towards asia? are they welcome, are they not? japan i know doesn't take anybody. vietnam, china, south korea. >> saudi arabia if you look to give very wide scope. >> anyone like to tackle that? >> the gulf country makes the claim that they host very large populations of syrians and palestinians, but not as refugees, and they don't recognize them as such. for what it's worth, unlike china and the other countries, they do pay into a system of trying to at least create some resources. the gulf countries that have not participated, there are only 26 countries that participate. one of the reasons that people don't head to other countries, for starters they do. there was a crisis of people fleeing and boats. they were basically trying to go anywhere that they could land. in the moment of extremists around violence, people flee to their immediate neighbors, they don't try to go to the united tates or europe. they tried to go to the place nearest where they hope to find some kind of safe haven. the truth is, those of the societies that are already in the global south at the breaking poi

. interviewer: i want to cover iran, iraq, the south china sea, russia -- but i have seven minutes. let me start with syria, which is the epicenter of a lot of woe in the world today. i want to read you something that hillary clinton told me in an interview two years ago about syria. the failure to build up a credible fighting force against assad -- islamists, secularists, everything in the middle -- that left a big vacuum that jihadism has now filled. that was interpreted as a critique of the early years of obama's policymaking in syria. is she right? did you miss an opportunity to shape the outcome of the conflict in 2011, 2012? mr. brennan: if you look at the last five or six years, a lot has happened that none of us were able to foresee and isil was not like it is today, taking over large swaths of territory. at the time, when syrians took to the streets against assad, there was a collection of different types of groups -- even shia and christians taking up arms against assad because he was so repressive. at the time, there was an of the spectrum. since that time, that extremist and of

fact monday night's debate he said he doesn't know if it was russia. it could be china or a 400 400-d person in their bed. the statements seem ridiculous to me. he has encouraged russia to conduct the hacking. doctor osmond plays a key role helping states protect their systems against cyber attacks is that right? >> we are there to support the states and local governments in the system. >> this morning the fbi director james comey told the house judiciary committee there's no doubt some bad actors have been poking around. without disclosing classified information have you seen an uptick by foreign adversaries? .. we share information with state and local governments, and state and local governments are using that to more carefully monitor their systems. any time you more carefully monitor a system, you are going to see more bad guys poking and prodding at it, because they are always poking and prodding. what i can tell you is, i think it is safe to say that voter registration systems that are online will always be the subject of interest from bad guys, whether for just -- whether fo

either going to be germany, china, or us. us -- i want it to be us and it is going to be as! "usa"] hanting sec. clinton: that is exactly right. i love this country, i am proud of this country, i want to be a leader who brings people together in our country. sets the goals, goes about the business of achieving them, and proves once and for all that love trumps hate. thank you! [cheers and applause] ♪ >> federal reserve chair janet yellen will brief members of the u.s. services committee on the monetary policy. you can watch live at c-span.org or listen live on the c-span >> news breaking overnight that former israeli perez passedmon away overnight. president obama awarded him with the nobel peace prize. here is that ceremony. ♪ pres. obama: good evening, everybody. please have a seat. on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house on this beautiful summer evening. the united states is fortunate to have many allies and partners around the world. of course, one of our strongest allies, and one of our closest friends, is the state of israel. and no individual has do

south china sea? illustrates some of the things we have been talking about. that says thele u.s. has now accepted 8000 syrian refugees. 1975, the u.s. took in 165,000 refugees. the issue of crisis is a political issue. we can you can absorb those refugees if we want to, but we don't for various political reasons. ne thing that this picture ells us that is powerful about the refugee story and images is that on one hand, it can be construed as an invasion, or it can be construed as a rescue. that is how the united states is chosen to see its role around the rate vietnam war. the united states sees itself as having rescued hundreds of thousands of refugees, which allows the u.s. to forget that it fought wars in the first place and helped create those efugees. the gratitude is a political narrative. i don't want to be seen as ngrateful. >> do many of you remember when the vietnamese arrived in 1975 nd 1976? camp pendleton had a huge camp that was temporary for some months, and texas too i believe. > enormous numbers, and we are talking in a certain context, only 10,000. it looks like we'

