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.

we serve in the united states army, united states navy, etc. in that regard, it is a widely diverse force. on the battlefield, we are one team and that is where we stayed. thank you. >> question from the japanese media. i have a question to and a questions dera oninister ono military defense. we are seeing tensions mounting. in the two plus two joint statement, it is incorporated would ben's role [indiscernible] in the alliance. what specific actions with the u.s. take? japan, what would japan's role be in missile-defense? and what would the u.s. expect japan to do in the case of a lunch of a messiah -- of a missile? sec. mattis: we would take military action to take it down. , in the onodera: simply 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 showed different circumstances occur, we will solidify the relationship we have with the u.s. with close communication. country.efend the that is what we discussed today. >> thank you, everyone. [captioning performed by th

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

an effort to make cuba of state of the united states of america. that is one idea circulating in the minds of spanish rulers in cuba. another thing circulating was they should be in camaraderie with the slave owners in the south in order to defeat the north. but as i said, if the south had they would be after cuba ousting the spanish. at the end of the day they decided to open the report to the confederate state of america. after the defeat of the confederates, there was tremendous pressure on cuba to abolish slavery, and a bloody war interrupted to that end, leading to the rise of a figure who may be known to many, antonio masao. he was considered to be a hero amongst black americans. you have many black americans today who carry the name. come on now. >> [laughter] prof. horne: this eventuated in years of war, and as so often happens -- as the cubans and spanish are slugging it out, tiring out both sides, the united states decides to intervene in the war of 1898 and knocks out both sides and takes over the island of cuba, and as noted tried to im

well the united states have to go back to why the united states wants to be in asia at all ok why does the united states intervene ten thousand miles from mature and to and to answer that question you have to go back to the open door policy sounds boring but the bedrock foreign policy of the united states is the open door policy and when china closed the door after world war two initially the united states wanted to set up a client regime in china but that failed the communists took over and closed the open door and so the united states decided that career would be its first bastin against the encroachment of china and the closing of asia to american economic penetration ok but i mean let's talk about this the in this new killer thread i mean why don't they want to talk about that that's very important and that's pressing right now can you answer that for us go ahead home well you know the the real the real threat for the united states from the beginning was always china and you know we talk about one hundred sixty thousand troops stationed across the. western pacific but there are als

free trade between the united states and mexico. also he and exceeded a plan -- he initiated a plan was colombia that basically rescued colombia. most americans don't know we have been giving money to colombia every year since 1999 and that has transformed the country into a peaceful and prosperous place. barack obama, wildly popular in latin america. free-trade agreements with places like peru and panama. respected for normalizing relations with cuba. obama perhaps received the highest honor a u.s. leader could receive in latin america. he was at a state dinner in 2008 in one of sarah's -- in buenos best, and the world's tango dancer asked him to dance. the president did do very well. sure, not all latin americans would want to dance with democratic presidents. mexicans would denounce woodrow wilson for dispatching general pershing in 1916 into mexico trying to chase down contra via -- pancho villa. lyndon johnson, any discussions would probably never get tested the anon. -- never get past vietnam. thinkin americans tend to favorab

>>> the book i called "the american genocide: the united states and the california indian catastrophe, 1846 to 1873". the author, benjamin madley. professor madley in your book you write that between 1846 and 1870, california's native american population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. how did that occur? >> guest: so, there are many thing wes understand already about this story. we know that disease, exposure, starvation, those were all major factors, not only in this population decline but in the suppression of demographic rebound. what we didn't know in so much detail and with so much clarity before this book was all of the factors and how they played in. systemic unfree labor regimes, kidnapping, hundreds of homicides and over 370 separate massacres carried out by vigilantes, volunteer state militia men and elements of the united states army, all of which come together to provide a very convincing, damning argument that what took place in california between 1846 and 1873 was in fact a case of genocide according to the 1948 u.n. genocide convention. >> host: why 1846? >> gu

