nicaragua remains the second poorest country in the western hemisphere. the social unrest has added major insurgency to a has been relatively promising. truly transformative economic growth to lift nicaragua party will require new attitudes and approaches to keys to. they were promising university students -- cannot be seen as terrorists. but rather as young men and women who would lead their country towards a more prosperous future. if confirmed, i look for new ways for the u.s. to support the nicaraguan people on the road to freedom. also pursue cooperation, on issues of u.s. national security, such as counter narcotics. bearing in mind, the evolution of the current crisis. , the protection of u.s. citizens and mission personnel in nicaragua heard mr. chairman, committee members, i thank you for your consideration and welcome your questions. thank you for being here again. again, thank you for your willingness to do this. i want to start with the fact that you're here today for confirmation. of our branches, but the importance of the confirmation proces

that called the may 20 election in , whichla illegitimate sent a very strong signal to the western hemisphere about the nature of those election. i do agree with your suggestion that's stronger parliamentary with the oas would strengthen the statements that it makes and what better reflect the views around the hemisphere. i would be happy to discuss that further with you. let me ask mr. palmeiro a question. the --mit to monitor case to make sure we get independent evaluations on that? >> yes, sir. i believe the embassy has assisted in that investigation, if confirmed when i arrived in honduras i will personally pay attention to that. >> thank you. thank you mr. chairman. congratulations to each of you for being willing to a set these -- except these nominations during this time in the world and given the challenges that you have already referenced in the countries that you will be going to come if confirmed. i want to start, mr. sullivan, with nicaragua, because as i read reports, russian influence has been increasing. they spent $80 million to buy military equipment from russia in 26 the. th

plan a proposed that the united states maintain a purely defensive posture in the western hemisphere and avoid any involvement in the war for as long as possible though the u.s. could provide material help u.s. allies. plan b proposed a defensive posture in the atlantic but a fall offensive against japan in the pacific. and they rely on the british to hold their own in the atlantic indefinitely. plan c., this was the nightmare scenario. the u.s. would wage offensive wars on two fronts. the atlantic and the pacific. the stark emphasized a two ocean war would disperse u.s. forces and virtually preclude successful operations in either theater. the last scenario was playing d., the united states would direct all its efforts towards a strong offensive in the atlantic and an ally of written with the goal of defeating germany while maintaining only a defensive position against japan in the pacific. stark firmly recommended that the roosevelt administration adopt plan b. he rejected the other options as to when he laid out the logic of his argument. first, the security in its empire as well

leadership which i lead we say that the moon i did nation forces in haiti are the africa calm of the western hemisphere they are the u.s. western military army training latin american instrumental american soldiers. for on behalf of the western powers and they use haiti as a training ground that's number one number two. haiti has massive oil the head of venezuelans oil is in haiti's waters number in terms of riches haiti has they say now twenty billion in gold haitian geologist says it's one hundred billion in gold doing the earthquake. bill and hillary clinton put in through fake elections and you can see this just google it michel martelly who is a former carnival singer if you look at the e-mails from the hillary and bill clinton they show you that they created this this fake election and now in two thousand and sixteen we have just made two thousand and seventeen we have this new president job mel movies job no more yes was handpicked by michel martelly who was put into office by bill and hillary clinton under the obama administration and now the aid groups and you and agencies they always stress t

it's happening in the western hemisphere, it's happening in europe. so, again, we need all of our allies, all of those societies that are vulnerable to this to be sharing ideas together on how to combat this and reduce its threat to us. >> i wish you good luck, and i'm sure we're going to benefit from your experience and knowledge particularly in that part of the world. thank you for your service to the country. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir. senator shaheen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and good morning, ambassador hale. thank you for being willing to consider taking on this position at this critical time in the world, and con sphwrach rations on your -- congratulations on your nomination. excuse me. as i'm sure you're aware, the president on monday signed the defense bill, and that included a bipartisan rez hughes that passed this committee authored by senator young and me to address the humanitarian crisis in the yemen. it prohibits the u.s. military from continuing to provide aerial refueling for the saudi-led coalition unless the secretary of st

