long united states is also fine with. the saudis sort of exercising military leverage and had data to push the who of these two a political solution and not whether that will work is to be fully up in the air but it's undoubted.

long united states is also fine with. the saudis sort of exercising military leverage and had data to push the who these two a political solution and not whether that will work is to be fully up in the air but it's undoubted there's going to be significant civilian penalties for that and cost to civilians so i don't think the united states redline iran had data has really held and i don't think the united states really has acted properly or really done all it could to stave off a humanitarian crisis they're saying go ahead. i don't think there is a united stated line around data because if there was then why the saudi that coalition has been attempted for the last three months to enter the data the united states is fully back in the coalition war effort in yemen it doesn't matter where they are the border or in aden is if they just want to keep helping the saudi to push. into her day in the other area the united states the united nation actually want to help be a many before talking about cease fire they have at least to

the united states has always had the will the problem that we have seen and the u.s. saudi relationship over the past eighteen to twenty months unless president trump makes a deliberate statement. statements by his subordinates namely who cabinet secretaries of defense and state have been ignored altogether and we have also seen that on the bureaucratic level the u.s. government has repeatedly call or and of hostility and resumption of peace talks. what what is different now is that the culmination of events whether it's a fair whether it is the broader instability in the middle east and now the washington post playing a central role in demanding justice for jamal khashoggi and tying it to broader u.s. saudi cooperation in the region is drawing tremendous scrutiny domestically here in the united states and it is leaving get ministration with little choice but to up. the pressure on riyadh and even though and i will add that the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia strategic including on on yemen so this is an extraordinary difficult balancing act th

states and even the united states he said that talking about the need to defend against now this talk is simply trying to put on warhawk credentials come on france can't even pay two percent of its g.d.p. according to nato strictures and he's talking up a european union army like the sun came here i think and what i want to talk about also the reports that mcchrystal did not want putin interim glenn jumping. also said this is not a new idea though it's actually here i'll share with you here the national interest last week wrote an article that article washington smothers independent european security issues the entire history of it since one thousand nine hundred one six months after the soviet union collapsed. in germany for the petersburg task force which was the purpose was to develop military capabilities for their opinion now they were able to strike a compromise with the united states in which they would have a clear division of labor usually nato would do the interventionist in the nations and the the e.u. would do the dishes and then to do the peacekeeping or the training so b

states would work with the united states great maybe we need to find alternatives to the united states. they have now created a department of trade diversification. why would you do that unless you think it's important to rely heavily on the united states. so, even if the end result is no terrible change of what it is before the process by which you get there deeply destructive of your ability to lead, and leading is all about getting people to follow it just matters who's in the backseat unless people are willing to follow and that is the problem for us. >> the trump administration wanted to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. i will note that in your question, yes, trump has and one of the problems as everybody wants the cost of the decision to manifest themselves immediately. the world doesn't work that way. decisions have a long shadow and it may be years before you get the actual bill. let's go back to talk about these trade deals. yes, the president got a deal with the revised free-trade agreement. we got a revision to nafta and a temporary truce in a trade war with europe. as yo

the united states needs to leave. these attempts to sideline the u.s. and the u.n. in the process and the process that the russians, turks and iranians stood up and have been running for a couple of years now is really an attempt to resochl the conflict without the united states and the united nations being involved and in this latest apartheid meeting between russia, turkey, germany and france i think is an attempt to lend a little more legitimacy and credibility to the process by implying that germany and france are part of it. this information, was there a lot, almost daily, if you subscribe to the russian ministry of defense and the ministry of foreign affairs and facebook and twitter feeds, there's almost daily, just a drumbeat of disinformation of u.s. support for isis in syria, and the last slide in the deck here is i put in there, this was kind of the more comical instances of this, and they released -- they released in november of 2017, the russian ministry offense released the photo on the left claimed that

