with democratic congressman adam smith washington state, followed by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and fbi director wray, testifying before congress about fbi's handling of the hillary clinton email investigation during the election. later, president trump and members of congress react to the news of supreme court justice anthony kennedy retiring. >> "newsmakers" this week is pleased to have congressman adam smith of washington. it is home to the air force base and he is the ranking democrat on the armed services committee. were talking to him when the house is talking about big big decisions on defense. let me introduce the two reporters asking questions. joe covers capital hill and connor o'brien senior defense reporter for politico. we have just gotten some confirmation this morning as we start here, that president trump and russian leader putin will be meeting on july 16, not to very o very far in the future, in helsinki, finland. what are your hopes and concerns about these two leaders sitting at the table together? broadly speaking, it would be a better world if the united st

c-span newsmakers is next with democratic congress meant adam smith of washington state. that is followed by the american civil liberties union with a talk on the state of the news media. at 8:00 on q&a, syndicated charen talksa about modern-day feminism. susan: "newsmakers" this week is pleased to have congressman adam smith, democrat of washington. his district is home to the army's fort lewis and air force base and he is the ranking democrat on the armed services committee. were talking to him when the house is talking about big big decisions about the pentagon and defense. thank you for being with us. rep. smith: thanks for the chance. susan: let me introduce the two reporters asking questions. joe covers capital hill and connor o'brien, senior defense reporter for politico. we have just gotten some confirmation this morning as we start here that president trump and russian leader putin will be meeting on july 16, not too very far in the future, in helsinki, finland. what are your hopes and concerns about these two leaders sitting at the table together? rep. smith: br

c-span newsmakers is next with democratic congress meant adam smith of washington state. that is followed by the american civil liberties union with a talk on the state of the news media. at 8:00 on q&a, syndicated charen talksa about modern-day feminism. susan: "newsmakers" this week is pleased to have congressman adam smith, democrat of washington. his district is home to the army's fort lewis and air force base and he is the ranking democrat on the armed services committee. were talking to him when the house is talking about big big decisions about the pentagon and defense. thank you for being with us. rep. smith: thanks for the chance. susan: let me introduce the two reporters asking questions.

newsmakers this week is pleased to have congressman adam smith, democrat of washington. tacoma is home to the army's fort lewis and he is the ranking democrat on the armed services committee. we are talking to him on a thursday morning when the houses in the middle of a big decision about the pentagon. thanks for being with us this week, congressman. let me introduce the reporters that will be asking questions. andcovers capitol hill conor o'brien is the senior defense reporter for politico. . overall i think the world would benefit from all of the great powers, russia, the european union, china, the united states, focusing on what we can do to meet the challenges that face the globe. climate change, terrorism. i do not have a problem with having a dialogue with russia. vladimir putin has made it clear in the last decade that he is no intention of being part of the world order, that he wants to bring down democracy and bring down the west, and that is the most troubling aspect of this. president trump is cozying up to kim jong-un, to vladimir putin, to some extent to pre

he's the political editor at the tampa bay times, adam smith. and adam, that ad, how much is it benefiting this desantis by the full-throated embrace of the president? >> well, we're talking about it right now. and early voting by mail, which is a key part of winning an election in a primary, is underw underway. so i think it is very helpful. will it help in the general election? we'll see. but basically, this primary has been all about trump. >> the big embrace of the president, which also helped with kemp in georgia, we'll have to wait and see how it works in the general. some reporting we have from dana bash here at cnn, she's learning that the president is itching to participate in more and more rallies like the one there in florida because he's nervous that mueller is chipping away at his legitimacy as president. and apparently he's nervous because he thinks perhaps the democrats could take the house back in november. if you think about florida, you know florida, trump dominated that whole, you know, the election cycle. he beat out jeb bush

joining me, adam smith, the ranking democrat on the house armed services committee. you just heard that report from england, congressman. this is very disturbing, because obviously, either this is an attack on a target of some sort, we don't know why investigators are looking into this, or this is some sort of residual effect from the attack on the ex-russian spy back in march, which i suppose speaks to the recklessness of that initial attack, because it not only put that ex-kgb spy in danger, but it also threatened the lives of people in that community, which is exactly what the british were worried about. >> i mean, that would seem to be the most likely outcome here. flo there's no reason to believe that this couple was targeted. but given where they were exposed, it seems quite likely that this is residual from the original attack. but we'll need more information on that. and it does bring us back to what russia was doing there. and of course, with the summit between president trump and president putin coming up here shortly, it brings into stark relief once again

