would elevate the capabilities within usaid? >> yes, and thanks. the redesign that some you heard about, we now call transformation because we are now in the implementation phase, that's designed to reshape han reposture the agency around the world as we see it, around these challenges. on the humanitarian front, as you just heard, so much of our rk is the result of man-made crises. conflict and poor governance and so on and so forth. what we tried to do is break down some of the artificial distinctions in the work that we do. so food for peace, the office of foreign disaster assistance, so that we get rid of those artificial differences between emergency food relief, emergency medical relief. this, we think, will make us more nimble, more capable of responding. the other piece that we are trying to do is add resilience programming to that humanitarian response. so often, the key is not only responding to immediate needs but strengthening the capacity of our partners on the ground to extend future shock. we have seen a lot of ex

at one point usaid's regional representatives who are the most senior usaid officials assigned to each regional command in afghanistan had no oversight authority over the programs in their area of operations. decisions, therefore, had to default to the embassy in kabul which had problems obviously of communicating quickly to the staff in the field. contracting also surged. at one point high ranking aid official determined that in order to meet the u.s. government average ratio of dollars to the number of contracting officials, aid would have to send nearly its entire overseas workforce to afghanistan. the number of contractor personnel overseen by district hires state and aid personnel was extremely large. in 2011 there were approximately 18 contractors for every direct hire at state and the ratio was 100 to 1 at usaid. now, even with sufficient number of highly trained personnel, stabilization operations in afghanistan would have been challenging. unfortunately, as our report lays out, state and aid did not have the right personnel to effectively execute the mission, in spite of effor

vest usaid, what is our civilian strategy? we hear about the government approach but i can't get the details of what it is we are actually doing. you referenced about the 25% contribution of the civilian efforts by the u.s. government. i want to determine first, are you referring to the $3.7 billion per year that was agreed to at the brussels conference at which america's putting up a million dollars of? >> yes. >> that was done under previous negotiations. >> some are lower than that 1 billion-dollar figure. but in general, guiding the approach. >> but is the number 3.7 billion or is it lower? >> i would have to get a breakdown of what has come through question. >> that i would like that breakdown. what is the international commitment for civilian effort is, specifically with the numbers. i had to get this from outside of u.s. government to determine the summer. i'd also like to know what are we spending our money on and what is the international community's bending it's not money on. what are the specific programs it's been

usaid or cia, i don't know. >> anthony: well this is what i want to ask.aking, in tho -- in tho -- >> michel: at that time, we never know. >> anthony: in those days, back in the '60s and '70s -- >> mama vaughn: 60, yeah. >> michel: yeah. >> anthony: usaid and cia had a lot of, let's say, overlap. >> anthony: mama vaughn, who i met here on my last trip is making lunch. an elaborate spread of dishes whose recipes are left over from imperial times. >> anthony: mm, so what do we have here? >> mama vaughn: this is lon song fish from mekong. we cook with shallots and garlic and chili, and coconut milk. and pork. >> anthony: crab? river crab? >> mama vaughn: crab. river crab, yeah. >> anthony: mm! >> mama vaughn: see? >> anthony: it's good. >> michel: mm-hm. >> mama vaughn: it's only in luang prabang >> anthony: you could eat the shell? >> mama vaughn: yes. >> anthony: mm. >> mama vaughn: and fish with pork grill. >> michel: all in banana leaves >> mama vaughn: banana leaves. mm. and then this is ginger sauce. eat the pork skin. >> anthony: pork skin, of course.

to implement the president's directive, yesterday i ordered the usaid administrator to travel to iraqmmediately and present us with a copy hands of assessment on the best means to -- comprehensive assessment on the best means to deliver and distribute to rebuild devastated communities -- christian communities across the middle east. weant to assure all of you, will give our fellow christians and persecuted communities across the region the resources and support they need to recover, rebuild, and flourish in their ancient homeland once again. [applause] finally, when it comes to our values, i couldn't be more proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with a president who stands without apology to the sanctity of human life. [applause] from the first week of his administration, president trump has been keeping his word. expandednstated and the mexico city policy we , empowered states to defined planned parenthood thanks to the president's leadership, we put forward a new rule to prevent title x funding from going to any organization that provides abortion in america. [applause] the record of

