challenges in the united states. if you step back from it, the idea behind this 232 law and it was written in 1962 and it was a cold war area -- era statute. the notion was we don't want the united states to be overly reliant on imports for critical materials, particularly if those imports come from countries we don't want to rely on in a time of war. you step back and think about that from the perspective of steel, for example. of all the united states steel, 80% of it is domestically made. we are only importing 20% of our steel needs. are we critically reliant on imports for steel? no. arguably. and are we critically reliant on companies we don't want to trust in a time of war? emphatically, the number -- answer is no. our number one supplier is canada, followed by the eu, followed by mexico, followed by japan, followed by brazil. it is our allies providing our steel. in canada, 20% of the steel they send to us his armor plate. of all the countries we are not being harmed in terms of national security would be impo

for the united states because it was a rip off. the now after agreement was signed twenty four years ago between the united states mexico and canada it saw many manufacturing jobs move south to mexico as a result where labor was cheaper one of the worst trade deals ever on the campaign trail trump promised to renegotiate nafta and bring back jobs particularly in the auto sector the new deal will require seventy five percent of an american car to be made in mexico or the united states up from sixty two percent workers making those vehicles must also be paid a minimum sixteen dollars an hour but missing from this latest agreement is canada will start negotiating with canada irrevocably soon they want to start they want to negotiate very badly relations between the two countries have been frosty since trump slapped tariffs on canadian steel and aluminum canada's foreign minister will travel to the u.s. this week to restart negotiations but it's not clear canada will agree to the changes the nafta changes still need to be approved by t

the united states spent in syria. the united states spent trillions of dollars in wars in iraq, destroying iraq, destroying libya, helping the saudis destroy yemen, and to a dirty war in syria. they are the ones who have created this mess. let's bring it back to what is happening inside iran. you have not tried to dispute with me that economic times are tough and there is anger on the streets, we have all seen it. it is interesting to me that certain politicians, particularly former president ahmadinejad, are making calls for president rouhani to go and to go now. and even supreme leader ali khamenei is an it is afflicting a run. it does seem, and i know you don't like all this talk of hardliners against moderates and reformers, but it does seem, in the current context, as though the hardliners are making a concerted effort to regain complete political power in tehran. well, stephen, i am glad that you acknowledge in iran we have different legal parties with different political perspectives that argue with each other

of cuba's proximity to the united states, the united states was a country a first refuge. did not go toes another country and then apply for resettlement in the united states. they went straight to the united states. especially to places like miami. the policy for cuban refugees at this time was that these refugees would began an asylum as part of it bigger anti-castro, anti-communism policy. wereber of requirements imposed on these early refugee populations. these requirements illustrated how the united states pursued its own cold war self-interest. first, as i have already mentioned, the u.s. offered a special welcome for people fleeing communism. is given preference for refugees who are professionals were highly educated. this was in keeping with other immigration laws of the period. ultimately, while welcoming , it had beenple seen as a humanitarian act in these efforts were often censored on the needs of the united states. these images feature refugees who arrive to the united states during this period. the left features displaced persons who are registering at fort o

and while senator mccain represented the united states well, here in the united states senate and in countries around the globe, you could tell that senator mccain cared and loved the people he represented at home. he respected them. he recognized that they were the ones who gave him the opportunity to perform on a national stage. and he never forgot arizonans. i appreciate the way that he and senator flake, his junior colleague from arizona, worked together on behalf of the citizens of his state. so while it would have been easy for john to play only the national figure, he never forgot from where he came. and while much of my comments today have paid my respect to senator mccain for his service to the united states senate, it is his service in the military, in the navy, that is most compelling to me. i've known this story throughout my life and it's been reported and repeated here on the senate floor, but i do not know a person who as a prisoner of war, given the opportunity to be released and to return home to family and loved ones, i do not know a person who would say no. i do no

