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I brand-new tonight after a meeting between Trump the FBI director Chris Rae

rod Rosenstein and other top Intel officials the White House is saying

President Trump and the Department of Justice are now asking the Inspector

General to investigate the Obama administration and the spying they did

on the Trump campaign and the White House is also revealing tonight that

chief of staff John Kelly is general Kelly is setting up a meeting for

Congress so they will see the documents that constitutionally they have been

asking for and the DOJ has been obstructing in stonewalling really I'll

believe it when I see those documents now this is the same material that rod

Rosenstein has refused to turn over for months now he his name by the way you

want to keep an eye on I'll have more on Rosenstein in a minute now first what's

unfolding about the deep state is so dramatic so shocking but at the same

time so very predictable given everything we have now been uncovering

for over 18 months now we are now seeing the cracks in the deep state in this dam

it's about to burst and all of this information is now beginning to cascade

out even the New York Times The Washington Post are now confirming just

in the last week everything we have been uncovering again for 18 months it is the

biggest abuse of power corruption scandal it makes Watergate look like a

parking ticket now the house Intel committee chair Devin noonas he's

reacting by saying this is crossing a serious red line very important if they

ran a spy ring or an informant ring and they were paying people within the Trump

campaign if any of that is true that is an absolute redline there is not an

honest person in this country that thinks it's okay if sources informants

whatever you want to call them go around and start passing out money all over the

globe to do what to to secretly put yourself into a presidential campaign

that's not acceptable in this country that's not acceptable in the United

States of America Chairman Nunez is also there might be more than one FBI

informant you've got to be kidding me watch this nobody was ever interested in

an informant we asked for specific documents that we still have not

received from the Department of Justice so they continued to leak out things

about this informant and we don't know if there's one informant or more

informants because there's so much out there now it's really getting tough to

follow and all we're asking for is give us the documentation that you used to

start this investigation hand it over these type of tactics

spying on an opposition party in an election year are you kidding me this is

what you'd see in the former Soviet Union

Venezuela not the United States of America just look at this quote from The

Wall Street Journal editorial board listen to this we cannot recall recall a

similar case even the J Edgar Hoover days when the FBI decided it needed to

snoop on a presidential campaign now this is the same J Edgar Hoover who was

notorious for having files on just about everyone in Washington that is how

serious all of this is even Clinton aide and advisor

mark Penny's work with the Clintons for 20 years is calling out this scandal for

what it is this is a game-changing moment and Penn has worked for the

Clintons forever and served as Hillary's chief strategist for her campaign in

2008 he is now calling this witch hunt for what it is and literally writing an

op-ed in the hill stopping Robert Muller to protect us all

stunning headline Penn goes on to explain how the facts are now undeniable

Muller is on a crusade to get the President of the United States to

overturn a duly elected president he uses the term deep state that it's real

that the FBI rigged the Clinton investigation and then targeted Donald

Trump and his campaign when he was president-elect and now president and

Penn explained more on this on the story with Martha McCallum earlier tonight

take a look I think that the inspector general's report is coming out I think

noon is is finding out like what were their origins of the investigation

there doesn't seem to be a real concrete intelligence origin for this

investigation and without a foundation one wonders what did we spend an entire

year on what did we disrupt everyone who was in the campaign everyone who's in

the administration and also former Solicitor General for the u.s. Ted Olson

he's out with a new piece where he explains how Robert Muller's witch-hunt

could be setting up a massive constitutional crisis and of course

investigative reporter cheryl atkinson she has a defining piece on all of this

literally called the collusion against trump an entire timeline she breaks down

every single key moment in this entire massive abuse of power scandal we will

refer to this throughout history because it's been going on for 18 months now the

mainstream media even they finally are starting to catch on and admit that what

we've been reporting and what others on the show have been reporting and other

people what we've been covering we're now being proven right they have to

admit it look at this headline from The Washington Post over the weekend secret

FBI source for Russia investigation met with three Trump advisors during the

campaign here's a USA Today report look at this cover it says and even by the

way even fake news liberals CNN they can't ignore all the facts all the

evidence okay it's taken them well over a year but finally the media is starting

to realize that they have missed the single biggest story in their lifetime

as they pursued Russia and Russia stormy now it's a massive abuse of power we

first reported on this March 7th 2017 about FISA surveillance of the Trump

campaign President Trump he has every single right tonight to be outraged

about what has happened he has every right to want to know the truth you the

American people need to know the truth we need to expose all of this criminal

behavior all of these deep state actors need to be exposed and all of them held

accountable the Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein okay he's quick to

respond to president Trump demanding the Department of Justice get to the bottom

of it all so Rosenstein he's tried to make himself out to be a hero but it's a

total farce why Rosenstein is doing what he always

does and that is protecting all of his deep state friends of the Deputy

Attorney General he knows that by referring this to the

inspector general it will buy them a year to 18 months and protect all these

deep state actors now it's gonna take Michael Horowitz well over a year

we don't have over a year to uncover this we need a full FBI DOJ rank and

file field office investigation into all of this because what they're trying to

do is slowly leak out this information a slow bleed to cover themselves it's all

a cya and remember they know what's out there

they know they're about to get caught this is all about controlling the

narrative spinning the narrative trying to protect themselves and they probably

learned a thing or two from Hillary about acid washing hard drives we've got

to be careful now there's another major component to all of this Rosenstein

knows that the Inspector General he doesn't have any real prosecutorial

power horowitz can't convene a grand jury

he cannot indict people he could only give criminal referrals like in the case

of Andrew McKay but on top of all of that as we're seeing with this IG report

on the Clinton email investigation the FBI the DOJ both get to review and try

and refute facts and redact information again probably falsely in the name of

national security we have been saying Congress needs to

see these documents we have checks and balances separation of powers co-equal

branches of government and you know what they are purposely obstructing and it

looks like some of this might start to happen all right Sarah Carter she'll

join us in a few minutes breaking another explosive story tonight here's

the headline concealed FISA documents may hold the key to trump surveillance

and what Sarah is reporting a number of very key details that rod Rosenstein he

signed the final FISA warrant you know using the fake phony dossiers the bulk

of information why to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter page using the

unverified never corroborated Clinton bought and paid for foreign national put

together dossier of Russian lie now Sarah is also reporting the back in

April the FBI refused to turn over documents that chairman Nunez and others

have been asking for you know phony claims of national security risks and as

we have seen it's one excuse to Stonewall after another all to prevent

Congress from knowing the truth and fulfilling their constitutional role and

chairman Nunez while he's now putting his foot down and in this standoff with

Rosenstein and the DOJ good for Devin Nunez take a look we had a productive

what I thought was a productive meeting and then after that meeting they've done

nothing but leak and leak and leak now we don't know exactly who it is over the

Department of Justice or FBI I'm not pinning any blame on people but we're

not going to go to another meeting where we don't get documents and then the

meeting leaks out now the Chairman is getting close the entire truth is now

starting to come out thankfully by the way despite Rosenstein stonewalling and

now because of all of these new developments you have deep state actors

former Oh communists voting John Brennan how we ever became CIA director is

beyond any comprehension I have we know no liar James clapper Sally Yates we

know her political agenda they're all losing their minds because all of them

are about to be exposed Brennan lashing out a president Trump

tweeting Senator McConnell speaker Ryan if mr. Trump continues along this

disastrous path you'll dare major responsibility for the harm to our

democracy by the way we're a republic you do a great disservice to the nation

a Republican Party if you continue to enable mr. Trump's self-serving actions

now Brennan is up to his eyeballs in all of this I am certain that's going to be

exposed and as we have been saying on this program he's been lying about his

involvement with this Clinton bought and paid for dossier for months and he lied

in front of Congress and as for James clapper

he's ensnared in the dossier scandal also and clapper Oh what is his response

just like Yates just like Brennan let's go after the president and attack him I

think that's actually very disturbing assault on the independence the

Department of Joe and I think when the president this

president any president tries to use the department justice is kind of a private

investigator a body that's not good for the country the big thing here is this

is not about spying on it on his campaign it's about what the Russians

are doing were they attempting to infiltrate the campaign and that was the

concern and that was it in my my belief is what the focus of this whole activity

was about the same clapper bragged about the FBI spying on the Trump campaign and

