washington's mother. that's what you're going to hear about tonight. join me in welcoming dr. martha saxton. [applause] saxton: thank you for that kind introduction. it is a pleasure to be here and see such a wonderful audience to celebrate women's history month. it is great. it is a great honor to be here. i have been back and forth for many years. this is my first time trying to get back what mount vernon has given me. i came across marybelle washington while i was researching "being good." i was surprised to find that george washington, like many sons in 18th-century virginia, was aggravated in his dealings with his widowed mother over money. i was surprised because he was so wealthy, of course, and so famous for being well behaved. i did not know a great deal about george washington, and certainly nothing about his mother. this did -- the picture did not seem quite right. in looking for more context, i came across a handful of that come from washington's document that have until recently constituted e

he promised to drain the swamp and clean up washington. democrats welcomed this promise when he made it. all of us here today have been working for years to promote ideas and legislation that would loosen the grip of special interests on so many arms of the federal government. but president trump, when it comes to draining the swamp, has been a complete and total disappointment. president trump has embraced the most egregious establishment republican norms, and appointed the most conflict of interest-ridden cabinet in my lifetime. the swamp has never been more foul or more fetid than under this president. every day it seems there's a new story about the swamp cabinet. just look at the swampy actions that finally forced out h.h.s. secretary tom price. e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt almost daily stream of corruption. or o.m.b.'s mick mulvaney caught on tape saying access to him had to be bought. he wasn't even ashamed. even the president's personal attorney, michael cohen, who doesn't work in the white house, was cashing checks in exchang

washington's relations with pakistan have taken a downturn after it was believed the u.s. had reached an agreement for the release of a doctor who helped the cia track a son a bin ladin however he remains in prison and islamabad say no such deal exists r.t.s. american tells us more. the pakistani doctor who helped the cia track down and kill the world's most wanted terrorist osama bin ladin is still in prison two years after this promise from donald trump do you think you can get the darker out yes i do i think i would get him out in two minutes i would tell them let him out and i'm sure they'd let him out in may two thousand and twelve shaquille afraid he was sentenced to thirty three years behind bars. jobs. in. two thousand and eleven for being go money to the militants of that. and he was assisting in medical term that he was making some arrangements for their meeting in is a hospital i met him in two thousand in june and he said that i am innocent and the charges they are totally illegal but last week his family were given a glimmer of hope there are reports that a po

and martha washington? >> it is not a question i can fully answer. they saw each other from time to time. when george sort of made that happen. he saw his mother much more then they saw each other as a trio. as far as i know, she never went to mount vernon. at least after the marriage, there is no record she did. she did not go anywhere. i do not know that she was not welcome there, but she also did not go anyplace else either. she was very happy george got married. she helped him prepare for the wedding and when there was an emergency and his luggage did not arrive on time, she made that happen. they were very different. martha was from a different class in some ways. mary was -- she spoke her mind. elite. the gentry in this time became more and more gentrified. george and martha are in a class that is becoming more and more rarefied from mid to late 18th century. mary does not dress well. george talked about it. he does not like that she is using an old-style of wearing kind of a house dress and hi contin

[cheers and applause] announcer: washington post publisher fred ryan returned to his alma mater him of the university of southern california, to address law school graduates, where he talked about tech innovation, attacks on journalism, the rule of law, and internet privacy. mr. ryan is the former president and ceo of politico and served as chief of staff to ronald reagan after his presidency. [applause] dean, thankhank you you class of 2018 for that warm welcome to usc. it is great to be with you on this special day. just to assure you that life continues after law school, in fact long after law school, i would like to point out that several members of my class, the class of 1980, are here tonight. thank you for joining us. [applause] frederick: and it is great to see that the home for all lawyers let you out for the day. [laughter] with two: i will begin confessions, purely voluntary, so there is no need to whip out your book of rules of evidence. have no ideastly who the commencement speaker was 38 years ago when i graduated from usc. whoever he was was not especially as firing and

