their funding comes from usaid, the u.s. agency for international development. their bay area nonprofit, roots of peace, is helping farmers improve their crops to sell internationally and teaching women to become farmers. >> they work in a building surrounded by security guards armed with machine guns. when heidi kuhn visits, she wears body armor because she's a target for radicals who don't like westerners or women working outside the home. why do you do this? you don't have to do this. you don't have to be here in this war zone to manage your business. >> mm-hmm. we take our business very seriously, cheryl. i'm so fortunate to have four children. i look into the eyes of my own children and grandchild, and i think how fortunate they are to grow up in california, to live truly in peace. >> some of the women came to the heavily guarded hotel where we were staying. they affectionately call kuhn "heidi mama." they told me they take a risk daily just going to and from work because of attacks by the taliban. they work mostly with widows. there are an estimated one mi

also known as usaid. i'm here with my colleague, senator coons, from the foreign relations committee to talk about this nominee because this is a noncontroversial nominee of a seasoned public servant for a position that should be above partisanship. so it's really disappointing that, again, there's only one person in this body who's holding this up, and this comes at a particularly difficult time because we're witnessing a humanitarian crisis in syria and across the middle east. it is a crisis that goes -- grows worse every day. our european allies are struggling to cope with a massive refugee and migration crisis without precedent since world war ii. and the united states' ability to provide humanitarian relief has played a leading role, but there's more we can do to assist both the syrian refugees and the neighboring countries that are hosting them. to help with that humanitarian crisis. but our ability to respond effectively to these challenges is hampered by the inability of the senate to vote on gayl

the inspector general of usaid has not been confirmed. these appointments have been here for some time. mr. president, i've listened to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle talk about the refugee crisis. we have approaching the number of people dislocated in this world similar to what we had at the end of world war ii. the principal agency that deals with this crisis in the united states is the usaid. we know we have conflict areas all over the world. we've heard over and over again that the way that we deal with this, one of our major tools is through development assistance. we need confirmed top management at this agency. the united states senate has an obligation to act. in each of these cases, none of these nominees are controversial. i want to repeat that. they're not being held by a senator because of anything to do with their qualifications or the position to which they have been nominated for. they're unrelated issues. for a long period of time compromising the critical missions of these agencies. just as tragically, there are

in april i wrote a bipartisan letter to usaid with my colleagues in the michigan delegation asking usaido consider removing bureaucratic red tape to help these communities. six months later my letter remains unanswered. while i understand usaid is under pressure to make sure every vulnerable citizen is taking care of, if our aid is not getting there at the right time our efforts are futile and the crisis becomes worse. to better coordinate the efforts i introduced legislation that would require the interested parties to better coordinate with one another to ensure timely relief to these endangered citizens. after spending po ye30 years in business, i know communication is important. i yield back my time. >> mr. boyle is recognized. >> thank you, and i would just briefly say that we face the real turning point in late august, ever since the shocking and horrific sight of a small boy's body being washed ashore on a beach in turkey. that really, i think, awoken the consciences of many people. i was in europe at that time as part of an international conference. and it clearly changed the dyn

in i'm i wrote a letter to usaid asking usaid to consider removing the red tape to help the battered communities. six months later my letter remains unanswered. while i understand they are under pressure to assure that every vulnerable citizen is taking care of if the aid is not getting there at the right time the efforts are futile and the crisis becomes worse. to better coordinate the relief efforts ongoing in the region i introduced legislation that would require the interested parties to better coordinate with one another to ensure timely relief. after spending 30 years in bils i know the key to success of any project is communication and cooperation and not more red tape and obstacles and excuses. i yield back my time. >> mr. boyle is recognized. >> thank you, and i would just briefly say that we face a real turning point in late august ever since the shocking and horrific sight of a small boy's body being washed ashore on a beach in turkey. that really i think awoken the consciences of many people. i was in europe at that time as part of an international conference. and it clea

