condoleezza rice, the 66th us secretary of state and current director of the hoover institution at stanford university. this is a big room. it is a big room, yes. well, it's great to have to see you all here. and it's great to be part of this. apec ceo summit. and i'm delighted to have dr. rice here to be able to have this conversation. you know, it's been a rather tumultuous couple of years. it has been. we've seen the return of great power politics. we've seen the emergence of a real multi element rivalry with china, military, political, economic. we've seen global challenges like climate change and the pandemics, the emergence of new technologies like ai and quantum computing. some would say this is the most complex international environment we've had to navigate in the last 75 years or so. what the heck happened? wasn't this supposed to be the end of history? the american century? well, certainly when i left office the first time around, from 1989 to 1991, the cold war had ended. we really thought that the era of great power competition was over . we had some agreement on a few principl

condoleezza rice, the 66th us secretary of state and current director of the hoover institution at stanfordity.

>> jesse: the heart senate building has produced some of washington's biggest fireworks from condoleezza riceestifying in front of the 9/11 commission or james comey lying through his teeth about the russia hoax, to kavanaugh's confirmation hearing right in room 216. >> we drank beer. my friends and i, boys and girls, we drank beer, i like beer, still like beer. we drank beer. >> jesse: last week broke the mold. a gay sex tape. not that there is anything wrong with that. well, actually, in this case, there is. the sex tape was so graphic, kind of made us miss the blue dress. a young man was caught naked on all fours receiving what appears to be a considerable amount of pleasure in the most sacred space in the senate. and no one, no one walked in on them. the two young passionate and enthusiastic young men recorded it and shared it online. now, primetime is a family show, so we're not going to show you the tape but it was something i had never seen before. it confused me. and i still have a lot of questions. when the story broke on friday, my first concern was, i hope this wasn't a republican.

condoleezza rice went before the security council in the united states to put forth a resolution thatdopted in june of 2008. she could read about that. they are terrorists, they are hostage taking killers. they rape. that's what they do. and look, when the former leader who is in qatar now put out the call a few fridays ago about go do what you can do protest with anything that you can personally do, i would imagine anything would include what hamas had already done. so they might be doing that to their own women. she doesn't even acknowledge that. >> exactly. but she doesn't care, right? she doesn't care. what she cares about is not saying anything that would upset the activists that her real constituentssy. the hard left activists. that's the only thing that matters to her. not a question of whether she believes or doesn't believe. she has to stick to the hard left party line and that means you cannot have any situation where you condemn the atrocities committed by hamas and trent bring in the israelis and what they've done as well. that's the ideology in action. >> harris: will cai

condoleezza rice, josh bolten, anthony fauci. around the corner. gershman and another oh, god i guess, and how he is missed in the room on the hill. we had a whole other squad of unusual nancy pelosi debuted on the floor of the united states congress fighting this disease way back when barbara lee, hero, john kerry working a bill with a bill, bill frist, john kasich in the background there are too many names to mention. both both sides of the aisle. no excuses. was president's mantra. i won't reel authorizations, real appropriation. things. we'll get the drugs and bass, guns and motorcycles if we have to. permission to make your life a misery, sir, if that's what it takes. go ahead, the president replied. but if you wouldn't mind letting me finish my own sentences in my own office and, the president of the united states think the office was yellow and oval. anyway, i should have been more humble. but this irishman is very humbled today by the most. alex expression of american values anyone can think of in times. that's right. most brilliant and of

hoover institution director condoleezza rice is one of the chairs of the program which just released its emerging technology review for 2023. it outlined a few takeaways, including their view that biotech could transform everyday life as we know it. another new program in the bay area uses artificial intelligence to help older patients with memory loss. >> you're one of the first people in the bay area who's actually using this technology now. >> the free care? yeah the online marketplace matches health care students to gain clinical hours while working and getting paid to assist seniors, engaging them with artificial intelligence use. the application uses a tablet to create images that can prompt memories. >> so it's really amazing, i think, that we were able to connect on some things maybe from our past and bring up some really fond memories which can be helpful, especially with dementia patients maybe who can reconnect to some memories and that can bring up some experiences that maybe they'd forgotten. >> the ai allows for visual discovery, memory prompts and those with disabiliti

i interviewed condoleezza rice, caroline kennedy, what does democracy mean to you? are a son or daughter of immigrants? what does the american experience mean? what was it the first time you voted? we put it out in mandarin. we want the chinese people to hear from michelle kwan. i interviewed her last year, a chinese-american, now an american investor to belize. what was a like for you as the child of immigrants? we are trying to give the chinese people who don't get any sense, they get a distorted sense from their own government about who we are. a true picture of american society come of the immigrant experience, the diversity of america come of the struggle. we don't try to underplay the imperfections in our democracy. i think we are waging a battle of ideas. i challenge the critics to show us how we are not doing that because it's very public. >> i'd like to turn to the war in israel and gaza. beijing has taken a different approach than the united states and responding to the hamas october 7 attack on israel. yet both united states and china share a common inter

