ukrainian law enforcement and the obama state department. they all thought there was cause to raise the issue about bidens and burisma. now the house managers might say without evidence that everything we just have said has been debunked, that the evidence points entirely and unequivocally in the other direction. that is a distraction. you've heard from the house managers. they do not believe that there was any concern to raise here, that all of this was baseless. and all we are saying is that there was a basis to talk about this, to raise this issue, and that is enough. i yield my

ukrainian law enforcement and obama state department. they all thought that there was cause to raise the issue about the bidens and burisma. now the house managers might say withouts every that everything we saids have been debunked. it points in other direction. that is a distraction, you hearde, from house managers. all we're saying is that there was a basis to talk about this to raise this issue. and that is enough. i yield my time

assistant secretary iran brings to the poor a wealth of experience serving numerous rolls in the state department along with national security council. this might be your fifth or sixth time back in the department. then at the for new american security. she did academic holding a doctorate in political science from columbia and numerous security and democratic reform in the middle east and north africa. just one week ago she was appointed by the white house to serve on the commission on security and cooperation in europe. bring your diplomatic skills to protect human rights and freedom across the region at a time of tremendously increasing importance printed together here we also have patrick work vice president strategy impact patrick also served as a nonresident senior fellow for the freedom and prosperity center at the atlantic council. lots of points of intersection. patrick is been instrumental in helping to develop freedom and prosperity center research and programming on freedom and democracy. this year alone he has authored or co-authored five reports for the council offering a variety of

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ukrainian law enforcement and the obama state department. they all thought there was cause to raise the issue about bidens and burisma. now the house managers might say without evidence that everything we just have said has been debunked, that the evidence points entirely and unequivocally in the other direction. that is a distraction. you've heard from the house managers. they do not believe that there was any concern to raise here, that all of this was baseless. and all we are saying is that there was a basis to talk about this, to raise this issue, and that is enough. i yield myi'm pam bondi. our party's theme tonight is america the land of and listening to the stories of discoveries and deliverance. you can't help but be proud to call this country home. but for joe biden, it's been the land of opportunism, not opportunity. as a career prosecutor and former attorney general of florida, i fought corruption and i know what it looks like, whether it's by people wearing pinstripe suits or orange jumpsuits, as the democrats convention we were

and the obama state department itself. they all raised this issue. we would prefer not to be talking about this. we would prefer not to be discussing this. but the house managers have placed this squarely at issue. so we must address it. let's look at the facts. in early 2014, joe biden, our vice president of the united states, led the united states' foreign policy in ukraine with the goal of rooting out corruption. according to an annual study published by transparency international, during this time, ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in the entire world. in ukraine, there's a natural gas company called burisma. burisma has been owned by an oligarch named mykola solcevski. here's what happened very shortly after vice president biden was made us point man for ukraine. his son hunter biden ends up on the board of burisma, working for and paid by the oligarch socevsky. in february 2014, in the wake of anti-corruption uprising by the people of ukraine, zolevsky flees the country, flees ukraine. salt cap ski -- socevsky, the oligarch, is well

he was on specifically with the career service state department. people will be kept within the job. so is they going to be a product decides ation on the state department? he said no, that will not be the case. he says that the issue with the state department is in the past. it has not necessarily had a focused goal. his job, he says, is to give that focus, go to the state department, so that old members who work within the state department, be they career different events or be they political appointees from the new administration will know exactly what needs to be done and also a reading from the same hymn book as well. so very much a words that are there to reassure democrats. a support from republicans is actually a should. but even among democrats, from the questions it would appear is appointment. is somebody going to be confirmed and probably be welcomed most mind kind of talking to us not from uh, capitol hill. uh, just before we move on, i want to bring you some news that we're getting from. royce has news agency saying that content has p

from 1940 onward, he worked for the white house, department of state department of defense, the arms, arms control and disarmament agency. he was detailed to the us air force and department of the treasury and consulted for the central agency and senate foreign relations committee, even outside his service to, eight presidential administrations. it's remained vital in framing and influencing debates about u.s. nuclear. you also write that it's a crafted, a new type of career national security professional. unlike his mentors and your peers, he never returned to his pre-world war two occupation as an investment banker. by the way, the wall street chapter is fantastic. i mean, this man had an ten year career on wall street. and reading that, it was like reading biography of steve schwarzman or something. it's quite a lot packed into one life. the early days of the cold war demanded generalists with competence in multiple areas economics, military strategy, intelligence, diplomacy, the know how to achieve results, whether the private sector, academia or government bureaucracies. knutson

