the year 2000, the united states averaged a 3.5% growth rate. but after china joined the world trade organization, our average growth rate has been reduced to only 2%. predatory trade practices, product dumping, currency manipulation, which is a big one and intellectual property theft ave taken millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in wealth right out of hour hands, right out of our country. so sad that we allowed this to happen. our incompetent politicians were not watching. and the ones that were watching, were taken care of in some form, because this should have never been allowed to have happened. it is no great secret that many of the special interests funding my opponent's campaign are the same people profitting from these terrible trade deals. they are terrible. terrible for everybody. the same so-called experts advising hillary clinton are the same people who gave us nafta. china's entry into the world trade organization, the job-killing trade deal with south korea, another disaster. and now the transpacific partnership that they are pushing so strongly. the verdict is in

already isolated. only allied china could punish it more. but south korea says it shows he's mentally under control, struggling to keep control, executing dozens of generals. >> the nuclear program is all about power and regime stability. with the purges that have happened over the past two years, the regime doesn't feel fully secure. >> reporter: president obama says there must be serious consequences for this test. but kim jong un seems not to care, projecting power, provoking, and so far paying no price. bill neely, nbc news. >>> there's breaking news tonight from geneva where the u.s. and russia are announcing a plan to reduce the violence in syria. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel is there at the talks. richard, this is all happening right now. what can you tell us? >> reporter: good evening, lester. secretary kerry called it a possible turning point in the five-year war in syria. he along with his russian counterpart made this announcement here in geneva. and he said that syrians are now facing a choice between war and peace. specifically, he called starting on sept

suspect this latest wave of synthetic drugs is being manufactured in china and mexico. lester. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. >>> federal investigators are looking into what caused a mid-air collision between two private planes in georgia, the latest in a string of general aviation cra crashes and has the ntsb warning too many pilots are losing control of their planes. tom costello with the latest details. >> reporter: at a rural airport in west georgia today, tragedy. >> this was called in by another aircraft circling the location. >> reporter: the wreckage of two planes broken and scattered across the field. three people on board including a flight instructor and her passenger all killed. >> they just confirmed this is two airplanes in a mid-air collision. >> reporter: witnesses say it happened when both planes were landing at a regional airport with no control tower. >> it appears one plane set down on top of another and both appear to be low wing aircraft so they may not have seen underneath. >> reporter: the training plane was found underneath the other plane. today's acci

parts of the country. in the bull's eye next, china, where it's expected to make landfall in the morning. >>> billionaire elon musk has announced a plan to colonize mars within a decade. that's half as long as nasa estimates it will take to launch a man mission to the red planet. but musk's companies spacex has experienced big setbacks recently, including the explosion of an unmanned rocket that also destroyed a pricey facebook satellite. >>> a major recall to tell you about. the usda warns that some tyson chicken nuggets may be contaminated with hard plastic. the company is recalling more than 130,000 pounds. it affects five-pound bags sold at costco nationwide with a use-by date of july 18, 2017. also included, some 20-pound bags sold only in pennsylvania. >>> when we come back here tonight, the emotional goodbye for a rising baseball star whose life was cut tragically short. next at 6: evacuations continue in the santa cruz mountains. ===raj/vo=== homes and firefighters at g risk for a seconday===jess/vo== and, the battlever hefty inheritance. nbc bay area responds to a woman

face on the sidelines of the g-20 summit in china, the two clashed over the issues of syria and cyber security. ron allen is in laos with more. >> reporter: for 90 intense minutes two of the world's most powerful men face to face for perhaps the last time. president obama his time in office ticking down, and president put putin, on the line a measure of peace and relieve for the horror that are syria. >> typically our meetings are candid, blunt and business like, and this one was no different. >> reporter: over the years, the two unable to hide their contempt. >> given the gaps of trust that exist, that's a tough negotiation. >> reporter: but putin emerged predicting a deal that could come in the next thank you days. president obama also confronted putin about cyber hacking u.s. websites and called for clear rules for all nations to follow. >> what we cannot do is have a situation in which suddenly this becomes the wild, wide west. >> reporter: mr. putin left for moscow, mr. obama moved on to his last stop in asia, laos. here he becomes the first u.s. president to visit since they wer

