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they stay in the united states. at one juncture, it was up to the 1970's, 90% or more stay in the united states. they are mostly coming to the united states. but something happens in the 1970's, because by the 1970's, taiwan's economy has started to develop and it is moving into an advanced economy stage. now, part of it has to do with the trickle of taiwanese students that go back to help set taiwan on this path toward development, another significant component is that the united states, between 1950 and 1965, investing a lot of capital in taiwanese agriculture. and with infrastructure, it is sending experts over to advise taiwan. the united states is deeply committed to taiwan's economic development and eventual political stabilization. though -- so in the 1950's, 1960's, there were not that many jobs for highly trained technicians, engineers, and scientists. but by the time you get to the 1970's, it has changed. so there is more and more incentive for people to go back. again, this is something to think about in

to the united states. honestly, he was in my office so quickly from europe that i do not know they had airplanes that flew that fast. i said, where did you flop -- find this plane? we have the semblance of a deal. because it is to a large extent, economically i'll about cars. -- economically all about cars. cars is a big factor. they send millions of bmws and mercedes into our country. we are working on trade very hard. it is important for me. it has been for 30 years. i have been saying for 30 years, started with japan. i talked about japan. i was right. i talked about china. i was right. it is what i do. i like doing it. but i like doing it for the people. because our country has been abused and taken advantage of by virtually every country that it does business with. and we are not letting that includes what i said previously about the military. please. reporter: president duda, welcome back to the u.s. as it relates to the eu relations, the president mentioned that poland is the proud member of pulp --

the united states pushes forward its ambitious project of a pan arab alliance against iran but there are deep divisions brought on by the gulf crisis so can washington's desire to rope in israel along with the arab states against a common enemy actually succeed and what does it mean for president trump's middle east peace plan this is inside stuart. welcome to the program today with me peter w. washington has begun putting together a plan to forge and iran alliance with the arab countries now the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei has met foreign ministers of the gulf cooperation council states and egypt and jordan they discuss the perceived threats posed by iran to peace and stability across the middle east however the g.c.c. is of course a house divided once the blockade imposed on doha by some of its neighbors lifted before the u.s. security plan can be considered credible husham. discussion today from new york. a gathering of gold fry vel's. this is the first time qatar's foreign minister has come face to face with his counterparts from saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt since th

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i'm able to be hosted here at the state of president of the united states at the white house in washington. also from this perspective, the perspective of the centennial poland gaining its independence, this fact is a future pardon for pols for those living abroad and internationally, 10 million pols living in the united states this is huge symbolic importance. one reason for that, that matter of polish independence was one of the important points of the policy of the u.s. president wilson. it was precisely president wilson -- before 1918, he was the one who put the polish independence on his agenda, on the agenda of his policy. that happened among other thanks to a great polish politician and musician. it's a fact that pols experienced back then a lot of good from the united states and from the president of the united states because there are no other words to describe the fact that great state indicated to poland and defined poland as a country who should be reinstated back to the map of the world and was reinstated on the map 100 years ago in 1918 and i'm absolutely delighted today as t

member to have signed by a lot of agreement with the united states to combat terrorist financing. let's bring in our panelists joining us from doha it will him for a hat associate professor of conflict resolution to high cities for graduate studies into holland hammett more so a professor of political science at the university of tehran and from washington d.c. hillary mann leverett former u.s. state department official and c.e.o. of the political risk consultancy strutter welcome to the program blame whether port talks about the decline in attacks and casualties. from terrorist groups is that an indication that groups for example like i said until clyde to have lost the fight. well first of all the report talks about induction and number of attacks by. by isis by about twenty three percent compared to last year so it's very obvious that the move of isis from. dakar has impacted the numbers of attacks launched by these by by isis this year however this leaves us with two major questions one is that with these numbers are sustainable with of there are continuing they're going to co

