all of that is at stake from the trump administration. that is why it is critical that we finally have a proenvironment majority in the house to put a check on their reckless and dangerous behavior. i think the infrastructure package is a concrete example of how this congress could move forward. chuck schumer, who is a great environmentalist leader, he recently had an op-ed in the washington post saying and infrastructure package is an opportunity for us to work together and address the needs of people across the country. away to do that is to make infrastructure package. we need to work on modifying the electric grid. we need to make it easier for people to get around in a less carbon intensive way. guest: i think it's important to keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of scientists around the world who stand up for climate realism. more than 30,000 signed a petition stating they do not believe we are facing a climate crisis. when i mention the national climate assessment, what i'm saying is that government needs to make sure

the sf-86 form is famous in the trump era because various senior trump administration officials have had problems of various kinds with security clearance applications and sf-86s. but if you look at the forms, if you look at what you have to demonstrate and spell out to get a security clearance, they ask you about all sorts of things but one of the things that is really striking when you look at the questions they ask in the documentation you have to provide is it's a ton of financial stuff. a big part of the way they assess you in terms of whether some adversary or crook might be able to leverage something against you, part of the way they check that is to check your finances. if you're going to have access to sensitive national security or intelligence related information, they want to make sure you're not going to be s susceptible to bribery, literally selling your country for cash. if you're in debt up to your eyeballs and have financial burdens of any kind that might cause you real stress, that's a big red flag. so they stress test you financially before you can get a security c

they voted to keep sanctions in place against the wishes of the trump administration. now, it is not done yet. the next hurdle will be, we think tomorrow, and that will be a 60-vote hurdle, not a 30-vote hurdle. this is definitely not all done. this vote today is already a bipartisan rebuke of the trump administration's decision to drop those russian sanctions. joining us now is senator chuck schumer, leader of the democrats in the u.s. senate. sir, thank you very much for your time tonight. it's nice to have you here. >> thank you, rachel. always good to be on. >> so let me first get your reactions to how this went today on the sanctions vote. i was really interested to see a very heterogenius group of republicans who sort of crossed ranks to join you today. >> we were very pleasantly surprised that so many republicans joined us. now we're only two votes away from telling vladimir putin he can't run the show here in the united states, no matter what the trump administration does. you know, rachel, on the floor today, leader mcconnell said putin's a thug. well, i belie

i don't understand why the trump administration is so against clean energy. host: what are you getting from them? caller: what am i getting from solar power? electricity. host: how much does it cost to invest in and what are you getting in return? caller: it lowers my electric bill, the last one was only about $1.15. it looks to me like they're taking money from edison and putting them back in my pocket, that's what it looks like to me. guest: thank you for your comments, i couldn't agree ore. that's the beauty of renewable energy. it's good for the planet, it saves consumers money, it reduces our dependence on fossil fuels, and the great thing about renewable energy is that it is growing, so fast. in 2017, your favorite year, there were 3.2 million people employed in clean energy jobs. it has asked a triple to the number of people working in the fossil fuel industry. clearly there is some clean energy, this is the way of the future that is going to really jumpstart the economy and that is what we are excited about. host: that's one person's experience but he

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administration. >> of course, there is a darker prospect the trump administration was trying to do a favor for deripaska here. it's weird because these sanctions only came into existence quite recently. how long did the sanctions go into effect against deripaska's companies? >> they were announced in april of last year and during the trump administration, but they never went into effect because deripaska's company quickly launched sophisticated lobbying campaign highlighting some of the economic ripple effects and offering these various sort of aspects of corporate restructuring to get treasury to back down. and what we learned in our reporting on this, is that during this period when these negotiations were occurring between deripaska's high priced lawyers in the united states and the treasury department, there were outside independent buyers who made offers for shares that would have done what treasury actually stated its intent was, which is to make these companies that are so critical to the world economy, truly independent and instead, he proceeded with the negotiation that got