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 have taken millions of jobs and trillion of jobs in wealth right out of our country. 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. all of the special interests that the media raced, which they rac

going to have great trade deals. i think this man will be in charge of china. we will do very well. but seriously, we have the greatest negotiators in the world. when china enters that negotiation, they come in with 20 people that are the toughest, smartest, meanest, they don't say good morning, isn't it a lovely day? how did the yankees do last night? there's no talk. we get down to business, boom. no games. we put people in there who don't know what they are doing because this is why we have deficits of $500 billion with one country. we built china. and i say that with great respect for china. they -- i have many friends from china. the biggest people, the richest people, they cannot believe what china gets away with. and when i announced i was running for president, well, i didn't mean that. they didn't know this was going to happen. but in the good ole days, they would say we don't believe. your government is stupid and now they deny they ever said hat. [applause] >> on staffing, how would you run a government to make it more effective? what would be your criteria in choosing t

money, to wall street, the bank of china no, i will not , do it. if someone came and wanted a summer job and ask questions that were important and they did not answer, would you give them the job? >> no! : you cannot do it. he must think we are gullible. he must think we are chumps. we are not. that is why we are not going to support donald trump. you aresupport the hired president hillary clinton. , this is important to me. i made my career before i got into politics. i was doing housing litigation all over virginia and other states in the south. when someone was turned away from housing because of race or disability, i would take the case and represent them in court. they often could not find anybody else to represent them. i did it because housing was so important and everyone is entitled to be treated fairly regardless of the color of their skin. hillary clinton got out of law school, and she could have gone to wall street, that she went to work with the children's defense fund. the juvenile justice system in south carolina, education system in alabama. this is what i did early and w

christians today still do not have a vote, places like china and so forth. those who have been able to vote in most of church history and even today don't get to vote for god and country candidates, candidates that make a good advertisement for the church or christianity. they are voting between a candidate that is controlled by an oligarch or voting for a candidate controlled by a drug lord, or choosing between that and a candidate chosen by the military. christians and where they are, living there, and they do cast a vote. we've been privileged to vote in -- they are sort of heroes.have we thought they were god and country candidates. do you see a distinction between this idea -- voting and supporting a candidate embarrasses the republican party or embarrasses the church or is a bad testimony and just this decision you have to make, as most christians throughout church history have had to make and in other countries have had to make, between just two choices, and you've just got to do the best you can do, and it betterhat trump is the of those two main choices? >> i've been asked this que

. mostwo nations that lasciviously oppose this are china. i am astounded about another repressive take week that he uses to control his people. andg so far as to try regulate or dismantle the youth involvement in politics in china. he has been very repressive. we are clearly aware that it's of thee reluctance chinese to but the pressure that these to be put on north korea. they walked away from it. they left the world wondering what to do and bringing up issues of mutual security. updimir putin probably wakes every day thinking about how he can complete the work he started thinks about ukraine and how much he would like to gobble it up, or the actions he is taking to threaten the balkans -- i'm sorry, the baltics. it's simple. economically, trade always make sense. are there losers in trade? yes, there are. it's important that have a system that re-trains people for the jobs of the future. if you don't trade, you hurt innovation and consumers. you retreat from the world. from the geopolitical sense, it is critical that the united states stand with many of these nations that are him som

with iran without it. we are disturbed with china, but it would be hard to manage the north korean problem without it. with economic interdependence. this is an environment where the united states is not very practiced at the kind of great power rivalry we are starting to see. frank: and the interwar time led to the second world war, germany going in the direction it did. john: the munich analogy is ever used of course but nonetheless the lessons of that apply today to a degree, but in a very different world. you have a big factor that has changed hair. great powers now share the stage with so many non-state actors. terrorists, and she'll cause multinational corporations and also the fact that social media has empowered small groups of people individuals in a way that is unparalleled in modern history. frank: peter, dennis, what are your takes? >> i completely concur. the great power war is not ever going to go away. there will always be a struggle among great powers. constant competing to get to and equilibrium. someone totally bent on being a dominant force, don't know if i see t

