he called the state department's bluff. through multiple hearings in the house and senate, the state department has rejected your call, congresses calls to use the tools. clearly, demarsh's , rising ipca cases with foreign officials and empty threats are not bringing children home. and what are these demarsh's? what's in them? does any really -- does anyone really know? i'm still waiting for response to a foia request that our organization submitted in february. what is it going to take beyond demarsh's ? what are the interest of american children that have been kidnapped going to be put first, and when will decisive efforts be made to bring abducted children home? aced on multiple discussions with state, it is clear that japan anticipated being cited in 2018. it started at least six months in advance. there was a demarsh in november 2017 and december. japan new what was coming. and as japan was about to be cited for international parental child abduction by the united states, they held a public seminary at the house of cul

the commissioners, secretaries and directors of state departments of agriculture in all 50 states and four territories. in that role, i am uniquely the chief egg co-regulator with the federal government and also an agricultural ambassador . >> is this farm bill a sound policy decision? >> we need a farm bill. yes. this is good to have, we have to get this past next week. here is the story about agriculture, we provide, economic viability, $1 trillion to the u.s. gdp, even million dollars so agriculture is important to the u.s. economy. all of us eat and we all enjoyed the sustainability and affordability of foods so we need a farm bill. right now, add is struggling -- the usda said farm income may be down 12% this year. the bottom line is we need the farm bill and were looking forward to its passage and that our members are keen on getting that . >> did this drop become because of trade policy? >> it's a conglomeration of things coming in this year, trade stability hasn't been helped. >> the impact on farmers, is is because of tariffs put in place by the trump administration? >> the f

he called the state department's bluff. through multiple hearings in the house and the senate, the state department has rejected your calls, congress' calls to use the tools. clearly demarshes, rising icpa cases with foreign officials and empty threats are not bringing children home. and what are these demarshes? what's in them? does anyone really know? i'm still waiting for a response to a foia request that our organization submitted in february. what is it going to take beyond demarshes? what are the interests of american children that have been kidnapped going to be put first, and when will decisive efforts be made to bring kidnapped abductedhome -- children home? based on multiple discussions with state, it is clear that japan anticipated being cited in 2018. it started at least six months in advance. there was a demarsh in november of 2017 and december. japan knew what was coming, and they were prepared to spin their -- preparing to spin their way out of it. on may 15, 2018, as japan was about to be cited for internati

he called the state department's bluff. through multiple hearings in the house and senate, the state department has rejected your call, congress' calls to use the tools. clearly demarshes, rising icpa cases with foreign officials and empty threats are not bringing children home. and what are these demarshes? what's in them? does anyone really know? i'm still waiting for a response to a foia request that our organi organization submitted in february. what is it going to take beyond demash shalls? what are the interests of american children that have been kidnapped going to be put first, and when will decisive efforts be made to bring zaukted children home? based on multiple discussions with state, it is clear that japan anticipated being cited in 2018. it started at least six months in advance. there was a demarsh in november of 2017 and december. japan knew what was coming. and they were prepared to spin their way out of it. on may 15, 2018, as japan was about to be cited, for international parental child abduction by the u

he called the state department's bluff. for multiple hearings in the house and senate, the state department has rejected your calls, congressman's -- congresses calls to use the tools. clearly demarche raising cases with foreign government officials and empty threats are not being children home. and what are these demarche? what is in them? does anyone know? i'm still waiting for response that our organization submitted in february. what is it going to take beyond demarche? when are the interest of american children who've been kidnapped going to be put first and when will decisive efforts you made to bring abductor children home? based on multiple discussions with state, it is clear that japan anticipated being cited in 2018. it started at least six months in advance. there was a demarche in november 2017 and december . japan knew what was coming. and they were preparing to spend their way out of it. on may 15, 2018 as japan was about to be cited for international parental child abduction by the united states, they held a

is a very specific attack on the us state department. what does that say about relations between the us and north korea? i think this is a normal reaction by north korea, whatever they are sanctioned, in particular human rights. focus on human rights is really a direct threat to kim jong—un, to his legitimacy. so these are very serious sanctions because they are very serious crimes, crimes about humanity that united nations enquiry into the 14 found in north korea. these are very serious sanctions and very serious allegations. it is a reminder that north korea still has these issues with human rights, but does it also show us that the us government is working at two very different levels here. kim jong-un has said that he now wa nts here. kim jong-un has said that he now wants to shift to pursue economic development. it is really important to keep in mind that actually, human rights are a very important part of economic development because of unease, the international community thomas cannot invest in north korea if north korea continu

