relations with the russian ambassador to the united states. this event was hosted by the world affairs council of northern california. [applause] amb. antonov: thank you very much. for me, it is a great honor for me to be here. i would like to thank the council for this opportunity to be with you. it is important to discuss a very burning issue, what should we do together? do we need each other? are we partners? are we enemies? who we are, the united states and the russian federation? i don't want to blame anyone for the current situation in russian-american relations, but today is the first official remarks by me as an ambassador for the russian federation to the united states. [applause] amb. antonov: i am not a magician. >> i want you to stop killing in chechnya. stop killing gay people in chechnya. i want gay people left alone in chechnya. we need to protect gay people. stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechnyans. [applause] [crowd noise] amb. antonov: you can see our relations are complicated. it seems to me ev

to be across the united states to match the energy we are seeing from so many other countries. in thinking about and remembering the great war and its enduring impact. what i have observed is that since the commemoration began in 2014, is that there really has been a genuine increase in attention to the conversation. here at the national world war i museum and memorial, for the period, late 13 to the end of 16, our visitor ship, our attendance in gallery rose 50%. that is a significant growth. this year, we are at about 13%. we anticipate we will close out 2017 with a 60% growth in attendance prior to the centenary. last year, more than 525,000 people came here to the national world war i museum and memorial to learn and remember. that seems to me that that is something which indicates the rising tide of interest there is in thinking about and better understanding the great war and its enduring impact. that tells me two things. the first, the importance for us to find ways to engage people in this. here at the museum, we have a robust public programming schedule. we have a robust

taste for a difficult three way relationship between powers in the syrian war ticky the united states and the kurdish fight is so hated by one side and supported by the other medium hond al-jazeera. and it's bringing our guests joining us from washington d.c. get around as can people's democratic party representative to the united states of america a.t.p.'s a kurdish opposition group in turkey in istanbul mitten good jan a security analyst and former turkey military officer and from reza italy by skype is joshua landis directs the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma very warm welcome to all three of you let me start off with you joshua landis what do you make of this outright support now for the kurds in syria and the u.s. backing this thirty thousand strong force well it's clearly a new departure for the united states the u.s. went into syria saying that it was a very narrow policy to defeat isis today isis is largely defeated yes there needs to be more policing but the united states has developed a policy which goes far beyond defeating isis today it is trying t

great honor to address this knesset, the first vice president of the united states to be afforded that privilege. capital jerusalem, the of the state of israel. [applause] [applause] i brings. pence: greetings from a leader who has done more to bring our two countries together, than any president in the past 70 years. the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] vice pres. pence: thanks to the president's leadership, the alliance between our countries has never been stronger. the friendship between our peoples, has never been deeper. i'm here to convey a simple message from the heart of the american people: america stands with israel. [applause] vice pres. pence: we stand with israel because your cause is our cause. your values are our values. your fight is our fight. we stand with israel as we believe in right over wrong. in good over evil. in liberty over tyranny. we stand with israel because, that is what americans have always done, so has it been since my country's earliest days. during his historic visit to jerusalem, president trump

this year. 780,000 young people who weren't documented in the united states became here as children we given a chance by president obama to stay s here illegally e able to work here and not fear deportation. 780,000. for the most part there are students and workers who are a vital part of the community and things in their lives and promised to do in even more but the decision was made by president trump put an end to this program. when he made that decision he also challenged congress. he said if we are going to get i this exact date of order do something, pass a law. well here we are just about in the fifth month out of the six month period he gave us to get down to work and nothing has happened. some of us have been working on this issue trying to address it on a bipartisan basis and hope the republican-controlled congress would join with democrats to solve the problem which then- president considere. i've worked with my colleagues democrats and republicans together to craft a bill which we believe address the issues in a fair way. compromise was included in that bill, some that i

those kinds of. there's no let me trying to immediately put the united states that may be trying to assist me to intervene here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on washington's new defense strategy stay with our. was but with. your. last. words was mostly we don't think we will all soon but you know one of the things up in the bush is that so. thank you. scott it's. the. reason. you will know that. if you do the image you can you can go the corner but then you tell us what you did to us told. me. you know i'm just a. level one off selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles but still . the new socks credit tell you that some because of the public by file for the most important day. off about her husband's house thank you i'm not cool enough to buy their products. if. these are the hawks that we along with are on the walking. a plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the fina