said it was a good thing this is problematic and then there's good old

sally aides who signed off on yes one of the FISA warrants like Rosenstein and

was emailing with Andrew Weissman the most corrupt member of Muller's team

after she recused refused to enforce the travel ban Yates was also trashing the

president why to save and protect herself

watch this Donald Trump himself accusing the Obama administration of improperly

targeting his campaign for an investigation what's your response to

everything you've heard over the weekend well obviously I'm not going to comment

on the specific facts there it's really up to the Department of Justice to

decide what information should be made public with respect to that but you know

I think what we're seeing here is the president has just taken his all-out

assault on the rule of law to a new level and this time he is ordering up an

investigation of the investigators who are examining his own campaign you know

that's really shocking the hard-hitting interview by liberal Joe now all three

of these deep State players are scared out of their minds they're directly

implicated in all of this so it's time to ask what did they all know when did

they all know it and just like I've been saying about their deep state friend

James Comey who by the way James I warned you you had the right to remain

silent you didn't listen anyway instead of running their mouths

well they might want to now begin to lawyer up and many of them are yeah

James Comey hired three lawyers the three people he leaked documents two

great attorney-client privilege for everybody but me

anyway another big development to tell you about tonight the

soon-to-be-released DOJ IG report on the Clinton email server investigation is

expected to slam FBI leaders just like call me Andrew McCabe for taking weeks

to review emails that were found on luma Aberdeen's shared computer with Anthony

Weiner and the IG report is supposed to come out very soon and if the Inspector

General Horowitz does his job and his 500 employees come--and McCabe should be

very worried tonight all right a lot of ground to cover

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U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA - Jerusalem Studio 332 - Duration: 28:28.

Shalom and welcome to Jerusalem studio a little over a week ago on the 8th of May u.s

President Donald Trump announced his decision to pull the United States out of the multinational nuclear agreement with Iran to

Discuss the latest developments on the matter following the American move. I'm joined here in the studio by dr

Le chef emmalee's who's a lecturer on Middle Eastern and Iranian studies at Tel Aviv University

And the Truman Institute at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, welcome like also to welcome our TV 7 analyst mr. Milovan and

Lieutenant Colonel and reserve Alvin Ben Shalom who is a cross-cultural analyst and columnist at the Jerusalem Post as well as dr

Lloyd Paul doe who is a research director to impact a see and a lecture on Iran at the Hebrew University Jerusalem. Welcome

Mr. Owen, give us a broader understanding of the latest developments on this matter

as with every nuclear explosion you have the blast you have to heat and now you have the fallout and we are still

trying to gauge what sort of fallout

We have how little it is

Can we still get from under it?

Apparently the other parties to the nuclear deal both Iran the EU and the other five

countries

Which were signatories?

in a way

Are still considering their moves?

There is no urgency one still looks to see whether there will be secondary sanctions

not only sanctions on Iran, but also sanctions on those who trade with Iran whether

The Iranians will respond to president Trump's call

on them to return to the table because

Right after he said that he's withdrawing from the deal. He called on them to make a new deal

So it's a bit confusing and we are still

in the maneuvering stage towards

either a new deal or

some kind of

Coexistence with the new effects and we'll try to touch on all the various elements concerning the jcpoa or the joint

Princip plan of action and the consequences of the u.s

Pullout doctor mathletes when we're talking about the lead-up to this pullout of the United States we had of course France

Britain and the the

German

Chancellor who continued to call on the United States remain or preserve the agreement, of course to where China and Russia as well

But the close European allies of the United States were adamant that an additional deal should be signed in

Order to try and eliminate

Iran's malign

Behavior across the Middle East as they put it to what degree did the United States here the European allies?

Considering also the fact that President Trump as mr

Owen just stated did call for a new deal that will bring about the various elements that they've been

Concerned about or is it now in a situation where the Europeans are on one side and the Americans on the other?

It seems to me that

we have here to a large extent we have here two sides now and it also seems to me that the Iranians or

using the situation for their purposes

Trying to perhaps even deepen the rift between the Europeans and the US

In addition also trying to bring in the Russians and the Chinese and also have them

Assist the Iranian side, so it seems to me that

This rift is actually assisting the Iranians

But of course Iran is also operating now in several fronts on one hand

I think it's still trying to exercise the diplomatic track trying to at least

Bring bring in the Europeans try to salvage the deal as much as possible

but also on the other hand also trying to perhaps expand its trade deals with China trying to also exercise that

Arena and in addition but also operating militarily. So all I think all options are open still and

Still again a valuating situation, but trying to operate I think from several direct

Kerwin Shalom I think the Iranians are very wise very calculated

The proof is that they reach this deal which many of us perceive is a bad deal

The Americans I think are playing it tough for president. Trump is playing it tough

I think even though it seemed as if the Americans pulled out and now it's back maybe to the military arena or to only the

Use of force, certainly what we see now that it's still more diplomacy

I don't know if this is going to lead to another deal. Everything is up in the air. The reef is now

campaigning and traveling the world trying to

Really assess the situation. I think it's important at least here in Israel

From what I see to understand how complex this is it to us. It's being portrayed too much as a black-and-white picture

It was a bad deal. So it had to be canceled. We're all happy Thank You president Trump. I think that's not the situation

I think there's a lot of disinformation out there including

By some of our ministers and our prime minister some facts that are being said or even not true

So we to express our opinion on this we first have to understand the complexity of it and then move forward. Dr

Polo we hear a lot of from the hardliners in Iran a certain satisfaction

That here we told you so we showed you that we couldn't trust the United States

We couldn't trust the West when it comes to disagreements nevertheless

Considering the various statements that came out from Berlin London in Paris

We could hear also supreme leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that even though we told you so and we cannot trust our European

Signatories to this agreement even though nobody actually signed on this agreement

Now we have 60 days that we should exhaust we should give the opportunity to see if we're able to preserve this deal

but the bottom line is everybody knows that when it comes to the economic sanctions and the crippling sanctions that the United States will

Insert following the disengagement from this deal

nobody will

Conduct any dealings with Iran at the expense of the greatest economy in this world

maybe I'm

Jumping the gun. I believe that there is a strategic decision in Iran to go for a larger deal and

they kind of

Accept the reality

I'm not sure even if all these maneuvering in Syria was a

Private issue. So the money whether they are interested in that all I think they they have

They needed to do the strategic shift

The Obama deal allowed them not to do the strategic deal

But they understand they have to do it. Khomeini is not getting any younger

He wants to handle the Islamic Republic

Still under the name Islamic Republic and not Iranian Republic and not Iranian monarchy

- maybe to his son family friends, whatever

This is critical. He needs this decade to become and

and steady now if we follow what he really said and the incursion he basically said that

The Americans were right that Trump was right. He said I talked to the negotiators and asked them to give me

This signature. I wanted them treaty and they tried they were very very good. Very smart

But they couldn't secure it and now we have it. This is natural. Of course

this was not a deal to be kept now their negotiators go to the Europeans and

Give me the assurances he wants assurances. What does it mean assurances?