it should be the united states. you can talk to north korea and say we not going to these negotiations -- in washingtonency and in think tanks to negotiate north korea policy side. they will have a list of demands for us and we have to decide if we are ready to meet. i thought it was curious they did not have that either especially after trump-pence that i would be willing to meet with the leader of north korea face to face. everyone thought that was a bit over-the-top. curious they do not take advantage of a low-level meeting. i think congress can play a useful role and is playing a greater role in foreign policy. it is particularly a good comment by john mccain, a hawk and well-established. basically said the president should not have said what he said. the president basically implied we will use nuclear weapons and threaten a country with nuclear weapons here we have not heard that in a long time if ever we have heard it before. behink john f. kennedy may with the cuban missile crisis, but that is ill advised, to

russia and the united states and here it is the united states that has walked out of it for some unknown reasons they have to come back and explain the situation in afghanistan turn a wristwatch when truong i don't want to get us on to become an area of competition and rivalry well i want afghanistan to become a place of cooperation i appreciate very much your aspirations but you know again better than i do that competition is a ruling the day in international side only yes it shouldn't be bad though why would the afghanistan of all the other war torn countries be an exception it should be an exception because if they don't call parades afghans will rise against those who have the key to the students in an afghanistan today it is the united states they just bombed us with the biggest of the bomb that they had short of a nuclear bomb a country that they call allies and would one expect me to keep quiet. well at least they would say that they they have the green light from the from your successor as afghanistan's wrong and wrong no they didn't even from the off going to go well this is not

states our defense defend russia in a different united states because. every post. 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 warring parties and the mediation you participated in trying to find a solution to the sri lankan conflict then i'm sure you would agree with me that the mediation is a very challenging and often very ungrateful process how do you see yourself in this new overall of the un 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 we. just launched a campaign called clean seas to. norma's presti pollution which are destroying our oceans but also being a mediator and if they. are learning from our maybe ten years trying to. succeed. most of the many other people killed how big. those will. listen to the u.s. when they go there. so essentially what you're saying here is that even if you had

i would agree that the united states cannot really just let it go. if we got to the point where they carry that out. -- where they carried that out. from the north korean 1's, whiche, the b- overup and make dry runs the southern half of the peninsula that they claim is still their territory, theoretically -- this is hostile. we call it a deterrent. they consider it provocation. essentially, we are both right. if they go through with this, they are stepping it up significantly. the united states would have to figure out a way to respond in kind. i would argue in the most restrained and yet still strong way possible. i do not think we want to get to that point, though. let's say we fire a couple of coast of thethe north korean, essentially do the same thing of and then pulling -- of enveloping fire. both sides can pretend we are not at war yet, but where do we go from there? i think we want to head this off. not get to the point where they go through with the bomb plan -- and move on with a kind of diplomacy that i am happy to hear patrick cronin is sa

turn the united states into a "sea of fire" and saying the united states would suffer "its final doom." but kim jong-un himself has not said a word. even the regime's threat to test a missile off the coast of guam was issued by a north korean general and trump tonight asked about north korea's threat made the point loud and clear, he wants to hear the tough talk from him himself. he said "let me hear kim john un say it, okay? he hasn't been saying much for the last three days, you let me hear him say it" perhaps giving north korea an off ramp. athena jones is out front near where the president is staying in bedminster, new jersey. is anyone inside the trump inner circle worried about the president's continued rampup of rhetoric against north korea? >> hi, erin. if anyone in the president's inner circle is worried about his fiery rhetoric, they're not saying so publicly and if they're expressing that concern to the president privately, he clearly isn't heeding it because we continue to hear this rhetoric several times this week. as you mentioned, five times this week, whether it's on t

at least some understanding of the united states in the world that you do not have in the united states you have germany now opposing u.s. sanctions on russia. 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. you know you could say that over the last four years trump and obama helped make america great again or at least a great threat. one of the countries that views the u.s. as the major threat is turkey it comes amid a rile between the two nato allies but the pentagon recently slamming ankara's our present decision to buy a russian air defense system rather than opting for nato technology washington says the russian equipment could be incompatible with other systems used by the nato alliance generally speaking it's a good idea for allies to buy into or pro

