to be clear, you're not endorsing getting rid of usaid as a separate department, which already reports to the secretary of statee you? >> i would be absolutely for, if that's the path we go down, removing usaid as a separate department and fall under one of the other parts of department of state because of its failure. i went over the numbers twice with you in the amount of aid that makes it into the hands. i mean you could almost say this is a little bit hyperbole but probably more dollars that go to state dinners around the d.c. beltway than into rice and beans abroad. that's the state of what's going on with usaid. samantha powers said no less herself. >> every administration authorizes reviews, could increase efficiencies, plenty of people who propose bringing it more under the authority of the state department, madeleine albright tried to do that. that's not a new maga idea. the question here is about how you do it. do you still believe that in the laws signed in in the 1960s, that congress has to sign off on any changes to usaid or do you think president trump can just make all of this happen through exec

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, the treasury, and consulted for the central intelligence agency and senate foreign relations committee. even outside his service to eight presidential administrations, it's remained vital in framing influencing debates about u.s. nuclear policy. 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 entire 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. military strategy intelligence, diplomacy, the know how to achieve results, whether in the private sector, academia or government

they are supposed to take direction from the state department. they do not. they are completely uncooperative. when you ask questions, try to find out, what does this program do, why was this funded, why are we doing this, why aren't you coordinating with the state department? their answer is we don't have to answer to you because we are independent. that is not true and that is no longer the cas

department? which already reports to the secretary of state, are you? would be absolutely for, if that's the path we go down, removing usaid as a separate department and falling under the other parts of the department of state because its -- i went over the numbers twice with you, in the amount of aid that actually makes it into the hands -- you could almost say this is a little bit hyperbole, there is probably more dollars towards state dinners around the d.c. beltway than what actually goes into rice and beans abroad. that's the state of what's going on with usaid. samantha powers said so. >> i think every administration authorizes reviews, increase efficiencies, plenty propose it being under the state department. madeleine albright tried to do that. that's not a new maga idea. the question is how do you it. do you still believe that in the law signed in 1960s that congress has to sign off on any changes to usaid or do you think can ma president trump can make this happen through executive order? >> those examples that you gave of historical figures,

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is he serious in are you workin on that at the state department?gotiation to make the mistake what were focused on is what is immediately in front of us whic is the tariffs. that will have an impact on a relationship and we are still neighbors, we will always be numerous. >> can china expect more? >> if they continue to cheat an steal, absolutely. >> are they going to recognize as the leader of venezuela? >> there is no talks about doin that. we don't recognize him now. he has released americans that should have never been and his presence. i think leaders like that no matter how tough they try to be committed a respect donald trump . he is not going to send you a strongly worded letter, he will take action spread he knows tha they know we have many options to inflict serious damage and harm on the regime. >> do you expect that the pressure campaign the maximum pressure campaign is coming bac against iran? >> i think we need to apply mor pressure until they stop doing the activities that they are doing great they are trying to ultimately get to a n

after completely subverting the process inside the state department. when his own staff was reporting to him that us weapons were being used to shred children in large numbers in the gaza strip. he throws them out and led some of them, like josh paul, who was in charge of arms control to actually leave and become whistle blowers. it was also the press enjoy a as tony blinking said in the opening, his opening statement when i began to intervene. and he was friends with so many of these reporters, and they were hanging out at fancy jose andres restaurants together in washington. this is not a relationship that is at the cool with someone who is an architect of what i considered to be the holocaust of our time. so i thought it was necessary to do. but if i'm allowed back in, i intend to continue to respect the process. and just to be clear, people can watch the video of you trying to be a journalist and the state department and the shame full behavior of your colleagues, the other journalists, actually speaking of that away from god is that could it be uk

neither beatty nor the state department immediately provided comment. state department did not say whether the administration intends to nominate beatty for the position. beyond the acting role. joining us now, cnn political commentator van jones and alyssa farah griffin, also gop media consultant and strategist brad todd. um, alyssa, does it make sense that they hired this guy or rehired him? >> i think it underscores. how different trump 2.0 in the second term will be than the first. and what i mean by that is, i think that there are many americans who voted for trump this time because they wanted what they got the four years he was in office before. but this is already gearing up to be a very different administration. and somebody who was considered persona non grata and was fired in 2018 when these things came to light, is now in an acting undersecretary role, a position that was previously held, i would note, by two qualified women in the first trump term. and of course, he'll be serving under a cuban-american secretary of state, despite his commen

