En is on capitol hill in the u. S. House of representatives. Yesterday the senate. All of it is hot for blinken. A lot of heat on him for giving iran warm condolences over the death of a Stone Cold Mass Killer of the irans president , raisi, died in a Helicopter Crash over the weekend and known as the butcher of tehran. Also there are demands for answers on what the administration will do about the International Criminal courts warrant for the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus arrest. On the same charge it issued for hamas terrorists. Im hair use faulkner and you are in the Faulkner Focus. Todays hearing kicked off this way. I was really prepared to discuss the specifics of the Budget Request today but im so deeply concerned by frankly the dangerous policies being pursued by this administration. Dont take my word for it. The world is up in flames. Most notably i want to focus towards israel and this critical moment in history. This administration is playing a very dangerous ga
be leaving some american citizens in harm s way. sandra: real quick, i will play something from secretary blinken yesterday, as we got the two-minute warning from the white house and the update on the ground in louisiana. real quick first. in terms of having an on the ground diplomatic presence september 1st, that s not likely to happen. but what is going to happen is that our commitment to continue to help people leave afghanistan who want to leave, and who are not out by september 1st, that and doers. sandra: we will hear from secretary blinken, we are told, later on. possibly 5:00. it s been delayed a few times. your quick thoughts ahead of president and the white house? the concern is that they will use these american citizens who are still there as leverage to extract diplomatic and other concessions from the united states. we need to be very clear. getting our people home is nonnegotiable. we are not even going to talk about things like sanctions relief or access to froze