Biden-Xi Meeting, GOP Tensions, State Department Dissent
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President biden wants to talk with china's president about talking more.

You get back on a Normal course corresponding, being able, pick up the phone and talk to one.

Can he get their military talking to?

I'm Stephen scape with a Martina. And this is up first from N. P. R. news. Republicans worked with democrats to avoid a government shutdown, and some republicans are upset.

One says he was elbow. In a way.

what does the incident say about republican infighting? Also, the state department .

has a decent channel for employees who think us policy is wrong. What did some say about us support for israel's law against tomato? Stay with us. Got all the news.

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President biden laid out a modest goal for a meeting with china's leader .

SHE drinking is in the sand Francisco bay area for a meeting of the leaders of many pacific nations. Any plans, a one on one with biden, relations between the world's two largest economies are now bad enough that biden just wants to talk more.

You get back on a Normal course, of course, finding, being able, pick up the phone and talk to one another of the crisis, be able to make sure our military still have contact with one another.

M, P, R, senior White house correspond in tama. Kev, this is going to have a front rose seat for the first part. That meeting today.

He joined us now from seven Francisco tama just seems like the gold bar for this meeting is low, just being able to talk on the phone. So what makes this a meeting? Consequential relations .

with china have been chilly. Biden and SHE haven't even spoken since last november, and it's been more than a year since china broke off military to military communications channels with us officials. And american leaders are are not making a secret of the fact that they really want to see those communications restored.

That's one of the goals of this meeting. And it's important because the best way to prevent conflict is to talk if there's understanding of of what the other guys are doing. Um conflict is less likely for abiden. This is also important meeting because it's a chance to demonstrate what his priorities are countering. China has been at the top of his foreign the agenda, but you couldn't really know IT because he's had to deal with all of these other issues, a land war in europe now, the crisis in the middle ast. And he he plans to talk to see about both of those global issues as well.

So what else could actually come at this meeting?

We're expecting president biden to hold a press conference later today where he will announce what the two nations have agreed to. They're been a lot of conversations leading up to this, and there are signs that there could be some sort of agreement aimed at reducing the flow of the ingredients used to make the deadly synthetic oppoi. Fenner, senate majority leader chuck humor told reporters yesterday that he's optimistic that could happen. Is something that he raised? Was he last month during a visit to china?

I can think of anything that would do more to stop sentinel from coming into the united states than china stopped the flow of these precursor drugs, which incidentally, are illegal in china, but they don't do anything to stop them.

But a word of caution here, back in twenty eighteen, I covered a meeting between SHE and then president Donald trump. And the big outcome then was a commitment to reduce the flow, offending al. And yet, IT is still a major problem, killing tens of thousands of americans every year. So it's the sort of commitment from china where actions may be a lot louder than words.

Now getting this meeting on the calendar just seemed like he was arduous. The process just took while and very secretive. So I mean, why was there so much suspence about this?

You have the details have been kept under very tight wraps. The White house has been unwilling to even say where the meeting is happening due to security concerns, but a source familiar told me that um IT will happen at a historic venue south of santana. Do that as far as they would go. Every detail has been carefully created. This source tells me that all the logistics were choreographed right down to what president SHE will see out of windows and let's just say that the protest culture here in the bay area is alive and well, something that doesn't really exist in china um so uh it's not something that the chinese president would be accustomed to seeing. He's also not used to reporters shouting questions, but we're going .

to do IT anyway. Absolutely R A key or thin. You are welcome.

The house of representatives voted to avoid a government shut down yesterday.

The Frank tue republic lan majority hand to with democrats to manage that basic goal, and that has exposed more tensions in the majority. At one point, two republican lawmakers collided in a hallway. Tim birchard of tennesee accused former house speaker Kevin the .

carthy of shoving him. More is that reporters were watching .

this incident in including M. P. R. Congressional mixed martial arts correspond or, excuse me, congressional respond and goud sad. What did you?

Good morning. A I was interviewing birgit when I saw mccrae y as detail come by, IT seemed that mccarthy shoved into birched and a chase ensued. And that confrontation is what you just heard. And this is part of the same struggles we're seeing play out with republicans in terms of the differences, the bitterness earlier this year, the same struggles we saw during the speakership fight, these are all still there. Before I shared the news yesterday of what I saw between mccarthy and bircher, how speaker mike Johnson yesterday talked about these pressures they're facing.

This will allow everybody to go home for a couple of days for thanksgiving. Body cool off members have been here for, as leaders said, for ten weeks at this places of a pressure cotter.