other words, you have to have a green card in order to do it. citizen of ust a japan or china or india or you a, name any country, can't go online and make a contribution to a political candidate without the aforementioneds status. have been talk withing dave levinthal. new jersey. tyrique, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm a hillary supporter. enough and i take to illary because she has faults, but the other candidate, mr. trump, is like the republicans get away with anything. the stuff that he says is rhetoric, it's hate mongering because just a shame he's tearing our world apart, he's tearing us apart. a kid, when you are kids, you don't know about sxhat rouble, but when you got somebody feeding you that and putting it in your ear and everybody, this person is take thanksgiving, this person is taking that, that is what you get. get a pot that blows up and everything goes to pieces. a shame that real republicans just don't stick up, few, but most of them haven't. the same thing. host: thoughts from newark. connecticut, ven, an independent. pete, good morning. caller: good morni

launches cyber attacks against the u.s. has china, for instance, paid a high price for the op espionage? has russia paid a price for the theft of white house and e-mails and have they paid a price, might we not be talk about the dnc hack. >> guest: if your look at china we have been able to conclude a dialogue between the two nations which led to an agreement which came out since the two presidents met here in was in which an grandma on a broad cyber framework, things that would do not be done. that's positive develop. still continues to be a lot of ongoing dialogue at a nation state level how to get to a place where the concepts of deterrence and idea of behavior, what is acceptable and not acceptable are better snood and readily adopted. the reason i texas i don't think any of us are comfortable with the current situation and the thing -- >> the current situation? >> in terms of the level of cyber activity, the kinds of activity we're seeing in our nation, the kinds of activity we're witnessing elsewhere. the thing i keep trying to ask myself is so what is it that could help

. >> yes. astonished that richard nixon had made this the top -- detante with red china. he was ballistic about it. thinking it was going to all good to the united states and i'm not sure he was not right. nixon, watergate had happened but no one knew the extent of the debt the time. nixon's opponent was towards mcgovern who is to the left of -- george mcgovern who is to the left of -- on retreating from vietnam. hold your nose and vote for nixon. that andd readers of say that there is no need to hold your nose and voting for for johnsonn voting and 12. they are a commendable ticket who have experience and success in running government and you and across the aisle. are on thertarians ballot on all 50 states but have not reached that 15% benchmark in order to qualify for the first of what will be for presidential and bytes presidential debates. the first one is scheduled for a week from monday. as last summerad when the networks and cables inviteetermine who to further so-called debates and c-span was very nice to come up 16 cover our event with all of the republican candidates,

curiosity about the world around us. his personal story of having grown up in china during the imperial japanese army invasion of his homeland and his squept service as a translator with the flying tigers gave him a depth of understanding when it came to describing the dynamics of global events. a great nation cannot exist without great teachers. nd mr. john yee is among the best. will thank him for the public education. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: members are instructed to take their conversations off the floor. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from wyoming seek recognition? mrs. lummis: address the house for one minute and revise and stepped. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. lummis: thank you, mr. speaker. it is a tough week for wyoming. yoming is the land of high mutitude, we have the smallest population and we are one of the largest states in the nation. everyone matters. this week we lost two of our favorite sons, some of our most impressive people. brian scott was killed in a motorcycle accident coming back from a shriner's celebration. he

either. this country is in big trouble. we don't win anymore. we lose to china. we lose to mexico, both in trade and at the border. we lose to everybody. what i say is, it's fun. it's kidding. what i say is what i say. i'mou don't like it, megyn, sorry. i've been very nice too, although maybe i cannot be based on the way you've treated me, but i wouldn't do that. [boos] you know what? we need strength. we need energy. we need to quickness, and we need brains in this country to turn it around. that i can tell you right now. from august 6 in cleveland, ohio of last year, the first debate that took place just before the convention a year out. let me go back to how trump responded to megyn kelly's question. he pivoted to talk about jobs, the country, america, but then he brought it to donald trump. brett: that was the mistake. attacking the moderator is not a good idea. they are not your audience. the audience are the people watching at home and your opponent. you want to keep attacks focused on your opponent and your message focused on your audience. that means the moderators job was

today's discussion, that meant general china -- involved in transferring security. this is the main fighting force at a time when the united states and down tod by 90% roughly 10,000 u.s. military personnel in the country. coordinating the initial 2009 policy review on afghanistan and pakistan, a role that he played holbrook andchard produce the initial obama thinking about what to do with the entire region. that was after a number of years yet spent at brookings where he today.nior fellow he was a 30 year veteran of the cia. he played a key role on latesing crisis in the 1990's. also, very involved in the process.st peace bruce, in his time here, has received booksll related to the pakistan question. the other one is avoiding armageddon. him -- his role to pakistan.ing thank you for your and old gents. now i am finally going to pose questions. we will start with general allen .nd then go to rhonda and bruce i want to as general allen for his overall take on the security knowtion and also let you that in a minute i will ask our newly arrived army colonel. this is analyst going back

