well, the welfare of our men and women who serve abroad, both foreign service and civil service, is our highest priority. secretary, every staff meeting we have begins with a question, and that is are our people okay abroad. it is his highest priority, it is my highest priority. to address the issues you have raised, we have included in our redesign effort both -- the redesign consists of an executive steering committee of which i chair, and then the five working groups that i described. among them, the working groups would address all of the issues you raised about conditions abroad, allowances, you know, the treatment of our foreign service officers, the support that we provide to them. the most significant aspect of this redesign is this is -- all of the input is coming from our career foreign service and civil service officers. all of the working groups -- there are very few non-career participants. in fact, for the working groups there's only one non-career participant. all of the other members are either from state or from a.i.d. with proportional representation between state and

foreign service, civil service, stationed in washington or abroad and at different levels of seniority. those issues you raised will be raised by those most affected by them. >> let me ask to more quick questions. i understand you may not have the time to answer them. i will submit them for the record. first, i understand one of the bureaus you are considering closing is the office of iran nuclear implementation and folding it into another. the ambassador is no longer serving. i would welcome hearing, if i need information on jcpoa enforcement, who is the lead person? will the administration appoint or coordinatoron or are you accounting for the --t that these like having individual senators like having regular briefings. i will summarize. and a lot of meetings with foreign service and civil suppers officers in a number of post in the last six months, there is a lot of concern about usaid both from its own employees and others in the department about proposals that would reduce its autonomy. the budget or puzzle imposes particularly sharp cuts on usaid. i do not know whether this is pr

i spoke at the foreign service institute a couple weeks ago to 700 foreign service officers. i had prepared remarks and i put them aside and i picked up the microphone and opened it up for questions and said hit me with your best shot. those men and women are the backbone of the the president and i have and the secretary has an enormous amount of respect for them and their views. >> i couldn't agree with you more. in my travels around the world meeting the people that are living in the countries and there, career people are so dedicated and making sure our country gets it right. i want to thank you for your talk with them and taking this approach. mr. chairman i want to ensure that any state report should ensure oversight language. >> thank you. senator cardin. >> i just really want to underscore our hope about how you and this committee can work ogether. what i don't understand is i know we talked about it some on the floor. i don't understand why waiting to do an authorization until after the state department has acted i don't see why that would benefit anybody. i don't und

i spoke of the foreign service institute a couple of weeks ago, 700 foreign service officers. i have prepared remarks and i put them aside and picked up the microphone and opened it up for questions. i said hit me with your best shot. because those men or women are the backbone of the department. i and the secretary have an enormous amount of respect for them and their view. >> i could not agree with you more. in my travels around the world meeting the people that are living in the countries as professional and career people and so dedicated to this country and making sure our country gets it right in getting our foreign policies right. i want to thank you for your talk with them and taking this approach. mr. chairman, i want to stress that any authorization approved by congress should include significant oversight language to ensure congress has the final say about any proposed reorganization. thank you very much. >> senator cardin? >> secretary, i would like to our hope about how you and this committee can work together on issues in the state department. congress appropriate

i spoke at the foreign service institute a couple weeks ago to 704 service officers, and i had prepared remarks and i put them aside and picked up a microphone and i opened it up for questions and said, hit me with your best shot, whatever you've got. because they are, those many women are the backbone of the department and the secretary has an enormous amount of respect for them and their views. >> i couldn't agree with you more. my travels around the world meeting the people that are living in the countries and their professional and career people are so dedicated to this country and making sure our country gets it right in front of the country their servitude in and getting our foreign-policy right. and i want to thank you for your talk with them and taking this approach. mr. chairman, i want to stress that any state authorization approved by congress should include significant oversight language to ensure that the congress has the final say about any proposed reorganization of the state department. >> thank you very much. senator cardin. >> secretary sullivan, i just really want to

