first, support usaid in an overall u.s. government effort and the second is respond to department of state requests for security or evacuation assistance if required. great patient care of ebola exposed patients in west africa is not part of dod's mission. secretary hagel approved unique military activities falling under four lines of effort, command and control, logistic support, engineering support, and training assistance. in the last eight weeks, dod has undertaken a number of synchronized activities in support of these lines of effort to include designating a named operation, operation united assistance, establishing an intermediate staging base into senegal. providing strategic and tactical airlift. constructing a 25-bed hospital in monrovia. constructing 12 ebola treatment units in liberia. training local and third country health care support personnel, enabling them to serve as first responders and etus, ebola treatment unit, throughout liberia. in all circumstances, the protection of our personnel and the preservat

first, support usaid in an overall u.s. government effort and the second is respond to department of state requests for security or evacuation assistance if required. great patient care of ebola exposed patients in west africa is not part of dod's mission. secretary hagel approved unique military activities falling under four lines of effort, command and control, logistic support, engineering support, and training assistance. in the last eight weeks, dod has undertaken a number of synchronized activities in support of these lines of effort to include designating a named operation, operation united assistance, establishing an intermediate staging base into senegal. providing strategic and tactical airlift. constructing a 25-bed hospital in monrovia. constructing 12 ebola treatment units in liberia. training local and third country health care support personnel, enabling them to serve as first responders and etus, ebola treatment unit, throughout liberia. in all circumstances, the protection of our personnel and the preservat

usaid programs. i view these as sunk costs. and as larry diamond will probably say during lunch, you have to have a state in order to do these programs. you have to have a functioning state. and that's a key part of this. and we haven't talked very much about that, i think most of us in this room would probably draw a large distinction between nation building and encouraging democratic transitions. and nation-building is something entirely different. that's -- i'm not an expert on nation-building, and i think it's extremely hard -- it's extremely difficult. and you have to be fully committed to it. i think my comments are mostly directed at encouraging democratic transition. >> and the biggest question comes up at the end. michael, you wanted to say something very quickly and then we'll go to the next -- >> okay. let's talk about that among ourselves then. so thank you very much. i'm going to call him back up here and tell us what we're going to do next. >> i want to begin by thanking this panel so much. we were asked -- [ appl

sometimes they are not employees of usaid. they are local partners of our humanitarian partner organizations in different settings around the world. we have very strict lengths, especially in syria to make sure folks are say and that resources and mandatory support is protected. the toughest days i have had in this job are calling family members to tell them that their daughter who was doing heroes work saving lives in helping children school died in ir servicet of the ser in afghanistan and haiti. it reminds me that all of the folks who do this work are heroes. they take the risks willingly because they know it helps to keep our country safe and secure over time. >> thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> newsmakers is back with nicole gaouette and ron nixon. we just talked to doctor razi shah. he is the usaid administrator. >> a number of members of both parties have made the case that the request is reasonable. it is unclear if they would actually get the entire 6 billion. i think there would be essential for the ebol

usaid has stepped up safe burial services. the department of defense and others are helping to establish treatment units. one of the things that is encouraging is 90% or more of the health care staff caring for ebola patients in west africa are from those countries but there's still a need for international assistance. one of the things that has been very encouraging is the african union has been willing to send hundreds of health care workers in. and that's in process now. we've also seen an increase in health care workers from other parts of the world. and one of the things that we try to ensure that every step is taken to make care as safe as possible there. still a gap, as my colleague nancy can discuss to , help address the epidemic at the source. not only to save lives there, but to protect us here as well. >> what are we doing to fill that gap is the obvious question, then? either you or your colleague can respond. >> yes, thank you. as you know, there's a significant need for health care workers and, in part, because i

