, and what should we do together to increase security for the sake of the united states of america as well as for the sake of the russian federation. >> very good. that is a great segue. i think it is an understatement, of course, for anyone in the room to hear that the current state of u.s.-russia relations is under duress. rough the cold war, we had fundamental disagreements on many issues as well, whether it was over strategic arms control or any of the other issues, both then and now, we continue to always talk. we entered into treaties, developed cooperative projects, and even when politics intervened, we had opportunities for scientific and academic exchanges, for cultural exchanges, and it is really in that spirit, i think, that i would like to have this discussion with you over the course of the next hour. not to ignore the disagreements that exist, whether it is syria, ukraine, strategic arms control, but really to look forward instead and try to find opportunities for common cause, where as you say, the united states and russia can perhaps build collaborative ties and mov

the oval office of the white house. i bring greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. we gather here today as americans to speak about the progress we have made and the strength of our alliance with our most cherished ally but i just have to say yesterday was a great day for our country. our president and every american who cherishes the truth. after two years of investigations and reckless accusations by many democrats or members of the media, the special counsel confirmed what president donald trump said all along. there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the 2016 election and the attorney general confirmed there was no obstruction of justice. make no mistake about it my fellow americans this was a total vindication. the president of the united states and our campaign. this should be welcomed by every american and even if some democrats want to spend more time on discredited allegations the american people can be confident. the president and i will focus on where we always have, on issues that are most impor

