your foreign affairs did not make it. pres. bush: but this is less serious. we are up there with harry potter and i do not know who the latest movie star is. brian: how many have you so? pres. bush: i do know no. i think it is kind of hanging in there. we had a lot of fun with this book. i do not want to write a memoir. this is the closest you will get to a memoir. it is not about substance. there is substance in there. it is about heartbeat. it is about my pulse. it is about what makes my family come together what hurts us, , what makes us cry and laugh. brian: go back to the chronology. you became the republican national committee chairman in what year? pres. bush: the winter of 1973. brian: why did you do it? pres. bush: the president asked me. brian: why did he ask you? pres. bush: he thought i would be the best to be the chairman of the party. he said he wanted everyone's resignation on the desk before they close of business today. it was not the gentlest of approach but we sent the letters in. then we were all summoned to go to camp david. things he sug

his new job his minister of state for foreign affairs a new political and security council has also been ordered by the saudis want to let us take a quick look now at the bear's recent history in saudi politics he was appointed saudi minister of foreign affairs on april twenty ninth twenty fifteen prior to that he's the saudi ambassador to the united states from two thousand and seven to two thousand and fifteen he was also the foreign policy adviser to king abdullah bin abdulaziz during that period. has now been replaced by abraham us off a long serving finance minister of saudi arabia and the country's former state minutes let's bring back. he's had a policy analysis in the absence of research he joins us again live on set. what's really behind this cabinet reshuffle i mean this is big stuff isn't it is i think it's another scapegoat that it should be a disses the fall out of the g. killing fear. and i think the king now is trying to send a message that we are going. back to the saudi tradition of foreign policy that somehow in my opinion. taking their foreign policy administration or

bush: loyalty, government, foreign affairs. everybody ridicules the vice presidency, there is a lot of substance to it provided you work for a menu respect and who will delegate certain responsibilities to you. in my case, regulatory reform, leaving antiterrorist studies and things of this nature. in return, i owed him my loyalty. and i was lucky, because ronald reagan, when i ran for president after eight years as his vice president, i would not have moved away from him if it had meant the entire election. i would not have said, i knew all along he should've done this differently, or he did this wrong. i would not have done that and i did not feel that way. the iran-contra thing. the matter was resolved to the satisfaction of the american people. but i would not have said, if i had been there, i would not have done this. you cannot do this and live with yourself in terms of loyalty and character. brian: who taught you loyalty? pres. bush: my mom and dad. brian: who taught them loyalty? where does it come from? pres. bush: in t

prime minister and minister for foreign affairs discussing the role of. what the exit scenario what potentially set up a move to united ireland will having a hard border incite people to vote to leave the u.k. or maybe having no border will contribute for an actual island unity. well i think there are i think we have to see how this develops over over a period of time i think there are a number of factors that come into play i think there are not only to do with the issue of the border in in our land i think there is also the dynamic within the united kingdom itself the question of scotland for example if the issue of scottish independence were to come back on the table again how would that play in relation to northern ireland i think also there's the future economic development the reality is is that. there is no good break such. that i don't think is going to work well for anybody so if for example there were a divergence in the economies between arland and the united kingdom were between the european union and the united kingdom i think that that's a f

gilmore a former irish deputy prime minister and minister for foreign affairs and trade welcome to the show it's great to have you with us today. to talk about so the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland has become a key issue that you know that convincingly has to choose between staying in the customs union with the e.u. or putting up a hard border isolating northern island are this really the only choice is is there a third option that could work. no i think that i think that summer summarizes that really the agreement that was made twenty years ago between our london the united kingdom the good friday agreement which provided for the settlement of the conflict in northern ireland regulates all the relations between the main relations between our land and the united kingdom and arising from that both the irish government and the u.k. government and indeed all of the political parties in northern ireland and in the south of ireland all do not want to see hard border we do not want to see a return to the days when there were customs posts when there were soldiers

