policy and the asia-pacific reason -- region under the trump administration. this was in melbourne, australia. topics, climate change and trade. this is 20 minutes. >> what a pleasure it is to be back here in melbourne. today provides to share views on the trump administration in the united states, and its engagement with the end of pacific region, or as the organizers have coined my speech, "trump and asia." it is one of the most important foreign policy considerations for some time as the united states matters to australia, to our region and to the world. of the second world war, including the war in the pacific, the united states has been the instigator, promoter and the guarantor of what we call the world order. this order has underpinned international law and has defined the way states should behave in general and towards each other. globalization,ed economic integration, human rights and free and open societies. it has not always been universally applied or in force. nonetheless, the united states has been the reference point as the most powerful economy

but it's a critical role for the trump administration to look at. the second part is that during the obama administration, there were many of the political jobs where you would normally fill them up with your people, your beliefs, switched over to career positions making it very difficult and the third part of this is you have individuals who have been in these agencies for 20-something years. they've dug their heels in and you look at veterans affairs and they have basically moved on regulations, that have-- and overreach of federal government that have impacted tens of thousands of veterans and in issues like providing them education. eric: i want to bring this out to juan. i think the most famous recent leaker in the world who also got fired, james comey. >> i don't know if comey was a leaker when he had been doing his job. he had already been fired when he leaked. according to corey lewandowski, detrimental to the trump administration, he's not talking about someone violating a-- >> r. >> what's the difference. the integrity of the organization,

policy and the asia-pacific region under the trump administration. this was in melbourne, australia. among the topics, climate change and trade. this is 20 minutes. and trade. this is 20 minutes. >> >> what a pleasure it is to be back here in melbourne. today provides to share views on the trump administration in the united states, and its engagement with the end of pacific region, or as the organizers have coined my speech, "trump and asia." it is one of the most important foreign policy considerations for some time as the united states matters to australia, to our region and to the world. since the end of the second world war, including the war in the pacific, the united states has been the instigator, promoter and the guarantor of what we call the world order. this order has underpinned international law and has defined the way states should behave in general and towards each other. this has embraced globalization, economic integration, human rights and free and open societies. it has not always been universally applied or in force. nonetheless, t

the trump administration has focused on north korea as one of its highest priorities. the dprk represents a profound threat to the stability and peace of the indo-pacific region today. it continues to thumb its nose at the united nations security council that has passed numerous resolutions banning the development and testing of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. it is vital that all u.n. member states and particularly the permanent five of the security council take all possible steps to send a message to north korea that it must halt its illegal behavior and focus on improving the welfare of its impoverished and long-suffering people. the trump administration is urging china to play a more constructive role in the pursuit of an enduring peace on the korean peninsula. the international landscape is uncertain, there are evident shifts in power between states and the scale and pace of technological advances is disrupting how we live, work and communicate. the government is working on a foreign policy white paper to be released later this year. this white paper will

we will be watching what the trump administration does. i know the american people will be watching, and again, we need to do everything possible to make sure more people vote, not to make it harder for americans to vote. >> with that, we would be happy to answer any questions you have. you feel the concerted effort to target african-american voters, given the majority are democratic? >> yes. anybody else? [laughter] >> i think it is no coincidence that the target has been in vulnerable communities. i think it is no coincidence that the target has been in vulnerable communities of color. brown and black communities across the nation. but we can't underestimate the fact that the disabled and our senior citizens and our young folks are also disadvantaged, as well. i think if you take nothing away from this press conference come -- conference, i hope you take away the fact that we as elected officials should be about making it easier for people to vote, not making it harder. and the fact that the trump administration would put this sham of a

we will be here to make sure we provide consistent response to what is coming from the trump administration. when you have leadership that has demonstrated regularly trying to find more ways for people to have difficulty to vote, that is reasons we are pushing back in this manner. we are expanding the work under our vice chair, karen carter pearson, who is overseeing civic engagement and voter participation. to again, find more ways for people to vote. we understand, we hear this nonsensical myth of voter fraud. it is not happening. we are not seeing that. what we are seeing is that people need more opportunities to go vote and we are committed to that here at the dnc. as part of that work, we have launched the dnc commission to protect american democracy from the trump administration. we won't allow them to move forward in a manner that will hurt our communities, especially when you see the leadership is not led in a bipartisan way. their chair and vice chair are republicans. many republicans have found ways to push back against us. the commission we have pulled together is to make sure we

