admiral scholz has had a role in all of that. prior to becoming the coast guard 26, that he served as commander of the coast guard entire atlantic area where last year he oversaw all those hurricane operations for four different hurricanes. he made time to be the media and liaison with the president who said he's impressed. he also served as director of the department of homeland security joint task force east which gave him purview of the southern border as well as the caribbean and central america. there is very little he has not actually touched in spirals and did a tour as director of governmental and public affairs at coast guard headquarters in dc and previously served at various times as a liaison to the house of representatives and the us department of state bureau for international narcotics and law-enforcement. looking for a question that will stomp him good luck with that. without further ado i'd like to introduce admiral scholz. [applause] >> good morning. technical difficulties was because we are a small service agai

it was george scholz who talked about diplomacy. and going over to make sure that the weeds were taking out the plans. and spending time there. how can he do the crisis management when you don't have an ambassador. and it's not the democrats in the senate's fault. as they can't confirm an ambassador until it is nominated. which in the case of saudi arabia has not happened. is that rebuilding of our central capacity to work with other countries who are on our side and that is fundamental to rebuilding this. when is politics been easy. it is a hard business as you know with your own career. the other thing is i think it will get easier for an american president to make the case to the american people to overcome political criticism in terms of pursuing an international foreign-policy. if our friends and allies actually do more. part of that. they need to do it because it's in their interest to do so. if they do more that is tangible it makes it easier for americans to make the case to a skeptical members of the american public. as wel

hundred eighteen thousand workers the job cuts are possible of a possible sale of assets including dr scholz foot care brand and coppertone sunscreen are part of buyer's effort to regain investor confidence after losses incurred due to the sixty billion dollar acquisition of agribusiness and chemical giant months santal most notably as we've discussed here in the program before lunch santos herbicide glycol say it has become an albatross around buyers neck after a two hundred fifty million dollar judgment against one central later reduced to thirty nine million in a suit filed by a formal school grounds keeper delaying johnson mr johnson blames his workplace exposure to life will say for his aggressive terminal case of non hodgkins lymphoma and many similar suits are now pending. and we've been talking about the g twenty. the meeting in buenos aires argentina for months and there is still a lot of anticipation and the main events haven't even begun but we are there are two scottie nell hughes host of the new news views and hughes gives us a report from argentina where as we mentioned earlier

budget rules he told cnbc the report was the hope of my opponents >>> german finance minister olaf scholz said germany will not create a new euro crisis he called on rome also to implement plans slowly >>> prime minister theresa may will take calls on a bbc radio show thislunchtime to defend her withdrawal agreement the 26-page document includes a commitment to an ambitious and balanced economic partnership and includes the idea that england will respect the eu customs market may said a final brexit deal was within reach >> this is the right deal for the uk it delivers on the vote of the referendum it brings back control of our borders, our money, our laws and it does so while protecting jobs, protecting our security, and protecting the integrity of the united kingdom the fwreeagreement is between t and the european commission. it's up to the 27 leaders of the other eu member states to examine this agreement in the days leading up to the special eu council meeting on sunday. >>> the prime minister has faced a barrage of criticism from remainers and brexiteers, including dominic raab who s

one with olaf scholz, the finance minister we will talk about his vision for europe, and then another one with the economy minister, peter altmaier about his take for what has to be done in terms of reforms for germany to keep it up to speed with the competitors out there. back to you. >> thank you very much for that. looking forward to those conversations. >>> you mentioned the german finance minister, he expressed optimism over the budget row between italy and the european commission he said rome will take steps to solve tensions with european authorities. speaking to cnbc he described italy's debt situation as unfortunate. >> the commissioner and the european council of finance ministers treated the question i think very moderate. they started to discuss about necessities for the futures, and they looked at the situation of the public debt, which is important. we are quite optimistic in the end that would be a good solution >>> the italian government has until today to send a new budget proposal to the european commission willem sat down with five-star movement mp lorenzo fiormonti

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