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We see being made by the afghan government, who must continue the reform efforts that we've been working on for some time, in particular, a much more rigorous efforts around the anti-corruption. now, part of the corruption challenge in some respects has been the methods and ways in which we have been delivering some of our aid, and we've not been as accountable, i think, to ourselves in terms of ensuring that our aid programs, development programs are delivering the results that they were intended to deliver. some of that has been challenged by the security environment. it's very difficult for...

>> rex tillerson has started his briefing. let's take a listen. >>. >> part of the corruption challenge in some respects has been the methods in ways we've been delivering our aid. we've not been as accountable in terms of ourselves in ensuring our aid programs are delivering results that they were intended to deliver. some of that has been challenged by the security environment. it's very difficult for many of our aid workers to operate in afghanistan. so as the security environment improves we expect to adopt a different approach as to how we zliv development and assistance that supports the...

Democrats and republicans, a value to that. democrat chris coons said this. >> this is not the time for us to splash developments in diplomacy around the world. the initial budgetary proposals from the trump administration suggests that a nearly 30% cut to the state department. this is exactly the moment where we need to be leading with diplomacy. >> bret: does he have a point? are you worried about cuts? >> i am worried about cuts longer term. we have undertaken a budget exercise to accommodate as best we can the president's objective to reduce the cost of what we do over here at the state de...

Oftentimes look at north korea through our own eyes. why wouldn't they just give up the nuclear weapons? they can join the rest of the world. this would be great. they would love it, that kind of thing. but that this nation is really hermit cli sealed from the world. they spend so much time celebrating their greatness and celebrating our wickedness. and i just don't know -- i cannot see how we possibly get to the people of north korea when they idolize seemingly falsely kim jong-un and his father and grandfather. how do we get to them? >> we get to them through aid programs, having american ai...

Over here at the state department, and we'll be engaged with appropriators on the hill to talk about how we will manage through that. clearly, bret, aid programs are an important part of our diplomatic efforts around the world. we want to protect those. importantly, we want to deliver them effectively, we want to ensure the american taxpayer is getting good value for the dollars they have trusted us with. >> bret: so it is not a done deal yet? as far as what that number is? >> will go through a budgeting process with the appropriators on the hill, and what i hope is that they will listen caref...