. >> tomorrow on newsmakers, cumbersome adam smith, ranking member on the senate armed services committee, talked about policy and spending legislation and president trump's foreign policy. >> president trump is cozying up to kim jong-un, to vladimir putin, to some extent president xi in china, while pushing away our traditional allies in europe. that is the most concerning thing to me, partly moving away from the notion that the united states believes in economic and political freedom, and a strawman approach to governance? i think we need our allies in europe. i think we need to promote democracy and economic freedom. this president seems to be moving away from that. he moving away from putin. it is the larger trend of where he is taking foreign policy is what is troubling me. >> the nato summit is coming up. can you give us a perspective on how you see relations with nato allies at the moment, what your expectations are for the summit, and does the administration deserve any credit for pressuring allies to increase defense spending? >> administrations have been pressuring allies to inc

smith talks about president trump's foreign policy. >> president trump is cozying up to kim jong-un, to vladimir putin, to some extent president xi in china while pushing away our traditional allies in europe. that is the most concerning thing to me is are we moving away from the notion that the united states believes in economic and political freedom and toward a strongman approach to governance? i think we need our allies in europe. i think we need to promote democracy and promote economic freedom. this presidency seems to be moving away from that so that he is meeting with and having a fine, but it is the larger trend of where he is taking our foreign policy that is troubling to me. >> the nato summit is coming up. could you give us a little bit of perspective on how you see relations with nato allies for the moment? what your expectations are for the summit, and it does the administration deserve any credit for pressuring allies to increase defense spending? beene administration has pressuring allies to increase defense spending for quite some time. that thise concern is presiden

. >> adam smith. >> adam smith was contrary of rousseau. loch lays out idea there are natural liberties. >> right. >> the basics of a civilization and a civil society is protect the individual's rights. >> right. >> this is totally new kind of idea. >> right. >> rousseau comes along two generations later, hold on a minute. that is not the purpose of society. >> right. >> the purpose of society is to enrich and allow people to live authentic, natural lives. >> right. >> so famous scene he describes himself where he's on his way to visit his friend in jail and he finds a totally different, sometimes the translations are little different but he finds a flyer, advertisement for an essay writing competition, asking the question, have the arts and sciences improved morals in the state of manner, something like that. and the essay title was almost surely rhetorical, right? like finding a essay competition at bryn mawr or kenyon saying does diversity make us stronger? of course you're supposed to come up with a clever way to say yes. the essay was

joining me now, democratic congressman, adam smith of washington, ranking member of the armed services committee. nice to have you back to the broadcast, and good day to you. i want your biggest take-away of the release of all of these carter page fisa documents, especially the way we saw how it was politicized. >> it's kind of shocking they would choose to release the fisa document. i'm reasonable sure this is ununprecedented. and it's clear the republicans were using this to try to make their point, and then they just said what they wanted to say, despite what the documents said. the documents make it clear, they had every reason to get the warrant on carter page that they got. and to investigate him in the way that they did. but, look, this is all part of the republican effort to undermine bob mueller's investigation and try to distract people from the facts, the very clear facts of russian interference in our election, and the very clear facts that people at very high levels of the trump campaign appear to have had interactions with those russian agents that were interfering with t

our guest is adam smith, the democrat from washington. you can listen to it on c-span radio and our free radio app. all of our programming online anytime at c-span.org. our sunday roundtable here in washington, andrew egger, he is a reporter for the weekly standard. thank you for being with us. guest: thank you for having me on. host: and jamie stiehm. we want to talk about the news begin week, -- we want to at the shooting in annapolis maryland and the death of your colleagues. -- friendly colleague that had a smile for everyone and wonderful insight into stories and characters. host: how do you explain this kind of tragedy? in the last year and a half, there has been increasing hostility to the press as has been stoked by president trump. this is not related to that directly, this was just journalism catching up with the rest of the mass shootings we are seeing and i guess it is our turn. host: one of the issues we were talking about, the suspect was not cooperating with police and law enforcement and the use of facial recognition to id

and the modern keynesians seem to share the same view that merck until islam is terrible and adam smith proved doesn't work in this in that i actually think that mercantile as them is exactly the way one should run their country and all it means is that you don't run trade deficits and you accumulate metal bullion or some form of surplus i think that's very sound advice i have personally seen members of my family be very poorly impacted by the policies of the globalists who are twenty and thirty years people that were involved in the industrial economy in the manufacturing side i have seen a lot of the nonsense and emanate from ivy league schools and think tanks saying that automation and people have to learn new trades and new skills and robots are going to solve everything and scarcity is a manmade invention and all this nonsense that i can given my understanding of economics and observing reality dispute we're producing more steel than ever in the world are producing more oil than ever. we're producing more automobiles and ever there's absolutely no reason why the united states shoul