. that china and india remain on a path of remarkable growth. i say all this not to whitewash the challenges we face or to suggest complacency, rather i believe that we need to acknowledge the achievements in order to summon the confidence to carry this effort forward, and to make sure that we do not abandon the very things that have delivered this progress. in order to move forward, we do have to acknowledge that the to globalath integration requires a course correction. because too often those trumpeting the benefits of globalization have ignored inequality within and among nations. have ignored the enduring appeal of ethnic and sectarian identities. have left international institutions ill-equipped, underfunded, under resourced in order to handle transnational challenges. and as these real problems have been neglected, alternative visions of the world have pressed forward, both in the wealthiest countries and the poorest. religious fundamentalism, the politics of ethnicity or tribes. or sect. aggressive nationalism. a crude populism, sometimes from the far left. but more often,

people in africa africa will catch up with china and india. india will pass china. china is going to have some problems. they have 104 different nationalities, cultural nationalities that are not a part of the mandarin communist economy. so they will be struggling for a while but india will be doing better. billion ig areas and we don't have any access to the markets in africa. left,ron brown and i everyone seems to be scared of africa. and we need to take that on now -- we got a 25 year head start but if we come in there with ideas and money and talented people and create relationships, i think we will see the dreams of the friedman's and iulfilled in our time am one that believes that coincidence is god's way of remaining anonymous. when i looked at this young man and remembered marching with his and then secretary and iquoted the bible said something from the bible and he knew it. something is happening here. people up here including john are people who are capable of shaping the world if they just got over the business that you do not wait for the congress to decide. you do it. i

pleasure in welcoming the premiere of the people's republic of china, is excellently li keqiang. i invite him to address the general assembly. prem. keqiang: i believe that under your presidency, this session of the general assembly will make good progress on its agenda. i also appreciate the effective of the lastident session of the human general assembly -- u.n. general assembly. i want to pay tribute to general ban ki-moon, who has modesty and a drive for harmony and inclusiveness, and worked diligently in a down-to-earth manner over the past decade, and whose work contributed to world peace, sustainable development, and the protection of human rights in the world. n.ar colleagues, the u. sustainable development summit agenda forthe 2030 sustainable development opened a new vision for global development. at the summit, chinese president xi jinping gave a speech win-win partnership for sustainable development." and right here, he expounded on it china's principles and positions. the first years that. implementation of iss year's general debates the sustainable development goals i

. 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

christians today still do not have a vote, places like china and so forth. those who have been able to vote in most of church history and even today don't get to vote for candidates that make a good advertisement for the church or christianity. they are voting between a candidate that is controlled by choosing between that and a candidate chosen by the military. christians and where they are, they do cast a vote. to vote inprivileged the past for candidates we have identified with, they are sort of he arose oroes. do you see a distinction between this idea -- voting and supporting a candidate embarrasses the republican party or the church, and just this decision you have to make as most christians have had to make and other countries have had to make between two choices, and you have to do the best you can do. it seems that trump is the better of the two choices. thishave been asked question a lot in various forms. i always go back to the apostle in romans that government is an interes instrut of god. who bys a roman citizen right of his citizenship that we know from the history was

