[applause] [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen welcome to chatham house. thank you very much for joining us today. before anything else as i said secretary clinton please make sure you have your phones on. it would be ashamed to be peeping through this and it would be a shame also for you to interfere with the microphones to please make sure you have them switched off. i don't usually say it but -- >> please don't walk out on me. [laughter] >> he will be spotted if that is donegal. now let me say it's my great honor to welcome hillary rodham clinton to chatham house. welcome to institute. it's a pleasure to welcome you here not just have a conversation with us but as winner of the chatham house price 2013. [applause] >> thank you very much. i just want to say what i like about our prize even though airport gets sometimes a little nervous is that it is from a selection of candidates nominated by her research programs and presidents and their members vote. the members are here so it makes it a very special prize. as you know it was given to you for your grea

although at chatham house having this conversation with us today. we can go anywhere. what i will do start off by kicking off with a few questions i will ask. hopefully i will leave a whole bunch of things out. people are already putting their hands up. this is very bad sign. [laughter] so hang on for 20 minutes or so. this is way we'll do it. we've got time. i probably won't take more than 20 minutes. hopefully i won't take up all of your questions. and, i'll do a fair amount of filibustering so the cameras will get a little quieter in a minute as well. we could go in many directions, not at least i may say, secretary clinton, you kind of played two very fundamental roles as secretary of state strategically and i think the rebalance, let's use that phrase, of american foreign policy in the middle east in particular to the asia-pacific was clearly one of the big strategic calling cards of your tenure as secretary but you're also involved very much in the trenches and having to make last-minute calls, tough calls through the process which is the job of a secretary of st

i may just say it is my great honor to welcome you to chatham house. welcome to our institute. [applause] [applause] i just want to say that what i like about this, even though we get a little nervous is that it is from a selection of candidates nominated on the search programs, then members vote in the members are here, they have voted for you and it makes us a very special price and it was given for your great significant contributions and also this is important to you as well for promoting equal opportunities for them in the world. this evening we will celebrate this formal event which lets us have an informal conversation today. i'm very glad that you would be so kind on the record format for the chatham house to have this conversation today and we can go anywhere. what one way to do it start off by just taking off a few questions that i will ask you and hopefully it will leave a bunch of things off the wall and hopefully we will be able to hang on for 20 minutes or so. [laughter] we have time and hopefully it won't take more than 20 minutes or all of your questions. hopefu

conversation with us, but as the winner of the chatham house prize 2013. [applause] >> t >> thank you. thank you so very much.just want >> what i like about opera's i like about our price, even theh onboard sometimes gets a littlee nervous, is that it is from apre selection of candidates at i nominated byt our research programs. n er rur presidents narrow it down toearc thhree people and or members vote. the members are here, they votes for you, so it midakes a very special price i think the agende it was given to you for your great significant contributions to international diplomacy but niso, i know this is important t to you as well, for your roleal promoting the rights of women and girls and equal opportunities for them in the world. this evening we're going toand celebrate the award of the prize at a formal event, which lets us have an informal conversationmal today. i'm just very glad that you would be so kind, on and off and on the record format at chatham house, to be able to have this conversation today.cord we could go anywhere so what i'm going

thanks very much, robin with chatham house in london.s. >> natalie, we'll have more on the u.s. government shutdown coming up this hour. first, a few other stories we're keeping a close eye on. today at united nations benjamin netanyahu will be the last national speaker at general assembly. this comes one day after meeting with u.s. president barack obama at the white house. syria's foreign minister spoke at general assembly on monday and he talked about the conflict in his country. >> translator: syria has repeatedly announced that she embraces a political solution of its crisis. it is now for those who claim to support a political solution in syria to stop all practices and policies against syria and to help the geneva without preconditions. >> reports say more than 50 people have been killed, dozens injured in a wave of attacks around baghdad. most were car bombing in capital. >> kenyan lawmakers are set to begin negotiatiinvestigation ini shopping ball. 67 people were killed during the siege on september 21 st. militant group al shab

>> first, let me thank you and the members of chatham house for this very moving award.i am a fan of your work. i appreciate greatly the vote of the membership on my behalf. i think the question is one that has a very simple answer. yes. america's leadership remains not only preeminent, but necessary. the world in which we live poses new challenges to all of us. , that requireds a level of strategic thinking and execution that starts first and foremost back in the democracies that we represent. i would never criticize my country. let me say that it is distressing at any point to see political system that has so many crises over whatries now caught up in our very unfortunate partisans disputes. underlying them, our questions about america's direction at home and abroad. i am confident that we will work our way through this latest challenge, as we did back during administration in 1995 and 1996. i think that there is an underlying concern. not only in our country, because we didn't take a vote, but you did, that raises issues about -- what are our responsibilities? how do

