the end of the cold war the united states was a strong ad. god well we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we've got to get rid of that euro sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have this really dynamic capitalism well we've seen this dynamic as we've seen it you know we had the collapse of the internet bubble in the early two thousand and then we have this of the almighty collapse of the housing bubble we're building up in all the bubble now so you know this this you know known wealth a kind of you know primitive pyramid scheme tabel ism is the last thing anyone in the world would want to emulate ok before we could sort of the programs are going to if i could go you're going to talk about the perceptions of the united states in the middle east but go ahead bruce and i just want to jump in there look i mean george is right if you look at the public opinion surveys we've done in thirty nine co

the united states actually does matter. and i don't agree with 100% of the things that the previous speakers said, and they're not going to agree with 100% of the things i said. but the great thing that unites us is that we have the first amendment that allows us to have that disagreement and to have an active discussion so that our nation can move forward. now, we don't always move forward. sometimes we move backwards as we've discussed. but each time we do that, we find a way to move forward. this can't happen in a country we're going to talk about now, china, because despite anything else they might be doing, they are not allowing freedom of speech. so i've got a display over on the side. who here knows what 61398 is? okay. you've probably seen the news story about the chinese government hacking american corporations, right? anybody? so 61398 is a signal core unit in the people's liberation army in china. this is a division of the chinese military run and financed by the chinese government. a company put out a really bri

of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops well down the street here there's a sale it may small that there's a lot of economic activity do we need to send troops it is it is just an absurdity it's a nonsense as far as keeping the seas open there are no want to certain to close the seas china needs open seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in place just for a few of the difference populate i think so i think this is a bit of good or bad her first it won't go ahead ok fine. wel

states will the united states and china have a kind of transition such as we saw in the past when great britain ceased to be the dominant power and there was an elite of power from great britain to the united states will we see something like what happened when holland was the great power but how holland shared power within lenin later england will the united states will the coincidence of economic interests lead to a kind of us chinese alliance that would then dominate the world and if so would the world's people be able to challenge such great powers and how would they do that ok and challenge would likely do you think that is the. stream li unlikely that would be a scenario. i think first of all i think america still the dominant military power you know world even china i think become superpower i agree that the clash between the residents. and the existing power will be intensified history have told us that. there's always happened more likely it's going to happen again and the most recent example is the us and civic duty in cold war and the world and up in a more dangerous position

states here of course as he's never done any harm to the united states but we all know what that means nonetheless there's nothing in this granted temporary asylum that prevents him getting a job on the op the contrary i mean he's entitled to do it there's nothing that says he can't wander around moscow and i am fairly sure if i'm absolutely sure that he will want to tell his story at some point to the media and there's nothing there's no reason why he can't no legal reason why he can't well it's been great to talk to alexander thank you very much for your time fascinating to get your phone with you very much on the cure is live in london. well the white house says it's extremely disappointed with russia's decision to grant edward snowden temporary asylum now that follows weeks of washington pursuing the n.s.a. whistleblower with hopes of his extradition let's get the details now from marty's going to chicken so god just bring us up to date with exactly what washington is saying as they actually have officially made a statement or these are just the noises of coming out of capitol hill

states secretary john kerry secretary of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops. well down the street here there's a sale that i'm a small that there's a lot of economic activity do we need to send troops it is it is just an absurdity it's a nonsense as far as keeping the seas open there are no want to start and to close the seas china needs open seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in place just for a few of the different population i think so i think this is a bit of good

states secretary trying kerry secretary of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops. well down the street here this is salem a small that is a lot of economic activity do we need to send troops it is it is just an absurdity it's a nonsense as far as keeping the seas open there are no want to start and to close the seas china needs open seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its edge a man. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be in place just for a few of the difference in population i think so i think it was it was a bit of go

states if you live in below the poverty line in the united states you have two cars you have a cell phone you have a microwave and you've got a flat screen television so if you want to talk about people who are living below consumption in a wage light here in the united states take a look at take a look at look at countries all across the world people who are living below the minimum wage live the those lives there they don't have the same things that b. they have in america it's because of the free market system and capitalism that people who are poor in the united states are able to afford the necessities that they need to live a better life we're better off than they were we were one hundred years ago who in the world want to go back a hundred years ago when people were when they had didn't have cars were they were not going out how this is because there's a guy who can a little better off than we. as you can afford all these things ok eric go ahead. who would want to know the one hundred seventy the same day but we're not better off than another nine hundred seventy real wages h

