tonight, pete morocco from john f kennedy to pete morocco, all in donald trump's lifetime in a nation of laws, pete morocco would be powerless tight. and president kennedy's law would still be delivering life saving aid around the world. leading off our discussion tonight is congressional historian norm ornstein. he's an emeritus scholar at the american enterprise institute, and e.j. dionne, an opinion columnist for the washington post and a senior fellow at the brookings institution. he is a government professor at georgetown university. and, norm, let me begin with you. and there is there's so much happening here and so much coming at us that i don't want to target a question for you. i want you to. just air out with us what you've been thinking about as this has been happening. >> you say. >> that of all the powerful introductions you've given on this. >> show that. >> i think is the most powerful and the most chilling, and that is where. >> we are. >> right now. and it is. >> a putsch. >> in progress, occurring very rapidly. >> and we. >> have to fear. >> that our guardrails. >> a

morocco was never charged with a crime. he did not respond to a request for comment from nbc news.er outlet asked him about it last year, morocco did not directly address if he was at the capitol as part of the insurrection, but did decry, quote, petty smear tactics and desperate personal attacks now over the office of personnel management, the agency that oversees all u.s. government personnel. the new general counsel, basically, the government's top hr lawyer is that guy, a guy named andrew kloster. as the associated press reports, during the 2020 election, kloster worked as an observer for the wisconsin republican party on election night and was accused of yelling at election workers and police in green bay, a claim he disputes. the daily beast did a deep dive into kloster back in 2023, when he was hired by then republican congressman matt gaetz of florida. according to the report, kloster has a history of making inflammatory social media posts and then deleting them, including one where he called himself a raging misogynist. another where he said, you know what i need? i need a

morocco was also among those who entered the capitol on the day of the january 6th insurrection. people familiar with the agency's operations say morocco has largely directed the recent downsizing of the agency from afar. yesterday, staffers were told to stay out of the agency's washington headquarters after elon musk said president trump supported closing the agency. democratic lawmakers then protested the closure, vowing to fight the trump administration on this. >> you cannot waive away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers. that is not how the american system of government works. >> they're shuttering agencies and sending employees home in order to create the illusion that they're saving money in order to do what? pass a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations. >> we talked. about trump. wanting to be a dictator on day one, and here we are. this is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like. when you got the constitution and you install yourself as the sole

morocco held several national security positions during the first trump administration, including at this agency. but multiple sources tell nbc news he was ultimately pushed out of office. online sleuths important to remember have also identified morocco as being among the rioters who stormed the capitol on january 6th. now, legal experts say the president doesn't have authority to abolish a federal agency created by congress. but in a letter to lawmakers, secretary rubio cited a law requiring the executive branch to notify and consult with congress on any proposed reorganization, which could signal a potential loophole reorganizing versus getting rid of completely. now, when asked about trump's authority to shut down government agencies, house speaker mike johnson had this to say. >> the details. >> it all depends. >> on the details. >> we are. >> well. >> look what they're doing with. >> usaid is. >> an analysis of the expenditures. and as you've seen, there have been a lot of abuses. in that agency, so they'll be an appropriate action, i think, for congress to take. >> but we. >>

>> look, i don't know. >> peter. >> morocco, but what i am hearing is that he's in charge of the waiver process that secretary rubio set up to allow organizations to come in and appeal and say that their work is urgent and. humanitarian or critical to american security. and while waivers have been signed, money is not flowing. and that's why so many local partners are being laid off and vital programs shut down. it is alarming, if true, that mr. morocco was part of the january 6th riot in the capitol, but frankly not out of keeping with an administration that has pardoned hundreds of folks who were convicted of assaulting police officers in our capitol. >> do you worry about a brain drain at cia with a buyout offer by the musk people to through communicated through the leadership, the new leadership at cia, a buyout offer for the entire workforce? >> yes. and oddly worded email offering a buyout of fork in the road. email was sent to most of the civilian workforce of the u.s. government. that's a lot of people. and the cia has now extended that to their workforce, which, i'll remind you

it's these early presses, reporting that the from ministration is considering morocco and punk land, which is a north western somalia and somali land. so i think this is not serious, and frankly it's going nowhere. let's take a look now at some of the stories making news us and also investigators of frances minority government has survived to no confidence votes in parliament, paving away for the adoption of a budget for 2025, far less lawmakers called the votes after prime minister if possible, by who use a special constitutional powers to force through the delayed spending plans on monday, francis senate is expected to sign off on the budget on thursday. the us president, donald trump, has signed an executive order to ban transgender women and girls from competing and female sports. the measure will cut off federal funding to schools and universities that let trans athletes compete. supporters say the ban will keep sports fair, but critics say it discriminates against the tiny minority ukraine and russia have swapped prisoners of war. each site exchanged 150 captives. this footage