migrants to the united states. we could put this up on screen and explain this to you. during this exchange that the president had with a group of lawmakers, meeting with him over at the white house, remember, this was behind closed doors, this was not on the white house schedule. the president said, why are we having all of these people from, and i apologize for using this word here, but this is a quote from the president, why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? trump said this is in the washington post, according to these people who were in the meeting, referring to african countries and haiti, he then suggested that the united states go about bringing in people from other countries, he said instead bring more people from countries like norway whose prime minister he met with yesterday, wolf, obviously this is going to just i think rock and send shock waves across much of the world as this immigration debate rages on here in washington. apparently behind closed doors with a group of lawmakers, bipartisan lawmakers by the way, lindsey graham was appar

economic growth in the united states, but also providing a tremendous boost to the global economy. avos is a place where leaders of states and industry can work together in pursuit of global peace and prosperity. we live in an interdependent world where decisions made by one nation, particularly by the united states, impact all other countries. i believe that today we need to strike the right balance between the necessary rebuilding of national social contracts, and at the same time, strengthening our multilateral system to address critical issues such as terrorism,stment, and migration, to name just a few. mr. president, the role of the united states and your personal leadership is absolutely essential. for this reason, your message here has tremendous relevance. of course, i am aware that your strong leadership is open to misconceptions and biased interpretations. therefore, it is so essential for us in the room to listen directly to you. as it has for nearly five decades, should create a basis for dialogue and cooperation. president, you, mr. strong nations with different value

mean he did talk as i mentioned he did talk a lot about how allies are important for the united states but this whole situation with turkey is something that doesn't really underline this point it kind of weakens this point because turkey is america's you know. regional key. regional ally and the united states have seemingly forgotten about it they have chosen to ignore it altogether choosing to announce the creation of this border defense force and how this border defense force then apparently the decided to not created and to listen rex tillerson the secretary of state went in and said oh no you got us wrong and some people misspoke and mis portrayed the events so in the latest speech matters has not yet addressed this but i don't know maybe he will like you say and that is still speaking so we will be bringing us all the latest information on what he says and of course leader i'm sure you'll be back to bring us up to speed on what reactions we're going to get from china and russia too with these latest comments so thanks for now your stuff you're. in other news now a teenager has attack

jerusalem. for all the united states recognized your nation wanted ministration after another refused to recognize your company but just last month. president donald trump made history he righted a seventy year wrong he kept his word to the american people when he announced that the united states of america will finally acknowledge jerusalem is israel's capital . has more from west jerusalem. well mike pence wasn't very far into the speech just a couple of lines the first as you noted given by u.s. vice president to the israeli knesset the parliament here before there was a protest from israeli palestinian members of the knesset standing up some shouting jerusalem as the capital of palestine of course contradicting the u.s. position that it is the capital of israel which was the source of that process before they were taken out of the knesset amid some scuffles the scuffles out here in the or at least there was shouting matches out here in the corridor as well after the speech with one right wing israeli member of the knesset calling one of the israeli palestinians a terrorist saying he

united states is facing with its nato ally turkey and turkey is a legally invaded syria and where you know all of the entanglements that the u.s. has found itself there with the kurds and whatnot and it's a nato ally here i mean and then we had not too long ago we had a russian jet that was shot down by the turks then you have you know you know you have this article five kick in here it seems to me the united states is very dangerously involved in a potential war that it doesn't want to fight and then we can bring up the issue of north and south korea you know what they're talking that's a good start isn't it and then we have this bluster coming out of washington that maybe it's not enough i mean the south koreans probably know best about their defense than anyone else go ahead philip. yeah well i have i have to agree with the your premise which is essentially that america's alliances have in many ways outlived their usefulness the. russia does not threaten the united states there's not really threaten eastern europe it has a sphere of influence like every other country but this does