washington journal. time for some open phones this morning. about 15 minutes until we show you the latest on c-span's 50 capitals tour. the c-span bus traveling around the country. today we will be showing you our stock in cheyenne, wyoming that was recorded earlier this week. we interviewed the governor in that stop. onil then taking your calls lines for democrats, republicans and independents. it's open phones. any public policy issue you want to talk about. as you were calling and during that pro forma session you saw chaplain father patrick conroy. he is the house chaplain. he is slated to leave on may 24. that's his resignation date. we covered some of the controversy surrounding his resignation from the house. story out today from the hill newspaper on father conroy's job status. a small group of lawmakers from both parties had begun exploring ways to get the ousted house chaplain reinstated. congressman jerry conley said yesterday over this week's break conley reached out to both democratic and re

with the deal this is why there's been so much hysteria in europe and they tried mike carona came to washington they all failed he pulled out why the pull out one could only imagine is because they are planning a regime change in iran i think we're seeing all the signs of that you know one hour after trump made that speech in which he said he was getting out of the deal the israelis massively bombed iranian targets inside syria according to time magazine one hour later that's the message that was sent so while the attacks made against iran maybe just in syria now there's no question in my mind that when the military directive that trump also gave to the defense department to prepare against any threat by iran they were going down a very very dangerous road here ok it's go to their second joe and why he then how do you assess what joe lauria just said right there because it all of the hallmarks of you know i feel like we're back in two thousand and three looking at the how the media is dealing with this here i mean the massacre of palestinians of the last few days and the way the media described

washington. the career politicians are in washington, they say term limits can't be done. it's nonsense. we don't work for them. they work for us. i'm rick scott. i approved this message. let's get to work. host: taking your calls this on "the washington journal" as we talk about term limits, proposal that was loated to the president last week by a group of younger members of congress, the president issuing his support in tweet last week. we want to hear what you think. f you support term limits for members of the house or senate. 202-748-8000. oppose the idea of term limits, 2 on 2-748-8001 is the number. matt is in maryland on that line for those who oppose. good morning. morning.ood one thing i don't want term limits for is c-span moderators appreciate you. federal mment is that term limits for representatives or senators is unconstitutional. there's nothing -- so the constitution says that any rights not specifically given to federal government go to the states. your state toe in limit the term of your epresentatives for the federal government but if you want to pass s

the gentleman from washington. mr. smith: i yield one minute to the gentleman from washington -- the gentleman from illinois, mr. schneider. the chair: the gentleman is recognize. mr. schneider: destabilizing activities in the middle east are not a new phenomena, but their reach has expanded in iraq and yemen and the establishment of a potentially permanent foothold in syria. such presence enable ice ran's increasing support for hezbollah, including not only weapons transfer bus assistance in building an indigenous rocket producing capacity. i therefore appreciate the work of the house armed services committee including a provision authorizing the secretaries of defense and state to develop and implement a strategy with foreign partners to counter iran's destabilizing activities. my first amendment would ensure the strategy includes specific countries in which iran is operating. an assessment of their destabilizing activity theansd implications thereof. my second amendment would require a report on iran's proxy forces

we have joe he is a fellow at the arab center washington d.c. and in london we have jonathan steele he's an international affairs commentator originally cross-talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joe lauria let me go to you first in washington i'm titling this program stumbling into war you know the more i think about that the events that are unfolding in front of us are so many different angles to look at how a possible conflict could come about what worries you the most in the wake of the decision to walk away from the nuclear deal with iran go ahead joe lauria in washington what worries me most true words john and bolton yes john bolton the national security adviser has been has been making speeches and writing articles for years about regime change in iran he backs this group which was on the terrorism list state department terrorism list he now is in the passenger seat with a very unsteady driver and netanyahu has one hand on the wheel netanyahu has been able to manipulate trump very easily

correspondent constant fun nominee in washington good to talk to thanks constant. well apple's quarterly numbers are out and it did better than expected profit jumping twenty five percent to ring in at over thirteen billion dollars ahead of those results there was concern that global appetite of i phones was waning the sales of fifty two million of them show some resilience in those robust results of paying off money for investors apple says it is adding an extra one hundred billion dollars to its payouts shay's also jumping in off to our west trading. well he's a financial correspondent in new york. there'd been a lot of talk before apple reported their quarterly results or because some suppliers actually came out with warnings and that was seen as a sign that maybe i phone shipments could disappoint but that was not the case in the past quarter apple shipped a good to fifty two million devices that was pretty much in line maybe one little downside that the average selling price was lower than in the quarter before but overall a very strong numbers profit increase

