do you solemnly swear you will suppor t the constitution of the united states, do you swear faith and allegiance to the same. do you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or personal hesitation and to discharge those duties upon what you are about to serve? congratulations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] how was i going? thank you so much. it's an honor to be with you. . >> what a great family. . >> it is so nice to see you. [inaudible conversations] . >> nice to meet you. [inaudible conversations] . >> i was already looking up. [laughter] please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will sup port the constitution of the united states, against enemies foreign and domenstic, do you swear faith and allegiance to the same. do you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or personal hesitation and that you will well and faithfully discharge the office upon which you are about to enter so help you god? congratulations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] . >> please raise your r

the united states have painted a picture between a confrontation of the united states and the people of venezuela. in spite of everything, the leader of venezuela obviously has broad support among the people and in surveys conducted in 2018 by an organization close to the opposition. the national assembly, the leader of which is currently being positioned in washington as almost a president is not supported by almost 07% of the people of venezuela. once again, about the elections informed. eing the distinguished executive of the united kingdom spoke about stuffed ballot boxes in venezuela, suggesting that the ballot boxes were rigged. there are no ballot boxing in venezuela. it uses a -- system of voting. provisions of the u.n. clearly condemn any interference by independent states. further for, american leaders are talking about the possibility of even using force, aying evening is on the table. does that mean the united states is ready to use force? we need to hear a clear answer on whether the united states declares to once again violate the unl charter. secretary of state pompeo

with her husband to the united states from iraq in 2013. she is the proud mother of two children and is expecting a third. since coming to america, she has become a teacher's assistant in our public schools doing a fantastic job, i might add, preparing the next generation of young americans to make the most of this magnificent country that she too now enjoys. and i want to just congratulate you. thank you. [applause] matthew hemsley is from the united kingdom. thank you, matthew. he is an anglican pastor who came to the united states in 2006 and earned a masters degree from gordon conwell seminary in north carolina. fine place. his grandmother was an american citizen whose ancestors first came to north america in 1637. that means you beat us. you beat all of us. [laughter] as part of plymouth colony. now the hemsley family history of the united states is renewed, and the next chapter of their american story begins. matthew, it's an honor. great luck. [applause] [inaudible] is from south korea and came to the united states in 1992 to pursue

well you know saudi arabia needs the united states alliance and i think the united states is playing. when it's you know it's blowing kisses in saudi arabia it's protected saudi arabia from the shop she affair to a certain degree by the president saying that it's not clear that the king is involved in ness of course pompei of his message was the people who carried out the murder have to be punished which which. plex a certain amount of pain on the crown prince because it's going to see inside the kingdom it's going to be seen as disloyalty and but on the other hand it is trying to get beyond this relationship there is talk about trying to clean up yemen situation all of these are monsters undertakings unlikely to be resolved anytime soon so the united states has a lot of heavy lifting to do to try to bring unity back to arab ranks because the arab unity is completely fallen apart over the last you know the last seven eight years. majeed tell us about iran's relationship with qatar and how that plays into the into the strategic game play if you like i mean a sense. since maybe the nine

united states would leave and because of that the y.p. g. has stayed on good terms with the assad government and there was an expectation that if the united states were to leave they would prefer to have the assad government come back then to face a turkish invasion and so. given that the united states has said it's going to leave and i think given no no matter what the united states says because there is a sense that one way or another the united states is going to be taking off they're going to try to reach an agreement with the assad government with moscow's backing to make sure that while this is not their first choice it's still something they prefer to a turkish invasion and there. could well be what we see going forward my one couple on your thoughts if the united states leaves who fills the void well it depends on how the united states will leave actually because if there is an agreement with turkey which is something that i believe now is not is not actually. something that we should expect to have soon given the failure of the b

