came in and destroyed a lot of treaties that we've seen happen over the last few months and jeffrey crocker said something go had been this very quickly is very quick but to what jeffrey say it doesn't have to be this way america does not have to be this withering fruit on the vine instead if we would stop so we discord to create weakness in other places in order to make ourselves strong and instead focus on developing american strengths i think we would be much better off i mean we are the world's largest economy and we'd like to keep it that way jeffrey tucker editorial director with the american institute for economic research thank you but we're going to keep you around for one more question following the next story thanks pfizer for it at starbucks and coca-cola are the latest companies that say they will stop buying ads on social media will facebook in particular has been the target of the stop hate for profit campaign all the group is made up of a number of social justice organizations calling for stricter moderation and rules for hate speech racism and even misinformation but facebo

things on the friday that's less about my ex in the future so crocker. joined me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back the 2020 presidential election has come to the end of its cycle and there are a number of reasons that this election will go down in history but one of those reasons this will be the most expensive of all time that is until probably 2024 joining us now to discuss is boom bust co-host ben swan so bad can you break this down for us the cost of this election how much was spent on the presidential race and how much went to congressional and senate races yeah it's pretty incredible and you're right it's probably going to be a record that only holds for about 4 years but if you take into consideration how much total we're talking about $6600000000.00 let's break down how that compares if you talk about what was spent in congressional races in 2016 the amount that was hit was 4 point $1000000000.00 in congressional races thi

and then ryan crocker. of how senior skills state department officers and those intelligence communities like iraq and syria and pakistan olivia one - - libya to combat terrorism. . . . . have declineo testify. we will be in conversation here with someone else who knows the way around atheir way around thn and state department but as an insider. he spent 29 years in the navy specializing in public affairs and rose to become the navy's top spokesman and chief spokesman for the department of defense. after retiring from the military in 2015 with the rank of rear admiral, he shifted to the state department where he served as the spokesman and assistant secretary for public affairs during the final year and a half or so of the obama administration. he now appears on cnn as an analyst of military and diplomatic issues. ladies and gentlemen, pleaseat help me in welcoming john richter -- paul richter and john kirby. [applause] >> good evening everybody. thanks for coming out on a cold wet tonight in dc. i don't th

crocker and betray us went for long runs and they would chew over issues. the tray has put a satellite office up next to crocker office -- betray us -- they would talk about almost everything. they would go in and meet with the minister, al-nuri malik he and they would know what the lines should be. if it veered into the military, betray us knew without prompting he would talk it up. later crocker went to afghanistan and he worked the same way with john allen. they harmonize closely. it was not a natural state. and when crocker left afghanistan -- a left iraq in 2009, his successor chris sale immediately begin having disagreements with general ray odierno who was in charge of the military band. it requires constant attention. it's just not a natural state. >> i just have one more and then we will start taking questions from you all. there's a microphone over here to your right. just please hew on up when you're ready and we will let you have that. actually it's two questions. one, in writingio of the book dd you learn or stumbled across more junior or mid-l

crocker and petraeus went for long runs and david q. over issues. petraeus put a satellite office next to crocker's office and they would talk about almost everything. he would go and meet with prime minister nouri al maliki and they would know their lines should be. they do without promptin knew wt he would talk about. it wasn't a state and when crocker left afghanistan and iraq in 2009, immediately they began having disagreements with general ray odierno who was in charge of the military. it just wasn't a natural state. >> one more and then we will start taking questions from you all. all. there's a microphone over here to the right. just please queue up and then we will let you have that. actually, two questions. in the writing of the book, did you learn or stumble across more junior or mid-level officers that you think somebody might be writing a book about in the years to come in terms of their performance and then what would you say to people that are considering the career and who might be a little intimidated and put off? >> i did come acros

crocker back so if you wish to ask questions of mr. crocker you could do that as well. mr. norcross. >> thank you, chairman. this is directed to the ambassador. the 15th of january -- withawal of the troops. what strategic aantage, if any, did we achieve or what our beginning and response for the drawdown, in your opinion? >> we are getting nothing in response to that drawdown. that is been the problem with these talks from the beginning. i sitting, the taliban without the afghan government in the room, they knew from the start that the negotiation on the terms of our surrender and everything that is happened since i think has validated that you in eyes of the taliban. so they will continue to press their offensive and will continue to withdraw. that is not a staged reason step. step. it is frankly cuttingur force in half and two months, that is a route. >> next question for dr. biddle. one of the four pillars, in my opinion, is harboring terrorists. we are seeing so manyimes throughout our history the plausible deniability, i hado idea they were there. in you opinion,ow do