he left the door up for a p premptive strike by the united states. the president also is publicly declaring that he has no plans to fire robert mueller as his russia investigation heats up. fbi said he was surprised the raid of the home of paul manafort. >> and pouring more feud on the top republican in the senate. he called mitch mcconnell's failure to get obama care repeals and replaced a disgrace. this after he posted multiple tweets slamming the majority leader and urging him to get back to work. this hour, i'll talk about the north korea situation with our panelists. first, let's go to sarah murray who is covering the president in new jersey right now. we heard from the president not once but quite today as he facing escalating threats from north korea. >> that's right, wolf, in a rare and unexpected move, he took questions from the press today and he made clear he has no plans to tone down his rhetoric when it comes to north korea. >> i will tell you this, north korea better get their act together or they will be in trouble like few nations eve

the united states says, oh, threat. it's a threat if this new government is going to sort of align with the soviet union then that's a problem that needs to be rectified when they assassinated him, so i don't really need to know for you to see that kind of conflict into which these african american ambassadors were stepping as kind of the face of the united states in africa, kind of putting the best foot forward even while the united states foreign policy was doing something praps a little bit less than savory talking about ñ the cold war context. you cannot think about these traveling throughout the world let alone africa without situating that firmly within the cold war. there is other -- context too. there is no surprise that you have african american musicians in africa trying to best face ton united states. there is also context of vietnam which is going rather badly for the united states. the mood has soured about u.s. foreign policy generally. it put some of these on rather awkward position to feel like they are

quite frankly if you enter the united states illegally, you are removable from the united states, without a visa or permission. if you come over with a visa and overstay you are removable as a judge. it's not up to me to decide whether it's the right or wrong thing to do. the one thing i'll tell you is it you allow individuals who enter the united states illegally to remain in the united states illegally, as unmolested as jonathan sandwig said likely would happen to individuals who simply entered the united states illegally. you're going to get more of them and this docket will swell. that's what we're talking about today. why is the backlog so high? because we weren't enforcing the immigration laws against people we created perverse incentives for people to smuggle their children to the united states and we created perverse ways to enter the united states illegally. the smuggling fee went way down because people would just simply come across the border and claim credible fear. this was a problem for the smuggling gangs and they didn't have anybody to smuggle because quite frankly, you di

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

you are breaking up the united states. that is your goal. >> they are hostile to each other, and we are a nonviolent movement. california is nonviolent. you know our gun policy. it does not have to be hostile, tucker. we are all still here. >> tucker: why would the rest of us americans lets california go without a war? >> well, i mean, it is really not up to the rest of the states, really, but do the rest of the states really love california from what i have been hearing, from the rest of the states, we are snowflakes and hippies and we do not -- we are in huge debt crisis, the hospitals are overcrowded, although rumors -- >> tucker: those are not rumors, i do not think of californians as hippies or snowflakes, i think of them as poor people because there is more poverty in their state than any other. that is a fact. it is not out to california, it is up to the rest of the states whether california can leave the union. but this could easily turn into conflict. it did in the 1860s when south carolina tried it. have you thou

the united states did not, unlike today, the united states was no arsenal for democracy, let me tell you. the united states sent food and blood and muscle and bone, men to the front to fight in world war i and other parts of the globe, but primarily on the western front, because it did not have the facility 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, trying to recruit men to operate telegraph, telephones and radios, and the size of the font on the radio makes you think it is important but, in fact, the primary instrument of general ship in world war i was the telephone. now, of course, it had been invented in the united states by alexander graham bell who like many great americans was an immigrant. he came from scotland and invented the telephone over here. it was superior at this time than these other technologies because, first of all, the telegra

the united states capitol statuary hall collection. however, it is up to those states to decide who they select. now, states can put a statue in, they can take a statue out. they can only have two at one time. so it is not quite clear now, if congress itself can actually force a state to remove a one of its statues. interestingly enough, only a couple of years ago, president obama was here when they placed the statue of rosa parks inside a statuary hall. fittingly and symbolically, they placed that statue of a seated rosa park as directly across statuary hall looking directly into the eyes of jefferson davis. jim and shawn. >> mean as lot.

