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Loyalty seems to be a common factor in trumps choices to lead defense, national intelligence and the C. I. A. More on that in a moment.

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Has been a lot of bugs over who president electrum wants in his new administration.

Several nominees for his national security team are Better known for their enthusiastic support for trump than their experience .

in their national security correspondent, grig mary june just now greek.

Thanks for being with us.

I got um help us put some of these selections into perspective. A tosa gabbard nominated for a director of national intelligence SHE is of a train uh and a former democratic lawmaker yeah .

he would be responsible for overseeing all eighteen intelligence agencies and you know, just four years ago, scope SHE was a congress woman from hawaii, ran for the democratic presidential nomination, but then he quit the party, became the huge trump supporter. She's never worked in the intelligence community and has taken a number of very controversial foreign policy positions.

You know, just days after russia's massive twenty twenty two invasion of the ukraine, and he took to social media and called the leaders of russia, ukraine in the us, to quote, embrace the spirit of a low ha respect in love. Now, if confirmed, she'll be one of the president's top advisors. S on this war and scored.

Just want to quickly mentioned another nome, john rack clift, to head the CIA. He served briefly as director of national intelligence in trump s first term, but only after a big battle with democrats who said he lacked experience. We're hearing that same criticism again.

In his first term, donal trump chose a more traditional experience figures who were sometime to described as the adult in the room. Why the different approach now?

Yet trump hilt was being undermined in his first turn by security officials with the russian investigations into the twenty sixteen presidential election. He openly called with them, you know, one really memorable moment was when trumps stood next to lattery or putin at a summit in finland in and said he believed the russian leader and not the U. S.

Intelligence agency, when putin said he had an interference red in the U. S. Election, you trump's cycled through multiple national security officials, and he increasingly chose loyalists at the end of his first term.

And that's where we're starting the second term. I ask em. Bremer, the global affairs analysts who runs the urania group, how he sees trump's new national security team.

lighter experience generally would be perceived as less capable on the national security defense and foreign policy space. But clearly, more alignment, more loyalty personally to trump.

What might have inspired on trump nomination of someone we see. We have seen on our monitors here in the study of fox speed eggs eh for secretary defense well, Scott.

you know I think you've probably seen them using that porch to criticize the pentagon brass. He says american troops are poorly served by what he called woke e generals. He says they're more concerned about diversity, gender and cultural issues than the ability to fight wars.

He's an outspoken opponent of women in many combat roles. He's aggressively defended U. S. Troops, convicted of war crimes and and trump is actually responded by partners, some of them. He's just forty four. He was a major, and the army national guards served in iraq and afghanistan, but he's never held a senior position in national security or managed a large organization. He'd be in charge of the defense department that has about three million employees worldwide.

National security issues don't take a break in president trump, from the moment he he takes the oath of office, is going to face some tough issues, including russia's warning, ukraine. What should we expect yet?

Trump on the campaign trail said he could in this war, the russia, ukraine war in a day, but he hasn't said how we could do that. He could cut military assistance to ukraine or pressure that country to make territorial concessions. Now ebr says trump will take a very transactional approach, and he may get some short term Victory here, but he says trump is unlikely to worry about the broader consequences.

The question is, what does that mean long term for america's system of alliances that is built up over many decades, that comes from mutual trust and consistent commitments that the americans uphold over time? I mean, trump is likely to do a lot of the damage to those institutions long term.

So we've discussed trumps more controversial pix, but we should note he has had some more nominees that is chosen that do have broad supports. They include florida senator marco rubio chosen to be secretary of state infrared, a congressman mike walls, tapped to be the national security adviser.

and peers greg mary, thanks so much.

Sure things got.

New data from the federal government shows that cases of sexually transmitted infections are coming down.

and p. Redstone joins us. No, wilks, for being with us.

sure. Things got.

What can you tell us about these .

latest numbers? So this report focused on safe, less comedia and go rea cases from last year. Overall, there were over two point four million of these three sexually transmitted infections in the us, and that represents a slight decrease of about two percent compared to twenty twenty two. So we're not talking about a massive change year to year. But just to put this in context, Scott infections had climbed in recent years to historical high levels over all there, up about ninety percent over the last two decades, which means the fact the cases seem to be slowing down now is actually quite promising.

Do we have any sense of why things are improving?

The centers for disease control and prevention is still sorting through the day, trying to figure that out. A few things do stand out gonna. Real cases are down for the second year. Also, simplest appears to be slowing down after years of significant increases. Here's what doctor bradlee stoner from the cdc told me.

