our next speaker is bonnie glick, deputy administrator of usaid. he began as a foreign service officer at the state department, worked in nonprofit and corporate roles and prior to her current position she served as deputy secretary of the maryland state department, please welcome to the podium our deputy, bonnie glick, thank you so much. >> thank you so much, every one. thank you for the introduction and good morning to all of you. it really is a pleasure to be here today to talk with all of you and the lead up to world water day and i'm honored to share the podium with epa administrator andrew wheeler and marcia bernicat with whom i share a passion for ensuring delivery and availability of clean and safe water, worldwide and a vision for the development and infrastructure needed to obtain ambitious goals in order to get there. thank you to the wilson center for hosting this great event. the ability to bring together this exceptional group of participants is a testament to your convening influence and the value we all see in events like today wher

my question, not my question, my recommendation for usaid. i don't know what other steps the government can take. maybe stop aid to pakistan to save the girls or what are the other steps they can take? >> let's go first to the first question, i said i was going to go to your first and we will come down the road here. >> on the question generally of foreign terrorist fighters i was a our policy and administration policy is we want governments to take back foreign terrorist fighters. i also readily admit there are countries that are very reluctant, we applaud those finding a way to take them back. to answer your question about what we do to help countries who do take them back, obviously we have regional legal advisors in the balkans working directly with the government and train prosecutors and judges to be able to prosecute if necessary and incarcerate. we also work in coso flow and other countries, part of the global counterterrorism forum which we share the best practices. we are not simply saying take your foreign fighters and forget it. w

usaid, we have a shared definition. there is a point on prevention. another thing the cso does and i'm proud to announce we are about to launch this in a week or so, instability monitoring assessment platform called imap and we are getting to the forecasting business. if we are not already, and that like any this is almost ops center where we are creating -- this is available to the 70,000 people at the state department and eventually all the folks out of state but we monitor in live time conflicts, instability there are , different types of conflict in every part of the world. these are the kinds of things we want to use as an early warning tool that we can then provide as types of data, analytics to our policymakers. i go into, you ask about global fragility, we are aware of it. we have a state department policy planning, working on white papers, fragility, so we are in sync, working against -- again with usaid to work on a way forward hoping in preparation for fragility act to be planned and linking it to the us ip task force findings so we are on

with funding provided by usaid, the u.s. geological survey and its partners are using geospatial data with traditional hydrological and geological technology and methodologies in areas in kenya and ethiopia that are a part of the global water strategy. its primary goals is to locate and quantify ground water audiocasset aquifers. one of the things that i specifically want to highlight is that usgs working in this area of remote sensing gives the coordination of local fresh water agencies the ability for these studies to take effect. in both areas, the success rates before they were able to do drilling for wells was in the neighborhood of only 30% efficiency where they were only hitting water 30% of the time. using these new technologies and new methodologies, the u.s. geological survey has been able to develop ground water potential maps in these study areas that increase the drilling rate of efficiency to almost 90%. those type of technologies give really great capacity for these countries who are looking because developing

communities there are just too stupid we haven't you know educated that man up to me that's where usaid always seems to end up and that's always worth the work or situations happen with people. my crazier and i think i think that that's a great point and they give what what charges before monroe did and what materials done again whether you agree with with socialism or not you cannot argue with the fact that they have been overseeing in a country where the wealth gap the. it was incredible some of the worst in all of south america and actually to his credit first with chavez and now with the bureau in terms of a population that's educated and literate it's better than it has been in terms of you know the overall poverty rate there has changed health care better and in venezuela than any other south american country so there's a lot of criticism that can be can be put out there but if you are a very poor person in this country the madeira regime has not been bad for you and let's face it to your old boss for reid never seen a regime change he doesn't like either writing reading the arrow

the united states and his regime change what he wished he was trained was a group that was funded by usaid sister organization the national endowment for democracy in the so why don't was actually trained by these guys to help to bring freedom and learn how to to instill change the one who is and i'm not trying to be a jerk. he's like marco rubio was sent to venezuela to take over the country right now he looks the part it's that again it's like a certain body build a certain hairline in a certain you know overall look that they have that they he's been chosen for his wife you know is now becoming or trying to become like the instagram first lady of the world it's a it's almost as you said comical in the way a lot of this is being constructed it's still comical that it feels like mainstream media can't even get it to stick right because it's just it's so corny and it almost feels like a really bad amazon prime show as opposed to being the reality of what's taking place in this country and that doesn't mean that the duros a good leader doesn't mean that the doura is is doing good things in

