one thing that got me it's like a case or two years russian funded that gets a bad check mark voice of america is u.s. funded that gives a good check mark because hey there's laws of the key. them from printing whatever they want to print but that's. right. what's interesting too is that like how everything gets laid out in fake news is that like when you look at the age range of the people like a this study that was talking about earlier found that very few people actually disseminate big news on facebook it's actually a very small percentage and all that small percentage both democrat republican user sixty five and older serve more than twice as many big news articles as the next oldest generation group forty five to six about nearly seven times as many as the millennium was eighteen to twenty nine that's insane wow boomers this fall and for well there's are the same people who send like chain letters. there's they've all got to send us you know the e-mails saying if you don't send this to send people are for you do that mark soccer very scary give me a million dollars. oh i hear this nigeri

you're wondering yes r t got a red check mark for being russian government funded propaganda but voice of america got a green checkmark for being us government funded propaganda by news guard. so today let's delve into the latest stat stats and schemes in the world of big news as we start watching the hawks. were pretty. good at like real that this would be. as. to. what they like you know that i got. was that we. would. be. welcome or want to watch in the harks i am told them to have had so tab fake news and what guards against it. you remember just a few short years ago when fake news is what we used to call fox oh they were the news. that they were the ones who you know you'd see charts and everybody would talk about how many times they lied how many mistruths that they were the least reliable you know to sell all of these new integrity initiatives and guards to keep us protected from us are they all keep saying well yeah that great jack is ok and even corporate funded is ok as one of the guys that literally comes to the us government it's us government propaganda but it's not propaganda becau

aleksandr solzhenitsyn and ed nice described the voice of america as the most powerful weapon we possessed in the cold war. scratch your favorite foreign policy expert in washington, d.c., and asked them for an explanation of what he was talking about. and you will not get an intellectually satisfying answer. the answer is that those radios not only broadcast the truth and news and gave them religious programming when they were denied religion. it gave them alternative ideas, which they had been denied. they also served as a vehicle to enable people to communicate with each other. whenever there is a civil disturbance in the communist world, what do the communists do? they cut off communication to that place. then they go crush the disturbance. if news gets out to the population there was a riot that was crushed, it was crushed. resistance is futile. then what happened? we were getting a good signal into poland and there was a strike in the lenin shipyards. the strikers knew that if they could develop an underground line of communication with the radio liberty and the voice of america, the

will be the mueller investigation so there is a need to educate and empower and organize the voices of america to insist those impeachable offenses result in the impeachment. [inaudible conversations] . >> i make my living by writing as a first world observer which is much too expensive for some of the people out there the trouble doesn't lie in wall street but but wall street is wall street is mostly american history but i think we are more on guard about in the federal government that are valiantly denied in their intentions like the treasury the securities and exchange commission that these are set up as benefactors to the public but increasingly they are not so

voice of america says the trip would have provided critical national security briefings and an opportunity to thank the troops. did notident's letter directly address the call to delay the state of the union address until the shutdown ends. adam schiff says this is completely inappropriate by the president he we will not allow the president of the united states to tell congress it cannot fulfill its oversight responsibilities. joined 100 new members the house or senate for the 116th congress. indiana voters elected republican mike braun to the u.s. senate who previously served in the state house

voice of america reports the speaker's office says it would briefings as well as an opportunity to brief the troops. the article goes on to say the did nott's letter address the state of the union. house intelligence committee chair says this is completely inappropriate by the president. we will not allow the president of the united states to tell the congress it cannot fulfill its oversight responsibilities. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. bring youcontinue to unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme public policy events in washington, d.c., and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, a discussion of the planned pullout of u.s. troops from syria and this week's suicide bombing. a maryland republican congressman talks about the shutdown and border security. a review of the senate confirmation hearing for attorney genera

voice of america eurasian service. i have a very specific question. so, you know, the question of the caw cay saws and the british withdrawal was debated between lord hair soften and churchill. what. >> yes, in september and october 1922 that brought down the lloyd george government. and it was at the heart of what the british empire was going to be about. a because the governments, lloyd george and churchill and others, wanted to insure that turkey stuck to the provisions which were very harsh on turkey. and the kickers weren't going to -- the turks weren't going to do it. and it was -- if people had supported the government, we would have possibly gone to war with turkey, which nobody wanted to do four years after the end of the great war. and so others such as andrew bonner law really brought down the government in order to prevent this from happening. so were we going to be a continuingly pugnacious power, the plane policeman of the world -- the policeman of the world as was put in a letter to the times, or were we going to stand back and effective

