security. the former commander of the u.s. northern command stated korean peninsula is that it's unstable point since 1953 when the armistice was signed. north korea conducted nuclear tests in a 24 ballistic launch. this year pyongyang has already launched seven team including a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of reaching alaska and hawaii. the policy of decades of bipartisan failure must turn to one of bipartisan success with pressure and cooperation in the peaceful denuclearization of the reading. the united states will not allow that to happen and i am not encouraged by the president's resolve. as vice president head of state during the visit to north korea since 1992 the united states and allies stood together for the north korea through peaceful means but the options are on the table. time is not on our side. the policy should be straightforward. the united states will deploy every diplomatic and if necessary tool at our disposal to protect our allies. the only country that holds the leverage necessary to put the squeeze on the north korea

china and the u.s. are currently on a collision course for war unless both parties take difficult and painful actions to avert it. and, were between the united states and china is not just pop possible but much more widely than recognize. war is more likely than not. i've got to ask you to set out your case, assuming most the people in the room have bought the book but not yet read it. [laughter] persuade us that war is more likely than not between the united states and china. >> thank you very much for participating in this event. i think everyone here for organizing, especially amy. it's a great honor and opportunity for me to be here at stanford. i did spend one very happy year here in my advanced studies back in the 70s when i thought i can't possibly come here because i wouldn't get any work done. it's too nice and there's too many other things to do. it's a pleasure to be here. thank you for the introduction. so, not for this group but for general audiences, the concept that there could be a war between great powers is inconceivable. seven decades without war, war between gr

eastern on c-span's q&a. >> next australian foreign minister julie bishop speaks about u.s. today provides a timely opportunity to share views on the new trump administration in the united states and its engagement with the indo-pacific region, or as the organizers coined my topic, trump and asia. it is one of our most important foreign policy considerations for some time as the united states matters, to australia, to our region and the world. for the past 70 years, since the end of the second world war including the war in the pacific, the united states has been the instigator, the promoter and the guarantor of what we call the international rules-based order. this order has underpinned international law and has defined the way states should behave, in general, and towards each other. while the international rules-based order has embraced globalization, economic integration, the rule of law, human rights and free and open societies, it has not always been universally applied or enforced. nonetheless the united states has been the reference point, as the most powerful economy with

booktv. >> the u.s. economy added 220,000 jobs in june, the most in four months. the labor department released those numbers this morning. they showed unemployment rate increased to 4.4% from 4.3% in may which was a 16 year low. unappointed rose because more americans began looking for work and not all of them found jobs. >> the center for strategic and international studies hosted a panel discussion on u.s.-china relations. panelists cover trade come military and security issues and north korea's nuclear weapons programs. this is about two 1/2 hours. >> we had five issue papers with authors for each paper or papers on each subject from the u.s. and china. we split the panels up so that this panel will address the papers on u.s. and chinese strategy and interest in the asia-pacific region, and also u.s.-china military to military issues. in the next panel will cover economics, global issues and politics. scott kennedy will share that session. we had a number of participants who helped to write the papers or joined us in study groups to review the papers so this is a representative gro

, they are not a u.s. citizen, do they send that information back to state and local election officials, so the state election officials whether they need to be taken off the roll. second, do they forward that information to the u.s. attorney in that district because it is a felony under federal law for non-citizen to register or vote. my understanding is, they are not doing that. we also need to find out from the u.s. attorney's offices all across the country whether they are complying with a provision in the national voter registration act which requires u.s. attorneys to send information about, felony convictions obtained in federal court to state election officials, so that those state election officials in states that take away the right to vote, whether you have been convicted of a felony conviction, whether they have that information available. my understanding is that many of the u.s. district courts, sorry, many of the u.s. attorneys offices across the country pay no attention to this federal requirement. there is also information in the department of homeland securit

booktv.org. >> next a discussion about a proposal to allow foreign police access to u.s. social media data. this is just over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everybody. hi, my name is erica, our briefing is from across the pond fighting while preserving privacy. this caucus is with the support of the cochairs from the house side, congressman bob and anna shu and from the senate sideg john thune. just a couple of housekeepingvi things. we are live streaming this event so audio and video will be able shortly after the event on net caucus.org. also don't forget to follow us on twitter at netcaucus ac. just another quick reminder, before we begin we will be having our next event balancing national security and privacy, panel on fisa this friday at noon so we hope to see all of you again this friday. so without further due, i would like to hand this over to carrie cordero, and so carrie, thank you very much for joining us. >> great. >> thanks everyone for joining us today. we welcome our audience of congressional staff means and others in government industry and civil

