David Beasley: “I have made requests straight to President Putin that the world's famines are in your hands right now and you need to…”

if you don't have food security, you are not going to have any other security.

I cannot tell you how many times mothers would say to me, my son or husband did not want to join ISIS or al-Qaeda but we had not fed our little girl in 2 weeks. What were we supposed to do?

I do believe, if we can end these conflicts, we can end world hunger.

I do not look to the United States to solve these problems alone, but I do ask that you show the humanitarian leadership the U.S. is renowned for.