the state department will certainly put something out. it will be more, i understand, around congratulating ukraine on its independence day and stepping up the criticism of russia. we have another big, international story going on. if there is a briefing, i would lead the briefing with the iran nuclear negotiations. that said, this package for ukraine is significant. it is a big deal and it is extremely important. host: matthew lee, diplomatic writer with the associated press. you can follow him @ap whether he's running for president in 2024, saying he was focused on supporting candidates in the 2022 middle terms. >> you don't need any introduction. i'm going to introduce vice president pence to the iowa state fair, the greatest of all the state fairs. but he doesn't need an introduction to that because he's been here and he knows how great our state fair is but i want to thank him and compliment him because he's come to

at the state department. he leaves this post at the beginning of 1937, but he continues to speak out widely. about the dangers that hitler posed to your to europe and to the united states. in a speech at the harvard club in boston in 1938. dodd warns his audience at hitler is a megalomaniac who will plunge europe into war? and he emphasizes hitler's. hatred of the -- and he declares and this is a direct quote. hitler intends to kill them all again, dodd was extraordinarily prescient as to hitler's intentions and accurate as to the holocaust. president roosevelt's ambassador to italy was also appointed in 1933 his name is breckenridge long. and he hailed from the midwest. his ancestor was john breckenridge who had been vice president to one of our nation's most undistinguished presidents the 15th president of the united states james buchanan. breckenridge long was a graduate of princeton and a seasoned political operative who had run unsuccessfully for the senate. in missouri twice he become friends with frank

the state department will certainly put something out. it will be more, i understand, around congratulating ukraine on its independence day and stepping up the criticism of russia. we have another big, international story going on. if there is a briefing, i would lead the briefing with the iran nuclear negotiations. that said, this package for ukraine is significant. it is a big deal and it is extremely important. host: matthew lee, diplomatic writer with the associated press. you can follow him @ap diplowriter. thank you. guest: thank you very much. host: back to your thoughts this morning on ukraine's independence day and the six month, today, ukraine has been fighting russia. jason in san diego, what do you think? caller: good morning, c-span. i want to mention one of the last callers said that should have never happened. you have to understand, with all of the stuff that has been happening here in the last administration, never has this happened that putin and his henchmen came to the u.s. and met with trump. trump did not have anybod

when i was in defense department, and we dealt with the state department. we're all speaking english. we're all americans. theoretically we ought to be able to perfectly communicate, but it was such different cultures. yeah that you could talk right past each other not know it right and that's true in in almost every business and whatnot. so i think understanding how important communication is and then how hard it is. yeah, so you've got to not only be able to focus on it, but you're going to be able to measure whether you're really communicate right? you know when i was reading about that section in the book it made me think back early in my career when i was in general motors. so my first job i was a production forming on a chassis line a cadillac second shift. and about 50% of cars coming off the line. we're going to the repair bin. and by the way, this is when cattle that this was in the late 70s cadillac was known as the standard of the world and i went and i complained to the superintendent. i said man. this is supposed to be great quality and he goes

have you heard from the biden administration or the state department on this matter? >> first i want to say thank you for having me. no, we have not spoken to the biden administration directly. we have had several discussions with the state department over the past year, since my brother has been detained. but we have not yet heard from them that they had designated him as wrongfully detained. >> let's talk about that. there is a law now the 2020 law the hostage recovery act and accountability act by the state department. and it requires them to notify and designate if someone was wrongfully captured. so, what are you hearing? >> well, we have talked to the state department on many occasions at various levels. we hear they are considering his case but they have not yet designated him as wrongfully detained. and as of this moment, we have not heard why they haven't. as you know, my brother had 17 grams of a medical marijuana he was sentenced to 14 years and a hard labor camp in russia. >> have you heard from him? how is he doing? is he is in good condition or not? >> i

what is the state department said? well, the state department has issued the statement are saying that conflict around a nuclear plant is deeply dangerous. has been watching the situation at the south area plan for a period of time. obviously, since the russians took control of it, although they kept ukrainian nationals working at the plant itself, our state department source has said that that fighting year and nuclear plant is dangerous and irresponsible. and we continue to call on russia to cease all military operations at or near ukrainian nuclear facilities, and return for control to ukraine and support ukrainian calls for a demilitarized zone around the nuclear plants. so obviously state department expressing deep concern. remembering within the pastor 24 hours, a group of g 7 nations, also called for an end to conflict around that plant, also demanded that aid inspection team from the international atomic energy agency be allowed in to survey what is exactly happening at this particular plant, which is the large