what is peculiar to the united states is mr trump. during the campaign he was really playing with fire, he ran a really very xenophobic and racist campaign in my view and that xenophobia and racism has really energised the radical right in an ugly way in our country and we saw that in full display in charlottesville a week ago. so to be clear about this, you are the boss of one of the highest profile civil rights organisations in the united states today, are you saying that president donald trump is an out and out racist? i don't know mr trump... i don't know what's in his heart. all i do know is his actions have been racist. they've been racist for quite some time. as some of your viewers may know, mr trumpjumped on the birther bandwagon, claiming perhaps president obama wasn't born in this country. that was a true racist canard. not only did hejump on it but he lied about it repeatedly, saying things like he had sent investigators to hawaii and we were going to be amazed at what they saw and what they found. none of it was true. the

in the destination country, canada or united states. an important commercial partner or investment, investor or shareholder. >> thank you. >> could we hold on for a question from the floor, operator? go ahead, catherine. >> the us and mexico said they want to finish negotiations if possible because of upcoming elections in both countries. if you could comment on if that is a realistic timeline and if you could comment on longer negotiations that are drawn out impacting agricultural markets. >> discussed this at lunch. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: mexico is two plans. the first one is to conclude the renegotiation or modernization of the agreement as soon as possible. affecting the dissent of the free trade agreement. the idea will be we will be finished at the end of january. but it is not -- we will wait until the timing and essence the treatment will come. understanding that nafta will continue operating, we will wait. we say in aviation, in the case -- a very improbable case that the united states decides to leave nafta

in other words, when you're president of the united states. so i studied afghanistan in great detail, and from every conceivable angle. after many meetings, over many months, we held ourfinal meeting last friday at camp david, with my cabinet and generals, to complete our strategy. i arrived at three fundamental conclusions about america's core interests in afghanistan. another aspect is integration of diplomatic, military and other power towards a successful outcome. someday, after an effective military effort, perhaps it will be possible to have a political settlement which includes elements of the taliban in afghanistan. but nobody knows if or when that will ever happen. america will continue its support for the afg ha n will continue its support for the afghan government, and the afghan military, as they confront the taliban in the field. well, we know that president trump has spent months deliberating on this, but it is interesting that he has evolved, to use one word. what do you think made him change his mind? i think the complexities o

the united states congress. second, taiwan democracy and economic development, rebuild economy, rebuild democracy. don't forget, the u.s. has a lot of economic with taiwan. have to advise taiwan's authority. what kind of policies of -- with china. need to help the people in taiwan -- i just like use my presentation to let you know these very important three scenarios in taiwan, and don't just look at the so-called rhetoric you. you have to look, really look deep, into what happened in taiwan and you can know whether it is your efforts or liability. that's my presentation. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. russell chow. >> first of all, thank you, dean, walter, and the heritage foundation for the invitation to speak her at this timely event. heritage is a special place for me because actually over a decade ago i cut my teeth here at a young intern, and so for me this is sort of a homecoming, to be able to speak on this stage and with such a distinguish ed group of co-panellities itch want to

mexico sends 80% of its exports to the united states and depends on market access to the united states in a very specific way. trade is pretty balanced that as a proportion of the economy that depends on trade and a bilateral trading relationship, mexico depends more. that means when mexico started to hear during the campaign, candidate when the workingd, that it's mexicowas at risk, to think seriously about how it would manage the prospect and the threats to withdraw from nafta. in a sense, the trump administration has been pretty consistent in the language they put forward. they will seek to renegotiate. early on it was a little different, but early on, we had that language. the basic response and we are starting to hear it from mexico in terms of strategy is that mexico had a concern that just in economic negotiation and trade negotiation, mexico may not have the leverage it needs to get to an acceptable outcome, to maintain market access to the united states. things like a need to have a comprehensive dialogue and a discussion about the future of the entire relationship. we've hear