no business taking any of the emails out of the state department, and she did. and the american people deserve full answers, and frankly, the court is speaking for millions of americans and demanding accountability here. and i hope that the new attorney general is paying attention to the decisions like this, because this is what is going on in the justice department. they are defending hillary clinton while attacking president trump on species charges. >> harris: the judicial watch, important work that you were doing. this is something that journalists use all the time. we will be watching very closely, thank you for coming on the program. >> you're welcome, think you paid >> harris: president trump trying to get together a stock department as he continues negotiations with china, sending the dow into another spiral, can the two sides reach an agreement? stay close. ♪ for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-six vitamins and minerals. ensure. now up to 30 grams of protein for strength and energy! you see cl

i'm the ceo of the national association of state departments of agriculture. our mission is really to create consensus around sound agricultural policy. we do that between the state departments of ag, the federal government, and stakeholders. so pedro, our nmembers are the commissioners, secretaries, and directors of agriculture in all 50 states and four tear tors. in that role, they're the chief ag negotiator, a co-regulator with the federal government, also an agrucultural ambassador. >> you deal with policy decisions. does this farm bill being debated in congress in your mind a sound policy decision? >> we need a farm bill. yeah, this is good to have. we have to get this passed next week. here's the story about agriculture. agriculture in our affiliated industries, we provide economic viability. $1 trillion to the u.s. gdp, 21 million jobs. and agriculture is very important to the u.s. economy. all of us eat. we all enjoy the sustainability and the affordability of foods that are our choice. so we need a farm bill. this is right now, ag is struggling, and f

they've play off the state department versus the us president. they've credited donald trump for reaching out and trying to improve relations, but said the state department seems to be trying to turn back the clock to a time when there was an "exchange of fire", referring to the regular missile tests that were happening untill about a year ago. there was supposed to be a meeting between the secretary of state and a senior north korean diplomat last month. that has been delayed. the north koreans have been angered by the us military restarting exercises with the south korean military. and there are questions about how this now proceeds into the new year, whether there will be further progress. things seemed to have slowed down since donald trump met kim jong—un in singapore, six months ago. but the president is referring to the north korean negotiations on twitter, just a few days ago, said, there was no hurry and that things were going fine. bruce bennett is a senior defence analyst with the think tank rand corporation and hejoins me now from j

may 15, 2015on with the state department and department of defense officials. secretary pompeo and secretary mattis formally endorsed aria in a letter to this committee. aria passed this committee unanimously on such over 26, 2018, and i am hope will it will be signed into law by the end of the year. in this subcommittee, we also held to could -- two hearings on north korea on our strategy of maximum pressure and engagement policy. clearly much more work needs to be done to complete verifiable -- irreversible deification denuclearization of the north korean regime is wired by u.s. law. we also held an important meeting on cyber security policy , which is a national security for the united states that needs to be seriously and immediately addressed. this will be the final hearing a three-part series of hearings titled "the china challenge, that examines how the united dates should respond to the challenge of a china that seeks to up and dance when the u.s. liberal world order. our first two hearings focused on security and economic aspects. today will focus on d

take back to the state department, we would like an answer. has the secretary raised the issue of the imprisoned journalists families directly with his counterpart? are you aware of if he has or hasn't? >> on that specific issue he obviously has raised it, you can see and the dialogue press conference. if he has raised that particular case, can i take that and get back to you? >> there are at least 100,000, probably up to a couple of million folks in these facilities, hard for us to get precise data because we don't have full access to that region. but that's our current -->> that's staggering, but i think you're right, it's hard to get a fix on the exact number. press reports also indicate that they've been recruited to forcibly occupy the homes of leaders, so those who are not in a detention camps are having that chinese placed in their homes so that they are studied to make sure there's no karen visible, they are not praying during the day, we have the constitution that prohibits government troops in people's homes. it's never been used, be

