government needs a strong usaid. usaid, it isong the steward of taxpayers money.i'm aware of that every day. are as wel of us figure out what we do and how we do it. in order for us to be as nimble and agile as we need to be, i think earning the flexibility that will allow us to be nimble and agile something we should all strive for. there is a willingness to do that. there is a willingness on the part of usaid to show results and be transparent. one of the best things about valuation is sometimes, they show you are doing things well and sometimes they show that one of your assumptions was wrong and you need to make a midcourse or action -- midcourse correction and that what happened to and sometimes it shows that it may look like a good idea but it is to stop. is my hope that we have the confidence and the recognition to provide this agency with the flexibility it needs to be agency that i think it needs. thank you. >> that was a great talk. iq all very much for being here -- thank you all very much for being here. in your dress, you mentioned leveraging private

finally, let me come back to usaid. i am proud of where the agency is today, and i know that what the united states needs regardless of administration or party, and it was an effective, agile and impactful usaid and one that's ready to handle whatever the future brings. so i end where i began and leave you with the hope perhaps more easily offered by an administrator near the beginning and the end of her term. it's kind of interesting, that we can strike our own grand bargain. we've shown a development is an endeavor backed by bipartisan commitment and we have shown that usaid can deliver. i have told members of congress with whom i have met that i will be transparent and accountable, a pledge made easier by the hard work and vigor that the men and women of usaid bring every day. i've also said that i will not be shy about coming to congress to ask for what we need. we met with the former usaid administrations who span four administrations and both political parties and each of whom maintains the same commitment to the

and so i think usaid does a phenomenal role. i'm anxious to see gayle's footprint in pressure and focus on this as we go forward and i just want to thank all of you for your continued support of this vital, vital u.s. strategic effort. thank you. [ applause ]. >>> i'm george ingram with the brooks institution. it's a distinct pleasure to be here with danny and aerks i in sponsoring this event for gayle smith. it's my honor to introduce senator shaheen. i think the one thing i can note is that with your service on the armed services committee, the foreign relations committee and the appropriations state operation sub committee that you must personify the three ds, development, diplomacy and defense. we particularly, those in the development community, appreciate your being a leading champion on the importance of development of an agile aid and the efforts you went to to get gayle confirmed. thank you for being here and for being a champion of development. [ applause ]. >> thank you, george. here i thought you were going to say i

usaid has one of the best models out there. the take a dollar of usaid or foreign aid and they put it with private dollars and they get a leverage effect. it is a force multiplier. the best example of that is the power africa initiative. with $7 billion, they were able to attract $43 billion -- and i am a business guy, so i love this. as a politician and someone on the budget committee, i love it more because they are taking dollar philanthropy and multiplying it with economic investment. they are facilitating capital investment that would otherwise not be made. africa will, 1/3 of be addressed in terms of providing power. i think that is so remarkable. i want to take my hat off to usaid and thank them. now we have to get serious about focusing on the priorities. we don't have enough money to meet every need. we can hold the hand of every person who is displaced. we have to prioritize and make sure every dollar we spend is leverage a bowl and actually gets the results -- is leveragable and actually gets the results. we have to

for a statement from usaid and are extended report visit you west miami.com. -- cbs miami.com. >>> final preparations are being made for president barack obama's historic trip to cuba. the be the first sitting president to visit the calmest island since 1928. the along this family will arrive in havana on sunday and take a tour of old havana and visit the cathedral and meet with cardinal ortega. on monday he will have a meeting with raul castro and meet entrepreneurs. later he will attend a state dinner. on tuesday he will make a speech directed to the cuban people and meet members of civil society and dissidents. followed by a baseball game between cuban national baseball team and tampa bay rays. eliott rodriguez probation 08 are heading to event to cover the visit. listen to the report starting >>> coming up counting his blessings a firebreathing performer describes the horrific accident at high school pep rally that left his face severely burnt. the small change in the fact that almost cost him his life. >>> trumping trump. what some republicans are pushing to keep the billionaire bus

