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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

President Donald Trump unleashed an angry, unhinged rant on Thursday about the U.S. Agency for International Development. He claimed billions of dollars had been stolen there, and that much of the money has gone to the pro-democrat media, which he described as a huge scandal.

But only a few hours later, CNN posted video of Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeatedly praising

USAID in the past and describing foreign aid as very much in America's national interests.

All this raises a question.

What kind of a position will Rubio, as Secretary of State, be put in if Trump and Elon Musk continue their effort to destroy USAID?

What will the fallout be for America's place in the world, and what will the global humanitarian consequences be?

Today we're talking about all of this with

Jeremy Kynnedyke, a former senior official during the Obama and Biden administrations. Jeremy,

thanks so much for coming on. My pleasure, Greg. So on truth social, Trump raged about USAID, saying,

looks like billions of dollars have been stolen at USAID and other agencies,

much of it going to the fake news media as a payoff for creating good stories about the Democrats.

He claimed millions of dollars went to Politico.

The whole thing is a ridiculous invention.

What's really going on is many government agencies have

paid for many media subscriptions. And this is a fairly common occurrence under all kinds of

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