hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> thank you it is wonderful being back here at georgetown in this wonderful cast and hall, and to give you something to do during exam week. [laughter] it is one of those cause i- legitimate reasons for taking a break, which i am very happy to have provided. i want to thank chaz for his introductory remarks. those of you in the foreign service her reflections of the extraordinary opportunities it is to be here. it is an honor to be delivering this speech at georgetown because there is no better place than this university to talk about human rights.

and so whether it's henry kissinger or hillary clinton or bill clinton or benjamin franklin ronald reagan, i have auld -- always tried to look at what made somebody stand out, what special characteristic that made them different from the people around them. i got inspired by the first real writer i ever knew, walter percy, and i hope his books are still here because i will tell you, i marvel at his philosophical agrees and his understated wit. everytime i pull down the well-thumbed copies of the movie goer or the last gentleman from my shelf. he was the uncle of my best friend, guy named tom cowen, so when we we are young we used to go over lake ponchatrain and party skiing, and nobody quite knew what uncle walter did. i wasn't to ask his daughter ann, what does your dad do and she said, well, he was doctor but he never practiced. that is why he was called dr. percenty. but he stayed at home and wrote. a few years later after "the movie goer" had become famous, i realized that being a writer was something you could actually do for a living, just like bag doctor or an engineer or a fisherm

he could be paid to work for clinton for all we know. then he goes to will work at a private equity ferber ferber -- firm. if you look at the books they were all people who had business before the clinton administration. what is rahm emanuel skill? >> very hard working and effective but 1.6 million dollars in 2.5 years for our have to imagine that some of the skill was to know who to call in the clinton right house to get done what he wanted to get done. he makes one point* 6 million by bilking his contact then uses that money to run for congress now he is in the obama lighthouse but also the revolving door is actually now a lobbyist who is the acts obama administration officials already less than one year in. somebody has gone and come up left and become a lobbyist. this is damaging because anyone that strengthens our it gives more power to those to become a lobbyist in effect take political power away. also gives perverse incentives to people in the government that particularly hurts republicans because they can say we will kill the go

and so whether it's henry kissinger or hillary clinton or bill clinton or benjamin franklin ronald reagan, i have auld -- always tried to look at what made somebody stand out, what special characteristic that made them different from the people around them. i got inspired by the first real writer i ever knew, walter percy, and i hope his books are still here because i will tell you, i marvel at his philosophical agrees and his understated wit. everytime i pull down the well-thumbed copies of the movie goer or the last gentleman from my shelf. he was the uncle of my best friend, guy named tom cowen, so when we we are young we used to go over lake ponchatrain and party skiing, and nobody quite

go in there and see if you can find a paper from bill clinton, by bill clinton. and dad says, sure i'll do it and call you back. i says no, no i'll hold on. he comes back quite upset because even before katrina we used to flood all the time and he said the basement has flooded a few times and it sort of destroyed those things and your mother flew out all those papers. i was secretly relieved because i didn't know what i would do if i do paper in my hand that would do real the candidacy of bill clinton. kathy, my wife and i., wait years later to see dr. kochanski and retirement and he pulls out a scrapbook. there's the paper. does anybody know who betsey wright was? she was in charge of damage control. and then the telegram that he got for betsey wright saying do not release paper, letter to follow. i told him he should send the paper, which he did to the clinton library because i believe those of us who are historians should at least have the right to that paper, even if the journalist doesn't have it time thought it was a good idea not to. i eventually made my w

secretary gates unsecretary clinton both had said, and secretary clinton i have your statement here about talking about afghanistan pakistanis and we will develop a long-term relationship so that we did not repeat the mistakes of the past and i think in your testimony you referred to the stakes in the past. is that in the context of the inconsistent engagement with pakistan? is that the mistake you were referring to? >> i think it was really turning our backs on both afghanistan and pakistan. the pakistanis, and it goes to the question that was after earlier. the truth is there is a great deal of mistrust on the part of the pakistanis toward us. they believe we have abandoned them or betrayed them on several different occasions. only the most recent of which was the late '80s and early 1990's, and so we have a lot of work to do in trying to convince them that we are not trying to take over their country, that we are not trying to take control of their nuclear weapons and that we are actually interested in a long-term partnership with them. but it is because, and i was deputy national secu

bush and clinton were party people.he has a persona that people like, and the world wants barack obama to succeed. that is an amazing thing. sarah palin, she is polarizing, but she is laughing all the way to the bank. how dumb to quit your job in alaska. we calculated her book advance how long she would have had to be governor -- we calculated about 2049. she has a big family and now taken take care of them all. host: will her influence extended into the next decade? guest: perhaps, one not? guest: i think the question is not if, but how far. when you have carl and i back, will we be talking about her as a dominant figure of the decade? host: robert, in addition to being an editor, you also blog. you can find information on usnews.com. tell us about why you wrote about those four people. guest: this is our annual list of most admired men and women. not surprisingly, the president was the number one most admired person in the country, which happens every year, even when president bush was very unpopular. on the women's s