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

states signed a formal priest treaty with north korea to korea and secondly united states ended war games on north korea's border and began to call out its own eighty three bases on the korean peninsula and do you believe it's true that north korea is not attached to having nuclear weapons if peace can be achieved. i think that's absolutely clear lead during the clinton administration they made very strong concessions to. centrally stop their nuclear program when george w. bush became president he called the u.s. out of that agreement so once again like the american indians used to say washington speaks with a forked tongue and that's been the experience repeatedly for north korea and do you think pete between the u.s. and north korea can happen and if yes how so. well i think the only way it's really going to happen is if people in this country america begin to really understand something about the history of the korean war where is the north koreans called it the american war and. the people in this country begin to speak out. to our government demanding that they stop these aggre

and other parts of the united states at the time did not belong to the united states like the french colonies and louisiana for example, or florida or texas all of them had slaves so when the europeans first arrived when they colonized the native people themselves are also participating with the enslavement. >> host: as we move south when is it abolished like massachusetts or new york? was that leading up to the civil war?. >> the of revolution did end slavery to a certain extent in the united states so we see lord dunmore in 1776 in virginia say the fight for the british you can keep your freedom that is one of the first emancipation and proclamations that he did to get soldiers because he did not have any. so trying to figure out what the heck to do so i better take advantage of these people who want to be free so that was one of the first "emancipation proclamation" that the same time the revolution brought a kind of moral conflict to those who were the founders of our nation and people began to abandon the institution of slavery in the northeast say you can see where slavery had

what is the united states? the united states is a republic. a republic. an island of republican practice in a sea of monarchies and dictatorships. what kind of an example do we think we're setting as a republic if we tolerate slavery? in fact, encourage its growth? what are we saying about the very idea most precious to all of us and that is the idea of republican government in which all men are created equal and in which the people are sovereign? doesn't that suggest that republicanism is a fraud? how can you talk about sovereignty of the people and then take a big chunk of the people and then say they can never participate? why do they do that? doesn't that make republicanism laughable? i mean, least the monarchs are consistent. give them credit. you know? the king of barateria says, i am the king, you do what i say, you jump when i say, and ask how high on the way up. there's no attempt by a king to put a sugarcoating around monarchy. but here we are as a republic, we're supposed to be enunciating this enlightenment principle of the sovereignty of the

the number of people in the united states is at a record high. one in four americans, almost one in four americans in the ages between 25 and 54 are not even employed. , males-american workers' with a diploma, has plummeted 40% points since the mass wave of unskilled migration began. the reality is that come if you just use common sense -- yes, i will use common sense -- the reason why some companies want to bring in more unskilled labor is because they know it reduces wages and labor costs. our job as a country, to is our duty? to a u.s. workers. if low skilled immigration was an unalloyed good for the economy, why we having growing at 1.5% for the last 17 years at a time of unprecedented new low-wage arrivals? the facts speak for themselves. hand, like i said, you have alter high school workers who are at the back of the line, which makes no sense in the year 2017. let me go to neil monroe. targeting the black unemployment rate which is historically higher than the average american? is that what you are looking at? doubt, verye is no sad and ve

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 but 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 this across you know i had a chance to to talk. the head of the u.n. environmental program a short while ago and even he says that you know whether trunk likes it or not is not 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 minister 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 be off federal bureaucracy that are meant to support him from the state depar

