gilligan: secretary condoleezza rice, thank you for today's discussion. it was really fun. sec. rice: thank you. >> president trump leads the white house coronavirus task force briefing this afternoon scheduled for 5:00 eastern. you can watch it live here on c-span. senate has pro forma sessions scheduled for the next two weeks. the next coming on monday. it is possible we will see senate action on the new coronavirus relief package with negotiations between the white house and congressional leaders continuing. we will have live coverage of the next senate session monday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. >> medical professionals and researchers discuss the coronavirus pandemic at an event hosted by the atlantic. former obamafrom administration ebola response coordinator ron claim, american medical association resident dr. patrice harris, and dr. brendan for the emergency chair mount sinai health system in new york city. they addressed federal and state response efforts, testing, vaccine clinical trials, and other public health

next, we hear from the former secretary of state condoleezza rice on how the chinese government handled the spread of the coronavirus. she disputes claims that china intentionally released covid-19. this discussion was sponsored by the hoover institution. >> welcome, everyone to our virtual policy briefing series. i am tom gilligan. for more than a century the hoover institution has been collecting knowledge and generating ideas. has profoundly impacted public policy initiatives around the world. these policy briefings provide an opportunity for you to hear from our nation's top scholars on the pressing issues facing the world during this time. as we all unite to confront the challenges of the pandemic, conversations like this have never been more important. we will be taking audience questions, so i encourage you to submit yours using the button at the bottom of your screen. today's briefing is from condoleezza rice, the senior fellow on public policy at the hoover institution. staterved as secretary of , the second woman and first african-american woman to hold this post. also preside

this is the hoover institution's virtual policy briefing with condoleezza rice. you were the national security adviser during the outbreak. but the important similarities s or differences between then and now? >> guest: it was hard to get information out of china during the outbreak. we knew that things have happened. it was hard to get an answer about what had happened, and that is unfortunately a recurring pattern this time around. it's kind of in the nature, it is in the nature of the chinese system and authoritarian system that controls information is power. control of the narrative is power. so we shouldn't be surprised. they are trying to sound the alarm. they would have been known that there was a problem. it probably means it has to do all the way to beijing before you could say anything. it was a real problem with its own population which was angered by the lack of information and certainly the international community. what is the proper measured response. there is both a public part of this and private part of it. the public part i think over the next m

condoleezza rice. this is a recommendation from the senate level. it is again shelved at the time. after, during those two months where the war in of ghana stan is being fought, a couple of noteworthy things happen. when is the and through acts scare. what turns out to be something entirely unrelated to allocate as far as we know, people in washington and on capitol hill and so on are opening their mail and finding this powder which may or may not be and threats. that further really scares the top levels in the administration. i want to back up for a second there and say that the sentence september 11th attacks had caught the administration -- this is nine months into the administration. they have not paid enough attention to the warnings they got about al-qaeda. this administration thought of themselves as i am talking about the foreign policy team. people like cheney and rumsfeld. they are the professionals. they served in office before. they know how to run things. the clinton administration is a bunch of amateurs. that is their mindset. they are focused also on old issues invol

figur of condoleezza rice who was friend of his to be nationa security advisor. > but these guys, cheney powell, and rumsfeld, wh cheney has brought in a defense secretary, who ar supposed to know how all thi works. > powell and, excuse me cheney and rumsfeld are ver much in support of and chene is pushing the idea of th war with iraq. > you get to the end of th first term, the war is no going well.

cheney, rumsfeld, colin powell, condoleezza rice, and wolfowitz is on a backbench.his is a recommendation from the second level. it is, again, shelved at the time. during those two months, while the war in afghanistan is being fought, a couple noteworthy things happened. one is the anthrax scare. in what turns out to be something entirely unrelated to al qaeda as far as we know, people in washington and on capitol hill are opening their mail and finding these powders which may or may not be anthrax. that further really scares the top levels of the administration. i want to back up for a second there and say that the september 11 attacks had caught the administration, this is their nine months into administration, they haven't paid enough attention to the warnings they got about al qaeda. this administration thought of themselves, i am talking about the foreign-policy team, people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld, they are the professionals. they served in office before. they know how to run things. the clinton administration is a bunch of amateurs. that is their