for a grand detente with the united states but he's so mistrusted in the united states it's not clear that there's any american leader who would embrace putin as a partner though it seems trump wants to do so so that really how we're right on our buy i really hope you're right there is no our terms of steve that's all the time we have unfortunately for today thank you once again for this wonderful interview it's a pleasure as usual we're expecting you fareed sometime soon in moscow to take aerosols say how to catherine were talking to steam corps and contributing editor of the nation magazine professor emeritus at princeton university and author of the book war with russia discussing what the u.s. pullout from the an afternoon will mean for global stability that's it for this edition of so. many factor consensus public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the final larry go round the sun we don't want. to ignore middle of the room six. million real news is. the world. in twenty four you know bloody revolution future demonstrations going to be relatively peaceful p

states area -- united states. [laughter] it was me as prime minister who sent a letter to brussels in 1996 asking for membership in the eu. and it was me in april 2004 as president of the country who signed the entry into the eu. there was no other chance for a post-communist country, no choice, no chance to do it differently. we did not have the luxury of being kept independent, like switzerland, we did not have the luxury of being an island close to europe like great britain. we cannot afford, in the heart of europe, surrounded on all sides by eu members. we had no other chance. so i from the beginning and someone who opposes the wrong idea of european unification. i am very much in favor of european integration. since the beginning of the european process, the unification is a postcard -- post democratic concept which i cannot agree with. so my idea, i was applauding brexit decision and i think either of the countries would leave the eu or the eu would undergo a radical system of transformation, a real substant

some of them coming back to the united states. that means no deal is the best deal for the united states. >> what he hoped the president keeps it? >> we've had a whole range of trade issues, but they've never honored their agreement. she jinping, the same guy who's going to see trump at the end of this month. he actually stood in the rose garden with president obama september 2015, promised china would not have american companies or commercial purposes. china never stop attacking. in fact, we saw from the u.s. trade representative's report last week have actually continued especially since the middle 2017 they've ramped up there hacking for commercial purposes. eric: meanwhile that didn't result in any agreement. first time that ever happening. a delegation canceled its trip to washington to talk about this. you would think the president is standing fast and there will be an agreement. >> a number of people say that but a lot of people say there will be an agreement and i just don't know. i don't think anybody on the outside reall

and the united states did the same. they planted stories and foreign -- stories in foreign newspapers. both the united states and soviet union subsidized newspapers and used them to plant their story. they also used book publishers to spread information. the soviets had captive book publishers. the cia also had relationships with publishers. one of the things i talked about was what the series created by a guy named eugene. he had actually been an intelligence operative during the second world war. after he started the photo guide series. later, when the cia was created, they approached him and asked him to hire cia officers to give them cover that they could travel around. he was pleased to do it but the only condition he had was that they had to actually write the book. and they did. >> who else? who else? >> all the way back over here. why don't we get to this gentleman back in the great amend the one in the middle. the one in the middle. >> thanks for the talk, very interesting talk. it seems like throughout history

states that is a lot of people in the united states are gone don't want to be there with the street you know up there to small business they are just closer because they can come. in with big companies so that is not something good for the united states and less for mexico and i can tell you in mexico their corruption and their lead there is that in the end all of these business relations with the united states is not the people that are going to do something better for the country and it's the same in the united states then you're stuck about that big companies we are talking about millionaires we don't talk about this small business that is going to disappear or this month in the disappear because they can have competition with the big companies and that is where they were out of curiosity comes know now that i don't think that we. i agree. because she said that it's just business richard business man and not for the people the same action that president clinton took when withdraw the u.s. from t p p has truly was devastating because it's against all the values for the people and