one bucket is the work that usaid does that is straight development.e're in places where the conditions are aligned. where you've got a very, very good chance of achieving sustained gains across the board. and that's a huge portion of what we do. but a second bucket is the crisis prevention response and mitigation and those are the places where through things like resilience and other work that we do, we are trying to prevent, obviously, but then manage crises as they occur and do a great deal of response. the third is those places where we work where as a matter of foreign policy, national security we have a presence and we have a need to impact the development agenda in some positive manner but where, quite frankly, it is much harder. the conditions are not always aligned. it may not always be the priority it is in some other environments. the security conditions are often extremely tough for our people to move around. and in those cases i would be dishonest if i said it isn't much harder to achieve progress. i think we've got records in some cases w

i want to thank all the women of the state department and usaid in particular, and i think our entire body should recognize those services. what better way to provide the resources, guidance and direction to make this nation speak with one voice, albeit in the many different languages in which our diplomats converse. i ort thstate departnt's budget. i'd lto havthis committ creaome ructurfor it. i'm one of those who believe that this is an importantly powerful use of american resources in a way thacan generate far more successes an even the power of our bombs. but i also think that the state department needs to represent the diversity of the nation. and i am deeply disappointed. i've been working at this for 24 years, from the house of representatives, where i sat on the house foreign affairs committee and in the ten years i've been on this committee in the senate. and we just haven't really made progress. we really haven't. and this is expanded over multiple administrations, republican and democrat alike. and one of the most diverse countries in the world, our potential is unlimited,

but the government of kenya, togegether with usaid and other groups, are using mass media to change this behavior and turn the tide of hiv transmission. nicholas: 44 percent of new hiv patients attributed currently people who either married or in a partnership. these people in partnerships both have other partners, who also have other partners who are not using condoms. and therefore, ththe chance ththat the next t k someone has hiv and it spreads like bushfire to the rest of the families. jimmi: i must admit, one of the things that surprised me was the aspect of also women playing a part of it. nicholas: we've got this strong force, people say, no, no, no, you are [indistinct] men only. women also do that. so people didn't know that, so we did some spots for women as well. erick: concucurrent partnership really is a great factor in the spread of hiv, because you find that, this people, when they have these partners, trust comes in. so we find that these partners stop using condoms basically to all the partners. lucy: psi kenya decided to take on the campaign n becaue primarily, there ar

with the fact that i don't think this is something that's going to change and it's something that usaid will be asked to do going into the future. and it's hard and i would say that i think people have a good job in identifying those areas where we could have some impact and doing the kind of evaluating looking at things that enables us to say quite frankly in internal policy discussions and other deliberations this is working and this isn't and what does it mean when we move forward. it's hard. no question, but it is very difficult. >> thanks for being frank about it. goodness, you are ready. >> there is a microphone. go ahead, pick the first person. this young lady had her hand up first. >> introduce yourself and be very brief. >> rachel oswald, congressional quarterly. you spoke about the need to build resiliency in a world where there are crises happening all of the time and oftentimes from unexpected places. how could you maintain that goal when the crises are demanding so much political attention and you also have limb /* limitations on the budget?itations on the budget? for examp

absolutely not >> reporter: the project was sponsored by and funded by a us government department agency, usaid, he says he quickly found he was on his own. truck i thought for sure and then as each day passed it was wondering where is my government? when will they take me home? and where the hell are they? >> reporter: the woman who fought for his freedom? his wife judy. for five years she championed her effort to get her husband released. holding rallies and meeting with congress people and lawyers they had to hire >> we lost everything >> reporter: your after your his health deteriorated. >> i lost 110 pounds. >> reporter: he shunned the food served him there was a lot of infestation in the food. >> reporter: he was determined to survive thinking of his relatives who survived the holocaust. >> reporter: thought about them >> reporter: he lost time wait and from lack of nutrition, five teeth which is held onto. along with a sense of humor. he says kept them alive. he says he will be forever connected to the island and the cuban people ultimately judy gross worked with a new team of lawyers an