interference by the united states and major interference of another state is not new. andicans have not changed judging by everything do not intend to change the relationship with latin america, as they inherited exclusive interest of the united states, a backyard we can do anything you want without taking into account the interest of the people living there. we are talking about the reincarnation of the monroe doctrine, which president trump -- back in 1913 president woodrow wilson spoke about how the united states intended to teach the republics of south america to elect good people. today that lesson is being , who dare venezuela in recent past to conduct an that does notlicy comply with the economic and political interests with him and then watches over the western hemisphere. i would like to quilt the works -- put the words of the -- quotes the words of another american president. he was one of the founding this a, he considered political project and charlie believed that the creation made --possible between humanity i'm talking about franklin --ano roosevelt did

is going to do once it understands where the united states or what the united states wants to do then it can act in everyone is not a man known for his patience go ahead joshua. well you're absolutely right that the kurdish problem it turns out to be a problem for everybody nobody really knows what to do with it not america not turkey not syria not iraq and and this is you know with the collapse of the syrian central state during the civil war us side in many ways handed off eastern northeastern syria to the kurds into the y.p. g.m. and then america which had been helping the arab militias against us side hoping to overthrow the regime put in a pro-american regime that would make peace with israel this completely collapsed and so the united states was left siding with the kurds to fight isis these this very reliant sunni kayla full group that was trying to build this big caillat and that that caused in a sense the united states to side with the allies of us if you would but now that they're withdrawing everybody is no none of the regional powers want there to be an independent or auto

that is what the united states has done. you know, since the beginning of these unilateral and measures that are in breach of nternational law in venezuela, december of last year, you know what the cost has been? 23 billion. due to the blockade and to the persecution, to undermining our resources, and would the venezuelan economy be in this state if they had these resources? $20 million were offered through the o.a.s. then taken away. the ambassador of belgium. $1.2 billion are froze than belgium. we can't conduct any banking transactions. this is what is being done against the venezuelan people. the representative of russia was quite clear. there's no such thing as -- here's no blockade, they said. there have been 18 rounds of sanctions but there's no block cailed. we really need to think of this as a true ideological wall being put up against venezuela. as upport the guide lorks was proposed earlier by the dominican republic. from scratch. i was appointed in august as foreign minister and -- last year and two days later, i

in the united states. we have to work to address the drug epidemic in our nation, stop the weapons and cash that flow south to cartels and collaborate more effectively with regional nations to strengthen their economies and to decrease cartel violence. thank you, mr. chairman. >> well, i was glad to hear that ten years ago it was convened on some aspects of the same problem, but being an optimist, based on what you were saying, i see some common ground for investing in scanning devices and customs officers dealing with the straw purchasers and the bulk cash transfers across the border. i see some components of a -- of some legislation that we can work on together like we've worked on criminal justice reform which i hope is successful, but at the same tim that during the gang of eight immigration bill, you said there were $40 billion appropriated for border security and in the daca proposal that got 44 votes, i think it was $25 billion and i'm still confused about the fight over $5 billion. but i agree with

states from china and united states and canada and china in terms of arrests there in this case is that again it's not their random interaction add that here they are talking specifically about americans being approached by russians who seem to be friendly reach into the borders of mr brennan is most unusual it's good it's not surprising to me that someone coming from an intelligence background has that kind of perspective on russians just randomly interacting with them that said i agree with you that if you're an ordinary american who doesn't have any affiliations with the united states government who doesn't have any affiliation with what would be considered aspects of the national security sector no that's a guy that's concluded that is somewhat exaggerated i'm perfectly happy to agree i heard you say that that while you yourself dislike conspiracy theories there is just too much smoke around trump for there to be no fire how much of that smoke is genuine and how much of that is created by segments like this the last time we talked was two was twenty sixteen i believe in its worst ca

is going to do once it understands where the united states or what the united states wants to do then it can act in everyone is not a man known for his patience go ahead joshua. well you're absolutely right the kurdish problem it turns out to be a problem for everybody nobody really knows what to do with it not america not turkey not syria not iraq and and do. this is you know with the collapse of the syrian central state during the civil war us out in many ways handed off eastern northeastern syria to the kurds and to the wipe egypt and then america which had been helping the arab militias against a side hoping to overthrow the regime put in a pro-american regime that would make peace with israel this completely collapsed and so the united states was left siding with the kurds to fight isis these this very reliant sunni kayla full group that was trying to build this big cayle of it and that that caused in a sense the united states to side with the allies of us if you would but now that they're withdrawing everybody is no none of the regional powers want there to be an independent or

