, lincoln state department, and there was resignations within the department of presume you're reflecting what you're saying that what is the state of the state department right now, all the people who opposed by these policy gone now as well. i tell you what, i think the state department in general uh could be a diplomats, a career that people that work for the state department, especially those who focus on and they have that warrant piece issue in the middle east and so on. they are fully aware and they know there is a great deal of the, you know, bitterness among an employees high level employees in the state department. they want an immediate cease fire. many of them do. we've seen hundreds of them expressed and let those submitted to and that's the state them south. we saw that the 2nd state. yeah. but after that blank and responded to those employees that we see this in the white house. we see this in the democratic national committee, for instance. we see this in the usa id and it, we see it everywhere. we see it in 22 different and federal agencies basically locked out of the job

there have been forums for state department employees to speak out. i spoke with supervisors. was able to speak with a senior official about my resignation. i think at the end of the day, many people inside the state no this is a horrific policy and can't believe the u.s. government is engaged in such actions that contravene american values so directly. the leadership is not listening. amy: i want to go to the state department spokesperson matt miller being questioned about a reporter about the internal dissension within the state department and employees raising concerns over the policies. >> what is the point of the whole channel? the secretary listens and we have all reported about various listening sessions between mid-level or more senior officials with the secretary, more junior officials. it is being heard but it is not taken into account in the policy at all, they don't you think it is a little bit pointless? >> i disagree completely. it is taken into account in the policy process. the secretary has heard things in the meetings he takes on board and influences his think

according to the memo, one state department official warned pakistan's ambassador to the u.s. ll will be forgiven in washington is khan is removed." the u.s. official, assistant secretary of state donald lu, then went on to say, "otherwise, i think it will be tough going ahead." of course come imran khan was in moscow with putin when russia invaded ukraine. talk overall about the significance of u.s. support for pakistan and how much does it determine what the pakistani government does or the direction it goes in. >> i think -- again, this contributes to the sit among supporters. there's a long history. pakistan has been ruled by the military -- even when generals are not in the seat of government, they are thede facto power that be. three long periods of dictatorship, twice during the cold war, and then under the war on terror regime, all of these regimes were fully backed by washington. whether or not imran khan was explicitly removed by the americans is by the by. what matters is there is the long history. that reinforces this perception that the americans come in, do what t

>> i agree. >> the state department are they responsible under law?ing emergency evacuation is that correct? >> that is correct. and i think actually i think that is done at the pass at oriole level, you have to check the law but i think the ambassador can make the decision but it's up to him or secretary of state. >> and did the state department specifically embassy kabul have an evacuation for afghanistan? >> chairman every embassy has an evacuation plan for afghanistan. embassy kabul had not had a plan or had an f77 list which is the list of u.s. citizens and their families in the country, and we struggled to gain access to that plan and work with them over much of july until we finally got a decision to execute which as i already mentioned occurred on the 14th of august. now, we worked with the embassy before then, but we did not have authority to move out and do the things you have to do to make a nail happen until the 14th of july at comic correction, the 14th of august and as we know we were in extremist at that point. to go and august 14th, ju

rests with the department of the state, not the department of defense. despite this, we have begun positioning forces in the region as early as 9 july, but we could do nothing to commence the operation of evacuation until the n.e.o. was clear. our operations at the international airport from 14 august 2 our ultimate departure on 31, artist, both rogue and tragedy. this was a combat operation of the most difficult sort, carried out in contact with the enemy. eventually put 5834 u.s. troops help is on the 2001 coalition and other forces -- 8 u.s. maneuver battalions up is on the ground at the international airport. i would like to talk more about abbey gate, a tragic event that has occurred over our 20-your engagement in afghanistan. it remains my opinion that there was culpability in this attack, it lies in policy decisions that create the environment august 2021 in kabul. culpability and responsibility do not lie with troops on the ground, but they performed magnificent. it does not lie with the platoon, company or flag officers who oversaw operations on