trump administration where now it is in moral. and then now all of a sudden the democrats are so repulsed they want to prolong the shutdown rather than agree to an additional investment of one tenth of 1 percent of federal spending. identical walls exactly alike when president obama was there. and as i have said it is the same photograph twice basically i did that to underscore the point of the trump administration is requesting funding for the same physical barrier the obama administration was proud to t build and bragged about it. so spacing that allows visibility made with reinforced steel. the same kinds of barriers that custom border patrol produces real results. you can call them a wall or a fence or steel slats but they really are is defective. that's what they are call it what you will they are effective according to the gao after the outdated fencing was replaced by this particular steel structur structure, the border patrol reported a significant drop of violent encounters and border patrol is just giving us the facts. d

the trump administration is also working to establish the middle east strategic alliance to confront the region's most serious threat and bolster energy and economic cooperation. this effort is bringing together members of the gulf cooperation council as well as egypt and jordan. today we ask each of those countries to take the next step and help us solidify. we're also seeing remarkable change. new bonds are taking root that were unimaginable until very recently. who could have believed a few years ago that an israeli prime minister would visit muscat or that new ties would emerge between saudi arabia and iraq, or that a roman catholic pope would visit this city to meet with muslim imams and the head of the coptic faith. in october of last year, the israeli national anthem was paid -- played as an israeli champion was crowned in a tournament in the united arab emirates. it was the first time the israeli delegation was allowed to participate under its own national flag. it was also the first time an israeli culture and sports minister attended an event in the gulf. she said, and i qu

bush administration at the time, the same trump nominee to the attorney general. here is the "new york times" write up from the christmas day edition, throughout the deliberations, mr. bush consulted with attorney general william p. barr. william barr was asked about the pardons in a 2001 oral history at the university of virginia. william barr said quote i certainly did not oppose any of them. i favored the broadest. there were some people arguing just for a pardon for wine burgweinberger. with everything else going on in the u.s. government, with just, with the government shutdown, with the trump administration quietly trying to lift sanctions on a russian oligarch linked to the trump campaign and expected testimony of michael cohen in open session. with the revelation this week the president's campaign chair was providing internal campaign da data, is it really possible in this environment right now that the senate is about to confirm someone who is most notable previous achievement he was the architect of the last time a major criminal presidential scandal was

administration that have stayed at the trump hotel. it's rare to find a close correlation in time between somebody needing something from trump's government and somebody becoming this enthusiastic customer of his business. >> hold on a second. ceo john ledger who is a very outspoken guy in the past has tweeted mocking trump and his hotels. then a day after he announced this deal he wants done, the deal that would make him the ceo of the joint company, he's then staying at the hotel? what happened to those tweets? >> that's right. so you're right. in 2015 before trump ran for president, ledger stayed at the trump hotel in new york and ledger and trump are both outspoken twitter personalities. ledger didn't like something about the service. there was a street musician outside that bothered him. he tweeted how crappy the hotel is. and trump tweets back t-mobile is crappy. ledger checks out of the trump hotel. they have the running rivalry. it's not just that ledger needs something from trump's administration. he starts that merger at a de

that's another role that the trump administration is attacking. so, why do we see the trump administration going after all of these commonsense public health protections that are working that are getting exactly as they were intended and the same with the clean car standards but it's saving consumers money at the gas pump and it's reducing dependence on oil, creating jobs come away with the trump administration, why would they go after that? and that is one of the things to get back to the 116th congress and how we can go and make progress. let's have some oversight. the republicans absolutely refused the oversight of the trump administration working hand in glove with their ally lovie blendon rewrite of these rules. let's find out why that is happening it is obviously to benefit the oil and gas and coal industry but we need more information. the first element calls for 100% electricity, make the case why that is even feasible. >> guest: many of critics have said that is not. but it may be ambitious. >> guest: we separate the ideas of the green de

