the floor. >> mr. president, this is immigration week in the united states senate and we are preparing with today's procedural moves to bring bills for for consideration as early as today and perhaps tomorrow at the latest. it is an unusual time in the senate is focused on such an issue in actual bipartisan amendment and substitutes were being offered. the reason we a are at this poit and at this moment in time was because of a decision by president trump on september 5th of last year when he announced there was ending the doctor daca program. it was a program graded by by executive order that allowed those have been brought to the united states as children, infants and toddlers to be able to stay legally in the united states on a temporary visa renewable every two years. it was called daca and 780,000 young people stepped up, paid the filing fee of almost $500 and went through a criminal background check and interview and received daca protection. they went on with her life and 91% of them went to work. or to school, 900 of them enlisted in the united states military. they w

who says the united states taxpayers wasted seven trillion dollars in the middle east why should it be involved i have no time for trump or not that far ahead nor for war monger clinton. both clintons so really u.s. policy in iraq and announced it all the law clinton would hide it in much sweeter words that after the oil in iraq after its resources and it was clinton who exposed the fact that the united states more or less created al qaeda forces whether. the middle east in general so why does the present iraqi government allow the continued so-called occupation james dimaggio has been emphasizing the dangers of a semi permanent force it shouldn't just be the united states. presumably protecting the oil or whatever it is you would contend why do the iraqi government what is baghdad do with it i think the iraqi government is handicapped let's put it this way it is facing enormous u.s. pressure the united states has proxy forces in iraq more or less but is on the special forces and iraqi kurdistan allied to the united states and the united states i was just announced they will continu

calling the shots for the united states or anyone else. it is a group of sovereign states, the world and fall, led by the united states, who built the world after the end of the aroundworld war alliances, the united nations system, a system to deal with international and comics and finance, and the basic purpose of this set of institutions and partnerships is to manage disputes so we do not get into wars, to mobilize cooperation to do with challenges like climate change and nuclear floor affiliation, and set standards around aviation or maritime security so that we are all working off of the same page in a world where there is so much interconnection in the country. it is changing. in the years after the second world war, the locusts of cooperation centered around the nato, theions like world bank. today because things are so much messier and more complicated, there is a much more informal and diverse set of institutions. you have the paris climate agreement on nuclear nonproliferation, you have world powers coming together in an informal way to deal with the nuclear challenge. global he

leader, the governor of indiana, and is now the vice president of the united states. on behalf of all of my hard-working colleagues, we are honored to welcome to the stage mike pence. [applause] welcome back. vice pres. pence: thank you. mike: you were just telling us that the olympics, you realize that you are good at to winter sports, sledding and skiing. if i get upence: the slopes without anything being broken, i think it is a gold medal. in addition to the offices i mentioned at the top, you were a statewide radio host in indiana. used to cut yourself rush limbaugh on decaf. yourself, thisto would be so awesome. vice pres. pence: i do. how did you know that where i started out? that was a little radio station. i started out doing a washington update on wednesday nights, one day week. it did grow into a daily radio program that i thought might actually be my career in broadcasting radio and television. the opportunity came along to run for congress on martine. -- one of more time. now i am sitting with u.s. vice president of the united states. it is all very humbling to me. mike:

i mean if this is the united states i mean it's interesting the area of northern syria there that's really serious all is ok and denying syria the ability to rebuild is when in fact you know telling the entire world that they will be sanctioned if you give money to the government in damascus to rebuild another round of sanctions against rebuilding a country that the united states is it has a great deal of responsibility for destroying in the first place go ahead in london well i believe the united states realized they were defeated in syria been a project in syria was completely defeated and russia got the upper hand. stage i mean it could be that the building of syria again so at least building needs money and syria needs the oil gaz which is and instead of that is where the oil fields are situated so it seems that america would like to prevent syria prevent that action from actually putting their hands on the old reserves that is there so i don't think they will succeed here i have a lot of. information saying that the next stage could be actually their war against american forces