It means that there will be a new deal and by the end of the deal whatever they agree

Iran will be the victorious because now they got that sure insist. They got signatures they got stamps and

This is the way that they will always be the victors nevertheless without American assurances. What are any assurances worth? Mr. Owen?

senior Israeli

official a few days ago said that

Regarding general Qasem Soleimani, which was that part of just mentioned that there is a consensus

among the

Five important leaders in the Middle East president

President rouhani

President Putin President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu that

Suleimani has to go and even Bashar Assad can be added to it

Because for rouhani and we have to see whether rouhani can prevail over the hardliners

but for ofany the nuclear deal is much more important than

What is happening in Syria, and if he has to sacrifice?

Sulemani so much the better

He has shown

famine a that the Syrian

Shenanigans by and also the Yemen and other places this is hurting

Iran now, we have only Sheva here who is from the Truman Institute?

Truman wanted a fair deal Roosevelt wanted the New Deal

Apparently Trump wants both now. It can be reached and

whether they will get assurances regarding

withdrawal from the new and fair deal

We will have to see but it is possible to have an additional like just like the additional protocol

Under the non-proliferation treaty. You can have an additional protocol regarding the ballistic missiles and

Iran's malign

influence in the region just for the sake of our viewers custom Suleiman II who is the leader of the Kurds force in the

Revolutionary Guards who has received all the praise for the various operations of the Islamic Republic both in Iraq as well now in Syria

Dr. Lamas to what degree is this division materializing between

The government of the Islamic Republic in Iran to the hardliners and the Revolutionary Guards who have been scrutinized

And on the one hand by the West for its malign activities

And received most of the blame if you will with regard to the activities across the region

towards the the situation in which the Islamic Republic's government or the moderates right now in in

Office in Iran are able to actually maneuver

Considering the fact that they're all under supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, you actually is the one who can call the shots. I

Think factional politics always exists in Iran. We see this since the early days the revolution. I don't think it's gonna stop now

There's always maneuvering between factions and the factions are represented in different bodies. Some of them are more

Republican bodies which are representatives that usually um hosts the more moderate forces then you have Revolutionary bodies

So I don't think this is going to change you always have factional politics. The elite is divided in Iran

And each of them is trying to perhaps gain more power over the other factions

But still you do have at least four factions that are still in operation

And I think each faction also represents different social groups in Iran

So as a result, although, oh, honey, perhaps would like to have more moderate forces support him

I think the revolutionary forces are still very strong. They still receive support of many groups in Iran including

the lower classes

the military some of the clerics and Iran

So I think the force of the Revolutionary Guards is still very important in Iran

And particularly since it's also perceived not only as an Islamic force, but also as a nationalist force so I don't see this divide now

Coming to some kind of culmination. I think we'll still will still see

Different voices. We'll see. Oh, honey, trying the diplomatic track and we'll see the military

Involved the Revolutionary Guards involved in Syria. I think we'll see both avenues Colonel Ben Shalom

I'd like to ask you with regard to the military track to what degree is the west and

the United States in particular

already

Preparing for certain altercation or confrontation flare up with the Islamic Republic

I think for the last decade such preparations have been made and the capabilities were on the Shelf and ready to go

Including in Israel. Our leadership has been speaking about it. Openly when they say all options are on the table

That means even small Israel and small IDF has the capability to take part in such a strike

As far as the benefit of such a strike if we would come to a situation where the Iranian would say

You know enough of this we're dashing to the bomb

Because remember for years we were saying they could they could reach it in half a year

They could reach it in a year and then it was postponed for 15 years

But what happens if they go back to saying?

You know what? We're getting a bomb in a year and we have to attack still I think that would not cancel

That would not eliminate the Iranian program. So I think there is a military capability

I would even say

Relatively easy for the United States and Europe to take out all the installations we know

But that would not eliminate the know-how and the will in Iran ultimately will do. What is good for Iran

So maybe we'll postpone it by two years three years. But again, it will be on track

That's why by the way personally, I was against cancelling the Iran deal now in a new situation, so I'm trying to think forwards

What's best? Okay, but as far as thinking that a military option could be a solution to the problem

I don't think it would ever be the solution to the nuclear issue Oh

Dr. Paula, you talked more optimistically about the Iranian aspiration to reach a new deal with

The p5 plus one or in this case the p5?

- one - the United States to what degree? Do you believe that?

the Islamic Republic considering its ideology of expansionism and imperialism and

Clear Islamic aspirations of taking over first a Middle East then

Expanding to the entire world would actually pursue a diplomatic course of establishing a deal that it would

indeed be willing to uphold - okay here we enter into the realm of

irrational what's irrational it's all the

Phoenicians and what are the mystic mystical dimension and revolutionary dimension of the regime?

so to make a long story short

I would argue that every human being is basically irrational and there is a layer of Russian and practical

Behavior so Iran by it's a it's a constitution

so maybe instead of bombing the nuclear deal we can just ask them to change the constitution once I change the

Constitution there is no problem

but according to the Constitution according to this entire thing and in according to the heritage of who meny

and according to Iranian tradition of these thousand years the leader gets a

Information from God so he is connected. He's channeling

He is being channeled. So if you get the right messages, he can do whatever he wants. That's first

second of all the idea of fear on the irrational part is that they want to take Mecca and Medinah

Ruling the Islamic will the title of the leader is Valley. I'm below Muslim inna Jahan

He's the leader of the Muslims in the world and is a leader of all the dispossessed

Namely Buffett and Zuckerberg know but all the rest of humanity are under Iranian protection and

And they and they aspire to conquer the world and prepare it for the coming of the Mahdi

So this is true, but for 40 years they are doing it and they still survive. So

There's no contradiction there. They are calculated. They are not pragmatic at all because everything they do is bad for Iran, but they are calculated

For the regime and for this ideology and they advance they are not pragmatic. They are calculated and they are not they are nuts

Mr. Owen, the Israeli military has been for the deal. Of course it knew it wasn't perfect

But a perfect deal could not be reached because it would have been bad for the Iranians and they had no interest in

Signing what the West would have seen as as the best deal possible, but the Israeli military

for some ten years

prior to the deal

focused on Iran and spent

billions of shekels and even billions of dollars or euros on the preparation of

the campaign against Iran the effect was

Very negative on the army

Especially the land forces and therefore the Israeli military

Supported the deal and once the deal was reached in the summer of 2015

general Isengard the chief of staff came out with his

strategy for the IDF which sought to

re-establish the primacy of the

land forces

Again, if he is now forced to plan

For a strike against Iran he would do it, but for him it is a destabilizing

vector which comes into his planning he has

Planned on a 10-year window between 2015 and 2025 in which the Israeli Defense Forces

can have a stable budget a stable plan and

get improved and at the end of the of this period would probably even though no one would say it out aloud would

Probably be equipped with such

cyber

Methods that a kinetic strike would not be necessary. Dr. Marcus when we're talking about

the

attack that occurred when the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards fired 20 missiles towards Israel, which

Israel in turn retaliated with attacking some 50 targets of

the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards across the

Syrian territory to what degree did that did this affect the

perception of the leadership in Tehran with regard to its activities in Syria, or if at all

I

Think Iran will have to be Tali eight because this is again this question of Iran every name pride

So I think it did affect their pride

It put Iran in a very weak place the fact that it could be targeted in this in this fashion

And I think what maybe links the discussions up to now to the issue of Syria

Is perhaps three values that are very important for Iran?