and the state department has a secret call with the u. s. and pastor, which is tape recorded and is now public, which anybody can go and look up where she is picking the new cabinets, the ukraine, ukraine. it really is just the tip of the iceberg. a host of global need does have accused usa idea of really pushing for that. a doubtful. i mean, just to highlight reel by the rest of the 2020 mass protest us sponsoring of position groups incentives. way not. it was actually picks out of bolivia by as president morales off the he on carpet. they had been funding set protest groups and some of the nations which just regions lots of listing. but let's not forget, it was also impact stone and syria. and i'm actually what the agencies burying a torres had some of the powers visited budapest, hungary, the suppose is your pin nation, which does not tow the line. we know one issues like the l g, b, t, or ukraine port to just to erupt of saying 0 color red produce an incoming. last but not least, we have georgia, the american tax payers money cannot be u

well, i'm hoping to be allowed back into the state department press room. but uh, i did put in an application. and the application form is about 5 lines long. i imagine thousands of people, including internet ran those, put in applications as well, and it will take a long time to process them. the white house press briefing room will likely become even more of a zoo then it was before. i don't know how it's possible to call on them what it will show up. but uh the, the kind of rumor mill has it that the trump administration is power at prioritizing those who are pro trunk voices. right, but in the rest, you mentioned this stay button department, people around the world will know, especially across the global south of the you and sam was saying at the tony blinking last press conference sites was marco ruby and the new secretary of state may use that against you, whether it's a trump administration or not. so it's unclear. i did hear from sam that he had some trouble getting back in, but we'll see what happens. i mean, the, the reason we did that and we inte

so it is as more than the c i n more than the state department. wow. and it is basically a usaid is effectively a switch player to, to assist the pentagon with, with it on the national security front to assist the state department on the national interest front. or to assist the intelligence community on a, on a sort of clandestine operations. now people might accuse me of cynicism, they say no to say i do, it's just charitable, but we also need to be realistic. the world of great power politics is not one of self since it is a game of the new frame of looking for weak spot. so investing and then guaranteeing a return on your investment us a id is a know ms. budget is a reflection supposed to be the greatest reflection of the senate for role that it has played in manifesting some of the white house's greatest streams of shape. pick the wild as best suits washington's interest. it isn't all that stops in the office and spread the word around the world. so you chop off the on the power ph office diminishes. thought is why this is such a big story and tha

mazda has never been stronger than admissions in the outgoing blinking state department. and if the west bank goes, because trump is given to go ahead to destroy it, basically these are the greatest recruiting surgeons for palestinian resistance in recent years. and you have a, an ailing netanyahu's and maybe on his last legs. and the ultimate agenda. benjamin netanyahu has been to drag the united states into a direct, military confrontation with iran. so that is certainly in the cards. that's something that in yahoo expects out of trump. and with donald trump, what you're going to get even more than in his 1st term, is a lifting of the mask, a lifting of the mask on the trans atlantic liberals so called liberal democracies . but also on is really a part side. and i expect or consider it highly possible that israel will attempt to annex large sections of the west bank under donald trump, which will lift the mask on apartheid. what will they do with those palestinians? they under international law have to take care of them and provide them with postal services and sewage.

we have more news on canada's new deal withs trump and more details and former trump state department official chri christn whiten taking on this story. liz: that's elon musk. president trump did seize control of u.s. aid today and how it blew through billions of dollars overseas including to u.s. enemies and plus we have why stopping government abuses like that will row r your taxes and morning rates and net ryan will take it on. plus, we have this story. ned ryun has that story and plus this -- >> there's never been a native american leadership at dnc. >> it's not a good idea to do a muslim caucus if not going a jewish caucus. >> we pledged more than one transgender person to at large dnc. liz: democrats look like they're doubling down on why they lost to president trump and more on wacky scenes and the democrats meeting again and canada joining mexico and quickly yielded to president trump's tariff threat and will spend $1.3 billion more at border plus send personnel. mexico also agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border and fox news senior white house correspondent peter doocy li

administration reportedly intends to merge the us agency for international development — with the us state departmentng secretary of state marco rubio its administrator. they have also been locked out of their email accounts. control of the us agency under the remit of the state department. to 130 countries, and managed a budget of about $40 billion. its budget. president donald trump at the white house for the gaza ceasefire. he is already in washington meeting with middle east envoy of the gaza ceasefire. on what mr netanyahu hopes to accomplish while in washington. to emphasise that. in his words, "redrawn the map of the middle east". to see him since he returned to the white house — about unrwa — the un agency for palestinians — and very keen to emphasise what he sees as the strategic threat posed by iran, israel's great rival in the region. although it's worth pointing out there has been, at points, a fractious relations between the two. he would be heartened to hear ppresident trump's words about unrwa — the un agency for palestinians — and how it will no longer be funded. and very keen to emph