bush and clinton were party people.he has a persona that people like, and the world wants barack obama to succeed. that is an amazing thing. sarah palin, she is polarizing, but she is laughing all the way to the bank. how dumb to quit your job in alaska. we calculated her book advance how long she would have had to be governor -- we calculated about 2049. she has a big family and now taken take care of them all. host: will her influence extended into the next decade? guest: perhaps, one not? guest: i think the question is not if, but how far. when you have carl and i back, will we be talking about her as a dominant figure of the decade? host: robert, in addition to being an editor, you also blog. you can find information on usnews.com. tell us about why you wrote about those four people. guest: this is our annual list of most admired men and women. not surprisingly, the president was the number one most admired person in the country, which happens every year, even when president bush was very unpopular. on the women's s

latin- american relations with secretary of state hillary clinton. that will be followed by a senate hearing on transportation safety, and then a senate committee years of efforts to protect diplomats around the world. -- here's of efforts to protect diplomats around the world. as congress considers reauthorization of the elementary and secondary school act, educators, activist, and government officials discuss ways to eliminate the so-called achievement gap. live coverage begins tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. next, secretary of state hillary clinton discusses u.s. relations with latin america. we will also hear from the state department undersecretary for democracy and global affairs and the assistant secretary for western hemisphere affairs. this is the first conference in the state department's diplomacy briefing series. >> a woman who truly needs no introduction, the 67 secretary of state and our global rock star. >> do not ask me to sing. that is all i asked. it is a very great pleasure to be here today to welcome you to the first in

. >> hello, secretary clinton. thank you so much for speaking to us today. you spoke about the situation in uganda. could you please talk to us a little bit more about how the united states can protect the rights of lgbt people in the areas where the rights are not respected? >> yes. first, let me say over the past year we have elevated into our human rights dialogue and public statements a very clear message about protecting the rights of the lgbt community worldwide. and we are particularly concerned about some of the specific cases that have come to our attention around the world. there have been organized efforts to kill and maim gays and lesbians in some countries. we have spoken out about and also con vad our very strong concerns about to their governments, not that they were government tally implemented or even that the government was aware of them, but that the governments need to pay much greater attention to the kinds of abuses that we have seen in iraq, for example. we are deeply concerned about some of the stories coming out of iran. in large mea

secretary clinton? >> secretary gramm, i would put it at a tan. i think that the failed state that stolie lawless, a safe haven for terrorists, particularly the senate of terrorism headed by al qaeda, poses a direct threat to the security of united states of america. the oilers do all of you agree with that? >> do all of you agree with that? i think you're right. he did this because he realized it was a tan, too. -- it was a 10, too. >> i think that there are at least two principal audiences. one audience, and a very important one, is the afghan government. they must accept responsibility in terms of their own governance and iran security forces, and -- and their own security forces, understanding and taking ownership of this conflict on their own soil. it is not just going to be fought by foreigners. i think the other audience is the american people, who are weary of eight years of war, and to let them know that this is not going to go on for another 10 years. >> but there are other people listening. that is my problem. i can understand the frust

secretary clinton is in copenhagen now. she met with the chinese premier today. and the president will be meeting with him tomorrow and we hope that we can get... we made some progress in our previous talks. we have to get over the hump in terms of being able to demonstrate to the world that we're all meeting our obligations under whatever agreement we make. and that's been a bit of a hurdle, but we hope to deal with it. >> lehrer: if there is no agreement, is the summit a failure? >> well, i don't think so. i think that we've made progress there. it's not as... it hasn't come as easily as anyone would like. these are difficult issues. but whatever happens there, they will undoubtedly be more work to do. i think fact that the world is really focused as intensely as it is on this issue, that there's a recognition that we have to act and that the impact of not acting will be dramatic and devastating over a long period of time for the world. i think it's a positive thing. but we want tangible specific domestic goals that each country can agree to. they're not all go

and certainly the bush administration stonewalled almost completely any information, and the clinton administration, as you'll see in my book, they just simply destroyed the documents. so using one method or another, we don't get to transparency. >> host: you were initially supportive of the bush administration. what turned you sour against them? >> guest: i was never, you know, really supportive of the bush administration. i was always very hesitant, and i'm talking from a personal standpoint, now, not as head of freedom watch, to vote for president bush. i didn't think, frankly, he was up for the job. i thought he was put up much like obama's been put up today as kind of a trojan horse for other interests that wanted to pursue their agenda. right out of the box i challenged the bush administration on the cheney energy task force. the case went all the way to the supreme court, and, of course, we remember the famous duck hunting trip by dick cheney where he went with antonin scalia that struck down the federal advisory committee act denying us information about what was going on at