states on people of the united states because we know the sanctions you know castro never went without a meal because of sanctions you know clinton is not going to be without a meal these aren't things that hit the people at the top they have the people at the bottom so what what hurts us by doing this both to ourselves and to those people around the world. correct to say the theory involved here is that the united states believes that by putting and of financial pressure economic pressure on various countries the people will rise up and get rid of their governments or make their governments change their policies i think that's clearly what we're seeing in the case of iran the threat that the united states is going to put pressure on the iranian people and force them to rise up and get rid of their government we're seeing something like that in turkey a nato ally we've seen this played out over and over again the only thing that's unfortunate about this theory is that doesn't seem to work ready if you if if if you start attacking someone the government and you're an outsider the people

you know make of the united states to be y. d. or p. k. k. in syria these kind of things are more important issues as well especially a coup attempt by fattah like you learn but this is the tip of their problems i think and that's how many points right yeah double thread a point isn't it if we can just concentrate on this one because it has got the interest of washington of course there are reportedly more measures that donald trump is willing to consider how do you think that's going to unfold how much further you see behind its roots again regressing. ok we just got a little bit of a connection issue there with. we'll try and get back to gain peace to ask a few more questions about this topic thank you for. ok it's been almost seventeen years since the united states speak its battle against the afghan opium trade billions of dollars have been spent during the time but what results have been in course the donald's been taking a closer look. this is what an opium poppy looks like just ahead two of these is enough to produce enough heroin to k

the rest of europe the united states and interestingly and importantly russia here and germany is very much in the center of it with the north stream pipeline the second one that's going to be is being built and the americans are pretty perfuse slee against this pipeline because they want to import or export to europe very expensive ellen g. and the germans are recent resisting it and they could face sanctions as we talk announcements could be made this is a very important issue because germany and the european union are actually defacto being denied the ability to determine their energy security it's the u.s. wants to dictate that go ahead michael. well it has to do with russian dominance of it and that's the problem and the u.s. as you point out is a johnny come lately to this the in wanting to ship l.n.g. or liquefied natural gas but the problem for the united states is it only has one port in louisiana that can export and secondly most of the european countries except those along the coast have any elegy capabilities the countries that really really need this kind of gas there are

states or if it is conducted outside the united states to be conducted on terms that are favorable to the united states but that's not how trade works trade is a mutually beneficial transaction if it weren't then the two parties would not would not conduct the transaction in the first place so i think that the attempt to use trade and restrictions on trade in all variety of forms people believe it to be a tool of foreign policy but in fact it can impose cost as much on the imposer as it is imposed as it inflicts on the on the victims of the well and which you know one can elicit i wonder what happens next in the sense. the sanctions are imposed on iran and north korea most probably it's at least these at the least the sort of messages coming out of washington lately and other countries then you have some in the international community to say well we're not going to follow we don't agree with what you're saying we'll continue trade tariffs same pose countries impose its own tears so what happens next is like a vicious circle sanctions leads to more sanctions and terrorists need to moto

said thetries have united states cannot do that, and the united states said you cannot retaliate. so that will be a critical inflection point if and when those decisions get made. the other thing is how does beijing respond. its currency is dropping, that is a big problem. and it is reckoning time. >> james and then stewart. >> just to follow up. you. guys put out something recently sang factory jobs increased since tariffs went into effect. how much of that is coming out of the metals industry itself? are you seeing from those manufacturers that have benefited, what is their reaction to the tariffs and how is that managing? >> good question. , and you can ride steel consumers facing adjustment issues, but when you look at the data, and this is the important thing, when you look at the data, there are a couple of dirty truths. is that the united states is somewhat, but not very, trade exposed. we are the largest consumption economy in the world. we consume a lot. these tariffs made, again, impact some businesses. when you look at the macro picture, it is very good. and in the four

very difficult to make a credible deals with the united states with any future president of the united states who hopefully will be able to recover they'll be able to demonstrate that our political some system has come to its senses but it's going to be difficult now you mentioned before that on a number of strategic and important issues the obama administration and the putin administration despite the lack of very warm personal chemistry between the two leaders they were able to find some degree of compromise they could work together but obviously i think in moscow at least there is a sounds of missed opportunities what's interesting about donald trump is that so far he has been finding it very hard to find a strategic overlocker if he's adversaries but he found one geopolitical soul mate and this is israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. do you think the two are working in concert or do you think that policies are planned mutually planned and coordinated or is israel just being a portion a stick in following a perhaps orchestrating directing president presidents trying to leave