a serious discussion with a senior official from the usaid about racking and stacking programs in usaid. and he turned on me, saying the audacity of mr. sopko to want me to list which programs are working and which ones are failing. it's almost like picking your favorite child. and i had to stop for a second. i never thought development aid was sort of the sophie's choice that we had to pick. i mean, doesn't it make sense as a businessman? oh, yeah. if you don't -- if this product is not working, why are you using it? now, if you have unlimited money, like we did back then, it's ok just to waste money, i suppose. >> well, we didn't have. >> we didn't. >> i'm sorry. unlimited pie. if you don't rack and stack, and i must say -- and i don't want to attack usaid -- the new administrator, one of your colleagues, congressman green, is racking and stacking programs right now. and that's a tremendous success. and i think it's because of the committee like this and the full committee who have been holding their feet to the fire. but those are the things i think may help to answer your question.

usaidate department and risking their lives for a noble cause. thank you. sen. leahy: thank you. secretary, you were quoted in a press referring to nicolas maduro as a tyrant after blocking the entry of humanitarian aid. you will find i think every single senator would agree with you. but i think we have to be consistent if we will be taken seriously. that alsoagree that applies to north korea's leader? sec. pompeo: yes. i'm sure i've said that. sen. leahy: what about egypt's president sisi? sec. pompeo: i would not use that characterization. sen. leahy: ok. even though he locked up political opponents and claimed victory after a sham election? sec. pompeo: senator, there's no doubt that it's a mean, nasty world. but not every one of these leaders is the same. some are trying to wipe nations off the earth and summer trying to give americans safe. you may call them authoritarian and a tyrant but there is a difference in the way the united states should respond. sen. leahy: nicolas maduro is a tyrant,kim jong-un is a the egyptian president is changing the constitution, locking up t

any questions the subcommittee would like on friday, april 12th, and usaid and mark green. the meeting is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] >> the buses stopping in middle and high schools across the country for awards to the winners of the student kim competition and throughout this month you see the top 20 fun winning entries every morning before washington journal and watch every student kim documentary along with those honorably mentioned in behind the scene winners online@studentzoobacam.org. >> the road to the white house coverage includes new jersey democratic senator cory booker, officially kicking off his presidential campaign with a rally in newark. live saturday 1:00 pm eastern. another announcement, mayor pete puttigieg

will continue to apply pressure against nicolas maduro government usaid supplies are still at the border after being blocked from entering venezuela in february the united states will continue to utilize every economic and political means at our disposal to help the venezuelan people. using sanctions vsa revocations and other means we pledge to hold the regime and those propping up accountable for their corruption and their repression of democracy we are deeply aware of the recent intimidation tactics used by the madeira regime this past thursday a digital should know we are watching and our support will not waver well eric fons west is vice president of the council of the americas and a former white house official he says the u.s. can do even more to pressure. the current sanctions can be applied more tightly and i think that's one thing mr pompei i was trying to do is to get the allies in latin america themselves to step up their own application of sanctions in a more coordinated way to come alongside with the united states has already done been doing secondly yes there are additional

and to me, the state department people and usaid and other places are risking their lives for a noble cause. thank you. senator leahy. >> thank you. mr. secretary, you were quoted in the press referring to him as a tyrant after blocking the entry of humanitarian aid. i think you will find every senator here, republican, democrat, would agree with you. but i think we also have to be consistent if we're going to be taken seriously. would you agree the description of maduro also applies to north korea's leader, kim jong-un? >> sure. i'm sure i've said that. >> what about egypt's president sisi? >> you know -- >> uh -- >> i would not use that characterization. >> okay. even though he locked up political opponents and claimed victory after a sham election? >> senator, there's no doubt that it's a mean, nasty world out there. but not every one of these leaders is the same. some of them are trying to wipe entire nations off the face of the earth. and others are actually partnering with us to help keep americans safe. there's a difference among -- of leaders. you might call them tyrant. you m