we want to keep jobs in the united states. maybe that is done in a more effective way by allowing the free flow of goods and services in and out of the nine states, particularly as we see the economic transformation. guest: it is a fine balance. governments do not create jobs. governments create a more educated workforce and resilient workforce but it is the private sector that creates jobs. at the same time, as we have communities struggling with preserving the documents we have, we have the same community . do we let investment promotion trips to canada, mexico, we want more investment? that is what creates jobs. for working people, at the same time, as we are not making cost so high and conditions are difficult. manufacturers do not want to stay in the united states. host: mark, line for republicans. go ahead. caller: i want to give a shout out to canada, which has the same natural resources, even more so than the u.s., if you count diamonds and things of that nature. likes a population florida, so they are the wealthiest p

states and china on a political level is not going to move if the united states and the white house in front of all the cameras puts pressure on china a better strategy would probably be to do work behind the scenes and to team up with other countries canada and the european union but not to go it alone now let's talk about what china could do because with china importing far less from the u.s. than the other way around the possibilities to respond with tariffs on u.s. products are rather limited could they retaliate via the bond market do you think. well i think china has a lot of possibilities to retaliate and they could actually make life much harder for us american companies that are active in the united states this doesn't have to work through tariffs they could just make they could erect minnesota barriers they could actually force more joint ventures on the americans they could actually give preference to u.s. competition which actually there have already if you look at the car industry they have lower tariffs or they have now have lower tariffs for cars for countries outside

it centers the united states or the idea of the united states being a welcomed haven for people who were exiled. unfortunately, the history of the united states tells a somewhat different, more complicated story. the truth is, we have not always had a humanitarian impulse to welcome refugees. usually, we have only done so when it is in our humanitarian national interest. usually, we are more inclined to actually reject refugees than to accept them. and to brawl the words of -- borrow the words of historian eric king, refugees who have been accepted are not only resettled, but are also deeply unsettled by the experience of forced migration. -- migration and resettlement in the united states. to give you an overview of what i will talk about today, i will give you a little background about american refugee resettlement policy after the second war. then i am going to use that background to set up why the 1970's were such an important period of change. the ugandan asian refugees first arrived in united states and they were followed by an even larger group of refugees, southeast asian refugee

nations doesn't go along with the united states the u.s. uses nato to carry out wars of aggression like it did in yugoslavia when the security council wouldn't go along or it created a coalition of the willing to invade and destroy iraq in two thousand and three it only supports the united nations when the united nations signs off and americans american wars of aggression when the u.n. says independently no we don't want that the united states is a fierce critic of the other parties in the united nations and it just goes its own way anyway the u.n. is only useful to the us if it's a fig leaf for us aggression good to speak to appreciate you coming on brownback if and what answers. on to other news now the university of maryland in the u.s. has issued leaflets inviting white students to join a group called white awake to discuss racial issues do you want to improve your ability to brulé to and connect with people different from you soon. do you sometimes feel uncomfortable confused before during interactions with racial and ethnic minoritie

united states. a balanced trade relationship provides more exports than any other country from the united states. canada is a small country and cannot continue with the instability with investors keeping their hands in their pockets, with manufacturers slowing down. that instability is problematic and has been for quite a while. prime minister judo's political -- prime minister trudeau's opposition is stepping up and says they're concerned about what he is doing to the economy. the first time in this process that the prime minister is getting domestic push back at home. >> if you have questions about negotiations, give us a call, democrats at 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001 negots a. independents, 202-748-8002. outside the united states, we want to hear from you, especially in the --202-748-8003 is the number and you will join the discussion. remind viewers that the wilson center is? guest: a nonpartisan think tank created by congress in 1968. our mission is to advance understanding of the w

the united states is committed to making the united nations more effective and accountable. i have said many times that the united nations has unlimited potential. as part of our reform effort, i have told our negotiators that the united states will not pay more than 25% of the u.n. peacekeeping budget. this will encourage other countries to step up, get involved, and also share in this very large burden. we're working to shift more of our funding from assessed contributions to voluntary so that we can target american resources to the programs with the best record of success. only when each of us does our part and contributes our share can we realize the u.n.'s highest aspirations. we must pursue peace without fear, hope without despair, and security without apology. looking around this hall where so much history has transpired, we think of the many before us who have come here to address the challenges of their nations and of their times. and our thoughts turn to the same question that ran through all of their speeches and resolutions, through every word and every hope. it