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

21st century and the way things are stacking up, it will either be germany, china, or us. i want it to be us. and it will be us. applause] "usa"] g sec. clinton: that is exactly right. i love this country, i am proud of this country, i want to be the leader who brings people together in this country. that's goals, cheap some, and proves once and for all that the love trumps hate. thank you! cheers and applause] ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal, live it every day with news and policy issues that impact. coming up, oklahoma representative steve russell will talk about campaign 2016. then, tennessee democratic congressman steve cohen talks about the upcoming deadline, increasing legislation on police violence and his call for a justice department investigation into the trunk foundation. and, our spotlight on monday feature talksne the democratic party using certain tactics to invite anxiety over discrimination and exclusion in order to solidify support from minority groups. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal. join the discussion. three to go. down, the next one in f

emboldened russia and china, activities in the south china sea. russ's interventions in ukraine. it all has a big familiarity to it. vague familiarity to it. that the examples truth of history, reagan knows, donald trump knows that weakness arouses evil. week foreign policy by the united states of america embo ldens our enemies and abandons our friends. those days are over starting november 8. [applause] but semi my to those times as well as the times we live in -- similar to those times as well as the times we live in. policies that have stifled the american economy. there in the midst of slowest economic recovery since the great depression. we have a few days after labor day, we had the lowest river -- labor participation rate since the 1970's. do not be deceived by the low unemployment. the truth is that there are millions and millions of men and women in this country who are not counted in that number because they are not looking for work anymore. all, they aref nearly 7 million more americans living in poverty today in the day that barack obama became president of the united st

more. we lose to china. we lose to mexico. we have a good time. say.i say is what i honestly, if you don't like it, i am sorry. we need strength. we need strength and energy to around to . host: the first debate that took place before the convention a year out. back -- let me go back. then he brought it back to donald trump. attacking the moderator is not a good idea. your audience. the audience are the people watching at home and your opponent. taxwant to keep your focused on the opponent and the people watching the debate. the moderators job is really tough, but the debater's job is particularly tough as well. there are moments when you need moderator when they have made a terrible mistake. for instance in the romney and obama debate when the moderator herself wrongly about whether or not president obama called the incident in benghazi a terror attack. have to walk a fine line, and it is very difficult for them. they have to fact check and ask the questions. the fact checking job should really be the job of the opponent to say you are wrong about the issue. debate is between them,

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

china's leaning on laos and cambodia to prevent asean from you showing a statement on the permanent court of arbitration's decision in the hague on the south china sea. so i just wanted to ask you about how you see the future of that relationship and also when you throw in the debate here about the transpacific partnership and the increasi unlikelihood that that will be passed before the president leaves office. what do you see happening out in the future? >> sure. great question. so i'll start with the question about bahrain, egypt, drones, this kind of short-term-long-term tension. and there is tension, clearly. when you're in government, you know, you can't just talk about what is going to happen 20 years from now. you have to react to what is going on today. that's the balancing act you have to play. which is how do you do things today that set you up well for tomorrow. and certainly on the struggle we've had in the middle east in the wake of the arab spring in bahrain and egypt and almost every country in that region where we've seen many things happen that the united states ha

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

, 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

our jobs. what china is doing to us is horrible. what do you have to lose? i'm going to fix it. i'm going to fix it. [applause] school choice is at the center of the civil rights agenda. and my goal is to provide every single inner-city child in america that is trapped in a failing government schools the freedom to attend the school of their choice. competition the schools will get , the better and better and better. [applause] donald trump: and that means a private school, a religious school, a charter school or a magnet school. school choice also means that parents can home school their children. [cheers and applause] donald trump: 100%. hillary clinton opposes school choice because she has controlled totally, totally like a puppet by special interest. her policies will force millions of african-american and hispanic children to remain stuck in failed government schools leading to higher unemployment and more poverty. the poverty levels in this country nobody will believe. nobody will believe. my plan will break the government monopoly and make schools compete to provide the best

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?

community. topics included the security challenges posed by russia and china. this is an hour 20 minutes,. everyone. my name is john brennan and i have the great honor of being the director of the central intelligence agency and it is an absolute pleasure to be here and kick off the day of discussion and examination of the ethos and profession of intelligence. iq for being here and supporting this important endeavor. i want to thank president stephen now and associate vice president frank phillippe out for the outstanding hospitality. thank you to all of the staff in support here at gw university. george washington is a true center of excellence, particularly in the realm of national security and cyber studies. i am thrilled to have so many people with ties to gw following today's proceedings. i promise you it will be a fascinating day of debate. having gw as a setting, it is nice to return to one's roots. not myself as much as i would've enjoyed being an alumni of this illustrious institution. i'm talking about the organization i've had the honor of leading for 3.5 years, the ce