from condoleezza rice testifying biggest in front of e 911 commission or james comey lying through his teetht th about the russia hoax. to brad kavanaugh's testy confirmation hoax, hearing righo room 216. >> yes, we drank beer. my friends and i, the boys and girls. yes, we drank beer. i liked beer and. >> still like beer. we drank beer. but last week broke the mold. a sex tape. hing not that there's anything wrong with that. with tha, actually, in this cas, there is. the tape was sose graphic. kind of made us miss the blue dress. a youn drg man was caught naked on all fours, receiving what appears to be a considerableals receivat amouh of pleasure in the most sacred space in the senate. w and no one no one walked in on them. othe two young, passionate and enthusiastic young men recorded istic yout and shan online. now, prime time is a famile.y show. hey, mom. so we're not going to show you the tape show,. g but it was something that i had never seen before. itd never confused me. and i still have a lot a of questions. >> but when the story broke th but when the story broke ,i hope this

important postshe in the administration, and he was being told by people like hillary clinton and condoleezza riceand george w. bush if you get this job offer a, you have to take it for the good of the country. soth there's this noble motivation, and i think that was real. but then he admitted, he said i wanted the job. i like to be in the middle of the action. if i -- i wanted to be president, if you can't be president, secretary of state is a pretty good consolation prize. he admitted there was this self-interested part and this desire for ambition. and i think the way you square them is he's imperfect, right? if from -- [inaudible] at the end of 2016 when he gave that quote to me about j.d. vance, that was 2022, i believe. that was a pretty eventful 6 years for mitt romney. [laughter] a lot had happened. he had seen the consequences and making these moral compromises in politics. itu think he was more attuned to hisor e own history but also was seeing the depth of cynicism and hypocrisy in his own caucus and what it had led to, and i the he was judgmental of it, right? -- i think he was judgmen

. >> during her testimon iy to the 911 commission, condoleezza rice said quote, the terroristso were at war with us, but wrke nt yet at war with them. >> now, a dark chapter the of american history is repeating itself, thanks in part to presidentis repea jo >> every week there are morether and more attacks againstr tr our troops abroad. >> on christmas, three american s members were injur injured, one critically after a dronone cre attack in iraq.dei >> biden did order a strike t against a terrorist facility,e but so far, the response has been extremely limited. >> thereha have been more than 100 attacks against u.s. troops carried out by iranian proxies since the beginning of the war in gaza. a conflict started by hamas's barbarica confli october 7th atk against israel and is nowcause ongoing because hamas refuses to agree to a permanent or cease fire. of course, none of the cease fire. >> now, people on the left seem bothered. in fact, the new yore theleft t published an op ed from a hamas terrorists. >> the mayor of gaza city. here now with reaction. >> the former director of nati

and he was being told by people like hillary clinton and condoleezza rice and george w bush, if you get this job offer, you have to take it for the good of the country. so, you know, there's that noble, noble motivation. and i think that was real. but then he admitted to me there was this other motivation, which was he said, i wanted the job. i like to be in the middle of the action. i wanted to be president. if you can't be president, secretary of state, it's a pretty good consolation prize. right. and so he sort of admitted there was also the self-interested part and this desire for, you know, this ambition and i think the way you square them is just that he's he is imperfect from that was happening at the end of 2016 when he gave that quote to me about j.d. vance. that was 2022, i believe, and that was a pretty eventful six years for mitt romney. a lot had happened. he had seen the consequences and costs of making these moral compromises in politics. i think he was more attuned to his own history of sometimes making these compromises, but also was seeing the depth of cynicism and hyp

i came up with condoleezza rice immediately, but other than that , i'm rice immediately, but other thanstretched. anyway madeleine albright, too. it's been 52 years since the lachrymose day when 240 pennies to the pound became simply 100 new pence and subsequently restrictive eu laws meant britain moved to the deplorable metric system. but rejoice because it's been announced that a change in drinking laws is imminent and within months britain can return to the impeccable imperial measurement that was favoured by our wartime hero, winston churchill . in hero, winston churchill. in layman's now that we've layman's terms, now that we've left eu and it's prohibiting left the eu and it's prohibiting laws, could soon be able to laws, we could soon be able to go to our local shops and purchase of wine and purchase pints of wine and champagne change that will be champagne in change that will be welcomed suspect. welcomed by many, i suspect. another win for brexiteers and surely remainers can behind surely remainers can get behind this well. well vox this change as well. well vox popuu this chan

condoleezza rice, the 66th us secretary of state and current director of the hoover institution at stanford university.