crocker back so if you wish to ask questions of mr. crocker you could do that as well. mr. norcross. >> thank you, chairman. this is directed to the ambassador. the 15th of january -- withdrawal of the troop what strategic advantage, if any, did we achieve or what our beginning and response for t drawdown, in your opinion? >> we are getting nothing in response to that drawdown. that is been the problem with these talks from the beginning. i sitting, the taliban without the afghan government in the room, they knew from the start that the negotiation on the terms of our surrender and everything that is happened since i think has validated that you in eyes of the taliban. so they will continue to press their offensive and will continue to withdraw. that is not a staged reason step. step. it is frankly cutting our force inalf and two months, that is a route. >> next question for dr. biddle. one of the four pillars, in my opinion, is harboring terrorists. were seeing so many times throughout our history the plsible deniability, i had no idea they were tre. in your opinion, how d

investor crocker, are you still with us. sounds like we have lost our connection to investor. >> so maybe two doctor jones and in the doctor. according to the withdrawal, we see what is happened is certainly in iraq. i worry about the reinstatement, and the impact on women and children. i worry that we have to calibrate what presence that will be relevant is0 rated 2500 is enough or do we need 4000 . can we reinstate the other 2000 after the bidendm administration comes into operation if that is where he is inclined to go. in your own words, kind of answer those two or three questions. >> i would personally like to see the withdrawal quarter remanded to. i would like our curre troop levels remain police from the beginning of the ben administration . part for the political issue of the leverage of the talks b in part because our afghan allies continue t defend especially in the airstrikes of the u.s. presence provides . if we were to public withdrawal. if we were to totally withdraw i think it isna very likely to the afghanat

crocker. >> thank you very much, mr. chernin, ranking member mccaul. i served on the board i served almost seven years from august, 2013 until june, 2020. during that period i was privileged to witness a complete makeover of the usagm program. it was as though a part-time board of governors was managing by remote it made no sense. one of the first steps we took you will recall both sides of the aisle explain the problem and who seek support for naming one. we got that support and hired and has now moved on to be the ceo. the next matter at hand was revitalizing the various entities under the aegis of the broadcasting work of governors. [inaudible] we were brought in to proceed with the hiring of other entity heads who heard from two of them. amanda bennett and mr. frye. you've heard of their testimony and you've seen their biographies. these are the best of the best. we also hire alberto fernandez, a colleague of mine to run the broadcasting network. among other things he was able to go on ara

crocker. you all know too well that mr. pack has replaced boards, replaced members of the boards with himself as chief of staff, trump political appointees from other agencies, even senior council at the southern poverty law center designated an anti-lbgtq hate group. mr. fly, a question for you quickly. what impact does that have on usagm's employees, the culture, and the atmosphere inside? >> it's incredibly dangerous and i highlighted my testimony in the case of rferl the statute despite the additional powers given to the ceo requires that the corporate board of rferl make all personnel decisions related to opposites. i have no evidence that the rferl corporate board, the new corporate board mr. pack appointed ever even discussed my termination. i've never met any of the other board members other than mr. pack, so i don't know how they would follow their fiduciary obligations under delaware law where it's incorporated. the final thing i'll just note, i have concerns about the fact the board of each of the grantees is a m

so crocker got in his car and drove two hours to the one blood donation center in florida, to see if he qualified to help that stranger in the icu. he donated. he was a match. and four days later, something happened in that hospital room. >> love you, dad. >> come on home, baby. >> love you, daddy! >> he's crying? oh, baby, i see you. i see you. >> reporter: after 19 days in the hospital, that patient, kevin, came home. friends and neighbors waiting for him, and his plasma donor, too. >> one day, two days, five days, it can make the difference. >> reporter: and so this is how we will go through it all. doing our best every choice a mix of uncertainty and hope. helping each other. and discovering our strength together. one step at a time. we'll be right back with a final note. >> whee we'll be right back with a final note. choices. many dealers now offer optional pick-up & delivery and at-home maintenance, as well as online shopping with home delivery and special finance arrangements. so, whether you visit your local dealer or prefer the comfort of home you can count on the very highe