that portrait was done during the clinton administration.s during the time when al gore was doing the reinventing government program. so, it is an eight by 10 glossy that has been blown up. [laughter] it is an aid by 10 glossy that i do like and it was blown up to full size, put in a framed and hung on the wall. [laughter] you are even come on today -- you are even today, hillary. >> well, that is how we balance the budget. >> i am honored and thank full for your presence today. so many have come from -- friends and family from the bronx, friends and family as a soldier, my life in the government. if i can audit knowledge everyone here or we would be all afternoon, but there are a few people i have to say a word about. first, i want to thank the artist, stephen colstopoleson fa marvelous job. stephen is a wonderful artist and i thank him for the magic he has applied to this portrait, i hope. [laughter] i also want to express my appreciation for people who have come from afar from other lands, beginning with the hon. peter mckay, the minister

hillary clinton now serves as the 67 u.s.of state (to reporters as include thomas jefferson, james madison, james monroe, daniel webster, george marshall, and of course madeleine albright. when she was secretary of state, madeleine worked together with a secretary clinton to launch the federal government's vital voices democracy initiative. today, this is a nonprofit organization that works to train and organize women leaders from around the world. before being appointed to tear position by president obama, she served as a u.s. senator from new york where she was a strong advocate. as first lady, for 8 years, she worked many issues relating to children and families, especially health care. she led a successful bipartisan effort to bring care to millions of children's through the children's health care program. her biography is one of firsts. the first first lady to hold a law degree.4' the firstçó sitting first lady o be elected to the senate or any public office. the first woman to win statewide election in new york. the fir

policy inherited from the clinton administration.t line was whether this was a policy that was actually going to be implemented, and how. at what point, and clearly this was after 9/11, did the most administration settle on a policy of the forcible removal of saddam hussein's regime as their primary objective? >> i think almost very -- after the shock of 9/11 had sunk in, once that anthrax scare was gone, this followed the months after 9/11. this was something when iÑi wasn washington, i did not give enough importance to, i did not realize what impact this had on the administration, the anthrax scare, suddenly people were getting letters take it with anthrax. what we now know, and i did not realize at the time, they thought the last people to ever use anthrax aggressively was saddam hussein and his own country. anthrax letters going all over the place really spooked people. if you read a book by joshua viceberg called "the bush tragedy," this is set out in detail and it led to dick cheney suggesting that the entire population of the

and one of the reasons why bill clinton was elected, and the same with jimmy carter. so it's a bipartisan feeling that we do this. i think, you know, it is a tough year for the incumbents. i think, just to pick up on, i think, what david and adam were saying, one positive sign for the democrats -- one positive sign is the election is not today. that's number one. [laughter] it's a while from now. because i don't think the president is responsible for these problems, but he owns them because he's the president. and there's no getting around that. but the second thing that goes to democrats and republicans and where they are as far as figuring out what they want to do, what their leadership is. democrats have an advantage, that they do have the presidency as far as message orientation. you know, there's a lot of negatives there. but i think what's really interesting, looking at democrats, is the reaction to the afghanistan speech. fully 50% of the party in congress did not support that speech. but you know what? they're swallowing it and they're going to move forward. t

secretary clinton? >> okay. thank you.senator mccain, members of the committee, i am grateful for this opportunity to testify before so many former colleagues and friends. my experience on this committee helped form my views on many of the issues facing our nation. and it's privilege to be here before you now in this different role. yesterday, president obama presented the administration's strategy for afghanistan and pakistan. today, secretary gates, admiral mullen and i will all be providing you with additional details but let me speak briefly at more personal level about why we are making this commitment. simply put, among a range of difficult choices, this is the best way to protect our nation now and in the future. the extremists we are fighting in afghanistan and pakistan have attacked us and our allies before. if we allow them okay stoesz the very same safe havens they used before 2001, they will have a greater ka pass toy regroup and attack again. they could drag an entire region into chaos. our civilian and milita

talked about an article written in the 1994 after the clinton debacle that was called the institution, stupid, explaining that the reason why health care has not been passed in this country was due to the fact that the senate doesn't work. and what we have seen over the last couple weeks is proof positive that the senate doesn't work. it's absurd that you have 40 republicans that are not interested in trying to work on some kind of a compromise that could pass muster and, yes, it is upsetting that ben nelson can get the deal he can get for the state of nebraska. but the problem is, when you don't have a single republican vote wants to step up to vote, and this will require 60 votes to pass, what you going to do? guest: here is " the new york