," including chuck todd's exclusive interview with mike pence. >>> in china tonight, president obama and that country's president gave their formal backing to a worldwide agreement aimed at fighting climate change. ron allen is in china and has more on this tonight. ron? >> reporter: jose, for president obama a huge victory combatting climate change, one of the most important objectives during his time in office. today, the united states formally committing to the paris climate accords. president obama met with the president of china today who made the same commitment to this agreement. the world's two biggest economies and carbon emitters uniting on an issue while fighting over everything from global trade to cyber hacking. in his remarks, president obama warned that rising temperatures blamed for severe storms, droughts, and floods threaten mankind. >> someday we may see this as the moment that we finally decided to save our planet. >> reporter: while the vast majority of scientists agree human activity and pollution are causing climate change, some critics still disagree and say presi

-face encounter. that happened in china a couple of weeks ago. the officials say it's all about whether or not and russia can settle their differences, and right now the outlook for that appears quite bleak. kate? >> ron allen at the u.n. tonight. ron, thank you. how a pipeline shutdown i there are two billion people who don't have access to basic banking, but that is changing. at temenos, with the microsoft cloud, we can enable a banker to travel to the most remote locations with nothing but a phone and a tablet. everywhere where there's a phone, you have a bank. now a person is able to start a business, and employ somebody for the first time. the microsoft cloud helped us to bring banking to ten million people in just two years. it's transforming our world. get between you and life's dobeautiful moments.llergens flonase gives you more complete allergy relief. most allergy pills only control one inflammatory substance. flonase controls 6. and six is greater than one. flonase changes everything. ♪ i absolutely love my new but the rent is outrageous. good thing geico offers aff

, not even close had we done nothing we would be in a far better position. meanwhile china and has grown more aggressive in north corrina -- north korea more belligerent. vladimir britain has no respect for president obama and has absolutely no respect for hillary clinton. sometimes it seems like there wasn't a country in the middle east that hillary clinton did not want to win made or intervene or topple her cushiest trigger happy and very unstable whether we like it or not that is what is going on. [applause] she is also reckless that she put her e-mail's on the illegal server that the enemies could probably have can probably have then her team used a technology to bleach that is basically acid as if they will acid wash her e-mail's who does this but nobody does the even took a hammer to some of her 13 phones to cover for tracks with the obstruction of justice. these e-mail records were destroyed after she received a subpoena remember that word. after. after berger after she received a subpoena to turn them over. if you do that in private enterprise, it is a violation of the of l

hacking. he said i do not know anything about it, there are so many hackers these days. china piling on too. when air force one landed, no stairs for the formal arrival, instead they had to lower the stairs in the belly of the plane and the white house press corps blocked from covering. a u.s. official arguing this is our plane. the chinese response? >> donald trump seizing on that. >> they wouldn't even give him stairs to come out of air force one. >> reporter: most stunning, the president of a major ally, the philippines, insulting mr. obama, calling him a son of a whore. mr. obama then canceling their meeting. >> i have never heard a serious head of state or government describe an ally head of state or government in that regard. >> reporter: is america less respected or as some day did the president lose credibility three years ago, threatening to attack syria and then backing down? >> when obama didn't deliver on his promise to use military forces as pledged, something went out of his presidency and he's never been able to put it back. >> reporter: a triumphant last visit

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. folks like senator cruz have said that, this might empower the likes of russia and china who seek the censor the web. another argument with residents on republicans on capitol hill, but if you talk to tech companies like google and facebook and amazon, or talk to technical experts, all they say is that the obama administration's plan doesn't do any of these bad things that republicans have said. they just point to the republicans as trying to stall on an issue that the obama administration has put a lot of priority on in the past few months. host: a little more what you were talking about, today's washington times. proponents of the transfer say engineers, businesses, technical experts, civil society groups should lead the internet forward rather than the u.s. government. whereas conservatives such as senator ted cruz of texas say president obama is diluting american power. thus creating space for rogue actors such as china, russia, or iran, to wield greater influence over web access. is this something congress can stop? guest: it might be something that congress can stop. folks l

think laos, seeing enormous economic progress that be enough and china -- vietnam and china's and others have made, will be important in finding ways in which they can advance into the global economy, and help themselves grow. i think we can be a useful partner there. i think it will be a broad-based agenda. the visit think about ,rthrough those streetsity and the enormous wellspring of goodwill that you saw, that started with the same kind of steps that we will be taking with laos, but i hope we can do it faster. faster, than we did over the course of 15 years. because we have learned some things. eager toaos is very engage with us, and we are eager to engage with them. i am looking forward to what i hear is a very beautiful country. thank you, mr. president. the transpacific partnership, how do you plan to sell this to these asian leaders who still have work to do in their own countries? maey 't o do are not the u.s. usually ratifies its trade deals. do you plan to conen inevity, do you feel that for the lame-duck session? even if it doesn't happen then, is it inevitable anyway?