can you talk about that difference in view between people in washington and people outside of washington? guest: yeah. i have to be careful, because there are many people in washington who are very much trying to get a broader sense, what alec is talking about is a bubble, people in new york, in los angeles, living in a bubble that are very prosperous, they tend to be more liberal than the rest of the country. i feel like people, it is just inevitable that they get caught up in their own world. they hear things going on in their own neighborhoods, their theyocial circles, but how are going to hear what is going of new york and washington, and if anything, it has gotten worse, you hear from donald trump and everything going on, i feel taking a in new york,gy, here i am, people have dinner some of the talk about trump and what is going on in washington, and just to sort of get their mind outside of that, alec ablellis found that he was to find, get a sense of what people were saying. baltimore, and he was talking about his frustrations even in baltimore, miles from washington, he felt like

time to talk about every journalist who's been killed and apparently his death doesn't fit in with washington's agenda. r.t. new york. the rift between the and the us is deepening over the iran nuclear deal brussels energy chief has reassured around the block remains committed to the agreement if they would came during his first visit to iran since donald trump pulled washington out of the accord the european union did we routed it. the states this impromptu with it all from the joint comprehensive plan of. all nuclear deal there was absolutely unanimity among us because of the government that the union will the disagreement will stick to the commitments made and the disagreement looking at the latest officials of president. one could see the thing. with. him while france is finance minister a sensationally lashed out at the us for trying to be the world's economic policeman. gibe comes as the trump of ministration threaten to sanction e.u. firms doing business with iran it's good to do or we're going to accept the us is the planet's economic policeman do you accept one way domination with resp

from syria and other places well i mean how does that relate to the role nuclear deal what is that washington is bringing that into the mix. if not it is not related whatsoever. and the big me what i was talking about today was. providing a recipe for regime change mr straw our media didn't actually actually over the last six months and the regime change. and be not actually even ashamed of obviously and frankly talking about the ways in which they can of the mound seen as sanctions can put more pressure on the iranian people to the point that they can rise up against the regime. and suffered at the political system in iran don't want i should a whole host of issues there are some regional bowman she's talking about in. iraq and in the non afghanistan it is talking about. the civil program and if you talk about all these demands it's all demand that he talked about today in my opinion this is the i think that he actually the not going to realize. the regime change. in iraq in the current situation. would be preferred to company negotiating table to negotiate over their missile program and mor

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part children coming up today saudi arabia's unemployment rate has reached record levels causing increased concern arche correspondent mop and give us the latest and we talk trade and tariffs with alex behind all of it and authors heene plus r.t. correspondent dan cohen fills us in on the economic progress made by greece and their economy and a snoop dogg's said last week we'll put the crypt back in crypto with technology writer morgan tech all that debt ahead but first we hit the headlines. the merger mania continues yesterday was a particularly busy and big day for mergers as more than one hundred twenty billion dollars worth of deals were announced according to the market tracking firm deal logic we were ported on a couple of those wal-mart's bid to spin off u.k. grocery store locations and refocus on the fight with amazon for the indian market and the third try on a sprint t. mobile merger but there were many others and the numbers speak for themselves there have not been as m

washington is true. if there is an indispensable man in the revolution, i would say more urgent in the first decade of the national history, washington is the man. i don't think that anyone else could have held the country together. >> without him, it wouldn't have worked. >> the revolutionary war, he's .mportant, but not dispensable if he had been killed, as you once suggested, in 1777, someone else may have agreed that a general may have arisen to lead the nationt in building and nation holding, he was crucial. >>'s presence? quite c didn't say anything. >> he's just a seated there. eight -- atat the the very end he makes one proposal. we should lower the size of the district from 40,000 to 30. it was his point that if you make this little change for this constitution -- if he had ever intervened in the debate with a point, no one would have dared contested. he knew his own strength. >> putting him on record that he was there. privately at night in the tavern made his feelings felt, but publicly when y

washington's. sions appear to have become somewhat of a foreign policy tradition but the latest round of penalties are driving so officials wrong. former islamic state fighters are back in canada and that's got em pays asking questions we've got the details after this short break. the iran nuclear deal was once seen as a major achievement of american diplomacy but that's no longer the case donald trump's decision to pull out of the deal has reopened a major international problem and left allies betrayed and confused. the world. just approaching twenty minutes into the program welcome back a canadian opposition leader is demanding to know what's being done by dozens of former fighters who have returned to count of them it comes after one of them admitted tarring i'd executions in syria and the new york times podcast. and you can do this you're not going to be held accountable and i just kept looking down at his feet i don't want to look at his head and then. i kept thinking we killed them this indiv