companies, those licenses go through the state department. we don't believe dual use items that can be used to repress dissidents, journalists, bloggers, independent activists, lgbtq leaders should be allowed a license. the department of commerce agrees. we have had a lock in targeting expert controls. there is commercial spyware, which is a threat to national security. when it is misused by authoritarian regimes, it is used to get into the phones and personal computers and to stop the work of political society. we have been saying no to requests from a spyware company that was trying to do with an authoritarian regime. they were so embarrassed or not embarrassed, but so alarmed about the use of their product that they created a company policy to only sell and do business in democracy. finally, i will highlight with dhs, we are working on supply chain issues and this goes back to one of the biden priorities i'm happy to be able to institutionalize and to really implement very directly. the biden administration has focused a lot on supply chai

policy on gaza has led to wide widespread dissent at the state depart department.over gaza. 13 officials, including from the state department, white house, and army, have public resigned in protest. >> what was the final straw that led you to resign? >> i'll point out one moment that broke me. i used to put a lot of images of the children after they were killed. but this one -- sorry. >> it still haunts you. >> yeah. one channel one day did a report on a little girl that had been killed in an air strike. but they put a picture of the little girl when she was alive. she had a princess dress and she was in the picture waving her wand with a huge, beautiful smile. i mean, i saw my child in that child. >> her name was suna alfara. she is one of thousands children killed so far in gaza. >> how does this end? >> when israel says it's over. absent intervention from the united states or somewhere else to force a decision, it ends when netanyahu says it's over. [ stopwatch ticking ] ♪ >>> cbs sports hq is presented by progressive insurance. i'm james brown with the scores o

and in response to the europe clarity impulse which comes out of the us state department. so i think dial truck is going to refresh, was some serious decisions about styling scaling back of us position to europe and end in the middle east. and to try to, uh, uh, find a way that we can move past the uh, with the buy and how the eventually divided ministration embroiled america. and i mean, you achieve yourself to our f k junior, who appeared to support the genocide and we don't really understand the comments coming from trump as to whether what he meant when he said finish the job netanyahu biden's holding you back and so forth. what is the money from miriam adults and for the trump campaign? what? what is the significance of that money? does? i mean, because he won the house, he's one to send. if you can't run a game, this donald trump o marrying madison. uh, you know, you have to, i, by the way, i've never met drop. i mean, just by everybody else in the american political scene in the last 50 years, but i haven't met a problem. so but what i do know and studying is that i

thank you so much, chris, and we're going to take you to the state department. inken is talking introducing the president of the united states for one of two major speeches that joe biden will make this week. he said, we don't. when he originally was talking to biden about this role. and, of course, joe biden went in, in part of this presidency against donald trump's america first approach. he said joe biden told him, we don't know when this is going to make a difference, when this is going to pay off, but someday it will be critical. and obviously, the ongoing negotiations for peace in the middle east between israel and in gaza are going to be testing that resolve. let's listen as anthony blinken introduces president biden for this major speech. >> you have never wavered in the conviction that when america leads, when america engages, there is little we cannot accomplish and that this country remains a force for good, a force for progress around the world. your unshakable belief in the promise of america has inspired me for more than 20 years. it's inspired so m

uh, uh, uh, those forces in the state department. any independent, got any intelligence agency who are going to be squealing yes or pulled away from his trough? yeah, well what is the nature of that struggle when the populism you speak of fights with that deep state? will they kill donald trump in the 2 months ahead of january the 20th a lesson, his personal security is a matter of national concern. and one of the things that i found shocking in this election, is that a, a, an assassination to could be made on a former president presidential candidate donald trump. and within a matter of days, i just want him to memory all. so what just try to kill a present in a phone refreshing. what are we talking about here and the media even when the news 1st broke, try to i act like it was fireworks or something. i mean, there, there is a entrenched, a positional force that even now is on the attack against donald trump and it breeds violence. no question about america really must move away from from that kind of a position we have to election,

