again gets you that is sanctuary us are using and ing for salas latest federalist the immigration yemen i nuestras you get access. >> thank you. that concludes our comments. >> happy to answer any questions. talk a little bit about the differences between what the trump administration tried to do last time around and this time and the difference between the lawsuits if that's so. >> so at some levels there's not there not many differences. >> and in fact he is reinstating the original executive order that a court had held in the ninth circuit had held were unconstitutional. but in addition to that, he is now also threatening local officials, state officials with investigations, criminal and civil prosecutions. what relief are you seeking in this lawsuit? quite a few pieces and you want to take a yes no? yeah, at a high level we're. oh, i'm sorry. sara eisenberg from the san francisco city attorney's office. we are seeking declaration that these executive actions are unconstitutional and unlawful and an injunction that prohibits them from enforcing them against jurisdictions that have th

after that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my team. they're just like a family. it's really nice. >> street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.a., and live your life. get a better life. >> right away, just be patient, and then, eve

manipulation occurred during my work on arm sales to saudi arabia, a mid states military campaign in yemen. the u. k. government was fully aware that saudi air strikes were causing massive civilian casualties. now the big question is, how much political influence is shaping the pays arms export policies. and if these obligations hold, cause british officials be held accountable for the role and conflicts overseas, we have to wait and see for now the former diplomat is urging his colleagues still inside the government to stop enabling. he calls a corrupt process. all right, before we join over a 100 and shot them here on the program brochure, a set to put on a nash with this latest 5th generation fighter ashcroft? the su, 57 bits of the arrow in the 2025 exhibition is going to happen. any hour now, this is the 1st russian jetting service with self technology. let's get all the details here without these bridge and sharp. a su 57 child defense show applies to all the files. india needs want on the premium. yeah, that story, continuing online at odd c dot com with the rest of us stories as we

look at what is happening in lebanon, syria, yemen with the houthis. the money is coming from iran. the right approach. we cannot allow iran to become nuclear. we have been speaking about it for years. the president told us it will not happen now while he is in charge of the u.s. the question is how, whether sanctions or more actions. host: do you mean going further than sanctions? guest: we have to leave all options on the table. host: israel's ambassador to the united nations, thank you. joining me live is a professor at the center for contemporary arab studies at georgetown university in washington. thank you for taking the time to be with us. i'm sure you will have been listening in two initial comments from president trump meeting with prime minister netanyahu before they sit down for that official meeting. in those comments resto saying he did not see why palestinians would want to go back to gaza. i would like to get your initial reaction to those comments. guest: it is jarring to hear the president double and triple down on this idea of uprooting an entire population of more

and it was, was in specifically at young people, teenagers, and people in their early twenties in yemen. of course it was a failure. so where did all that money go? it went into the pockets of middleman. the same thing happened in afghanistan. the same thing happens across africa. it happens everywhere that usa idea spending millions of dollars and doesn't have to account for it. at the end of the day, the defense industry in the united states is very proud when it says we do not give cash to foreign countries. we give in kind aid which is jazz and weapons and ammunition and weapon systems. that way, the government pays the defense contractors here in the united states, and it's the equipment that finds its way overseas. that's not always the case with us, say id. they do provide cash with a wink and a nod that we give you this money and you do what we want you to do. sometimes that happens most of the time, it doesn't. and we enrich a lot of very bad people overseas. here in washington, it was, it was an open secret for a long time that usc id was just simply an offshoot of the c i a a

reaching devastation and gaza and the occupied westbank, but also fighting groups in syria, iraq and yemen, as well as iran. and it continues to signal that ceasefire or not. it has no real intention of backing down on any of those fronts. alexandra buyers out a 0 for inside story. the hello again, standing by august our pink us and tell of even rama cory in boston. they will join us a little later in the show. but 1st of all, let's bring in la risk a political analyst and security of families in by root ali is unable to join the panel because it's illegal for lebanese citizens to interact with. is riley's in the media. welcome to the program. so ali lebanon's government says he's going to ask for you and security council to false and immediate withdrawal. it's really withdrawal. but apart from that, there's really nothing the lebanese government or has bought a can do is the what i think right now. well, no, there is nothing that the government to block can do. i think that is not in the interest of because of the law to start. hey, you around the warfare with the latest round the boyfrie

