states and the united states allies. china is the largest trading partner of those countries in the world. --t point is often most of that trade is in the form of intermediate -- they go --china way do dependencies go? 25 percent of exports come to the united states. go to thena's exports united states, japan, and south korea. 80% of exports go to those three countries, plus the european union. exports go to china. that is a very disproportionate kind of inner -- interdependence. as for russia, they cannot do that woulde another really accelerate come sustain -- accelerate and sustain. they both need relationships available in the west. they both seek to gain some opportunities and advantages by becoming closer friends with one another? of course they do. we do not have to forfeit that. with the hard numbers. look at -- look at the hard numbers. 24% is down a whopping 2% since 1979 when china began its fabulous rise. we dropped 2%. is aboutorld economy 17%. that is almost exactly the same as china's share of world popula

from the united states to latin american countries. this report clearly placed u.s. military assistance to latin america in a cold war context. because what was being foreseen was the possibility of war breaking out between the united states and soviet union, and then there is disorder in latin america, united states has to become involved in order to protect the materials that it is getting from latin america, the strategic materials, and also the mid to late -- military facilities. nsc 562 advised that it is important that every ever be made to develop an effective inter-american military collaboration in time of peace to ensure collective hemispheric defense immediately upon the outbreak of war. i'm going to skip this one so we can get to the legacy. very quickly. i want to hazard, and it is a personal hazarding, of a description of the legacy that president truman left behind with respect to u.s. policies toward latin america. first of all, from explicitly affirmed the legacy which he had received when he became president. non-inte

circling around the united states not yet involved. but the opportunity to get serious discussions underway appears to be in the offing. that's what we have to pursue. we also need to understand and try to figure out exactly what it is that north korea wants. it appears in all cases that north korea wants to assure their, the continuation of the kim jong-un regime. >> but they also say, congressman, the north korean statements that have come out over the past few days, they will never give up their nuclear weapons program, they're not walking away from this at all. basically telling all the countries of the region including the united states, live with it. >> well, we're not about to live with it. nor is china, russia, japan and the neighboring communities. let's be clear here -- that nuclear threat is as much a threat to -- in fact more of a threat to the surrounding neighbors than it is to the united states. we do have a missile defense system that would be effective against north korea's intercontinental ballistic missiles. the neig

on the united states. domestic,y useful for political reasons to say, we can counterbalance the americans with first the soviets then now the russians. i think then and now are quite different. chinak both russia and have far more at stake in their relationship with the united states than they do with one another. the area in which i see them having the greatest congruence of issues is in the united in the security council, where both of them have a statutory seat and their desire to have issues in the united nations. i don't think there is a lot for americans to worry about in terms of alignment in which we are the odd man out. david? thanks to me add my jonathan for inviting us here this evening and to mr. nixon for being here and all of you for coming to the panel. point pick up exactly the that tom finished. use of the u.s. shouldn't be too worried if russia and china had good relations. i think the first point to make is russia and china probably have better relations now than at any point since 1972,

ironically the united states. may benefit from being a little bit more centralized if not to say authoritarian if you had a such a strong leader in the united states who would advocate climate change. leadership is. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a special marine warning for me coast waters cape may new jersey defend island delaware out twenty nautical miles and to free forty five pm at two forty six pm a strong thunderstorm was located near cape and low pin the strong thunderstorm was nearly stationary hazard wind gusts thirty four knots or greater small hail source radar indicated impact the craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves locations and pack that include over falls general brown like fourteen foot bank light beach capable open beach my involvement and the wind might move to safe harbor immediately gusty winds and high waves are expected. now correct me if i'm wrong but russia for now remains the largest greenhouse gas in the air that has

along the united states, the united kingdom and ukraine. that provided ukraine with assurances that all parties would respect its independence, sovereignty and existing borders. in that memorandum, russia also promised to refrain from the threat or use of force in exchange for the ukraine's relinquishment of nuclear weapons. once again, under the 1997 nato russia founding act, russia agreed to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other or any other state in s- any other state, it sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence. unfortunately, russia is not adhering to the letter, much less the spirit of these international commitments. the u.s. and our allies will continue to press russia to honor its minsk commitments and our sanctions will remain in place until moscow reverses the actions that triggered them. as president trump has made clear, the united states remains committed to diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine. i too am especially pleased to be here today with the u.s. special