i wanted to do more in the foreign affairs. he said, what about china? david bruce, the senior diplomat, was coming home. he said, you might not like it. the u.n. might not accept. you better check with henry kissinger. the chinese sent someone else to president ford right away. chinese?d you learn pres. bush: every day for five days a week. brian: how did you do? pres. bush: i gave a going away speech in chinese. all of the people that worked around the embassy understood i was speaking in chinese. the language teacher was in the back. i loved it. brian: you have some old chicken scratch chinese downstairs in your library. pres. bush: i didn't write it. brian: you are trying to do the characters. pres. bush: all i did was speaking. brian: what did you learn from your experience as a chinese liaison? pres. bush: the importance of china. i saw the disadvantages of a totally closed society. i appreciated that there are far more human liberties and human rights in china today. it is not perfect by a long shot. the family was still a strong entity in china.

i stress to all the members of congress and to the egyptian foreign affairs officials, this is not an attack on president el-sisi. on the contrary. i support our friendship with egypt, but more can always be done in the area of protecting religious freedom and human rights. my staff and i met with the egyptian embassy on numerous occasions, and i've had other opportunities to meet with members of the egyptian parliament, including one woman, parliamentarian, who is a cop. egypt and the united states are important partners in the fight against terrorism in the region. egypt's role at camp david has led to some of the closest ties between the u.s., egypt and israel in their history. one still marvels at the bravery of anwar sadat for the speech in 1957 where he said, we all love this land, the land of god. we all, muslims, christians and jews, all worship god. we must rise above all forms of obsolete theories of superiority, and the most important thing is never forget that infallibility is the one thing of god alone. who would think they would attempt to be the arbiters in gaza? i also

i wanted to do more in the foreign affairs. he said, what about china? david bruce, the senior diplomat, was coming home. he said, you might not like it. the u.n. might not accept. you better check with henry kissinger. the chinese sent someone else to president ford right away. brian: did you learn chinese? pres. bush: every day for five days a week. brian: how did you do? pres. bush: i gave a going away speech in chinese. all of the people that worked around the embassy understood i was speaking in chinese. the language teacher was in the back. i loved it. brian: you have some old chicken scratch chinese downstairs in your library. pres. bush: i didn't write it. brian: you are trying to do the characters. pres. bush: all i did was speaking. brian: what did you learn from your experience as a chinese liaison? pres. bush: the importance of china. i saw the disadvantages of a totally closed society. i appreciated that there are far more human liberties and human rights in china today. it is not perfect by a long shot. the family was still a strong entity

i don't go his want to be -- have an opinion on foreign affairs. did may look like i'm china to influence the government. i had my chance. i was beaten fair and square. i told president clinton the day i left the white house, he weighed goodbye to me. for the most part i have avoided criticism. it is better for me to sit back and i passed the torch to two sons. that is all a dad can ask. barbara and not trying to be one of the points of light, put something back into the system. or inr it be this library public service. if we can teach a handful of kids in public service is noble. better than you think it is. try it. i don't know because of where we are located, there is noise in the background. your dog. george h.w.: sadie. sadie's foreign half or five. she is trained to be a great huntress. we have not hunted her yet. she is the joy of barbara's life and mine. she is fast as lightning. she is a kind of. she makes friends easily. >> how often that she go with you? george h.w.: always. when we are in texas. rushwe come home she would and lookout. g

particularly on the foreign affairs committee. thank you, ileana. so i want to yield back the balance of my time and say that we on the foreign affairs committee, under the leadership of chairman royce, who also has been bipartisan, as you can get, i'm really proud of the work that we've done in the foreign affairs committee this year, this congress, and i look forward to doing even more work in the next congress. so thank you. thanks to chairman royce. thanks to congresswoman ros-lehtinen, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentlelady from florida is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, thank you, sir. the united states must continue to reassure the nations of the asia pacific region of the enduring commitment of the united states to being a peaceful presence in the region, dedicated to universal values and mutual prosperity. senate bill 2736 provides the united states with a long-term and whole of government strategy fo