family and within the trump administration. did he convey that message, the spirit of that message, to the president? the american people have a right to know. so, here we are, house democrats are not going to let the republicans. vote for their complicity in this today we are announcing a new effort to force votes to get answers for the american people. we will force republicans to take votes on the record to continue from hiding the fact from the american people. we will expose house republicans an action for their willful, shameful, enabling. they have become enablers. of the violation of our constitution, an attack on our integrity of the elections, the security of our country. the integrity of our democracy is at stake. republicans will have to answer for their actions. some of the questions will be posed by our colleagues.

all eyes of course on the trump administration's response here and just how tough they are going to be. the president tweeting this morning really a dig, if you will, at china's leadership, china's president, because china has a relationship with north korea perhaps the greatest economic leverage instead saying, look, now china and north korea, growing trade as opposed to less trade, that the sanctions potentially are not working, that we've given it a try, suggesting that perhaps there is more that the trump administration is going to do regarding china and china sanctions as well as north korea. at the same time, secretary of state rex tillerson putting out this very strongly worded statement saying global actions required to stop a global threat. all nations should publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences to their pursuit of nuclear weapons. we intend to bring north korea's provocative action before the u.n. security council and enact stronger measures to hold the dprk accountable. what we are going to see later this afternoon is that emergency meeting with th

what is its role in the trump administration? stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "whispers in the deep" by south africa's stimela. member ray "just now" phiri passed away last week at the age of 70. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we end today's show with a stunning new investigation by the guardian that reveals how tobacco companies have gained unprecedented influence in washington since the t trump administration came to power. the e guardian reports pololicis with deep ties to the tobacco industry now head much of trump's cabinet. even as tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death. vice-president mike pence has reportedly received $39,000 in donations from tobacco giant rj reynolds and more than $60,000 from the tobacco company-aligned national association of convenience stores, both among his top donors. trump's nominee for solicitor general, noel francisco, reportedly represented both rj reynolds and its parent company, reynolds a

and now the trump administration as being hotspots for terror. there is evidence for that. law, andder federal allows the president to suspend immigration if it is a national security -- in the interest of national security. all we can hope for is that was the motive for the white house. i don't believe he was trying to target one specific religious group or one specific type of people. i think the attempt, despite some rhetoric on the campaign i think the attempt there, despite some rhetoric on the campaign trail, i think the attempt, if you look at the executive order, was to truly protect the national security. host: germane is calling from canton, ohio. just a few seconds left. caller: i have a couple of comments. just a few minutes ago, chris was speaking to trump's business interest as opposed to presidential interests. smirk thath a "hopefully the president would." many of his followers are working on a device can rated light the country where they like to have certain people -- on a divide, a divide of the country where they like to have

under the trump administration. we'll hear testimony from susan thornton, who serves as the acting assistant secretary for the bureau of east asian and pacific affairs. serving as chair of the subcommittee is colorado senator cory gardner, who recently introduced legislation to impose an embargo against north korea. that hearing starts live at 2:30 eastern, also on c-span 3. >>> tuesday night we will hear more from president trump as he speaks to supporters in youngstown, ohio. we will have live coverage beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern also here on c-span 3. >>> congress is expected to have a busy week with the house considering proposed sanctions against russia, iran and north korea, as well as defense related spending bills. the senate is dealing with health care legislation. watch live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate on c-span 2 and watch anytime on c-span.org. and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> next, a discussion on the future of u.s. trade policy and current trade protection measures pro

family and within the trump administration. did he convey that message, the spirit of that message, to the president? the american people have a right to know. so, here we are, house democrats are not going to let the republicans. vote for their complicity in this today we are announcing a new effort to force votes to get answers for the american people. we will force republicans to take votes on the record to continue from hiding the fact from the american people. we will expose house republicans an action for their willful, shameful, enabling. they have become enablers. of the violation of our constitution, an attack on our integrity of the elections, the security of our country. the integrity of our democracy is at stake. republicans will have to answer for their actions. some of the questions will be posed by our colleagues. congresswoman maxine waters of california. >> thank you leader pelosi for organizing all of us today who have taken some action in dealing with trump family criminal enterprise. whether we have written