u.s. news direct your tree and five -- director gustau alegret. he served as minister of commerce and tourism and has mentioned the outside. we are also thankful for his team for the partnership in our venezuela after by a whole host of other things. i would like to welcome our three panelists to the stage. [applause] >> well, thank you everyone for coming. this has been done. just a couple of questions. if you want to follow and continue the conversation in her social media, use #venezuela. the media prior to this event. it is going to start in 15, 20 minutes and then we will be open for a q&a at the end. what we expect is a conversation about that, not a single individual speeches. thank you. and we would like to start with ambassador luis alfonso de alba gongora. you are a diplomat. you know how difficult sometimes it is with good diplomacy. you are in a position today with a very critical topic, which is venezuela. mexico has positions for the most prudent position to a more active push position. what has changed for mexico to take this stage? >> thank you very much for being

, china and the u.s. allows more but the key is how to measure or how to define the corporation. so also with the dp rk and also the it for beijing they will not overwhelmingly cut off trade relations because of dprk that is china's leverage. added say pre-emption while being victimized but there is such a normal trade relations and and with that ecological calculation. but because of trade relations with dprk overnight and dprk is now leading points to readjusts those relations and to be crystalized. so manchin of the chinese americans but now a second korean war in the overwhelming majority say no. because militarily china will -- reach out it is a big strategic change. and now with this judgment it is a threat. so with that joint contingency plan with the dprk that is the starting point. they are going beyond all the way for better cooperation. but dprk ideology and history and also as dprk is some sort of personal and those types of connections. it is the easy. so to set that very decisive criteria. a really help the chinese government and with that suspension of all provisions . or

intensive purposes at the u.s. army retreated to batan and then fought ferociously for months with no supplies hoping that supplies would arrive reenforcements never came and they -- they surrendered in april of 1942 and surrendered months later. john boone unlike many people that surrendered ran off to the hills separated from his unit and tried to put together what he would do next. so that's the second person in my story. the third person in my story is a man named chic parson. chic parsons was ex-patriot american from tennessee. he'd been living motion of his life in manila and what war broke out he was -- called in to military headquarters and the secret was out but only in the u.s. military all the while he had been in u.s. navy reserve and the commander said raise your right hand you're back in the navy. he then for the next months as a secret u.s. spy operated in the philippines and right under the nose of the japanese thinking that he would be able to gather significant information and not knowing what to do next. his story ends with -- end up in manila running off -- on a

khalifa mohamad who is a u.s. come in you designated international terrorist for his role in financing al qaeda and the 9/11 mastermind. in 2008 he was tried and convicted in absentia by bahrain for his terrorist activity and arrested later that year by qatar only to be released by the qataris six months later and openly financed by doha. can anyone guess what khalifa mohamad has been up to these days? he was implicated in terror finance activities in 2012 but more recently he has been alleged to be financing and supporting terror in both iraq and syria with no response from the qatari government. hamas leader ahmed michelle also made doha his headquarters for years while the qatari government supports, with a qatari government support in the muslim brotherhood has received significant support from qatar. of course not all this is supported by the government doha. many individuals get charity and have been known to raise large sums of money for a qaeda, the al nusra fund hamas and even isis. in qatar errors terror financing by the government, terror financing done in qatar through thei

from ambassador daniel fried at the atlantic council. one of the u.s. government's foremost experts on russia and the former soviet spear. his career in the service stand over four decades and seven presidencies. wow. ending earlier this year when he retired from his post at the state department coordinator on sanctions policy. very relevant for this discussion. we will conclude with a q&a session. i would like now to give the floor to the first panelist, brian whitmore, who will provide us with an overview of the russian political system. the floor is yours. >> should i start again or did everybody hear me. i can't say how delighted i am that this issue is finally get attention. we've been talking the last few years about the information and seminars. i am enjoying all of them but harping on the issue that we need to broaden the aperture of office because the information is just one of the things the kremlin has organized and in my opinion, the most important thing that weaponize is his corruption. i will start by saying i think it is a bit misleading to characterize as simply cryptog

does not affect u.s. economy. so to allow the executive amd people to temper their reach with those remedies of the national interest now a president seems not to be interested in restraint it has allowed other nations to wipe out to those of unfair trade practices. we have a panel representing sharply differing viewpoints and the first at the peterson institute these are extricated will work in the handout on the council of economic advisers from the royal bank. a partner and former trade council with the subcommittee on trade and also assisting in policy. the president he asked me not to try to pronounce that an organization to put that in his when the u.s. trade laws to be heavily engaged in u.s. policy for a number of years next a distinguished fellow with that trade policy initiative as president of the national foreign trade council i am glad to say i have known him for a long time before the senator is in pennsylvania and rhode island. so finally a permanent strategic advisory firm special advisor cheer president clinton of western hemisphere affairs. in then to have them. an