newsroom" starts right now. our top story, the president of the united states now denies calling some african nations quote shitholes. the comments were reportedly made during a closed-door meeting in the oval office thursday. according to one source, donald trump is delighted by this controversy. another source tells cnn some white house staffers believe it plays well with the president's base. but there's plenty of outrage beyond that base. the african community demands both a retraction and apology from the u.s. president. despite the president's denial over exactly what will he said regarding both haiti and africa, senators who were in the room at the time have confirmed mr. trump uttered the offensive term. we get the whole story from our jim acosta. >> reporter: today, we gather in the white house to honor the memory of a great american hero the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. >> reporter: it was a moment filled with sad irony. the same day the president signed a proclamation honoring dr. martin luther king jr. mr. trump was dodging questions about his own racially slurred r

there is no let me trying to immediately put a united states that may be trying to assist me to intervene here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on washington's new defense strategy stayed with our. we have a great see what we need to strengthen before the free float and brubeck's of an election to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred forty four for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waving spirit to the. reason the us had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be the best since my last will call him that. in the euro zone. try strife. left left left more left ok stop that's really good that. politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted over checked. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to preserve. its right to be press that's what the four three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the wilds of our. ship. kentucky. you co

our administration will advance its plan to open the united states embassy in jerusalem. and that united states embassy will open before the end of next year pence's said that his faith largely determines his longstanding backing for israel this speech fused that religiosity with as often the near total political support of the trumpet ministration for the government of the watching benjamin netanyahu including its position on iran i have a solemn promise to israel to all the middle east and to the world the united states of america will never allow iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. he said the u.s. would back a two state solution if both israelis and palestinians agreed and israel's security could be guaranteed and put the onus on the palestinians to come to the table mr trump gave them jerusalem i mean what an honest broker that is the deal of the century in which jerusalem plays a major role above all this speech threw into sharp relief the different realities which the united states in israel on one side and the palestinian leadership on the other an operating in the palestini

the president of the united states to joseph stalin. but that is what senator jeff flake did earlier this morning, saying that rhetoric that the president has used, like referring to the press as the enemy of the people, is just not american. my guess is -- and we've seen this from the rnc so far, they've fired back at jeff flake pretty hard earlier this morning. my guess is, wolf, that the white house is going to do the same here in the next several minutes. so you want to hold on to your hats for that as well. remember, senator john mccain has an op ed in "the washington post" right now that's also raising similar concerns about the president's very, very tough rhetoric aimed at the media over tese last several months, really over the last year since he was sworn into office. >> yeah, so far the president has not tweeted about senator flake's comments, which were extremely, extremely pointed against him, but i anticipate that will happen probably sooner rather than later. jim, stand by. we're going to get back to you. we're waiting for sarah sanders to show up, and w briefi

federation to the united states. [applause] amb. antonov: i am not a magician. >> i want you to stop killing in chechnya. stop killing gay people in chechnya. i want gay people left alone in chechnya. we need to protect gay people. stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechnyans. [applause] [crowd noise] amb. antonov: you can see our relations are complicated. it seems to me everybody has the right to explain what he wants. how he can see how he sees the current situation. it seems to me i also have the right to convey a few remarks to you, trying to explain how we in the russian federation understand the current situation in russian-american relations. i would like to explain to you how we understand the importance of russian-american relations. i don't want to offend anyone. i would like to be candid with you. i would like to be transparent with you. i hope there will be another opportunity for me to come here. i hope i will not disappoint you and you will invite me once more. [applause] amb. antonov: they will

fear." this is a history of the depression, but most family -- a synoptic history of the united states during the second world war. me,epresents, it seems to the very best in university teaching. he is an evangelist on behalf of his craft and is the poet john dryden said of his here is gods plenty. dr. kennedy. [applause] dr. kennedy: thank you very much for the uncommonly graciously, not to mention poetic, introduction. thank you very much. i would like to say what an honor it is to be invited to give the aden williams lecture. whom mybout predecessors were on this stage. a great the duty -- a great intimidationor and that i feel being on the stage. it is the moment when this country really had to come to grips with this great conflict event ofs the center world history in the 20th century. was uttered by winston chill trail on the floor of parliament on august 16, 1945. the day after the japanese emperor had indicated japan's intentions of surrender, which happened formally back at the uss missouri a little bit than a load -- than a month later. when i read the transcript of that speech, it