in pakistan, usaid has existing partners ready to respond if necessary. we certainly have some assets that could be helpful and we stand ready to do what we can to help the governments as they rerepond to this terrible situation." there are concerns about the potential for landslides in mountainous regions. officials say much of the death and devastation is in pakistan. . canadian officials are investigating why a whale watching boat capsized and sank off vancouver island. authorities say 27 people were on board the boat sunday afternoon. five british nationals are confirmed dead and one person is missing. because of the size of the 65 foot ship, passengers were not required to wear lle jackets on bobord. with fewer than 100 days till the iowa caucuses, two new polls skow ben carson is leading the her republican prrsidential caaidates here in iowa. a loras college poll shows carson with 30 percent support among likely g-o-p caucus goers. that's 12 points ahead of donald trump. the only other canddate in double digits is marco rubii at 10 percent the poll

in fact, a gender analysis is mandated in all usaid requests for proposal. again, that is a little wonkish. for that represents progress here. and lastly, the department itself has been active in this area. and it has several efforts on women peace and security that we will be talking about in a moment with michele flournoy. but there are problems still. even under secretary of state hillary clinton, the four years she served in that position, some within the administration actually characterize attention to gender as a pet rock that was weighing down our set. -- weighing down our rucksack, and had to be left by the wayside. there were more important things to do. so people genuflect to the idea that women were important. i can only imagine that secretary of state hillary clinton was a forceful personality and making sure the people agreed him at least on the surface, the gender was important. but many of them may not have taken it as seriously as she did. and dropped it as soon as the going got tough. in our book, and we even have wonderful comments by our

in july, the inspector general issued a letter to the head of usaid, saying 80% of the hospitals andealth care facilities they had listed is getting support from the united states -- you could not find the hospitals. they said there was questions raised about many of these locations. [indiscernible] locations reported by the united states. nursesu have doctors and being in a very terrible situation trying to deliver health care [indiscernible] amy: we're going to go to dr. gino strada and get your the telephone so we can hear you more clearly. dr. gino strada, in milan, italy, can you talk about what it means that doctors without borders will be shutting down their operation in northern kunduz after this u.s. airstrike on the hospital that killed so many? what will it mean for the people there? what kind of access will they have to medicine? >> well, this is a major problem that we still have to understand . the main issue is to ensure at the moment a sort of fast track, a fast corridor in order for the patients and wounded and those who will the wounded them a because fighting is on

or a dozen documents but we had a lot of work that was ongoing both at the state department and at usaid>> and did you ask for those documents to be prepared and do you know if you had a team working on that or was it something happening on its own accord? >> we had a number of people working on that. i said i sent both of my deputies out to libya to meet with the libyans. you know we can do all the planning we want in washington but it's very important to ask if libyans what they want and expect from us and so we had an ongoing dialog that lasted over many months. >> yes, ma'am i agree with that. we will get a chance to talk about that in a bit. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. >> let's do this and take a quick break and come back and we will talk about it. this is al jazeera america. congresswoman tammy is questioning former secretary clinton now and let's bring it back to the studio and talk to david shoe sterand karen greenburg. david, what are we learning, how many hours now, what are we learning? >> 4 1/2, five hours and a couple of things to clinton's point and stevens and

in pakistan, usaid has existing partners who are ready to respond if necessary. we certainly do have assets that could be helpful and we stand ready to do what we can to help the government respond to this terrible situation. >> two big deadlines coming up, speaker boehner has been pushing to finish a two-year budget deal before he leaves in the next fedes. can you give us an update on how those negotiations are going? josh: as we've talked about, republicans over the course of this year have devoted significant time to trying to pass budgets strictly along party lines. those efforts time and time again have failed. and what we have been saying, and when i say we, i mean both the white house and democrats in congress, is that republicans need to negotiate with democrats around budget agreements. and trying to find common ground in a bipartisan way to ensure that the goth can be funded. and over the last several weeks, there have been bipartisan conversations taking place on capitol hill. the white house has been a part of many of those conversations as well. assi

i felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the state department in usaid. i take that very seriously. as i said with respect to security requests in benghazi, back when i testified in january of 2013, those requests, and issues related to security, were rightly handled by the security professionals in the department. i did not see them. i did not approve them. i did not deny them. ambassador pickering, and admiral mullen make this case very clearly in their testimony before your committee and in their public comments. these issues would not ordinarily come before the secretary of state, and they did not in this case. as secretary, i was committed to taking aggressive measures to insure our personnel's and facilities were as safe as possible, and certainly when the non-partisan critical report from the accountability review board came forward, i took it very seriously and that's why i embraced all of their recommendations and created a new position within the diplomatic security bureau specifically to evaluate high-risk posts. i think it's important also to

among the dead, three usaid workers. 13 others have serious injuries. the attacks continued even after military officials were notified the hospital was being attacked. >>> in decision 2016 republican presidential candidate donald trump now defending the second amendment. the real estatedjçp mogul says shooting at the oregon community college would not have happened if the students and teachers had been carrying guns. >> and, by the way, it was a gun-free zone. i will tell you, if you had a couple of the teacher os or somebody with guns in that room, you would have been a helluva lot better off. you would have been a helluva lot better off. >> trump also said that he has a permit to carry a handgun in new york. he compared himself to charles bronson in the 1974 movie "death wish." coming up on "meet the press," moderator chuck todd will discuss the second amendment with trump including his former stance on gun control, which called for assault weapons to be banned. >>> and on the democratic side, hillary clinton spent her time here in washington discus

>> 70,000 between the state department and usaid. >> and you are responsible for all of them as well?> that's true. >> can any human being on the face of the planet protect every one of them every second of every day? that's a rhetorical question. >> we can try. we can try. >> that was one of those moments, and there was another when she gave her account of how she experienced the hours of the benghazi attack, and how they learned that one of our people was dead and they were still looking for chris stevens and they couldn't find him and they finally found his body -- >> and it's moments you don't get to the debate stage? >> yeah, and you get as much time was want. you are in control and you are the witness. that was not just human, but it was gripping. >> let's listen to the part you just referred to. >> one of the horrors of the hours after the attack was our failure to be able to find where the ambassador was. we were desperate, and we were trying to call everybody we knew in benghazi and libya, get additional help, and what appears to have happened at some point later, is that lib

speaker, consider the case of ann, a usaid worker who was posted in the u.s. embassy in beirut in 1983. at 1:00 p.m. on april 18 a suicide bomber in a delivery van drove 2,000 pounds of explosives into the front door of our u.s. embassy, and the blast demolished the front of the building and caused the upper floors to collapse on top of each other. and when that went off, she was eating lunch in the embassy cafeteria. until suddenly she awoke outside covered in cement with 19 bones broken, 63 people killed in that blast. now, we have a moral obligation to ensure that these judgments for these victims, which represent iran's legal debt to the victims of its official policy of terrorism are paid. there have been 90 such attacks on americans, and this legislation helps us fulfill that moral obligation we have to our constituents and to all americans. what i will share with you is that it is not going to work to release the $100 billion first, because that $100 billion goes into the hands of the irgc. they are the ones who have taken over the companies in iran as

has been one of the great hours of my life to leave the men and women of the state department and usaid. nearly 70,000 serving here in washington, one in 270 poster on the world get up and go to work every day, often in difficult and dangerous circumstances because they believe, as we believe, the united states is the most extraordinary force for piece and progress the world has ever known. when we suffer tragedies overseas, as we have, the number of americans applying to the foreign service actually increases. that tells us everything we need to know about what kind of patriots i am talking about. they ask what they can do for their country command america is stronger for it. today after four years in this job my faith in our country and future is stronger than ever. every time that blue and white airplane carrying the words united states of america touches down in some far-off capitol, i feel the honor it is to represent the world's indispensable nation and i'm confident that with your help we will keep the united states safe, strong, and exceptional. i want to thank this committee fo