>> i'm happy to provide and talk to my usaid colleagues to provide a more detailed letter to you with a breakdown of assistance. i'm sure you've heard the overall principle the drive to the development security are trying to increase the private sector lead and export led growth and to consolidate the social gains in health education and women's empowerment. outside of usaid we have funds that are providing the training or the counter narcotics and law-enforcement capacity. we have the bureau of counterterrorism providing specific assistant programs including kabul and other urban areas. it's a complicated topic. the numbers are confusing and we can provide a very detailed letter with the breakdown. >> that will be very helpful. even the things you just me kno know, of the billion dollars, how much is being spent on poppy eradication? >> first off, i want to clarify it is not a billion dollars. will we talk about that, the numbers that i have better actual, the monies were about $160 million. >> so but not a billion dollars could you give me a rough idea of the number. >> the 2019 req

james: with usaid. tuy-cam: yeah. so i didn't like it. as soon as i heard from a friend of ours who became very good friends, there was a vacancy at the u.s. consulate. they are looking for a translator and an interpreter. i applied for it and i got it. then i started working there. how did you like the job >> initially? was it difficult or was it exciting? tuy-cam: it was a very nice job. i was the only girl there. so i had many tasks. receptionist, sort of like a general manager, taking care of buying things. and reading the newspaper, translating them -- articles that interested the u.s. into english. >> for the purpose of explaining to someone that hasn't been to vietnam, can you describe ichor geographically and what people were living there? james:it's the narrow, central part of vietnam. it was beginning at the dmz, the line separating north and south vietnam. south vietnam was divided into 44 provinces and five of them were ichor. the first core. military region. they extended right down the coast, that was the capital of he provi

we know that usaid initiatives that support economic development and good governance make a difference. we heard from young people who found hope and safety through these programs. now is not the time so reckless abandon these programs. it's a time to invest in them. the administration claims to be for law and order, but it deals in kay -- it deals in chaos. president trump lies with such frequency and such confidence because he knows that the muddier the waters, the harder is it -- it is for the rays of truth to shine through. well, this past weekend some rays of light shined through when former first lady laura bush made her voice heard. as she -- this is her -- as she wrote in "the washington post," our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in the desert. this is reminiscent of the internment camp for u.s. citizens of japanese descent now considered one of the most shameful episodes in u.s. history. she couldn't be more right. this isn't a p.r. crisis, it's a humanitarian crisis, and it's a moral crisis

then one day in 2013, she got a call at her usaid office. it was from a distraught wife of a usaid colleague in afghan. the caller's husband had just been murdered. apparently in retaliation for his work with the americans. realizing that her life was in danger, too, patmanah applied for a special immigrant visa. for t years, she and her husband were subjected to repeated interviews at the u.s. embassy in kabul. she told me while that background check was going on, they had to move periodically, because as soon as they settled someplace, the taliban would find out wheree and they would b threatened again. her background was checked and checked before visas were finally granted. now thankfully patmanah now lives happily in keene, her husband has found work, they have a 3-year-old daughter, and they are welcomed as valued members of the keene community. when it comes to the s.i.v. program, there is no shortage of inspiring narratives like the ones i'm sharing today. it's no wonder that during his own confirmation process, secretary of defense