pleading guilty to conspiracy against the united states and lying to federal investigators. all things considered this works looks like a good deal for gates as it substantially reduces the number of charges against him. only yesterday he was facing a 32 count indictment on top of the the indictment he had not pletd guilty to. if gates begins cooperating and potentially testifies against his business partner, what will paul manafort do? could donald trump's former campaign chairman change his plea as well? which leads us to our big question today. what does it mean for the president of the united states? we're going to see him in just a couple minutes in the east room having a bilateral press conference with the prime minister of australia. so far, though, donald trump has been silent on this. he's refused to answer reporters' questions. he will no doubt be asked about it again in just a moment. as you can see, looks like this is ramping up as a number of very senior officials within the donald trump administration have now arrived in the east room. kellyanne conway, gary cohen, tim bo

accept a reasonable -- than accept a reasonable compromise with the president of the united states. now, even though this week has been squandered, this does not have to be the end of our efforts to resolve these matters. i would encourage members to put away the talking points, to get serious about finding a solution that can actually become law. i remain eager to improve our immigration policy. if a solution is developed in the future that can pass both the house and the senate and be signed into law by the president, it should be considered. but for that to happen, democrats will need to take a second look at these core elements of necessary reform. now, mr. president, i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar 623, elizabeth branch. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby

-qaeda's vision for the world. the united states respects the people of afghanistan, but we condemn the taliban regime. by sponsoring and sheltering and supplying terrorists, the taliban regime is committing murder. they will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate. - [narrator] us troops have been in afghanistan for more than 15 years, making it the longest war in american history. the september 11th attacks prompted washington and nato to send forces to neutralize the al-qaeda terrorist organization and the taliban regime that sheltered them. the architect of those attacks, osama bin laden, is dead, but the taliban has rebounded. as washington and nato pivot away from afghanistan, the ability of the government and security forces to maintain stability will be tested. afghanistan, next on great decisions. - [announcer] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. - [narrator] afghanistan sits at the crossroads of the middle east, russia, and s

on top of the three major investigations already underway in the united states guy's name is jerrold nadler he thinks the current administration is not doing enough to address the threat which he described as being equivalent to bullets we ought to protect ourselves this is a very severe threat and this is as much an attack on the united states as if there were bombs and bullets this is an attack on our essential governing structure amid the continuing allegations of russia toys one of the investigators on the senate intelligence committee now has found himself in broad controversy jacqueline bukas . in case you haven't noticed the democratic party is very worried about big bad russia the film portals into our society the kremlin claim and russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the s

relationship, frankly, that is at risk. as president and ceo of the united states hispanic chamber of commerce i have the honor of representing 4.4 million hispanic owned firms in cistron trithat together contributed over $700 million to the american economy every year, and witness whether it's in the hall-of-congress, state capitols, the white house, or corporate headquarters, our organization puts the hispanic business commune at the forefront of our nation's economic agenda. how appropriate that we are gathered at the national press club, because it is no secret that our first amendment right to freedom of the press is under attack. today with the help of pulitzer prize winning journalist mary jordan we'll can didly commit ourselves to truth. no fake news. no alternative facts. thank you sincerely also to all the other members of the media who have joined us here today. we have over 34 media outlets from all over the world. finally, on behalf of thity hispanic chamber we extend-under utmost gratitude to the honor vicente fox. his legacy speaks speaks of hig, reducing corruption and

for decades. but there is an opportunity for the united states, and to growarly, the states this relationship further. this whole meeting is highlighting how the united states -- how governors in their states are leaders and innovation. president akufo-addo's focus on developing ghana's infrastructure, agriculture and energy industry, states can play a role and leverage innovations we have made in those sectors. i know i speak for all of my fellow governors when i say we are excited to hear how we can work together to grow our economies. before introducing the president, first we will see a short video on ghana. [video clip] >> west africa's second-largest economy, ghana. ♪ a place of immeasurable beauty, vast resources, and a warm people. when i think about ghana, i think about the potential. >> ghana is a gateway of west africa. because, anything ghana does, other countries start following. >> if you are new to the continent, it would be a great place to start. ghana is not difficult. >> ghana is always one of the top three priority countries and africa. it is hard for anybod