states this is oversimplifying but the united states may not always stay in europe and europe needs to be able to defend itself so it should have a capability that it can draw on and the french have been the strongest in this train of thought. and this may be now coming up again in europe as some pronouncements of the trumpet ministration have raised doubt about the u.s. the devotion of the u.s. to nato i should say this is now all still at the level of statements because the actions are still nato new u.s. and nato allies are still acting very much together but it comes out of it's been a constant argument since the end of the cold war and i suppose it'll always be there because is it natural for the united states to be in europe forever well i mean on some level it's very beneficial economically and. if you want to achieve welcomed it. because of conditions at the time and eventually some time whether it's a century two centuries a thousand years in the future it will change but it hasn't right now and that that so we're dealing with. and an argument and a tendency and a worry but

states of america so i'm not trying to talk about building a wall between the united states and mexico what he doesn't seem to realize is that there is an enormous a very profitable flow of guns into mexico from the u.s. that he probably wouldn't want to stop so you have the flow of guns into mexico and in return you have a flow of drugs and other illicit activities into the united states of america so what this is doing is it's both destabilizing those neighboring countries like mexico where it's giving criminal groups enormous power and fire power but at the same time attempting a devastating impact in the united states itself how do you respond those who who would criticize that line and say you're mumbling two separate things the innocent and the licit trade in guns i've been i've been studying the trade in arms for seventeen years. the boundaries the borders between the legal and the it illegal are incredibly fast so our governments and the weapons makers the celt would have us believe that there is this formal legal trade you know whatever. that on the opposite side of the spectr

god bless freemasonry and god bless these united states of america. thank you. [ applause ] >>> ladies and gentlemen, we -- [ inaudible ] >>> ladies and gentlemen, please stand as the grand chaplain of the grand lodge of free and accepted masons of the district of columbia, reverend bilal m. rashid gives the benediction. >> grand architect of the universe, we pause before the closing of this beautiful ceremony to give you thanks for this country we call home and for the freedoms we enjoy. we pray that you will keep safe all who serve to keep us free. heavenly father, as freemasons, among the many beautiful lessons presented to us are the dangers posed by when tyranny and intolerance. help us each in our own way big and small to counter these destructive forces so that this nation founded on principles established by our founding fathers, many of whom were freemasons, may continue to shine as a beacon of hope to others. finally, o lord, guide and bless our nation's leaders who labor diligently in this house of the people that they may bring honor and g

they don't trust the united states. they see this erratic leader that we have, and they just don't know what direction to take. the united states has been a leader in the free world since world war ii, and we have been a leader because people can rely on who we are and what we believe in and that we will be honest with them about what needs to be done. what has happened with this president is that he has engaged in chaos. he's taken the same kind of approach he did as a new york developer, which is to basically blow up deals, blow up situations knowing that people would ultimately come back and fix it. that's the way he's approached foreign policy. it's a policy of chaos. tear up the climate change agreement. tear up ttp. tear up the iran agreement. impose tariffs. but he doesn't have a strategy how he goes beyond that. so we're dealing with a great deal of chaos right now and not much in terms of what is the long-range strategy. the real test for this administration is whether or not they are going to ever sit down and

it's someone who is already in the united states let's say a student is studying in the united states. suddenly something changes and they are scared of going back. they apply with the immigration agency. i can't go home and i'm scared for my life and they awe ply before the judge. another type of defensive alie sum is someone who is at a port of entry or a border. they are trying to come into the united states to clinton campaign asylum. >> so for those at the border of tijuana and want to apply for asylum, what's the process at this point? >> once they get into the united states, the issue with tijuana is that a lot of them aren't being permitted to come in. at least not immediately to apply. but once they are ermt. ed to come into the port of entry and say they have a fear of returning home, they will be given a preliminary asylum interview. most people get through that interview. it's just meant to weed out frivolous claims. at that point, their case is handed over to our immigration court system where they apply defensively before the judge to apply for asylum. >> the process fro