gail smith at the national security council are in president obama and was the the administrator of usaid, agreed to be our cho cares cares and, co-chairs and it's been a successful enterprise in large part to their leadership and effort. want to particularly recognize governor ridge, who had some health hiccups but was taking phone calls from the hospital bed to help us, and so i want to thank you in particular, governor. you look great, and i'm just really good, . better seen than viewed. so can i ask each of you, tell me why did you both agree in addition to me being persistent, why did you agree to take this on? you have plenty of other asks of your time. governor? you're very persuasive, daniel. start with that. frankly, i would call visiting statue of liberty years ago and they havet hall suitcases that those who migrated to the united states left behind. and the thought occurred to me at hat time, how many americans would leave everything they owned and move to another country? but it was an opportunity then for people to willingly, on their own volition, move to a place where they

one is to cut the budget for the state department and usaide by 25%. slash our contributions to the united nations. withdraw from the international agreements and treaties. embrace despots that trample the rights of citizens. close our borders. annoy our neighbors. ignore our strongest competitors methodically expand influence as we pull back. the other approach is to be a leader, still the world's only superpower thank to the sacrifice of generations of americans that came before us. that's the position that the subcommittee has taken. lion's share of the credit is the chairman because he committed at the beginning and we did together and made it bipartisan and we tried to have a unanimous vote, and we did. >> the floor is yours. >> thank you very much, chairman, senator leahy. i look forward to our conversation. distinguished members of the subcommittee, i appreciate the opportunity to talk today about the president's budget and issues that are on your mine. the list you show there, senator graham, are long and i could add a couple of others and you

this gives us an opportunity for usaid and a new reformed opic to lead development initiatives using private capital. that works for our politics. that works for policy. i think it's a very smart initiative. i'm thrilled the trump administration has embraced it enthusiastically. frank cloy you were speaking recently about the bill. you said there is no way the traditional aid by which i mean large public sector grants are will be a sufficient most p effective way to harness resources necessary to bring the world's poorest countries out of poverty. official development is now dwarfed by private capital. senator coons: one of the striking things to give more credit, congressman ted yoho is a freedom caucus member. he came to congress convinced that one of his main goals was to eliminate foreign aid. get rid of it. you got a guy who was hired to get rid of opic. the guy came to congress get rid of foreign aid. both of whom have been persuaded through their engagement to see this moment of opportunity where private capital in which you are deeply -- which congress canman yoho is a champi

just a little bit of an exception is administered separately on off budget programs administered by usaid. >> so what i'm driving at is perhaps have we considered a paradigm where in we tied aid and development to afghanistan to ee rad indication efforts. >> reporter: in other words, the government benefits and hopefully strengthens itself as creating sustainable afghanistan where there is as broad a spectrum of hope moving forward more directly from the revenues from the international community than the narcotics developing community, correct? >> the vote is produced and taliban controlled or contested areas. and so, you know, again, this is a security issue. i think as a first cut. >> but you said earlier today that the government of afghanistan as indicated an interest in not undergoing ee rad indication programs at this juncture, is that an accurate assessment? >> yes, the government would assess it would decrease the appeal. >> so it's something to talk about. i'm not dictating that this is what i think the policy should be. but if you look at what the actual functioning federal gove

in the early 1990s, i worked for usaid contractor on projects in egypt and jordan. for the better part of two decades i researched and written about the region as a fellow for near east policy, a leading nonpartisan think tank. from 2002 to 2006, i served as the labonte director -- levant director in the office of secretary of defense advising policymakers on affairs. over these decades i have had the privilege of knowing and working with many of the outstanding diplomats who have served with distinction as secretary of near eastern affairs. i worked during the bush administration. i traveled with them to syria in 2004 with william burns. i know former assistant secretary ann patterson. this is an illustrious and impressive cohort of diplomats who handled an incredibly difficult job with commitment and dedication. if confirmed i would be humbled to be counted among this group. the responsibilities of the assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs stretch from morocco to iran to yemen. it is an aor that faces enormous challenges, terrorism, acute humanitar