states our defense defend russia here are different united states because. every politician who tried to incite conflicts should be defeated well it's interesting you say that because it leads me to my last question i know that in your previous capacity you had to do a lot with the warring parties and the mediation you participated in trying to find a solution to the sri lankan conflict and i'm sure you would agree with me that the mediation is a very challenging and often very. process how do you see yourself in this new overall of the executive general are you more of a mediator or are you perhaps just an administrator or responsible for implementing something that has already been agreed upon i think both i mean in their campaign for instance or just launched a campaign called clean seas to pick up all the norms prestige pollutions which are destroying our oceans but also being a mediator and if there was. maybe ten years trying to. succeed. most of the many other people around you killed those big. just role models. very very good advice to global poster

during the war, the united states had implied that once the war was over, the united states would support economic diversification and economic growth in latin america through economic aid. in particular, an economic conference was promised. there would be a little conference, the oas, a military conference, the rio treaty, but an economic conference that would form an inter-american economic alliance. at that conference, latin americans hope to discuss commodity price stabilization, economic diversification, controls of foreign investment and a substantial economic aid. indeed, to put words in the mouth, what they were thinking about was a marshall plan for latin america. but the truman administration postponed the conference. every year, there was a different excuse or what they could not have it. the united states had new challenges. the soviet union's domination of eastern europe. the greek civil war. the stagnation of western european economies and the collapse of chinese national ist forces. by comparison, the assessment of latin america was that let -- latin america was largely imm

tonight's case is schenck versus the united states. it is a case from 1919, involving freedom of speech around world war i. it also gave rise to supreme court's most quoted phrases, shouting fire in a theater and clear and present danger. our two guests are with us to tell us about this interesting case, to take calls and questions. beverly is a history professor at yale university specializing in 20th century american history. he is the author of the day wall -- up -- of exploring america. welcome to our program. tom is a supreme court attorney who argued many cases but -- before the court. i want to start with you, tell our audience what is really at the heart of the schenck case. schenck is important because it was the first of taking the freedom of speech seriously. the constitution has been around for a long time. for a century, the bill of rights and the first amendment to not have a lot of affect in americans lives. schenck was a test as to whether you could say things that were hostile to the government and might be constitutio

they do not have to lose jobs to the united states. not parters -- this is of nafta, but is hanging over it, the question about building a wall between the united states and mexico. that is a huge issue between the united states and mexico. there are potential elections in mexico next year. you can expect that to become a big part of discussions, this free flow of people over the border. there are certain conditions in nafta that they allow professionals to come over with visas, but i do not know how much they are going to talk about immigration at this point. host: from alaska, independent caller. caller: good morning. the fellow asked about people driving in from mexico and canada into the united states. i spoke to you on the phone about six to eight months ago. you guys told me they had to drop their loads, and the loads were picked up by american drivers. i had mentioned that d.o.t. has regulations for a logbook and everything. so at that point, it was a nonissue. regardless of what the regulations are in mexico, they have to drop

the united states has not been invited by the syrian government. i'm all for humanitarian assistance if we can provide medicine or humanitarian relief, food, water, even safe passage out of the country for refugees. that's great. but it's my understanding that anything more than that at least at this point in syria is illegal. we are supposed to be a nation of laws in this country. we like to tell people, we like to tell of the countries that we are this shining beacon of respect for human rights and civil liberties and the rule of law and democracy and it is simply just not true. it's rhetoric. it's propaganda. so if we were serious about this being true, we would live that policy, and we don't. we just want of the country to live it. [inaudible] >> do you think that russia and iran takes their soldiers from syria also? >> i don't think so at all, no. rialto holgate is real, -- realpolitik is real but no, i don't think so at all. i'm not sure that truly though the most important thing to worry about in this scenario i think that are bigger issues

