states than they import to the united states. they run out of american imports for tariffs. they are more exposed to our market than we are to theirs in that sense. so they have to look for other ways to retaliate. they can go for a much higher level of tariffs and they can really go back to companies or industries. general matters, apple, they make most of their profits in china. and china has various ways to make that business far harder for specific american corporations. china has been very hesitant to do that so far because it hurts china as well. it makes china seem like a bad pla place. china could, for. president trump wants to see a healthy stock mark. they want their design off the table for the 2020 elections. both sides want to wrap it up but neither donald trump nor xi jinping can afford to look weak. >> thank you very much for taking my call. i'm not an economist, but i was just wondering, no one seems to mention, what impact does china's erode initiative have on the economy, and also, china is prepared to open an a

to the united states are larger than the united states i mean trying to cripple one of the biggest economies in the world with an upward trajectory is a tall order i think you need more than just tariffs if you want to cripple economy i think you know what i'm getting at go ahead fred i think james have the right in terms of some of the i think will be president trump and you know his close associates trying to start this confrontation with another country which is china however you know all of the things between united's and china affects the whole world in terms of trade as well so you know they can try. even while we goes bankrupt it will leave $100.00 over 180000 very capable employees and they will start up tents of companies like the hallway and will be competing again so busy i think you know we have to realize ringback that this one is a very very complicated war it's not a very simple one just situation ok james i mean looking at western press reports see china walked away from the deal but if you look at the details of the deal that was being proposed by the trump administration th

united states know how to. take a step back from this destructive policy. for raaz we have always committed. political and diplomatic dialogue. the diplomatic approach jag always civilizational. tens of thousands of years. of being religious people we have not been looking for a conflict or a war we've been trying to solve issues through dialogue as well as the united states or a much smaller timeframe has existed it created more wars that we have been participating in history that spans over towns of us i was in this years. we've just been listening there to a joint media conference between sergei lavrov fund zarif the foreign ministers respectively of russia and ran a lot spoken about over the last thirty minutes there but as you could hear the big topic being to ron's announcement earlier of a gradual scale don of the country's nuclear commitments in essence the twenty eight fifteen nuclear deal the joint comprehensive plan of action is a refund indeed surrogate lavrov saying that signatories to the deal. fa

trump of thet united states, the floor is yours. pres. trump: prime minister abe, the first lady and i are profoundly honored to turn to this very beautiful nation as japan's first state guests following the enthronement of his majesty, the emperor. on behalf of the united states, we want to think the imperial family for this gracious invitation and warm welcome. it was really wonderful. melania and i are thrilled to be back in the land of the rising sun. it is a true privilege to take part in the splendor of this historic moment and to witness an ancient japanese tradition as you begin the new imperial era. we look forward to seeing the new emperor continue his father's extraordinary legacy. yesterday, malala you and i were delighted to join you -- melania and i were delighted to join you at a sumo tournament. always wanted to see a sumo tournament. so true. they are bigger and stronger than i even thought. very impressive. a new national arena where i presented the first ever u.s. president's cup to the sumo grand champion. that was som

pledge war between the united states and iran are very slim at this time because of the states that have been made by the iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini as well as by to president of the united states donald trump recently donald trump has said very clearly very explicitly that he's not interested in getting in gage in another endless war in the middle east. that danger however is a miscalculation by either iran or do u.s. war or an event instigated by some regional players in that iran has to respond and then the u.s. has to respond to iranian response and then this can get out of control and denby might have a limited military confrontation this is why it is very important for iran and the united states to open channels of communication between their top leadership or at least between the military leaderships of the 2 countries so that beacon prevent a miscalculation or a military limited military confrontation between the 2 countries because if there is a military confrontation even if it is a limited on it is not going to be it is not going to serve the interests of the uni