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

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

states and russia since congress's latest round of sanctions and north korea threatens the united states mainland with a nuclear strike as u.n. unanimously votes to sanction the country and vice president mike pence categorically denies claims by the new york times he will run for president in two thousand and twenty i met charles reporting tonight from the r. t. do is room this is the news on r t america. good evening france we start tonight with a high level meeting between two diplomats from the united states and russia secretary of state rex tillerson met with russian foreign minister surgery lever off during a meeting of the association of southeast asian nations over the weekend the meeting was the first since congress passed a new set of sanctions against russia rex tillerson criticized the damage done to us russian relations by alleged russian hacking into the two thousand and sixteen elections commander in the elections has asserted serious incident we talked about in the discussion we had with mr lavrov yesterday and trying to help them understand just how serious this is and i

the destination country, canada or united states. some important commercial partner or investment, investor or shareholder. >> thank you. >> can we hold on for a question from the floor, operator? go ahead. >> both the us and mexico said they to finish negotiations as soon as possible, ideally by next year because upcoming auctions in both countries. if you could comment on whether that is a realistic timeline and if you could comment on longer negotiations that are drawn out, the agricultural markets, thank you. >> mexico has two plans. for first is to conclude the negotiation or modernization of the agreement as soon as possible. affecting the sense of the free trade agreement. the idea will be we will be finished in january. it is not we will wait until the timing and essence of the treatment will come. the understanding that nafta will continue operating, we will wait. we say in the aviation, in a few cases in the very -- the case -- the united states decides to please nafta, mexico, with omc. >> one comment. >> i am caught in th

the united states today possesses somewhere around 800 u.s. military bases outside the 50 states and washington, d.c., and that is a number that comes from a list the pentagon puts together periodically. their total runs to around 700 but i have been able to detail scores of bases that are simply left off, secretive bases. the total is somewhere around 800 bases worldwide in 80 countries, and unprecedented collection of military bases on other people's soil. it is incredibly important to point out that of course guam is u.s. soil, however the u.s. military and others treated as effectively a foreign country. one major general speaking to reporters said, we can do what we want here, and essentially the military has treated guam and the people of guam that way for decades. guam is a colony. people were not embarrassed in washington and the 50 states, were not embarrassed in past decades to call guam a colony. it is called a territory, but it is a colony. the people effectively have a kind of third class citizenship. they cannot vote for presiden

states, one much them, the interior of the united states. how in the hell did u.s. intelligence and presidents of the united states permit this to happen? >> this is something that dan coats ought to get into. the failures and dangers that we are in here now is replicated in iran and god knows what other countries have dpn through the 67orio. we have to deal with north korea. we don't have a lot of time now. trumps got to deal with it in the next year or six months. and the failures are going to haunt us elsewhere. >> lou: i am listening to idiotic statements. the democratic party, whose party whom they elected in 2008 and neglected national security and created extraordinary vulnerabilities in our national security was seemingly every inat the present time to open ourselves up to north korea, and to iran. this is a striking result of eight years. i've listened to a number of former officials of that administration, blattingering about the next decade and they have a plan for it. it is it just asinine and yet they keep taking the nonsense an

both the united states and japan are committed to the realignment of u.s. forces in japan, which seeks to maintain operational and determine capability while limiting the impact on local communities. i welcome the resumption of the plan to construct the replacement at the camp -- hinosaki waters. it voices the continued use of the marine corps air station. we hope to avoid further delays that will impede our ability to provide peace and security to japan and the region. we do express our sincere appreciation to okinawa for hosting u.s. personnel and for playing a central role in the u.s.-japan alliance. the united states and japan will continue our shared resolve to protect our citizens and work for security and stability in northeast asia. our conversations today reaffirmed that we are stronger and more secure when we work together and we will continue that course of action.