to confront the united states where they can let the united states basically take control of the caribbean because they had more desperate threats, germans maybe. in the empire and such. seems to me that looking at the south china sea, has a reason to believe this is their stake. do they really does such a threat to us that we cannot give them more room to maneuver the south china sea and info avoid a confrontation and see their control of the area just like most of the worldsees our control of the caribbean? >> first i would say that mexico, cuba, jamaica , trinidad and tobago do not in any way see the us control of the caribbean. what china is attempting to do to follow your analogy would be to actually take territorial control, to make that a territorial sea. >> so i think the analogy breaks down a bit because of the expansiveness of the chinese desire here. >> i think it's fair to say and i would agree with you that it is reasonable for us to believe that china ought to have significant influence in asia. that makes sense but we should not exceed to simply territorial control over an e

we serve in the united states army, united states navy, etc. in that regard, it is a widely diverse force. we look at our coins, out of one., we're one team and that's the way we stay. thank you chlt >> question from the japanese media. >> i have a question to secretary mattis and a question for minister onodera on military defense. north korea has planned to launch a ballistic missile and seeing tensions mounting. in the two plus two joint statement, it is incorporated that japan's role would be [indiscernible] in the alliance. what specific actions would the u.s. take? and for japan, what would japan's role be in missile-defense? and what would the u.s. expect japan to do in the case of the launch of a missile? sec. mattis: we would take military action to take it down. minister onodera: simply, in the event there is an attack on japan, we will use the assets available to us for the missile defense and we will defend japan. but should different circumstances occur, we will solidify the relationship we have with the u.s. with close communicati

the president of the united states needs to be a leader, a player in this. that is bring us together, don't make the type of threats that he's making to congress or criticisms of the leader. come and engage us and encourage us to work together. democrats and republicans, be open-minded and work with us in the best interest of the american people. we have not seen that from president trump. >> senator ben cardin of maryland, top democrat of the foreign relations committee, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> i want to quickly go to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. the reaction must be coming in from military leaders, what we just heard from the president of the united states. >> indeed, wolf. there's a lot of military nuance in what the president has said throughout the day. now, you'll remember, defense secretary mattis talked about it, he put it on the table first, that if north korea initiates -- his words -- an attack, that the u.s. would respond. the president really following up on this theme today with his language against north korea

this would not happen without the united states and will not continue without the united states. we cannot take it for granted. her description of what was put in place after world war ii has led to, with a lot of problems and a lot of challenges and mistakes, but the overall arc of the story is positive. for the united states with respect to prosperity and security, and positive for large parts of the world. it is under pressure. one of the key elements is continued u.s. leadership. ii, the united states did not act like a normal country trying to -- it was an entirely different approach. putting together organizations that we would participate in, as real participants that will have a benefit for the rest of the world, the provision of public goods and pursuing a values-based foreign policy. we weren't a normal country. , theany other country united states was engaged in a special undertaking after world war ii. on the pressure on the order today, it has all of the sources secretary rice laid out. we have seen the reemergence of great power competition. we had an extraordinary

the united states cannot afford to wait any longer. this new assessment is alarming but it's not surprising because north korea has been on the path of trying to be able to fit a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile capable of reaching the united states for some time. and with more time north korea is going to refine those capabilities further. so there's a lot of urgency now to stop north korea before it can deploy a reliable icbm that's capable of targeting the united states. >> so are you saying they should accept the fact that they're going to have this technology, they're going to have this capability, go to the table and try and find a way to have common ground between north korea and the united states and get them to either stop developing more nuclear weapons or to find a way to deter them from using them? >> well, i think that the united states should keep denuclearization of the korean peninsula as a long-term goal and recognize -- >> but does that look possible with this regime, kelsey? >> well, i think it can be possible

