It is wonderful to be here. Thank you for the work you doing. I note that i somehow made it here from the judiciary hearing on the Inspector General report on the fbi. Im here then can return to ask my questions, which means that that hearing is going on for a really, really long time. It is an honor to be here at the counsel on Foreign Relations which has played such a major role in the world for 98 years. You were founded in the league of world war i and treaty of versailles, which was when america rejected a b global role and retreated in isolationism. The rest unfortunately is history. Since that time, cfr has sought to help remind us of the importance of engaging in tworld and helps us think about how we can work to resolve global halls that affect us here at home rather than simply wishing them away. Several years ago, David Ignatius of the Washington Post once wrote a column call ed the internationalism of the heartland and in it, he wrote about how some of the defining voices of global commitment over the past half century have come from americas middle l. And by that, he just didnt mean people in the middle of the political spectrum. He meant people in the middle of the country. Like howard baker of tennessee. Jay will yum fullbright of arkansas. Senator Mike Mansfield of montana and yes, senator Walter Mondale of minnesota. And i actually have given speeches at home b about my open states transition from isolati isolationism. We had the congressman who said europe should paddle its own caka can canoe, if you remember that. Yes, he was from my state. Then you saw other elected officials out of minnesota like senator mccarthy, who played a role in International Trade and opening things up as well as of course senators humphrey and mondale and that change in our state coincided with more international businesses. It coincide d with outreach to the world. Its one of the reasons why we have one of the highest rates of International Adoptions and it is very interesting to each states transition. But when ignatius interviewed me for that column, i told him that as a senator from the midwest, that i believe that we needed to embrace rath than tolerate int r internationalism. They said that after a difficult decade, the United States needs a refresheded internationalism that recognizes its state in the world even as it avoidsly military commitments where b possible. He called this approach internationalism of the heartland. And i think it is more important now more than ever. We know that a safer world is not just about what we do here at home. It is also about what we do abroad and even if you want to isolate yourself from the rest of the world, the rest of the world doesnt let you and if you try, you miss when International Problems come bang iing at your door and you do nothing about them and then they get worse but you u also most importantly, miss opportunities when they come knocking. So, how do we respond to the problems that we have before us and how do we seize the opportunities that we may miss if we isolate ourselves from the rest of the world . So on november 4th, 2020, the longterm future of americas role in the world will be b determined. That is not an overstatement. Make no mistake, under Donald Trumps presidency, we are witnessing an erosion of our long held principles, our alliances and really americas moral authority. We still hear it every day. I am still waiting for the president to tell us how asking a foreign leader to dig up dirt on a political opponent and essentially try to fix an election, how that makes America Great again. Id like to hear from him how leaving the kurds, our allies from year after year after year how leading them from slaughter makes America Great again. And id like to hear about how walking out of a nato conference just because some leaders were making jokes you. Ive heard worse on United States senate floor. Not just about the president , but about a lot of people that we may even like. Ive heard these jokes before. P but you dont walk out just because people are making jokes about you. You dont quit on the world. I think thats what makes America Great again. I would most likely like to hear about how coddling up to putin makes America Great again. It doesnt. It makes russia great again. Most troubling of all is the damage to our moral authority, and makes it allies to around the world to look to our example. Our democratic allies and partners have trusted us to lead the benefit of all and not just for ourselves but this administration has changed that perception. Our president has aligned the county are tri with corruption at my junctures and when he does that, he implicitly and sometimes explicitly blesses the conduct of those who pafailed t uphold our values and rejects the rule based International Order that has endured for generations. He does it when he goes after the press and the first amendment. He embraces kim jongun because the president said they fell in love. There have been no commitments, timetables or verification when it comes to denuclearization of the korean peninsula. We continue business as usual with saudi arabia even after its crown prince ordered the coldblooded murder of jamal shooky and our president touts billion dollar arms deals for untold numbers of