Respect tried but also actually rationality. So I think Iran is very calculated. I think it's a very rational player

You just have to understand Iran's rationality and as a result

I think if it's attacked in Syria and detect in so many

Important bases bases it will have to react

Because this is again going back to Iranian pride Iranian nationalism

Iran is seeing itself as a very important player in the Middle East

so so as a result, Iran is around no player, but it's going to react and it's going to

perhaps do something but when it suits Iran, it will come from a very rational place of

Exercising and strengthening its pride which was actually very hurt here

Colonel Ben Shalom with regard to this specifically. Do you believe that if diplomatic?

attempts by Iran to reach

Or to preserve the nuclear deal or to reach an alternative deal that would of course

Lay terms to its own national interests and global interests

Do you believe that if both those elements would be terminated on the diplomatic element?

Will you ran seek a confrontation with Israel that would lead maybe to a wider escalation?

I think it already is for many years. We've been in direct confrontation with an all-out war. They're not firing there

She had three missiles at us yet

But they are fighting us with forward operating bases that they are funding and operating which was Hezbollah and Hamas

It's much easier for them to operate these forward operating bases

but they get what they want out of this and now establishing a foothold in Syria, which is

Challenged challenging us so much that our government has set these red lines and enforcing them very strongly

So we're very concerned from this

They have aspirations for the entire Middle East and they're carrying them out from Yemen to Lebanon. They're doing it

It's mainly their clash with Saudi Arabia for dominance

We usually see it as Iran the bad guys against the moderates and all the good guys

But the truth is it's really the Sunni Shia Saudi Arabia Iran

And they're not going to give up very soon and they're carrying it all throughout the throughout the region as far as us

It's a very serious threat

We see it escalating to direct confrontation sending in UAVs, which we usually easily shoot down doing apathetic response in the Golan Heights

Which we easily counter and by the way, it's so pathetic that I think maybe we should not learn from this about Iranian capabilities

I'm troubled of how pathetic it was

But certainly I would say that Iran what observes these learns the lessons and the lesson for them is that we are very good

They're probably extremely troubled from the level of our intelligence

they actually know that we know everything there is to know and

When we want to know something we go get the archives from Tehran and we know about the UAV. It's lunch

We know where it is to attack it

So we actually know all there is to know and other capabilities

They know that we are leading probably in the world as far as cyber

Capabilities and even when they do shoot that she had three down

They know we have the best system in the world to shoot them down

So I don't want to brag too much, but I think they are learning us very carefully

Calculating very carefully, which means we're not going to see a direct

the military confrontation with Iran but more of these

Local proxies fighting Israel. Look up Aldo a little over a year ago you

Rejected the term proxy when it comes to Hezbollah and several Shiite militias including the mobilization forces

at the time as

Proxies of Iran, but you define them as Iran proper to what degree is this true for today? And do we need to

understand this in the West as a

Iranian spread-out or an Iranian

Entrenchment already conducted by those Shiite militias all over this region as an Iranian

Takeover or attempt to take over that has been accomplished to a certain degree

When I say they change

the equation of power for since 1983 and the Israeli Lebanese treaty

His battle was a branch of Iran that together with Syria scuttled all all possibility of peace in the Middle East

So Hezbollah was a problem for Israel and advantage forever and I see now that it's a reverse Iran cannot help us ballet

so it's about

It's they are connected but it's vulnerable

They cannot confront Israel because if Israel destroys is bad

There will not be any Bala anymore

and this will be a disaster and

The Iran and Hezbollah or Iran in south Lebanon are connected at least 500 years. There is very very strong

emotional religious other ties

Even in the times of the Shan the times of the suffer. It's a long history

So just like a trump was able to turn the tables now

Iran is pursuing the nuclear deal and for this has to pay in the past

It was the other way for the nuclear deal. Everybody else had to pay Iran

So the same was Hezbollah in order to preserve his Bala Iran will have to pay a lot to Israel

Mr. Owen were drawing here to the end of the program

So I'd like to give you the opportunity to react as well as to start with your closing remarks

Over the last several days there have been two

important elections in the Middle East first Lebanon and then Iraq and

We still have to see

what the backup of the government's will be and then

understand the significance in both cases, but and in both cases

Iran has been at least indirectly

involved, but the result of the Lebanese elections

Gave us an answer to one question

Which is is nasrallah a puppet or a patriot?

It turns out that he is more of a Lebanese Patriot than an Iranian puppet

He knows that the interests of the Lebanese

Country state people must be respected

and if there is a clash between the Lebanese interests and the interests of the revolutionary

Iranians their religion area guards and others he will reluctantly choose Lebanon over Iran. If not it will of course

Stem the end for this Shiite militia. Dr. Millis your closing remarks for this program

I would say that this is perhaps not the end of the deal front for Iran

Iran would like to salvage it as much as possible

Perhaps with its European partners that's on one hand on the other hand. Iran is also maintaining all options open

And also trying to pressure Israel

Possibly the u.s. As well through military action

so I think Iran would like this deal to still work if possible, but if not,

It still has the military option colonel mention or I think that was drawn of the u.s

Was perceived as the end of diplomacy and in a way the thing I do support of what what Trump says

It's not only the nuclear do you look at what they're doing?

We're taking you on but I think it's a mistake to perceive this as the end of diplomacy

The only way this will end or the Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon

is if Iran does not want the nuclear weapon if it's their own interest not to hold it not possess it only then will it

Happen dr. Bordeaux, I think now that everything is possible

It all depends on the Americans and the Europeans and of course everybody supports there between the Russians

definitely the Arab nationalists in the

Everywhere they must for this kind of regime. They must stay give structure it

Consequences. Mm-hmm. Well, this is unfortunately all the time that we have for today and this is a developing story

so, of course, we'll come back to this specific topic and it has a lot to do also with

Consequences for Israel and its ability to secure itself in peace. I'd like to thank dr. Lockleys. Mr

Owen Colonel Ben Shalom and the Pope elder for coming here today?

And I'd like to thank our viewers as well and we'll see you next time

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U.S. will not make concessions to N. Korea before verifiable, irreversible denuclearization: Pence - Duration: 2:01.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has made it clear that Washington will make no concessions

to North Korea before it carries out a verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.

He also warned Pyongyang that it COULD end up like Libya.... if the Kim Jong-un regime

fails to reach a nuclear deal with the U.S. Kim Hyo-sun reports.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence insists that no concessions will be made to North Korea

before it reaches the point of no return on its nuclear program.

Speaking with Fox News Radio on Tuesday,...

Pence stressed the U.S. will not give the North any rewards until the regime carries

out a verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.

He also explained the Trump administration's policy on North Korea remains the same,...

adding it will continue its economic and diplomatic sanctions campaign against the regime.

