,he navy and the european union is the european union taking a leadership role? what is the strategy here? again, is there a strong u.k. role in that position? >> it's a good example of where britain remains and will remain involved in the security of our continent. it's the security of our continent matters to us as much as it comes to the european union union. of thehe beginning european union mission in the central mediterranean, we have a royal navy ship there today hoping to save lives in the mediterranean. we are seeing a huge increase in the number of migrants who are tackling this journey and we do need to do something about this, not simply to control migration into europe, but also to save lives, far too many sitting out on what is an incredibly ages -- dangerous journey and there are people making a lot of money out of this particular trait. -- trade. we start to tackle the business model of the people to make sure they cannot drop it any longer from this trade area that means working -- trade. working with the libyan authorities, which is very slow wo

the european union mission in the central mediterranean and the nato issue. in the beginning of the european union mission, we have our own navy ship there helping to save lives in the mediterranean. increase on a huge the number of migrants tackling this journey. we do need to do something about it. increase on the number ofnot simply to contn in europe, but also to save lives. many many in an incredibly dangerous journey and people of making a lot of money out of this particular. travel. we think it is important to start to tackle the business of people smugglers to make sure they cannot profit any longer on this trade. that means working with the libyan authorities to build up their coast guard efforts which is very slow work but necessary if they are to police their own territory to stop migrant boats getting to the edge of those waters where it becomes even more dangerous. india.rney across to work with libya and work on returns for those who are not clearly refugees. clearly economic migrants that are attempting to cross so they can be returned to where

wee obviously already heard from the interior ministers from around the european union. they have been meeting this day, this sunday, to discuss what's next when it comes to security.

now, why, almost 50 years after the end of world war ii, and with the total collapse of the soviet union, should american taxpayers be taxed to support armies in europe when the europeans have plenty of money to do it for themselves? >> well, sander, that's a good question, and the answer is: for 40-some years we kept the peace. if you look at the cost of not keeping the peace in europe, it would be exorbitant. we have reduced the number of troops that are deployed and going to be deployed. i have cut defense spending. and the reason we could do that is because of our fantastic success in winning the cold war. we never would have got there if we had gone for the nuclear freeze crowd; we never would have got there if we had listened to those that wanted to cut defense spending. i think it is important that the us stay in europe and continue to guarantee the peace. we simply cannot pull back. now, when anybody has a spending program they want to spend money on at home, they say, well, let's cut money out of the defense department. i will accept and have accepted the recommendation of two p

american taxpayers be taxed and support armies in europe when the europeans have plenty of money to do it for themselves? >> that is a good question. the answer is, for 40 some yes we kept the peace. t keeping the peace in costs of europe, it would be exorbitant. we have reduced the number of troops that are deployed and going to be deployed. i have cut defense spending, and the n we could do that is because of our fasuccs in wicold war. we nwould have got there if we had gone for the nuclear freeze crowd, never would have got there if we listened do those who wanted to cut defense spending. i think it is important that the united states stay in europe, and guarantee the peace. we simply cannot pull back. now, when anybody has a spending program they want to spend money on at home, they say let's cut money t departme i will accept and have accepted the remmendations of two oven leaders, general colin powell, and secretary dick cheney. they feel that the lels we're operating at and the reductions that i propose are proper, and so i simply do not think we should go back to the isdays

its oil came from the european union. since 1981, since greece has been in the european union, it has been getting subsidies for infrastructure and education to bring it up to the level of the southern journey -- southern germany. they squandered and misspent those resources. is really just an oil state. we have to be careful that we are not an oil state. we can print dollars and we are the reserve currency. greece realized that what has happened in the last six years as we have gone from connected to interconnected to interdependent. it has happened really fast. greece woke up and said there were not just connected to germany but they have to be germans. you have to pay taxes, work and german hours, take a german vacations. forget this mediterranean gig. you are germans. right now, you are seeing a great rebellion because it is a lot easier to borrow money for 30 days than become german. i did not know how the story will land, but it is really about values. that is what happens. we become interconnected, interdependent.