for the united states government and politics exam? saturday at 9:00 eastern, a live discussion with high school government teachers in lincolnshire, illinois. .> our question is >> it is one of the words that our students struggled with. the idea is if you are trying to get a big bill passed, you have some quid pro quo, this for that. sometimes we call it your marks and if you have that, you will get more supportive votes. >> watch the cram for the exam on saturday 9:00 eastern on c-span. up next, house speaker nancy pelosi with her weekly news conference discussing the democratic legislative agenda and attorney general william barr. she is followed by house majority leader mccarthy. ms. pelosi: good morning, everyone. yesterday was quite a day. i lost sleep after watching over and over again the testimony of the attorney general of the united states. how sad it is. how sad it is for us to see the top law enforcement officer in our country misrepresenting, withholding the truth from the congress of the united states. i think it's -- a

in the united states. i suspect, although i cannot prove it, one reason abortion remains so controversial in the united states is that it was introduced judicially, i.e., by a method which relegated the wid wider principal debates to americans. instead it is a candidate for the supreme court with results that were apparent in the indignified party and procedures in the most recent hearings. in his first inaugural address in 1861, abraham lincoln drew attention to the implications of filling gaps in the constitution by judicial decision. his words are very well known. the candid citizen, he said, must convince that if the policy of the government on vital questions are affecting the whole of people is to be relatively fixed by decisions. they resign their government into the hands of that evident tribunal. lincoln had in mind dread scott who decided that they were not easily made decisions. a nation cannot hope to accommodate divisions among its people unless its citizens actively participate in the process

the truth to the congress of the united states. that's a crime. reporter: speaker pelosi, what are you considering for members of the administration who don't comply with congressional subpoenas? ms. pelosi: i have great confidence in our committees. we have six committees that have -- five of them have subpoenas. so far, we don't have one from the foreign affairs committee. but five of the six committees of jurisdiction have the potential for subpoenas. they haven't all should subpoenas. but that's where we see some of that activity. as you know in the articles of impeachment for president nixon, article 3 was that he ignored the subpoenas of congress, that he did not honor the subpoenas. this is very, very serious. but my judgment will spring from the judgment of our committee chairs. and in terms of -- i'm looking at mr. snaddler's statement, in the close of his statement today relating to the attorney general said, history will judge us on how we face this challenge. we will be held accountable one way or the other. and he, bar

states supplying lethal weapons to ukraine we have the united states going to the south china sea as remarkably in the middle of trade negotiations here we have a hyper aggressive foreign policy but where is the anti-war movement other than places like this and people like yourselves go ahead medea in washington. unfortunately i think people are so consumed by domestic issues and there are so many important issues in the mainstream media in this country is super hyper focused on domestic issues and on partisan issues and there is very little coverage of what's going on in the world i think for the most part people are unaware of all of these global wars that are still going on 2 decades afterwards and the new threats that are happening so we have an educated public and those who are educated in terms of being active and wanting to get involved tend to be involved in issues related to the environment to the terrible issues of racism. the issues around things like homophobia is. i'm a phobia and partisan politics ok but walter is the lack of knowledge the ignorance an intentional ploy

said that the government of the united states is. doing propaganda on its own people is a good thing so the corporate media in the united states has been totally discredited through russia gate but now they're just doing that thing where they hop on another horse and just keep writing it as hard as they can so that's why you're seeing articles like this that's why you see him being so wildly inconsistent it's because these are actual opinions about security of the united states or who's meddling in our elections we know it's meddling in our elections this is about ripping up the security state this is about another cold war this is about trillions of dollars to me how much impact this going to have time magazine it's a venerable publication no and also though for its very critical line towards moscow saying that has had mr putin on the cover many many times how much weight you think this piece is really going to carry especially with policymakers. you know they live in i can't really tell you that i mean i i i'm surprised that this k