manipulation occurred during my work on arm sales to saudi arabia, amidst its military campaign in yemen, the u. k. government was fully aware that saudi air strikes were causing massive civilian casualties. now the big question is, how much political influence of shaping the pays arms. experts, policies have these allegations hold, could which officials be held accountable for the role and conflicts overseas. but it's hard to say we have to wait and see before now this former diploma is urgent and his colleagues still inside the government to stop enabling what he calls at corrupt process back to you. right? all right, i'll be at least grocery if it's more, if an ocean. thank you. and you can see more what from a rail on our website oxy dot com for the meantime of your program or tons and about hoffman house? a. the yep. no jokes this week is the big joke because on you guys it's usaid. i need the . 2 the the milestone rubber but i'm still che bose and i'm still joined by my little side kick again behind every mine is a great woman. don't forget it. wherever we start this week. well, wh

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when his family returned to yemen, he did return to the us. however, and through the usa i d funding graduate school and eventually became and, and mom in us must go incidentally and he preached the 3 of the 911 hijackers. and he is also said to have use social media greatly to recruit potential members for our ida. he may have graduated with honors and usa i d 's expense, but he would soon go on to gain another distinction that of being named one of america's most want to terrorist. of course usa id could never have known. he would turn out to become a terrors, but the fact that they did not bother to check his background from the very beginning, mixed the whole thing even more ridiculous. but after tax payers effectively funded his education, the us was having to stump up even more money trying to eliminate him without trial . and that's despite him being an american citizen, something would start a whole controversy all on its own. on the water, i would like he was eventually killed in 2011 and a us to drone stripe in western young men. and

and example of the full out can be seen in 2017, in yemen, where a collapse of infrastructure led to around 2000 cases of color are being reported each day. part of war is involved in destroying the environmental capacities of nations. we saw that in a rock radio, the few fires that's happens. we're seeing it right now. and ukraine. one of the key targets is often fuel depot, so we had some changes around nuclear waste. it was a stock sheet that was talked, it is released, ammonia into the so odd of military impacts is that they leave a legacy of destruction. most famously we saw that in vietnam with age are in still affecting bus at dfcs, a decades later. we see it really stop to the right now in terms of, gosh, i say, you know, tennessee whole neighborhoods being raised to the ground. you're also seeing the use of toxic weapons such as white foss, 1st bands through the skin and leaves the toxic after effects was seen to shut down a fold sanitation facilities by through being palmed and also through the shuttle for black tricity. and of course, that's a release of toxic chemicals. s

a network of allied forces from guns off to 11 on of yemen can foss is really and do you want us to influence an interest in the region? now we have all seen how this alliance turned the gods of war into a multi fonts battle against israel. and so to these people here, the revolution is not, and we, history. it's a battle that still raging vn time ever can chance that we can hear the saw gathering are a response to the on wavering us back. you, you are support for my as well. now, what's your phone calls? every length this campaign to isolates everyone on the stage. today's ceremony shows the support of our dear people, even after all these years and the cultural invasion we faced, they tried to mislead our youth and portray our past revolution negatively. but thank god, the presence of the people proves the support. today we have made significant progress and achieve self sufficiency in many areas. nowadays, whenever i ask about a product, they say it is a rainy and wherever i go, they say this product is made by us. this is something i took pride in my hotel. i have come here spontaneously,