condoleezza rice. anthony fauci, around the corner. mike garrison, how he is missed in the room. we had a whole other squad of unusual allies. john kerry working on a bill with the bill. john casey in the background. no excuses was the presidents mantra. i want three authorizations, real appropriations. the drugs on motorcycles if we have to. if that's what it takes, go ahead, the president replied. but if you wouldn't mind letting me finish my own sentences in my own office. i am the president of the united states. i think the office was yellow and oval anyway. i should have been more humble. this irishman is very humbled today by the most eloquent expression of american values anyone can think of in recent times. the most brilliant outpouring of american ingenuity. it's an okay acronym for the single largest health intervention in the history of fighting a single disease. before covid. its long-term success depends on something much more mundane. partnership between the u.s. and africa, between activists and experts. more importantly, in these days we search for civility. it is

along with first lady laura bush and your trusted advisor, condoleezza rice. president george w. bush really defined what it meant to be a compassionate conservative. i miss those days. but thanks to president bush, pepfar, a u.s. initiative has helped , has saved, has improved millions of lives and has transformed the global in the global response for hiv/aids. it is because of president bush the 25 million lives have been saved through pepfar, including the babies born hiv free. pepfar reflects the west government long-standing or partisan leadership in addressing global hiv/aids. congresswoman barbara lee and i established the bipartisan to national aids caucus in the house to reauthorize pepfar. thanks to the generosity of the people of the u.s., over one dozen high hiv countries have controlled the hiv pandemic, or reached you and aids treatment targets. just amazing. thanks to president bush pepfar a show that what can be accomplished wedding we collaborate with the private sector , with philanthropic organizations, with faith-based institutions to create a culture of carin

liz cheney, condoleezza rice -- it has to be a well-known individual with a track record laid out. host: let's go to nashville, tennessee on the independent line. morning. caller: good morning. i do not runs. and i will tell you why. i have watched it all. it all boils down to one thing. kennedy is going to pull from biden, but i could help. trump is too far ahead in his party, so he will be the primary nominee. the thing is, the reason an independent will not work is because unless you get each state to get enough independents -- we have three branches and they all have to agree. if they cannot agree, it does not matter. if kennedy were to win as independent, he would lean more 20 democrat because he is a democrat -- more towards the democrats because he is a democrat. independent means, i was a republican once or i was a democrat. i have voted for all parties, but as i become older, i become more conservative. people do not like trump's attitude or demeanor, but he does have a backbone. when the wolf comes knocking at your door, do you want a man or a mouse to answer the door? th

liz cheney, condoleezza rice -- it has to be a well-known individual with a track record laid out. host: let's go to nashville, tennessee on the independent line. morning. caller: good morning. i do not runs. and i will tell you why. i have watched it all. it all boils down to one thing. kennedy is going to pull from biden, but i could help. trump is too far ahead in his party, so he will be the primary nominee. the thing is, the reason an independent will not work is because unless you get each state to get enough independents -- we have three branches and they all have to agree. if they cannot agree, it does not matter. if kennedy were to win as independent, he would lean more 20 democrat because he is a democrat -- more towards the democrats because he is a democrat. independent means, i was a republican once or i was a democrat. i have voted for all parties, but as i become older, i become more conservative. people do not like trump's attitude or demeanor, but he does have a backbone. when the wolf comes knocking at your door, do you want a man or a mouse to answer the door? th

condoleezza rice, the 66th us secretary of state and current director of the hoover institution at stanford

we had condoleezza rice, remember, she had to read out the al qaeda to attack in the united states inhere was a problem there. maybe not as clear as this one. >> yeah. >> but this kind of reporting is devastating. >> it's devastating, but it just actually begs the question to be answered now, why it took up to seven hours for people to get aid. why it took up to seven hours, six hours, five hours, four hours, it's all many hours too long. it'd be like, again, you bring up the 9/11 thing. how do you not respond to an attack and go save people that are 40 minutes from you? 10 minutes, 20 minutes. >> alexi, especially in a nation -- >> it's a choice, it seems. >> -- in a nation where job one is to defend citizens from the terrorists who have said, "we are going to destroy israel." >> and everybody has a cell phone. >> come on. >> two things. we see the lengths to which they're going to get israeli citizens who have been taken hostage back to the country, so where is that same level of national security concerns, you know, a year ago? the second thing, mark said he thought of 9/11 when re

hoover institution director condoleezza rice is among the chairs of the program that just released. it's emerging technology review for 2023. it laid out a few takeaways, including their view that biotech could transform everyday life as we know it. time now. 659 some children and a pre-k class in chicago had a christmas surprise as they were learning about former president barack obama. he walked into their classroom dressed up as santa. and one. how about that? he spent time talking with the children. then the former president read the book santa got a go about a family who takes in santa after his sleigh breaks down. only to find out he is not the best houseguest. the former president also brought gifts for every student, and he posed for photos with the class. several people hospitalized after a bus crash on the uc santa cruz campus. >> what we know about this crash and the big questions that remain. then some major cuts are coming to the bay area's biggest school district. in addition to staff cuts will run down the other changes headed to san francisco unified and what is like