with. and those are the things that i like the best. the wonderful landscapes we have in this country, especially out here in the west, but also the wonderful people we have all over the country in every corner. i visit every state in the union, and i always find wonderful people to visit with. >> what a great question, what it means to be an american. i'm assuming there's been a lot of answers to that, but for me, it's pride. it's pride and it's also opportunity. i'm very new to the area where i'm at right now and moved from another area from another state. i have now more opportunity to do what i want to do, and i would only have these opportunities in america. so i'm very proud to be an american citizen. i have traveled the world, and i consider myself a proud american. >> voices from the road on c-span. >>> joining us from duke university is sandy derity, a public policy professor. we're here to talk about reparations and the role they're having in the 2020 elections. professor, thanks for giving us your time. >> thank you for having me. >> everybody, i suppose, has a certain kind of definition of reparations. could you give us yours? >> reparations is a program of compensation to individuals or communities that have been subjected to grievous injustices. from my perspective, reparations has three objectives. the first is acknowledgment of the injustices on the part of the perpetrators. second is redress, which is restitution for the effects of the injustices. and third is closure, which is a mutual recognition on the part of the victimized community as well as the perpetrators that the debt has been paid. >> when it comes then to the specifics, how do you calculate something like that? >> well, it depends on the particular set of injustices one is concerned about. in the context of the united states, the experience of black americans as potential recipients of a reparations program, i would say that what you'd have to do is calculate the full economic effects of the long-term consequences of slavery, of the jim crow period, of legal segregation in the united states, which lasted for klo close to a century, as well as ongoing effects of racism that are manifest in the forms of mass incarceration, police killings of unarmed blacks, as well as and perhaps most significantly the racial wealth gap that is so large and so persistent in the united states. >> if we're talking, looking at the united states history, particularly when it comes to reparations, under that model who would qualify or at least what would have to be done to qualify? so i would identify black descendents of folks who had been enslaved in the united states as the appropriate recipients of reparations. and in work that i've done in a number of venues, i've argued that there should be two criteria for eligibility for reparations. the first is an individual needs to demonstrate that he or she has an ancestor who was enslaved in the united states. secondly, that individual needs to establish that he or she up to ten years prior to the onset or at least ten years prior to the onset of the reparations program self-identified as black or african-american or some equivalent category. >> professor, this conversation or at least this topic has gone on for many a year with various people in administrations, including different presidents of the united states. why do you think it's never gained traction? >> i think there's been a tremendous resistance to it gaining traction in large measure because of the way in which we have crafted our understanding of american history. i think a disproportionate amount of american history has been devoted to mythologizing the case for the confederacy, leading to hero worship of individuals who actually were traders to the united states of america. in that process, i think there's been a denigration of black americans, which has led people to think that there's no just case for compensation when quite the contrary there is an enormous just case for compensation, and we have to rewrite our narrative of american history, particularly with respect to the nature of the confederacy and a cause that was established for the purposes of maintaining slavery in the united states. >> if you want to join in the conversation, 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. professor, one of the reasons we brought you on is because this topic suddenly re-emerges d or least emerged in the 2020 presidential campaign. i want to play some comments from elizabeth warren. >> america was founded on principles of liberty and freedom and on the backs of slave labor. this is a stain on america. and we're not going to fix that, we're not going to change that until we address it head on directly. [ applause ] and make no mistake, it's not just the original founding. it's what's happened generation after generation, the impact of discrimination handed down from one to the next means that today in america, because of housing discrimination, because of employment discrimination, we live in a world where for the average white family has a hundred dollars, the average black family has about $5. so i believe it's time to start the national, full-blown conversation about reparations in this country. [ applause ] and that means i support the bill in the house to appoint a congressional panel of experts, people who are studying this, who talk about different ways we may be able to do it, and to make a report back to congress so that we can as a nation do what's right and begin to heal. >> professor, what did you think about these comments just being made in the first place? >> so i think that there are two i d dimensions of her statement, which i view as courageous. the first dimension of her statement that i'd like to highlight is her emphasis on the magnitude of the wealth gap where she indicated that with respect to net worth, the typical white family in the united states has $100 relative to $5 that is held by the typical black family. so that's critical. that's a major indicator of the long-term and cumulative consequences of this historical path of racial injustice. and then the second thing i'd like to emphasize is her focus on house resolution 40 and the necessity of passing a bill that would create a commission that would have the responsibility for outlining the long-term history of racial injustice in the united states and designing a program of reparations. i would add that as a prelude to the reparations program that was inaugurated for japanese victims of mass incarceration in the united states during the course of world war ii, japanese-americans, there was a commission that was formed. i believe it was called the commission on wartime relocation and japanese internment. that commission had the responsibility for sketching the case for reparations for japanese-americans as well as designing an initial program of restitution. so i think in parallel fashion, we need a similar type of commission to address the question of reparations for black americans. >> first call for you, professor, comes from david. he's in los angeles on our incompetent line. you're on with sandy derity of duke university. david, go ahead. >> caller: well, good morning, brother. i must admit that this is a topic and a subject that is way, way long overdue that we deal with in a serious manner by which you're dealing with it this morning. now, with the senator approaching the topic the way she did, i agree with you, was much a noble thing to do. now, watch this, my brother, as this program progresses. people will call in and say, my parents -- i just got here, you know. i'm second generation, and my people came from wherever. we didn't have nothing to do with slavery, right? and you also get the garden variety racists who will always give the confederate line about, you know, that slavery was actually a noble enterprise. so brother, i think you got your finger on the pulse of the direction by which we must go. i'm just saying be aware of how it is these oppositions will try to muddy the water. >> that's david from los angeles. professor, go ahead. >> well, let me comment. i've already commented on the necessity of changing the way in which we view the american historical record. but the observation -- the other important observation the caller made is frequently critics of reparations say that they are such recent immigrants to the united states that they don't bear any personal responsibility for slavery, for example. they may even have arrived so recently that they've come after the jim crow period ended. i have a couple of responses to that type of perspective. the first is if an individual migrates to a country, they migrate to its history and to its national obligations. and the national obligation is what's in question here. it's not a matter of personal responsibility or individual responsibility. it's a national obligation that's based on the historical experiences that the united states of america has undergone. i would also add that i presume people who have chosen to migrate to the united states have chosen to do so based on the opportunity structure that exists now, which is also a product of the level of affluence that the united states as a country, as a whole has achieved. and that level of affluence was built on the backs of black american coerced labor that went on for upwards of three to four generations in the united states after the formation of the republic. >> from maggie in new york, republican line, go ahead, please. >> caller: hi. thanks for taking my call. my problem with this is that, okay, slavery was a horrible thing, and the entire country, i'm sure, regrets it. but what about the soldiers who died to free the slaves? do their families get reparations? >> professor? >> i don't know the answer to that. i invite the caller to craft a case if she would so desire on behalf of the individuals who fought to end slavery. i have been working on a case that is specific to the historical experience of black americans. i would also add that there was a significant degree of participation in the union army after the emancipation proclamation took place of black soldiers, and a case can be made that the union would not have won the war without the participation of black frotroop and the support from the black community that was based on the various outpost that the union army had throughout the united states. so i would argue that black americans themselves contributed directly to their own liberation from slavery. so as a consequence, we need to factor that into the reparations bill as well. but i invite the caller to do the research and to do the estimates of what the damages might have been to nonblack participants in the union army as a consequence of the civil war. that's a separate case. it's not the case i'm working on. >> professor, someone else makes the case on twitter saying, don't forget about the german-americans that were incarcerated on east coast, maybe the irish-americans that were indentured servants after the potato famine. >> and again, i invite these callers to design and develop their own case. i will say that one of the anchoring factors that distinguishes the black american experience from the experience of most of the others is that to some degree or to some extent, the other communities constitute descendents of people who voluntarily migrated to the united states. there is no question that the initial american sin of slavery was associated with forced migration to this part of the world. and i think that that's the foundation for distinguishing between the black american experience and the experiences of other communities in the united states. >> let's hear from jerry in ohio. go ahead. jerry in ohio, go ahead, please. >> caller: hello? >> you're on. go ahead, please. >> caller: oh, no. i didn't go through the screener. this is joe from michigan. >> you're on. good. >> caller: okay. i come from a unique situation, from a very unique family. i had a grandfather, not great, but a grandfather who fought and was wounded in the civil war. i'm 83 years old. i tell my brother, you and i are probably the only people who can directly connect to the civil war with an ancestor. i'm from ohio. he fought in the fifth ohio company. anyway, good luck in your quest for reparations. personally, i don't think it will ever happen. i'm even more unique in another way. i thought i was black for 75 years. we did dna and i'm actually scotch-irish, yet i suffered all the indignities of having to ride in the back of a bus. i suffered everything. i didn't know. i wish i had known then. hell, i'd have carried my papers with me. this is in the '50s i'm talking about. maybe i'm rambling a little bit. >> got you, caller. got your point. professor, if you want to respond. >> yeah, so i do want to re-emphasize that the criteria for eligibility that i mentioned earlier have nothing to do with dna tests or skin shade or appearance. so if this individual has an ancestor who was enslaved in the united states and this individual has self-identified as black at some point in time, then they're perfectly eligible for reparations. if they suffered indignities that were associated with the way in which others perceive them racially, then that would be entirely consistent with the claim for reparations. i think it's very interesting that this particular caller has a grandfather who fought in the civil war. i think that is actually not an entirely unique case. there is at least one individual that we know, my wife and i have worked on a book on reparations, which is forthcoming called "from here to equality." in the book, we talk about the case of a doctor who was the first black faculty member at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. her father was a slave, and she is still living. she is in her 90s. but her father was born into slavery. to the notion that it happened so very long ago really is not altogether accurate from a generational perspective. we're really talking about the fifth generation of black americans from slavery on average, but there are clearly exceptions. mrs. mcclinton is the first generation out of slavery. >> so professor, for this idea of reparations program, where would the funding come from? >> so any program of reparations that's established at the national legislative level, whether it's germany providing reparations for the victims of the nazi holocaust or it's the united states providing reparations for japanese-americans, the payments or the responsibility for p payments would come from the u.s. government itself. it's a bill that goes to the united states treasury. there are ways in which this could be done that would minimize or eliminate any additional tax burden on the national population, but that's in the final chapter of our book. i dare not divulge that in advance without risking the wrath of my co-author. >> from bob in massachusetts, go ahead. >> caller: good morning, mr. darity. i got something i'd really like to run by you. i understand that c-span is doing a show about the presidents. they're