bush, president clinton, and george w. bush. that is 33 years. 33 years. and all of a sudden my colleagues want to change our policy on federal funding of abortion. mr. president, we shouldn't be making this type of sweeping policy change in this health care legislation. and the nelson amendment is necessary -- is a necessary addition to the bill in order to protect our current policy and the unborn. i understand that not everyone in this country agrees with my position on abortion. and, again, i know that this issue deeply divides americans on ethical, moral, and religious grounds. while i have said that i don't agree with abortion and believe roe v. wade should be overturned, the nelson amendment -- and this is really important -- does not prevent anyone from seeking an abortion, it does not overturn roe v. wade and it does not place any new restrictions on access to

secretary clinton and gates -- secretaries clinton and gates have already walked you through large policyissues in question. i will not repeat them. from a purely military perspective, i believe our new approach does three critical things. first, by providing more discrete objectives it offers better guidance to commanders on the ground about how to employ their forces. they'll still work to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and prevent afghanistan from become ago safe haven. they'll still strive to protect the afghan people who remain the center of gravity. they will still pursue major elements of the counter insurgency campaign which as we all know involves at least some measure of active counter terrorism operations. but now, they will tailor this campaign and those oerngss by focusing on key population areas by increasing pressure on al qaeda's leadership, by more effectively working to degrade the taliban's influence and streamlining and accelerating the growth of competent afghan national security forces. at its coret strategy is about providing breathing space for the afghans

when bill clinton and hillary clinton set up task force.i forget the exact details but i predicted something like 27 specific details of what will come out. i got 100% wrong. every single issue wrong. and i learned a lot from that. at least in my model, what went wrong was that the model indicated that the then chairman of the house ways and means committee, dan rostenkowski, was the key person, the tipping point person who could put together the right compromise to get it through. and he was indicted on i think 17 felony counts. and his focus on health care what does your. of course, he eventually went to prison. more recently, i did a book with some colleagues in 1996 called red flag over hong kong, which is about the transfer of hong kong to china. and had a lot of prediction, most of which were right. one of the predictions which was wrong, if you are running a hedge fund would have cost you a lot of money. was that china by i think by 2000, would decouple the hong kong dollar, would deepen the hong kong dollar for the u.s. dollar. and

the same with clinton and jimmy carter. it is a tough year for the incumbents. just to pick up on what did it was saying, one positive sign for democrats this election is not to let. [laughter] because i don't think the president is responsible for these problems but he ownes them. it goes to work democrats and republicans are as far as what their leadership is. democrats have an advantage that they do have the presidency. it is what is interesting looking at democrats is the reaction to the afghanistan speech. half of the party in congress did not support that speech, but they are going to move forward and they will be with the president. if you look at the midterm elections, there is more of a struggle. it is the scariest thing in the world to me that these people will use common sense and take a candidate and emphasize his strengths. and you also have new york 23 where republicans won the election and overplayed their hand because there is part of the party that believes being practical does not make sense, you have to be on the far right. that struggle will

hillary rodham clinton.hank you it is wonderful being back here at georgetown in this wonderful cast and hall, and to give you something to do during exam week. [laughter] it is one of those cause i- legitimate reasons for taking a break, which i am very happy to have provided. i want to thank chaz for his introductory remarks. those of you in the foreign service her reflections of the extraordinary opportunities it is to be here. it is an honor to be delivering this speech at georgetown because there is no better place than this university to talk about human rights. the administration and faculty embody the long tradition of supporting free expression and free inquiry in the cause of human rights around the world. i know that the president himself has taught a course on human rights, as well as on the ethics of international development with one of my longtime colleagues, carol lancaster, the acting dean of the school of foreign service. i want to commend the faculty here who are helping to shape our think

i think whether president obama is better than jimmy carter or clinton is inconsequence. what we are dealing with now is the fact there are a lot of african-americaning to that are looking to for president obama to be the political form of ju does that makes the streets flow with milk and honey. we need to push for the congress and the senate to be sensitive to the needs of the african-americans. there is a lot of work that the community is not doing. us not looking to be able to create fundamental partnerships. there are a lot of the solutions out there that are available that we are not aproemping because we are looking for president obama to wave a magic wand and fix everything. >> larry: let's take a call. linkburg, virginia,hello. >> caller: now they the african-americans have elected the first black president, will that lose appeal in the 2012 election? >> that is what i do not want to see, a decrease. african-american does not elect their first black president. america elected the first black fought be the president of everyone. and we fought for the opportunity to

