albright: thank you. >> hour session with secretary albright to announce a strategic partnership between the alliance of democracy foundation and the joseph coble's school of international studies at the .niversity of denmark let me welcome the dean for its ofe of the -- for a flyer the -- welcome. to denver university in late february back when we could theel the world, sharing state, discussing the state of democracy. at the same time i had good talks with the dean and other faculty members on cooperation with my foundation. that is what we are announcing today. it brings a special significance to have secretary albright with us. since the school is her family josephrough her father such, and you represent strong american and european stories. linkonger transatlantic does not exist. that is also in the same spirit which will guide our cooperation. ? at do we want to achieve we want to establish the annual copenhagen democracy summit and also make the event in denmark for leaders who care about the ,ealt

madeleine albright. welcome, secretary. ms. albright: good morning. very good to be with you. >> absolutely. chipping in will be others and rasmussen. maybe if we could kick off a question about the pandemic, it feels like the authoritarians are getting a free pass to implement more of what they would love to impose on the citizens ranging from surveillance to more traditional military tactics and you wrote the world is paying a high price for this. i took that as a reference to china, but feel free to correct me if it was in reference to other countries. we have a situation where many countries believe that china is mishandling -- has been handling this better than the u.s.. what is the outlook? by keepingt: clearly china madg information away from people and also arresting those in china that were coming forth with the truth. what is interesting, and this is the real paradox, clearly societies need to have some kind of rules when the virus has taken over and clearly there are rules about social distanc

albright: thank you. >> our session with secretary albright to announce a strategic partnership between the alliance of democracy foundation and the joseph coble's school of international studies at the university of denmark. let me welcome the dean of the coble school at the university to our virtual state. i went to denver university in late february back when we could actually travel the world, with --the state sharing the stage with senator romney, discussing the state of democracy. at the same time i had good talks with the dean and other faculty members on cooperation with my foundation. that is what we are announcing today. it brings a special significance to have secretary albright with us. since the school bears her family name through her father. joseph covell, and you, madam secretary, represent such strong american and european stories. a stronger transatlantic link does not exist. that is also in the same spirit which will guide our cooperation. what do we want to achieve? we want to establis

. >> also from the conference former secretary of state madeleine albright talking about china's role on the coronavirus outbreak, impact on social media, instances of fascism and concerns facing democracy. >> good afternoon, good evening, good morning, wherever you are in the world, welcome back to the session undemocratic global leadership. we are very honored to have with us as our guest former secretary of state madeleine albright and the senior editor at politico and author of political translation work. >> good to be with you. >> thank you for setting up the alliance for work in denmark and nato. the pandemic secretary, feels like authoritarians having a brief part, what they would love to impose ranging from surveillance to more traditional military tactics, the world paying a high price for this and i took that as a reference to china, and we have a situation where many countries believe china has been handling this pandemic better than the us. what is the outlook there and where do you think this is? >> clearly china made a huge mistake from the perspective of the united stat

secretary of state madeleine albright. welcome, secretary. ms. albright: good morning. very good to be with you. >>

cliff albright, thank you for pulling over to be safe.alk about what is happening in kentucky today. 3700 pollingsible, places before coming today only 170? it is possssible and it isis hahappening right nonow. what we know is in several counties, the largest county, the county that has have to states popopulation, the numberf polling locations was brought down to one e polling place serving the entirere county estimateted over 600,000 registered voters. juan: in terms of the projected a vote totals from previous elections to now, our people exexpecting a signgnificant dron the e total votes as a result of the reduction in polling places? because many people will not end up doing mail-in ballots. >> exactly. that is part of the problem. for the first part of your question in termsms of the projecteted drop, the pontntial for record turnout. what t they are saying is over 200,000 ballots that were sent out to fololks that requested te mail-in ballot. that combinenes the number of fofolks who have r really voted, puts thehem at a number tha

secretary of state madeleine albright and the senior editor at politico. welcome. >> good mog.

