germany s chancellor saying they don t want to make such a bold move alone and calling on others including the u.s. to do the same. and this is the strategy we have, that we are strategically interlocked, together with our friends and partners, that we are never doing something just by ourselves but together with others, especially the united states. reporter: that german resistance straining the nato alliance when they have acted largely in unison for the past year of this war and frustrating ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. translator: do not hesitate. there is no need to compare. if you say i will give tanks if someone else also give tanks or i am powerful in europe but i will help if someone else outside of europe also helps. it seems to me that this is not a very correct strategy. reporter: ukraine s defense ministry putting out a lighthearted video appeal. the american m-1 abrams tanks, u.s. officials say, is too heavy, too complicated, too hard to m
for the president, that s been answered. they are going to be the story of this congress. and no matter you know, james comer presented to say or wanted for these investigations to be credible, he said. that is out the window. and i think every day you are going to see not only in hearings but in the statements they make democrats, the administration really lifting up these voices, and i think it s actually a problem for 2024 candidates because the only thing americans are going to hear about this republican congress, i mean, they ve had a week already, not a lot, but nothing about inflation. they haven t addressed the issues the american people in theory gave them a majority on. i think it s going to be a huge problem for them and a huge gift for democrats. it s a dynamic we ve seen before. i keep thinking about benghazi and how there were serious issues to be looked at in terms of inadequate diplomatic security, lack of planning for post-gadhafi libya, blaming the video blami
governors, senators. for trump it was a small family business and real estate. he was in a position often to overpower people, take them to court, not pay his bills. declare bankruptcy. none of this is applicable to what he s doing to people who are truly independent and have strategic foundations and they can just say no or in this case they can say sure and then ignore everything he says or he thinks they might have agreed to. the whole idea that anyone thinks north korea would denuclearize given the lessons they derived from ukraine. why would they give up the very assets it s not something we misplayed the summit, it s the entire assumption that we could set the bar this high and we would get everything we wanted and we western going pay anything for it essentially until the end. it s a flat out lie. especially post-gadhafi. after getting gadhafi to
it did not close. you went to tripoli in october of 2011. the ambassador was still there. how about chris stevens? did he come over from benghazi to see you when you went for that big trip in october 11? i don t recall if he did or not. this was about ambassador krets and he was the person we were meeting with at that time. what was your purpose with meeting if chris stevens was your expart in libya? he was an expert as well. ambassador krets was our ambassador. you remember as i mentioned to you before he had been our ambassador and then because he reported very accurately about what he observed regarding gadhafi and gadhafi s henchmen, when wikileaks disclosed internal u.s. government cables and the cables were publicized talking very critically about gadhafi, he was then subjected
in all of the materials that have been produced to us today, i have not yet found the document that was prepared at your request for post gadhafi. planning. did you have such a document e prepared prior to the time that gadhafi was removed? we had a number of documents. we had a long list of areas we were working on and the process for following up on those areas. i don t know if it was one document or a dozen documents, but we had had a lot of work ongoing. both at the state document and usa usaid. did you ask for those documents? did you have a team working on that? or if it was just something that was happening of its own acord? we had a number of people working on that. i sent both of my deputies out to libya to meet with the libyans. we can do all the planning we want in washington, but it s very important to ask the lib u yans both what they want and what they expect from us. and so we had an ongoing