we keep spending we will end up like greece and there is no european union to bail us out. a woman waited tables at ohio and her husband worked in a wareuse. she said we are spending money we do not have. it is causing everything to cost more for health care to groceries. i am worried about my mom and more worried about what we are doing to our kids. for once the debt s become concrete in people's mines. it is affecting them and it wil afct the prosperity and the future of their children you take that in with obamacare and you have three big things peeper are willing to hear somebody talk about. >> -- people are willing to hear somebody talk about. >> what is fascinating is in europe with austerity, people are screaming it doesot work and telling them to get out with the elections they are having. here we are saying we have to get to austerity and clamp down and cut all the spending at a time when the the other argument is, this is the wrong time to do it. that is where i think what is happening in europe will have an impact on our elections. how is that read by the truck d

the european union, to aggressively a search sanctions. i think there should have been a no holds bar sanctions. the european nations are concerned about their gas supplies, but make it clear to them that they can be concerned about their gas supplies or be concerned about our friendship and we have much more leverage than the russians have in bringing them together to a certain -- what i think should have been very aggressive sanctions. sanctioning 20 people? that's like sanctioning the board of aldermen in chicago. it's absurd. it's embarrassing and i think it was the wrong approach. >> that to the budget, it seems to me that the last time there was a remotely reasonable discussion in this town was the simpson bowles commission report december 2010, early 2011, and you approved the work. obama did not really embrace it perhaps enough. design your perfect adjective a one that would be both post to ideal but at the same time passable by both parties in a sort of bipartisan way that you have proposed. give us the key elements you think woul

why is president barack obama, why is the european union funding $1 billion into the brain initiative? most ancientof our diseases -- mental illness. millions of americans at some point in their life will suffer some episode of depression, mental illness, anxiety. what is mental illness? is example, schizophrenia when you hear voices. at is called madness when you hear voices. however, when you put this scan, you findi something interesting. the left part of the brain lights up. that is because that part of the brain talks to itself. when you talk to yourself, the less part of the brain generates voices. that is why you talk to yourself. the front part of your brain is the conscious brain. it knows that the left part of your brain is talking to itself, and these people when they have an episode of schizophrenia, the left part of their brain lights up without their permission. they are unaware that they are literally talking to themselves, and you see that now for the first time in history looking at blood flow of a schizophrenic mind. and we can now look at joan of arc and many histor

nearly 40% of european union gas imports come from russia, much of which comes for ukraine. tomorrow, a panel will look at the implication of russia's growing influence in europe. live coverage starts at 10:00 eastern on c-span. it are in the day, donald trump will announce its take questions from the audience. >> if you go back, he was a conservative hero, and his tax rate was a gold standard. 25% was what you got. he fought like crazy. that wasn't epic battle. when you look at what all the socialites said,, how cold he they were also from families that endorse different policies. it was a let's get him go presidency .i am fully . he said he looked as though had been weaned on a pickle. farmers don't talk a lot because a cow might take them. temperamental -- is shy person. but he also had a political purpose. a president or a political leader is constantly bombarded with requests. his silence was his way of not giving in to special interests. amityhor and columnist shlaes will take your comments and tweets. hours,, live for three at c-span3. lauren bush, accepted this yours

is the rest of the european union ready for this? also, he says we are servants of the people. him to talk to leaders of the muslim community so he can put the case to them? minister: i do believe we are all speaking with the same voice on this. he is right to raise the issue of migration. solution to that is a political solution in syria. all of thesess issues with members of the muslim community. will look very closely at the specific idea he put forward. i support an iso-first strategy. how can we succeed if it is not shared by turkey, which seems to be more interested in bombing isil?than bombing minister: we've seen a growing understanding that a true enemy is isil. you see a growing understanding from turkey and others that isil is in a threat. have robust is the intelligence that supports these findings? what efforts is he making to persuade the iraqi government to support the sunnis these that will be crucial to our strategy? minister: the prime minister of iraq is a great improvement in terms of wanting a better society interact. we do need more progress on that. so th

i had been fighting against britain's membership of the european union for 25 years. 25 years. endured abuse, if you have been called deplorable, you only had a few months of being abused. i had 25 years of it. not of it mattered. i always believed we should govern our own country. we should be free to reach out and make our own deals with our real friends in the world. our real friends in the world speak english, have common law and stand by us in times of crisis. i thought i might become the patron saint of lost causes. and then the referendum came along. we were told by vast sections of the media we couldn't do it. were told by many of the pollsters we couldn't do it. any of this ring familiar with you guys? we were told we couldn't do it of they lined up, all big businesses all of the big banks, all of the big politics. not just from britain but across the world. even had a visit from the 44th president of the united states. i will to my dying day be that president obama came to my country, intervened and told thendum united kingdom people, told america greatest friend and