it was good enough for george washington to go to congress so george washington can do it, i can do. congress flipped out when the game. they thought someone introduced a resolution to say this was unconstitutional interference with the power of legislation. but he was a tradition breaker in that way and get them in trouble today but sometimes it makes more sense than you may think at first. sir. >> many people have absorbed and scalia often inveighed against justice inventing law and of course you see it's not only in the supreme court but in other courts as well. this phenomenon you must have noted it in your studies when did it start and why did it start because to ordinary people it seems peculiar. >> yet, it depends on the us. if yes thomas jefferson to begin with john marshall. where on earth did john marshall find a bank in the constitution? it does not speak of a bank. we know that some members of the constitution thought of proposing a bank but they thought it would not get the votes for they held fire and waited until the fight was out in the political round. it is always b

i'm helena humphrey in berlin good to have you with us and germany is losing patience with washington's trade brinkmanship the german economy minister saying raising tariffs is the wrong way of going about things that would hurt jobs in germany europe and the u.s. says delaying the decision as trump did just hours before the midnight deadline is also a big problem especially as businesses have no way of planning for the future. that's die of relief for the european steel industry at least for now the next four weeks the e.u. can continue to sell steel and aluminum to the u.s. with that additional tariffs. back in march donald trump signed off on plans to impose tariffs of twenty five percent on steel imports and ten percent on r.u. many m two weeks later he granted the e.u. and several countries a temporary waiver that exemption ended on may first washington accuses the e.u. of unfair trade practices trump says if no deal is reached within the next four weeks tariffs will be back on the table analysts say now is the time for the european union to take decisive action the. e.u. should do

susan: why did he come to washington? kamal maclarin: he came because he established, and his final he wanted to use his voice and pen to advocate for african americans a transition from slavery to freedom. the newspaper was called the new national herald. he also wanted to have the ear of all the politicians in and around washington, because in 1872, the home that he purchased was not too far from the actual nation capital. susan: this was the period of reconstruction in the south. how was he able to influence policy at all? kamal maclarin: i would say that he did, because we saw that the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed. but what we find is that as the reconstruction era was winding down, we see douglass becomes jaded by the whole reconstruction experiment in many ways, because there were all the things, all the advancements that were made during that critical period were pretty much being undercut or rolled back. susan: is it true that when he arrived, president rutherford hayes helped his finances by giving

of strategy at the johns hopkins university also in washington we have i done you for achi. he is the director of grassroots political consulting and in new york we cross to george them yuli he's a fellow at the global policy institute in london and author of the book bombs for peace our gentleman cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated michael let me go to you first in washington you are after all a professor of strategy so given what we've seen of this administration well so they'd say does this president have a foreign policies strategy go ahead mr strategists. strategy can be the thing itself or it can be a representation of the formulas and nostrums that float among the the privilege the ruling elites and thus i think you see trump speaking to the people who most enthusiastically support him right his base so-called and he is speaking for them as in their voice and in that sense much of the rhetoric and delivery of his foreign policy. is really shaped to fit his constituency and part of that is sloughing off this elabo

i don't think european union is in the mood for listening to washington dick tut had this moment yes mr macron had a wonderful wreaking in a. few weeks ago where mr buck rod has probably decided to become washington's pimp in paris however the other european union countries particularly germany is in no mood to listen to washington on the business relationship that they have developed with. iran over the years it's not in the interest of anyone to create huge distances between iran or the nuclear deal. a bridge linking mainland russia to the crimean peninsula was officially opened on tuesday the longest bridge in europe will reduce the region's reliance on sea and transport and it will allow more tourists to visit the army has been a popular summer destination for russians for more than a century. thanks . thanks. thanks thanks thanks. thanks. thanks for the first to use a new link was in fact a cat that lives in the area this feline has its own social media accounts where this video was posted in now enjoys a hefty following. around twenty thousand people have reportedly been evicte