about racking and stacking programs in usaid. he turned on me saying, the audacity of john sopko to want me to list which programs are working and which ones are failing. it is almost like picking your favorite child. i thought for a second , i never thought development aid was sort of the sophie's choice we had to pick. doesn't it make sense as a businessman? if you if this product is not working why are you using it? if you have unlimited money like we did back then it is okay because [ indiscernible - low volume ] -- >> that we didn't have that, i'm sorry. >> you know rack and stack and i must say and i don't want to attack usaid. the new administrative was administrator was one of your former colleagues. mr. green is doing that right now and i think it is because of a committee like this who have been holding their feet to the fire. those are the sort of things i think may help enhance to answer your question because i can't tell you what the policy should be. that is, i can only tell you this is your policy and i can talk ab

walking with usaid administrator mark green he's going to trump told the women at the coyote cocoa plantation they will soon be getting two million dollars it will come from the african development agency in the private sector and is aimed directly at them. to conjunction with the world cocoa foundation and all the private sector partners from freight companies who joined us today. and ministry to clean mentioned several of ours and cargill. joined us here. to celebrate what happens when you're in power when. the president of the kayak co-operative says the money will help them diversify into commerce. and what struck me about it which i liked is that she said she will give money to the women of the co-operative or rather to women to take charge. to the women so they can work so they can have several incomes. so the children can go to school. this cocoa work is not enough so. the ivory coast world bank summit brings together the development bank executives private sector leaders and business women to discuss support for africa's female entrepreneurs. nice doing business with. and. language co

about liking and staffing stacking programs in usaid. he turned on me saying , the audacity of john sopko that wants me to list what programs are working and which ones are failing , it is almost like picking your favorite child. i just thought for a second, i never thought development aid was sophie's choice that we had to pick. doesn't it make sense as a businessman if you don't, if this product is not working why are you using it? if you have unlimited money like we did back then it is okay -- >> we didn't have it. i'm sorry -- >> you don't rack and stack, and i must say i don't want to attack the usaid administrator who is one of your former colleagues, congressman green is racking and stacking programs right now and that is a tremendous expense and i think because of a committee like this and full committee who have been holding their feet to the fire. those are the things i think may help to answer your question. i can't tell you what the policy should be because that -- if this is your policy i can talk about the process whether i

over the weekend, the state department also took steps to cut off usaid to el salvador, guatemala and honduras. the president is expected to visit the usb mexico border on friday. and tonight his threat to shut the border is raising fears of an avocado shortage. avocados could vanish from supermarkets within about three weeks, if the border closes. this time of year, mexico supplies nearly all of the avocados in the united states. >> i love avocados and i love protists so, but i mean if it is not available i don't know what else we would do. >> avocados are also grown right here in california, but are season is just getting started. >>> tonight, a half-dozen healthy redwood trees are about to get the acts, in order to save a building. there is a grassroots effort to save the giant evergreens. kpix 5's reporter is there with what some argue is the root of the problem. >> reporter: critics argue that the structure of the building is flawed, there has to be a way to save the building and the redwood trees. but the owner of the building say the repairs need to be made this summer or the s

most of that goes through usaid. spent on contractors, what are otherwise known as beltway bandits. some of it never leaves washington. and a lot of it goes to ngo 's that are not necessarily alive with the idea of development. and they are doing things like ocasio-cortez want to do. pushing sustainable energy rather than fossil fuels. or pushing labor regulations that raise the cost of labor and asked the countries uncompetitive. it's a lot of that going on. i think before he says you know, we are giving these countries money, the money does not go to the honduran government. it goes to usaid. ! interesting, great!you are a great writer at the wall street journal. thank you for joining us. >>> bernie sanders unveiling medicare for all plan. nancy plus he doesn't like it. rambo story you can keep your dr.? now you cannot keep your insurance, obamacare or medicare or medicaid or anything! we have details coming up. first, maxine waters getting schooled by bank ceos about student loans and who really owns them. is this