on their toes constantly trying to come to back to the united states and give the united states more trump unlike many of his predecessors and i think perhaps unprecedented in american history as my my calling into pointed out he is able to look at each player each state each set of interests and pick and choose what he thinks is good for the united states and even more importantly what's good for him personally what is good for president trump and so is every the saudis in the emirate is i think that the white house and trump in particular have been very disappointed in what they think the saudis should have given or even promised to give the united states in terms of investment in the united states arms sales a whole range of things that in particular the saudi crown prince promised when he came to washington he was in the united states for a three week visit he promised a whole slew of things that he has not delivered on so i think in part you see president trying trying to turn up the heat on our allies in saudi arabia and in the emirates that you know that they're not the only g

the united states space command. this new command structure where the physical domain of space led four star flag officer will establish unified command and ontrol for our space force operations. ensure integration across the ilitary and develop the space war fighting doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures of the future. this report ep calls for is the creation of an of joint war fighters specializing in the domain of space who will form the nation's f newest armed service. space operations force. our special operations force, it will draw men and military across the and will grow into their own unique and cohesive community. they'll support the combatant commands by providing spacex per tees in times of crisis and conflict. third, this report calls for the creation of a new joint organization, the space development agency that will women of the and space force have a cutting edge war fighting capability that they need and deserve. while our adversaries have been space, too often to new and pt emerging threats

statesfrom in the united and keifer united states. -- coming from the united states. not just one country but one based on that economic independence the necessary for the future of the country. gambling in that kind of expansion to think that the expansion is necessary for political help in the legal order of this country. it is not an accident that --. it was controversial. was an overstepping presidential authority to be doing this. and jefferson was like yeah whatever. crucial giventely the way he is understanding both politics, law, and the economy. so he is hoping he's going to secure the nation's political future. it is his legacy to us. subsequent lot established settlement, and the northwest territory ordinance. an issue of slavery remained unresolved. acta, all the louisiana purchase continued to --. land into the of territorial ordinance. the louisiana purchase also --. this will become an issue will talk about this in future classes. what happened to the status of slavery, as territory become states, it becomes very crucial in the question about federalism

in the beauty of the speed settlement and of courtly to the united states the united states would have no rights to make claims to other states to request those other states to comply with their obligations so we'd see a return to what you might call the wild west of retaliation and counter-retaliation right there that some of that but what a what a long way from that carrot let's talk about the nafta. negotiations because donald trump is at least being consistent to this is a president who is not a fan of multilateral trade deals he described the north america free trade agreement as the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere and the killer of u.s. jobs here is what i can understand about this this is a three way deal between canada the united states and mexico how does mr trump been able to turn what was a three way deal into two bilateral deals u.s. canada and us mexico. well in order to turn it into to wire lateral deals he would have to withdraw the united states from the existing agreements and enter into new agreements with the two states but let me say that what he has neg

but then the united states arrived. increasingly attempted to assert its authority, its sovereignty. the result is a war between the united states and the ogallala lakota. as red cloud and other leaders like him face the entire might of the u.s. at first the indians are winning. it's land they know, they are better organized, there better medicated -- automated and have much better local knowledge. this is very much like the circumstance i described in the 1790s as the united states recently organized by the constitution came into conflict with the indians of the eastern woodlands who themselves had recently organized in response -- in response to the threat from the u.s., and in that the u.s. suffered initial defeat. bless you. you're welcome. only to organize resources and mobilize all the authority of the federal government to achieve victory. that is eventually what happens to red cloud. in the same way the u.s. constitution enabled the u.s. to beat the pan- indian movement of the 17s and 90s, the structure has gone