the trump administration commission is requesting data that was obviously soundly rejected across the country in a bipartisan manner to demonstrate that is how we should -- that is what we should not be pursuing. this is our attempt to demonstrate the new vision of the democratic party, saying we will come together and show our leadership in all aspects, whether it is in the federal government or the states or the cities, to say people should have an opportunity to vote, not have their votes taken away. with that, a great leader of the state of missouri, the chair of our commission, jason. >> tanks. i appreciate it. thanks for coming. start by talking about how it is that the trump commission actually got started in the first place. it is important to remember how this started. it started with the biggest lie that a sitting president has ever told, when president trump, at the time president-elect trump, said three to five million illegal voters voted in the election. when he said that, most americans looked at that and understandably simply saw a deeply insecure human being who was t

family and within the trump administration. message, the that spirit of that message, to the president? the american people have a right to know. are, house democrats are not going to let the republicans. vote for their complicity in this today we are announcing a new effort to force votes to get answers for the american people. will force republicans to take votes on the record to continue from hiding the fact from the american people. republicansse house an action for their willful, shameful, enabling. they have become enablers. ourhe violation of constitution, an attack on our integrity of the elections, the security of our country. democracyity of our is at stake. republicans will have to answer for their actions. -- some of questions the questions will be posed by our colleagues. congresswoman max me -- maxine waters of california. >> thank you leader pelosi. leader policy for organizing all of us today who have taken some action in dealing with trump family criminal enterprise. ,hether we have written letters introduced l

the trump administration does not have a communications problem. it wants to believe that. the president wants to believe it because he watches so much television, and he also wants to believe it because it's always thought of as the easiest thing to fix. but it is the thing communicated. you know, you can have the worst communications shop in the world. if you have peace and 3 1/2% growth, you have no problems. you can have the best communications shon in the world and if you have a russia investigation and a health care bill that carries 17% approval, your communications people can't fix it. that's the thing that the trump administration is struggling with. >> josh, we have reports tonight indicating that the president authorized anthony scaramucci to attack reince priebus any way he wanted, including going public. >> yeah, it's -- in some ways, it's obviously unprecedented. but in some ways, it's not surprising. it's entirely consistent with the way, frankly, that he and his administration are treating the attorney general right now, which is that the president of the un

we'll be here making sure that we provide consistent response back coming from the trump administration. when you have administration, such as chris, trying to find more ways for people to have difficulty to vote is the reason we're pushing back in this manner. we're expanding the work under our vice-chair karen carpenter peterson, overseeing civic engagement and voter participation. finding more ways to vote. we hear this nonsensical myth of voter fraud, it's not happening, we're not seeing that. what we're seeing is that people need more opportunities to have a chance to vote and committed to that here at dnc. we've launched a commission, dnc commission, that we'll not allow them to move forward in a manner to hurt our community. their leadership is not led in a bipartisan way. chair and vice-chair are republicans, many republicans on that commission found many ways to push back against us. the commission that we have pulled together is to make sure that we have the democratic response to demonstrate and we are serious in making sure that we push back and what we hear from the trump a

family and within the trump administration. >> the democratic criticism was expected. but even republicans say it's time to get it all out on the table. >> russia tried to destroy democracy, it's trying to destroy democracy all over the world. i want to get to the bottom of it. donald trump, jr., says he wants to tell his side of the story. i think that would be a good idea and he would be welcome to do it in a judiciary committee. >> in france, president trump did his best to fly above the scandal. the bastille day preparations were in part to honor america's entry into world war i. the first troops down the sean bell the -- it was also a show of unity against terrorism. on bastille day last year, a terrorist using a truck as a weapon mowed down more than 500 people on the promenade in nice, killing 86. in paris, a precision military marching band paid tribute to those who lost their lives while france's president spoke of enduring bonds with the united states in the fight against all enemies. >> [speaking french] >> mr. trump's presence at my side is a sign of an end

