Samantha Power: “whenever a government is killing its citizens, it is morally incumbent, I presume, for us to intervene.”

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.

USAID has not authorized gain of function research.

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