will not get sanctions through russia and china unless the africans are united and say this is what we want and the africans are divided and igad is divided. even if the u.n. security council would pass an arms embargo, the surrounding countries would have to implement it to make sure arms are not sneaking through or being violated. so the primary attention effort seems to me for the african union and for igad to decide exactly if they are in control of this process, how to strengthen it. let me just come to this question of the 4,000 troops that are being added. as you pointed out, it is a question of putting these under and whether they will act differently. it is very difficult to contemplate a u.n. peacekeeping force confronting in an armed way the forces of the host government. i don't think many u.n. forces are prepared for that. i don't think even the security council is prepared for it. the question is this force going to have the mandate to confront not just outlyers but an attack like the terrain hotel complex and go up against government forces? that is a very difficult thin

president and his old nemesis, vladimir putin, to sway the u.s. election. china piling on too. when air force one landed, no stares for the formal arrival, instead they had to lower the stairs in the belly of the plane and the white house press core not even deplaning. >> donald trump seizing on that. >> they wouldn't even give him stairs to come out of air force one. >> reporter: most stunning, the president of a major ally, the philippines, calling him a song of a whore. mr. obama then canceling their meeting. >> i have never heard a serious head of state or government describe an ally head of state or government in that regard. >> reporter: is america less respected or did the president lose credibility three years ago, threatening to attack syria and then backing down? >> when president obama didn't deliver on his promise to use went out of his presidency and he's never been able to put it back. >> reporter: a triumph fachbt last visit to asia that has been anything but. >>> there's a new extreme weather threat charging toward the u.s., hurricane newton made landfall in mexico. it's

to the self china sea, economic, commercial, and people to people ties. we have a very close working relationship with the philippines and that relationship will be enduring. in fact, we continue to consult closely at a variety of levels. the chairman has been in the philippines recently, if not today, for a chiefs of defense meeting. with respect to the bilateral meeting, i think it was our judgment that, given the focus, the attention on president d comments leading into the meetings here, we felt it did not create a constructive environment for a bilateral meeting. all of the attention, frankly, was on those comments and therefore, not on the substantive agenda we have with the philippines. again, given that focus, we felt it was not the right time to have a bilateral meeting between the two presidents. that is something we discussed with officials from the philippine government last night. forward, i would expect our close corporation to continue and you know, where we also have differences, we will continue to speak to those and as president obama said, for any country in the wo

thereaffirmed in russia-china declaration on increasing the role of international law. the observance of the principles of sovereign equality, monitor. should be common measure -- noninterference of foreign affairs should be common measure. if we don't put an end to this not be ableosophy, to counter international terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other threats. fighting terrorism, we cannot use double standards. we need true universal pooling of our interests in order to put together a broad anti-terrorism front as proposed by president putin from the stage a year ago. the tragedy of iraq, libya, syria, yemen has proven the need to stop opportunistic attempt to advancing political power. terrorism ideology. it holds use hostage in many regions of the world. adopting a security council resolution in order to mobilize the effort to illuminate -- limit this evil. -- eliminate this evil. radicalism,hing out we can also look at settling the palestinian conflict. we need to get it out of the stalemate which we are focusing on from the meeting from the first of jul

republic of china's record with council resolutions regarding north korea whether beijing has utilitized any loopholes and what the united states has done. ash carter stated on september 19, 2016 the department of defense are standing 24-7 to defend against the threat with all aspects of extended deter rent capabilities. we must repeat these often to our allies and back them up with actions. we must continue to show demonstrate it will bear a heavy price for any aggression. we must expedite the placement or thadd and the republic of korea and i want to thank our partners and soul and commitment to this capability enlight of the pressure from beijing in moscow. we must build unilateral. including closer high level and joint missile defense exercises. we must explore possibilities to put additional as state sponsored terror, stripping of the united nations seat or global trade embargo. both to guide the actions of this administration as well as set parameters, with that i yield to my good friend and colleague. thank you for calling this hearing. it's been a pleasure to work with

include india and china which are the countries that send us the most people who become entrepreneurs. this is another problem. we heard students become entrepreneurs, there has been focus on that in the last couple years, we want to extend startup visas to people who graduate from higher education programs. optional practice in training for extended time to remain in the us for two years. those individuals can in fact self-employed, choose to become self-employed but when we look at the data among college educated residents and specifically those who found businesses only 4% are on student visas. the growth rate of entrepreneurship among immigrants has been positive for several years. in 2013 immigrants were twice as likely to start businesses, and has shown when in four new entrepreneurs or immigrants, additional work showing fairly large fraction of high growth in high-tech firms had one member, and moreover those who had one foreign-born member tended to perform better. looking also adventure companies that go on to be public, that were high growth and contribute to us gdp in larg