and what we hear from the trump administration, find more ways to people vote. we should be finding ways for people to have more access to vote. we should find ways for people to get registered. we should be talking about vote by mail, and early voting and opportunities for more of our opportunities to be engaged rather than the fear that's coming from the trump administration. as we saw, the trump administration and the commission requesting data which was obviously soundly rejected across the country in a bipartisan manner to demonstrate that is not what we should be pursuing. lastly, this is our continual attempt of demonstrating the new vision of the democratic party of saying we will come together and show our leadership in all aspects, whether it be in the federal government, the states, or cities, to say people should it be having an opportunity to vote, not have their votes taken away. so with that, great leader out of the state of missouri and across the country, the chair of our commission, jason candor. >> switch places. >> thanks, mike, i appreciate

the trump administration may need to rethink how it addresses its issues with beijing. put pressure on china and organized the g-20 countries and others to pressure on china on this. i think there are forces in that the understand overcapacity is distorting their economy and something they have deal with sooner or later. with aluminum for example, we challenged the subsidies china has provided their aluminum financingin terms of and other inputs, and the trump administration has not followed through on that case. hopefully they will do that, but it needs to be an all out effort by the u.s. and the global community to underscore for china how they have to take allow market forces to play a greater role, including areas where there is overcapacity. some expect to get indication of this administration on a path forward on steel. what we you be looking in that document from the trade representative and the secretary of commerce? the trump administration is using a rarely used trade law that says we have a national security threat because of our lack of domestic pacitti for

democratsmething that of been urging the trump administration to do. host: if you have questions on energy grid security, this would be the right person to ask. news.net.e line for democrats, good morning. caller: good morning. is -- my question is not directly related to cyber attacks. i wanted to ask if he was familiar with the william nuclear power? host: why do you ask? --thorium is am product in use today. they have spent the last 35 years developing, perfecting and if something was to happen. say, a cyber attack or a weapons attack on a nuclear power plant that the station would be very minimal as opposed to uranium, which would be devastating. that light bridging incorporated has developed is a seating process, by which they rium which is uranium's little brother and they seated ofget it to a temperature 400 degrees as opposed to 1600 degrees. it is safer, it cannot -- you cannot make a nuclear weapon out of it. in its natural state it person can pick it up off the ground. host: thank you for bringing that up. i will say that president trump has

judge agreed with us and that's what the trump administration has decided to appeal. so here we are. >> all right. the legal battle continues. hawaii attorney general doug chin, thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >>> six members of afghanistan's all girls robotics team are in washington today after being rejected twice for u.s. visas. earlier this week the president directly intervened to sidestep the visa system. the debacle drew global attention as the administration tries to tighten entrance into the u.s. the girls are here to participate tomorrow in the three-day competition at the capital along with entrants from 157 countries. we wish them all the luck. >>> it's only been legal for two weeks and nevada is already having pot problems. the green light given to distributors after the state's supply went up in smoke. >>> next, cousins accused of committing deadly crimes. gruesome details released involving the murders of four men on a family farm in pennsylvania. (flourish spray noise) (flourish spray noise) (flourish spray noise) (flourish spray noise) the joy

he says the trump administration has held fewer briefings than the previous three administrations. arthel: the trump administration is asking the supreme court to step in to impose it travel ban. it's fighting a ruling that could allow thousands who come in from largely muslim countries. >> the department of justice filed the petition asking the supreme court to step in and black the ruling of a hawaii judge and clarify the decision made by the supreme court last month. the supreme court handled the administration a partial win ruling it was reasonable for the government to enforce travel restrictions on people coming from those muslim majority countries if they did not have a claim of relationship with a person? the u.s. thursday judge derek watson expand the list of family relationships to allow them to get in. and the department of justice says the court overstepped and they want the supreme court to settle it. the department writes quote, only this court can definitively settle whether the government's reasonable implement take is consistent with this court's stay. this is not