states the president united states himself the defendants an intelligence arms had to infiltrate to resist. but still a jones freedom fighters terrorists. who is. a real terrorist please stand up on our cheek. welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle mind you were discussing survival in america. ok austin if we can change gears a little bit here. and when i was in high school and in college i worked in fast food places like wendy's and i knew it was a short stay ok i worked hard it was low wages but i knew there was a way out but now we have a situation in the united states where people get there because they don't want to be there they've lost a job because of the recession and their traps there this is a significantly different kind of environment when it comes to employment right absolutely well the thing is is that not only are you being paid a wage while you're working at wendy's you're being paid in work experience and work experience is something that's hard to quantify but it becomes something that's valuable that you can add to a resume t

states into doing battle the united states is not the world police and we are not the world bullies we are trying to take i commend president barack obama for trying to at least wait until we have some direct evidence that who is involved we see the saudi arabians who are very undemocratic very much involved qataris who are very much involved in this war we need to get the facts right this time we can no longer just go out there and kill because we're talking hundreds of thousands of people die if the united states gets involved we're talking about lebanon iraq turkey we're talking about all the tire region getting involved in this war we see that different interests are being held by turkey by saudi arabia by qatar by even iraq in lebanon but these are factions we need to get to a dialogue of a national dialogue of peace and reconciliation inside syria and it can happen there are groups that have gone to syria that have done this on small scale and we can do it on a large scale in the country but we have to listen to the syrian government and to those in the opposition outside the

states. >> do you think that ed snowden would get a ir trial in the united states? >> i think he could get a fair trial in the united states. and i think that the concern here is that in -- in going to china and going to russia and in particular with respect to the authorities that he's meeting with in russia, i think this further compounds the problem for u.s. intelligence. and i think we have existing whistle blower capabilities here in the united states. on a regular basis, whistle blowers come forward, give information to congress, and we attempt to address those issues. going to china and going to russia was not the solution to the problem. it compounds our difficulties in the united states with respect to al-qaeda. >> congressman, senator, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> roundtable up next. joaquin castro and louis gohmert on obamacare and immigration. plus all kinds of action in iowa this weekend. and stumping for hillary, and donald trump, his interview on "this week". >> ted cruz, born in canada. is he eligible to be president of the united state

states as well and this is still an economic model that the united states can control globally yes no that's absolutely right. and so you know what this this particular brand of capitalism that america is championed which is woman and we call the end of the pyramid scheme capitalism whereby you know you just build up a mountain of debt while your. earning yourself huge fees and then when the whole economy goes belly up you go to the government and the government bails you out while all of the victims of the loans the small borrowers get thrown out of their homes and out onto the street so this kind of pyramid scheme capitalism. is has really been championed by the united states and the and this is been very much you know again since the end of the cold war the united states was a very strong advocate when we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we got to get rid of that you're of sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is where we have this really dynamic

states population than the united states government itself there was the future if these corporations keep control the biotech corporations are already on to the next phase which is something called biopharmaceutical crops where they actually have vaccines and pharmaceutical components already made inside the crops and now you're actually getting pharmaceutical drugs on your dinner table experimental vaccines on your dinner table but the f.d.a. also will likely not label these vaccine component crops and these pharmaceutical component crops to the point where you'll be feeding your family unknowingly all of these different vaccines and stems and everything like that even for infants black so smith kline monsanto and mark the vaccine industry the pharmaceutical industry and the biotech industry all coming together to deceive you on what's on your dinner table coming together to make massive profits completely unheard up in this country for example we have the aids vaccine which they're now looking to infuse into these biopharmaceutical crops which will be on your day dinner table there

