i know our viewers and all of us would like to be watching the hearings, you know, in congress. but actually, the best and juiciest stuff may not be able to come out in public hearing. i think that s right. two things. first, there needs to be an investigation. the second thing is there is a clear appetite by the public to restore faith in the institution, the core democratic principles that guide this country. there needs to be public discourse. we need to balance it with the fact you often hear the terms, source and methods. those need pto be protected cloe to the vest. there is an opportunity for congress to come out and help with restoring the confidence the public has in the institutions. thank you for helping us. let s bring in democratic congressman ted lew of california, a member of the foreign affairs committee and also a part of the leadership team. he s serving as an assistant whip. good to see you. i want to first get your reaction to your colleague from california. h
imbalancing trade with china and the issue of north korea. what is the approach you expect and hope president trump will take in conversations? based on president trump s past performance with world leaders, i have no expectations. i just want the president to not embarrass us. i m an american. i want him to make us proud. i want him to be strong. i believe in free trade. i also believe in fair trade. that s why i oppose the transpacific partnership. i hope the president gets china to do much more on north korea. that is a major issue, not only for china, but for the united states. congressman, i understand why a lot of people oppose the transpacific partnership, and it is not clear it would have been good for american manufacturing workers in particular. did we inadvertently, by giving it up, allow china a bigger space in asia to be the patron to other countries that it definitely is to north korea? it gave china additional space but it doesn t mean we
office. he says that military action is now on the table. what do you have to say about that? i don t know what the president is talking about because he s already been doing military action in syria. a few weeks ago, president trump deployed 400 u.s. ground troops without any debate in congress to fire artillery to take back a city in syria. we need to know what strategy this administration has, who was supporting us in syria, how long we ll be there, what are the objectives? president trump needs to tell the american people and congress what he is doing. congressman, if i remember correctly, you were born in taiwan? yes. all right. so i want to get your perspective, as an american who has history in asia, about how president trump is going to handle this, so far, i thk, the most important it meeting he s had, the two-day summit with china s president. trump s conversations with
a president who communicates in a different way. and a president who operates in a different way. they have seen the preside atmpt to diminish both the judiciary and the media in the past 36 hours. for americans who are worried about authoritarian tendencies that they see, these are two big things to watch. and while this next man is one of 535 elected members of congress, listen to california democratic congressman ted lew who appeared earlier tonight on this network. our president lies pathologically. he has a staff lie pathologic pathologically then he attacks the free press, attacks the judiciary and this is what starts authoritarianism. donald trump is a danger to republic and we need to wake up in america to understand the harms that he s causing our country. that balance between the executive and the judiciary played out in realtime tonight. lawyers for the u.s. department
both parties cited this report saying that msnbc has report this and this dhs memo is there and in a bipartisan chorus basically raising concerns about why this wasn t done earlier. representative ted lew, a democrat of california saying this should be started tomorrow, a more wide social media review. jason chaffetz led off the committee hearing saying this is the report that msn brbc found this is the 2011 memo and this is the wrong call. hindsight is 20/20 and dhs officials continue to say to me that they ll look at anything that can keep us safer, but this is complex stuff. but again this was frozen in 2011. this was not taken up a long time ago when a lot of people inside dhs said it should have been. after a year of review. i know your reporting is this went through, not just one memo and that was it. it went through a year-long process. president obama today spoke about the refugee vetting process in general. i want to listen to what he