state department urging americans to leave ukraine. our chief foreign correspondent ian pannell back in kyiv for us tonight. >> reporter: tonight, president zelenskyy issuing an ominous new warning to his people, saying russia may be planning, quote, "hideous provocations and brutal strikes" as ukraine prepares to celebrate independence day and tonight, the u.s. again urging americans to leave ukraine amid that threat of intensified russian attacks. state department sources saying declassified intelligence shared with the ukrainians shows the kremlin may be preparing to launch strikes on highly populated areas. ukraine is banning large gatherings during the event. abc's britt clennett asking president zelenskyy about the threat. >> what's your reason for urging people not to gather? is it because kyiv is under threat? >> reporter: amid these concerns over what russia may do next, the united nations holding an emergency meeting on the volatile situation at ukraine's zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. ukraine saying russian strikes damage

specifically, how is the state department now trying to get him released? >> reporter: yes, what we're learning from marc fogel's family and legal team, the state department has made a humanitarian request to russia in an appeal to release him based on humanitarian grounds. they don't know what the argument that's the state department put forth was, but the expectation is that it has to do with his age. he is 61 years old, and his medical condition. he has this chronic back pain. when i spoke with his sister this week, she talked about the physician that he sees in russia doesn't even have a translator that comes with them. so the medical condition that he is in is increasingly concerning to his family, the state department isn't talking specifically about this humanitarian request they have put in but they're urging russia to provide appropriate medical assistance to all americans detained in the country. >> so this request to specifically, there are efforts to bring home brittney griner, paul whelan, also in russia. how does this figure in or complicate m

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cms and the state department of health had to know that there would be deaths that occur. how much longer are we going to keep this up before more deaths occur? we have today somebody with us who is the mother of a patient at laguna honda. and can tell his story very well. but if you go to laguna honda as i have on so many occasions, you will see the good care that is received -- the workers the medical staff at laguna honda are special. they dot lord's work. i am very hopeful i know mayor breed, city attorney chew and all involved we welcome cms and the state department of health come to your senses. come to your senses before more people die. before more people are thrust in homeless shelters. please, come to your senses. >> thank you. as she e ludzed we are here because there are hundreds of patients lives at stake. we are here because the patients are our grand upon parents our partners, our children. here to represent one of those parent system deb wra rabower the mother of sean. >> i'm excited have this opportunity, i told my friends i would stand up in the court of

cnn's kylie atwood is at the state department. kylie, republicans have been blasting president biden for the entire year for how the withdrawal went down. but what details does this report now add to what we knew? >> reporter: yeah, you're right, alex, but this report does give us a little bit more meat on the bone. they say there is a complete lack of proper planning for this biden administration withdrawal from afghanistan. and they get into specifics. saying that, for example, at the height of this evacuation, according to information that they got their hands on, there were 36 state department officials on the ground who were able to process the afghan paperwork that was needed to get on those evacuation flights. according to the report that is about one state department official for about every 3,400 of the evacuees. it's a stark figure there. they also point to the fact that, according to information that they have gathered, about 25% of the people who were getting on those evacuation flights were women and girls. of course,

and all the state department has been working to try to seek a release. and also the release of other hostages. >> harris: talk to me if you can about the prisoner swap and how that has worked in the past. cannot work with a country that has invaded the ukraine? i mean, you cannot have higher stakes in all of this. >> you cannot have higher stakes in all this. and we have individuals that are being held by different regimes at this point in time. sometimes there is a prisoner swap that does work. sometimes there are conditions that work. many times it depends on the resolute nature of the administration that is making what you saw. these fall apart under carter, you saw success with reagan. you saw success at different times with other administrations and you have seen failure so i think harris, what you have to do is look at how this ms ration approaches that. is it from a position of strength or weakness? unfortunately right now with russia, with china come with other regimes to look at this administration and the c1 of weakness or one that sticks to ap

he was in leadership at the state department when the state department was going through this period of purging l g b t. people from the state department in the early fifties. and it's not clear that james webb had any specific role in that, but he was in leadership in the state department at the time. and so then it comes into this, you know, what responsibility did he have to stop it? you know, was the product of his time, was he following orders? when it's very unclear the extent to which he was involved in this. so there's just a murkiness and it made people, it was a shadowed thing to be. it made people uncomfortable because you don't want to think that this incredible new instrument that was built for everyone named off to someone who wasn't for everyone. i understand that. so that's a great way of putting it. let me know you were going to say something. i want to add, i mean we will the james web space telescope. it's now being launched in error, which is where science is now a lot more open. and now we are a bay and available accessible people around the world in a way that m

