watch c-span washington journal law live 7:00 p.m. ãbã >> c-span campaign 2020 coverage continues live thursday at 8:00 p.m. on c-span president trump holds a keep america great rally in the american airlines center in dallas. on friday 6:00 p.m. live on c-span elizabeth warren holds the town hall in norfolk virginia. watch on c-span anytime on c-span.org and listen wherever you are using the free c-span radio app. >> also from the senate floor today connecticut democratic senator chris murphy spoke about the trump administration's foreign

policy. >> mr. president, the most sacred the most important the most profound responsibility that a president of the united states has is to keep americans safe. t,everything else that we care about citizens of this great nation, the best nation on the planet, it matters very little if our physical safety and the physical safety of our families and our loved ones aren't assured. that's job number one for the president of the united states. mr. president, i believe the president is likely committed offenses that are worthy of impeachment. i think it's likely that information is going to emerge from the houses inquiry that will present republicans with clear evidence that the president's abusive office has rbeen serious. obviously we need to wait for the articles of impeachment to arrive in the lisenate if they arrive before any of us decide our vote on removal but the publicly stipulated facts already surrounding the president's shadow foreign policy designed not to advance

national interest but personal political interest they are damning. today i want to use my time on the floor to ask the simple question of my republican colleagues. i want to ask what the costs are. to the physical safety of the tenation. of continuing to protect the president from the consequences of his misdeeds. because as we gather here in senate for our fall session we are watching american on national security policy go completely and fully off the rails. our global reputation or credibility had been shattered to pieces. no one knows whether they can reassembled. our nation's defenses have never been weaker. our enemies are gathering strength by the day. fear of american power is

waning. our global system of alliance is falling apart. our friends are turning away from america because we are a demonstrably undeniable partner.those friends may never come back. right now before our eyes american power is in freefall. and our nation safety is at risk. american citizens are looking to this place for leadership but when they lift up the hood looking for steely eyed patriots all they are finding is blind persons. what's the cost? i asked my colleagues of letting america a slide in the global arrival and see continue. how many american lives are going to be lost, ultimately because we sat on the sidelines and we let american influence faith as our president becomes a toxic commodity. the butt of jokes and

international pride. what must it take for this body to put aside party and come together to salvage our shrinking american security. mr. president, i want to take a few moments if you more than i normally take when i come down to the floor to take my colleagues on a tour of the world right now. just so that everybody understands how dangerous the situation has gotten. to understand how broad the scope of our foreign policy dysfunction is right now because it just maybe if you see the crisis all in one map all in one summary my colleagues might wake up to the magnitude of this emergency. it's hard to start anywhere but in ukraine. the power of the american executive branch has no equal, no individual in the world has more power than donald trump has today and the power comes

with responsibility it comes with guard rails. the one firm promise a president must make to those that he governs is to use this powers of the oval office for the national interest not for his personal or financial interest.it is now clear beyond reasonable doubt after all testimony much from republicans before the house that president trump has turned our support for ukraine into a personal poker chip. to be cast in an order to get ukraine to help them destroy his political rivals. this just isn't allowed in democracy. the damage done by trump's corruption of the ukraine relationship is far beyond this broken covenant with the american people. he pulled essential assistance to ukraine just when their new president needed u.s. support the most. trump is weakened ukraine dramatically by pulling them in to this mess and russia the kebeneficiary make no mistake putin has won for the time being and those fighting for democracy have lost for the time being.sold out by their fair weather american friends who are more interested in

destroying the president's political opponents then supporting ukraine. other nations on russia and china's periphery wondering whether to simply acquiesce the bowling dominant dominance of their neighbors or put up a fight for independence they are now less likely to do the latter. knowing that the united states is there only to help if there nation fulfills our president's personal request. the world's eyes this week are down here in syria. where the president has engaged in one of the worst most abominable acts of doublecross in the history of the american presidency. we convinced the kurdish military to fight isis for us we convince them to take down their defenses against the potential turkish invasion because we promised to protect them and then out of nowhere a week and half ago trump stabbed the kurds in the back. he announced the pullback of

our forces and invited by pressure the turkish army to march into syria and destroy allies the kurds who today he's denigrating telling the world they are not actually as good of fighters as everybody says they are. the damage to our nation security done by this one single act is almost too comprehensive to list in one speech.isis detainees have escaped their jail cells and now likely reconstituting and possibly readying new attacks against the united states. they can plot without fear of interruption because the kurds have ended their fight against isis.to try to survive this turkish offensive. in addition to isis russia, syrian regime and the iranians all grew stronger in syria overnight as we stood down and they will quickly reap the benefits of trump's abandonment of the kurds it's a nightmare in syria today. and it's going to get much worse before it gets better. let's move down to china. where president for life xi