well, one of the state department? well, one of the north korean officials who faced the north korean officials who faced the sanctions, and you'll want to remember his name because he is the number to buy a north korea and the right—hand man to kim jong—un and the fact that the sanctions included him, the north koreans obviously had to react. i think it would not have made sense as they did not react, and also the fact that donald trump had said a couple of days ago that everything is fine, many people have said that there is nothing totally unexpected in this. obviously, both leaders want denuclearisation, however, the matter is how bad they wanted. this thinking to note is that he also appeared on state tv because today marks the anniversary of the death of kim —— kimjong il, the father of kim jong—un. of the death of kim —— kimjong il, the father of kim jong-un. given what you are telling us, that this statement is not as strong as it habs was in past times, what is tell us habs was in past times, wha

department we know for a fact that secretary met as the state department the people in the national security part of the government don't think this is a good idea they have been publicly trying to pressure the president with these leaks to change his mind but now we're seeing the snap wire from reuters saying that the all state person state department personnel will be out of syria in the next twenty four hours so even if let's say jim madison's protesting this if the president has made this decision there's very little anyone can do to stop him as you mentioned we're seeing members of congress come out and say this is a horrible idea don't do this leave the two thousand u.s. troops in there but really it's unlikely that they can change the president's mind because he is after all the commander in chief so it appears that the president has made this decision of course the big question is now what happens to the kurds that have been allied with the united states fighting alongside really the key to defeating the islamic state of iraq in the levant which even the president acknowledg

the state department balked at doing that. my mother got a call about 6:00 in the morning in milwaukee were she was living. she was surprised, heard i was all right. at 7:00, if she had turned on the today show and seen the devastation of the embassies, hundreds killed, she would have had a heart attack. it was important to alert family members of the living. 11 people died, 85 were injured, of those 11, there were nine or 10 among them, one kenyan who was married to susan hirsch -- i really believe the only reason we did not have many more deaths, was because of the way the building was constructed, like a bunker. the other was, the embassies were in different locations. we were in the middle of this big city with a lot of high-rise buildings and the shockwave went back-and-forth. for us it was spread out, it was not in the center, it was in the outskirts, no building was higher than three stories, so the bomb went that way instead of going back-and-forth between buildings. i think that save lives. we had the nigerian embassy

yes actually after the force of december the tuesday state department of. testimony in capitol hill and a lot of the news media pick up to eight hundred paul then we were actually it's more than two million because we were is a major population over there and shouldn't. because what are you hearing from your friends and family back home in india in about what's going on inside those camps because the chinese government say there have been violent attacks by weakest separatists so they are just the radicalizing the terrorists there they say the chinese foreign ministry says these policies are about improving livelihoods and preserving stability what do you say in response. to that we have a lot of testimony witness testimony and also we have the firsthand information from the chinese government's web site and their information and i will ask them what president in young university was a medical university president and a customer university's president the need of from this work ational education there in the council there in the electorate as well and the w

state department says it has credible evidence of the syrian army using tear gas on civilians stating that rebels did not commit a chlorine attack russia has their claims. the russian military considers that hysterical claims by the us state department that the gas attack on civilians by terror groups in aleppo or november the twenty fourth was fate as an attempt to pressure the o.p.c. w. and prevent an objective investigation the statement is nothing more than an attempt to whitewash the international terrorists operating in the lip along with the white helmet suter rescuers who with their provocative behavior reflect badly on their western backers. around one hundred people were reportedly injured in the alleged chemical attack on government controlled aleppo which syrian officials claim was carried out by terrorists in neighboring is live province russia says it has evidence supporting the use of chlorine so mask is has formally requested that the un's chemical watchdog send investigators to the site. the u.k. has also weighed in on the dispute the foreign and commonwealth office h

i am pleased to announce that heather nauert, spokeswoman for the united states department of state, will be nominated to serve as u.n. ambassador. i want to congratulate heather and thank ambassador nikki haley

the state department money is accounted for in our occ budgets. that state department money, of course, for the war on terror and related expenses goes to many countries besides iraq, afghanistan, pakistan. it goes to other recipients. so that's in our costs. and the -- there are special operations forces in 80 to 90 countries in the mostly operati outside of our purview. we don't really know what their doing, but that's included in our costs. the special assistance that pakistan got to allow u.s. military forces to transit to afghanistan is included in our costs of these wars. so we've included many of these costs. i think you're getting to a larger question, how has the united states focused on terrorism sort of pushed most of our foreign policy in effect increased our military budget in ways that are sort of unseen? and that we were sort of focused on these threats and, in fact, as i said earlier, overinsuring by trying to make sure that folks are with us all over the world but it costs us a lot of money to do that. we are buying a lot of frien

