Samantha Power: “We've seen our institutions bent, contorted, but they haven't broken.”

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

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.

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.