states population than the united states government itself they're with the future if these corporations keep control the biotech corporations are already on to the next phase which is something called biopharmaceutical crops where they actually have vaccines and pharmaceutical components already made inside the crops but now you're actually getting pharmaceutical drugs on your dinner table experimental vaccines on your dinner table but the f.d.a. also will likely not label these vaccine component crops in these pharmaceutical component crops to the point where you'll be feeding your family unknowingly all of these different vaccines and stems and everything like that even for infants black so smith kline monsanto and mark the vaccine industry the pharmaceutical industry and the biotech industry all coming together to deceive you on what's on your dinner table coming together to make massive profits completely unheard of in this country for example we have the aids vaccine which they're now looking to infuse into these biopharmaceutical crops which will be on your dave dinner table there

he said that a british defeat would be a calamity for the united states. on the fourth evening of the convention, state delegations finally cast their votes. on the first ballot, dewey held a significant lead. taft, wilkie, and the others trailed far behind. on the third ballot, wilkie jumped to second place, and then on the sixth ballot that took place way after midnight, the dark horse, wilkie, sprinted to the finish line and won the g.o.p.'s nomination. later that summer, wilkie traveled back to the hometown of elwood, indiana to officially accept the g.o.p. nomination. he spoke to a huge festive crowd, and just like roosevelt, he stressed the importance of compulsory military service. i cannot ask the american people to put their faith in me, wilkie said, without putting on the record my conviction that selective service is the only democratic way to get the train's manpower that we need for our national defense. he explained that a volunteer system was neither adequate nor fair. only a draft would oblige rich boys as well as poor boys to serve their c

i think it would be best to say that the behavior of the united states and its allies is the greatest threat to the treaty because the united states and western powers have been treating iran only not only unfairly but also. in a very disturbing manner the sanctions that have been imposed upon ordinary iranians and the attempts to make ordinary iranians suffer in order for iran to put aside its nuclear program are really pathological if you look at it objectively the iranian nuclear program from the very beginning was supported by western powers billions of dollars were invested after the revolution the iranians felt that they cannot throw that investment out the window and to this date there's been no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful so iran is working within the framework of international law the n.p.t. and the united states and its allies are violating fundamental human rights of the iranian people by trying to wreck the iranian economy and by trying to make ordinary iranians suffer ok tom would you like to reply to that in washington.

they essentially allow the nsa to collect vast amounts of information inside the united states and as we communicate internationally. the fact there are violating these very permissive laws is truly shocking. really disclosures undermine the intelligence community's primary defense of these programs, which is that there heavily regulated and overseeing. we know that is simply not true. congress is not been able to effectively oversee the nsa. now that we know the fisa court, the nsa is not able to -- in its own words, doesn't think it has the capacity to effectively oversee the nsa. the government has been claiming for years this is a regulated surveillance complex and in fact the fox has been guarding the hen house for far too long and it needs to stop. ,> even with these revelations i'm interested to see if it indicates these are not delivery violations but inadvertent problems in terms of how they're gathering and sifting data, and that they're relatively small compared to the huge volume of what they're actually doing. do you buy that argument? >> for the past month the nsa has be

states would would be supportive of them and the united states is actually backed off so the united states policy in the middle east toward minorities even toward democracy is our apocryphal. and and indeed if we support countries such as saudi arabia that is having some of their people go into these pallets and into these palestinian and these syrian camps right now as we speak and and paying money for these refugee girls from nine to fourteen and then taken them off to saudi arabia there's somethin sick about that the united states says even criticize them for work and i really have a very serious problem with that you know we all should you know before there was the promotion of secular regimes ok during the cold war for example the war in a lot of conflicts went with the end of secular regimes we have religious museums and religious intolerance. well yes i think. it's not fair to continue talking only about the usa one can look at europe and indeed even russia the europeans the americans and russia have a problem with the something called the islamic movement or islamist or terr

and iran to say look this is the united states. committing these crimes against iran and so we can deal with them. but again you know there are. just as on both sides there are crimes of the committed on both sides and. the hope is that these historical grievances don't serve as. an obstacle or something that sabotages what i really think is an opportunity right now for the u.s. and iran to begin in gauging in very serious timely negotiations to discuss some of the the really serious things that are happening right now and let's talk about this new opportunity that you're speaking about of course our own has a new president so go ahead and talk about how what role he plays in iran and the opportunities that he might offer to the united states in terms of finding those that those frayed relations yeah i mean given everything that we're seeing in the region. in the recent recent weeks been sort of a rare beacon of hope for news iran held an election in june. tune in which. has an rouhani one overwhelmingly one of the first round of t