government funded media agency voice of america reported that analysts were noting outgoing military chief general goddy eyes and co had made a rare admission of the israeli military strikes in syria he told britain's sunday times that quote in january two hundred seventeen we began attacking the infrastructure of the iranians were building in syria the critical mass was from mid two thousand and seventeen we began attacking systematically a number of times each week without making any statements beneath the radar and early this monday the israeli military shocked many again by openly admitting that they had launched an air strike in damascus syria containing some ten cruise missiles at the damascus international airport the targets were according to israeli military contained a rainy and munitions storage intelligence sites and a military training camp and while the targets were iranians at least three syrian soldiers were killed in the strike a fact noted and lauded by israel's prime minister ben benjamin button and yahoo stated we will strike at anyone who trying to harm us but it

you're wondering yes r t got a red check mark for being russian government funded propaganda but voice of america got a green checkmark for being us government funded propaganda by news guard. so today let's delve into the latest stat stats and schemes in the world of big news as we start watching the hawks. were pretty. good looking like real that this would be. as it gets to the bottom city. but they like you that i got. was that we. would. be. exactly. welcome her when watching the hawks i am told them to have had so tab fake news and what guards against it yeah i remember just a few.

well and they've they've got a color coded system right there where the red fox numerous and voice of america radio free europe radio liberty the u.s. propaganda network are green r t c g ten right those are those are red they're bad and they're rolling out a brand new guard as well that goes out with this and they're what it's doing is attempting to force companies to stop using advertising online that many all media sources like say press and others you know rely on ad revenues in order to help generate funds on their you know their paper thin budget but there's all kinds of connections first of all the founders of news guard are are are linked to all kinds of neo con think tanks like the heritage foundation and the american enterprise institute and they're on their list of advisors you know for how this is set up who is going to who are the. advisers telling news guard what news is good and what is bad michael hayden the former director of the cia and the n.s.a. both right you also have richard stengel on there right just to show the bipartisanship of it he's was an obama era official he w

trust fox news trust voice of america don't trust wiki leaks. i'm not a big brother sort of person but i don't want someone from a multinational corporation telling me to watch fox news but not r.t.u. all the other way around on a pair of gods and solves that alter i think people can be relied on to judge for themselves by common sense where but at the same time the spread of fake news does worry me enormously and i don't think we'd be where we are but for the internet and where we are with the internet worries me a lot it's like a sluice gate putting all kinds of false it into the into the public domain that's good too perhaps happier times less control the department of preconceived notions washington correspondent there you have ron reagan the difficulty i had with the b.b.c. from the eight years of his. presidency was to convince them my clever educators there's a man with one starred opposite a chimpanzee on television could be an effective president of the united states he was a wonderful communicate he surrounded himself with smart people

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>> jorge from voice of america. i have kind of the same question that karla did, but fish, officials of the trump administration talked to voices of america, that the next step of the administration will be really impactful measures against the venezuelan government. what do you see, what do you think could be or might be those measures from the u.s.? >> thank you. well, we have a couple of questions. i think one is critical, which is now, what, what's next? we tried many things in the past. we know statements like the president of the lima group declaration which i agree is a very good step, is not enough, is simply not enough. more needs to be done. so what's next for the u.s. government perspective? what should be next from a u.s. government perspective? and from the international community. and p ththen karla's question oe removal of the ambassador, some implications of that, if you don't mind. let's start with you, ambassador. >> let me offer answers in the order in which that the questions came. first, removal

have a small band of people who have the support of the president the nsc are the staffers, the voice of america and they come together and what do they do? it will shine a bright light on the enemy. one of the best examples that the united states created aids and it was used to target ethnic minorities. this is out there in conspiracy theories. but this goes back to the working group because there was the idea that america was using biological where one - - warfare against minorities what did they do? they traced the story back to an african journalist who was the first person to ever float the idea aids was artificial then when they talk to the journalist they find out asking what his source was, he said i was at a reception and a soviet diplomat gave me that information. it is propaganda that is the essence of propaganda. so you have to delegitimize the purveyor of the lies to show them for what they are with regards to what we face i have said the global jihadist movement we have to worry about her arab and muslim allies preparer on them to help them undermine the ideology loan - - ideology.