civilian deaths in yemen. We need a new commander in chief, someone who can command with stability and strength. Someone who understands that the great challenges of our time can and should be dealt with by using our country is advantage. The inji newty of our talented and diverse population. The connections we have around the world because of that population. Entrepreneurship, our unmatched military, but also our diplomats and Global Networks of allies and partners with shared interests and values. By standing together with our allies and investing in ourselves, we can protect our interests and build a more just world. Today, imt to talk about the five rs as o opposed to the three of writing and reading and arithmetic. We need todthose, too, but im focus on these five rs. Restoring american hooep. Repairing our alliances. Rejoining International Agreements. Responding appropriately to the threats and challenges that come before us in restoring American Values. So well start with restoring American Leadership. We have a send a clear message that america is a global power of good. Trust with our allies that well stand with them is key and trust from our add versa irs that well oppose them and defeat them for me, that begins with respecting our front line troops, diplomats and Intelligence Officers who are out there every day ris b king their lives for us. They deserve better than Foreign Policy by a tweet. The impeachment hearings have made clear the devastate iing effect have had on our state department and diplomatic core. As ambassador yovanovitch said in our testimony, the state department is being hollowed out from within. This is not a time to underst c our diplomats. Are storing leadership begins with rebuilding the state department and expanding our budget for foreign assistance. Not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. As form er secretary mattis onc said and i wish he was still there, if you dont fully fund the state department then i need to buy more ammunition. Whatever issue we face, whether its conflict in syria or ebola pandemics in africa or zika in south america, our response is more effective if we use to tools of diplomacy and work with our allies. In my first 100 days as president , i will launch an effort to rebuild and restore our diplomat k core. That gibegins immediately with Foreign Policy making and especially su ensures the state department receives sufficient funding. We will recruit a new generation of Foreign Service officers who will carry the mantle of American Values and ideals forward. But well also welcome back this sort of make new friends but keep the old. Well welcome back and make it possible for career diplomats who were forced out of the state department under the Trump Administration to return. There are some things you have to do to create those pathways to allow them to return. Then theres foreign aid which has gone hand in hand with our diplomatic efforts. Fortunately, congress has been successful in pushing back against a dramatic cuts to foreign aid, proposed by the administration. I have been part of that. And has supported a strong foreign assistance budget. Helping our friends is not only the right thing 250to do, but t smart thing. Foreign aid is critical to National Security and depp straiting americans moral leadership. In 2017, i joined forces in a bipartisan effort to push back against the Trump Administration proposed cuts to foreign aid including for security and Economic Development in the horn of africa. I joined forces with a republican congressman from someone in my own state. We went to minnesota and did a joint public event. We talked about the fact this is a security issue for america and we specifically talked about the drought in somalia since minnesota is one of the largest east african populations, actually the biggest somalian population in the United States. By showing that support, our n constituents understood the results and National Security ritz ks that can come from that one instance that they understood well because of we have so many somalians, inadequate responses to globalers. Thats the kind of thing we need to do to make this a national priority. Ive supported the program which is a great example of the positive impact we can have in the world of bipartisan cooperation. It was launched under president bush and continued under president obama and over the years, it has saved millions of lives in sub Saharan Africa and changed the course of hiv aids and the pandemic. Restoring American Leadership means making sure we can continue to be a country that thinks, invents, makes stuff and exports to the world. We know that over 95 of our customers are outside of our borders. That means exporting goods and have a strong man fufacturing sector, but it also means yes, trade agreements, but fair trade agreements with environmental and labor protections. I voted for some trade agreements, i have voted against some, but i think you have to look at each individual trade agreement and make your own decision. But mostly what do we need . Cohesiveness and consistency in our trade policy. It means having allies at our side so we can knock down trade barriers across the world and seek new markets. And a little bit of a sideline, not azriel vant sadly