-philippine alliance. and that kind of verbiage has gotten old for the philippines they understandably want to know what will happen if they a real he is ka la tray kind of conflict with china, what would the united do.es scarborough is not a particularly reassuring episode u.s.-philippine alliance. o i think what he may be up to is really just trying to force a conversation that, again, revious administrations have managed to avoid to get more of sense of whatblic u.s. -- how far the u.s. really go in a potential conflict. and frankly, i think it would be trump ely easy for the administration to come up with a of ula of clarification obligations that might just sort of settle this whole thing quickly. so we'll see. dilemma so, amy, the the president by imself because they may convince the secretary of defense to give him more security commitment, something to closer to what we japan, successive administrations have set article 5 would apply in any scenario involving the force against japan. have never bee

in oil and gas operations under philippine law, paying taxes to the philippines, recognizing philippine ultimate of the shelf. i suspect that in november, this will be delayed again. then you have the oil and gas side. to had an agreement and 2017 declare a decade of coastal and marine environmental protection in the south china sea. we are over a year later. there have been no concrete negotiations. it runs into the same problems. i don't have a whole lot of faith. if there's going to be a crack, it will be on marine environmental protections. least is theot reaffirmation of the u.s. alliance commitments to the philippines and south korea. we talked about this in the last panel. quickly, what do you think of the prospects from your perspective? >> this was my choice. i'm doing a terrible job is -- if the goal is guessing where the audience is going to go. largely because of the negative consequences. this, thet do consequences are far worse than on the other four. i do think it is likelier than affirmationsee an that the mutual defense treaty applies. a lot of the devils will be in the

france and the philippines do. there's always the potential for a small-scale incident between vietnam and china to escalate. my prediction is, i don't know if it happens tomorrow or a year from you. there will be a violent incident in the south china sea. i just have no idea if it's going to happen before december 31. >> second is taiwan strait. we've gone up now to 22%. have a is, the chinese toolbox of ways that they can put a lot of pressure on taiwan. which they are doing. we see it diplomatically and economically. we have elections not in 2019 but in january 2020. usually the chinese, as you get closer to elections, they go more into covert influential and lessen this over way of influencing taiwan. there's been a lot of their activity around the island. perhaps, that represents concerns about what his speech means. i will go on the record to disagree with most people. china hashink that set a deadline for unification. i think a close read of that speech that he gave, not the new year's speech but the 40th an

the philippines, the waterways are very important to the navy. abade navy system themselves? guest: i'm not quite sure where you are going with that and the waterways of the philippines. host: if you go to the mba website, the naval aspect of it? just: the navy does not have radar, but it has defensive missiles that are on board ships. it is a key element of our theonal defenses to have system on board of the missile destroyers. the navy has a key role to play in regional missile-defense. host: what do you mean by that? is -- i'm going to mess of the acronym here but act ive -- i will not even try. it is a radar sensor system. host: lorenzo joins us from louisiana. he is also calling on our line for those who are active or retired military. hello, go ahead. caller: yes. i was calling on a couple of things. states, they are talking about the wall. we have only been attacked twice and that was once by the airplanes from the saudi's and the other time was the russians in the election. the wall is not going to be up to stop that. when ier thing is th

united states didn't do this to hundreds of thousands of workers in putin's russia or in hungary or the philippines. this is our people that he did this to. this is our workers who he sent home with no paycheck. people are texting me, they are emailing me their pay stubs today which say zero dollars gross. zero dollars net. after having worked 40 or 50 hours this week. i have scientists in my district working on preventing outbreaks of e. coli contamination, salmonella, insect infestation of our food supply and they have been told not to go to work. madam speaker, this is an outrage and a scandal. at the very least we can pass on a unanimous bipartisan basis this legislation to try to repair the damage by saying that every federal worker will get back every penny that he or she is owed by the united states government. . we need make sure that if this ever happens agai >> that bill passed in the house. we'll take you live to the capitol, speaker pelosi is set o sign it. ms. pelosi: good afternoon, everyone. i'm honored to be here to sign this legislation which is about fairness to our federal worker