significant effort to put strong and excessive sanctions in place to curb the development, china's unwillingness to enforce the sanctions has undermind u.s. and international efforts to bring north korea in line. finally, our long-term military needs a put focusing into five years. the last time congress provided the department with budget stability but there is no budget furphiesal jeer 2018 and beyond. without another bipartisan agreement that provides relief from sequestration, the department will be forced to submit a fiscal year 2018 budget that adheres to the sequestration budget cam and would undermine our defense strategy. and modernize it platforms and equipment and we must not let that happen. thank you begin, mr. chairman, and thank you, gentlemen. >> welcome, mr. secretary. this is the last time for this year we appreciate your -- you and general dunford's appearances before the armed services committee and look forward to you and general doneford's testimony: thank you for your service to our nation. secretary carter. >> thank you very much. champ chairman, ranking mem

argentina is reorienting its relationship with china. in light of the current priorities. can you describe for a bit what that means, reorienting in what way? >> it clearly in the prior administration signed an agreement with china, and we have decided that that is something that we want to maintain. but we want to maintain in terms that are aligned with what the government feels are the priorities. so we have had a very fruitful conversation, series of conversations. in fact the president already met twice and we have somehow there was an agreement around a contract more than an agreement signed around the power plant in the south and we look into it ends we are signing that and our chinese counterpart has agreed to that. the chinese have proposed a couple of options on power plants, nuclear power plants which are now considering in light of our overall plan on energy. and we are discussing with them. there were discussions around a plan base, not a plant that was approved and both developed in getting the south regarding satellite monitoring which had all kinds of questions regarding the

. the alleged incident sometimes took place when the team was on the road, including a trip to china, outside the view of any adults. manly said he now has 12 clients. >> the idea that you would put your hand in the private parts of a prepubescent child because they have a sore back is laughable and it's sexual assault. >> reporter: the lawsuit accuses usa gymnastics of ignoring warning signs, but the organization denies the accusation, saying it first became aware of a problem in the summer of 2015 and fired him. according to a statement, when usa gymnastics learned of athlete concerns, they reported their nassar to the fbi. usa gymnastics is not commenting further due to the ongoing investigation. since the initial allegations became public this month, the michigan state university police have received two dozen complaints of sexual abuse against nassar, dating back to the '90s, according to a source familiar with the investigation. as the complaints came in this month, nassar was fired from msu, he's the subject of a criminal investigation but he has not been charged with a crime.

, the u.s. and china formally entered the paris agreement. today, the g20 welcomed efforts to enter the paris agreement enforced by the end of the year. ayn ndthlleo erned eeting him legitimizes his approach on the issue? >> i just cannot of a long day of meetings. i just heard about some of this. i have seen some of those colorful statements in the past. clearly he is a colorful guy. what i have instructed my team to do is talk to their philippine counterparts to find out if this is in fact the time where we can have some constructive conversations. obviously, the filipino people are some of our closest friends and allies. the philippines is a treaty ally of ours. i always want to make sure that i'm i'm -- i am having a meeting that is productive. we recognize the significance -- significant burden that the drug trade plays not just in the philippines, but around the world. biking narco trafficking is tough. ightnarco fickinh. drugs in a way that is consistent with basic international norms. undoubtedly, if and when we have a meeting, this is something that will brought up. my expe

them out. iran, iraq, cover the south china sea, russia -- but i have seven minutes. i want to read you something that clinton told me in an interview about syria. the failure to build up a against fighting force that left a big vacuum ism has now filled. that sounds like a critique of obama. is she right? an opportunity to shape the outcome of the conflict? happened that none of us were able to foresee and like it is today, taking over large swaths of territory. there were different types of arms againstook up a side. assad.time -- against at the time, there was an extremist spectrum and it has grown larger. there is an opposition with all sorts of different stripes. looking back with 20/20 pushedht, we could have the objectives and the goals. libya, we gott liked out and is not democracy flourished and peace and security broke out. treasuret blood and and it does not rebuild societies. you can take care of certain threats with military force. but the use of military force brings another day. how are you going to rebuild out of the rubble of airstrikes what you need for the future?