we have somebody here on our crew that has a lot of familiarity with, for instance, how voice of america works and they were one of those impacted by the shutdown. i can only speak to one agency here. but there is an attempt to essentially expedite everything that would make this upcoming friday a special pay period that would give everybody all of their back pay. but this is just for full-time government employees item rig. . >> right. >> subcontractors and things like that like that subsidized. people who take care of the garage that are contractors. some folks may not be made whole and i'm pretty confident why i think congress is actually going to pass a bill that might make a shutdown impossible to ever happen again. >> it's outrageous. let's hope has is the one good thing that comes out of this 35-day shutdown. roger stone, the long time political aide to president trump who started in an official capacity on the president's campaign and moved to an unofficial capacity in 2015 was arrested in the early morning in florida and indicted on seven counts. what does this mean to donald tr

says i love new york that brought down the soviet union, but you could say something about the voice of america jazz program ,hich 80% of soviets listen to followed by the news that came afterwards. i want to ask, if we want to take down international projects to improve the world freedom away at therinding hegemony of china, shouldn't we be coordinating a big program, talking to each other? the kinetic side of foreign policy is integrated by treaties, but the soft power is separated. can't we go one more notch up in soft power by coordinating our efforts to target the real demons in the world? >> i think you spoke a little bit about that. >> i appreciate that. i agree with your analysis of the importance of government efforts in the cold war on the cultural and information side. many would argue that was as important or more important than going militarily toe to toe with the soviets. i think the world has changed in moreense there is much because of the change in communications and technology that can happen at the nongovernmental level. but we should be strategic about how we approach it. ma

support of the president, who are cross between the starters from the intelligence community, voice of america, they come together and they create an entity which is going to shine a bright light on the lives of the enemy. it is still an urban legend that the united states -- before they created aids and it was used to target ethnic minorities. this goes back to the working group. there is an idea that america is using warfare against minorities. they trace the story back to an african journalist who was the first person ever to float the idea that age is artificial. then they went and talked to the journalists. they asked what the source was and they said i was at a reception and the diplomat gave me that formation is propaganda. so that's what they did. you have to delegitimize the purveyor of the lies and show it for what they are. with regard i've said for years now, with the global jihadist movement, we have to work with our arab and muslim allies. to do what? to help them undermine the ideology of global jihadist son. we can kill as many jihadists as we like. the pentagon told me a few y

>> we have somebody here on our crew that has a lot of familiarity with, for instance, how "voice of america" works and one of those affected by the shutdown. i can only speak to one agency here, but there's an attempt t essentially expedite everything that would make this upcomiid a special pay period that would give everybody all of their back pay, but this is just for full-time government employees. >> right. >> you still have the issue -- there is lot of thing that got privatized, subcontractors, things like that, and i'm not talking about the big rich defense contractors. >> no. >> when you say thatd. w there are people that take care of the garbage that are contractors. those nokes may never get made whole, willie, and that's something -- that's why i'm pretty confident to be honest why i think congresssctually going to pass a bill that might make had a shutdown impossible to ever happen again. >> it's outrageous, and let's hope that that's the one good thing that comes out of this -day shutdown. >>> another big story obviously friday mornings roger stone, the longtime political aide t

york" that brought down the soviet union but you could say something about william conover's voice of america jazz program which 80% of soviets listened to followed by the news that came afterwards. so the big question i want to ask is if we want to take on international projects to improve the world freedom-wise, like grinding away at the hegemony of the economy with china, shouldn't we be talking to each other? the kinetic side is nicely in trait integrated with treaties and such. can't we go one more notch up on soft power by coordinating our efforts to target the real demons in the world? >> i think you spoke a little about that. >> i appreciate that. i mean, i agree with your analysis of the importance of governme government, between the u.s. government efforts in the cold war on the cultural and information side and many would argue that was as important or more important than our going militarily toe-to-toe with the soviets and the transformation that occurred. i do think the world has changed in the sense that there is much more, because of the change in communications and technology,

the memory today is more than 1000 days since the voice of america freelancer who was killed in an airstrike while on assignment. he was one of seven journalists who was killed in the same way, as we honor the 100 day memories for jamal khashoggi we want to make sure that those seven journalists whose killings are not supported morally, logistically or materially by the us government. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> we have been joined by representative eliot engel who is a representative of the house foreign affairs committee and will be our last speaker. if you could come up moment. >> well, i could say last but not least but i have to tell you my experience of being in this office a long time and if you're the last person, you make it quick. i want to thank all of my colleagues, i want to thank the journalists who were with us and i want to think people from all over the world who are protecting journalism and freedom of the press each and every day. i know there are people here who knew jamal khashoggi and who worked with him and i want to convey my deepest but these. there needs to