host: when did you start your career in the foreign service? guest: i started my career in government service in the navy 1963 and inree -- the foreign service in 1967. host: he wrote about nixon in you wrotehouse -- about nixon in the white house, the following. guest: i think that is true. i think there was a shock partly because henry kissinger continued to dominate american policies through the nixon and into the ford administration. i think the shock was minimized in the foreign policy field. it was only five or six years later, after watergate, after the loss of vietnam, that ronald reagan came in and it was morning in america again. host: with regard to the soviet union, you spent a lot of time focusing on russia and the former soviet union. host: can you explain? guest: we did go through periods in which the administration came under criticism for being too liberal with the soviet union. and in the administration was more hard lined, talk about the evil empire, and came under criticism for being too harsh and confrontational. ,hile ther

the welfare of men and women who serve a broad both foreign service and civil service, is our highest priority. every staff meeting that we have begins with a question and that is our our people okay? that is the highest priority. my highest priority. you just issues you have raised, we have included in our redesign efforts, the redesign consists of an executive steering committee of which i chair. in the five working groups that i described. among them, the working groups would address the conditions abroad, allowances, treatment of the foreign service officers. and this redesign, all of the input is coming from our career, foreign seer and civil service officers. all of the working groups, there are very few noncareer participants. in fact, for the working groups there is only one noncareer participant. all of the other members are either from state or aig with proportional requisition between state and aig. they are stationed in washington or abroad in a different level of seniority. so we try to cover the whole gamut of the department and aig.so that those issues you raised will b

i spoke of the foreign service institute a couple of weeks ago, 700 foreign service officers. i have prepared remarks and i put them aside and picked up the microphone and opened it up for questions. i said hit me withyour best shot. because those men or women are the backboneof the department. i and the secretary have an enormous amount of respect for them and their view. >> i could not agree with you more. in my travels around the world meeting the people that are living in the countries asprofessional and career people and so dedicated to this country and making sure our country gets it right in getting our foreign policies right. i want to thank you for your talk with them and taking this approach. i want to stress that any authorization approved by congress shouldinclude significant oversight language to ensure congress has the final say about any proposed reorganization. thank you very much. >> senator cardin? >> secretary, i would like to our hope about how you and this committee can work together on issues in the state department. congress appropriates money, congress

>> my goal, my idea in joining the foreign service was i wanted to work abroad and liver abroad. not just to travel but experience other countries and i wanted to become a foreign correspondent, a journalist or a diplomat. thanks to god they accepted me and i passed the entrance exam at the foreign institute in germany in 1979, quite some time ago and here i am, 38 years later. >> you know, it's always fascinating when someone is part of the diplomatic corps that you represent the country but lead your country -- leave your country and spend most of your career outside your country. i'm wondering -- how has this expanded your sense of being a world citizen if that is not too presumptuous a word to put on you. >> that's interesting. i was born in 1952, and this is seven years after the war and i grew up without any nationalistic, national patriotic feeling and this was not possible. as the german ambassador, when i was in the caribbean and handed over my national anthem to the president and the national anthems -- you would never see me singing our national anthem. i don't believe

class of young foreign service officers that were supposed to join the he's n service this year, cancelled. ou know, all those policies need to be paid attention to. sometimes the media are as narcissistic as our president. flemmington, new jersey, david on the line for all others. good morning. aller: good morning, thank you both for letting me ask a question. my question is, during those history, when two major parties were the most separated to the left and right did this correlate with greater political involvement of general public? well, you know, differences, passion does intend political participation. youoesn't necessarily mean, know, that things, good things get done. at the most u look active period, the civil war involved, you know, several thousands of people, several hundreds of thousands of passion, a lot of participation. people were shooting at each other. era was an era of high political participation, ou had riots and you had shootings at kent state and you vicious language. and people a draft were being sent over in what a stupidle regarded as war, even though there is

