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Finance. he said and i quote "there dont to be operation openly. specifically about qatar he says qatar konsz to finance terrorism within its borders. is terror funding a gray area for qatar? >> it is not a gray area for cut everier. qatar. we -- this issue is not subject only to qatar this terror financing is across the whole globe. we as a government of qatar are doing our utmost in combatting terrorism along with our allies. there are laws that prevent

Owl our krorts taking actions on multiple cases. some are gone going. some are being prosecuted. we are determined to stop this if it happens in our territory. >> i want to ask you. the president of the united states of course as you know, kaichl out today saying he doesnt think the claims of terror financing are baysless. he said so good to see the saudi arabia visit with the king and 50 countries already paying off. they said they would take a hard line. perhaps this will be the end of the ror...

Today -- he said john. >> sorry, john. despite what you just said about the dispute in the persian gulf, its clear that the president is taking sides in this. why? >> in what way? >> he said today on twitter, all references to qatar, perhaps this is the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism. >> i think -- i commented on this. hes referencing toughness on terror financing. i think he had a very productive discussion with amir during his visit and he was very pleased that they joined wit...

Today -- >> i said john. >> sorry, john. despite what you said about the dispute in the persian gulf, its clear the president is taking sides in this. why? >> in what way? >> he said today on twitter, all references pointed to qatar. perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism. >> i commented on this. he is talking about terror financing. thats not what i said. he had a productive discussion and he was pleased that they joined with the other gulf nations in support o...

Have said thank you, but im going to keep an eye on this. they could have delivered the same message. >> european lewders will tell you they started doing this before trump was in the white house. maybe hes just cracking the whip and being more brusque about it. but thats kind of a minute ago, this is the class iic americans arent european, they drink their tea with crooked. were the wild west. its a very different approach. its almost caricatures how stark that difference is on display. >> the ...

From the obama administration and previous administrations as well, but much more strongly from trump. nothing on the other end to say regardless of that nato is important, the united states thinks nato is important, and of course im here to reaffirm. that there was none of that. i. >> i think this is probably one of the more difficult parts of the trip for him. this is the one place where theyre literally not rolling out the red carpet. so hes dealing with people who dont have that much confide...

Situation six months from now and a year from now? listen to the presidents rhetoric about asking these muslim and arab nations, drive them out. he also said he needed them to do more to crack down on terror financing. >> a better future is only possible if your nations drive out the terrorists and drive out the extremists. drive them out. drive them out of your places of worship. drive them out of your communities. drive them out of your holy land. and drive them out of this earth. >> pretty st...

Of actions to tell the chinese and the mexicans how serious we are about this threat, this exostential threat to families all across our country? >> senator, if confirmed, this will be -- this will require an inter agency approach. both in terms of applying many of the tools that have been used in terror financing elsewhere, to track the flow of money, attempt to disrupt on both ends of that, because i think its one thing. we can send the chinese a message, but its another then to put in place t...

And mexicans how serious we are about this threat, this threat to families all across our country? >> senator if confirmed, this will require an inner- agency approach both in terms was applying many tools in terror financing elsewhere to track the flow of money, attempt to disrupt on both ends of that. i think it is one thing to send the chinese a message and another to put in place mechanisms whether it is working with treasury or disrupt the flow of the material and drugs as well. we have a m...

Here but if it is the undersecretary for terrorism finance. that is an important position. and overseas the foreign assets control and runs all of the financial sanctions and final crimes sector and handles money laundering and the importance of financial mechanism and look at importance of anti- money laundering and in terms of lolling up that. and they are currently in that position and it is an oversight rather than execution. >> it is part of the terrorism unit that you speak of. we talked a...