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Research and influence whats being taught to our young people. officials are raising alarms, looking at one chinese academic program thats on campuses across the country, that is called the confucius institute. i sat down with the senator, and he filled us n. u.s. intelligence agencies continue to warn of beijings spying. commercial espionage and the stealing of intellectual property. >> the chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more compre...

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Is indoctrinating american students with regime propaganda. >> i passed into law legislation targeting, in particular, con few chus institutes and institutes being funded by the communist government in china. >> we do share concerns about the confucius institutes. weve been watching that development for a while. its just one of many tools that they take advantage of. >> the key risk is that the american public and the students hear a one-sided view of whats going on in china. eric: policy direct...

A hotel room, another woman says justin fairfax raped her in 2000 while they were both students at duke university. the lieutenant governor denies it, he says he is the victim of a vicious smear campaign. he has asked for an investigation into this, and he is vowing at this point, arthel, to clear his name. arthel: ellison barber, thank you very much. eric: border security talks are going down to the wire. you know, another partial government shutdown deadline, that is only six days away. this a...

Border, as the negotiations continue we will not rest, we will not relent until our customs and border protection have the technology, the percent knell and the barriers -- the personnel and the barriers required to secure our border. were going to build that wall one way or another. i promise you. [applause] >> reporter: this weekend acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is hosting a group of republicans and democrats for a retreat at camp dade, and these negotiations -- camp david, a...

Beijing to spy. but what type of threat is this, and how widespread do you think it is by beijing? >> this is really pocketer eric, because you have -- important, eric, because you have not a lot of students here, and only a few of them are problems. but the issue here is not so much the students, but its the united states has allowed the ministry of state security and chinese diplomats from the embassy and the five consulates to actually work with these students surreptitiously. and its not onl...

Brainwash our students. >> well, it is the, first of all, the confucius institutes, as you point out, its the confucius classrooms in secondary schools, and its the chinese students and scholars association which also works on these campuses which beijing uses to surveil chinese students while theyre in the united states. and, by the way, theres also branches, formal branches of chinas communist party that operate on our campuses. so this is an extensive operation. its run by the communist party...

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Should be asking their presidents why havent you used american power to protect us? if. eric: you talk about american power, what about human rights? i think about otto warmbier who was so brutally tortured, beatennen and murdered. theres a proposal to name a street here in new york after otto, that is in the new york city council. has the issue of human rights kind of been swept under the rug for now and forgotten, and what is your view of that? >> well, certainly. because if you go back to the...

>> you know, people are talking about the north koreans agreeing to close their reactor that produces plutonium, but thats an old reactor dating back to the early 1980s, and i think they would close it anyway because its dangerous to operate. the two things that we really need, eric, are, first of all, a declaration of all missile and nuke facilities and, second of all, a timetable for disarmament. that, i think, is the minimum of what president trump should get at this summit, and if he doesnt ...