so i think that it's important to get nato and i think involved in this, with hillary clinton is doing there today will help make that happen. >> host: another point is from the opposite of "the new york times" by max hastings, a former editor of the daily telegraph in london who says in his piece, most decision makers on both sides of the atlantic now privately we are in the business of managing failure and that is how it looks. that can be turned over to the afghanis. there are secure areas and afghin afghanistan we can build. i think what will happen is the training of the afghan forces will be down at the province level, the state level, not at the national level. i think the governors will have a much more robust play in how those forces are trained and will be under their control. so i think that it is not a recipe for failure. i think it is a carry for how we go forward for success. host: the other story and we were reading, on the front pages of " the new york >> host: we were reading front page of the ""new york times"" it's expanding inside pakistan. this happened two weeks a

it looked like hillary clinton would be the democratic nominee.y about bringing people together with our mission in a bipartisan, not for profit way. we ask everybody to put their industry silos in their partisan politics in their pockets for three days to really focus on our kids and grandkids. these issues are not sound bite issues. they're not into to understand in a three-second sound bite. host: you have had president's speech before the detroit economic club ever since richard nixon. guest: we have had the privilege of hosting every president since richard nixon. we look forward to president obama being at the detroit economic club. caller: i like your club. if we continue to be strictly democrats, republicans, independents, we are not going to get the infrastructure jobs. it will go to people in other countries. i am a health professional and my husband is a health professional. we have health insurance, however, our son is very sick. he has a severe allergy to milk. the doctor prescribed a specific, expensive formula. the insurance compani

>> when bill clinton was president, my wife is a liberal democrat. i would always tell her, nixon was my problem, clinton is yours. nixon destroyed himself. he destroyed himself. his hatred destroyed himself. and took a lot of conservative energy down with him to say nothing of southeast asia and millions of people. never forget that. millions of people. the first editorial i firstfo wrote for "national review", th ere was a jesuit that said the khmer rouge killed thousands. that was a lowball. it was also nixon bringing himself down. it was the final piece of that. >> reagan. >> reagan, the two things he did, you cannot do many things. you can do two things as president. the two things he did was he stopped the economic slump and he did say, i forget now who he said this to. here is my strategy for the cold war. we win, they lose. and he set in place for the conditions in which that happen. >> jack kemp. >> it was so thrilling to be in his presence. he was so ebullient and energetic. i think he kind of went off some of the rails with some of his ide

she wants to talk to secretary of state hillary clinton. can clinton do anything to help knox? and punishment tonight. >>> also senator max baucus, powerful chairman of the finance committee under fire tonight for recommending his girlfriend for a prominent political post. maybe unseemly, but is it unethical? we'll have politics on that, those stories, and more. tonight on "360." >> larry: edda mellas and curt knox are joining us from italy. among his clients, nicole brown simpson and the parents of natalee holloway. mark geragos, what's your read on this? >> i think amanda's parents have got a real beef here. i think every parent's worst nightmare to send your child overseas and have them get ensnared in something like this. and by all accounts the evidence was anything but overwhelming and certainly not convincing. this -- i don't know who said it whether it was them or one of the other relatives. somebody had a great statement that i heard which was they weren't trying amanda, they were trying some fictional character. and it sure sounds like that's exactly what happened. >>

. >> suarez: when seetary of state clinton arrived in penhagen today saying the u. wanted to reach a imate deal before the week was out, buthe insisted imust include verification of emsions cuts and otr goals. >> therere many ways to achieve transparency thawould be credible d acceptable, but there has to ba willingness to move toward tranarency in whatever reform weinally deem is appropriate so if there n't even a commitment to transparcy, that's kind of aeal breaker for us. >> suarez:hat's a demand the chinese have resisted an reportedly rejected again day. but thisfternoon chinese deputy foreign mister he yafei fired back. he said chinis not afraid of monitoring anderification, but is standing on pnciple for itself and other develing countries. >> to increaseooperation go for cooperation. >> suaz: clinton also upped the ante by announcing t u.s. was willing to participaten a global fund to pay forhe transition to warmer planet, and promised an undefine american contributio if a deal could be reach. the united states is prepar to work with other countri toward a g

at bill gates, very in lewicke but now sort of tops the skill and emotional intelligence or bill clinton who goes a little bit over the scale and emotional bonding we are all very different and when we talk about our education system we should remember people are different and we don't necessarily need to label everything and categorize it to see different people are going to learn in different ways and there will be some disabilities but also some abilities that come from each of those things, so whether or not he had a.d.d. or as burgers or -- he wasn't, you know, it wasn't notably autistic. he had a great relationships with family members and, you know, but to whether or not they are that way, that is part of what makes us all different and maybe someday the will of chemicals in the hills and as dr. walker percy would save the gentleman with a magnetometer to take away all of your quirks and disability and being borderline asperger's or whatever. i'm not sure we would want those devices because then we wouldn't have great leaders and great heroes. thank you. [applause] >> okey another