in todays news, but i actually lead the bipartisan bill to lift the embargo to open the cuban market. Something that president obama was working hard to do but has kind of been left. Thank you one person. Having been there now several times, i have seen what we can do with those 11 Million People 90 miles off our shore. My most memorable trip, i was with secretary kerry when he opened the embassy and there were just three senators. Flake, leahy and myself and on her plane were these three marines. I think their names were jim, mike and rarrlarry and they wer there. They were the ones that would taken our flag down when we closed the embassy over 50 years ago to a jeering crowd and one said we will be back and over 50 years later, they were there handing that flag to three Young Marines who hoisteded it over the embassy. That makes you think anything and everything is possible. If you believe it can get done. The next r. Repairing our alliances. I believe strength means Standing Shoulder to shoulder with our allies. In my first 100 days, if you wonder why i keep mentioning this, this is key to Building Trust not only abroad, but with our country and i have a 100 day plan that has over 137 things a new president can do without congress that are legal. Fdr had this plan because of the economic crisis we were facing. We have a bit of that ahead of us. If we dont change our ways, but that was a trust crisis. And i think to get at that, you immediately have to show leadership and change including in the international area. So in my first 100 days, i will meet with the leaders of our neighboring countries and assure our allies across world that we will stand with them and ill reknew our commitment to the u. N. And other International Organizations such as nato. This is in stark contrast the to President Trump, who krcriticiz our allies and coddled brutal adversaries. According to a pugh survey, people in frns and germany are more likely to trust the leaders of russia and china than President Trump. Why . Heres a good example. They listen when the president dismisses questions about isis fighters escaping because he says well, theyre just going to escape to europe. How would you feel if you were u the people in those countries . He bashes our nato allies. For 70 years, the Nato Alliance has stood as a bullwork against aggression, not just in europe, but around the world and it remaps a Vital Partnership today. To our allies and security of the u. S. We can never forget that in the wake of the september 11 attacks, it was nato for the first time. I will reaffirm americas commitment to the Nato Alliance and end any question of americas commitment to collective defense. I will strengthen our relationships with japan and south korea, the corner stones of our economic and Security Alliance in the asia pacific region. I will stand with israel, one of our strongest and most enduring allies and a beacon of democracy in a really tough neighborhood. President trump has tried to drive a wedge time and time again for bipartisan support of israel. I dont approve of many of the things that he has done, nor do i agree with what Prime Minister netanyahu has done. But that doesnt mean that we cant change things. I will stand up for a strong u. S. Israel relationship and also return us back to a Peace Process that combines, not separates, the political and economic tracks, buy in from israelis, palestinians in the arab world and ultimately leads to direct negotiations between israelis and palestinians themselves that can lead to a two h state solution. The third r, the third pillar, will be b rejoining and reengaging with International Agreements and institutions that serve to protect and advance u. S. Interests. U. S. Leadership in creating the Global Security and economic frameworks through International Institutions agreements and norms has been one of our greatest Foreign Policy accomplishments. Its allowed for peace and prosperity at home and around the world as well as Global Cooperation to address challenges. By contrast, trumps withdrawal from International Agreements has been one of americas biggest Foreign Policy blunders. Whether its taking us out of the Iranian Nuclear agreement, the International Climate change agreement or the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty, President Trump has made us less safe and squandered americas leadership abroad. Heres what i will do in the first 100 days. Day one, i will rejoin the Climate Change agreement. When he announced the withdrawal, there were only two countries not in it. Nicaragua and syria. They are now in the agreement and we are the only ones not in the agreement. Then of course we have to lead by example by bringing back the clean power rules and the gas mileage standards and introducing sweeping legislation tackle Climate Change. I will meet our commit ms to the u. N. And other multinational organizations and i will also jumpstart negotiations with russia to extend the new Start Nuclear arms reduchovny treaty and restore the inf treat treaty. Yes, we know russia was cheating on the inf treaty, but that doesnt mean you precipitously withdraw from that treaty and i will renegotiate us back into the iran agreement. One of the major focuses of u. S. Foreign policy for years