Cavanaugh enter to deliver his side and his record with anger in his voice he denied fords allegations and said that recent accusations of other women were last minute smears to block his confirmation to the Supreme Court this is destroyed my family and my good name a good name built up through decades of very hard work and Public Service at the highest levels of the American Government this whole two week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit fuel to the parent pent up anger about President Trump and the Two Thousand And Sixteen election fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record revenge on behalf of the clintons and millions of dollars and money from outside left wing opposition groups. Going to be very hard to discredit dr glossy fords testimony purely from a political standpoint here and lets talk a little bit about judge you have a dog i mean he was in tears for a want of his testimony today and he spoke about his sex life from thirty six yea
Online. The old order is history the world is reorganizing itself and the medias role these keep shifting powers the topic in focus at the Global Media Forum twenty nineteen the laboratory for the digital age. Who are we following whom do we trust to debate and shape the future at the doj a valid Global Media Forum twenty nine t. The place made for minds. This week conflict zone is at the annual security conference in munich i meet plenty of recriminations and bad blood between europe and washington my guest here is jim risch chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee how damaging is this transatlantic divide and how committed is the Trumpet Ministration to nato. Jim risch welcome to conflict zone thank you very much like to be here all the latest polls show the french germans the british now regard the us as a greater danger to their interests than china which you regard as your prime danger how much blame do you think washington should take for that. Well. Sometimes
seventeen of the members were keeping the commitments we do agree with me on that the commitment was to get it up to two percent by twenty twenty four that was the commitment will know that twenty twenty four yet and it wasn t a heart it was commitment to not try and attract it well i don t think you made it when i was trying to try to get there and mr trump also made another there were only a statement at the summit he said everyone has agreed to substantially up their commitment they re going to up at the levels they ve never thought of before it was a troop. it fails of president mark wrong to say there s a communique it informs the goal of two percent by two thousand and twenty four that s that s all that s all it is you know i came here to do an interview with you and i want to do an interview but i don t want to debate i don t do these in washington d.c. and i m not going to do it here but if you want to interview me i ll be happy to do it i m not going to debate with you well i
point eight three percent twenty fifteen three zero one four you agree with me though that they were keeping the commitments and only seventeen of the members were keeping the commitments we do agree with me on that the commitment was to get it up to two percent by twenty twenty four that was the commitment will know about twenty twenty four yet and it wasn t hard it was commitment to not try and attract it well i don t think you made when i was trying to try to get there and mr trump also made another the erroneous statement at the summit he said everyone has agreed to substantially up their commitment they re going to up at the levels they ve never thought of before it was a troop. it s older president mark wrote to say there s a communique it informs the goal of two percent by two thousand and twenty four that s that s all that s all it is you know i came here to do an interview with you and i want to do an interview but i don t want to debate i don t do these in
a huge book about among those of the nato member states and mice vocally why herring this complaint from from the us from the us president donald trump particularly when it comes to the recommendation that nato member states spend two percent of the g.d.p. over the course domestic product on defense spending now last year gemini spend one point three percent to one point two three percent sorry of its g.d.p. on defense spending and to at least the latest budget they now plan to increase that up to one point five percent by two thousand and twenty four with the aim of reaching that two percent target in an unknown time frames of course the demand is growing by and this is a recovering issue particularly in time to transatlantic relations between germany and the u.s. and they certainly causing some issues and there was a rather embarrassing moment at least for germany this week in polman as well when it s actually when its own nato strategy which plans to strengthen its role and its