in the united states have been in the united states since 2009. the population of mexicans who has come since then is only 11% compared to 21% for the other groups. you can see that right there. another key piece that i am sure we have received more attention in the media is the idea of how many mexican immigrants are undocumented or unauthorized in the united states. this is important to note that the ambassador was noting in 2007, 6.9 million mexicans was here legally, and this is now a different of 5.9 million in 2016. that is 6.9 million in 2007 compared to 5.9 million in 2016. the makeup it's important to know because not all in fact, the majority of mexican immigrants in the united states are legally present, and 23% of them are naturalized, and 32% are lawfully permanent residence in the united states or have another legal background. this is the idea that not all making immigrants are unlawfully here, and only 45% are here in that status. another thing that may not be surprising, but to note, is that most mexicans who obtain green cards do

for the first time, because of cuba's proximity to the united states, the united states was a country of first refuge, meaning refugees didn't go to another country and then apply for resettlement in the united states. they went straight to the united states. especially to places like miami. the policy for cuban refugees at this time was such that these refugees would be given asylum as part of a bigger anti-castro, anti-communist policy. a number of requirements were imposed on these early refugee populations. these requirements illustrated how the united states pursued its own cold war self-interest. first, as i've already mentioned, the u.s. offered a special welcome for people fleeing communism. second, preference was given for refugees who were professionals or highly educated or skilled. this was in keeping with other immigration laws of the period. ultimately, while welcoming displaced people has been seen as a humanitarian act, these humanitarian efforts were often centered on the needs of the united states, the helper. these images feature refugees who arrived in the united s

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coming to the united states. just foreign-policy, though. that helped determine who might come to the night states. domestic policies -- domestic politics shaped who the united states considered worthy of admission. i would use two separate examples. in the 1950's, the red scare, the great anti-communist purge of the 1950's, helped shape how americans considered who might be a worthy refugee for admission. in fact -- fast forward 20 years after that, the civil rights revolution of the 1960's shapes who the united states considers to be a worthy refugee. of admission. both of those domestic political moments, in view, refugee policies have helped shape who into the nighted states. the last point i would make, as you think about this commitment to refugees in a way which is fragile, is that the implementation of refugee admissions programs mattered greatly to the final outcome. put another way, it does not matter as much what congress passes. it matters how it gets implement it in the field. it matters greatly who

in the united states. we must equip about what the landscape for federal, public-private efforts that are in place or under way. we developed this. this act directs the secretary of commerce to answer that very question, who is doing what at the federal level. this is what will help promote interagency discussions and avoid conflicting obligations or regulations that will slow innovation and progress. at the industry level, this will help businesses to know how businesses are developing, using and promoting use of i.o.t. solutions and will highlight industry-based efforts to self-regulate and provide stakeholders with information sharing. the smart i.o.t. act is a critical first step to future efforts to provide important information that will foster collaboration and streamline private industry efforts. we have an obligation to do what we can do to promote technology call advancements and where other countries are trying to take over the united states in technological innovation. i thank chairman walden,

and china does not want to have armed conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things on to china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. after almost two decades at the forefront of german politics and i summoned her she was stepping down as leader of the christian democratic union party and she ruled out running for a fifth term as chancellor merkel's decision followed her party's disappointing performance in regional elections. the figures that came out overnight from her selection a holy disappointing and better choice but he does kinetically it can no longer be business as usual process after this result of the result and bavaria after the conflicts between the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. in the summer and off to the difficulties in forming a government coalition as the previous attempts to form one between the c.d.u. c.s.u. f.t.p. and the green party would fall through. began her political career after the fall of the berlin wall joining the c.d.u. in one thousand nine hundr

it brings an important stability to the united states. toean, how blessed we are have to neighbors that we can work with compared to many parts of the world. >> you highlight that nafta has been blamed for a lot of issues including automation. losses withn job automation is only going to grow and the vital importance of understanding its policies completely separate from the yet the white house pitched the negotiation as the solution to problems incorrectly it presentsfta and a new deal. i'm told having that economic foreness is fundamental keeping the trade relationship halted of and going on. theor example, i think trade governments and societies talking about workforce development, they have not really done that. new technology coming in and the training necessary. each nation has its own responses to that, but we should be learning from each other and in allre good practices three countries. we are all going to face this way for the demand for higher and new skill. the many moments we are holding our breath. a stunning announcement fr