Pence also said Washington remains hopeful about the scheduled North Korea-U.S. summit

on June 12th.

His latest comments come a day after the U.S. Vice President issued a warning to Pyongyang.

Speaking to Fox News on Monday,...

Pence warned that the North would end up like Libya if it fails to reach a nuclear deal

with the U.S.,... adding the Trump administration will not tolerate a nuclear armed North Korea.

"This will only end like the Libyan model ended if Kim Jong-un doesn't make a deal...

President Trump made it clear: the United States of America, under his leadership, is

not going to tolerate the regime in North Korea possessing nuclear weapons and ballistic

missiles that threaten the United States and our allies."

While explaining that Washington is focused on reaching a satisfactory deal with the North,...

Pence added that he hopes North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will not let go of this great

opportunity for peace.

Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.

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Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2017 - Duration: 2:44.

[MUSIC] SPEAKER.

I am doing better now than I was five years ago financially.

SPEAKER. My finances are-- I think a little bit less.

SPEAKER. I had to take a time off

from work because of my health.

And this year I'm back to work.

So, I'm doing a lot better.

SPEAKER. My last child left home, so that was an expense off

of me, so things are a lot better now.

SPEAKER. Paying overall less per month, I think,

with housing expenses.

SPEAKER. Even though I'm working like,

five part-time jobs, I'm doing all right.

NARRATOR. To understand how people

across the country are managing financially,

the Federal Reserve has reached out to thousands of people

like these for each of the past five years in the Survey

of Household Economics & Decisionmaking.

The responses to the survey show how the typical family is faring

financially, and how that has changed in recent years.

Results from the latest survey in 2017 show

that most Americans are doing at least okay financially,

although some people are still struggling.

Consistent with other signs of the improving economy,

each year since 2013, fewer people have said

that they are finding it difficult to get by financially.

Work-life in America is constantly changing.

How many hours people work, and whether their schedule varies

from week to week, may affect their economic well-being.

SPEAKER. My work schedule doesn't vary too much.

SPEAKER. Only if I'm working on a special project does it vary.

SPEAKER. My work-life has definitely changed,

it's gotten a lot busier.

SPEAKER. My work schedule now is I work 30 hours a week.

SPEAKER. I really would not like to work more hours, no.

SPEAKER. My work schedule, it varies-- it changes drastically.

So, it may not be the same every week.

NARRATOR. While most people work regular hours,

almost one in six workers say

that their employer varies the hours they work.

And one in 10 workers receive their work schedule less

than a week in advance.

These irregular schedules are particularly common among

part-time workers who would like to work more hours.

They are also common among those working in retail,

food services, or entertainment industries

and those with less education.

Part-time workers are also less likely to have received a raise

in the past year, and are less satisfied

with both their benefits and their salary.

The results of this survey help establish a more informed

picture of the financial status of individuals, including those

of different races, genders, and locations.

To learn more about how people are saving for emergencies,

planning for retirement, and making education

and student loan decisions,

please visit federalreserve.gov/ consumerscommunities/ shed.

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Joe Arpaio running for U.S. Senate - Duration: 2:25.

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US jobs optimism hits new high - Duration: 3:33.

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Iran Punches US Secretary Of State, Decided To Stay in Syria - Duration: 2:34.

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After Obama Left US Town With Poisonous Water For 3 Years, Look What Trump Did In A Few Months - Duration: 5:27.

After Obama Left US Town With Poisonous Water For 3 Years, Look What Trump Did In A Few

Months When Barack Obama was sworn into office, he

promised America that he would bring her back from the depths of hell, and put us back on

the map.

He persuaded A LOT of people that he was the guy for the job.

The commander and chief of the greatest country on earth is supposed to make sure that ALL

Americans are taken care of, and protected before, and after any major event.

That's not what Obama did for the residents of Flint, Michigan.

Luckily, America elected a man that would do just that.

No, it wasn't Barack Obama.

President Trump is one of the only Presidents to keep the promises he made on the campaign

trail.

Flint, Michigan is a suburb North West of Detriot.

The population of Flint is around 100,000 people.

The city of Flint has had its ups and downs like almost every city, but the biggest effect

on Flint has been the Auto Industry.

Buick provided thousands of jobs for people as well as GM in Detriot.

With the Buick lot going under, and GM helping bring down the greater Detriot economy, the

people of Flint felt it couldn't get any worse.

But it Did.

The residents of Flint woke up to the startling news that the water they were drinking was

contaminated with high levels of lead.

This was caused in 2014 when the drinking water source for the city was changed to the

Flint River.

The reason?

Poor city management of money.

Like most every liberal leaning towns, the Democratic leadership failed to pay the bills

and was forced to switch.

Scientific studies proved that the water was in fact contaminated with lead and was present

in the current water supply.

A federal state of emergency was declared in January of 2016.

Everyone in the city of Flint was told to use bottles of water that had been brought

in instead of drinking anything from the faucets.

Barack Obama promised he would tackle Flint, and hold the people who caused this disaster

accountable.

Lik always, Obama was just pandering for political points.

He was going to leave the issue to the next President who he thought was going to be Hillary

Clinton.

Hillary Clinton traveled to Flint during her campaign and talked about how much she cared

for the people of Flint, and how she was going to make sure she took care of the people there

if she were to become President.

It's almost as if she told them…

vote for me and you will get free stuff, or vote for him, and he will let you all d*e.Under

authority granted the agency by the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation

Act of 2016, the EPA issued a $100 million grant to the beleaguered city of Flint, Michigan,

to help in the effort at replacing the city's badly corroded and lead-tainted system of

water pipes.

Some progressive critics of President Donald Trump have pointed to his proposed budget

cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency as proof that he is a terrible president who

doesn't care about ensuring that Americans have clean air and water.

However, the recent report from The Daily Caller about Trump's EPA grant just did

throw that narrative into a tailspin.

"The people of Flint and all Americans deserve a more responsive federal government," said

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in an agency news release.

"EPA will especially focus on helping Michigan improve Flint's water infrastructure as

part of our larger goal of improving America's water infrastructure."We are excited and

very grateful to receive these much-needed funds," Flint Mayor Karen Weaver said.

"The City of Flint being awarded a grant of this magnitude in such a critical time

of need will be a huge benefit."

"As we prepare to start the next phase of the FAST Start pipe replacement program, these

funds will give us what we need to reach our goal of replacing 6,000 pipes this year and

make other needed infrastructure improvements," she added.

"We look forward to the continued support of the EPA and the federal government."

As part of the deal, the state of Michigan matched 20 percent of the grant, pitching

in $20 million.

Hillary Clinton wouldn't have done anything to help the people of Flint.

How do we know this?

There isn't ONE TIME that Hillary Clinton has traveled back to Flint to check on the

people she promised so much to.

Never once has any of HER people gone back to help try and make a difference with the

Clinton Foundation.

Afterall, they're there to help people in need right?

Wrong.

The Clinton Foundation was purposely created to keep the Clinton's wealthy.

The people of Flint are happy to know that someone is finally taking action in their

city.

President Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise once again and making sure the people of Flint

have safe water to drink and use in their everyday lives.

The Democrats have done nothing for Michigan, and will never do anything.

The state was once a hotbed for new ideas and a booming economy.

After 60 years of Democrat rule, the city of Detroit is crumbling, and the state is

in disrepair.