with the attempts from china, south korea and germany after she stepped down in 2013. to conclude, let me ask everyone to engage in a thought experiment. one of the signature accomplishments in the war on terror was the raid of pakistan in may of 2011 that resulted in the killing of osama bin laden. that operation was conducted by a team of the special operators and was of course highly classified. now imagine if you will that classified information was passed through the nonsecure e-mail server with access by nations or individuals, hostile to the united states. rather than a highly successful covert operation, we might have had a team of dead u.s. servicemen. hillary clinton chose to send and receive top-secret information over a unsecured server house in her home and placed in a bathroom closet. these actions without a doubt handpiece communications to thee interception fight the enemies interceptions by the enemies and those who wish america harm. use facts and not the imagined history i've asked you to contemplate the basis of the investigation by the fbi, and these are the fact t

about the -- china's announcement number 11. captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 >>> president barack obama will be among the world leaders who will speak at the funeral for former israeli president shimon peres. president obama left this afternoon on air force one. the u.s. delegation traveling to israel includes members of congress, the u.s. national security officials and former president bill clinton. the funeral is friday morning in jerusalem. >>> the f dcc pushed back a meeting on set-top boxes. that meeting is next. then an update on north korea's nuclear program. later, remarks from house homeland security chair michael mccaul and we'll hear from cia director john brennan. >>> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, committee for responsible federal budget president maya mcginnis on her group's efforts to educate lawmakers and voters on the fiscal impact of the growing debt. and an author talks bhs latest book "supremely partisan" which argues the supreme court is becoming increas

this is to join hands with china diplomatically, because they understand the threat that this poses. in syria, the solution to syria, the solution to the syrian civil war is joining with russia diplomatically to bring an end to that. has life ever been better in this country? ever? i mean, we get along with one another better. we communicate better with one another. our kids are smarter than ever. we've got issues, but we have got unbelievable opportunity. and we are citizens of the greatest country on the earth. and, yeah, we've got issues, but we're going to deal with these issues, and the future looks unbelievably promising. [cheers and applause] gary johnson: as president of the united states, i'm also promising you that i'm going to be the most frugal president that has ever occupied space of anyone you have seen. [cheers and applause] gary johnson: you have got to lead by example and the fact that the president of the united states spends tens of millions of dollars to go down to walgreens because of the security involved in doing that, goes into large cities and and snarls traffi

what if china is serious about environmental illnesses. what if battery-powered cars become cheap and basically mass-market? supranational compass in the middle east, the long range plan of what about that. i don't think we are thinking of the sort of three to five year horizon but i think for the oil price situation, this becomes very interesting. for now we have very large global inventories. five year highs. even if we have a destruction, because we're not that oversupplied anymore insurance of how many more barrels on a daily basis are not find a health? we really compressed that. the biggest issue that's choking the oil market and keeping the prices in this sort of low '50s environment is we have very large global stockpiles. over the next year we think those will be worked down but we don't think we will get the 65 because of those stockpiles. once those stockpiles are drawn down, and i think he becomes a question of how much u.s. production can come back. but also again the issue of u.s. production plus what other barrels? and i think that's what people are more concerned a

diplomatically with china. they understand the threat. in syria, the solution to syria is joining with russia diplomatically to bring an end to that. has life ever been better in this country? we get along with one another better. we communicate better. our kids are smarter than ever. we have issues, but we have unbelievable opportunity. we are citizens of the greatest country on the earth. yes, we have issues but we are going to deal with these issues. the future looks unbelievably promising. [applause] as president of the united states, i'm also promising you that i'm going to be the most frugal president that is ever occupied that space of anyone you have seen. [applause] you have to lead by example. the fact that the president of the united states sends tens of millions of dollars to go down to walgreens because of a security -- the security involved in that goes into large cities and the stars traffic everywhere -- snarls traffic everywhere he or she may go. that is something that needs to come to an end. bill weld and myself are promising to be very good stewards of this off

fleeing the country. they're going to mexico. they're going to many other countries. at what china is doing to our country in terms of making our product. devaluing their currency and there's nobody in our government to fight them and we have a very good fight winning fight, because they're using our country as a piggybank to and many other countries are doing the same thing. good jobs, sing our so many of them. when you look at what's happening in mexico, a friend of mine who builds plants said it's the eighth wonder of the world. building some of the biggest plants anywhere in the world, some of the most sophisticated and best plants. with the united states, as you said, not so much. so ford is leaving. see that there's division, leaving. thousands of jobs, leaving michigan, leaving ohio. they're all leaving and we can't allow it to happen anymore. childcare is concerned and so many other things, i think hillary and i agree on that. disagree a little bit as to numbers and amounts and what we're going to do, but be talking about that later. but we have to stop our jobs from us.ng sto