. and those all over the u.s. said general or we cannot bring them so the bread and butter but to say i as a 65 year-old logan that i would be a woman but i would end the decree passages and then realizing talking about it in the book better so who would have thought? said to watch that short video of policy's savings have impacted or that strangest that globalization and have everything. to proclaim patrol those profiles are granted so though one side of his identification in then to have that tradition how those terms of information that is it true displays that understanding because it erases the body. so how companies and governments and researchers with layers upon additional layers. the process cleaved from of databases so that is all of the basis of that interpretation so technologies produced that we are pushed through that argues about the algorithm. but they're not composed of the dead in a victory. not from subjective experiences. and with an identity. and then to have expressive power. we cannot fake about gender the same way or assault the rhythmic grace. so did this

a readout from the u.s. aid perspective about the human toll of the conflict and where we are right now. thank you. >> thank you, travis, and thanks to csis for organizing this.an i just want to pick up on how travis framed this and emphasize, yes, we are in a humanitarian catastrophe, but it is root inside a political problem -- rooted in a political problem, a political crisis. and normally in a system of governance we have rules for governing how political competition is going to take place. it takes place within a framework where people agree on the rules around that framework. and we don't have this kind of consensus in south sudan. instead, we have leaders who have decided to go outside of the peaceful rules of the game and to pursue their political objectives through violence. that is destroying their country. so this is a humanitarian crisis of massive proportions, but it is rooted in this political crisis. so just to frame the humanitarian piece of this, we're talking about two million people who have fled the country around the neighboring regions. we have two more million

that it was the first state that tried to make sure that u.s. senators were selected not just by the state legislature, but actually reflected a vote -- reflected the preferences of the public. so after the initiative was enacted, we had an initiative to introduce a rule requiring the legislature to appoint somebody to be a u.s. senator who received a popular vote of the people in the state. so those are some important ones. oregon's had a hot of very colorful -- a lot of very colorful politicians. oregon had a lot of very important and colorful politicians from the 1940s up until about the 1980s. some were different from the rest of the state -- i mean, different from the rest of the nation. they were maverick, and the state was perceived as having maverick politicians. these include wayne morris who was called the tiger of the u.s. senate. he started out as a republican, became an independent and then became a democrat in the 1950s. he was one of the two people in the senate who opposed the vietnam war. we talked about mark hatfield be, part of the hatfield school of government. ha

back to the spanish colonial and mexican period and early years of u.s. conquest in the american west. >> let's go forward. how do you define largest prison population? >> so, that is a statistic that i did not generate but it looks at the jail population in los angeles. what is interesting is los angeles has the largest local jail population and two federal prisons and many other municipal jails and detention facilities including a private detention. >> 17,000 people are in prison in the los angeles area? >> within the local county jail. more in the municipal and federal facilities. >> billion dollars is what taxpayers spend on this enterpri enterprise. how did it grow to be so big since 1965? >> we are talking about the war on drugs in particular. and a certain level of quality of life policing. the majority of people in jail has been arrested on dui and drug charges. those are the leading charges of incarceration. >> going back in history, i think i read in book, there was a jailer hired before the municipal government was founded? >> that is correct. >> how did that happen? >

as try to identify new ways to involve the international community with the u.s. to the significant challenges. is a much more significant than what we're facing in venezuela the and our own hemisphere. in that spirit his enormous pleasure and honor to welcome the secretary general. mr. secretary general thank you for joining us. leading the diplomatic fight to encourage venezuela to respect human rights and dignity to walk forward on that democratic path. i am also honored to let that permanent representative of that american states to put forward that resolution as well. so i will briefly acknowledged that panelist who will be introduced later the chief economist the executive director who'd traveled long distances to be here today. and it is wonderful to have you here today to discuss these issues for girl venezuela a decade ago was one of the wealthiest countries in the region and to be embroiled in a crisis but it demands global attention and refiner sold today one week away to elect that constituent assembly to the government's benefit that follows a situation where the 7 mill