. >> also from the conference former secretary of state madeleine albright talking about china's roleon the coronavirus outbreak, impact on social media, instances of fascism and concerns facing democracy. >> good afternoon, good evening, good morning, wherever you are in the world, welcome back to the session undemocratic global leadership. we are very honored to have with us as our guest former secretary of state madeleine albright and the senior editor at politico and th

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then speeches from the copenhagen democracy summit by former secretaries of state madeleine albright and current secretary of state mike pompeo. ♪ ♪ susan: dr. peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown . what a momentous three months they have been. as a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through? prof. joseph: i have been

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. >> former secretary of state madeleine albright participates in a discussion with former nato as part of the copenhagen democracy summit. this is half an hour.

i'm really pleased to tell you that madilyn albright, who wrote the forward to my book, is in it. a bigger wonderful thing for me is that my co-author is also honored by the hall. so, i'm really kind of winding down. i said i would talk 45 minutes and i see by my clock here it's at 45 and i've got two more pages to go. you can see that i've talked about western women, women who did indeed change america, who will continue to change our country. as i did research for the book, i heard about the glass ceiling -- youxc probably know that -- the marble ceiling for judge judges,/clerics. the stained glass ceiling for women in religious. i just read about the concrete ceiling. the glass cage of self doubt seems to hit women hard. here's what i learned as i reviewed the lives of 850 remarkable women, women's talents won't be fully recognized and valued unless we make all of the changes, one with the other, to move our country forward. i'm talking about all of us using our skills, our expertise, our time, our potential, valuing each other. we, all of us, need to value each other. and as w

>> secretary albright, it's willie geist. good to see you this morning.eling the world and working with world leaders. we've seen these protests for a man who died under the knee of a police officer in minneapolis, minnesota. filter out into the streets of cities around the world, from paris and amsterdam to nairobi and tokyo. it's been all over the world. so, what are you seeing around the world, not just in the united states, reflected? what are all those people out in the streets for for someone who died in this country? >> i think it is really very moving and remarkable the way that the whole message of george floyd has come through and various demonstrations that have happened in the united states as a result of it. i think you know, i'm a refugee. i came to this country when i was 11 years old and nothing made me prouder than to be able to sit behind a sign that said the united states. i don't want to be mortified or embarrassed by the behavior of the united states and trying to explain to people what happened here and that this is not the direction

we will hear from former secretary of state, madeleine albright backslidin democratic

actually on albright who was the secretary of state for president clinton she made the comments in 99 when she said look if we have to use force it's because where the united states we stand tall we see further than anybody else and sort of we know what's what's good for everybody well actually can see the number i think they have gotten my next question if the well is populated by the sneaks and the jonathans who is the wound down is it and i hate that white knight in shining armor you know this is a great question and actually i had to add. a note to the to the book to specify what i mean by the west so you know i'm a military analyst i'm not a partisan political person answer when i use the term the west what i mean is 2 things one are geo political entities are generally u.s. led you know western countries naser the western alliance and the u.s. but i also include in that definition countries that fight in the same way that the us fights and it's really a military definition which a couple of years before was his testimony was the basis for the u.s. victory in the 1st gulf war and

and i would like to thank you, secretary albright, dear madeline, or your time today and for blessing our new corporation with the korbel school and dean meyer, fritz, i look for to working with you and with the school. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> this concludes this session. now we will turn to our session on business and tech responsibility for democracy. the moderator is the editor in chief of the danish magazine monday morn, and in this connection even more importantly, chairwoman of the daily management society which comprises secretaries from denmark's business community. >> and current secretary of state mike pompeo talks about challenges facing democracy, china's role in the coronavirus pandemic, and their decision to extend national security law over hong kong. >> it's a great pleasure for me to welcome our next speaker, the american secretary of state mike pompeo. good morning, mr. secretary. i think it is a morning in "new york times" on. i know you have been traveling from hawaii where you met a high ranking chinese official. earlier this year i listened to your sp

long as we stand together all our lives are safe and secure and the pursuit of peace i mean mrs albright you talk about provoking they just last week we were listening to the president of the united states calling germany delinquent because it's not meeting its defense spending target is that a way that you would use what you say the germans are being delinquent. i value germany most of it is strong on important. german is now actually investing significantly more in the fans germany has added 4 percent to the fence but just over the last years and germany has plans in place to to increase by 80 percent over a decade that is significant and it also helps to the total nato defense spending which us. increased by a $130000000000.00 over the last 4 years. generals are basically rolled in by leading france is the group in the end in the baltic countries and in the day no generals lead a nation in uniform in afghanistan then of course we expect germany to do even more . and expect all of us to make good on the pledge to invest 2 percent of g.d.p. only talking about germany during even mall bu

actually on albright who was the secretary of state for president clinton she made a comment in one in 98 when she said look if we have to use force it's because we're the united states we stand tall we see further than anybody else and sort of we know what's what's good for everybody well actually can see the number i think they have gotten my next question if the well is populated by the sneaks and the dragons who is the west bank is it and i don't white knight in shining armor you know this is a great question and actually i had to add. a note to the to the book to specify what.