president of the united states and was amazingly recognized by the kremlin and then when they left the country despite a travel ban and proceeded to go on an international or a company by a top russian diplomat and then returned to the country without a rat and then goes into a anti-government rally and it would she would she be allowed to do this or would she be in jail i think the answer is rather and they do it yet but we're at a very a constitutional grounds with regard to what the united states and the opposite doing here to spy on bolton after can book a new coalition of the willing to see regime change in the. u.s. national security adviser john bolton has warned against any attempts to prevent why does return home twitter he said that would be a significant response from washington should why those safety threatened. in a recent poll tonight is the international community to round on venezuela's elected leader. i'd like to see as broad a coalition as we can put together to replace the door to replace the whole corrupt regime block in this administration we're not afraid to use

formally condemned the united states sanctions on a wheel they called on all member states to break them and even discuss the reparations that the united states should pay to venezuela one american special un rapporteur described the sanctions as a kin to a medieval siege and even declare trumped guilty of possible crimes against humanity now the fact that the resistance media presents itself as this fact checking base that will stand up to trump is frankly ludicrous were when you look at foreign policy because not only are they not nor where they're not even know where they're standing shoulder to shoulder trying to produce a regime change in venezuela absolutely let's go back to our kids here i'm really glad that alan brought up the un's position here because again western audiences are not told that the saying sions that the united states has put are imposed upon venezuela are illegal under international law they have never explained how international law plays into this be the way they talk about restoring democracy but at the same time the u.s. promotes the ripping up the venez