u.s. secretary of education, arnie duncan. founded and served as a teacher or principal and superintendent of democracy pressed on a network of more than 20 public charter schools from harlem to here in washington d.c. thank you, panelists, for joining us. i am going to give each of you just a few minutes to sort of get a reaction to mr. warner's keynote and your thought on the cls program. seth, let's start with you. >> sure. thank you for joining us. this is something i've been so passionate about for the last four months. i didn't know how passionate i could be until i met minister warner. we met at the end of january, early february and he had this conversation with me or use asking questions about the u.s. charter sector, like there is the d.c. model with 50% saturation is a new orleans model. and i said instead way coming of the minister of education in liberia and you understand the charter sector this way that is compelling and interesting and deeply researched. he inspired me sincerely. i want to thank you for the opportunity to be in this space. think about differe

and russia that's the russian flag right above the u.s. in the other nations of this region, are in conflict not only about the geopolitics, about but also about the hydrocarbon an area of the world rich under the sea in oil and natural gas. these nations will compete for that. so -- >> cyprus is about -- >> it is indeed what does it all lead to. it leads to this. waves of refugees that move and take a look at that refugee boat, picture yourself on that trying to cross those waters. so these are deeply, deeply conflicted waters with huge high humanitarian challenges with huge issues at play. let's come closer to issues at home in florida this is caribbean a sea that we know well here in florida and i'm a florida native by the way i was born just north, and west palm beach the less expensive side of town. [laughter] the caribbean is an extraordinary body of water rich in tradition and history. today from a u.s. perspective, the beating heart of it is the panama conditional two-thirds of the maritime trade passes but the canal and well run them and expanded very recently. yet there ar

. the confirmation last week of david nye to be a u.s. district judge is a prime example. the vote to end debate on the nye nomination was 97-0. in other words, every senator, including every democrat, voted to end the debate. most people with common sense would be asking why the cloture vote was held at all. why the delay? the democrats did not stop there. even after a unanimous consent cloture vote, they insisted on the full 30 hours of postcloture debate time provided for under senate rules. and to top it off, the vote to confirm the nomination was 100-0. i don't want anyone to miss this. democrats demanded a vote on ending the debate, none of them wanted and then they refused to end the debate they just voted to terminate. all of this on a nomination that every democrat supported. now that's changing the confirmation ground rules. only four of the previous 275 cloture votes on nominations had been unanimous. in every previous case, whatever the reason for the cloture vote in the first place, the senate proceeded promptly to a confirmation vote. in 2010, for example, the senate con

we are all independent scholars and so what we presented is not u.s. or chinese government policy but we think it represents a pretty good consensus point about how these issues are viewed in each country. of course, there are multiple views about military affairs, global issues, north korea in both china and the united states. but we had for each of these papers three authors on the american side, three authors on the chinese side and a group between six and 15 other experts who weighed in and on the asia pacific paper, for example, and i think this was side on our side for the military paper, there was an awful lot of consensus from experts from think tanks across the ideological and functional spell trum. it's quite interesting. between u.s. and chinese papers there were common themes, one was that we should strive to avoid becoming adversariesened that was consistent for both sides. there was a theme that we should build out patterns of cooperation between china, military asia-pacific issues and so forth. many papers concluded that the united states and china need a substantiv

an aspect of home that goes beyond national borders at least beyond the candidate u.s. border that is unlike any other for the common north american home. in the award-winning broadway musical. they got hit with winds and the canadian armed forces personnel should send plain went immediately into rescue mode. that is what friends and neighbors do for one another. we are there for each other. the step up. the canada u.s. borders are sometimes referred to as the longest undefended border in the world. that's actually wrong. the border is very well defended. we defend together against common threats. the only joint commander relationship in the world to nato, counterterrorism, to the basic street-level policing, canadians work shoulder to shoulder keeping each other safe as long as any of us here can remember but further back than that we have done this. that is the context into which i would like to say a few words today about the outreach to the united states this year which has variously been described by analysts and pundits as i'm canadian, exceptionally canadian, unprecedented, hig