not with japan, and it is hard to find other countries, maybe the philippines, in asia that want the bilateral agreement. if you threaten enough auto tariffs, you can get japan to do a trade agreement. itn their japan has said would only give market access at the level of what it already offered in tpp. points a good starting for the japanese market access perspective. i do not see any change at least of thethe disposition bilateral approach to economic issues at large. we may be surprised, i do not know. any otherne: questions from the audience? right here. hi there. teresa, and i am on the japan-america student conference. my question involves russia in terms of the trilateral -- there was maybe not much interest in russia are dissipating in that. how do you feel russia, especially with russian interests in the u.s. election, how will that affect our trilateral relationship in the future? >> the term russian interest in our elections? you can be a diplomat in the future. [laughter] an intelligence person, that is a diplomatic phrase. i would use one a little bit harsher than that.

they are going on vacation now down the philippines. they don't care about this country. they need to come to the table and work for this country. guest: i don't know -- i would be very reluctant to say that either democrats or republicans failed to care about this country. if anyon't know democrats or republicans are currently on vacation. at least from what i have read the newspaper, it is president trump who has got enough and walked out of the room in the context of efforts to negotiate and region into this impasse. there certainly are republicans who have come forward and said they were willing to have a vote on the house passed appropriation bills and that is clearly the pathway forward. question theling get started out as you is to blame. you're putting the blame squarely on president trump and republicans in congress are in -- in congress. want to assign blame one way or another but it does seem to be an absolute refusal on the part of o'connell to allow the senate to vote on the house passed appropriation bills. fits, that seems to be where the solution lies and

you go to china, their neighbors are north korea, south korea, philippines, japan, indonesia, afghanistan, india and russia. they don't have -- so many people in poverty. they don't have a rule of law. they don't have institution, you have the depth and transparency of this. they don't have the university we have we. they have a long way to go. this notion is automatic success, it's not right. working with them together to make it a better planet for everybody. they've never been expansion. you go back to thousand years, china was never invading its neighbors. that was not true of italy, greece, european nations, that's not the way they are. i think it can be worked out. >> the current slowdown in china. >> it is a slowdown. you had goldilocks, we are going through percent. the feds raised gently. your brain, europe and china, never slows down. it's probably a slowdown as opposed to on our way to a recession. down from three and a half. those are probably production. japan's going in a little bit, china is probably the most serious one. more ramifications for this, china grows to 5%. $600

neighbors arer north korea, south korea, the philippines, japan, indonesia, afghanistan, pakistan, india, and russia. they do not have enough food. 500 million people live in poverty. they do not have a rule of law. they do not have the depth of the transparency of our financial market. they do not have the university system that we have or the innovative culture that we have. they have a long way to go. so the notion that it is automatic success is not right. we should be working with them to make this a better planet for everyone. china has never been expansionary. even going back to thousand years, china was never invading its neighbors. that was not true of most of the european nations. outink it could be worked but it will take serious people working hard. currentmpactful is the slowdown in china? jamie: we had goldilocks in october. 3%. things were looking good with inflation under control. gently.raising rates global growth. and now we have a slowdown. i think it is a slow down as opposed to being on our way to a deeper recession. prior projection was down from 3.5% to about 2.9%.

united states didn't do this to hundreds of thousands of workers in putin's russia or in hungary or the philippines. this is our people that he did this to. this is our workers who he sent home with no paycheck. people are texting me, they are emailing me their pay stubs today which say zero dollars gross. zero dollars net. after having worked 40 or 50 hours this week. i have scientists in my district working on preventing outbreaks of e. coli contamination, salmonella, insect infestation of our food supply and they have been told not to go to work. madam speaker, this is an outrage and a scandal. at the very least we can pass on a unanimous bipartisan basis this legislation to try to repair the damage by saying that every federal worker will get back every penny that he or she is owed by the united states government. . we need make sure that if this ever happens again, if the president ever holds the federal work force hostage, the federal work force will not be the ones who have to pay for it. we should pass this immediately and we should reopen the government immediately. mr. cummings: madam spe