following president trump's steel and aluminum tariffs on the european union. she outlined her new immigration policy. this is en

of time with nato and in the soviet union. along came a guy a couple of years later, a guy i knew of, admired from afar. your husband, who had been a prisoner of war, who had endured and or ms. pain and suffering -- enormous pain and suffering and demonstrated the code, the mccain code. people don't think much about it today, but imagine having already known the pain you are ure and being offered the opportunity to go home and saying no. last one in, last one out. so i knew john. and john became the navy liaison officer in the united states senate. office that used to be on the basement floor of members of the military who are assigned to senators when they travel abroad to make with -- to meet with heads of state and other foreign dignitaries. john had been recently released from the hanoi hilton, a genuine hero, and he became the navy liaison. for some reason, we hit it off from the beginning. we were both full of dreams and ambitions. to makehelming desire the time we had there worthwhile , to try to do the right thing, to

because joining european union, for all its problems, european countries that managed to join the eu are by and large success stories. transformed economically and how the national government is run, institutions work. that's a long-term transformation for the balkans and also hopefully for georgia, moldova and ukraine. something we're interested in looking forward. because this ambiguity of being neither with european union, neither pro-russia, in the russian area of integration creates a lot of room for instability. and it's very important to have a strategic choice. seems like balkan countries have made it. several countries already are nato members. croatia, albania, it's very important so the balkans are fully integrated into the you e euroatlantic community to add hope. >> even though selecting case studies in these countries on the front line of russia's influence, frankly we would have trouble finding a single country on the european continent today that hasn't faced russia's attempts to influence it, that hasn't faced an effort to play a role in some big elections. over the

union, we would benefit substantially from having mexico and canada join those negotiations. i think the reason for doing so is very persuasive. it would strengthen the agreement, give it more have to buy at a 100 50 million consumers and $1 trillion in gdp, thus expanding market opportunities. second, it would reduce the complexity if the neighbors are excluded. mexico already has a free trade agreement with europe and has had one since the year 2000. canada announced it negotiated a trade agreement this past october. having to deal with three separate agreements with different rules of origin would not only create a headache but unnecessary cost burdens for consumers. it would erode the unique and hugely beneficial economic integration that we have achieved as a result of nafta. having all three north american governments purchase a paid in the negotiation would give us all an opportunity to upgrade and expand nafta. significant advances have occurred in the area of data flow, telecommunications, and other areas not on the table when we negotiated the north american free tr

in bringing about the european union. france wishes to continue to support this promise of normandy, understand its purpose. this is what we owe to our homeland. what we owe to countries that share the same values. what we owe to democracy and liberty. the lessons are clear. liberty and democracy are inseparable. young americans died here. they died for their country and they died for the freedom of the world. they knew that. the french who died on the same beaches by their side fell for the liberation of their country. but they also fell so that their nation once this task completed would rediscover its tradition of liberty. we need to be true to their memories and to do that, we must -- we must never renounce what their sacrifice united. the promise of normandy will be supported by france with all of its might. i promise this will be the case. this is at the heart of america's destiny too. president of the united states of america, ladies and gentlemen. all along the roads of france, the beaches, along those roads taken

union and the inter-parliamentarian union and so forth. the larger the gender gap in the country, the higher the levels of perceived national corruption. the smaller it is on the other hand, the greater the level of trust in government and the greater the transparency in government. and what researchers have found when they go down into the micro level and they look at what women are doing when they are in the legislature, they have discovered that the representation of women in decision-making is higher, more lawmaking revolves around issues of social welfare, fighting corruption, and approving legal protection for citizens. and what we have also found, and these are some brand-new studies that are hot off the press, when women are represented in peace negotiations after a conflict, participants are likely to be far more satisfied with the outcome and what we have also found is that the agreement is significantly more durable. it will actually last longer if there is representation of women. so, we might ask ourselves, might and equitable

yet they had difficulty shipping agriculture to europe because of subsidies by the european union. that is a form of colonization. it keeps them in poverty. social you have mentioned the issue of sexuality is one that goes intensely deeply into the way that the world is understood. it is a question of identity for many people. the imposition as it is seen in the global south to new approaches to what it is to be human is resented more deeply than it is possible to describe. of -- you aree telling us whom and what we should be. a senior figure in one country said to be years ago, i did not go through the colonial. -- the colonial time and get rid of you people in order to come back a different form and in the same thing. there is a sense that colonialism has not stopped. i think we need to be frank and identify the problem. it is economic, social, it is on oures like sexuality where understanding of the human being has changed dramatically. it goes to a lot of philosophical underpinnings of our views of a human being. the post modernist move towards radical autonomy has a profound e