has been reduce iing the threat of Nuclear Weapons thats why i supported it and why i believe we should renegotiate ourselves back into it. Not only does iran remain a destabling force, its also responsible for supporting terrorism, for directly aiding war against his own people in era, and for threatening the security of israel and the entire region but allowing them to again move toward a nuclear weapon, by giving leverage to china and russia, by leaving our allies in Europe Holding the bag, that is wrong, and that is against our own interests, and the interests of the world. Because of Donald Trumps feckless decision to pull us out of the iran nuclear agreement, iran is resuming its enrichment activities including at the underground site and increasing its uranium stockpile. We need a realistic longterm strategy for iran that will contain this aggressive action and prevent it from gaining Nuclear Weapons. Not just tough talk. That means more treatys. That means renegotiating back into the nuclear agreement, but also rebuilding consensus with our allies and our partners. The fourth thought, responding to threats an challenges we face. I already mentioned some of them. This means we must remain vigilant against terrorism. Since 9 11 we have made significant improvements to our counterterrorism and intelligence capabilities but the threat remains. Our military forces and intelligence agencies must continue to go after terrorists wherever they pose a threat to the u. S. , or our allies. We must also push back against russia and china, two of the those significant beneficiaries of the disruption of our global system. To seize the opportunity to strengthen their dicta torial regimes and challenge global peace and stability. They share an aversion to democracy and a desire to reshape the International System in their own image. They use political, economic, and military coercion so exert control over their neighbors, while also exploiting cyber space to threaten our critical infrastructure. Putins regime presents a serious threat to our allies, and our security. We know what what they did in ukraine. I went there twice, once with senator mccain, and senator graham. Seizing crimea. Poisoning political opponents. Arming militants in eastern ukraine, who shot down an airliner, and propping up assads brutal dictatorship in syria. Ukraine itself was targeted by russian hackers, i like to remind ourselves, as this turns debate, it is not really a debate, falsehoods being put out there, i love fiona saying, they are heavily in russian propaganda and anyone who blames ukraine for the interference in our own election, but they themselves are targeted by russia. On my trip with senator mccain, to the baltics i also learned a whole number of other incidences like this, including estonia, when they moved a statue of a russian fighter away from a public square, into a cemetery, they were then, they had their internet shut down and they had to try to communicate with people from a hillside. Its a small country, but still. These were things that have been going on for years. And when we were there, i need to you fully understand that this could happen in a big way in our own country. But now, we know in the words of robert mueller, that it happened in a sneaking and systemic fashion. We should continue of course to cooperate with russia in areas where we have common interests, but also must be cleareyed about the limits of productive engagement, as long as Vladimir Putin is in power. Effectively standing up to his aggression, means reasserting our commitment to nato, it means strengthening sanctions against his regime, and its enablers and it means protecting our election. It means major investment in Cyber Security. I was just talking to senator langford on the senate floor before i came over here. He and i lead the bill for backup paper ballots, we were gut punched by the white house, and actually by senator mcconnell, in stopping that bill, it would have passed about a year ago, exactly, it was in a markup in committee and calls were made to the republican senators to stop that bill. There is no excuse for that. This is not a partisan issue. It is about protecting our elections by having good equipment, by having audits, and by having backup paper ballots. Then there is china. We only have to look at chinas detention of over one million uyghurs in internment camps or the attempts to crack down on democratic protesters in hong kong to see how far the country will go. And it has been playing by its own trade rules for years stealing our Cutting Edge Technology and int elect ule property and dumping steel. It weaponizes its economies against its neighbors by withholding key exports to try to extract political concessions. And it is pouring money into a military Modernization Program specifically designed to keep america at a distance an intimidate its neighbor. It is trying to im bed itself in our most sensitive infrastructure through internet firms, which we know have strong ties to the Chinese Government and by acquiring americas startups and other companies to gain access to technology. Despite some very tough rhetoric, the Trump Administrations attempt to rebalance our relationship with china is focused on the wrong things. His trade war has