the carnegie foundation has and every day the carnegie foundation in america on is heroes in almost every case they're heroes of people who have died helping out this these are and these are always soldiers police men. etc and so that's one kind of hero that so these are people who do just opposite of what you said. instead of being focused on how how can i preserve my life in a battle they say what can i do to help my my fellow partner partner and so in many cases they are willing to die protecting someone else protecting someone else in there pretty soon in their battalion and somebody i'm saying my sense of heroism is not that at all it's that. you got you not good in you know going to take a bullet rather than have to have somebody else die for you what you going to do is going to make the world better or not in terms of helping them survive statistically but survive psychologically to live socially. to. you know. to make the world better for other people is a simple thing getting a compliment i mean so so it should be in every situation you go into in every and every school every par

carnegie. that's first. second, on the china/u.s. exchange foundation. this is a relationship that i inherited when i became president of carnegie and i ended not long after i became president precisely for the concerns you just described. we were increasingly worried about the expansion of chinese operations and shortly after i ended that relationship, we began a program at the carnegie endowment on countering foreign which was aimed at china and russia and supported in part from a grant from the of a gran global engagement center. on the second issue, that you raised on the congressional staff delegation, in 2019 we did partner with the aspen institute which, as you know for decades under the leadership of dan glickman, they have managed member and staff delegations to many different parts of the world. this includes republicans and democrats. it was fully approved in advance by the house ethics committee and in my view is about illustration about what carnegie should do which is to provide congressional staff members with an opportunity to engage direc

on the ford foundation is very much a regional organization in michigan and after the 2nd world war with the looming and. not only creates a national presence but it's bigger than carnegie rockefeller. for the ford foundation and their money of focusing on the black power but in focusing on how to contain it we can meet black power not in terms of the full a transformative vision. perhaps we can focus on black arts programs perhaps so we can focus on black studies and colleges and universities and resourcing those right perhaps we can focus on funding and or supporting quietly and or explicitly. black liberal elites who can be the spokes women and men for black people for started to fund fellowships. doctoral student fellowships for black studies and women's studies. board had a big hand in opening up spaces particularly for african-americans and women to get into higher education. african-americans are able to start to come into predominately white institutions in large numbers. where they had previously mostly gone to historically black colleges but when they start to be able to go into predominately white institutions the racial conflicts are still very low period an

carnegie william burns brought in jan each end to join the board of trustees. a wealthyhy chinese investor and member of twove organizations linked to the chinese communist party. according to "the daily caller" news foundationn july 2017 and the end of 2020, donated between to $1.5 million to carnegie. the think tank says the donations do not represents research projects in the u.s. but some say it's not the money, it's the influence. because while burns was at carnegie, received donationse from the china-united states exchange foundation, which is a hong kong based think tank. but a global really search firm led by a former officials in the u.s., said that the lobbying activities in the u.s. allow it to play a viable role in beijing's efforts to sway public opinion and build influence in america. and all of this is why republicans have repeatedly questioned whether joe biden will confront china for its human rights abuses and unfair trade practices, or allow china to keep cheating. tucker? >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much. again, we are talking about the nominee to run the interior, it's the cia director. not the only insane thing going on, the weld organization for au long time has been useful f

according to "the daily caller" news foundation, between july of 2017 and the end of 2020, donated between 750,000 to $1.5 million to carnegie. it says they do not support research projects in the u.s. but some say it's not the money, it's the influence because while he was at carnegie, also received donations from the china united states exchange foundation which is a hong kong-based think tank but a global research firm led by former intel officials from the u.s. says that the lobbying activities in the u.s. allows it to play a valuable role in beijing's effort to sway public opinion and build influence in america and all of this is why republicans have repeatedly questioned whether joe biden will confront china or its human rights abuses and unfair trade practices or allow china cheating. >> tucker: unbelievable, thank you so much. again, not talking about the nominee to run the department of the interior, talking about the cia director, but not the only insane thing going on. the world health organization for a long time has been useful mostly for repeating exactly what the government of china would like it to say. when

, why why you are at the home did carnegie endowment established relationship within examining funding from this group come this china united states exchange foundation. burns: thank senator rubio for the person for the first thing that i would emphasize that the carnegie endowment is a probably independent and transparent organization and review is about ensuring that whatever financial support they receive whether it is from trustees foundations, does not in any way shape the content of the conclusions of scholarly work. that is first and second, on china u.s. foundation, this is a relationship that i inherited when i became president of carnegie and that i ended it not long after i became president. precisely for the concerns that you just described it because we are increasingly worried about the expansion of chinese influence operations. shortly after i ended the relationship, we began a program at the carnegie endowment on countering foreign influence operations and mostly china and russia. and was supported in part from the grant from the global engagement center at the state department in the last administration. on the second issue, that you

2015, william burns has served the president of the carnegie endowment for international peace and according to the "daily caller," the new foundationchina interest for a businessman who is the member of two organizations directly tied to the communist party. as much as 250,000 from the china-u.s. exchange foundation. that is a think tank that help advance the ccp's you political ambitions. also invited a number of congressional staffers on a junket to china. in 2019, they met full of bigwigs. staffers who attended they were surprised that vern able to have thatmuch access to officials. this man is poised to lead america's spy agency? before leaving office, former president biden that u.s. schools set with the confucius institute, those are front for ccp propaganda. later tonight we learned that the biden administration quietly asked asked the trump plan allowing the operation to continue working in the shadows. while biden lets china's public and that infect our schools, thh world health organization is becoming a global super spreader of chinese disinformation. the head of the team that the w.h.o. sent to investigate the origin of

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