vest usaid, what is our civilian strategy? we hear about the government approach but i can't get the details of what it is we are actually doing. you referenced about the 25% contribution of the civilian efforts by the u.s. government. i want to determine first, are you referring to the $3.7 billion per year that was agreed to at the brussels conference at which america's putting up a million dollars of? >> yes. >> that was done under previous negotiations. >> some are lower than that 1 billion-dollar figure. but in general, guiding the approach. >> but is the number 3.7 billion or is it lower? >> i would have to get a breakdown of what has come through question. >> that i would like that breakdown. what is the international commitment for civilian effort is, specifically with the numbers. i had to get this from outside of u.s. government to determine the summer. i'd also like to know what are we spending our money on and what is the international community's bending it's not money on. what are the specific programs it's been

transformational work of what happened to get a different agencies to start working together from usaid to cdc to deal d to work together. this was the guy that made it all happen. >> the guy that made it happen was president bush. it is tough to get agencies together in sectors together and the president did that. everyone knew it was his initiative and knew to be responsive and josh was the angel of pepfar beneath a president who made sure that things stayed on track because the president was busy with other stuff. nothing would've happened without josh we the president vision was achieved but you need that to make -- the second thing i would say is the transformational piece of that in the country. most people doing work in government whether in congress or the executive branch are there to serve and if you offer them the opportunity to do something much bigger than themselves they will grab at because that is what they are there for. they are there to do big and bold things and not to do nothing into warfare but they are there to deliver. pepfar gave them the opportunity to deliver

inmeans the cdc and usaid other countries will have to pull back and scale back on work that has already been done to build up the capacity of other countries to deal with those threats. it seems like a full list waste of money that is artie been expended. it is far better to continue building on that solid foundation and expand those relationships around the world. host: harold from palmdale, california. shots, going back to the last decade government and fluors have been pushing shots. i they breaking down our immune system, and are we becoming dependent on them? ourre they breaking down immune system's, and are we becoming dependent on them? d: that's not how flu shots work. they train the immune system to deal with threats it hasn't seen yet. flu shots are a great thing. we are lucky we have them. they don't always work that well because flu viruses continue to evolve. every year, health authorities have to look at the strains coming up and try to make predictions about which to include in the yearly vaccine, which is why sometimes they have less effectiveness than others. but that d

all a lot of the it is tied usaid chinese they sell their material to you and frankly if i need generation capability and if a particular country is giving me export credit right then china also does that russia has also given us loans when they built the steve milligan karate they were the actually the the soviet union at the time built our first statement with a loan and we paid because i was in finance i knew exactly what was going on so the point is we tend to look for the hidden agendas and my view is that the agendas are all open of course if a particular country gives you a couple of billion dollars to build infrastructure their clout in the country increases but they're also selling their goods they're also generating goodwill and to me in the ecosystem you build for diplomacy all these things add to the brand of the relationship between the two countries and then there's also iran right and iran still is on the verge of collapse united states is actually trying to slap sect slap sanctions anyone who continues is a business with iran pakistan has boosted its trade cooperation with

all a lot of the it is tied usaid chinese they this sell their material to you and frankly if i need generation capability and if a particular country is giving me export credit right then china also does that russia has also given us loans when they built the steve milligan karate they were the actually they the soviet union at the time built our first statement with a loan and we paid because i was in finance i knew exactly what was going on so the point is we tend to look for the hidden agendas and my view is that the agendas are all open of course if a particular country gives you a couple of billion dollars to build infrastructure their clout in the country increases but they're also selling their goods they're also generating goodwill and to me in the ecosystem you build for diplomacy all these things add to the brand of the relationship between the two countries and then there's also iran right and the deal is on the verge of collapse united states is actually trying to slap sect slap sanctions anyone who continues is a business with iran pakistan has boosted its trade coopera