experience back then a lot of good from the united states and from the president of the united states because there are no other words to describe the fact that that great state indicated to poland and to find poland as the country who should be a reign stated back on the map of europe and on the back of the world and it was it reinstated on that map one hundred years ago in one thousand nine thousand and. absolutely delighted that today as polish president i can be here in washington state at the same table with the president of the united states and sign an agreement which is deepening our strategic partnership and which is renewing that strategic partnership i'm talking here at the agreement on the strategic partnership such agreement was signed in two thousand and eight and to our countries. a press conference being held right now the white house between the u.s. president on the trump and the polish president dude still speaking as you can see and what trump said just a few moments ago is that he and the polish president discussed energy diversity as well as security in europe an

it is a deal not with the united states, but with the u.n. security council, plus the european union represented by germany. in trump violated that treaty. he withdrew from it and has put the united states on a war to the extentran members of his a administration are openly admitting that they are the great state. we always took that as an insult. john bolton seems to enjoy that. of course, the iranians don't want to meet with trump. and what good would it do -- does he want to renegotiate the deal that already has taken years and years of diplomacy, and trump just withdrew from it? why wouldn't they expect him to withdraw from the next deal? if you have to make a judgment of who is riright here, it is obviously rouhani. but the other thing to say is that it is dangerous to have somebody who lies like this in charge of we are nuclear power. we're doing diplomacy. we are relationship with other countries. this can go to war. amy: we want to thank you, juan cole, for joining us. professor of history at the university of michigan. his blog, "inf

that the united states is an unwelcoming hostile place. so recent dramatic cuts to the resettlement program have been predicated on this notion that they pose an undue risk into the united states. the vetting procedures do not work. all of the evidence suggests that this claim is unfounded. this is almost 40 years of history here. not a single refugee has been involved in a fatal terrace act on the united states. that includes the tens of thousands of refugees that we had resettled from syria and iraq. over 70% of the refugees a very small number relative to the 6 million that have been displaced so the 2% are women and children under the age of 14. and a single one has been involved in a terrorist attack. so slashing the program not only runs contrary to american values and commitment to human rights and democracy but it's also counter to our national security interests. it also helps fuel the idea that the united states is a hostile unwelcoming place which promotes the extremist narrative that the united states is hostile to islam. to pe

for decades the united states opened its economy. the largest by far on earth with few conditions we allowed foreign goods from all over the world to flow freely across our borders yet other countries did not grant us fair and reciprocal access to their markets in return. even worse some countries abuse their openness to dump their products subsidize their goods target our industries. and manipulate their currency is to gain unfair advantage over our country. as a result our trade deficit balloon to nearly eight hundred billion dollars a year. for this reason we are systematically renegotiating. broken and bad trade deals. last month we announced a groundbreaking us mexico trade agreement. and just yesterday i stood with president moon. to announce the success. completion of the brand new us korea trade deal. and this is just the beginning. many nations in this hall will agree that the world trading system is in dire need of change. for example countries. were admitted to the world trade organization that violate every single princip

united states to designate the commander of the forces. the same resolution authorize the unified command at its discretion to use the united nations flag in the course of its operations concurrently with the flag of the various nations participating. in its first report to the security council on the operations of the command, the united states informed the security council that on 25 july, 1950, unified command was established in the security council first use the name united nations command in resolution 88 on eight november, 1950. name, thending its united nations command is not a united nations operation or body nor does it come under the command and control of the united nations. furthermore, it was not established as a subsidiary organism of the secret counsel is not funded on the united nations budget. as such, there are no reporting lines between the united nations and the united nations secretariat. madam president, the secretary-general in the upcoming high-level brief of united nations general assembly discuss how he and the un

they're not coming to europe or the united states and canada. they are remaining in the region and countries that are typically poor, have poor capacity, have managed massive flows and often have the same ethnic and sectarian rifts and their society as the country of origin. the united states is strategically using the refugee program as a way to relieve some of the burden on the countries at first asylum in addition to providing generous humanitarian assistance packages. we saw that in vietnam and the coast of opiate and it worked -- and in kosovo and it worked. helped facilitate military cooperation with partners and allies in the region. it is undeniable that we go to places like iraq and afghanistan and syria and somalia that there's going to be a negative impact on countries in the region who are expected to deal with the sizable refugee flow could unite states has facilitated military cooperation from basis to logistics and other support functions by accepting a share of the burden from those countries of first asylum. not only the countri