states mr snowden will probably face life imprisonment in the united states so no civil list country can do it or this country will be respected . and while snowden valid to keep his mouth shut to enjoy russia's asylum his earlier revelations continue to shape the world the guardian newspaper has published a report suggesting that britain's government communications headquarters is not only spying on its citizens but has been funded by the us well let's check out how the tit for tat spying chain actually worked the u.k. g c h q pumped large amounts of money into efforts to gather personal data for mobile phones and applications saying it wanted to be able to exploit any phone anywhere any time in the past five years alone the amount of data gathered from the internet and mobile traffic by the intelligence agency has increased by more than seventy times. takes a closer look at the role washington is playing in all of this the us government has paid at least one hundred million pounds to the u.k. spy agency over the past three years now in return for this money they've got access to an

respect for the united states. understand.o i don't think that just coming off a little bit of egg here or there is going to fundamentally change the calculations of egypt. these discussions are cutting off aid are not very credible because the united states didn't suspend aid at the moment it should have. my third point is that i think as we try to understand u.s. influence correctly, a lot of people are going to be -- to the absolute absolute -- opposite condition. it is also incorrect. tamara mentioned gulf assistance and a lot of people have said, what difference does it make? if the united states would suspend military assistance to egypt when gulf countries are coming in with billions. this is a very superficial understanding of the whole assistance question. egypt has been a country over the last decade that has had very deep and enduring security relationships with the united states. this is not just about dollars and cents. this is about cooperation. it is about shared technology. it is about shared milita

we are aggressive in opening new branches in the united states. but you should always be saying, do i need the branches that i have? so you should merge in toward, in a sense, pay for your expansion in new areas. that's what we are doing. >> you're not looking to cut hours. you are famous for being open on the weekend. you're not cutting that out, now. >> absolutely. we are america's most convenient bank. and canada's most convenient bank as well. open about 50% longer hours than our competitors. and so that is a, obviously, a huge part of our brand and we will be the most convenient with the best service. >> where are you growing? and how many branches do you expect to add this year and next? >> yeah, so we're growing, in our priority in the united states is to fill in new york as you know. we set a target by 2016. that will be the number three bank in new york city. which is pretty remarkable thing from standing start in 2001. so we are putting in new branches there and new branches in florida where we want to fill out that franchise. a few in t

the world engender more hatred towards the united states government if not the united states people then anything else that takes place and i think what we need to really be talking about is that and not sort of these sort of well if they come get us how do we go get them you know eye for an eye tooth for a tooth the real question is how do we create sort of a system in this world that's based on humanity based on you know sort of mutual aid if you will move to a support and not one based on through these reciprocal acts of violence which is what i think these hypotheticals when they're posed in the u.s. media and pose like shows like twenty four you know would you kill a baby if you knew there was going to be a terrorist attack next week or something like you know it never happens that way but you know people pose these questions and sort of put us in a sense of fear and make us answer in a way that i think is always the most warlike. and let's talk about foreign policy in general right now we're hearing a lot of strong rhetoric coming from the political media establishment about i

narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these rge distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, undergro

narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, underg

i think it would be best to say that the behavior of the united states and the allies is the greatest threat to the treaty because the united states and western powers have been treating iran only not only unfairly but also. in a very disturbing manner the sanctions that have been imposed upon ordinary iranians and their attempts to make ordinary iranians suffer in order for iran to put aside its nuclear program are really pathological if you look at it objectively the iranian nuclear program from the very beginning was supported by western powers billions of dollars were invested after the revolution the iranians felt that they cannot throw that investment out the window and to this date there's been no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful so iran is working within the framework of international law the n.p.t. and the united states and its allies are violating fundamental human rights of the iranian people by trying to wreck the iranian economy and by trying to make ordinary iranians suffer ok tom would you like to reply to that in washington

