May 14, 2021
Pressure is mounting on the State Department to speed up the export of Covid vaccines abroad, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Texas Congressman Mike McCaul argues that, the longer we wait to help out countries like India, the more we are ceding ground to China and Russia. We don t want the Chinese and their vaccine diplomacy to win out in areas where we would like to keep our allies our allies.
The ranking member of House Foreign Affairs tells WOAI s Michael Board that cases in India doubled in the last month. It s overwhelming the nation s health care system. He says they supported the United States last year, giving us protective gear, when the Chinese were hoarding them.
By Premiere Networks
May 13, 2021
TODD: John Kerry, in more testimony this with the House Foreign Affairs Committee denied that he is giving Iran s foreign minister information about covert Israeli operations in Syria. Now, surely John Kerry who was breaking the law engaged in diplomacy when he was not, in fact, a government official telling Iran and the world, Ignore Donald Trump! We re gonna do everything but, you know, mess with votes to get him out of there. So this question from Representative Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, to John Kerry. Did you provide information to Mr. Zarif on Israeli operations against the Iranian-backed terrorists during or following your tenure as secretary of state?
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25 bipartisan members of US Congress have issued a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to appoint a Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and to increase funding for the International Fund for Ireland.
First, he was asked by Rep. Michael McCaul, the ranking member on the committee about the use of slave labor in China to make and sell solar panels used by much of the rest of the world, including, unfortunately, the United States. Mr. McCaul, who leads the China Task Force in the House, simply asked: “How can you assure us, this quest that we’re on [clean energy] that slave labor coming out of China where genocide is taking place as we speak, is never a part of the climate solution in the United States?”
Mr. Kerry, an experienced diplomat and denizen of Washington for his entire adult life, didn’t flinch at all. He said: “It (slavery) is a problem. Xinjiang province not only produces some of the solar panels that we believe are being, in some cases produced in forced labor by Uyghurs. Nothing can be traded and I’ve made that very clear. President Biden has made it very clear. Climate is existential for everybody on the planet.”