and under going over at the state department to determine whether they can make that designation. but certainly this just marks the latest flashpoint in the tensions between russia and the united states, including over that war in ukraine, and also the detention of other americans like paul whelan. so in just a short while we're here a little bit more from the white house about any further information they might have on this matter. and paul whalen's family, putting out a statement saying there were deeply saddened to see this arrest are let's signs reporting from the white house. thank you so much. let's expand the conversation now with cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier. she is senior managing editor at the military times, and cnn political and national security analyst david sanger, who is a correspondent for the new york times. kim i want to start with you and get your reaction to something that congressman adam schiff told our colleague jim sciutto this morning on cnn, saying that herskovits his arrest was essentially the kremlin taking a hostage. kim. i apologize. i though

due to your tireless work, the state department and the u.s. government personnel lives were saved. d i cannot help but feel as i said in the beginning need to recognize and honor thousand 46h members of the united states and military that lost their lives during this 20 years of war. and as i close and yelled back and just want to because i was just reflecting and asked unanimous consent, being a member from new york, i just wanted to put in the record the names of the 112 members of the night since military that lost their lives in this more my state of new york. to the gold star families here and to those that may be listening, to those i have met in regards to the 20 years including evacuation. a hearts, my prayers, my soul reaches out to you. those of us to sit in the united states congress also take the responsibility that we have passed legislation that we need to do make sure this does not happen again. without objection so ordered. and let me just say it is my tenth term in congress. i don't think i have had a more powerful pigs hearing. up at a time when our government did

state department was overwhelmed.lad the, you know, some on the panel have talked about individual members who s&p stepped upel and end went beyond the call of duty. let's fix this problem. let's continue to the, you know, get folks out of afghanistan, family member, women and others that are at risk to the best of our ability. we can do that. lieutenant colonel, you touched on the moral injury. and, you know, certainly we have to think about what ma looks like, understand it and and then think about what we need to do to heal that moral injury. do you have some thoughts on how we should approach that? >>or the one thing that i havent covered yet is we did one of the guys in pine pineapple did an interview with a gentleman named george who lives in fayetteville, north carolina, and george has been very, very active as a former green beret vin evacuating partners on, ino north carolina and settling onto farmland that he's helped them acquire. the interesting thing about george as a green beret is the indigenous partner

in addition, anthony blinken, the head of the state department, was asked how the states check the aid that comes to ukraine . according to blinkin , there are already 40 groups and 45 people checking the us embassy in kyiv. aid that comes to kyiv from the state department, and this only from the state department, in turn, the ministry of defense has its own representatives who carry out similar checks, i suggest listening to the statements officials right now, if we allow russia to violate international law in ukraine with impunity, we will open a pandora's box around the world in which aggressors from different countries will look at these events and say that if they got away with it, i will get away with it, it will be a world of conflicts, a world of war, a world in which we have been before and we had to step in and stop it but this is not the world we aspire to so the stakes in ukraine go far beyond the borders of ukraine itself our national defense strategy identifies putin's aggressive russia as an acute threat under the leadership of president biden, the united states rallied

i think that state department the care team has shown us that public-private partnership can look likehould create the ombudsman for allies office to make sure these issues no longer happen. >> for the soldiers that are home what can we do for the soldiers? it pains me to see so many young soldiers i cannot imagine what you have gone to write your age join with friends and comrades to have died and then feel it ended when you come home. you did not abandon your vision we were wrong on this side and you were right and we appreciate you. but what do we do for our soldier veterans so they can feel the love and support and respect they deserve? >> we cannot rewrite the past but learning from those mistakes we should do that oversight and we agree upon that. we shed not abandon the afghans that help the source of poor just or the family members. i'm proud to represent sacramento county which is the largest population of afghan refugees. i know my staff submitted over 10000 names and the call they were getting were heartbreaking. i know all staff was going to calls along with many veterans.