to the united states and for also those of us who has followed australian politics is someone who is well known as a former minister in a number of different portfolios and small business and tourism and human services and employment workplace relations and of course, lastly as treasurer of the commonwealth equivalent of finance minister and secretary of the treasury. he was served as the chair of the g-20 finance ministers in 2014 and a membership of the leadership in 2015. he was also a regular delegate to the imf and the asian development bank and a.p.e.c. meetings. in other words, he's been around and he's in a great position to talk to us today about trade in the asia pacific and how the australians are. ambassador? [ applause ] thank you very much, sean. >> and to you, ken, thank you so much for hosting even though it is in our embassy and it is a great pleasure to be here and i'm happy to talk about cricket, but i think most of the crowd here wouldn't understand what we're talking about so i'll leave it to another day. australia is unapologetically supportive of free trade. we

weaker than the united states but it can be compensated by by some. what i'm asking you about is the propensity of the russia to produce these ad hoc actions what you're saying is that the russian state sometimes outsourcing is that but i think also what many foreigners don't understand is this call which the russian system allows for personal and sometimes even eleven and malevolent initiative yeah absolutely that's what i wanted to say and sometimes it is the case that. the state is using it but in many other cases this is a strange mixture of private initiative commercial initiative sometimes there are people with some political views. they they do it then maybe believe the russian state but it's not a development i'm certain see that the russian state the kremlin may cheer upon without actually the kremlin for asking the kremlin first absolutely and to believe that mr putin. controlled. with what is happening in russia or. would be the case with our society is much much much worse organized and i think. competency when it comes to social media is rather questionable it is well kn

bringing over 1500 x nazis to the united states. the reason was called paperclip interestingly is because whenever there was a file, they thought that the americans in particular were interested and they would put up paperclip on one corner of the dossier. that would signal to have was looking at it that the prison was important. and the person was worthwhile. secondly, it told them, not look too deep into this persons record if they are a nazi or have some other criminal element to them. because we need them. simply saying, do not investigate this person too much. which i think is the hardest why the paperclip is controversial. because so many will brought over with those backgrounds. >> obviously, there have been tremendous breakthroughs in atomic energy. but we were not nearly as advanced in the aeronautics as the germans had seemed to be. the germans invented a fuel based long-range rocket which did little to help them win the war. in fact it was a terror weapon but the technology was identified as something that if mass-produced, could be the future of warfare. the germans ha

. talks. as far as the sentients are concerned of course the united states want to try the sanctions and use military coercion is what i mean solving international issues it depends on what kind of what the united states has with. the united states obviously one that north korea has to abandon its nuclear arsenal have found the oldest capabilities to develop nuclear weapons and long distance to do business with and that's something which i don't think this is really except that. then we're back to square one and back to confrontation as collation but all the other hand it's quite possible that some agreement reached i mean. the united nations security council has passed a new resolution calling for a cease fire across war torn syria and it's in response to a surge in violence in eastern which is occupied by both the rebels and. just starts the capital damascus will the truce must be implemented without delay and will last for thirty days it's hoped it will allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated from conflict zones and for much needed aid to reach other stricken regions a number

all of the horribly injured, the united states and australia are honoring 100 years of mateship, a term you use very beautifully, mr. prime minister. a century has passed since americans and brave australians fought together in world war i. our partnership has thrived as a bulwark of freedom, security, and democracy. last spring, the prime minister and i celebrated the 100 year milestone during an extraordinary evening on the uss intrepid. some of my friends who are in the room today -- hello folks. stand up, greg, stand up, anthony. where is anthony? that was a great evening. thank you. i am pleased to announce we will name combat ship 30 the uss canberra in honor of australian crews who lost lives serving along the u.s. navy in world war ii. i know the uss canberra will be a worthy successor to both her worthy namesake and her american predecessor, the former navy baltimore class. as she sails the open sea, the new uss canberra will symbolize to all who cross her path the enduring friendship between the united states and australia. today strengthened by our common values and hist

one, of course, is the united states, and president macri said he wanted to chart a new course with washington because after 1a years and the presidency of de kirchner and then his wife cristina, the relations between argentina and the united states have been extremely poor. are they good now? well, we have done a lot of work together, both countries, and we have improved a lot in our political dialogue. we are in a permanent dialogue with the united states on differenc issues. we are having good economic relations. in a few days we will receive secretary of state rex tillerson. we have had the visit of the vice president of the united states. we have a dialogue which is a constructive one, recognising the differences that we have. a constructive dialogue with the united states, ata time when you have donald trump in the white house, saying he wants to build a wall to keep the mexicans out. a former centrist colombian president said that this is a wall that will separate us latin americans from the united states, because if you affect mexico, you affect latin america. so you, argent

