pronounced himself against the war in vietnam and called it a criminal war. it was when mom and ali refused -- muhammad ali refuse to be drafted. paid a big price. i was invited to go to a puerto rican nationalist house and listen to some tapes of the nationalists. the persontapes was who got to

.>> reporter: sitting with the vietnamese president, at the white house donald trump refusing to say whether he steals things climate change is a hoax or whether he will pull out of the paris climate accord. during his campaign he promised that he would reject the agreement saying that climate change is a hoax mentor holdback growth and jobs. >> i'm not a big believer in man-made climate change.>> reporter: consensus worldwide about the carbon emissions a climate change prompted the 2015 paris conference that led to 200 countries signing the accord. this unprecedented international effort asked each country to reduce the greenhouse effort and the u.s. pledged a reduction of 28% by 2025. >> the u.s. was clearly going to be on target to meet the goals.>> reporter: the uc politics berkeley professor said that pulling out of the paris accord would hurt the u.s. standing and with the u.s. economy behind china and other countries investing in clean energy technology. >> the largest consequence is less economic opportunity for the u.s. because this is a core industry in many countries, and

president trump and the vietnamese presidents have met each other at the white house, mr trump told reporters that vietnam had made an order worth billions of dollars. details have not yet been provided. a french policeman who was killed in paris has taken part in the world's first posthumous gay wedding. the policeman was shot on the champs—elysees in april last year before the elections in france. now let's show you some pictures from kenya were they have opened a major new railway station between mombasa and nairobi. this is kenya ‘s biggest infrastructure since independence and it is part of china's belt and road initiative to create new trade links. berlin where it was all smiles earlier as angela merkel played host to le keqiang. he is the second east asian leader to receive the red—carpet treatment in berlin this week after india's prime minister on tuesday. the more positive mood, a change on last week when the g—7 countries meeting in sicily saw a split with the united states taking a different position to the rest on issues such as climate change and free trade. the bbc‘sjoe mellor

korean japanese chinese vietnamese and all of those countries in asia. why should we do that?sylvia tian is another pleasanton mom who doesn't think it's fair that asian parents are being asked to diferentiate themseleves in this way.why single out asians why single out all the countries? in asia? that's not correctboth moms feel that this data could end up hurting their kid's chances when they are applying for college.the pleasanton school district says they are just complying with legislation requiring the collection of this data that passed in 2011. a spokesperson with the state deparment of education says they use the data to track how kids from these subgroups are doing in school so they identify those who need more help.the law that required the state to collect this demographic data was co sponsored by several asian and pacific islander civil rights groups.education should be colorblind national origin blind it should be equal to all people the group that wants to see this practice end met with state assmemblywomab catherine baker of san ramon who says she will look int

. >> reporter: foo is vietnamese and chinese. but grew up in the u.s.s child he says he remembers witnessing acts of domestic violence and being told keep it to yourself. >> as a family matter rather than showing it to the public. they will feel embarrassed. >> in this case battered and bleeding, foo ignored his experience picked up the phone and called 911. >> i had to call the authorities because i was feared for my life. >> reporter: studies show aches-americans are less likely than many other ethics groups to report domestic to police. there are language and cultural barriers to coming forward. city council david oh explains -- >> it would be, um, embarrassi embarrassing, shameful to the family, um, it would be exposed out in the public, and it may have consequences that the family members are not pro paired to deal with. >> reporter: foo's call led police to arrest his uncle. lamb has now been charged with simple assault and reckles recky endangering another person. >> i just got my stitches removed yesterday. >> report roar mark foo could have cep

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you had with the kennedy cabinet with the theoretical world views so the rationality of the north vietnamese bin they could have beaten them. they were not confuse. so when you have all these people if there was an opportunity so we could guarantee to guarantee democracy in iraq would not stay one day longer than correa there was no great to get out of korea remember go so then to thank you have a functioning government city star at somalia or yemen or libya or syria iraq, afghanistan but the better part of wisdom to we know how to do that would be a better example. >> how much do you think the media is responsible for the left-wing attacks?. >> first of all, that is the individual responsibility. and then to say they are deranged. for the comedian who hold of bleeding head of the president is psychological for those who have that cultural overview. but i do think with those underlying patterns if you look at college campuses is the left look at the news media. cnn is 97 percent -- 90% negative you cannot do that unless it is delivered. nobody feels any shame about that so it is very dangero

while we wait, president trump welcomes the vietnamese prime minister to the white house last week.ere is a look. [inaudible conversation] >> you are going to find out very soon. thank you all very much. it is an honor to have the prime minister of vietnam at the white house and the oval office. he has done a spectacular job in vietnam, led so many different categories in trade and other things. we are going to discuss trade and north korea and we have many things to talk about. we look forward to being together. >> nÉe. >> i begin by thanking you, mr. president for this official visit to the united states. i bring with me greetings from the vietnamese people to each and every american and greetings to all. >> the relationship between vietnam and the united states have gone through many times in history. [inaudible] >> i have had the great pleasure of having a conversation with the president last december and also in exchange of letters. i was impressed by the openness and friendliness and i'm confident our meeting will be equally candid and open. we hope to set up major direction o

it's kind hard, hard to guess if it's religious, 'cause we're very diverse here; we have vietnamese, hispanic, white, every nationality comes here so it's kind of hard to figure out what the motive was."the deacon i spoke to doesn't have a damage estimate, but he says church staff will be meeting to decide whether to repair, replace, or leave the statue as is.(looklive)"after first getting news of the violent vandalism, about 15 people from the church prayed around this statue.and even prayed for the shooter who caused them so much emotional pain.in san leandro, spencer blake, kron four news. ( james ) the alameda county sheriff's department needs help finding a man who went missing in lake tahoe. deputies say dan pham got in his kayak last thursday at lester beach and has not been seen since. his brother is a sheriffs deputy in alameda county. search efforts by the el dorado county sheriff, the u-s coast guard and state agencies were unable to find him. ( james ) attorney general jeff sessions has reportedly agreed to appear before the senate intelligence committee. sources say that

korean japanese chinese vietnamese and all of those countries in asia. why should we do that?sylvia tian is another pleasanton mom who doesn't think it's fair that asian parents are being asked to diferentiate themseleves in this way.why single out asians why single out all the countries? in asia? that's not correctboth moms feel that this data could end up hurting their kid's chances when they are applying for college.the pleasanton school district says they are just complying with legislation requiring the collection of this data that passed in 2011. a spokesperson with the state deparment of education says they use the data to track how kids from these subgroups are doing in school so they identify those who need more help.the law that required the state to collect this demographic data was co sponsored by several asian and pacific islander civil rights groups.education should be colorblind national origin blind it should be equal to all people the group that wants to see this practice end met with state assmemblywomab catherine baker of san ramon who says she will look int