she's executive director of police to take a public policy think tank in haiti, and jake johnson, senior researcher at the center for economic and policy research, and the lead author for the organizations blog. haiti relief and reconstruction wash. thank you both for joining me on upfront and then i'll start with you over the last decade. $13000000000.00 have been poured into haiti. the country has hosted thousands of in deals and yet haiti remains the poor country in the western hemisphere. i have agencies fail haiti also that to some extent and agencies the industry failed to haiti because we have little to show for all the amount of money was spent in haiti. and if i consider what happened after the earthquake in 2010, this was a large appeal. but 10 years later, you still have people on the tent. usually we have very little, we cannot see, watch was exactly done. we have this money. and in some of the i think that they filled us. i had high expectation and everyone in haiti had a high expectant that we will, we build better. but at the end of the day, here we are, the situation, it

jake mental. >> the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcast. ♪♪ >> next on "afterwards", journalist lizzie johnsont the root causes of california's 2018 campfire from the base u.s. wildfire and is country. society of american foresters ceo. "afterwards" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> thank you for joining us, this great discussion about your book from paradise to survive an american wildfire and the opportunity to speak with you on behalf of of 9000 plus members. i really enjoyed the book and the way you wrote the story so i would like to kick it off by hearing more about you. i've done ait little digging myself in a major way from nebraska to journalism to city hall and since for cisco partnering wildfires. let's start there, how did you make that journey? i'm looking forward to hearing how you made it to where you are and what you learned along the way. >> thank you for having me. i grew up in nebraska when i first dropped out of college in california. i was hired to cover local politics and always joked it's

jake sullivan said, it within the framework within this new global order. so our interest then, the areas where we can cooperate and trump put sanctions, whereas biden is sending warships along with verse johnson's warship that elizabeth the aircraft carrier, plus these sorts of threats and saying, cooperating economically. that's his trick. exactly. i mean, every, every week there is a new move on taiwan, a sort of incremental, you know, chop, chop chop as it moves closer and closer. of course, on the one hand, america says that it still supports the one china policy, and they agree, months subsequently. but every so often there is a new element. the type pay off is a cultural office is going to be designated instead, the taiwan representative office. there are more visits by senior american officials to taiwan. ships goes through regularly the taiwan straits to sort of to emphasize the freedom of sailing. and people come like the australian prime minister come to taiwan and say, well, of course i can see it would be possible either for australia or, or american not to support our taiwan. should china attack it or invade it? okay. well, zillow synthesis was causing them. the chinese is great an

jake mental. >> the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcast. ♪♪ >> next on "afterwards", journalist lizzie johnsonot causes of california's 2018 campfire from the base u.s. wildfire and is country. society of american foresters ceo.

jake sullivan said, it within the framework within this new global order. so our interest, then there may be areas where we can cooperate. trump put sanctions, whereas biden is sending war ships along with verse johnson worship, elizabeth grove, carrie plus these sorts of threats and saying, cooperating economically. that's exactly. i mean, every, every week there is a new move on taiwan, a sort of incremental chop chop chop. if it moves closer and closer, of course, on the one hand, america says that it still supports the one china policy and they agree mm month subsequently. but every so often there is a new element. the type pay off is a cultural office is going to be designated instead of taiwan represented. this, there are more visits by the merrick and the phishers to taiwan ships go through regularly, the taiwan straits, to sort of to emphasize the freedom of fading. and people come like the australian prime minister come to taiwan and say, well, of course i can see it would be possible either for australia or america, not just for taiwan. should china attack it or invaded? okay, well, so since it's what's causing them, the chinese is great anxiety about similar tenuously while that's happenin

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