and don't think the trump administration is raining hard on them. they are, too. in san francisco, we stand for something. in san francisco, people look to us. when we chip away at our sanctuary city law, the rest of the nation looks at us, too. they stand strong because we stand strong. we have a bigger responsibility bigger than our jurisdiction of san francisco. we have a responsibility to the united states, to the rest of the world. i think this moment was actually very telling for me. i think that it is a time when we really need to double down. the trump administration has hired the most -- i think they are very, very intelligent, these people who he has hires -- hired, and they're very intelligent on immigration law. we must also be kept abreast of what was going on, but also we need to be aware that we could be baited at any time. i also want to say that i am proud here in san francisco that we have not buckled down. i am proud that we have said with our undocumented community, we will stand strong, we will continue to stand strong. we will stand by you, w

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now, obviously you are not a member of the trump administration. but in your public statements you have generally been supportive of their approach to nuclear modernization and arms control and nonproliferation. that said. critics of this administration would argue they have a hostile approach to arms control. and late last year we saw a number of letters from senior republican members of congress really calling into question the effectiveness of new start. so my question to you in addition to your views on the state of the debate are there some things that this administration in republicans in congress can do to reassure their critics that they are not hostile to arms control? it's yours, matt. >> thanks, frank and thanks for organizing this event. i agree with you and rebecca and the rest of the panel that supporting both arms control and stra teenic modernization. but it is a fragile one, in the current debate there are three factors people point to as possible risk to this consensus, the trump administration, as you point out, democrats in the

senior trump administration officials discussing the president's behavior "the times." they tell the paper that an american withdraw from nato would accomplish all that putin has been trying to put in motion, quote, essentially doing the russian leader's hardest and most critical work for him. so that was like midnight last night from "the new york times." and we don't know who these senior administration officials are, who are talking to the "new york times" about what the president has been reportedly trying to do on this front. it is possible of course that these are senior trump administration officials who were concerned about these actions and these statements by the president last year, but they didn't feel the need to go to the press about them then. maybe because defense secretary jim mattis was in place then. there is some noise that mattis was preventing trump from taking the worse and most reckless of his prorussia steps in national security and foreign policy and again, i do not mean to suggestion they know who the sources are but you can tell from the subs

i say we double down on the trump administration panel alliance. but at the same time, we are a strong supporter of past agreement. pp 11, jc po, although we are not a member of that, we strongly supported. so we are very interested in maintaining the global norms. but i'm sure the embassy won't like that i'm saying this. but i wasn't particularly in favor from japan withdrawing from the iw oc, international wedding commission. i don't think that was right, but there are some political reasons for that. and all the countries have those kind of issues. but putting that aside, i think we are very much interested in playing the role of you know, like you used the word stabilize . but, you know the region we are living in is so dynamic and dangerous. honestly speaking, i think we are preoccupied with our region with actually japan doing something. from one there was a talk about peace and security legislation in the 2012-2013., there were many elephants elements, parts mentioned about japan playing a bigger role in collective security in un operations

administration, and let me repeat that, his contacts with the trump administration in 2018, one thing that this tells us is this investigation isn't just about what happened in 2016, in the 2016 campaign. it's current. >> i think that's true. what we're really hearing is every time we talk about the administration and manafort and russia, those are the three common threads that seem to be running every time this suit gets together. when something quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's a duck. what it tells me is there is much more than sort of a collateral or casual relationship between manafort, trump, and the russians that he is talking to. i mean, it makes me think that there is more to the meeting in trump tower than just they were there to break bread together. there is more to the fact that the russians were in the oval office than they were to bring trump a house warming gift there in the white house. but that there is significance in the fact that even facing prison time, each the fact that he was under investigation, he had been indicted and had multiple cases, that m