one -- there's an example of tony blair moving from clinton blair to bush blair. and i think that -- that is how people see it. but the other plateau which, if you like, if we want to globalize this argument at the hometown is -- moment is that we are at the end of an era where people made political assumptions that the market was good and the market could sort out -- a lot of the problems which the world faced. now i think following the banking collapse and the rest of it, there is a realization that what we call the state, let's not get confused where you probably would -- talk about the government has got a bigger role but precisely the time when the government can't actually find the money to did something -- do something to occupy that role and has to go pack to relying on individual responsibility. that's the question in all of these elections that we have been talking about that balance between the individual and between, private enterprise and between the role of -- of the central state. is -- it is what going to be argued now. >> i suspect that will be a

true man's plan was defeated. 16 years ago the country was abuzz about the clinton's health plan. that suffered a defeat in 1994 forcing the health care debate out of the spotlight. i saw it firsthand n 1997 and '98 when i worked as a nonpartisan fellow in hillary clinton's office. today more than 14 million americans don't vice president health ints. and that will be the question while we are working, the senate vote on health care, a very important night, i want to bring in david gergen. good night, i guess, early morning to you. thanks for joining us. you and i have had a lot of opportunity talk about this in the past. you just watched that piece. let me ask you broadly as we get into this, when it comes to this sort of thing, is something better than nothing? this obviously is a very different bill than what a lot of people were expecting a year or 14 months ago. >> a remarkable night in washington. you find people in washington are deeply divided on that very question and so is the country. passing some sort of health care reform and not allowing the status quo to remain, opi

secretaire clinton, the state department has undertaken a major review of u.s.istance programs, including the agricultural assistance, particularly with regard to malnutrition as well as alternate livelihood's to growing the poppies. the u.s. has tended to favor large development contracts using third country nationals instead of investing in the afghans themselves. the grass-roots efforts that employ afghans, and therefore providing them with the skills and assisting in getting their crops to market. if you would sh![t with the committee about your reviewd;Ñ f the agricultural assistance and how we are going to work to make it more effective, as you and defense work together, please. >> first i would say that this situation in afghanistan has been personally of interest to me, having worked with charlie wilson back in the 1980's, which was always an interesting experience. i think first of all, the specific answer to your question is, ambassador eikenberry and general mcchrystal are as we speak working on their joint civil military campaign plan, which i think

in chicago, laura schwartz, former white house director of events during the clinton administration. good to see her again and in new york, joe author of "standing next to history." what did you learn today, congressman? >> we learned that procedures weren't followed. the director admitted that there were some things that happened that should not have happened. we also learned that they have been fixed. we learned now that there's an expanded system of security. there's a layered security in place. more equipment will be available and better training for those individuals who will be working white house security. >> larry: you asked the couple to appear today. they did not. are you going to subpoena them? >> we will make that decision next wednesday in our next committee meeting. we set the motions in place for that to occur. and i assume our committee will do it, larry. >> larry: will you vote to do it? >> by all means, i will. >> larry: the representative peter king accused the white house of stonewalling by blocking the appearance of social secretary desiree rogers. do you agree w

minister of finance recently told secretary clinton at dinner, very proudly, that he had overseen an effort in kabul to reduce the steps required to get a license for a car from 54 steps in one month to three steps in a couple of hours. that's not a headline story in "the new york times" but that probably has more to give us bigger results in a fight against corruption than one middle level criminal put behind bars. so just steady work. >> general petraeus, just help me through this, we talked in the past and secretary gates was here talking about how the taliban reconstituted themselves in ungoverned areas. the strategy we're talking about, we're going to be mainly the populous areas leave large swaths of afghanistan without any real involvement. we have a -- >> but the difference is, of course, in afghanistan we can go into those areas. >> i understand. >> in fact, the taliban really reconstituted as much in remote areas of pakistan as they did actually in afghanistan. there is a great article, by the way, in "newsweek" a month ago, cover story talked about how the taliban came bac

i think whether president obama is better than jimmy carter or clinton is inconsequential.hat we are dealing with now is as we move out of 2009 and into 2010, is the fact that there are a lot of african-americans that are looking for president obama to be the political form of jesus that makes the streets flow with milk and honey. while i think that mark has a point where we need to begin pushing for not just the president but the congress and the senate to be sensitive to the needs of the african-americans, there's a lot of work that the african-american community is not doing. leadership that's disconnected. us not looking to be able to create fundamental partnerships between the public and private sector. there are a lot of the solutions out there that are available that we are not approaching because we are looking for president obama to wave a magic wand and fix everything. >> larry: let's take a call. lynchburg, virginia, hello. >> caller: i was just wondering now that african-americans have elected their first black president, will that lose appeal in the 2012 electi