under crean disrupting chemicals in the united states. produce disease caused that twice as much as in europe where the regulation is much tighter i wonder if you faced any pushback on that under study not only from the industry but also from the political class because ultimately these results are a comment on the role of the government. we know that policy predicts exposure exposure predicts disease and disease costs us all as a society what's striking about the difference in our cost estimates between the european union and the united states is the differences in policy that drive those differences in costs so in the united states we proactively required brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children whereas you're a pro actively acted to ban those flame retardants fro

there is several violence in the united states. it escalated in 1967 in 1968 including here in washington dc. johnson wanted to focus on domestic priorities. that was always his major interest. he was consumed from early on by the war in vietnam. that is why in his final year in office he wanted to focus on whatever priorities he could do while trying to bring a peaceful end to the war. hubert humphrey was initially not the favored candidate. he was put forth by johnson as someone who can continue his programs to withstand a reasonable chance against richard nixon. johnson did not like robert kennedy. that was no secret. he was uneasy at the same time and was deeply saddened by kennedy's assassination. >> at the same time, the apollo program continues to grow with research being done in florida and texas at cape canaveral and the johnson state center. apollo 8 we saw in the video a moment ago launched in december 1968. >> the thing about the cold war is that it brought out the worst and the best in america. part of that was a peace

when the united states and china and united states and canada and china in terms of arrests there in this case is that again it's not their random interaction that here they are talking specifically about americans being approached by russians who seem to be friendly reach into the boards of mr brennan is most unusual it's good it's not surprising to me that someone coming from an intelligence background has that kind of perspective on russians just randomly interacting with them that said i agree with you that if you're an ordinary american who doesn't have any affiliations with the united states government who doesn't have any affiliation with what would be considered aspects of the national security sector no that's a guy that's concluded that is somewhat exaggerated i'm perfectly happy to agree i heard you say that that while you yourself dislike conspiracy theories there is just too much smoke around trump for there to be no fire how much of that smoke is genuine and how much of that is created by segments like this the last time we talked was two was twenty sixteen i believe in

states is the differences in policy that drive those differences in costs so in the united states we proactively required brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children whereas your a pro actively acted to ban those flame retardants from use improv acts on levels have been much lower as a result the opposite is true interesting enough for certain pesticides where the u.s. for a long time is actually had progressive policy when it comes to limiting pesticides in certain foods well i think there are many many ways in which you can interpret those results i was thinking that when you compare the population of europe and the population of the united states on consumption levels you see a major disbalance there because the american population is smaller but the level of levels of consumption so much larger do you think th

but the united states still had a problem. harry truman remembered from his own world war i experience, he came back and he set up a business with his friend, jacobson, and that business went broke during a depression after world war i. one of truman's goals at the end of the second world war was to try to have a rational, logical reconversion of the military economy back to a peace time economy. people had earned money during the war, but there was nothing to spend it on during the war. so there was a lot of pent-up urge on the part of consumers to spend money on the war to buy things. that, of course, would put extreme pressure on prices and prices would go up. so truman was trying to use the government to kind of balance all this out and make a smoother reconversion from a military economy to a peace time economy. now, even though truman was very much supportive of unions, he faced a real backlash from unions and workers after the war because of this. and so he had this habit of writing what we call diary entries. they're a

states the united states to lead. and now we withdraw but also this constant from a very sized ministration or very extreme one one i have to point out that lost the election by three million votes and based on the midterm results is not likely to be around it after twenty twenty and so very likely these decisions will then be reversed so my advice to the rest of the world is take a deep breath and america will be back. in france president mccrone used his new year's speech to head out into extremist elements in the country. winners of all see it we have perience great division and anger broke out anger against injustices against the course of a sometimes in comprehensible globalization against an administrative system that's become too complex and lacking in empathy there was also anger against profound changes that call into question our society's identity and direction this anger has shown me one thing no matter how excessive or overflowing it is we will not quit cold across message didn't go down well with opposit