it will include talks by authors such as madeleine albright and melinda gates to name a few. and our archive programs, booktv.org. .. welcome to a new program sponsored by the institute of america's history. and president of the institute. will present american history which behind me, our current important books in our country. we present each historian died a question and answer section toward the end. if you like other programs, please go to our website, now enjoy books. >> good afternoon and welcome to the inaugural edition of this institute of american history program. brings you some of america's greatest historians what they discuss their most recent books. today we are joined by eric as he discusses his book. before i formally introduce them, i want to go over a couple of housekeeping roles. first, today is mother's day. i want to wish you a very happy mother's day the most important people in history past and present, our moms. a very happy mother's day to all moms watching. we are going to go through some of the tech issues of the tech aspects for you viewers author

grisham, madeleine albright and melinda gates to name just a few. book tv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. you can also watch all our archive programs anytime at book tv.org. >> hi everyone. my name is vanessa mendoza and i'm adjunct sometime soon, but in the meantime it's nice to connect this way, and stay tuned, , the man in students putting together of virtual content that filled e rolling out over the next few months. look in your in boxes for information about those events coming to you shortly. in the interim i am so pleased to welcome my guest douglas murray to our event this afternoon. douglas is a journalist, and i'm sure many of you, if not all, have read his work on the pages of the "wall street journal" or national review or of course in the spectator but he's an associate editor. douglas is also an author most recently his 2019 book, "the madness of crowds", and he was with us in person at the manhattan institute i think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book, the strange death of

it will include talks by authors such as madeleine albright and melinda gates to name a few.and our archive programs, booktv.org. .. welcome to a new program sponsored by the institute of america's history. and president of the institute. will present american history which behind me, our current important books in our country. we present each historian

secretary of state madeleine albright. finally, there's queen wilhelmina of holland. she's my favorite character of the book, and i'm going to spend a little more time talking about her. at that point, when the war when holland was invaded, she had been queen for 49 years. she assumed the throne at the age of 10. her life up to that point had been extremely frustrating. she grew up in what she despairingly called the cage, which was her name for the oppressive, formal, strict atmosphere of the dutch royal court. she was raised with almost no friends or companions her own age. when she went ice skating in the winter, the canals in amsterdam were cleared of all people, and she was forced to skate alone. she was once overheard scolding one of her dolls, "if you are not he, i shall make you into a queen and then you won't have any other little children to play with -- if you are naughty." her dream from childhood was to perform what she called great deeds, like those of her famed .ncestors of she saw no possibility fulfilling that dream. as her government ministers repeat

and you can certainly find out more visiting theút colorado inductees. l÷ tell you madeleine albrightt, and my coauthor is also in the hall, honored by the hall. so i'm really kind of winding down. i said i would talk for 45 minutes and i see here my clock here is at 45 and i've got two more pages to go. you can see i've talked about western women, women who did indeed change america who will continue to change our country. and i did research for the book i heard about the glass ceiling, the stained glass ceiling for women in religion. just recently i read a reference to the 1÷nconcrete ceiling, th glass cage and self-doubt seems to hit women hard. but here's what i learned as i reviewed the lives of 850 remarkable women. womens talents won't be fully recognized and valued unless we make all of the changes, one with the other to move our country forward. i'm talking about all of us using our skills, our expertise, our time, our potential valuing each other. we, all of us need to value each other. and as we each strive to make a difference we need to acknowledge the efforts of the tho

then speeches from the copenhagen democracy summit by former secretaries of state madeleine albright and current secretary of state mike pompeo. ♪ ♪ susan: dr. peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown . what a momentous three months they have been. as a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through? prof. joseph: i have been writing a lot, both op-eds in for a longer piece. it is an extraordinary watershed, historical moment. i think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. we did achieve some racial progress. we had black elected officials. 1500 we had a freedmen's bureau. we had the creation of black churches and public schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880's and 1890's. and we did it through racial violence and public policy. our second reconstruction is the civil rights movement between 1954 and