mauricio: well, it's--the thing is my rank in the foreign service is ambassador. but my post is consul general in san jose. so, it's like you can be a general and at the same time commander of the southern forces, i don't know. damian: so, you were an ambassador at some point in some other country? mauricio: yes, yes. my rank is ambassador because we--the foreign service is a career, as a military career. and i have been ambassador, and my last post was portugal, by the way. damian: all right, they're playing now in the confederacion as well. welcome again to the show. we're here to talk about a very important topic because president trump, and you can see how powerful his tweets are, he tweeted a couple of weeks ago that now we need to build a wall because mexico has become the second either deadliest or most violent country in the world. i'll let you respond to that. we'll show you some video of what he means, go ahead. tell us--tell us what you--well, give it your response. and here we're looking at obviously some of the things happening along some of these sta

officers, many are superb but their careers coming up through the foreign service over 30 years. so even when they reach out to to business or civil society, and they themselves are diplomats i know we would have business people going in and out at any level. we need to do that at the top level. they would bring their networks with them so why didn't we have deeper contact with the entities using religion and politics? or those that were more sympathetic? look at egypt we had relations with the egyptian government of the chessboard world but they didn't want us and we were not set up to do that. so going back to sovereignty we are sovereign we have an embassy with very formal relations trying to reach out to society often we don't have the same range of contacts as the business people or civil society to have not only better information but the ability to protect american interest >> so look at it from that end of those iranian elections so what was referred to at the time the movement that criticizes the conduct of the government or the outcome of the election which at the time

they come up through the foreign service for up to 30 years. and that means even when they reach out to business or to root civil society groups or religious groups, they themselves are diplomats. i can imagine a foreign service where you would have business people going in and out at any level. the people who worked in nonprofits going in and out. we only do that at the top level. those people would bring their networks with them. and to be very precise, why didn't we have deeper contact say with entities that were fusing religion and politics in many of these countries or with other people who were more sympathetic? we didn't because we had relations with the government. take egypt, we had relations with the egyptian government. that is the chessboard world. in the egyptian of course did not want us connecting to lots of these other people. and we weren't really set up to do that. so, if goes back to your point about sovereignty. the traditional world of chessboard interaction is where, we are sovereign come live in embassy in another soverei

ability of those left to get their work done, but we have an incredibly disciplined and committed foreign service and american service corps. i believe our work will continue. i think it complicates u.s. russia relations in some very specific ways. president trump, i think is coming to grips with the facts that -- the fact that we're in the 21st century, and foreign policy is incredibly difficult in this new century, in ways that we aren't really prepared for. both president bush and president obama grappled with the difficulties of russia and china and other great powers. and i think he realizes that he needs russia, and he needs china to resolve syria and ukraine and other crisis, but it's not easy dealing with great powers who havedy ver gent interests. >> is this putin as we understand, the president has signed that proposal. is this putin saying, before you sign that, give it another thought, because we're about to expel 755 of your people that you need. >> if it is, i hope that the u.s. administration would not respond the way that vladimir putin would want the u.s. to respond. in fact, i t

for over a decade and former foreign services offer, mr. rich is an expert on the responsibilities of managing affairs worldwide. i would like to introduce my colleague senator murphy. >> we have actually a good full house of members here, so i'm going to defer my opening remarks, thank all of you for your service, mr. sales and i had a chance to sit down and have a very productive conversation yesterday, i'm very glad for your testimony and for ugh us to engage in a dialogue. >> the order will be ms. gingrich, mr. sales, mr. rich. >> chairman johnson, ranking member murphy and distinguished members on the senate committee on foreign relations. in addition i want to express my gratitude of secretary of state rex tillerson for supporting my nomination. it is a special honor to be introduced by chairman johnson from my home state of wisconsin, thank you. i am also here with the full support of my husband newt. we both have -- those who represent the american people abroad. i look forward to working closely with the members and staff of this c