and the modern keynesians seem to share the same view that merck until islam is terrible and adam smith proved doesn't work in this in that i actually think that mercantile as is exactly the way one should run their country and all it means is that you don't run trade deficits and you accumulate metal bullion or some form of surplus i think that's very sound advice i have personally seen members of my family be very poorly impacted by the policies of the globalists who are twenty and thirty years of people that were involved in the industrial economy in the manufacturing side i have seen a lot of the nonsense and emanate from ivy league schools and think tanks saying that automation and people have to learn new trades and new skills and robots are going to solve everything and scarcity is a manmade invention and all this nonsense that i can given my understanding of economics and observing reality dispute we're producing more steel than ever in the world are producing more oil than ever. we're producing more automobiles than ever there's absolutely no reason why the united states should

and the modern keynesians seem to share the same view that merck until islam is terrible and adam smith proved doesn't work in this in that i actually think that mercantile those is exactly the way one should run their country and all it means is that you don't run trade deficits and you accumulate metal bullion or some form of surplus i think that's very sound advice i have personally seen members of my family be very poorly impacted by the policies of the globalists who are twenty and thirty years of people that were involved in the industrial economy in the manufacturing side i have seen a lot of the nonsense and emanate from ivy league schools and think tanks saying that automation and people have to learn new trades and new skills and robots are going to solve everything and scarcity is a manmade invention and all this nonsense that i can given my understanding of economics and observing reality dispute we're producing more steel than ever in the world are producing more oil than ever. we're producing more automobiles and ever there's absolutely no reason why the united states shou

and the modern keynesians seem to share the same view that mercantile ism is terrible and adam smith proved doesn't work in this in that i actually think that mercantile those is exactly the way one should run their country and all it means is that you don't run trade deficits and you accumulate metal bullion or some form of surplus i think that's very sound advice i have personally seen members of my family be very poorly impacted by the policies of the globalists who are twenty and thirty years people that were involved in the industrial economy in the manufacturing side i have seen a lot of the nonsense and emanate from ivy league schools and think tanks saying that automation and people have to learn new trades and new skills and robots are going to solve everything and scarcity is a manmade invention and all this nonsense that i can given my understanding of economics and observing reality dispute we're producing more steel than ever in the world are producing more oil than ever. we're producing more automobiles than ever there's absolutely no reason why the united states should

smith. you talk about currency manipulation, china's devaluing. maybe there is manipulation. maybe it is also the fact you impose tariffs. that hurts their economy. their currency should fall and that helps offset the increase in the price of chinese imports. do not forget that. vonnie: let me ask you about the yield curves. the yield curve is steepening, 31 basis points. what is your reasoning? >> inflation, as inflation comes inflation, you should see the yield curve steepen. in, as volatility starts picking up, people should demand extra compensation to hold longer maturity bonds, to come back to the bond market. not seen term premium in a long time which has caused structures to remain flat. starts coming back in from abnormally low levels, term structures should steepen. as inflation starts coming back in, term structures start steepening. vonnie: great to talk to you this morning. ashwin alankar, he comes to us from denver. let's check in on the first word news. >> president has launch

and the modern keynesians seem to share the same view that merck until islam is terrible and adam smith proved doesn't work in this in that i actually think that mercantile as is exactly the way one should run their country and all it means is that you don't run trade deficits and you accumulate metal bullion or some form of surplus i think that's very sound advice i have personally seen members of my family be very poorly impacted by the policies of the globalists who are twenty and thirty years people that were involved in the industrial economy in the manufacturing side i have seen a lot of the nonsense and emanate from ivy league schools and think tanks saying that automation and people have to learn new trades in new skills and robots are going to solve everything and scarcity is a manmade invention and all this nonsense that i can given my understanding of economics and observing reality dispute we're producing more steel than ever in the world are producing more oil than ever. we're producing more automobiles than ever there's absolutely no reason why the united states should hav

and the modern keynesians seem to share the same view that mercantile ism is terrible and adam smith proved doesn't work in this in that i actually think that mercantile those is exactly the way one should run their country and all it means is that you don't run trade deficits and you accumulate metal bullion or some form of surplus i think that's very sound advice i have personally seen members of my family be very poorly impacted by the policies of the globalists who are twenty and thirty years of people that were involved in the industrial economy in the manufacturing side i have seen a lot of the nonsense and emanate from ivy league schools and think tanks saying that automation and people have to learn new trades and new skills and robots are going to solve everything and scarcity is a manmade invention and all this nonsense that i can given my understanding of economics and observing reality dispute we're producing more steel than ever in the world are producing more oil than ever. we're producing more automobiles and ever there's absolutely no reason why the united states shou