secretary of state madeleine albright who was here for a private dinner earlier this year to drop a name or two. [laughter] gary joined the william jewell college faculty in 1992 and services chair of the department of political science and director of the international relations major. the william jewell student body voted him professor of the year four times. gary is also a longtime supporter of the national world war i museum and memorial and for that we are appreciative. please give a warm welcome to dr. gary armstrong. [applause] dr. armstrong: good evening and thank you for coming tonight. there should be a lot of interesting questions. the hundredth anniversary of the senate's first rejection of the treaty of versailles. what a great moment to talk about america's place in the world. growing time of polarization and radicalization. there had been a series of race riots in the current estimate is between the summer of 1919 in 1921 manyr of americans were killed. this would lead to the first bombing of an american city by our own air force. at the same time there were just two weeks

lockdown while in central and southern asia 95000000 children are not getting an education alice albright is the c.e.o. of the global partnership for education she joins us now live from washington 5 skype from washington alice good to have you with us all right so we know what unesco thinks here what's your view on the extent that coronaviruses accent exacerbated the existing divides in the provision of education across the world. face adrian for having me on line happy to be with you were very concerned about the you know prior to that there were inequities not only between countries but we also see inequities within countries that were particularly worried about 2 things one is girls possibly never going back to school due to increased rates of teenage pregnancy and early childhood marriage were also very worried about the long term impact of lost earnings every bit of time that children are out of school and losing the opportunity to learn it creates a long term loss of their earnings potential over the course of their life so many things to be concerned about of the momus award as wh

beginning with smith versus albright, her successful supreme court case challenging the use of whites only primary elections in 1944, lds has been fighting to overcome obstacles to ensure the full, equal and actual participation a black voters in the political process. recent reports indicate that there has been almost 2 million confirmed cases of covid-19 infection in the united states and more than 112,000 deaths. the country faces not only a public health crisis but also an economic crisis comparable to the great depression in severity. more than 40 million people have filed for unemployment since the start of the pandemic. the pandemic is disproportionally impacting black people. the centers for disease control and prevention report that while black people are only 13% of the u.s. population, we constitute nearly 30% of all u.s. coronavirus deaths. unfortunately, this pandemic is not only a public health emergency and economic crisis, it is also a threat to the very foundation of our democracy and the most important part of expression, free and fair elections. we must never forget

we will hear from john kerry and then madeleine albright.sl racial disparities in coronavirus health outcomes live at noon. week, watch votes on policing reform and statehood legislation. thursday, live on c-span the house will vote on the democrat's policing reform bill. c-span,riday, live on the house will vote on legislation to designate the district of columbia as a state. watch this week live thursday and friday on c-span, online, or listen on the free c-span radio app. former secretary of state john kerry is part of a discussion on covid-19, the november elections, and climate change. the copenhagen democracy summit hosted this event.

truly took the trump oath and never spoke up along with many other things are exactly what madeleine albright this all happens. so having said that on my soap box, exactly what kind of danger can you articulate for us? has this president put us in by interacting with foreign leaders this way? >> well, he's put the united states in serious danger. what we know is there are auto accurates around the world like the chinese who are developing a suite of tools that make it harder for democracies and make it easier for deck taters. and it's always been our belief that in order to protect our own democracy, we have to protect other democracies. that as autocracy spreads in other parts of the world, it will be a threat to our democracy. and by the president cozying up to these dictators, it does compromise our own. and, you know, china in the last few days has made it clear that they are going to root for four more years of donald trump and that's one of the primary reasons why. they see another four years of president trump as an ability to spread their model of dictatorship, autocracy to the rest o

we had madeleine albright on the show yesterday and she is extremely concerned that the elections go major black celebrities and impactful stars can make a difference and perhaps change the course of history. >> absolutely, mika. you know, you've seen lebron starting this voting rights group at a time where voter suppression, voting rights, access to the ballot box and people being able to participate safely in our democracy are on the minds of many americans, including african-americans who we know are disproportionately dieing of coronavirus and want to be able to safely participate in our democracy. oprah winfrey had a two-night special on race relations in america and where we go from here. race and racism as i said repeatedly are on the ballot for people in 2020. i think that is something that we are seeing as an important political issue for folks. the folks who have been in the streets protesting for much of this month and i think that's going to carry into november. i interviewed stacey abrams last night and talked to her about what happened in the georgia primary last night,