is the united states i mean it's interesting the area of northern syria that could run that's really where the syria's oil is ok and denying syria the ability to rebuild is when in fact you know telling the entire world that they will be sanctioned if you give money to the government in damascus to rebuild another round of sanctions against rebuilding a country that the united states has a great deal of responsibility for destroying in the first place go ahead in london well i believe united realized they were defeated. it in syria been a project in syria was completely defeated and russia got the upper hand. to stage i mean it could be that the building of syria game so that lead building needs money and syria needs. the gas which is in eastern of the desert or where the fields are situated so it seems that america would like to prevent syria prevent that i shammed from actually putting their hands on the old reserves as it is so i don't think they will succeed here i have a lot of. information saying that the next stage could be actually i war in their war against american forces i

of the united states army 5th division in the world war i in the trenches. he was a medical doctor and right out there on the front lines doing the triage for the wounded. he had the difficult task of saying that we can't save that one. i remember that he had the tin army hat with the red diamond of the 5th division on it in our library, and it was -- he had admonished us, my brother and myself, i only wear that hat. that of course, was a challenge to my brother and i to steal it at any time we could and wear it. but, so i grew up with a wonderful man who had served and seen that war and now in the opportunity of my final years of life to share with you and many others an interesting afternoon like this with five individuals who have given their careers over for a minute to put together a monologue and to share with you their own information on a vital subject. i thought that how best to prepare my very few remarks, and i went back and read about three bookses, and one of them was john eisenhower's book, and that bring brings me to just a little bit of the personal message that i'd

correspondent in washington alexandra phenomenon alexandra a lot of people in the united states watching waiting to see what the first charges of robert mueller would be now we have that we have these dozens of pages of this indictment detailing this russian operation to influence the u.s. election what are we to make of it. well it is indeed a very sensitive eighteen court document and we have never seen this level of details so we are talking here sort of evidence that there has been indeed russian meddling in the elections the indictment or according to these indictments thirteen russian citizens and three russian entities committed federal crimes in order to saw to in order to undermine the public trust in the political system in order to interfere in a very interesting and we'll known in this name in this document it is the name of guinea pro goes in it is a russian oligarch who is said to be member of the kremlin's inner circle and according to the indictments he is the one who has found an organization in theaters book who is accused of trying to interfere in the u.s. election so it seems

their family members to come over to the united states lawfully on a green card to come and work permanently in the chain migration goes back over 70 years and it is a phenomenon going back throughout history even with open borders often times the wage earner comes first gets a job and sense for the family then they send for their family and the first person to go through ellis island was a young minor child weeding up with her family here in the united states. legally family sponsorship or reunification wasn't part of the law until 1921 when congress put high quotas on immigrants outside of northwestern europe those of the spouses and the minor children. and to be expanded greatly is a major portion of the americane immigration system. >> has it work as intended? >> not at all. with unintended consequences one is for those immediate relativess but that accounts for 40% of all immigrants in the united states but yet another portion accounts for an additional 20% but when family sponsorship was expanded it was done by people who wanted to keep american immigration coming from euro

before the break we were talking about the united states finally returning to the territorial principle of tech taxation and some would argue that the. americans want to take it there even further there is another standing initiative aimed at the repatriation of taxes i'm talking about before an account tax compliance act which compels non the u.s. financial institutions to report on the assets of both u.s. citizens and the u.s. residents worldwide do you think trump is likely to make it work and don't you think that perhaps this territorial principle. may be taking way too far with essential of the extraterritorial nature of that act well i think think there are actually two quite different things moving us corporations to a territoriality based system of taxation with regard to global trading activity is one thing. the foreign account tax compliance a whole fat corrosive snow was directed at something quite different that was directed at ensuring that u.s. citizens who are also tax on a citizenship basis. as were u.s. corporations pay taxes on overseas and so what fat did was ensure t