states would would be supportive of them and the united states is actually backed off so the united states policy in the middle east toward minorities even toward democracy is all his pocket. will and and indeed if we support countries such as saudi arabia that is having some of their people go into these pallets and into these palestinian and these syrian camps right now as we speak and and paying money for these refugee girls from nine to fourteen and then taken them off to saudi arabia there's somethin sick about that and that a state says even criticize them for work and i really have a very serious problem with that you know we all should you know before there was the promotion of secular regimes ok during the cold war for example the war in a lot of conflicts went with the end of secular regimes we have religious museums and religious intolerance. well yes i think. it's not fair to continue talking only about the usa one can look at europe and indeed even russia the europeans the americans and russia have a problem with the something called the islamic movement or islamist or

we are the united states of america. we are the country that has tried, not always successfully, always tried to honor a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. this crime against conscience, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community, against the norm of the international community, this matters to us and it matters to who we are and it matters to leadership and our credibility in the world. it matters if nothing is done. it matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens. america should feel confident and gratified we are not alone in our condemnation and we are not alone in our will to do something about it and to act. the world is speaking out. many friends stand ready to respond. the arab league pledged "to hold to the syrian regime fully responsible for this crime." the organization for islamic cooperation said we needed "to hold the syrian government legally and morally accountable

the world engender more hatred towards the united states government if not the united states people anything else that takes place and i think what we need to really be talking about is that and not sort of these sort of well if they come get us how do we go get them you know eye for an eye tooth for a tooth the real question is how do we create sort of a system in. this world that's based on humanity based on you know sort of mutual aid if you will lose full support and not one based on through these reciprocal acts of violence which is what i think these hypotheticals when they're pows in the u.s. media and pows like shows like twenty four you know would you kill a baby if you knew there was going to be a terrorist attack next week or something like you know it never happens that way but you know people pose these questions it's sort of put us in a sense of fear and make us answer in a way that i think is always the most warlike. and let's talk about foreign policy in general right now we're hearing a lot of strong rhetoric coming from the political media establishment about iran

but we are the united states of america. we cannot and must not turn a blind eye to what happened in damascus. out of the ashes of world war, we built an international order and enforced the rules that gave it meaning. we did so because we believe that the rights of individuals to live in peace and dignity depends on the responsibilities of nations. we are perfect, but this nation more than any other has been willing to meet those responsibilities. so all members of congress, of both parties, i ask you to take this vote for our national security. i am looking forward to the debate. in doing so, i ask you, members of congress, to consider that some things are more important than partisan differences or the politics of the moment. ultimately, this is not about who occupies this office at any given time, it's about who we are as a country. i believe that the people's representatives must be invested in what america does abroad. and now is the time to show the world that america keeps our commitments. we do what we say. and we l

at the end of the day, the question i know all of us in the united states debate is if the united states has any option. the credibility of the united states and the u.s. president is on the line. to me, the real question is, how do you stop the bloodshed in syria? how do you stop the carnage in syria? it's not just about the credibility of the u.s. president. this is the not about international politics. it's a blood bath. i think america's strike would exacerbate an already complex situation. >> of course an important question, but i would argue the most important question on a lot of people's minds still is, what is the u.s.'s national security interest in syria? nbc news conducted a recent poll on this and asked this question. is taking military action against the syrian government in our national interest or not? 21% said yes, 33% said no, it's not in our national interest, and 45% don't know enough to have an opinion. i was very surprised that it was 45%. you also have members of congress that are saying, you know, we still have questions that need to be answered. we still need to

states and united states is a very peculiar country when it comes to. labor practices and labor policies because for once this country has never had a very strong labor party history of trade unions. while you can argue that they have been historically rather weak and also as i think you alluded to in the united states there's still no consensus on the role of government in providing social security and social justice and yet some of the critics of the organization have said and the posit that the ilo may be too strongly influenced by the united states and the so-called market fundamentalism that the united states represents how would you respond to such purposes no i don't think that's a reasonable view of the way our organization works or indeed how the united states works in the united states is a major player in the international labor organization and upholds really our fundamental values very strongly no the united states has its own challenges it has its own challenges in terms of social security as we've talked about it's got its challenges in r