we hope to deliver that tool for you and partner with usaid to advance development and security. let me move to a country where we have an opportunity to advance democracy in a real way and that is watching very closely what is said and done here, zimbabwe. setters like an senator booker were also with me where we visited zimbabwe, both of which have been literally new presidents -- relatively new presidents. there will be an election in zimbabwe. prospects for democracy are uncertain. in our lengthy one-on-one meeting, the president said all the right things and he is saying and doing good things, but there are significant errors to the restoration -- barriers to the restoration of their community. we introduce an amendment to the recovery act. do you agree the united states should not release sanctions on zimbabwe until the government takes concrete actions to demonstrate its respect for human rights, commitment to free and fair elections, and pursuing anticorruption measures and a rules-based economy? >> absolutely, senator. actions speak louder than words. >> one of the core

government officials and the usaid, the state from the military to try to stabilize the area, to try to make it safe for the afghan government to come back in and get support from the afghan people for the host government and to make certain the taliban don't come back. what we did as they focused on e most dangerous districts. we gave unrealistic timeles to do the stabilization and that is one or two of the reasons why it failed. >> the key binding the u.s. underestimated the ability to change the government institutions in afghanistan in an attempt to secure the district proved to be a problem. when did this stabilization effort began, under what administration what were the different approaches, and did any of that work? >> guest: some of that worked in certain areas. the main focus of the report was the time between 2009 and 2014. it's when most of the money was spent, and that was during the obama administration. we knew we were getting out or at least there was a hope of getting out, so there was a surge in troops and th their whistles of a surge in development need to come and

. >> so what happened just to get eight different agencies from usaid to start working together to thosegencies the president did that. so was that systematic? everybody knew the initiative really he was the angel of pepfar beyond the president and/or the chief of staff nothing would have happened without that to be achieved but you need that. but those that are doing work in government and if you offer them the opportunity they will grab at it. that is what they are there for. they are there to do big bold things they are there to deliver and to those fundamental principles but i would say it's not just pepfar but so there was a revolution and before that basically or agriculture or anything but how we are doing and they have four basic principles. number two is accountability and results number three is governance. and corruption which is an issue in fourth was engaging all sectors. but every sector the private sector but even on that sector alone they almost walked away. everybody talks about them and in 2000 people talked about these principles with accountability it put forward a hu

meetings have been set up with the state department and usaid. could you comment on that?e you aware of f these gs? >> we knew things were going on behind the scecenes and nowow they''re more the on. i think the u.s.s. is very hesitant to act openly because ortega's blaming a lot of this on u.s.-supported right-wing, everybody in the country knows is not true. but t also the business class in ninicaragua with like to reaonhs more as they are because they've been very comfortable. so far, however, what is being proposed by the oas and the join u.s. nicaraguan as all hundred said, it is far from what is needed. -- alejandro said, it is far from what is needed. people are dying every day. they ne immediate help. ,my: monica a lopez baltodano your mother was a fighter withta sandininista liberation front. can you talk about what the students are demanding now? your thoughts of them coming to meet with republicans i in congress and appealing to the trump administration and what you think is going to happen now in nicaragua? >> yeah, the people in the streets are not appealing t

ay-cam: i was assigned to lady whose husband was with the usaid. she was working on economic and infrastructure in the country, vietnam. we became very good friends. me and iery happy with was happy with her. the u.s. consulate officially .pened section, the personnel asking them to send me back to the consulate general. it was aeed a week later i was right there, and everyone welcomed me with open arms. i started working there. >> would you go back to vietnam? james: i never really left. work at the embassy in saigon. >> i thought you went to harvard after saigon? james: that came at the end of my tour in vietnam. that was after the tour was lost, 1967. we had been courting since i got there. after the end of my second tour. quickly, i decided i didn't want to stay there. it was cold and i want to get back to vietnam. i had enough context because of my job with lodge. i knew who to call and i was able to arrange to go right back to vietnam. for fourt in the u.s. or five weeks. then i went right back. time, she was back in denying. i want to go bac