, fundamental flaw was the timing of the state department. >> and that was too little too late. >> it was my judgment that it was far too little far too late. >> few democrats who attended the hearing say the failure lies in 20 years of american policy. including that of former president trump. and they wondered why the generals even showed up today. >> so there is not really anything new that was learned today because you've testified do it before. >> i will leave that to you all to determine. >> some loved ones of the 13 u.s. service members who died during the attack at abby gate were also in the room like steve nikoui who was arrested for shouting during president biden's state of the union address. >> those charges get cropped? >> i have no idea, no. no charges got dropped. >> you are still facing charges? >> yeah. >> really? and nobody from the administration has tried to intervene or help? >> democrat congresswoman debbie dingell side stepping whether congress should intervene. >> i don't know, you guys. i got to go. >> republican michael waltz says lawmakers will do everything

special envoy for afghan women and girls and human rights of the state department. finally we have honorable michael sheppard, the assistant administrator of the bureau for asia for the united states international development. i want to thank you for being here today. your full statements will be made for the record and i will ask each of you keep your remarks to five minutes in order to allow time for members to ask westerns. i now recognize mr. west for his opening statement. >> chairman wilson, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the invitation to discuss the biden/harris administrations afghanistan policy. i would like to acknowledge the many americans who served and sacrificed in afghanistan since 2001 including members of this committee. almost 800,000 people deployed to afghanistan over the course of our 20 year commitment. over 2400 american servicemembers died in combat and noncombat causes in afghanistan many thousands of diplomats and other civilians and contractors also served and some paid the ultimate sacrifice. in the two years sin

and we also want to point once again the new book put out by the state department. america's collection, the art and architecture of the diplomatic rooms of the u.s. of state. thank for being with us on c-span.

and we also want to point once again the new book put out by the state department. america's collection, the art and architecture of the diplomatic rooms of the u.s. of state. thank for being with us on c-span. let me introduce our panel as i'm going to do so in alphabetical order. so it probably will not relate to to what the order in which they speak. so first, jake jake friefeld is the new director of center for lincoln studies at the university of illinois springfield. earlier, he was

and we also want to point once again the new book put out by the state department. america's collection, the art and architecture of the diplomatic rooms of the u.s. of state. thank for being with us on c-span. hello, i'm robert mackenzie at the harper library of the university of chicago. almost everyone here. like every family, the united states has suffered one of the great evils of our time inflation. spiraling prices, bring

and i'll invite myself to the state department when i get back. people can watch that on uh, the state developments website next blumenthal. thank you so much for coming in. thank you. that's it for the show. and condolences from the whole team here are going underground to those bereaved by the ongoing violence in the middle east. we'll be back on monday with holocaust survivor, delta gamble, and my to a, one of the world's greatest trauma specialist. and he'll then keep in touch of i will, i, social media is not sense in your country, and that's what channel going. i'll be going to be all normal, don't come to us, and you and all the episodes of going underground. see on monday the line, scott bennett, i'm a former united states army psychological warfare officer, really served in the state department counterterrorism office under investor del daily the . so i wanted to come here to russia in the dawn bass area and to gather the facts, to take back to the american people, the hold on bass as the front lines and the square, the bombs and the bull

you know where the secretary of state was despite all of your concerns the state department wasn't planning the hamptons on vacation. secretary of state blinken, i cannot imagineow feel. here's the bottom line mr. chairman thank you for your indulgence. i will close with this. the state department to use a military term had its head up its rear. it was not planning it in fact thought just have an the good taliban terrorist will take care of the bed taliban tears that is happens. because of that we did not get are people out but we do not get our citizens that we do have the force of posture we did not have facing. we failed in their loved ones are dead because of it. i apologize to you. to my goldstar families. your government failed you. gentlemen, and i know you both know this and taking responsibility and accountability. a lot of taken responsibility. no one has bn accountable and they deserve better. your government failed you. i'll give it opportunity my time remaining mr. chairman if there istanything you all would like to state publicly on the record for. >> and have time to respond

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miller said that you were a fellow at the state department who finished the 1st year of a program with the option of a 2nd. yes, seemingly down playing your role at the department. what's your response to that? i mean, you know, i've, i've been upfront about the fact that i totally been there for a year, but my office had asked me to stay, you know, beyond the initial 2 year contract they, they would have been happy to help you stay. and i did resign, you know, i, i completed my obligation of, of a full year and i, i would if, if this were not happening, i would have been very happy to stay. i really believed in the work that i was doing. and, you know, i think it's, it's very important that the united states actually uphold the values that it claims to, to, to believe in. and that it, that american model moral leadership around the world depends on america actually standing up for, for these values that we, that our leadership likes to talk about, but doesn't necessarily like to uphold. you have made this decision at a great personal cost resigning public today. from the us state depa