leadership which i lead we say that the moon i did nation forces in haiti are the africa calm of the western hemisphere they are the u.s. western military army training latin american instrumental american soldiers. for on behalf of the western powers and they use haiti as a training ground that's number one number two haiti has massive oil the head of venezuelans oil is in haiti's waters number in terms of riches haiti has they say now twenty billion in gold. haitian geologist says it's one hundred billion in gold doing the earthquake. bill and hillary clinton put in through fake elections and you can see this just google it michel martelly who is a former carnival singer if you look at the e-mails from the hillary and bill clinton they show you that they created this this fake election and now in two thousand and sixteen we have should be two thousand and seventeen we have this new president job mel movies no more yes was handpicked by michel martelly who was put into office by bill and hillary clinton under the obama administration really and now the aid groups and you and agencies they always stres

well as the strength of its may be worried ensure the security of the united states and the western hemisphere. second, germany and not japan japan that was seriously mostf threatened and its survival.ermy therefore germany pose the greatest danger to the security of the united states it was in the interest in one singledirec. direction to defeat the german strategy. but in a naval parlor the word dog stands for the d it was known as plan dog. that meant the fate of the united states it was inexplicably found to britain. the more more a kid forces woulp be deployed against japan or germany and nevertheless defined the paramount wartime strategysn with the most destructive war in world history.footnote. if anybody ever mentions the paranoid conspiracy theory they really wanted the attack on pearl harbor to takeke place you could mention to those people pn and explain to them that whatn they want last thing they wanted was a two ocean war.ct now for subject number two it all started early december 1840w when roosevelt decided to exchange cold and gray washington for war sunny caribbean cruise. r

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reich is a former us ambassador to venezuela and was also assistant secretary of state for western hemisphereeorge w bush. hejoins us now. thank you so much forjoining us, ambassador. does president nicolas maduro‘s comments about financiers in the united states, does that mean credible tu? no. it is something that maduro has always claimed whenever something goes wrong. there had been a number of riots and assassination attempts and assassinations in venezuela in the last three years under the maduro administration, and maduro, like all strongman, who are increasingly unpopular, blame the foreign devils. it is always the united states or some neighbouring country or some a right—wing conspiracy or the business community, or anybody except of course the cause of the nation's problems, and that is his own government. use a foreign devils as they sometimes refer to the united states, but president trump has entertained the idea of a military solution in venezuela. —— you say. well, he has talked about it, nothing has been done. this is not unlike, for example, what happened with the british and

internet services will be available nationwide in cuba currently the country is one of the western hemisphere's least connected nations but after an eight hour free wi-fi test cuba seems poised to change its ranking artie's alex mahela which joins us from toronto with more alex thank you for being with us as usual where is cuba in its plans to provide the nation with internet what we have to say first of all the cubans don't like they don't have the internet they actually have hundreds of wife i hotspots throughout the country but that's basically been the way it's worked you know if you look at back in let's say two thousand and eleven cuba you would have to go to a hotel or to an embassy or something like that to a restaurant perhaps to get why five and now there are hundreds of hotspots around . itself and if you look at statistics from both two thousand and thirty. to the presence of the country has been has it had an agenda to really push through wife eye and internet connectivity so it's skyrocketed since two thousand and thirteen and the push is being obviously pushed forward what we jus

it's a wave across the region this is probably the one of the last regions certainly in the western hemisphere that where feminism has taken hold it's a male chauvinist pig region as we all know and femicide have gone up dramatically in the last couple of decades and along with social networks women especially younger women have become far more active and much more aggressive about demanding their rights and among those rights of course is the right to abortion in argentina alone there are almost half a million women who carry out illegal or clandestine abortions every year and many of them die and so this is what the movement is about is the right to choose as happens as we. see in so many parts of the world mission human thank you very much indeed. israel's parliament has debated a controversial law which declares the country a jewish state the nation state nor which passed last month also makes hebrew the country's so language they've been widespread protests since legislation which critics say renders minority communities as second class citizens stephanie decker has more from west jerusal

the white house promised it would oppose what caused china's political influence in the western hemisphereon rewriting the north american free trade agreement will now run into next week. the u.s. and mexico have not resolved all of their pending issues command mexico says negotiations won't be complete until canada signs on. that country's to her has attended the talks -- has not attended the talks in five weeks. australia's has its six by minister in 11 years. scott morrison is taking over after malcolm turnbull lost control of the liberal party. it is a shakeup. rosealia's benchmark s&p and so to the australian dollar. global news 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. vonnie: thank you. mounting legal mummification for president trump and administration. prosecutors in new york are opening a criminal probe into the president's former lawyer michael cohen. we are joined by an investigative reporter for legal enforcement. what impact mike is have a president trump or the administration? because thenificant manhattan district attorney is considering not looking