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what's been happening in yemen has also affected jordan and the jordanian economy. but the comments and the remarks about transferring palestinians to jordan. this is an old nightmare that the jordanian kingdom cannot tolerate and cannot be seen to accept. and that's why we've heard very stern statements from and these but from the monarch himself saying that this will not pass. and that jordan is for jordanians, the jordanian monarch, king of the lot receiving the palestinian presidents, who of course, has condemned these comments from donald trump and said that palestinians would not leave their land. he also held phone calls, consultations, would be in need of a 3rd of the crown pins of saudi arabia. this is an issue that has rattled jordan egypt and beyond, because it's seen as the recipe for the serialization. something that can not materialize without it varying or cutting or resulting in a cost to all of these states and their sovereign and know how key is the reaction, particularly from very odd as a queue for all the arab countries which are calibrating the

i'm it states military campaign in yemen. the u. k. government was fully aware that saudi air strikes were causing massive civilian casualties. now the big question is, how much political influence is shaping the pays arms export policies. and if these obligations hold, cause british officials be held accountable for the role and conflicts overseas. we have to wait and see for now the former diplomat is urging his colleagues still inside the government to stop enabling. he calls a corrupt process. time before we go here and oxy rusher is set to put on quite the performance with his latest 5th generation frontier right across the sioux. $57.00 vista, the arrow in the 20. 25 astra. what's gonna happen to any our now it is the 1st of russian jet in service with stealth technology. open out for a preview, the policies brandon sean. a su, $0.57. show me even standing applied wants to get all the files in via need. want on the premium yeah, the air expo, well, of course one that run joe. now she was, uh well you have a chance to discuss t

and i'll give you another example you and when i was in yemen in 2011 as part of an investigation, again, the senate foreign relations committee. i went to see several american embassy officials to get an update on the situation in the country. and i was told that they were spending millions of dollars on a radio station that was broadcasting pro american propaganda, indiana. and i said, well that's just such an old school propaganda operation. why would anybody be interested in that? and they said, oh we've, we've dedicated tens of millions of dollars to making it sound like this was being broadcast by the american network. national public radio and p r. they would intersperse talk with jazz and it was, it was in specifically at young people, teenagers and people in their early twenties in young. and of course it was a failure. so where did all that money go? it went into the pockets of middleman. the same thing happened in afghanistan. the same thing happens across africa. it happens everywhere that usa idea is spending millions of dollars and doesn't have to account for it at the end

you have israel, the occupied westbank to its eastern border, you have yemen, nearby and iraq as well. and so this is a country that a struggle to maintain some semblance of stability for decades. that's the story of jordan, since it's in finding some people here understand that the risk are going to be very high and they're going to require an error of a unified error, a position to face off that danger coming from washington as they see it. no, thank you very much for that for now. that is not all day joining us lie from amman, while these really prominent says, threat to resume the wall and gaza has led to protests and kind of these hundreds of people came out to condemn, has comments demanding the government to uphold, to cease funded with him austin and sure one of the captives brought home safely must be released until saturday on 12. i wish that it would happen, but this is not what the deal says if its really wanted to get the bill for all of the hostages. i think we could have done it the ease, ready government chose to do this in the parts. uh and not the one of them it was

similarly in afghanistan, yemen and syria where we lack presence to ensure our aid is not diverted. our aid is sustaining these war economies. usaid failed to properly manage the billions of dollars in trust to it. this committee discovered that usaid partners were charging 50% or more for overhead. a government audit showed that usaid could not account for overhead charges concerning $142 billion worth of awards. these funds prove a boon for the congressional dominant foreign aid industry. president trump's leadership has created a unique opportunity to fast fast-track important reforms of our aid system. secretary rubio might look at the reforms made during the last trump administration. our starting point was that the purpose of foreign aid is to end the need for it. foreign aid is not an international welfare program. usaid is not an international ngo. these must align with american interests and values. a final point. congress must also do its part. why should prolong us south africa, beijing's point country in africa, received billions of aid from us? we should support our fri

it took over iraq, yemen, gaza, everything. put iran on the back foot.ut qatar on the back foot and hamas are totally alone, which is exactly where they should have been. >> bill: word out of cairo earlier today that said hamas would agree to the deadline. we'll wait and see. >> dana: ice conducting major immigration raids in colorado. violent histories of some captured. >> waiting on this meeting between president trump and prime minister modi of india. a big deal and big press conference. we'll watch that. why investors will watch that closely. >> dana: plus elon musk pushing forward with his mission to root out government waste. now shining a spotlight on an old underground mine being used to process government retirement papers. >> instead of working in a mine shaft in carrying manila envelopes to boxes in a mine shaft, you could do practically anything else and you would add to the goods and services of the united states in a more useful way. long after guests leave, viruses and bacteria linger. air fresheners add a scent. but only lysol air sanitiz

