george w. bush, which includes the 43rd president's response to the 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2008 financial crisis. this was included in the c-span book, "the presidents" a compilation of interviews with noted historians. mr. bush ranked 33rd in the survey of presidential leadership. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," james mann talks about his biography of president george w. bush. brian: james mann, author of the biography on george w. bush, if a friend of yours who had never met george w. bush asked you to tell you about him, what would you say? james: i would say he was a guy who was the son of a president, had trouble dealing with that fact for the first 40 years-plus of his life and then got his own personal life together enough to be a quite successful and shrewd politician to be elected governor of texas, and then became president of the united states. the first thing he would be known for then at the time of his presidency now and forever more will certainly be the fact that he was president at

and george w. bush, the one who came next, and then finally, we sort of dip our toe into the obama presidency. and we will see one example of pat oliphant's greifts in sculptures, and it is an extraordinary work. unfortunately we can only see it two dimensional, a picture of it. one of the panelists, mary kay carey, can tell us about the sculpture and the president who it portrays. mary kay say fellow at the miller institute, and she has been teaching in the politics part of the university. she was a speechwriter and communication specialist in all parts of the bush/quayle campaign in 1988 and in the george bush presidency. and philip zelico is the former director of the miller center and member of the history department here, held prominent positions in both bushes' administrations, both george and george w. administrations and did other things that i am not aware of that are worth noting. and then chris liu, a senior fellow here at the miller center. and he has worked in over the years all three branc

and george w. bush, the one who came next, and then finally we sort of dip our toe into the obama presidency part of which pat oliphant was able to capture in his cartoons. we'll also see at least one example of pat oliphant's great gifts as a sculptor. unfortunately, we only get to see it in two dimensions. we only get to see an image of it. but it is an extraordinary work. one of our panelists, mary kay carey can actually tell us something about that sculptor and the president who it portrays. mary kate is a senior fellow at the miller center. she has been teaching this year in the politics department of the university. she was a speechwriter and communication specialist of all sorts in 1988 and the george bush presidency. director of the miller center and member of the history department here, held prominent positions in both bush administrations. both george and george w. administrations and probably did other things that i'm not even aware of that are worth noting. then chris lo a senior here at th

i wrote a book that covers the george w. bush administration called "rise of the falcons" and i moved to johns hopkins international studies and have written there ever since. >> so here's some video. it's very brief. it's from 1988, george w. bush is here in this town working for his father in april of 1988. it's a short interview that we did with him. i just wanted you to hear him talk about texas. >> it's a state that encourages growth and it's got a certain sense of pride to it that i like. i just happen to think that texas has got problems, although it's growing out of them. but the opportunities in that state are just enormous and i'm a person who is always seeking opportunity. >> that was 1988. what was george w. bush doing during the campaign and what do you think he was thinking at that point about his own future in politics? >> very interesting question. it's a continuation of the story i told about lee atwater and mistrusting him, because george w. bush at that point, he kind of was out of the oil business. he was rela

bush, if a friend of yours who had never met george w. sh asked you to tell you about him, what would you say? james: i would say he was a guy who was the son of a president, had trouble dealing with that fact for the first 40 years-plus of his life and then got his own personal life together enough to be a quite successful and shrewd politician to be elected governor of texas, and then became president of the united states. the first thing he would be known for then at the time of his presidency now and forever more will certainly be the fact that he was president at the time of the september 11th attacks and chose to wage a war in iraq that turned out to be a disaster. brian: what were his early years like? james: well, he followed in his father's footsteps and i say that quite literally, because he was forced almost to go to prep school at andover. he went to yale. he did many of the things his father did. it really in his mind, i think, it was not him. he once said many years later there were differences between him and his father star

he talks about his biography of president george w. bush. >> james mann a third of the biography on george w.. bush if a friend of yours who had never met george w. bush and asked about him what would you say? >> i would say that he was a guy that was his son of a president. he had trouble dealing with that fact for the first 40 plus years of his life. then he got his own personal life together enough to be a quite successful and true pa laetitia to be elected governor of texas, and then became the president of the united states. the first thing he would be known for at the time of his presidency and forever more with the fact that he was the president during the time of the september 11th attacks. he chose to wage a war in iraq that turned out to be a disaster. >> what were his early years like? >> he followed in his father's footsteps. i see that quite literally, because he was forced almost to go to prep school. he went to yale. he did many of the things that his father dead. in his mind it was not him. he once said many years later ther