selling to the enemies of the united states. he was pardoned after his wife donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the clintons. then you have dangerous criminals. president clinton pardoned susan rosenburg, a member of the weathered underground. part of a bank robbery that led to a guard and two police officers being killed. drug dealers. president clinton commuted the sentence of carlos, a central player in a cocaine ring that stretched from california to minnesota. criminal leaker. you've heard the word leaker? president obama commuted the sentence of chelsea manning, who leaked countless classified -- sensitive and classified documents to wikileaks, perhaps and others. but horrible, horrible thing that he did, commuted the sentence. and perhaps pardoned. president obama commuted the sentence of oscar lopez rivera, who was charged as part of a violent independence group from puerto rico, responsible for 28 chicago area bombings and many deaths in the 1970's and 1980's. sheriff joe is a patriot. sheriff joe loves our coun

states is right in the middle of that you have a turkey a nato ally the united states is on the other side in the conflict in syria i mean if this is too much military involvement it actually limits their options in a way go ahead joe. i'm not sure i agree i think ok but the other way around that the u.s. is not looking for proxies the saudis and israel if they want to attack iran which they've said repeatedly they basically do. while i've been solvent and pretty calm prince has talked about bringing the war inside iran they need the united states this is their long standing goal is to control the united states to back their plans they don't have the military might to fight iran they might have the might to back. to back a stream that's throughout the region particularly in syria but they can't take on iran without the united states coming on board i think that's what we saw when trump went to saudi arabia and to israel that they were lobbying him to do this eventually and it's very scary because trump might be someone who will go along and do it he seems reckless and as far as qatar

what is this doing for the united states? d 50 different groups, many are fighting with each other on the ground. large quantities of weapons and equipment are falling into hands of sunni islamic extremists. and al qaeda. we know this. we can't control what's happening, we have 400,000 people who have died in the civil war and we are backing a small faction where there is no unity of effort. he's a businessman he says it's time to cut our losses and get out. he wants to focus more narrowly on isis. we have an interest in the destruction of isis. we don't have an interest in participating in the syrian civil war.ru that's a different kettle of fish. >> tucker: do we have an interest in ramping up conflict with russia? a lot of people in washington. we just passed the sanctions, nobody even made the case why that's good for america. there is a headlong rush toward a more bellicose posture with russia, do we benefit from that? >> no, we don't. russia has been a menace or 300 years to the western world. sometimes it's been an exi

this is how the united states government operates. and we know this because of declassified defense intelligence agency reports. so not only are we hypocritical, but also bipolar in many ways. because we think we can not just be two-faced, but we think we can also manage certain situations in a way that just defies reality. so, and of course, coming back to it all, it is the very people who live in these places, who are being burned to death and ripped apart. and i think it is easy for us to forget that. as we talk about this as i stand here in my suit and tie, and drink my cup of coffee, that as we speak about this, american bombs are ripping apart men, women, and children as we speak. it is not abstract at all. >> one thing i forgot to meantion -- oh, i'm sorry. a number of people mentioned reliance on airstrikes as a big part of u.s. strategy. would that undermine humanitarian pretext argument, as well? >> absolutely. the other thing, too, i recall there being a report that was released by the united nations last fall. and i was re

we appreciate our close relationships with the united states. ranging from security to and trade and innovation. we are indeed celebrating our independence.of i want to thank you for the presented to the full foundation. want to also to take this almostnity to create the 00 thousand americans who have fin origin. president we exchanged views issues al international and our main headline being discussed the trans atlantic bond between the united union and the states. history has told us europeans unity.ue of he u.s. and nato presence in europe are most important and increasing rapidly. part.nd is doing it's we promote dialogue to reduce finland has proposed steps safety in the ht area. there are more positive steps in ed reopening dialogue nato and russia. we remain ommitted to supporting afghanistan and we're dedicated coalition against isis. the chairmanship of the council from the united may.es in we can't afford losing the nature. finland firmly believes that business and environment can winners in the arctic. reducing blackis carbon. looking