is a phenomenon that is unique to the united states. there is no other country in the that itat is so fixated is constantly creating images of those people. states, this started before the country was even founded. countries with the most ardent patriots. else that aething significant about the phenomenon in this country. although imagery of american is pervasive with american life, it does nothing orbring non-natives closer to understand the nature of the history of they had shared with american indians. this actually masks who native americans really are. we open this curtain and he looks what stands behind this imagery. imagery is the intersection between native and non-native. the american exhibit ends with a very clear presentation of the fact that non-native americans and native americans share a deeply entangled history. this is the unique history of the united states. it is a shaped natural -- nationals consciousness. when i would like to show you is one that really fascinated me as soon as i learned about it. this is a sketch f

states about the prospect of china being in the passing lane that is to say surpassed the united states in terms of having the number one economy on planet earth this has to be consider when contemplating the news story that we're now discussing if this particular escalation of washington's part continues that it's no telling what the ultimate result will bring you know that china purchases hundreds of biggins of dollars and has hundreds of billions of dollars in u.s. treasury bills which are used to finance the u.s. government everything from the post office to the pentagon even though there is concern in china that dumping these treasury bills will harm chinese investment in this commercial paper there is more talk in beijing that this is in store and in fact perhaps china curbing future purchases of u.s. treasury bills if that takes place united states what you don't have to cut programs or raise taxes in washington because not one to embark on either path i'm afraid to say that china can probably absorb more pain than the united states can at this particular moment so i would hope t

longer for decades the united states opened its economy. the largest by far on earth with few conditions we allowed foreign goods from all over the world to flow freely across our borders . yet other countries did not grant us fair and reciprocal access to their markets in return or. even worse some countries abuse their openness to dump their products subsidize their goods target our industries and manipulate their currency is to gain unfair advantage over our country. as a result our trade deficit ballooned to nearly eight hundred billion dollars a year. for this reason we are systematically renegotiating. broken and bad trade deals. last month we announced a groundbreaking us mexico trade agreement. and just yesterday i stood with president moon to announce the successful completion of the brand new us korea trade deal and this is just the beginning. many nations in this hall will agree that the world trading system is in dire need of change for example countries. were admitted to the world trade organization that violate every single pr

the united states is stronger now than ever before. we have the highest stock market that we've ever had. if you invested in the stock market on average we're up over 45% on the various markets. you have to be quite happy about that. but i view it differently. i view it as jobs, i view it as a strong economy, i view it as as record-setting unemployment. we have unemployment at the lowest levels we have ever had and in particular with certain groups, african-americans, asians, hispanic, they're the lowest levels in the history of our country. we have been doing well, we appreciate the big investment and the confidence that you have in the united states. thank you very much. >> mr. president are you happy bout the kavanaugh hearings? president trump mplet i'm happy with the kavanaugh hearing. i watched a little while today, i saw some great answers. he's an outstanding intellect, he was born for the position. i heard people saying as long as 10 years ago that he should be a supreme court judge. i didn't know him, but i was hearing from f

this is beneath the dignity of the united states senate. it is not just democrats, republicans as well. that needs to end. we have dragged america through this horrible spectacle in the united states senate. and who is doing it? 100 and the senate, 435 in the house. they are guilty in my perspective. here is what they are doing. they spent $17 million to quash accusations of sexual harassment against them, and now they are going after judge kavanaugh .36- year-old allegations, when he was in high school? who are they to judge? who are they to judge? 268 separate allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and other misdeeds by the united states senate and they are covering it up. >> let me tell you, when doctor ford came out with her allegations, you said they were a bunch of --. you waited a day and then tweeted this out, what's next, will someone find that judge kavanaugh pulled a girls pigtails in first grade? there is no equivalent. to minimize the seriousness of these allegations. there are now four accusers. you are going after t