and that is that the united states involvement in this war is clearly unconstitutional. now i hear many of my republican friends claim that their strict constitutionalists. well, if you are a strict constitutionalists, voting to override trump's veto should be a no-brainer, because this war has not been authorized by congress, is unconstitutional. let me remind my colleagues who may have forgotten what is in the united states constitution. article one section eight states clearly, and i quote, congress shall have power to declare war, end of quote, while the president has the authority over the conflict before once it has been declared. the founding fathers day the power to authorize military conflicts to congress, the branch most accountable to the people. mr. president, under the war powers act of 1973, the assignment of a member of united states armed forces to, quote, demand, courtney, participate in the movement of or a company can end quote,du another countries military during a war constitutes the introduction of the united states into a conflict. our military inv

that are of strategic interest to the united states. the china north korea senior study group is the second in that series. will hear more about that in a few moments. it includes an impressive set of very knowledgeable, deeply expert scholars, former government officials, diplomats and practitioners, some of whom we have with us here today for the conversation. and we are here today to launch their report, china's role in nuclear and peace negotiations. and as we saw from this weekend, the release of this could not be more timely. we saw north korea's latest weapon test, the first missile test from that country in more than one year, and it is the latest in a series of provocations that indicate a return to tensions with washington while talks remain at an impasse. china, which wields considerable influence in pyongyang and shares washington's desire for a non- nuclear north korea, very much wants to have a role in negotiations with its neighbor. so the vital question is how to ensure that china can play a more constructive and role in

with a veto they lost faith in the united states to see the end of their suffering a little further out of reach. madam president, it's not, however, too late for congress to do the right thing. by overriding this veto, we assert this body's authority to support peace and human rights while making america safer and more secure. madam president, i would yield ficer: withoutsuggest the objection. mr. lee: madam president, over the past few months, the members of this body and the members of the united states house of representatives resoundingly have voted in favor of senate joint resolution 7 which would remove u.s. armed forces from saudi arabia's war in yemen. this unconstitutional, unjustified, and ultimately immoral war has repeatedly come up over the last year. and thankfully america's elected lawmakers in washington have taken a stand against it. now the president has vetoed our resolution. but today we have the opportunity and i believe we have the absolute constitutional duty to once again take a stand on this important matter. today we have the opportunity to override the veto i

a decision, are they conforming with the constitution of the united states as interpreted by the united states supreme court or not? if they are not, then that law will be invalidated and it will not be able to be applied to the women of that state. [ applause ] >> the supreme court that decided this case -- >> yeah -- >> -- includes neil gorsuch, who has that seat because mitch mcconnell held it open, refused to even allow confirmation hearings for merrick garland. >> right. >> president obama's last choice. >> right. for nine months. >> and mitch mcconnell at the time said of course you don't confirm supreme court justices in the last year of a presidential term. let's listen to what mitch mcconnell said today about that question. >> if a supreme court was open before next year, what would you do? >> we'll fill it. >> he'd do what? >> he said i'd be filling the seat, if a supreme court justice were to die in the last year of the trump presidency, what would he do? he would go against what he said was the principle he was using in the last year of the obama presidency. >> well, he also

, the united states congress. it is inappropriate for there to be saber rattling by this administration with iran, with no explanation, as to can why we send young men and women in harm's way. we should not use one approach to start a war. to overcome an approach dealing with the investigation of the rule of law. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. jackson lee: i oppose any such saber rattling and we need to understand what is going on in the middle east. we have to protect the men and women of the united states military though they fight for us. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california, mr. lamalfa, seek recognition? mr. lamalfa: unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. speaker. sadly i rise today to honor fallen u.s. marine from my district in northern california. staff sergeant

united states. senate committee on foreign relations have just entered into negotiations further negotiations with the intelligence agencies to get the to get more information on that look there's there's there's nobody i hope you're not thinking that there's somebody in the that is soft on this the thinks that this is all right this is not all right the saudi arabia is a strong allies are saying that but we heard the president say maybe he did it maybe didn't i am. look i'm not going to defend the president here you know if you wanted to interview him i can line me up probably with some people who can in d.c. who you can do an interview on and you can cross-examine them all day long statements that the president has made tweeting and otherwise and you'll have a long long interview and fine and that will be great asked me what we're doing and how we look at this you should have. the compromise responsible lindsey's a really really good friend of mine recently and i have had from. and i have has and