state department briefings. it was slow to take in the united states it was. sent to different directions so i had to say that they are going to tell you everything from russian citizenship if you yell fix it ok and upset then i'll move on. which is funny if it turns out they're not. a fish because of the price of government exam question about me ok ok. to practice by the russian government the fact that you work here as a representative of the russian government so-called news organizations russian news if you were. misspent in the green jacqueline. is some. type of you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what but i do not remember the name of the movie. because it was kind of weak but. i will talk to you after the know the iraqi parliament that. table for the iraq teacher for foreign she. now criticism of the united nations has been pretty key in the the identity of the trumpet ministration we saw nikki haley frequently criticize the un accuse it of being biased against israel and against the united states we also saw the un under the tru

donald trump has named the state department's heather nauert as his nominee for u.s. ambassador to the united nations president said she's i'm quoting here she's smart she's nice she's all other things which make a good candidate heather nauert will be nominated. you go work with nikki haley to. replace the united they can still be ambassador to the united nations very talented very hard very quick and i think she's going to be respected by also head there now or will be nominated for the ambassador to the united states so we've got heather nauert slated to replace nikki haley nikki haley trump's ambassador to the united nations is stepping down now heather nauert has been at the state department and it was highlighted when she was confirmed for that position as the spokesperson for the state department that she had no previous foreign policy experience now she's been holding that post for a little while here's some of the highlights of heather nauert at the u.s. state department briefings i don't know if you all are working for today or what but i. didn't mind it so

department iran's ballistic missile testing is actually on the increase and the state department is asking iran to halt all ballistic missile tests immediately this is all part of washington's increased rhetoric in recent weeks against iran we've seen this over the past couple weeks and this is also part of a big reason why the united states has not punish saudi arabia more forcefully for its role in role in the killing of jamal khashoggi and also the war in yemen is because washington is saying they need saudi arabia to counter what they call is the iran threat of course iran is saying they're not any threat at all but this is again is all part of the increased rhetoric we've seen out of washington against iran in recent weeks still had on al-jazeera hungary's government calms down on academic freedom by forcing the clothes are often amharic in university and reviled by many but were very by some as a patron of the poor the uncomfort. i don't like to see if a colombian drug lord twenty five years after his death. says sal is a costs across the good parts of southeast asia no surpri

donald trump has named the state department heather nauert as his nominee for the u.s. ambassador to the united nations the president said and i quote here she's smart she's nice she's all other things which make it good kind of. heather nauert will be nominated. you go work with nikki haley to. replace vicki at united they will be ambassador to the united nations very talented very far very quick and i think she's going to be respected by also head there now or will be nominated for the embassador to the united states so we've got heather nauert slated to replace nikki haley nikki haley trump's ambassador to the united nations is stepping down now heather nauert has been at the state department and it was highlighted when she was confirmed for that position as the spokesperson for the state department that she had no previous foreign policy experience now she's been holding that post for a little while here some of the highlights of heather nauert at the u.s. state department briefings i don't know if you all are working for today or what but i. didn't mind agreement s

donald trump has named the state department's heather nauert as his nominee for u.s. ambassador to the united nations the president said she's smart she's nice she's all other things which make a good candidate. heather nauert will be nominated. you go work with nikki haley to. replace vicki at united they will be ambassador to the united nations very talented very far very quick and i think she's going to be respected by also head there now or will be nominated for the embassador to the united states so we've got heather nauert slated to replace nikki haley nikki haley trump's ambassador to the united nations is stepping down now heather nauert has been at the state department and it was highlighted when she was confirmed for that position as the spokes person for the state department but she had no previous foreign policy experience now she's been holding that post for a little while here's some of the highlights of heather nauert at the u.s. state department briefings i don't know if you all are working for today or what but i. didn't mind agreement so you know i c