it requires the committee on foreign affairs to report out that resolution within 15 days. you can't let this thing die in committee. it's got to come back to the floor within 15 days. according to the law. since 1973. and then it directs the house must vote on the resolution within three calendar days t can't die on the floor. there has to be a vote within three days. but instead of following the law, instead of following the constitution, the rules committee last night snuck language into the rule for the farm bill. and this should make farmers upset depending on the farm bill. they snuck into the rule for the farm bill a resolution that deprives the entire house of representatives of its constitutional right to decide when and where our soldiers should be sent in harm's way. let me sum this up. even if you think we should be involved in yemen, even if you think soldiers should go there, even if you think we should give the bombs to saudi arabia to drop on civilians, you shouldn't want to sneak that into an unrelated bill. you shouldn't want to hide that in a farm bill. w

men have approached the ministry of foreign affairs in tripoli this morning around nine thirty am and. a few minutes later an explosion a car bomb went off just meters away from the military and then the attack began and then gauged with the security at the main gate and then they managed to get into the building and one of the tactics. they add to the remaining to attack is managed to get to the second floor where they committed suicide bombing and then that's when the attack did and due to the important and vital spots of the ministry of foreign affairs chaos was apparent and their primary school there was an institution around the corner so it kind of created a sense of fear and a lot of. you know terrorist terrorist sense and in the capital things you know you have this in benghazi where the rival government is also based about the differences of the division with the internationally recognized government in tripoli which today's attack took place. the absence of the conflict is about security and the monarchy so should control the armed forces who should control the use of fire a

of foreign affairs about what came out of the g20 and what it means for foreign affairs. this is bloomberg. ♪ ign affairs. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: this is "bloomberg markets," i'm shery ahn in new york. world leaders dissented on buenos aires for the g20 summit with trade topping the agenda. let's welcome roberto ampuero. it's great to have you with us and thank you for your time. seen the g20 communiquÉ pretty watered-down. they admitted for the first time for therence -- omitted first time a reference to protectionism. the president emphasized the need for free trade. how concerning -- how concerned is chile about the growing threats of globalization to institutions like the wto? minister ampuero: the first thing i would like to stress is the outcome of the g20 this time is much better we were expecting -- much better than we were expecting. look at what happened in new guinea at the effect meeting, and- apec it finished without any giant declaration. this time, i think we have made some progress and we are happy with that. although, we know that this is a kind

is a role in foreign affairs the u.s. is role in starting or ending wars the u.s. his role in trying to promote human rights good governance and other issues to protect human rights and so you're going to see much more pushback i would predict from both republicans and democrats and there's going to be probably a lot of very tough questioning about whoever the president decides to nominate to replace jim matheson over at the pentagon when you consider that it's not an easy thing one to just pull forces out of a zone you're going to want someone to be able to explain to congress how this can be done while still protecting the u.s. as national security concerns thank you very much for the latest from washington on that story in jordan. meanwhile take is present as you type i don't who has been a strong critic of american policy in syria as welcome the announcement and in return has vowed to get rid of. santa harder has more. the turkish military will stay on alert along the border with syria but the planned to cross border offensive against what turkey considers terr

it quotes a tweet by the uae‘s minister for foreign affairs. he claims qatar's move is proof of its declining role and isolation and says he expects more media attacks on opec from qatar. after the g20 meeting and president trump's meeting with china's leader, bloomberg reports that trump's advisers are "struggling to explain the deal he says he cut with president xi." it says plans to reduce tariffs on us car exports doesn't exist on paper and hasn't been confirmed in beijing. the new york times looks ahead to the auction of albert einstein's so called "god letter." it explains in one paragraph why he doesn't believe in god or the bible. it's reckoned it could fetch up to $1.5 million. and the times says one fee—paying school has told its parents not to spend more than £50 pound, just under $70, on gifts for its teachers. it came after some teachers were given tables at michelin—rated

