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so i can say that the work of usaid is incredibly important. on a human level. people rely on food assistance and humanitarian assistance from usaid to live. you're literally seeing doctors and aid workers having to choose which babies to feed because they are no longer getting the. money to feed starving babies. i traveled to chad recently and met with sudanese refugees there. and these are sudanese refugees who are fleeing horrific conflict, who are fleeing genocide, who rely on food assistance to survive. that's what we're talking about getting cut now beyond the human level. this is really important for our national security, because this is how we make sure that we are one looking at preventing diseases that could come to the united states and get us sick here in the united states. it's also an important way for us to show other countries and show other people why american leadership in the world is so important. and if we stop doing that, if we leave, you're going to see the prc and other strategic competitors come in and fill that vacuum

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that's the state of what's going on with usaid.antha powers said so. >> i think every administration authorizes reviews, increase efficiencies, plenty propose it being under the state department. madeleine albright tried to do that. that's not a new maga idea. the question is how do you it. do you still believe that in the law signed in 1960s that congress has to sign off on any changes to usaid or do you think can ma president trump can make this happen through executive order? >> those examples that you gave of historical figures, the difference is now the job is going to get done. it's going to be 99.99% of cents on the dollar actually go towards what it's intended. >> you are talking about -- >> that's going to -- >> efficiencies and aids versus restructuring. let me ask you about that. >> that requires restructuring had 100%. you can't wish it into existence. you have to restructure where the failures are. >> of course. what we are hearing from many aid organizations and officials is that can you restructure after you finish t

. >>> also tonight, it seems like dramatic changes are happening usaid.t's the agency responsible for providing help to developing countries and those in crisis. vaughn hillyard joins us now. so vaughn, what's going about here and how is elon musk involved? >> right, hallie. this amounts to a gutting of this key agency. nbc news has learned from several sources that in the past week, more than a thousand senior civil workers and contractors were fired, furloughed, or placed on leave. usaid's website has been offline for more than 24 hours now, and i'm also told this weekend a director and deputy director of the agency's security office were put on leave after refusing access to secure files to elon musk's dosage office. in the last hours musk calling the agency criminal and saying it's time for the agency to die. usaid is the backbone of the u.s. humanitarian assistance around the world. and the trump administration has frozen billions of dollars of foreign aid that runs through it. several dramatic lawmakers tonight are saying the cripple of usaid underc

so global leader is accusing washington's usaid agency of the stabilizing elected governments. and branding actually has its neighbor, rolando spreading conflict in central african of the congo least they ask for in europe, claims the rest of the city. the welcome to the week, the recap of the past 7 days of news plus right up to the moment developments as well. good to help your company or the russian. the human rights commissioner has the monday, the international condemnation of sundays attack on the school in the countries chris screeching. moscow has opened a criminal case against the ukrainian army colonel, accused of ordering a ms file strike on the civilian building. the number of victims has not been confirmed, but doesn't or fear dead. the ukrainian armed forces committed another walk fine by launching a targeted missile strike on the boarding school in the city of sewage, the law, and she'll find them in miss solves from this. and we reach in both the re quoted by boston that defense systems. this publication is aimed at distracting the world public from the atrociti

and usaid, it provided access to clean water, hiv treatments and a lot more. schumer said the move is illegal, but is there any mechanism to actually hold trump accountable for these actions? >> well, first of all, the usaid, this is an incredibly effective agency that does a lot of work around the world, does a lot of work here in the united states, and a lot of what usaid does is, is it's effectively using soft diplomacy to, to protect americans and to, you know, protect people around the world who need sort of those sorts of protections. but here's the bottom line. this is what donald trump does. he does things that are illegal. chuck schumer is exactly right. this is illegal. this there's a reason why we have checks and balances in government, why we have three branches of power. this is not he did that made this decision unilaterally without any congressional oversight. so it is illegal. but this is what he does. and then he lets you, you know, you take it to the courts or you, you know, congress, you know, intervenes. but then it takes a while for anythi

he actually called usaid. a criminal organization. >> and based on new. >> reporting from. >> nbc news, federal. >> workers across several. >> agencies are growing. >> worried over. >> what they describe. >> as trump's war. against his own government. >> as elon. musk helps carry. >> out his battles. and we can. >> report that employees are. >> receiving emails reminding them constantly that they could be fired at any moment. one of them told us that if you want government. >> to function, you wouldn't attack. >> federal employees. >> daily with psychological warfare. >> you'd want them. >> to show up motivated. now, the. president might. be using musk to carry out his dirty work, but. >> don't lose. >> sight of what musk is really in it. >> for. >> possibly his own. >> bottom line. take this past september. >> when musk. >> called for. >> the faa administrator at the time, mike whitaker, to resign after first finding spacex. >> then. >> ultimately grounding starship operations. following an explosion. >> duri