and the mother is hoping that the state department can do something, melissa, sad as it is, so she can say a proper good-bye to her baby. >> reporter: yeah, they're hoping a state department official will make an exception for this woman. i spoke to the father of this little boy. he's keeping his little boy on life support so that his wife gets one last chance to say good-bye to her son. but doctors are warning him this little boy only has days to live. and now this desperate family is worried that this mother will still be stuck in the middle east during her son's final moments. >> please help us get my family together again. >> reporter: it's not the way any parent would want to celebrate their son's 2-year-old birthday. but insdid of blowing out candles, little abdullah hassan is hooked up to a ventilator while his father ali holds his hand and whispers in his ear. abdullah suffers from a genetic brain condition. both he and his father are u.s. citizens. his mother is from yemen and escaped her home country to egypt. >> for months they've been trying to obtain a visa. >> reporter: w

we concluded with the hearing on may 15th, 2018, featuring state department and department of defense officials. on june 21st, 2018, secretary pompeo and secretary mattis formally endorsed aria in a letter to this committee. they passed the committee on september 26th, 2018, and anticipate hopeful it will be signed into law by the end of the year. in the subcommittee we held two hearings on north korea, coming the shift from strategic patience policy of the last administration to the maximum pressure and engagement policy of this one. we agreed that clearly much more work needs to be done to achieve complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the regime required by u.s. law. we held a hearing on cyber security policy, a national security concern for the united states that needs to be immediately addressed. this hearing today will be the final hearing in a three part series of hearings titled "the china challenge" that examines how the united states should respond to the challenge of a china that seeks to upend and s suplant world order. today's hearing will focus on demo

richardson has the latest from the state department. >> the united states will never stand for this. no nation that seeks peace and prosperity should either. >> since the nuclear agreement iran has developed its ballistic missile program, defied multiple international resolutions and exploited the goodwill of nations according to secretary of state mike pompeo pushing the security council to restore stronger restrictions against iran's ballistic missile program. >> the regime is pursuing the same district of revolutionary goals that it has for the last 39 years except now it has money to achieve them thanks to the nuclear deal. >> the secretary advised against lifting arms embargo on iran and recommended security council establish inspections to thwart iranian arms exports. mike pompeo says iran has the largest ballistic missile force in the middle east, exports ballistic missile systems to yemen and transfers them to shia militias in a wreck, the security council report says the human examined launch units discovered in yemen and found they had characteristics of iranian manufacturi

department to have all these e-mails were not telling anyone about and also the state department who participates according to testimony at judicial watch conducting personal family business and to be sure documents that were uncovered later as a result of the e-mail server show the clinton foundation was in regular contact with others in the state department to get special favors and treatments for supporters and allies of the foundation specifically one who was asked to be put in touch with the state department person in lebanon he says he is a key guy in lebanon and to us and also the connection of a close friend of president clinton a top earner of the foundation he appears at the top of the donor list giving between one and $5 million to the foundation to pledge a billion-dollar to the clinton global initiative. i don't know if he committed that many but he was found guilty of money laundering so they almost immediately broke promises to president obama and the senate to maintain that wall of separation we have numerous instances detailed american testimony of the favoritism of

to miss perez, section 404, the department of state authorities act, 2017, requires a secretary of state to establish a three your pilot program for lateral entry into the foreign service that targets midcareer and the private sector. this was something that we push for, and we can enhance the department in a very positive way. this is months overdue, as the statute requires, and i want to have your commitment that -- is required by law. >> think you, senator. yes. my understanding is that because of the hiring freeze, this program is that has not been implement it, i do look forward to working with you and the committee about what this program might look like, we need to get the best people we can find it's a very complex world we live in, and we need to work creatively and innovatively, at how we staff. i look forward for the discussions on this. >> think you. we will keep the record open until the close of business on thursday i would hope that there would be some miraculous way to have a markup before we leave here, i don't know how her leaving here, but hopefully the process that yo

is newest ambassador to the united nations she's currently spokeswoman for the state departments and her nomination would need to be endorsed by the republican controlled senate so replace nikki haley who announced her resignation in october and who leaves her post at the end of the. this month james warren is the executive editor of news gods and was the washington bureau chief for the chicago tribune he joins us by skype from chicago thanks for being with us james had the new issue is an unorthodox choice by all accounts fox news correspondent and anchor to the state department and now potentially the u.n. tell us about her foreign policy experience. take about five seconds not much it's really been primarily the last year and i have as spokesman of the united states state department where she was a rather unconventional pick to begin with having been preceded by john kirby a retired former rear admiral in a larger context on one level it's it's rather astonishing when one looks at the history of u.n. ambassadors going back in one nine hundred fifty s. you have people like adly ste

