Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Thank you for joining us. Right to the breaking news at the United Nations this morning, President Biden is about to address the general assembly for the final time as this Countrys Commander in chief. His address comes amid global turmoil with War still raging in ukraine. And conflict escalating in the Middle East. Israel ratcheting up its attacks against hezbollah over the last few days, killing more than 500 in a series of deadly Air Strikes within lebanon and injuring at least 1600 more. Much to discuss. Joining us now, Richard Engel from tel aviv, and nbcs Mike Memoli at the u. N. and New York times diplomatic correspondent Michael Crowley and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of state joel rubin. Good to have all of you here. Richard, if you will, paint a picture for us of this moment globally as the president prepares to address all these World Leaders. Well, things look very rough right now. And i think a lot of people are saying
isolationist approach. now with the 2024, presidential election just around the corner, republican candidates are setting out their particular brand of foreign affairs. and a split is emerging between traditional republican values and a new school of foreign policy, with far less support for allies caught up in conflict. for the next 30 minutes we re taking a closer look at the foreign policy of the grand old party and how it s impacting current armed conflicts across the globe. this week, it has become clear, that the republicans evolving stance on foreign policy could significantly impact the support the us is able to offer to its allies, both in israel and ukraine. on wednesday, senate republicans blocked a $110 billion spending bill in part over a dispute on changes to border and immigration policy. the package would provide over $50 billion in security assistance to ukraine and another $14 billion to israel in its war against hamas. the white house warned that without t
presidential election just around the corner, republican candidates are setting out their particular brand of foreign affairs. and a split is emerging, between traditional republican values and a new school of foreign policy, with far less support for allies caught up in conflict. for the next 30 minutes we re taking a closer look at the foreign policy of the grand old party and how it s impacting current armed conflicts across the globe. well, this week, it has become clear that the republicans evolving stance on foreign policy could significantly impact the support the us is able to offer to its allies, both in israel and ukraine. on wednesday, senate republicans blocked a $110 billion spending bill in part over a dispute on changes to border and immigration policy. now, the package would provide over $50 billion in security assistance to ukraine and another $14 billion to israel in its war against hamas. the white house warned that without the additional funding, us assis
that s somewhat complementary for you. a lot of people talk about running bold campaigns, taking a stand, democracy in politics. you have a unique position in this sort of period of a democratic history and history of american foreign policy that i alluded to because you guys did wage a campaign against where a lot of things were, and it did tilt over time, it is complex what moves policy, but boy it was a part of it, whether they agree with howard dean or not. look at younger joe trippi running that campaign against all odds. here we go. now we need to get and make sure that our message of standing up to bush, opposing this war, repealing the tax cuts, providing health care coverage, a plan to get health care for every american is out there. it has been said that campaign didn t win the primary but ultimately won the argument. are there any lessons there now for the democratic party as we
is that working best you can tell now? yeah, i think so. secretary blinken and austin and the president and other team members have really pulled together an in coherent nato left to us by mr. trump that was in disarray. looks to me like they have, most important thing about ukraine is not just direct threat of military aggression by the russians against the 41 million person country, but also the notion of who is next. putin has gone into georgia, syria, seized the crimea. this guy has a history of armed aggression. so the baltic states, poland, romania, the biden administration has sent in sort of token forces, but other nato allies are joining us to indicate we will stand by article 5 with our nato