thomas,'s position comes amid the backdrop of other significant security issues including iran and yemen, not to mention the ongoing israeli operations in the west bank. this morning two israeli soldiers were killed in a shooting attack that targeted an observation post was so much happening in the region, the medians today are consequential and significant for the future of the middle east. >> will: we have our eyes on the white house, we are watching for benjamin to arrive with his meeting, with donald trump. talking about the complicating factors of course the nature of face two as you described as complicated within itself, but then there is the issue of benjamin's pressures within israel, to recommence its war against thomas. then there is the relationship and the personalities of the two men that we are about to watch at the white house, what do you understand right now, what is the nature of the relationship between benjamin and donald trump? >> well today we can expect these were the prime minister to think president trump for getting this cease-fire deal done we have talked with

with the reality to put an end to all of this threats whether it's funding proxy groups, houthis in yemenzbollah and hamas. the regime's funding of terrorist organizations judge just centers to fund movements that are all the way to american universities as a result of october 7th. none of this will ultimately resolve the problem if we are stuck on the issue of how do we recover hostages and this and that we have to go beyond that. >> i'm sure bibi nehanyahu knows that than anyone. never nor vulnerable. missile defense destroyed. body guards have been diminished. thank you so much. hopefully one day you will be back in your country. all right. >> well, i cannot wait to help freedom. thank you for the opportunity, guys. >> brian: you got it. 15 minutes before the top of the hour we move ahead. volunteers patrolling the streets of los angeles to warn the public when ice agents are around. wait until you hear the details. >> normal people are not going to have lights on the side mirrors or on the inside. >> no, we're not. >> we're literally trying to get safer. a chewy pharmacy order is en r

aboard the "uss cole" he says he narrowly escaped death when two suicide bombers attacked the ship in yemenad being piled up in the midships. and i think that's really where i just started holding everything in. >> i don't have it where i'm jumping in ditches when i hear loud noises. my ptsd is kind of a self-destructive form. >> reporter: randy weaver is a police officer in new york. a former staff sergeant in the army, he was diagnosed with ptsd in 2007 after returning home from tours in bosnia, iraq and afghanistan. >> it's the constant, you know, what if i had done this? what if we did that, you know? >> are those things you want to revisit while you're taking the psilocybin? >> yeah. if i could revisit them and see them maybe from a different perspective, like not where i failed somebody. >> is there a particular incident that you feel you failed somebody? >> yeah. so march 18th, 20 years ago. >> reporter: in 2004 weaver's platoon was caught in a firefight in an afghan village. two soldiers were killed, one of them his friend staff sergeant anthony lagman. weaver's worn this bracelet w

yemen was those kind of numbers they might as that. >> coming up the next hour, gas prices are up double digits for what they were just a wee ago. well, you know much going to cost you to fill it up. and while area's celebrates super coming next year, also preparing pass to say goodbye. >> to the both samuel over life, levi's the and a fire breaking out san francisco's mission district investigating caused the fire and who might have saved the day. we'll right back. >> right now, the kron 4 morning news. a fire breaks out of the residents in san francisco. one witness telling us he thinks he saw the man who may have sparked it. plus 6 people including a child injured. now after a car crashes into a restaurant parklets. now some question if police chases are worth it. and now that super bowl, 59 is in the books. all eyes are on the bay area to host next year's big game.