So this pressure cooker is something i've been tracking recently. One reason why is that it's rooted in the concern that tensions have been so high that they could lead to altercations like the one I saw play out right in front of me. And even passing the temporary funding measure to avert a government shut down yesterday does not a race the very, very difficile differences that remain.

What is that Kevin mccarthy saying about this?

He denied this happened later. He held a press conference to defend themselves. He's insisted that he was not intentional. That IT all happened in the narrow credit hallway.

What is difficult to pass through an interviewers are happening, but we should note this hallway was wide enough from a carthy's detail to get through a birchard, and I had moved to the side, so you would not expect any shoving or elbowing in terms of what played out yesterday. And mccarthy has been accused of this before, former illini republican congressman adam kin noted something similar happened to him when he was in congress. In a recent book he just released.

he said, the house for the octagon, my good IT seems like it's that bad OK yeah the temporary funding measure that passed the house. So what what's expected to happen in the senate?

So the senate is expected to take this up next worth expecting a strong by partisan vote there as well the converses on track to avert a shutdown. As for the house, even if Johnson saw this major Victory yesterday, there was a bipartisan vote of three hundred and thirty six and ninety five. They're still long ways ago before repairing these ultimate tensions that linger here.

And a new shut down thread is now pushed off to early next year. But both chAmbers ge are still facing the prospect of coming up with permanent funding plans. And meanwhile, house conservatives keep taking down spending bills and undermines the argument that y'll get this done with the extra time.

And some members are making big threats that could include ousting. John navie keeps going down this path of bipartisan vote. So the anger here is very present. There's fights in the senate as well. So just the overall toxicity here go is not great in terms of going into next year's election year.

That's M, P, R. Congressional correspondent, cloud sales. Keep your head on a swivel.

please. Thank you.

Israel says troops have entered gaza biggest hospital complex for what he called a precise and targeted Operation against homos militants at our ship per hospital. Many patients, doctors and civilians remain at that hospital .

amid heavy fighting. Israel today also promised to begin allowing fuel into gaza. Now that the united nations says its fuel stocks there are empty.

The israeli military faces widespread calls for a ceasefire. Its campaign against Thomas for humAnitarian reasons and objections over that campaign have LED to some internal disputes from the U. S. State department.

Yeah, lately, disagreements over U. S. Support for israel have made way onto a decent channel there. M, P, R. Diplomatic correspondent mell kelon joints is now to discuss what's happening or what do we know about the kinds of objections that have been raised.

But we don't know much about the actual decent cables or a letter um at the U. S. Agency for international development that has its own system for employees to register opposition to policies. Officials at both of those agencies like to keep these channels private to allow employees to come forward without the fear of retribution. We also don't really know the numbers of people who have signed on.

But even if a couple of hundred has been reported that still a small a small percentage of those agencies, and there's been only one resignation that we know of so far at the state department, but the general threats time hearing is at the decentest want the us. Press israel to agree to a ceasefire. The by administration argues that a ceasefire would allow homos to regroup and instead has been encouraging temporary humAnitary arian passes.

right? So we don't know a lot about what or who is in these dissent. So what if you as officials been saying about them?

Well, they say they're listening. Meeting with staff, both headquarters and in the region. That's true at the U.

S. Agency for international development. And that's true for secretary of state antony y. blinken. Here's what his spokesman, Matthew ler, had to say.

He encourages people to provide feedback. He encourages people to speak up if they disagree. IT doesn't mean that we're going to change our policy based on the disagreements. He is going to take the recommendations and make ultimately what he thinks is the best judgment and make his recommendations to the president about .

what we ought to do. And president biden, as we know, says that israel has the right to defend itself. After the october seven attack, he has been encouraging israel to do more to protect civilians, especially around those hospitals. So his policy and his retorts have evolved over the course of the conflict, but not as much as some diplomats and aid staff would like.

Is this internal descent channel and new thing?

No, the channel isn't. Knew a dates back to the vietnam war, and diplomat have used IT for, among other things, to call for changes in policy in iraq, afghanistan and to raise objections to the trump muslim ban. But retired diplomat pete maro says there have been more leaks recently and that's tough. And what he calls a really toxic political environment.

I don't know whether it's different or whether IT might be the new Normal where people are expressing their descent and IT becomes public and IT becomes part of the public public debate. He has a .

podcast called the american diplomats, and the episodes coming out this week is on descent. And he says Young diplomats, in particular, are really trying to figure how to express dissent while still being a team player.

thanks.

Thank you.

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