the people of the united states this me and. is threatening america with a nuclear to missile president trump doesn't want to war the chinese can stop this but to china south korea and japan you know donald trump is not going to allow this missile just to be but what the senator said doesn't appear to jibe with the more measured words the more measured approach from secretary of state rex tillerson. we initiated a sustained and continued intensified campaign or what i like to call peaceful pressure because the options available to us i think as all of you well understand are limited in particularly if we think we are operating under a short period of time so we felt the appropriate thing to do force was to seek peaceful pressure on the regime in north korea to have them develop a willingness to sit and talk with us and others but with an understanding that a condition of those talks is there is no future for north korea holds nuclear weapons or the ability to deliver those nuclear weapons to anyone the region much less to the ho

is used by the united states it defends the united states but it's not really the united states. and the north koreans were to say that we are going to target off the coast of california or we're going to target off the coast of washington state or even target off the coast of hawaii there would be a very different response from the united states because you are directly threatening the homeland but what is the purpose of a territory or a colony the purpose of a colony is that you exploit it when things are good and if things get ugly you cut it loose the fact that trump speaks so recklessly and so as impulsively only helps to underscore a lot of those those anxious tensions worldwide headlines for you today for this monday here aleksey international your program continues in just a mum. seemed wrong. to shape out. and in. find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. here in moscow the e.u. migration commission has called for member states to get tough on illegal immigrants and make sure they get deported. across the story. there's certainly a change in rhetoric from

and what will the united states do in response? and then what will the north koreans do in response? this is what china has been talking about, this chain reaction, this sequence of events going down a road from which there is no return, an accidental war on the korean peninsula which everyone agrees would be absolutely catastrophic. >> gloria, as you know, the president seemed to draw this red line yesterday in the fire and fury statement. >> he did. >> is he now boxed in? because there is a new threat. if there are any more threats from north korea they'll face fire and fury. >> well, it would seem that he is. clearly i think if i were in the administration, i might be looking for a way out, an intermediary of some kind perhaps to help him out of this. but you saw what general mattis did and what rex tillerson did today, which was try and provide a little bit of context here for the fire and fury statement. mattis taking a harder line, tillerson telling everybody that, you know, all we were trying to say is that the united states

to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening beyond a normal state. and as i said, they will be met with fire, fury and frankly, power. the likes of which this world has never seen before. >> the president's comments came after "the washington post" reported this afternoon, north korea successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles. that was a technological development that analyst believe was years away. the news comes less than two weeks after north korea tested a ballistic missile believed to be capable of reaching the mainland of the united states. but for two hours after that disturbing and important news broke today, the president of the united states had absolutely nothing to say about it. instead, he was busy tweeting lies about "the washington post," the "new york times," and his administration's lack of of accomplishments. first he tweeted, e-mails show that amazon washington post and f

at least some understanding of the united states behaves in the world that you do not have in the united states you have germany now of closing u.s. sanctions on russia you have the public you know this is not the german government this is the german public this is not the swedish government this is the swedish public so you have people who are opposed to war opposed to militarism opposed to nato expansion of close to us bases in germany expressing their viewpoint and that's you know not typically in news in europe and especially not in the united states or. you could say that over the last four years trump and obama helped make america great again or at least a great threat. the british government is facing coverup claims softer it was revealed in downing street refusing to make public a record number of documents. as more details. well look the way the system in britain works is that once a government document turns thirty it's then supposed to be made public it goes into the national archives on less government departments specifically apply to withhold or to redact a particular docum

quite frankly if you enter the united states illegally you are removable from the united states. by legal i mean without a visa or without permission. if you overstay you are removable from the united states. as a judge it's not up to me decide whether that's the right thing to do or not the right thing to do. but the one thing i will tell you is that if you allow individuals who enter the united states illegally to remain in the united states illegally unmolested, as former i.c.e. director indicated was likely to -- to individuals who simply enter the united states illegally, you are going to get more of them. your docket is going to swell. what we're talking about today. why is the backlog so high? because were not enforcing immigration laws. we create perverse incentives for people to enter the united states illegally. the smuggling rate -- the smuggling fee went way down because people which is simply come across the board and claim credible fear. this was a problem for the smuggling gangs. they didn't have anybody to smuggle, because quite frankly you didn't need a smuggler.