go ahead well i would agree that in large part the united states because it. sort of bogged down in the middle east because the largely because of the impact of the israeli lobby has not been able to counter china in the way it would like but i'd like to i'd like to go to henry kissinger here for a second. henry kissinger in his account china which is not a bad book actually talks about a fundamentally different culture in china from that of the west and i think we should listen to him on this point. because for example if you look at the fifteenth century when china was the most powerful nation in the world it sent out ships bigger than anything columbus would dream of one hundred years later traded. it it traded it explored but unlike the west it did not conquer it did not in slaves that is the western tradition and if you think we've escaped that history is your second one i mean the british empire is really i mean but the united states and higher i mean this was an eel going it's plain as the nose on your face. you know to equate our vehicles with the seco

states as well and this is still an economic model that the united states can control global. yeah there that's absolutely right. and so you know what this this particular brand of capitalism than america is champion which is the world we call the end of the pyramid scheme capitalism whereby you know you just build up a mountain of debt while your. earning yourself huge fees and then when the whole economy goes belly up you go to the government and the government bails you out while all of the victims of the loans the small borrowers get thrown out of their homes and out onto the street so this kind of pyramid scheme capitalism. is has really been championed by the united states and the and this is been very much you know again since the end of the cold war the united states was of a strong advocate what we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we got to get rid of that your of sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have this real

states this is always plays done in alliance with the united states as well. where do you have in mind while i what i have in mind is there are several wars that have been launched one is the war in iraq the other one is the war in afghanistan and all of that was presented on to the set of having of special relationship of the united states and i'm a part of the iraq war. post it from the beginning i wasn't one of those converts in afghanistan although i saw the case for the removal of the taliban regime that mission had been accomplished within six weeks of the intervention and i have opposed the problem gratian an extension of our mission but of course both these forces were rooted in this concept of special relationship that supposedly exists between the united states and the united kingdom do believe in the notion of special relationship between these two countries well you know if you're trying to push me into defending policies that i am not trying to push here just fine i think that the relationship between the united kingdom and the english speaking co

states would would be supportive of them and the united states is actually backed off so the united states policy in the middle east toward minorities even toward democracy is our pocket. will and and indeed if we support countries such as saudi arabia that is having some of their people go into these pallets and into these palestinian and these syrian camps right now as we speak and and paying money for these refugee girls from nine to fourteen and then taken them off to saudi arabia there's somethin sick about the united states as human criticize them for work and i really have a very serious problem with that you know we all should you know before there was the promotion of secular regimes ok during the cold war for example there were a lot of conflicts went with the end of secular regimes we have religious machines and religious intolerance. well yes i think. it's not fair to continue talking only about the usa one can look at europe and indeed even russia the europeans the americans and russia have a problem with the something called the islamic movement or islamist or terroris

in the united states over these administrations in terms of how they not only market their region but how they follow through on their commitments and the more american investment in the regions the more that happens the more americans are telling their counterparts back in iowa nebraska new york hey i have an investment in this region for the last region is a great example because the predictability quotient as increasing difficulty because of the administration now you mentioned just a couple of years ago there was this perception that everything in russia depends on the kremlin and. i think and you said at that actually of publicly several times that russia still suffers from this image problem with regards to your own arbitrary administration for a long. in other words investors still fear that somebody will come and come confiscate that business and i wonder how many members of the american chamber of commerce had something like that happen to them and recent years were first and the last point very very few those can happen but they're very rare instances in the usually in the v

what is the intention of the united states and what will the united states do next in this regard? >> well, we won't know at least until the week of september 9. christiane is going to be with us. don't go too far away. we're also going to be hearing from a top u.s. congressman who says before the u.s. gets involved in any action, revive the u.s. military draft. charlie rangel is standing by, gloria borger is nearby. we'll take a break on the crisis in syria, after this. >>> you just heard it, you saw it live here on cnn. we want to welcome back our viewers in the united states and around the world. the president of the united states announcing he will, in fact, seek formal congressional authorization from congress, from the house and the senate before using military action against targets in syria. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been torn on this issue. joining us now, one veteran lawmaker in the house of representatives, the democratic congressman charlie rangel from new york. your reaction, congressman, to what the president said, that he has authorized the use of for