>> yeah, the northern states of mexico have the same state department designation as syria and yemens that are not safe for any american to go, those northern states that are right along our border from california to texas. they've been run by cartels for a long time. that is an area that the mexican federallies do not go in the same level as they go in other areas and that's the area that president trump is pointing out saying they've lost control of their northern border which is affecting our southern border. so if mexico doesn't get a handle on their northern border, we're going to continue to be able to fight our southern border and what president trump is offering is we'll help you because helping them on the northern border helps us on ours. maria: of course. but this is dangerous, knowing that it's -- that the cartels are in charge of mexico. >> it is. actually, that northern border of mexico, the sinola cartel which president trump designated a terrorist organization, they've been in a leadership fight. they have drones attacking each other, military style weapons, dropping

he doesn't ride bart often and that means park doesn't get money often from yemen. other people as far as bart. no, really solid solution because if they can't all the services, of course, that means they don't get as much money and to make matters worse. according to bart, the bay area has the highest rate of work from home in the entire country or among the highest rates in the entire country. so culturally, things have shifted. >> back to you. and i like what you said. will it like that guy was like, well, doesn't affect me, but it affects everybody. will if the roads get more projects, actually, thank you. will. >> 10? 0, 3 on the clock. we've got some new details now on fremont homeless, camping, homeless, camping ban. the city council's going vote on that tonight. yeah. and they're thinking of banning homeless camping and then also banning people who help. >> the homeless. let's get a closer look at that now your? >> it's so we just spoke with the bexar. he tells me that, yes, he supports this ordinance, but he says that he does not want to punish people who a

connected to terror plots against americans, he was killed in a drone strike under obama in 2011 in yemen plus the report usaid aid packages were found in a gun pile for hezbollah and lebanon. >> well its been taking place for years, actually, liz is usaid is spending millions funding groups that have known ties to terrorist groups and also funding groups trying to undermine the state of israel so this is going on for quite a while. i think that it's now coming to the surface because of doge but under samantha power there are already problems with usaid that became a lawless, rogue agency under samantha power and i think that its even become more egregious over the last four years but the thing i'm hoping liz that doge does. they're showing the effects. this is caused by a very corrupt not representative democracy system, unelected bureaucrats in this massive bureaucracy. i hope they make the case to show the american people that it's the system that is absolutely broken. you're just seeing some of the abuse on the surface of this spending. liz: one report suggests at least 122 million bu

wherever iran touches, bloodshed follows, true in lebanon, true in yemen, unfortunately true in the westpete hegseth's trip to europe, first time he has been over there, pressing the nato conference, a number of other organizations over there, i assume he is going to the munich conference at the end of the week. president trump has said it is time for nato to pony up more money, 5% of gdp. here is what hegseth said earlier. >> friends talking to friends about capability and leadership and stepping up, about burden sharing and the incentives to say the european continent deserves to be safe from any aggression but also those in the neighborhood investing the most in that collective and individual defense. >> john: he is used to talking on tv, so an audience comes natural to him. hegseth as secretary of defense and trump policies going over in europe with this first visit? >> i think they're going to be focused on results, and the result we need is more investment from europe in europe's own defense. look, the united states has an interest in europe being at peace and stable and major thre

among those who are openly cheering,e musk's campaign against usaid are the houthi and yemen the formerresident of russia, that would have america's best interest at heart. they know usaid was taken off the board their jobs get easier. their jobs get weaker and less safe. i also want to address the people of usaid. you who have committed your careers and your lives to serving your country to advance the welfare of the world. you deserve better. what is happening is a brutal and shameful betrayal of you who has served your country with bravery, with integrity with dedication and honor. you've been forward deployed on reconstruction teams in war zones. you have brought the global hiv epidemic under control. you have fought a famine party of stabilized fragile economies. you have charge head long into ebola hotst zones. the best i'm wearing today i wore every time i deployed to a crisis zone with usaid. it put on this morning and found in their pair off gloves -- recc gloves i got a one of my trips in 2014 that emblematic of the work usaid does and that risk that usaidn personnel take on b