and so the global is who might be trying to retrench inside the state department apparatus. they are going to find themselves at a disadvantage when they propose policies that are going to come crashing with the necessity of a domestic agenda, which the american people expect just expect the demand. and uh and so, uh, president trump has a mandate for sure. but that mandate contains the demands of the american people for taking care of things that are at home for dealing with high prices that come from a novel ation. dealing with the high cost of housing, which by the way is linked directly to wall street headphones taking large shares of the american housing market and their control and driving up to price is only $12.00. has to focus on think sure, and well, presidents always have this idea of looking broad for dragons to slay trunk cannot do that. you can't afford it. yes. to find a way to make a deal. and he's smart enough to do it to make the deal to, to avoid war and to find a way to focus on things here at home. and if he does that, he'll be successful, president and,

it is good to be back at the state department.may start by saying this, you are one of the finest men that i have ever known in any undertaking. for one important reason. [applause] you are not only brilliance, you have incredible character. you have character. you have more integrity than almost anybody that i know. thank you for always sticking with me. i appreciate it. [applause] folks, i am grateful for his counsel and his friendship as well. but i also want to thank the members of my cabinet and the members of the congress who are here today and to all, all our diplomats and development experts, service members, and intelligence professionals. many of the achievements we are going to discuss today are the result of your hard work. that is not hyperbole. it is true. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for your extraordinary service. i come here to the state department to report to the american people. on the progress we had made in the lasn policy and our presidency. we have said many times, we are at an inflection poin

other investigations and analyses have shown, there were people who had infiltrated the state department, the u.s. military, even the white house. it turns out that senator mccarthy's investigations probably impeded the effort to root out spies and protect american national security and the integrity of our institutions. he succeeded, he was trying to promote himself more than nothing else. >> went senator mccarthy was elected in 1946, did he come in with this mantra of finding communist in the government? >> not initially. the record indicates that he was pretty quiet for the first three years of his service, beginning in 1947. it was only in 1950 that he started to really kick off this issue of communist infiltration. he gave a very-- what became a very famous, or infamous speech in wheeling, west virginia in 1950, where he claimed to have, in his hand on a piece of paper, a list of 200 known communists who had infiltrated the federal government. he never, of course, released those names. ultimately, was never able to prove that the people he was identifying were actually communist spi

thank you president biden speaking there at the state department on the legacy of his foreign policy pproach. during his four years in the white house, ending it saying, we are the united states of america, for god's sake. there is nothing beyond our capacity, which is quite joe biden esque, i would say. let's bring in our panel to talk about this. we are covering this from some of the key flashpoints that he mentioned from europe and from the middle east, and also here in washington. and i just want to start with you, kim and cedric. just give us sort cedric. just give us sort of the overview of what you heard in the speech. if this was a fair representation. were there omissions, things that you noted? >> look, he patted himself on the back, quite rightly, for alliances that he built or rebuilt. and european officials will tell you he brought in bro stability, that they craved after the mercurial nature of the last trump administration. but he fails to understand afghanistan and the nexus with ukraine. and the nexus with ukraine. the withdrawal from afghanistan that he said was nece

. >> president biden was at the state department to talk about his administration's foreign policy record. he points to strengthen diplomatic regions. current global challenges and areas he wants the next administration to focus on. he was joined by secretary of state anthony blinken. >> please welcome the president of the united states a companied by secretary of state anthony blinken. ♪ [cheers and applause] [applause] >> good afternoon. if i didn't say anything this would go on all afternoon. as for president, it is an honor to welcome you back to the state department. on day one of this administration unit shared a few things with me. you told me something that reminded me that american engagement, american leadership is essential. if we are not engaged, if we're not leaving, you said, someone else is likely going to be doing it and probably not in a way that advances our values. maybe no one is doing get and then were likely to have a vacuum for what bad things. but the other thing you told me, mr. president, was that there's a greater premium than ever before on finding ways to coop

