Samantha Power: “America as an idea.”

This is devastating, and it is ceding the field as well to the people's Republic of China, to the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the US' ground game in American foreign policy -- the face…

We have no evidence that USAID has funded gain of function research, and we certainly have not authorized gain of function research.

This is no way to treat public servants, and it is no way to advance America's interests.

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