were all things are considered labelle is trump's america first agenda isolating the united states on the global stage sure looks like it and is the e.u. telling its citizens what to think again sure looks like it. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with sputnik international and in london we crossed alexander me curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to i always appreciate let me go to i was going to be curious in london or this program is it the title you know a u.s. isolate let me go through a quick checklist going to back up what i'm saying here we have the pentagon announcing it a deployment of new intermediate range weapons interestingly the europeans haven't been told much about it the recent warsaw where the u.s. essentially stood alone on the issue of iran. rough handling of venezuelans alienating western allies in the western hemisphere continues to support the king

, the vice president of the united states, mike pence. vice pres. pence: hello aipac. thank you for that warm welcome. what an amazing turnout. how about around of a process for the team that put this extraordinary policy conference together. .ipac president mort fridman [applause] to members of congress vice pres. pence: -- vice pres. pence: to members of congress, to the 18,000 friends of israel who have come from near and far, it is great to be back at aipac, the largest gathering of pro-israel americans in the united states. [applause] vice pres. pence: speaking of pro-israel americans, allow me to bring greetings from a friend of mine. and someone history has already proven to be the greatest friend of the jewish people and the state of israel ever to sit in the oval office of the white house. i bring greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. we gather here today as americans to speak about the progress we have made and the strength of our alliance with our most cherished ally. i just have to say yesterday was a great day for a c

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to the north. welcome to. the new trade agreement between the united states canada and mexico is under fire as mexico pledges to ratify it with trump still cherish in place. while the agreement make it or will they are it of no deal prevail ask the add in mexico's undersecretary for door. with america and the country's chief negotiator in the us i'm seeing the talks. and eleventh hour deal it's a trade war between mexico and the united states who with terror still pending and trump building a buddha wall how will the new mexican government steer the country through this standoff with the central american powerhouse managed to stand its ground as if the its northern neighbor would have to bow down to the entire system to pressure from washington. ambassador to see adam mexico's undersecretary for north america and the country's chief negotiator in the us and ca talks welcome to the show it is really great to have you with us lots to discuss and mr savage you are mexico's kin diplomat in the talks over the us mexico canada dale new knocked up the process of negotiation was started

sake of the united states of america as well as for the sake of the russian federation. >> very good. that's a great segue for us. i think it's an understatement for anyone in the room to hear that the current state of u.s./russia relations is under dure duress. we had disagreements on many issues as well. but whether it was over strategic arms control or any of the other issues then and now we continue to always talk. and even when politics intervened, we had opportunities for scientific exchanges, cultural. and it's really in that spirit i'd like to have that discussion with you over the course of the next hour. not to ignore the disagreements that exist, whether it's syria, but really to try to find opportunities for common cause. they can build clab ra tiff ties and improve the relationship. . let me take you for a walk down memory lane. they were issues at the foreign min city. we spent time at the conference in geneva. even your ph.d. was on reducing the threats around nuclear arms. are we stomaumbling our way int nuclear arms race? >> so you'd like me to start just from this i

united states and the chinese telecommunications giant way the company is now threatening to sue they say the u.s. government ban on the use of their products in america's critical five g. infrastructure is unconstitutional i think serious where is this likely to end i'm phil galen but then this is the day. the. big u.s. congress has repeated that fade out and everything's supposed it's the stupid way approach that it's only signed more than thirty commercial five hundred contracts so far and many one zero is supposed to be back in court on may eighth. there are restrictions targeting power a. constitutional shipped two hundred million smartphones around the world early in december donald trump suggested that he might try to craft a case caution part of a trade deal is trying believe. it won't necessarily do with her guilt or innocence as that's been decided in the u.s. we can dream oh i don't dance that technologies to the united states so the twenty one thousand we've seen is the zero five g.'s when five hundred people check every . also on the day what's gone wrong for the golden b