president the united states post the press a button then and then you find out of the fabricated fake story i mean i find this a trigger and this in this is what the nightmare of the nuclear age was all about is that who's got their their thumb on the button here i mean so somebody taxes impress structure and you use nuclear weapons is that rational go ahead. russian. my opinion if there's a precedent there's a person and for the very first star in the americas explicitly in. trying to block my ass and saying that it will use a nuclear response to. attacks it is a precedent so when you look at the language how you know it is created the structure i mean in the sense of. you know what sort of threats america has obviously it is exaggerating the nuclear power cup abilities of of china are obviously this whole report is aimed at russia you shouldn't be. other way it is aimed at russia is from the very beginning and we should know that even though that many proppants of donald trump were. supportive though it's him saying he's the man who is facing obstacles in the white house he's trying to yo

committee has met in open forum to discuss the security threats facing the united states of america. this has never been, nor will it ever be, a comfortable conversation to have. the threats this country face are complex, involving, and without easy answers. domains,t in multiple they are asymmetrical and unconventional, they can be launched from across the ocean or be planned in the heart of our homeland. this conversation serves a vital purpose and it is essential that it takes place in the public square with as much detail and can door as if possible. in my view, that is the true value and public service of this hearing. it provides the american people with insight that they do not normally get. those insights are about the spectrum of threats we are up against as a nation. importantly, those insights are also about the work that the intelligence community does to push back on those threats. this is work that both time and -- this is work that is both time and labor intensive. thankless, but because of the tireless dedication and patriotism of mend and women who make up our intelligenc

australia's ambassador to the united states. he also for those of us who have followed australian politics, is someone who is well-known as a former minister in different portfolios including financial services, employment and workplace relations and lastly as treasure of the common welt of finance minister and secretary of the treasury. he served as a chair of the finance ministers in 2014 and a membership of the leadership in 2015. he was also a regular delegate to the world bank, the world development bank and apex meetings. in other words, he's been around and he's in a great position to talk to us today about trade in the asia-pacific and how the australians see it. ambassador. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, shawn. and to you, ken, thank you so much for hosting this event even though it's in our embassy. but it is a great pleasure to be here, and i'm happy to talk about cricket, but i think most of the crowd here wouldn't understand what we were talking about so we'll leave that to another day. let me begin by saying that osstro australia is unapologetically supporters of free trade

country some sympathy with trump who says the united states taxpayers wasted seven trillion dollars in the middle east why should he be involved i have no time for trump or not that far ahead nor for war monger clinton. both clintons so really u.s. policy in iraq and announced it all the clinton would hide it in my much sweeter was that after the oil in iraq after its resources and it was clinton who exposed the fact that the united states more or less created al qaeda forces whether. the middle east in general so why does the present iraqi government allow the continued so-called occupation james dimaggio has been emphasizing the dangers of a semi permanent fortune just be the united states. presumably protecting the oil or whatever it is you would contend why do the iraqi government what is baghdad do with it i think the iraqi government is handicapped let's put it this way it is facing enormous u.s. pressure the united states has proxy forces in iraq more or less better zani special forces and iraqi kurdistan allied to the united states and the united states has just announced they

turkey still considers the united states as an ally if it is the united states that has made no secret of its support for kurdish fighters who are essentially killing your own civilians how is how are they considered to be an ally they're not captured weapons those weapons have been given by the united states to wipe each year so we have actually asked united states not to give the weapons they did we asked them to stop and president trump promised out of that one. too that they will stop giving weapons to this organization and at the last phone conversation between two presidents president trump told the one that they stopped they have stop giving weapons to this organization these rockets this weapons used by y.p. g.n.p. kicking. you know most of them are given by the united states but there are also weapons coming from. different european countries western countries as well or from other countries but the u.s. state department has said that it still considers the y.p. ji as an ally in the fight against ice or doubt and this is my question i mean ok now you're saying there's verbal comm

concern and policy and strategic concern that the united states has from a strategic standpoint and so the u.s. has got to deal with that we not only iraq but we're going to have to also continue in and in afghanistan on top of all that. we haven't had a budget in the defense department for at least two years and it's been under a sequester so there's been a cut off and that's now been lifted at least for two more years and so there's going to have to be reloading the contingency funding that went in and on top of all that we've lost one point eight billion dollars here in recent days and we don't know where it went and when you when you invest in afghanistan a lot of that gets filtered away there's a lot of corruption in the country so and there's been studies by the by the inspector general of a specialized special inspector general on this he says the money's gone nobody knows where it went and this isn't a problem you know i want to follow up on that one so last question i'll go about thirty seconds michael so the president said seven trillion dollars is stupid that we spend all