officially welcome the president of the united states, donald j. trump, to the closing session of the world economic forum's annual meeting 2018. mr. president, you cannot imagine how much we are looking forward to your speech, not just for the 3000 leaders assembled here in davos, but also the millions joining us globally thanks to the presence of key media from around the world. mr. president, on behalf of the business leaders here in this room, let me particularly congratulate you for the historic tax reform package passed last month, greatly reducing the tax burden of u.s. companies, fostering job creation as well as stimulating economic growth in the united states, but also providing a tremendous boost to the global economy. davos is a place where leaders of states and industry can work together in pursuit of global peace and prosperity. we live in an interdependent world where decisions made by one nation, particularly by the united states, impact all other countries. i believe that today we need to strike the right balance between the necessary rebuilding of national social contracts

that that was said. >> and all those relationships the united states has built up over years. do you feel they're at risk? >> right. >> some pretty important places. >> well, in africa, let me say, it's been troubling for a while. more than a year or nearly a year into this administration, we have no secretary to africa at the state department. we're finding it difficult to have oversight hearings and to have responsible state department officials with knowledge of what's going on in particular countries or regions, or at least with purview or authority. then to have a statement like this following that, i think in hearing the reactions of some of the african countries, it's what i expected to hear. it's not good long term. we have good relations with most of the african countries, and we have good military relations and intelligence-sharing, and we want that to continue. >> and you know, just awry addition, it's not lost on too many people. the president's saying he wants norwegian immigrants, while norwegians, some would say, have a better standard of living than the united sta

prosecutors who carry out the departments highest priority. protecting the united states from threats to our national security. i've been with the national security division since november of last year. previously from 1999 until 2008 i was an assistant united states attorney in the southern district of new york. from 2005 until 2008 i was co-chief of the terrorism and national security unit in the southern district of new york and some of the cases i worked on included the investigation into the 911 attacks that occurred while i was an assistant united states attorney in the crime and terrorism unit. i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today about yesterday's release of the department of justice and department of homeland security report. the report titled after section 111-3780, protecting the nation from terrorist entry into the united states was a collaborative effort between the d.o.j. and dhs to respond to eo. [inaudible] to provide information to the american people regarding the number of foreign nationals charged with or convicted of terrorism -related offe

between the united states and pakistan. everyone is aware of all of that. we need to talk about the challenges in our relationship, and the things that need to be addressed. we want to have a conversation that opens the conversation a bit. i'm going to turn the floor over to the ambassador. please come up. please welcome the ambassador. >> thank you. you very much, all of you for coming. thank you for organizing this event. it will be my pleasure to share with you. month, a lot has happened. i would like to start with that. the unitedthat states government, the administration unveiled the national security strategy. which has given the united different priorities and a letter of threats. it goes down the letter to iran and north korea. elaborateden further last week. that in was revealed , not thes competition primary concern. they identified a gain -- trying to displace the united states as a pre-minute power. reinforcesurse, it they will remain a threat creating weapons of mass destruction. it appears the major power rivalry is intensifying, picking up. were the announcements made

killed in an attack on a mosque. the united states stands shoulder to shoulder with egypt in their fight against terrorism in this country and we will continue to collaborate egypt in taking the fight to terrorists across the region. we have made extraordinary progress in the fight against isis over the last year, our military, our coalition forces, working closely with iraq have literally driven isis out of iraq. we have overtaken the so-called capital of their caliphate in raqqah and we are continuing to lead -- lean into that fight and the deep discussions today with president el si-si to confront and to defeat islamic terrorism across this region and across the world where productive and meaningful. we also raised a number of other issues on the global stage. we spoke about the priority president trump has placed on isolating north korea, we spoke about president el si-si to discontinue any diplomatic connection to north korea and he received that well and we are hopeful to see -- to see egypt take action in the days ahead to join other nations that are standing, standing with the un