mexico in the united states in canada i think it's a good investment if. it's about history it's ok it's good for mexico. so when the backlash against a proposed pacific an atlantic free trade deal is eventually killed them it was as if the tree free trade dream is over with these new deal on your hands do you think it is and we're back to terry if scale. no no no it's not such a fantastically big change it's evolution of the nafta it takes enough them and improves the rules in many areas it improves then it increases what is called the rules of origin which is what i was talking about it makes it. necessary for the foreign companies to use more in north america therefore to invest and then every interesting part of the treaty is that it has a number of areas that i call social agenda. labor rules environment rules and they corruption rules. it has ways to help small and medium enterprises even us culture protection facilities provisions so it is a very interesting treaty that is more pro investment than pro trade but also a social agenda. so they do see good agreement for the secon

all, the united states has a trade surplus on steel with canada. so, why they are slapping tariffs on canadian imported steel is foolish. if you take a look at the negative impact that is having the auto industry and on canadian steelworkers then it begs the question why? if you take it look, we probably have 25 steel workplaces in canada where the workers are on work sharing programs. the whole arguments on tariffs on aluminum. the united states can't generate or make enough aluminum to satisfy their own internal market, so you have to import it. 50% of all the aluminum used in the united states is from canada. what is the negative impact? we've got canadian aluminum producers that are putting away billions of dollars quarterly into a fund to see how this thing unfolds. it's not only the tariffs on steel and aluminum. you've got softwood, lumber. talk about a foolish strategy. you have the united states slapping tariffs on lumber when you are building. you are in a building surplus. american consumers pay $9,000 more for a new house. which is just a foolish strategy. >>but you do

a structural deficit in the united states and only produce 17% of what we need in the united states. if you were to turn everything to full capacity which would be difficult and expensive but if you did we would not be able to meet the demand that producers need. putting constraints on downstream aluminum producers would be a problematic future for those who made big investments and are looking to grow even more. we think quotas that would lead to all kinds of shenanigans, lots of products, specialty alloys and if you're look at buckets of hd of code it will be hard for customers to get what they need if you are under a quota system. we been clear with the administration and others the what we need are quota free exemptions from canada and mexico and all our market-based trading partners are focused on the problem in china. >> we agree wholeheartedly with lauren's statement, the same for aluminum. >> another question you will have to explain. how is the product exclusion process is working for your members? what is the product exclusion process? >> 232 in steel and aluminum if you are a

the united states is waging war on international law now that trump does that does not surprise me question is what will the. international crises in pristine be for the united states will the united states take the risk of a flagrant aggression against venezuela there is a danger of violence it should be the function of the united nations to prevent that. but there are says washington has its sights firmly set on bet as well as oil reserves the world's largest u.s. sanctions have already blocked seven billion dollars worth of state own assets and in a proactive move venezuela ordered the state oil companies european h.q. to relocate to moscow vice president del c. rodriguez told us more about the decision. it all with in fact the americans are pursuing a predatory policy appropriating venezuela's assets and therefore violating the legitimate interests of our country they violated all existing international investment rules aswell europe were venezuela's accounts were frozen we have already begun to take specific legal steps we hired lawyers to protect our interests primarily with

hands off venezuela and denounce what they see as an attempt by the united states to intervene and another country's internal affairs for desires who visited venezuela as a u.n. repertory in two thousand and seventeen says the u.s. is likely to escalate the situation. quite clear to me that the united states is waging war on international law now does that does not surprise me question is what will the. international prize in pristine be for the united states will the united states take the risk of a flagrant aggression against his will there is a danger of violence it should be the function of the united nations to prevent that. nicolas maduro says washington has its sights set on venezuela's oil reserves the largest in the world u.s. sanctions have already blocked seven billion dollars worth of state on assets to protect itself and as well ordered the state oil company european h.q. to move to moscow vice president has told us more about the decision. it all with in fact the americans are pursuing a predatory policy appropriating venezuela's asses and therefore violating the legi

streets of the united states of america yes after weeks and weeks of having their political egos stroked by both the trumpet ministration and the qadri of washington's finest regime change hawks won wide the man gunning for nicolas maduro presidency in venezuela through his representatives decided to up and take over three venezuelan government buildings in new york city including a consulate office with their eyes now on the ultimate prize of the venezuelan embassy here in washington d c r t's dan cohen has the story. this quiet street is the latest battleground for venezuela a country thousands of miles away and opposition leader does representatives are planning to seize control of this building the military attache carlos a big dose so-called ambassador to the united states before entering the military attaché is building he took control of another nearby building owned by the venezuelan government he was able to do so simply by calling a locksmith and perhaps more importantly saving the blessing of the u.s. state department they destroying everything so that's what they hav