all the trump pushes ahead with the abraham a cold skits saudi arabia to join the you a ball, rain morocco and well sit down is probably a little bit of a moot point to give them the country's been in civil war for nearly 2 years. he pushes ahead with that, and if saudi was to agree with that, then he, we wouldn't have westbank, an exception of displacement to people from garza. but that's the other option. the many in these right in the cabinet would like to see which way do you think trump is going to go with drop? well, certainly try to push for deal with saudi arabia, but even saudi arabia is a 3rd hearing that may be can ignore the views of 98 percent of their population, which i think would oppose recognizing israel without recognizing palestinian statehood as, as well. a viable state alongside israel. so i, i think he will, into the alternative would be essentially to give a nothing yahoo a blank check. no, either for outright annexation or increasing the de facto annexation. i think we will see increasing violence. we're going to see a situation like we did in south africa and the

morocco has largely directed the recent downsizing of the agency from afar.terday, staffers were told to stay out of the agency's washington headquarters after elon musk said president trump supported closing the agency. democratic lawmakers protested the closure. >> you cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers. that is not how the american system of government works. >> they're shuttering agencies and sending employees home in order to create the illusion that they're saving money in order to do what? pass a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations. >> we talked. >> about trump. >> wanting to be a. dictator on. >> day one, and here. >> we are. >> this is what the beginning of. dictatorship looks like. when you got the constitution and you install yourself as the sole power. that is how dictators are made. >> so dictators also, though, don't have to deal with federal judges in the d.c. circuit, which, you know, richard, this will o

i want to point out the man who's in charge of basically breaking down usaid, pete morocco.e during this. we have video for you of that, the january 6th riot. he's he's in there meandering among the rioters. i don't know if he actually participated, but he was there as these rioters committed countless criminal acts against our capitol, against the peaceful transition of power, against our capitol police officers, threatening our lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. this man tasked with dismantling usaid, which is the humanitarian arm of the government, but also usaid, serves a major foreign policy function as well, keeping us tapped in to dangerous places. the man who was meandering among those people is tasked with breaking down something that has taken decades to build up a presence around the world that makes america greater and strong. and so while that's happening, there are other things to cover as well. and what we're going to try and do here is stay on top of everything, because there is an onslaught of signals and a lot of noise. but i thought that was worth point

the al julian moore of independence began in 1954 and morocco, indonesia gained independence in 1956. the national liberation front, the f. a land continued to fight the french troops on the ground. this is the story of one episode in that struggle was impacts resonated from no 5 2nd of friends and beyond to the security council of the united nations. but as soon as he actually this one that even though some of us municipal cycle sees it back, we call a digital sits on the test. was it done a tiny pond on the triple then to the multiple critique. ok that falls or puts you on the impulse to peach advocacy do there's also encourage me on them. don't have falsely saved them at different places because i'll stick with the weakness. you may have seen prisoners retail with alternate g crisco. did you have to hear her? she need to call says me 50 list, test for the onto g e o boss. good. she's on that false vocal to you it well for you and they all took the me or i'll means you tell i need your point. you can forward me detailed on what you can afford for each each dose. it's on the whole di

the average is 14 of course, well, 5 storm results and stories of thunder storms and from morocco 2 to nicea. chances are you'll see right. and the seasonal rain is just trying to engine fairly heavy. for example, into got off maybe nigeria, typically it should be dry at this time of the year with the how much blog not particularly strongly for the dust in southern africa. it's still cycling season and about the gas cause at risk of the next 2 days of this other week. but wet circulation, the manipulated by those things, how are you? i'm not following. the selection is unique and we've seen anything like that before and no pressure. they were instrumental in helping the president when the election, driven by self interested play, is fast with their after non profits for people susceptible to government control is public. and it's designed to inflame and defense the way that the story is being told. it's not right. and it's not accurate from social networks to legacy media. the listening post exposes the forces behind the headlight. on out is era the the back you watching out? is there