he has kind of a bridging figure -- the bridging figure of condoleezza rice who was a friend of his toe national security advisor. but these guys, cheney, powell, and rumsfeld, who cheney has brought in as defense secretary, who are supposed to know how all this works. and he relies on them. he relies on them before september 11. then, he has this problem as he -- in the run up to the war in iraq that actually his advisors don't agree with each other. powell and, excuse me, cheney and rumsfeld are very much in support of and cheney is pushing the idea of the war with iraq. powell very much the contrary, disagrees with, particularly, with cheney. but in that case he's still relying on cheney and powell. and all the way through that first term, he tends to support cheney, what cheney wants. you get to the end of the first term, the war is not going well. the war turns out to be a bigger and bigger problem. and his advisors are bickering with each other. and he decides at the beginning of his second term that he is going to change the foreign policy team and the first thing he is going to

this is condoleezza rice peein n a ho -- peeping in on me.er own peep this isnd gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, looking through a peep hole. and dick, i hope you are not doing what it looks like you're doing. [laughter] year, as. bush: next new president will be standing up here. i have to say i'm kind of surprised we don't have more presidential candidates here tonight, like any. heator mccain is not here, probably wanted to distance himself from me a little bit. he's not alone. jenna's moving out too. the two democratic candidates are not here either. senator clinton could not get into the building because of sniper fire, senator obama is at church. [applause] fmr. pres. bush: but i'm sure whoever the next president is will show up at these dinners. especially like the dinners in 2005 and 2006 when we had a couple of surprises up our sleeves. [video clip] fmr. pres. bush: i asked the old guy how to get to the nearest town. >> not that old joke, not again. [applause] i haveand gentlemen, been attending these dinners for y

next, we hear from the former secretary of state condoleezza rice on how the chinese government handled the spread of the coronavirus. she disputes claims that china intentionally released covid-19. this discussion was sponsored by the hoover institution. >> welcome, everyone to our virtual policy briefing series. i am tom gilligan. for more than a century the hoover institution has been collecting knowledge and generating ideas.

condoleezza rice, former secretary of state in the george w. bush administration talks about the national security threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic. michael arsonoh details his economic struggles with student loan debt. journalist katherine stewart argues religious nationalists are waiting political war on american democracy and institutions which we take a look at recent other programs about technology and on our author interview program afterwords, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, that's just a few of the programs you will see this weekend. check your program guide for more information or visit booktv.org. >> glenn hutchins here, hope it will be a fascinating and insightful session with ben bernanke. when the financial crisis hit in 2008 and been burning he was head chair, he had to create one from scratch. a few of us expected successes would need to refer to it so soon but for all of us, left a copy for jake powell to consult. i recommend for people on this call if they are interested in very book called firefighting which

bush administration secretary of state condoleezza rice talks about the national security threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic. this evening hour "after words" interview with former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe discussing his career and his firing. we look at author programs about technology. final information of the program guide. >> good afternoon and welcome to the event at new york university school of law. i am a fellow at the british center for justice which is a nonpartisan law and policy institute affiliated with the law school and i'm delighted to be a moderator this afternoon. we are delighted that martin garbus is here to discuss his legendary legal career and one case featured in his recent book north of havana, secret diplomacy and the trial of the cuban five. martin garbus is a legal lien, he really is, but doesn't look like one. an expert in civil and criminal trials, litigation who was nearly court-martialed out of the army. he is the opportunity, the only court-martial out of the army, and the desk job the army gave him as an opportunity as a springboard to at

announcing a group of industry leaders across multiple sectors, you see many people here like condoleezza rice, mark cuban, jeff bezos, steve forbes and mark zuckerberg to name a few. there is a new fight brewing after the president delivered a blow to the world health organization cutting off funding and launching an investigation into their handling of the outbreak. >> the reality is the who failed to adequately obtain that and share information in a timely and transparent fashion. >> reporter: this is strong criticism, we may agree the who has shortcomings, your attack can be easily seen as a deliberate but transparent effort to deflect responsibility for your own failures on to others. we are seeing the secretary general blasting the president saying now is not the time to cut funding calling the who critical to the global fight. it is the -- the us is the largest contributor. rob: the economy won't open without widespread testing. doctor anthony fauci, the top infectious disease doctor sounding the alarm. jillian: the white house expects new immunity tests in the coming days. rob: governm

creation of an advisory group of industry leaders across multiple sectors including people like condoleezza ricemark cuban, jeff bezos, steve force and mark zuckerberg to name a few. a new face brewing after the president of the blow to the world health organization, funding and launching investigation for their mishandling of the pandemic. >> the reality is the who failed to adequately obtain, vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion. >> reporter: that drew criticism from house democrats on the oversight committee issued a statement saying we may agree the who has shortcomings that must be corrected, this could be seen as a deliberate but transparent effort to deflect responsibility for your failures. the secretary-general, the un oversees the who, blasting the president saying this is not the time for this and it is time to fully support the who, the us is the largest contributor. rob: the president not a fan of the un either. shannon: the economy won't open without widespread testing. doctor anthony fauci, top infectious disease doctor selling the alarm. rob: new immunity