>> the best line on that came from his father, george h.w. bush who wasn't always full of great quips, but said that for george w. bush to get elected president after he was governor of texas was like a 6 inch putt. it was harder for him to be elected governor. he had -- there was a very popular, well remembered now, democratic governor, ann richard. she was the one who said, of george h.w. bush, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. and richards was quite popular, but bush junior, george w, ran hard against her, he had a very good political adviser, good at politics, carl robe, and together they worked out the strategy to beat him -- excuse me, to beat her. and one of the tactics that they had, which people saw when he was president, was incredible message discipline. this was one of the characteristics of bush as politician. he would never have particularly penetrating or very long answers, but he would develop a handful, one sentence, two sentences, three sentences, and give them over and over. and years later, ann richards said that --

george bush or barack obama, i could draw six lines and people would go, well, that's george bush orhere's barack obama. you just -- once you've done the outline of the face and say the ears with obama, even before you completed it, people can tell what you're drawing. it's a mystical thing. our facial recognition software in our brains is very acute and it's one of the things that caricaturists can use to their advantage. it takes a little effort to be nonpartisan when you're doing things for the coasters and stuff. i mean, my instinct and what i'm paid for at politic ol is to have a political opinion and express it strongly. same with anne and sam with cal. we have to dial that back, which i also understand is not just that we don't want to unnecessarily roil people when they come in to the bar for a drink or something like that, but one of the nice things about washington, there's a lovely word of members about comedy. you can get along. you may disagree politically but you can sit town and have a drink with them. that's sort of the spirit of the bar and sort of the spirit that i

the george w. bushhite house was just absolutely feckless and failed in the face of that disaster. the president had hired a handpicked head of fema away from his previous job, which was that he was the judges and stewards commissioner for the international arabian horse association. the day katrina hit, michael brown sent an email to another fema official that said, can i quit now? can i come home? a few days into the disaster, he wrote to friends, quote, i'm trapped now. please rescue me. the head of fema as 2,000 americans were dying. it was all hilarious. mostly mr. brown blamed everybody else. he liked in particular to blame the governor of the state of louisiana and the mayor of new orleans, saying amid a backdrop of 2,000 dead and dying americans, quote, if the mayor doesn't have the resources to get the poor, the elderly, the disabled, those who cannot out, or if he doesn't have the police capacity to enforce a mandatory evacuation to make people leave, then you end up with the kind of situation

now, finally, in the george w. bush administration let me get to cheney has a theory, his own theory of what changed when schoolcraft is saying cheney change, scowcroft i'm sorry, chaney's responses, what change was september 11, september 11 changed everything. schoolcraft was in an office when the united states was attacked and that's his self image of himself, the record shows that is not true, things changed and the conflicts between cheney and powell began really in the first weeks of the administration. they took different positions on north korea, they took different positions on climate change in the kyoto accord, the united states started moving to pull out of international treaties that powell really did not want to pull out of, so commented and start with september 11 and what developed was a battle between what i call in the book the two tribes. these guys there wasn't just two people, these guys each had tribes of officials that developed an intense dislike of each other. there is one commentator who called

in year 2000, the country elected, barely and arguably, george w. bush to be president of the united states. in 2004, the country re-elected george w. bush to be president of the united states. you know how we got a charismatic, young democrat who had only served a half term in the u.s. senate and would be the nation's first african-american president to be elected president in the united states of america in the election after those two? in part, we got barack obama elected in 2008 because of this having gone so wrong in the presidency of george w. bush. because, in 2005, while a great american city drowned, this was president george w. bush looking down on it from 30,000 feet. the perspective on the ground, at the time, was one that would have led you to know that, ultimately, that would be nearly 2,000 americans dead. the george w. bush white house was just absolutely failed in the face of that disaster. the president had hired a handpicked head of fema away from his previous job, which was that he was the judges and stewards commissioner for the inte

in 2011 the nation elected barely and arguably george w. bush the president of the united states. in 2004 the country re-elected george w. bush to be president of the united states. you know how we got a charismatic young democrat who only served a half term in the u.s. senate and would be the nation's first african-american president to be elected president in the united states of america in the election after those two, in part we got barack obama elected in 2008 because of this having gone so wrong in the presidency of george w. bush. because in 2005, on great american city drowned, this was george w. bush looking down at it from 30,000 feet while the perspective on the ground at the time was one that would have led you to know that ultimately there would be nearly 2,000 americans dead. george w. bush white house was just absolutely feckless and failed in the face of that disaster. the president had hired a handpicked head of fema away from his previous job, which was that he was the judges and steward commissioner for international arabian horse association. oh. the day katrina

finally, we have a cartoon about the bush administration. the george w. bush administration. and mr. block believed strong in separation of church and state. and he believed that funding for a religious group violated that. and one way he depicted it, of course, was by showing the newspaper headline. but the guy rolling his eyes and looking at the steeple over the white house emphasized the point. that will block believed that george w. bush had a strong affiliation with religious groups. christian religious groups in particular. one of the issues that mr. block drew cartoons about for decades was equality and civil rights. he really believed that african-americans deserved an extra chance and an equal opportunity. eight years afters passage of brown versus the board of education which was supposed to segregate everybody and give everybody an equal education in 1952, he pointed out that still was not the case. there were states in the country that had chosen to shutter their public schools rather than desegregate. we have a little african-american girl holding a birthday cake