oregon on book tv. -- at 9:00 eastern on booktv. >> two former heads of the u.s. joint chiefs staff, along with two former heads of japan's defense forces, talked about the u.s.-japan military alliance at the center for strategic and international studies in washington, dc. much of the discussion focused on recent missile tests by north korea and china's strategic role in the region. this is two hours. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, i'm glad to see our odeons survive the flashflood warnings. my michael green, senior vice-president for asia and japan and professor at georgetown and as the csis host, i want to do our usual announcement. we survived the flashflood. if we need to evacuate it's my responsibility to give you instructions and the general rule is we'll go out the way you came in and we'll make our way to either the national geographic, around the corner, or we'll go straight down rhode island to st. matthews. our expectation is half the people we go to starbucks at dupont circle but that's the plan. 'll be very brief because i'll have an opportunities to chair

rest heavily upon your u.s. financial system and that system clearly needs improvement. fortunately, president trump has outlined a bold, forward looking plan to tackle the serious problems facing hard working american families who have seen their pay checks stagnant and dreams diminish. the economy is nut not close to reaching its potential. americans remined stuck in the slowest recovery in generations. our economy grew at a measly 1.6% when the historic norm is twice that. clearly, eight years of obama numics has taken a toll. one place it has taken a toll is the competitiveness of our capit capitol markets. if the united states dropped to 17th in a recent world ranking of economic freedom. a historic low for nation. this is based on investment freedom and financial freed and economic freedom. the economic freedom of a number of international competitors have grown. z have faith in the spirit of american entrepreneurs and businesses to make necessary risks in growth but to-do so the unaccountable washington burr must be held accountable. our economy will grow healthier for all. t

between the parties in congress and executive branch. my today's u.s. senate to providing timely and responsive answers submitted by members especially as they sit on this committee. that is the expectation and quite frankly anything short of that is unacceptable. i want to thank you for being here today and i will now turn to the senator for any remarks. >> thank you mr. chairman and colleagues. this is a tax policy doubleheader for the finance committee only at the halfway mark. he's been nominated to serve as the treasury secretary for tax policy is. it is a very tough job and especially challenging when the congress is gearing up to work on major tax legislation where i pretty much share senator mccaskill's views on the importance of it being bipartisan. in my view the challenge is guaranteeing that everybody in america has a chance to get ahead, not just the fortunate few. tax reform becomes a partisan exercise slashing rates for just the wealthy, the biggest corporations. the american people will see this as a con job. that's because it would lead in place the root causes o

ambassador to the u.s. [inaudible] [inaudible] [speaking in native language] >> good evening ladies and gentlemen. that deserves a round of applause. [applause] i am tony, president and ceo of the council. on behalf of the council i welcome you to tonight's investor series. were delighted that we have eight of our board members here tonight. we thank them for their service. without you, these programs would not be taking place. thank all of you very much. many thanks for strategic partners at the ronald reagan building and international trade center for their wonderful hospitality and providing us this beautiful venue to hold their public programs. if the early bird gets the first one, then those that got here early tonight got the first 120 seats. there's another 80 or a hundred people downstairs in the spillover room where watching the broadcast on large screen. were very fortunate tonight that our events are being filmed for nationwide distribution on our own television show, world affairs today the chairs at 3:0s on the worldview channel. there also distributed globally on youtube,

they found out they couldn't make the diesel engine clean enough for u.s. emission standards. europe has a reputation for being more environmentally friendly and strict in the united states but actually they have stricter limits on my church and knocks aside to eat krispy six nitrogen oxide. around 2006 the engineers realized they couldn't beat the u.s. standards and the smart thing to do would have been to delay the project, look at other technologies, spend some more money, figure out a way to make it cleaner, but that isn't what happened. in late 2006 a group of engineers and managers got together at the research and development center at volkswagen and add in information technology guide prepared a presentation i'm convinced anything evil that happens at a corporation starts with a powerpoint. the powerpoint showed how the computer and the engine that sits under the hood could recognize the cycle regulators used when they were testing the car's emissions. they put the car on rollers in a garage and stick instrument estp the tailpipe and run a simulated driving cycle, supp

>> washington journal continues. host: our first guest, former u.s. senator from oklahoma he is the author of the book, smashing d.c. he is also a senior advisor of the convention of state project. could you talk about what article five said and what it offers as far as power to the states? guest: colonel george mason when they were having the discussion on our constitution stood up and said we have made a grievous error. we have to make sure that because nowhere in history has powerful governments ceded power back to the people. we need to make sure that is available to the american people. they put the second component into article five which allows the states two thirds of the states to call on amendments conventions. it is not a constitutional commitment -- convention where states can offer amendments which are nothing but recommendations to go back to the states and three quarters of the states would have to approve that. what it does is it is the root relief valve for the states when they see this imbalance and what has happened is that there is no longer a balanced our betwee