so we are considering reviewing that as part of our redesign effort with input from foreign service, civil service, senior level career people to make recommendations on improving our foreign assistance programs including fmf. >> on fmf are you looking at loans instead of grants? >> i'm sorry? >> are you looking at loans instead of grants? >> we're looking at both. >> again, my time has expired. i want to thank you for your help most recently on the warm bier case. generally i wish you good luck on the reorganization. i do think there's room for reform and i do think there are ways to more effectively be able to represent our interests, soft power interests around the world, and i'm glad you are where you are. thank you, mr. chair. >> thank you, sir. senator menendez. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i hope this is the first of many conversations we will have about the state department authorization bill. i have serious reservations about the bill as written for a number of reasons, and i just want to outline a few of those. it is my personal belief that congress as a whole is a co-equal

i've never been in the foreign service. our fellow panelist has, and i suspect there are people in the foreign service world and counterintelligence world who would have a problem with that. his defense here was i was overwhelmed and a little naive about all this happened. i didn't know who i was meeting. i think the most interesting part, alisyn, was his description of the donald trump jr. meeting with the russian lawyer and parade of other russians who were there. he maintained the part he was in was mostly about adoptions. as you heard, he wanted to get out of the meeting early. what he's missing is the purpose of that meeting if you talk to people who have done russian counterintelligence was mostly to see if the trump campaign or the transition at that point was -- the campaign at that point was receptive to getting information about hillary clinton, to receiving russian government data about hillary clinton. that's what the meeting was all about. he seemed to have missed that by his own account. >> one of the interest

mauricio: well, it's--the thing is my rank in the foreign service is ambassador.ut my post is consul general in san jose.

this question is from bryce, school of foreign service, class of 2019. how can the colombian government build upon the models set in the peace agreement with the farc, and what lessons can be applied to the ongoing negotiations with the eln? mr. de la calle: [speaking spanish] >> it seems to me that what has happened with the peace accord is that this has become a model. it is justice without impunity. we are not granting amnesty to those who have broken the law, and it resorts to accountability for all the parts involved, not only the government but the farc and armed combatants. ms. riveros: -- [speakingcalle: spanish] >> in another sense, the agreement is innovative. mr. de la calle: [speaking spanish] >> for example, the system to verify the cease and desist of the military confrontations. mr. de la calle: [speaking spanish] >> it is the first time that a three-party organization or body has created, represented by both parts of the conflict under the umbrella of the united nations. mr. de la calle: [speaking spanish] >> there are innovative ways of

i got my -- i reverted to my true form and went to georgetown get my mavsers in foreign service, and -- i master monday foreign service and they taught us poll so policymaking is choog the least bad action, and a lot of times in order to even get to those options, you have to ask very hard questions or even the questions that you know your boss or your peers aren't necessarily going to know how to deal with or have a great response to that in that meeting there. i think answering these questions, you may be going back to a method to be -- >> i think the narrative in the media has been -- for good reason, think. if you look at triple that'ses of 2008 financial crisis and risings unemployment, the rising cost of student debt and the importance of that, and then this coming wave of automation and the fears around technology ical transformation and job loss, triple threat against these questions of what is the purpose of education? is it all about vocational relevance? there is a near-term million job gap in stem so there is a very real need for technical literacy. the book is myth busti

translated): it's a bit too easy for all these big countries with a lot of police officers and foreign intelligence serviceso criticize belgium. we're a small country. we don't have a police culture, we don't have our own foreign intelligence service. it's impossible to keep an eye on everyone. 24-hour surveillance with just two people happens only in tv shows. so this means we can only watch a few individuals. people don't quite realize this. >> narrator: five days after the attacks, abaaoud was tracked down to an apartment on the outskirts of paris. (gunfire) in the battle that followed, one of the plotters detonated a suicide vest. (explosion) abaaoud's remains were identified two days later. but then investigators discovered that other suspected leaders of the cell were still on the loose. >> (translated): we realized that there were people in belgium who seemed more important than abaaoud. through phone intercepts, we discovered that abaaoud asked for instructions or help from people in belgium. so we got to work on them. >> narrator: seven remaining suspects were holed up in safe houses back in their