. is whether in this well united states and its allies are pushing for his removal as washington able to achieve political goals in latin america well ask. trade and economic council. states exclusive with washington imposing trade deals. of the region's countries with the continuing pressure on. the protestors in venezuela when the white house moves it will the u.s. decisions help bring about any kind of peaceful resolution to south america's problems. are the words of a complex and troubled region. john carroll president of u.s. trade and economic council welcome to my show it's great to have you with us so let's talk about but allow me to start with because it's such a hot topic right now in the news. from one side we have the u.s. government that is supporting the opposition leader as the legitimate leader putting in sanctions on the other hand the government is still somehow holding on or what do you think will happen at this point because america is so involved in this crisis and the crisis is no nowhere close to be resolved to using it will actually have to intervene direc

. yes largely i mean i mean i'm not going to argue that the world of the united states is being led by the shrewdest president in the history of the country but the desire of both sides i think for wars are extremely small if i give you one example during the crimean problem obama was constantly being pressured to do more to help the the ukrainians and obama once said ok do you want me to go to war with russia over that anybody want to go to war with russia over that stand up and tell me and no one said anything of course so there's willingness to play around the edges but not to engage in a major war but i think in the kray mean situation the stakes were drastically different for russia and the united states and obama admitted that later on for russia it was a matter of strategic security a matter of life and that and death for the americans it was a secondary or if not that i michel for a third order do you think that would still be the case if the american security would be directly engaged if there due to security was directly engaged if the russians thought that their security was

to hide an empire." >> what surprised me when i was looking at the history of the united states was all the land over which the united states has claimed jurisdiction. how many aspects of u.s. history that seemed familiar to me. the musicacal oklahoma, the peae symbol. and events i hadn't thought much about. a shooting in congress in 1954. the discovery of some uninhabited 10 islands -- juan oh islands -- guano islands. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the house judiciary committee launched a wide-ranging investigation monday into president trump, his businesses and his allies as lawmakers probe possible obstruction of justice, corruption and other crimes and abuses of power. the committee requested documents from at least 81 people or groups, who now have a march 18 deadline to respond. the list includes his sons donald trump jr. and eric trump, his son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner, wikileaks and julian assange, the department of justice, the fbi, trump's charities, and founder of pr

attack the united states? gen. dunford: barbara, what they are developing is a capability to deny the united states to meet its commitments specifically in europe. many people are familiar with access denial. that term means to make it difficult in this case for us to get to europe and for us to operate freely once we get there. russia over the past 10 or 12 years in particular has made significant investments in and i ship cruise missiles, anti-ship ballistic missiles, electronic warfare and anti-space and maritime capabilities. all of it focused on what they perceived to be our vulnerabilities. gen. dunford: -- barbara: that is an intention you see them developing, on the capabilitie'' side, how soon? two years, three years, today? could they deny us the ability to get to europe? gen. dunford: let me address both the intention and the capability. there is no doubt that their capability is specifically tailored to prevent our commitment to europe. they see it as a threat. they are developing capabilities to do that. with regard to can they deny us the ability today? the answer is no,

united states with our friendship is probably better than it has been by far. i also want to congratulate you on your recovery from a horrible ordeal. it was an incredible recovery. the people of your country know it. great bravery. you have shown tremendous bravery. for two centuries, the brazilian and american people have been united by shared values including an enduring love of faith and country. the united states was the first to recognize brazil's independence in 1822 and in the second world war, brazil was the only south american country to contribute troops to the allied war effort. today, the united states and brazil are the two largest democracies and economies in the western hemisphere. we are in close agreement on the incredible opportunities and continuing challenges facing our region, and we have a truly historic chance to forge even stronger ties between our two great nations. this afternoon, the president and i discussed many of our mutual priorities, including venezuela. brazil has been an extraordinary leader in supporting the venezuelan people's efforts to

united states but with terror still pending and trump bent on building a buddha wall how will the new mexican government steer the country through this standoff with the central american powerhouse managed to stand its ground is it the its northern neighbor who would have to bow down to the entire system to pressure from washington. ambassador to syria that mexico's undersecretary for north america and the country's chief negotiator in the us and ca talks welcome to the show it is really great to have you with us lots to discuss and mr savage you are mexico's kin diplomat in the talks over the us mexico canada deal the new knocked up the process of negotiation was started by the trumpet ministration do you think that was the right move a good thing to do was good enough for president clinton president bush president obama does it really not work anymore. that's what president trump was say in the that the treaty was the the worst treaty have heard didn't work anymore. i would say with time there are things that happen you have new sectors for example digital trade there was no trade o