the department of state has. and i am extremely glad to see the administration budget request prioritize diplomacy and development. ensuring we have the tools necessary to lead on the global stage and leverage the united states soft power, soft power the better positions united states to address global challenges, deepen our alliances and advance our u.s. interests. the fact of the matter, mr. secretary, at not president biden led we talk about particularly, ukraine, led by having our allies join with us, if we had jumped out there by ourselves putin would have been right. but have been divided. nato would not be strong. the eu would not be where it is working collective together to fight back the aggression of vladimir putin and russia. that unity put us there where we are today. with ukraine at the time no one thought we would be here a year later with ukraine sales and it is the leadership the biden administration showed in holding our allies together. we are able to say we are going to stay and continue to gi

today, i am interested in what the state department is doing to hold china accountable. nd i want to flag for you something that is quite disturbing. on january 30th, of this year, when united states imposed sanctions against mexican drug lords, the treasury department's press release called out a major drug lord for public reporting, and i quote, precursor chemicals from china, into mexico, which are then used to manufacture synthetic drugs including fentanyl. and quote. the treasury department's press released even name the chinese entity that is involved, in illicit federal trade. i've got a copy of that press release, right here, that i would like to direct to mr. chairman. in contrast, secretary of state blinken secretary went on the same sanctions, completely omitted. any mention of china or chinese entities, this is a missed opportunity in my mind for the state department to publicly hold china count-able for their fentanyl precursor. so, mister chairman, i would like to enter a second statement as well from the department of state that fails to mention china at al

his hearing is to discuss the state department fy 2024 budget, explore the myriad challenges facing the united states and diplomats around the world. i now recognize myself for an opening statement. secretary welcome. and we have no shortage of crises around the world that's for sure. there's a lot to talk about i believe that we are in a very dangerous period in history the likes of which we have not seen since my father's war on world war ii. after the debacle of the fall of afghanistan we had a room and on that, we saw our adversaries respond and we saw weakness and we projected weakness, not strength. history proves when you project strength you get peace and when you project weakness it does invite aggression and war and you only need to look back to neville chamberlain and other and really the course of time to agree on the prudence of action so we need to project more strength and deterrence we saw not too long after the fall of afghanistan on satellite imagery the russian federation moving towards ukraine. it was never a question of if , it was a question of when for mister puti

i'm interested in what the state department is doing to hold china accountable. want to flight something for you that's quite disturbing. on january 30th of this year, the united states imposed sanctions against mexican drug lords. the treasure departments press release called out a major drug lord for reporting, and i quote, precursor chemicals from china into mexico which are then used to manufacture synthetic drugs, including fentanyl, and quote. the treasury department press release named the chinese entity which is involved in illicit fentanyl trade. i have a copy of the press release right here which i would like to enter into the record. >> without objection. >> secretary of state blinken's press statement on the same sanctions completely amid any mention of china or chinese entities. in my mind, this was a missed opportunity to publicly hold china accountable for their fentanyl precursors. mister chairman, i'd like to enter the second statement as well from the department of state which fails to mention china at all. deputy secretary sherman, why did the s

i don't i don't want to state department that thinks about the world like me i want a state department that when secretary who is duly confirmed tells them to left, they're going to go left and they're going to give me their ideas just like i did the president. but in the end, you an instruction, you should execute it. and we are long ways from that today. my first question from the audience, will you consider running for president. yes. yeah, i like that's a good question. yes. when will you make that decision? that was mine. when susan tells me i may i exactly, yeah. let me pause for a moment because gail wilson, the former first lady of california, is here. are you, gail? i just want you to stand up as a first lady. he had a wonderful first lady at the state department. how important? now you're first. oh, my goodness. all the difference in the world kept me humble when i thought i was all that and brought me up when the what and probably up when the washington post told me. i was a no good bum. okay. oh, good. very important. and daily. just the daily job. what has happened to our

hour as we watch several briefings at our nation's capital including the white house, and the state department"america reports" rolls into a second hour. >> sandra: one of those breaking news thursday afternoons, john. also keeping our eye on nashville as hundreds gathered there to call for gun former at the state capitol. hundreds of young people from high schools all over the area, at times became very tense and confrontations with security happening as you see on the screen there. as there was a big debate and calls for gun reform. there were also those who were making the case for good guys with guns to protect the schools. so things got fiery there at the capitol building. obviously a lot of chanting happening there, and signs were up and that confrontation with security, this all went down a couple hours ago. >> since taking office, president biden and his team have labored to suppress viewpoints with which they disagree. and in doing so, they have infringed upon the individual freedoms of millions of americans. >> john: republican senator eric schmidt dropping that accusation on the wea