today's briefing is from condoleezza rice, the senior fellow on public policy at the hoover institution, she served as a 66 secretary of state of the united states the first african-american woman to hold the post, she was also president george w. bush's national security advisor, we look forward to her next director of the hoover institution this fall, welcome, thank you for joining us. >> good morning. >> you're an expert in the international system, how do you think the international system is responding to the pandemic. >> good morning and welcome to everyone to our webinar, the real story is the international system is not responding it's individuals countries that are responding. we see the triumph of poverty we see it now, maybe not surprising when people are frightened or something or unusual and/or have any experience, people tend to go back to what they know best in particular democracies, these are the leaders that they can hold accountable and the response has been country by country, we see it and travel bands between countries and we see in the fact that individual countri

bush administration secretary of state condoleezza rice talks about the national security threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

bush administration secretary of state condoleezza rice talks about the national security threat posed by the corona virus pandemic. .. good afternoon welcome to white house history live, my name is stuart, i'm the president of the white house historical association. today we are going to have an exciting conversation with the head of our rican sign center for white house history and one of our historians on a brand-new book the cabinet, george washington and the creation of an american institution, ordinarily we would do this at the house at historic decatur house which is our base of operation

hoover institute, condoleezza rice, another great person. art laffer, steve moore, steve forbes, larry lindsey, catherine reynolds, scott gottlieb, just spoke with him. jim mint, jim has been a terrific friend. bill haggerty and ray washburn. religious leaders will be coming on friday and we will be speaking to -- we will have a separate list but we will have tremendous enthusiasm to meet by our great religious leaders. we have incredible people and they want to be a part. we will be talking about churches and we will be talking about opening and we will be talking about things that are very important to a lot of people including me. we will find out how we are doing in that regard. so those are the names that we have on our list, or the names that are i think the best, the smartest and the brightest. they will give us some ideas. but we are all set as i said, the governors are going to be opening up their states. they will declare when. they are going to know when, if not almost immediately and we will give a date but the date will be in th

bush administration, condoleezza rice, talks about the national security threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic. and kevin meredith discusses his book, the fierce 44, black americans who shook up the world. find more information on your program guide or online at booktv.org. >> as the coronavirus continues to impact the country, here's a look at what the publishing industry is doing to address the ongoing pandemic. former first lady michelle obama announced a weekly children's story time that will stream every monday at 12:30 eastern until may 20th and available to watch online at pbs kids youtube change of pentagon win random house's facebook page. the bookes expo candle sed the scheduled to take place in new york city. the conference was set for this spring then moved pack to july before it was canceled. the american booksellers association's independent back store day has been rescheduled for august 29th and the aba announced a virtual book store party to be held from april 19th to the 25th and will include online events and promowing width participating storesful also in the news,

jeff bezos and condoleezza rice and conservatives and some union leaders and so forth. i think you're right, he wants to be able to say he's the leader of the country and the country is coming behind him. the danger for him, of course, is that he does something these people on these committees don't agree with. any of them can then quit in protest and then make a big fuss over it, which would then embarrass the president. there's always a danger in these kinds of committees. remember the committee of corporate executives he had advising him back in 2017 when he took office basically fell apart because of his comment hes about the charlottesville racial episode. so when you invite people like this to be part of your advisory group, again, you give them power that then they might use it in a way that might not work for you. >> i wanted to bring zeke in, dr. zeke emanuel. first of all, your reaction to taking back the money and the house democrats appropriations committee, as you pointed out, he doesn't have the right to impound this money without going to congress. we're

condoleezza rice, another great person. steve moore. steve forbes. larry lindsey. catherine reynolds. scott gottlieb. jim demint. jim has been a terrific friend. phil haggerty, ray washington. and religious leaders. on friday we will be speaking to, and we'll have a separate list, but we have tremendous enthusiasm to meet by our great religious leaders. we have incredible people, and they want to be a part. we will be talking about churches, and we will be talking about opening, and they'll be talking about things that are very important to a lot of people, including me. we will find out how we are doing in that regard. so those are the names we have on our list, the names that are, i think, the best and smartest, the brightest, and they will give us some ideas. but weibel, as i said -- we will, as i said, the governors will be opening up their states. some can open very, very shortly, if not almost immediately. we will give a date, but the date will be in the very near future. we will get it open. individual states, the governors will be held accountable. if they