1980s, major u.s. cities with large black populations -- cleveland, detroit, chicago, washington, philadelphia -- had elected black mayors. between 1970 and 2010, the number of black elected officials grew from fewer than 1500 to more than 10,000 in this country. including, of course, a black president. in addition, we saw a proliferation of black police chiefs and assume superintendents and council members and state legislators. racially-gerrymandered voting districts were created to insure the election of blacks to congress and so forth. the problem is that all of this political clout has never really paid off economically for the black poor. which is what we were told would happen. you look at how black underclass fared in coleman young's detroit or marian barry's washington d.c. as my manhattan institute colleague, fred siegel, has noted, these black mayors created these unbeatable political machines in the name of helping the poor, yet the poor became even more impoverished on their watch. mississippi has long boasted more black elected officials than any other state in the

khalifa mohamad who is a u.s. come in you designated international terrorist for his role in financing al qaeda and the 9/11 mastermind. in 2008 he was tried and convicted in absentia by bahrain for his terrorist activity and arrested later that year by qatar only to be released by the qataris six months later and openly financed by doha. can anyone guess what khalifa mohamad has been up to these days? he was implicated in terror finance activities in 2012 but more recently he has been alleged to be financing and supporting terror in both iraq and syria with no response from the qatari government. hamas leader ahmed michelle also made doha his headquarters for years while the qatari government supports, with a qatari government support in the muslim brotherhood has received significant support from qatar. of course not all this is supported by the government doha. many individuals get charity and have been known to raise large sums of money for a qaeda, the al nusra fund hamas and even isis. in qatar errors terror financing by the government, terror financing done in qatar through thei

particularly the u.s. and regional actors in seeking solutions to the crisis. here at the atlantic council it's our -- we earn our day's bread by convening leaders to find collaborative solutions to significant challenges. the challenges don't get much more significant than what we are facing in venezuela in our own hemisphere. it gives me enormous pleasure and great honor the welcome the secretary general of the organization of the american states luisa mago. thank you so much for joining us today. you've been leading the diplomatic fight to encourage venezuela to respect human rights and human dignity and walk forward on a democratic path. i'm also honored to welcome luÍs alfonso de alba, permanent representative of mÉxico to the organization of american states and i know you put forward a very important resolution as well for this situation. let me also then briefly acknowledge panelist who is will be more if you havely introduced later, the chief economist francisco rodrÍguez, the executive director of borges, traveled long distances to be here today, gustavo alegre and fern

cable or satellite provider. >> with the u.s. senate in recess for its july for the break booktv in prime time is on c-span2 each night this week. tonight language and communication. >> now a discussion on humanitarian crisis in south sudan and efforts to aid the african country to build peace there from the center for strategic and international studies in washington, this is one hour. >> good morning, everybody. as we watch the strong, the last, the few, the brave come in, i see lots of the faces in the audience. come on in, don't be shy. there are seats up here. i was fine come i to convince my colleagues to sit in the front seats, except those that are reserved. but you can sit there. all right. so were going to get started here today. first of all i want to note a couple of things. this event and future ones that we are going to be doing under a new initiative here at csis on diversity and national security. to bring different perspectives, new voices and representation that reflects all of the united states in discussions of foreign affairs. today we have with us for fellows -

of the international financial system. as we all know, it is a system that rests heavily upon our u.s. financial system, and that system clearly needs improvement. fortunately, president trump has outlined a bold, forward-looking plan to tackle the serious problems facing hard working american families who have seen their paychecks stagnate, their savings shrink and their dreams diminish over the last decade. the fact is this economy isn't close to reaching its potential. nearly eight years after the last recession ended, americans remain stuck in the slowest recovery in generations. our economy grew a measly 1.6% last year when our historic norm is twice that. over 300,000 manufacturing jobs have disappeared during the last eight years. clearly, eight years of obamanomics has taken a toll. one place it has taken a toll is the competitiveness of our capital markets. we simply cannot afford to lose our status as global leader for capital markets. yet the united states has dropped to 17th in a recent world ranking of economic freedom, a historic low for our nation. .. >> the playing fie