function ahead of the 2021 withdrawal by too many agencies including the department of defense, the departed state, the department on security the nationalist grief counseling others had overlapping jurisdiction. no clear mandate which allows too much passing of the buck. however the white house refused. congress should use authority to mandate a body going forward. on the ears of munson's evacuation much of the structure has been created an ad hoc manner through various departments, covers a center of the executive branch coordinates in one unit line of effort. we must codify and relocations were the most innovative approaches we have seen in the aftermath of the afghan crisis is a creation public/private partnership in this case the coordinator for afghan relocation efforts. which is the department of state coordinate ongoing relocations congress to codify this effort and civil society. culture over 200 veterans organizations as well as civil society have had in shaping carefully must include the system of the improvement to the special program will not only provide avenues to honor the promise

senator portman and i, worked on legislation called the fentanyl results act to try to give the state department more resources to work with other countries who might want to help us address fentanyl come in to the united states are the resources you need to do that,, legislation? and if so, what do you need? let us know what you need so that we can ensure that that happen. >> i would welcome working with you onn that because indeed one of the things we're doing is working to build a coalition of countries backward to give them more effectively to do with the challenge internationally, particularly can when it comes to the diversion of illicit precursors into illicit production of fentanyl. we started to do that ass a mentioned at the g20, but there may be other ways to will be effective in building that out a car some additional resources. be great to work with you on that. >> thank you. from what. >> thank you store shooting. senator rubio. >> thank you for coming and we appreciate it. it strikes me, i know you like history, was how one of your major? >> yes. >> i think history is always instr

i appreciate the continued work by the state department. i was pleased to see the president's budget include 20,000 for afghan allies. i understand the department has taken an effort to review or withdraw from afghanistan. last year that was the implication. non-women afghan women and girls have once again it had their rights stolen by the taliban regime. after our departure. as we have heard, has real concerns about what their future holds. can you give us an update on this effort and is it going to be shared with members of congress? sec. blinken: yes. we have been working on that review. this was a commitment i made early on to make sure we learned the lessons from what we got right, what we got wrong, what we need to learn from it. we brought in very experienced retired senior officers to run that process. we did that. other agencies have done similar efforts. we have been working in recent months to bring all of that together to understand what the lesson should be. the bottom line is we will be making those reports available, sharing t

the state department, secretary blinken, others? they never came to your room at walter reed and said hey can you tell us what can you say about the siv's or others that were trying to get through to get >>processed. >> they never asked you is it true that people in the state department were sensually not processing individuals at nighttime when you were still having to sit in a tower at all hours? >> no, they didg not. >> battalion commander, company commander did they come after you for your story? statement the company commander in a personal capacity yes but not through the chain of command or in behalf of the marine corps. >> the cia, fbi never came to ask you hey can you tell us when you are looking to the scope on your rifle what makes you thank you could identify the bomber? >> no. >> folks in say hey this is what you are looking for on this day and we think it might be an individual that appears like this traveling in this way in undertaking these actions the intel folks didn't't come and ak you afterwards y hey what the gc

act of 2020, strengthen its reporting requirements and require greater transparency from the state department. it would ensure the united states is approaching its relationship with taiwan in a manner that strengthens our relationships with democratic partners who are under threat by aggressive dictatorships and it would ask the administration to identify opportunities to lift remaining self-imposed restrictions on engagement. i urge each of my colleagues to i urge each of my colleagues to support this important, bipartisan bill. i thank the ranking member, mr. meeks, and i thank the gentleman from west virginia, mr. connolly, for joining me in supporting this unanimously out of the house foreign affairs committee. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the gentlewoman from missouri yields back. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, h.r. 1159. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended -- the gentlewoman from missour

the state department had warned about that risk in the, the language of their travel advisories. but making this even clearer with that d, clearly a fix to certain countries we think can help to warn americans and thus prevent some cases from arising in the 1st place. i mean, we do have a graphic here, you know, showing that iran, china, venezuela, syria, russia, all engage in this practice. but that what is really remarkable is in 2011 when you had an average of america for us nationals being taken a year. that number is going up dramatically and rather being non state actors. here we have for $211.00 a year right now. and i guess the question is it's, it's great to hear about international norms in to warn people. but as you see, americans in every nation of the world, are there other steps that can be taken to create disincentives for states doing this that, that, that may not be on my radar screen. yeah, and then we should just pause a moment. ed to reflect on dian foley, who's just contributed so much to this community of people who care about these issues and who turned obv