clinton was in london over the weekend to attend an event at chatham house and while inside police gaveking ticket. it cost about $127. she was reportedly parked in a space costing just 3 bucks an hour but apparently she didn't pay. that's your morning's dish of scrambled politics and now for our first look at politics i'm joined by aaron blake, a political reporter for "the washington post." aaron, good morning. thanks for being here. >> good morning, mara. >> we reported on this new nbc news "esquire" magazine saying 51% are right in the center. in terms of what we're seeing in washington right now, how is it that extreme partisans end up running the show in congress? >> it's a combination of a lot of things. one is partisan districts and one is the general polarization of american society. i think that even though half of the american public is more politically moderate and may be considered in the middle, our politics today is so polarized that a lot of those people tend to have picked a side and generally vote for one party or another more often than not and a lot of them, frankly,

you can access the metro west garage from chatham avenue. >>> and if you think parking enforcement is strict across the district, well, turns out our west -- they don't play around even when you're talking about toys. american fork utah two little girls get a parking ticket when they left their bharti jeep unattended in a man's driveway. they were cited for an abandoned vehicle. the officer who issued the ticket says he was concerned the toy jeep would cause an accident. the real fine was issued. an alert for ice cream lovers tonight. turkey hill ice cream are recalling three of their flavors over a risk it may contain metal shaving. this recall covers the fudge ripple, the chocolate peanut butter cup ice cream and moose truck frozen dairy dessert. they were sold in select stores in maryland, pennsylvania and west virginia. >> time now for a look at the weather it was rainy today but, you know, it's not really the type of storm that we expect this time of the year. it's a little more summer like. >> it was weird to have a tornado watch in october like that, tom but luckily there were

when viktor hungary controversal prime minister gave a talk at chatham house in prague of journalists and members of the institute he started to go on i am gary and he's that we have a unique and we produced more history that we could possibly manage he started by telling the story of hungary his relationship with the european union first the sort of the sort of on the table land of opportunity but increasingly he said hungary and see a european union which is on this and unclear where it's going in the future politically that hungary still has very positive feelings about being a member of european union but that which has an opportunity for renewal and regeneration of the institutions in his country has shown he says that things cannot go order as they are to neglect the differences between the e.u. countries he was very clear about saying no one here is a member should have the right to dictate that economic policy with three of. the all the g. and knowledge the diversity between that this concept of patriotism and nationhood still exists inside the european union but i also am abo

>> that's a fabulous question and it deserves a chatham house process. you know one of the things that i have learned over the years is watch the headlines and keep your eye on the trendlines decodes the trendlines are often much more important and the inner interconnectivity along with the interdependence is very much on my mind because the benefits are quite remarkable but so are the dangers and how we balance that is one of the challenges of leadership. more transparency can help to fight corruption, can make information more readily available to people. alec roth is my ally in promoting internet freedom which we believe is the speaker's corner in hyde park something that just has to be embedded in the global consciousness that we have also seen more sophisticated use of government power to interrupt internet usage to target dissidents and opposition figures so we are in a formative period the outcome of which is not yet clear. i think it's imperative that government democracy and governments who value free speech and open debate really unite in tryin

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he deserves the chatham house process. one of the things i have learned over the years, watch the headlines but keep your eye on the trendline sprayed the trend lines are much more important. the interconnectivity along with interdependence is very much on my mind because the benefits are quite remarkable, but so are the dangers. how we balance that is one of the challenges of leadership. more transparency can help to fight corruption, can make information more readily available to people. inc ross was my ally promoting internet freedom. something that has to be embedded in the global consciousness. but we have also seen more sophisticated use of government power to interrupt internet dissidents andt opposition figures. .e are in a formative period that imperative governments, democracies, governments who value free really open debate, unite in trying to protect this underlying value. that is going to be one of the thatdifficult questions will face leaders in the next the years because of the concerted efforts by more clos

graduate of westfield high and spent my high school years in new jersey and still have sisters in chatham and new providence and visited beach haven for family vacations and i know how hard those areas have been hit both from a personal and economic standpoint. i want to speak about san diego, because my constituents in my 25-year home of san diego have experienced and know the long rebuilding and recovery process after disaster strikes. we have a little bit different effect from climate change and global warming. october marks the 10-year anniversary, yesterday, the beginning of the largest wildfire in california history. as a san diego city council member at the time, i remember the destructive impact on this fire on people's lives, destroyed hundreds of homes, personal belongings and memories nd the fire burned through 273,246 acres of san diego county, destroyed 2,232 homes and took 15 lives and burned through 95 acres of a state park and blazed through 98% of its mature trees. today, little of the forest has grown back from the bare mineral soil left by the wildfire. the community fa