fauci and representatives of usaid in committee a few weeks ago. as we're looking at zika and as we are gathering information, i know the president's requested $1.8 billion. one thing as a physician we know and very much so are recommending, if you're pregnant, if you're of reproductive age, to take all precautions. obviously the one thing that we do know is making access to full family planning services available in areas where we know there's endemic zika. and within usaid's purview, within the $1.8 billion request, the one thing is empowering women of child bearing age to have full family planning support services, whether that's birth control. we're seeing increases cases of sexually transmitted zika virus as well. so i'd be curious and i would want to make sure that we are providing the full resources in these endemic countries. >> we are doing an enormous amount, congressman. and i really appreciate the expertise you bring as a physician and your concern about this. the president is extremely focused on the zika virus challenge. the white hou

an analysis of funding for the project leads us to the usaid office. they are the office that oversees funding for civilian aid. a prime contractor. >> gross sued both parties. you brought up that you had raised concerns. >> i was becoming more and more uneasy with each successive trip. i began to realize that things were not as they appeared to be. it's illegal to distribute anything in cuba that is paid for in full or in part by the united states government. >> reporter: you did not know that. >> absolutely not. >> reporter: his confinement continued. he wanted to see his mother who was fighting cancer. his wife was worried about his emotional state. gross and his supporters were him released for a few days. >> i signed an oath to return. there were people that were willing to change places with me. the government of cuba did not respond. i have a lot of forgiveness in my heart but that will not be forgiven. >> reporter: the best phone call was the last one placed by his wife. in cryptic words she signaled that he was coming home. >> i said that this

and we're hooking them up with our partners, usaid and howard buffett and starbucks, and getting them back up to par and hooking them up with people who will buy their coffee on the market. and we've, so far, we've started this partnership with starbucks. they bought a hundred -- they bought enough coffee so far for 11 million cups of coffee. [ cheers and applause ] and you can buy congo coffee at starbucks grocery stores, specialty stores. it's going really well. we've tripled 25,000 congolese farmers' incomes. [ cheers and applause ] it's really exciting. >> jimmy: you're a good man for doing this. >> it's really, really exciting. >> jimmy: if you want to follow, keep track of the story, @easterncongo on twitter. but i think it's a cool thing. you're always doing something, you're always giving back. so i appreciate that. >> thanks very much. >> jimmy: because you got this giant film. i want to show everyone a clip. it's action packed. here's a clip. this is "batman v superman: dawn of justice", in theaters tomorrow. check this out. [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] [ cheers and

of course the humanitarian agencies, usaid, is a big player here as well. >> my question in regards to the campaign against isil, do u.s. forces believe that after retaking ramadi and achieving many gains on the ground that the war against isil has reached a turning point? do you still believe this will take many years to do defeat isil? >> that's a terrific question. have we reached a turning point? i'm not paired to declare a turning point yet. what i will say is that we believe this enemy is on the defensive. they are in a defensive crouch like a fighter who is in the ring, whose arms are getting heavy, his knees are starting to get weak, he has become more more vulnerable to our tax. that that said he still a snap left in his jab and a ability to throw a strong right hand. he still dangerous. with every tick of the clock he is getting weaker. we believe the end is inevitable. it's impossible to predict a timeline. this goes until it's over. but we're going to stay focused. the iraqis will stay focused. we'll continue to keep the pressure on this enemy. that is what is causing the p

like a small usaid. i think the most important thing predates this attack. that is the fundamental business of identity and that is that this thing in the local differences. this isn't a national i.d. card. your identity is in this chain. you didn't share that. your data with all of the people who need to identify yourself to. it sends a signal saying yes, this is indeed edward lucas. say i need to sign the document. and that is the nuclear binding signature. in this country or ask for an additional signature. what people do us a printout the document. they sign up at the signature and make a pdf of that pure in this country, identity and access are conflated. if you want a microphone system and you want that in britain, you hand over your address, date of birth and a copy of your driver's license. that is enough information to open a bank account. this is absolutely crazy. we are handing out our personal data. you would never get an update of earth. you'll never get another fingerprint. if you have that staff, we use this personal data all the time and away