. >> washington congressman adam smith, ranking member on the house armed services committee is our guest on newsmakers tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and 6 p.m. eastern on c-span. we continue our spotlight on magazines series with a look on the staterticle of the construction industry. joining us is the author of that piece, andrew soergel. what made you decide to concentrate on the construction industry right now? guest: business is booming right now. i think this is an industry worth looking at. by the end of april, the wage gains that construction workers have seen outpace any other industry in the economy, more than tack, finance, business -- ch, finance, business, and it is driven in part by there is a general sorted -- shortage of workers. they are having a hard time finding people to fill those open jobs. we can get into the nitty-gritty of what that generally means, but the key take away here, there is a complaint of a shortage of workers. it is creating unique opportunities, but also some challenges for those in the industry. if you are a construction worker, it is a great time to be do

adam smith praised the bill for, quote, pushing back on the ongoing campaign to undermine us alliances, partnerships and democratic values around the world. it prohibits military to military cooperation with russia, prohibits recognition of the absorption of crimea into the russian federation and increases the number of us troops in europe to reassure us partners and allies to deter russian aggression, a 2.6% pay raise for the largest increase in 9 years. >> this is a step to rebuilding the military. ships and land vehicles, weep a lot more money into readiness, training, spare parts, repairs. >> the new aircraft carrier, two virginia class subs, and ballistic missiles and 77 fifth-generation stealth aircraft. all needed to counter russia. there is language prohibiting the federal government doing business with china's dpe which the president lifted sanctions on with trade negotiations which national security -- >> thank you very much. republican congressman from utah chris stewart voted for the bill today to work out differences between the house and senate version, he sits on the hou

. >> washington congressman adam smith, ranking member on the armed services committee is our guest on newsmaker on c-span. >> we continue our spotlight on magazines series with a look on the staterticle of the construction industry. joining us is the author of that piece, andrew soergel. what made you decide to concentrate on the construction industry right now? guest: business is booming right now. i think this is an industry worth looking at. by the end of april, the wage gains that construction workers have seen outpace any other industry in the economy, more than tack, finance, business -- ch, finance, business, and it is driven in part by there is a general sorted -- shortage of workers. they are having a hard time finding people to fill those open jobs. we can get into the nitty-gritty of what that generally means, but the key take away here, there is a complaint of a shortage of workers. it is creating unique opportunities, but also some challenges for those in the industry. if you are a construction worker, it is a great time to be doing what you are doing. a lot of people are

the top democrat on the house armed services committee, adam smith, praise the bill for "pushing back against president putin's ongoing campaign to undermine u.s. alliances, partnerships command democratic values around the world." the bill prohibits military to military cooperation with russia to include syria, prohibits u.s. government recognition of the absorption of crimea into the russian federation, and increases the number of u.s. troops in europe to reassure u.s. partners and allies and deter russian aggression. it authorizes a 2.6% pay raise for service members, the largest increase in nine years. >> this bill takes significant steps to rebuilding the military. we buy more planes and ships and land vehicles but we put a lot more money intimate readiness, training, spare parts, repairs. >> it upgrades the nuclear triad, buys a new aircraft carrier, two new virginia class subs, $65 million for low yield submarine launched ballistic missiles and 77 new fifth-generation stealth aircraft. there is lang which of the bill prohibiting the federal government from doing business with c

michael scott and adam smith were in the country when news of the missing soccer team broke and are planning to talk to thai navy s.e.a.l.s, the victims and their families for an exclusive right to the story. >>> in gma first look, another miracle. authorities in alaska working to find out what caused the crash of a small plane in a remote area. >> all people on board survived. will carr has the details. >> in gma first look, 11 people miraculously walking away from the wreckage of this plane crash on the side of an alaskan mountain. from this aerial picture, you can see the white plane surrounded by rocks in southeast alaska. somehow it's still intact. the propellers twisted. the passengers shaken. no one died on the single engine float plane went down. the pilot immediately calling 911. two u.s. coast guard helicopters swooped in through dangerous fog and low visibility. they hoisted the passengers and the pilot into one helicopter. >> they're all able to walk on their own power. because of that, we fit more folks into the aircraft. >> more on this s story at 7:00 a.m. with your gma first