the motto of usaid, i've been all around the world, it says usaid aid from the american people.s, have to do with saving lives, especially the lives of children wherever we can, is critical, i think, to the sort of soft power that the united states needs to establish in the world if we're going to have lasting peace. >> do you ever get a sense from the people that you talk there about the disconnect between usaid, as you said, aid from the american people, but at the same time, the bombs and the bullets that are being used to kill them are also being paid for by the american people. >> yeah. you know, i, i can tell you that as a guest in their country, i told them again and again that i'm an american. part of the reason that i went is because i'm an american, and an american value is not to let a child die. if you have the skills to save them. when i was there, i was absolutely welcomed, i was loved, they accepted that i was an american. i told them for every one doctor who has cleared to come here, there's 50 more who would come if they could. and i don't think that they confus

usaid's is the largest provider of food assistance. was a similar issue at the treasury department this weekend where it was widely reported some of musk's team gained access to the federal panic system, which sends out money on behalf of the government and could be a tool to potentially monitor and limit federal spending. still to come, exploring the lasting mental toll the devastating california wildfires. and, the link between a deadly strain of the avian flu and soaring egg prices nationwide. ♪ >> this is pbs news weekend from the david m. rubenstein studio at weta in washington home of the pbs news hour weeknights on pbs. john: this weekend, california officials declared that the last of the deadly fires that scorched more 59 square miles and destroyed 16,000 structures were fully contained, and now recovery and rebuilding gets underway. cleanup crews are working to clear debris, contain toxins, and evaluate damage -- while residents grapple with the lingering mental health effects of this life-altering event. ali rogin has more o

um, you know, within, within washington there is a chilling effect. usaid officials can speak to anybody, not even at the state department. and so what we, what we're seeing is a political retribution that's designed to undermine the 4 principal of this statutorily, independent and crew, and legal and congressional authorized agency. since that's been around since the kennedy administration. and so we are serious is the magic attack against the in the the, the freeze of assistance is one component of it is not the only come back of the law. you touched earlier on the political aspects of this. and now might be a good time to come back to and ask you to take apart the broad, a political impacts of the us withdrawing it's. it's 8 support as dave explained earlier in some of those areas, critical areas the levant. ok, i think it was the term dave used when you look at to the cutting back of age and syria and jordan and to support the palestinians and so on. does that leave avoid which others? and maybe even a countries which are to put it nicely in competition with the us trying feel like c

so global presidents and prime ministers accusing usaid up this stabilizing elected governments. and from the i choose this rolando of spreading more in central africa. does the congo leaves the spring europe claims for complicity in the this is our team for knoxville. let's get into the stories that shape the weak plus this some of these big developments to you're welcome to then use our to the russian that human rights commission has demanded international condemnation of summer days attack on a school in the countries. chris squeezen, moscow has opened a criminal case against a ukrainian army officer, accused of ordering a missile strike on the system in building the number of victims has not been confirmed, but dozens or if you're dead. the ukrainian armed forces committed another walk fine by launching a target dismissal strike on the boarding school in the city of sewage up the loans you'll find them in. miss solves from the some we beach in both re quoted by boston, that defense systems. this pro location is aimed at distracting the world public from the atrocities of the

his latest victim is the us agency for international development, or usaid, a government agency thatountries around the world. last night, the administration removed two of the agency's top security officials after they refused to allow for representatives from elon musk's department of government efficiency. they call it doge. i call it dodgy to access its offices, classified personnel files and security systems that were reportedly beyond their own security levels. in addition, most of the staff at the agency's legislative and public affairs bureau was placed on administrative leave saturday night. this afternoon, musk referred to usaid as a, quote, criminal organization, adding that it was, quote, time for it to die. the agency's x account has since disappeared, and the website usaid.gov is offline. in addition, across the justice department and the fbi, prosecutors, agents and leaders are facing down the looming threat of being fired by the administration and replaced by replaced with loyalists. joining me now, joe walsh, former republican congressman for illinois and host of the

the usaid exit college with almost a 1000000 followers was deactivated. the newly appointed us government deficiency department, head of the ex, owner of this to say about development. u. s. c. id is a criminal organization. time for it to di. did you know the usa? i d, using your tax dollars funded bio weapon research, including cobit 19 that killed millions of people. when it comes to make reports that senior usaa security officials were put on leave and after attempting to at refuse, don't lose access to agency systems personnel from the musk created office, tried to enter usaid hits to in washington dc, but we're stop there. we're eventually light into the building, and the incident is the latest. and the showdown between the trump administration and federal government. but the president seeking to slash spending, including on ukraine, which as in recent years, become the top recipient of us economic and military support. well, with the american funding cutoff, ukrainian media outlets of sun to the alarm i was getting subscribers to donates. while som

i'm getting them out usaid, run by radical lunatics and were getting them out and will make a decisionm canada. [inaudible]. trump: i have spoken with people from canada and people from mexico and is spoken to a lot of other people. [inaudible]. trump: i am speaking with prime minister trento tomorrow morning also speaking with mexico tomorrow morning. i don't expect anything very dramatic the tariffs on year olds a lot of money sure the going to pay. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. trump: i don't think the troops will be necessary in panama when panama has done is terrible but security from this part of the world and you know 70 percent of the signage on the panama canal was written in chinese. and that is not right was not that for china should never been made the deal was a ridiculous deal we lost 3,830,000 people building the pen micro canal one of big winners of the world, is a most expensive project ever built this country and take it forward, the most expensive project ever built we lost 38000 inhabitants, china owns it all of a sudden, not going to happen i'm not going to let that ha