agreement with the united states because i wonder if this new deal is favoring america trump promised it would. no i don't see that. it was the intention. is not the outcome. the main part of the trade relationship is manufacturers trade in industrial goods but peculiarly the car industry and what the agreement dos is to make it more difficult to bring parts for the rest of the world. forcing the companies if they want to continue to sell into the u.s. just because market who will forces them to invest but invest in mexico in the united states in canada i think it's a good investment if. it's about history it's ok it's good for mexico so when the backlash against a proposed pacific an atlantic free trade deal is eventually killed them it was as if the tree free trade dream is over with this new deal on your hands do you think it is and we're back to terry if scale. no no no it's not such a fantastically big change it's evolution of the nafta it takes enough the and improved the rules in many areas it improves then it increases what is called the rules of origin which is what

canada where she's now fighting extradition to the united states has changed all of that and the firm has now begun an extraordinary legal and media offensive. huawei is a success story the chimes with many chinese people's sense of patriotism and pride it's not clear who's behind this music video now circulating on social media praising it smartphones the firm insists it had nothing to do with it. well way is fighting another legal battle in canada where its chief financial officer mongering joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated while where he is trying to weather storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. let's take a close look at hallways history based company was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven by a former officer of the chi

unfolded this way. of the spanish foreign minister even sort of in directly blame the united states for sort of leading this initiative and sort of mislead. almost europeans i mean europeans shouldn't be misled they should have their own policy but you know these this was the kind of what was being hinted at and certainly i agree that there's a lot of momentum and this coalition that bolton is calling for instead of being strengthened it's being weakened you're seeing a number of latin american states getting cold feet saying ok we want to change we want regime change a lot of latin american neighbors brazil colombia cheney and others wonder is regime change but they don't want to military intervention that's for your first point on the second point i just think it is unbelievably clumsy and just so telling of the kind of unilateralism and sort of imperial arrogance we're getting from this administration i mean from for a number of years and for a for a number of venues strange things you've had that kind of arrogance towards latin america but it hasn't been spelt out in so many ways to

the americans leaving the united states dealing with the issues of the western hemisphere today we're talking about a multi parlor world and i don't really know why i would i mean work with that. if america can be only for americans when you're talking about a world that's more globalized when other countries also have interests in the americas economic interests very important economic interests the border between venezuela and colombia witnessed further violence this week as tensions over american aid deliveries intensified venezuelan president nicolas maduro has blocks the shipments from entering claiming they could be carrying weapons and international efforts to end the crisis have stalled with the u.n. security council rejecting draft resolutions from both russia and the u.s. . by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield woodrow and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people the time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now the can use them with us mindlessly we have reached the culmination of the american workers cr

1939. the united states navy created a learning mechanism. it was constructed and comes from the mind of the second chief of naval operations, admiral robert kunst. he put into place what he called a planning cycle. this was an annual regimen, a war planning with the chief office, an analysis at the naval war college and exercises in the fleet. you have heard about the largest and most famous of these. what is generally done when we think about fleet problems is we think of exercises and how they went on. what i want you to understand is this is part of a network, a system of learning. the navy was going through these not just for practice or develop routines but to better understand how a naval war in the pacific might be fought and explore the challenges they faced. frank highlighted the fact that steaming directly across the pacific and confronting the japanese early in the pacific war was discarded by 1933. that is true. it is one of the things that comes out of these exercises and the learning system many other things come out as well. if you have studied the fleet problems or ha

being forced to register as foreign agents across the united states we get reaction from students. do you feel threatened by existing this china institute with a good language classes and such not something i could imagine trying to do i think the entire world. of broadcasting live here right for our studios most of this is hard to international and. the venezuelan vice president has told r.t. that american political pressure is doing more harm than good to the country's citizens and accused of the washington backed opposition leader of trying to steal the election rodriguez has been talking to archie spanish language network. he certainly we know the u.s. uses fake financial help in order to overthrow the governments of other countries than israel is about fake financial help they don't want to help economically financially to help with provision with medicines to help commercially and in the twenty third of february the whole world saw that they brought instruments of violence to venezuela and not eight hour repeat there is nothing new in this they export violence to countries but t

