chris coons is the former senate foreign state department and foreign operations appropriations chair and ranking member, and you're now the ranking member of the the lead appropriations subcommittee for defense. we've gone from soft power to hard power, but i want to say that when i bumped into you in the hallway the other day, it seemed like soft power was was still a big part of what you're focused on. in fact, i happen to be part of a conversation where somebody from the foreign aid community, you know, approached you and was talking about the impact of the foreign aid freeze and and it was clear to me that you're still very much enmeshed in what's happening there and the impact and so i just wanted to give you an opportunity to just can you explain for us kind of what's what's the state of play right now, you know, what's been the impact of the of the foreign aid freeze? >> so thanks for a chance to be on, thanks to the audience, massive and harmful and bluntly. quite likely irreversible and immoral and illegal. so having chosen a couple of adjectives, let me justify and support

chris coons, op-ed, expensive again, and the disastrous attempt to cut government spending won't helpfires air traffic controllers in the marketplace will drive prices up in less changes directions and it's only going to get worse. will democrats make that case? >> i think without a doubt. i think they are probably relieved they are in a position to make that case now because joe biden is no longer in the white house. but i would go back to the past four years and asked chris coons and looked back at everything he said over the past four years when inflation was just on a terror. chris coons was quiet as a church mouse about price is fan photo which i think, ultimately lead to voter showing joe biden adore. i do think the whole issue of regulatory burdens in particular on farmers is an area that has a lot of room for improvement. we saw, a porous, the first trump administration where he had that rule every regulation r other regulations had to be eliminated. when you look at the kinds of regulations on farms, not only are there times have little small death by a thousand cuts small re

amna: to discuss more about the fallout, i spoke earlier with chris coons of delaware, who serves onh the senate foreign relations and judiciary committees. welcome back. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. amna: it took just a few days for elon musk to essentially take control of usaid, now threatening to shut down the agency. if this is illegal, then what can be done about it? >> a legal challenge to how and why and when this happened could be coming. second, we are working to press the administration and colleagues to recognize the important work that is done around the world that makes us more safe, that keeps american safe, secure and prosperous, and this work needs to continue, whether it's countering human trafficking in mexico, preserving wild spaces and mozambique, intercepting viruses like ebola in uganda before they break out, the men and women of usaid and the nonprofits from around our country who serve around the world in response to humanitarian disasters and crises and promote democracy, security and stability do valuable work that needs to continue and i will suppor

. >> brian: chris coons, when you lost chris coons. you lost the middle. i would say this, too.od came out and said you might think this is bad, but the american people don't die on this hill. the american people are not against ridiculous foreign aid spending. and what about domestic spending? we have no idea why these programs cost so much. so if you can get them more efficient, that should be fine. but, instead, they don't like that his guys and his women are working human resources when the federal government we got 2.3 million federal workers. they don't like the offers to quit that they got. and they don't like the fact that they are able to look at the books. especially u.s. aid. why is u.s. aid protesting so much. why do they give joni ernst and threaten her when she asks for receipts on what they are spending. >> ainsley: she has been working on this a very long time for years and years and josh hawley about u.s. aid says their power base is being threatened now. they have used that as personal play thing it. includes billions and billions of your money, the taxpayer do

amna: democratic senator chris coons of delaware joining us tonight. thank you for your time. sen. ons: thank you. geoff: the u.s., canada and mexico all agreed to delay the start of president trump's tariffs and hold off at least for now on the possibility of a trade war among allies. the delay is only for a few weeks and as of now there will be new tariffs taking effect tomorrow. 10% on goods from china already on top of materials dating back to president trump's first term. amna: president trump also called the new tariffs and opening salvo and spoke about his plans to issue new punitive tariffs against another ally, the european union. these threats and the prospects of a trade war lead to a number of questions about how tariffs have been used in the past and what effect they will have and potential impacts now. our economics correspondent takes a look. reporter: tariffs. taxes on imports collected in the u.s. at 328 ports across the country. here's a look at some of the reasons president trump gives to hide them. -- height of. >> instead of taxing our citizens, we will tax fore

