of a red america and a blue america or purple america. have you found that? >> guest: yes. >> host: what their different snooze one hand there's very strucking contrast between the north and south and a lot of people might say everyone knows that. what is interesting is if we look from a comparative angle it's not the same in other western nations. if you leave paris for rural regions of france you might miami people who are more consecutive and if you leave amsterdam, you might people people who are more conservative as well but you're very unlikely to meet people who are in favor of teaching creationism in public schools or would think that universal health care and abortion or some of the greatest evils that humankind has known, by contrast, these are common beliefs in the red states. what is also interesting is to look the data that huge regional contention within the united states and a contrast at a partisan level nationwide. so even conservatives in blue state take vary hardline position on a broad range of issue if the perfect exa

the heart of white america. i wanted to about issues of police brutality, of racial discourse, i wanted to be honest about the fact that we feel that we have been deeply entrenched in the culture of privilege on the other side, white privilege, white vulnerability in the find ways to talk about it honestly and openly. here we are in the age of 12 speaking about not being politically correct. can you take that both ways? can you also as white americans into her beyond the onslaught of brutally frank conversation hopefully inarticulate black american trying to say this is the kind of stuff we want to say anat we talk about behind your back and not want to talk about in front of your face and these are the challenges that i want to levy in the kind of conversation i want to engage by being open and honest in the way that often doesn't occur. not nasty, not preaching, down from the pulpit, i'm not that kind of preacher. i believe in getting in the trenches with the people to say what can we do to lift thehe burden t

countries in africa and latin america. once those slaves and those environments became independent, they became whole nations. they had an identity. they could call themselves brazilians and haitians and jamaicans with a sense of history and a sense of the right to exist. here, we have never been able to overcome at once. i am an american. i do not do that without am big wens. i have to say the quick exchange through the mental gyrations, what am i, really? what is an american? what does it mean to a person of color to be an american under the conditions we were forced to defend that title. it doesn't make sense. we find ourselves tripping on the words we speak and the things we say because you never squared that issue. i don't know, really and truly, what i have expected to do other than what it is that we do. constantly fight for the right to be human. >> somebody once said to me that black folk have learned to love america in spite of, not because of. that comes to mind listening to you wrestle with this notion of what

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america is trembling on the verge of war. we are today so far from having won our way out of the mail strom of war into the calm, smooth waters of peace, in the very vortex of its awful fury. the sidney morning herald reported 6th of april, 1917, there is nothing in the history of war more remarkable than the enthusiasm with which the american people have received the president's advice to declare themselves at war with germany. great britain will find part of a burden taken off her hands by the united states. an australian at the front line, private james joseph macon, wrote to his mother and father in london on the 9th of april, 1979. i suppose you are following all the latest operations with much interest, and you should be exceptionally glad america has come in at last. >> from a diplomatic message sent by foreign minister of the hungarian empire to the declaration of war to germany. since the united states of america has declared that the state of war exists between it and imperial german government, austria, hungary and

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build it in america. buy american. and we'll put thousands, in fact, tens of thousands, of people to work. i'm going to give you another example. the american maritime industry has been in a very steep decline for the last four decades. following world war ii, we had over 1,500 american ships. a decade ago we had over 00 american ships. on the ocean. our ship yards were making l.n.g. tankers 20 years ago. and they were american flagged. american mariners on those ships. today we have less than 80 american flagged ships and we don't make large commercial ships in the united states except on rare occasions. the maritime industry is absolutely critical to national defense. how do you think our men, women, and equipment get to the trouble spots of the world? you don't fly the m1 tank on an airplane. you put it on a ship. put the trucks on the ship. put the artillery on a ship. where are the american ships? oh, i know. we'll call china. and they'll deliver our goods to the south china sea. doubt it. i don't think. so if you