first, support usaid in an overall u.s. government effort and the second is respond to department of state requests for security or evacuation assistance if required. great patient care of ebola exposed patients in west africa is not part of dod's mission. secretary hagel approved unique military activities falling under four lines of effort, command and control, logistic support, engineering support, and training assistance. in the last eight weeks, dod has undertaken a number of synchronized activities in support of these lines of effort to include designating a named operation, operation united assistance, establishing an intermediate staging base into senegal. providing strategic and tactical airlift. constructing a 25-bed hospital in monrovia. constructing 12 ebola treatment units in liberia. training local and third country health care support personnel, enabling them to serve as first responders and etus, ebola treatment unit, throughout liberia. in all circumstances, the protection of our personnel and the preservat

usaid is robust in its budgets. the millenium corporation is very effective in a certain range of country possibilities. my own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to congress to is support civil society actors in a variety of countries and the national endowment for democracy remains the premier intituition in the world to providing target the an a siften assistance. so they know they have help from the international community. let me mention a couple things just to wind up this opening scene setter. one is that i think we in the united states need to appreciate the important role that congress plays while we disparage its occasional polarization and inability to resolve certain major things. the congress has been a major contributor to american democracy programming in a lot of ways. not least in the creation of my part of the state department. you know, the bureau for democracy, human rates and labor was created 36 years ago at the insistence of congress over the objections of

the second thing is, frankly, this issue is larger than just the world bank or usaid. this is a big issue that we are debating worldwide whether we want, you know, to go the path of russia's putin, the chinese communist party or of the free countries of, you know, japan and south korea and western europe and the u.s. there's a big debate between autocracy and freedom going on in the world right now. the front lines are in places like ukraine, for example. but the voice of the people who work on global poverty has had this unintentional sensorship that we don't allow ourselves to talk about freedom for poor people. and so we're unintentionally on the wrong side of this global debate on freedom. >> host: and are the ngos working in tandem as well, in your view? >> guest: well, out varies from one ngo to another. i mean, gates' foundation is one very big ngo that is really getting it wrong. there are other ngos like human rights watch. human rights watch is openly campaigning for rights for poor people and obviously get it right, and the foundation financed by george soro

in terms of usaid support, usaid has been very generous with us working on the ground. whatever we ask them for, including the salary staff working at the community would be a poetry make units, there hasn't been any hesitation. i don't know what is going on in support for the liberian government who is paying the incentives. but as far as we are concerned, they've been extremely generous and effective and very pragmatic in their approach. >> yeah, i would like to reiterate the liberian ministry of health -- the government of liberia in general has been leading the effort and the administrative health and social welfare and reticular, the assistant minister of health has been leading the incident management system, has been a really great coordinator of the effort and those meetings, which have been think about three times a week, make sure everyone is on the same page. and that has allowed us, you know, that has been our approach to make sure we are leveraging the resources we have been implemented to make sure we are successful, they are successful in doing so has all

does the usaid provide salary support? we know in catastrophic situations very often that subsidy can be provided. i remember being in sri lanka after the tsunami issue and we were paying salaries to individuals to do work, to do cleanup, not only was motivating, it stopped them from -- they were actively doing the cleanup of their own homes and communities but there was that significant subsidy to help them get money in their pocket, to get their businesses going locally. i'm wondering if usaid or any other entity is providing salary support. >> the liberia government is in charge and they should be in charge. at the end of the day it's their country and we are just guests there. we only work through them and with them. i don't think any of those countries were prepared for such an outbreak, especially countries like liberia that have suffered from a long civil war and trying to recover from that. in addition to other systemic issues there. the world health organization, cdc, ngos work to support the liberia mintry of hea

in jordan usaid supported persons with disabilities in a campaign. s sought to it change election law that did not reflect the attendance of the crpd article called twitter.com/booktv, so what was happening previously was that, people with certain types of disabilities would go to the polling station without personal assistance, and personal assistance we're not provided at the polling stations, which meant that they were not able to vote. and so what was happening there was that the person with the disability would have to announce their candid it's name in the presence of a committee. that is not a secret vote. but fortunately, the senate has since addressed this issue, and persons with disabilities now can vote with their personal assistant. so i think we're beginning to see how article 29 is really beginning to change the dynamics of around how we include persons with disabilities in the electoral process see. >> guest: -- three other examples that i would like to share briefly, in kenya, in kenya usaid supported the presence of a sign language i