his position was in the ministry of foreign affairs in the global office. said, he received documents from all around the that were written by soviet in bassett sitters and embassies. so they had embassies in every capital of the world. had access to on a daily basis at his desk. he could read what the impassive are in tokyo was doing and writing about the activities in tokyo or in mexico city, or in london, or in washington, d c. reading the letter back to the ministry of foreign affairs. it was absolute gold. there were five copies made. it was called a blue border report and there were only five president, for the vice president, of course for the secretary of defense and secretary of state. he had not only fulfilled getting back into the country , going truly investigations, which they all had to comment he now had landed a job in the ministry of foreign affairs. now, my job and all of us in the station was to go out and pick their whichfrom contained cassettes from the camera, which we also gave to him once he got back into moscow. my lack of of survei

speaker, i've had the privilege to serve on the foreign affairs committee. my district stretches -- or used to stretch all the way to the texas-louisiana border, where you're from, and some say that's why i was on the foreign affairs committee because the texas border has that other international border with louisiana. be that as it may, i'm glad i have been able to serve on the foreign affairs committee. but during that service, i have been able to see our men and women in iraq and afghanistan, kosovo, europe, the philippines and other places throughout the world. and i am impressed with their duty of service. as we know, they are all volunteers. every one of them volunteered. and when men and women join our military now, they know that they're probably going to be in had combat somewhere in the world, but yet they continue to volunteer. i can always spot the texans, though. when i was in fallujah right after the marines went in and eliminated -- fallujah -- i saw a texas flag flying on the back of a humvee as it's speeding down one of those streets and som

into the ministry of foreign affairs. they haven't responded to my questions and that's very typical of gandhian politicians they ignore you when you have very serious and important questions to ask they would not respond if there is a pond out thought they were respond after the facts. so how did the bat. they simply didn't respond to the queries and only went to simple questions responses suss to what the minister would do would normally on the circumstances of that nature but didn't respond it seems to be a pattern of behavior here where government institutions or business leaders don't feel the need to respond to journalists why do you think that is i think it's simply impunity i definitely did everything emails phone calls from delivered lead to. i gived of all the opportunity in the world would be over a month or two on the sort of quest so they hope. so with stuff ellipses coming out next tuesday that's really spending a lot of time at the moment helping out partners get over the line. powerful people in that part

foreign affairs and trade. deadline looms large over the british isles the fate of the prime minister's proposed deal hangs. on just brace to take the brunt of any bad deal with the possible. between north and south how will this time is to the united kingdom fail as london makes its way out of the european union would go to reignite very grudges . but into the troubles and could back losses over further dividing the irish be enough to stall breaks it or do you believe completely. gilmore a former irish deputy prime minister and minister for foreign affairs and trade welcome to the show it's great to have you with us today. to talk about so the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland has become a key issue in rexx it united kingdom seemingly has to choose between staying in the customs union with the e.u. or.

position was in the ministry of foreign affairs in the global affairs office. at his desk he said, he received documents from all around the world that were written by soviet ambassadors in embassies, soviet embassies in every capital of the world. so that is what he had access to on a daily basis at his desk. he could read what the ambassador in tokyo was doing and writing about, the activities in tokyo, or in mexico city, or in london, or in washington, dc. letterseading anatole's back to the ministry of foreign affairs. gold to ourute analysts. there were five copies made. it was called a blue border report, and there were only five copies made for the president, vice president, of course for the secretary of defense and secretary of state. and nf. had not only fulfilled getting back into the country safely, going through investigations which they all had to he now had landed a job , in the ministry of foreign affairs. now, my job and all of us in the station was to go out and pick up dead drops from trigon which contained cassettes from the camera, which we

wonderful effort by foreign affairs magazine. coming up, equity markets and the value, maybe there is a new value out there, to talk to gideon rose and christopher pause.i and the fed on ♪ viviana: this is bloomberg surveillance. let's get the business flash. the retail gloom spreading from bricks and mortar stores. shares of a sows plunging. sos plunging. the news is dragging down shares of other retailers such as marks & spencer. for europeanday miners, shares rising after bhp announced a special dividend to be paid next month. the stocks make up about 50% of the stoxx 600 basic resources index. malaysia has filed criminal charges against units of goldman sachs link to 1mdb. they said the bank misled investors when the bank new proceeds from the bond sales it arranged would be misappropriated. the firm could face fines in excess of 2.7 billion dollars and the 600 million goldman received in fees. goldman says the charges are misdirected. deal to chartered has a separate its equity unit, ending a two year deal to exit that bus