already cost our country 300,000 jobs, but it has done nothing to forestall the long term competition we face. There is an old ojibwa saying that we have a lot of tribes in my state, that brave leaders make great decisions not just for this generation but seven generations for now, if youre china, you see a president who has not made minutes seven minutes from now. He is using a meat cleaver, or i should say a tweet cleaver for his approach. In august, he said he would put tariffs on 300 billion worth of goods and august 13, dialled it back and august 20 he said he would lower taxes because he is concerned about what is happening, which he said then will add more to the debt, and the next day he dials that back. And as they say in trade negotiations, keep your promises and keep your threat. He has done neither. We must go back to the negotiating table. We know that. But the point here is to focus our efforts on results and focus on trade enforcement efforts that actually help america. The stakes of the competition are high. And it is not about some far off balance of power in asia. We dont want to prevent china from succeeding. But we do want to prevent it from doing so at the expense of others, including americans. Our china policy needs to leverage our full range of economic, diplomatic, and security strength. This includes investments here at home, in education and research, to increase americas competitiveness in the global economy, and ensure a level playing field, it means youre carrying the diplomatic and Security Alliances which china can never match and it means standing up for u. S. Values on human rights and democratic freedoms. We dont seek conflict with china or russia. But we are also not going to allow them to break up the International System that has enabled peace, stability, and prosperity. We also must continue to ensure that our military remains second to none. Im committed to maintaining our military superiority over any adversary that would challenge us. We will ensure that our troops are the best trained and best equipped in the world. We also should not be trapped by the false logic that higher defense spending automatically leads to better military or safer nation. Virtually every analysis of the pentagons budget has found duplicative and unnecessary programs. So we need to make it clear that we will take a much clearer look at how money is being spent and i will immediately focus on making sure we are making the right investments. One of those investments, as i alluded to before, is clearly Cyber Security. This is not just about attacks on our elections, it is electric grids, it is our businesses, and it is the new reality that we know we are facing. Congress has already provided the pentagon with special authorities to recruit civilians to Cyber Security experts, as president , i will direct the department of defense to immediately provide adequate staffing through Cyber Security programs, we should vastly expand Cyber SecurityService Programs that recruit Top Technology experts, in the private sector, because a modern, National Security strategy, means prioritizing Cyber Security. Another Foreign Policy challenge we have is afghanistan. We know we are now deploying soldiers who literally werent even born before this conflict began, but the way we do that is by being very clear in our purpose, and working with our allies, to make sure that any negotiated settlement doesnt go backwards on our democracy gains. It is not by haphazardly inviting the taliban to camp david. It is in fact, or surprising people, both in the Ghani Administration and the taliban, with tweets that we are renegotiating again. What we must do is make clear and be very consistent in these negotiations, and work to end this conflict. Ive committed to bringing our troops home by the end of my administration of my first full year. Reasserting American Values is the fourth r. And that means having at the heart, the fifth r, the heart above Foreign Policy, our values this. Includes standing up for freedom, democracy and human rights around the world. And it starts right at home. We have to stop the fear mongering and stop the hate. We may come from different places, we may pray in different ways, we may look different, we may love different, but we all live in a country of shared dreams. I remember at the height of the antiimmigrant rhetoric, in the last campaign, i heard the story of a somali family in minnesota that had gone out to dinner, the parents had been in our state through 9 11, and they had not experienced any discrimination. But at this moment, they went out to dinner, in a suburban restaurant, and a guy walks by and he says you four go home. You go home to where you came from. And the little girl looks up at her mom and says mom, i dont want to go home to eat. You said we could eat dinner out tonight. You think of that word, that innocent child, she didnt each know what he was talking about. Because she only knew one home. That was my state. That was our country. So as we think of reasserting our values, at home, and abroad, we have to remember that what we say at home matters to the rest of the world. It is very hard to be the beacon of democracy and talk about the uyghurs or talk about what is happening to the kurds if