today, yemen has lost weight, but last week that really triggered, um, a national anxiety and a political firestorm about the way that hamas was treating the captives. why there's such a contrast this time is, we don't know. undoubtedly the idf is. well, will try to figure that one out. but this idea that they were being mistreated, um, is something that the israeli government, um, has used to criticize hamas, obviously, palestinian islamic jihad as well. and it's one of those elements that has really called the whole ceasefire hostage release deal into question. um, absolutely. prisoners that have been released from israeli detention, um, palestinians have complained that they've been underfed, that they've been mistreated, that they've been that they've been tortured, that they have not been given proper rights, not been given enough water, not been given enough exercise. all of these things to some of them looking emaciated when they released the idf, has refuted those allegations, says that they are treated in accordance with all international procedures. um, but today's seems to cast

behind the chaos and tumult that you see in the middle east whether it is hamas in gaza, the houthis in yemen, hezbollah in lebanon. first of all, we have to thank our ally israel for largely diminishing iran and their proxies capabilities to wreak havoc in the middle east so thank you to israel for that and because of what israel has been able to do militarily, iran is at its weakest and in decades probably since the war versus iraq. what we are signalling is we extend the hand of diplomacy however by going back into this maximum economic pressure campaign we are warning iran that they can no longer obtain a nuclear weapon and that they can't fund and trained and equipped these proxies in the region. we will stand by our allies and friends and protect american national security. >> martha: i want to play this thrown back sound bite from john kirby when the deal was made to do a hostage trade five for five but then we threw $6 billion of unfrozen funds into the deal and i was pressing him on that and i want to remind people what this conversation sounded like not that long ago with regard to

yemen kitchen is a restaurant that opened in the neighborhood that i highly recommend.enix, the hotels, such a tenderloin legacy business. that brings in like people into the neighborhood that might not normally stay here. there is so much more in the tenderloin that you read in the news. a story from the people who live here themselves. >> probably the most unique feature in japantown is the peace bugoata built as part of the japan trade center. the other-japan center itself, the oldest indoor shopping mall in san francisco. built in the late 1960's. despite all the changes japantown has been through, it is really still a authentic japantown. it is still a japanese american community. so, you could still find a lot of japanese american food here. japanese ice cream stores that are really popular. we have what is called maucha drinks here. the other thing that has become really popular in japantown is all of the new shops opened up. every japanese restaurant had [indiscernible] anything you could order, but now it is all specialized so they come from different parts of

is he using north koreans, people are coming from yemen to fight for him.s russia's hand? >> russia's hand in 2025 is going to be pretty weak. they just took 48,000 casualties last month and 48,000 casualties the month before. in october 57,000. they have averaged throughout 24, 30,000 casualties a month. that's absolutely staggering what i'm talking about here. they lose 125 to 150 tank as month, only able to replace about 25 and 30 out of the defense industrial base. he will have a personal problem requiring mobilization in '25 if there's no agreement. and clearly he is having major equipment short falls. there is a huge amount of pressure, plus, he has got everything on the table here in terms of his ability to continue in his presidency and his own personal survival. there was a strategic mistake made with the invasion. it didn't work. it failed. and here we are going into the third year as a result of the ukrainian stiffness, the innovation. the determination to fight for their people. and the fact that they could be doing so much better if biden had g

among those who are openly cheering musk's campaign against usaid are the houthis in yemen , are the former president of russia, dmitry medvedev. they do not have america's best interests at heart. they know that if usaid is taken off the board, their jobs get easier, america gets weaker and less safe. i also want to address the people of usaid, you who have committed your careers and your lives to serving your country to advance the welfare of the world. [cheers and applause] you deserve better. what is happening is a brutal and a shameful betrayal of you who have served your country with bravery, with integrity, with dedication, and with honor. you have been forward deployed on reconstruction teams in war zones. you have brought the global hiv epidemic under control. you have fought famines. you have stabilized fragile economies. you have charged headlong into ebola hot zones. the vest i'm wearing today, i wore every time i deployed to a crisis zone with usaid. when i took it out and i put it on this morning, i found in there a pair of gloves that i got, plastic gloves that i got o