. >> but do you think this was done intentionally or are people like this individual pete morocco whoecretary rubio authorized to run this, do they just not know how the department works? >> i can't speak for him. i know that he has been put in charge of the foreign assistance program. >> has he come into congress and answered questions since there is a hearing on usaid this week? >> i do think -- the administration has provided, by the way, notification and consultation with the foreign affairs committee that i chaired and that is required under law. they have done that. i think if they decided to terminate that's a whole another issue. my understanding is that they want to look at putting usaid underneath the state department which is not a novel concept. madeleine albright talked about this and bill clinton and warren christopher talked about this, even joe biden talked about this. i think putting it under state makes a lot of sense to me to provide the direct supervision and oversight. >> but you know how this department works since you were the chair for so long of the committee

in slovakia earlier, my colleague morocco mommy's spoke with the mayor of the slovak village of smell. and i've let him hear baran, he said. so lucy wants to force the lock is government to do what the key of wants it is being. busy call you may do to we go so georgians, guy, so the, they obviously lead to these kind of things. you mean your job? are you supposed to below, off and the other people to be in country so this i like a better romania and then there would be perhaps and then even be both as they say that the numbers were like 60000 in the capital. and then from those agencies that the check to the event will be to all the teachers show intelligence, they said it was doubled or tripled. matthew, and maybe so this ignition is quite valid, but it was a haven't been really bad even though you have succeeded the last he has repeating the question fits those preferences for russian gas, but one of the policies of, of the country lot to do with him i mean, why do you think will, of course, on the on off there's a is why is the legacy and get interfering is the back is politics. he

romania and more especially in turkey, but also the on shore pres, meaning more shells, likely in morocco, algeria, to new jersey, and then eventually libya, and even egypt for the rest of north africa is generally speaking dry and dust as you might expect, a few shows on the coast of nigeria and it's still streak here running through molly. however, if we go a lot further south, it's still sight tendencies in the creek. look here for you to the very smallest. don't remember to produce a lot of reading in north and not the gasket. and it's got to keep going for a couple of days with flood the main risk of the, the latest news all off for online casinos, including many found to be involved in scanning. so the cost by now says president, for the name marcus junior, declare is a total band last year with detailed coverage, just states, fees them as a security threat for their agencies say they have been saved by those bank to protect us from the house of the story, young people, we talked to so a lot of extra info, but the lack of golf course them to fix it. they said it's cheaper to buy dir

and from morocco 2 to nicea, chances are you'll see right. and the seasonal rain is just trying to engine very heavy. for example, into gonna maybe nigeria, typically it should be dry at this time of the year with the how much blog not particularly strongly for the dust in southern africa. it's still fighting season. and madagascar is at risk of the next 2 days of this other week. but wet circulation, the increasing power in africa, russian most and that is killed. so did use violence in the country that he's russia's presence in the central african republic, a stabilizing force, or calculated strategy for dillman. and this is, of course, the continent. they provide security and they take uranium, they provide security, i may take time and rushes shadow when africa coming soon, phone out to 0, a. this is refrain we'll be discussing the war and gaza and today how palestinian oxys are responding to it. the only thing that's right does have is the power of award winning old fashionable to speak to palestinian by a director. ok met. i'm assuming

certainly immediate future, we still got range come in morocco. in algeria probably 2 nicea, most of north africa, of course is still the getting the seasonal dusty windshield and particularly strong. we have seen charles go down and recently on the nigeria. this larry, but they were doing it all the same. they've disappeared now from the cheese, thankful across beyond the coast. there is a significant rain full cost in positive di, i'll say over the republic of congo, and just making land for the madagascar a briefly named topical. so i can, the big is refrain will be discussing the war and gaza and today how published in your office are responding to the only thing that's right just have is the power of hope award winning old, the fashionable to speak to palestinian by director act met i'm assuming that you were able to train those emotions that come on with something to the beautiful and see those emotions without the wounds that's coming. refrain on out, just in the you're watching, you'll just hear a reminder about top stories. the ssl is rai

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administration announced that marco rubio is the acting administrator of usaid and told laura that pete moroccoknown trump ally, will be appointed to oversee usaid. programs around the world are frozen. workers are cut off from both their staff and their own email. some workers have been fired. i am in touch with dozens around the world. this agency website itself conveys the clarity and state of things. this is what comes up when you look at usaid.gov, nothing. there has been no notice to staff before this happened. today, laura received from the white house indication that it's notified congress and is considering a reorganization. that's a week after some of these layoffs. it's a great deal. this is an agency with 13,000 or more staff. at least 1000 contractors. there are estimates for 3000 u.s. layoffs so far. that includes all the co-attracting agencies. usaid affect millions of people around the world in key areas of u.s. interest. these programs, when they were founded, the wheat program, for example, pivotal in giving the u.s. a sphere of influence in asia and india. it is a program tha