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(violin music) america's diplomats can't always prevent conflict. when war does break out, it's up to the foreign service to work with all sides to protect civilians. - the fundamental piece of our work is to arrange for the evacuation of others. under normal circumstances, even normal can be pretty hairy. it'll be the foreign service that is shepherding the people out. - [voiceover] when hitler targeted millions of jews in europe, a diplomat named hiram bingham took it upon himself to help as many as he could reach safety in america. - he was stationed in marseilles in southern france, and this was right at the time that hitler was marching across europe. refugees who had been refused visas in other consulates realized that they should come to see harry bingham in marseilles for one last chance to live. - [voiceover] in just 10 months, and in defiance of orders from washington, bingham provided aid and travel documents to some 2,500 jews. - he looked out the window and saw all these desperate refugees seeking life-saving visas. he immediately thoug

if you were to offer some all-good news about america, i don't know, a good news channel about america, what would it be? and i am not trying to downgrade the important topic you are discussing but it seems we need more happiness in your life if you know what i mean kind of thing and i will leave it at that. >> guest: well, i mean, if you take the example that i just gave that this country was the first in the world to elect someone from an oppressed minority and went straight from there to elect donald trump. whatever you think of twhees candidates reflect the nation's thinking. there are good candidates. i lived in america and covered american politics for 12 years and througho that time i saw lots of good people doing lots of great things. i spent the months before the election in a town called muncie, indiana which was famous for a middle town study. a representative of qui quintestenial american town. i spent a week with high school students who hold up signs saying we love you, you are doing your best. there are good people across the country including in this book. people trying

doctor, why did you make this a sermon to white america. >> for america, you don't know i left crazy messages for peter flynn and loves me and he's a great man. i wanted to say that. i wanted to write this book because i think it's time for honest discourse and conversation between black and white america. i don't represent all of black america and white america is diverse, i understand that, but what i'm trying to say from my heart to the heart of white america. i wanted to talk about issues of police brutality and racial discourse, i wanted to be honest about the fact that we feel deeply entrenched. white fragility and white in the age of trump not being politically correct. can you take that both ways? can you also as white americans endure the onslaughten honest, brutality frank conversation for hopefully an articulate black american saying this is the stuff we want to say behind your back and i want to talk about it in front of your face and these are the challenges i want to levy and the conversation i want to engage by being open and honest in the way that often doesn't occur.

because they will put america on that product if it was made in north america. host: to your earlier point about an emport tax, an editorial talks about that. they say more potentially dangerous teeing up tariffs and steel imports. he president ordered -- host: mike in pennsylvania, republican. mike, what do you think of the president's efforts here? do you try to buy american? caller: yes, i do. i buy as much of it as possible mostly. i buy it because it lasts. i have tools and equipment that are 40 years old. i don't mind spending like $25, $30, sometimes 40% more for an american made product because i know it's going to last. that's why i buy it. host: ok. mike there in pennsylvania. mike, what do you do for a living? caller: i am a contractor. host: do you hire -- do you make a point of hiring americans as well or are you forced to -- caller: absolutely. you know, i use as much american made -- when i go to somebody's home like a bathroom or something, i use only america made fixtures. i use only america made cabinet tri, that type of thing. it's just better

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world. >> guest: consecutive conservative america is what america has been since 1776 and that's the exception. we are country based on the accountability of individuals. individual freedom. you judge people on their merits regardless of their origin. the left is driven by density politics which is anti-american. it's racist. you judge people on the basis of their skin color. this is what democrats believe. on the basis of their gender. on the basis of their sexual orientation and they have a hierarchy and a freeze for it -- a afraid for it. people of color. it's not even english. we don't see is a crayon of color. you call people colored people you're a racist. what is the ideological function of people of color? if you think about mexico, it's two manith anything group -- ethnic groups the dedescend dens of the spanish conquistadors who slaughter the indigos anyones but when they cross the border they're people of color and therefore depressed and deserving special privileges. people in india are people of call, the islamic beheaders inin raqqa and iraq, they're people of color. wh