prepositioned emergency shelter and supply kits and warehouses throughout afghanistan and in pakistan usaid has existing partners ready to responsibility. >> reporter: in addition to existence from u.s. agencies are mobilizing and the earthquake zone. kelly write fox news. >> daniel: persian gulf in building boom right now and decades it could be too hot for humans to live there and climate change experts say end of the century the heat index in saudi arabia cutar and it could be hot for many humans to survive. morning about whether maritime law was broken. the uss lassin was only 12 nautical miles from the manmade island. mission was approved by the president. u.s. government does not recognize the island as chinese territory because the sea is center of many territory disputes. >> julie: new video shows success of raid isis prison in iraq where american soldier was killed. isis held prisoners running for their lives and seconds after delta force troops and kurdish commandos burst into the prison last week and see the rescuers checking hostages for weapons and suicide vests. raid was first

sequestration will be very damaging to the state department and usaid if it does come to pass because it throws the baby out with the bath. other programs that we could reduce, make more efficient? >> guest: and that's part of what i've been trying to do is to push that forward and that's what the qdr process was about but there are also a lot of very essential programs for security of our personnel in dangerous places that we can afford to cut more of so i hope we get the transfer authority and have a sensible budget discussion going forward. >> thank you. senator barrasso. stan thank you mr. chairman and madam secretary want to thank you for your incredible commitment to this country as first lady and a member of this body as secretary of state and i have seen you work yourself to exhaustion. not to your own benefit but to the benefit of this country in and the country is grateful for that. i agree we need to make sure that something like this never happens again and i've looked at it like the challenger explosion where we lost the severn -- seven astronauts. we didn't see it coming

i felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the state department and usaid.iously. as i said with respect to security requests in benghazi back when i testified in january of 2013, those requests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the security professionals in the department. i did not see them. i did not approve them. i did not deny them. ambassador pickering and admiral mullen make this case very clearly in their testimony before your committee and in their public comments. these issues would not ordinarily come before the secretary of state and they did not in this case. as secretary, i was committed to taking aggressive measures to ensure our personnel and facilities were as safe as possible. certainly, when the nonpartisan critical report from the accountability review board came forward, i took it very seriously. and that's why i embraced all of our recommendations and created a new position within the diplomatic security burroeau, specifically to evaluate high-risk posts. i think it's important also to mention, congressman, that the

. >> thes a a substantial usaid presence in both of these countries, and there are a number of pre-positionedmergency shelter and relief supply kits in warehouses throughout afghanistan. >> reporter: the full extent of the damage will take some time to be known. rescue operations are still being mounted in remote areas. richelle carey, al jazeera. >>> new developments tonight in the dispute over waters in the south china sea. the u.s. plans to challenge china east territorial claim to the area. al jazeera has confirmed the pentagon plans to send a u.s. navy destroyer to the region. it's a move china has repeatedly warned against. jamie mcintyre is at the pentagon. >> reporter: for months the u.s. has said it's not going to recognize china's claim to territorial waters in the south china see -- sea, and the authorize ration has been given for the guided missile cruiser to conduct what the pentagon calls a freedom of navigation mission within the territorial waters claimed by china in the south china sea. these are around what the pentagon says are man-made islands, reefs that china has built u

in pakistan, usaid has partners ready to respond. >> most of the 387 deaths were in pakistan. thousands were injured. helicopters are used to get supplies to victims. >> if the bay area, san jose police are looking for witnesses in the murder of a young realtor gunned down inside a nightclub. alan wang has the story. >> the small spokesman but a -- small man but big heart. quit witnessed. i loved to see michael arcega. >> sam worked with 34-year-old michael arcega up and coming real estate agent in san carlos. >> exciting news on thursday he signed his first lifting and on friday he as all excited he had his first listing. >> friday night, michael arcega who grew up in hawaii want out to celebrate at the law -- the lu beer club restaurant and:30 on saturday morning, neighbors her three gunshots necessity believe killed michael arcega who was standing outside of the club. flowers and candles marked the spot with he fell. a message thanked him for a 12 year relationship and being a father figure to a child. >> police believe there are wants who ran from the scene. they would lik

i felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the state department and usaid.hat very seriously. as i said with respect to security requests in benghazi back when i testified in january of 2013, those requests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the security professionals in the department. i did not see them. i did not approve them. i did not deny them. ambassador pickering and admiral mullen make this case very clearly in their testimony before your committee and in their public comments. these issues would not ordinarily come before the secretary of state, and they did not in this case. as secretary, i was committed to taking aggressive measures to ensure our personnels and fa ilt ises were as safe as possible. and certainly when the nonpartisan critical report from the accountability review board came forward, i took it very seriously, and that's why i embraced all of their recommendations and created a new position within the diplomatic security bureau specifically to evaluate high-risk posts. i think it's important also to mention, cong

i felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the state department in usaid. i take that very seriously. as i said with respect to security requests in benghazi back when i testified in january 2013, those interests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the security professionals in the department. i did not see them. i did not approve them. i did not deny them. ambassador pickering and admiral mullen make this case very clearly in their testimony before your committee and in their public comments. these issues would not ordinarily come before the secretary of state. and they did not in this case. as secretary, i was committed to taking aggressive measures to ensure our personnel's and facilities were as safe as possible. and certainly when the nonpartisan critical report from the accountability review board came forward, i took it very seriously. and that's i embraced all their recommendations and created a new position within the diplomatic security bureau specifically to evaluate high risk posts. i think it's important also to mention, cong

has been one of the great honors of my life to lead the men and women of the state department and usaidre than 70,000 serving in washington, 170 posts around the world. they get up to work every day often in difficult and dangerous circumstances because they believe, as we believe, the united states is the most extraordinary force for peace and progress the world has ever known. >> i'm joined by one of the five democrats on that house select committee on benghazi. what is your reaction to mrs. clinton when you see her there? >> i thought it was incredibly powerful. the ambassador was someone she knew personally, someone she helped to select. so she is dealing with this trauma, this tragedy and then you compound it by people making a political football about this, which i have to think given what i know of the ambassador would be the last thing in the world he would have wanted. i think his mother said as much. the other night during the debate for this offensive stop hillary pack to air showing ambassador stevenson's tomb stone. every day a new low. >> we've gone down the list of nbc of

in pakistan, usaid has existing partners who are ready to respond. >> in addition to assistance fromthe u.s., the united nations is mobilizing its agencies and ready to help relief efforts in the quake zone. >>> time is 5:04. illegal dumping is a growing problem. today, the city is expected to take action to stop it. what they have in mind. good morning. >> we are here near san jose state. the university and -- university and the area surrounding it has been named a hot spot in the city for illegal dumping. often times people will leave unwanted furniture and items. it's happening more and more. san francisco and oakland have the power to fine people for ill lowell dumping. the city of san jose does not. today, the council will vote on whether to penalize people $1000 for the first violation. 1500 for the second, and $3000 for the third. the city studtied illegal dumping and found it had risen 75%. the heavy problem hears where unwanted items are getting dumped in downtown in east and west san jose especially around multiunit homes and apartments. the way it currently handles dumping

troops -- not including the contractors supporting the cia, state department, usaid, or other governmentgencies. antony loewenstein, you traveled to afghanistan and spoke to some of these contractors what did they tell you? >> they worry about the war winding down. they're scared, i was there in 2012 and this year in may and 2015, and one of the things that many of them were saying both in 2012 and in 2015 is that they realized u.s. is winding down its war, but ultimately as you say, obama has declared the war finished. it is being rebranded. the occupation continues. there's talk about possibly raising troops. the afghan security forces -- which i might add were trained by private companies, dyncorp train the iraqi security forces and the afghan security forces. massive failures on both front. it is had no impact on tank were getting more context, i might add. the attack on the medical center goes to the heart of that. there is a reduction in space for humanitarian activism. when i was there this year with my film partner, thor, we were looking at what afghanistan's will look like in th