states is has been the sole superpower for by the while the united states for the 1st time has isolated itself when it comes to iran and we see that across the globe even american allies at these verbal they supported iran and are critical of the united states even the europeans who though they are abiding by american demands and they're in clear violation of the nuclear agreement and they're showing their weakness as a result but still at least a verbal these are opposed to the united states and what the americans have done actually by sanctioning china by. carrying out an economic trade war with china and the sanctions on russia's they've created a convergence among different countries and i think that's going to be more of a problem in the in the months ahead for the united states you know the united states and in my opinion of course they believe that iran would either collapse or that the iranians would come begging to the negotiating table and neither are going to happen and this is going to be a failure in itself as i said despite the fact that ordinary people are hurting but i'd

oh by the united states to taiwan always fall on the deaf ear but the point is. what is a real use of office so to taiwan the men of china is becoming stronger and stronger no matter how many weapons to taiwan with by their would not be useful. was the scenario i believe the taiwanese. is not to really buy weapons they're trying to buy you sure it's. sure is that could be filled with american blood. sure it's not a could not to really guard he's a safety so what. is the safety of the taiwanese people their safety and security come from good relationship with them and then china that is where the security lie and even economically dependent so heavily upon men and china i know we have extended the good will time and again if you compare the previous. and the current to us r.t. you would find the difference so there are security and it won't be. across a straight utilizing. the trust that china taiwan. now at the moscow conference on international security minister of 80 said that china is strongly against the taiwan travel act that the united states adopt it is a

and it is the united states and mexico, -- the united states of mexico, the united states of america, and the one in california. and we live here should actually be proud of our mexican heritage . you are smiling at me. say, i am a mexican-american. >> i am a mexican-american. via la republic. come back on thursday and we will discuss the stuff there, otherwise we are done. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> watch lectures in history every weekend on american history tv. we take you into college classrooms to learn about topics ranging from the american revolution tonight 11. saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern on c-span three. sunday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on american artifacts, we are at to library of congress -- learn about a muslim scholar from west africa, where he was captured, shipped to north carolina and sold into slavery. the curator shows his autobiography and documents in the library collection. hand to hand.

the attorney general of the united states declined to appear voluntarily before the united states house of representatives committee on the judiciary. i think there is good reason in that the attorney general is uncomfortable coming before the committee and answering questions. we intend to ensure that we have the ability to get both the witnesses to testify under oath before the committee and the documents that are necessary to do our oversight work. that is the -- there are other members here. i think they want us in a group. and i think we will do whatever is necessary to get the documents we need to complete our work and bring witnesses before the committee under oath. our oversight responsibility is directly dependent on our ability to bring witnesses before the committee and compel the production of evidence and if we allow the executive branch to decide what they are going to give us, they will have extinguished congressional oversight. mr. raskin: the executive branch is acting in complete bad faith here. in the past the president and , the congress could disagree and go back an

states, and who helped save the united states, the powerful stories that cassandra told us. our logo reminds us that we are telling multiple stories. and we are telling interwoven three stores. you cannot understand the civil war as one story. but rather, it is a braid of three major plot lines. those plot lines twist around each other. they shape each other. but they are distinct stories that have to be understood as their own series of challenges and struggles. the first plot line is that of the would-be confederacy, which initiated much of the action. without white southerners' attempted succession, there is no war and there is no emancipation. the states of the confederacy, they clearly announced wanted to establish their own nation where the future of slavery could never be infringed upon or threatened. it was their right, they asserted, to leave the united states and create a new nation unified by the presence of a large enslaved population and by the cotton. they did not foresee the united states willing and able to fight a war to force them to stay within the nation.