to talk to the united states. north koreans are talking to the united states and taliban wants to talk to the united states. why can't iran do that? that was the sent. on the street, fareid? >> the rouhani regime is clearly under pressure. economy is doing badly and iran deal seems to have fallen through, not many successes and meanwhile the u.s. a administrati administration, mike pompeo is clearly outlining a strategy of regime change. the israeli government is feeding these fires. is it -- does it feel we're in some prerevolutionary moment where this regime could collapse? >> for revolution you would need lots of people on the streets. ironically we are seeing protests in iran in the past six months there have been simmering protests across the country. in january you might remember, over 80 cities people took to the streets, 25 people were killed, almost 4,000 people arrested and in the months falling that period, there have been low level protests if you will, hundreds of people in this city, hundreds of peop

states so after twenty years spent in china setting up plants in china i know come back to united states and hopefully try to help rebuild make america great again to rebuild the rebuilt part of the economy that's not just rhetoric there's actual economic data to support this type of rate balancing on the global economy and china of course the story there seems to have played out to some degree the talk a little bit about china because we always talked about china you know they were part of the world trade organization and benefited wildly from that because no you know wasn't long ago they were an emerging economy but they're still kind of gaming the system a bit talk a little bit about that yes all most products that come in a china that we've talked before they're basically mercantile as a nation they have their own duty rates usually around twenty five percent most of their economy is blocked off to foreign investment banking oil gas accept or etc you can't set up a car company in china without having a partner they demand technology transfer this has been going on for twenty thirty y

states otherwise what explains that the united states france and the u.k. do not now step up go to the u.n. security council and say look you know saudi arabia can no longer do this everyone needs to ship out to geneva we need to discuss cease fire resolution to this conflict what about the role of other actors in because it is often described as a proxy war between iran and saudi arabia and others what what influence does iran say have on for instance stopping the things from from firing missiles as well this is definitely a regional issue and there's certainly a proxy aspect to it saudi arabia and iran and saudi arabia and iran have been. physically the most destabilizing forces in the region for many decades now. so certainly iran has to be brought into the picture now unfortunately because of the tragedies of the last seven years six years the arab region has imploded so even the likes of the arab league is incapable of doing much in order to bring people together and to be able to put something out on the table so every country is really busy with its

states, that would pose a national security risk to the united states, would it not? mr. sullivan: yes. sen. rubio: if the situation inn is more like --nicaragua is more like venezuela, with drug transit and other neighbors, migratory pressures on quite a salvador,onduras, el would be destabilizing to these countries, would they not? mr. sullivan: yes. it. rubio: the potential would be a risk and threat to the national security office united states? bomberssian long-range made a visit to venezuela in the near future, what would that tell us about russian engagement and influence in the region and venezuela's willingness to be a host for their engagement? mr. sullivan: it would be a very disturbing signal to have a russian bomber visit a country that is so unstable right now as is venezuela. sen. rubio: what if the russian $200 million,day $300 million loan to help bailout the nicaraguan government with the situation they are facing now. do outething they would of the kindness of their heart and would want something in return, right? mr. sullivan: the russians have the

throughout the united states. as i mentioned last week, reconstruction or more specifically the reconstruction amendments to the u.s. constitution, seemed to have redefined what it meant to be american. what it meant to be a u.s. citizen. that's a really convenient way of thinking about it. that the civil war and reconstruction constitute the logical halfway point to u.s. history and is kind of a fulcrum. there's the before the civil war and after the civil war. and if you're a civil war historian, believe me, it's like all before the civil war, and after the civil war. here's the way we tend to talk about it. there's a notion that there was a u.s. before the civil war, you probably took places where the civil war is put right in the middle. it would be a logical point to for example schedule a mid term exam. and in fact at many universities where the u.s. history surveys is two semesters, that first semester ends in 1865 or 1876 or 1877. don't get me wrong, the civil war and reconstruction were important, they ch

and if the united states really wants to s stop the exodus from latin america to the united states, if it really wants sears relationship based on friendship, it has to begin by .hanging its own drug policy the anti-drug policy of the united states government is bound by its highest expression in military struggle and repression that is direcected agaiainst d drug users and agait those who produce the coca leaf. this is now making all of latin america bleed. it is leading to the violent deaths of latin american socieiy . at the same time, , it is leadig toto the deaths through overdose by not mitigating damages by more scientific-based u.s. society itself. i would invite the ambassador of the united states to the u.n. now that she is coming to bogota, to re-examine with scientists and objectively a drug policy that has b been profoundly c criminal and ineffective throughout the americicas. amy:y: gustavo petro, you said your own life is threatened. have you received death threats? >> yes. the last one i received was two weeks ago. pamphlet circulating against the main opposition leader