resolve duties on these and similar products in the united states and china. we support a resolution that is in the interest of american workers and also the american consumer. we're going to benefit our consumers, and we're going to create a lot of jobs. our action today helps to create jobs in america for americans. it will provide a strong incentive for lg and and samsung to follow through on their recent promises to build a major manufacturing plant for watching machine -- can washing machines right here in the united states. when we do this, a lot of manufacturers will be coming to the united states to build washing machines and also solar. for both solar and washing machines, these executive actions uphold the principle of fair trade and demonstrate to the world that the united states will not be taken advantage of anymore. our companies will not be taken advantage of anymore. and our workers are going to have lots of really great jobs with products that are going to be made in the good old usa. and that's what this is all about. so i'm going to start signing. we'll go here fir

japan or south korea only aimed at the united states and i think that's what this is all about that was the message and that's a very telling message and that's what's very interesting because it seems to me the you know kim jong room in his government you know kind of making these inroads into south korea you know releasing a statement like that saying look we're only really concerned about the united states our weapons are only pointed in that direction does not help him kind of paint the united states you know as the aggressor which if you follow the twitter wars we we are coming across as an aggressor as as they are. well i respectfully disagree i don't think we're coming across as an aggressor we've had test after test after test by this. madman who's done like a fox in violation of every kind of international agreement and he's been sanctioned sanctioned heavily for it and i think that's what's prompting all the things we're seeing now but i think that it's not true what they're saying if we're to believe that their weapons are and pointed at the south as they've been pointed

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. just about 100 years ago. just before the united states entered into world war i. waxman who you will meet in a moment, on earth from the deep recesses of the columbia law school archives, he gave all his archives to the columbia law university, a hugh'sin all of contemporaneous notes about that speech. there are very few speeches other than from presidents at some point in time that have continued residence, significance, 100 years later. the topic sentence of this speech, i only read, i only mentioned the title of the law review article. wage war isto the power to wage war successfully." that is a pretty .owerful notion this insight is entrusted to the constitution by immense power. the power of the draft, for one. the power to send it citizens outside the country to fight. to do what is ever necessary to win a war. the power to wage war successfully continues to echo in the ongoing legal debate of presidential war powers. during and after wartime. talk,gnificance of this in 1917, is especially consequential when one considers that the congress after 9/11, gave president george

just questions. indictment for, among other thing, conspiracy against the united states. paul manafort and rick gates both pleaded not guilty. papadopoulos and flynn both eventually entered guilty pleas in the investigation as a result of their interviews. just last week, mueller's team interviewed the serving attorney general. the first known instance of a cabinet member cooperating with the investigation. nbc's kristen welker pressured the president about jeff sessio sessions' interview. >> mr. president, are you concerned about what the attorney general told the special counsel? >> not at all, kristen. >> did you talk to him about it? >> no, i didn't, but i'm not concerned. thank you, all, very much. >> joining me now, the reporter who broke the exclusive, nbc news national political reporter carol lee. break this down. mike flynn hid this meeting from the president. we said he hid this meeting, but did he hide it? could the fbi have said, you must keep this to yourself? he didn't bring a lawyer, but maybe he didn't think there was a reason to. >> excellent point. yes, that

needed by law enforcement in the united states is generated overseas. this is particularly true when it comes to combatting complex transnational criminal organizations that threaten our safety here at home. these sophisticated criminal enterprises do not stop at borders, instead they extend beyond the limits imposed by nation states and threaten the peace and stable of multiple countries. the only way to defeat this is through partnerships with foreign counterparts. it is incumbent upon u.s. law enforcement agencies to work with our overseas allies to ensure that coordinated enforcement efforts are brought to bear against the menace that ms-13 and other tcos pose to our nation. in addition to information sharing, another essential step in fighting -- in addition to information sharing, another essential step in the fight against tcos is to develop the capacity of our foreign partners to defeat these threats before they become a threat to the united states. today's testimony will include federal agencies tasked with battling tcos, including investigating and prosecuting tcos as well as