usaid says if india enrolled 1% more of the girls in school their gdp would rise by $5.5 billion.of secondary education can boost a girl's future earnings by 18%. the world bank found more age indicated women tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn more income, fewer children and provide better health care and education to their children all of which can improve the well being of all individuals and can lift households ou of poverty. that's the number. 62 million. let's do something together for the 62 million girls that we owe it to. i'm poppy harlow. next the "'70s marathon, including a look at crime and cult. >>> tonight our topic will be murder as a growth industry. >> murder has become an epidemic in america. >> in the last ten years, the homicide rate has increased by leaps and bounds.

they're seeking this resolution on usaid and also -- [inaudible] -- >> i haven't seen that letter so i don't know -- okay. i haven't seen that letter so i'm sure that if it was addressed to the president we'll make sure it's processed. i can tell you the president deeply values his relationship with prime minister modi, that the united states and india have worked together very closely. they have a strong partnership, specifically on expanding economic opportunities. that is something the president has worked hard on and directed his team at the white house and throughout the administration to focus on our relationship there and seek opportunities to expand cooperation. thank you. >> john dexter, the last one and then we drool the week ahead. >> tau. interesting news this week on the democratic front in terms of the race for the democratic nomination. lincoln chafee dropped out of the race today. jim webb dropped it earlier this week and we saw the announcement by vice president biden in the rose garden. does it make it easier for the president to endorse hillary clinton much earlier

>> 70,000, between the state department and usaid. >> and you're responsible for all of them as well?'s true, congressman. >> can you protect every one of them every second of every day? that's rhetorical. >> well, we can try. we can try. >> she give her account of the benghazi attack and how they learned that one of our people was dead and they were still looking for chris stephens and they couldn't find him and they finally found his body. >> those are things you don't get on the debate stage. >> exactly. and you get as much time as you want. because it's pointed out, you're in control. that was not just human, it was gripping. >> let's listen to the part you just referred to. >> one of the horrors of the hours after the attack was our failure to be able to find where the ambassador was. we were desperate and we were trying to call everybody we knew in benghazi and libya, get additional help. what appears to have happened at some point later is that libyans found ambassador stephens and they carried him to the hospital in benghazi. and libyan doctors labored nearly two hours to try

understanding and cooperation between the state department, our diplomats, our development professionals from usaid and the congress. so the congress is a partner with us. as was the case in previous times. i would like us to get back to those times. whereas i think one of you said, beirut, we lost far more americans not once but twice within a year. there was no partisan effort. people rose above politics. a democratic congress worked with a republican administration to say what do we need to learn. out of that came the legislation for the accountability review board. similarly after we lost more americans, the bombings in east africa, between, republicans and democrats worked together. said, what do we need to do better? so i'm -- i'm an optimist, congressman. i'm hoping that will be the outcome of this and every other effort. so that we really do honor not only those we lost but all those who right as we speak are serving in dangerous places, representing the values and the interests of the american people. >> thank you, madam secretary. >> gentleman from california yields back. i'm going to add

understanding and cooperation between the state department, our diplomats, our development professionals from usaid and the congress so that the congress is a partner with us. as was the case in previous times. i would like us to get back to those times, congressman. whereas i think one of you said beirut we lost far more americans, not once but twice within a year. there was no partisan effort. people rose above politics. a democratic congress worked with a republican administration to say "what do we need learn?" out of that came the legislation for the accountability review board. similarly, after we lost more americans for the bombings in east africa, again, reps and democrats worked together and said "what do we need to do better?" so i'm -- i'm an optimist, congressman, i'm hoping that will be the outcome of this and every other effort so that we really do honor not only those we lost but all those who right as we speak are serving in dangerous places representing the values and the interests of the american people. >> thank you, madam secretary. >> the gentleman from california yields back.

i felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the state department and usaid. i take that very seriously. as i said with respect to security requests in benghazi back when i testified in january of 2013, those requests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the security professionals in the department. i did not see them. i did not approve them. i did not deny them. ambassador pickering and admiral mullin make this case very clearly in their testimony before your committee and in their public comments. these issues would not ordinarily come before the secretary of state, and they did not, in this case. as secretary, i was committed to taking aggressive measures to ensure our personnel and facilities were as safe as possible. certainly, when the nonpartisan , critical report from the accountable review board came forward, i took it very seriously, and that's why i embraced all of their recommendations and created a new position within the diplomatic security bureau, specifically to evaluate high-risk posts. i think it's important, also, to mentio

understanding and cooperation between the state department, our diplomats, our development professionals from usaid, and the congress so that the congress is a partner with us. as was the case in previous times. i would like us to get back to those times, congressman, whereas i think one of you said, beirut, we lost far more americans, not once, but twice within a year. there was no partisan effort. people rose above politics. a democratic congress worked with a republican administration to say what do we need to learn. out of that came the legislation for the accountability review board. similarly after we lost more americans in the bombings in east africa, again, republicans and democrats worked together, said, what do we need to do better? so i'm, i'm an optimist, congressman. i'm hoping that that will be the outcome of this. and every other effort, so that we really do honor not only those we lost but all those who right as we speak are serving in dangerous places representing the values and the interests of the american people. >> thank you, madam secretary. >> gentleman from california yields

the state department, usaid, would come up and fight for the money they could get out of congress nowho was in charge of the congress, every single year. it's 1% of the entire budget. it was very difficult to explain effectively what it was we were trying to achieve. so, i did institute the first diplomacy and development review. one of the key questions we were addressing is what is this balance between risk and reward when it comes to our diplomats and development professionals. because the first thing i heard when i got to the state department was a litany of complaints from a lot of our most experienced diplomats that they were being hamstrung. that security requirements were so intense that they were basically unable to do their jobs. and, fof course, from the security professionals who were all part of this -- what we call the qddr, they were saying we don't want you to go beyond the fence. we can't protect you in all of these dangerous circumstances. how you balance that. it is a constant balancing of risk and reward in terms of what we hope our dimentic and professionals can

document or a dozen documents but we had lot of work ongoing, both at the state department and at usaidid you have a team work on that or if it was just something that was happening of its own accord? >> we had a number of people working on that. there were -- as i said i sent both deputies out to libya to immediate with the libyans. we can do all the plan we want in washington but it's important to ask the libyans what they want and what they expect from us? so we had an ongoing dialogue that lasted over many months. >> yes, ma'am. agree with that. we can talk about nat a bit. i yield back. >> the chair will now recognize the generalle lady from illinois, miss duckworth. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary clinton, my line of questioning will be boring because i'm going to get some details that have to deal with security and how we can better safeguard america's diplomats from now on. from -- i have to say that the arb conducted by at miller mullen, man of long service to this nation, brave service, as well as ambassador pickerring, i thought was well conducted and well-thought out a

understanding and cooperation between the state department, our diplomats, our development professionals from usaid and the congress so that the congress is a partner with us. as was the case in previous times. i would like us to get back to those times, congressman. whereas i think one of you said beirut we lost far more americans, not once but twice within a year. there was no partisan effort. people rose above politics. a democratic congress worked with a republican administration to say "what do we need learn?" out of that came the legislation for the accountability review board. similarly, after we lost more americans for the bombings in east africa, again, reps and democrats worked together and said "what do we need to do better?" so i'm -- i'm an optimist, congressman, i'm hoping that will be the outcome of this and every other effort so that we really do honor not only those we lost but all those who right as we speak are serving in dangerous places representing the values and the interests of the american people. >> thank you, madam secretary. >> the gentleman from california yields back.