aid funds work closely with the state department. worked to drop homicide rates and interestingly enough, with the drop of homicide rates is we're seeing less sell have a doorens coming into the border while that may not be replicated in the western eyelands of hondurans, there are some best practices, i agree with you on the need to go to the root causes. >> thank you for the courtesy. >> thank you all for being here, i'm going to ask you one question and the rest of them i'll do in writing to make it easier for you and those who are with us. but to ms. perez, section 404 of the department of state authority's act 2017 required the secretary of state to establish a three-year pilot program for lateral entry into the foreign service that targets mid career individuals from civil service and the private sector, this was something we pushed for and we think can enhance the department. and in a very positive wag. this is months overdue. as the statute requires and i just want to have your commitment that you'll implement this program as

has named the state department's haven't as his nominee for u.s. ambassador to the united nations the president said she's small and she's nice and she's all other things which make a good candidate head there now or will be nominated. to go work with the daily to. replace united they will be ambassador to the united nations very talented very smart very quick and i think she's going to be respected by also head there now or will be nominated for the ambassador to the united states so we've got heather nauert slated to replace nikki haley nikki haley trump's ambassador to the united nations is stepping down now heather now it has been at the state department and it was highlighted when she was confirmed for that position as the spokesperson for the state department the she had no previous foreign policy experience now she's been holding that. post for a little while here's some of the highlights of heather nauert at the u.s. state department briefings i don't know if your own words are today or what but i remember you know my agreement to go i coul

the state department initially balked at doing that. my mother got a call about 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning in milwaukee were she was living. she was surprised, heard i was all right. at 7:00, if she had turned on the "today" show and seen the devastation of the embassies, hundreds killed, she would have had a heart attack. it was important to alert family members of the living. 11 people died, 85 were injured, of those 11 who died there were nine or 10 among them, one kenyan who was married to susan hirsch -- i really believe the only reason we did not have many more deaths, two reasons, one was the way the building was constructed. like a bunker. the other thing was, the were in different locations. you were in the middle of this big city with a lot of high-rise buildings and the shockwave went back-and-forth. said, house collapsed. for us it was spread out, it was not in the center, it was in the outskirts, no building was higher than three stories, so the bomb went that way instead of going back-and-forth between buildings. i think

pleading with the state department to allow his wife to join him... in saying goodbye to their child.(pam) good evening. i'm pam moore, (ken) i'ken wayne. thanks for joining us. our top story, a two- year old boy on life support at u-c-s-f benioff children's hospital oakland... and his mother barred from entering the u=s. (pam) little abdullah hassan"s mothers from yemen, a nation which is on the state department's no-entry list. as kron four's catherine heenan shows us, the muslim rights group 'cair' is offering the family some much needed help.. this is a very real case that shows us the effects of family separation.abdullah hassan was born in yemen two years and two days ago, with a rare and progressive brain disease five months ago, his father, an american citizen, obtained citizenship for his son and brought him to the u=s for treatment.now he's on life support and not expected to live much longer,i'm here today because my son abdullah needs his mother. my wife's calling me every day wanted to kiss and hug her son for the one last time timebecaus

fitton: we asked the state department. hat did mrs. clinton do in exchange for that money but that was blocked out. mr. blum: another donated between $10 million to $25 million to the clinton foundation. was offered priority access to the state department. mr. fitton, would you say that's a quid pro quo? mr. fitton: certainly seems that way. mr. blum: then lastly -- i know your organization has done some work on this, mr. fitton. the uranium one deal. those interests involvement eal contributed more than $140 million to the clinton foundation. mr. fitton, could you fill this organization in on what happened in return for that $140 million in contributions? mr. fitton: well, the state department and other agencies approved the goal of those entities which was sue -- get the stake in uranium one. again, the f.b.i. was looking into it. the allegation is the f.b.i. investigation was curtailed and silenced, or at least aspects of it were silenced from public disclosure, to protect the clintons and the obama administration generally from con

department iran's ballistic missile testing is actually on the increase and the state department is asking iran to halt all ballistic missile tests immediately this is all part of washington's increased rhetoric in recent weeks against iran we've seen this over the past couple weeks and this is also part of a big reason why the united states has not punish saudi arabia more forcefully for its role role in the killing of jamal khashoggi and also the war in yemen is because washington is saying they need saudi arabia to counter what they call is the iran threat of course iran is saying they're not any threat at all but this is again is all part of the increased rhetoric we've seen out of washington against iran in recent weeks an egyptian court has ordered high profile blogger and activist be released on probation he was detained six months ago to use the broadcasting false news to prominence for his criticism of the mubarak government in the early two thousand and his campaigns against the use of torture his role in the arab spring saw him interviewed by media across the worlds. the