and we also want to point once again the new book put out by the state department. america's collection, the art and architecture of the diplomatic rooms of the u.s. of state. thank for being with us on c-span. thanks so much, everybody. so this is obviously more material than i can cover in an. so this is a snapshot of the history of reproductive rights and justice starting from the 19th century to the present. it's also something that's in some ways very hard to lecture about now because it's i as as professor lawson said in one of the

but as state department spokesman, matthew miller said, it's not misinformation. this is just a untruths happening in the fog of war. they can't imagine that the israelis would actually systematically seek to deceive the public in order to create political space for what is quite clearly a genocide that includes the destruction and occupation of every hospital and northern guys and the ethnic cleansing of one point. 1000000 people possibly more, but it's very clear to anyone who's critic who has a critical mind then what took the true story of what took place on october 7th, has yet to be told. and mark my words, ashen, the mainstream press will one day pick up on the thread that i laid down and will be forced to investigate the orders to come, to carry out fratricide, by as rarely, commanders on his rarely citizens in order to prevent captains from going into the gaza strip. that's the worst fear of the it's really military intelligence apparatus and he is really political sphere. consider how many captains they had to give up for. glad. surely. the israeli soldi

it's hard to say, i mean, the state department i believe is, is the 2nd largest institution after the department of defense and in the us government. so as far as the people i was in touch with, you know, people that i would consider friends and colleagues and when i said that i was going to resign initially, i was going to do it privately and, and people said, you know, please speak out for us and sense resigning. i've had that gotten a lot of messages of support and their organizations, feds, united for peace is an organization. there are other other groups trying to, to mobilize and, and also there are many people who are still inside the state department. we're doing very important work on this, but until the, until president bided is willing to, to really make, make a and to take a new stance here. their work inside status is not really going to make a difference. he spoke about why you resigned on the 300 and 65th day of your time and the state department of the spokesperson mastery. miller said that you were a fellow at the state department who finished the 1st year of a progra

i do want to reiterate how important the work of the state department is.vernment. >> are you worried about your future career and what it means that you have publicly resigned like this? >> i imagine i won't ever get to work for the government again. but, >> annelle sheline, i appreciate you coming on the program and talking about this. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> are worst of the week is next. next. [cars honking] i'm a guy who lost a bet. and my dignity. get out of the way! as if watching my team lose wasn't punishment enough. what are you looking at huh... it's a one speed. hahaha. hahaha. and if you have cut rate car insurance, odds are you'll be paying for that yourself. so, get allstate and be better protected from mayhem... like me. hey, i'm walking here! ah mornings! cough? congestion? i'm feeling better. all in one and done with new mucinex kickstart. headache? better now. new mucinex kickstart gives all-in-one and done relief with a morning jolt of instant cooling sensation. it's comeback season. okay y'all we got ten orders coming in...

since 20211maybe haily leaders i leaders and civil society members have been in battle over the state department them they haven't -- [inaudible] as the prime minister and that, first, he was not -- about a having a traditional governmental elections so that the country can become part of the legitimate state where it can function. secondly, he was not doing anything to curb the gang violence or tocu bring them to justice. so it's unfortuna thad gotten t, because the state department no matter what they told them or explained to them the situation in haiti, they said he man.ti unfortunately, how the state department decides to other leaders -- [inaudible] democratic in haiti that are supported by the civil society organizations and population, haiti was not in the situation right now. two whole -- to hold elections -- [inaudible] it would have had a parliament and municipal elections, and there would have been other leaders in the country to bring usut situation. unfortunately, they have gotten so is bad now that the country has been shut down. even the u.s. has a evacuated its personnel in hait

and i'll invite myself to the state department. when i get back, people can watch that on uh, the state developments website. thanks for them at all. thank you so much for coming and thank you. that's it for the show. and condolences from the whole team here are going underground to those bereaved by the ongoing violence in the middle east. we'll be back on monday with holocaust survivor, delta gamble, and much a one of the world's greatest trauma specialist. and he'll then keep in touch. i will, i, social media is not sense in your country, and that's what channel going under warranty if you all normally don't come to us new and old episodes of going undergrad. so monday, the border of the data. typically, those of the terrorist attacks pulled those who shot and killed people were found and detained. they tried to hide and move towards your brain with, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them from the ukrainian sites across the state. board. ross, as president put in, condemns the terrorist attack, caused the

and i'll invite myself to the state department when i get back. people can watch that on uh the state development website. next blumenthal. thank you so much for coming and thank you. that's it for the show. and condolences from the whole team here we're going underground to those bereaved by the ongoing violence in the middle east. we'll be back on monday with holocaust survivor.