we do not have a usaid mission in the country that could help. i have written the administration about the need for a strategy. i have sounded the alarm about increasing violence in the central african republic. we have yet to receive a satisfactory response. so ambassador, i certainly hope that you and i will have an opportunity to talk soon and look forward to hearing about your priorities, plans and your intentions. >> thank you. as it relates to having witnesses in, i know i said so in my opening comments, but we are pushing to have secretary mike pompeo in so we can actually understand what actually happened in singapore. as you know we haven't had a lot of officials to have testify. and this meeting is hopefully going to help fill some of the slots. but i thank you for your comments and agree we need to have officials in here helping us. if y'all move in order starting with admiral harris, i'd appreciate it. if you keep your comments to five minutes, i'd appreciate it. if you want to introduce your outstanding folks, i'd appreciate. if you

but don't talk enough about the state department usaid members serving in very dangerous locations without the security footprint that we would like, but they take risks on behalf of this nation and they are heroes. i think oyu will be a good voice for their needs. as to the president's budget request. this is 20% below what we wound up doing. because we have time constraints, these are the threats that we face. nonstate challenges and state actor challenges really since 2011 when we implemented sequestration. everything on that chart is in your purview. north korea being one of the easier challenges you face. north korea, iran, and isis is a pretty good challenge. then you go to syria, yemen, and on, and on, and on. here's what we are trying to prevent. proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and you are an essential part of all of this. i just don't see how it make sense to cut the budget by 20% given your portfolio, and i will ask you one question in a minute, if we give you more money, can you wisely spend it? you will say yes. if you don't, we will have a problem. having said th

we know that usaid initiatives that support economic development and good governance make a difference. we heard from young people who found hope and safety through these programs. now is not the time so reckless abandon these programs. it's a time to invest in them. the administration claims to be for law and order, but it deals in kay -- it deals in chaos. president trump lies with such frequency and such confidence because he knows that the muddier the waters, the harder is it -- it is for the rays of truth to shine through. well, this past weekend some rays of light shined through when former first lady laura bush made her voice heard. as she -- this is her -- as she wrote in "the washington post," our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in the desert. this is reminiscent of the internment camp for u.s. citizens of japanese descent now considered one of the most shameful episodes in u.s. history. she couldn't be more right. this isn't a p.r. crisis, it's a humanitarian crisis, and it's a moral crisis

. >> we launched something called the smart communities coalition with power africa and usaid, the mobile operators and mercy corps and microsoft, and others, to try and figure out, instead of every group working in their own silo and one group being responsible for electricity and one being responsible for a food. let's have a collaborative, coordinated approach and we'll pilot this in uganda and kenya, where there are 2 million refugees in some of these places. to see whether we can provide a common approach and a common infrastructure in a collaborative way so that people can use these kind of tools across the whole ecosystem and as you said, be able to create jobs and make it easier for businesses to go in there and provide job opportunities. >> when i was in uganda, not makes me the world expert on uganda because i was the. it's the third largest host of refugees in the world and met with a roundtab of folks from six different nations there. they have a policy of welcoming folks, if you want to move to uganda, they'll let you into the school system and use the hospital system and the

usaid is investing in a lot of these communities. we've seen projects where we are .radicating coca, for example planting chocolate. how do we manage those ,ommunities and south america the mining of silver and copper? how can we manage those communities with our tribes here, the creative environment of manufacturing of goods how do youhis is a, see the government of guatemala moving forward from your job perspective -- from your job -- i know it has impacted u.s. companies investing there. companies, how are they able to compete fairly in a place where public corruption is rampant? >> and a real challenge. i would comment into my remarks about u.s. companies hold themselves to a very high ethical standard. a culture in our inherently,or that one our companies invest in foreign markets, guatemala or wherever, typically that does raise the tide in that market from a rule of law transparency perspective. one challenge i've seen commander think they're trying to grapple with an guatemala now, being sure that is large -- multinationals a