be a hell of a lot worse now it's been widely reported that the united states prevented a resolution in the united nations that would have condemned the saudi attacks on yemen the resolution had support from the united kingdom among others and essentially would have called on saudi arabia to cease its activities that harm civilians however the united states worked behind the scenes to prevent it from becoming a resolution now there has been widespread opposition and condemnation to saudi arabia's activities in yemen we've heard statements from charities that have come forward humanitarian organizations and said that essentially saudi activities put fourteen million people at risk of malnutrition however the united states continues to align with saudi arabia now it's important to point out that this is not the first time there have been votes on capitol hill regarding this issue and twenty seventeen for example there was a vote in the house of representatives that was mainly symbolic that condemned saudi arabia's activities now back in march the u.s. senate was presented with the oppo

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was murdered despite that fact the united states will keep this relationship intact because it is in the national interest the document ends with the phrase america first with an exclamation point and essentially argues that this brutal murder does not change the nature of the important economic and military relationship between the two countries investigative journalist rick sterling told us that despite trump's claims washington's financial ties to riyadh don't benefit the american people. u.s. foreign policy is basically driven by the military industrial complex which as he reports in this statement is due to receive one hundred ten billion dollars in weapons orders from saudi arabia so that's what it's come down to the united states under president trump is first and foremost a weapons an arms dealer that president trump starts and ends with america first and i would just suggest this is not in the interests of the american people this kind of poll a sea of just of making the us into primarily a weapons and arms dealer is really against our interests lockheed martin and raytheon

states congress, was not voted upon by the united states congress, and therefore is unconstitutional. let us not forget that the founding fathers of this country put the awesome responsibility of war and peace into the hands of the u.s. congress, not the president of the united states, not a democratic president or a republican president. article 1 of the constitution clearly states that it is congress, congress, congress, not the president who has the power to declare war. mr. president, the time is long overdue for congress to take back that responsibility which it has be a buy -- abdicated under democratic and republican leaderships. if the members of the house and the senate want to go to war in yemen, vote to go to war in yemen. don't let the president of the united states do it on his own. mr. president, later this afternoon, as i understand it, there will be a resolution coming before this body as to whether we proceed to vote on ending u.s. involvement in the saudi-led war. that amendment is cosponsored by my friend, senator lee of utah, senator murphy of connecticut, and man

states of america white supremacy exists in the united states of america and white supremacy is rising across the world called don lemon said this is just a further and a continuance of the division that was created in america under the eight your administration of barack obama. to a story generating a lot of interest on this really clothing brown sparked up or or over an pain featuring a model tearing off a kneecap under the tagline freedom is basic the video also pointedly refers to one of israel's biggest foes we have been saying i'm very reactions been coming in thick and fast. all of our. freedom is basic first of all you dumb if you think this is considered freedom this is just disrespectful in so many levels and who are you to define freedom as exposing your hair and taking off a huge job freedom is a relative concept this is extremely disrespectful and disgusting come to be bothered by a cheap islama for because like this by who does let them have their freedom and we'll have our when i saw that ad i was angry how could that be. today's world it wasn't just me who was angry pre

paradigm would be patrolling the united states with five police cars. that's how vast that region is. and the adversaries are pulling further out, out west the galapagos, and that area of the united states is almost expanding to be the size of the north american continent. in the western hemisphere, south of our border our governments are facing tremendous strain through to drug fueled violence throughout the region and the drugs terrorizes sinds, causing many to flee safer havens and those safer havens are typically here in the united states. search of the ten most dangerous countries in the world, measured by annual homicide rate, and that is a number that looks at how many murders per hundred thousand citizens are at our southern neighbors or spread across our southern neighbor's geography. recently the "washington post" ran an article that discussed the current murder crisis in latden america. 400 deaths a day. spread across latin america. and the caribbean. noting this violence truly triggers the immigration crisis we're seeing. transnational crimi