during that visit to the united states president he also talked about the so-called chinese dream and obviously are all countries have dreams but it's only great nations that fill the need announced that dreams out loud and i think could be argued that the existence of this so-called american dream is ultimately responsible for a lot of suffering in the world so it's probably not in exaggeration to say that when a great countries like the united states or china are dreaming the rest of the world has a rural threat. but i you know i look at the history of china and no source my understanding of the chinese dream of one son to element of the harmony i mean that's an essential notion of a confucius some which has been practiced for many centuries you know i think my read of the current chinese leadership they were pursued at the same policy you know how many it will be central part of everything we do know that not only in china but also coloe bali but the same time today if you look at in particular was the global financial crisis into a wait. of several concerns number one the national

states will the united states and china have a kind of transition such as we saw in the past when great britain ceased to be the dominant power and there was an allegiance of power from great britain to the united states will we see something like what happened when holland was the great power but how holland shared power within lenin later england will the united states will the coincidence of economic interests lead to a kind of us chinese alliance that would then dominate the world and if so would the world's people be able to challenge such great powers and how would they do that ok and challenge the likely do you think that is the. stream li unlikely that would be a scenario. i think first of all i think america still the dominant military power you know world even china i think become superpower i agree that the clash between the resin new power and the existing power will be intensified history have told us that. there's always happen more likely it's going to happen again and the most recent example is the u.s. and civic duty in war and the world and up in the more dangerous pos

number one threat to the united states in me middle east is iran. we've now spent several years chasing after libya, chasing after egypt, now we're going to chase after syria. none of them are mortal threats to the united states. but an iranian nuclear weapon is. furthermo furthermore, if we fire off 10, 20 tomahawks, the question is then what? we will probably have enraged the russians. we may well increase the amount of supplies they send. there's no policy, there's no strategy behind this kind of feel good emotionalism. and yes we have a lot of power, but using it blindly is not a good idea. >> john mccain the senator from arizona, the republican presidential nominee back in 2008. listen to what he said. >> the president of the united states over a year ago said that if bashar assad used chemical weapons, it crosses a red line. we know for sure that he's used them at least once. now here's the second time. horrific, horrific. and if the united states stands by and doesn't take very serious action, not just launching some cruise missiles, then aga

in the next few years, you'll see the united states start to respond. part of that will come from markets, higher prices for new supplies encourage people to curb demand and persuade innovators to invest in new technologies. another part of it comes from policy. barely a month after the crisis begins, congress moves forward on a long pipeline across alaska, and within a couple years it passes the first-ever fuel economy standards requiring more efficient cars and trucks. but if you look a few more years into the future, you'll find the country consumed by paralyzing battles. one camp is focused on growing supplies of traditional fuels -- oil, coal, natural gas and increasingly nuclear power. another is focused on alternatives and on promoting conservation and efficiency. and the one thing that the two largely agree on is that the country now has to choose. energy becomes a focal point in the years that come and peaks in the 1980s elections. it becomes so intensely enmeshed in ideological battles that it's pretty much impossible to focus on the underlyin

i mean it was the united states were really the gulf states under the umbrella in the aegis of the united states and other western countries that poured arms into syria and turned this into a terrible violent civil war a real morass of desperation and ultimately it's these broader the broader impulse lying behind these policies the desire to push these core geo strategic interests no matter what the cost to the people of any particular region that we have to stand up against we have to fight against to give the syrian people and other people a chance to reclaim their own future and destiny because if we don't we can almost be sure to expect the same thing that's happened iraq libya all these countries we really do need to stand up against the military industrial complex and their takeover of the planet thank you so much your team here organizer for the answer coalition always happy to be here thank you. don't go away guys when we come back we'll fill you in on everything alec my fortieth anniversary convention in chicago . i would rather i asked questions for people in positions of power