poor us countries in question the trumpet, ministration attempts to follow the us agency is the state department us 2nd just state market. rubio announced he was taking control and accuse agency or in subordination. a programs have been frozen and thousands of employees put on leave . you in says the freezing funding is already being felt on 8 operations. some of this is having immediate impact on a life saving activities. i mean is, you know, the us has been extremely generous to our humanitarian programs all over the world. i think the figure for 2024 is that the us contributed. 47 percent of the global humanitarian appeal, which amounts to up to about $1414000000000.00 . how did your castro has more now from washington us? this is the usa at headquarters, where about $40000000000.00 of annual us for an aide, covering everything from textbooks to ukrainian school children to medicine for african aids patients to the biggest food assistance program in the world is all managed. and today, the building stores are closed after workers were told with just hours notice to stay home. trans effort to

and now most phone, the systems through the state department has been frozen for 90 days. we'd only emergency food programs and ministry a to israel and egypt exempted the aid suppose initiatives ranging from health and education to security and conflict. so what could be the effects of america's freeze on both for itself and all the nations, and how it re shape washington's relations with the world? we'll discuss all of this without panel shortly. the 1st that's listened into jo evans report. the aid has long helped us achieve as foreign policy goals. president donald trump's decision to freeze almost all foreign assistance, but 90 days as part of his america. first strategy is up on the decades of policy, and there's already having a global impact. in 2023, washington distributed $72000000000.00 of funding in nearly a $180.00 countries. 4 days after taking office us secretary of state, marco ruby, i sent a cable to embassies worldwide, ordering a home to us projects. supposing everything from access to clean water house get education and children's health, the presidents

state department. and that's not a good thing. as marco rubio said today, everything usaid does or the bureaucracy does needs to be aligned with the foreign policy goals of the united states. and so putting rubio in charge of usaid today helps begin to achieve that alignment. i'm actually a supporter of american soft power. that's what we call it soft power. i believe it's good. i believe it's often been used as a tool to help the united states combat influence from china and other adversaries around the world. but there is a difference between soft power and soft stupidity. so whether you're funding. like scott, so whether you're whether you're funding like die musicals in some country or transgender surgeries somewhere or whatever, that is not. >> what. >> most americans. >> are, not what. >> is happening. >> that is that is not what most americans would say is an effective tool of u.s. >> foreign policy. >> everything that that. >> i'm not usa, i. >> have a whole list right here. i mean, if you want to, if you want me to forward

by the state department.ow, current and former usaid officials have argued to me that usaid must remain independent, that the state department does not have the expertise, the training, the capacity to handle the kind of work that usaid does. it is the biggest provider of food aid in the world. it has a budget of over $40 billion and works in more than 100 countries in some of the most desperate, difficult and hard to reach places. now, this is, without question, a seminal moment for the u. s role in the world. how it helps people well beyond its borders, how it is perceived in the world. and there are warnings of a significant impact on u.s. national security interests. alex marquardt, cnn washington. >> in a move that could impact thousands of people, the trump administration is demanding the names of all fbi employees who helped investigate the capitol insurrection. the justice department says it wants to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary. donald trump has vowed to strike bac

the trump administration plans to strip down the agency, then move what remains into the state department with a diminished role. but even some republicans say those cuts violate the constitutionally mandated power of congress to control how money is spent and to create or change agencies. musk's announcement comes after five sources telling nbc news the agency's two top officials were put on administrative leave for refusing to grant d.o.j. employees access to classified government systems. musk's team reportedly threatened to call in the u.s. marshals before. >> eventually gaining access. >> we begin all this with nbc news senior white house correspondent garrett. hey, garrett, so much going on just today. that call with mexico's new president apparently delaying a deal by one month. marco rubio is supposed to negotiate tighter border controls there. what do we expect from trump and prime minister trudeau's call, with whom he's had a much tougher personal relationship. >> that's right. andrea, he's already had one conversation today with prime minister trudeau. we know with another one

the us state department stops nearly all foreign aid as president. donald trump pushes his america 1st policy, but this assistance also helps the u. s. a chief, it's fine policy goals. so how will they be affected along with other countries? i'm communities around the world. this is inside story, the hello welcome to the show. i'm sammy say that for decades the united states has been the largest single donor of a globally. and last year it provided more than 40 percent of you. and so you monetary and a bunch it and now most phone, the systems through the state department has been frozen for 90 days. we'd only emergency food programs and mitre a to israel, and egypt exempted the aid suppose initiatives ranging from health and education to security and conflict. so what could be the effects of america's freeze on both for itself and all the nations, and how it re shape washington is relations with the world. we'll discuss all of this without panel shortly. the 1st that's listened into jo evans report. the aid has long helped us achieve as foreign policy goals. president donald trump's de