lying or the president of the united states was this or that. so much. and we can't even believe the president of the united states. you can't believe what you're hearing from the institutions meant to serve us. we, the people. maybe you're feeling that too. you probably are. you're being mis led, no one cares, the republicans on that committee don't care, that the attorney general of the united states misled the public, set a narrative, did exactly what the special counsel didn't want him to do, release his own summary instead of the summary letters written by the special counsel himself. and then when confronted twice about it still refused to do it. doesn't matter that you got the information out. what he did was set a false narrative about the information. because most americans will not read 448 pages. they will believe sound bites. but if you read the 448 pages, which members -- which today some of the members of the senate admitted that they didn't even read it. barr said he didn't even read the underlying evidence. so you can only come t

states was now applying tariffs to just about everything that china exported to the united states now i understand that there are a number of sticking points in the talk.

make investment to the united states one after another. u.s.-japan economic relationship is developing in a major way in a modality of bringing in win-win situations. following the joint statement of september last year, mthe ministers are proceeding with a discussion, and i welcome this discussion. in today's talks between myself and president trump, we should achieve early outcome based on the relationship between our two nations. we shall accelerate the pace of discussion. we agreed on that. next month at the g20 osaka summit, president trump, i am going to welcome him again in osaka. i'm looking forward to it. for the success of the g20 summit, u.s.-japan cooperation is indispensable. i will continue to collaborate closely with president trump. yesterday, i was able to talk with president trump on a variety of issues in a relaxed atmosphere, a game of golf, watching sumo wrestling, as well as dinner where our spouses joined. your friendship and truthful relationship was even more enhanced. the exuberance of joy shown by the crowd that

seems like common sense that be the place to entering thes from united states, but it is not. history century-long of this effort at remote control immigrationers. the restrictions were first stablished in the late 19th century to keep out chinese laborers, convicts, the system passports and visas that we take for granted did not exist. immigration inspectors would includingreen people, doing medical and psychological xams and determine their eligibility to enter. that we have at ellis island demonstrates how -- even in the early entury, there were medical sections and for some u.s. consulates, such as in hong rejection rate for chinese migrants was more than 50%. a historian showed by the there were rigorous medical exams and rejecting 5% applicants which is four times the rate at u.s. ports. quota act established national origin quotas for each country, but the slots were filled on a first-come, basis.serve so you had a situation where ship captains were racing to get so their passengers could enter into the quotas and created all sorts of the 1924so by the time johnson-reed

this is your grandkid we've come to the navajo nation the largest native nation in the united states he said there's twelve forty thousand people that when in this little bit you cover. and that's based on the u.s. census from two thousand. surveys more now than that where you know if i get a call. you know that's a good hour after i get. the navajo nation stretches across three states new mexico arizona and utah. and its police force is spread thin we do investigations we try to get as much done right then and there but sometimes we. we need to go back and do follow ups and try to go back and visit people find people but then were stowed on a regular patrol duty on a given night like this we're just going to go from call the call to call. another factor is that tribes don't have jurisdiction over non-native americans for all crimes aside from domestic violence a recent change but beyond that they also have limited sentencing power even over members of their own nation for major crimes including homicide assault and kidnapping what this means is that addressing violent crime is prima

lying to say that in their experience taking the united states at their rhetoric at what they're saying well it's important not to take those things too seriously. in his 1st media briefing as iran's new foreign ministry spokesman abbas moussavi wasted no time getting to the point if the united states wants talks with iran the starting point is returning to the 2015 nuclear deal. now we won't have any negotiation is the united states and on line has always been respect for international agreements to least they could return there with the rubber. and based on delusion so we have no prospect for negotiation and invades for developments. as to offers by 3rd parties while iran's leaders are open to hearing from concerned friends of he says mediation isn't necessary yet stubbornly sticking to his guns seems to have worked in the iranian government's favor the u.s. has rolled back hawkish language and even with the american military buildup still in the region a war seems much less imminent iranians often say they don't care about iran's strategic victories or even standing up to america the