the trump administration talked this trade policy. the problem is in today's congress, and today's economy, only a limited amount they can do. there is a world trade economics of the free trade, companies have been been -- even if they want to see higher labor standard necessary mexico. there is a little wiggle room, you put your finger on an important thing, we've gone retty far down the road and they are limited to changes that can be done at this point. blueprint from the white house this week, has there been much reaction from congress yet? what is congress' role, if any? guest: certain committees play a role in trade negotiations, the ways and means committee in the house and committee, mostly heard from democrats, surprising given the skepticism that the democrats had for the trump administration, complained negotiating objectives are too vague, required to be more and they have said that they don't trust the trump dministration to raise labor standards high enough in mexico in order to make this a fair agreement or they don't t

this was the second time the trump administration certified it was. state department spokeswoman heather nauert, while affirming iran's compliance, said they're not off the hook: >> there are still a lot of things iran is doing that are very troubling to this administration. and so we're going to try and push on the iranian regime to stop its destabilizing actions. >> brangham: in fact, the president had to be convinced by his national security team monday to agree to this step, for now. simultaneously, the administration maintained a tough posture on iran's non- nuclear activities, imposing fresh sanctions on its ballistic missile program and its most elite military unit. u.s. officials say iran's ballistic missile tests, its support for the militant group hezbollah, and its increasing "harassment" of other nation's ships in the persian gulf violate the spirit of the nuclear agreement-- though they're not expressly prohibited. >> some of the actions the iranian government has been involved with, undermine that stated goal of regional and internationa

trump administration does not. they've been clear we have bigger issues now, we've got syria, a whole range of things, north korea, whatever it is. and i think trump, you know, he's going to have a real problem if he goes off script. the russians are going to come in prepared and disciplined and his aides are desperate to avoid a repeat of what went on back when he met with the russian foreign minister, russian ambassador in the oval office where he's bragging about firing the fbi director. he's joking around, taking pictures, smiling. they really want to avoid that. they're keeping it short. trump does like to freelance, i guess. and i think, you know, at some point they're going to have to reckon with the fact the >>> why is poland first up on this trip with the president. >> he's going to give a speech and i think he wants to promote natural gas exports from the u.s. to poland and the baltics and central europe. i think that's really his goal. but it's really upsetting. a lot of european leaders see this as part

by basically towing the trump administration line on korea they will not get very far. amy: your concerns about north korea launching this intercontinental ballistic missile, this icbm. >> of course. 's to not want any icbm strike the united states but i have never seen any indication north korea would use this proactively or preemptively but only in reaction to any kind of strike from the united states. what is so disheartening is again, going back to bill perry and him reminding us that in the late 1990's, 1998 at the end of the clinton administration -- sorry, 1999, 2000, we were this close to basically stalling north korea's nuclear -- we had already frozen north korea's nuclear program but had worked to basically stall there program . all north korea wanted was some kind of nonaggression pact, not even a peace treaty and they had come this close. ng ilumber two under kim jo came to the white house but unfortunately because of the bush-gore election president clinton was not able to go. office, itame into was the preemptive doctrine that really set off for north kor

as we saw the trump administration and commission requesting data which was soundly rejected across the country in a bipartisan manner to demonstrate that is not what we should be pursuing. lastly, this is our continual attempt of demonstrating the new vision of democratic party of saying we will come together and show our leadership in all aspects whether in the federal government, the states, the cities, to say people should be having opportunity to vote, not have their votes taken away. so with that, great leader out of the state of misery come across the country that chair of our commission jason kander. >> thanks, mike duke i appreciate it. thank all of you for coming. thank you very much. let me just start by talking about how it is the trump commission got started in first place. it is important for us remember how this started. it started with the biggest lie that he sitting president has ever told when president trump at the time president-elect trump said that three to 5,000,000 illegal voters had voted intellectual. we needed that most americans look at that and understandabl

administration connected to the trump said there was no meetings with russia. then this email, hey, we are the russian government. we want to help your to. "i love it." makes it harder to trust. >> eric: natalia veselnitskaya ended up being not one iota according to the russian government. >> kat: according to what we know so far. >> eboni: that is if we take her word for it. and that's if we ignore the denials. a lot of people have an issue with is less about what we actually know or less of a smoking gun because i haven't seen one yet. we will see what donald trump, jr. says tonight. the denial, people have an issue, the perception problem. you say i never met with these people. i never had any conversations with the russians and we know that part at least is not true. >> eric: do you know how many government officials on an ongoing basis to meet with people who represent the russian government? almost every single u.s. senator does. >> eboni: absolutely. so they should say it. >> eric: meeting with someone associated with the russian government is not illega