questions we would like to submit no later than friday april 12th we will meet on april 30th with usaid. we are adjourned. [inaudible conversations] >> the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. [cheers and applause] robo call. agricultural secretary sonny perdue was on capitol hill to testify on the president's 2020 budget request. he also talked about the impacts of tariffs on agriculture and industry in the trade agreement between us and mexico. when asked about the southern border secretary produce pushback on the idea of closing the border and suggested by the president warning it would be detrimental to us commerce. >> we call thel hearing to order

to say the least so starting from two thousand and fourteen millions of usaid cash stopped flowing ketones way under mr moran oh the bucks of freedom are slowly starting to find their way back today i'm pleased to announce that the united states who support that effort to root out corruption merely want to have million dollars to support your efforts. to end corruption and strengthen civil society in ecuador so it seems it didn't take long since the right man came in human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes is being used as a bargaining chip in relations between ecuador and the us. i would suggest it's highly likely that the u.s. government has been putting pressure on the government of ecuador and we know that president. in ecuador himself is under huge pressure his popularity is strong to about seventeen percent the new york times reported that president moreno had offered to handover a songe to the u.s. in exchange for debt relief so i think there is something much deeper going on here and it would be a great great shame if ecuador bowed to american pressure and gave up the impor

agency for international development which helped oversee the february twenty third attempt to ram usaid across the colombian border and usa id is now talking about military options so this could be done under the auspices of some kind of humanitarian intervention to save venezuelans but it's really interesting that an aid agency is participating in this discussion another really remarkable figure was david small and ski a close ally of one wydow from venezuela who is now the head of the oas is migration department on venezuela and we know there's a consensus in washington that any invasion or attack on venezuela would be in exactly the migration crisis massively so someone who's in charge of migration to discuss military options seems pretty bizarre in counterproductive what other options no military options are still available to the us before they go down what most people would think is that you know the right of last resort using a military option. well that's an important question the u.s. is using economic sanctions as a form of unilateral coercion in place of the military invasion

burden of war and conflict here also in them better suited for war child usa what is that so war child usaid sort of attacks the same problem from a different angle more child provides education employment and criminal justice. assistance to women and children who are caught in conflict what they do is they go into these conflict regions they go into these communities and they work with the local community to bring the community up so it's actually a pretty tremendous way of going about doing things there isn't this sort of savior is a more paternalism complex that you run into a lot unfortunately with n.g.o.s where you know places people go in not really knowing the situation on the ground or the you know the various different mores on the ground and actually can in the long term end up doing damage even with the best of intentions were child actually takes a very different tack they go in they use the local community they use the local expertise in order to build up the community starting with children and women who are the most unfortunately the most. affected in conflict and they've had

we got the request and it was generated by usaid that went to the state department and they asked us to meet a capacity short fall as a secretary said it was our ability to deliver a large volume over a short period of time in support of usaid. >> let me finish with the time i have left. is it this administration's intent to use the military resolution on this issue? to achieve a military resolution? >> it's not my understanding. >> thank you. >> i yield back my time. >> okay. one, we have five people to ask questions here. they have not yet spoken. i'm going to press on. the possibility that others are going to come back and we'll deal with that as it comes. but we'll try to press on. i think we can get done in the next 45 minutes or so. so i'll try to do that. mr. walls? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to talk to you for a moment about space. russia and china had weaponized space. they have done so in the process of doing so and they explicitly international seek to dominate the united states and space. they're prepared for war. and in my opinion, we're not. so with the flip of

usaid has been the united states leader in sector reform and in building the capacity and creating the environment to successfully move countries towards a more water secure and self-reliant future, an effort i saw most recently firsthand in bangladesh, where the challenges are many. you will hear from them and then you will hear from other experts who have been working over the past year to implement the president's global water strategy. we also encourage you to read more about what u.s. government agencies have accomplished under the global water strategy by looking at the new global water strategy web platform which can be found on u.s. aid's global water website and on the state department's water web page. there are handouts announcing this new web platform available just outside the room. through all of this, there is one message that will be self-evident but bears repeating. we could not do this without the support of all of you. this is not a problem that the united states will solve alone. it is through partnerships where we can leverage our respective strengths, where we wil