we to be able to think about development as a security issue for the united states and the western hemisphere? mark: thanks. you're right. it was the 20th anniversary over the embassy bombing. it was a chance for both of us who have served. i have lived in both countries during my career, but to pause and reflect, what we noted then is that when the bad bad guys dropped 20 years ago, i'm sure they had different results in mind. i'm sure that they believed their strike would chase the u.s. away. divide us from others in the region. of course the opposite happened. instead, we began, we forged working partnerships that have made such a difference there. i believe as a jern matter we as usaid and other parts of the u.s. government and our partners, we have a role in driving or attacking the drivers of despair. does ery clear, poverty not cause terrorism. however despair, absolute despair is a force, is a feeling that bad guys know how to exploit. and so it has always been my view that it is good for us, us, all of us here, if we tackle those drivers of despair and we're seeing tackling of those

briefings, so that the european and eurasian desk can brief congress, and then you can have the western hemisphere desk brief congress. of course, these would be a lot more effective if they were integrated, coordinated, communicated as a collective whole. it would certainly make it look like we were much more coordinated, if we can at least communicate the mission together. but it actually gets a lot worse. about a month ago, i was on a panel at the defense one summit -- the defense one tech summit speaking on russian disinformation. i was doing my best, and i thought it was an effective job of explaining how much work the state department and other government agencies were doing to counter the russian threat in central and eastern europe. someone asked if i could quantify the scale of the work. fortunately, because the commission, the duty is to oversee all u.s. government efforts to influence foreign publics, i had good visibility of the scope of programs we are endeavoring in this effort to counter russian disinformation. i noted we had somewhere between 200 and 300 individual programs operati

we would be the balkans of the western hemisphere. principalities begging for independence sustenance and survival. what would massachusetts have in common with mississippi? nothing. we would not be a threat to anybody. orept maybe the mexicans canadians. those 48 little principalities coming together produced a sum so much heavier than some of the parts. that is the thing i would point out. fought to tryhey and establish the lines of federalism. where the united states was going. maintaining that the union was perpetual and the southern states maintaining that it is an was legal, contest with no middle ground. you are union or you are separate. awould try to work up soundbite something to that effect. >> we will take two more questions. again that ther statues construction came into waves. the first was to reinforce the oppression of african-americans during the time of lynching and the second was during the time of segregation. i thought the construction of the statues always had more to do with first the passing away of the soldier

sexual abuse and abuse more generally of priests on children in europe and probably in the western hemisphere there has been a systematic you know exit of irish people from the church or the east and saying and this is something that is reflected in the media and in the way that the pope is going to be received and of course a lot of people about asking of the for the vatican for to come up with concrete action but we spoke to one person an activist who belongs to an organization which is trying to put the spotlight on this issue off of bed to priests let's take a listen to what he had to say. the church is the largest global institution and i'm sad to say in having been brought up a catholic that it is to use a business term it's the market leader in criminality in this particular area and i think pope francis has never five years and it's time he did something concrete not just it's you mealy mouth apologies. so listen to that lot in very strong words that people want more than an apology they want action is it likely well it is not completely unlikely but there is no sign there's no concre

success of future generations depending on how well we build trust at every level with our western hemisphereand partners today. we look to the future to build on trust today. mark: the secretary emphasized american interest in partnering with brazil in space research, an area in which china has shown growing influence in south america. the chinese operated space center is in argentina. toarius will be allowed enter porch with 41 migrants as part of the deal with the union. those rescued at the borders will be distributed among other eu nations. doctors without borders had appealed to both italy and another country for safe harbor, but italy refused. global news, 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. more details from berkshire hathaway's filings. breaking news after the market closes. we have more details on how big their stake in apple is. the firm increased its stake by 5% and owns 231 million shares. that makes them the third biggest shareholder in apple. in the m

we would be the balkans of the western hemisphere. 48 little prince pallets begging for independence, sustenance and survival. what would massachusetts have in common with mississippi? what would texas have in common with indiana? nothing. nothing. we would not be a threat to anybody, except maybe the mexicans or next door, the canadians. but those 48 little prince pallets coming together produced a sum so much heavier than the sum of the parts and i think that's the thing i would point out. that in this war they fought to try and establish the lines of federalism and where the united states was going. lincoln maintaining that the union was perpetual and southern states maintaining that succession was legal. as a contest with no middle ground, you are union or you are separate. so i would try to work up a sound bite something to that effect. >> we will take just two more questions starting with this one over here. >> yes. i've head over and over again that the statues construction came in two waves, the first was to reinforce the oppression of african-americans during the time of lync