and the markets react to have the latest on an escalating trade war with the united states. and the u.n. calls to end so all financial relations with me in moscow. hello there we're still seeing new york showers across parts of the middle east look at the satellite picture we can see this area of cloud hit doesn't look too impressive but it's given a few showers over parts of iran and that will be gradually drifting its way eastwards as we head through the next few days say for some of us in afghanistan those are the rain he will be intensifying and that will drag down the temperatures as well so next time i'm in kabul just of 19 degrees on thursday they want to be a few showers a bit further towards the north as well so you may just catch one. well marty towards the west here it's looking a bit drier or to back that right up to $42.00 degrees and force an anchor will be at around $27.00 with a decaying system working its way across us so expect a fair amount of cloud and an increase in winds as well as further towards the south and here in doha is just hot now it's 40 degre

there's no mandate for the united states to assert thing. what you're going to continue to see is sanctions being increased more pressure on the regime, hopefully coordinated with the international community, but as you said, the situation is fairly dire, the water supplies are blackouts. there's no internet connection, whenever there's something that the government doesn't want people to see, they shut down internet connections, airways for statesmen media, really fquite a close society when the regime wants it to be. so this is a society that's in whole-scale collapse and the question is, you know, what can the venezuelans do about that and that's what people are discussing right now. >> host: let's take calls, first one from minnesota, independent line, jack, you're with eric, go ahead. >> good morning, gentlemen, you just had a quote lovely president trump here on venezuela, the usual bs, like the bs we are hearing from our guest, here is a quote from andrew mccabe's recent book, trump is quoted as saying, why aren't we at war with venez

states and if the united states says the deal is off the deed itself so hero has a very limited saying here and can offer very little for example to european companies to really keep the deal as it is because this is what this is why iran is looking for iran is looking for as i understand iran is looking for for europe to cover it against american sanctions now europe has had a sort of go at it there was this. instrument which the very used to try and shield european countries from who were dealing with iran from u.s. sanctions how effective is that be well not really i mean if you are for example a german company and then you look at the 2 different markets look at the iranian market for a german company or the u.s. market so at the end of the day what do you decide you want to keep your good relations and your market access in the united states if the united states if you continue doing you know if you're dealing with iran you have a problem any you know why is the company would say ok well then we cannot follow the deal and we have to basically stop thinking about doing business wit

the united states and more than 50 other nations agree that the time has come for nicolas maduro to go he's brought nothing but misery to the venezuelan people. and we hope the russians support. form a girl will and democracy to see you in use them a democracy can be imposed by force the threats coming both from u.s. officials and the opposition leader. who is always reminding us of the possibility of military intervention have nothing to do with democracy. the russians and the americans both busy saying pretty much the same thing that venezuelans should decide what happens to their countries but how they see that happening seems to be very different the united states saying that russia china iran cuba are interfering in venezuelan politics the russians pointing out that washington is threatening the government of venezuela with intervention with military action invasion which is also the russians say. meddling interference and they pointed out the $2003.00 invasion of iraq in order to bring democracy to iraq as an unsuccessful attempt to. meddling they will support that out the $2011.