affairs. when you want to visit a country with a diplomatic passport you need to send a verbal note your ministry of foreign affairs in flanders near me when you're arriving to facilitate the visa process if the ministry is not able to provide us with a verbal no then the must have been an intervention from outside it may be from ohio government which allowed us to have been a laugh a minute visits to the country's obvious standard diplomatic procedures if person a call the thought this year couldn't get any worse off the weeks of violent protests engulfing france think again now his disgraced former bodyguard alexander another is back for a second bite of the cherry it's emerged he may have been using diplomatic post boards obtained during his time working from that call one of which is said to have been issued trusted confidant only weeks after being filmed beating up a protester was . was the french foreign ministry says it's just for their return and says they should only be used for offic

mast, a member of the foreign affairs committee and author of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for three minutes. mr. mast: thank you for yielding me the time and your continued leadership on this critical issue. it has been an honor to serve and learn from you. i couldn't say that more seriously. mr. speaker, i rise in support of house resolution 1165, a resolution condemning the assad regime and backers including iran and russia for continued support of war crimes, crimes against humanity in syria. after seven years of war, the deaths of more than half a million people have occurred. let's do the math. that would be over 70,000 people each year. when you think of the march of killing each and every day, that's a government march by the assad regime of killing over 200 people every single day of the year. the atrocities are still ongoing with the help of russia and iran. and what do they look like? burning individuals to death. having them buried under rubble. having an adult put a 7.62 round into a child. the u

she clearly, you know, knew foreign affairs. this individual, if you just look at her entire career, it's basically not even been a tv personality dealing with foreign policy at all. she's not an individual that has shown anywhere in her resume that she's equipped for this job. i would hope in such a serious time as we're currently in, with all that's going on in the world, with all that is taking place at the u.n. right now, that the senate, who will look at this, will see that she's not qualified. i think that's the reason why you see mr. bolton and others want to downgrade the position so that they will not have to go through senate confirmation and have to investigate the facts of what one's background is. >> do you disagree with the move to downgrade it? >> oh, absolutely. it seems to me it's a ploy to get in someone that is incompetent and will not, you know, stand up for purely diplomatic purposes and working in a diplomatic way. it shows and sends a bad signal to the rest of the world. so to downgrade it at this time of

but what happens there as a minister of foreign affairs you know i wouldn't try to envision that kind of result but i think china also has other objectives over taiwan. cutting off all the diplomatic elyse off taiwan if you listen to the top speed top leaders of china and they continue to say that they want to win hearts and minds of the talent's people but when they engage in the very negative way of isolating taiwan or choking off time was international space that is the opposite of what they say they want to achieve winning hearts and minds of the taiwanese people and you can see whenever the chinese negative campaign against taiwan is going on but this in between taiwan and china is getting further and further apart and i'm sure that it's not what china wants to see but part of your job is is to sell taiwan to to promote taiwan. how do you describe taiwan how do you promote taiwan when you when you when you go around the world and visit various international organizations what's the key point you stress the first point of course taiwan is that the one is the mature democracy and o

yet people like adadam smith who is going to be the head of the foreign affairs committee, took over $250,000 from thehe weapons industry. and only s shifted his positionn saudi arabia, for example, because he was chahallengedd frm the left. we have democrats in high positions who have been pro-war. many o of them v vote everery yr this incredibly ininflated pentntagon budget. and they have to be challenged and they are being challenged by some of the very wonderful democrats we have like ro khanna who hahas been a tremendous champion to try to stop the war in yememen, anwhwhere the wonderful incoming membebers of congress w who have to have the same energy and determinationn that they have around a new green deal to say we need a new peacace deal. amy: i want to go back to president trump, this t time his comments in iraq to u.s. troops. syriatrurump: rebuilding will require a political solution, and it is a solution that should be paid for by its very rich neighboring countries. not the united states. let them pay for it. and they will. they will. ,n fact, saudi arabia yesterday yo