former president bill clinton understands this epic blunder. last september the former president said in an interview, i think the responsibility that the democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by republicans in the congress or by me, when i was president, to put some standards and tighten up a little on fannie mae and freddie mac. this is one of the main reasons why our economy is where it is today and this is why we must reform the g.s.e.'s which this bill does not do. instead this bill creates a perpetual bailout fund and ensures the too bill to fail doctrine is with us indefinitely. for the first time in its history, washington will officially become the center of our financial system. regulators will be able to rescue certain companies -- i'd ask for an additional minute. . the chair: the gentleman is recognized for an additional minute. mr. royce: they will be able to pay off some creditors and counterparties and not others and keep failing companies operating in the market for years and they will be able to dismantle a hea

clinton's fame, home to world's largest porch swing.he other nebraskan republican was on the floor talking about the deals in the bill and here is what he had to say. >> less than 24 hours at the announcement of that special carve out for nebraska, virtually no warning, no preparation to speak -- 2000 people gathered in omaha, neb., nebraska and ends in one voice crying foul. nebraska ns are frustrated and angry that our beloved state got thrust into the same pot with all of the other special deals that it cut here. in fact, mr. president, they are outraged that a back room deal for our state might have been what it puts this bill across the finish line. there should be no special deals, no car out, for anyone in this health care bill, not for states, not for insurance companies, and not for individual senators. host: republican senator mike johanns on the floor talking about those so-called sweeteners in the senate health care bill. we are getting your reaction. michigan, barbara on the independent mind. caller: i love what everybody h

secretary clinton will be traveling to brussels to meet with nato allies on friday.oday at the state department. here's that event as we continue our coverage of the president's speech and the effects and impact here in washington and to our allies around the world. >> something about a certain country beginning with an a. okay, welcome. i think as you all know the secretary is going to accompany the president up to west point tonight for the speech by the president to talk about his strategy toward afghanistan. the secretary will have about seven hours of hearings tomorrow, beginning with senate armed service committees getting at 9:00 and then that will be followed in the afternoon by the house of foreign affairs committee. she'll be joined by secretary gates and admiral mullen as both of those briefings. on thursday, the same three will participate in the hearing at the senate foreign relations committee that starts at nine akaka. there will also be a hearing in the afternoon with the house armed service community with deputy secretary abu will participate in that

he was the first president until president clinton to have a balanced budget.ur report you said direct costs for afghanistan and iraq was $8 trillion. guest: no, it was $1 trillion. host: $1 trillion. most of that borrowed from overseas. how much of it was borrowed? is most of it borrowed from china? guest: the mask -- the vast majority is borrowed from china and japan, but it was not just the wars that caused the deficit. you also had the new medicare prescription drug program that was not paid for. you also have lower taxes. that is another thing -- not only did we not raise taxes to pay for the war, we actually cut taxes twice. it was a combination of all of those things. i do know that china holds about $800 billion in american i know you -- in american iou's. caller: why do we in the united states spend so much energy converting our resources into efforts that are ultimately lost. why do we spend so much money building weapons and vehicles to send over there to get blown up? there is no value added here. there is no reason or logic to the chaos, the fighti

secretary clinton when they was in kabul in november she heard from a u.s.rmy colonel, woo he is thousands of outstanding service, none had 40 years of agriculture law or govern of expertise. but the usda, usaid and state department experts serving alongside his battalion. he told her he was happy to supply whatever support these valuable civilians need and he said we need more of them. the president's strategy with congressional support will make that possible. now, i'd like to take a few moments to address how the recently completed strategic review impacts u.s./pakistan relations. as the president made clear in his speech last week our partnership is linked to our efforts in afghanistan. we're committed to a partnership with pakistan that is is built on a foundation mutual interest, mutual respect and mutual trust. we're not only strengthening pakistan the capacity to target the groups that threaten our countries but providing substantial resources to support democracy and development in pakistan. the president said going forward the pakistani people must

>> there's a great book i would urge you to read by clinton christensen and is called the innovator's dilemma. he is a business school professor and he makes the point come in the talks about many companies in this book like sears and roebuck, that essentially had a great business and they try to protect that business, and they saw new technologies coming along, and the walmart's and catalogs etc. or ibm, which says we are in the hardware business and let's give our software, lit microsoft to it. and microsoft, they are protecting their packaged software business, and suddenly the internet has come along and do we invest in that, and we take money from our existing business to do that? that is the innovators dilemma. to you sacrifice your existing business to make a bet on what you think might be the future but might not be? it is a wonderful book with many vivid examples of that in the vader postal lemon and you are going to face that here. one of the reasons that i was told that you did make a bid to buy twitter last spring was because you were worried about the possibility of a ver

they are very, very different, clinton and bush, but i think it would be wrong to see the bush administration simply as an unusual and a typical aberration. it is not like that. >> that brings this question to a close. just to say we will of course be pursuing that to assume there is a documentary said rival, we will have still being added. that concludes the first of our sessions on the dimension, and tomorrow, if we pursue the same thank, it will be on the united states and the interrelated united nations aspects. with that, i think everybody who has -- thank everybody who has spent time here this morning and our witnesses. thank you. c-span3 c-span2 [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> embedded in afghanistan, a freelance journalist observing how the u.s. uses a unmanned vehicles for drones. >> there are two units. one handles the north, one handles the south. the south is the bigger and this year of the two. i would guess 100 predator drone. they look like giant model airplanes, about the size of a small compac