a celestial mechanics of the future so crocker was past. 54 drugs and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it is 11. william barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what china's says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. just when the united states is gradually pulling out of vietnam there is a rush of concern that laos may become another vietnam not so says the administration and says. well the president will let it happen that's what. we have learned one lesson that is that we're not going to play to the. major major wa

templeton crocker, started it in 1922, i believe. c templeton crocker -- who is he? the grandson of charles crocker, who left $400 million, like $40 billion today, maybe more, so that he could collect all these things. he left it here. he was the first president. these people contributed in building all this. my time is up. i'm sorry, i have overrun a bit, but thank you for coming. [applause] >> i want to thank beth and david. what we are going to do, we have penny over there with a mic, i have a mic on this side, so we will go over here. wewill start here, and then will go to the other side with penny. >> hi. thank you for sharing your information with us this evening, it is very educational. and speaking of education, i wonder if, beth, can you tell us -- what the asian-american student population is at princeton, and do you have any comment about the lawsuit against harvard for discrimination against asians? >> it is amazing how often that is the first question i get when i give talks. is this working? you can hear me? ok. i just can't tell. so, at princeton right

you may remember ryan crocker who served in both iraq and afghanistan during very difficult moments in the 2 wars i think that we are better served we were less intervention all it seems like you know you're you're miscalculating going in all of the unknowns and you're miscalculating withdrawing or all the unknowns will be as well and so you're an equally perilous situation but i think in the case of this piece you know i love the united states and american patriot you have to look at it clinically hauling all of those troops out knowing that there's still a terrorist threat and that region and knowing that the taliban will come back harder and stronger than ever before after 20 years of fighting them you know i think i think i think it was a political decision very similar frankly to the political decision that president obama made in 2011 into 12 which was a white troll decision to pull troops out of iraq so you know it where is where is me is that the long term strategic interests of the united states are sometimes dictated by domestic politics ok but then if we ignore trump's de

influencing as also paid off for photographer thomas crocker they cope although he's reluctant to say just how well his most important client is many of the small car makers his fame and followers are a prime vehicle for promoting new models but. there's a lot of pressure if you feel uninspired and tired of everything and cuts down the side of berlin. to be honest that happens a lot after so many years living and photographing here. i would have been but i still go out and take the same picture for the 20th time in a slightly different light to get something new out of it so the pressure really comes from me the signal. is. born and bred in berlin she turned hobby photography into a profession a decade ago. for reno wants to make it as a pop star with a record label music videos with high production values are a key promotional tool but hits can also attract hackers last year her youtube channel was hijacked. when hackers crack a you tube channel their immediate aim is to deny access to the administrators. then they are able to do what they want their own videos and links to partner c

witnesses include brian crocker. in georgia pence is for an event for senators who face runoff elections. in c-span3, the ways and means committee hears testimony from charles rettig. whitmergan governor held a briefing on the states response to the coronavirus pandemic. she urged the federal government to pass relief legislation. this is 40 minutes. . >> good afternoon. today is thursday, november 19. thank you for joining us. i am joined by our chief medical executive. president of the michigan chapter of the american academy of pediatrics. barbecue andof a delta township. kendra patterson, the co-owner of michigan barn wood and selvage in mason, michigan. yesterday, the epidemic order that the department of health

people rediscovered that the kitchen is the heart of the home and that's good news for betty crocker and pills bury we have two of the top five food websites in the u.s. and traffic is up 100% as people try to figure it out. it's been a really good run for a baking and meals business. >> so talk to me about just in general for instance, talk about international because it looks like the international, another thing people were getting upset about. now it pretty good. >> it is good especially our business in europe turned around in the fourth quarter. we're the third fastest growing cpg company in food in europe during the quarter we grew on our yogurt business we grew share on old el paso and brazil we grew double gedigits it's food service business here and the u.s. and in china but even there in the u.s. we took share and so while we were down 28% in the food service business, the sector as a whole was down far more than that so we competed effectively there. >> all these are good. we got to go over something else at the top of your call, you did something no one else has done you

almost final salute to some of my ex in the future so crocker. has black lives matter protests and sweep the united states an autopsy confirms that police were responsible for the death of an african-american man in atlanta on friday causing a fresh wave of pain and anger. and other stories that shape the weekend racism demonstrators in seattle occupy 6 blocks of the city center declaring it an autonomous zone president demands a law and order and threatens to send in the army. and us combat vehicles and drones appealed with increasing frequency of rallies across the u.s. concerns over the militarization of the police.