mr macron had a wonderful reading in a washington a. few weeks ago where mr buck broad has probably decided to become washington's pimp in paris however the other european union countries particularly germany is in no mood to listen to washington on the business relationship that they have developed with. iran over the years it's not in the interest of anyone to create huge distances between iran or the nuclear deal. the longest bridge in europe linking mainland russia to crimea was officially opened on tuesday it took only teen years to build and will reduce the region's reliance on sea and air transport and allow more tourists to visit. well the first pedestrian to use the new link was for footage discount which lives in the area of feline has its own social media account where this video was posted and has enjoyed a strong following. well the russian president was soon to follow in the cat's footsteps making the journey from the krasnodar region in southern russia could all the crimean peninsula. or even was words. were that of a put

newhouse from washington for yielding to me the customary 30 minutes for debate. mr. speaker, i rise today to debate the rule for consideration of this measure, h.r. 3053. as my good friend alluded to, this legislation has bipartisan support and takes an important step toward permanently securing nuclear waste in our country. 36 years ago, congress passed the nuclear waste policy act. n doing so, this institution created a formal process for constructing a permanent geological repository for the growing amount of nuclear waste across our country. this particular provision established a scientificcally based multistage process for selecting and -- an eventual site of permanent storage for highly radioactive nuclear waste. delineated the federal government's responsibilities for the transportation of spent nuclear fuel, and created a dedicated funding source for disposing of nuclear material. five ve years after passing the mwpa, a dep of energy study determined the facility be built at yucca mountain. subsequent r many years of planning, construction has stalled at the

. >> "washington journal" continues. on mondays, we like to look at the week ahead in washington, covering both ends of pennsylvania avenue. we're joined by erik wasson and anita kumar. anita kumar, i want to begin with the confirmation hearings for gina haspel. that is happening on wednesday it reports out over the weekend house had to push to keep her to continue in this nomination process. and of the back story here, is this confirmation still on track? right now.l on track "the washington post" reported this weekend that she wanted to get out of the confirmation, saying she wanted to withdraw. she did not want to be another whoy jackson was the quote, was the president of the doctor who was nominated to head the v.a. rand paul is against her. unclear what will happen with john mccain. have the votesl to the controversy behind her, even though she is a career cia officer, 33 years of places all over the world, the controversy is what she had to do with the torture that the cia committed after the 9/11 attacks. the whi

the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. newhouse: thank you, mr. speaker. let me quote the ranking member of the energy and commerce committee, mr. frank pallone, from new jersey, who said that overall this legislation is a balanced step in the right direction that will benefit rate payers, taxpayers, and those living near nuclear facilities housing nuclear waste. so i'm happy to have his support for this legislation as well. just a couple of points if the good lady if nevada, who i deeply respect and take her perspective on this with a great deal of gravity. you know, the transportation this year has been brought -- transportation issue has been brought up several times. nuclear waste is transported in this country already. i just got to tell you, the vessels, the containers that i have witnessed that this waste is being temporarily stored in and used for transportation literally is missile proof. it is in containers that is very solidly contained and in such a way that the safety factor is many times overall to ensure tha

asymmetrical way this is something i worry about go ahead joe laurie in washington . first i agree with jonathan said i think they would prefer a regime change through a color revolution and not war but that that's on the cards if necessary as far as the europeans go we've saw or twice since the cold war since the on the second world war one since one thousand sixty seven one to go all pulled out of nato and then of course in two thousand and three as you were bringing up peter the europeans would not vote the germans and the french are on the security council of course the french are always on the security council they didn't vote for bush is a resolution to invade iraq and that became a big crisis those are the two main times when europe showed some independence against united states this is the third opportunity and unfortunately i agree with you and what alexander mccurry is wrote in the durand that i republished in that sort of news that the market the iranian market is much smaller than the u.s. market and the economics of it are going to determine that europe w

washington bureau chief. welcome alexander to tell us more about about the us is twelve demands well there is a long list of demands as you said twelve among them requiring man steps could have been expect for example calling on the run to stop the end richmond of the randian something that was now it's on to the previous iran deal under strict limitations the u.s. is also calling upon iran through these all the citizens held in iran it's calling for on the iran to allow nuclear on qualified access to all science throughout the country and it's also demanding that iran would stroll all its troops from syria and stop its activities in the region in yemen or enough ghana's down and that is indeed something that was not addressed by the deal and it is something that you ask is very concerned about what response is this likely to bring from iran. well the u.s. government is convinced that that's the right strategy because they're pointing to their maximum pressure campaign against north korea saying look this can