officials in the drug enforcement agency only one to three percent of the heroin in the united states originates in afghanistan however according to the special inspector for afghanistan reconstruction it could actually be much larger according to ham u.s. heroin comes from canada and most of the heroin coming in from canada originates in afghanistan this is the contradictory statements we're hearing about drugs in the united states meanwhile the states of maine the states of massachusetts the states of the state of new hampshire the states of new york the government have declared opium epidemics this point heroin related fatalities in the united states are reaching historic levels between one thousand nine hundred nine and two thousand and fifteen the number of people in the usa who died from heroin overdoses actually tripled at this point approximately fifty two thousand people are dying annually from heroin. this bring in brian that can now from the anti war coalition good evening brian millions of dollars a pumpkin to counter-narcotics in afghanistan into this report it has no eff

the united states numbers go from 10,000 to 15,000 across the united states. so the biggest problem on ms-13 is in central america, especially in countries such as el salvador and honduras. host: how many cells here in the u.s.? guest: we don't know exactly how many cells. and actually, ms-13 is not an old american city. it's only in some big cities, especially in l.a., in some cities in virginia and new york. i will say that less than 1,000 cells. host: what do they do? what are their crimes? guest: well, these are as i said before, this is a youth gang. in the case of central america, they tend to be a very violent and brutal gang. maim,- these people kill, rape, criminal activities. basically, they get most of their money from extorting the population from trafficking drugs at their neighborhood level. but the main source of their money is ex storgs. and they basically establish these networks of extortion against the population, especially against the poor population where the communities, they control in honduras, guatemala, el alvador. kay came here in t

states to participate in discussions to discuss a resolution for afghanistan but the united states refused. unbelievable the u.s. needs a strategy it doesn't have one and it's not going to have one if they're going to rely solely on a military solution. us weekly make a day with this every sunday at any hour at a catch up on the recap of the big stories of the last seven days international live get a contortionist twenty four seventh's so if you're mobile without up. social environment. right. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier but at what cost this is cereal is exceptionally sick. no wonder it's confidential. says sister years old industrial giants reap the benefit ignoring the cools by chemical production. you know as if these people aren't people just experimental animals decades later the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of taxing levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever found in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been add

the united states did not, unlike today, the united states was no arsenal for democracy, let me tell you. the united states sent iron and food and blood and muscle and bone men to france to fight in world war i and other parts of the globe, but primarily on the western front. because it did not have the facilities to make guns and planes and tanks and even trucks on the scale that were being made in france at the time. but there was one thing that the united states was particularly good at, and that was telecommunications. now, this particular picture i'm showing you is a world war i poster, you know, trying to recruit men to operate telegraphs, telephones, and radios and the size of the font on the radio makes you think it's important. but in fact, the primary instrument of generalship in world war i was the telephone. and of course it had been invented in the united states by alexander graham bell who like many great americans was an immigrant and he came from scotland and invented the telephone over here, and it was superior at this time than these other technologies because first

states foran just the south of the united states for an awful long time. we've had democratic presidents from carter to clinton to obama who's chosen not to use their bully pulpit to make a point of saying these statues must come down, so if we're talking about the atmosphere and the tension in america today, why is it so important to address this and perhaps than those flames today? look, i don't know if one is fanning these flames. a lot of this goes back a couple of years. as your viewers may know, injune, 2013, a young man with aidan‘s heart went into an historic black church in charleston, south carolina, and killed nine parishioners. after that the state of south carolina decided to ta ke the state of south carolina decided to take down its confederate flag because they felt, gosh it had no place in 21st—century america and was sending the wrong message, especially after the massacre at the black church. now, after that there we re black church. now, after that there were a number of demonstrations around the country in favour of the confederate