the countries were dependent on us implement full freedom of religion before we give them any more usaidwhy would we do that? because we are afraid of being criticized by "the washington post." the founder of pulliam and the author of a radical, my journey out of extremism. we are happy to have you. extreme if the thinking behind not just being straightforward with the public about an event like the one we saw yesterday and sri lanka. >> i am a muslim to express my deepest condolences to christians around the world due to this and after this horrific terrorist attack and sri lanka that claimed nearly 300 lives. i am married to an american from a catholic family and it's why it's so important for me personally to make this point. unfortunately, our leaders and in particular some of the political leaders that you have named our suffering from what i believe is an intellectual and moral retreat from our enlightenment values and also a level of political cynicism involved here as well. he political, the intellectual side pay for a while now whether when barack obama was presidentn after they

throw some money at usaid. we are focusing on russia and china. we do still have interest in the middle east. we have to worry about maritime security, fighting terrorists. we have to worry about a modicum of containing conflict, how difficult that is. >> sure. i'm not sure how much i disagree with mara, how much i agree with mara. i will lay out my own thinking. you guys can figure it out. i agree with mara's original set of points about the importance of this region. every time we do try to walk away, it sucks us back in. i think, i could be wrong, but i think i'm the origin that the phrase that the middle east is not las vegas. what happens there does not stay there. >> most brilliant comments i have i read by you at some point. >> we are endlessly trying to walk away from the region because we are always trying to think about it. when you look at the threat russia,y china, by there is no question about the enormity of those threats. nevertheless, there is an immediacy to the problem of the middle east. yes, someday, we might fight a war with c

>> but usaid has working towards making improvements. the own state department has the numbers to prove it. the move to end programs for honduras, el salvador, and guatemala would effect nearly $500 million and millions left from the prior year. the mission is to provide investment and partnership from the united states to promote economic opportunity and security for citizens of the region. make it safer and better so they want to stay and thrive in those countries. the president wants to slash that aid so that the central american governments will stop the migration of refugees but many critics say that aid deters immigrations and it will help the border. even john kelly, said it himself. >> if we could improve the condition of hondurans, central americans, we can do an awful lot to protect the southwest border. >> one government report conducted in 2018 suggests that violence in the northern triangle was actually beginning to show signs of improvement particularly in el salvador and honduras. that year saw a total aid package of $655

the fact is that that foreign aid, and we have the presentation on what usaid is doing down there, rerouting at-risk youth into training, computer science, away from ms-13. and we got the international law enforcement that's taking place in el salvador where ms-13 is prevalent. that's been a hugely successful -- they briefed us on the arrests they made, how they cracked down on on ms-13. n the last two years the numbers with respect to this aid has actually lowered the crime rate, helped the economy, we got to stabilize these areas and if we don't, it's going to get worse and it's not going to help the immigration system, it's just going to get worse. we can be very reactive at our border to stop them from coming in, but jane if we done address the root cause of the problem through the central american security initiative, we're going to continue to have this problem. mrs. harman: in 2017 in this administration there was a summit in miami. i remember this. vice president pence went, john kelly when he was secretary of homeland security went, and so did luis moreno, of the inter-american deve

. >> she did have the child tax credit, that helps in theory women -- >> you have the 50 million usaid to help 50 million women. everybody got a dollar. >> ed: do you know what's going to help a lot of people? look at this picture of adam schiff who tweeted out about chrissy teigen. he said, i might have to delete this but i want everybody to see that. it's great for the weekend on this friday night. on monday, do not miss martha and speak 29's town hall with senator bernie sanders. "fox & friends" tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." what if someone you hated offered to pay off your mortgage, put your kids through college, deliver a tractor-trailer full of snickers bars to your house. you'd be confused at first and suspicious. why is an enemy giving you the gift of a lifetime? in the end, if you were smart, you would take the gifts. it would be too good to pass up. something very much like that happened in washington last night for "the washington post" reported the trump administration has been debating moving some of the thousands of