This might be why President Trump won the state of Michigan in 2016.

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Border Patrol Agent Holds Two U.S. Citizens for Speaking Spanish | What's Trending Now! - Duration: 5:43.

A video taken by a Montana woman shows a Border Patrol officer question her and

her friend for speaking Spanish at a gas station, ignoring the fact that they are

American citizens. Hey, I'm Shira Lazar and welcome back to What's Trending. Be sure

to like this video and subscribe for more social media news daily.

Ana Suda and Mimi Hernandez were buying milk and eggs at a gas station when they

were stopped by a Border Patrol agent in Havre, Montana for speaking Spanish. Ana

Suda told NBC News: "He asked us where we were born so I looked at him and I

said, 'Are you serious?' He said, 'I'm very serious.'" That's when the woman took out

their phones and started recording the conversation. They accused the Border

Patrol agent of racial profiling and this was his answer. Ma'am, the reason I

asked you for ID is because I came in here and I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish,

which is very unheard of up here, so just running your name and date of birth...

Just because of our profile, right? Racial profile. It has nothing to do with that...

Okay, so he wasn't racially profiling because that would be bad, but

he took them aside because he thought there were minorities? That's called

racial profiling. They both waited for 40 minutes as the Border Patrol agent went

through their papers and were eventually released because they were indeed

American citizens. As Suda told Don Lemon on CNN, she was born in El Paso,

Texas and her friend in El Centro, California. That is, most people would

consider, I mean, that is racial profiling. Does he not understand that? And here's the

very, very, very important part of this entire thing. Speaking Spanish is not

illegal. It seems that more and more people feel entitled to harass people of

color, or Spanish speakers. Listen, this isn't necessarily new, but looking at our

current laws against minorities, and immigration in this country, as well as

our overall divisiveness around these issues, it's basically encouraging

racists to come out of the woodwork. Plus the rise of smartphones and social media

allow these horrible moments to be recorded and go viral

quickly. It's been only a week since Aaron Schlossberg, a lawyer in New York

City, was caught on camera threatening to call ICE on spanish-speaking workers. He

became really, really famous for that clip, and not necessarily in the

way he wanted. Why are you running, man? You don't want to stand by what you said?

He released an apology today where he said amongst other things, "I am not racist."

Okay, so let me be clear here. You call ICE on people speaking Spanish

because you don't think they should be in America, but you're not a racist? It's

time for me to read my favorite book - the dictionary! Racist (noun): a person who

shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races,

or who believes that a particular race is superior to another. There's a huge

issue here. Between Schlossberg's apology and the Border Agent's lack of

understanding of what racial profiling is, show something troubling. These two

people who were obviously racist, don't know that they're racist. That seems to

be common, and as much as the current climate has been blamed for douchebags

like Schlossberg, immigration officers have been taking liberties like these

throughout the Obama administration, even patrolling Greyhound buses, and according

to Vox, looking for signs to question an individual with "unusual behavior,

defensive body language, thick accents, and clothing style." So this is an

absolutely awful story,but it could have ended way worse. Since 2012,

ICE has detained and eventually released 1,480 people, who as it turns out, have had

no reason to keep detained, including children and citizens born outside the

country. Take, for example, the case of Davino Watson, a naturalized citizen kept

in a detention center for three years after ICE officials got his father, also

a citizen, confused with a different man. Or, Sergio Carrillo - an American born in

Mexico who gained citizenship as a teenager in 1994 and was detained for

three days even as his son presented information of his citizenship to ICE

who refused to acknowledge the documents. It wasn't until a lawyer presented ICE

with Carillo's passport that he was released. As Carrillo puts it: "For ICE,

it's like, 'Oops, we made a mistake,' but for me on the other end, it tears up your

life." And this is a powerful statement from U.S. District Judge J. McConnell: "Where

an individual's liberties at stake, a 50/50 success rate is not acceptable." Do

we really want to live in a country where a police force regularly harasses

other people for being non-white, or speaking a different language? This

recent incident, as you can imagine, has sparked a lot of conversation on social

media. @josephdaniel191 says: "It's frustrating to see stuff like this.

Especially when your family speaks Spanish and came from Mexico but earned

their rights to become U.S. citizens." @safdalumni says: "I don't know how I

would have handled this situation. I'm a fluent Spanish speaker and I speak to

all my family members in Spanish even though most speak English. It's what we

do. Don't know that I wouldn't be absolutely pissed if they ask to see my

"paperwork". And this from @LozanoSayra: "Being bilingual: 1. Helps me connect

cultures, 2. Makes me a better job candidate, 3. Makes learning a third

language easier, and 4. Makes me a target for deportation under the current

political climate." If you want to take action and make sure that people living

in America aren't detained for their race, accent, or speaking another language,

you can get in touch with your local representative. Just go to house.gov/

representatives or senate.com/senators. So what do you think? Was

a Border Patrol agent just doing their job, or is this an example of obvious

racial profiling? Let us know what you think in the comments below and be sure

to like and subscribe for more of What's Trending.

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The risks of the North Korea summit for U.S.-South Korea relations - Duration: 8:11.

JUDY WOODRUFF: As we reported earlier, President Trump today voiced doubts about whether next

month's planned summit with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, would proceed as planned.

As Nick Schifrin reports, Mr. Trump and his South Korean counterpart met today at a crucial

moment.

NICK SCHIFRIN: In the Oval Office today, President Trump blended a handful of hope with a pinch

of perspective, hope that his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could

create a historic peace.

DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: He has a chance to do something that maybe

has never been done before.

He will be safe.

He will be happy.

His country will be rich.

North Korea really has the chance to be a great country.

And I think they should seize the opportunity, and we will soon find out whether or not they

want to do that.

NICK SCHIFRIN: And that perspective, that maybe the summit won't even happen.

DONALD TRUMP: There are certain conditions that we want.

And I think we will get those conditions.

And if we don't, we don't have the meeting.

There's a chance that it will work out.

There's a chance, there's very substantial chance that it won't work out.

That doesn't mean it won't work out over a period of time.

But it may not work out for June 12.

NICK SCHIFRIN: North Korea enters the summit presenting itself as a full-fledged nuclear

state.

Whether and how the country denuclearizes is at the negotiation's core.

North Korean officials have expressed interest in slow, step-by-step denuclearization and

step-by-step American incentives.

President Trump said today he'd prefer, but wouldn't insist, on swift denuclearization.

DONALD TRUMP: It would certainly be better if it were all in one.

Does it have to be?

I don't think I want to totally commit myself.

But all in one would be a lot better, or at least, for physical reasons, over a very short

period of time.

NICK SCHIFRIN: The go-between for Trump and Kim has been South Korean President Moon Jae-in,

who pushes peace in part by praising the president.

MOON JAE-IN, South Korean President (through translator): I have no doubt you will be able

to accomplish a historic feat that no one has been able to achieve in the decades past.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Senior administration officials describe this moment to the "NewsHour" as

brinksmanship between two men who don't want to be the one to cancel or be canceled on.

President Trump said his blend of hope and perspective comes from his past experience

in business.

DONALD TRUMP: I have made a lot of deals.

I know deals I think better than anyone knows deals.

You never really know.

NICK SCHIFRIN: As of now, the administration continues to plan as if the summit will happen,

but a senior official suggests that reporters who plan on going book refundable tickets.