foreign service officers who served there. the men and women are the best of the past and i would consider it an honor if you allow me to serve with them. why singapore? three reasons. first our economic relationship is robust. they have a bilateral trade agreement since 2004 and is the first such agreement we have had the u.s. has a healthy trade surplus of nearly $20 billion in goods and services. u.s. businesses invest over $180 billion to singapore twice as much as we invest in china five times as much as we invest in india and 4200 american businesses have headquarters in singapore, more than 30,000 americans live there. second we have a close security relationship. when america close their bases in the philippines in the 1990s singapore stepped up to make its facilities available to us. in 1990 we saw the u.s. singapore memorandum of understanding which was expanded by two agreements since then but today we have aircraft operating out of singapore. our combat ships on the naval base and affect uss coronado one of the nav

the title of the book, "foreign service." you can follow him on twitter. ofserves as the chair security at the rand foundation. on this july for holiday weekend, let's go back to the constitution, the declaration, the bill of rights. is as that built america" documentary from alexandra pelosi who will be joining us from new york. you are watching and listening to "washington journal" on this sunday morning. we will be back in a moment. >> tonight. in 1962 after nex ixon's last preference -- press conference -- and then it all came apart. >> pat buchanan served as speechwriter and senior advisor to president nixon and discusses his book. saying youhim a memo have to keep the dean tapes. i did not think they would be that damaging to us. keep the stuff you need. i sent take the rest out and burn it and shut down the special prosecutor's office before this thing grows into a monster. i did not know it at the time andnixon had called in haig the ideand entertained he should burn the tapes and they said it would be obstruction of justice. i did not recommend bu

here's what i can tell you from 43 years in the army and foreign service around the world. of the nine countries i lived in, only germany did not have those symptoms. most countries in the world have we governments, corruption, groups at each other's throats. usually, it can fix it if you make an effort. i have seen it work and fail in iraq. i am optimistic that there is a chance to succeed. because it is important for our security and the free for it -- free flow oil and to keep people from getting more hands-on nuclear weapons, i think it is worth making a try. host: you talk about fixing it in the immediate future, fixing will be a large task. you can see some of the destruction and efforts to fix it. the photos in this spread by the new york times, you can see this photo the destruction in the mosul,und in the city of iraq's second-largest city. you talk about how they plan to do with the humanitarian crisis now, a government in the city so destroyed. u.s., thest, the united nations and countries in the international coalition have been working on this. they have not pr

discuss foreign service, five decades on the frontline of american diplomacy. and the trump policy -- administrations foreign-policy challenges. also, the new hbo film the words that build america. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. next, a debate on the foreign policy of president trump with a former members of the george w. bush and obama administrations. after that, discussion on how the u.s. is perceived around the world. now, former bush national security council senior director shermandurand and wendy debate president trump foreign policy decisions and the america first agenda. the event is one hour and 10 minutes. , pleases and gentlemen welcome exit of councilmember robert lapin. [applause]

that is what our people do in the foreign service and military. my appreciation for them is boundless. i look forward to being an effective partner for our policies, for our military, for our allies who are also making sacrifices for our mutual defense. nato is the most successful defense alliance in history of the world. it was formed in 1949, and at the time president truman said, following two terrible world wars in that century, "by this treaty we are not only seeking to establish freedom from oppression and use of force in the north atlantic community, but we are also actively striving to promote and preserve peace throughout the world." it was determined that an alliance between europe and north america sends a message of solidarity that would deter aggression and help avoid a third world war, and in the event of conflict make action against a common enemy more effective in protecting freedom for its democratic members. nato -- does nato exist to onvent attacks on allete -- any ally? yes. nato has evolved into much more. today's security env