first, i don't think the trump administration is hostile to arms control. they say very clearly they are supportive of arms-control, given that it advances american security interests and that we have a partner that we can rely upon for those agreements. and so the trump administration has made some moves in the nuclear posture review that some have criticized. low yield nuclear weapons, pulling out of inf. but when the deal was made in 2010, i don't think anyone believed american nuclear strategy and posture would be locked into place forever regardless of the circumstances. there was an understanding that u.s. nuclear policy and posture would have to adapt based on circumstances. the security environment has changed quite a bit in the last eight years. i see these moves that the trump administration has made as reasonable adaptations to the security environment, to the threat of russian nuclear de-escalation strikes. as you point out, there is quite a bit of bipartisan consensus for some of these things. john harvey, jim miller, and other democrats have s

and half since the beginning of the trump administration. william r is now of counsel at the law firm of kirkland ellis entered as use attorney general for president george h.w. bush. watch the confirmation process for attorney general nominee william barr life tuesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> secretary of state mike pompeo criticized previous administrations during his recent tour of the middle east and said the top administration is going to take a different approach. his speech at the american university in cairo lasts about half an hour. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, administrators of higher education, business leaders, civil society leaders, members of the media, egypt and international, students, colleagues of the american university in, secretary mike pompeo, mrs. susan pompeo, thank you so much for coming. welcome, it's a very special and particular honor today to begin our since you don't year here in egypt with a visit of a distinguished american leader who was bearing a message of global

so i said that we double down on the trumpe ed administration. but we're a strong supporter of paris agreement. we're not a member of jcpoa, we support that. we are interested in maintaining the global norms. i'm sure the embassy won't like i'm saying this. i wasn't particularly in favor of japan with withdrawing from the iwc. i will say that quiet. if you don't like it, just pull out. i don't think that was right. there are political reasons for that. all the countries have those issues. putting that aside, i think we are very much interested in playing the role of -- you used the word stabilizer. the region we're living in is so dynamic and dangerous. honestly speaking, i think we are preoccupied with our region. actually, japan doing something. when there was talk about peace and security legislation in 2012 '13, there was many elements, according to the recommendation, there were lots of mentioning about japan playing a more bigger role in collective security, in u.s. operations. that sort of faded out. we live there a tough region. we have t

even though president trump broke that deal with iran, the trump administration officials say that iran is still complying with the obama administration's deal. >> we do not believe iran is currently undertaking activities we judge necessary to produce the nuclear device. >> since our departure from the deal, they have abided by the terms you say they're considering. but at the current moment -- >> yes, they're making some preparations that would increase their ability to take a step back if they make that decision. so at the moment technically they're in compliance. >> in the hours of testimony about the intelligence services annual report on the worldwide threat assessment, the trump administration officials did not support president trump's argument that we need a wall on the southern border for national security. the trump administration intelligence officials did not say one word about a wall. and even more importantly from a political perspective on the future prospects of such a wall ever being built, none of the republican senators on the committee asked a single question about

administration, t-mobile executives started showing up at trump's hotel in d.c. very quickly. over and over and over again. lots of them. renting rooms and conspicuously hanging out in the lobby wearing their t-mobile gear. well, today the internal watchdog, the inspector general at the u.s. general services administration, which is the part of the federal government that is the trump hotel's landlord, the inspector general there released the findings of an investigation into the decision to let the president continue his lease on that hotel, even after he became president of the united states. the report is scathing. the i.g. says the agency's decision-making process had serious shortcomings, saying the gsa not only failed to examine the president's lease properly, it ignored the constitutional problems with him owning this hotel while serving as president. quote, we also found that the gsa improperly ignored the constitutional emoluments clauses even though the president's lease itself requires compliance with the laws of the united states, including the u.s. c

second, what is the current state of the debate during the trump administration? need to bewhat steps taken to maintain a level of bipartisan consensus on arms can -- on arms control and strategic modernization that is politically sustainable over the long term? group ofn excellent experts to help us answer these questions. first, on my left, we have brian mckean and, currently a senior the biden center for diplomacy and global engagement. he served previously as principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy. executive secretary for the national security council. deputy national security advisor to vice president biden and was also a long-term -- a longtime chief democratic council on the senate foreign relations committee. creedon have madeleine who currently serves as a nonresident fellow here at brookings. i think she has held just about every job in the nuclear includingusiness principal deputy under of energy for nuclear security, assistant secretary of defense for global strategic affairs, and was the longtime democratic professional staff lead on th

