5term member of the oregon house of representatives serving the oregon 47th district. Prior to running for office jeff ran several nonprofits in portland including the portland habitat for humanity but running for office is not the only running that senator americaly does as he is a twotime iron man refer thats amazing, yes. Candid voice of concerned american who believes the country stands for something bigger. Tonight senator murphy and has worked since 1987 served previously as news director and Program Director and also serving as the host of the record and the awardwinning news program the conversation. Please join me in welcoming both of them here, senator and jeff reynolds. [applause] theres been so much going on on the border just in the last few days that i was trying to catch up on the news i realized it might be useful to begin with whats been happening lately and update us on just whats been going on in the last week or so on the immigration issue. Well, thank you, everybod
Reiterate disappoint this year. Fisher we. Busy schedule that morning principally the meetings and talks. Centered on. The issue of. Implementing. The nuclear. Issue of the us you need to get it from the j c b o its. That they implemented ation of the un just then a logical analysis of the United States. As well as about the region and the sensitivity of that return to. My for security. And peace in the region and the. Future. Is discussed. There are issues during this visit. During and this is the ring it was the General Assembly week. Endeavor. The peace. That is most the persian gulf and the sea of all. That exists be it is constructive. Contribution of the region understanding between those criteria and cooperation. Between the. Many. And guarantee the security of that region. To morn. There is some issues. Other issues. We still must pursue. Different. Issues. Examining. And some of it is. Some of that we talked about in. The talks including. The nation the. Economic issues with c
Ted cruz talks about us Foreign Policy and National Security including threats from china and russia, he also shared his views on iran at this event at the hudson institute. Thank you very much john and thank you to hudson for hosting me, thank you for the terrific work you are doing. These are challenging times, in the United States and across the world. We have to be candid that we have enemies in the world. I have categorized the countries we face in the world in four groups. Enemies, allies, problematic allies, and rivals. Lets talk about each. I ran seeks Nuclear Weapons. North korea already has them. Both have repeatedly called for the destruction of the United States of america. In south america we have disintegrating and failed states controlled by antiamerican thugs such as ortega in nicaragua or missouri in venezuela. Who use their resources to so chaos across the western hemisphere and beyond. We also face hostile rivals such as china and russia, qualitatively different from
Enemies, allies, problematic allies, and rivals. Lets talk about each. I ran seeks Nuclear Weapons. North korea already has them. Both have repeatedly called for the destruction of the United States of america. In south america we have disintegrating and failed states controlled by antiamerican thugs such as ortega in nicaragua or missouri in venezuela. Who use their resources to so chaos across the western hemisphere and beyond. We also face hostile rivals such as china and russia, qualitatively different from our enemy. In that we trade with them, we compete with them in the economic sphere, and yet more often than not, their interests are antagonistic to our own. And that you have the resources to be developing next generation weapons platforms. And sophisticated weaponry including hypersonic weapons, weapons that will be fielded in space and weapons that leverage artificial intelligence. The longterm geopolitical chessboard features prominently china and russia. As our principal ri
Think oh we have lost nothing with have. No. Thats we were constantly very beautiful there were yes there are calls to reform the w. T. Oh. First as an organization the w. Cio was established by a group of countries but the decided to remove trade barriers 2nd the conditions for exporting goods to other markets should be predictable and understandable for the actors involved. And what do we have now. Under the pretext of National Security of countries simply ignore the w t o. There is in fact a provision that if a country feels that there is a National Security threats they can choose to stray from the w t o principles is a person now some countries are taking advantage of that the u. S. For example sees all these regulations mainly as a National Security threat. When the w. C. L. Was founded just the spirits and the environment were different. Today that everyone is leaning towards protectionism safeguarding their own interests that may start with one country and then you have a group