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it's backed up as paul crocker . we're going drop bombs on you. we're going to grab all your resources and force you to take the dollar. it's backed up. that's. that's the end of the story and the only way to get any of my bitcoin is to offer me something that i'll trade for it. and that's peaceful trade. that's why is pro humanity and violent chaos again, we're saying, paul krugman are trained for it. and that's peaceful trade, that's why is pro humanity and violent chaos again, we're saying paul krugman is a nobel economist. so you can basically, big queen is not backed by men with guns of all financial war. it's a monetary war is it's, it's peaceful because you can't confiscate it unless, of course you, you know, you're an f.b.i. agent is tracking you and you move a $1000000000.00 with a big coin and they've been waiting for you with 2 lifetimes and prison. so there are exceptions to that like but on a nation state level on them and that can be entirely avoided. so let's be clear, many because of bad upset because of bad protocol, but it's not

and it's really, really important that we pull back from that precipice. >> ambassador crocker, let me ask you what was your reaction to being fired sort of unceremoniously in the way that you were this week. how would you have wanted the incoming ceo to handle taking the reigns, how unusual did you find this? >> we all knew that with the arrival of a presidentially-nominated, senate-confirmed ceo, that things were going to change. the overarching board that karen and i both served on, the broadcasting board of governors, went out of business as soon as mr. pack was confirmed. that's in the legislation. we also knew that he might want to make changes in the subsidiary entity boards. so we just sat tight on that, we didn't have any guidance of what he might want. i can't say i was terribly surprised to get the letter. but what did surprise me, as karen alludes to, is the fact that he then sacked all of the entity heads. karen has described the structural work this board did to make the entire u.s. global media operation better. a lot of that has to do with people. you mentioned amanda b

and if you are headed to crocker amazon or san francisco here's a look at the golden gate bridge where we've got quite a bit offing fog. currently temperatures in the 50s and 60s. 63, and san jose 61. check out the south bay. lots of blue sunshine out there. temperatures in the low 60s like napa and fairfield. and also you can expect highs today to range from 60s at the coast. around the bay upper 70s to low 80s and mid-90s inland. inland the warm temperatures stick around through this weekend. >> t but as californians we'll get through this together. if your income has been reduced or you've lost your job or your health insurance, covered california is here. we can help you find the health insurance you need to protect you and your loved ones. and, you may even get financial help to pay for your health insurance. so, if you or someone you know is without coverage, visit coveredca.com to learn more or enroll today. >>> good morning, america. it's our second hour. happening right now, coronavirus crisis. as america's pandemic death toll rises, a south dakota motorcycle rally may draw so

of the final as of last summer my ex from the future crocker. goodbye russia china gatewood us into chase branding beijing the greatest threat to washington today a new sign a spy scandal unravels. and struggles with the pandemic and its economic consequences the nation's billionaires increase their wealth by more than a trillion dollars some big enough to cover a major relief built i guess get their teeth into the issue. it's a. worry of a system spinning out of control so that it's just in the quality keeps getting worse the way that they blame the capitals or british worrying about the poor and. creating great inequality which government policies. it's a criminal court drops a probe into alleged war crimes by u.k. forces in iraq despite having quote a reasonable basis to believe the atrocities actually occurred. at least stresses the need to develop vaccines schools to encourage people to getting the dice we hear from the w.h.o. about why it's against pressuring people into having jobs. it's not. true it's much better people want to be vaccin

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question for you cover almost president and also questions crocker person during off the your governor along with the national governors association in the past have called for him to be on restricted as a lot of state and local governments see their revenues drop are you open to the idea on restricted aid work you want to be pandemics but we're going to be talking about that in phase 4 as you know which will start version at later that has to do with infrastructure hopefully infrastructure because this country needs infrastructure we spent all this money in the middle east $8.00 trillion $1.08 trillion trillion with a t dollars in the middle east but if you have a pothole in a highway someplace they don't want you to spend the money to fix it how stupid have we been in this. tree how stupid have we been. and that's changing rapidly you know that you've seen that including things like to go shooting with friends but when we are helping friends friends should reimburse us for the cost i mean why should we be defending nations for free. we're defending a nation for free now i'm getting a