long-term allies question the support of the united states. he suggests that we in the united states can go it alone, i don't think that is the case by any means. we have extraordinary power in and of ourselves, but we need partners around the globe in order to achieve the goals we seek. >> join us for our conversations saturday at 8:00 eastern on c-span and c- span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. >>> the assistant defense secretary for asian security affairs, randall shriver, on u.s. policy in southeast asia, talking about diplomatic objectives in the indo pacific region. the american enterprise institute hosted this event in august. >> good afternoon, everybody, my name is dan blumenthal, i am the director of asian studies here, thank you all for coming, i can see that the topic of u.s. and southeast asia is of great interest, and i congratulate my colleague for a wonderful report that hopefully all of you will have time to read about what our strategy should be going forward, in that most critical of regions. it is right now

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 let's 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 let's talk about the nafta. negotiations because donald trump is at least being consistent and 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 buy a lot of old 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 negotiate

to stay with it and as for points out the united states has been doing a lot of what it says iran is doing now. well the president's been very consistent with the rants look there i don't believe there's a person on the face of this earth especially in the body of the u.n. that would disagree with the fact that iran exports terrorism we know that iran is responsible for a lot of trouble around the world iran has not contributed anything to any peace process anywhere and if you really take a look at this and this is my view i don't speak for the administration and it is the view of many people that iran doesn't have to look at the united states as their threat the threat to iran is their own people they're taken to the streets they're very fed up to the next with iran spending more money on the exportation of trouble than on their own people so with regard to iran he's been consistent but i will tell you this our allies where we've been allies forever at the end of the day the allies will come together with the united states and address these problems that we are facing around the wor

states is a hostile unwelcoming place which promotes the extremist narratives that the united states as hostile to islam, hostile to people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds coming here. so we would do well not only to raise the cap to historical norms but to increase our commitment both here and overseas to protecting refugees. >> one of the things you mentioned that he think is important to confront head-on in a little bit more detail is this very pervasive idea that refugees pose a serious risk to americans in the form of terrorism. despite the fact we know they're vetted more thoroughly than any other immigrant that comes to the united states. but that's not to say that there is no risk pics i asked the panel and perhaps scott wants to take this on, what makes a national security community so confident in our vetting systems, and are refugees the population of people we really need to worry about with regard to terrorism? >> great question. first, let me just say what an honor it is to be on the internet and thanks for having me. you might imagine that my politics are

it is over sears and united states congress. we are buying them smart are and greater transimportant. we increase the security of the country and value for the dollar that the air force spends. >> modderization that the aris forces going lou. i mention the helicopters and modernization of the teaching. that is what the air forces working through in the next decade. our responsibility is to do that responsibly as we can. >> i will take questions. >> we have a great deal of them. i will start with your employment picture. and the expansion of the squadron and the air force operates 312 squadrons and we want to go to 386 or 76 somewhere around there and 30000 more people and how would you by 2030 how would you do this and how is that reflecting the changing nature of warfare. >> and congress in the fy- 15 authorization act passed a series of studies and this is the first piece that are man dated and what is required to implement the national strategy. that is it analysis. every airmen will tell you that they are overstretched. >> t

other governments, but not the united states. there are no mechanisms to hold the court and its personnel accountable or curtail its unchecked powers when required. icc proponents argue that corrupt or ineffective judges can be removed by a two thirds vote of parties to their own statute and that a prosecutor can be removed by a majority ote however, i ask everyone in the room today, would you consign the fate of american citizens to a committee of other nations, including venezuela and the democratic republic of the congo, entities that are not even states, like the palestinian authority? you would not appear i would not. this administration will not. the icc is an assembly states party and cannot supervise the court anymore than the united nations general assembly can't supervise bureaucracy. recent allegations of mismanagement and corruption among icc personnel make this perfect clear. the first prosecutor elected by the states parties attempted to protect a high-ranking government official from prosecution, assisted a busines

what does it mean for the united states? monica mentioned our policy brief, trying to figure out what the cost effect would be. of course, it varies by market segment. for a low-end vehicle, we would see anywhere from $1,500 to $2,500. for luxury vehicles, more in the region of $4,000. so it is quite a big hit. there is no such thing as a fully american-made vehicle, so every vehicle would be hit to some extent. we find that the vehicles that have more north american, particularly american content -- actually, i should say, canadian-american -- we cannot even sort out this -- this production process is so intertwined, that we don't know how much american versus canadian content. people who say they can do that really don't, in my mind, have very good methodology. so they're adding in a whole bunch of other stuff. that really is and what we are talking about. i have no idea how customs will be able to figure out how to actually tax imports of autos and auto parts from canada. it's just sort of unthinkable up until now. so any