in fact we are not taking care of our own house. I come from a family of immigrants. My moms family came from switzerland. And ran a cheese shop for a chile. Kind of cliche. My relatives on my dads side of the family came from slovenia and worked in the mines in northern minnesota. My grandpa had to quit school at age 15, to help support his family of nine, because his parents were sick, he became a teamster, and then spent the rest of his life working underground in those mines. He wanted to be in the navy. And i often think when he went down in that cave, with the lunch bucket that my grandma would pack for him, how much he thought of that life at sea. But instead, he went 1500 feet under ground every single day, to take care of his brothers and sisters, his youngest one sister had to go to an orphanage when hit parents died, and he promised we get her and he borrowed a car when she was i think ten years old, and he went back and got her out of that orphanage. That is sacrifice. Every day, we go to work, in his hardhat and pull on his boots. And get the job done. Thats what we have to do now. Because we believe in a country, a country where the granddaughter of that iron ore miner and the daughter of a teacher and a newspaper man and the first woman elected to the u. S. Senate in the state of minnesota can run for president of the United States. That is because, why did my great grandparents come here, my dads side, and my grandparents come here on my moms side . Because they were looking for a better life. They saw our country as a beacon of democracy. We must believe that america can continue to be that beacon. The damage President Trump has done to our standing in the world is serious and it will last long beyond his presidency. But i dont believe it is irreparable. Or i wouldnt be running for this job. It will take time and hard work, but i believe we can rise to the challenge. And restore the promise of americas unique role in the world. Four more years of donald trump would permanently weaken our country. And thats why we cannot afford to lose this election. The world is watching us closely. Allies and adversaries alike are wondering, has america definitively turned away from its commitment to values that truly make us great . And enabled us to build a Global Network of alliances unmatched in history . Or is the Current Administration an aberration, a hiccup on the path to greater prosperity, and a secure future . I know where i stand. And i hope you will join me. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you very much, senator. Thank you. And thank you for being here. Thank you, nick. Thank you all for being here. My name is nick shifrin, im the Foreign Affairs corner, cbs news hour, and i coming up. Thats true. You dont have three minutes. I do have three minutes. I have three minutes and the audience will have ten minutes. Oh, good. And the senator haso back oh, okay. So a wildcard if i may. We have done a lot of work on china lately, especially on uyghurs which you mentioned of course, and there have been leaks lately that have described xi jingping making a decision. In 2014, he decided that economic incentives alone in shinjon wasnt enough to control the uighurs that there needed to be some kind of psychological means of control. Is xi jingping personally responsible for the imprisonment and holding in camps of more than a million uyghurs . Well, he is. He is the leader of that country. But the question is, what do we do about it . And those stories that we have seen in the news have been just atrocious. You have students, they will go away to college, basically, and they come back and their parents are gone, their families are gone. And if we cannot stand up for that, against that, i dont know what we can stand up against. So to me, a lot of this is working with our allies, so we make very clear what theyre doing is wrong. This is a change that can be made. We know we had a history of this, with the japanese, and we reversed that, and we have apologized for that, and we have decades and decades coming back from that. So we of all countries would be able to say this is wrong and stand up against it. Do i think this should be part of our trade negotiations . No. I think this should be separate from our trade negotiations. As well as what we recently did in the congress in standing up for the ability of the protesters in hong kong which the president grulking grudging signed into law. I think that has to be a tenet of Foreign Policy. And we have lost so much credibility when it comes to things likes this, that i think, big surprise, when theyve seen how President Trump reacted with, to the dismembering of a journalist, of an american newspaper, other people are watching, other leaders across the world know were not going to stands up. And this has happened time and time again, and this is why having a new president is not going to tolerate, is going to call them out for it is, going to be at the international conferences, and not quit on them, i think well make a difference. The Trump Administration has sanctioned people it believes are responsible for the jackdown, if president xi is, crackdown, if president xi is responsible, would you negotiate with xi jingping . Again, i wont negotiate right now on