the usaid has a warehouse in miami. that food could arrive in venezuela, it could arrive in hours. and if maduro's people understand this. if their own government decides right now, that they will accept humanitarian assistance, the food could be down there today, tomorrow. there's only one thing blocking that from happening. obviously the united states has been providing financial assistance to colombia and to the u.n. network to provide as much humanitarian assistance in neighboring countries. and the real key is to get it in there. some is getting in there, but not nearly enough. >> i will say about what diego mentioned is that what is a tragedy for us, for public opinion, of venezuela, is maduro is the best thing that has happened to him. he really likes people living in venezuela. he really enjoys people going out. venezuela. all he's declining. ramon could tell us. >> but right now they're trying to live with remittances. we need on october last year survey. at that time there was 17% of the population received some help from, from a friend or a family. abroad. so there is a

because it was a portrait of the mismatch in organizational culture, between the civilian state and usaid and military agencies that were actually working together quite closely on the ground, but whether it was in kabul or back in washington, had competing imperatives. >> right. >> and so, as a result, the selection of areas in which to invest, how quickly to invest, how quickly to leave, all those decisions ended up being made in a way that disintegrated the tool kit rather than integrated it. >> i do want to ask you, when you raise the question on use of force and gave that a really good history, the piece that came to mind as you were talking too, is the generational aspects, right? i'm interested in your thoughts on, you know, we have a generation that had grown up with world war ii very much and the aftermath. >> right. >> you know, the causes and the aftermath, very much in mind. but we're very distant from that now, generationally. and i'm just wondering your thoughts on whether that's also part of it, whether you call it the war weariness or if it's just the generations growing u

transformational work of what happened to just get eight different agencies to start working together from usaido cdc to dod, to start all working together. this is the guy who made it all happen. >> actually, the guy who made this happen was president bush. it's difficult to get the agencies together and the president did that. we'll go into details later of how he made that happen, but it was systemic. it was an initiative, everyone knew to be responsive. and josh hates to hear this, but he was really the angel of pepfar beneath the president, who made sure things stayed on track. whether it was omb or the president's chiefs of staff office as deputy and then the chief of staff. nothing would have happened without josh making sure the president's vision was achieved, but you need that to make them work together. the second thing is the transformational piece in the country. most people doing work in government, whether in congress or the executive branch, are here to serve, and if you offer them the opportunity to do something much bigger than themselves, they will grab at it, because that's w

about the bureaucracy on talking about combined bureaucracy of homeland security and state department, usaiders in the national security apparatus. one of the reasons is the typical response bureaucracy is to throw money at a problem but in sort of relatively kind of unintentional, unfocused manner. that's where we are at right now, unfortunately, but there are some lessons to be learned. it doesn't really come out in this paper but we talked a little bit about the fact that uk example, , the scandinavian example with right wing extremist presents an opportunity for the united states and its bureaucracy, dhs and others, to learn how to deal with those coming back from iraq and syria, but also to create opportunities for those who are exiting, those who leave prison as jesse did come to reintegrate. that's the other they challenge that we don't want when we talk about is the return from prison after serving your time and how difficult that is for a whole swath of people, not just of course from the jihadist. gang members, others all struggle with the same thing, which is a deep black of socia

are women and men, men and women, working for the state department, working for usaid, and they are justas great americans as those people in uniform ask they're part of the american team, and so when he went after them to cut them, while we're building up the military is not america's interest to do that and i'm glad that is stopped. what i hear storying just? d.c. a couple days ago and met with folks in he state department. that pompeo, the new secretary, is reversing that, and i have a lot of disagreementsagreementsam baio about policy issues, i think they made a huge mistake about iran and i'm nervous but north korea but i'm glad he is bringing that attention. those people deserve it, especially working in moscow. showed you some things that he happened to me. that happened to all of my staff. they need our support. [applause] >> yes, yes. >> isaac. >> hi, i'm one of your students. so you list the libyan intervention as one of the successes of the reset. and u.n. security council 1973, which you guys got medvedev to support. it gives the international community permission to protect