under crean disrupting chemicals in the united states. produce disease cost that twice as much as in europe where the regulation is much tighter i wonder if you faced any pushback on that under study not only from the industry but also from the political class because ultimately these results are a comment on the role of the government. we know that policy predicts exposure exposure predicts disease and disease costs us all as a society what's striking about the difference in our cost estimates between the european union and the united states is the differences in policy that drive those differences in costs so in the united states we proactively required brominated flame returns to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children whereas you're a pro actively acted to ban those flame retardants from mus

under crean disrupting chemicals in the united states. produce disease cost that twice as much as in europe where the regulation is much tighter i wonder if you faced any pushback on that under study not only from the industry but also from the political class because ultimately these results are a comment on the role of the government. we know that policy predicts exposure exposure predicts disease and disease costs us all as a society what's striking about the difference in our cost estimates between the european union and the united states is the differences in policy that drive those the. francis in costs so in the united states we proactively required brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children whereas you're a pro actively acted to ban those flame retardants from

the refining arm of their oil company and that's based here in the united states and crucially the state owned oil company is controlled by the military which is key to nicolas maduro staying in power so the goal here by the united states is to hold back this money from the durhams government and transfer it to over to forces who are loyal to the opposition leader won as steve mentioned made clear earlier today the united states is holding accountable those responsible for venezuela's tragic decline we will continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools to support interim president quite oh the national assembly and the venezuelan people efforts to restore their democracy national security adviser john bolton said that the united states is beginning to hear from mid and low level military in venezuela that they are and back to behind the opposition leader want we have no way of independently confirming that but we do know that the defense attache from venezuela that was based here in washington d.c. has declared his support for the opposition the administration is being asked h

united states. trump. choose into the you who are the people who are these terrorist groups or if you're ultimately agree with mr trump in the in these coalition he wanted to in a chain to win the chamber you follow the same policy that. created do you think you may have other things in common with mr trump and at least in the way how he conceptualizes there is no newcomer in purposes a common policy between us and the sitra and there could be no more overlap of of us on how the region develops we're not. because we know that. he has his you know any policy you know or the war you're against any kind o. expansionism and any kind of his unit where you notice it or any other country now as the americans keep on insisting on the. removal of the iranian presence as they put it in syria they and their allies seem to be in trenching and the system you're freydis and i'm sure you know the mr trump's current national security advisor mr bolton wants advocated for the creation of the so-called sunni stand a quasi s

states from china and united states and canada and china in terms of arrests there in this case is that again it's not their random interaction that here they are talking specifically about americans being approached by russians who seem to be friendly in the world the words of mr brennan is most unusual and it's good it's not surprising to me that someone coming from an intelligence background has that kind of perspective on russians just randomly interacting with them that said i agree with you that if you're an ordinary american who doesn't have any affiliations with the united states government who doesn't have any affiliation with what would be considered aspects of the national security sector no that's a guy that's concluded that is somewhat exaggerated i'm perfectly happy to agree i heard you say that that while you yourself dislike conspiracy theories there is just too much smoke around trump for there to be no fire how much of that smoke is genuine and how much of that is created by segments like this is genuine and how much of that is created by segments like this the last ti

special envoy zalmay khalilzad the united state. some cards taliban also try to play chess board in politics they don't want to open up. they want to give little intake a lot. the afghan government says it's ready to me the taliban any time anywhere but for the talks to succeed afghanistan needs help from neighboring pakistan the u.s. has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing safe haven for taliban leaders accusations dismissed by the pakistani government pakistan being the immediate neighborhood on a star is interested in any development in afghanistan leads to peace and stability of the region gotten the efforts underway to words a political settlement in afghanistan and the draw all of us troops should be part of a peace process we did to ensure that it is nor bar vacuum in a fantasy. despite huge international aid and a military campaign led by the us war is far from over and the taliban is far from defeated reports the trump administration might be withdrawing troops in the coming months triggered panic among afghan officia