he said my job as a businessman is to follow the laws of the united states. my job as president is to create an immigration system that works for american workers. one of the reasons americans so deeply admire president trump is that they see, every day, he is not working for himself. he said over and over again. i have been very successful. i have had a great life. i am here to work for the american people. for any immigration to be functional and work, it has to be uniform across the board, one standard for everyone. >> how close is the president to getting a nominee for dhs? if this legislation is not moving by the end of the year, how much is it possible for you to do through executive action? stephen: i think on the front, youive action can tighten up enforcement on visa rules and standards. that is certainly something that we have been looking at doing. but we would like a permanent change to our immigration system that will endure through time, that will still be in place many decades from now. that is what this legislation would accomplish. i would en

states capitol at that time in the united states in their house and senate. and it actually has roots that go back to british parliament where we got our two house system. green, house of commons. red, house of lords. now we're in the senate. we're actually on the third floor of the capitol. the third floor was a gallery. the chairs you see around you are for the people. now, legislative sessions are open to the public. at any time you're going to see either a lot of people, a lot of schoolchildren or a lot of nobody, depending on what's going on. a lot of bills have gone through this room that have been very controversial. of course, that's what the capitol was built for. i used to tell children, we're a bill making factory. in a way, that's the intent of the building, to be a place where california representatives, legislators, would make decisions on pieces of legislation and turn them into law. for instance, in 1911, you saw some monumental bills being passed in here due to progressive era governments. prior to 1911, a lot of legislation was favored towar

>>> after the united states entered world war i. although women were prohibited from joining the regular army or navy, they found ways to contribute, often taking up jobs once performed by men, now going overseas. one group of women, however, possessed a skill much needed by the army, fighting a war required reliable communications network but more than two and a half years of war had devastated the french telephone system. general john j., commander in chief of the american expeditionary forces called upon the expertise of women telephone operators. more than 1700 women applied and just over 200 served in europe with the army. their service is documented in their official personnel files, now in the national archives at st. louis, a collection of archival civilian personnel records. yes, that's civilian personnel records. after the war, these women, because they were women, were not deemed eligible for military benefits, despite their army service. it took until the 1970s for the hello girls to finally receive the benefits due them

the united states of america. mr. president, i urge the members of the senate to vote in support of christopher wray as the new director of the bureau of investigation for the united states of america. i yield back and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. isakson: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. isakson: mr. president, i yield back all time on our side and ask for the yeas and nays -- and their side as well. the presiding officer: without objection. autumn time is yielded back -- all time is yielded back. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: have all senators voted? any senator wish to change their vote? on this nomination, the yeas are 92, the nays are five. the nomination is confirmed. the question occurs on the newsom nomi

mexico depends on market assets in the united states. there is an asymmetry, trade is pretty balanced. a bilateral trade relationship, there is great asymmetry, mexico depends more. access toarket the united states was at risk, mexico started to think about how he would renegotiate with the u.s.. the trump administration has been consistent in the language they will put forth. , if want to renegotiate they cannot renegotiate, they will withdraw. i think the basic response, we heard early on, to this in terms of strategy, mexico had a concern that just in economic negotiation, mexico may not have the leverage you need to maintain market access to the united states. it started to talk about things like needing to have a comprehensive dialogue with the united states. in recent weeks we have heard explicitly from mexico what they mean by that. mexico feels like it offers the united states quite a bit in terms of security cooperation, ensuring there is never a terror attack across the u.s. mexico border and they have been doing a lot about th

states need to reevaluate the achievements of the united states and the failures of the united states in our region. >> rose: but does iran -- >> and based on that reassessment, it will see. the role and the place of various countries in the region. we're not competing with saudi arabia. we believe that iran and saudi arabia should be a part of a regional dialogue forum. i wrote an op ed in the "new york times" several years ago. >> rose: i remember. >> calling for a regional dialogue forum and i believe that is what's lacking in our region. we are ready for it. i believe as soon as our saudi neighbors are ready to engage in dialogue, in resolving issues through dialogue. not through pressure because unfortunately this has become a habit of the united states to impose pressure or to impose direct pressure. >> rose: does this include israel. >> i'm modest, i'm talking about our immediate neighbor and that is the persian gulf. in recent years from the iraqi invasion of iran to the iraqi invasion of kuwait to u.s. operations to liberate kuwait from iraq, to liberate operations from iraq.