this is the news live from berlin tonight washington wings it's a tough new law to reign in iraq. you know what britain. no more symptoms of missiles landing in the bowling heights no more cost for expansion. u.s. secretary of state my compañero adding to the u.s. will impose its toughest sanctions yet on iran's also coming up in the least populous coalition nominates just because they were prime minister meaning that the country could finally see a new government sworn in we'll bring you the latest from home and to russia facing a new doping scandal with less than four weeks until the soccer world cup begins german journalist of uncovered suspicious test results from the russian soccer squad member it's. good to have you with thoughts tonight the united states is threatening to impose its toughest ever sanctions on iran that is unless tehran ends its nuclear program and withdraws its forces from syria u.s. secretary of state my pump aoe today laid down the ultimatum signaling a new approach from washington after it jettisoned the international nuclear deal with iran two weeks ag

good morning and welcome to the washington institute. i am brought back off, director of the institute and i am delighted to welcome all of you this morning to our institution for this theory special event. our guest was kind enough to remember that events in the middle east took them away at the last moment a year ago when he was due to come and speak at this institution. and although there are no shortage of complicated and even tragic events going on in the middle east today, we are grateful to him and to his team and delegation for making time in this important mission to come and speak to the washington institute. i don't really have to list all of the issues that confront israeli security today i made him a look at the headlines, look at the map and see that on virtually every front surrounding israel commentaries red ink, the anchor challenge, taking the threat going from lebanon to syria, going from gaza to sinai. it is the responsibility of our guest today to address these issues, to lead in both the political and military sense

that it is actively reviewing assistance programs its spokes person added that washington expects the white helmets to continue its work as a result of additional funding by donors backed by the u.s. the u.s. has been funding the white helmets the tune of more than thirty two billion dollars but the group says it's also been bankrolled by several other nations to although the u.s. is now thought to be cutting funding the state department recently did praise the white helmets efforts in syria. we recognize and appreciate are very grateful for all the work that the white house continues to on behalf of the people of their country and on behalf of the u.s. government and all the coalition coalition forces there doing incredible work. the u.k. those reaffirmed its commitment to the white helmets and the work they do in syria that's despite the group been widely criticized for some of his actions in syria as we just said its members have appeared a number of times in videos or killings published by the news for a terror group the white helmets of all supposed to videos which they say show

so again, "the washington post" has just broken this story. mueller and his team apparently threatening that they believe they have the option of subpoenaing president trump to testify in the russia scandal even if he does not want to. again, "the post" helpfully noting that whatever trump's advisers and legal team think might be legal precedent, this is very much an untested matter in the courts. i should also add, since "the washington post" published this tonight, since they've posted this on their website, nbc news has reached out to john dowd, the president's former lawyer who, according to two people, who spoke with "the washington post" said to the special counsel in that march meeting, what was the quote again, this isn't some game, you are screwing with the work of the president of the united states. tonight, nbc news has reached john dowd to comment on this new report in "the washington post." in a brief e-mail with nbc news regarding this new "post" story, mr. dowd referred questions about it to the president's current legal team. b

washington by. and now it becomes like this great power that has lost its focus and also probably has put so much on his plate that he can handle now we have the future is next month with iran and the nuclear deal we have the upcoming summit with the north korean leader there so so much to deal with and i think now. probably a lot of the expectations of the public in this region of the world by embrace in so many adventurous and then he can not deliver much what are you remain concerned about is if trump and the kremlin loses their grip on both the iranians on the one hand and the israelis on the that's when it's going to be a messy joke and i don't think that trump will be able to figure out what to do next you know danny that brought up a really good point because there's so many festering issues particularly in the middle east but and on a broader broader scale with north korea the u.s. doesn't have a grasp on the situation i mean one of the things i have noticed with this administration is that