standing firm in his criticism of mexico as well as 3 central american countries now cut off from usaid>> we take hundreds of millions of dollars to honduras and guatemala and el salvador. is a combination. and what do they do? they don't do anything for us. >> reporter: president trump is set to visit the border in california on friday. he will see part of a newly built fence and take part in a roundtable with local law enforcement. in washington, lauren blanchard , fox news. >>> a second woman is speaking out about claims that former vice president joe biden touched her inappropriately. mckee walked up to me and wrapped his hands around my face like that and pulled me in and started rubbing noses with me and it wasn't, you know, like an eskimo kiss or and then stop . it was like for a good 15 seconds and i remember thinking, is he going to kiss me? >> amy la poste says it happened at a congressional fundraiser in connecticut in 2009. house speaker nancy pelosi said the behavior does not disqualify him from running for president but she thinks that times have changed. >> i think that i

usaid. you're arguing things are getting better. you can argue part of that was the money that the u.s. was investing in these programs. you also seem to be agreeing with steven miller and the president that it is all a con job. people applying for asylum. the administration has changed -- you're saying that the asylum claims are baseless. the administration has changed the justification for asylum. so fleeing domestic violence or gang violence, that's no longer valid, according to this administration, for gaining entry on an asylum claim. >> well, it's also not valid, not just according to this administration, anderson, but it's not asylum according to u.s. law. u.s. law is very clear on this. look, a lot of americans live in dangerous neighborhoods. i live in chicago. the west side of chicago was a dangerous, violent place. we are not offering asylum to the kids on the west side of chicago. we shouldn't be offering asylum and by the way often very generous cash benefits to people who are fleeing a tough neighborhood in honduras or

that hasn't alienated from that position and also insured that the investments were rely on usaid so you can see some evidence. >> thank you to the panel for an interesting discussion. how would you respond to the criticism that is more preoccupied like others on privacy issues than it is over security of its own nations like china and the infiltration of the european market? >> i am a defender of the policy. [laughter] going after american companies come i don't think that is how i would describe. but the way we apply through the nationality we appreciate the decision of the commission that as you know did not go down so well that's how we go about our rules and it is true this very much becomes a matter of the american companies that was because all the big it companies and the perception that trying to move into regulating something for what we already have and that is very different. over the question of five g and huawei and the european council that the commission was asked to come out and again it is a little complex because it cannot be with a particular company or deny natio

. >> i have worked in this space and i have experienced firsthand usai r usaid products out in the fieldin american foreign aid. i believe it works. and i believe in this case, based on the data, it is working. and yoi don't greet with the president that it's the answer. but i do agree that we need more aggressive tactics from these countries to help us get this crisis under control. look at the numbers, the thousands of people who are coming across the border. so the president is trying to come up with things. i think some may be good, some maybe not so good, to stop what many, many americans, and certainly the vast majority of his supporters believe is an absolute crisis. you have people coming here for good reasons, fleeing violence, but you also have people coming here absolutely for the wrong reasons. and the president is trying to find a way to do something about it. and i hope he ends up finding the right levers to pull it off. >> everyone, stick around. we have some breaking news coming in about former vice president joe biden. a connecticut woman is telling a local newspaper tha

. >> from the usaid perspective how do you see the achievement of the iol one --dash ilo relationship from the employer point of view? >> to say i am secretary. and with the ilo and the united states between 1950 in the middle of 1980 and that was a difficult climate. so we had this antipathy with the any non- - - amazing standard and second and in the reagan administration, a formula was worked out but then they set up to go forward. and 2001 for the first time and with those substantive areas. and with the forced labor standards. and it is important. and that consultation convention. it was a difficult road. you cannot underestimate the strength. so think about the achievements i have to remember it isn't so good of the history. so i can find credit for all of the good things. i would not start with the declaration of philadelphia. and the conclusion of world war ii when you have that declaration, above all else , is fundamental and then you have to look at the 1998 declaration. by the way of the first participation. so over time and that 1998 declaration so with the us employer sid

house, helping form the american people why that is important, restoring the state department and usaidis a starting point but we must be more effective to hold the admitted station accountable for its foreign policy shortcomings and reminding the american people about the importance of core american values like democracy, governance and human rights. it is these fundamental values along with america's unparalleled strength on the global stage that military second to none, vital economy driven by a vision and technological ingenuity, a reservoir of goodwill with allies and partners that provide the opportunity to define a new role in the grand strategy for the 21st century. i said i was skeptical of the demonstration of stability to be equal to this moment in history. i want you to prove me wrong. opportunity remains to take hold of the moment before us, face the new challenges of this more competitive era and replenish our vision, reinvigorate our diplomacy, revive our partnerships, restore american leadership for a new era and i look forward to the questions to pursue. >> with that we

