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linda thomas greenfield she's addressing that meeting let's listen in. the council has spoken with a strong and with a clear and a unified on this issue but every statement the council has made has been further violence aisle by the military against the people who. statements alone are not enough to stop the military from threatening the security of the region either. already we've seen dozens of individuals flee burma into thailand amid airstrikes on burma's eastern border and hundreds of individuals hundreds have tried to throw into india from northwest perma 3 years ago we thought quickly the military screw tallies are up the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people all across international borders and i say categorically we cannot we simply cannot allow the military to destabilize the region once again through its unrelenting campaign of violence their campaign of repression and especially especially against the backdrop of an unprecedented global endemic. so we can see prices well there we have a small excerpts of what the u.s. ambassador to

linda thomas-greenfield spoke after being the chief of the united nations security council, answeringuestions about issues in myanmar and talking about the sudan. ambassador thomas-greenfield: i am glad to be back to d.c. i think i have had enough. just joking. how are you all? good, me, too. well, thank you, all, for being here, and good afternoon. so today is my last day of the united states presidency of the security council. i mentioned to you when i spoke to a month ago that i was hitting the ground sprinting. today, i can take a little bit, just a tiny bit, of a breather. at the beginning of this month, i said america was back at the table. i declared we would reengage with the world, we would restore our alliances and our partnerships, and we would lead by example, and i said with the american principles and the american people will be at the center of our agenda, and just this month, we have shown just how serious we were. in my first 48 hours here, i met with you all, but i also met with all of the members of the security council, all of my counterparts, and over the course o

n >> brennan: we spoke with president biden's ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas-greenfield earlier. and we asked about the upcoming climate summit, where the president is expected to press world leaders to make fur emissions. what new pledges has the u.s. secured? and without india and china on board, isn't this going to be a bust? >> i don't think it is going to be a bust. in fact, i think this is an opportunity for us to hear from other countries what new commitments they intend to make. we intend to encourage them to up their game and to openly express in this forum what they intend to do to deal with climate change. and we hope that india and china will join us. >> brennan: i want to as a thousas of refugees who have learned that they are now stranded. they thought they were coming to the united states, but they're in limbo because president biden signed this cap on refugee emissions. this historically low number of 15,000. why did he break his promise? >> i don't think the president broke his promise. we're looking at -- this is a first step. we're looking at the infra

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linda thomas-greenfield spoke after being the chief of the united nations security council, answeringuestions about issues in myanmar and talking about the sudan. ambassador thomas-greenfield: i am glad to be back to d.c. i think i have had enough. just joking. how are you all? good, me, too. well, thank you, afo

ambassador to the united states, linda thomas-greenfield, about that, plus the refugee crisis, and new conflicts with russia. it is all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >> brennan: good morning. and welcome to "face the natin." we've got a lot to get to today, but we begin with the sobering news that over three million people have now died from covid-19 globally. here in the u.s., there is good news for adults who want to be vaccinated. starting tomorrow, 18 will now be eligible. we begin with mark strassmann. >> reporter: morem in min [yelli] >> reporter: in our naalning about race. protests fueled by twin moments of anguish in the twin cities. less than 10 miles and just 10 months apart. first a cop's knee buried in george floyd's neck. in former officer derek chauvin's murder trial, a jury will start deliberating tomorrow. minnesota could face more unrest. >> these times are tense. they are traumatic. >> reporter: spiking those tensions...this police shooting last sunday in a minneapolis suburb. 20-year-old daunte wright killed when an officer mistook her gun for her taser. she ha

ambassador linda thomas greenfield spoke to reporters. it's the credibility of the security council now it's. i don't think our credibility is at stake i think what has to happen is we have to redouble our efforts what the military is doing in burma to the people to the people of burma the violence the attacks the killings of children they are appalling and and they are unacceptable so we can't just. step back and allow this to happen we have to keep pushing forward in the close in the council was briefed by the u.n. special envoy christine trauner bergan she still wants to travel to me and marta speak to the generals she said i will remain open to dialogue and continue to signal this but if we wait only for when they are ready to talk the ground situation will only worsen a bloodbath is imminent this council must consider potentially significant action but the chinese ambassador said what he called one sided action or calling for sanctions would only aggravate tensions a similar position was relayed by russia and so for now any tougher a

linda thomas-greenfield's at the u.s.obal scale, but will do so with humility pointing out our own reported failures as a country. >> i have seen for myself how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles. >> shannon: with the center for liberty founder and woke inc. author, great have both of you with us tonight. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: let's start there, what do you make of that? she also said the problem is racism in a society that produces racism. it is white supremacy that has led to killings. you just mention several prominent names. sounds like she's got her own definition of how the u.s. is operating. she is now a representative on the world stage. >> i mean, she sounds like somebody who should be representing one of americans don't like america's critics abroad rather than representing america herself. i grew up in the deep south like our ambassador and i am an immigrant to this country and i can tell you that the rest of the world views america as a pa