well, the us state department _ out? well, the us state department has - out?ondemned this move, calling it provocative and extremely troubling in making the point that there was a commitment by the former israeli prime minister ariel >> to the then us president george w bush. in this regard, nearly 20 years ago and is effectively is a breach of that agreement. the state department spokesman said "advancing settlement is an obstacle to peace and the achievement to a two state solution". as to whether there would be any repercussions from this move, the state department spokesperson was asked repeatedly that question in all the good say was that basically there would be representations made to israeli officials. that, after assurances were given in regard to president biden in the last few days, and to a regional meeting in sharm el—sheikh on sunday. to a regional meeting in sharm el-sheikh on sunday.— to a regional meeting in sharm el-sheikh on sunday. could this move potentially _ el-sheikh on sunday. could this move potentially risk— el-sheikh on sunday. coul

i do that in front of our media in a state department briefing room to make sure that people understand that this really comes from the secretary of state on behalf of the president of the united states. and it's something we attach tremendous importance to. >> thank you mr. secretary for your leadership and for two hours of high energy and engaging testimony. i know you have another session in front of her authorizing foreign relations committee later today. i think most importantly you make a compelling case for the urgent national security need to invest more robustly in our diplomacy and development. i look forward to working with you together, to see where we can move forward and get past this year. i will say to the colleagues who have joined, we have a dozen senators participating at different points, this was a great constructive hearing. senator hagerty had information related to the vulcan seizure of a port and he would like to add it to the record, so ordered. the hearing record will remain open for written questions until 5 p.m. wednesday, march 20 ninth. with that this hear

i worked in the state department, and in the senate for many years.my country very much and i am very sad see. in what it has become not only in terms of how we treat people here in america but also what we are doing around the world to look at what is happening in ukraine and also sad to look at what is happening from america but this is such a period in history. unfortunately. i hope that something good will rise from the ashes and everything will collapse. it seems to me that a good america will be a home for all americans in some way. i would take a closer look at the experience of russia, you had three generations of crazy ideology, then everything went down the drain, but you got out of this situation, in some aspects you became stronger than before. let's hope that something similar happens in america, one of the underlying reasons for the events that are taking place in ukraine is faith american elite satanists who hold power in washington have set their tasks to destroy the ukrainian orthodox church. as soon as they do this, ukraine will fina

a key partner of ukraine , we will talk about this in the second part of svoboda life the us state department supported the creation of a special tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression by russia against ukraine , this was stated by the ambassador for global criminal justice of the us state department, ben van sack stuck. and against the usa came to the conclusion that the most effective way to ensure responsibility for crimes of aggression involves the creation of the so-called of an internationalized court within the judicial system of ukraine, further direct speech, such a hybrid court will also demonstrate ukraine's leadership in ensuring responsibility for the crime of aggression fully within the framework of the national legal system. the united states is ready to cooperate with ukraine and other countries of the world to provide resources to exchange information with such tribunals in order to achieve comprehensive accountability for international crimes committed in ukraine , the words of the representative of the state department became one of the most decisive statements tha

attention to them , yulia, then these attempts also do not know any success, and they say that the state department and the united states, together with its allies, will continue we can support ukraine now and listen to exactly what netprice commented russia is trying to make such attacks the new norm only a few weeks have passed since we saw attacks of this scale across the country that due to the actions and decisions of president putin they would like us to consider this as the new norm shows about the level of insolence and cruelty that they are ready to commit against the ukrainian people. therefore, our duty is to work with allies and partners around the world, and you cannot clarify this as a rule, we cannot lose sensitivity to this, the people of ukraine, on the other hand, have very clearly demonstrated that they will not be subjugated, they will not be held hostage, and they will continue to defend themselves with the support of the united states of america, as well as our partners and allies around the world. the united states and its allies, norway announced that, together with the unit