is over this the state department i believe was meant to host a news conference in about what twenty twenty five minutes and that's been cancelled. made it pretty clear that they don't want to talk about this because this is the press conference they said they were going to have it and all this and they decide up not going to come out and talk obviously they don't want to answer questions about this and the thing about the trump administration it's very hard to get information from them because what we're used to is daily white house press briefings. you know state department briefings pentagon briefings those don't really happen anymore stage has been a little bit more regular than the other departments but now they're not even going to be able to talk about this today so what is the next phase nobody knows because they're not putting anybody in front of reporters where we can ask them for the specifics and of course we are going to analyze what the impact is likely to be on the ground of this a little later in the next few hours here another there for the moment patty in washington

rich edson has the latest from the state department. >> the united states would never stand for this. no nation that takes peace and prosperity should either. since the 2015 nuclear agreement, iran has developed its ballistic missile program, defied multiple international resolutions, and exploited the goodwill of nations. that is according to mike pompeo, pushing the united nations security council to restore stronger restrictions against iran's ballistic missile program. >> the regime is pursuing the same destructive, revolutionary goals that it has for the past 39 years. except now, it has more money to achieve them. thanks to the nuclear deal. >> the secretary also advised against lifting an arms embargo against iran and recommended the council establish inspections at port and see to thwart iranian arm exports. he says iran has the largest ballistic missile force in the middle east, exports ballistic missile systems to yemen and transfer them iraq. >> the security council report also said the yuan examined launch units, the coalition discovered in yemen. they found they had chara

the state department leading efforts to review a u.s. government strategy to address the campaign of repression in xi jan. preventing china's use of u.s. goods and services to perpetuate its egregious activities and strengthen our public policy efforts throughout the world to attract like-minded individuals. department officials continue to meet with members of the uighur diaspora and coordinate to prevent the harassment of uighurs in the united states. the department has conducted outregion to u.s. and china companies to draw attention to the risks to their exposure of chinese abuses and to underscore. u.s. memberses around the world are providing assistance to survivors of xi jan camps. whose lives or freedom would be threatened. if we are to fundamentally change china's behavior in xi jan, the international community must act together. department of state officials i and others have met with the wives and family members of those who have been detained. we press for the release both publicly and privately of all political prisoners. ma

but it was also a situation where we were, we were duped in part by the state department. the state department gave us the impression that it was, everything was great down there. that the people were very happy. even though there had been defectors that had laughed and had told their stories to the embassy officials in georgetown, guyana. they still have this message that would suggest that there was no reason for us to go down there at all. so i still point the finger at the lack of duty to warn, duty to investigate, duty to protect by the state department as it related to the american citizens living abroad. ... [inaudible conversations] >>> as this weekend on "after words," fox news host tucker karlson and elitism in america and the national review's richard brookhiser recounts the career of supreme court chief justice john marshall, and that's all these weekend on c-span 2's booktv, for a complete television schedule advice booktv.org. >> good morning. i'm david burton, senior fell of of economic policy here at the heritage foundation. her subject today is, is it huma

has named the state department have a nominee for u.s. ambassador to the united nations the president said she's smart she's nice she's all other things which make a good candidate. heather nauert will be nominated. you go work with nikki haley to. replace vicki at united they will be ambassador to the united nations very talented very far very quick and i think she's going to be respected by also head there now or will be nominated for the embassador to the united states so we've got heather nauert slated to replace nikki haley nikki haley trump's ambassador to the united nations is stepping down now heather nauert has been at the state department and it was highlighted when she was confirmed for that position as the spokesperson for the state department that she had no previous foreign policy experience now she's been holding that post for a little while here's some of the highlights of heather nauert at the u.s. state department briefings i don't know if you all are working for today or what but i am. going to monitor it so i can be fu