obama administration and frankly trump administration did not prepare alternative forces inside of venezuela, including arming and equipping forces that may be needed to topple the regime, this is a armed naftdy y regime, trained by cubans, it is marxist. and as devastating a nuclear bomb. lou: when you say, that what do you suggesting? >> i am successing that venezuela used to be one of the richest, if not the richest country in latin america. pumping above 2.5 million -- >> 3 million barrels. >> okay. but now, it is all the way down to under a million barrels a day. we're still buying some of this oil unfortunately. we have heavy crude, in canada, we stopped construction of keystone ex il excel pipeline ts really stupid. lou: the obama administration did. >> now tied up in court. lou: yes. by obama judges. >> okay. but -- lou: just to keep the record clear. >> okay. but what i am saying is, that there is no reason for an american da taxpayer or consumeo support a marxist regime in caracas, we need to use our tools to topple the regime. lou: errol thank you, and waleed thank you. i am sorry

administration administration's eric trump said we have thousands of employees and very strict hiring practices. if any employee submitted false documentation in an attempt to circumvent the law, they will be terminated immediately we take this issue very seriously. this is one of the reasons my father is fighting so hard for immigration reform the system is broken now the worker's attorney is taking some of them to capitol hill to meet with democrats. >> the trump organization is a criminal enterprise. there is a federal crime here. these people who were fired are material witnesses to a federal crime. >> of course, you broke this story for "the washington post," and this seems to be a systemic problem for the trump administration >> yes, it's the second golf club where it's been found "the new york times" wrote a story last year about ben minister, the golf club in new jersey he often gos that had a number of undocumented workers these are two places that seem to be doing an organizationwide check now and i think if that goes on, we're going to see more instances like this at other

administration or before president trump took office. so perhaps the court is not taking this because maybe there could be some policy political legislative solutn on the horizon here. interesting that the court is not weighing in at all. maybe they are hoping that congress steps in here and takes action rather than the court deciding. the supreme court especially chief justice john roberts, they believe strongly that they should stay out of maybe political debates and wait until issues become ripe for their judicial decisions. >> the ninth circuit ruling conclusion that this was arbitrary by the trump administration stands and that will not change in the courts this year. whether it changes in congress is a great point. >> it's a mixed bag. a defeat here on daca which is central to the government shutdown. it's beyond a month. the senate will take up an ambeneficiaryia ambitious funding. the house will vote on a new batch of funding bills tomorrow. one is dealing in one reality and the other with another reality. >> you have the preside

and the third point i would make, as we now enter the third year of the trump administration, for all the high anxiety that we have witnessed we haveast two years, actually not had the middle east crisis the presidents almost inevitably come to face. one can go back to presidents in your lifetime and they've all faced some major crises. we have not had that yet. and as you look at our system, as you look at the people, the institutions, the administration of how we are addressing , preparing options, identifying solutions, executing in the backeep that of your mind. that we have not yet had the crisis. pleased toi'm very introduce my colleagues. speaking first is ambassador barbara lee. barbara joined the institute last year after completing ,ervice in the state department a very distinguished career of diplomatic service that ended as a tour of the american ambassador to the united arab emirates. previously barbara had served as assistant secretary of state on two occasions, she knows the region certainly better than almost any person that i have ever met, and i'm really delighted to

to the trump administration where now it is immoral. all of a sudden democrats are so opposed to it that they want to prolong the partial government shutdown. they would rather do that than agree to an additional investment of approximately 1/10, 1/10 of 1% of federal spending. o identical walls. exactly alike when president obama was there, when president obama was born in donald trump, they are not. i the same photograph twice. the trump administration is requesting funding for the same kinds of physical barriers the obama administration was proud to build. fencing allowed visibility made with reinforced steel. they are the same kinds of barriers customs and border protection experts told us produce real results. you can call them walls, you can call them fences. you can call them steel slats. what they really are is effective. that is what they are. call them what you will, they are effective. according to the government accountability office after the outdated fencing was replaced by this particular steel slats structure, the border