what is its role in the trump administration? stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "whispers in the deep" by south africa's stimela. member ray "just now" phiri passed away last week at the age of 70. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we end today's show with a stunning new investigation by the guardian that reveals how tobacco companies have gained unprecedented influence in washington since the trump administration came to power. the guardian reports politicians with deep ties to the tobacco industry now head much of trump's cabinet. even as tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death. vice-president mike pence has reportedly received $39,000 in donations from tobacco giant rj reynolds and more than $60,000 from the tobacco company-aligned national association of convenience stores, both among his top donors. trump's nominee for solicitor general, noel francisco, reportedly represented both rj reynolds and its parent company, reynolds ame

trump administration getting tough on china, north korea, russia. and venezuela. >> they strive to return their country to a full and prosperous democracy. he is not just a bad leader, he is now a dictator, this is not a coup. >> we will be able to handle north korea, they will be handled. we handle everything. >> president trump will sign legislation, the united states sanctions against russia. >> bret: and russia pushing back on the sanctions, even though it has not been passed yet. let's start with venezuela. >> look at, it was a gesture, i think it was very weak. if anything, it should have included the family. the families involved in drug dealing, and that they are incredibly corrupt. but the other point is that's the real thing that would have made a difference is if we were to cut off oil imports to venezuela, that is their entire economy. >> bret: we don't want to hurt the venezuelan people. >> i understand, but it will always involve the people, there is no other way, if you want to do it delicately and discreetly, it will not have any eff

the trump administration asking for a meeting with the u.n. security council because of north korea's ballistic missile launch. this is a meeting likely to take place tomorrow, the same day president trump leaves for europe and is looking for his high stakes economic summit in a one-on-one meeting with russian president vladimir putin. this is going to be, panel, a fascinating meeting. we don't know how this will turn out. all eyes will be on this, and because we look toward that, because we believe this is the first face-to-face meeting between president trump and vladimir putin, it's important to note he has a previous relationship with vladimir putin. >> have you ever met the guy? >> i do have a relationship and i can tell you he's very interested in what we're doing today. we just left moscow. he could not have been nicer. he was so nice and so everything. i was in moscow recently and i spoke indirectly and directly with president putin who could not have been nicer. >> you think you would be able to get along with vladimir putin. have you

the trump administration is publicizing made in america products. critics say the president's own businesses ignore that policy. the outgoing ethics chief say the president's appearances at a golf courses are another example of the administrations conflicting interests. >>> some of the world's brightest young minds are in washington showing off robots for a participation. just getting to the u.s. for some was a big achievement. >> reporter: in washington, you might be relieved to know robots stole the spotlight from the politicians. they were designed from teenagers from 158 countries and winning required cooperating with other nations. is winning the most important thing? >> no, definitely not. >> reporter: what's the most important thing? >> having fun. >> reporter: there was no shortage of that. some teams had more challenges than others, syrian refugees identified their nation, simply as, hope. team afghanistan. >> reporter: perhaps no group overcame more adversity as this team from afghanistan, where girls are discouraged from pursuing educatio

testing trump, a disturbing new missile test by north korea prompts the trump administration to request an emergency united nations meeting. the kim jong-un regime claims it now has a missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon that could hit the united states. how will the u.s. respond? >>> heavy move, president trump takes to twitter saying, quote, perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense. he says, he's already lost patience with pyongyang. is he now losing patience with beijing as well? >>> first meeting, new details tonight of president trump's upcoming encounter with russian president vladimir putin. with tension between washington and moscow rising, the two leaders are now just days away from their first face to face talk. >>> and closing in, u.s. backed forces mark a key milestone in the fight against isis as they try to drive terrorist forces from their self-proclaimed capital. as the ground war reaches a critical phase, cnn gets exclusive access to the american fighter pilots leading the air war overhead. we welcome our viewers in the united sta