does the usaid provide salary support? we know in catastrophic situations very often that subsidy can be provided. i remember being in sri lanka after the tsunami issue and we were paying salaries to individuals to do work, to do cleanup, not only was motivating, it stopped them from -- they were actively doing the cleanup of their own homes and communities but there was that significant subsidy to help them get money in their pocket, to get their businesses going locally. i'm wondering if usaid or any other entity is providing salary support. >> the liberia government is in charge and they should be in charge. at the end of the day it's their country and we are just guests there. we only work through them and with them. i don't think any of those countries were prepared for such an outbreak, especially countries like liberia that have suffered from a long civil war and trying to recover from that. in addition to other systemic issues there. the world health organization, cdc, ngos work to support the liberia mintry of hea

usaid has stepped up safe burial services. department of defense and others are helping to establish treatment units. one of the things that is encouraging is 90% or more of the health care staff caring for ebola patients in west africa are from those countries but there's still a need for international assistance. one of the things that has been very encouraging is the african union has been willing to send hundreds of health care workers in. that's in process now. we've also seen an increase in health care workers from other parts of the world. and one of the things that we try to ensure that every step is taken to make care as safe as possible there. there's still a gap, as nancy can discuss, to help address the epidemic at the source. not only to save lives there, but to protect us here as well. >> what are we doing to fill that gap is the obvious question. either you or your colleague can respond. >> yes, thank you. as you know, there's a significant need for health care workers and, in part, because it's a very high burn

department of energy and, again, usaid. so thank you for being here today, and i'd like to begin with mr. elkind. >> good morning -- or good afternoon now, chairman smith, ranking member bass and members of the committee, subcommittee. i'm very pleased to be here to testify on behalf of the u.s. department of energy on the future of energy in africa. the department of energy's office of international affairs focuses on some of our world's most pressing global energy challenges from promoting energy security to fostering international collaborations in science and technology, from addressing market volatility to facilitating long-term effort toss mitigate climate -- efforts to mitigate climate change. we work to leverage the technical expertise of the department of energy headquarters and our national laboratories in energy technologies, markets and policies. so in that context, i am very pleased at the interest of the subcommittee in energy development in africa and propose to sketch some of the major contours in those mark

this is all publicly available in usaid's reports. a final assessment carried out by two outside experts found this parliamentary program, $5.6 million program did not change how parliament functions or how ordinary people in azerbaijan relate to or understand the

this is all publicly available in usaid's reports. a final assessment carried out by two outside experts found this parliamentary program, $5.6 million program did not change how parliament functions or how ordinary people in azerbaijan relate to or understand the parliament. since azerbaijan's independence, in 1991, u.s. aid has spent $55 million on programs to make the country more democratic. the country remains more undemocratic and is becoming more and more authoritarian. the u.s. government presses on with multimillion-dollars programs in azerbaijan. in 2012 us aid issues a $1.5 million call, i want you to listen to this. that would enable key society organizations to better respond to the president's vision and calls for more meaningful and state civil society partnership fulfilling the government's commitments to various international human rights instruments, end quote. the idea of u.s. taxpayer dollars going to implement the supposed democratic vision of azerbaijan's authoritarian president reinforces the notion that foreign

eric postal who will begin its usaid usaid semester for the bureau of economic growth environment in march of 2011. in october of 2014 he was asked by dr. shaw to service the assistant to the administrator for africa. he brings to the position more than 25 years of private-sector experience working in emergency markets especially those in africa. he is also founded an investment thinking consulting firm focusing on emerging markets serving as the commissioner of helping to enhance the light of the people around the world commission and worked as a bank of tokyo and then we will hear from dr. robert by court he is responsible for voting the transformation of energy systems to achieve greater efficiency and clear performance through the use of market forces and innovative financing and leads to the bureau's efforts to reform electricity and power systems and develop more efficient and delightful national and regional electricity markets. dr. i court has a long history of u.s. government service in the energy field having worked for the energy research and development agency the u.s. de