interfere with the united states political system, including the 2016 presidential election. from the justice department, this is 10 minutes. mr. rosenstein: good morning. the indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere with the united states political system, including the 2016 presidential election. the defendants allegedly conducted what they called "information warfare" against the united states with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system. according to the allegations of the indictment, 12 of the individual defendants worked at various times for a company called internet research company -- research agency llc, a russian company based in st. petersburg. the other defendant funded the conspiracy through companies known as concorde management and consulting llc, concorde catering, and many other affiliates and subsidiaries. the conspiracy was part of a larger operation called project latka. project latka included multiple components, some including domestic

thanks to the influence and ballast provided by the united states. (energetic music) washington's grand strategy of promoting democratic values while backing it up with military might, has been the dominant strategy since world war two. but with renewed russian aggression, and a rising china, is it showing signs of strain? pax americana, the american peace, next on great decisions. (energetic music) - [narrator] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association in association with thompson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers llp. (dramatic music) - [narrator] world history is marked by the rise and fall of empires. some remembered as periods of stability and progress, others for turmoil and war. - [man] this was the great fire in the city of london. (dramatic music) - [narrator] eras when the world was free of great power conflict stand out. pax romana, when the roman empire extended through much of europe. or pax britannica, when the sun never set on the british empire. - the original pax is pax romana, the roman empire and the peace

united states since the coup attempt law right here which seems to have. you had support to overthrow john ging age go ahead in assemble jump in yet. yeah actually you know it's in turkey you know something like forty years we have kurdish problems but this is not really really kurdish problem is tricky. was against not the kurdish people until these people live you know in a very good standards according to if you compare with other countries such as syria iraq and iran but the. p.k. for guerrillas you know or terrorist groups turkish. one of to be problems and they. they are the main cause to kill kurdish people even this take this is a kurdish they claim that this kurdish independence group they killed a lot of kurds in turkey and also turks as well you know. turkey is a state it has no problem with it kurdish citizens in turkey live peacefully and more democratically down in syria iraq and iran if we come to lucy to initiate issue in the beginning turkey would united states and european allies in order to support you know freedom against by shouting assad regime but after after tw

committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the united states political system. this includes the 2016 presidential election. the defendants allegedly conducted with a call to information warfare against the united states with the stated goals of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. according to the allegations of the indictment 12 of the individual defendants worked at various times for a company called internet research agency llc, a russian comedy based in st. petersburg. the other individual defendant you have [inaudible] funded the conspiracy companies known as concorde management and consulting llc, concorde catering and many affiliates and subsidiaries. the conspiracy was part of a larger operation called project [inaudible]. it included multiple components with some involving domestic audiences within the russian in federation and others targeting foreign audiences in multiple countries. internet research agency allegedly obligated to russian shell companies and employed hundreds of people in its online operations ranging from

rachel brand, the associate attorney general of the united states. the associate general serves as the third highest in the department of justice and overseas, among other things, many of the department's efforts to combat human trafficking. nominated by president trump and confirmed by the senate last year, miss brand had an a diverse legal career both in public service and outside of government prior to becoming the associate attorney general. during the administration of president george w. bush she served as white house special assistant to the president and associate counsel to the president. then from 2005 to 2007, nominated by president bush and confirmed by the senate she served as the assistant attorney general for legal policy. her duties as assistant ag diverse, she served as the chief policy advisor to the attorney general. she spearheaded confirmations of the chief justice of united states and samuel alito and coordinated the position's on the repatriate act. in 2012, president barack obama nominated here to serve and the privacy civil liberties privacy board. following co

has said that it is ready for talks with the united states that was announced after the country's officials met with korean diplomats at the games finale. but not everyone was happy to see the north korean delegation there were protests at a site. against the visit scuffles also broke i between some protesters the police in the pen in china specialist long to listen by the controversies that could shadow any north korea u.s. talks. swarovski sentients the concern of course the united states want to try and what the sanctions and use military coercion have moment for the national issues it depends on what kind of a deal the united states. with north korea the united states obviously want but not of koreans to abandon all of its nuclear arsenal at bandon or descriptive it used to develop nuclear weapons and long distance delusionist and that's something which building north korea would necessarily accept if that cannot be struck then we're back to square one and back to confrontation as elation but all the other hand it's quite possible that some agreement may be reached. moving on