willing to give up your life. i am a u.s. citizen. i didn't serve, but you know did? my daughter-in-law who came from mexico serving in the chemical response units willing to give up her life. this isn't only the right thing to do, quite frankly it is immoral. i yield back. >> the question occurs on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. all those in favor, oppose? the amendment is adopted. further amendments to this section of the bill the clerk will distribute 1531 without objection it is considered as red and the gentleman from texas is recognized for five minutes. thank you for the opportunity to increase officer diversity. my amendment will direct the secretary of defense to evaluate the effects of military officers if 2012 beneficiaries were permitted to apply to the u.s. service military academies. the report by the military leadership commission found while the pentagon has created a force whose lower ranks mirrors the ethnic and racial diversity of the public, the same cannot be said. according to the report, they are much less than the graphically diverse than

jonathan, a founding member and he served as the assistant secretary of tax policy for the u.s. treasury department during the clinton administration. previously he had also served as the treasury, deputy assistant secretary for tax policy and the tax legislative council. before joining the treasury department, he served from 1995. in 97 under senator moynihan and from 1992 until 1995 as legislative counsel to the joint committee on taxation. prior to his tenure in government, he worked in the office. [inaudible] from 1984 until 1982 where he specialized in transactional tax planning. he currently serves on the board of advisors to the tax policy center and was chair of the formation of tax policy committee, the american bar association. he also currently serves as an adjunct professor at georgetown university law center. he teaches tax policy. he holds a bachelor degree from the university of virginia and the doctorate from the university of virginia school of law. next up will be mr. flynn, the tax leader. [inaudible] prior to joining pwc, ms. olson led the washington tax pra

wrestling entertainment. she ran in connecticut as republican nominee for u.s. senate in 2010 and 2012. doesn't us 8:00 eastern on c-span, on live, with c-span.org and with the free c-span radio app. >>> coming up next, a look at u.s.-uk relations with british secretary michael fallon from the center for international strategic studies here in washington. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. my name is threat -- heather conley, and we could not be more more delighted to welcome secretary of state for defense michael fallon here to the u.s. i was explaining that the news cycle is so quiet, so slow the last few days, we were so glad he could come here and help elevate our discussion but, he comes at an incredibly important time. certainly on the heels of several days of incredible news not only security-related issues, whether that was the north korean launch of an icbm but also as we watch unfold the historic meeting between president trump and president putin today. secretary fallon thankfully is a frequent visitor to

conversations] >> to reconvene our hearing on russia's interference in the 2016 u.s. elections and a 12th open hearing. they have largely focused to date on the domestic impact of rushes activities but today's witnesses will highlight to the committee in the american people precious interference of the european elections to gain p additional understanding of russian efforts to undermine those democraticss institutions worldwide so they assessed in january with those lessons learned and aimed at the presidential election to further influence thoseti efforts and assess that russia has sought to influence elections across europe the director of national intelligence has recently as may testified before the senate with russia seeking to influence elections in europe including france france, germany, uniteds kingdom but that russian messaging strategy with the over effort of the russian agencies and those paid social media users with an old government approach withgo democratic institutions to face down the activity is no longer just a bipartisan issue and to share our experience with moscow's

deteriorated across the country. u.s. aid is helping to lead a government response to the humanitarian catastrophe west have been working aggressively to save as many lives as possible with our partners will be florida declaration and we will continue to do so 1.3 million people each month with lifesaving assistance. but this is a difficult and dangerous undertaking. there have been numerous and deliver it and brazen workers in south sudan and those aid workers have been killed since 2013 and 17 of those 84 was a big share a long since junior berry that makes south sudan the most deadly place in the world for humanitarian workers to operate. that is shocking if you think of conflicts all over the globe like yemen and iraq and syria. so aside from these willful attacks the year also facing the direct instruction and intervention of the government imposing a bureaucratic impediment thatim inhibit the actors to do access the people that need their assistance.. it is a range from imposing worker permit fees and registration fees had dramatically increase the cost and then we s

and with the u.s. response as of member states particularly the members of the security council. and then as they step up as well? you can see that actual process moving we're in a situation where things are stuck waiting for somebody else to take the lead and if we keep waiting wheel of a continued deterioration and in my last point may we was not strong enough but it was definitely targeted i thought it was based on moving different groups about being in control but not you were seeing the accelerated version of that. that is my final point. >> thanks for the insight one administrative point if you have questions this is the time to receive the note cards that will in suit right after mario gives his remarks. very quickly after having that rundown so we will turn to our next guest from south city and to give us his insight not only as a sudanese the focus on the politics governance in the region as well as review key issues -- refugee issues. >> thanks for inviting me. from south sudan i was there three years but i am muslim american. i would love to be independent but i was raised