department bulletins for september 25th, 1950, which is the united states government publication. bowman trading card is working with the state department to educate america on the goings on, and indeed, what one can do. they could search on the internet for the department of state bulletin, which can be found, and read september 25th 1950, and see what parents would learn about, which is this idea of slave labor week before the un revolution that every man should work for his own wages, that he and she should have freedom, and this bulletin goes on and on and encompasses a truly global cold war in its reach with the united nations. i have to give a big shout out to david langford, who is the archivist at the states department, because i went looking for the department of state bulletin and i was going around the internet, looking, looking, looking on the national archives website, couldn't quite finds it, emailed to national archives, he emailed back within hours with a link to all department of state bulletins, which are a fascinating study in and of themselves, and then, a reco

the state department envoy to afghanistan tom west saying essentially there is no short term plan to recapitalize the central bank of afghanistan in light of the fact al-zawahri was here and concerns the u.s. has about human rights and girls' education. kate? >> absolutely. remarkable and important interview that you just had with confronting the taliban spokesman. thank you for being there. >>> also, on this one-year mark, the republicans in the house foreign affairs committee released a scathing review of the u.s. handling of the withdrawal. the report is titled a strategic failure assessing admin administration's afghanistan withdrawal and among the findin lack of planning and staff to pull it off finding there were 36 state department officials attica bull airport to process the thousands of afghans trying to flee. joining me now is michael mccaul the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you for being here. you in talking about this report and this inquiry that's gone on for a year now, you've accused the biden administration of a complete lack and failure

you are for the state department in 2014 to 2016. you became a member, as i said, the policy planning department. your portfolio was russia and ukraine. this is a key moment. today, ukrainians, even those who may have been sympathetic to russia, today ukrainians are united against russian domination. in 2014, even after the annexation, you still have parts of ukraine that were still maybe tilting more toward the east. how would you characterize ukrainians feelings that important moment, after the annexation, with a large part of the country wanting to pull away from russia and join the west so to speak? >> it was more complicated than what you described at the present moment. it's a large country -- it's a large country region, it has its own regional differences. there were parts of the country that inclined more economically towards russia, and more towards the rest. more importantly than that, that's true for many countries. that they have different, the united states have different affiliations. more important that, i think there

that was way more than the state department estimated. were these people vetted and where are they now? we don't know and the american people deserve answers. elizabeth: who would you subpoena to testify? >> this would be blinken. this is all secretary blinken. the military equipment failure is on the military. that is the secretary of defense. but the stranded americans, all the afghan anies who came over here we don't know anything about. we asked information, were these people properly vetted? we don't have any answers. elizabeth: the british parliament by the way condemned this, right? tony blair, former prime minister said biden's actions were quote imbecileic. the senate rand foreign relations while senator. he has been around nixon. presidencies warned since the '90s said careful planning was needed this is dangerous when you leave afghanistan. biden's team did not make key decisions about evacuation just hours before the embassy fell to afghanistan? they asked for military assistance four days before the taliban took over. what is

we haven't seen the white house or state department of action reports on this. the country is just in utter devastation under taliban rule. did it really have to be this bad? >> well, i certainly don't think the withdrawal had to go as it did and the loss of american lives during the withdrawal and the degree to which it took months and months and we continued to try to help people escape from afghanistan i think could have been handled differently. but i do think that we have demonstrated, the administration has demonstrated with the killing of the number two in al qaeda under bin laden that it retains the capability, much as it said it would, a year later to go after those that threaten the country wherever they may be. in this case the heart of kabul. the killing of zawahri shows the danger and that clearly high elements of the taliban government knew that he was there and giving him safe harbor. we can and will go after anyone. >> is al qaeda still an ongoing threat? >> al qaeda is an ongoing threat. i think the threat from al qaeda is probably greater outsi

dictatorship or the state department for permission to talk to america's friends and allies. hello, she'd lead l if house speaker nancy pelosi visits taiwan. it will grossly interfere in china's internal affairs severely undermined china's sovereignty and territorial integrity trample on the one china policy principle. gravely threatened the peace instability in the taiwan strait and undermined china us relations. it will lead to various serious situation and consequences. in this context, nancy pelosi decided that she should go to taiwan at the same time, there's a new bill put forward in the u. s. congress that critics say would essentially nullify the one china policy when it comes to taiwan. our response should be that we are for democracy and against communist aggression. we live in dangerous times. china sizing up america and our commitment to taiwan. the danger will only grow worse if we show weakness in the face of chinese threats and aggression toward taiwan. these weapons that the u. s. a is piling him to taiwan are a bit more than defensive. they have the capabilit