born into in -- not even in the united states. it was called the children of god, and you say, you know, hollywood is just another cult. take me back to your youngest years and what you recall from that period. >> yes, christiane. what i recall was called bambini de dios, children of god. my father grew up in a very hectic environment and he was dishonorably discharged from the military which he was very proud of. he said i will not kill another race for this country's lives and i think that's been proven to be true. >> you do also recount, quite painful truths about your youth. you say that your father was abusive to you and you talk about, you know, how you yourself after leaving the cult when you were slightly older was sexually abused. tell us about that part of your life. >> my father was and could be very violent of tongue and body. it was like i would see something come over him and it was a mental illness and it was an undiagnosed mental illness and i was a weird kid and i looked up mental illnesses and i said that's it. that explains a lot. >> you talk about a different ma

squeezing taiwan which is a violation of the spirit of the one china policy that both united states and china have pledged to uphold and we generally hear about the one china policy from chinese but it's not just the united states that has obligations under that policy. china does also and the coercion, those coercive measures, violate china's obligations. i think it is important to remind people of basics. i will make a broader point here that when we have alliances and partnerships in the world people who are experts in the field often take them for granted because the basic formulas are so well-known to the people in the field but what is remarkable when you get to be a certain age is you look back and see that the things that are absolutely rudimentary in the view of some older people are brand-new for the younger people and if we don't regularly and often reaffirm some of these basic points about why we have these relationships and why we have alliances vendor alliances can become unreliable and it is incumbent on people who value these relationships, these long-standing relationsh

united states. so perhaps in the q&a we can talk about korea. korea is extremely important. but there are two other things that are extraordinarily important that are happening in the world that are going to shape the environment that kennedy and khrushchev are seeking to manage. one is the decolonization of the -- what i guess mao first called third world and the developing world. that's a very important event and that is an independent variable from the u.s.-soviet relationship, but it opens up the possibility for the soviets and khrushchev to -- khrushchev sees it as a source of opportunity. the other is a soviet achievement, and that's sputnik. and that changes the nature of the strategic relationship between the united states and the soviet union. as frank mentioned, once the american homeland gets threatened, that raises questions about the extent to which extended deterrence is real. real americans, as frank said, will americans actually put new york at risk for the sake of paris? and that happens because of sputnik. so you have these two destabilizing events that happen -- tha

in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell and "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> at 5:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast we start with breaking news. an invitation for north korea for the president of south korea to visit pyeonongyang. kim jong-un visited moon to visit pyongyang. she and a high-level delegation met with the president on saturday. the first member of the north korea ruling to visit the south since 1953. here you can see her carrying that blue folder. that blue folder containing a personal ledder to president moon. he hopes for betterer relations between the two nations. president moon responded by that invitation by suggesting that the talks should also involve the united states, talks needed there, as well. let's get the very latest on this story with our two correspondents following this story. paula hancock live in pyeongchang and paula newton in seoul. typically when we speak about north korea we're talking about north korean firing a missile and south korea and others responding. this story quite different

our top story: the dowjones has fallen dramatically in the united states. the main index in new york fell by nearly a% — its biggest fall since 2008. this comes after sharp losses at the end of last week. a short time ago the nikkei in tokyo dived 4% as well. the us vice president mike pence is starting a trip to asia which is meant to show solidarity with allies and help south korea celebrate the launch of its olympic games on friday. and this video is trending on bbc.com. home surveillance video shows a dog sneaking a leftover pancake, but by doing so, the ignition button on the stove came on, causing something on top to ignite. luckily the alarm system called first responders before the fire spread — and a friendship ensued. that story is popular on bbc.com. that's all from me now. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi, from the world economic forum in davos. argentina says it wants to re—engage with the world, especially through its presidency of the 620. it wants better ties with washington after