could be back in the state department. tony. uh, i may start by saying this one of the finest men of ever known in any undertake one before it was the really incredible curt curt, do you have more integrity than almost anybody? i know so thank you for our stick. appreciate the grateful for his counselor is friendship as well, but also wanna find some members of my cabinet. the members of congress are here today and to all our different match development experts, service members, and terms of professions by the team is, are going to discuss today. where are the results of your hard work? and that's not my purpose is true. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you for the extraordinary service. i come here to the state department report on them or to the american people on the progress we've made in the last 4 years. and our foreign policy in our presence said many times, rather than inflection point. post cold war period is over a new or if you got these 4 years rephrase crises that we've been tested, we've come through those te

but many indeed most of the witnesses were low level government employees from the state department. voice of america. the u.s. overseas libraries, the government printing office, and the army. while senator mccarthy informed witnesses of their constitutional right to decline to answer a question, he interpreted any refusal to do so as an admission guilt. as he lectured one witness, a communist and an espionage agent has the right to refuse on those grounds. he also encouraged government agencies and private corporations to fire anyone who invoked his or her fifth amendment right. he threatened witnesses with contempt and in cursory fashion, and that was senator collins from the c-span video archives. jim townsend of the levin center. what's the significance of those documents? well, there is a law that keeps the internal documents, congressional investigations under seal for 50 years. and. in 2004, when 50 years had passed, since those those hearings and since those investigations, this was an opportunity to unseal and see the full record of what had occurred during the mccarthy era

that, to laughter and applause from the vips and state department employees here.s about a moment of handover. he knows against everything he wanted, he has become the bridge between two trump administration's rather than what he would have hoped for, to prevent another trump presidency. he finds himself having to justify his policies while handing over america's place in the world the president trump, whose policies are set to potentially radically reshape some of those positions. >> before we let you go, what did he say on the israel-gaza war? >> eight referenced the fact -- he referenced the fact that there are talks between israel and hamas. we know those are taking place. inside the same building, so that is a measure of how close things are. he said a deal is in his words, on the brink. he said they are pressed with urgency to get it across the line. the reality here is that it has been an effective deadline imposed with the incoming trump administration that put pressure on both sides. the biden administration will say it is because of his framework that the

staff are career professionals from the defense department, the intelligence community, the state department, the energy department, the department of homeland security across the board. these are patriots, they are people dedicated to the national interests of this country. and they have served without fear or favor for both democratic and republican administrations and many of them have raised their hands to say, i'm ready to stay and keep serving. from my perspective, when we inherited the team from the trump administration, i said, i want those patriots. i want those people working for us regardless of their political afittation. the incoming administration will have to make its own decisions. reporter: going back to a.i. and a couple other questions. as you are saying that it's a huge national security issue, is there concern about how it does not -- a.i. is -- on the national security point is not accurately depicting or scanning people of color because we are understanding civil rights groups are very upintet that. how it's -- upset about that. how it's misidentifying. is that a conce

it's good to be back at the state department.art by saying this, one of the finest man i've ever known in any undertaking. [applause] not only brilliant computer of incredible character. your character. you have more integrity than almost anybody i know. thank you. appreciate it. [applause] folks, i'm grateful for his counsel and a friendship as well but also want to thank the members of my cabinet and the members of the congress who are here today, and to all, all our diplomats develop an expert, service members and fellow professionals. many achievements we will discuss today were our the result of your hard work. that's the hyperbole. it's true. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for your extraordinary service work i come here to the state department report on the american come to the american people on the progress we've made in the last four years our foreign policy and our presidency. i've said many times and inflection point, post-cold war. mike is over. a new era has begun and these for years we face crises that w

we've debated in the state department where we benefited from a range of different views.rivately and publicly seeking to restrain israel's operations have held them back from inflicting greater damage on hamas or hezbollah or other adversaries. others think we enabled israel to purr so campaign that was disproportionate and self-defeating and not to the u.s. interest. it's crucial to answer questions like these which will be studied with years to come. i wish we come stand here today and tell you we got every decision right. i cannot. i wish i could tell you that leaders in the region always put their people's interests ahead of their own interests. they did not. but i can tell you this, first, we continue to believe the best way to create a stable and secure and prosperous middle east and deal a blow to hamas and hezbollah and the entire so-called axis of resistance is through forging a more integrated region and the key to achieveing that is now more than ever is ending the conflict that realizes the strong aspirations for palestinians and israelis to leave in pes this

