i would like to acknowledge and thank charo and ten from our energy security initiative organize this event and would like to acknowledge and thank the executive fellow from the coast guard here at brookings, brookings, a terrific colleague over the last several months. colleague. i i hope we can borrow him back down the road. as all of you know in april the united states will assume the chairmanship of the arctic council for two years. we go back about five years, i would say are there two things that are true. one in all frank, not that many people had heard of the arctic council, and two, people who are write about the arctic council were writing about it in real saber-rattling terms. this was about to become the new area of great power tension and insecurity and clashes between those dangerous nations, the canadians and others. i'm canadian among other thing soyuz can say that. and of course the most dire predictions how thinks would evolve in the arctic have not come true and the important part of the stories ha then i institutization and development of the arctic council. things

kennedy: hillary as charo? >> i could see that, you ask me to dream of candidates, this just a dream, let's dream of big, dream charisma. that stuff matters. kennedy: is there a charismatic democratic candidate. >> oh, you know -- i'll get back to you. kennedy: take your time. >> she does have really great ideas. kennedy: people this week talk about retreading some former democratic losers like al gore? how likely is that? >> i think problem hillary clinton reminds me something that johnny carson said, he said it great to see some old faces, and new faces and new faces on old face, this is hillary clinton's problem going on 25 years out there and i think people are tired of seeing the same person over, and over they lock at al gore, not a new face but been out of limelight. there are a lot of people that are tired of hillary clinton, and bill clinton, and james carville popping up and lenny davis, same old davis. kennedy: like a donald rumsfeld, and dick cheney. >> i hear you, here is problem with that, it is w