I think that we're seeing a prevention impact of work that's going on in communities all over the country, and it's really starting to show some benefit. But also, there's tremens out of work left to do. So we just can't waste the momentum.

When you look at who is being most affected, a couple trends are clear. People in their teens to meet twice account for about half of the cases. Men who have sex with men are disproportionate affected. There are also racial disparity ties with new cases affecting black americans, in particular dr.

Stone, to mention prevention efforts. What do those look like exactly?

So this is the work that happens on the local level with health departments. There's education and awareness, access to testing and treatment, and having more people who do the front line public health work are there known as disease intervention specialist. Basically, they investigate outbreaks and health patients navigate the health care system.

David Harry thinks they had a big parts of plane. This improvement, he leads the national coalition of S, T, D, directors of which is cdc, calls st. s. Now and says there was funding from congress in response to cover at several years ago that supported this workforce that ended up benefiting S T, I.

Prevention work too. We think it's a meaningful outcome from this investment of additional, and we don't think this will be suspected.

In other words, without more investment, he expects the numbers will go up again. And he points out the base funding for the cdc on S. T.

I. Prevention is half of what they think I should be. Uh, he said there are some really troubling trends. A notably around congenital sil is literally thousands of babies being born with sif's in a year. Well.

what are the prospects for this work continuing given the changes in washington, D C.

Yeah, obviously, Scott, there are questions about funding priorities with the new congress and administration, especially in the realm of public health. That said, the first trumpet administration took interest in this issue that actually started the ending H. I, V.

Initiative and came up with the first federal T. I. Action plan, which is due for an update. So there will certainly be wrangling over the budget, but harvey is cautiously optimistic that this should be a bay partition .

work and is well, stone. Thanks so much. Thank you.

The all you're in climate meeting cup twenty nine is at the halfway point in but kou other by .

jm negotiators are working out details for how wealthy countries will help developing nations in a warming .

world of remember those climate test joins jef. Thanks for being with us.

Good morning, sky.

What if negotiators account so far this week .

know from outside that doesn't look like much. There's a lot of technical work going on behind the scenes right now to get to a financial agreement in the next week, but some of the most compelling moments have been speeches from leaders of developing nations. Here's the bahamas prime minister phillip Davis, reminding that global warming is everyone's a problem.

The fires that do while your focus, the hurricanes that shut our homes, are not distant with watches, but shared tragedies. What we endure, you endure. What we lose you lose. And if we fail to act, IT will be our children and grandchild.

And that underscores the goal of these negotiations, which is getting wealthiest countries to commit many billions of dollars to help developing nations. These are countries like the bahais that did little to cause global warming. You burning fossil fuels, but they're suffering the consequences.

Countries signed the paris client agreement almost a decade ago that that aims to limit how warm the planet will get. How's the world doing so far?

The paris goal is to limit warming to one point five degrees celsius. That's two point seven fair and height over preindustrial temperatures. And scientists tell us that's what needed to avoid some really bad climate effects were already experiencing, some of them more severe storms, flooding, extreme heat.

Wealthy countries agreed to cut Greenhouse gases first, but the world is not on track to meet that paris agreement goal and will likely push past that goal. The us, for example, is supposed to cut climate pollution in half by twenty thirty. We're on track for about forty percent now. But saying to say every little bit of warming we avoid will make a big difference in the future.

Each other countries shows any penalties that they don't meet those commitments and and if not, what are these cup meetings trying to do?

There aren't penalties. This process is more about countries agreeing to do things than holding each other accountable. For example, at last years, you n climate meeting in by country's pledged to triple renewable energy by the end of this decade. This year, the international renewable energy agents came back with a report showing countries are not on track to meet that pledge. So now there's pressure for countries to step up construction of things like wind power and hydropower, wer and and geothermal energy.

And of course, america. Just look at a president now. President elect was called climate change a hoax.

Uh, down trumps. I'll pull the U. S. Out of the paris agreement IT again, how does that affect the talks in bahaa?

It's part of the discussion, but not as big a topic as I expected. One reason is that IT takes a year to withdraw from that agreement. So the us.

Is expected to be back at cop in brazil next year. There's talk about who will step up to fill the U. S.

Leadership gap in the meantime, maybe china, maybe the european union. But there are some unknowns here, the CEO on mobile. He recently asked trump not to pull out of the paris agreement.

He says business needs certainty, and we're going to see what president elect trump decides there. Meantime, at the un. Climate meeting, they're still some optimism. There will be some sort of finance agreement announced in the next week or so.

Jeff brady for members climate. Thanks so much for being with us.

Thanks for having me.

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