and requested the united states to designate the commander of such forces. the same resolution also authorized the inside command at its discretion to use the united nations flag in the course of of operations concurrently the flag of the various nations participating. in its first report to the security council on the operation of the command, the united states informed the security council that on july 25, 1950, the unified command was established in the security council first use the name united nations command on november 8, 1950. notwithstanding its name, the united nations command is not a body, nor does it come under control of the nations. furthermore, it was not established as a subsidiary of the security council and not funded into the united nations budget. there are no reporting lines between the united nations command and secretariat. madam president, the secretary-general in the upcoming high-level week of the united nations general assembly will discuss how he and the united nations system can for the support the party and how steps can be tak

right now in this moment in the united states senate what the president of the united states is saying a woman can't be trusted because she was drunk, while he was tweeting the dr. ford be trusted because people really bad as you said, she would've reported it back when she was 15 when it happened. well, republican leaders are saying they will quote, plow right through this. well, they are desperately trying to distract people are pointing to the process and the timing, anything but the substance. they hire a woman they are calling their quote, female assistant, the lord of the town to ask doctor for the questions they can't trust the republican meant on the judiciary committee to ask your the opry sweeping past this hearing and scramble to line up a committee vote right away while they're planning to stay through the weekend to rush to vote on the senate floor that their leader says is quote confident they will win. before dr. ford has even had a chance to be heard and the vote that doesn't need to be rushed for any good reason. mr. president, right now in this moment here in the unit

the united states government does this all the time u.s. government officials make jokes all the time the president of the united states uses social media extremely effectively and makes lots of jokes on it in fact he probably would not be president if he hadn't used twitter extremely effectively so it's mystifying why anyone would say that this is somehow inappropriate the united states. has has house official channels on twitter and otherwise that make jokes i've even seen jokes about things that are pretty grim for example the department of defense twitter account has made jokes about drone strikes and weapons that bomb civilians in afghanistan and elsewhere those are pretty tasteless jokes so i guess you could say that a terribly tasteless joke might be something that would cross the line but jokes themselves are why not they're an important part of dialogue thanks for joining us for the program here on r.t. international more of your thursday world headlines and about half an hour. the democrats are not socially lever all they are pro

and us what you are for, how you are uniting us as president of the united states. outthat is how he started with his presidential ambitions. he'sbody kind of forgets the first one who said barack obama wasn't born in the united states. said, i'veone that got investigators out there in hawaii and they are coming back with incredible things, information that is really going to show you this is not a .egitimate president o so he becomes president of the united states and he tries to delegitimize they president of the united states by saying he is a muslim, that muslim religion is a bad religion to him, and that he wasn't born in this country. so that is the way he starts. steve: and yet he has support from 40% of the country, the base of the republican party. what does that tell you about the gop and his supporters? rep. gutierrez: i will express it this way. when i got involved in he says remember, in a democracy and in america, the one that gets the most votes wins the election. except in america. because you could get 3 million more votes than the other person and

states of america against iran likewise we condemn the fact that the united states has withdrawn from the g c p hiding behind the pretext to continue its policy of interference and meddling in the internal affairs of this brother country iran and james we certainly did think divisions on display at that u.n. security council meeting between trumper and some of his key allies like france when we heard mccann speak. yeah we had a manual mccraw who was again talking about the the iran nuclear deal saying that it was something that wasn't perfect but it was the way forward and in fact they should try to negotiate further with iran in the same format to drip deal with ongoings concerns the reason may is spoken in the last ten minutes or so the british prime minister she said the iran nuclear deal was an important step forward and it was the best way to stop iran possessing a nuclear weapon but i can tell you the comments from the bolivian president went beyond the iran deal what would be beyond the iran deal he said the u.s. couldn't care less about human rights and justice he said preside