with me is the head of research at the adam smith institute, some demetrio. and i‘m joined via webcam by the motoring journalist maria mccarthy. welcome to you both. sam, what makes you say this, that the mod should be scrapped? while we looked at the evidence, we looked at the evidence, 3a states don‘t have any sort of mot style test, or they have it only when you transfer it for a used car or something like that. what we found first of all was that as soon as you adjust for things like road commissioning and weather, there was no difference in accident rates between the states that did have an mot test and those that didn‘t. and we also found that in newjersey which scrapped its mot test in 2010 and we found that they didn‘t see any increase in car accidents due to mechanicalfailure or any increase in car accidents due to mechanical failure or road deaths. it doesn‘t seem to be the case that mot tests do the job they are meant to do. so if operation talia don't do thejob how to do. so if operation talia don't do the job how important are they? vit

congressman adam smith represents washington he released the statement describing trump's remarks in helsinki as a treason. thanks a lot for coming on. you don't agree with the president's view on how the united states ought to approach russia, it's a policy disagreement. >> as i understand the law now as i look at it, the remedy for a crime by the president is impeachment. >> tucker: how is it a crime to disagree with you, who was the fascist here? >> let me tell you with a crime is. the fbi just yesterday -- a couple days ago indicted 12 high-ranking russian officials were hacking into and influencing the u.s. election. i know there's a lot of dispute over here. >> tucker: i'm not disputing it it happened. >> it absolutely happened. the president of the united states has systematically tried to undermine the investigation in front of the international community basically siding with a hostile foreign power. >> tucker: doubting the conclusions of the intel community is now treason. >> they side with a hostile foreign power. >> tucker: to have opinions you don't like and to ask quest

congressman adam smith represents washington. he released the statement describing trump's remarks in helsinki as "treason."re he joined us not to explain it. congressman, thanks a lot for coming on. you don't agree with the president's view on how the united states ought to approach russia, it's a policyia disagreement. that's treason? >> that's not. let me just say, as i understand the law now, as i look at it, the remedy for a crime by the president is impeachment. >> tucker: how is it a crime to disagree with you, who is the fascist here? >> let me tell you with a crime is. the fbi just yesterday -- a couple days ago -- indicted 12 high-ranking russian officials were hacking into and influencing the u.s. election. i know there's a lot of dispute over here. >> tucker: i'm not disputing it happened. >> it absolutely happened. the president of the united states has systematically tried to undermine the investigation in front of the t international community basically siding with a hostile foreign power. we have a hostile foreign

smith wrote about free market capitalism, he forgot to mention it's the hand of someone with bad reflex, lousy coordination and possibly some kind of neurological disorder. in short, questions do not somehow reflect reality all the time as if by magic. they're as much a product of perception on wall street and the mechanics of the money management business as they are a product of the full fundamentals by the way, this is why it's possible for you the beat the performance of the averagers by investing in individual stocks if the market worked perfectly, you would never be able to exploit any opportunities because the whole point of this game is to spot stocks are that mispriced. so why do i bring this up? when the action is irrational, kit be very frustrating. i want you tao be able to take advantage of these minutes where stock prices are simply wrong, or at the very least i don't want you throwing up your hands in disgust and giving up the whole enterprise because nothing makes sense that would be bad. remember what i always say about stocks greatest wealth engine ever created. let me

adam smith once wrote that we're not so interested in having our friends take -- having people we know take on our friendship as we are on having them take in our resentments. and in a way, what we see today is a kind of flourishing of that idea, where the communities that were we're increasingly moving toward are communities of anger and feeling. so in the current media environment, talk a little bit about radio, because i think that also -- leads to some of the problems that we have -- radio was -- again, a huge media that drew communities together across huge, vast spaces. and they heard things at the same time. but by the 1980s, the most profitable moment of radio was talk radio, right? again, these communities of affect where what you see are people increasingly figuring out that what got people to tune in every day was the question, what's he going to say next? so limbaugh, imus, stern, they would just say out landish things, and people would say, oh, my god, what's he going to say next. and in a way, those are the airs of the trumps and the alex joneses of the world. so in our c