i worked in the state department and studied soviet union at the same time.ther was the military attache in moscow at that time the state department. he took a rather conciliatory position in relation to the ussr compared to the pentagon the pentagon adhered to a tougher militant policy; the position of the state department was more restrained; now , on the contrary, the neoconservatives are the ideologists of neoliberalism, which is trying to press rossi stenki to destroy it in the pentagon, while, with the exception of the political level, many normal military personnel work . they understand that it will be a disaster. they know that we are unable to fight with russia and what is the need? no, that is, there are more normal people in the pentagon than the state department, but whether they influence politics , they don’t think, they are not responsible for it, because politicians occupy higher-level positions in the pentagon , they have the same ideological thinking as in the white house and in the state department. why diplomats in the us and other countr

what does he think about the state department and what has been saying about this?what is his reaction to the fact that there is another american that has been detained in russia on espionage charges. as you know, paul whelan has maintained his innocence. he has said he was framed by russian intelligence. his family has been trying over many years to try to get him out of russia, unsuccessfully, and so we're going to ask him about whether he thinks this might complicate their efforts to release their brother and also give us a window into what this reporter evan gershwin, which might be experiencing in a russian prison. of course we know the family, david whelan has been speaking to his brother from time to time while he's been behind bars in russia, so we're going to talk to him about what heaven might be experiencing, and his thoughts on this whole matter. it is believed that evan koskovich is going to be held at lefortovo prison that notorious prison the same prison where paul whelan has been detained as well. pamela brown, thank you and be sure to join pam at th

after this began happening to you as to plymouth in cuba, the state department and the cia commission studies to get to the bottom of the causes, at least that's what they said they would do. the state department's advisory group, it's called the jason adviser group finally said in early 2022. that it was not likely that the symptoms were being caused by a directed energy weapon. also in early 2022, the c. i a released a report saying that in 976 out of 1000 cases of havana syndrome, they could confirm that the symptoms were not a result of a hostile foreign power without drawing any definitive conclusions. these studies speculated that the causes of havana syndrome could be ultrasound waives, or could be the results of pesticides. but a blue ribbon panel of the national academies of sciences, engineering and medicine, said that the likeliest cause was microwave energy, specifically directed, pulsed r f energy. one of the doctors and experts told you about the origins of this thing . have you discussed with them the, the notion of our f energy or microwave pulse energy? absolutely. ye

in the final analysis, the cia state department how?i think they want war with russia not sure what they know? what character, it will acquire, but they think about it. it seems to me that the american government understands perfectly well that the territory for which there is a struggle is the areas where traditionally russian people live - the inhabitants of crimea - these are russians. they are not ukrainians. it so happened that they remained on the other side of the border, but they are russian people in the dpr and the lpr - these are also russians, they have russian culture , history, language, everything is russian, and what is happening now is a war - this is a struggle for where the border should go, but we are talking about russians, people whom the ukrainian government is trying to keep in their country, russian-speaking, the population is trying to return to russia to become a part of it, gvodip understands this, but does not want the american people to realize this. many decisions about wars are made by globalist oligarchs

we know of course the state department and the justice department are involved.those u.s. government agencies are working their contacts in mexico, working with their counterparts in mexico to try to figure out -- >> ned price at the state department giving an update. let's listen. >> we extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased. we thank our mexican and u.s. law enforcement partners for their efforts to find these innocent victims and the task forward is to ensure that justice is done. next, earlier today at the launch of the 2023 joint response plan for the rohingya humanitarian crisis in bangladesh, the united states announced $26 million in additional humanitarian assistance -- >> coming in at the tail end of his comment. all right. so we had ned price there, the spokesman for the state department giving a few moments about these four americans, two of whom are dead, one injured, one unharmed. let's go back to kylie atwood at the state department. i'm sure we'll get more as the questions begin for ned, but kylie, continue. >>

so global engagement center or g c essentially is funded by the us state department and it cleans the 8 busts bisson formation and foreign propaganda. in fact, it also funds the think tank we're talking about here and also the digital forensic lab as they call it a. but in the past also they have a track record of targeting all the social media accounts that really doesn't suit their narrative. for example, around 500 accounts, we're talking about that they allege war spreading iranian disinformation of and also around 5000 accounts, 5500 chinese gowns. the alleged were associated with in fact, they were involved in state back to renew pollution. and now they also have india on their lives. but really interesting, rory, the timing of the, the report has been revealed at the time when of the us secretary of state anthony drinking wisdom in dallas. so really super embarrassing for him and his government as he made a visit to india for the g 24 months still meet as well as the court meet that happened earlier today. right. he's run june sharma. thank you. but we did speak to an indian la