this stage but i think he should be much firmer in his stance on this, and that we have to keep pushing them and i think eventually we will triumph but not if we lose or moral core. And u. S. Military officials who work in europe and ukraine, ukrainian officials who i talked to say that the increased assistance since ukraine, including traveling missile, money for antisniper systems, more money for ukraine, has successfully deterred any russian incursion in eastern ukraine. So is that proof that the Trump Administration on policy, the Trump Administration policy on ukraine, is working . I think that this is a longstanding policy that a lot of people have been involved in. I actually personally advocated for sending more assistance to ukraine, when president obama was in, after trips that i took with juror durbin and then another one as i mentioned with senator mccain and senator graham. I dont attribute any one policy to some stabilization. I no note there has only recently been a ceasefire and i also note that the leaders involved in that ceasefire were Angela Merkel and the president of france, macron, and our president had left the u. S. And nato conference. So i think it is a combination of factors. But again, we still have the situation, despite that there is a ceasefire, we have a situation where they have still illegally annexed crimea, and ukraine is nowhere back to where it was before russia invaded their country. The normandy process is different, what we have talked about the last couple of days with nato. Yes, i know that. But what im saying is i dont see this huge change. And i also see our own president , and his, some of his memes on the political side actually putting out disinformation and blaming ukraine for invading our election, which i dont think helped our relationship with ukraine. And not being Strong Enough in taking on russia, which was the really, the source of invading our election. Im out of time. We have about six or search minutes before the senator has to get back. So let me start back there, the woman in red, please. And because we have so little time, please very quick question, identify yourself first. Hi. [ inaudible question ] i had one followup question. I thought you had a when you said you wanted to renegotiate, can you clarify what you mean by that . So you said right, exactly. Good to see you. As you know we were very proud when ambassador mondale was the ambassador to japan and i have done a lot of work with japan. So thank you. So when it comes to iran, i think we should try to seek, for instance, longer sunset period than other things, to make for a better agreement, but i dont even think were close to doing that right now, when the president is taking us out of that agreement. And so i would embark on new negotiations. I honestly hope that that happens before a new president takes over. Before i would take over. Because as everything that iran is doing right now, is somewhat predictable, including what you have seen in terms of the oil tankers and other things, i think many of us thought this would happen. And to me, this is just the words of our world. Even for people that oppose the agreement, some of the democratic senators, like senator schumer, or senator menendez. They did not favor getting out of the agreement, because of the fact that you are literally, have given them some of the funds back, correct, but yet then are not doing anything when it comes to stopping them from enriching uranium. So i do think we are in the worst of both worlds, so i would start the negotiations immediately. Work with our allies, something this president isnt doing. I am almost, when i brought up the tweet, that is because of his latest thing, when there was the Prisoner Exchange and then he sent out a tweet, see, iran, i can do a deal, like we werent in a deal that took years to negotiate and just because you dont like every part of it and every portion of it, then your job as president is to lead, and it is to figure out well, okay, how can i use my leverage at this point, to exploit democracy, to try to make changes going forward. That is not what he did. He took us out of that agreement. So i would start the negotiations right away, and clearly, there are many world powers that are interested in having us get back into that agreement. In the front. Thank you, senator. Ari, from lee high university. Syria which has been the source of instability for europe, because of the refugees, can you, weve had two president s, both obama and trump, do things that have been not very helpful, so i wanted to see, ask you, what do you think President Trump, or president obama did wrong, and what did President Trump do wrong, and what would you do today to resolve both the humanitarian and political crisis. Okay, i think you know it is very hard to go backwards now. But at the time, and i went to, a trip with senator graham, again, and some other senators, and we went to, went to jordan and to turkey, and we met with some of the leaders at the time, and when i came back from that trip, i actually met with president obama, and we called for some kind of a humanitarian zone opening to help there, and actually it was at a moment in time where its possible we could have done more, and that didnt happen. And things