adam smith once wrote that we are not so interested in having our friends -- having people take on our friendship than we are in having people take on our resentment. l we are seeing a flourishing of that idea where the communities that we are increasingly moving toward our communities of anger and feeling. environmentnt media , i can talk a little bit about radio because at least to some of the problems we have -- radio was a huge media that drew communities together. they heard things at the same time. by the 1980's, the most profitable mode of radio was talk radio. the communities of affect. people increasingly figure right -- people increasingly figuring out that what would draw people next?at would they say the bearersose are jones trumps and the alex of the world. this but it is now algorithms in the digital platform. what the digital platform does yourlow you to select community of outrage and resentment and filter everything out. and it does it for you. in the world of the digital platform, the customer is always right. the customer is consuming the news. they are doing a feedb

adam smith wrote we are not so interested in having people we know take on a friendship as we are having them take in our resentimentses and in a way what we see is an a flourishing of that idea, communities we are increasingly moving toward are communities of anger and feel, so in the current media environment -- talk a little bit about radio. [captioners transitioning] of radio is talk radio. what you see are people figuring out that got people to tune in everyday was the question what is he going to say next. they were just say outlandish things, and people would say oh my god, what is going to say next? those are the errors of the terms and the alex jones of the world. on eight emergent media environment today, we see using stuff from radio and television, you see this, but it is not compounded by the algorithms find the digital platform. the digital platform does, is it allows you to self-selected community of outrage and resentment, and filter everything out. not only that, it does it for you. in the world of the digital platform, the customer is always right, and the customer is c

we have known since the days of adam smith and david ricardo that treat is a win-win situation, no trading contrast is a lose lose situation. i understand our trading partners have more to lose than we do, their economies are far more export dependent, but losing less is not the same as winning more. when the dust settles, the administration's trade policy may prove to be brilliant. i hope so, with patience, short-term pain may pay off in long-term gains if tariff and not terrible trade barriers are reduced. in the meantime, checkbooks are closing, expansion plans are being put on hold, growing uncertainty increased throughout the economy. i hope it's time to get on with it. i call upon the administration to call on those nations that consistently violate wto guidelines and forcing voluntary transfers. this is the moment we should be uniting with our alice to confront china. i want to unilaterally impose tariffs under section 232. an 11-year-old honda accord i drove to work simply does not threaten national security, nor does any other imported vehicle. further efforts are counterproductiv

smith -- >> i think it's an accurate thing to opponent out, which is when the chinese subsidize steel they're wasting all of their taxpayer dollars on crummy jobs, on diverting money to places it shouldn't. the chinese consumer is ultimately and the chinese population is ultimately the biggest loser. and we ought to just let them be dumb about their economy if that's what they choose to do. i perfectly understand what her position is, but what do you say to that. >> i think we have never before been confronted with this kind of state capitalism with those dined of deep pockets. and the idea when laissez-faire policies that the united states tends to have confront capalist state policies that china has we know the united states loses that's exactly what happened in steel and aluminum and exactly why the president put tariffs on those products in particular and the argument that tpp was somehow going to reign in china, anyone who knows the origin of tpp knows china would have been one of the biggest beneficiaries of tpp because of the weak content rules. donald trump was correct when he

take adam smith. henrys hazlett, george bush from 2002. i hope the president is listening. neil: ronald reagan in 1980s, regretted going as far as he did with the japanese. leaving that aside, the argument it will settle out and because we hold all the cards. they're the ones sticking it to us on this cheese thing. if they're not blinking, if any country needs to blink with the united states is mexico. >> i disagree. neil: china, what will happen? >> i disagree, neil, your basic premise, in a trade someone holds the cards. the whole nature of trade is that both investorses both people benefit. that is is why they're trading. even gentleman jeff flock interviewed, the cheese maker, grudgingly acknowledged i guess the deficit is a bad thing. i don't think it is, neil. president can't explain why it is. there is no trade deficit, when we buy stuff from china, they get our money, neil. we get the stuff. that is savings, whatever we save is invested into new jobs, new employment, hence, if you want the best example is the low unemployment we're seeing today. trade -- neil: presi

john and abigail adams. to smith, pinckney lamented hamilton's death and the deplorable manner in which he died and then he posed a rhetorical question. was there not something they could do to abolish this barbaric comic-con? he said duel something no criterion of bravery. for piaf seen cowards fight duels. and i'm convinced real courage may often be better shown in the refusal than in the acceptance of a challenge. pinckney suggested that the cincinnati disavow the practice on no account should any member send or accept a challenge. with the help of the new york cincinnati, pinckney would submit a plan to the society as a whole or else refer the matter at once to the different state societies for their consideration. the new york cincinnati unanimously approved pinckney's letter and had it published in all the newspapers. then they formed a committee that proposed resolutions requiring expulsion from the society of the cincinnati, any member who was involved in a duel in any capacity whatsoever. and their