that's the united states right over there. but they can't because every single day the trump administration is only processing about 100 asylum applications. and with that, it will take months for many of the people over here just to go to the united states legally. so many are trying illegal ways to get into the united states. >> what are the conditions in the camp like? i was talking to our reporter leyla santiago yesterday. it looked like there was a lot of water on the ground. people were complaining about access to food, even the toilet facilities. >> reporter: the conditions are terrible. what i see, i see a lot of trash around me. i've been talking to families all day long. many of the kids are sick. you can see people coughing. it is getting really cold at night. there's no possibility for them to go anywhere else. >> are more people continuing to arrive to stay at that camp? >> reporter: yeah, they're coming every single day. they have hundreds more, sometimes thousands more. the number that i have in this camp last n

they are helping to maintain the united states is the world leader and defense united states sectors, in ensuring our armed forces between the military edge. the transfer of defense articles and services happens under military fails, or direct commercial sales. and under the for military fails, the u.s. government manages $40 million a year. that is defense equipment, mainly in the gulf regions. under the direct commercial sales, the united states government provides regulatory approval for more than $100 billion a year. that is in sales of defense equipment, services, or related manufacturing technologies, they are all controlled under about 21 categories for the united states list. these sales are negotiated privately between foreign end- users, it could be a company, or the country itself, and the u.s. companies. president trump's recent 10 billion deal -- first international engagement, which happened i was there that day, and recall that the mother of all visits. you know, it is a very special visit, and there was a $10 billion deal and there, that -- those billion-dollar deals a

this is about, for the united states, who are we? are there things that rise above bilateral ties and self-interest? how much is a human life worth? a human life that represented the simple desire of freedom. jamal was not a radical. he didn't advocate the overthrow of his country's government. he wanted to loosen up saudi society. he wanted more freedom for people the read the truth. o'hare -- to hear the truth. to live their lives many a freer way. and for that set of crimes, he gave his life. those horrific circumstances surrounding his brutal murder, premeditated, and the dismemberment of his body to hide those remains so that there would be no evidence of the crime cannot be forgotten. it can't be a tragic episode we move on from. unfinished business is unfinished business united states must speak with a full-throttled voice on this matter. a legal u.s. resident, a columnist for one of our premiere newspapers, a journalist pursuing the truth, an advocate for his people and his country simply calling for reform and more freedom.

and diminish the united states in the world? vladimir putin got what he wanted here and that wasn't an apartment in trump tower. it was donald trump in the white house. >> and, david corn, clearly donald trump would not have been able to figure out any way of dealing with vladimir putin publicly this week of all weeks. >> well, yeah. i mean, you can just imagine the questions at the press conference. you know, since 2013, trump has been saying positive things about putin. when he announced -- when he first announced that he was bringing the miss universe contest to moscow in the summer of 2013, he started tweeting, will vladimir putin be my best friend? will he come? he started saying all these flattering things about putin for all the years leading up until the 2016 campaign. so, i think he's always had this idea of doing business with putin. he's also had a psychological affinity for putin as some sort of strong man who he wanted to emulate. but i think ben is exactly right. by dealing with putin secretly in that point in time

that the united states says it's going to leave a treaty again. there's now a bowl around prick here in rwanda know why says terrorists from all but there are bad memories. twenty four years ago this country song a real look at end of the world. after the genocide there i'm all the women in rwanda that man. it fell to women to fix what the men had broken. welcome back across like we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok let me go back to mark here let's look if there is so a trend some tendencies here in the take a look at briggs it trump hungry germany brazil is there a thread that ties them all together no ok no i think too much can be made i think this brazil is a particular situation that has a lot to do with brazil's history of dictatorship and the history of the u.s. backed military dictatorship throughout south and that's a theme that doesn't get the mainstream all ok so. this is a leader who has said that openly many times he supports dictatorship he wants to turn brazil into a dic

