From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. The opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. U. S. Ambassador to belize Michelle Kwan joined u. S. Ambassadors to costa rica, el salvador, honduras, and guatemala for a discussion about u. S. Central American relations. The diplomats were asked about regional migration, economic challenges and threats from cartels and crime syndicates. The interamerican dialogue in washington, d. C. Hosted this event. It is one hour 20 minutes. I want to say that upfront. I think everyone here knows that the u. S. Is in the process of building the state department after four years of attack under the trump administration. The department lost 60 of its career ambassadors. Providing the tools and resources they need. Excuse me. So more targeted and pushed out. Others resigned in protest. I think i just saw john seeley that actually served in panama. When he left that post, it was open for far too l
shut down or shrinkage of grain exports from the war. what kind of impact has it had on your organization? it is a great question, mike. well, we know a couple of things are true. first it is a huge impact on the global refugee crisis and we launched a campaign in combination of the refugee crisis and it is effected the issue of global food security. that is why as part of the this campaign, we re seeking to tackle the issue of global food security head on and there is would ways to address it. first you need to address the urgent issue of getting grain out of ukraine and accessible to those across sub saharan africa. and because russia has been such a huge provider of fertilizer, you re missing out of hundreds of millions of tons of fertilizer at the very moment here in ghana where the planting season it about to begin and that is why we need to make sure that we support, the international federation for development and economic development, to make sure they could provide
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone and welcome. E. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. The subcommittee i chair the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation at the others a subcommittee on Economic Growth and Energy Policy and regulatoryh, affairs. Its chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. We will have Opening Statements from the chairng and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements so ill keep mine brief. Cybersecurity has beenor a major focus of power since i became the subcommittee chair and im concerned that we are not prepared for the increased sophisticated cyberattacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country cafe cyberattacks and were forced to pay a huge sum of money and ransom for the federal government itself sets of data tens of millions of dollars its decades older t
For example, after the, the, the cruise in africa that were against the right to the french hedge heads in germany, in that part of the world. And that part of africa, we now see the rise of outside in those countries and those type outside is threatening those governments. Well, we obviously know where that, who is behind that outside or that is threatening those governments. I do want them to do you think somehow, i mean, not, i mean, its almost a rhetorical question, but those are not really described to washingtons claims. Everytime it comes out and says, terrorism is a scourge that we need to punch from the saw. And this time, were going to help, lets say this group about group im going to get rid of. But what point do people just think will come on . I mean, this evidence in History Speaks for itself to be in the superpower. The United States had part blossoms, whatever i wanted, and it was pouring all kinds of money into these, into these activities in spreading the wealth is at
Just a ton of your stories making headlines on this thursday morning. Its so good to have you with us for this. So washington has found a brand new way to keep off, or it may think its own stokes are running dry. Dependent on is now sending weapons previously seized from iran. With these weapons transfer, the dresses, the partisans, forfeiture actions against one authoritarian region are now directly support into grainy and peoples fight against another source. Or any regime will continue to use every legal source at our disposal to support the grant in their fight for freedom. Democracy and the rule of law, the was military 18. Freight has been running low as being largely overshadowed by the congressional and fighting of our whether or not the United States should send and pump more money and weapons into ukraine. Now, the United States government seems to have found a new way and a temporary solution to i use that went fall munition. It had ceased from iran to be sent to ukraine on