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in the united states, as all. our own employment is transferred from the united states to foreign lands, and if we had refused admission to the midst, therein our would be no unemployment problem to harass us. was arguably the height of anti-semitism here in the united states. one of the people who give voice to this more than anyone else is a radio priest out of detroit. you see him in a popular way ranting against jewish communism, questioning the american loyalty of jews and others. you see that in some of the newsreel footage we show in the exhibition. ♪ >> new york turns out 18,000 strong for a glimpse of detroit's famous radio partner. >> i ask you in the name of abolishesty, which communism, in the name of patriotism, which loves america, i ask you if you will rise in your places and fight with me to restore america to the americans. [applause] [cheering] >> there is some support for nazis. and within the united states, especially among organizations like the german-american bunk. itz, whoa story of frti

the thing is, here in the united states can -- not in the united states, not the people of the united states, but the elite that is in power that is ruling the united states, they believe that latin america -- they want to impose their model. they want to have this presidents were also businessmen and follow the orders of the president of the united states. but we are not, so we're trying to build our own society in new terms, with equality, with access to health, to education, housing, to culture. and that is our struggle. of course, what happens is in those terms, the u.s. elite and other countries, satellite countries of the united states, they are trying to isolate venezuela, trying to stop this from happening. it is not going to happen. but this is a difficult struggle, amy. we are really looking and pressing desk president maduro has looked for dialogue. we had a dialogue process last year with the opposition in the dominican republic, hosted by the dominican republic in the former president of spain. when we reached the agreement, we were there to sign the agreement, the opposi

under crean disrupting chemicals in the united states. produce disease cost at that twice as much as in europe where the regulation is much tighter i wonder if you faced any pushback on that under study not only from the industry but also from the political class because ultimately these results are a comment on the role of the government. we know that policy predicts exposure exposure predicts disease and disease costs us all as a society what's striking about the difference in our cost estimates between the european union and the united states is the differences in policy that drive those differences in costs so in the united states we proactively required brominated flame returns to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children whereas europe proactively acted to ban those flame retardants from mus

oversight in the united states and whereas the e.p.a. updated its regulation very recently the food and drug administration still operates on a framework that assumes that the do is prove makes the proverbial poison and the reality is that even the f.d.a. own science suggests effects at low levels of exposure one thing that absolutely astounded me and that i didn't know before is that the f.d.a. does not have the authority to up to date or or reassess the safety of chemicals we are already on the market which is quite scary knowing how much both the bio chemical and medical industries have progress doesn't mean that once the chemical is on the market it will be on the market for ever unless the producer wants to replace it with something safer well fortunately we're seeing a lot of attention to what we call the generally recognized as safe or grass loophole there are a lot of proposals underway to modernize the food drug and cosmetic act in the united states so that we can have a framework that's clearer and more protective of human heal

and when you have seen the united states step away from the world stage, when you have seen the united states the isolationist in its approach, it has been able to sustain that for a short period of time, but in the variably, what it has had to do is to deal with the realities of what is happening around the world. and we have seen over the last 20, 25 years, a truly extraordinary set of events which has meant that the united states has been the sole superpower on the world stage. but that world. and that chapter has come and is rapidly coming to a close. so how does the united states amplify and magnify its strength, and it has to be through those alliances? you would probably say that is not surprising, coming from a uk defense secretary. but actually, it puts a responsibility on allies themselves, because actually the point about other nations paying their way, contributing, actually stepping to the mark in terms of what it spends on defense is absolutely right. it shouldn't just be the united states, britain and a few other countries that are spending a minimum of 2%, and we should

states, and i believe the united states even with changes in the distribution of power and other actors from being the only actor in the world today capable of continuing to play that role and in order to do so, it cannot be seen as just a normal great power looking out fo for rome in its own interest. to effectively play that role it has to be an unusual great power that looks out for the common interest as well as its own interest and so exceptionalism comes into that in an important way. then secondly, at a moment when the debate over the future of the foreign policies within the united states is being shaped by this but i believe to be a false choice between nationalism and globalism is the idea of exceptionalism can contribute to the idea that there is no inconsistency between american patriotism and internationalism, which is to say for the american people, they can see a larger purpose that goes beyond simply looking out for the u.s. at the expense of others but rather thinking about how to provide that securing america's national interest while also contributing to the common go