china, their neighbors are north korea, south korea, philippines, japan, indonesia, vietnam, afghanistan, pakistan, india and russia. they don't have enough food, water and energy. 500 million people living in poverty. they talk about corruption.they don't have the depth and transparency of our financial markets writ large with venture capital, private equity, do not have the university system we have, do not have the innovative culture we have -- they have a long way to go. the notion it is automatic success is not right. we should be working with them together to make this a better planet for everybody. one thing about china, they have never been expansionary. go back to thousand years, china was never invading its neighbors, not true of italy, greece, european nations. that is not the way they are.i think it can be worked out , but it will take serious people working hard on it. >> how serious is the current slowdown in china? mr. dimon: it is a slowdown. october,ldilocks in going at 3% things look good, fed raising rates gently. global growth in japan, europe, china, and now a slowdo

the philippines, the waterways are very important to the navy. abade navy system themselves? guest: i'm not quite sure where you are going with that and the waterways of the philippines. host: if you go to the mba website, the naval aspect of it? just: the navy does not have radar, but it has defensive missiles that are on board ships. it is a key element of our theonal defenses to have system on board of the missile destroyers. the navy has a key role to play in regional missile-defense. host: what do you mean by that? is -- i'm going to mess of the acronym here but act ive -- i will not even try. it is a radar sensor system. host: lorenzo joins us from louisiana. he is also calling on our line for those who are active or retired military. hello, go ahead. caller: yes. i was calling on a couple of things. states, they are talking about the wall. we have only been attacked twice and that was once by the airplanes from the saudi's and the other time was the russians in the election. the wall is not going to be up to stop that. when ier thing is th

hungry, the philippines -- hungary, the philippines. the homicidal crowned prince of saudi arabia. all of these are the heroes of the president. and it must be a delicious sight for them to see, as the president dismantles the government of our own country, they don't shut down the government in russia. they're not shutting down the government in hungary. they're not shutting down the government in the philippines. but he's shut down our own government. who wins? who benefits from this outrageous and scandalous offense against america? well, it's not a partisan issue. i think the american people are increasingly unified every day against this horror. nd now we have the first great republican president, abraham lincoln, who unified america by working to save the union, and defend the government. and now we've got a republican president who's driving a wedge through the union and has closed government down. will that be his legacy? will this disgraceful offense against our constitution and government be the legacy of this president? or will somehow, someone get to the president and t

end of 2018 and with long traditions of actual human rights violations like bangladesh, cameroon, the philippines and somalia. this is basically no surprise. china, members include saudi arabia, qatar, afghanistan , and pakistan. since its creation, they had 117 condemnations against countries worldwide. 62 were against israel, 65 or against all the other countries in the world. 272017, there were condemnations, 21 against israel. even saudi arabia went to the mandatory human rights review by the council, and they were actually praised for their human rights efforts. another example of the u.n. identity crisis is the climate change battle, particularly against the co2 emissions. and because one of the essential recommendations from their climate change panel is to just remove meat from our diets because according to them, there this, weles stating can cut greenhouse gas consumption by more than 50% if we just cut meat from our diets. during their latest conference at the end of 2018 in poland, they even had a meat-heavy menu, which i don't know how they explained that. this conference, which happ

during the war he was deployed to the philippines, to new guinea, where he earned numerous medals and two presidential citations. joseph passed away at his home last month at the age of 97. next to him was his wife of 76 years, elizabeth, who he had married in brisbane australia at the heart of the war in 1942. joseph would actually work in australia for many years and pioneer the sport of bowling there. but his legacy is far broader than that, not only to his country during his service during world war ii but also to the veterans' community in the hudson valley and across america. he was active in many veterans' organizations -- the catholic war veterans -- and he helped co-found the national purple heart hall of honor in new windsor, new york. the hall of honor is dedicated to collecting and sharing the stories of purple heart recipients. no comprehensive list of purple heart recipients exists and the hall serves as an important archive to their service. joseph knew what it meant to serve others. like so many of his generation, he worked in his community and was a person dedicated t

people waiting in line for 10, 15 -- at least there were when i last looked at it, you know, in the philippines, for example, for over a decade waiting patiently, law abiding people who want to come here and have family here and other things like that, and just to allow people to come crashing in, be told that if you say this you will be treated as an asylum and then you don't have to reappear for your hearing or whatever, it's just an abuse of the system and it's unfair. i mean, all of us have been standing in lines, long, long lines and someone just walks up to the front, that's unjust. that's unjust. i also think that without control you have unsafe conditions and uncontrolled conditions on the border, which create, you know, serious safety problems for everybody on both sides of the border. so it creates uncontrolled access to the country as a national security threat, you know, there are people around the world that are coming into latin america for the purpose of coming up through the border. so these are -- you know, these are the reasons why i think it's important that we enforce -- we