as a summer science of the future so crocker was kaiser. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision that has shattered lives every young came to a complete. the day that i'm afraid i'll be instructive he told me you know all the sort of what they kill me and i see how destroyed my life any sky. come in and you graham my own. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting really is more likely to get the victim punished the offender and almost 10 year career which shows very invested in and i give a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of power and violence male sexual predators for the large part of whoever is there to prey u

hillsborough police are asking for your help identifying this man, a suspicious person was reported near crocker school on monday about 00:45am in the morning a student was approached by a gray or silver sedan and the man depicted in the sketch as the student if he needed a ride the boy refused and says the man then drove away from the area. if you have information on who this might be you are asked to call police. california's latest high-speed rail business plan is causing bipartisan frustration among state lawmakers, our capitol bureau repoer ashley zavala explains why. >>and this is really a mass in front of this state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle thursday airing out their concerns with california's high-speed rail project the latest buiness plan calls for an extra one billion of the billion bullet train project, themmediate plan includes completion of a line from bakersfield to merced said by 2022 with plans to connect san francisco to los angeles by 2033 the high speed rail authority citing inflation and a better cost estimate for the latest bump in the projects bottom line i thi

from the future crocker wants kaiser. i know team. action. which searched for. the u.s. trade representative announced its plan to open in months a geisha is on some countries over a digital tax plan on american tax giants will the u.s. t.r. office is concerned the digital services taxes are discriminatory against united states companies who must go. now to discuss kristie is a u.s. instigating another trade war with the rest of the world this time over digital taxes. all right now the u.s. is opening probes into these nations planning higher duties on tech giants announcing that it is and best in australia brazil the new india indonesia italy spain turkey the u.k. and the czech republic so this could lead to charges being imposed was on the country's exports to the u.s. now this probe encompasses general taxes that have either been adopted or are under consideration by the countries as a move seeks to determine whether or not the u.s. levies on electronic congressman it against american technical amazon so all of this looks like a rinse and repeat playbook of how the tr

like the walter white teamed up with betty crocker. ( laughter ) why does this happen with food we love? it's always the food we love that will kill us. you never heard the news say, this in, fermented horse meat is bad for you. it's like, you enjoy chocolate cake and water? well you dead now! ( laughter ) chocolate cake would have been bad enough but forever chemicals are in our water. that means it's in the sink, the shower, which means it's seen me naked so it could give me cancer and black mail me. i swear to got, you tell anybody about that thing hanging off my back and i'll kill you, forever chemicals! ( laughter ) everything from your food to drinking water is contaminated. the e.p.a. is taking action now. but people have been raising concerns for decades, and for decades, companies like dupont were brushing off concerns like food on a teflon pan. >> even dupont says it cannot rule out its products gev off the chemical. the vice president of research is the dupont executive chosen to publicly defend teflon. she says teflon is completely safe, even if the key chemical is in everyo

undersecretary for economic affairs at crocker arrived in taiwan all thursday he is the most senior state department official to travel there in 40 years and he's a 2nd problems official to visit in a month let's go to robin wright who's following the story for us from seoul certainly very tense times around the taiwan strait what do we know about what's happening and what china is saying about it. absolutely i mean all of this military activity really ratcheting up the tension level in this part of the world the chinese military says that this exercise was reasonable and necessary but taiwan's military feeling it necessary to scramble its intercepted jets when it detected all of these approaching aircraft on its radar also 'd deploying edge defense missiles before these aircraft turned back since then we've had the presidential office from taipei being very critical of beijing saying that this is not conducive with china's standing in the world and also calling on the much more mighty a neighbor china to show self restraint to so beijing will not be happy about being lectured to by what

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see the sun almost slightly less than the sum of my edge of the future so crocker. i'm. going to be because i'm going to. hello there i'm a military hero watching in question broadcasting live from r.t. american national headquarters in washington d.c. i want to welcome our viewers from around the world here are the top stories for you today unemployment claims in california skyrockets as the coronavirus continues to impact the economy with reports of $1000000.00 claims in the state in less than 2 weeks a live report is next plus over in new york city the new epicenter of the u.s. alfredo hospitals are low on supplies and long lines are forming from anxious new yorkers waiting to get tested details straight ahead.