america first. you better believe it. [applause] time. time. [applause] first we will fully monitor, uphold and enforce our buy american laws. buy american laws require that when the federal government buys bills or funds a project, domestic goods and products should be used. but over the years these have been gutted by excessive waivers and reckless exemptions. the result has been countless jobs and countless contracts that have been lost to cheap, subsidized and low-quality foreign goods. with this order i'm directing everything single agency in our government to strictly uphold our buy american laws. to minimize the use of waivers, and to maximize made in america content in all federal projects. [applause] it's time. and for the first time ever we're going to crack down on foreign bidders who use dumped steel and other subsidized goods to take contracts from workers like you. they take them away. and they've been doing it for a long time. it is not going to happen anymore. [applause] we finally standing up for our workers and for our compani

the bounty and wonders of america's natural world. his painting when william bartram was rather old is a nice character study and he is sort of calmly sitting there. but he has this wonderful bald spot on the top of his head, charles willson peale has really looked at the subject to depict him in detail with a lot of care. william bartram was charles willson peale's friend, but i think he was also his colleague as a fellow naturalist. and the portrait reflects that professional association. next to william bartram is william clark. and i always have enjoyed this picture, because william clark was a vivid redhead. and charles willson peale did a good job with his red hair. william clark is one of the famous half of the team of lewis and clark, the explorers, who traveled early in the 19th century to surveil the territory we now know as almost a third of the united states, the territory america gained through the louisiana purchase. when clark was a soldier by training and brought to the expedition as the military backbone of the lewis

america is getting tough again, america is getting great again and justice starts now. welcome to "justice." i'm judge jeanine pirro. the world reacting to america's military strike against syria. it's time for the gop and the country to unite behind the commander-in-chief. kellyanne conway is here in new york with me live. plus sebastian gorka standing by to talk about the strike and what's next for the united states and the region. later i'll be joined by corey lewandowski, senator rand paul, but first my opening statement. when president trump ordered a targeted strike on the military base in syria he demonstrated swift and decisive leadership. his clarity, determination and compassion for the most weak among us without the accustomed indifference, whimpering, dithering, vacillating more equivalency of the other guy reflects not on his courage, strength and honor, but finally the resurgence and the reawakening of america the great. this is what we voted for. and now it's time for the republicans in congress to learn from our commander-in-chief, to put on their big bo

but the conservative america of those values but to enlarge extent it is conservative america. >> yes. that is what america has been and that is the exception. with the accountability of individuals to judge people on their merits the left is driven by density politics to judge people on the basis of their skin color. on the basis of agenda or sexual orientation. they have a phrase for it. people of color. that is not even english. you call them colored people ? would this theological function of people of color? those are to attain ethnic groups and with those survivors so across the of bordered the people of color therefore with the special sensitivity the people in india? their people of color. feel the people in their world that cannot people of color are of white people. they have no color but the bed is pure racism from the democratic party today. that is what i say in my broken. >> that is the big agenda. >> >> host: how is president trump doing quite. >> if a kid is doing very well. :negative i think he is doing very well. to mention the oppression of blacks from the democrati

you are watching bbc "world news america." news, a man suspected of randomly shooting a grandfather in ohio and posting a video on facebook has taken his own life. steve stephens was spotted by officers and shot himself in his car after a brief pursuit. onationwide manhunt has been since 74-year-old robert godwin was shot in cleveland. saying he was involved, unwittingly. asimov said he did not realize his actions were connected to terrorism. ae fsb says he was preparing suicide bomber to carry out the attack which killed 15 people. in iraq, the message to retake postal from the so-called islamic state has become a building by building, block by block battle. u.s. commander assisting iraqi forces says it is the most significant urban combat the second world war. our correspondent is embedded with iraqi forces. he sent this report. reporter: even at night, you can clearly see the scars on the streets of the city and how brutal the battle for mosul has become. we joined the iraqi security forces about to mount yet another assaul