i began my government service as a foreign service officer. my consular tour is one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. i am grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to work with the dedicated men and women of the state department, especially in the days and weeks after the attacks of 9/11. in 2006, i returned to public service as a civil servant with u.s. citizenship and immigration services. it was at uscis where i expanded my knowledge of immigration and nationality law. i rose through the ranks at uscis first as -- in 2013 my wife and i made the decision to return to international service and i have spent the past four years serving u.s.cis in the embassies in the philippines and south korea. during those years i had the pleasure of working side by side with koconsular sections throughout the world. i remain a dedicated civil servant to this day. if on firmed, it will be the privilege of a lifetime to lead the bureau of the fine men and women of consular affairs. they are among the hardest working,most dedicated and brave

committee that has been convened, comprised primarily of senior and junior career officials, foreign service officers, civil service employees from a.i. d. and state, and working groups established under that steering group, steering committee, to stu study questions such as the function of consular affairs and prm. i can commit to you today on behalf of the secretary and the department that the outcome of that review has not been predetermined. we appreciate the importance and the secretary has said this, the role that kaunlsler affairs and prm play, not only in combatting trafficking in persons but in the mission of the department, consular officers abroad are the face of the united states for foreign citizens looking to come to this country, so i will commit to you that this office, susan's office, will be protected in any review because of its importance in the integrity of the report itself that we produced every year will also be protected. >> thank you. i appreciate that. i strongly urge that these functions remain within the state department. ms. coppedge, let me go into, as i said e

it's helpful and important to look at this administration from the vantage point of a foreign intelligence servicelligence. and this administration has shown itself to be a kremlin dream come true, really, because it's truly target rich. a foreign intelligence service, when they're looking at acquiring secret information about the united states, they're going to look foremost for people with placement and access. so, don junior. they're secondly going to look for people who have vulnerabilities, and motivations. we've heard don junior say that his antenna didn't even go up over this requested meeting with the russian lawyer. i'm sorry, but if you're antenna does not go up over something like that, you're showing incredible either naivete or just plain stupidity. this is exactly what we do when cia officers, when we're out looking to recruit human sources in foreign countries, we're looking for people with placement and access and people that we might be able to manipulate and exploit. so, what i think we're seeing, before our eyes, are some classic kgb tactics and intelligence human operations tak

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discusses his book "foreign service, five decades on the frontlines of american diplomacy and the trump administration's foreign-policy challenges." hbo film "the wars that built america." join the discussion. newsmakers, kevin brady, chair of the ways and means committee, talks about the future of health care legislation in the senate and his efforts to overhaul the u.s. tax system. newsmakers today at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> monday night on "the communicators" -- changed.n't the things that i care about come in terms of consumers being first and foremost in our mind when it comes to policy, when it comes to my interest, when it comes to serving them, that hasn't changed. >> the longest-serving fcc commissioner and the only democrat on the commission talks about how the fcc is changing under republican leadership and what she sees as the major issues ahead. she is interviewed by lynn stanton. >> when we go into a direction that may be more philosophical than practical, we need to ask ourselves will consumers be protected? and under the current paradigm i have see

committee that has been convened, comprised primarily of senior and junior career officials, foreign service officers, civil service employees from aig and state, and working groups established under that steering group, steering committee to study questions such as a function of consular affairs. .. >> in any review because of its importance in the integrity of the report itself that we produced will also be protected. >> i appreciate that. i strongly urge that these functions remain within the state department. let me go into, as i said earlier, i'm very complementary and manner in which these judgments were made on tier ratings but i need to concentrate on malaysia because i have a hard time understanding the upgrade for malaysia. a little bit of history here : in 2015 malaysia was taken from tier 3 to tier to watch. i don't think there was a member of this committee after the hearings that was convinced that was made on the merits that it clearly looked like it was a political decision made so that it could be eligible for the tpp negotiations area there was virtually no justification fo