we talked to condoleezza rice that morning. about 1:00 that afternoon, we were called to the oval office and the president. we had seen him quite a bit since the attacks the previous tuesday, but we had not seen him since we had gotten this assignment, obviously. we were brought in and he asked how the drafting was going and i am sure speaking for the group said it is going well but we are not quite there. he looked at us and said, americans have questions, they want to know who attacked our country, why they hate us, and they want to know what is expected of us now, and if we are in a war, how we will fight and win the war. from there, we had a structure for the speech itself. if you look at the speech to congress the following thursday, the president went through those questions and because, i've always thought, because he gave us that basic construct at the beginning, we were able to finish the draft that day. we didn't have a conclusion ready, he allowed us to move that onto tuesday. >> can you talk about how president obam

industry groups" includes nearly 200 people spanning 16 industries, like former secretary of state condoleezza ricec.e.o. tim cook, n.b.a. commissioneram ilver, and, the afl-cio's richard trumka. the president also announced tuesday that the u.s. wi suspend funding the world health ornization, saying it pushed chinese misinformation. today, the w.h.o.'s top official rejected that claim and called for cooperation. >> this is a time for all of us to be united in our common struggle against a common threat. y g: the dispute comes amid fresh reportthat the chinese government withheld ination in januaryas coronavirus today, a government spokesman pushed back: >> ( translated ): china has always timely notified the w.h.o. and relevant countries of the epidemic information with an open, transparent andti responsible de. >> yang: meanwhile, cases of covid-19 continue to increase across the united states, now representing a third of the more than two million cases worldwide. outsidthe michigan state capital in lansing today, a conservative group rallied against democratic governor gretchen whitmer moves to

department and on american politics regularly traveling with secretaries of state as well as condoleezza rice, hillary clinton and john kerry. she's been published in the atlantic, the "washington post," foreign-policy an and as a non- resident scholar at the carnegie endowment for international peace in. her first book the secretary was a "new york times" bestseller. she regularly continues to speak on american television and radio and was born and raised in lebanon but now lives between beirut and washington, d.c.. if you have questions, please write them on the cards, the ambassadors that have the blue blazers on dave walked up and down the aisle that they will continue to do that and then once you write the questions, pass them to the idle and they will pick those up and ge give m to me and i will then go through them after she speaks. the two of us will sit up here and i will ask some questions and then take your questions from the cards. please join me in welcoming kim ghattas to the stage. [applause] good evening, everybody. it is a delight to be here this evening. thank you for the ve

condoleezza rice, former secretary of state in the george w. bush administration talks about the national security threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic. michael arsonoh details his economic struggles with student loan debt. journalist katherine stewart argues religious nationalists are waiting political war on american democracy and institutions which we take a look at recent other programs about technology and on our author interview program afterwords, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, that's just a few of the programs you will see this weekend. check your program guide for more information or visit booktv.org. >> glenn hutchins here, hope it will be a fascinating and insightful session with ben bernanke. when the financial crisis hit

bush administration secretary of state condoleezza rice talks about the national security threat that'savirus pandemic. also this evening, our "after words" interview of former fbi deputy director andy mccabe discusses his career and firing. we take a look at author programs about technology. find more information in your program guide. >> as the coronavirus continues to impact the country, here's a look at what the publishing industry is doing to address the ongoing pandemic. former first lady michelle obama has announced a weekly children's story time that will stream every monday at 12 pm eastern until may 20 and available to watch online at pbs kids youtube channel or penguin random house facebook page. north america's largest book industry conference book expo has canceled this year's show. scheduled to take place in new york city. the conference was originally set for the spring and then moved back to july before permanently canceled. the american booksellers association independent bookstore day has been rescheduled for august 29. in the aba has announced a virtual bookstore part

later for robert gates, as well as the senior director at the national security counsel under condoleezza rice. prior to that, extensive experience serving multiple congressman. and out of the fact this is -- this isn't a one-badge army here. outside the federal sector, he's been vice president of strategic programs for a multibillion-dollar public company focusing on large-scale engineering and program management. academically, secretary wilkie holds degrees from wake forest, loyola out of new orleans, a master of law from georgetown, a masters in strategic studies from the army war college. in addition, he's graduated from several military colleges. he has published articles in multiple military journals and has been awarded the highest noncivilian award of the defense department, the defense distinguished public service medal. please allow me to introduce you all to the honorable robert leon wilkie. and if i may take a line from "casablanca," i'm glad he's on our side now. >> thank you, sir. thank you very much. >> do you mind? >> not at all. >> the pin reads, the american revolution instit