north america editor jon sopel has this. jon: the president's spokesman sean spicer came to debriefing to talk about the seriousness of last week's sarin attack in a series in which the administration holds bashar al-assad responsible corporate but then he turned to history to make this point. mr. spicer: we didn't have chemical weapons in world war ii. you have someone as despicable as hitler who do not even think to use chemical weapons. jon: but that statement drew an incredulous response from journalists attending the briefing. >> i will give you an opportunity to clarify something that seems to be gaining some traction -- "hitler did not sink to the level of using chemical weapons." what did you mean by that? mr. spicer: when it comes to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. jon: millions of jews were gassed during the second world war in the network of concentration camps built in what was called the final solution. the director of the anne frank center condemned the re

as a result, america's faith in the integrity of the court and their trust in the basic impartiality of the law will suffer. those are serious things to this republic.ill prior to yesterday's vote, i shared my views on this momenthe at length. i will let those comments stand in the record. week, over the past week, let us go no further down this road and i hope the republican leader and i can, in the coming months, find a way to build a firewall along the legislative filibuster which is the most important distinction between the senate and the house. this senate becomes a majority institution like the house. much more subject to the windsf of short-term electoral change.f no senator would like to see this happen so let's find a way to further protect the 60 vote rule for legislation. now, madame president, since you will soon become the ninth justice of the court, i hope judge gorsuch has listened to our debate in the senate, particularly about our concerns about the supreme court increasingly drifting towards we becoming a pro- corporate court that favors employers, corporations and

united states of america. that important event which took place during our absence must've had a tremendous effect but only on the issue of this war but upon the future of the world. fact that citizens of the united states are to fight side by the soldiers of our empire cannot but have a splendid influence on the future of our nations. french]g there are in this canadian expeditionary force more than 9000 men who give their next of kin as residence in the united states of america. i did it say that all these men have come directly from the united states. some of them may have immigrated to this country, leaving their next of kin on the other side of the line. 9000 who were undoubtedly born in the allegiance of the united states are now fighting in the canadian expeditionary force. although the united states after the war, we do not low how long it will be before the tremendous power of that nation can be translated into military effort. it cannot be done in a few weeks. it cannot be done fully in a few months.

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america was not number one, we were number 18. there are things we can do better than we are doing today. get behind of what we are trying to do and yes, in trafficking, there are a lot of outside groups that were doing ratings before we put the united states government tip report together. but, it is u.s. tip report that's known globally today. it is known as the gold stand d standards until it was some what tarnish under the evaluations of the obama administration. we want to make this effort of a bipartisan effort and we'll get resistance from the state department. make no mistake about it. i admire greatly of our foreign service officers of what they do everyday for america. they don't like to have another burden put on them. they don't like to have to raise issues on what makes their life complicated of what they're trying to get done in other countries. but, fighting corruption is so important as it is fighting trafficking so important and though we can elevate that. we can use your help in getting this report and getting th

and in that extent, america is -- america is not exceptional. in fact, this is where we are, right now. although, what is exceptional is that he won the whole thing. one could mange comparisons to him and silvia berlusconi, a businessman. the other thing about this election that was interesting was while the centrist candidate -- the center left candidate, in france is the socialist party, but it would be more like the democratic party. while their vote collapsed, melson, hard left, he did really well. >> sounds like bernie. >> most european countries have a bernie. france, germany, to a lesser extent. britain, with corbin. grease, portugal. and so, you have these two countervailing responses to the anxiety around neoliberal globalization. >> is it enough in it wasn't enough to save off a trump victory here. is the other approach, the other alternative enough? >> not yet. no. not yet. and in a few places it's done well. portugal and greece, it's done well. but i think what's important, in this moment, where there's a lot of despair everywhere, i