law find all nato members. this must be reinforced because it does unite us. i have said is a u.s. senator, and will continue to say that this alliance is something like the world has never seen. our allies have been on our side throughout history. our allies, especially have been with us in afghanistan which is then a tough road. they have stood with us in solidarity and afghanistan were over 900 troops of our allies and partners have given their lives alongside u.s. soldiers for more than 15 years. our nato allies are our core partners in diplomacy and on the battlefield. they are partners and first resorts in dealing with old and new threats of the security of our people. the strength of this alliance benefits every member. if confirmed, i hope to represent the integrity of the american commitment, to be a formidable enemy and a reliable ally. america should be both. we want to let you know how much we appreciate you and i know everyone of you love america like i do and you will make sure our country is the strongest and safest for all of your constituents. i want to make sure

employee the jailer is working at the jail propulsive that transition from mexico to u.s. is a jail that is the first public institution the jailer is the first public employee. >> end having a strong judicial system?. >> we certainly have a historically strong commercialization and incarceration that predates the u.s. period. but it takes off after 1850 so that first fran of incarceration is the criminalization and incarceration of the native people in particular to fill up the local jail on the trunk and vagrancy charges with those indigenous people said dealer was called the indian jailer. >> you say it is the cry realization?. >> think you for asking. >> at the beginning of u.s. ruled there is a passage of several state laws basket for the government protection of the indians then you have that unemployment by the native people in particular if they were found to not be employed at with a genocidal campaign that with their found without work or land they will be arrested and charged with vagrancy and incarcerated then usually the next monday morning with the highest paying white bidd

council is u.s. foreign policy with iran and with the obama administration trading sanctions relief with the nuclear program. that the trump administration that the deal has come in doubt to do the necessary or the of minimum to continue the nuclear agreement. to put those sanctions and president trump has expressed happiness with of recommendations of the top advisers to certify that iran is complying with the nuclear deal. id even suggested in with those necessary certifications. . . the the but the administration has put new sanctions on various iranian individuals and entities. congress has just passed some new sanctions connected mostly to iran's missile program, and president trump has expressed unhappiness with the recommendations of the top advisers, that he must continue to certify that iran is complying with the nuclear deal. he is also veteran of the u.s. intelligence committee and national intelligence officers for the u.s.-asia. if i could ask you all to please silence your cell phones espec especially because this is on c-span. and feel free to tweet at #aciran. with t

dominated u.s. housing finance system late 1980s. this precrisis system did his job for many years are promoting standardization, structuring security with a broad range of investor risk appetite in guaranteeing sunni and freddie brought greater liquidity to mortgage purpose and made mortgages more affordable. the system ultimately failed due to fundamental flaws in its structure. in the early days of securitization, the chance that gse would fail to honor its guarantee is entirely remote. the question always loomed in the background. what are the credit risk of a gse were to become solvent and could not perform? would congress allow them to fail to honor its obligations when the potentially devastating impact that would have on wordage funding and housing markets more broadly. the law stated explicitly the government did not stand behind the gse is thin and freddie frequently pointed out in order to avoid tougher regulation. nonetheless, investors understandably came to believe that the two gics were too big to fail in the implicit federal guarantee behind obligations. in the end, the

. woods served in the u.s. marine corps as well as in an assignment in the office of net assessment. upon retirement, he helped organize the national bio surveillance integration system. for five years he served as senior fellow at the center for strategic and budget tear assessments -- budgetary assessments. please join me in welcoming dakota wood. dakota? [applause] >> thank you, jon. it's a real pleasure to have you all here, but to have dr. crane all the way down from carlisle where he took the hyperloop, was that it? the fastest run he's ever made to d.c., so we're glad that travel wasn't interrupted. normally you try to do something artful with an introduction, but i couldn't do anything better than draw from pure biographical information and take a moment of his time to really go over his background. it's remarkable. currently serves as chief of the historical services at the army heritage and education center up in carlisle barracks, was director of the u.s. military institute. he was with the war college from 2000-2003 where he held the general douglas macarthur chair of research