what has been his role in the trump administration here? -- guest: hereally has really push this idea of getting to our full potential as a global user of oil. coal.l gas, sixalked about the different things, u.s. energy week. some of them were lng export approvals, which were in line with the obama administration. the state department approved new pipeline, 108,000 barrel per day refined product pipeline. relatively it's not that much of a big thing. compared to something like the keystone access, it's a much smaller project than that. it basically links the u.s. market with the mexican market. we are now sending even more refined products to mexico. that a cross-border pipeline was approved without much controversy is, i think, a major change from the last administration where you had those fights over access. this is what rick perry has been talking about a lot. quick approval, fast approval of i plan projects, infrastructure projects, things of that nature, so that you can get production ramped up as quickly as possible. you can get the

unfortunately, i do not think that is the sentiment of the trump administration. theyey are a bully administratin and my hope was that south korea would stand up the way that germany and france and australia and other historic allies of the united states have, to say this is not benefiting the people o f soututh korea and our security. we have the right to defend the country in a way that we think would advance peace on the korean peninsula, and they want inter-korean engagement. perhrhs that is s one win that jae-in anf the moon president trump summit is that prpresident mont walked away wih a stamp of approval. that i is what he left with. with an approval to pursue inter-korean dialogue and hopefully they will do so. by basically towing the trump administration line on korea they will not get very far. amy: your concerns about north korea launching this intercontinental ballistic missile, this icbm. >> of course. 's to not want any icbm strike the united states but i have never seen any indication north korea would use this proactively or preemptively but only

we are deeply disturbed by the trump administration attempt to sabotage the affordable care act a law they are trusted to uphold. despite the narrative of implosion, more than 10 million americans signed up or coverage in the aca marketplace is in 2017 and the environment uncertainty created by the trump administration's refusal to continue cost sharing payment has caused insurance to propose 2018 premium increases. the biggest economic challenge of our time is that too many people are in jobs that just do not pay them enough to live on. we cannot put american families in jeopardy by raising the cost of health care. we need a country and the health care system that works with the middle class and the vulnerable not just the wealthy and those with the most lobbyists. with back, i want to say thank you to other speakers today. thank you for your work and all you do to inform our debate and we look forward to your discussion. i will now introduce our panelists and then we will proceed with the testimony. and we will start the testimony with that elmendorf former director at the congressi

seen whats to be the trump administration will do. in may, they signed an executive order directing a lot of studies to be undertaken about the issue and singled out the electric distribution grid and all abilities there. probably administration officials are waiting for results from that to rolling before they chart a course that is radically different. host: the budget plan is already out. are they moving money into this area? guest: they are. the trump administration has requested a boost in 2018 to homeland security cyber security funding. there are cuts to the department of energy and to some offices responsible for cyber security there. that has triggered this is him across as criticism --triggered criticism from democrats. caller: good morning. heardstion is i have specialists on the military and as far as the energy goes, and their concerns have been to help us defend against an emp attack. my question is why haven't we, and is president trump going to do something? as far as i have heard, it is not very costly, and is one of

we examine the trump's administration disruptive turn on the world stage, this week on "washington week." president trump: whether the west has the will to survive. do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost. robert: in europe, president trump defiantly defends the west and send a message to moscow. president trump: we want destabilizing activities and support for hostile regimes including syria and iran. robert: the president remains skeptical about russia's meddling. president trump: i think it was russia and other people and/or countries. nobody really knows for sure. robert: putin denied the charges and mr. trump is looking for a way to move forward. what does that mean? meanwhile, world leaders discuss terrorism and what to do about north korea's latest missile launch. we explore how trump's america first agenda is being received with peter baker and yeganeh torbati and nancy youssef and doyle mcmanus. >> celebrating 50 years, this is "washington week." funding is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today. and

