people in public service. We don't like speaking warmly to the press, but why am I speaking to you. Because what we do matters.We bring thousands of visitors here to the United States where they spend their money in local communities. We also share skills. And when these exchange students and foreign students go back to their countries, they have learned American best practices.They have learned English. They love the United States. Cutting these types of programs is devastating to our foreign policy and ou ...

What happens when they run out, when the weather gets cold. Well, let me say a few things about this, Joe. First of all, we sadly have a transactional foreign policy.There's not a strategy behind this because President Trump was against it before he was for it and he was against the Graham Blumenthal bill before. Now he may let it go through, etc., etc.. What we really need is a strategy around helping Ukraine win a war against an aggressor which violated international law and invaded it three years ago.I w ...

We begin with the mass layoffs underway as we speak at the State Department. I want to bring in NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell. I understand Andrea, those termination notices began hitting in boxes this morning.What do we know about it. Well, uh, frankly, I've been covering the State Department officially since 1994, unofficially before that, as I covered different administrations from the White House and from the Hill. And I have to tell you, this is devastating.uh in a statem ...

I think back, Alicia, to when I was in the Senate and Donald Trump first took office and I remember John McCain uh telling me as a fellow member of the Armed Services Committee that he had explained or tried to explain to Trump that Putin was in fact BS, that Putin was a desperate and a thug and someone that was antithetical to everything our country stood for. But Trump was enamored with the strong man and Putin played him, you know, like a vi like a violin. And I would have loved to hear the conversation ...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s foreign policy is increasingly incoherent. Besides making no effort to forge ties with Donald Trump, Brazil’s leader has led grandiose efforts which far outrun his country’s weight on the world stage https://t.co/wJq00dYeCl ...

Bangladesh’s Nobel peace-prize winning leader insists his project is on track. On the economy Muhammad Yunus has good news. Yet his government’s foreign policy is denting ties with a once crucial ally https://t.co/SrdelomRC3 ...

From @WSJopinion: Donald Trump is no shrinking violet, and as long as he sits in the Oval Office, the U.S. is unlikely to retreat from the world, writes @wrmead https://t.co/RtgTaomQ3l ...

In foreign policy the contrast between the EU’s genteel, consensual decision-making rhythms and the brusque ways of strongmen has grown starkly of late.It is up to the bloc to adapt to being a soft superpower in an increasingly hard-power world https://t.co/VAhzTNp8F2 ...

And how concerned are you about uh the stability of our foreign policy makers to deal with the thing that they've started to unleash in the Middle East uh by going after Iran uh and and sort of carrying the water, if you will, for Benjamin Netanyahu's uh designs against Iran. Well, Michael, I'm very concerned. Um, and obviously I can't get into the details of the briefing, but I agree with all the comments uh that you played from my colleagues.Uh, and it's pretty clear that at this point President Trump is ...

Here are some basic facts. We have major problems in the Middle East on a ton of fronts. The Trump administration has pursued these policies to try to contain Iran and had some success.And yet the Trump administration is right now clashing over its own intelligence leaks, which the government is responsible for, and clashing with reporters, which is a kind of odd place to be at the highest levels of government amidst all of these important Middle East and international issues. At the Pentagon today, things ...