Speak the ways and Means Committee will now come to order good morning we will consort considered a historic usmca the high watermark with trade deals moving forward it is the result of more than one year House Democrats and the ambassador light heiser who worked with us every time we met. Im very proud of the outcome we have reached. When we assume the majority this year we were asked to consider a renegotiated nafta in a number of areas including enforcement the environment and access to medicines that we start with enforcement as noted many times i did not vote for the original nafta and the chief reason was the lack of enforceability. The past 25 years we have seen the shortcoming much of which comes down to lack of enforcement in my view the improvements to the usmca finally makes the agreement enforceable n by preventing a country to block a nation dispute settlement attempt. Nafta has been symbolic and over 25 years there have been 39 petitions filed with zero enforcement action
In the global fight against typhoid. Now its time for hardtalk smuggling route from indonesia across the sea to australia. Stephen sackur talks to iranian kurd but it is extremely dangerous, that crossing. You, i believe, tried it twice. Writer, Behrouz Boochani. What happened to you when you tried in one of those refugee boats, to get to australia . Welcome to hardtalk, i am stephen sackur. In 2013, the Australian Government adopted a draconian in indonesia i was in a place anti immigration policy called kalibata city, which involved sending all seaborne, so i remember that sometimes would be Asylum Seekers to de facto detention camps in remote Immigration Police attacked the refugees. Papua new guinea and micronesia. My guest was one of them. Unfortunately, the police in indonesia attacked refugees and twice i witnessed that they arrested many people Behrouz Boochani is an uranium and they deported them back. Kurd who has written about his experience. He is now a prize winning so, th
In putting together firstclass programs looking at the region and particularly chinas role in it and todays program countering china in the indo pacific is very much in keeping with his the thrust of his work here at the Hudson Institute. So congratulations on bringing this to fruition. And hes also assembled an absolutely firstrate gripe of group of experts. Starting immediately from my left in the order they will in , richard, currently taiwan, has just completed a new book and hell touch a bit on that. Hes one of the foremost authorities on Southeast Asia and the philippines and particularly the philippinechina relationship. To his left, just returned to washington to become the head of the u. S. Effort of the Observer Research foundation. I first met him almost 30 years ago in japan. Delighted to see how youve developed into an absolute firstclass institute leader, but also a scholar and analyst on the region. And i met today lisolette, a senior fellow here at the institute. Whats
Generals letter cited a phone call between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky as a potential violation of federal Campaign Finance law. Jeff, this was a july 25th call. It was about 30 minutes in length. What did you see in that transcript . Yeah, we didnt get a lot of time with the transcript. We werent allowed to take it out outside of doj but we took some inserts. We took notes. This was a fivepage document and, you know, as you might imagine, it starts out like any other call with a foreign leader would start. Theres a congratulations on the election victory, but President Trump did allude to europe not doing enough to help ukraine. But then he seems to veer into the dnc server. He mentions crowd strike, a company that investigated the russian hack of the dnc server. And then from there he progresses to ask the ukrainian president about joe biden. Let me put this quote up on the screen for you to see. This is what the president said, according to the transcript, which according
A successful outcome. James jeffrey welcome thank you the sake of context here we go back to december last year the announcement by President Trump. He had won basically over isis in syria and little u. S. Troops would be coming home from syria was costly and misleading was and it was misunderstood by everybody it was misunderstood person and made it clear at the time to us and to other leaders that he wasnt losing the bubble as we say on the fight against isis which he recognized could really. Constitute itself nor was he. Losing interest and he said that the. Im a that the United States would maintain its air cover over the not be that u. S. Special operations personnel he made this point very clear publicly and all the all Assad Air Base in the gulf and the president and secretary of defense are you going to meet with an issue so. That we would continue to deploy special forces troops into northeast syria to go after isis if they started showing signs of a threat it did cost him the