sheline is the latest resignation from the state department, but certainly not the first. icial josh paul left back in october over the united states supply of weapons to israel. i spoke to him shortly after he left. >> there's no room for this sort of typical discussion to happen thinking about, is this the right thing to be doing, and should we be providing weapons into a situation in which we know that civilian harm, significant civilian harm, will happen? >> annelle joins me now. annelle, it's great to have you on the show. i want to start with where we just left off in that sound bite from your former colleague, josh paul, at the state department, and what he said. and he has come out and express support for your resignation. do you agree with him and what we just heard him say, and in what ways do you try to express dissent, but it was not received, or whether it was received at all in any way? >> yes, i mean, i absolutely agree with josh paul. you know, and he was working more directly on these issues than i was. i mean, i was working on promoting human rights, and m

the state department, department of defense, coming together on an ad hoc basis.w york taking an important leading role and japanese government stepping up and helping us. we worked with philippine government and japanese government and u.s. governnt took better part of two years to get to work. the development finance corporation, i thought would be the tool was unable to participate in this. a lot of effort and elbow grease but not direct participation, i start with you secta talk about the new office for strategic capital is this a means a tool by which you might be able to do hard infrastructure, i know you are talking technology here there are tools to play a more direct role. >> yes, i can -- will get back to you specifically on office of strategic capital as it relates to pacific islands, with infrastructure we have a number of mayor posture, initiatives in the pacific islands. in the cova states in marshall islands and palau, we have major projects underway. and last year, concluded a defense cooperation agreement. and one indopaycom site survey team down.

so far thousand americans have reached out to the state department to ask for more information about escape the country. a dramatic uptick a couple days ago when the state told us that number was a few hundred. >> this is a fluid situation. the number of individuals who have reached out to us through the crisis is approaching a thousand and we are continuing to monitor the situation and evaluate the demand. >> reporter: the start department evacuated 30 american this over the weekend by a charter flight to miami after insisting two days prior there were no plans to rescue americans. >> security circumstances on the ground as well as feasibility of commercial options made it such that in the interest of american citizens. >> reporter: the biden administration hopes to rescue more americans over the coming days. >> there is active planning for that, active analysis of the risks of doing so. >> reporter: the parents of haitian and about the children say they've been separated during haiti's collapse and the state department has been helpful. >> in times like this when they say us system

i have a problem with this, the state department is one who allocates funding to u.s. aid u.s. who are conducting development operations and programs on behalf of the state department and their unwilling to help those individuals i got a call yesterday from a u.s. aid implementing partner and they cannot get their own individuals in the state department was no support even the program resides under their funding. this is dereliction of duty edits find this, this is the third time since joe biden is taking office with afghanistan 2021, israel 2023 or haiti of 2024 where i had to rescue her evacuate americans because biden's administration responsible for these failures refused to do so. maria: it's unbelievable, florida governor ron desantis also trying to help he sent over 250 additional soldiers and aircraft and boats to protect his state from the boat carrying illegal migrants from haiti into florida the country lies over 800 miles to the south of florida, what is been the impact on florida? >> i think we see an impact across the country i think the governor has done a great

as you are aware, the decision to begin a neo rest with the department of state, not the department of defense. despite this, we have begun positioning forces in the region as early as nine july, but we could do nothing nothing to commence the operation, the evacuation until the neo was declared. our operations at karzai international from 14 august through our ultimate departure on early 31 august, we're both heroic and tragic. this was a combat operation of the most difficult sort carried out in contact with the enemy. we eventually put 5,784 us troops almost 2000 more coalition and other forces, eight us maneuver battalions on the ground at karzai international i'd like to talk a little bit now about abbey gate it was a tragic event one of many that have occurred over a 20-year engagement in afghanistan. he would remains my opinion that if there is culpability in this attack, it lies and policy decisions that created the environment of august 2021 and kabul culpability and responsibility do not lie with a troops on the ground who perform magnificently. it is not lie with attune, com

, well, he was in the state department, i don’t know now. maybe this is it, but i think that when itembarrassed by whoever they want to listen to her, the president there is, in general, how to say, the whole family is honest, or he’s just using this polvankina , they said, grandma, everything you said, all your forecasts, all your recommendations did not work, i say, so let’s sit on the broom, according to my assumptions, that it will be prescribed. not directly, but they’ll dump everything on you, so we’ll take this kind of work, that’s another matter, send it to a neighboring country, but you can use it there too, this is probably what explains the fact that suddenly such a sudden resignation , which she submitted, she was probably simply told, although here is the appeal itself, i looked on the state department website, there is her toria, but a non-vik, so here you are with us? interests, they launched this program , the ukrainian program, they will continue to deplete us, there are a lot of questions, for example, now here are all the questions, right after a small advertisemen