[laughter] reporter: the state department briefed our colleagues that president trump was critical in getting this deal over the line. do you not agree with that statement? karine: look. i'm not going to speak to a random person -- i don't know who is person is what i can say is look, obviously, matt miller will speak for himself. what i can say is, there is -- there are steps that were taken here that's really important and critical. that started with this president starting a framework that was agreed upon by the world back in may. and that was because of this president. that was because he was able to lay out his thoughts, his thinking on how to move forward with this negotiation. what i said before, this is someone who understands foreign policy as i'm talking about the president. he understands how difficult it is. this was not an easy one. and so he has the experience, was able to get that going, to get that started. so this has been going on for some time. it has. i mean that's just the reality of it. that's the facts of it. have we been working closely with the incoming trump

it's good to be back at the state department. >> president biden gave a 28 minute speech today. that was a foreign policy assessment of where the united states stands now in the world at the end of the biden presidency. but because it was a biden speech, it began with domestic policy because more than any other president of our lifetimes, joe biden has always presented foreign policy and domestic policy as related as two sides of the same coin. >> during my presidency, i have increased america's power at every dimension. we increased our diplomatic power. creating more allies in the united states has ever had in the history of our nation. we've increased our military power, making the most significant investments in the defense industrial base in decades. we've increased the technology power, taking the lead in artificial intelligence and other technologies of the future. and we've increased the economic power, building the most dynamic economy in the world from the bottom up, in the middle out, not the top down. in short, kamala and i took office. our nation had become stronger

well, today to an audience at the state department. secretary of state anthony blinken introduced the president of the united states for the last time. >> simply put, it's been the privilege of my lifetime to work for you, to work with you, to work with this extraordinary team that you've assembled. and it's the honor of a lifetime to be able to introduce one more time, the 46th president of the united states, joe biden. >> thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you, thank you. please. >> thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. it's good to be back at the state department. >> president biden gave a 28 minute speech today. that was a foreign policy assessment of where the united states stands now in the world at the end of the biden presidency. but because it was a biden speech, it began with domestic policy, because more than any other president of our lifetimes, joe biden has always presented foreign policy and domestic policy as related as two sides of the same coin. >> during my presidency, i have increased america's p

state. they are remarkable. the agencies and departments and security and exchange in the department of interior and these are proprietary information from the business of us to suppress them. and for years it would not provide pollution agency. at this disposal in their argument our antagonists overseeing the data to estimate the number. and that kind of successful effort and examination. in california democrat what they were spot on and worked several years just to get to 76 and i participated and supported in this as well and didn't have sanctions, it wasn't specific enough and. the strength of the 1974 act which provided judicial review but it will be a file report. in the pacific's against the vicious bureaucratic position. in inlong and thorough and focus on the fact information act as a form of law. the the information act you can't believe opposition. they are time sensitive information. it is the biggest community. inand the interesting aspect here is not many people know and be used by anybody in the world. about how their houses.

in a moving exchange between you and president biden yesterday at the state department, the president said the following about you. quote, you're not only brilliant, you have more character and integrity than almost anybody i know. it's now my privilege to welcome secretary of state blinken, a man of integrity and accomplishment in the final days of one of the world east most challenging jobs to deliver keynote remarks. after the secretary's speech i'll join him in conversation on stage. mr. secretary, the floor is yours. [applause] secretary blinken: thank you. thank you very much. thank you. good morning, everyone. fred, to you, thank you for that incredibly generous introduction. thank you especially for your leadership on this council over nearly two decades. it's wonderful to be with you today, wonderful to be in this new location. back in the 1960's, leading diplomats, public intellectuals philanthropists and others came together in washington to create an organization founded on meeting the challenges of an increasingly connected world. in attendance among other, secretary of s