the trump administration, more family members get visas. for 90 days, family members of us citizens, some extent of family members. >> a desperate search for four missing young men in pennsylvania, victims of foul play, set to resume this morning one day after police arrested a man. and and $1 million bail, unrelated gunshots, accused of a shotgun and ammo with mental illness. he scours every inch of his farm to philadelphia, and one week of each other. they are identified as mark sturgis, and 18-year-old dean, and jimmy tarr patrick. one argument over a selfy led to the brutal death of an american tourist. henderson was at a bar in greece, he and his friends wanted to take a picture of a waitress. one of the bouncers took issue with their requests and a fight broke out. within seconds henderson was surrounded by a mob and was pummeled to death by attackers who are thought to have brass knuckles. eight people have been charged in his death. rob: amazon's alexa a lifesaving device calling police on a man beating his girlfriend. police say th

and the trump administration that message was clearly conveyed. it was the single people bothering the obama people after they left and what's has this administration concerned. >> it's probably going to be the thing that bothers the next administrati administration. now they have this and now they have this leader that is very convinced this is the way he has to be strong and knows because we're so tied to the south that it's a big weakness of the united states. i guess weakness or liability that he's so close to us he could start this and make significant problems for the united states if he does that. >> i makes them feel better about the iran deal. whether it's perfect or not through really rigorous global sanctions against iran. that's not what we have against north korea now. i think the administration says let's move this more in the iran direction and not blow up the iran deal now. we have plenty of other issues. >> what's the impact on the iran deal? >> i slightly disagree. the lesson is you can't let the powers obtain nuclear status. onc

policy toward north korea under the trump administration. we will hear testimony from susan thornton who serves as the acting assistant secretary for the bureau of east asian and pacific affairs. serving as chair of the subcommittee is colorado senator cory gardner, who recently introduced legislation to impose an embargo against north watch live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate on c-span 2. and watch any time on c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> last week the senate farris bryant committee hosted former assistant treasury secretaries to discuss the decisions and challenges involved in crafting tax legislation. officials from the clinton, bush an

made official of the trump administration does not have a obligation to reveal. for example, if jared kushner felt he did not need to reveal the meeting with natalia veselnitskaya on a security form -- which he failed to do but now has done -- if you not been present at this meeting, we would not know about this meeting. if he and paul manafort had not been invited by donald trump jr. , donald trump could've had this meeting with natalia veselnitskaya to discuss possible negative information this lawyer had with no knowledge of the american public or the press or the security infrastructure, and yet donald be acting inld effect as an agent of the trump administration. i think that is the most disturbing underlying thing that we have learned from this. juan: i want to ask you about this whole trend, the trump administration, as you mentioned, family operation, involving not only the son-in-law gerrit, but ivanka in these high-level meetings with key world leaders when they have absolutely no experience or no reason to be there other than they are family members. a

he will be here to provide consistent response from what is coming from the trump administration. when you have leadership such as chris cole buck, which has demonstrated always to have people difficult to vote. that is why we are pushing back in the manner. we are expanding the work under our vice chair, who specifically is over thing civic engagement and voter engagement. again, find more ways for people to vote. we hear this nonsensical myth of voter fraud. it is not happening. we are not seeing that. people need more opportunities to vote. we are committed to that here at the dnc. as part of that work, we have launched the commission to protect the american democracy from the trump administration. we will not allow them to move forward in a manner that will hurt our communities, especially when you see their leadership is not led in a bipartisan way. chair arehair and both republicans. the commission we have pulled together is to make sure we have the democratic response to demonstrate that we are serious in making sure we pushed back from a we hear from the trump administrati

war, hunger and trump administration. war, hungerand an trump administration. war, hunger and an outbreak of cholera which has reached humanitarian crisis. pockets of hunger are growing, cholera is spreading and doctors and nurses haven't received a salary for ten months. palestinian leader mahmood basa suspends all come on occasions with israel, as three palestinians and three israelis are killed in a day of clashes. a bbc investigation into online abuse reveals children as young as nine are being groomed using the periscope app, owned by twitter. welcome to bbc news. donald trump's press secretary sean spicer, one of the most recognisable faces of the current administration, has resigned, apparently in processed at the decision to appoint anthony scaramucci as the new head of communications. however, speaking to reporters, anthony scaramucci played down the clash of personalities. sean spicer is famous for his angry outburst at reporters during heated media briefings and he hasn't been as visible in recent weeks, prompting speculation that he had been sidelin