gdp was up, median incomes were up, america's middle class grew. we regulated finance, securities and exchange commission, glass-steagall, we had imposed taxes at pretty high rates and invested in our people to get them into the middle class. sent a generation to college through the g. bill. encouraged home ownership, we invested in infrastructure which crated jobs and growth and put into play programs that would help the poor. medicare, medicare, head start. economic inequality was less on an issue. now i know some of you have been probably thinking from the very start, but what about women? what about african-americans? how can the story i'm telling possibly coexist with reality of deep inequality across these groups i distinguish between two traditions. the first is the one i have been talking being. the middle class constitution and for there to be a republic you have to have relative economic equality in the political community. but this leaves open a very important query. who is in the political community and that has been fiercely contested,

allies, including america. so from your perspective at the u.n., what is the attitude about the enforcement of the iran deal and how to hold iran accountable? >> it's concerning. the reason it's concerning is because when the iran deal took place, all it did was empower iran and it empowered russia. and it emboldened iran to feel like they could get away with more. you can put sanctions on a country. to take sanctions away it's very hard to go back and put sanctions back on. so we have said we're going to watch them like a hawk. we're going to make sure every single thing they do is processed and dealt with. but my concern is, you are seeing a lot of love for the iran deal in the security council. and that's unfortunate. and why that was ever allowed to go through, why that was ever past is beyond me. it's terrible. [ applause ] >> i want a quote from your first public remarks as ambassador. you said regarding those countries, those nations that don't have america's back at the u.n., i think everyone was stunne

and wonder does america still speak for me? and that idea is at risk. we need to understand that, and i think a real core part of our investigation is to understand how the russians are challenging that idea and what we need to do to fight back. >> trevor: wow, you feed to get back to the -- you need to get back to the bunker. ( cheers and applause ) thank you so much for being on the show. congressman adam schiff, everybody. we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) ♪

here‘s our north america editorjon sopel. the president‘s spokesman sean spicer came to the daily briefing determined to talk about the seriousness of last leg‘s sarin attack in syria, which the administration holds bashar al—assad responsible. —— last week‘s. but then he drew on history to make this point. we did not use chemical weapons in world war ii. you know, you had someone as despicable as hitler, who did not even sync to using chemical weapons. —— sink. but that statement drew an incredulous response from journalists attending the briefing. i want to give you an opportunity to clarify using chemical weapons." what did you mean by that? when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people, the same way that assad is doing. millions of germanjews were gassed in the second world war, in the network of concentration camps, built in what was called the final solution. the director of the anne frank centre condemned the spokesman‘s remarks. and on capitol hill, congressmen and women, and

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it was america first. and let's not get involved in strange foreign affairs of which we know little and understand less. i was worried about this sentence which rex tillerson said the us will hold to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocent anywhere in the world. that is a fabulous sentiment that america doesn't have the willpower or the understanding all resources to do it. it's actually a meaningless statement. it way beyond retaliating through the use of chemical weapons. if your going to zimbabwe, congo, stopping the bombing the us is complicit in in yemen? this is a nonsensical statement and no diplomat, no one in the diplomatic service would be foolish enough to make it. they will have to go back from it because every single catastrophe in the world, people can turn to america and say, you said you would defend us. they have flipped in less than a week from the america first policy to classic liberal ultra—intervention was. i think what is really behind it, and you can see the inf

i was proud of america. black people didn't elect barack obama. america elected him. were it not for all the races of people in america who voted for him -- he wouldn't have been president. >> when he was elected, there's a feeling that maybee've ossed the threshold. and there's a lot of exuberance, maybe a rational exuberance, that we had overcome. who's that? topher: it's my son. ♪ this is rosenberg. i'm topher brophy. we get easily confused, because there's a resemblance people say. he loves taking pictures. and the camera on the galaxy s8... it's amazing. and with sprint's unlimited plan, we can post whenever we want. ...which works for me. does the plan work for you? he says it works for him! lease two samsung galaxy s8s for the price of one. and with galaxy forever, you can upgrade to the latest galaxy every year. plus get unlimited $30 per month per line for four lines. for people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay.com. (vo) your love is purely thoughtful, purely natural, purely fancy feast. delicious entrées, crafted to the last detail. flaked tuna, white