that's because alger hiss had been in th state department for several years. he was not the secretary state, but he advised the secretary state and he was connected. a couple of events that got a lot of fresh press coverage. he was with the state department delegation that went to yalta with franklin. yalta washe summit, the last summit of world war two, the where roosevelt was still alive. and it was controversy still, because a lot of cservatives by 1948 believed that roosevelt had sold out at yalta right. so alger hiss was known as somebody who went to yalta and advised president roosevelt at alger hiss is also known as an americanho helped set up the united nations. he's one of sever state department who hped organize the first conference of the united natns. a lot of conservatives don't like the united nations because nationalts, they're america fit ers. they think tt the us ceding some of its power to an outside force with the united nations. so he's associated with a couple of things that anti-communist already hate. he's no longer in government this poi

, hundreds of communists in the state department alone and the state department knows the secretary of state knows why are they letting 200 known communists operate in the state department. well, heust be a communist himself. he must be a communist agent. now, he made this up. he didn't ha a list, and he would go on to these unfounded, reckss accations for the next several years a his this. the conspiracy theory that he offered and this was in 1951, a speech, the floor of the senate in, which he said he started talkinall of the foreign policy that the united states had suffered, the communist one, the civil war in china the soviets tested an atomic bomb. and he said, how can we account for our present situation? and unless we believe that high in this governme are ncerning, deliver us to disaster, this must be the product of a great conspacy. a conspiracy on a scale so immensas to dwarf any such nture in the history of man, a conspiracy of infamy so black when it finally expose and its principles shall be forer deserving t malady, actions of all honest men. it's a conspiracy that goes

the state department ranks it as level four, which is do not go. the state department provides travel advisories and mexico is a large country, like ours, so they do travel advisories on a state-by-state basis, or even more discreetly than just a state. tamaulipas is one of those states recommended americans not travel to. it has notoriously been a dangerous state. it has per capita the highest number of disappearances and all of mexico. it is about a little over 18,000 out of 3.5 million. it is not a safe place. host: the state department recognizes not traveling to this part of mexico. you can drive across the border and do that anyway. guest: right. the state department can make recommendations, but cannot prohibit you from going to mexico. if people want to go, they can. it is important to keep in mind there are over one million border crossings everyday between the united states and mexico. while this is tragic, it is one really tragic event in maybe 900,000 not tragic events. it is important we not take it out of -- nobody can go to mexico un

the conclusions arrived at by the state department of the united states freedom house coincide with yourrvations. is it really true that the level of freedom of speech has fallen so dramatically in ukraine? well, it must be said that this report is general, that is, it includes not only freedom of speech, but also eh other human rights research on the observance of other human rights and eh this is very generalized eh in general it coincides with our observations because of course in a year of full-scale war it will definitely affect the state of freedom of speech as well objectively and subjectively of course well, for example, we would defend with some when we cooperated with some international human rights organizations, for example, the issue of occupied territories and freedom of speech there that they should be classified in a separate section because this is the territory of ukraine, but responsibility for what is happening there does not lie with ukraine, but lies with the occupying party country, and accordingly, there was such a practice that crimea , for example, was taken int

my colleague at the state department spoke to this just moments ago.epartment's going to continue to reiterate that it is not safe at this time to be in russia or to travel in russia >> thank you >> the "wall street journal" reporter being detained, would the administering call this a hostage situation? >> he's being detained there's no reason to believe the charges are accurate, the espionage are accurate i don't want to speak beyond that and certainly we will have more information when we get it there are privacy concerns we want to be very mindful how we speak about this. >> and john kirby mentioned this is a new tactic in russia but this is the first time we have seen russia detain an american following the prisoner swaps, trevor reid and brittney griner, is there a concern here at the white house that if the u.s. continues to engage in prisoner swaps, russia will be emboldened to detain americans as lever raj. >> -- leverage >> it is a tactic russia has used for a long time it's not new paul whelan, trevor reid, they were taken in the prior admini