and china does not want to have armed conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these teens are. i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. meanwhile on friday the trumpet ministration announced that it is reimposing all sanctions against iran that were lifted as part of the twenty fifty nuclear deal the us president took to twitter to taunt the news in a post resembling the tagline from the hit t.v. series game of thrones the sanctions slated to come into effect on monday follow america's unilateral withdrawal in may from the iran nuclear agreement new sanctions come on top of those who already imposed by washington and focus on oil pain lies in states that refuse to hold crude imports from iran the u.s. secretary of state says meanwhile the main target is the iranian government. the sanctions hit a core areas of iran's economy it is aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world while people on the streets of tehran it is

states -- hesitant to commit the united states. the united states was in fact not according to wilson's own selling of the conflict, an ally, but rather an associated power. and practice, this meant several things. first of all, the united states declared war on imperial germany seeing germany as the instigator of the aggression, particularly in the atlantic against civilian and merchant liners and to some extent, the aggressor in europe, not necessarily her ally. in fact the united states did not declare war in austria or hungary until another eight months. even then, it was difficult for the americans to figure out exactly how they would engage them in the battlefield. reminiscent of a story that i alluded to in one of the earlier lectures were by in the second world war, hungry was one of the satellites of [ null ] germany after the declaration by hitler of war on the united states in december 1941, the hungarian ambassador was forced to reveal to the americans that he now found his country in the state of what with the american

the united states has built with companies perhaps it may not be nation states that have that have joined the united states in its withdrawal from the iranian deal but it's the companies that are siding with the united states private enterprises we have more than one hundred companies who really make the buying decisions that have withdrawn from doing business with iran so i think the private sector is speaking much louder and more effectively than any governments will despite that we know that iran's largest trading partner is china and how critical is the chinese role here is iran looks to the east to forge new alliances in beijing isn't necessarily going to support u.s. sanctions. short we don't expect the chinese to support much of what anything the united states does now because of the escalating trade tensions of course but remember that these these oil purchasing exemptions that the exemptions to the sanctions that the united states is imposing november fifth will only be valid for six months and we during the six months any funds that are used to purchase. any oil from iran have t

she united states, there was no chance. we always think about what happened after world war ii, the united states playing a critical role, we had the opportunity to play the critical role after 1918 and chose not to. it falls heavily on the united states, the disaster that then unfolded over the next 20 years. >> adam, i think it's a similar line in terms of the role of the u.s. but you are very critical of wilson rather than the domestic political situation and as i understand, your argument is that the u.s. had immense power and looming potential from 1969. in the u.s. basically failed to take a constructive role in terms of working with britain to find constructive order. do you see things similarly to bob? or do you have a lesson from that.? i'm interested also in trying to touch on the differences of where the blame lies in the 20s for that abdication of u.s. leadership. >> thank you very much, it's a delight to be here. it's delight for -- delightful to be here on a platform with him. i'm very happy to be here. on thi

a part of the united states. thank you again for coming and now i'd like to present our distinguished opening speaker, the honorable ambassador geronimo gutierrez fernandez, who is a friend of the wilson center and it's a pleasure to welcome him back. he served as mexico's ambassador since 2017. previously served as managing your at the north american development bank headquartered in san antonio, texas was professional activity was focused on infrastructure along the u.s.-mexico border. he previously served and positions in the areas of trade, finance under four presidents. he really has an extraordinary breadth of expressing his career. or so delighted to welcome back to the wilson center. mr. ambassador, the floor is yours. [applause] >> thank you very much for that very kind introduction. good morning to all of you. allow me first to thank the woodrow wilson mexico institute and the migration policy institute for organizing this seminar and for inviting me to be part of it. these two institutions have consist