states but for but the united states is perhaps the only major industrialized country the world it was the party that controls all three parts of government denies the existence of climate change i mean denying the existence of reality is the announcement of science public policy should be based on empirical evidence and when you do knowing critical evidence your policies become ridiculous but it's across you know i had a chance to talk to the head of the environmental program a short while ago and even he says that you know what that trunk likes it or not is not god think of a deal because you have the state of california which goes its own way you have many businessman who are in a quite set on furthering that agenda so again i'm asking you whether it is all about what he says or actually what he has that has he done any harm well first of all he's done very little he's managed to do very little because he has no idea what government is all about he's not hired any advisers most of the positions in the brought federal bureaucracy that are meant to support him from the state departmen

united states only six times while he was president. three of these trips, and the only two-state visits truman made during his presidency, were to latin america. the first in early march, 1947, to mexico. the second in september the same year, was to brazil. cubahird trip, he went to very briefly, and only two to guantanamo bay. he also went to the virgin islands. the most important visit was to puerto rico. we will talk about that one. let's see what these visits tell us about the themes of the legacy that president truman was to leave. the first was to mexico city. .ruman kept a diary in 1947, he wrote quite a few entries about his visit to mexico. visit throughthe his diary. we will try to do so. his plane is landing. he writes, "perfect day, my pilot never misses a schedule. step down from the plane, the mexican president comes down the steps from the observation tower at the same time. we meet, i like him at once. he introduces his cabinet, i introduce my secretaries and aides. the platform is beautifully decorated and flowers. th

states air campaign, the united states air warfare, maybe in my estimation, is the greatest moral and human hazard of the last century. certainly if you start with considering this is at 72nd anniversary of the bombing of nagasaki and hiroshima, something that nearly all american 4-star and five-star generals after world war ii said was not a military necessity, you know, was done strictly for political reasons. if you go into the understanding that most americans do not know but north korean serving of the american air force burned down nearly every village and town in north korea, that in vietnam we dropped more bombs on the vietnamese and we did on the japanese, or on the germans in terms of tonnage, and we conducted the largest chemical warfare program in the history of the world against the vietnamese, something that millions of people are still sickened with, something that they will be babies born today with deformities because of, if we fast food of course to the results of our air campaigns that the iraqis certainly are still paying for, certainly that the libyans are still p

one is drive the united states out of the middle east. that's when they began killing us and blowing up our embassies and killing soldiers and civilians in 1980 on. 35 plus years of that. secondly, and every year, they mention what you just mentioned. our objective is also to destroy the state of israel. >> liz: us and israel. it's ridiculous. makes me wonder and you would be a perfect person to ask, are we on the path the war with either of these nations and if so, what would you do to get us off that path and divert it? >> first of all, this is obviously as we've been talking about for weeks with north korea, a very dangerous situation. certainly war is a possibility. i think this country can avoid that. i -- the reason for that is that this very aggressive policy that north korea has unequivocally supported by china is because of the obama administration. they believed that the united states had really pulled back from the world and they were growing to have their way throughout asia and the western pacific and throughout the north kor

were accredited at the embassy of cuba in the united states to depart the united states. those two individuals have he departed. trish: you've been listening to heather nauert at the state department, talk to reporters there. there was a little bit of a scuffle there with one reporter getting in a little bit of a heated discussion there with her. i guess we can all say constantly, adam with robyn buy row and huge go. she did a brilliant job. >> she did a brilliant job. reflected stood up for all americans and her president for a state department trying to juggle a lot of balls. well-done, heather. trish: hugo, you made a point earlier. this is a very good one, his language wasn't as over the top as the media and the left had tried to present it to be. give us that historical perspective with president truman. >> yeah. president truman, when he made the announcements of dropping of the hiroshima bomb used, quoting from memory here, he said, he threatened japan with a rain of ruin from the air the like of which the earth has not seen. which apart from the alliteration of ra