kept getting worse and worse and worse. Now, i disagreed greatly with President Trumps decision to move the 150 troops off of the border. I think that just left the kurds in a horrible position. After they, had lost 11,000 people fighting with us, we broke our promise, which was heard all around the world, and then i think the most important thing we can do right now is to ensure that the humanitarian aid keeps going to where it should go. Working with whatever allies that we have left there. I was asked at what point do you think we should get turkey out of nato. I dont think that. They house our Nuclear Weapons and our military sites, as you know. I dont think thats the right solution. But it is just continuing to work with the rest of the world. That he has put us in a very difficult position to show any leadership right now, when it comes to syria. Over here, why you dont take the back here. Adam schwartz, senator klobuchar, thank you very much for your remarks. In the rejoining part of your five r strategy you focused mainly on political arrangements, and i wanted to ask your thoughts on what you see as the right u. S. Role in multilateral economic arrangements and i have a political interest in whether you would say the u. S. Wanting to rejoin the tpp. Thanks for that. And the usmca. Oh, yes, why dont i announce that right now. That is a very good idea. Obviously, it has just been put forward. What i referenced in there, i meant, i have voted for some trade agreements and against others. I look at them individually. And i think that if were going to start negotiations on tpp, to get at your question, we better make sure that there are improvements to that agreement. There were some real issues with that agreement. And we were awaiting, and then it got basically withdrawn from consideration. To see if improvements were going to be made. That doesnt mean that a new president , especially with the looming threat of china, could not renegotiate that agreement. And i think as i look at usmca, im going to look at what some of the changes have been made there, and labor standards, and environmental standards, the pharmaceutical agreement, and see if those are Strong Enough, im now merging these, for your purposes, if theyre Strong Enough, to garner my support, and then also as president , what we could do to take some of those negotiated changes, if they are Strong Enough, and to looking at t performpp again. I will mention one thing on usmca, one thing you maybe didnt know, i head up the canadian inter parliament tarian group and have been doing that over a decade and have done a lot with canada, including when canada was going to be left out of this agreement and it would have been i guess usma, and went to canada after the g7 and led a trip with senator blunt and crapo, to meet with the canadians after that disast wer with President Trump, in which our guest host, underground, closed underground Nuclear Facility and we were concerned at that moment that they were going to leave us there, but they did not. Among the many things on that trip, i remember, is that we were in a bus and we looked out and there was some fancy sports car that drove by, and one of our canadian hosts from a more liberal district says that musten a canadian dairy farmer. So we know that there are issues of imbalance, with the country, and thats why the renegotiation was so important. So the end of that story is i got back and worked with senator portman, and other senators, to set up a meeting at the canadian embassy, a very big dinner, we had half democrat, half republicans, i think there were 15 or 16 of us that went to that dinner, and really talked it through, with the ambassador, from canada, their ambassador, at length, and worked out some ideas, im not saying that this dinner was a big breakthrough, but it at least showed the canadians that we were interested in restarting those discussions again. And then senator portman worked with the white house significantly because of his past work on some of the details of that. So we were very pleased. And i said this publicly, when canada got back into that agreement. I dont think it would have worked very well without our friends to the north. As ive often said, i can see canada from my porch. And so i am looking forward to reviewing this agreement, and working with my colleagues. Senator, we know you have to get back to an important hearing, so thank you very much. Okay. I wish we could take a tour around the world next time. All right. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. [ applause ] tonight on the communicators, Pennsylvania Democratic congressman mike doil chair of the house subcommittee everseeing technology and telecommunications. Our concern is to make sure that we close this digital divide, that exists in our country, and we have an opportunity to do that now. And i think that is important that we do that. There are kids literally, 40, 50 of their homework assignments require Internet Access and they cant get it where they live. They go to mcdonalds, or they go to a library to find a hot spot, to do their homework. These young people are being greatly disadvantaged in our country, when they dont have access to broadband. 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