building a moderately rotarian control denying ãbthe united states has watched from the sidelines as china not only conducts cultural genocide against its muslim population in its own country but also grows its global clout and exports its model and technology of repression around the world. china's military continues to gain strength and push their weunlawful territorial claims further in the western pacific we do virtually nothing china's belton road initiative is forcing linkages across the globe building foundation for long-term technological economic and strategic dominance. the united states stands on the sidelines under the trump administration. the sum total of the bilateral interactions thus far with china has been a bungled disastrous job killing trade work.a trade war that really

only makes sense in trump's campaign speeches but never had a chance to succeed without the help of other potential partners that the president never tried to enlist. everything will they trump is losing the trade war badly. our trade deficit with china isn't going down it's going up. the tariffs on chinese imports could cost middle-class american consumers $1000 a year tand our economy has slowed do and on its way to potentially losing 300,000 jobs because of the trade war. it's an unmitigated economic disaster for our nation and this nightmare like all the others it seems to be getting worse. all the while, china forces ahead to corner the market on next-generation technologies like 5g drones and artificial intelligence leaving america and american companies potentially shut out of these markets. nowhere has china's heavy-handed repression been more apparent than right here in hong kong and yet again we been totally absent.

in hong kong brave pro-democracy protesters should be seen as americans best friends. china's people who are risking everything to fight for basic freedoms in an increasingly total tally and straight. there's no better way to undermine china's unfair trade model than promote the rights of its consumers and its citizens. but trump promised the chinese regime would offer no support to the hong kong protesters. an unconscionable promise he kept while china run circles around him on trade talks. staying in asia let's run right up the road to the most immediate and terrifying existential threat of nuclear armed homicidal dictator with the capacity and willingness to nuke us and our allies in the to north korea. a lot of ink has been spilled on the pomp and circumstance of

trump donald trump's summits in the ongoing love affair he claims with kim jong-un but what is actually been the result of nearly three years of trump's north korean diplomacy besides stroking his ego? the answer is, nothing. kim continues to fire missiles into the sea of japan, he continues to quietly move up his nuclear stockpile even though freeze on nuclear long-range missile test is temporary and the north koreans are warning they might resume that at the end of the year. meanwhile, we abandoned the south koreans we canceled our joint military exercises we nearly withdrew our troops entirely, kim got international recognition and essentially a free pass to keep building his arsenal in making it more deadly while we weakened all of our regional alliances. america and the world are dramatically less safe right now. all over the world in fact, dictators and would-be dictators are making up stunning records of human rights abuses right now because they know under president trump

america will really raise no issue. no protest. go down here to the philippines, for instance. where they had been 20,000 people who have been banished in the extrajudicial massacre by president no protests from the united states. 20,000 have vanished. thousands political ãbeing locked up in places like turkey and egypt and saudi arabia these are supposedly u.s. allies and have no one to speak to ãspeak for them because america doesn't do anything about civil rights are human rights. we vanished from the human ngrights playing field. in saudi arabia, in fact, their leadership fell so emboldened by trump's invasion of brutal strongmen that they kidnapped an american resident who is critical of the saudi regime. they chopped into pieces and then got rid of the body parts.

the doctor piling up in the middle east the response from the united states with jamal khashoggi's murder was was a visit to riyadh by the american secretary of state for a smiling photo up to make sure every foreign leader in every corner of the world recognize human rights abuses will be forgiven pretty immediately by this new american regime. elsewhere in the middle east, i don't know if i can just keep piling more dots but elsewhere in the middle east things are falling apart fast due mostly to the trump administration's incompetence. it started with nonsensical fracture relations between saudi arabia and another key u.s. both ally cutter. it was the kind of disruption that would normally be papered over and fixed by a competent u.s. administration probably in days but years later the two

countries saudi arabia and cutter still aren't talking largely because we did nothing to fix it. making matters worse, saudi arabia and their one remaining stable friend of the region aren't getting along now either. under trump the war in yemen began to rage out of control, tens of thousands of innocent yemenis many little children died needlessly. as trump piled more weapons and more bombs into the war ended nothing to try to find a peace agreement between the parties. who for a year had been begging the united states to step in and play a traditional role as mediator. the conflict has raged on for so long due to trump's unwillingness to use america's diplomatic muscle that events on the ground began so chaotic that the saudi's and emma ronnie's have now parted ways. the potential for proxy wars between these wealthy nations could get much worse all over