the state department, usaid would come up and fight for the money they could get out of congress no matter who was in charge every single year. it is 1% of the speier budget. it was very difficult to explain effectively what it is we were trying to achieve. so it did institute the first quad republicanal diplomacy and development review. and one of the key questions we were addressing is what is is this balance between risk and reward when it comes to our diplomats and our development professionals. because the first thing i heard when i got to the state department was a litany of complaints from a lot of our most experienced diplomats that they were being ham strung. the security requirements were so intense they were basically unable to do their jobs. and of course then from the security professionals who were a all part of thishat we call the qddr, they were saying we don't want you to go beyond the fence. we can't protect you in all of these dangerous circumstances. how you balance that, and it is a constant balancing of risk and reward in terms of what we hope our diplomats and develo

sequestration will be very damaging to the state department and usaid if it does come to pass because it throws the baby out with the bath. other programs that we could reduce, make more efficient? >> guest: and that's part of what i've been trying to do is to push that forward and that's what the qdr process was about but there are also a lot of very essential programs for security of our personnel in dangerous places that we can afford to cut more of so i hope we get the transfer authority and have a sensible budget discussion going forward. >> thank you. senator barrasso. stan thank you mr. chairman and madam secretary want to thank you for your incredible commitment to this country as first lady and a member of this body as secretary of state and i have seen you work yourself to exhaustion. not to your own benefit but to the benefit of this country in and the country is grateful for that. i agree we need to make sure that something like this never happens again and i've looked at it like the challenger explosion where we lost the severn -- seven astronauts. we didn't see it coming

>> 70,000 between the state department and usaid. >> you're responsible for all of them as well. >> that's right, congressman. >> can any human being on the face of the planet protect every single one of them every second of every day? that's a rhetorical question. >> well, we can try. congressman, we have, as i just said, 270 consulates and embassies. we are represented in the 194 countries. some of them are very friendly to us. some of them are adversaries. i want to pick up on the point you're making because i really appreciate it very much, congressman. i carry very deeply about the people who serve our country. i worked with them. i knew them. i saw them in action. on my last full day as secretary of state, we were able to hold a ceremony awarding the five diplomatic security agents the highest award for heroism the state department has to aufrmt we held it then because we wanted to be sure that the fifth man could be there because he had been in the hospital for so long. and he was able to be there. i got a chance to meet their family families. i got a clans all at once, not just ind

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. >> former usaid, ukraine.you have presented three very rational value free models of what might happen in russia, but it's something that you are only barely eluding two. the fact that russia is the major plutocracy, a huge drain on resources they enrich themselves. i would like you to comment on where that fits into your picture. >> do you want to start this round? >> in general i oppose corruption. to the extent that corruption reduces the amount of research, i can live with that. on where russia is going and latin america, i tend to put that in the category of its mischiefmaking.mischiefmakin g. it is designed to because. and for a long period from 1991 until1991 until 2005, 2006 the russian navy was not going to cuba or venezuela. and that. that was basically because they did not have the money to go that far. greater flows from the russian government and they begin to look more to the military and begin to be able to buy the fuel. and you saw the presumption that was something that was knew. but if you we

and the state department, usaid, would come up and fight for the money that they could get out of congress no matter who was in charge of the congress every single year. it's 1% of the entire budget, and it was very difficult to explain effectively what it is we were trying to achieve, so i did institute the first-ever quadrennial diplomacy and development review. and one of the key questions that we were addressing is what is this balance between risk and reward when it comes to our diplomats and our development professionals? because the first thing i heard when i got to the state department was a litany of complaints from a lot of our most experienced diplomats that they were being hamstrung. that the security requirements were so intense that they were basically unable to do their jobs. and, of course, then from the security professionals who were all part of this what we called a qddr, they were saying we don't want you to go beyond the fence. we can't protect you in all of these dangerous circumstances. how you balance that -- and it is a constant balancing of risk and reward in term