the website for usaid, the u.s. agency for international development, has disappeared. democrats fear that the trump administration is trying to absorb the independent, congressionally funded humanitarian agency into the state department, lawyers say president trump has no legal authority to do so. usaid has been caught in the trump administration's crosshairs as the white house works to freeze foreign aid and development across the world. meanwhile, the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention is also purging critical information and data from its website. several web pages, including those related to hiv and lgbtq youth, went dark on friday. this comes after trump's executive orders to eliminate federal dea programs, and for the u.s. government to recognize only two sexes, a senior health official told cnn that cdc employees were warned of severe consequences if they didn't change the language on the website. it's not clear when or if those missing pages will be back online. in their first big move since the bruising presidential election loss in november, demo

and that may and under trumps judicious ending of usaid. well, our, my colleague at the grace on jeremy laredo was jailed by israel for his reporting on iranian missile strikes on is real. his reporting covered the same areas that credentialed mainstream reporters have covered and he was picked up at of westbank checkpoint. few, it was, it was obviously political. he was subjected to really harsh conditions, abuse, taunted by soldiers, and accused by israel, of assisting an enemy during war time, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison or even death. it was eventually led out. i mean, this is a ridiculous accusation, and we did receive some support from press freedom organizations like the committee to protect journalists, which was refreshing. but at the same time, the committee to protect journalist has refused to recognize scores and scores of palestinian journalists who were killed in gaza deliberately by the israeli military as such as journalists who are killed for doing their work. um, so we still expect a lot more from the

we've heard it before. countries claiming that usaid is involved in groups that undermine their governments. so why is it really only coming to the, for now, with this a cut off, what, why hasn't operations been called into question more directly before us? that's a great question union for how long has us a been a spear haired of us imperialism. we saw the crew in 2019, in bolivia, we saw the 2009 cool in hon doors. us aid had a lot to do with this. they have a $25000000000.00 budget. certainly, we, the american people can use the $25000000000.00 right here at home to generate more jobs and economic possibilities. i think it's important to also point out that uh, 201 years after the monroe doctrine, the united states continues to have 70 two's u. s. military base has spread across south america and the caribbean. china and russia did not have even one base in the hemisphere. so i think this comes is welcome news. the us aid is now cut off and hopefully a relic of america is imperial past. donald trump is pretty much focusing on for an aide right now. is this the mission of sorts that you k

agency for international development's website, also known as usaid, went offline yesterday as layoffsoughs and aid shutdowns continue. the disruptions follow president trump's freeze on foreign assistance. democrats warn trump may try to dissolve the agency and fold it into the state department. that's a move they say would be illegal. president trump and republicans argue that much of foreign aid is wasteful. secretary of state marco rubio says the agency's programs are under review, but has not confirmed plans to eliminate the agency. and tomorrow marks two years since the train derailment in east palestine, ohio, which sent more than 1 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air. vice president jd vance and epa director lee zeldin will visit the area to commemorate the disaster. last week, the village of east palestine and norfolk southern announced a $22 million settlement, resulting, or rather resolving, all of the village's claims from the incident this morning, with the palisades and eton wildfires fully contained, cleanup efforts are now underway, closing a chapter on histo

so if leavitt and musk's claims were true, usaid would have been planning to send more than 1.5 billionthan 700 condoms per person. even though fact checkers had a field day with that lie, it didn't stop donald trump from saying this. and that process we identified and stopped $50 million being sent to gaza to buy condoms for hamas. 50 million. and you know what's happened to them? they've used them as a method of making bombs. how about that? >> after the gaza condoms lie was pushed by the president of the united states, and online researcher did actually some more digging. they found that the u.s. government sent not 50, but $83 million to the gaza province of the african nation of mozambique for hiv and aids prevention. so gaza province in mozambique, not gaza in the palestinian territories. yet even tonight, the state department is still bragging on its website about how the united states saved taxpayers from providing condoms to the people of gaza. trump's white house is sticking by that old saying, never let the truth get in the way of a good story. so dean is back with me. this d

and then you also have usaid. we have elon musk saying that it's an evil agency and that it should be shut down. so there's a lot of eyes going there because there's also senior officials being removed there as well. >> alex. >> let me quickly get to you. the talks of a trade war underway after trump announced he's going to hit mexico, canada and china with sweeping tariffs. what are you hearing from the administration about it? >> well, the president has been doubling down on his new tariffs. and i want to read to you part of what he posted online because he's acknowledging that prices might go up. and this is, of course, coming after he campaigned on lowering prices for americans. he wrote make your product in the usa and there are no tariffs. will there be some pain? yes, maybe and maybe not. but we will make america great again and it will all be worth the price that must be paid. i also want to play for you some sound of the new department of homeland security secretary, kristi noem. listen to what she had to