and so i think that there is a need to educate, empower and organize the voice of the people of america to insist that the impeachable offenses result in impeachment and removal. >> thank you so much for comin . we are available for additional questions. [inaudible conversations] >> c-span washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, arizona republican congressman discusses the government shutdown and border security debate. then wisconsin democratic congresswoman talks about how the government shutdown is impacting food stamp programs. and we will discuss the president's visit thursday to the us-mexico border with texas tribune reporter. be sure to wash washington journal live seven eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >> coming up this weekend on booktv. saturday, 6:45 pm eastern, california democratic senator, kamala harris details her life and her career through her book, the truths we hold. an american journey. at 11 pm eastern, and author talks about his latest book, last call for liberty. then sunday, on afte

president who are a cross between the nfc the staffers on the hill to intelligence community voice of america and they come together what do they do? >> create an entity which is going to shine a bright light on the lives of the enemies. one of the best example the united states at ford dietrich created aids in ways used to target ethnic minorities. this is out there in the conspiracy theory domain. there was this idea that america is using biological warfare against minorities. what did the working measure group do? >> trace that story back to an african journalist who was the first person ever to come up with the idea that age is artificial. they talk to this journalist in what they find out that they asked him what his source was. he said oh i was in reception and the soviet diplomat gave me that information. it's propaganda. that is the essence of pop again the shaping the propaganda environment pdf to delegitimize the purveyor of the lie and show the lie for what they are. i've said for years now with the global jihadi movement we have a work with their arab and muslim allies. the jordan

. >> i'm affiliated with the voice of america and his the question, thank you for bringing up the coc. we've heard this announced that they plan to achieve this in three years and we've also heard the complaint about slow progress, so i'm wondering whether it's feasible the announcement on china. there is risk management and israel on harassment and compensation and we can expect sustainable fees when this is achieved. . ank you >> okay, start with the , you want to make headlines? >> you've already made the headline because the result of the meeting was they announced a summit. generally you think life becomes and meets with tom pao in the counterparts, that can be part of a negotiation. the call on the president was to deliver a letter or response from the north korean leader to president trump. there's probably another beautifully written love letter that the president fell in love with. but, again, i think where we brare now is that we have so of set it date towards the end of february we have six weeks butta logistics have to be planned, six weeks, if were taking bets, vietnam is

president who are crossed between the nsc, the staff is on the hill, intelligence community, voice of america if they come together. what do they do? they create an empty which is going to shine a bright light on the lives of the enemies. one of the best examples is, it's still an urban legend that the united states, fort dietrich created aids and it was used to target ethnic minorities. this is out there in the conspiracy theory domain. this goes back to the active measures working group. there was this idea that america is using biological warfare against my in other words. what did the active measures working group do? they traced that story back to an african journalist who was the first person ever to focus idea that aids is artificial. then they went in and talked to this journalist. what did they find out? they asked him what his source was picky said oh, i was at a reception and a soviet diplomat gave me that information. it's propaganda. that is the essence of propaganda, shaping the information private. that's what they did. you have to delegitimize the purveyor of the lies and show

york that brought down the soviet union, but you could say something about william conover's voice of america jazz program which 80% of soviets listened to followed by the news that came afterwards. so the big question i want to ask you is if we want to take on international projects, to improve the world, freedom wise, like the communist party of china, shouldn't we be coordinating a big program talking to each other? right now the kinetic side of foreign policy is nicely integrated by treaties and so forth. but the soft power stuff, that's also completely separated. can't we go one more notch up on soft power by coordinating our efforts to target the real demons in the world? >> ambassador stevens, i think you spoke a little bit about that. >> no, i appreciate that. i mean, i agree with your analysis of the importance of government, particularly the u.s. government efforts in the cold war on the cultural and information side, and many would argue that that was as important or more important than our kind of going militarily toe-to-toe with the soviets and the transformation that occurred. i