this seemed true even to those who were not onboard at least early on and those like condoleezza rice and she said she was proud how the whole process unfolded. conversely, those who might be called the losers, donald rumsfeld, for example, in terms of this context, cannot through the fault of prthe project, but they were silent, they were not interviewed or didn't agree to interview. actually repeatedly didn't aagree agree to be interviewed and same the case with george casey and manufacture the the other military leaders. now don't get me wrong in any way. what we learned from the oral histories is originally informative and fascinating. it's terrific for any student of national security decision making. it provides us with a history of the surge beyond anything that we were privy to before and thus in my opinion the book should be used in every course that anyone teaches on u.s. foreign policy or international relations. but as i said originally, ut it the first cut and we have to keep that in mind. and in many ways it whets our appetite for more of the story. more of the analysis

among them, mark cuban, steve forbes, jeff bezos, tim cook, condoleezza rice, jamie dimon, mark zuckerbergnd again, as i said, bernie marcus, joining us now, not on the phone, on skype. i can see you. very good to see you. >> good to see you. i can't see you but i'm hearing you very well. neil: all right. that will have to do, my friend. i'm glad to have you on. are you going to be on this advisory board and what are some of the things you would like to advise the president on when it comes to sort of easing up on restrictions? >> well, i think that the story you just filed with the michigan governor is a perfect example of a lead-in of what i would say to the governor -- to the president of the united states, and that is look, you are a businessman. i don't think anybody in congress or anywhere understands business as well as you do. you understand it's what made you successful and you are not going to allow the government to get involved where they should not be involved and here's the perfect example of bureaucratic stupidity. i mean, being able to have a canoe and not have a motor on t

at some of the names including yourself on that new advisory council, jeff bezos, tim cook, condoleezza rice, more than 50 business leaders from so many different walks. how will all of those people come together to advise the president on this enormous decision? >> we will find out more about that today but obviously there's a lot of brainpower power. they haven't put together a small business group yet and i volunteered to do that as well. i think they were smart and how they approach this by bringing in the best of the best and hopefully we will come up with some alternative approaches to taking the steps to get the economy open. like i said before, just getting feedback from everybody and getting their insights on how -- what they are going to do with their businesses and what i'm doing with my business i think will be so useful and beneficial. let the scientists deal with the science and the vaccine end of the therapy and let the business people give feedback on what we are going to do because, like i said, it's not going to be the same. it will be different and having these insights wi

consult on how to pick things up the names mentioned apple tim cook former secretary of state condoleezza riceining me counsel to president trump kellyanne conway great to have you thanks for being here hope you are strong and safe. >> yes, i am, thank you. thank you. maria: so tell me how the president is approaching the reopening of the economy he has great advice from biggest leaders from "politico"s, his experience what is most important. >> most important to recognize that is the most suited best person to rejuice the economy is donald trump businessman in white house led to rebuilding energy infrastructure energy dominant we have seen taxes regulations completing trade doolz americtrade deals reachint to captains of industry leaders across private sector to complement what he has been doing in public sector working with health professionals emergency management coordinators to figure out what we need health medical wise scientifically to be ready feel about comfortable reopen pieces of the economy and secondly the economic track to recognize, one third of renters did not pay rental 17 mi

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. >>, former secretary of state condoleezza rice talks about the coronavirus and national security. she disputed claims that china intentionally released covid-19 as bioterrorism, criticized chinese authoritarianism, and praised american resilience. she spoke to the hoover institution. >> welcome, everyone to our virtual policy briefing series. i am tom gilligan. for more than a century the hoover institution has been collecting knowledge and generating ideas. has profoundly impacted public policy initiatives around the world. these policy briefings provide an opportunity for you to hear from our nation's top scholars on the pressing issues facing the world during this time. as we all unite to confront the challenges of the pandemic, conversations like this have never been more important. we will be taking audience questions, so i encourage you to submit yours using the button at the bottom of your screen.

yes he went against condoleezza rice, rumsfeld win, general pace, all of them were initially against the surge. them with the talented assistance, some of steve had lee and his staff, president bush orchestrated a decision that everyone eventually agreed upon them, over the next home, the search did produce violence. it did reduce secretary or killings. my question is should these generalization inspire reinterpretation for bush i don't think so. by mid 2006 team, the prevailing policy was failing them. the joyce was doubled down with the surge, reposition and or carefully withdraw. nobody around president bush them, even the opponents of the surge them could face a pull out win and acknowledge defeat, whatever that might meme. the only option them was the last part, the search him. this is explained in terms of some prospect theory, prospect theory says that people, we all people from our most inclined to be a big risk takers when they face defeat. i'm in my opinion, you don't need prospect theory to explain this decision, you only need to know the personality and character of georg