the middle east. in iran right next door, the campaign of blind escalation and provocation has been disastrous. every one of the present national security advisor told him to stay in the iran nuclear agreement and focus energies on iran's other malevolent behavior in the region. there mr. bullough stick ãb trump ignored all his advisors like he has ignored all the rest of the council he's received on major foreign policy matters and he cancel the agreement and implemented a series of unilateral sanctions against iran. coordinated with absolutely no one. iran's feeling quarter but also not feeling particularly vulnerable given the fact that

america credit recruit any of our friends to our new anti-iran campaign they hit back against oil tankers american drone saudi pipelines. we now seem perpetually on the precipice of war with iran. meanwhile, they restarted parts of their shuttered nuclear program. we have convinced a single nation to help us build new sanctions and there's absolutely no chance trump is going to secure a better deal than the jc poa before he leaves office.a before he in just over a year. iran is a bigger medicine before he took office they just scored another major victory with trump's abandonment of the kurds in the anti-iran coalition that the united states methodically built under barack obama has vanished, perhaps never again to be resurrected. in this very red region of the world right now the only leader who's been happy with trump's dangerous bizarre non-strategy

on iran as ben benjamin netanyahu but he might not be empowered much longer. inhis alliance with trump is le his successor a frightening legacy. under trump's watch the two state solution in israel a long time bipartisan american policy in the middle east is effectively fallen apart. trump is allowed israel to take steps that make future palestinian safe almost impossible and for three years he put his son-in-law who is only experience was using his father's money to buy real estate in charge of brokering peace between israel and the palestinians. it was a joke everybody knew it. but since trump was president everybody had to play along now there is no peace plan there was never going to be a peace plan. and the chances for one are almost nonexistent after three years of the trump administration. down in libya trump admittedly

inherited a pretty miserable situation but somehow like everything else he managed to make it worse. the country has been fractured for years, his rival militias with a host of foreign patrons have been fighting a civil war that created a vacuum that's been filled in by extremists. and migrant crisis that continues to expand. instead of doing the hard work of diplomacy to try to get the warring parties back to the table, instead trump through his support, his personal support behind general have indark offending years of american diplomacy.and endorsing hector's plan to try to take tripoli by force. peace talks are failing and the humanitarian crisis grows by the day. one of the consequences of this trump death spiral in libya and in the middle east is that the economic and political refugees continue to flow into europe which simply isn't politically ready to accept his rate of inflow and by slashing the

number of refugees allowed to the united states from over 100,000 to 18,000 we communicated to the europeans that we have no interest in helping just like everything else trump has made the assimilation of muslim immigrants into europe even harder by serving as a model for racist xenophobic demagogues and right-wing nationalist political parties who want to bring trump's formal political nativism into europe. nationalist political parties are on the rise all across the west and trump is absolutely central to their development. he gravitates not toward angela merkel, whose courageous leadership is helping eu together through all the crisis, but he was to victor or bond whose stoke the embers of nationalism to take hungry down a dirt path. trump and nationalist patriots weapon eyes the fears of immigration cultural change to justify really bad policies from labeling journalists as enemies of the state to putting

kids in cages. when right-wing groups try to copy trump's success and deploy his playbook in countries all throughout europe he doesn't stand up and eject as the leader of the free world showed. he offers a wink and a nod sometimes warm embrace. trump doesn't stop there. in his deliberate attempt to undermine european democracy. he's carried out a systematic purposeful campaign to weaken the european union and nato. he levels regular broad files against the entire concept of global cooperation. he sees multilateralism as weakness and his cheerleading of britain out the door of the eu and his constant attacks on nato. even to the point of wondering out loud while the united isstates would actually defend nato allies of attacks that

would be a disaster for us if nato fell apart. and a gift to countries like china and russia and india and ctnonstate actors like al qaeda and isis. when it comes to our relations with europe trump reserves his greatest multilateral animus for global attempts to address climate change. the paris agreement wasn't even a binding commitment on the united states but trump felt so strongly that climate change was a hoax to unwind that riddle for me that he pulled us out of the agreement in a big grand festive ceremony at the white house. global climate catastrophe is coming if we don't do anything. in fact it's already here. the story back to syria for a minute of their descent into madness can partially be told to the tale of success of global warming connective droughts that forced farmers into overcrowded facilities that were ready for the population surgeons. trump's hostility to climate action is one of his most