name the state department had not as his nominee for u.s. ambassador to the united nations the president said she's small and she's nice she's all of the things which make a good candidate. and they're now or will be nominated. you're going to work with the daily to. replace united they will be ambassador to the united nations very talented very hard very quick and i think she's going to be respected by also head there now or will be nominated for the ambassador to the united states so we've got heather nauert slated to replace nikki haley nikki haley trump's ambassador to the united nations is stepping down now heather nauert has been at the state department and it was highlighted when she was confirmed for that position as the spokesperson for the state department that she had no previous foreign policy experience now she's been holding that post for a little while here some of the highlights of heather nauert at the u.s. state department briefings i don't know if you all are working for r.t. today or what but i remember to get a monitor s

department at the pentagon and working with all their former allies in and around syria. yes the thing that they were not talking about is both what secretary madison there were already on their way out the president was already working for a new secretary defense and there was listen to his position two weeks from now so this really resigning over syria to me i think is is a ruse in a way because both not mature in madison opposed what ambassador jeffrey was wanted to do in syria which was counter if you want and defeat a crisis now some of you are opposed to the carrier one aspect of the president's policy or ambassador jeffrey spotlessly on syria to counter what they're doing so the president needs a strategy but he wasn't getting one through g.o.g. and he wasn't getting much from earth or what it would there would have led to success in syria but isn't that to the value who and what mr mcgurk was given that he was a rarity he was a holdover from the days of barack obama that in itself was a demonstration surely of how good he was at his job if only within the context

department iran's ballistic missile testing is actually on the increase and the state department is asking iran to halt all ballistic missile tests immediately this is all part of washington's increased rhetoric in recent weeks against iran we've seen this over the past couple weeks and this is also part of a big reason why the united states has not punish saudi arabia more forcefully for its role and role in the killing of jamal khashoggi and also the war in yemen is because washington is saying they need saudi arabia to counter what they call is the iran threat of course iran is saying they're not any threat at all but this is again is all part of the increased rhetoric we've seen out of washington against iran in recent weeks still ahead on al-jazeera. the radical change promised by mexico's first left us presidents in decades coming up in a moment. by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. how the weather remains basically cold across many parts of eastern europe subzero temperatures still very much in place a little more cloud just pushing its w

of justice and they're looking at this proof as i mentioned and then there's the state department which also will assess how much diplomatic damage or benefit a extradition of mr golan to turkey would again for the united states since this is not just about mr gillon but also about the relationship between the united states and turkey when it comes to the u.s. support for example kurdish fighters in northern iraq and in syria as well as turkey's role in syria as well as turkey's purchase of as four hundred missile systems from russia so we could go in the weeds here but it's really complex and the point is the united states will take its good and does the time to check on all evidence presented by the turks and if this is current then maybe there is some movement there but as long as. it is not happy with what they have i don't think there is will be any movement any time soon during i'll come back to you if and where should be extradited what will this mean for taking. well this could be a complete game changer in this relationship between these two key nato allies because it has poiso

of justice and they're looking at this proof as i mentioned and then there's the state department which also will assess how much diplomatic damage or benefit a extradition of mr golan to turkey would again for for the united states since this is not just about mr gillon but also about the relationship between the united states and turkey when it comes to the u.s. support for example kurdish fighters in northern iraq and in syria as well as turkey's role in syria as well as turkey's purchase of as four hundred missile systems from russia so we could go in the weeds here but it's really complex and the point is the united states will take it's good and this is a time to check on all evidence presented by the turks and if this is current then maybe there is some movement there but as long as. he is not happy with what they have i don't think there is will be any movement any time soon during i'll come back to you if and where should be extradited what will this mean for taking. well this could be a complete game changer in this relationship between these two key nato allies because it has

but it was also a situation where we were duped in part by the state department. the state department gave us the impression that everything was great down there. that the people were very happy. even though there had been defectors that had left and had told their stories to the embassy officials in georgetown. they still had this message that would suggest that there was no reason for us to go down there at all. so i still point the finger at the lack of duty to warn, duty to investigate, duty to protect by the state department as it related to those american citizens living abroad. >> thank you guys so much for coming and thank you so much to the staff. [applause] we have copies of her book in the back and she also would be more than happy to stay and talk with you a bit and sign them for you. thank you guys. >> this year, book tv marks are 28 year of giving you the country's top authors and their books. join us every weekend on cspan2 or online at booktv.org. >> .. >> for more scheduling information check your cable guides, our website, booktv.org. >> c-span,