states if you look back over the centuries the waves of migrants that came to the united states from italy from ireland and places it was always controversial for a while there were there were there was always racism and there always attacks on the migrants because there was a sense that too many of them were coming at once and this is what you're feeling in europe at the moment but i think there's too little focus on the benefits of migration over time to countries and especially in europe which is aging very rapidly they're going to need a younger population to support many of the systems that people you know have become become useful used to hear all of the social programs and so forth and i think that there's too little discussion about that there's a lot of discussion about the downsides the dangers and so forth and there's a lot of discussion about integration but i think you know the real problem in europe especially in germany i think at the moment is that there's this sense that you can integrate people and that nothing is going to change in society that germany is going to

politics in the united states united states operates of the level of individuals elites and the institutions of the government all right we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to dr ali allawi iraq's foreign minister of trait defense and finance discussing the situation in a war torn country stay with us. seemed wrong wrong wrong just don't call. me. yet to shape out disdaining educated and in again from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us of the with one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one bus

states it essentially is still a free trade agreement between canada mexico and the united states maybe that is a sort of relief for people participating at the g twenty summit as it is a multilateral agreement and a commitment to free trade by those three countries but you have to put things in perspective and take a look at all the damage that the uncertainty during these years has actually caused when donald trump was essentially suggesting that it would end nafta at all and have no free trade agreement with its two neighboring countries companies stopped investing companies could not plan companies fired people and that was definitely more damage perhaps than the good that this new deal brings in. our dog here think you will trump has one trade deal done there's an even larger one looming with china here's the president talking about his upcoming talks with she. will be meeting with president xi a little while but for the most part to morrow i would say with the upbeat maybe by the meantime people are working our staff is working. with the state will work you are working very hard w

some memory of a relative serving because someone in the united states did serve. that was so long ago that it is ancient history to them. that is one of the things is brings the history alive. people learn lessons of world war one, a good embed and there is a lot of bad and young people need to know the context. when they are voting and selecting company -- politicians for the future, you need to have that as a backdrop. i think it is generational. the fact that we are in the commemoration of the 100th anniversary is important and i think there is a lot to learn from world war i.>> what about the museum that set you up to describe the experience of world war i and be a unique storyteller or interpreter of the war. especially for those of us who have not yet been there. i'm sure many of us pulled -- will make an effort. tell us how you make the story.>> they started collecting in 1920. 300,000 objects. not the deepest but the broadest in the world. we collect encyclopedia and seek to tell the comprehensive story. speaks to what is a messy and complicated war. a com

states of america white supremacy exists in the united states of america and white supremacy is rising across the world called don lemon said this is just a further and a continuance of the division that was created in america under the eight your administration of barack obama. activists in the port city of hamburg germany being celebrating hala when with a march against the un team of ration alternative for germany party they held bombers with the message halt the ghosts of the far right opponents accuse the f.d.a. of stoking racism and hijacking concerns with. the demonstrators call for an end to neo nazi politics in germany to rally possible peacefully with no arrests when the event follows a recent series of gains for the f.t. and local elections last weekend the party entered the regional assembly and has for the first time after inflicting heavy losses on the coalition the f.t. seen its support base grow rapidly over the past three years and made concerns over chancellor merkel's open door policy on refugees it's. steering a forty ton ship is a delicate operation at the best of

he hates the united states. he wants to create problems and trouble here. >> he wants to see western democracies in crisis, in chaos, mostly so they can't challenge him. >> vladimir putin is one of the most powerful men in the world. and he has forced himself onto that stage, no matter how much anybody else might want to keep him off. >> that's a toughness that came early to putin. he was a child of the soviet union, born in leningrad in 1952. the only surviving sun of vladimir and maria putin. in a city still reeling from the ravages of the german invasion during world war ii. >> no country's ever suffered the losses the soviet union suffered between 1941 and 1945. over 20 million dead. the siege of leningrad, putin's home city, was surrounded for 900 days. >> people in leningrad talk about eating human flesh to stay alive, how people are just dying on the streets as they're walking around of starvation. anybody who grew up there would have heard these stories. >> it was a hardscrabble life. the putins lived wi