senator chris coons posted this. just finished an encouraging meeting in washington with president volodymyr zelenskyy. coming up, more on president trump's meetings with volodymyr zelenskyy. therein talks over eight mineral sharing deal. we plan to show you several public appearances including an oval office meeting and a joint press conference. they will speak to the press live at 1:00 and the ukrainian president will talk about securing peace three years after the russian invasion of his country. that will be hosted by the hudson institute at 4:00. you can watch these events live on c-span, c-span.org or c-span now. continues. host: joining us is gracelin baskaran at the center for strategic and international studies, program director that looks at critical minerals security to talk about the proposed u.s.-ukraine minerals deal. president zelensky will be in washington today. he will arrive at the white house in a couple of hours and there will be negotiations that have been behind hold forth between president tru

senator chris coons from laware, gaza is among the world's worst humanitarian crisis. williams of people without enough food or clean water, living with dird, chaos and disease. to suggest we take over gaza while getting usaid, freezing life-saving programs and firing american aid workers, is insane. let's hear from chris, new york, republican line. hi. chris, new york. caller: yes. can you hear me? host: yeah, go ahead. caller: i just wanted to say this is absolutely the wrong thing to do. the united states has no place in gaza. if we would like to do anything for the palestinian people, we should feed them. gaza should be taken over by dubai, saudi arabia, or someplace like that. and then i hear people saying hamas, hamas. the reason why hamas was developed was because israel was obliterating all the palestinians, and the u.s. would not come to their defense, so hamas had no choice but to save all those people who were being killed, family, children. host: i will ask you what i asked the other caller, republicans yourself agreeing with the idea, what do you think of

in fact, chris coons reacting here in the united states, a top senator saying that the comments are alarming. and in fact, this is just a complete and stunning reversal of us policy that has occurred. you will have to remember that the bodily ministration was doing just the exact opposite when it comes to the positioning of us policy with regard to russia. what the policy was was to isolate the united states from russia. but what we've had on the hills of the talks and re add and the discussions that took place between the us secretary state and the russian foreign minister was now to as embrace russia. and so when the, you see the rush, us president essentially blaming you, praying for rushes, invasion of you frame that is a completely in line with that narrative of essentially what we have here is that reversal of policy. so this is really in line with what we've seen though, historically from donald trump, when it, whether it's this administration or his previous administration. what donald trump really focuses on is sort of the economic value of relationships. it's not about human rights

and chris coons is just an outright jerk. thank you for listening to me, and have a good day.ost: jared is in wilmington, delaware on our line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. the question is about trump's foreign policy, and someone said he's doing policy strong. letting food and take over ukraine is not strong. taking over gaza, kicking people who have been really demolished the last couple of years, kicking them out of their homeland, keeping it. he said he's going to keep it. and all this money that republicans want to cut through doge, he wants to reinvest that to build of gaza? to build greenland? come on. what happens to lowering prices, lowering gas prices? gas is not going down. groceries are not going down. greenland, the panama canal, let's make canada the 51st state. those things aren't free. those are not going to be cheap. so all the money he is supposedly fighting with doge, and hopefully aren't lying, foreign intelligence, come on, guys. he's posting no intelligence information on the public website for his knots were, not intelligent, not str

and chris coons is just an outright jerk. thank you for listening to me, and have a good day. host: jared is in wilmington, delaware on our line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. the question is about trump's foreign policy, and someone said he's doing policy strong. letting food and take over ukraine is not strong. taking over gaza, kicking people who have been really demolished the last couple of years, kicking them out of their homeland, keeping it. he said he's going to keep it. and all this money that republicans want to cut through doge, he wants to reinvest that to build of gaza? to build greenland? come on. what happens to lowering prices, lowering gas prices? gas is not going down. groceries are not going down. greenland, the panama canal, let's make canada the 51st state. those things aren't free. those are not going to be cheap. so all the money he is supposedly fighting with doge, and hopefully aren't lying, foreign intelligence, come on, guys. he's posting no intelligence information on the public website for his knots were, not intelligent, not s

. >> laura: i think senator chris coons may actually have won the award for the most unhinged take on what is going on. check it out. >> if elon musk wins and our foreign assistance completely ends, who will cheer and who will win? the cartels will win. terrorists will win, russia will win, china will win. this effort is not efficient. but is not same. it is not respectful. and it does not make america safe. >> laura: well, he is not screaming like some of the other folks dead, but this guy knows better. and i think they are really trying to figure out, how do we get our sea legs and the resistance questionnaire so they have put themselves on the side of the prophet spenders in d.c. living up to the cliche of the big spending fat cat democrats. they are just walking right into their own bad brand. >> yeah, so here is their message to the american people. yes, we would like to waste all of your money and take all your money and we don't want to spend on america and we don't want you to have better jobs, higher wages, secure border. we want to spend it overseas promoting the left-wing t