"the department of state has information that russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against ukraine's civilian infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days. the u.s. embassy urges u.s. citizens to depart ukraine now, using privately available ground transportation options if it is safe to do so." it is also encouraging those americans to immediately take cover if they hear any sirens, if they hear any missiles coming in, just because they have information that russia may be planning to intensify these attacks over the course of the next few days. now, they aren't specific in this security alert when it comes to the time frame here, but state department spokesperson ned price said earlier on cnn that they are looking at the course of the next few days for this to potentially happen. but he also is very clear in saying there has been this steady state of russian attacks on ukraine, so they don't have very much specificity in terms of a time frame or exactly where in the country this could happen. >> so, david, what's it like on the ground? are things feeling mor

state department has killed a catered -- al qaeda's leader. ayman al-zawahiri he was reportedly restructured by two hellfire's by standing on the balcony of the house in central al-q kabul on sunday. -- president biden says the agreement between the government is seen as an important step but not enough. >> we are following developments in ukraine and russian forces say they killed up to 254 and fighters in strikes on the city of mcclave. ukraine has not responded to this but it is regional emergency service did take damage. to oil storage tankers and -- after the strike on tuesday. they say a multiple launch rocket system was used to destroy a university as well as buildings and shops. only one person was injured. no deaths have been russia's supreme court is designating ukraine -- terrorist group. any fighters were captured by russian area and the city of variable fell in may. -- the city of maripol fell in may. -- ukraine is controlled by fascists. -- fighters detained in russia falling on -- calling on international groups to secure the re

who is the history who is the archivist at the state department? because i went looking for this department of state and i was going around the internet looking looking on the national archives website couldn't quite find it emailed the national archives. he emailed back within hours with a link to all department of state bulletins, which are fascinating study in and of themselves and then a record group that he had found and deed there are files on all the companies who in the early 50s cooperated with the united states government in these projects and there it is a box to be seen in washington when or in mara in college park, maryland where the national archives sit that once a covid ends, but there a box titled bowman. cards in the us goverhat shaped the american story. find us at c-span history. >> westminster college has been a host for a series of very famous lectures, the john green foundation lecture among them. the lecture crc

the us state department is warning that the killing of al qaeda leda. i'm and although hittie in an american drones strike may prompt the group supporters to target you with facilities and citizens, he was reportedly struck by to help find missiles while he was standing on a balcony in central cobble. he was one of the key coordinators of the 911 attacks . well, those are the headlines. the news continues here on al jazeera, after inside story of next. ah, one miscalculation the world face is nuclear annihilation. the head of the un warms where the most dangerous time since the cold war nuclear arms, nations are calling for disarmament. but do they have the wilt eliminate with it? this is the inside story. ah blow welcome to program on kim vanelle. the treaty on the non proliferation of nuclear weapons has been credited with keeping the world safe. nearly every country has signed the agreement known as the m p t, which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and promote the peaceful use of atomic technology. but the un secretary general warms the

those people that work with the united states state department and military, they are being taken out and shot and tortured on the street. there is still over 1000 american citizens over there, basically hostages. and military veterans that i know that have been over there have a very poor opinion of this particular administration. in fact, it might cost this administration many votes, many democrat votes during the next race and also it might cost the white house during the next presidential race. host: let's go to patrick who is calling from lady lake florida on the independent line. patrick, good morning. caller: i see as usual c-span got all the history of afghanistan. as far as i know, americans used to be on eat pray love vacations in afghanistan before they started going to india. they didn't realize they never talked about that. bush left the northern alliance, let them die, let osama bin laden escape into pakistan. what was it? nine saudis had one meeting in afghanistan. keep up the good work, c-span. host: miami, florida, on the republican line, good morning. caller: yes, i