the houthi blockade in yemen is about this. it's about the palestinian people. right. lot of the hezbollah activity is about an anger and a rage about the palestinian people and their plight. what donald trump has said is that he wants to inject the united states in and superimpose us over something that israel has not been able to contain. >> right. we have been, and i think it's important to note, we have men and women in real time that are in military bases, military installations. we have men and women that are in embassies in real time that are undoubtedly watching this play out. and this of course, this changes the conversations that are taking place in real time, not to mention the direct threats that undoubtedly they face on a day out and daily basis here. i think that the number of questions, knowing that vice president vance was sitting there, i believe pete hegseth was there as well here. i just think that this is a moment in time where republicans on capitol hill, right, we have seen over the last two weeks have and by and large, said the president, united

with hamas, isis, the houthis, all of the iranian proxies in syria and iran and yemen and al qaeda allpposing general resurgence is in the middle east, africa, and central asia, i am alarmed at the lack of focus by the ic on this threat to our safety. we do not want to have to call you back to this room after a terrorist attack and ask how did the ic miss this? great power competition, china and russia definitely pose threats to our country but the terrorist threat is arguably the most imminent threat according to former fbi director christopher wray. if confirmed, what would be your strategy to refocus the ic on the terrorist threat to our country and to americans abroad? ms. gabbard: i agree with your assessment. this speaks to the need for the odni to exist to redirect those resources, identifying the gaps in intelligence so we are able to get ahead of these threats instead of coming around after the fact and trying to assess why did we not know about this sooner so we could have taken action to prevent it. sen. collins: thank you. chair cotton: senator wyden? sen. wyden: welcome. i

of the hands of terrorist organizations around the world, as you are in places such as afghanistan, yemenve any has anyone been told that this is just over? like, is anyone working in that realm? >> i'm not aware of who's working where right now, but you know, with the shutdown notice and with people on administrative leave and not having access to systems, being able to vet ongoing activities or vet partners in the future, or even doing, you know, accounting for and auditing partners. that ability is extremely limited. so we're not necessarily able to be fully accountable to the u.s. taxpayer right now. >> is it a national security threat or a security threat on the ground for some of the aid workers? if some of this money ends up in the wrong hands? >> it very well could be for both the workers and for us as a country. >> all right. so the inspector general has released a report. they released it on friday saying nearly a half $1 billion worth of food aid may now spoil be completely wasted following the decision of donald trump and elon musk's doge agency to make cuts to usaid. is that

largely proxies and maybe the houthis in yemen, of iran, they get a lot. >> of funding from iran.. >> that iran has, the more likely they are to. fund these terrorist organizations. do you think that. president trump then will try to effectively bankrupt, not bankrupt iran, but reduce those foreign capital flows back to where they were, so they simply don't have enough money to use it for bad things? >> yeah, i mean. >> i call it. >> maker and broke. >> again. >> this is what has to happen, brian, for us to be effective in, in neutralizing their, their nuclear ambitions. you think back to the cold war in russia. the russians. didn't wake up one day and say, you know what, brian? you know what? >> united states. >> democracy sounds. >> like a better idea than communism. we're just going to change our system. if you. remember what. >> happened. >> we along with our with our middle eastern partners, took oil. >> down. >> to 10. >> to $11. and 60% of russia's gdp is urals crude. and we broke them. we can break. iran and we can certainly break china if we're willing, if we're willing t

expanding this to the west bank or regionalizing this conflict in places like lebanon, iraq, syria, yemenu about trump's possible relationship with gulf arab states. you know, many in the gulf region were excited that donald trump was reelected. they feel that they can kind of they speak the same language. and, you know, obviously, he has sought to have this peace deal between saudi arabia and israel. the saudis have made clear that the only way they get to that deal is with a palestinian state. give me a sense of how you see trump's relationship with gulf arab states affecting his views and potentially and potentially his willingness to bring israel to the negotiating table and end this conflict once and for all. >> sure. i think. >> the gulf arab states have donald trump's ear, whether for, for good or bad, can be debated, but i think they do have his ear when it comes to let's look at the iran part first. when it comes to iran, the gulf arab states do not want a massive war against tehran. they're far more concerned about their domestic agendas, like mohammed bin salman and saudi arabi