usaid has resources in some places we don't. we collaborate together to try and work in partnership. one of the reasons we've proposed over the next several years to double ota is it is, i think, one of the most important ways that we can build the capacity in other countries not just in terrorist financing. one of the things you need to do is have transparency and openness in the business environment to get those countries where they need to be. that gives you the ability to deal with terrorist financing. so you get multiple improvements by building the kind of infrastructure in this area. i've seen tremendous progress made in places where our ota advisers are in there. >> well, obviously given today's news the tragedy in brussels, we are -- we continue to be reminded that we must confront radical islamic terrorism. >> yes. >> we must be proactive, disengagement is not an option. and so i would hope that we certainly coordinate within our own government in terms of who takes the lead on providing that technical assistance becau

secretary kimmet in our hearing indicated that, you know, while we have plenty of commerce department and usaid attaches over our embassies, there's only a couple dozen in our embassies deployed worldwide, that seems to me to be an insufficient number given the threat environment. it wouldn't seem to me that we can sufficiently project our economic or counterterrorism financing objectives without more treasury a thttaches. would you agree with that? >> i would not address any inadequacies. they do a tremendous job. >> i'm not suggesting that but a couple dozen. wouldn't you agree having treasury attaches deployed in more places would be at least as important as agriculture -- >> i think -- i'm not going to question the value of other attaches. i can tell you the value of treasure attaches is really high. >> we need to continue to work on that. quickly in my remaining time, let me ask you about capital standards and sequencing, i'm concerned that the ias standard setting process might front run and prejudice the federal reserve process for insurance capital standards rule making. obviously congr

since 2000, our organization received meaning many grants from nation's, usaid, macarthur foundation, national endowment for democracy your that was okay. nobody didn't care about it. but it all started after crimea and ukraine situation, and so now we are called like -- [inaudible] i think if there are come if there is any liberalization, maybe just when our political leaders make a deal about ukraine, crimea and so on, and syria maybe, i think if there is any liberalization, maybe after that the station would be like previous years, just we could receive grants and we could work. we don't execute any orders from any foreign country. we work independently, so i think the crucial thing is to explain to people and to russian officials how the system works. i mean, we have some grant for, we write a project by ourselves and we do everything that we want to do. we don't execute any orders. so i think that's the crucial thing here now russian government, of course, is not very tolerate to ngos who received money from abroad, of course. so i think that's the future issue that we could disc

will stay and look at usaid assets of we invest in canada, i like canada. we look at latin america and europe. even africa to some extent. investors,ol of your you want to calculate that. with entertainment, we are long lions gate which is a well run company. we are looking at entertainment one which suffered a drop in the share price over the last year. they were not generating any free cash flow which caught my eye. we took a stake in mid-january. this is after the canadian pension plan took a large stake in the company in november. the view was, push for change on activist front, contacted the board and management team and said need to pull back on your growth strategy, focus more organically and on reducing your gearing and fortunately -- potentially look to buy back shares to support equity. reactionwhat was there initially and now? >> to push me off initially. fortunately, it went public. i do not know if they truly get it. the equities are about what we paid for it today, i think it is substantially discounted to the intrinsic value of the business,

since 2000, our organization received many, many grants from ford foundation, usaid, national endowment that was okay. nobody didn't care about it. but it all started after crimea and the ukraine situation, and so now we are called like fifth -- so i think if there are -- there is any liberalization, maybe when our reply wall leaders make a deal about ukraine, crimea, so on, and syria maybe, i think iffing there any liberalization maybe after that, the station will be like previous years. we could receive grants and we could work -- we adopt execute any orders from any foreign country. we work independently. so i think the crucial thing is to explain to people and to russian officials how the system works. i mean just we have some grant for -- we write a project by ourselves, and we do everything that we -- we want to do. we don't execute any orders. so i think that's a crucial thing. and now russian government, of cour course, is not very tolerant to ngos who receive money from abroad, of course. so i think that that is a future issue that we could discuss later. thank you. >> well, it