. >> you want to authorize purging of the state department personnel, what does that mean exactly? >> if you want to take a look at the state department where dei has been a priority over diplomacy, i can give you hundreds of examples let's list them off. half a billion dollars to expand atheism in nepal, $50,000 to do a transgender operation in colombia, to do an lgbtq comic book in peru. $20,000 of a drug shows in ecuador. shall i continue of more examples? >> seems like that could be review speed that you think? of course democrats are in desperate need of a new bogeyman are trying to shift blame here. the bad guys to them are not the ones robbing that u.s. taxpayers by rewarding their bodies with sweetheart deals, no. the bad guy is the person reviewing the programs for fraud and abuse, that's elon musk. >> elon musk may get to be dictator of tesla, but he doesn't -- he may try to play dictator here in washington, d.c. but he doesn't get to shut down the agency for international development. >> laura: that will be for a judge to decide ultimately senator. i imagine on appeal at

and other nonstate agencies that parker up with a few offices of the the use it to come state department, whatnot. which again, by extension if the united states freezes, pulls out, produces a level of assistance, if those organizations used some of the resources at cost for them to administer those aid packages on the ground, i don't know where they will come up with the resources because neither china nor russia work for ngos on the ground. both russia and china were to state to state channels. it ngos are involved, they are ngos in the only, they are the government organize non-governmental organization. there are a few of those the russian works with most in serbia and a handful of other locations. still all of that funding is controlled by the state. china also works through the government channels. yeah, so it is going to affect now that you brought it up, i think it's going to have a trickle-down effect on civil society in those countries. there will not be competition but desolate and effect will be felt. [inaudible] >> yes, yes. i didn't even think about it but i think that one

and rather than other non-state agencies that partner up with the field offices of the usaid state department, whatnot, which again, by extension, if the united states freezes, pulls out, reduces that level of assistance, the if those organizations used some of the resources that operational costs for them to administer through the those those aid packages on the ground, i don't know where they will come up with alternative resources because neither russia, neither china nor russia, they work through ngos the ground both russia and china, they work through state to state channels. if ngos are involved, they are geos in the name only. they are. the good news. they are the government organized, non-governmental organizations. there are fewer of those that russia works with mostly in serbia and a handful of other locations. but still all of that funding is strictly controlled by the state and china also works through the government channels. yes so it is going to affect now that you brought it up, i think it's going to have a trickle down effect on civil societies in those countries. so there wi

agency for international development with the state department, making senator rubio its administratornificantly reduce the size of its workforce. >> as acting director of u.s. aid i have delegated authority to someone, but stay in touch with him. our goal was to align our foreign aid to the national interest, but you go mission after mission, embassy after embassy, in many cases usaid is involved in programs that run counter to what we are trying to do in our national strategy with that country or region. that cannot continue. usaid is not an independent, nongovernmental entity. carl: staff at the agency's washington headquarters were not allowed to enter the building and were locked out of their email accounts. this after two top security officials were placed on leave. two officials refused to grant elon musk and members of his doge access to classified materials. suspending usaid could have a major impact worldwide. they distribute millions in aid to nongovernmental groups, nonprofits for humanitarian causes around the world. in fiscal year 23 the agency provided assistance to 130

when i was the spokesperson for the state department, there was a reporter by the name of matt lee.om the associated press, and he would grill me every single day. in fact, he was so tough on me that the state run media in russia actually turned him into kind of a folk hero. to be clear, he wasn't pushing russian talking points. not at all. the russians just liked watching this american reporter be tough and combative. and at some point i actually asked matt lee about this, and his response really stuck with me. he said, whether the policy is good or not, and sometimes it really wasn't. he didn't like it either. it's whether it's smart or not. the u.s. government has multiple briefings a day, gives journalists opportunities to ask hard questions, he said. the russians may applaud me for being tough on you, but they have none of that. it's not what they do. and that's something i thought about a lot when i was at the white house, because it was a reminder that even when things were combative and they were sometimes even when reporters kept pushing and kept questioning, that was actua