states i would have to tell you that it's very clear that it was a farce that the united states really pulled the wool over the world's eyes and declaring and making the soviet union the fall guy after having won world war two they made them the fall guy for war tutu and equated hitler with stalin and also all this stuff going on it comes out of the this misunderstanding of what that first cold war was america has spent a fortune fighting this war and it's deprived its own people us the american people of better education better system more security health welfare all these things that are giving us problems now this social net that's disappearing could have come out of that instead of beans the the money being spent on the cold war so we paid a huge price for it and it never let up i remember in eighty nine there was talk of a peace dividend they talk of it what happened to the peace dividend a few weeks after the berlin wall fell mr bush sr was. going into iraq sending five hundred thousand troops to the middle east and i pointed out it was a big thing because we went when we said fi

this rat of secondary sanctions is real do you think the united states good. full force against european countries if they decide to continue trading with iran provided of course if iran is in compliance with the. so the threat of secondary sanctions is very rule real basically this idea that you know if you're a non us company you've got to choose do you want to do business with iran or do you want to do business with the united states and for most companies that's going to be an easy choice and for most companies the threat is sufficient the u.s. doesn't really have to do much enforcement in order to get a lot of big companies to say you know what this isn't worth the risk but european governments do have tools available to them to seek to counter the secondary sanctions threat and that's the question i think that's going to be on the table when europe negotiates with with iran.

and god bless the united states of america. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪\ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, use activists -- youth activists address the u.s. conference of mayors. >> i cannot explain the feelings you have during a school shooting. one thing that i can relate it to, the feeling of anxiety, of uselessness, of not being able to do absolutely anything -- there's only one other place where i felt that. the united states congress. it might sound like a funny remark, but it's no joke. i've spoken with legislators from across the board, senators, representatives, mayors. and not one single person has -- is confident that one thing can be done about the 7 million people -- the 17 people that died in my school and the many others who have died since. >> on friday, portions of the first annual

states united states no longer with the domestic shale doesn't need the saudi oil talk about that for a second the united states domestic shell the numbers are pretty impressive it's a surprising i've done a lot of research on there recently the cost of shale used to be a few years ago ninety dollars a barrel there break even costs are down to forty course each beach area basin is a little bit different but they expect this to go under twenty so the technology behind a shill is making us completely independent oil oil wise and they would become become a major export so this is the us the ability to be more insular absolutely the reason for control for having the blue water navy controlling all those global common areas is called the incentive to do that will get less and less the incentive for china to get greater and greater as they have to go and secure all those resources across the globe so let's talk a little bit about the social scene if you well in china so they have a social score the credit score which keeps citizens in check you know the everyone has like their own personal

sort of hybrid it's a it's a vassal state of the united states but there's also the bread people like the the the present president and people like kim jong and all those who who saw i did tone with the north as their prime political purpose not as a servant of the united states perhaps that's a clash that we've yet to see. happen and perhaps it's coming but the process has started that's that's the important thing and regional processes like this have a high success rate though they have a high success rate in in. i remember in uganda when the east african states following the the the whole devastation of video made and you guys and that was a regional solution they were left they were left alone. in latin america when countries very rarely have been left alone by the united states. they've had regional groups that have banded together in. economic formations and if you like protected each other maybe that's why they hated to go chavez so much because he promoted that he promoted that regional solution to two to a region so perhaps we're seeing the beginning of something like that of

about them holding united states citizens. if the turks would provide compelling evidence of his guilt, i think he would be extradited. but we have working groups, working groups about shooting american soldiers. this to me is really kind of strange. >> it's not entirely -- germany has done the same thing with turkey. germany also had political prisoners. germany tried to do a lot of diplomatic outreach, finally worked a deal to -- >> my point -- >> some of this is not unique to the way the government is responding. >> i'm not criticizing the u.s. government. what i'm saying, it's odd to think we have to go through all of this in our dealings with a strategic ally. maybe it's not a strategic ally. this just doesn't seem normal. do we do this with our other strategic partners? do we have these kinds of problems that require this kind of diplomatic and bureaucratic maneuvering to move things incrementally in a direction where we believe and hope the turks aren't going to do things that undermine american policy or target america