unforgivable global legacies in the next president might not have enough time or enough political capital to try to make up the ground that we lost on climate change especially with our european partners. speaking of failure to capitalize opportunity, let's spin the globe back to our hemisphere. where according to the script, things couldn't be going much worse. here in the americas, everything that trump has touched this far is falling apart and the u.s. is a weaker regional leaf than ever before. trump's native is his political calling card red zone gepolicy seems to encourage more migration to the united states, not less of it. president trump's decision to cut off foreign assistance to central american countries because they weren't doing enough to stop migration is lunacy.to stop migration is president obama's program of investing in central american security so that less of their citizens feel the need to flee to america beginning to work. trump gave it all away simply

to provide fuel to his domestic political agenda. further south u.s. venezuela policy is one of the few times that trump's presidency stood up to a dictator, unfortunately because trump doesn't know how to do foreign policy he botched that intervention too. it's been really embarrassing to watch this administration repeatedly and wrongly claim that the maduro regime is on the verge of collapse. they did it in january when juan guido swore himself in as interim president. again in february when they said the pouring american aid along the border would trigger the regime's fall and again in april in the lead up to a military uprising that went nowhere. the white house is regular engaged in tough talk on venezuela only to see maduro hold on power indoor. trump played all his cards on this crisis right in the first

few days like a nervous teenager. now we are left sanctioning the venezuelan people and recognizing the leader of a country who is it really the leader of that country probably isn't ever going to be the leader of that country. it's yet another failure that makes us just look weak and foolish. we make a play and then can't back it heup. it's hard to be scared of the united states these days when everything we tried to do goes wrong. let's move back to the african continent for a moment. as a candidate trump repeatedly stopped fears of the ebola epidemic in western africa we are wildly tweeting that the united states must immediately stop all flights from ebola infected countries of the plague will start and spread inside our borders. of course this didn't make any sense and doesn't make any sense now we've known for ages the travel bands are to actually the best way to deal with an outbreak of disease.

since he's become president the trump administration has asked congress to rescind 252 million dollars that had been put aside to deal with the virus. he ousted the top bio defense experts and repeatedly sought to slash funding for global health programs. sadly, trump's default to responsive academics constant ã ãit only hurts our ability to control outbreaks that are present today and in the future. and finally, denmark, trump managed to even screw up our relationship with denmark. which many of us would have thought was impossible episode of the simpsons, trump canceled the diplomatic meeting with denmark's leader because they wouldn't agree to sell us greenland. it sounds funny but it's an example of the relatively small things compared to the big world changing scripts that happen almost every day in this president's foreign policies and only get a few days of

media attention. denmark is one of our strongest nato allies at the heart of the war in afghanistan they had one of the highest numbers of troops per capita playing alongside us. e but now we've managed to even make denmark an adversary. i know it sounds implausible but this is sjust the tip of th iceberg. it's a policy massacre everywhere. the world is on fire and in most places trump is one of the arsonist. meanwhile, his benefiting? across the board america's enemies and competitors are rubbing their hands with delight as we score own goal after own goal put in, e.g., everyone came the hard-liners better opportunity for pted a themselves to gain power and influence at our expense. i say the trump's foreign

policy is a global joke but knowing what he does policy is probably unfair. he doesn't really care to take the time to learn about the world. he doesn't read his briefings. he makes it up day by day with his personal political priorities his jealousies has headlined addiction guiding his decisions rather than anything connected to her actual national security interest. our foreign policy is in complete order total meltdown. .it's time for all of us to fac facts. you can't impeach a president because you disagree with their policy but this is beyond the policy disagreement. this is a president who has compromised our nation's integrity and credibility. who has put in jeopardy the safety of our citizens especially this week. as isis bricks out of detainment and flicks to regroup to threaten america again in syria. these kind of things the

perversion of the powers of the presidency they are not allowedd in a democracy. and our refusal to accept this behavior is what separates us e from all the tinpot dictatorships around the world. i hope eventually that my republican colleagues see this but i also want my republican colleagues who spend their time thinking of themselves as bulwarks of national security to see the damage, much of it irreparable. that trump is doing to our position in the world. why continue to offer him this unconditional production from an impeachment inquiry oif the cost of him staying in office is the shattering of our reputation around the world. why continue to defend him if his actions everywhere are causing the world to fall apart. and it is falling apart. in every part of the globe. everything this administration has touched has gotten worse

and here's the scariest part, this president and this administration still has 14 more months to do even more ag damage. i yield the floor. >> .....