>> when bill clinton was president, my wife is a liberal democrat.i would always tell her, nixon was my problem, clinton is yours. nixon destroyed himself. he destroyed himself. his hatred destroyed himself. and took a lot of conservative energy down with him to say nothing of southeast asia and millions of people. never forget that. millions of people. the first editorial i firstfo wrote for "national review", th ere was a jesuit that said the khmer rouge killed thousands. that was a lowball. it was also nixon bringing himself down. it was the final piece of that. >> reagan. >> reagan, the two things he did, you cannot do many things. you can do two things as president. the two things he did was he stopped the economic slump and he did say, i forget now who he said this to. here is my strategy for the cold war. we win, they lose. and he set in place for the conditions in which that happen. >> jack kemp. >> it was so thrilling to be in his presence. he was so ebullient and energetic. i think he kind of went off some of the rails with some of his idea

the guests on nbc's meet the press, secretary clinton and robert gates and john mccain.eek with host and texas senator john coryn, on face the nation from cbs, you will hear host bob shefer along with secretary gates and clinton. and senator james jones and whip kyle and chair diane feinstein, you can listen to all stations here at c-span radio, and nationwide xm 132, and you with listen to us on the web and follow us on facebook and twitter. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us is andrew ross sorkin from "the new york times", thank you for being with us. guest: good morning steve. host: let me begin with your observations in dubai two years ago, you said that the bankers were to be blessed and looking for more people to bless them. that was two years ago and there were plenty of signs back then that dubai was building a financial mirage in the desert, how so? guest: there were two issues, one was just being in dubai and walking around, it was hard to imagine this was a sustainable proposition. their buildings are building into the sky, everything fancier

and one of the reasons why bill clinton was elected, and the same with jimmy carter. so it's a bipartisan feeling that we do this. i think, you know, it is a tough year for the incumbents. i think, just to pick up on, i think, what david and adam were saying, one positive sign for the democrats -- one positive sign is the election is not today. that's number one. [laughter] it's a while from now. because i don't think the president is responsible for these problems, but he owns them because he's the president. and there's no getting around that. but the second thing that goes to democrats and republicans and where they are as far as figuring out what they want to do, what their leadership is. democrats have an advantage, that they do have the presidency as far as message orientation. you know, there's a lot of negatives there. but i think what's really interesting, looking at democrats, is the reaction to the afghanistan speech. fully 50% of the party in congress did not support that speech. but you know what? they're swallowing it and they're going to move forward. t

wasn't as though there were a bunch of clinton holdovers at this point. there was a decision made by the bush administration, its e.p.a. rejected without any debate by dick cheney and the white house. all of this, unfortunately, is being covered by the media as though there's an even-handed discussion going on. 99%, 98% of all scientists on one side, 1% on the other, let's make it even steven. which is kind of how the tobacco debate was handled for a generation. there's two sides to the story. either tobacco and its hainlation into the lungs of human beings causes cancer, or it doesn't. there's a couple of scientists over here that the american tobacco institute has and every other scientist in the world, every doctor, every physician system of this is a huge moment for us as a country. we have two pathways we can go down. we can continue to beg for oil from other countries. we can continue to spew these greenhouse gases up into our atmosphere. or we can say, to america, it is time for an oil change. and it's time to move to an agenda of wind, of solar, o

we went from a record surplus under the clinton administration to a record deficit. had we stayed the course the deficit reduction plan of president clinton would would have been completed -- would have been completed, it would have completed its mission this year. we haven't seen deficit wipeout except for one presidency, that of andrew jackson. so this could have been an historic year, if we had stayed the course. what we found was that people will talk about the deficit which has driven -- the deficit has driven this recession which went longer and deeper than any forecasted and now it's the daunting task of all of us who serve here in washington to stop the bleeding and great indicators out there suggest, many key indicators suggest that that has happened and as you alluded to with 1.6 million additional jobs coming into the picture, direct and indirect measurement, we have also seen correspondenting to that a .3 to a .9% reduction in unemployment. that at least is welcome news that we could stop the bleeding but now the overwhelming task, the challenge, is to gr