i can see mccaul taking a vote to dismantle usaid. not there, and i think they dismantled the department of education and we know the votes are not there to grant security clearances for them accessing treasury and so every single process that they are going through and implementing trump's agenda is at the moment illegal and they know they don't have the support for it in congress. that's why they're not bringing it through congress. >> it's interesting that the first place to focus is such a small portion of federal spending to look at aid, but when you look at the popularity, secretary rubio was right in saying that it's getting harder to defend foreign aid because it's not popular. we saw the chicago counsel on global affairs surveyed opinions on foreign policy and they found a growing number want to reduce economic and military aid to other countries. so how do you convince the public that your point of view is the right one because it sounds like they're sliding the other way. >> foreign aid, i think, throughout the history of o

we will talk with texas republican congressman michael mccaul and minnesota democratic congresswoman ilhan omar, tennessee republican senator bill hagerty will join us from the senate republican retreat in florida. it's all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >>> good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." we begin today with our first assessment of how president trump and his policies are doing just three weeks into his second term. our cbs poll finds that a majority of americans, 53%, approve of the job he's doing. that's a better approval number than he ever reached during his first term in the white house. joining us with more is our executive director of elections and surveys, anthony salvanto. what's driving this? >> i will keep it simple, margaret, he's doing in the eyes of the public what he said he would do in the campaign. there's political value in that, in fact, 70% of people say he's doing what he promised, whether they approve of him or not. there's another part that continues over from the campaign, there were words that he was described as being tough, being energe

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kristen mccaul says the move was to tie as sonya lat, via the 20th close to europe, and lot via workers comp power lines close to the russian border. the baltic states stopped buying elections the from russia. rosters, full scale invasion of ukraine in 2022 bonds. the former soviet states was still occasionally re lot relying rather on the russian grids to prevents by counts. all right, well, so ahead on al jazeera, such as the city stones by an incredible strong kid, but was it enough for an upset details on the way in the vehicle choose solutions that gives us no hope for future that we have to find creative solutions? not just turn our backs, i don't think that has a number. think about it as a person, person yourself, and that person's shoes. so as you can see for this is my us, my life, or at least in my life, those stages we want. we want the education reward because the women and my country deadlocks, we we are not denies all of who we are human beings and deserves to be treated in the chloe we are working in their thoughts. that's our officers claim that has been done before. ca

security and fear to which the answer is of course, always more taxpayer task for weapons look, is mccaul wanted to go around the world. sounds like some kind of a soccer mom band driving nosy. i want to speak to the manager kind of karen as well. he could start by sorting out his country's own problems 1st in france's overseas territory of new caledonia where the locals are really not happy about losing more political control to paris. the macro and his response starts with him . the connex needs to be given political and economic power. if they don't have that in their hands, there's not going to be any peace or life together. so to say the thought without all these departments and all these overseas territories, funds would not be economically o g o. strategically, what it is today today. it's not the overseas departments in territories that owes something to front. it's quite the opposite. we're not going to fall into that trap, but why focus on that when they're way bigger priorities, like making sure the weapons industry never has us no quarter. and that co needs a whole european po

i eventually partnered with representative mike mccaul in the house and we started a formal congressional investigation. even after that, they really pushed back, only allowed us access to a small amount of data. what they found was extreme expenses on the part of them with very little data driven results. money funded in the wuhan institute of virology, on dangerous coronavirus. we saw how that turned out. 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 ev

mike mccaul, a. >> champion of the world's poorest. >> people, spoke out in affirmation.worms or corruption that we do do some life saving work. so you're right. that's a start. and we need much, much more. >> so just. >> on pepfar itself, what. >> is your. because as mika. >> said, there is some confusion. they're meant to have this waiver. but i've heard that some of the clinics. >> haven't been. >> able to give people. >> the medicines. >> they need. >> can you. give us any. >> examples of. >> what you're. >> hearing from colleagues on the ground about what is actually happening to people? >> yeah. right now, let's. >> remember. >> pepfar is. >> a miracle program. >> 26 million lives. this was started by tom lantos, the only holocaust survivor to ever serve in congress and saying doing nothing is like when people sit around and watch others being put on trains. and henry hyde, one of the most pro-life conservative members, they came together. they found common ground to reach higher ground. now, flash forward 20 years later, 26 million lives because of the u.s, because