the united states has never ever supported the p.k. k. when the when isis invaded syria it attacked the kurds the kurds did not attack isis and when the kurds asked for help turkey declined the us agreed to help and now isis has been largely defeated secondly this is actually about the relationship for years turkey has used the most abusive language about the united states and about its about its leaders president obama was accused of direct knowledge of the attempted coup in two thousand and sixteen the government in turkey has used the most abusive language against the united states and i think it's the united states that deserves a little respect here this is a bounded problem it can be solved it doesn't need to escalate beyond this and turkey and the united states have a lot of common interest in that region they could cooperate on if we can move past this point and a lot of that the fans upon the turkish willingness to put its economic common sense and its political flexibility ahead of nationalism. it does feel. if you look at event

the new regime was very close to the united states. in february of 1979, revolutions into tehran packed the government. it was a mix of middle class and islamic fundamentalists who had been around through much of the 1970s. an islamic cleric who even after being kicked out of country had video recorded sermons that were watched sermons watched by revolutionaries and opponents of the regime. he had been brought back into the country in 1979 and this stimulates this revolution to take place. in october of 1979, carter allows the shah to enter into the united states to receive medical treatment for cancer. many of his advisors understood that allowing the shah into the united states would cause political problems in iran because it would be scene as an effort to protect the shah rather than to give him medical treatment. the carter administration allows him in anyway because the sha has some very prominent supporters in the country. a rainian rebels were livid. they stormed the american embassy. they took 52 soldiers and diplomats hostage

in the united states. that's important because in 2016, that didn't occur. in the communication about the threat that was coming at the united states couldn't be communicated to the states sometimes for month, sometimes for over a year. that's been fixed. there's been cyber assistance that's been offered to every single state and many of those states have taken it where d.h.s. has been able to work with individual states to be able to check their systems, make sure it's secure, and to be able to provide a filter to be able to filter out malicious hackers on top of their already consistent filters that are there, to provide kind of a belt and suspenders protection for their election systems. d.h.s. has already given priority to any request from any state that asks for election systems where they literally take people off other aassignments and be to believe to get those individuals to election officials for any state that asks for it and all requests from every state that has asked for additional assistance

states are processed in the united states. it ultimately comes from china. i know from testimony that 85% comes from china, for example. if i have to laugh yet that 85% chance of coming from china. so it became a real problem not knowing what we are even buying in the issue in congress was should they allow this to take place under a law called 50 years it ultimately was determined by congress that this was not a national -- pork was not a national security item in the allowed the sale to take place. >> thank you for that. i'll turn out to patrick mike hamar second distinguished analyst. patrick is the assistant secretary of the u.s. department of commerce where he was responsible for the international trade administration during the clinton administration and before this, patrick and i were talking a little bit about we were both in the clinton administration at the time the wto was created. in fact, were actually both in geneva. this was not a smooth process creating this thing called the wto. there were a lot of concern mem

but, a piece that would be a victory for the united states. that wasn't what the country was watching on the television sets. >> -- and might be in danger. the plan was for a helicopter evacuation from the embassy. and to the signal was bing crosby singing white christmas to the lady as saigon. somebody forgot to play it. and the embassy was stormed. the people fought and clawed their way out of that room. they did fight and they did claw. the hysteria was infectious. >> army office -- colin powell which we will begin later in this course, promised that he would never let this kind of situation happened in the united states again. tensions between ford on the right wing of his party as this unfolds, worsened in july 1975. when the soviet sent alexander --, travel to the united states just a few months after the soviet union kicked them out of their country. he was a well-regarded novelist and historian, whose book has become a rallying cry against communist power. conservative republicans a lips saw his visit to the united states as a visit to