against the united states over what the chinese telecoms giant is calling an unconstitutional federal ban on its products the company seeking to reverse that ban which he says has affected its ability to compete on the american market the u.s. authorities accuse well way of trying to bypass international sanctions on iran and they've requested the extradition of that c.f.o. from canada the company's also been accused of industrial espionage after allegedly trying to steal trade secrets from its competitor team obama washington also claims that the tech giant engaged in espionage on behalf of beijing on the chinese telecom company was imposed last year barring federal agencies from purchasing or using while way products vangelis it's us has the story. well it seems the wall way is now on the counter attack the chinese still a communication company is suing the united states government the lawsuit comes after a bill was passed in the united states last year restricting wall ways business in the u.s. the chinese telecom firm claims that the national defense also known as the n.b.a. is in

heart of washington it is the government of the united states of america. spreading through the city and along the mall. the white house, home of the president and of the executive spour of government. it is a pretty port that interprets the law, the home of congress that makes the laws of the united states and the shadow of this dome is decided much of the destiny of our time. [music] [music] . >>> the first thing that happens in the morning on capitol hill is school in the attic of the library of congress across the square from the capital. school that begins at 6:15 for the 70 page boys that play an important part in the work of congress. if you are one of these page boys you would see more of the intimate details of lawmaking than common of a congressman himself, first you would have to go to classes. you would study many subjects, history, government, mathematics, literature, yes, and anatomy. the page boys called this a dummy oscar. class mates would be boys of high school age. carefully selected from all over the united states for their ability, courtesy and personality. you w

relationship needs to be a priority for the united states. the kurds have been a good friend of ours become a good allies and it's important to relationship in iraq be repaired or this comes at a time when the iraqi parliament is preparing to did a revolution that would significantly affect the u.s. presence there. this is a hugely concerning prospect and i look forward to hearing from you how we can work together to communicate our shared security interests with officials in iraq had with battle yield to the ranking member, senator menendez. thank you, mr. chairman. and i just want to tell our distinguished friend and colleague, senator sullivan for my travels abroad, i think it is the marine detachment that actually protect the embassy, so i don't know if they want to hear that joke. but in any event, general abizaid, ambassador tueller, thank you vote for your past service in thank you for both finding up to serve into complex countries with which the united states is critical security partnerships. mr. chairman, think it sends an important signal that these are first two nominees

analysis that this was a message to the united states that this was the end of diplomacy, that this was a provocation directed at us, and here we are probably four, five months later i don't think there is an expert alive who can even tell me what they tested or if they tested anything. all they released was a picture of chairman kim jong-un on a beach surrounded by men in uniform holding note pads and writing notes. a large part of the analysts were immediately interpreting this as a message directly at the president, directly at the united states. to this day we don't know what that entailed. the more recent example is last week while speculation was building about what's happening around sohe and some of the other sites traditionally associated with north korean nuclear -- or, excuse me, missile and rocket tests, there was a seismic event that the press reported was measured somewhere north of the dmz at some level on the richter scale of approximately 2.0 and immediately i saw messages -- i saw headlines and analysis that this was -- this was a statement coming out of the hanoi

united states for good or ill because it's they have the most at stake here and it seems to me this summit is really putting. the cart before the horse i mean there's so many things that need to be dealt with before we can get to that point and it's called competence building and i see the two koreas actually doing that go ahead in new york. i absolutely agree with you peter and i apologize and. it's i'm getting over a cold. i agree there are a lot of integration issues that would have to be worked out between these two countries if they were to ever reunite again especially given that south korea is so much more advanced than the north koreans and there would have to be an enormous training it would you know it would be practically a humanitarian crisis really trying to integrate all these people that have been shut out of the modern world and so yes i think the conversations going on between these two countries are absolutely necessary. but certainly the bigger picture of the geo political issues between china and the u.s. cannot be ignored in this in this conversation about wheth

be back at a aipac, the largest gathering of pro-israel americans in the united states. [applause] and speaking of pro-israel americans, allow me to bring greetings from a friend of mine -- [laughter] and someone history has already proven to be the greatest friend of the jewish people and the state of israel ever to sit in the oval office of the white house. i bring greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] we gather here today as americans to speak about the progress that we've made and the strength of our ahines with our -- alliance with our most cherished ally. but i just have to say yesterday was a great day for our country. our president and every american who cherishes the truth. [applause] after two years of investigation and reckless accusations by many democrats and members of the media, the special counsel confirmed what president trump said all along, there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the 2016 election, and the attorney general confirmed there was no obstruction of justice. [a