funding going to morocco for pot pottery, tourism in lebanon even when the state department was advising against travel. i could go on and on and on, john and dana. >> dana: senator, the daily wire reports that 97% of political contributions from usaid employees went to democrats. this is democrats on elon musk' power. >> elon musk may get to be dictator of tesla but doesn't get to shut down the agency for international development. >> no one elected elon musk to dismantle it. >> privileged bill airs who don't give a damn about america and americans should not be making decisions that put americans at harm. >> dana: what did they get wrong there? >> well, i think they got just about everything wrong. and so elon musk is spearheading the department of government efficiency and if it means ferreting out waste and fraud on behalf of americans, then i think he is doing a great job. he is operating at the direction of the president and what we have seen with usaid is just blatant disregard for what americans want to see and how they want their dollars spent around the globe. there are importa

secretary of state marco rubio is the acting administrator of usaid and they told laura that pete moroccoa known trump ally, will be appointed essentially to oversee usaid as a deputy there. programs around the world right now are frozen. workers are cut off from both their staff and their own email. some workers have been fired. i'm in touch with dozens around the world who are communicating through encrypted groups. this agency website conveys the clarity and state of things. if you take a look, this is what comes up when you look at usaid.gov. nothing. i want to point out there's been no notice to staff before this happened. today, laura received from the white house indication that it has notified congress that it is considering a reorganization but that's a week after these layoffs are in place. let's take a look at what this means. this is an agency with 13,000 or more staff. at least 1000 contractors, the white house puts that number at a little less. there are estimates for 3000 u.s. layoffs so far, including the contracting agencies. i want to talk about usaid and what they do. t

as far as domestic reaction goes i can tell you uber ride from the bureau here white house 6:00 moroccoalled trump a master negotiator he said tips have increased since president trump took office. >> steve: so, lucas, how much is an uber. >> brian: that's interesting. do you have a soundbite from him, lucas? iphone? >> guys talking early in the morning,. >> brian: unprompted by the way. >> steve: how much is an uber from the bureau to the white house? >> about $20, steve. >> steve: okay. >> tip on there, too. >> steve: i know. >> brian: what did you rate him as? did you rate him? >> steve: five stars? >> five stars. >> steve: going to give a soundbite rate him as 5 stars. >> brian: what do you think he rated you as? >> five. i was there on time. i sprinted out there because it was cold. >> brian: lucas, all your military training and background you went to the uber soundbite. so interesting. >> steve: how are you getting home? >> i will take another uber home as well. you don't want to mark around here. >> steve: you don't. >> ainsley: i learn a lot from these uber drivers in new york?

turn, get this tapped the director of foreign assistance at the state department, a guy named pete moroccoo run it. that is a guy who, as nbc news reports, was identified as, yes, you guessed it, one of the people who stormed the capitol on january 6th. one of the insurrectionists is now running the state department's aid division. and to be absolutely clear, what elon musk has done here is, i think by any reading, flatly illegal like elon musk has no more legal authority to shut down us aid than i do to show up at tesla's headquarters and close that company down. usaid is funded by congressional appropriation. it was created first by executive order and then enshrined in statute. the only changes that can be made to the program have to go through congress. elon musk can't just feed it into a wood chipper because he's feeling like it. but i think the unconstitutionality is the point. today, nbc news reported that president trump is now planning an executive order to eliminate the department of education, which he also flatly lacks the legal authority to do. the department of education was

ambassador to morocco and a former white house middle east adviser.w netanyahu's second day in a row on capitol hill. what's the message he and u.s. lawmakers are trying to send with these visits? >> yeah. >> that's right, ana. >> this meeting. >> between prime minister. >> netanyahu and speaker johnson. >> started about 15 minutes ago, we believe. >> and we are expecting. >> them to give. >> remarks sometime. >> later this hour. >> we don't. >> expect a. particularly long meeting. >> we also believe this. >> will be. >> a friendly meeting. these two. >> men see eye to eye. for the most part. on the subject. >> at hand. >> speaker johnson is a vocal. >> supporter of israel, wants to maintain u.s. unwavering support to israel. >> which, of. >> course, netanyahu. >> also wants. >> since the. october 7th. >> hamas attack on. >> israel and the ensuing war. the u.s. has given nearly $23. >> billion in military and economic. >> assistance to israel. there is no pending. >> legislative business before. >> congress regarding israel, but of course. >> netanyah