then a look at the future of the european union. tonight, former vice president dick cheney on the role of the vice president and how presidential candidates choose their running mate. scott paul discusses the trade deficit and u.s. manufacturing. ubin we will talk to avi r about recent hacks that compromised the health records of 3.5 million patients. melissa yeager from the sunlight foundation on the amount of time members of congress spend fundraising and how it affects their official duties. ♪ host: good morning. 2016.friday, april 8, the headlines for today's "washington journal" are about the war of words in the democratic presidential primary, as hillary clinton and bernie sanders had a sharp exchange about each other's qualifications, leaving some in the democratic party worried that the change in tone might hamper efforts to unite the party behind the eventual candidate. the stalemate over the supreme court nominee merrick garland continues, as president obama warned that political polarization puts the judiciary in jeord

that would be contrary to all of the values that have founded the european union. i would remind you that its existence is based on the refusal to go back to those practices of another age which led our continent to two disasters in one century. the organization given by the russian federation to deploy troops in ukraine, if followed up by facts could be a threat to the territorial integrity of the country and would be a dangerous development for peace. in the ukrainian crisis, france will attempt to provide a political solution that will serve the interests of the ukrainian people and will preserve the territorial integrity and unity of the country. we call for all parties to show restraint and responsibility. we ask the ukrainian authorities to take all necessary measures to ensure civil peace, coexistence between communities and taking into account the legitimate concerns of the russian federation. we expect from all of ukraine's neighbors that they help ukraine in that difficult endeavor. france and the european union are ready to make a contribution to a peace

the european union and the osce also have observers that will be present. the numbers will not be great, but that is not unusual. pakistan recently had an election which was widely viewed as successful. it is a country of 180 million. there were only i am told 60 international election observers at that election. afghanistan is a country of about 30 million people, proportionately, it will have more international elections -- election observers. but more importantly, the international observers will be working with approximately 15,000 national afghan observers. deployed around the country by two afghan observation groups, the largest one is the free and fair election foundation which was founded in 2004 and has observed every afghan election since. they currently have 10,000 observers registered. the afghan observers have been trained and funded by the international community. they will be the real eyes and ears on the ground and they will be sharing the information and their observations with the international observers. and will be part of the foundation

and the election commission and partners in the european union were trying to spin off while moving it forward, and the political deal come each candidate went around saying whatever their constituents wanted to hear, and it is like they were talking about 2 totally different deals, because who knew what was really in it? in this environment with a dangerously close march in an attempt to take power by one group of supporters and continued uncertainty with the election and everything else, you had a number of senior officials who stayed out of the election publicly, although they definitely have their likes and dislikes among the candidates. we need a plan b unless this doesn't work. these guys have done well in the last 13 years, and the last thing they want to do is see that they can get blown up. what invariably came up was world war i. nobody wanted world war i. it was going to destroy everyone, but it still happened. that is what they were intensely worried about, and are still intensely worried about in kabul. this was brewing there, and it wasn't really a big secret. the politic

what is happening here is not only a desire to be part of the european union which makes them look to the west and not be coerced into the customs union that the russians and putin are trying to push into but they are tired of corruption, tired of a bad economy because of that. they really want change and that change is minimized by a turning to europe and a relationship with europe that they think will benefit them and their lives. >> are you concerned that this could make tensions between putin and the united states work? -- worse? >> we have a long tradition of standing up for people that are freely and peacefully demonstrating. they have been peaceful. they were attacked for a while from the police which did not succeed. i think the other aspect of this is, this is a country that is in really bad economic shape. they need assistance. if they turn back to russia, i think the consequences they believe will happen will be a rather serious. there are several hundred thousand people. i have heard estimates between 200,000 and half a million that you can hear in the background here. i a

the european union dropped their requirement that citrus growers be surveyed for citrus canker, which eases the entry of u.s. citrus in the market and saves growers thousands of dollars in production costs. market has been expanded for resumingping potatoes, imports from idaho for the first time in 11 years. imports ofalso on u.s. distillers dried grains. they announce south korea lifted its ban on imports of u.s. poultry and products including fresh eggs. all of those are good news, but we want more. i'm a grow it and sell it back. people think we should restrain in agriculture, i think if american farmers produce it, the u.s the usda should be helping o sell it. uspect more than a few of you will ask me about nafta if i don't address it now. clausnded to ask santa for a perfect final trade deal, wrapped up and put on the tree for american farmers. then i remembered the north pole might be too close to canada for those things to turn out well for us. aside, i do remain optimistic about the future of our trilateral trading relationship. this is noty, original with me, you look at mexi