one is the united states is somewhat but not very trade exposed. we are the largest as consumption economy in the world. we consume a lot and so these tariffs may again impact some businesses when you look at the macropicture. it's very good and in the four months of the tariffs have been in effect manufacturing growth has outpaced job growth and the rest of the tour. i would just say and i'm not picking on any of you in this room but if i read articles about the apocalyptic trade war you wouldn't find that happening. if you go out to industrial farms in america they are still making their product and they are still selling it. where my going to get my next generation of innovation in how am i going to move-up? tariffs are a tiny part of most of their concerns. soybean prices are going up. someone is going to buy their beans ultimately. our overall economy there is a lot of strength behind it. we are not there yet and that's going to sustain a lot of growth through all of this. there has never been a better time to wage a trade war. this is tongue-

our allies to the united states and then create, use the interdependence to undermine united states positions last positions in the world. therefore, it would be important to create this challenge with saudi arabia and other gulf states to prevent any escalation that could happen in the movies because it could be disruptive for markets. at the same time to try to resolve the crisis between qatar and saudi arabia because russia is clearly using this as their divide and rule tactic to begin to pull these countries out of the orbit of the united states. most importantly, to supply more and more oil and gas to the market from the united states to facilitate that process because more liquidity in the market will contribute to free market forces and will decrease as i mentioned before the impact of cartels such as opec to oil and gas prices. >> great. thank you. thank you very much. now, i'm going to use privilege of the church as the first questions. don't you hate it when people do that? i do, but only when i'm sitting there. not when i'm sitting here. so i will go ahead. rauf, in parti

well russia has been a scapegoat at the united states for a long long time you know we could go as far back certainly as die nine hundred seventeen but certainly after or two we had you know what was known as the cold war which. centered upon the vilification of russia to justify the u.s. . benchers abroad and we are in a new cold war now and we were it was an it. and it seems to be only intensified even though the soviet union collapsed in one thousand nine hundred one the us has developed by russian paint and any that it's not ok brian what do you know what i find really interesting and it's a saga that's been going on here is that it seems to me that i'm very very often the united states and its western allies particularly nato they project all of their own sins upon russia ok meddling in other people's election well we could spend an entire month on a daily basis going through all of the meddling that the united states and its allies have been involved in for the last few decades and it would still be a cursory review i mean it seems to me that russia places other the op is the neg

between the united states and turkey is coming to an end. the two countries have different strategic interests. they have different priorities, they have different goals. the turks have developed their relations with the russians. they've complicated america's fight against the islamic state in syria, and have actually helped the iranians evade sanctions that are intended to arrest the development of iran's nuclear program. i think what you have in turkey at the moment, though, is two separate crises. a lira crisis, an economic crisis, and a crisis in relations between the united states and turkey that the two leaders have connected. president trump's tweet, which seemed gratuitous, has provided president erdogan of turkey an opportunity to blame the united states for turkey's economic ills. >> and just take us through where erdogan is right now. steve, this is a guy who came in, people thought he was a reformer, he wanted to join the european union. at this point he seems to have turned into an authoritarian. is turkey -- what is the trajec

the united states -- [laughter] 48 vice president of the united states, vice president, vice president, we are only on 48th vice45 -- the president of the united states, mike pence. [applause] ♪ >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you, john, thank you for that kind introduction and your leadership of a great organization and let's give another round of applause to the 2016 republican lawyer of the year. congratulations, john. [applause] really is an honor to be with you today here at the republican national lawyers association. i came here today to say thank you. thank you for the work you have done supporting this administration, thank you for the work that each and everyone of you do to hold up republican ideals and principles in the profession of the law and before i get started let me bring greetings and thanks as well from the 45th president of the united states. [applause] [laughter] [applause] >> i bring greetings from president donald trump. [applause] it really is a privilege to be with you today because for a brief moment in my life i too was a republ

the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. cause you know how most of us thought there was a simple but i want to take on last one the last post on this but if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentries sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities how to best person as pan call mom. most needed more don't have it up next time i get i'm in a lot of class and they want that. they can watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all of the political rivals. both of you what is the who beat up to the. a said sit struggles of any couple won't. check the push to put impulse response both of you up of up to the hope of the. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us of the rich one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be old for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just want to secure some with four hundr