[laughter] those are the equity models that linda thomas-greenfield was speaking to.op there. she stepped up to al sharpton. reverend al sharpton, thank you for never backing down. you are a lifetime of activism which is an inspiration to us all. >> tucker: yell, al sharpton, thank you for attacking asian shopkeepers. pushing a guy to rate claims and ever paying taxes. the senior fellow at the hoover institution we are happy to have you on set. thank you for coming on. i don't know but this character can do as a u.n. ambassador rebutted a sprite don't like it isn't symbolic that someone is representing america. how do you react to that? >> i'm kind of disgusted, al sharpton is on record anti-semite, antiwhite, anti-mormon anti-any particular group except his own, she should know that. the thing is the beauty of the civil rights movement martin luther king did not trash the united states. he said, you people, being the white people, you created the declaration of the constitution, but you are not living up to it. you did, the civil war, the civil rights we have to acce

larry: you heard it linda thomas greenfield trashing this country at our sharpton national action networksolutely disgraceful we bring in our next best distinguished former general jack king former vice chief of staff army and four-star general fox business senior strategic analyst and presidential medal of freedom recipient, i was in the room when he got it. thank you, the wall street journal editorial called it the ambassador of blame america first. i don't think much of what she said in the fact that biden is defending her i don't know what that means either but user with the american medal of freedom, what do you think. >> i'm actually stunned by a lack ofnn understanding of what our founding fathers were trying to accomplish. at the time, the only thing that existed in t the world were monarchies, kings and queens anw dictators. in our founding fathers were trying to establish something fundamentally different, it was revolutionary, it was imaginative and clearly bold, what they wanted to do was take the power away from theaw kings and queens and the dictators and give it to the peop

ambassador linda thomas greenfield.ist i perfections. 's seen how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles. >> martha: she's a u.n. ambassador for our country, richard. why has this narrative changed so dramatically in recent years? >> i don't think the narrative has changed. i agree with mark. if we want a conversation how to properly fund schools in inner cities, black neighborhoods, we want a conversation of how people in flint michigan get clean water, let's do that and make reparations work. but i think for us to say that just because there aren't slaves alive that the impacts of slavery don't reach. the impacts of racism, whether they're in our face or blatant happen every day to black folks. it's the same as why black women have a three times higher likelihood of dying at childbirth than white women do. in order to address it, we have to study it. that's what this bill does. >> martha: you know what? we all agree that studying some of these situations that you

and we heard a short time ago from linda thomas greenfield who is the u.s. ambassador to the united nations saying that the u.s. stands strongly on the side of democracy and with the people who are on the streets in myanmar the problem with statements like that is they're not able to demonstrate that in terms of the will of the security council yes they've got 3 statements out there but the idea of any tougher action particularly sanctions or an arms embargo seems for now to be a step too far for some members of the security council notably russia and china but others as well and i'm being told by most security council members i speak to that really the place to look for any diplomatic progress right now is the assy and countries there is talk of an assay and summit leaders of the asset nations coming together and i mean told by diplomats that could happen within the next 2 weeks and the security council hoping that as seann squat style of diplomacy might finally get through to the generals that the course they're on at the moment is one that's not going to

ambassador linda thomas-greenfield so this is the work that we need to do.will not be fixed overnight. look, if it were easy, it would have been fixed a long time ago. it's not a new issue but we are prepared to make the investment and to get in there for the long haul to do what is necessary to address the reasons people flee. >> senator tim scott said last night that america is not a racist country. do you agree with that and what do you make of his warning against fighting discrimination with more discrimination? >> i believe that we need to -- well, first of all, i don't think america is a racist country, but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today, and i applaud the president for always having the ability and the courage, frankly, to speak the truth about it. he spoke what we know from the intelligence community, one of the greatest threats to our national security is domestic terrorism, manifested by white supremacists and so these are issues that we must confront and it doesn't -- it does not h