separate the europeanthat and eurasian desk and brief congress and afterwards you can have the western hemisphere desk brief congress. this would be better if they were integrated, correlated, and communicated as a collective whole. we will look much more correlated if we could at least get along for a little while and communicate that mission together. it actually gets a lot worse. about a month ago, i was at a panel at the tech summit speaking about the question of russian disinformation. i was doing my best and thought i was doing the effective job of explaining how much work the state department and other government agencies were doing to counter the russian threat in central and eastern europe. someone could ask me -- asking if i could quantify the skill of the work. it's a mandate from congress to the u.s. government efforts and i had good visibility as to the kinds of programs and the scope of programs that were endeavoring in this effort to counter russian disinformation. andad somewhere between 200 300 individual programs operating in central and eastern europe either immediately over th

briefings so that the european and eurasian desk and brief congress and afterwards you can have the western hemisphere desk brief congress. of course, this would be better if they were integrated, correlated, and communicated as a collective whole. we will look much more correlated if we could at least get along for a little while and communicate that mission together. but it actually gets a lot worse. about a month ago, i was at a panel at the tech summit speaking about the question of russian disinformation. i was doing my best and thought i was doing the effective job of explaining just how much work the state department and other government agencies were doing to counter the russian threat in central and eastern europe. coulde asked me if i quantify the skill of the work. it's a mandate from congress to oversee of the u.s. government efforts and i had good visibility as to the kinds of programs and the scope of programs that were endeavoring in this effort to counter russian disinformation. i noted that we had somewhere between 200 and 300 individual programs operating in central and eastern europ

there would be the balkans of the western hemisphere. the principalities on so -- sustenance and survival. what would texas have with indiana? nothing. or the canadians. but the principalities are coming together producing a some so much heavier than the sum of the parts. and that is the thing that i saw going on here. here's where they fought to establish the lines of federalism. and this is where the united states was going. and lincoln maintained that the unit -- union was perpetual in the southern states maintained that secession was legal. it is a contest that we normally grant. you are union or you are separate. i'm not trying to work up a sound bite here. >> two more questions. >> over and over again, the statutes construction came into waves. the first, was to reinforce the oppression of african-americans during the time of lynching and the second, was during the time of segregation. i thought that the construction of the statue had more to do with the first, the passing away the soldiers themselves. in the second wave would have

watching on the western hemisphere, happy thursday. we have a lot to talk about in terms of trade war and in terms of what is happening in the central bank as well. down nearly .2%. they were brought falls across the board. s&p, materials, energy and financials were the biggest laggards. they are very sensitive to what has been happening. we just wrapped up those low-level talks in washington dc with regards to the u.s. and china with those pretensions. donald trump definitely wants to double down. let's look at the board and see what happens in terms of currencies. bloomberg commodities index also going to little further. crude is on the 67 handle. continuing to rise. -- , let's call that given -- yvonne: given this situation president trump is end, it reads like he is talking tough on trade to build up political capital once again. let's take a look at how equities are set up on this friday morning. up about .1% on the index. when it comes to futures, we are up one third of 1%. that storm still looming around malcolm turnbull. will i

the american people will never forgive me if there is another cuba in the western hemisphere. if british kiana goes communist i fear i will have to invade cuba. that is how he put it. i need you to slow decolonization there. .cmillan did it for him this has nothing to do with let me finish with laos. -- key west agreement calling it the poker table agreement, the final understanding is worked out at the poker table in the middle of the white house. it is probably the last time with a british played a major role in shaping u.s. southeast policy. the british in position becomes less important. kennedy himself begins to see unilateral action as the only way of dealing with american credibility in that region. kennedy never becomes an advocate of military intervention but covert intervention. the british can only go so far. at a certain point kennedy came to the conclusion that the united states had to do more. other out.elped each they help each other out was by dealing with dwight eisenhower. 1962,rry to say that by harry truman was not a factor in american politics, but dwight