morocco or in mexico. >> near some. >> of. >> the consumer markets, the overall trend is still of. >> >> resilient global supply chain. >> that copes with. >> these political pressure. more than it really structurally. >> changed so far. >> in the drink space, carlsberg has posted annual organic operating profit at the top end of its guided range, coming in 6% higher on the year. while volumes missed analyst expectations. sylvia joins us. now from copenhagen with more. sylvia. carlsberg. pretty impressive that despite volumes. >> disappointing, they. >> were still able to deliver a profit beat. >> exactly. and that's being very clear in the way that the shares are moving so far this morning. among the best performing stocks. >> in europe thus far. >> but let me. >> explain to. >> you why. perhaps we're looking at this reaction in the markets. if you think about. their 2024 performance, we actually saw a beat at the top and bottom lines for their full year results. >> and on top of. >> that. >> perhaps even. >> more importantly. >> they actually finished. >> at the. >> top range. >> of

apparently, that person is peter morocco, somebody who allegedly was at the january 6th insurrection.ter saying that this is the person that's going to be in charge. has. does that need authorization from congress? >> well, everything that they're doing right now is just geared towards undermining this institution that is codified in statute by the u.s. congress. there are actions to try to reorganize as well as dismantle. usaid is illegal. and that was something that i tried to raise when i went to usaid today. i mean, i walked through those doors of usaid over 20 years ago for my very first day working for the federal government. i was so proud to be able to serve the country in that way, and to demonize these public servants, to try to take this incredibly important national security tool that we have off the table when we have real threats emanating from russia, china and elsewhere. you know, this is something that's just going to make our country less safe and really shows the undermining of rule of law in our nation. >> i want to show you and talk to you just a little bit about

was things like projects like giving $20 million to an iraqi version of sesame street, 2 million on moroccotery classes, 27 million on gift bags to illegals before deporting them. there's a whole list of absurd things you can. >> look up, but there is also drag shows in ecuador. and there was transgender pride in serbia, right? i mean, this is the sort of thing i can understand u.s. aid. it's the sort of soft projection of american values around the world, which sounds like a good idea, you know, democracy, stuff like that. but that's not the values that they're projecting. the values they're projecting. the values they're projecting. the values they're projecting are essentially sort of communism and transgenderism. >> yes. and the idea is, oh, we're going to trump's making a big mistake because he'll lose soft power to china and they'll step in. their economy is struggling now. they'll fill this void with all this soft power. i don't i don't really buy it. and people in the story don't even buy it. there's a guy, tom wang, who says he warns against simplistic narratives of china replacing

while behind the scenes, his his employee, pete morocco is going about and destroying the agency. if you take an agency down from 14,000 people to 300 or 600, there's no one left to conduct a review. you know, it's just an absurdity. so, you know, i think what is really happening here is they are ignoring all law, ignoring ignoring all procedure and process that they're legally required to comply with and just trying to get this agency killed before congress and the courts catch up. and that is why the injunction last night is really, really important because it it temporarily prevents them from going ahead with this huge round of staff layoffs. it also prevents them from beginning the process of pulling back all usaid personnel overseas. once that begins, obviously, the whole job of preserving u.s. foreign aid gets much harder, so that that order is very important. >> but that's wild, right? because all these people overseas, in some places they are in in tough areas. in other words, it's not a matter of, oh, i had a flight on friday. now this judge has put it on hold. so maybe i

we have existing trade agreements with jordan and morocco. we know there is a pathway for good relations with these folks. some discussions i had earlier with senator bennet, where the president directed, let's look at existing trade agreements and markets where they might be helpful in a way coordinated and pragmatic. if this committee believes we should be looking at potential accords members as areas where economic growth can happen for american workers, we should talk about that. sen. lankford: the focus is on good foreign policy, good for americans as well. establishing peaceful relationships across the country allows us to have better trade agreements and economic activity. we want to drive that home. the big challenge on china dumping product is not just the dumping. the process you have to go through to challenge the dumping -- millions it takes to challenge. who enforces that? this falls largely on department of commerce for enforcement. a question that will come to you is how do we help companies that know that chinese companies are

in his first term, "the abraham accordance saw ball rain, united arab remembrance morocco and sudan normalizens with india. the saudi crown prince says that he plans to invest $600 billion in the united states, but first he wants to see an end to the war in gaza and a path for statehood for palestinians." your reaction there to who should the president have consulted with? caller: who was the last person -- the last country? host: the saudi arabian leader that the editorial notes that he and a phone call to president trump said i will invest what i want an end to the war first, and i want there to be a statehood solution for palestinians. caller: ok. so i would say i and i am assuming and i should not assume anything, that president trump is interrupted -- in touch because of the abraham accords for some of these arab nations like saudi arabia, jordan, egypt or qatar or the uae. so i guess, i am assuming he is in consultation with them so that is an answer i do not know about. i do not hear a lot about those countries really stepping up to say that we are going to i do not know, flowing -- fo

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