I'm the acting director of usaid i' I've delegated that authority to someone but I stay in touch with him so the functions of USA there are a lot of functions of USA ID that are going to continue that are going to be part of American foreign policy but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy and this is not my frustration this frustration has existed now for almost a quarter century and two administ multiple administrations that have gone through this challenge it's going to stop and it's going to end say there are things that
it does that are good and there are things that it does that we have strong questions about it's about the way it operates as an entity and uh they're supposed to take direction from the state department policy Direction they do not not do they not take policy Direction they're completely uncooperative their attitude is we don't have to answer to you because we are independent we Answer to No One well that's not true and that will no longer be the case when we turned over the canal we turned it over to Panama we didn't turn it
over to China so you get there and the Chinese control both entries to the port both entries to the port we have a treaty obligation to protect the canal it comes under attack but our Navy is paying fees to go through there Pama we don't want to have a hostile or negative relationship with Panama I don't believe we do and but we had a Frank and respectful conversation and I hope it'll yield fruits and and results in the days to come