states and iran or the antagonism between the united states and north korea you know one should be i think quite sober minded when dealing with these conflicts but mr trump seems i think hell bent on somehow provoking war either with north korea all with iran the question of iran i think is very serious mr trump has made it clear to his inner circle that when the next round of the certification for the nuclear deal takes place which is in october is most likely going to be nicer to be creations if you deny certification which now seems pretty certain he would send that denial to the u.s. congress and then within a few months a speech will open up for mr trump to undertake some kind of military action against iran and if the united states believes that military action against iran is going to come with no retaliate ssion i think it should be quite clear that it it's mistaken because it looks you know like the iranians have built up it by listing rifat of capability and they have already said that they would like a hundred kilometer you know breathing space or radius from the iranian b

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

if kim jong-un gives the green light, unless you believe that the united states was prepared to take unilateral force against north korea, i wasn't anticipating and indeed, if you read literally the words of the commander of the north korean rocket forces, it was a deterrent signal. i'm not saying that because of that, you simply accept the words from a north korean senior official, but you know, i think that we went in the space of a few days from the implication, particularly with all due respect in the media, that we were on the cusp on the biggest crisis since cuba in 1962, to a kind of an all-clear signal that came a few days later. so we're sort of whipsawed in that context. now, were the north koreans sufficiently alarmed that they would have acted otherwise? i don't know. i mean, you know, it's -- again, i can't emphasize enough that, and this may come as a surprise, and i think it's a horrendous regime, you know, i know anyone who is familiar with what i've written over the years about north korea, but there's much more prudence in the actual initiatio initiation wrdz they o

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're 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 speak so recklessly and sort of impulsively only helps to underscore a lot of those those anxious tensions it's a busy monday for news here and also international we are back in just a moment. in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around court. confirmations from washington to washington to meet. the. voters elected to run this country business if. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. anyone else seems wrong but i. just don't. get to shape o

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

we need the votes in the united states senate. we protect families right here in massachusetts when we do that . we fight for our values. that is the best way i know to make a strong, to make our voices heard and to protect us here in massachusetts. your point.ear it is scary. i can everyone hears this. donald trump got elected promising he would work for working people. andthen he turns around heore he is even sworn in, chooses someone from goldman sachs to run the economy. they have enough goldman sachs bankers and the white house to open a branch. these are the guys, let's roll back these regulations. if we had fewer regulations over folks like goldman sachs, what could possibly go wrong? no one remembers what happened in 2008. keep going from there. it has been the same thing with workers. the promise, we will be there for workers. says, let's change it easier forke federal contractors to steal wages from their workers. let's roll back the rules that will protect employees from being exposed to things that cause horrible disea

and drive a wedge between south korea and the united united states. north korea has not done that which is very surprising. >> from usa today. i am hearing two threads of this conversation and one has to do with the possibility of regime change and the other one is kind of talking about the end point, where does this situation wind up? i'm hearing two threads, talk about regime change or regime collapse and talk about possible negotiations. i just want to make a couple of observations, nuclear states don't go away. they do not get invaded. of nuclearory so far states, south korea doesn't really, you just mentioned, they don't really want to fight with north korea. korea but talk to the united -- the north koreans, my understanding is they want to not talk to south korea but talk to the united states directly. if these talks were to happen, that this came up in this conversation, what is the end point? be about andey what would be on the table? again, my understanding is that the north koreans their ultimate , goal is for the united states not to be on

states said yesterday and until the president of the united states comes to us, has a conversation with us, and convinces us that he regrets what he said yesterday, and understands the errs of his way and going to work for a more inclusive america, we're not going to pass any of his legislation, and nothing will get done. they need to do that. they can do that. they have the power to do that. read the constitution. the house of representatives itself holds the checkbook. nothing gets done without the house and the senate okaying it, willie, and at this point, if this doesn't force them to do it, to come out and show courage, then absolutely nothing will, because mike's right. donald trump not ohm doesn't understand america, not only doesn't understand america, he doesn't understand the people that elected him president of the you state. he's focusing on a small group of bigots, neo-nazis white supremacists. the people who voted for him a lot of working class americans that have seen their paychecks dwindle year after year over the last 30 years and donald trump promised that he could ma