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WHILE other agencies can barely justify their request for millions of peso of confidential funds, the Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday was “offered” a chance to have such funds but it declined. Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, acting chairperson of the Senate sub-committee on Finance, said he favors that the DFA also be given confidential

Security adviser or white house staffer in the room. you dont want the russians to come back, which they will to say that president trump promised this or that. even if he didnt promise it, you want to be able to defend yourself. youve got to hope the president will find common sense if he does have another meeting, which is extremely ill advised anyway, to invite our most dangerous adversary to washington, d.c., a visit of honor. he should be inviting angela merkel, theresa may and putting nato...

To invite our most dangerous adversary to washington, d.c., a visit of honor. he should be inviting angela merkel, theresa may and putting nato back together after his wrecking ball tour of europe. >> ambassador burns, dan coats said today he suspects it to be likely that the russians at least tried to record that meeting or very likely they do have a recording of that meeting. do you agree with that in your experience? >> yeah. diplomatic practices that you dont record meetings. but the russian...

Turkey responded by sealing off the dutch embassy and said the dutch ambassador should not return to turkey for, quote, some time. they say the actions by the dutch government are unacceptable. >> this decision is a scandal by all means and it is unacceptable. this does not suit diplomatic practices. this is the most extreme point in diplomacy. a written flight permission issued to a foreign minister is canceled with another written document. this is completely unacceptable. >> the dutch leader ...

Record and on the podium, but also an unofficial way. communist party here controls all media in china. all chinese media. they use state-run newspapers to get out a more provocative viewpoint. in the tabloid newspaper, an ed editorial caught our eye. quote, the truth is this president-elect inexperienced in diplomatic practices, probably has no idea of what hes talking about. he has greatly overestimated the u.s. capability of dominating the world and fails to understand the limitations of u.s....

Madadis days in the u.s. are numbered. >> he has diplomatic immunity. we have been proceeding in accord with diplomatic practices. that have legal force. we have every confidence it will be resolved quickly. >> reporter: a senior state department official says he expects madadi to be on the next flight out of the country to qatar. no charges will be brought against him or official action because they expect the embassy will clean up the mess. for the cost of last nights security alert, the state...

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