states france and the united kingdom are coming under pressure to do the same thing and in the united states there is pressure on the u.s. to pull back from its involvement in this already led coalition particularly when people like human rights watch are saying that if the saudis committed a war crime and they use the u.s. missile to do it then the u.s. could be complicit in that so that will also keep pressure on the saudi side to perhaps come to some sort of agreement some sort of settlement when they sit down around the table with the united nations come september the six alan fish alive in djibouti thank you now the u.s. is planning to cancel three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan accusing islam of failing to take action against armed groups but pakistan denies giving taliban fighters safe haven u.s. . palmdale is due to go to islamabad to meet the newly elected prime minister on wednesday rob reynolds reports from washington. a pentagon spokesman cited lack of pakistani decisive action against two groups that the united states would like islam about to crack d

i'm a proud father of a united states marine. and it's about us honor of my life to serve with a president who care so deeply about the men and women of our armed forces. working with this republican congress we are rebuilding our military. we are restoring the arsenal of democracy. has signedesident the largest increase in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan. closer to home we have been standing with the men and women who serve on the blue line of law enforcement. this president and this administration will always give the men and women in law enforcement the resources and the respect that they deserve as they protect our families. let me make you a promise that also includes the courageous men and women of immigration and customs enforcement. this administration will never abolish ice. we will support those heroes as they uphold our laws. with our renewed commitment with law enforcement we can secure our borders and enforce our laws , taking dangerous gang criminals off our streets at a record pace. promise,lso

then we can see the united states has some city interests i personally don't like to use commas. recall turns because i believe that history never repeats itself but if you read it in c.s. using terms like the cold war perhaps we can assume that what you are beginning to see induce phase of disunity in all what we see is kind of general many ficci shown to consume what i mean by germanic occasion if you do remember that just because of the second will all the country effectively was divided between two different spheres or influence i think. in one leader or another will go ahead what i do. it challenges the issues of the north east is not going to get their way it's not going to go away any time soon because the united states through the kurdish proxies is a very much interest to maintain a military prison comms older. indonesian and at the same time on the important players like russia and iran have already asserted that they are there. to work to a sphere and effectively this is going to pave the way to what i would just sit on of the german occasion of syria and these tension

control over the policy of the united states so for the best yet and to have mr trump instead of. diminishing u.s. troops and was growing u.s. troops from both syria and iraq he has been increasing the number of particularly in syria the number of u.s. troops now in syria are about three thousand troops and that is better yet except by the trump administration mr bolton and other than mr bolton that they want thought that syria based on the claim is that the whole new claim is of chemical weapon this is a farce. and mr trump clearly is into it so despite all the things he said that he doesn't want war it seems that the recent the policy of the united states is coming again to emphasize that the u.s. will stay in northern syria and this was said yesterday by the tampa administration that they were they are not going to withdraw from northern syria in fact the u.s. troops. which are located in about certain military camps and bases in northeastern syria east of the euphrates the area where is of the euphrates in syria is approximately. thirty to forty thousand square kilometers at t

they know he won't change anything united states senate. i will. i will stir things up in a no it that's the difference. i stirred things up it had to twist a few arms and even break a few to get things done but i got them done. in my term as chairman we hired hundreds of new firefighters hundreds of new police thousands of new teachers bill billions of dollars and new roads and schools and parks and the way i got that done was not their partisanship. it was working with democrats and republicans. i can get things done. i can stir things up and i will make u.s. senate because it needs it but it into the day i can work with everybody to get things accomplished. >> senator senator kaine. >> he's a night you'll work with everybody but the people who know you the best are the republican supervisors who served with you. they have worked with you for years. when you ran for governor in 2017 in the primary not a single one of your republican colleagues on the board of supervisors would support you. one stayed neutral in all of the others decided to suppor

steel on the united states. this ahead of donald trump's turn at the podium in front of the united nations general assembly. that will happen tomorrow. action, major action already developing. you saw what's going on with the korean bilateral trade do-over but we should also mention, make no mistake, as good and comfortable as the president looked with the south koreans, there is serious tension, we could call it a flareup of tension between iran and of course, russia. what is going on here? iran is once again threatening to wipe the israelis and the u.s. off the face of the map. there of course was a terrorist attack in iran and that was this weekend. russia is moving missiles into the system so we are watching all of this happen. the united nations ambassador for israel has just battled all the traffic, made it to our studio. we are going to ask him about this on this first day of the u.n. general assembly. all right. i do want to get to other news that is happening right now as we keep an eye on the markets.