. china, there is no party, mechanismo formal for success in russia as there has been in china for some time. factrity derived from the not that he holds the presidency, but the fact that he is putin. that is why when he stepped down from the presidency in 2008 and 2012, no one in russia or abroad thought -- was in charge. everyone accepted putin was still in charge. unlike the communist party system there was no party, no ideology. think about the bureaucratic authoritarian dictatorship in the mid-70's and 80's. 19 70'suth korea in the -- 1960's and 70's. there was a military organization that can survive his ouster. -- this pattern of regular succession and mechanisms that are in russia, there is nothing like this. a rick perry in saudi arabia, for example, or is no family. is -- unlike in saudi example, there is no family. this is an odd talk generally considered to be modern -- an generallywe considered to be modern. there would be a transfer of power according to the constitution. after the president leaves the scene, if he resigns or is incapacitated, or dies, the prime minis

nixon had made this detente with red china. he did not think it was going to be good for the united states and i'm not sure he was not right. with watergate, no one knew the extent of it at the time. nixon is up on it was george george mcgovern to was to the left of ed muskie in terms of retreating from vietnam. the advice on the front page to readers was hold your nose and vote for nixon. i remind readers of that in the editorial today to say that there is no need to hold your nose. johnson and weld are commendable ticket of two guys who have experience and success in running government and dealing across the aisle. >> the libertarians are on the ballot in all 50 states but have not reached the 15% benchmark to qualify in the first of what will be four presidential and vice presidential debates. the first one is scheduled for a week from monday. >> that is as bad as last summer when the networks and the cables were determining who to invite to their debates and c-span was very nice to come up and cover our event with all 16 of the republican candidates, minus trump who decided not

with north korea and china. russia is probably the worst culprit and i think it is time they were called out. >> is there a problem with the attribution, actually knowing it was the russians? or are we just not there yet? >> i think there is ample evidence to call out the russians. the administration can decide what conduct they want to call the note on but i don't think it is for lack of evidence. number ofa considerations this administration has to make and be prepared to go beyond naming and shaming. willother repercussions they consider? conduct continues or escalates, then the response can escalate in the form of economic sanctions, which could go after individuals that may be responsible or entities within the russian government. there are many things the russians -- that could be done if the russians persist. it is important that the american people be made aware that russia may be seeking to meddle in its affairs and create division and discord so that the american people can decide what they want to do with that information. to deprive them of that is a mistake. >> our na

time. >> the gentleman yields back. the china recognizes the gentleman from colorado. >> thank you, mr. chairman. grosh, what is policy of the united states when it comes to ransom for putting out payment for hostages? >> congressman, my understanding is stated by the president that is the u.s. government's policy of the pay ransom. >> we don't pay ransom. you made the comment that there was a desire to be able to conclude all of our lines of effort when payments were made of ultimately cash sitting on $1.7 billion pallets going in the middle of the night to iran. were the hostages part of that line of efforts that you were talking about? >> congressman, as i described, there were multiple lines of effort. the implementation of the nuclear deal -- >> was there a tie between the hostage and cash and the hostage release? >> there was not a tie. >> how does it go back to your comment about the lines being tied up to achieve the end. >> i don't believe i said the lines tied together. what i was trying to convey is we thought we had a unique opportunity in diplomatic momentum where we c

, south korea and japan as well as china, russia and others who have stakes in k. outcome with the dpr with the help of these nations critical to further intensify the pressure on north korea to take it to reckless behavior. and maintain our unity. issue isd security prompted by competing territorial and maritime claims the south china sea. trust inies put their the diplomacy, and accept the ,ulings of international courts the south china sea problem can be solved peacefully. if countries choose instead to be aggressive and taking unilateral steps outside the norms of international behavior and creating new military infrastructure, then tensions may continue to rise in a way that benefits no one. and increases the possibility of confrontation and conflict. as i have said many times, united states does not take a position on the merits of any individual claim, but we have made clear our insistence on freedom of navigation and aviation and because we have argued repeatedly that differences ought to be resolved in accordance with rule of law, we do recognize properly rendered legal adjust