We take a closer look now at today's meeting and the prospects for next month's summit

with Balbina Hwang, who served in the State Department during the George W. Bush administration,

and is now a visiting professor at Georgetown University.

And Jeffrey Lewis is the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at Middlebury

Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

He is also founding publisher of the blog Arms Control Wonk.

Welcome to you both.

Jeffrey Lewis, if I could start with you, why is President Moon of South Korea here?

What's his mission?

JEFFREY LEWIS, Director, East Asia Non-Proliferation Program, Monterey Institute of International

Studies: I think he has one overriding mission, and that's to save the summit between President

Trump and Kim Jong-un.

From President Moon's perspective, he wants to improve relations with North Korea, but

he can't do that unless the United States is also doing the same thing.

So, if he wants what he wants, he has to get that summit to happen.

NICK SCHIFRIN: And, Balbina Hwang, is that right?

Is President Moon here to save the summit?

BALBINA HWANG, Georgetown University: Oh, absolutely, and not only.

President Moon has absolutely one mission, and that is actually to prevent war on the

Korean Peninsula.

NICK SCHIFRIN: And trying to keep some of the rhetoric that we heard last year down.

I want to play some comments for both of you by the national security adviser, John Bolton,

to FOX News about four weeks ago.

JOHN BOLTON, U.S. National Security Adviser: We have very much in mind the Libya model

from 2003-2004.

There are obviously differences.

The Libyan program was much smaller, but that was basically the agreement that we made.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Bolton is talking about a deal about denuclearization from 2003.

But, of course, we know in 2011 he ended up dead in a ditch.

So, Jeffrey Lewis, what was Bolton's intention by bringing up the Libya model?

JEFFREY LEWIS: Well, you know, in his memoir, Bolton bragged about using diplomacy to actually

advance other goals.

So he bragged about sending a delegation off to Pyongyang, feeling that he had sabotaged

them and knowing that it would collapse.

My guess is that he was bringing up Gadhafi not because it really is a model for disarmament,

but because he knew it would annoy the North Koreans.

And, in fact, it did.

I think we saw that the North Korean statement the other day singled Bolton out and made

it very clear that Libya wasn't a precedent they liked.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Balbina Hwang, is that right?

Was the national security adviser perhaps trying scuttle this summit or somehow convince

North Koreans that the U.S. wasn't serious about diplomacy?

BALBINA HWANG: Well, absolutely.

Libya is a red line that everybody knows is something that North Korea will not accept.

Now, on the other hand, it is also the sort of extreme that you set up going into negotiations,

so that you know that that is the furthest line that you know that is the extent to which

is the hard line, the extreme.

Now, we also know that President Trump is the negotiator.

That's how he presents himself.

That's how he is the deal-maker.

And when President Trump is going into the summit, that is what he says that he's going

to do.

He's going to come out with a deal.

And so that is how he is going to go in, and that's exactly how he wants to set it up.

And so North Korea is obviously going to come out and say, we're not going to go into a

summit with this kind of a deal.

So of course he's going to do that.

And I think that that's exactly how Bolton is setting this up.

NICK SCHIFRIN: So you're suggesting it actually could help, that this is something important,

whether the U.S. public or for the U.S. simply to have this hard line going into the summit,

that it's helpful?

BALBINA HWANG: Exactly.

NICK SCHIFRIN: OK.

Jeffrey Lewis, should there be a summit?

We heard a lot of doubt about this today.

And what do you expect to come out of the summit if it indeed goes forward on the 12th?

JEFFREY LEWIS: Well, I think the answer to whether there should be a summit is, it depends,

and I think it depends on whether the president goes in with realistic expectations.

I don't think the North Koreans are going to offer up their nuclear weapons.

I don't think that they're planning on disarming.

And so the real question is, are the North Koreans going to offer something short of

that, a prolonged moratorium on testing missiles, a continued pledge not to test nuclear weapons,

maybe a pledge not to export those technologies?

So you have to look at the likely North Korean concessions, what they're likely to put on

the table and then ask, is that something you want?

The nightmare scenario for me is that John Bolton's counsel in private is not preparing

the president for this, that he's getting him ready to expect a kind of surrender from

Kim.

And when that doesn't happen, will the president settle for less or we will he throw a tantrum

and walk out?

NICK SCHIFRIN: Balbina Hwang, should there be lowered expectations for the summit?

BALBINA HWANG: Well, is the summit really about the process of denuclearization and

disarmament, or is the summit really about politics and is this really about a political

process?

And I would argue that this really is about a political process, and if so, then, yes,

there should be a summit.

And, possibly, there will be one.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Jeffrey Lewis, quickly, is there any risk in this summit to the U.S.

alliance with South Korea?

JEFFREY LEWIS: Well, I think there is some risk.

You know, we're entering into this period where there are a lot of tensions.

President Moon is a progressive, but he's also quite nationalistic.

I think he's quite negative about the U.S. presence in the country.

And President Trump has insisted that South Korea pay more.

So my fundamental concern is, if the summit goes badly, we don't want a situation where

President Moon decides that the big threat isn't Kim Jong-un; it's Donald Trump.

NICK SCHIFRIN: That's interesting.

Balbina Hwang, do some people in South Korea believe the threat is not Kim Jong-un, but

actually Donald Trump?

BALBINA HWANG: I think this is the single biggest underestimated risk, is the alliance.

And this is the one thing that we are not looking at.

The whole summit is, unfortunately, played as between the United States and North Korea.

And what we're not looking at is the third actor, which is South Korea and the U.S. alliance

with South Korea.

NICK SCHIFRIN: And, therefore, is there risk to this alliance, especially if the summit

doesn't go well?

BALBINA HWANG: Absolutely.

That's right.

And, especially if the summit doesn't even occur at all, the alliance could be at risk.

NICK SCHIFRIN: All right.

Balbina Hwang, Jeffrey Lewis, thank you very much.

BALBINA HWANG: Thank you.

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US needs to be more aggressive with China on trade: Trish Regan - Duration: 2:52.

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US getting the bad end of potential trade deal with China? - Duration: 7:37.

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Sen. John McCain wants us to see we are more alike than different - Duration: 10:24.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Republican Senator John McCain is known as a maverick, familiar with tough

fights, from prison camps in Vietnam to the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Recently, he has been staying close to the Arizona ranch he calls home, as he undergoes

treatment for brain cancer.

But he still speaks his mind.

And there are new glimpses this month into McCain's life and thinking.

He and his family are part of a new HBO documentary, "John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls," which

debuts next Monday.

Here's a look.

SEN.

JOHN MCCAIN (R), Arizona: Come on, Verma (ph).

Come on, honey.

JACK MCCAIN, Son of John McCain: I got a phone call from my mom that said: "Jack, you're

going to see some stuff in the news.

Your father has brain cancer.

I'm with him right now.

He knows his diagnosis, and he's the same as he's always been.

He said, 'All right, let's push forward.'"

SEN.

JOHN MCCAIN: You know, these doctors keep talking to me about people who, if you tell

them the truth, and then they just give up and die, that you really want to -- and I

keep saying them, just tell me.

Just tell me.

That's all I want to know, you know?

Some say, well, it's not good.

And I say, well, you know it's just (EXPLETIVE DELETED) and it really drives me crazy.

But then I talk to other doctor friends of mine and say that most people, that's not

what they want to hear.

Why wouldn't they want to hear, you know?