states and the national security of the united states. and they're willing to go along. they're afraid if they leave, they don't know what he would do. >> well, i talked to general kelly this morning. he said it's challenging working for president trump, and it is. i mean, president trump is a handful, at times. but he understands the american people better than anybody else that ran for president. and he's doing things that i approve of for the military, that i approve of for the economy, that he's picking judges that i would have picked. whatever differences i have with the president, i like what he's doing and the people working for him, i think, feel like they're doing the country a great service by being part of the trump administration, to those who believe that this man is a fool, that this man is crazy, that there's something wrong with donald trump and it's just the people around him that keep us safe, you don't know what you're talking about. >> those were your words at one point in your life, not too long ago, you were thinking

socialist paparties here in the united states and the communist party of the united states were powerful. they had a lot of people,e,nd they worked together with the c.i.o. and together, they went to the government at that time, and they said 2 things: "we represent the mass of working people, anand we don't want toto suffer the way we're suffering in this breakdown of capitalism. you gotta do something." and they addressed themselves to a kind of middle-of-the-road democratatic politician who had just gotten elected president on a program of a balanced budget-- franklin roosevelt. and they said to him, "you've gotta do something for the people." and the socialists and communists said, "you gotta do something for the people," but they added a little barb, "because we think that there's a better system, an alternative system, to capitalism. and if you keep performing as badly as you're doing in the depths of the depression, we're gonna try to establish that alternative." and they pointed across the ocean to the soviet union, said, "see? like them." that scared folks. and mr. roosevelt was

this is the united states, it doesn't happen. we make the greatest planes in the world and missiles in the world and we have enhanced, to put it mildly, our military. it's literally being rebuilt as we speak with literally hundreds and hundreds of planes and missiles and everything that you can imagine. they never had it so good. because i got in congress $700 billion this year, $716 billion last year. that's far more than they ever anticipated. i viewed it two ways. number one military, because it's always more important than anything else, including jobs. but number two is jobs. we make everything here, so it's hundreds of thousands of jobs, to make for us the best military in the world. russia respects that. they respect that. so i am, i am with the president. i feel that he's right. and i feel that, look, you look at the history of poland and russia, that's a long and very complicated history, so certainly has a right to feel that way. oka okay. >> mr. president. >> i have a question to president duda. after the meeting that

united states will not be taken advantage of any longer. decades, the united states opened its economy, the largest by far on earth, with few conditions. we allowed foreign goods from all over the world to flow freely across our borders. get other countries did not grant is fair and reciprocal access to their markets in return. worse, some countries abused their openness to dump their products, subsidize their goods, target are investors and a new israeli -- manipulate their currencies to gain unfair .dvantage our trade deficit balloons to nearly $800 billion a year, and for this reason, we are systematically renegotiating broken and bad trade deals. last month we announced a groundbreaking u.s. mexico trade yesterday id just stood with president moon to announce the successful appreciation of the brand-new u.s. career trade deal. and this is just the beginning. my nations in this hall will agree that the world trading system is in dire need of change. countries were admitted to the world trade organization that violate every single princip

view the united states? >> thank you so much. it is a great question. let me start it from this, from the member of congress. representative mike coffman and the representative chairman, your names are household names in the ethiopian people. not just me, the cairo supreme, who made these days possible believe that the united states government and a member of congress as the greatest ally in their darkest time. we believe the help of the united states played a great role in bringing the change that we are witnessing, the changes that we see, that we are giving to the prime minister. prime minister abiy ahmed was a moral person about a year and a half ago. so our struggle brought him to the front line. so, i believe as my colleague said, the role of the united states is not something that we see in ethiopia. so it is great and the united states is a great ally of ethiopia. the other thing, something that i have to add is that ethiopia has never been governed by the multiethnic -- [inaudible] in the past 27 ye