she was the first woman to charity house foreign affairs committee, paving the way for women foreign policy roles and being a consequential voice on challenges facing our nation. for those of us who have worked with her over the years, we know her as someone who never hesitates to cross the aisle to get things done. i am honored to have collaborated with her on many issues throughout our careers. inaking out against regimes venezuela and nicaragua, working together on meaningful legislation, and most recently the nika act, she has been a champion for freedom and democracy. she has a keen understanding of the challenges facing the united states, the region, and the world. i have always trusted her to respond with moral clarity, to speak out against tyranny, and site -- and stand up for what is right even when it is not politically convenient. and i must say, she is great on twitter, as well. [laughter] sen. menendez: if you don't have a picture with iliana, you just were not around. [laughter] sen. menendez: if you haven't had one before you leave here today, there will be one. she is

affairs in turkey, you give the president advice on foreign affairs. do you warn him that turkey is in grave danger of being very isolated? we can talk about europe, we can talk about the united states as well, where there's is a new stand—off over northern syria, with the pentagon issuing... who is being isolated? well, my contention is that from yourformer partners in europe and the united states, turkey is looking increasingly isolated. no. the president has a very good working relationship with the leaders of germany and france and also with the british government. i am actually present in most of the meetings, he has in these delegations and he has a very good relationship with mr putin as well and they're cooperating over syria. he has managed to bring the leaders.. you mention syria, let's end on syria, in the last 2a hours a serious warning has been issued saying that it is alarmed from what it is about president erdogan about new turkish military operations in northern syria and there is grave concern in the pentagon about what turkey is abo

foreign affairs select committee you're going to not an old friend of this show because he quoting now a treasury official they were talking it well the they targeted the whole range of political movers and shakers yes in parliament the foreign affairs committee yes and the conservative middle east which is funded largely by the we but also you know the cabinet and the prime minister david cameron and they much wider than you know journalists think tanks a whole range of political ads talkers yeah one eyes i mean they're the barclay brothers telegraph peace to all getting the muslim brotherhood. and you see that is coming from the lobbying activity well it was very senior people from the who we know have got the e-mails who were systematically briefing key journalists who they thought would be sympathetic towards what white politely called islamophobia going on these issues and that they did a lot of things and a lot of things came as a result of some of the stuff i guess the journalists might have done by themselves without the help of the all the journalists would just say yeah at le

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he is just someone who was put in office to supposedly run domestic and foreign affairs and keep the balance of power in place where we don't go to nuclear war. we live in a frightened society, people are afraid and instead of looking to a savior, they are looking to donald trump to fix it and i'm sorry, it's wrong. the young lady that spoke before -- i didn't vote for donald trump. i voted for someone i thought had the wherewithal, the understanding of government, the understanding of foreign affairs and how things work in the world . unfortunately, donald trump does thosessess characteristics and was all over the place and is not listening to anyone but his inner man. i agree with the gentleman when he said donald trump is not a i willbut you know what, say what you need to say for me to just for you to be on my side. guest: will put. -- well put. this entire notion that every four years, our job is to make sure we elect the right alpha male superhero savior to solve the country's problems is a fundamentally undemocratic action. that's not what democracy is. the that's like a soft

. >>> next a house foreign affairs subcommittee meeting with the parents of parents of children abducted to japan, ecuador and lebanon. they share the process they go to to be reunited with her children. this is just under two hours. >> the committee will come to order. thank you for joining us this afternoon to discuss the continuing crisis of international parental child abduction and how the trump administration can and must use current law, especially the tools embedded in the goldman act to more aggressively bring children home to their families. i especially want to thank the brave left behind parents in this room and hundreds of others or to initially sleep for tenaciously struggling to obtain their children from an abduction. the physical and psychological impact on abducted children including parental alienation coupled with the pain and agony endured by a left behind parent from a forest illegal and inhumane abduction -- from eight forest -- first illegal and inhumane abduction. today will hear from three parents who have left no stone unturned in the noble quest to bring the k