i think most of the middle east experts that were in the state department and other places have been removed. they have been removed. and we have a being run essentially by people who do not have much expertise in it. or if they have expertise like pay most cost time, it is really from the is really perspective problem from a united states perspective. that's the us ongoing. it was an idea for us us as basically as rails man in the abiding cabinet. yes, he has, or he has an office in the white house, a he moved from state to buckland, where he did the demarcation negotiations with lebanon, about maritime areas. so the expiration and then he went into the white house with one secretary and the team and the state department was dissolved as i understand it. so he sort of operates as a one man band out to the white house. yeah, well, i want to explore whether it is incompetence or it is actually by design. i'll give it a but just briefly of when it comes to the incompetent side of things, a rookie mistake by president possessed can be wrong to come out with the bizarre statement that so

david, senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace, who was before the us state departmenttaking the time.— us secretary of state antony blinken is traveling to south korea this weekend amid a political crisis in seoul. the us state department says mr blinken will meet senior south korean government officials to discuss ways to promote a free and prosperous indo—pacific region. he will also travel to japan before heading to france to discuss challenges in europe and the middle east. mass demonstrations have taken place in seoul, both in support of and against the suspended president, yoon suk yeol. investigators have sought to bring yoon in for questioning over his failed bid to impose martial law, but have so far been repelled by his supporters and security officers. the warrant is set to expire monday. earlier i spoke to sung—yoon lee, a globalfellow at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. it is an extraordinary situation. in the post— 20th century world order, and importantly, in the post—world war ii order, no sitting president in a democracy has been a

he formerly served as special envoy for israeli—palestinian negotiations at the us state department. a fortnight before we are going to see president biden leave office. it's going need that approval from the both the house and senate committees. do you see it happening? yes. house and senate committees. do you see it happening?— you see it happening? yes, i think it's _ you see it happening? yes, i think it's very _ you see it happening? yes, i think it's very likely - you see it happening? yes, i think it's very likely to - think it's very likely to happen. i think it's important to president biden that he preserve a legacy of strong support for israel during this war with hamas, and i think congress will be only too enthusiastic to get on board with that. so, yes, ithink that's very likely to happen. i wonder if you think, however, that this is the right time, because you will have heard calls here in the united states, including internationally as well, to suspend military backing for israel due to the number of civilians killed in the war in gaza. so do you think that this is th

i don't know the information is in the state department but not ratified by the department of state. >> two things, one is if information is held by government, doesn't have to have been produced by government to be subject to the freedom of information act. in terms of whether the specific information would be disposable get morrison to file a lawsuit for you. >> we are going to get to alan. how many more questions do we have? >> i think you answered tom with regard to exemption one which everybody knows, over classification is an epidemic in the moynahan commission, unclassified water coolers in san clemente. so the act has failed with regard to exemption one. in fact it hasn't done anything. i don't know whether you can do anything on that score with the judges if there confirmed have to be told are you going to exercise review on the exemption or not, that's not going to happen but the second issue i wanted to raise is the difficulty that congress has in oversight function because the executive branch is so ac secret. they throw up seats state secrets, sometimes it's th nothing a

to visit the southern most point until it has no government and no indigenous population. us state department says 70 countries have territorial claims and non thoughts go with the united states and most of the countries do not recognize that when you become a subject, i'd seen the got the chillies and taught take policies, a long term state policy. these are turbulent times and international geo politics and the antarctic statute will shortly be read, discussed the permanent presence of the chilean state and then talk to cuz undoubtedly, and essential and relevant precedent. when discussing the future of the white continent, or dozens of military police officers from guatemala, have arrived and hate to reinforce a multi national security mission. and that's being led by kenya, which sent nearly $400.00 police officers last year. but it's failed to push back guns that control much of the capital and the co thousands of people. 10 countries have together pledge more than $3000.00 troops for hating the few have been deployed, presented and none has become the world's oldest done person. in the

as karine noted president biden will deliver an address on the state department on the united states position in the world as he hands it off to the incoming administration. the state department, as many of you know, is where president biden delivered his first foreign policy address in february of 2021. it was a very different world then. we were still in the midst of a devastating health and economic crisis. with our alliances fraying and fragile. and our competitors and adversaries on the march growing stronger. the president spoke at that time about the urgency of meeting the challenges of this world in a period of profound transition and change. the post-cold war era had ended. the united states was in a contest for what comes next. economically, technologically and with respect to values and vision for the world. a time of change in transition like that has brought geopolitical turbulence, technological disruption, the pressures of an energy transition and more. we have had a lot thrown at us. but as we pass the baton to our successor. the president will report with confidence