jump is fighting against economists and fighting against folks on the free market tears everything adam smith wrote is applicable in the current work situation and a lot of people willing to overlook billions of dollars of theft and it theft just we can see tvs in the country. >> he's been to china that he is the first president is not -- incidents have coddled consumers. we are always scared of losing boats because the prices go up and trump is seemingly going out in garbage and he says i don't care if they go up i want to win the battle. china is like how could you not care what your voters pay more and he doesn't seem to care. it could be a off and it could go wrong that will happen but that is a strong beat. he looks like he's not facing elections. >> so far markets are saying it's hurting china more than us. we look at corporate earnings prices may be attached to the story. >> guided is key. a lot of companies will be talking and flushing these tariffs butting into their business. >> i need a journal to write an article on the tariffs that brought us out of the early 19 to these de

newsmakers this week is pleased to have congressman adam smith, democrat of washington. tacoma is home to the army's fort lewis and he is the ranking democrat on the armed services committee. we are talking to him on a thursday morning when the houses in the middle of a big decision about the pentagon. thanks for being with us this week, congressman. let me introduce the reporters that will be asking questions. andcovers capitol hill conor o'brien is the senior defense reporter for politico.

and abigail adams. to smith, pinckney lamented hamilton's death and the deplorable manner in which he died and then he posed a rhetorical question. was there not something they could do to abolish this barbaric comic-con? he said duel something no criterion of bravery. for piaf seen cowards fight duels. and i'm convinced real courage may often be better shown in the refusal than in the acceptance of a challenge. pinckney suggested that the cincinnati disavow the practice on no account should any member send or accept a challenge. with the help of the new york cincinnati, pinckney would submit a plan to the society as a whole or else refer the matter at once to the different state societies for their consideration. the new york cincinnati unanimously approved pinckney's letter and had it published in all the newspapers. then they formed a committee that proposed resolutions requiring expulsion from the society of the cincinnati, any member who was involved in a duel in any capacity whatsoever. and their

smith of washington, for the hard work you and your teams have done to bring this bill to the floor. you guys worked tirelessly along with your teams and also like to give a shoutout to our legislative director, james walsh, who did the yeoman's work for this bill. today, america is confronting instability and growing humanitarian crisis around the world, all of which have direct impact on our national security and economic interests here at home. delivering effective u.s. foreign assistance is crucial, especially in the current fiscal climate in which it is imperative for the u.s. government to use every dollar more efficiently and effectively. the build act will ensure the united states delivers foreign assistance both effectively and efficiently by catalyzing the private sector to developing countries of our top 15 trading partners, 12 of them were once recipients of foreign aid. 43 of our top 50 consumer nations of american agriculture products were once u.s. foreign aid recipients. additionally, 95% of the world consumers live outside of the united states, and the poorest 2/3 of

bottom line this is a fight that goes beyond traditional adam smith stuff, way beyond it. >> bill: catch you tomorrow. >> sandra: president trump taking a hard line on nato defense spending. we're live from brussels. our headliner, a former u.n. ambassador is hear to weigh in. governor bill richardson will join us next. copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way, with anoro." ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma. it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. the risk is unknown in copd. anoro won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, glaucoma, prostate, bladder, or urinary problems. these may worsen with anoro. call your doctor if you have worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth

his name is adam smith, and he's famous for ththe following line: "iff everyrybody pursues his or her n self-interest, it'll work out for the best for everybody." most of you know that that's silly. it's a wonderful rationale to go out there and do what you want for yourself and not care about anybody else, but where that leads is exactly where we are... in a very, very bad crisis. so, let's begin by analyzing this crisis as the crisis of a sysystem. and we'll go on to talk about this system even when it's not in crisis, because that's as big a problem as the crisis itself. but crisis is where we are. 2012 is the fifth year of this crisis. what does that mean? first and foremost, it means that we have in the united states today something on the order of 20 million to 25 million people who either don't have a job at all, have been without a job long enough that they've given up looking-- so-called discouraged workers-- or folks who have to take a part-time job because that's all they can find, but they would like to have a full-time job. t the bureau of labor statistics in washington k