democratic committee member chris coons responds with this, if hegseth think it's helpful for ukrainian security to make proactive concessions like this on their behalf, i hope he'll go back and read the art of the deal, because this is no way to negotiate with or for a close partner. congressman, obviously referring to the president's book there. what's your response? >> well, alicia, there are facts, you know -- there's realities on the ground and they are a country that is -- ukraine has 40 million people roughly, a little more than that and russia has four times that. how militarily is ukraine going to take that territory back. they've acknowledged that's not going to happen militarily. what's a peace deal look like? putin has already lost and he's looking for an off ramp. his goals was to dominate ukraine in three days and take as many as three weeks. it's three years later, he hasn't dominated ukraine, 80% of ukraine is ukraine's hands, he wanted ukraine to be a belarus and that's never going to happen and expanded n.a.t.o. and 830 additional mile border with n.a.t.o. because asce

. >> laura: well, i think senator chris coons may actually have won the award for the most unhinged taken what's going on. check it out. >> if elon musk wins and our foreign assistance completely ends who will cheer and who will win. cartels will win, russia will win and china will win. this effort is not efficient. it is not sane. it is not respectful. and it does not make america safe. >> laura: he is not screaming like some of the other folks did. but, this guy knows better. and i think -- i think they are really trying to figure out how do we get our sea legs in the resistance. now they have put themselves on the side of the prosthetic will he gatt spenders in d.c. living up to the cliche of the big spending fat cat democrats. >> here is message to the american people yes, we would love to waste your phone money. he we don't want to spent it on america. we don't want you to have better jobs and higher wages. we don't you want you to have a secure border. we would love to go spend it overseas promoting the left wing transgender policies. we want to make sure that the trans flag is fly

beat her until the democrats unburden themselves of the donlon's and kamala harris's and move to chris coonssn't speak to the people who play between the 40s in american politics. >> dana: that reminds me of something i said on "the five" last week. as i was thinking about what the democrats are doing and they can't find footing. maybe the best thing that happened to them was that kamala harris did not win. now they can have a couple of years, rethink things and then try again. >> in the meantime, people like jd vance, tom cotton, glenn youngkin are shining in different places. the vice president in europe and cpac. senator cotton with his book and intel committee. glen young kin doing well in -- they have to move on like shapiro or the democrats went back to vice presidential nominee from 1980 walter mondale and blown out again and a third time. it took bill clinton in 1992. it will happen again unless they throw that stuff away. >> dana: the frustrated democrats urge leaders to show more fight against trump. you mentioned shapiro of pennsylvania. he is growing exacerbated with congressiona

. >> chris coons is a democratic senator from delaware, a member of the committees on appropriationst up is the department of education. they're going to take it down next. they're already talking about getting into and going after the department of labor, the veterans administration, the department of defense, the social security administration. why? >> do you believe you have a sense of what d.o.g.e. is doing? >> no. i think d.o.g.e. is an un-elected, unofficial, small group of young tech bros who are charging into different federal agencies, getting into their core computer systems, doing things with them that at least i don't know the full details of, copying and downloading reams of data. >> what does it matter that d.o.g.e. has access to u.s. government computer systems? >> what matter ss that the u.s. government has information about you, about me, our social security information, our medicare/medicaid, veteran benefit payments, things that matter to us. obviously our tax filings. and if they have access to it and control it, they can change it. >> d.o.g.e. demanded and receiv

senator chris coons posted this. just finished an encouraging meeting in washington with president volodymyr zelenskyy. coming up, more on president trump's meetings with volodymyr zelenskyy. therein talks over eight mineral sharing deal. we plan to show you several public appearances including an oval office meeting and a joint

i am senator chris coons. i've been a senator 14 years i have seen the incredible work of local partners, of nonprofits, of usaid around the world. from nairobi at st. mary's clinic handing out life-saving medications. without o biting at reaped to wk with counter cartel human trafficking efforts to helping entrepreneurship in malawi. around the world, usaid for decades has advanced american and american values. to mistreat the folks who have you havedelivered this life-savg support for so long is just plain wrong. that difference that you have made, the difference that nonprofit partners like worldre vision and capitol relief services, and save the children, international rescue committee, and care have made, makes america safer. when president trump randy said he would make america safe again. nothing about this makes us safer. there's an a bowl outbreak in uganda. helping uganda fight about what makes america safe. there is eight marburg outbreak in tanzania. helping tanzania fight marburg makes america saf