that's not really a serious counteroffer, according to the state department. there are other russians, hackers, fraudsters, in u.s. custody who could be included in the deal. >> what kind of timeframe do you think we're looking at to complete this kind of prisoner exchange? >> i think it's not going to happen tomorrow or, you know, within the next week or immediately. these things are complicated. the russians can be very difficult in these negotiations. i think they think they have a lot of leverage now that brittney griner was sentenced to nine years. they know there's a real desire to get her out. i don't think they're under the same pressure to get viktor bout out. they can let this play out a little bit and they're going to and try to milk it for everything they can get. so i wouldn't hold my breath. i don't think it's going to go on forever, but i don't think it's going to be tomorrow either. >> griner's legal team filed an appeal after she was sentenced to the nine-year sentence for drug smuggling charges. how do you see the appeal playing out? is there

you talk about the backlog at the state department. what needs to change? >> well, we need more people processing sibs and we also need a place to bring people. i spent two months this year in the middle east trying to solve some of these problems. one of the big issues is, we can get people out of afghanistan, but there is no place to bring them. if they can't go directly to the united states, who essentially burdened funding these people for months or even in some cases a year at a time. it is unsustainable for any ngo's opening government support. >> todd: in the meantime, more than $700 billion of u.s. hard work has been seized by the taliban since u.s. troops left last year. that is an astounding number, nick. where are those weapons now and what are they being used for? >> you know, so, i'm not an expert in this so i can't speak to what they are being used for, but the same thing that allowed all of those weapons to be taken is the same reason why there were only 36 officers by the state department sitting in kabul when i was there. they were processi

the us state department has announced that president biden is planning to appoint an ambassador to the arctic region. the move comes as russia increases its military activity in the area. and liverpool have pulled off a record—equalling result in the premier league — beating bournemouth 9—0. good evening. the chancellor, nadim zahawi, says middle income earners, as well as low earners, will need government help to pay energy bills this winter. it comes as another minister defended the decision to wait until a new prime minister is in place before any announcement on further support is made. yesterday, the regulator ofgem confirmed a dramatic 80% rise in the energy price cap from october, taking the average annual household bill to more than £3,500. here's marc ashdown. "help is coming." that's the message from the chancellor on rocketing energy bills. but when, how and who will receive it remains difficult to tell. in an interview with the daily telegraph, nadhim zahawi warns high bills could be here to stay for the next two years, and says while he's concerned about helping peo

state department is warning for all u.s. citizens to get out of ukraine. that warning came out last night, giving americans there only a day to get out before independence day. is the u.s. government doing anything for americans who might be stuck in ukraine for the next few days during this period of heightened anxiety and possible threat? >> well, i would remind we have been inviting americans to leave ukraine since before the invasion back in february. there should be no reason for americans to be in ukraine at all. for months, they should not have been in ukraine. but given some of the indications that we have gotten about potential russian strikes inside the country, including kyiv, we believe it was important to restate that warning again for all americans. we don't have a force presence on the ground, as you know, jake, so we're not going to be facilitating the movement of american citizens inside ukraine. we have warned for months and months that they should not be there. if anybody did remain, now it m plans to get out of the country. >> you heard

the us state department is warning that the killing of al qaeda later i am an l z. our hittie in an american drone strike may prompt the group supporters to target us facilities and citizens. you details have emerged about the killing in afghanistan on sunday. he was reportedly struck by 2 hellfire missiles while he was standing on a balcony in central cobble. u. s. official say no one else was killed or wounded. he was one of the key coordinators of the 911 attacks will still ahead on al jazeera clay caching in on the demand for gas. nigeria rushes to fill the void created by sanctions on russia plus ah, iraqi shia leda mac todd. elsa tells us followers to leave parliament. it continued their protest outside. ah, the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to catherine book, your travel package to death. hello, we got a couple of old tropical systems now making the way across the korean peninsula, pushing some wet weather into southern parts of north korea. northern parts of south korea. so central areas of the peninsula, fitness in wet weather, in ac

you know, particularly my autobiography living history, or my look about the time in the state department hard choices and then my book after the 2016 election, which is as much an effort on my part to figure out what happened which is why i called it that. you have to make sure you are not missing a fact but i kind of view them a little bit like eating spinach. [laughter] i want to tell you about how diplomacy works. let me give you some examples and here are the 112 countries i went to as the secretary of state for these reasons to try to further the foreign policy and national security or here's what i think really happened in the 2016. we had the russians, cambridge analytic and all this other stuff happening and we need to pay attention to that because it isn't just going to happen once and we know that that is the case. i think that we could make a number of the same planes and of course we do particularly about the internal thread in the united states which we are currently facing. in the form of this book, state of terror, a fictional book in a way that it doesn't feel like eating