Why wouldn't they want to spend a few more days here, you know?

JUDY WOODRUFF: McCain's battle with cancer is also ever-present, whether explicitly or

implicitly, in a new memoir out today.

There are reflections about living and past decisions, but it also makes clear that McCain

still has plenty to say about America, American society, and politics in the age of President

Trump.

It is called "The Restless Wave," and McCain co-wrote it with one of his close longtime

aides, Mark Salter, who joins me now from New York.

Mark Salter, thank you for being with us.

Give us an update on how...

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Thank you -- how Senator McCain is doing.

MARK SALTER, Co-Author, "The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and

Other Appreciations": He's hanging in there.

He's fighting, working hard at getting stronger.

He had an operation a couple weeks ago that knocked the wind out of him a little bit.

But he's back home, and he's working on getting stronger and still staying engaged with his

office and doing all the things he wants to be doing right now.

JUDY WOODRUFF: You have been writing books with him for, what, almost 20 years.

This is your seventh book together.

MARK SALTER: That's right.

JUDY WOODRUFF: This book sounds like -- it reads like he's still got a lot rolling around

in his mind that he wants to get out there.

Restless wave, what did he mean by that?

MARK SALTER: Well, it's a line from the Navy hymn "Eternal Father."

It refers to eternal father, strong to save, whose arm hath bound the restless wave.

And most people know who know John McCain know him to be a very restless individual,

and only God can restrain him.

So, we thought that was an appropriate title, under the circumstances.

JUDY WOODRUFF: But a lot to get off his chest in this book.

MARK SALTER: He did.

The book -- we had started working on the book before his diagnosis.

And it was a little bit different of a book.

It was going to concentrate mostly on foreign affairs and national security.

But he wanted to write something more personal and tell stories about the causes that matter

most to him and to write about what America means to him and what America means to the

world.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, one of the many things he writes about -- he rally covers his entire

public career -- he writes about choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008.

He takes responsibility for any of the problems in that campaign and her role in it, but he

also says that he wishes he had chosen Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate.

How much does that bother him?

MARK SALTER: Well, I think that was his first choice.

He wanted to do it.

He was persuaded by his aides and from senior members of the party that it would cause a

divided convention and a challenge perhaps on the floor to the nomination of his vice

presidential pick, and was convinced not to do it.

He would have -- looking back, he wished he had stuck with it.

That's not to say he regrets choosing Governor Palin.

There is a distinction there.

And I think people have mixed that up a little bit.

But it's not.

Once he decided or was convinced that he couldn't pick Senator Lieberman, he chose Governor

Palin, and he never regretted it publicly or privately.

He's never said a word of regret about it.

JUDY WOODRUFF: He writes at some length about how much he has loved serving in the Senate.

He makes that very clear.

His friendships across the partisan aisle.

Why has that been so important to him?

MARK SALTER: Well, he served there for over 30 years now, a long time.

And even before that he was the Senate's -- the Navy's Senate liaison officer.

And he got to know some of the lions of the Senate back in the '70s, Scoop Jackson, Barry

Goldwater, John Tower, traveled with them overseas quite a bit, had bipartisan friendships,

became good friends with some of the then younger members, Gary Hart, Bill Cohen, Joe

Biden.

And he's just -- it's a place that he's seen do enormous amount of good and work together

collaboratively to make progress on the problems of our time, something that he's worried is

getting a little lost now.

JUDY WOODRUFF: On the -- moving around, there's so much in this book, Mark Salter.

At one point, he does write about getting a copy of the so-called Steele dossier, the

report written by the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, turning it over

to then-FBI Director Comey.

It is clear that he takes the Russia interference in the last election seriously.

What does he think about how other Republicans see that?

MARK SALTER: Well, he thinks most of his colleagues in the Senate take it pretty seriously.

I'm sure he's been a it a little -- like many people who worry about Putin and Putin's challenge

to the U.S. and his challenge to American allies, he probably worries a little bit about

some people in the House Intelligence Committee not taking it that seriously.

But he takes it seriously.

He's had a pretty good sense of Putin.

Going back all the way to the late '90s, he has been warning about him.

So, he thinks probably China is our long-term challenge, you know, over the next generation

or the work, but our immediate problem is Vladimir Putin.

And he would like the see members of Congress in his party and the Democratic Party confront

that challenge honestly and forcefully.

JUDY WOODRUFF: So much of this book, or at least a good chunk of it, reads like what

he is standing up -- what he stands for is in opposition to what President Trump stands

for.

He talks about being a champion of compromise, being someone who believes in working with

the other side, and toning down the harsh rhetoric.

And let's air just a little bit of what he himself read from the audio version of this

book at the end.

MARK SALTER: Sure.

SEN.

JOHN MCCAIN: Before I leave, I would like to see our politics begin to return to the

purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations.

I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different.

We're citizens of a republic made of shared ideals, forged in a new world to replace the

tribal enmities that tormented the old one.

Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that awesome heritage and

the responsibility to embrace it.

Whether we think each other right or wrong in our views on the issues of the day, we

owe each other our respect, so long as our character merits respect.

And as long as we share, for all our differences, for all the rancorous debates that enliven

and sometimes demean our politics, a mutual devotion to the ideals our nation was conceived

of hold, that all are created equal, and liberty and equal justice are the natural rights of

all.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Mark Salter, that's a very different message from what's in the political

atmosphere right now.

Why did he want to get that out?

MARK SALTER: Well, you know, he has served in uniform and in public office.

He's served this country for 60 years, quite a long stretch of time.

And serving this country to him has meant serving her ideals, to see them advance in

the world and to see them safe here at home.

That's been the most just cause of his life, and a cause that he believes has given his

life honor and purpose.

So, he is obviously concerned when he thinks that we're losing sight of that, that we're

-- whether it's, whatever you call it, nativism or America-first nationalism, that is only

concerned about getting what advantages there are in the world for us, and to hell with

the rest of humanity.

I don't want anyone to think, and he wouldn't want anyone to think that this book is just

an anti-Donald Trump diatribe.

It's not.

They have differences on many issues that are very important to the senator, and he

discusses those issues quite forthrightly.

But the book is about a great deal more than that.

It's about his love of this country and what it means to him and what it means to the world

and what he hopes it will continue to mean to the world in the future he may not be here

to see.

JUDY WOODRUFF: How many of his Republican colleagues in the Senate does he think share

those views?

MARK SALTER: The vast majority of them.

JUDY WOODRUFF: But why aren't we hearing from them, does he think?

MARK SALTER: Oh, I think you do.

And they do -- a lot of the work -- you know, it's always the controversies that get all

the attention, for obvious reasons, but take a look at the committee he chairs, the Armed

Services Committee.

That -- every year, year after year, that committee reports out its bill, the defense

spending -- authorization bill, almost always unanimously, always in a bipartisan fashion.

Everybody works collaboratively, with a sense that American -- America's leadership of the

world is important to us and important to the world.

That doesn't get as much attention as noisier, more confrontational or controversial statements

and actions on the part of some members of Congress, but it's more the norm than not.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Is he hopeful for the country's future?

MARK SALTER: He believes -- yes, he believes this country is a match for its challenges

in the present and in the future.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Mark Salter, who wrote the book with John McCain "The Restless Wave:

Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations."

Mark Salter, we thank you.

MARK SALTER: Thank you, Judy.

Appreciate it.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And that book is out today.