and as i said to chris coons, you know, it's a soundbite world in which we're living far easier to be say, can you imagine they're spending all this money on fill in the blank ev cars in vietnam? here's some of your social media reaction. if you haven't voted, we'll leave it open. you can keep voting. no way the chiefs can stop berkeley fly. eagles fly. yeah, i mean, i'm shocked, derek, that i know i'm a homer. okay, i got my green tie. i've got green. can you see them? i've got my green cords on today. ah i can't even get them in camera view. can you see that. they're green. um. you did okay. so i'm a total homer on this, but i can't believe that that the eagles are getting a point. i don't think they're going to need the point. i don't think they're going to need the point. one more if i've got time for it. and i think that i do. after we get our budget under control, we can help other countries. yeah, i understand and and linda, that's where i'm coming from in terms of the nuance of all of this. i'm someone who is alarmed by the size of the debt. the debt is just not a sexy issue b

senator chris coons from delaware, gaza is amonthe world's worst humanitarian crisis.illiams of people without enough food or clean water, living with disorder, chaos and dias to suggest we take over gaza while getting usaid, freezing life-saving programs and firing american aid workers, is insane. let's hear from chris, new york, republican line. hi. chris, new york. caller: yes. can you hear me? host: yeah, go ahead. caller: i just wanted to say this is absolutely the wrong thing to do. the united states has no place in gaza. if we would like to do anything for the palestinian people, we should feed them. gaza should be taken over by dubai, saudi arabia, or someplace like that. and then i hear people saying hamas, hamas. the reason why hamas was developed was because israel was obliterating all the palestinians, and the u.s. would not come to their defense, so hamas had no choice but to save all those people who were being killed, family, children. host: i will ask you what i asked the other caller, republicans yourself agreeing with the idea, what do you think of th

i saw one of the most courageous things done that chris coons here flew to africa to support the efforts that the united states of america, through usaid, was doing to stop ebola in its tracks in africa so it didn't visit us here. but because of the global interconnected transportation systems, it was getting closer and closer to threatening american lives. this was a crisis that dominated the headlines during the obama administration. and who was then there to fight the spread of ebola, to arrest it in that african nation? who was it? us usaid, american people. who is in uganda right now, up until the trump administration stopped their work? who was there? americans working for usaid. in the midst of a nasty, horrific infection, they were like our first responders, they were like our soldiers because they understand that spiritual truth that king spoke in justice anywhere is a threat to everywhere. an infectious disease anywhere is a threat to public health everywhere. what was the administration's plans to deal with global infectious outbreaks? did they come to congress and put forth a

i was in vilnius, lithuania, with senator chris coons, when reports first trickled out that the war wastarting in europe. three years ago the russian invasion of ukraine was not a partisan issue in the united states. congressmen and senators on both sides of the aisle agreed on the basic facts -- russia was waging an unprovoked, illegal war and must be stopped at all costs. and for the past three years we have supported ukraine with the funding it needed to beat back russian aggression and defend the frontline of democracy in europe. and the ukrainian people have done just that. 46,000 ukrainian lives have been lost. 46,000 defending their nation against putin. we have joined with our nato allies and other countries around the world standing by ukraine. they've shown an extraordinary courage, a courage for the history books. but it turns out that the new president of the united states, donald trump, does not see this the same way as i do, and we have for three years. the fact of the matter is this, president donald trump is a pushover for russian president vladimir putin. he's always be

last week my colleagues in delaware, as part of our congressional delegation, senator chris coons andgresswoman sarah mcbride joined with myself, our governor, our mayor, our attorney general kathy jennings, our governor matt myer and over 250 other statewide officials and leaders to talk about what we were hearing from delawareans. these folks in state and local government, education, the nonprofit sectors were concerned about this directive and we assured them that we are working to address their concerns together. again, i just want to say that again. over night 250 organizations and partners got on a zoom to talk about the impact and what we can do together. we had spoken to our attorney general, cathy jennings, about her prompt legal action against this unconstitutional directive and are grateful for her partnership as well as all the attorneys general across the country who are fighting back in the courts. and the phones in our offices have been ringing off the hook of the we are hearing from delawareans that are nervous about how these things will impact their everyday lives. i