this is bhutan, and bhutans is interesting. used to have a traffic light but they didn't like so it they removed it. and bhutan -- they don't do traffic lights anymore. you just have to be real cool. marijuana grows everywhere. i i was walking around with a guy, and i said, is this marijuana? i don't recognize it that well. looked like it. he say, that's marijuana. it's everywhere. it's everywhere. and i said, what about this? he was like, yeah, you know, no traffic lights but a lot of weed. and unfortunately bhutan is beautiful and serene, and after an hour and a half i was superbored. you wont to see another monastery? we saw four today. i said, do you have a crematorium around and he was like, yeah, weirdo. i'm like, can we go? and he's like, yeah, your tour. so we got there, and i said, got any business today? and he went, yeah. we're doing four. and he said, can my american friend come and watch? and they basically said, yes. get out of the way, be in the background do not interfere, and, yeah. so i spent the entire day --

i said the main thing i want to do, that is why i got these bhutan -- these boots on. tavis: you got your legs crossed and are showing those boots. we hope you enjoyed the conversation as much as we have. in addition to performing her iconic hit, she also performed a second song we will share with you for the first time, so here is etta james and her band with "sugar on the floor" followed by a special performance of "at last." >> ♪ you are a stranger to me, still you give me your life ♪ ♪i toss it into one side still you are sweeter to me ♪ ♪ when will i be sure? ♪ it storms where you are ♪ ♪but my lips do not burn ♪ i feel so insecure when you try to be kind ♪ more, do likesome sugar on the floor? ♪ i feel like sugar on the floor ♪ ♪ sugar on the floor know you at you now only want to find mea ♪ leavel i need a reason to the past behind me ♪ ♪ there is no easy way ♪ to learns no easy way how to fly ♪ i hope that i could care ♪ ♪ when i turn around you are there ♪ should i ask, should i asked for more ♪ like sugar on the floor ♪ i feel like sugar on the floor ♪ ♪ i fe

bhutan famously has the gross national happiness. i think that is going in the right direction. one thing government can do is be the instigator of some of those new indicators and create the kind of data necessary to measure our progress. in terms of how you measure the metrics for measuring the success of government itself, that is very difficult to do. you're right. many americans, in the abstract, are disenchanted with government. when you ask them about particular things that government does, they like it. they like social security. they think government has been successful in ensuring retirement security or that seniors have access to medical care. they like the government role in ensuring a clean environment. in those particular americans are very pleased with the successes that the government has had, and those successes have been substantial. in 196035% of seniors live in poverty. today it is under 10%. that is a remarkable success for this war on poverty that is so often been derided. >> is there a metric for happiness? we have gross domestic product, a new sort of gro

bhutan has a happiness index. the 13th police nation in the world.d now, i do think that we can rally around some very, very important things. we have done it locally. in a time of college education. downing 40% of you see high school students don't go to college. so that is a metric that people are rallying around locally because we know the biggest indicator of poverty is not getting a college education. so i do think there are some glaring good things that we can metric to measure and maybe that is some thing that the board of brookings can construct to work on adding national in-depth that we cannot dialogue. it probably would be more instructive than hopefuls to politicians who basically listen to the loudest minority voices have been at the side via the web. the downside of what we've created in social media in this plethora of new distribution is that if you haven't been in, you cannot deliver it on twitter and facebook and video and youtube. and said it has been one vote one voice, it looks like a majority of the voices. and so, i do think th

i would simply say that at the strategic level we want to deeper economic ties between bhutan and the united states. we think that is an appropriate next step, and we would like to see steps toward that end. >> of a policy question from the simpson guest on this side. anyone? non media person. anyone? we have one over here. >> richard wright. >> hi, richard. >> talk about asia. they're going to come back. mom the secretary could tell us what the opportunities and challenges. >> they do. it's always the case we're talking about that some kutcher does not to mention, and then apologize. we haven't talked much about india's important role. we have not talked about us truly a very much or some other countries. i appreciate your raising russia. our two countries at the leadership level that indicated that we want to advance more cooperation dialogue and asia. and so the russians in the last few days have invited us to come to moscow for consultations on the issues. we look forward to that. this year russia will be hosting apec. i think their is a strong determination to see how and where t