skorton, thank you. we appreciate your time. dr. skorton: thank you, amna. scathing report by the acting inspector general of usaid, the agency almost completely dismantled in the first weeks of this trump administration, says thousands of tons of food set to ship are liable to spoil, and that more than $8 billion in money yet to be disbursed now has no oversight nor personnel to put it to use. it also says an exception for some lifesaving aid is leading to confusion. the same is true for an initiative started 20 years ago under another republican president, george w. bush, fighting hiv and aids around the world. stephanie sy has that story. stephanie: the bush initiative is called pepfar, or president's emergency plan for aids relief. it was the largest health commitment ever made by a nation to combat a single disease. it has saved 25 million lives. but the trump administration's cuts in foreign aid has thrown this initiative into a tailspin. a few days after the white house announced it was pausing foreign aid for 90 days, the state department granted a w

skorton, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. it's a pleasure.od interview with those folks you talked to them, they covered a lot of this ground, these are real costs, there are reimbursements for real costs, and that's quite a bit of the story. amna: your organization represents 150 medical schools, nearly 500 academic health systems, big picture if those indirect funds are kept, what is your concern about what happens to medical research in america? >> i want to focus on the downstream effect -- the most important downstream effect is people depending on the results of this research for better diagnosis, for better treatment and actual peers, our neighbors, all of us will suffer from the lack of the march of science, if we cannot do the science. as the researchers you are interviewed have indicated, these are real costs -- they are a reimbursement for real costs. they will cause us to do less research. as important as it is to the researchers in the universities, the most important negative effect of this would be that people just like us woul