at the top of my list in dealing with china on how we're going to prevent what could very well be a serious conflict with north korea. >> you know, -- mrs. clinton: you do not talk about leverage until you produce leverage. i do believe we have leverage with china and based on my extensive discussions while secretary of state, there is even a disk -- discussion in china about how to handle the changes in the north korean regime. china has no interest in seeing the kind of buildup, which we are going to be doing. i will stress this and underline to leavee not going our friends and allies unprotected. we will do everything we can to put in the most effective missile defense system against anything that north korea does. the chinese are not happy about that. we have a lot of leverage and we are going to exercise that leverage. we're going to put together the kind of negotiations that i ofnk can lead to a beginning containing and controlling the behavior of the north korean government, which has the danger of affecting everyone, including china. thank you all. thank you all. >> do you h

they not? japan i know doesn't take anybody. vietnam. china. south korea. why aren't they in the news? >> saudi arabia. kuwait. anyone like to tackle that? >> well, i can start with the point you made about the gulf countries. the gulf countries make the claim that they actually host patrioted, but not as refugees and they don't recognize resettlement as such. also, for what it's worth -- so unlike china, unlike some of the other countries, they do pay into a system of trying to at least create some resource. but anyway that isn't to excuse the gulf countries or any other parts of the world who have absolutely not participated. there are only 26 countries that participate in the u.s. resettlement program. one of the reasons that people don't head to other countries for example in asia for starters they do. there was a major crisis of people fleeing in boats leavingian mar and bangladeshi and trying to go anywhere. that they could land. anywhere in asia. they would have been willing to go. so in the moment of extremist around violence people flee to their immediate neighbors. they

mexico and other countries. china is taking massive advantage of us. it is also easy, believe me. includes that we will be doing massive tax cuts for working families and businesses. [applause] includes the elimination of all needless job killing regulation. [cheers] it includes lifting the restrictions on american energy, which is under siege. [applause] nafta also renegotiate and if they don't want to renegotiate it so becomes a two-way highway, not just a one-way highway out of the united states, we will terminate nafta. believe me. [applause] china. stand up to we are to fight for every last job. it is going to be america first. it will be the american worker first. [applause] i will also fight for the american family and american family values. centerily must be at the of any anti-poverty agenda. it has to be. [applause] thank you. country just lost one of the great champions for the american family. phyllis shapley. great woman. [applause] we send our thoughts and prayers to her loved ones. i will be going to her funeral tomorrow in st. louis. [applause] phyllis fought very

america? make two quick points. one is about how trump comes in here and talks about china, and i have mexico, been saying this to national reporters now for a wild. our area is unique. we see a lot of politicians come through this area. i see a lot of young people here. i am a little older, but i am hanging on. through thisome valley for decades trying to peddle something right before an election that is going to save us. right? remember -- i remember growing up -- remember the guy who was going to bring the blimp manufacturing facility here? things got so bad they decided blimps in the mahoney valley. and we believed him. we were desperate. we had been so heard by the collapse of jobs. donald trump is trying to do that to us, while on the side, he has his companies making ties in china and shipping them back, suits in mexico, products in turkey. you,ve to call bs on donald trump, right? we have to call bs on you. the last thing i am going to say. i feel i can our community we kind of race act that i feel -- iin our community we feel i can our community we kind of respect each other.

country is in big trouble, we don't win anymore, we lose to china, we lose to mexico for both in trade and the border, we lose to everybody. wrinkly, what i say and often times it is fun and kidding and we have a good time. what i say is what i say. honestly, if you don't like it, i'm sorry. i've been nice to hold the i could probably not be raced on the way you treated me. i would not do that. we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brains. that i can tell you. [applause] 6 in cleveland, ohio. the first debate that the base before the convention. let me go back to help donald trump responded. he pivoted to talk about jobs, the country and that he brought it back to donald trump. >> that was the mistake. attacking the moderator is not a good idea. the audience are the people watching at home. keep your attacks focused on the opponent and you want to keep your message focused on your audience, the voters watching the debate. that means the moderators job is tough but the debater's job is particularly cap as well. there are moments when you need to go after

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