to the trump administration where now it's immoral. the kind of barrier all of a sudden the democrats are so opposed to that they want to prolong the partial government shutdown. they'd rather do that than agree to an additional investment of approximately one-tenth -- one-tenth of 1% of federal spending. identical walls exactly alike when president obama was there, they were for it. when president trump's there, they're not. as i said, it's the same photograph twice, basically. i do that to underscore the point that the trump administration is requesting funding for the same kinds of physical barriers that the obama administration was actually proud to build, bragged about it. fencing was spaced slats that allow visibility made with reinforced steel. they're the same kinds of barriers that customs and border protection experts have told us actually produce real results. you can call them walls. you can call them fences. you can call them steel slats. but what they really are is effective. that's what they are. call them what you will.

as of yesterday, the trump administration dropped sanctions on deripaska. he was sanctioned and known to have extensive ties to trump campaign chairman paul manafort whose criminal case is very much on going at this moment. 136 republican members of the hou house, all the democrats in the house and senate and 11 republicans in the senate all tried to block that lifting of sanctions on deripaska by the trump administration. they fell two republican votes short in the senate and so these sanctions have been lifted as of yesterday. since they failed to stop the trump administration from lifting these sanctions, it has been reported that deripaska won't have to give up effective control of his companies to escape the sanctions. it's been reported he may benefit to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by lifting of sanctions. again he was sanctioned with connection to the attack on our election. that matter isn't exactly settled but he's getting hundreds of millions of dollars in breaks from the trump administration while the manafort case alone persists

so far the trump administration has been unwilling to do that.. saying it wants to wait for a decision on the constitutionalit y of daca.. from the supreme court. the white house thinks it can win there. but the court hasn )t even offered to take up the case. also developing now: the department of defense is beginning its withdrawl of u-s troops from syria. today )s announcement included no specific timetable - in part to protect operational security there. but there are two-thousand u-s troops in syria. today )s confirmation of the first withdrawals comes amidst continued confusion over plans to implement president trump )s pullout order - a decision he announced in december. developing this morning: the california department of justice is attempting to block the sale of three hospitals to santa clara county. among them: the o )connor hospital in san jose, depaul health center in morgan hill, and st. louise regional hospital in gilroy. the california attorney general has filed an appeal of the u.s. bankruptcy court )s sale asking the court o stop

the trump administration initially ballparked the number of children at more than 2700. but according to new findings from the inspector general at the department of health and human services, the number is actually much higher, the ig finds, and the trump administration does not know what that number is. cnn's nick valencia is joining me right now. nick, this report just comes out. what more are you finding out about this? >> that was on the call with hhs office of the inspector general when we heard this stunning revelation. what we found, as you noted is we learned today that the trump administration does not know how many children were separated during the family separation policy, but it was much higher than the number we were previously given by the trump administration which is 2,737. not only did we find that, it was revealed on the call that more children are being held for a longer period of time than is being talked about in this public dedate. if you remember last summer, kate, there was a deadline set by a federal judge to reunite these children. that had be

reported this just 2 1/2 weeks into the trump administration. quote, according to one u.s. official, trump administration national security aides have sought information about polish incursions in belarus. an eyebrow raising request because little evidence of such activities appears to exist. and i remember 2 1/2 weeks into the trump administration, i was up in boston, i think, see how the background looks different? i'm not in the normal studio. it's 2 1/2 weeks in the administration. i remember doing this big long segment that night on this show trying to raise a red flag about how worrying that line was from that associated precipice, right? even though that seemed like some sort of arcane national security matter about countries we don't think about that much. the reason that leapt out at me at the time as so strange and potentially very worrying is because the only people in the whole world who were saying at that time that there was any risk that -- what was it? that poland might invade belarus, the only people in the whole world who were saying that was a potential p