deploying our own personnel, military, doctors, usaid, cdc and helping the west african partners save countless lives. that's how we work with countries like china and india and nearly 200 nations to reach the paris agreement, most ambitious global agreement ever to fight climate change. and diplomacy, including having the courage to turn a page on the failed policies of the past is how we have begun a new chapter of engagement with the people of cuba. what a historic day it was when john reopened our embassy in havana. next week, i look forward to being the first u.s. president to visit cuba in nearly 90 years. without a battleship accompanying me. now, we all know how much work we have do. as i said, i plan to do everything that i can with every minute that i have left in this office to keep making progress and make the world safer, more prosperous and to deal with the enormous challenges that so many people are burdened with around the world. we will leave it all on the field. and i'm going to need the help and the partnership of all of you as we focus on key areas coming up. first

and the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee subcommittee on the state department and usaidwhich oversees the authorization of aid. i'm delighted on behalf of brookings and aid to welcome him to the podium for a few words of introduction. thank you. >> thank you, danny. i really appreciate that. i want to thank you for being here today. this is one of the most important things that we do, i believe, in the united states congress because this is where we put the face of america before the world. i am a freshman senate, i've been here a year now. senator jean shaheen and i share two spots on the committee that oversees this effort that we're going to talk about today. i've lived outside of the united states and i've seen the best of america through our embassies, our state department people but also through us aid and the way we manifest our care for human beings through our money. i want to put that in context today. the good news today as i stand before here, since 2000, foreign aid is up over 50%. these are real dollars. the bad news is it's only a fraction of what's needed

usaid had resources in some places we don't. we collaborate together to try and work in partnership. one of the reasons we propose over the next several years to double ot eight it is i think what are the most important ways we can build the capacity in other countries, not just in terrorist financing. one of the things you need to do is have transparency and openness of the business that vibe to get those countries where they need to be. that gives you the ability to do with terrorist financing. you get multiple improvements like building the kind of infrastructure in this area. i've seen tremendous progress made in places where our oda advisors are in there. >> obviously given today's news of the tragedy in brussels, we continue to be reminded that we must confront radical islamic terrorism. we must be proactive, disengagement is not an option. i would hope that we certainly coordinate within our own government in terms of who takes the lead on providing technical assistance. because we know from our work under oversight of th

. >> i'm not an expert in usaid and state department global health vertical programs, but in an idealworld, we ought to be able to be nimble, right? so when it comes to zika and we understand there's a need in the area of family planning and repreductive felt, we realize a lot of these countries have graduated from us receiving support dollars from usa aid, if a crisis could potentially be challenged to these countries where there's a need. take vector control and malaria. there's a crisis here. the mosquito could be different for malaria. we ought to be nimble enough to take resources in one area and when there's a crisis, be able to apply them. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. and i think as carl said, there are realities here. i think being nimble when we can i think is very important. >> great. /'m sure the pam lists will have times if for your questions. you point out the role of the private sector and perhaps get the panel's reactions with thoughts about the global security agenda for some of the framework for this work. thanks. >> i've only heard about the microcephaly

meeting with the department of health and human services, with c.d.c., the nters for disease control, usaid and n.i.h., secretary burwell, talking to us about zika. zika is a health crisis for america. and for americans. and we ought to be dealing with that. we ought to be dealing with it by giving to the administration the resources it needs to respond to this, to make sure that america's health is safe and to make sure that the americans who are living in puerto rico have the resources to deal with the eradcation of the mosquito that transmits this disease and is a threat to health generally, but particularly health, as the gentleman knows, to pregnant women or women who may become pregnant. i lint, zika, and lastly would mention that we ought to be dealing with the crisis that confronts americans in puerto rico who are going to be unable to pay their bills. on may 1 they will have another large indebtedness due. we have been considering for many months now the authorizing of puerto rico, to be able to in a e bankruptcy so that reasonable, ordered fashion they can settle that which they o