there's actually a longstanding partnership that usaid funds which involves a lot of u.s. utilities and involving u.s. regulators, and they work in combination with people in the individual countries for this very reason so that they could have very technical interactions from one utility technical person to another and to try to increase that skill level because there are definitely gaps and we need to keep working on that. >> those people come here to learn or do our people get deployed there? >> both. >> oh. >> both. >> depending on the circumstances. >> how large of an operation is that? >> it's a modest-sized very economical system where each year we get requests from different countries and it's not restricted to africa but africa has been a big participant. we look at them and match them up with different utilities. i don't know off the top of my head, but probably a utility in new jersey or california utilities, whatever. but they match them up with utilities that have the expertise that they need. so -- and then they have these exchanges and interactions. >> for t

i had asked during the last hearing for usaid to provide me with specific program by program metrics and to this date have yet to receive the information in its entirety. i am aware of the vanderbilt study, a $3.5 million study to evaluate some of usaid's program in the region. unfortunately, the study does not provide us with project by project evaluations and cost benefit analysis, and that may not be available right now. i've said this before, the u.s. taxpayer is very generous and wants to help the people of el salvador and honduras find a path to peace and prosperity in their respective countries. however, they also demand that we spend their hard-earned taxpayer money wisely and achievable -- excuse me, and achieve measurable results. as a result, we must acknowledge the previous programs in central america have failed. despite u.s. investments, these countries continue to flail and these failures ultimately contributed to the crisis along our border. it is our responsibility and yours to ensure that going forward, that we have very serious buy-in and political will from each o

and our usaid. their armsing to get around it so you can control it. you need to have a significant scaling up from the due contact tracing as well as burials. the world toarned not take the foot off the gas. numbers are clearly, without a doubt, going down when you compare them to several weeks ago. we know that it can come in waves and we have to be very careful not to get complacent. that is when you will have a rebound. we have to be careful so that does not happen. >> that the transmission of ebola is still intense and deadly. do you expect to see many more cases? anymoree we don't see but we will if we do not intensify the infection control efforts. whether or not we are going to have an outbreak is going to the efficiency and the accuracy of the contact tracing. the best way to control or is to do thetbreak proper tracing from the index cases and where appropriate to isolate the people that might prevent them from infecting other individuals. considerable progress has been made regarding a vaccine. we have started a phase one trial, asking if it

. >> host: how does that tie into the usaid? >> guest: it keeps the cover and the successors in power. he used it to keep himself in power because at one point the reference was given only to people that were the supporters that kept away from anyone that wasn't in the ruling party and that was exposed by the human rights watch but it's so spread it generated a ripple that's why a company to protest in this book and to give voice to the people that are being protested. >> host: don't the u.s. aid program to keep an eye on where the money is being spent? >> guest: this intersects with u.s. foreign policy agenda. ethiopia is an ally in the war on terror and if that is perfect for the reason that the aid is going there but it's distorting the debate on democracy because we are pretending that he's a good guy but he's anything but a. we are not even allowed to talk about the human rights and political rights in the development. >> host: why is this the privileged way of doing things? >> guest: wow, it's so much easier. the world is

usaid programs. i view these as sunk costs. and as larry diamond will probably say during lunch, you have to have a state in order to do these programs. you have to have a functioning state. and that's a key part of this. and we haven't talked very much about that, i think most of us in this room would probably draw a large distinction between nation building and encouraging democratic transitions. and nation-building is something entirely different. that's -- i'm not an expert on nation-building, and i think it's extremely hard -- it's extremely difficult. and you have to be fully committed to it. i think my comments are mostly directed at encouraging democratic transitions. >> and the biggest question comes up at the end. you wanted to say something very quickly and then we'll go to the next -- >> okay. let's talk about that among ourselves then. so thank you very much. i'm going to call him back up here and he can take my place and tell us what we're going to do next. >> i want to begin by thanking this panel so much. you we