when i was at the state department, the slogan was go big or go home. is agreed until everything is agreed. so we went home and we had more war. annita: thank you for your thoughts on this developing story. laura blumenfeld at john hopkins university. president-elect donald trump's pick to lead the pentagon, pete hegseth, has appeared before a congressional confirmation hearing where he has called for a return to a warrior culture in the u.s. military. a former soldier and more recently a fox news host, he would lead a department with more than 3 million employees and an annual budget of almost $850 billion. he has been grilled by senators on a whole range of his issues. here is what he said would be his priorities. >> the department of defense under donald trump will achieve peace through strength. and in pursuing these america first national security goals will remain patriotically apolitical and stridently constitutional, unlike the current administration, politics should play no part in military matters. we are not republicans, we are not democrats,

good to be back at the state department. tony, if i may start by saying this. one of the finest men i have ever known in any undertaking for one important reason -- [cheers and applause] not only brilliant, you have incredible character, you have character. more integrity than almost anybody i know. thank you. i appreciate it. [applause] folks, i am grateful for his counsel and friendship as well, but i want to thank the members of my cabinet and the members of congress who are here today and to all our diplomats and development experts, servicemembers and intelligence professionals. many of the achievements we are going to discuss today are the result of your hard work. it's true. thank you. thank you. thank you for your extraordinary service. i come here to the state department to report to the american people on the progress we've made in the last four years in our foreign policy and our presidency. i said many times there is an inflection point, post-cold-war period is over. new era. in the four years we have faced cries ease and came stronger in my view th

the state department thinks it is an institution of privacy and diplomatic secrecy stand get off its back. we have a freedom of information act filed earlier this year that you get the information that we know the state department has but we better excavate the huge number of fatalities and the state department began to engage in the usual delaying maneuvers and then when we thought we were going to release some materials they said we won't be able to get this done until august 2025. so delay, delay delay, more rejection and should be recognized as such in terms of the appeal .following the delay . it needs to be remembered that according to bill moyers who was a special assistant to lyndon johnson lyndon johnson had to be dragged into signing this 1966 freedom of information off. he hated it with every fiber of his being according to bill moyers . and believed the government secrecy was an entitlement entitlement but he finally did sign . on the other hand pres. gerald ford vetoed the 1974 amendment. and all for the good old days, the house and senate overwhelmingly overrode this ve

is hoping for initiative, research, and if necessary the boxing of state department yearsthat's exactly with the council has delivered for more than six and half decade started with the transatlantic relationship growing to expertise of the parts of theg world including te region i want to talk about today, the middle east. now, from the outset the biden administration primary goal of the middle east was not to repeat the blunder of years past trying to transform its government towards society. rather to transform relations with, between and among u.s. partners in the region. that's because we saw more integrated region more likely to be stable and secure to deliver economic opportunity for its people, to find solutions to share challenges from pandemics, to infrastructure. a more integrated region is in a position to prevent anyone of its neighbors from accommodating the other, or any outside country from nominee to deter aggression to avert, to de-escalate, to end conflict through diplomacy. we move swiftly to pursue this issue. we deepen and broaden the abraham accords

she's worked with the us state department and she's also a co founder and board member of the ukraine prices. media center, which is funded by the us agency for international development, the night and national endowment for democracy in the us embassy, nato. and another one is richard edelman, who runs edelman, p r. he's a member of the atlantic council and the world economic forum, the atlanta council being funded by it's essentially, uh, nato is think tank ukraine just as once in iraq. there's a media h q, from the news, except both of the clients suffice worldwide. ukrainian crisis media centers website doesn't hide these liaisons among open data listed organizations of the us embassies probably get the sanction the us agency for international development, the national endowment for democracy, the european endowment for democracy, you case institute, the government and of course night. so us began creating information warfare platforms, such as spirit of america, which was a 5, a one c 3 that was contracted by the c i a by the british, by the state department to broadcast, co amer