after the trump administration eased those sanctions last year. the senate failed to pass a similar measure yesterday. the house is done with work for the week but earlier today the chamber debated a bill that would have reopened all shuttered agencies through february 28 with no additional money for a border wall. there was a dispute as to the vote, so the house will revote on the measure next week. follow the house live on c-span when members return for legislative work on tuesday. griller today house speaker nancy pelosi held her weekly briefing with reporters at the capital. she spoke about the government shutdown and the impact it has on some of her constituents. she called on president trump to reopen the government. this is 20 minutes. speaker pelosi: the vote's on the floor. that's the tyranny of the bell, as i call it.

it's subject to litigation from people challenging this policy that the trump administration put in place back in summer of 2017 that forbids openly transgender people from serving in many cases. what the court did is in a brief order protested by four liberal justices lifted an injunction and lets the policy take effect. it allows the litigation and lower courts to go forward by those challenging it. this is a really important signal from the supreme court because it took five votes and five conservative justices sided with the trump administration saying that policy should take effect that transgender troops should be barred from serving in many, many cases while the litigation continues. >> how many service members this impacts, current or new? an important announcement regardless. also, now on russia. this mystery company from a mystery country in a legal battle with robert mueller's team. they may now be allowed another day in court. tell me about this. >> this one stays at the supreme court. this one really is incremental. this is one we know that is a corporation, foreign governmen

it didn't publish in 2017, a list of decision makers for the trump administration. so an enterprising young journalist from bloomberg called me and said, what are you going to do? i said, i don't know what i'm going to do. so she and i actually worked together and collaborated and what we did was we went back to all of the five editions and took an inventory of every position that had ever been listed as a decision maker. and then we put the trump people in to see how they fit. and interestingly we have a relatively similar in. there are 65 on the a-team in the trump administration that we were able to fit in. and we've been monitoring since then the turnover. let's talk a little bit about how donald trump compares. you can see the graph here. i mentioned to you that if you averaged the prior five presidents, for the first year there was on average 10% turnover. for trump there was 34% turnover in the first year. the second year the average is 25%. and for president trump the average was 31%. so cumulatively he's at 65% turnover. which exceeds the entire four years

remember, it was still early on in the american thinking or the trump administration's thinking about the endo pacific. that changed over the course of 2018 and we got a little bit more aligned. the beginning of this year though we have now an abrupt shift to diplomacy. there's been an as yet somewhat mysterious outcome to the summit between president trump and kim jong-un. i think we all know however we had a north korean visitor to washington last week so i think we all pretty much feel that we're on the threshold of a second trump-kim summit potentially. i think there's been a sharp decline in some ways in the relationship between tokyo and seoul of late that also complicates our trilateral coordination of how to deal with the north korean problem. so 2018 didn't necessarily leave the u.s. and japan firmly on the same footing with seoul, and i think there's some ambivalence and ambiguity about what's ahead in 2019 for how we manage the north korea challenge. again, as i said, we were -- we have shifted on the trade relationship as well. in september last year prime minister abe and

half since the beginning of the trump administration. william barr is now of-counsel at kirkland and elliss and served as the u.s. attorney general for president george h.w. bush. watch the confirmation process for william barr live tuesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 3. and now, mick mulvaney speaking to the group in defense of christians and then budget direct mulvaney spoke for just under a half hour at his keynote address. this took place before he was acting white house chief of staff. [applause]. [applause]. >> thank you, marsha. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i welcome you all tonight on our fifth annual solidarity dinner. it's my pleasure to see so many supporters, champions, and partners and idc chapter leaders. i would like to recognize his excellen excellency archbishop christop christophe to the united states. >> his excellency, director of the office of office of management and budget, mick mulvaney. [applaus [applause] >> member of lebanese parliament and our board member. [applaus [applause] >> and the deputy speak