i think everybody is aware we have proposed as part of the european union reassurance initiative additional moneys for additional rotational forces, exercises, different and gauge been activities so that our presence, the presence of our nato allies is very much there. all of that is going forward. , we respect to the rd 180 are heavily reliant on it for our lunch program -- launch program. we want to get off of that reliance assumes we can. there has been no interruption as of now despite tweaks to the contrary at one point. we do have a two-year stockpile. we are working through our options on how we will get off of that reliance. we have near-term and long-term things that we're looking at depending on how world conditions go. for example, speeding up the delta. at that as an american produced engine. expensive,to be more but that certainly is an option for us. we are working to get the new entrance, one new entrants is getting close. to getworking busily those people against that certification process. we're trying to figure out how we get a new engine. could it be a public-private part

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it was so great to realize that the european union has not been mentioned once. does that mean we have become irrelevant? or do you take us for granted? [applause] >> who wants to deal with europe? do not make me do it. >> my answer is always, in the european just like you, does happen to a been raised in the united states. i can say all kinds of things about you. i believe that europe is to get its act together so that we can, in fact, the partners. i think the united states counts very much on a partnership with europe. it is then our dna in all kinds of different ways. europe is not irrelevant at all. i think part of the issue is there is nothing that is saying we are leaving europe behind. and we're counting on europe to be a partner with us as we deal -- an equal partner as we deal with various other issues out there. >> i am from parliament who came to be part of the supporting democracy movement there. i would like to think them for this commitment, even after they were forced to leave the country. they opened the link. thank you for them. my question is,

we should put observers and the international community and the european union. we should give all this support. you need several thousand military equipment to protect them. otherwise, it is impossible. in a normal operation, when you put two out of 50 observers in syria on the ground, how many observers do you need to do that? why do we do it? to protect our observers. not to protect the syrian people. i think it is really not the way forward. what we have to observe, what we know already -- the plan is not working. bashar al-assad is getting more people. he is ignoring his promises. he is simply continuing with a number of crimes against the mandate. is that what we need to know? we know who wins. what we need is

union. lot of information and that is adequate. >> thank you. order. questions to the prime minister. mr. john baron. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> the prime minister. [shouting] >> mr. speaker,

we cared about the oil because it 100% european oil came from the middle east. wanted to make sure we had friendly arab regimes. if not aligned with the

union. this is 35 minutes. overcome the impact of this explosion. >> order. statement, the prime minister. >> thank you, mister speaker. da

as you know, eu -- if you are citizen of the european union and coming out of the region through turkey, you're not going to be screened by a watchlist. i know eu parliament is ready to address this issue. many of the countries we met with -- i hope you can apply that pressure. let me turn to foreign aid. we give a lot of money to countries that vote against us in the united nations. president reagan's ambassador jean kirkpatrick testified in front of congress. that their actions inside the u.n. must have consequences for their relationships for with the united states. in response to her testimony congress passed legislation that tied their voting patterns with assistance provided. however in 1990, this provision was repealed. the state department continued the practice of reporting to congress on voting, it included in its reports and listed for an assistance alongside -- the obama administration entered this practice in 2010, and i'm was hoping you could explain why the administration and did that practice? ambassador power: i am not aware that we ended that practice. we still retain

we have seen already the european union, we are part of the european union, test status of the french part is different from us, but still, it is clear that european union will step in to an amount we do not know yet. we will get international solidarity there will not only from the p o -- not only from the people from the region but from europe where there is a strong bond. relate, iwant to heard a very nice interview this morning i'm a woman from st. maarten -- this morning, a woman from st. maarten whose house was still standing and heavily damaged. they said what are you going to do now and basically her answer was i never liked a roof, this is a possibility to rebuild my house to my own design. this is an absolute disaster and an opportunity. in st. maarten have experienced at that and we will pick up our shovels and brushes and we will rebuild and we will be better and more beautiful than we were before irma. thank you very much. [applause] >> we are going to have to turn over to the next panel but i do not want to not get the opportunity for a couple of questions to be asked fr