three years after the zika virus made it's way to the western hemisphere, researchers are learning more about its impact.according to newly released data from the centers for disease control and prevention, one in seven babies born to women infected with zika has health problems that could be linked to the virus. the birth defects range from small head size and brain damage, to nervous system problems like hearing and vision impairmentsthe 4,800 pregnancies in the study were all in the u.s. territories and happened between 2016 and 2018. authors of the study warn the number of health issues could increase as the children get older, and start showing more signs of developmental problems.also in the report, new guidance for couples trying to get pregnant ---couples should abstain from sex or use condoms for three months after their last symptom, or possible exposure to zika. if already pregnant, it's recommended that couples abstain, or use condoms throughout the woman's pregnancy. that's because birth defects related to zika can develop at any stage of the pregnancy.for today's health mi

security of future generations depends on how well we together build trust at every level with our western hemispherepartners today. we look to the future, we want to build our trusted today. mark: secretary mattis emphasized u.s. interest in partnering with brazil in space research in area -- an area in which china has shown a growing interest in south america. the chinese operated space center of argentina. a bridge on the main road between italy and france collapsed today in the city of genoa, sending cars lunging almost 150 feet. at least 35 people were killed. others are believed to be trapped in the rubble. the bridge collapsed during a sudden violent storm. turkey's president is sounding defiant. he said today the nation will stand strong against the dollar and he promised turkey will boycott iphones and other american electronics. a standup between turkey and the u.s. that has contributed to the lira's meltdown shows no sign of ending to we will have more of that coming up in a moment. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and at tic toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and ana

tosaid it would continue oppose china positivist political interference in the western hemisphere. hawaii's big island. it is offshore but it has lashed the island with 20 inches of rain, causing landslides. honolulu is bracing for the hurricane. hotels piled sandbags along windows and doors to prepare for flooding. global news 24 hours a day and at tic toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm kailey leinz. this is "bloomberg." guy: thank you very much. chinaade talks between and the u.s. have wrapped up with no progress. they were low-level talks. it is setting the stage for further regulation of the trade war between the economies. china this morning removed limits on foreign holdings of domestic ranks -- banks. the chief asia correspondent joins us now from hong kong. $200 billion worth of additional tariffs, the next development we see in this story. people are saying that is becoming their base case. can you hear me? what we have seen here is the low-level talks breaking down. stephen stanley joins us in new york. what

hemisphere. is the largest dam in western europe. the waters of the glory on a river serve as the boundary between spain and portugal. the portuguese were the pioneers in promoting astro tourism. the idea arose in two thousand and eight as part of creating a sustainable program for the ok region to offer something unique in terms of nature and resources for tourism we thought of something no one had considered before the sky. it's now a starlight tourist destination certified by the starlight foundation in two thousand and eleven we were the first destination in the world to obtain the certification. since then al qaeda has become a must visit destination for astral truism visitors fall into two groups. meantime just along some of those so essentially there is the amateur astronomers who love observing the sky and then there's a large increase in families many children hear about the night sky at school but they can't see the constellations in the cities where they live. so they come here with their parents to experience the dark ski

tencent or alibaba, they are in all likelihood going to dominate and eastern hemisphere in the there and if you look at western will not be displaced by chinese companies. there's probably a good deal of performance cap on the asia side that can be made up in the coming years. very large domestic markets including some outside of china. now to the u.k. and bank of england policy. the nestle voted to raise rates. i asked mark carney is the markets are skeptical when it comes to rate hikes. a centraling as banker is never a good idea so i won't read too much into that. i think the important things is thee decision today decision. it was appropriate and the group unified on that. we do see a requirement for a few more rate increases if the economy remains on this track to be consistent with that. exchange,nd we had an , i think manyting in the market recognize the view of the bank of england, the fed come and others, the interest rate is lower than it was previously. there's also in the view of the , this is where the equilibrium rate is in the u.k.. at what's inook business investment this country right now, it

monopoly offered the eight hour trial ahead of launching sales of the service cuba as one of the western hemisphere's least connected countries many cubans rely on wife i hotspots because those firstly know home penetration. turkey. in conflict with the u.s. president blames washington for the leave ross fall to boycott american products a wall street correspondent has the latest on the potential fallout. also on the show hong kong takes measures to clean up its multan electric wasting a project that would work throughout asia. come to your business news update here in berlin to kish president type. products in response to what he calls terrorism done by the united states friends to trump administration doubling tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum to a piece to be.