hours. first, why did the united states, why did the united states not rescue the post soviet economy with a marshall plan. the answer basically has been i think already put forward, most recently by bob zellik. basically, it would not work because of the political and economic environment that we were dealing with. remember that the marshall plan itself particularly for post war west germany had the benefit if you want to put it that way of a developed economic culture, albeit a shattered one, and an allied occupation to keep order and enforce rules. the united states did what it could on the economic front with russia. notably working through bilateral and multi lateral institutions to jury rig a safety net to help the vast number of russians who lost the meager benefits of the soviet welfare state. moving along. yesterday it was suggested that arrogant, know it all americans swooped in to patronize the russians on how to build a democracy. in fact, the russians both in the government and in the suddenly virgining civil site under yeltsin pleaded with the united states to he

and how it perhaps, translated into some of the things he did as president of the united states. he gave this house to the american public and made arrangements while president to have this give ton the national park service eventually. so it was his hope and dream that people would come here and learn about him as a person and as president of the united states. >>> next a visit to flank lin's roosevelt top cottage designed by the 32nd president. and located three miles from hyde park. fdr received a number of guests. including britain's king george the six and queen elizabeth. >>> i think fdr used this place as a place to bring these world leaders up to have them let their guards down and focus on some of the major yieissues tha they are here to talk about. when you walked into these buildings, you didn't come in as king, queen, prime minister or first lady. you came in as a friend. it is different than walking into their place of business as a colleague. so going into the white house with fdr and talking about major world events is different than coming up to this very secluded po

-generation american gold medal for the united states in the women's half pipe snowboarding event. her father immigrated from south korea to the united states in 1982, became a dishwasher at a faster restaurant, studied engineering at college and then became an engineer. and then did that to support his daughter snowboarding ambitions driving her five and half hours to s the mountains so congratulations to chloe and the entire family you make united states proud. madam president what we are now undertaking over immigration over the dreamers has become somewhat personal. it has reminded me in a strong way that i am my brother, first-generation with the sons of immigrants who came to this country at the age of 13 without a nickel in his pocket. a young man who was a high school dropout, and did not of english or a particular trade and a few years ago we went to the small town that he can from and it stunned me the kind of courage that he showed and millions of other people showed leaving their homeland to come to a very different world without money in many cases or knowledge of the lang

the united states? we are live from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states, and all around the world. i'm george howell, cnn "newsroom" starts right now. >>> around the world, good day to you. it is 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and the united states is responding to a growing confrontation between israel, iran, and syria. israel saying that it had the right to defend itself. that nation launched attacks on iranian targets inside syria. now these attacks follow the crash of an israeli f-16 warplane after it was hit by syrian anti-aircraft fire on saturday. the downed jet was returning from a raid on what israel says was an iranian command center in syria. we're across the story with our correspondents throughout the region, cnn correspondent oren liebermann live in jerusalem and our senior international correspondent ben wedeman in the lebanese capital of beirut. let's start with you, oren. first of all, what sort of responses are you hearing about this conflict from the united states regarding its key ally in the region?

allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with berty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> permission to address the house the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> on saturday morning, ron parish of yorkville illinois, passed in the open arms of jesus. ron was a lifelong salesman that included nabisco, mccormick spice company and many more. after he retired he served our homeless. ron's people skills served him well in his business and relationships. he was always reaching out to friends and strangers alike. he would ask how he could help and always pointing them to jesus. ron and becky introduced my family to their church, harvest new beginnings and very first to greet us on that god ordained day. it has become our home church. ron was 75 years old and survived by becky, two children, ron junior

government has responded to the call of duty and sent military units on the state to deploy along the border and take part in defending the units you're serious theory three and. the turks well see for yourself and korea's response was explosive loaded and delivered in artillery shells but why did. it go on warned that this would happen no one may help the white b.g. he said as for the kurds themselves seize promised to put them in a chokehold in me a days i need preparation on the ground takes time in the coming days we'll lay siege to city what assad wants is obvious to protect syria's sovereignty and reestablish control prevent more of syria from being devastated but here you have two major anti isis coalition partners terrorist and aggressor as they call each other turkey in the y.p. g a partner in all but name duking it out beating each other to bloody pulp one might ask where is america the head of the us led anti isis coalition. but why you still here. why do these weapons still arrive america is in the process of creating a terror army on our good do not encroach on our borders do no