Samantha Power: “At the same time, democracies everywhere are under attack.”

USAID has not authorized gain of function research.

Fundamentally, there has to be a political agreement. We are not going to humanitarian aid our way out of this humanitarian crisis.

We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in US history.

It's a $38 billion budget, 60 percent of the budget goes to humanitarian emergencies, literally to provide shelter, food and medicine to keep people alive.