the european union's future is an important question for the u.s. the future of the nato alliance is one we have to address, and we should remind everyone it has meant peace in the world for a long time. ron gidwitz is the right person to serve as america's face and america's voice in belgium. i am happy to endorse his nomination. thank's, senator. i want to thank all my senate colleagues for providing an introduction. i think the bipartisan support speaks well of them and of this process. says,irman corker always your welcome to the stage. we really appreciate you making those introductions. i want to thank my other colleagues for attending, and i want to be respectful of their time. rather than reading an opening statement, i will ask to enter .nto the record i will turn to senator murphy. sen. murphy: i will take your cue and we can get right to the nominees. by. johnson: let me begin thanking our nominees, your families, for your willingness to serve in these very important capacities. these postings have always involved significant sacrifice no

president, the european union and pakistan share a long- lasting friendship. last june, the second e u- pakistan summit set the basis for a strategic dialogue, which includes the promotion of disaster/risk reduction and the effective provision of humanitarian assistance. before this disaster, the european union have already allocated more than 400 million euros in assistance to pakistan for 2007 through 2010, on economic development and trade, as well as on governance and human-rights. today, i can say that the european union steps up considerably its support for pakistan and the pakistani people. since the beginning of the crisis, the eu and its member states have already committed over 110 million euros, and i'm pleased to announce that this amount will be increased by 30 million euros. this means in total that the european union has committed more than 140 million euros or the equivalent of $180 million. let me underline that this humanitarian assistance is provided on the basis of the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence and ac

europe is more than the european union. there is iceland and norway and switzerland, others in the southeastern part of europe. and this is a country that has survived the economic and financial downturn. and this leads me to the question, what is your government view on the enlargement of the view. iceland -- we're both negotiating, trying to become members. i would like to know your view, of the turkish entrance into the european union. >> with the european character, this is very european. this was -- we have the homogeneous comments. the european union must be close, and we have to have the association, with a different cooperations. norway is a european country. this does not want to clearly be in the structure. we have access to the european markets. we have to respect this. and we cannot really make this a member of the european union. poland is the last countries -- we have become a member of this and we want to close the door to the club. those who meet the criteria, those who commit to the criteria, this is alimen

union, or to have someone from one of these other countries and asked, how're you doing this? you, who have the same kinds of problems? what are your procedures? there are some things internationally that i would be interested in finding out if the administrative conference can look into it. that is what your question triggers in my mind when you ask it. >> are you there issues that you hope so we will prioritize this year? >> that is up to them. i think an age-old question, and i know you are working on this. there is something now called quasi--final rules. does that ring any bells? an interim final rule where there is less procedure and management. one of the things they're going to go into is how does that work. how does the agency -- people and agencies, in my experience, and i am sure it holds true, they may be given a job like setting a consumer-oriented labeling rule for tires. they do not know what the right rule is. they have tire companies who will tell them, our tire is better because it goes faster. somebody else will say, no, it is the curves that matter. no, it

inhat same artle it quoted an article by the head of the european union's chartered terrorism initiatives. i would argue they have not been as focused on these issues especially as it pertains to travel. they are starting to ay very active role in part because they realize they have a real brought on their hands and not one that just impact the united states but their own countries. women and children have moved to the hot tub -- fata region. if you asked me seven years ago what the likelihood of that would be, i would have said close to zero. there is the common bridge figure. one of the first two went over and became a pop star on the internet propagating this message. it was resating with a small, but significant, number of germans. more needs to be done with passenger name recognion and terrorism troubled -- terrorism travel. they're starting to move in the right direction. this was especially with the united kingdom which has been in the front of tackling these issues. host: on our next line -- on our next caller from the independent line. caller: i'm not so concerned about homegrown

union. and now, my friends, we're being tested again. we're being tested in south china sea where the chinese now are filling in islands that they have no business doing. gross violation of international law. we now have six million refugees out of syria, 400,000 dead. we now have vladimir putin dismembering ukraine, occupying crimea. and today as we speak he will be testing this new administration. so we're in very challenging times and we're seeing, of course, the possible breakup of the european union. and by the way, we're seeing russian interference in the french election and probably in the german election. if putin is able to destroy our ability to correctly elect our leadership, he's destroying the fundamental of democracy. that's why we have to -- [applause] that's why we have to stop this. there is a whole new area of competition, my friends, it's called cyberwar. cyberwar. right now, today, there have been attacks on some of our most important capabilities. there have been attacks