states that's not what happened was he was in the united states she was taking in an tunnel flight from st louis to denver where she was detained and then she was transferred to washington d.c. the only the only information and contact the family have had with matters here is a telephone call to her daughter on tuesday where they received information from him as he told her daughter that she had his job she is a muslim woman who was his job a veil covering such as will time wearing at the moment that that was taken off against her will. was taken without her job on that she was given only a short sleeved t. shirt in contravention to her own islamic dress code that she that she was and that she had to gain another t. shirt just to be able to cover some of her head she also. told her daughter that she wasn't in athens given adequate food because she was not given muslim option or a vegetarian option on tuesday the only conversation they've had with her she told her daughter that she only been able to eat a cracker or some bread that came with that food since being detained on sunday so as

the united states army. robert is a warehouse supervisor. a strong guy, a smart guy, and they have a beautiful 4-year-old son, who was born here, in the united states, robert, congratulations. thank you. [ applause ] >> marcell, ramos ramirez is from bolivia, and has a beautiful lawful permanent resident of the united states, and has been since 2013. he is the co-owner of a staffing company with his son, histo mar the business is thriving and he it is doing very well and he is expanding in all different ways and he says in the united states you can achieve anything that you want, and i am a perfect example. in ord in other words, he is making a lot of money. marcell, thank you very much. >> you've been listening in there to the president speaking at a naturalization ceremony inside the white house today. welcoming some members from south korea, japan, and bolivia, to the united states. they are now american citizens. the irony here is that it comes on a day in which the president is set to address the nation

historically played by the united states. and i believe the united states even with the changes in the distribution of power even with the rise of other actors remains the only actor in the world today capable of continuing to play that role. in order to do so it cannot be seen as just a normal great power looking out only for its own interests. to effectively play that role it has to be an unusual great power, a great power that looks out for the common interest as well as its own interests. so exceptionalism comes into the picture in that important way. and then secondly at a moment when the debate over the future of american foreign policy within the united states is -- is being shaped by this what i believe to be a false in some ways dog whistling choice between nationalism and globalism, what the idea of exceptionalism can credibility to is the idea that there is no inconsistenty between american patriotism and american internationalism which is to say for the american people they can see a larger purpose that goes beyon

least, here in united states. they confess this. they say, oh, we have to make consultations with the embassy am a with the department of state. it happens. they are not free. they're not independent. in spite of all of that, the president is trying to sit with the democratic opposition, not opposition that makes violent demonstrations and burns people alive. that is what he is going to insist -- why he is going to insist on the dialogue. what is happening now, john bolton tweeting and doing communiques and pompeo and everyone saying maduro is not the president, that he is illegitimate, that he is a usurper? , on, that is a coup d'etat. amy: explained that term, usurper. it looks like a case is being billed for an overthrow win when juan guaido announces that maduro is a usurper. thehey are manipulating venezuela constitution. they say the elections were almost 10 million venezuelans voted and over 6 million voted for maduro, that this did not happen. amy: the opposition boycott. >> not only the opposition. lima i

states that they're trying that the united states respect of any soil and sovereignty some venezuelan officials are saying that the united states it's trying to overthrow directly the government of unequal ahmad are staging a coup and that it's trying to repeat in venezuela what happened in syria and in libya. china says it's concerned and disappointed after the u.s. justice department announced criminal charges against telecoms john while way and its chief financial officer beijing is calling on washington to stop what it described as unreasonable suppression of chinese firms the charges filed on monday include fraud theft of trade secrets and conspiracy is rubber and. top level government officials lined up to announce the u.s. will prosecute weiwei china's biggest most influential telecommunications company for a broader array of alleged crimes the criminal activity alleged in this indictment goes back at least ten years and goes all the way to the top of the company. two grand jury indictment charge while away with theft of corporate secrets evasion of u.s. sanctions on iran obstr