united nations security council everyone but the united states. so all in all very similar positions but very different ways of going about them for example the europeans promised the iranians that they would shield them from american sanctions they haven't been able to do so and again the austrian president being very critical of the united states for threatening european companies to get their way to get the europeans to pull out of the. nuclear deal nevertheless aside from those 2 topics it was much more relaxed this press conference both sides touting relations and trade political ties president inviting vladimir putin. for a concert next year so all in all very friendly but. serious notes about the most outstanding crises in the world. garcia bringing us the latest from sochi and thank you. now as our correspondent just mentioned tensions running iran are now getting heated up more and more and leave iraq now as fast as possible with the dramatic warning issued by washington to u.s. employees in the country it comes amid a heightened sense of

one of the things that indicates is a difference in how the united states navy and how the united states army approached some of these things. in the navy, there is a clear and deliberate sense of leaving room for the emergence and adaptation of new approaches and new techniques. it is clear from records of the time that they feel the united states army does not have the same kind of mindset, and i think some of that had to hit home for the united states army through its fighting, both in the south pacific and north africa, where some of their assumptions about prewar approaches proved to be flawed. doesn't mean the approaches of the united states navy didn't prove to be, but there was a deliberate sense we need to allow room to learn. because we will not get it right the first time. >> on the ground floor to the back, your left. >> there is an old saying that goes something like a nation prepares for the next war by preparing to fight the last war or something. it sounds like you don't think that applies to what the navy did in world war ii. what do you think about that? trent: that is

the truth to the congress of the united states. that's a crime. yes. >> what are you considering for members of the administration who don't comply with congressional subpoenas? >> well, i have great confidence in our committees. we have six committees that have -- five of them have subpoenas, so far, we don't have one from the foreign affairs committee. but five of the six committees of jurisdiction have the potential for subpoenas. they haven't all issued subpoenas, but that's where we see some of that activity. as you probably know on the articles of impeachment for president nixon, article iii was he ignored the subpoenas of congress, he did not honor the subpoenas of congress. this is very, very serious. but my judgment will spring from the judgment of our committee chairs. and in terms of -- i was looking at mr. nadler's statement. the close of his statement today relating to the attorney general, he said history will judge us on how we face this challenge. we will be held accountable one way or another. and if he, barr, does

especially the president of the united states. i think. and a meeting between leaders of the congress and the president is a historic meeting. this is not a casual coming together of democrats and republicans. this is a historic meeting. it's a leadership of the legislative branch, the first branch of government, and the president of the united states. so let's make it count for something. let's really make it count for something. by dint of preparation. by dint of respect for each other's views, understanding that we'll have to yield on points to get results for the american people. but he obviously was not prepared by dint of preparation, he was not prepared, so some excuse to go out the door. i will not take responsibility for his irresponsible behavior because we pointed out the truth. reporter: kellyanne conway remarked she's apparently abandoned -- ms. pelosi: i'm not going to talk about her. i responded as the speaker of the house to the president of the united states. other conversations people were having among themselves. reporte

i pray for the president of the united states. i wish his family, his administration come his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. >> would you be prepared to change your rhetoric given the politicization? >> i am. >> are you prepared to do something differently? to not provoke him? >> you bought into his excuse. that was not the reason he did that yesterday. it was an excuse for him to do that and with all do respect to your question, i do not intend not to honor my oath of office, nor do my colleagues in the house of representatives to honor our oath of office to protect and defend the constitution which has a system of checks and balances, separation of power in it and the american people understanding what he is doing is an assault on the constitution of the united states. we can walk and chew gum at the same time and he can too. >> the president may have engaged in impeachable offenses but today you say you're not on a path to impeach. explain why -- >> let me be very clear. the president's behavior i

states so there's a contradiction there if you can purchase them in the united states foreigners come to the united states purchase them and read them and we so it really does seem that the statute has a huge loophole which would suggest that. someone at some level of prosecution has done so titian co was charged in absentia here back in 2016 although he was none the wiser and after traveling to a festival in neighboring georgia earlier this year he was swiftly detained and extradited at the u.s. government's request eagle dynamics the software company where a leg work for men. the years have distanced themselves from the whole story eagle dynamics confirms that it was not involved in any way in the actions of its employee who acted in a purely private context and his own personal interests the company develops all of its d.c.'s aircraft gain modules exclusively on the basis of publicly available information and has never used nor tried to taint any classified information at least the computer whiz isn't entirely alone the russian embassy in the u.s. has been following the case accusi