eric postell who began at usaid's growth education and environment in march of 2011. in october of 2014 he was asked by dr. schaub usaid administrator to serve as an assistant for the administrator of africa. mr. postell brings to the position more than 25 years of private sector experience working in emerging markets, especially those in africa. he's founded an investment banking and investment firm, served as a commissioner of the u.s. helping to enhance the livelihood of people around the globe commission and worked for citibank tokyo. then we'll hear from dr. robert eichhorn who serves on the bureau of resources. he's responsible for the transformation of energy systems to achieve greater efficiency and market forces and innovative financing approaches that leads to bureau's efforts to reform electricity and power systems to develop more efficient and reliable national and regional electricity markets. dr. ichord has a long history of service in the field having worked for the energy research and development agency, the u.s. department of energy and, again, usaid.

ami was with usaid and feed the future. thank you for all you have done over the past years and for a done to layou have the foundation for the future. i have a question, and then a more serious question. the first one is on this getting beyond the ideological lines do you think we made a mistake by, essentially, x-ing out earmarks? i think if we look into the horse trading that goes around money for particular district, i think if we look back, it provided sort of a trading currency that was maybe more important than we realized. that is one. >> let me answer that. yes. i think that earmarks need to be transparent. , we can find the lawrence welk museum, that became a big issue in one of my campaigns. it really cost nothing, but it was a big issue. so i think that earmarks need to be transparent. i think it is almost impossible for a legislative process to work without people feeling that they have investment in the system. during my years in the congress when i was able to get a few , things in a bill, they were usually n

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to combat this, global communities, usaid and the liberian government, are exploring safe burials in montserrato through identifying land that can accommodate a large number of burials and has space for families to safely gather and mourn. despite the challenges, safe burial is proving highly effective. we began burial team support in august for bong, lofa and mimba counties. by the first week of october we expanded to support teams in every county of liberia and last month they were able to collect 96% of bodies within 24 hours. we were also able to directly reach over 1500 communities through meeting and dialogue sessions. bringing together senior government officials, county health teams, traditional chiefs, religious leaders, community health volunteers, and other local leaders. indeed it is now being widely reported that we are seeing the rate of infection slow throughout liberia which is cause for optimism. however it is not yet time for celebration. we must maintain the level of vigilance that is proven effective in beginning to control the spread of the virus. significant lon

does the usaid provide salary support? we know in catastrophic situations very often that subsidy can be provided. i remember being in sri lanka after the tsunami issue and we were paying salaries to individuals to do work, to do cleanup, not only was motivating, it stopped them from -- they were actively doing the cleanup of their own homes and communities but there was that significant subsidy to help them get money in their pocket, to get their businesses going locally. i'm wondering if usaid or any other entity is providing salary support. >> the liberia government is in charge and they should be in charge. at the end of the day it's their country and we are just guests there. we only work through them and with them. i don't think any of those countries were prepared for such an outbreak, especially countries like liberia that have suffered from a long civil war and trying to recover from that. in addition to other systemic issues there. the world health organization, cdc, ngos work to support the liberia mintry of hea

market mccluskey from usaid. to first -- to quick question. used in the mr. of interest in seeing africa lead the way in the future hiv technology dignity to share your vision a little bit about how iavi has and will engage africa in that endeavor. but first i wanted, dr. fauci, could you mention have these antibodies can probably neutralize at the possible use and the potential expense having to do with acid antibody transfer? >> passive antibody transfer is being done right now as a proof of concept to determine what the level and with the breath of what you would need when you induce it. we know in animal models if you passively transfer antibodies you can not only treat but you can prevent infections. spin can you explain -- >> that means take antibodies, cloned them and they go bunch of them, and you infuse them into someone, either to prevent them from getting infected or if they are infected to treat. it isn't a particularly good approach to treatment because we have one pill of three drugs i can do a much better than any antibody can do it. but it's b