i know you heard what ned price had to say at the state department there, that there's u.s. laws, japanese laws, existing treaties, et cetera. what is your message to the white house and what are you hearing from them? >> i think i have a few things to say. one, the first and foremost, is that japan is not abiding by the treaties they've entered into, so perhaps we need to be a little more creative. the second thing i would say is that the proposed resolution is absolutely unacceptable. my husband returning to his home country as a prisoner and as a criminal, when he has done nothing wrong, is outrageous. and as far as what we've heard, you know, we've gotten mixed messaging and i don't believe we have been able to communicate at the level that we need to. >> why do you think that is? >> why do i think they won't talk to me? i don't know. i've tried to speak with people in the navy and i have spoken to them successfully. however, their message has continuously been the same and that is that they represent the navy and not my husband and that i can't assume that what is in th

you work for the state department in 2014 to 2016. you became a member as i said the policy planning department. your portfolio was russia and ukraine. this is a key moment, you know today ukrainians even those who may have been sympathetic to russia today. you ukrainians. are you not united sure against russian domination? but in 2014 even after the annexation we still had parts of ukraine that were still maybe tilting more towards the east. how would you characterize ukrainian's feelings that that important moment after the annexation? with a large part of the country wanting to pull away from russia and join the west so to speak it was certainly more complicated than what you describe at the at the present moment. it's a large country more clarifies things, right? it's a large country regionally and has its own regional differences and there were parts of the country that inclined more economically and culturally toward russia and more toward the west. i think more importantly than that though. i mean, that's true from any country'

let's go to kylie atwood at the state department. you're in new york but you covered the state department. i'm curious when you speak to state department officials, how severe are their concerns that this inflames the situation there or are they taking these chinese statements as empty threats? >> there is no doubt there are real concerns and house speaker pelosi was briefed on those concerns before she actually made the decision to go forth with this trip during the planning process. we know according to the white house that she was briefed by department of defense officials about their concerns, about of course how china could potentially respond to this visit. so even though a lot of what we have seen from china up until this point has been really rhetorical aggressions and threatening language, there are concerns of course, as salina is saying china could take action here whether military or in the economic sense. the other thing the biden administration is doing right now is trying to publicly bring the temperature down a little

kylie atwood from the state department. there is a report out from house republicans, a scathing analysis of how the biden administration handled the withdrawal. i wonder if you could tell us the highlights of those findings. i'm curious, do the democrats have a similar investigation under way? >> yeah, so what this report does is it paints a picture of what it calls complete lack of proper planning by the biden administration for this afghanistan withdrawal. when it comes to the big picture, it says that there were outdated plans that the biden administration had started to draft in early 2021, even before president biden made that announcement the that the complete withdrawal would happen by september later of that year. some of those plans were outdated by the time the withdrawal happened. some specifics, for example, saying at the height of the ee v evacuation from is that kabul airport there were 36 state officials on the ground able to process the afghan documents to try to get on those evacuation flights. that's abou

the state department lead such evacuations. the military and our intelligence agencies support them and through them into difficult circumstances. the troops on the front lines kid a good job getting out as many people as they could. but the state department failed this test by not planning in advance to get out our american citizens and green cardholders and their families. the ultimate result of that was 13 dead americans in that suicide bombing and significant harm to america's sense of prestige in the world. brian: china is still doing military exercises around taiwan. i guess president biden wants to meet with xi. >> if they meet on the sidelines at a g20 up it i don't see anything wrong with it. what worries me is what joe biden will say at that summit. the biden administration has basically approved he export license for china the last 18 months. nancy pelosi took a routine trip to taiwan. he let xi jinping try to move the goalpost on our relationship with taiwan. i'm worried because of president biden's weakness, that o

department of state. she was confirmed by the senate in december to lead this critical bureau and briefly -- previously served as an u.s. ambassador to haiti and uae. >> thank you for having me here today with you to discuss the fiscal year 23 budget request for the you and -- for the u.n. and other organizations. prioritizes our engagement with the you and and with the multilateral systems to advance u.s. and national interests and strengthen the international system to address today global challenges -- today's global challenges. late defend the values of the system and especially against efforts by our competitors do reshape them. we continue to push for reforms to ensure that international organizations deliver results with good governance, efficiency, and accountability. i appreciate the strong interest of the subcommittee in this important work. i last appeared before you on february 15 and it has been an eventful last five months to say the least. il mobilized to bring our partners on board to win