. >> i am a reporter from voice of america.i want to ask about a question regarding china, and when the president in office and we have seen what is going on in the democracy, and also, we have seen many americans at this point that feel disappointed over the years with the development of the economy, and we see the trend going in a different way. so how do we understand this trend in terms of the economic freedom? i was trying to add a big burst of economic freedom about 40 years ago now, whether the economy was opened up to the world, and they benefited enormously from a globalized world economy in their trade relationships and some of the investment relationships they had, and we have seen per capita income in china rising significantly, but from a very low base. they still have a very long way to go to catch up in terms of overall prosperity to the countries of europe, the united states, canada, the developed countries in the world. i think it is unfortunate that economic reform in china seems to have stalled at this point,

let's bring in baltimore sun media critic and voice of america's white house bureau chief steve bermanhe white house covering the president's story. but you're working unpaid. many white house staffers are have been furloughed or working unpaid because you're funded by the american government. i have to ask you what it's like as a reporter to be affected by the shutdown. i know you're not speaking for anybody else at voa but what is it like to be a victim of the shutdown while covering the shutdown? >> it's a bit unusual to cover a topic that so personally affects you but just like any other topic i would be covering, you but that aside, you go ahead, do your job and it's not affecting the way i do my job actually except for the days that i'm furloughed. other days i'm unpaid at the white house, swapping out with one of my colleagues. >> is this the first time that you've kind of personally experienced or lived through a story and felt the effects? >> most certainty to this degree. but i was at the federal credit union the other day where i'm a member and the banker there is she's had

investigation, and so i think that there is a need to educate, empower, and organize the voice of the people of america, to insist that the impeachable offenses result in impeachment and removal. >> thank you so much for coming. >> thank you. >> thank you. . the government shutdown is now in the 24th day, longer than any previous shutdown. the president and congress are still at an impasse over border wall funding. >>> a snowstorm over the weekend closed all federal offices in washington, d.c. today, but that didn't stop president trump from going to new orleans to speak to a farmer's convention there. congress returns to capitol hill for its full week of legislative business since control of the house reverted to democrats. the house is scheduled to debate extending temporary assistance for needy families through june, while the senate is stalled on a middle east policy bill. on tuesday, the senate judiciary commit will start the confirmation hearing for president trump's attorney general nominee william barr. we succeed jeff sessions who president trump fired in november. the live coverage begins at

>> this is james chin, a reporter from voice of america. i want to ask a question about china, with xi jinping, the president, in office. and we've seen what's going on in the democracy, there's no democracy, of course. and also we've seen those like -- many americans feel disappointed over the years with the development of the economy. we've seen trends are going a different way. so how do we understand this trend in terms of economic freedom? >> yeah, china had a big burst of economic freedom about 40 years ago now, really at the time of deng chao ping. they've benefitted from some of the relationships they've had. we've seen per capita income grow, of course from a very low base so they have a long way to go to catch up in overall prosperity to the countries of europe, the united states, canada, the developed countries in the world. i think it's unfortunate that economic reform in china seems to have stalled at this point, and the prospects for further reform are certainly -- i would to say they're uncertain at this point. we have of cour

. >> i have kind of the same question for the voice of america to step up the administration it will be in practical measures what do you think could be those measures? >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we have a couple of questions. i think one is critical and that is what's next. we tried many things in the past and we know statements like the declaration i agree it is a very good step that's not enough. more needs to be done. so, what's next from the government perspective and then the question for the removal. >> let me offer answers in the order which the questions came. first, removal of other representatives. the problem, ladies and gentlemen, as already eluded to the internal order procedures in this case the organization of american states that classified through its charter the majority that are necessary to take certain steps and certain decisions can be taken by certain majority. certain positions require a larger majority and some require three quarters in agreement before they can actually implement a decision that has taken. we would have to review, but i would be fairly c

officials in the trump administration told the voice of america that the next step of the administration will be really impactful measures against the government. what do you think could be or must be the answers from the u.s.? >> thank you. we have a couple questions. i think one is critical, which is now what? what's next? we have tried many things in the past and we know statements about the presidential declaration is not enough and more needs to be done. so what's next from the u.s. government perspective, from the international community perspective? and then we have the question on the implications, if you don't mind. let's start with you, ambassador. >> ok. let me offer answers in the order in which the questions came. first, removal -- not just but removal of other representatives from a body such as the oas. the problem, ladies and gentlemen, as fernando has already alluded to, is the internal order and procedures of in this case the organization of american states, which -- theies its charter majority's that are necessary to take certain steps. certain steps can be taken by si