conflicts but the member states if they are not willing united nations cannot force them to do so. what we can do is to adopt the security council resolution and it's legally binding is it always respected not necessarily so we really need to strengthen the atmosphere of zero tolerance against those who are violating international law who are not respecting the security council resolutions or general assembly resolution one of the main countries that was a source of migrants departing towards europe is libya now the united nations has imposed an arms embargo on libya where there's essentially been a civil war there going on for several years now and according to the un's own reports that was released in june i believe of two thousand and seventy and it says the united arab emirates has repeatedly broken essentially fueling the conflict even more and resulting in more and more migrants crossing over what can the general assembly do to prevent countries like the emirates from undermining the un and what is the use of the un if it can't even impose a simple arms embargo on a country

will reiterate that a prosperous america benefits the world. when the united states grows, so does the world. the president will continue to promote fair economic competition and will make it clear that there cannot be free and open trade if countries are not held accountable to the rules. as the president has said repeatedly, america and his administration supports free and open trade, but it needs to be fair and reciprocal. we will now share a little bit about the present schedule and the economic agenda, and then, i will hand it over to general mcmaster to discuss our security priorities at the world economic forum and the president's meeting with world leaders. the president to parts tomorrow evening and arrives thursday morning local time in switzerland. on thursday, he will have a variety of meetings with world leaders and a quick meeting with the founder of the world economic forum. on thursday night the world , economic forum will host a reception with world leaders to honor the president. later on that night, the president will host a small dinner with select european comp

the united states opposes the north to pipeline we see it as undermining your overall energy security and stability. provide rocio another tool to polluters. years of political two or. three into is a major pipeline project designed to pump russian natural gas into europe but is something of a divisive project nordic and baltic countries have raised concerns that it would weaken european energy security germany and austria though support the project and the need for cheaper gas supplies the united states also wants a slice of europe's lucrative energy market pitching its liquefied natural gas exports as an alternative to the russian natural gas. canisters this story with political analyst at the berlin center for caspian region studies that's mattie is dog but he's very good evening to you first of all your response to rex tillerson statement. yes good evening i mean this is nothing new i mean it has to be seen in the context of the u.s. sanctions against russia which were posed last year in august and tested to see not so in the america first policy of president. travel in so far as

undocumented people legal permission to live and work in the united states. president trump announced he was ending the program late last year. on tuesday, u.s. district judge william alsup ruled the daca program must remain in place amid multiple lawsuits over trump's decision to rescind the program. this comes after president trump held an extraordinary meeting with democratic and republican lawmakers at the white house monday in which trump appeared to support a wide reaching deal on immigration that could grant millions of undocumented people the pathway to citizenship. during the meeting, trump repeatedly said he would take the heat for sweeping immigration deal, which would likely be opposed by much of his far right wing anti-immigrant base. president trump also saiaid he wanted a bill of love to protect the 800,000 young undocumented people known as dreamers, whose protection see attempted to rescind last year. to the surprise of many, the mamajority of the meeting was televised, which aides said was meant to show the president's mental acuity amimidst mounting questions about the pre

this group, first vice president of the united states to be afforded that privilege. here, in jerusalem, the capital of the state of israel. [applause] i bring greetings from a leader who's done more to bring our two countries closer together than any president in the past seven years. the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] thanks to his leadership, the alliance between our two countries has never been stronger. the friendship between our two people has never been deeper. i am here to convey a simple message heard of the american people, america stands with israel. [applause] we stand with israel because our causes your cause. our values are our values and your fight is our fight. we believe in right around and good over evil. we stand with israel because that's what americans have always done. so it's been since my country's earliest day. during his historic visit to jerusalem president trump declared the bond between us his woven together in the heart of our people and we have always held a special respect and admiration for the people o

of millions of dollars that the united states gives to palestinian authority in aid, that could be at risk. listen to who the president said. >> the money is on the table. the money was never on the table. i'll it will you up front. we give them tremendous amount, hundreds of millions of dollars a year. that money is on the table. why should we do that as a country if they're doing nothing for us? what we want to do is help them. we want to create peace and save lives. >> the president reaffirming his decision to declare jerusalem as a capital. he hopes the small version opens some time next year. netanyahu for his part dismissed the criticism that he -- about moving the embassy to jerusalem. >> this is historic. that will be forever etched in the hearts of our people. for generations to come. people say they push -- it pushes peace backward. it pushes peace forward. >> the president here with u.k. prime minster teresa may to talk about trade, north korea, and isis. the relationship between the united states and britain, theresa may is good despite reports. you remember few weeks a

., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 4 , the nays are 0. 0 recorded as present. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from montana, mr. gianforte, to suspend the rules and pass s. 117 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: senate 117, an act to designate a mountain peak in the state of montana as alex diekman peak. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill? members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representa

its backbone not. the united states a nato supports a terrorist organization that threatens turkey can this be acceptable it's on acceptable and inexplicable. but u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says it's not a border force the u.s. role has been mis portrayed and turkey is owed an explanation he says the build up is aimed at countering the resurgence of eisel will be internally focused and is important for the stability of syria however that's not what others involved in syria's war think ankara to han moscow and damascus have low voice their opposition to the force once again it highlights the complicated nature of syria's war isis been pushed out of most of the territory that it once held and so the battlefield is becoming perhaps even more complicated with each side trying to carve out its fear of influence and it seems the syrians are the ones that hold the least sway of all stephanie decker al-jazeera and. now that syria's foreign ministry has told the united states to stay out of its affairs this softer the secretary of state rex tillerson unveiled the trumpet administ

decisions to have panna european elections in your opinion as united states of europe what you are aiming for when you are bringing your country to the european union no i i don't think that that is the right call in these circumstances and i think we need a stronger european union but it's very important that the union will and i was very carefully what are those areas where integration these are really needed and economic growth potential creation of common market seen real single market it's not yet fully completed environmental protection. and security matters in a broad sense i think that in these areas the european union can play a major role and it's needed to small countries especially in europe they need to scale and the european union can provide that scale that force the reason why finland decided to join also single gabrial said that in order for europe to become politically stronger it needs to be even stronger in order to become more cyber and in that case to come i mean seven from russia's opinion from china as a painting from united states opinion do you feel like b

winners in all of this i don't see anyone just because the united states is trying to fight. assad iran and russia parties in europe the united states and that you hate so much i mean they will be asking these questions and then the mainstream media will say russians russians are sprayed all because he was and it is so obvious i mean could you not have seen that turkey would never ever in a million years allow any sort of kurdish state quasi state border security forces whatever they call it under their country a presence underneath turkey of thirty million kurds in turkey there was no way turkey would ever allow that in a million years they didn't see this truck campaigned on ending the process of nation building ending the process that euphemism of democracy promotion and ending regime changes which he said as counterproductive and destructive to u.s. policy across the middle east he also said what are we doing in syria if hillary clinton has her way we will be starting world war three with russia in syria over al-qaeda and this is the trump administration has compete clearly cap

china, right? china sits right on the border with north korea. the last thing the united states or china wants is some sort of confrontation or conflagration on the peninsula that would cause the two to butt heads. -- heads as they did in 1953. i think anytime there is serious thought given to some sort of military action, this is constantly at the top -- not even at the top, but even halfway up the escalation ladder, this is constantly a concern that every u.s. president has had to think about seriously. so i think that certainly is one of the reasons, the china factor. and the other is that the united states went into iraq or into afghanistan because it became the top foreign-policy issue on which the administration saw a final resolution. now, we can debate whether that was the right or wrong thing. many americans think it was the wrong thing. many americans think nothing was resolved there. and that is a completely different question. i mean, i think the point for korea is that i don't really think that the north korea issue has risen to that level of priority for an administra

headlines this hour. the united states says rushes to blame feel knowing use of chemical weapons in syria section state rex tillerson made comments at summit here in paris. boring and alleged chlorine gas attack new damascus. he continues to attack dispositions inside syria with hundreds of civilians reportedly forced to flee. arrests and russia according for strength. india's prime minister depends globalization during the opening of the world economic forum in davos. it is losing its luster story coming up in this. what we can is now in the united states with the attorney general has been interviewed as part of a probe into alleged links between? president donald trump election campaign of twenty sixteen and russia decisions is the highest ranking member of the trump administration too being questions in the interview took place last week. . will just last year sessions were queues h himself frorom the russssian investigatition ar he failed to disclose. several meetings with the russian ambassador at with more that we can go to washington our correspondent fitted crowther's day. a