. >> then why the state department staff or quit? over the humanitarian crisis in gaza, people are shocked and appalled by what the us government is doing. >> the relative of an israeli hostage who was arrested at an anti-government protests accuses netanyahu of deliberately slow walking. ceasefire talks the very public is being pumped with together, we will win together, we will win and we're not winning. >> also this hour >> how did elon musk's satellite internet system, fall into russian hands? and for my archive, the legendary feminist gloria steinem turns 90 welcome to the program, everyone. i'm christiane amanpour in london, and we begin this out with putin's political pawns and the dangerous hostage diplomacy at play in the kremlin. it's now one years since the wall street journal reporter, evan gershkovich became the first american journalist detained on espionage charges since the cold war for he was on assignment with press credentials given to him by the russian foreign ministry. there is zero evidence to support their cha

any use of the tensions where they were on in an election year by the state department of life, joe biden? i certainly hope not. i mean, one of the interesting phenomena since the guys of war began, is the fact that both the united states senate, ron have tried to signal to each other in various ways. but they don't want this to turn into a big or middle explore. and they certainly don't want it to lead to a direct clash of arms between iran and the united states. i think that makes very good sense for, from washington's perspective. it also makes very good sense from terrence perspective. and so i'm hopeful that cooler heads will continue to prevail on that front, even if there are problems elsewhere in the region that are deeply troubling versus the of the wall. thank you. nice target we and that's of, of the show of continued condolences to those bree by you a k u. s. u, i'm bombing in palestine 11 in yemen, syria and iraq will be back on monday with professor going finkelstein. what are the holocaust industry and gaza an inquest into his mazda them until that can be touched by or will

state department has made it almost impossible.0 seconds. what would you like to say directly to secretary antony blinken? >> i would just like to say we need your help. we're families not stuck there because with we can't leave, we're stuck there because you won't let are us take our children. we're well over a 25 families in the same exact circumstance. we don't want the leave haiti permanently, we want to leave because you're asking us to leave because it's unsafe to be there, but with we will not leave our children in a war zone of we need your help. give amber, thank you for take taking our time. i apologize for botching your name, but thank you for taking time on this saturday. >> that's okay. i appreciate it. thanks, griff. griff: aishah? aishah: an important interview. torrential rains and heavy snow if flooding the northeast this weekend. more on that next. ♪ a test or approve a medication. we didn't have to worry about any of those things thanks to the donations. and our family is forever grateful because it's completely

monitoring the state department for a briefing coming up.atest from there. >> if the superintendent will not act then we ask you, our elected school board, to put the safety of our kids as your number one priority. [applause] >> everyone in the school is told if the rules are not respected you will be given the appropriate consequences. however, as seen with the most recent fight, these consequences are not enough and not doled out. >> sandra: parents and students speaking at a rally in west suburban, chicago, ahead of a school board meeting last night. they are demanding change after a brutal bathroom fight left a student seriously injured. we will warn you, the next video is graphic. it does show two teens at the school attacking a third teen and apparently this is not an isolated incident. there has been a string of them. amy is a parent who helped organize the rally at that school in full disclosure, i did graduate from that school, amy. i know it well and things like this just did not happen there. so, do that -- to this parents' point

this was a state department, department of defense, national security council failure. it was the biden administration failure. it was a failure over four different administrations. i was involved in afghanistan from 2001-2013. as a matter of fact it was easier to ceo wasn't in gunnison from 2003-2004 and i was in afghanistan from a small period between 2017 -- 2007-2008. i work for all these guys. they made bad decisions at every single level which led to the debacle of a exit that we see today. leaving millions of people in peril. >> martha: i want to play something on this as president biden speaking with george stephanopoulos on august 19th, 2021, about the issue of keeping troops in place in order to prevent this chaos. watch this. >> -- we should just keep for the 500 troops that's been a stable situation for the last several years, we can do that we can continue to do that. >> president biden: one to me that i can recall. >> martha: is he telling the truth? >> i don't know if he's telling the truth. i know that the magic number of 2500 was also the number given w