kingdom to the united states in the sort of architecture of. world power perhaps and trump you know that great britain sees it that way. well here that when when trump is it's great britain now you you've been on so many of these t.v. stations that are now suddenly defending as sons do you think when you talk to the other commentators and pundits and all the rest trump is a sort of fair weather friend of assad's because of course he famously said we love wiki leaks and has since said he doesn't know anything about them what's his view we don't know for sure whether he had any role in this decision or whether it was made by lower ranking justice department officials i think generally an indictment like this has to be approved by the attorney general bar i don't think it would have to go up to the white house in fact it would not probably go to the white house so i don't know what president trump's view of this is he has been a fair weather friend again free speech for me but not for the when a son has done things which are perceived as being tru

the united states' allies saying? >> well, certainly the allies were very much taken aback that they were the target of the steel tariffs. they don't understand the focus on tariffs, they don't understand the focus onon deficits, they understand the rejection of the international trading, you know, norms and institutions. they don't understand the u.s.'t ren of global free trade, since this is the system that we basically set up. >> sullivan: trump had upended decades of u.s. trade policy, determined to start a fight he felt was his. >> in several meetings, even in high-level meetings with the president, some foreign leaders. you know, offered, they said, e want to help with china, we want to do this together with you." but he seemed to think that this was his fight alone and that he wanted to do it mano a mano. >> sullivan: at that point, were you disappointed? were you frustrated? >> if you adamantly believe that something doesn't make sense, you're personally disappointed, but ultimately, it's not your decision to

i think it's most likely that he would end up in the united states you know the united states i think has more pull especially now that you know the u.k. strains a leader of the european union and. you know i think that. you know all along. that has been the case right or that it's been the 1st case that he's had to deal with was is this grand jury that started before these allegations of sweden. and i think that. you know the as we've seen with chelsea manning scase and we've also seen with many other whistleblowers of the u.s. . you know they're going for a life sentences and they're you know trying to put him away for a long time. i think that there's not a lot of grounds there's not a lot of legal. action that could really be taken against him in sweden and so i think they're going to go. i could be wrong but you know if if they do get him into sweden. and washington d.c. is going to be the next they're definitely going to make sure that he gets extradited from sweden to the u.s. and that's been the concern the whole talk preaching it's on since a killing on this evening clock stu

because it is a strategic strength of the united states. china has this new collinear list approach where they are best neocolonialist approach where they are seeking to buy support around the world. countries want to align with us because they have come on values, and those follies benefit partners and not that -- those values benefit partners and not just the united states. as a result, we have allies. that is a strategic strength. deepening those alliances is very important in the case of eastern europe, but also around the pacific. sec. esper: she had a great answer, i am not sure i can add to that. ms. starr: ok, i will follow-up with both of you. talking about alliances. i know that the u.s. army has alliances throughout eastern europe. but the reality in this town right now is that you have the white house and a president that remains deeply skeptical that alliances and coalition partners , to paraphrase him, close to arcuate -- are not paying their share of the commitment that you make to these partners around the world. what challe

states, in the united states. i mean, the reach as we see with the uyghurs, as we have seen with many dictatorial countries, they are able to block that kind of -- they set up a firewall. i would ask you to speak to that if you could and we also know that a blogger trung who worked for radio free asia abducted from thailand by the vietnamese agents seeking asylum. there's just, again, if you could speak it that i would appreciate it. i've asked a few questions and there isn't much time. perhaps you could respond. >> and you respond to that and then the time will be out but we'll come back to mr. smith in a bit. >> yes. well first of all, i want to agree with congressman smith. we really don't know how many journalists are in prison in china and don't know how many uyghur journalists are in prison. we do the best research we possibly can to come up with an accurate number, but we acknowledge that it's becoming more and more difficult to do routine reporting in china and almost impossible as we heard from miss hoja