later, he added under the trump administration, the u.s. had reasserted itself role and it learned from their mistakes. this is about half an hour. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests. minister of higher education. business leaders. religious leaders. civil society leaders. members of the media. egypt international. students, colleagues of the american university in cairo. secretary mike pompeo. mrs. susan pompeo. thank you so much for coming. welcome. it's a very special and particular honor today to begin auc centennial year here in egypt with a visit of a distinguished american leader who is bearing a message of goe global impact. for a century at auc, we've served the citizens of egypt in the wider arab world as a beacon of inquiry-based american liberal arts education and served as steppingstone for the citizens out here to successful global engagement. at the same time, we've served generations of the most adventuresome american scholars as the most inviting portal to this die dammynamic and welcomi of the ar

if it is shady that the trump administration is trying to lift these sanctions now, could this actually be something where both halves of congress and both parties act, like they did before on russian sanctions, to brush back the trump administration on this issue. live question, and we're going to have more on that coming up tonight as well. and that relates, of course, to the new revelations about trump campaign chairman paul manafort. as we learned yesterday, manafort's defense team inadvertently disclosed information in a court filing yesterday that was supposed to be redacted, but apparently manafort's lawyers don't know how to use that part of the software that prevents people from reading the text behind the black boxes. part of what we accidentally learned because of those bad redactions yesterday is that prosecutors in the special counsel's office have alleged that manafort shared polling data from the 2016 campaign with his business associate konstantin kilimnik. and again, kilimnik has twice been described in court filings as having links to russian intelligence in the view o

when we talk about manafort's lies, communications with the trump administration. and at the center of it is oleg deripaska. oleg deripaska, who the trump administration tried to ease sanctions on his companies right now. how big of a rebuke against president trump is this vote today, by 11 republicans who said, no? deripaska is a bridge too far. >> john dean will remember as well as i do how things got very, very complicated in the white house and more and more suspicious and it turned out the suspicions were true. and what one sees here is a very complex case, but the fact that paul manafort, under indictment, continued to have contacts within the white house, that his go-between leads back to deripaska and that this same administration is now trying to lift sanctions to give mr. deripaska, you know, a free pass, in effect, or are lifting the sanctions against him and his companies, i think is stunning. it is -- it's extraordinarily suspicious and i do think that republicans now are waking up to the fact that on this and other fronts, but particularly this russia

so i think the trump administration will go back to compromise sooner administration will go back to compromise sooner rather than later. the optics are not great, and the other element as well, which is new writing, is that alex is right, government shutdowns have happened in the past that they have always been reluctant affairs, and there is a quote from donald trump, a soundbite that has been making the rounds, which is him saying that "i will shut this government down", and so will shut this government down", and so it looks like he was relishing the opportunity to shut the government down to show that he can do it. i think that as far as trump's base are concerned, his pledges as far as they are concerned and why they elected him, are to disrupt other people's lives, not their own. you are not wrong that people claim to be a and to shut government down. what trump is doing here is he says what people might have thought but not say out loud. lots of government and people in congress will go into thinking as long as i can stick the blame on you then bring it on. trump is saying wh

now, what's interesting, lauren, is the bush administration -- excuse me, the trump administration -- i had a time warp there. lauren: you're just cold, phil. >> it's cold out here. you're right. it's freezing out here. the trump administration did contact the refiners and said if we use this nuclear option against venezuela, we cut off their oil supplies, are you guys going to be okay? they were given a heads up ahead of time. a lot of refiners ordered a lot ovens way lain crude. they -- of venezuelan crude. they have oil on ships on the way over. that could be sign from the trump administration that they think the pressure will work quickly against president maduro. lauren: that explains why the treasury secretary said yesterday, don't worry the consumer won't be affected too much. that explains it. analysts say that venezuela will likely try to sell their oil at a cheaper price to china and other asian countries. how will that impact the market? >> it's going to take a lot longer for them to get it there and the problem is is how are they going to get paid? it's possible if they us