to combat this, global communities, usaid and the liberian government, are exploring safe burials in montserrato through identifying land that can accommodate a large number of burials and has space for families to safely gather and mourn. despite the challenges, safe burial is proving highly effective. we began burial team support in august for bong, lofa and mimba counties. by the first week of october we expanded to support teams in every county of liberia and last month they were able to collect 96% of bodies within 24 hours. we were also able to directly reach over 1500 communities through meeting and dialogue sessions. bringing together senior government officials, county health teams, traditional chiefs, religious leaders, community health volunteers, and other local leaders. indeed it is now being widely reported that we are seeing the rate of infection slow throughout liberia which is cause for optimism. however it is not yet time for celebration. we must maintain the level of vigilance that is proven effective in beginning to control the spread of the virus. significant lon

actually a long-standing partnership that usaid funchess involves a another of u.s. utilities and another one involving u.s. regulators and they work in combination with people in the individual countries for this very reason so they can have very technical interaction from one utility technical person to another, and to try to increase that skill level, because there are definitely gaps, and we need to keep working on that. >> if i could, those tack tuck cal people come here to learn or do our people get deploy thread? >> both. depending on the circumstances. >> how large of an operation is that? >> it's a modest sized, very economical system where each year we get requests from different country and it's restricted to africa but africa is a big participant. and we match them up with different utilities. don't off the top-my head but probably a utility in new jersey or california or whatever, but they match up -- match them up with utilities that have the expertise they need. so, then they have these exchanges and interactions. >> for the record could you provide th

usaid that these elections are a violation of those proper protocols, and there is thought there are sanctions along the way. >> there are elections in the u.s. let's look at what is at stake a with this vote. all house o seats in the house will be contested and in the senate. the democrats have a ten-seat majority now. they got there through 53 seats of their own plus two independents who have joined them. the republicans have 45. that mean the republican party needs to win six more seats than it already has to take control of the senate. it already controls the house of representatives, so a republican majority in both houses would make life pretty difficult for democrat president barack obama and his two remaining years in office. >> young voters played a decisive role in obama's election victory in 2008. but midterm promise many younger people typically don't bother to cast their ballots. we have reports from new orleans in efforts to get them out to the polling stations. [♪ singing ] >> at the new baptist church the pastor preaches about the power of the ballot box. >> we try to

procedures, using existing contracts that entities already have with our department of defense or with usaidy and speed up the delivery of personal protective equipment, construction of treatment units, delivery of training to aid workers. they will be trying to speed these funds to the ground as quickly as possible. >> you have also spoken to the leaders in some of these countries. what are they telling you that they need? >> they are saying that they need stronger public health systems investment to make sure they have got the resources not just to fight ebola right now, but to recover their public health system. i spoke to [indiscernible] recently you asked me to thank the world and the united states, insisting we not step back or slow down now, to make sure we continue to support health workers who are coming from around the world and make it clear that they won't face a travel ban that would prevent them from returning home to their home countries. she also asked that we make sure we invest in the regional public health systems that will prevent a renewed outbreak in any of the countrie

they are focusing on the islamic state group video released on sunday that shows the beheading of the usaidorker, peter kassig. >> there is one angle in particular that is getting a lot of attention, the angle of the foreign jihadists that appears in this video. let's take a look at the front page of the guardian, a screen grab from the video for some you can see these two men who are reportedly fire -- foreigners fighting alongside the islamic state group. on the left, the man is thought to be 20-year-old british student from cardiff, master mutawa. the guardian reports that his father has said it could be him. but later said seeing the screen grab it's not his son. it's unclear exactly who that man is. the man on the right has been identified by the paris prosecutor as 22-year-old frenchman maxime ochat. >> what do we know about him so far? >> he is 22 years old, from normandy. he started out as a normal kid from a stereotypical french family and at the age of 17 he converted to islam alone, thanks to the internet. he has actually been on the radar of french intelligence services since 20