the state department spokesman said, "advancing settlements is an obstacle to peace and the achievementld be any repercussions from this move, the state department spokesman was asked repeatedly that question and all he could say was basically there would be representations made to israeli officials. that after assurances were given in this regard to president biden in the last few days and to regional meeting on sunday. could this move potentially risk inflaming tensions that are already there? we've seen that there has been clashes between both sides?- between both sides? well, there's certainly _ between both sides? well, there's certainly growing i there's certainly growing lthlth here in the us over us. they threaten with their challenges to governmental systems and into the legal systems and into the legal system in israel to undermine the sort of values that have been part of, they've served as the bedrock of us—israeli relations over the decades. the feeling is that if any country in the world is to put a brake on these sort of developments, thenit on these sort of developments,

question about whether china can go to military support for russia, and we really felt it in the state departmentnd in the white house in particular again from john kirby he believes that again at the moment the united states sees no signs that china has completely abandoned these plans but also sees no signs that china will go to such aid because again, washington says that they do not see how this can contribute to the interests of china itself today, from these statements that we have heard. so far, there are no signals that china can really support russia in a powerful way, in particular, to support weapons, because, again, the chinese leader emphasized that china wants to see its role as an independent observer here and maybe even a peacemaker of faith. let's talk about another important visit today to kyiv - the prime minister of japan arrived in fumiokesin as in washington, will i evaluate these negotiations on in the background, because of that, everyone is a dolphin to moscow, here western countries still support ukraine , and there is a global democratic coalition that believes that the

couldn't you ask how the state department is addressing it? a lot of it is getting appeals from people. you can just come here and get jobs. >> i would say a couple of things. like many i was moved by the testimony yesterday of people across this country representing people across the country who care deeply about afghans in afghanistan. that's a reflection of the breath and depth of a 20 year commitment of which thousands of my colleagues in that apartment for part of. so that commitment for such a long time is manifested in so many different ways for individuals, and we see the refresh -- the reflection of that both in the continued scale of need, the outreach, the individual stories of afghans who are still looking for support. we are not going to be able to meet that need in the moment as quickly as all of us wish we could. but that does not mean we are not going to do everything possible to do right by his many people to keep faith with this many afghans to whom we have an obligation as we can. and it's why we are continuing to build out

r state department. and also has long term ties with george soros had essentially in 2021 pressure to it, to, to delete some 40000 or the gallons from their back form. and these accounts were all members of the par fusion ballpark in india, margins of our g or the b b as essentially the political party of indian prime minister, not in the movie. now important to mention george soros here, as he said, to be the man, the fees behind repeated regime change attempts in india. and remember, in the us do for a general election next hour in 2024. now math dive, even john, and this essentially a behind twitter files of exposing to devised really also disclose that the ben security and trust chief off twitter. i'll essentially had examined most of these accounts, these 40000 accounts here that we're talking about. and all of them appeared to be real people at linda council's digital forensic research lab said the suspected $40000.00 accounts of being paid employees or possibly volunteers of india's party . i do n

now, state department spokesperson ned price didn't count out that possibility, said the department will use all tools available to it to try to crack down, of course, on gang activity along the board, but that is something we should watch for in terms of if there is forward movement on that, if the state department does want to join with republicans and push for that. we don't know if they're headed in that direction but certainly that's something that folks on capitol hill are calling for. >> kylie and rosa, thank you both. >>> also joining us this hour former fbi agent in charge frank montoya jr. if we pick up where kylie left off there, this push by lawmakers, questions about whether the state department could, in fact, designate cartels as terrorist organizations. what would that actually change? what would that change on the ground, especially for fbi agents, for example, who work out of that mexico city office? >> yeah, it might open up -- and it's a great question -- it might open up some other avenues of approach when it comes to dealing with these cartels, but the reality of th

and the state department has not been compliant with our document request. i met with the secretary. we had a very cordial conversation. cooperation is always key. but they're not cooperating. if he fails to cooperate with my document production request by, you know, the time he testifies on march 23rd, i am prepared to issue a subpoena. >> issue a subpoena for an tony blinken to testify before your committee. what exactly do you think he's withholding? >> he will be testifying, but we have an outstanding document production request that the lawyers are very combative. i think the secretary, in good faith, has told me he wants to cooperate with this investigation, be transparent to the american people, but we're not seeing that with the lawyers handling this on the ground. so we need these documents because a lot of this stuff, to your point, margaret, has never been brought out to the public. >> this is the dissent cable specifically that you are requesting, people in the state department disagreeing with the policy that was the administration's planning? >