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“Mr. Ambassador, your career has taken you from Beijing to Brussels—all over the world. You’ve had a career and a life lived as a diplomat. And I’m wondering if you could expand on your thoughts—that you just started to talk about—the fact that we have a president of the United States and his diplomats, secretary of state, who have created an alternate universe in terms of diplomacy and global diplomacy. What impact, what lasting impact and lasting danger, do you think they have posed to the history of the United States diplomatic efforts around the world?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns during a Morning Joe conversation about America’s global diplomatic relations as the war with Iran enters its 32nd day. Hear Burns’ assessment of how the U.S. Foreign Service is at its “weakest point” in its 102-year history with the career state department being “ignored."
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“Mr. Ambassador, your career has taken you from Beijing to Brussels—all over the world. You’ve had a career and a life lived as a diplomat. And I’m wondering if you could expand on your thoughts—that you just started to talk about—the fact that we have a president of the United States and his diplomats, secretary of state, who have created an alternate universe in terms of diplomacy and global diplomacy. What impact, what lasting impact and lasting danger, do you think they have posed to the history of the United States diplomatic efforts around the world?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns during a Morning Joe conversation about America’s global diplomatic relations as the war with Iran enters its 32nd day. Hear Burns’ assessment of how the U.S. Foreign Service is at its “weakest point” in its 102-year history with the career state department being “ignored."
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