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Of interior and intelligence services with whom we work and who are critically important to our national security and who do abide by human rights. but i think there are other ways to get at mohammad bin salman including private diplomacy of the sort that we saw from president bush 41 during his term as president and president reagan as well and public diplomacy calling saudis for human violations as well. i'm not minimizing the horrific grizzly murder of jamal khashoggi or the yemen, humanitarian catastrophe, the yemen war but there's more for us to do without rupturing our relationship with ...

See violations by the sovereignty in the south china sea, i speak out, and when i see gross human violations in ethiopia, i speak out. when i see massive corruption in countries with extreme poverty, like ecuador, i speak out. when i see severe erosion of democratic institutions in venezuela, i speak out. indeed, events over the past year serve as a stark reminder that democracy will not defend itself. it requires those of us that believe in the enduring values of the democratic experiment to nurture and support it. perhaps the most egregious events we have seen most recently is what has happe...

Is in some ways just a remarkably sad story. it was the jewel of the middle east. istanbul was the crown between the east and the west. and now you have more recently gone back to istanbul, you know, sort of lots of restaurants and bars closed and a lot of exodus from the major city. there's not much the united states can do absent protecting its own citizens in terms of its travel warnings but assisting the turks, at least as it regards the military border or the border of turkey. one of the challenges of the united states we don't want to get in the middle of what is essentially a fight betw...

That that held -- they didn't think that was true. now the supreme court is deciding the broad issue. here is why it's important. if you take a company like bp. bp spills oil into the gulf region. there are a series of lawsuits, not because people want to get rich but because people actually want compensation for how they have been damaged by the corporation. nobody thinks that is a terrible idea. if bp took their corporate power and exterminated an entire village under -- over which they wanted to drill, if the supreme court rules there is no liability for corporations under the alien tort st...

Wishes to have from the united states. she also said that the u.s. is threatening more measures against khadafy's government but gave no details. >> all of this coming, of course as president obama, we reported it for the first time yesterday when it happened, calling on khadafy to step down. he wasn't the first world leader to do that. some were saying it was a little late. when and how did the president make the statement? >> it wasn't on camera and ee it was during a phone call yesterday. he was speaking with german chancellor merkel when he made a comment that was conveyed by the white hou...