let them put the civil servants in the philippines at rest. why don't they shut down the government of saudi arabia? why are they doing this to the people of the united states of america? we're not playing games. he's playing a game with us. he's holding us hostage over his pet obsession, and the american people know it. madam speaker, i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from oregon, ms. bonamici. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from oregon is recognized for three minutes. ms. bonamici: thank you, madam speaker. and i want to thank my colleague from maryland for yielding time. i rise in support of the rule and the supplemental appropriations act for fiscal year 2019, which will provide relief and recovery assistance for those affected by natural disasters. i'm pleased that this bill includes $150 million for commercial fishery and fishery resource disasters declared by the secretary of commerce. oregon's commercial salmon fisheries were devastated in 2016 and 2017 when they saw more than a 70% decline in their salmon catch compare

andee the tentacles of isis isis and al qaeda tactics and other places of the world, north africa, the philippines. we have seen that take place, isis claiming credit for that. isis will continue to be a threat to the united states and we will have to continue as pel said to keep our eyes on that an interest in the realization this terrorism threat will continue for some time. host: one more call for this segment. this is from texas, ivan, republican line. whyer: i don't understand we have to worry about crises in other countries. this country has only been around for 243 years. why do we have to police or help people -- help the whole world, feed the whole world. what did countries do before we became a country? a lot of those countries have been around for thousands of years and they cannot even feed themselves. host: you don't think these other countries prove a threat to the united states? we don't need other countries to take care of us. we are self supportive in this country. host: ok. that's the last call for this topic. the house is coming in at 9:00 today. when it does, this program will

they are going on vacation now down the philippines. they don't care about this country. they need to come to the table and work for this country. guest: i don't know -- i would be very reluctant to say that either democrats or republicans failed to care about this country. if anyon't know democrats or republicans are currently on vacation. at least from what i have read the newspaper, it is president trump who has got enough and walked out of the room in the context of efforts to negotiate and region into this impasse. there certainly are republicans who have come forward and said they were willing to have a vote on the house passed appropriation bills and that is clearly the pathway forward. question theling get started out as you is to blame. you're putting the blame squarely on president trump and republicans in congress are in -- in congress. want to assign blame one way or another but it does seem to be an absolute refusal on the part of o'connell to allow the senate to vote on the house passed appropriation bills. fits, that seems to be where the solution lies and

i got a friend who married a lady from the philippines. it took him over two years to get her legalized in this state. they went through all the proper channels, paid the money that they needed to do, did all the background checks. thought of the outcome let's open up the government and talk about it, you know, that is not going to work. host: ok, got you, tim, thanks. guest: i agree. we need to figure out a way for people to seek asylum in a more expedited way, and the vast majority do not qualify, and i am for working with mexico to help them secure their border, deal with asylum-seekers at the port of entry. the caller mentioned about having walls in certain areas. we already have walls in certain areas. the president, the platform he worked on during his campaign for president was having a big, beautiful wall across the entire hashern border, so, yeah, the conversation changed since then? of course it has. but what the caller is suggesting is not exactly what the president was saying during his campaign or the rhetoric during his first

united states didn't do this to hundreds of thousands of workers in putin's russia or in hungary or the philippines. this is our people that he did this to. this is our workers who he sent home with no paycheck. people are texting me, they are emailing me their pay stubs today which say zero dollars gross. zero dollars net. after having worked 40 or 50 hours this week. i have scientists in my district working on preventing outbreaks of e. coli contamination, salmonella, insect infestation of our food supply and they have been told not to go to work. madam speaker, this is an outrage and a scandal. at the very least we can pass on a unanimous bipartisan basis this legislation to try to repair the damage by saying that every federal worker will get back every penny that he or she is owed by the united states government. . we need make sure that if this ever happens again, if the president ever holds the federal work force hostage, the federal work force will not be the ones who have to pay for it. we should pass this immediately and we should reopen the government immediately. mr. cummings: madam spe