i'm from techro in the united states. today i'm just pleased to see that hat moved from 13th last year to 10th this year. we are grateful for this, the announcement. during today, the presentation, you will convey one message that economic freedom leads to better economic power, environment, education, and social well being. and for us to live a better life, economic power, economic growth, and democracy, two major contributors to our good life. and so do you see in the report or in your study the correlation between the economic freedom and the democracy? >> yes, we absolutely do. and we have published that data and some editions of our index. the democracy indexes aren't necessarily updated on a regular basis so we wait until we see some statistical change in that data, then we do report that. we have seen a very high correlation between economic freedom and effective democratic governments. there are an awful lot of countries around the world that call themselves democratic. sometimes even in the name of their country

response by the represent of the united states. like you know who the representative of the united states represents by the way the his his responses forced me to do this and just for information i want to tell you that in russia unlike in the united states there is and russia is no satellites. venezuela is not a satellite russia is not our satellite state. we don't even use that kind of terminology. in our understanding it doesn't even exist or in our in our foreign policy or diplomacy perhaps i will surprise you distinguished representative of the united states but. when we discuss certain issues in the security council. we never tried to force any country to behave as we wish it to be of as we need it as it is in our interest for it to be if we always we always respect the sovereignty of any country whether it's a member of the security council whether it's speaks in this room we always wished respect its own opinions its own policy if that policy or those views correspond to our policy then we're happy if not we. we basically r

, undertaken by the united states. causes thatlot of help contribute to what to place in mid-june. ruskin --result in and lasts until june 21, eisenhower views is to arm the rebels and they are crushed by soviet-backed army. after this, the united states in east germany it didn't -- abandons the rollback policy and , or a veryis attractive west germany would eventually bring the east to the western side, and the effective rollback ends. -- a talk ata tap the american political science association after the rebellion and says we should give up on the rollback and we should not arm people. but is interesting to me is speier in this sense starts to be a less of an effective entrepreneurial -- much better than earlier. he begins his career as a psychological warfare expert. by the end of 1950's, he is an expert on development of the cold war is switching from a center in europe and what was called the third world pit you had to adapt if you wanted to remain relevant in the halls of power. from -- to writing the passage of

the united states is trying to be in a region. when they are there the only job thier doing and they have shown that they do is creation of interest groups who are risking tone during the time his tenure in the foreign ministry he. has so. many to the. she. has dissipated in the creation of the terrorist group in syria and iraq if you recall in the. threshold of the election of the uniqueness this. president trump. choose into the you who are the people who are these terrorist groups or if you're ultimately agree with mr trump in these coalition he wanted to in a game changer then he changed you follow the same policy that. created do you think you may have other things in common with mr trump and at least in the way how he conceptualizes there is no newcomer in purposes a common policy between us and the sitra and there could be no more overlap of views on how the region develops we're not. because we know that. he has his you know any policy you know or the war you're against any kind o. expansionism and any kind of a unit where

and russia should be included in the treaty but other states as well like china the united states is accusing russia of violating the treaty however moscow is ready to continue negotiations despise washington's ultimatum like approach russian foreign minister lavrov says that the united states are not taken into consideration the fact that the missiles are there it's all going about are not part of the i.n.f. treaty. and those little should you go to the united states both blaming russia for violations of the treaty don't take into consideration the fact that russia has c n n. shows that are not included in the treaty the united states says it will withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty with russia as early as beginning of next month now to give you some background about this agreement it was signed by american president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev back in one thousand eight hundred seven and it took effect just a year later now the agreement stipulates that both countries should destroy all ground based missiles with a range of five hundred fifty five hundred kilomete