they also say that the united states is cutting them off. this is a dynamic i don't think a lot of our viewers understand. from the rebels perspective, it is the united states that is not allowing them to have advanced weapons. they say they are trying to buy on the black mark or to import from libya, anti-tank rockets and more sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons. the united states has blocked those shipments because it doesn't want the rebels to have weapons that could end up in the hands of terrorists. when you combine all of these. a delayed action tonight and a general belief that the united states is preventing them from becoming armed. they start to lose faith, to put it lightly, andrea. >> isn't there always the chance that assad will do something else, perceiving weakness from the united states? that he will feel emboldened, even worst case, to use chemicals again. >> what happens if chemical are used again? while we wait, that will be a refrain that we could hear from the rebels. what will happen while there are regular conventional

we are the united states of america. we are the country that has tried, not always successfully, but always tried to honor a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. this crime against conshebs, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community, against the norm of the international community, this matters to us, and it matters to who we are, and it matters to leadership and to our credibility in the world? my friends, it matters here if nothing is done. it matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens? america should feel confident and gratified that we are not alone in our condemnation, and we are not alone in our will to do something about it and to act. the world is speaking out and many friends stand ready to respond. the arab league pledged, quote, to hold the syrian regime fully responsible for this crime. the organization for islamic cooperation condemned the regime and said we needed,

and we begin with the united states on the verge of military action in syria today president obama gave a speech at the lincoln memorial to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the march on washington but more pressing on his mind is how the united states and its allies will react to an alleged chemical strike in war torn syria today the u.n. special envoy to syria acknowledged that some kind of chemical substance was used last week outside damascus claiming the lives of more than one thousand people and nato called the attack quote a clear breach of international norms president obama is reaching out to allies in planning for a round of military strikes against selected targets of the assad regime the white house stressed on tuesday that the goal of the strikes is not to remove assad from power but instead to punish his government for carrying out the strikes but president obama. is unlikely to find any support in the arab world for this move the arab league though it blames the syrian government for the chemical attack that has already expelled president assad won't endorse militar

we're the united states of america. we're the country that's always tried, not always successfully, but always tried to northern a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. this crime against conscious, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community and the norm of international community, this matters to us. it matters to who we are. it matters to leadership and to our credibility in the world. my friends, it matters here if nothing is done. it matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens. america should feel gratified. we are not alone in our condemnation an we're not alone in our will to do something about it an to act. the world is speaking out and many friends stand ready to respond. the organization for islamic cooperation condemn the regime and said we needed, quote, to hold the syrian government legally an morally accountable for this crime. our oldest ally, the french, said the reg

so the united states can have a pretty clean fleet going forward. it's already cleaner than it was a number of years ago. that imposes costs, but the benefits are just worth the costs in terms of air pollution reduction, energy security so the united states is closer to energy independent and consumers are saving money at the pump because their cars aren't going to cost them as much to operate. actually for consumers, they're net winners. there's a rule that involves illnesses that salmonella from food which is going to prevent up to 79,000 illnesses a year, including dozens of deaths. that rule -- that's a good rule. so the fact that it's a rule that imposed costs doesn't mean it's a bad idea. the question is, is the individual rule doing more good than harm. >> you have a book called "simple," the future of government, and that's the thesis as i see it. the question isn't good regulation, it isn't more or less, but it's smart regulations. >> basic idea is that you have technologies now, like an ipad, which has a great deal of complexity in it. pro

states. >> do you think that ed snowden would get a fair trial in the united states? >> i think he could get a fair trial in the united states. and i think that the concern here is that in -- in going to china and going to russia and in particular with respect to the authorities that he's meeting with in russia, i think this further compounds the problem for u.s. intelligence. and i think we have existing whistle blower capabilities here in the united states. on a regular basis, whistle blowers come forward, give information to congress, and we attempt to address those issues. going to china and going to russia was not the solution to the problem. it compounds our difficulties in the united states with respect to al-qaeda. >> congressman, senator, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> roundtable up next. joaquin castro and louis gohmert on obamacare and immigration. and stumping for hillary, and donald trump, his interview on this week. >> ted cruz, born in canada. is he eligible to be president of the united states? >> well, if he was born in canada, perhaps not