states sanctioning russia has nothing new either in fact the united states has been imposing economic sanctions against russia almost continually since one thousand nine hundred eighteen and for a century a century it has been next to impossible to see the value in it the later sanctions are again for russia's alleged attack on democracy but as stephen cohen professor and emeritus of russian studies and politics and n.y.u. and princeton said in the nation in reality there was no attack no pearl harbor no nine eleven no russian parachuters descending on washington only the kind of meddling and interference in others' domestic politics that both countries have practiced almost ritualistically for nearly one hundred years and that kind of meddling and interference is just like what was revealed again this week when documents provided by whistleblower edward snowden to the intercepts revealed the documents showing that the n.s.a. hacked into encrypted network of news organization al-jazeera why well in the words of the n.s.a.'s own documents recently the n.s.a. has decrypted a number of i

i'm the attorney for the united states in this matter. with me is phil sweeney, assistant director in charge of the new york field office of the fbi and james rodna who's the supervisory agent in charge of the new york office of the irs. also with me are the prosecutors from the united states attorney's office in the southern district of new york who prosecuted the cohen matter. i'm going to have a brief statement and will not be taking any questions. today, as you heard, michael cohen pled guilty to eight felony charges. five of those dealt with tax evasion for the years 2012 through 2016. in which he failed to report approximately $4.1 million in reported income. approximately $2.5 million of that money was from interest arraignment paimts of a personal loan he failed to report, approximately $1.3 million of that money was from the operation of his taxi medallion business. approximately $100,000 of that money was from brokerage commissions and over $200,000 was from consulting fees. that's over $4.3 million over 5-year period which tran

was exhausted also the united states would like to weaken russia. physicians by weakening the state by cutting its own schools or energy but as the wall street resident from development said the great problem is that only you can only be volatile and the prices so high that actually because you go long term contracts with russia to receive you get the gas well below the price which is one of them so you have this. it's almost impossible to have a two contradiction in order to make what you have to create a new streak russia which makes russia stronger. but if you try to which also relations with iran get out of the room do you push your prices or shoot the position of the countries that you are well sold to a special strong and well so you make their booty. to customs. more attractive so it actually is not a very clear since you can not go. to. look in or tell me go back to change gears and i talk a little bit about nato you know ever since the end although the advent of the cold war in the warsaw pact we have had nato when the soviet union came to

souter of the supreme court of the united states, and clerked at the united states court of appeals for the fifth circuit. the native of boston, massachusetts, mr. sullivan is a graduate of brown university, and earned his law degree from the columbia university school of law. please join me in mcdeputy secretary sullivan. >> thank you. it's great honor to stand here today and it's a solemn day on which we gather. i have had the honor of speaking at events like this. i speak it's our embe as when i travel around the world and i thank all of those women and men i meet, including our locally employed staff. i always make a point as my colleagues know, of speaking first to the locally employed staff and tell them how important they are to us, to our mission. i also thank them for their service, and i've said this many times and my colleagues are sick of me reminding everyone, but i have a personal connection, family connection, to some of what you and your loved ones went through. my family -- my uncle was a career foreign service officer and served for 32 years and his last post was as ou

market for vehicles from the united states is canada. why donald trump would shoot himself in the foot and more importantly american workers doesn't make any sense the only winning in that type of exchange will be the cars that are imported to the united states from japan, korea they already are selling about 2 million vehicles a year in the u.s. market or the u.s. sells no vehicles to those markets at all. why would you want to hurt yourself and benefit markets, benefit countries that you have no access to in the first place. doesn't make a stitch of economic sense but unfortunately at this point in time one can argue that trump is arguing politics. >> how many of your members are employed by american automakers? >> well, the auto industry in canada, we have 40,000 assembly workers, another 80,000 in auto parts. lion's share i represent if you look at the united states between auto and auto parts, you're looking at almost a million direct jobs. this will have a significant impact on both our economies and frankly the threat of tariffs i

states or not this shows truly that the united states still maintains its agency in the world. and in particular the middle east now during the time of president obama there was my.