the united states is on the side of democracy. russia, china, hezbollah, they are on the side of the dictatorship. how does this play out in the coming days? >> trish, congratulations on giving voice to a courageous man who is really facing down maduro who has killed or had executed thousands of his countrymen just to maintain power and who is backed by iran and hezbollah and cuba and other nefarious forces there in venezuela. so given voice to this man is a big deal you are doing. you have been the lead on this from day one, so congratulations. trish: thank you. >> with regard to the military, i think what you heard guaido say, the rank and file are interested in supporting him. but the generals and the top brass who wants to save their jobs are trying to figure out which way to turn here. and the path of least resistance to them is to stick close to maduro until and unless the united states military comes in with credible force or they perceive credible force. trish: why would they stay? because they are getting their pockets li

the united states is currently seeking her extradition. we are deeply grateful to the government of canada for its assistance and its steadfast commitment to the rule of law. i want to repeat that these charges in today's indictments are only allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. and i want to thank everyone who made these indictments possible. especially the agencies represented behind me and to all of the new york, dallas, and seattle law enforcement agents who investigated these cases. they are continuing their work to investigate these matters. i also want to thank our attorneys in the criminal division's money laundering and asset recovery section, the national security division's counterintelligence export control section, and our office of international affairs and our ausas in the eastern district of new york and the western district of washington. the cases we are announcing today have truly been a team effort across multiple u.s. cabinet agencies and across multiple divisions and u.s. attorney

between the government of iran and the united states. on c-span3.lamerica this senate confirmation hearings for william barr to be the next attorney general of the united states begins on tuesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern. in december president trump nominated mr. barr to replace jeff sessions, who held the position for over a year and a half. -- and barr is now served as the u.s. attorney general for president george h w bush. watch the confirmation process for attorney general nominee william barr tuesday at 930 eastern on c-span3. >> federal workers held a rally thursday to talk about how the government shutdown is impacting them. several democratic lawmakers joined them, including house ,ajority leader sandy hoyer mark warner, chris van hollen, ben cardin, and bernie sanders. -- steny hoyer, mark warner, chris van hollen, ben arden -- ben cardin, and bernie sanders. >> please welcome aflcio president rich trumpka. >> good afternoon, brothers and sisters. i'm rich trumka president of the aflcio. brothers and sisters, the government of the

states the united states to lead. and now we withdraw our but also this concept from a very sized ministration or very extreme one one i have to point out that lost the election by three million votes and based on the midterm results is not likely to be around it after twenty twenty and so very likely these decisions will then be reversed so my advice to the rest of the world is take a deep breath and america. will follow all the twists and turns in this new year talking of which is one of the second of january moscow of course one twenty three in the morning but still is just about the season to be jolly twenty nine tate has come and taken the reins around the world let's show the pictures can some pretty pictures he gives an old walks of life and welcome to new year from war torn countries middle east prosperous europe new year's celebrations all the very special place in the hearts of russians too must have holiday people from the we can set here some of the best moments from around the globe that we've put togethe

but not the united states. this is another example of the united states stepping back on the world stage and allowing countries like france to fill the void. recently, the u.s. government and the state department in particular have renewed efforts to advance norms and norms discussion. the efforts must be elevated and strengthened. but norms on traditional cyberattacks alone are not enough. we also need to bring information operations into the debate. this includes building support for rules that address the internet's potential for censorship and oppression. we need to present alternatives that explicitly embrace a free and open internet. and we need that responsibility to extend not only to government but to the private sector as well. we need multilateral agreements with key allies just like we have done with international treaties on biological and chemical weapons. that discussion needs to address mutual defense commitments. we should be linking consensus principles of state behavior in cyberspace explicit

but not the united states. this is another example of the united states stepping back on the world stage, and allowing countries like france to fill the void. recently, the u.s. government and the state department in particular have renewed efforts to advance norms and norms discussion. the efforts must be elevated and strengthened. but norms on traditional cyber attacks alone are not enough. we also need to bring information operations into the debate. this includes building support for rules that address the internet's potential for censorship and repression: we need to present alternatives that explicitly embrace a free and open internet. and we need that responsibility to extend not only to government, but to the private sector as well. we need multi-lateral agreements with key allies just like we've done with international treaties on biological and chemical weapons. that discussion needs to address mutual defense commitments. we should be linking consensus principles of state behavior in cyber space expli