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the 5 of us unless some of my ex from the future crocker kaiser. according to several sources felice in the united states chose from 2 to 4 people every day. had his fans. we said i was there when. one of my being arrested for a response from enough. is just their little world to establish they developed just us against them. along comes sure 2525. i would have to shoot someone. there is a corruption inside of the police well they've been told. we go to work so straight home. welcome back i'm still lee camp without further ado the rest of my interview with journalist and author robert scheer you wrote an outstanding book titled the pornography of power that really breaks down the military industrial complex and how it turned into the runaway monster that it now is you know the stated budget of our military is over 730000000000 die. alors that's the stated budget not even the black budget and that accounts for 40 percent of global military spending one country is 40 percent of the military spending in the world do you see any difference between the

undersecretary for economic affairs keith crocker is the most senior state department official to land in taiwan in decades and it also marks the 2nd visit by a u.s. official in 2 months the chinese government condemned the trip and says diplomatic relations between taiwan and the u.s. will lead to a dead end let's talk about all of this with rob mcbride he's following the story for us from seoul tense times around the taiwan straits what more do we know about what happened and what china is saying about the incidents. that's right this intense military activity in and around the taiwan strait really ratcheting up the tension level in this part of the world at the china's defense ministry has said that this exercise is necessary and reasonable but we know now from taiwan's military that in response they have had to scramble friday their intercept jets when they say that they detected a number of multiple chinese and military aircraft crossing over the hard way line in the straits of taiwan that separates taiwan from mainland china coming very close to taiwanese airspace before those je

undersecretary for economic affairs keith crocker is the most senior state department official to land in taiwan and decades marks the 2nd visit by a u.s. official in 2 months the chinese government condemned the trips and says diplomatic relations between taiwan on the u.s. will lead to a dead end road mcbride is following the story for us from seoul so how tense is the situation around the taiwan strait rob. i mean all of this military activity friday really ratcheting up the tension level in this part of the world the china's defense ministry says its exercise was reasonable and necessary it says but it was necessary for them to from taiwan's point of view to scramble its interceptor jets when it says it detected multiple military aircraft from china's people's liberation army crossing over the midline that's the mid line that separates the taiwan strait that separates taiwan from mainland china also deploying taiwan says its missiles and defense missiles before those aircraft are turned back china taiwan's presidential office has called for self restraint has been very critical of

everyone is still going to eat lucky charms and cheerios in the morning, and they are going to have betty crocker cake mix and muffins, but more importantly, there is fear we are going to have a recession in a long-term potential depression, and people think of general mills with their boxed potatoes, mashed potatoes, and their side dishes and their hamburger helper as the perfect play, just like one ormel the same h way. and the dividend is there. spam in aich sells can, also known as ham and a can, and it is the same thing. the expectation is no one knows how bad it can get, so investors are willing to take 1.69% dividend yield tap the safety of knowing they are in fei company that regardless of what happens will do well. that is why we see companies like general electric at 52-we close, which is possibly one of the most notable in important pieces of action over the last few days. stock hundred six dollars, general electric will probably be without -- the banks are going to have a lot of business doing that. that also brings the banks' stock up. big business for them. it's going to be split up

undersecretary for economic affairs keith crocker is the most senior state department official to land in taiwan in decades and the 2nd visit by a u.s. official in 2 months be chinese government's condemned the trips and says diplomatic relations between taiwan and the u.s. will lead to a dead end road mcbride is following the story for us from seoul and certainly very tense times around that's why we're in the taiwan straits what we know about what's happening and what more is china saying about all of this right. that's right a lot of military activity in and around the taiwan strait really ratcheting up the tension levels in this part of the world the defense ministry of china has held a press briefing confirming these exercises are underway calling them reasonable and necessary now we're not exactly sure just how many units are involved how big an exercise this is but it is likely that ad craft are involved because of course we have media reports reaching us from taiwan that on a number of occasions on friday taiwanese interceptor aircraft of course supplied by the united states ha

properly staff our embassies with the very best professionals, if we could, you know, my friend ryan crocker, you know, one of the great ambassadors, always uses the word engagement which seems like just a simple idea but engagement means being in their face all the time with relationship building. we're good at that so i think we can check china's influence in that way, back to the kind of military points christine is talking about and we have 13,000 troops in kuwait and qatar and three to 5000 scattered elsewhere. we don't need a lot of troops in that area, just a presence. it's hard to underestimate the effect of american presence. when i was in latvia, there was one company of american infantry there in camouflage uniform and as i was coming out of the defense ministry, one of the officials looked over this young trooper and said, tripwire. in other words, just the presence of american forces, they have to be they don't have to be enormous, just their presence and engagement with a country makes a big difference. >> thank you to both john and christine for a very lovely and thought provo