president of the united states made politically -motivated announcements that he will seek to cut the usaid to hon did your oost, guatemala and el salvador which are known and referred to as the northern triangle countries. in making his decision, the resident cited asylum seekers. moms and children, seniors and young men that make up the migration patterns from these nations that reflect themselves on the southern border. as it turns out, mr. speaker, i was in the region with some of my colleagues frling both sides of the aisle when the president articulated his plan to freeze foreign aid for this part of the world. this aid has if he cantively in el salvador and programs there as well. while key members of the committees, we met with leaders from the region and el salvador and discussed the relationship between the united states and their countries with great optimism. i will admit, mr. speaker, the manner in which our president views and discusses our regional partners stands in stark contrast to the security objectives and economic commonialities we discuss with his central american cou

there are hard problems for the usaid even harder problems for europe. not to speak of japan where that -- ethnicity has been the definition of what it means to be british or german or french. ms. rice: we talked about the state of democracy as a concept. the state of democracy in terms of the institutions and united states. let's talk about some of the other places. the united states' greatest allies or democratic allies in europe in particular, long-standing ties of history and tradition. how is europe doing in terms of democracy? niall: fine. [laughter] fine. i would say as per usual. as per usual british politics is a kind of jacobian tragedy. everybody is stabbing everybody else in the back. unless you know 17th-century constitutional history, you don't know what is going on. at some point, the queen will step in. i feel sure. rice: that will be democratic. niall: that is how british politics work. the french have their own style. they imagine themselves to be louis the 14th. lots of people run in the streets of paris to say you are louis the 16th.

assessment it has on our live cattle and the branding and the labeling and all of that, that is when usaid will become involved. we have a good point and off between fda and usda. thank you for your help. >> from our cattle producers standpoint, very important you are in charge of labeling. so the consumer knows when they are knows when they are getting ranch raised beef and other products. sec. perdue: our goal is for the consumer to understand where the product came from and if they can make the choice. the choice is up to them. we do not want to treat any product more favorably. >> the farm bill, how do you plan to allocate those resources and will they be sufficient to meet the needs, you already answered that. we have that same concern. thank you for your comments on broadband, that was something i was going to bring up. anything else on broadband? we have made that a funding priority. constituents in your state that find it difficult to negotiate, we would welcome to help them. there is a lot of information on the web, it has been communicated even during the shutdown, we worked with

throw some money at usaid but to the extent possible you need to rebalance on focusing on china and on russia. because we do have in the middl. we have to worry about maritime security. we have to worry about fighting terrorists, a modicum of retaining conflict noting how difficult that is. >> so ken, maybe you can weigh in. >> sure. i'm just going to lay out my own thinking. you guys can figure it out because i absolutely agree with her original set of points about the importance of this region and the fact that every time we do try to walk away it sucks us back in, right. and i think, i could be wrong about this but i think i'm the origin of the phrase the middle east is not las vegas, what happens there doesn't stay there. >> the most brilliant comments i have i read by you at some point. >> anyway, this is part of the problem. we're endlessly trying to walk away from the region because we are always trying to think about it. at its basic level maura is absolutely correct. there's no question about the enormity of those threats. nevertheless there's an amediacy to the problems of th

migrants, and then we should cut of the foreign aid, the fact is, when you get a presentation of what usaidt there, rerouting at risk youth into helping law enforcement. in el salvador where ms 13 is prevalent, it is hugely successful. they have made, all the crackdown on ms 13. in the last two years, the numbers perspective to this aid has actually lower the crime rate, have the economy. we have to stabilize these areas. if we don't, it is not going to help the immigration situation, it is just going to get worse. we can be very reactive and our border to stop them from coming in, but if we don't address the repository problem through the central american security initiative, we will continue to have this problem. host: if you would like to watch the entire event at the wilson center, we covered it, on c-span, on our website at c-span.org. on then gedan significance of the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee speaking about the impact of the money and saying that it is making a difference. guest: support for these programs is bipartisan. in the last two years, president tr