are robust and growing. the united states currently has a trade surplus, which is shocking. do you believe i'm saying we have a surplus? there aren't too many. you're going to have to go back and check your people. but we're getting more and more surpluses all over the world, i will say that. i told that to the prime minister. but our two countries are robust and growing. the united states currently has a large contingent of products that we sell, and back and forth with norway. and one of the big products, of course, is our military equipment. i want to thank the people of norway for their commitment to fair and reciprocal trade. a word that you're going to hear more and more coming from this administration, and it should have come from other administrations before me. reciprocal trade. which benefits us all. free nations are stronger when the trade is fair. and trade has not been overly fair with the united states, but we have had that great relationship with norway. but remember the word reciprocal. in november, we started delivering the first f-52s and f-35 fighter jets. we hav

democratic lawmakers the united states will never construct a physical wall on the entire stretch of the border and some of the campaign promises on immigration were uninformed. those comments put kelly at odds with trump who repeatedly said he would build a border wall that mexico would pay for, not the u.s. taxpayers. "concrete wall, would be good only certain places, adding saying manpower and drone technology should suffice." kelly sang there would be no wall that mexico will pay for. >> i met with house hispanic caucus. i've done that three times. had a discussion about a range of issues. i was mostly listening. they know what the administration perspective is. in any event, as we talked about things, how much the president wants to deal with this daca issue and take it off the -- take it away. i told him there's been an evolution in every process this president has gone through. i pointed out to the members that they say things during the course of campaigns that may or may not be fully informed. this president, if you've seen what he's done, he has changed the way he's looked

relations between the united states, japan and south korea, a number of panels look at different aspects of that issue this morning. the focus of a student conference taking place at the national press club in washington, d.c. it's hosted by the international student conference and the sasakawa peace foundation. live coverage on c-span2. it did snow in washington, d.c. last night so that is likely the cost for the delay in the start of the event. we will have live coverage when he gets underway here on c-span2. while we wait will show you some of the remarks from senate leaders yesterday at the start of the opening session of the 115th congress. >> as we open the second session of the 115th congress, we are pleased to welcome my colleagues back to the chamber. i'd like to extend a particular welcome to our two new senators who were just sworn in. first, senator doug jones of alabama will have big shoes to fill. his state tests in some very distinctive legislator to washington, including our attorney general jeff sessions. senator jones brings a background of law-enforcement having having

and to understand each other better between the united states and the soviet union. in 1959, there was a big exchange of national exhibitions. the soviets sent international exhibition to new york city in 1959. here is the exhibition booklet. you can see that on the cover they featured sputnik. >> what message were they trying to send with that? >> their exhibition covered sputnik and soviet industry, agriculture , and cultural arts. >> president eisenhower flew from washington for a preview tour. with vice president nixon he and the delegation toured the elaborate show. all jovial despite the size of the crowd. the show is a counterpart of an american exhibition to be opened in moscow next month by mr. nixon. in the elaborate cultural exchange, full-scale models of sputnik are among the things russia is proudest of. legitimately impressive achievements exploited to the utmost here. >> not long after that, the united states sent their national exhibition to moscow which was a huge hit. over 2 million russian visitors came to the exhibition. this is a keepsake. various things were h

doing so and the president of the united states himself his words he said he didn't discard and military operation against our country i don't know why because we were present no threat not even to our neighbors we are very good neighbors we help the caribbean we help our neighbors much more less to the most important country in the world who has the most important army that and the weapons in the history of humanity so it's always a reaction when donald trump threaten military intervention in your country on television we're used to these aggressions it was president obama who issued the creed saying that venezuela was an extraordinary and unusual threat to the u.s. national security that. outshined there no change really and trump uses this to create with his personality and his behavior and but we do not discard that this man may use the force against venezuela so we are preparing for that we want dialogue we want to have a channel of communication with the trumpet ministration but if we are attacked we will respond if they want we know what we have to do to avoid the whichev