and my colleague from usaid can speak to that is essential. that is specific. that is important.hat's part of what the funding will do to support the people to get people in country in west africa so that we can assist. while 90% as mentioned by director frieden, of the people who are doing the work and care are locals. we need that 10% to come and be experienced. so that's one entire area. then i think there's the other area. that's where the bill and melinda gates foundation, paul g. allen, and that's helping in the areas where they have expertise. the gates foundation is not only funding at helping with the cdc foundation. nih is working very closely with the gates foundation so that we make sure we have the best experts, zmapp, one of the drugs, it's not just about a drug. it actually is an agricultural product because it comes from tobacco. so gates agricultural experts are part of our conversation to make sure we're speeding that along. in addition, people like it the paul allen foundation found places that they could help us. one of the critical issues is medevacing health

usaid this is a violation of these protocols, and some say there are more sanctions on the way. >> theeath sentence has been given to an islam party leader convicted of war crimes dating back to the country's war for indians in 1971. two other senior members have been sentenced to death for similar crimes. >> visiting the memorial for victims of war crimes during the struggle for independence. during the war this man's entire family were killed. father, mother, and siblings were killed. >> i always said with the last two breaths before i day, first i will say a prayer to allah, and then the second breath i will see that they are punished for what they did. >> destroyers estimate 500,000 people were killed in nine months. by the pakistani military and it's collaborators. many of these collaborators have continued to live as free man as something that angers many. one of the prime minister's election promises was that she would finally bring war criminals to justice. however the war crimes trials have been largely overshadowed by controversy. last year activists took to the streets in pr

agency on international development, usaid, more than 30 years ago. this is her second posting as an ambassador. >> liliana: challenges could have been there but i never took anything as a roadblock. in many cases i may have been the first woman they had seen in whether it was a director or a as i moved up as a mission director and then, of course, as a u.s. ambassador. i think along the way i may have represented something that people weren't prepared for. they look at my name and it's hispanic, an hispanic woman. they probably didn't expect it but i did it. >> bonnie: ambassador ayalde granted "to the contrary" access to videotape a day or, more accurately, two days in the life of an ambassador. we followed her in the capital city of brasilia and mega-city sao paolo. it was a packed and exciting schedule. television and newspaper interviews at a high profile luncheon in sao paolo promoting brazilian tourism to the us a meeting with afro-brazilians about their concerns and how us diplomats can help. and visiting a mural at the consulate that used soc

through the usaid and the embassy goes a long way. we need to protect the interest and we watched the state department lose that fight on an annual basis. the balkans is a great advertisement for why we need to so the line on the state department because that is what allows them to continue. in my state i had a population with a lot of friends back home who are frustrated about the lack of process and integration. this is something that comes up very often in my conversation. >> i'm a university professor and i've read your fascinating books and your lecture was also excellent and coming back to the alternatives that you mentioned on the promising information as part of the company have you heard any alternative? >> this is a national energy company that is effectively done jointly by the hungarian entity and controlled now by this entity there is a long-running dispute between the major ownership entities and it's been expressed in the willingness to desire to show an interest in selling and you are right that the issue is the creati

with the efforts of usaid, and led by some foundations and others, they created a coffee exchange. now there is a mechanism where farmers can using their cell phones and their smart devices can access more current information on a coffee prices. and as i understand it's had a remarkable effect on their income levels. that's one small example. i do think the administration's efforts in feed the future and then the bush administration's efforts on pepfar which were dramatic, and it's funny, a lot of people don't talk about, you know. in my political circles, george bush tends to get the same kind of negative publicity that barack obama gets from the tea party in the right wing. but the truth of the matter is, the bush efforts on health in africa were truly transformational. and those then had an impact on economic development and allowing people to move up the income chain. so, and i think the same way president obama's been doing and feed the future and usaid have been -- have been really helpful. not only in subsaharan africa, but america, as well. i think the foundations and ngos