as a matter of fact, if you look at the famous black power of tommy adams and smith, that ended up in the newspapers, but not necessarily in the sports section. we'll get into that more later, but the athletes themselves were placed in a very difficult position. there was a lot of pressure on athletes in general to speak out on some of their perceived injustices in society at the time. and they were placed in a very difficult individual situation in terms of do they emphasize being an athlete, or do they emphasize their blackness? and many of these athletes were forced to choose between those different identities. it was very difficult for them to perform under this type of pressure from peers, whether they were college athletics, student athletes or professional athletes. and so there was this -- not only the pressure to perform but, in particular, for black athletes, there was a pressure to speak out on perceived injustices in society. >> and part of what was also playing into this mix, of course, was the increased symbolism that athletes stood for at the time, whether they're repre

with "newsmakers" congressman adam smith. after that, the house hearing on the clinton female probe with christopher wray and rod rosenstein -- the clinton email probe with christopher wray and rod rosenstein. mona charen talks about her book. >> we sent such confusing messages to young people. young women -- i do not envy them. this was a story i put in the book about a number of women athletes who have posed topless or semi-topless for "sports illustrated." ie of them i quoted you said am proud of my body and i want to help young women who may have body image issues. my feeling is that is a crock. women should be dignified. they should remember that when you disrobe, it is hard for people to take you seriously. a lo

here in the house, that is a testament to chairman mac thornberry, ranking member adam smith, and their very capable staffs. this is the earliest the house has passed a final version of the ndaa in 41 years, which is a remarkable feat. a considerable amount of time and effort has been put into this product, and i know i joined other members of the house in expressing our deep gratitude for their efforts. this year's ndaa offers the next steps in our effort to and the r military pentagon. i know many of us have been deeply troubled by the readiness crisis that struck the military over the last years. this has resulted in training accidents and failures that took the lives of our service members. to reverse that trend, this year's ndaa allows for increased funding for training as well as $2.8 billion for the procurement of spare airplane parts. in response to recent naval incidents in the pacific, the ndaa directs the navy to review their operational chain of command and current training plans for surface warfare officers. the strategy of peace through strength requires us to continue to

michael smith and adam goldman report that in the months since rod rosenstein reached out to people including in late night texts to discuss how his reputation fared and his fraugs with the white house and members of congress who targeted him. michael schmidt joins us now. how has rod rosenstein private relationship is different from publicly. he seems cool. you can see he's obviously frustrated with what's going on. >> he's very angry. he thinks that the president really wanted to fire comey but used him in his rationalization as the basis for that. that deeply bothers him. this gets at a critical period of time last year between the firing and the appointment of mueller and how rod rosenstein dealt with that. he had provided the memo to the white house, to the president. they went out. they read it on the north lawn of the white house the day that comey was fired saying that comey had to go for how he treated hillary clinton. it blew back on rod rosenstein, he had only been the deputy attorney general for two weeks at that point and then in the days that follows he comes to a decision to ap

(vicki) congressman adam kinzinger says government red tape could put the nuclear energy industry in trouble. he says his bill, called the nuke act, will change that. our washington correspondent jessica smith has more on the bill -- and why critics say it's time to leave nuclear energy behind. congressman adam kinzinger says regulating nuclear energy is too expensive and complicated...and that's putting american jobs and energy security at risk. kinzinger introduced the "nuke" act -- which he says will make regulations more transparent and efficient. he hopes if it cost less money to comply with rules, more people will invest in nuclear energy. but david freeman with environmental group "friends of the earth" says nuclear is an old, failed technology. he argues it's too risky, too expensive and the u.s. should invest in solar and wind energy instead.

on the right is a soup turine, made by james young from designs by robert adams. they were actually made for a duke, who by the way whose son james smith left to create the smithsonian institution. these are two of my favorite pieces. on the left is a water yore, and on the right a wine yore. and they're based on a popular form. in 1963 and 1964, another notable gift came to the white house. this was presented by mrs. weinman. and it was of a group of english regency table silver. most of which was maid by the london silver smith paul store. and on the left, you can see examples of candleobra that was part of this collection. with that, the way it was des d designed, each piece can be disassembled. the silver belonged to alexander, the 10th duke of hamilton, part of an officialed a -- ambassador service. it was received in 1806. we think the candle may have been a little supplement. the piece as it came to white house included 104 dinner plates, five covered meat platters, a wine cistern, and two pair of candleobera. the plate on the right, if you look at the uppe