washington apparently assumes that europe will fall in line with trump's iran policy and they have a mequon tweet to back them up. now this is the transcript from a briefing by the state department to reporters yesterday when a reporter asked how the u.s. government can be sure that europe will cooperate a state department senior official said this i mean i think we have some idea because the president and president when he was here for the state visit president called it a four pillar new deal and the reporter says but one of the pillars that was keeping the c.p.a. away the nuclear deal which he made certain to emphasize repeatedly the state department official went on to say right but he tweeted today something that seemed to indicate to me a french willingness to work with us and the reporter replied so you guys have a positive tweet out of it that's amazing yes the trump administration apparently decided that there is no need for a plan b. because of the tweet written by the french president does emanuel macro not have that kind of sway over donald trump well that is just one of

mr macron had a wonderful repeating in a washington a. few weeks ago where mr buck broad has probably decided to become washington's pimp in the paris however the other european union countries particularly germany is in no mood to listen to washington on the business relationship that they have developed with. iran over the years it's not in the interest of anyone to create huge distances between iran on the nuclear deal. the longest bridge in europe linking mainland russia to crimea was officially opened on tuesday it took only two years to build and will reduce the region's reliance on sea and air transport and allow more tourists to visit. well the first pedestrian to use the new link was full footage of this current which lives in the area but the line has its own social media account where this video was posted and that enjoys a strong following. the russian president was soon to follow in the cat's footsteps making the journey from the krasnodar region to use in southern russia to coach on the crimean peninsula. so you believe that

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anthony zurcher has more from washington. what we know is that it was kelly sadler who reportedly said this, she is a white house aide, came over to the trump white house from a local washington conservative newspaper. she was responding to the criticism ofjohn mccain blocking jeanna haskel, the cia nominee, said, it does not matter, he's going to die anyway. this was a closed—door meeting but i think it is reflective of the atmosphere in this white house that word of her remarks leaked to multiple media outlets and were confirmed by multiple media outlets. when cindy mccain, sorry, meghan mccain talks about the environment here in this white house, you have to remember that donald trump himself in the campaign in 2015, early in his campaign, criticised john mccain in very personal terms and said he was not a war hero, he was only a war hero because he became a prisoner of war in vietnam and he prefers his heroes or likes his heroes not to be captured. the idea this was an attitude that comes down from the top, from the pre

and he seems particularly to hate the "washington post." the president has latched on personally to "washington post" owner jeff bezos, who also founded and runs amazon.com. jeff bezos is literally the richest man on earth right now. the president for months has been publicly attacking the "washington post" and the connection between the "washington post" and amazon through the paper's owner, jeff bezos. the president has been blunt about this in his own online statements, and within the last few weeks it has felt like maybe this was starting to tip over into enemies list territory. this was the "wall street journal" last month. "in the past week the president has turned what were sporadic and often private criticisms of amazon.com into a sustained volley against the company, often causing stock market fluctuations with his tweets against amazon. fueling mr. trump's ire is not so much amazon but the company's ceo, jeff bezos, who also owns the "washington post," according to people close to the white house. mr. trump sees mr. bezos's hand i

tonight on "washington week." president trump: i'll be meeting with kim jong-un to pursue a future o peace and security for the world, for the whole world. barry: north korea frees three north northwestern detainees, clearing the way for the summit with kim jong-un. president trump: our biggest achievement wh will be when we denuclearize that entire region. robert: can the president convince the north korean leader to stop his nuclear program and what will they expect in return? plus, one week after the u.s. pulse the iranian deal, a warning to iran. president trump: i advise iran not to restart their nlear program. robert: but the president of iran says ifma dipc means cannot solve -- come it with its own deal, iran may retaliate. we examine the global implications with per baker of "the new york times," shawna thomas of vice news, anne gearan of the "washington post" andle michael cr of politico. >> this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand

s washington bureau chief use of example of. an exam to tell us more about the us is twelve demands. the twelve demands outlined by my point here did not come as a surprise because although these issues are very important for the trump administration the u.s. is calling on iran to stop the end richmond of uranium that was actually allowed under strict limitations and the previous nuclear deal is calling on iran to allow nuclear unqualified access to all sides throughout the country it is calling on the iran through lease u.s. citizens held in the country my computer also said stetson iran must stop its activities in the region in yemen in afghanistan in live and on and that iran has to restore its troops from syria and that is indeed something that. the us is very concerned about and that was not addressed by the previous nuclear iran deal she when you look through this list it does seem to amount to a change of regime i don't think us really expect iran to comply or is it hoping that it doesn't. well the u.s. government says th