usaid, which funds efforts in serbia to improve democratic institutions and the rule of law, has seen major cuts in the past few years. we should reverse these cuts, restore the money and let belgrade know we're going to be a partner for years to come. and the united states can play a much larger role in helping serbia on a path to the e.u., this is serbia's intent without a doubt. but in the case of ukraine, the e.u. mismanaged the application process, giving kiev too many excuses to turn away to russia. now, with good reason the united states doesn't like to get involved in the weeds of the e.u. asession process, but we can't afford to sit on the sidelines on this one. the e.u.'s inability to close a deal with yanukovych ultimately drew the united states into a major international crisis. i'm not saying that serbia is teed up for that same kind of moment, but as a friend of both brussels and belgrade, the u.s. can play a more active role than we have in helping to keep the e.u. process moving along constructively. second, i believe that nato should offer membership to montenegro as

i had asked during the last hearing for usaid to provide me with specific program by program metrics and to this date have yet to receive the information in its entirety. i am aware of the vanderbilt study, a $3.5 million study to evaluate some of usaid's program in the region. unfortunately, the study does not provide us with project by project evaluations and cost benefit analysis, and that may not be available right now. i've said this before, the u.s. taxpayer is very generous and wants to help the people of he will sal var to and honduras find a path to peace and prosperity in their respective countries. however, they also demand that we spend their hard-earned taxpayer money wisely and achievable -- excuse me, and achieve measurable results. as a result, we must acknowledge the previous programs in central america have failed. despite u.s. investments, these countries continue to flail and these failures ultimately contributed to the crisis along our border. it is our responsibility and yours to ensure that going forward, that we have very serious buy-in and political will from

a clinical trial network, primarily in africa, a little bit in india, primary funding for that is usaid and product development work as well. through that network we have been able to make a lot of contributions in the epidemiology of hiv and as anthony fauci talked-about the broadly neutralizing antibodies, we utilize those centers to help us to gather the samples of the hiv-positive patients to contribute to the design of the ultimate vaccine products and we have an expansion program of our activity, we are not adding more sites, we have nine clinical trial centers in five african countries but an expansion program that helps build to an even greater extent, the scientific leadership coming from africa to help build that infrastructure that will help with the next major global health threat that emerges and certainly has a lot of ancillary benefits within africa. so our real goal is to get to that proof of concept. we are not equipped to bring vaccine to market. as an organization we are not equipped to undo that. we need a major vaccine company and/or emerging market manufacturer tal

intern is of being connected going to the usaid web site somebody could send an e-mail and then we use that one stop shop to all one dozen government entities depend on the circumstances to make a connection because we have the view people should not have to hunt ball over the u.s. government for food to talk to. so we will save them that. >> i would like to help you with as well so may be reaching out to members of congress with that african diaspora and african american diaspora we're very interested to help with power africa. >> we will take you a bomb that. >> another issue that came up when the bill was heard in committee as we are with power africa and supporting the development of the infrastructure of the continent to what extent is it getting into the communities? there is some concern the infrastructure is in cities but considering people in the rural areas or in neighborhoods don't have electricity. just with women's giving child birth over the cellphone to deliver a baby. >> let me start. clearly the issues related to the rural electrification is changing a lot and is a rev

you can see the entire interview with usaid the sunday at 10:00 a.m. and six clock p.m. on suspect -- 6:00 p.m. on c-span and you can see it available online at www.c-span.org. do you plan to talk all it takes this thanksgiving? if so, what you think will come up? on twitter, sam says, cannot help talking about it. it directly attack -- directly affects your table fare. and richard says, politics is live, i'll talk politics any time, any day. michael in detroit, go ahead. caller: we talk politics every day. i don't know how you can live without talking politics, because politics is nothing but group ethics, and ethics is the code of values that determines your choices and actions. when people say they don't want to talk politics, that means they are being disingenuous. you cannot live without -- talking politics. one of the subjects we will talk about is that money is playing such a large part in the election. when they turn money into speech, they are saying that the group that has the most money will have the most to say. they cannot stand on their own rhetoric, so the