what he did note of george w. bush was in assumption a lot of cartoonists made early in his election and presidency. that the president is stupid. cartoonists who got to live longer came around on that and decided that he was not a stupid president. but at this point, that's how herb block is depicting him. as under the control of dick cheney and his father. ignorant about world affairs. this particular cartoon was actually drawn during the 2000 presidential election. as you can see in the last year and a half of his life, again the ideas are solid. he's coming up with an opinion. and he's able to see a way to express it. he is using -- with his pen. the white house as an institution, as a substitute for the sitting president, appears quite frequently in his cartoons when he wants to talk about policy rather than personality. that can be the white house in conflict with congress, because there are separate parts of government. he brings that up in some of his cartoons. it can also be the supreme court, i haven't brough

see speeches from presidents ronlt reagan, george bush. george w. bush and barack obama. white house core responsibilities' speeches. ll this on the free c-span radio app. next, nasa statementor jim bridenstein briefing president trump on three pieces of nasa technology knack help the nation battle the coronavirus. >> thank you very much, everybody. you know all about nasa and we've really done a job with nasa. it's been reinvigorated. it was dead as a doornail and now it's very much alive. perhaps, and you know everybody. they know you swls everybody. why don't you give them a little presentation? >> absolutely. nasa has been hard at work. part of the whole government approach to combat the coronavirus so a lot of our work force has been staying at home. the question is what do you do with rocket scientists when they stay at home? what nadeau is build amazing nifpks. i have just flee to showcase here but familiar so many others we could talk about but i'll go from left to right. this is an oxygen hoods, so a person who has coronavirus, we wants to make sure that they hav

to mark the tradition, we will feature past speeches from george clinton, george bush george w. bush, and barack obama. correspondents dinner speeches, tonight, on c-span and c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> thank you for being with us for this conversation about how we respond. i am so thankful that you all are with us for our first virtual

but george h.w. bushded himself to me when he wanted to learn about what hiv was, because he wanted to do something about it. david: as you look back on your career, what would you say are the characteristics that make somebody a leader? dr. fauci: one of the things i tell people, because i feel it strongly, is that if you're leading an organization of some sort that has a purpose or a mandate, that, as the leader, you've got to articulate to the people you're leading exactly what your vision is and where you want the organization to go, because i've seen in issues in which there wasn't good leadership, where an organization is almost rudderless. they don't know where they're supposed to be going. you don't dictate to people, but if you let them know what your vision is, hire the best people, and then don't get in their way, that, i think, is the quality of a good leader. david: and let's suppose i get an infectious disease and i want to be one of your patients. how do i get to be one of your patients? ju

george bush and barack obama, i could draw six lines and they would say oh that is george bush, and there is barack obama. once you have done the outline of the face with obama, even before you completed people could tell who you are drawing drying. it is a mystical thing. i facial recognition software in our brains is very acute and it is one of the things that caricatures it's can use to their advantage. it takes a little effort to be nonpartisan when doing for coasters and stuff. my instinct, and what i am paid for it's those to have a political opinion and express it strongly same with, and and cal. we have to dial that back, which i also understand, it is not just that we don't want to unnecessarily royal people when they come in for a drink at the bar or something like that, but one of the nice things about the barr, and the culture of washington is, there is this lovely word that members of congress whose called comedy, where you get along. you figure out a way to get along with people. you can't sit down and have a drink with them. that is sort of the spirit that i think we all br

when george w. bushame in, i had met them originally when he was a staffer in the white house with his father. and we struck up a very good relationship, and i think that that was one of the reasons why he sent me to africa in 2002 for the purpose of determining the feasibility of developing a program that might transform hiv-aids in the developing world. so i got to be quite close with president george w. bush, related not only to the fact that i knew him through his father, but the fact that he took a very keen interest in global hiv-aids and allowed me to be one of the architects of the program, which has now transformed hiv globally. the president's emergency aids relief. and luckily, now that president obama is still quite interested and quite amenable to getting involved in solving the problems that i am involved with, so i had the great privilege of meeting several times at the white house and at the nih with president obama. so i have been very fortunate in that the president of the united states

h debbieat the george bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of many scrapbooksontaining mementos from their life together. in the research room. we are going to take a look at 120 scrapbooks that misses bush after sheing shortly and president bush became engaged. andwas an avid scrapbook or documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for their entire marriage. this one is from 1944 and 1945i believe. misses bush his granddaughter was doing a book on the president and misses bush. and she was using the scrapbooks as a resource for that book. one of the things she found because it was sitting inside this envelope was what we think from their first thanksgiving. she has the guests that were and what kind of funny is she even has the one guest who couldn't come because he got sick. this is the kind of stuff she kept. pictures of him. baseball scorecards. annotated it all in her own handwriting. she was so much in love with him that she wanted to document their life together. the children, the grandchildren as time went on. at s

applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] >> at the 2005 white house correspondence dinner, president george bush started to make response but was interrupted by first lady laura bush. she took over and made her own remarks to the crowd. >> please join me in raising a glass to the president of the united states. [applause] join me in raising a glass to the president of the united states. [applause] [whistles and applause] pres. bush: thank you all. thank you and good evening. i always look forward to these dinners where i'm supposed to be funny. intentionally. [laughter] really looking forward to hearing cedric the entertainer. i kind of think of myself that way. [laughter] cedric, did you hear that alaris line dutch that hilaire sinai had an organ -- that hilarious line i had in arkansas. told me she was from du said is that next to the king? that's what you call sophisticated rep partake. in montana i told a joke about a cattle guard which did not get a very big laugh. actually, none. [laughter] but cedric i think you will appreciate this and you can use it if you want to. see, there was this c

and then george tenant, after 9/11, he in effect becomes a head of a massive counterterrorism organization that president bush has mobilized to lead the fight against al qaeda and the beg taliban. and you can see the connection there between the president's agenda and the transformation that he made of george tenant. so all of the presidents who picked these individuals really had no qualms at all about using the agency aggressively. a very opportunistic kind of appointment that perfectly dove tails with the president's agendas. at other times, and in particular after the agency has gotten into trouble, presidents decide well, we have to pull way back and cool things off and probably clean up the mess. reorganize, hire some different people, fire some people, change the way business is done, reconnect with congress, the whole just kind of agenda for the agency with the president at that time. now, in these cases, the president can choose to go inside or go outside. in a few cases, the presidents have deemed the timing right to take the agency into a reform mode but to do it kind of low key quietly don't rough

george bush, bill webster, leon panetta, and mike pompeo. i'll talk about pompeo different because evident a bit kimpt in the -- different in the way he was a restorer. when you think about bush becoming head of our agency right after the start of the scandals in the mid 1970s he there so make the agency seem like it's not the oger it was portrayed. initially as a politician, agency professionals did not like this appointment because we did not want the agency turned in effect another cabinet office with a political hack or a big donor running it. bush was able to lay those concerns quickly because he was basically a nice guy. everybody could get along with him. he was very honest about what his agenda was. and by the end of his 11 months, he had accomplished exactly what president ford wanted him to. webster gets appointed after the iran contrascandal. you can see why having a former judge and a senior law enforcement official after all those illegalities. he brings in a judge webster and the mr. clean of the agency. panetta comes in under

next up, george w. bush. 20th spot. will be interesting when we do the next survey at the end of the trump presidency if whether george w. bush moves up at all. he passed away. we had three days of celebration in this country of presidency and the reminds of things he encompassed. that hasn't impact our historians, too. bill clinton we just talked about in 15th place. george w. bush, 33rd. the first time we had him right after he left office, he was one point lower. we added another president so he went up one. only other certainly you reaction to 9/11 is an important part, but economic crisis, the ones that ensued after 9/11 and response to hurricane katrina are all things overtime. we'll see how historians late his presidency. finally, barack obama, his debut in the survey, he came in 12th place. not a bad place to start. so here are a couple of more. here are the top five in 2017. dwight eisenhower, as we talked before, made it into the top five for the first time. theodore roosevelt in fourth place in this survey. t

to mark the tradition, we will feature past speeches from george clinton, george bush george w. bush, and barack obama. correspondents dinner speeches, tonight, on c-span and c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> thank you for being with us for this conversation about how we respond. i am so thankful that you all are with us for our first virtual cgi university panel conversation. i wanted to start with our former surgeon general. if you could just tell us from your perspective how you think we are doing here in the united states and what you think we should be doing differently. thank you, chelsea. it's wonderful to be here with all of you. reflect on what an extraordinary moment it has been. is, most of us have never experienced anything like this in our lifetimes in the world has not seen this in perhaps a century or more. so it is something we will remember for the rest of our let me start with the good some of the measures we have been taken are actually starting to work. we're seeing a flattening of the curve and a reduction in new hardestd some of the hit

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ok frank luntz george w. bush you can't like donald trump very much is a republican does he campaign for him i don't believe he does i don't believe the bush family gets involved i think the blood was so bad between them in 2016 and it's very difficult for the president to get essentially to get on his knees and ask for his support or ask for mitt romney support i think trump is going he's become the leader of the republican party he's become the most. the most sought after spokesman his rallies up until when he couldn't do them anymore was still very very well attended and was still very intense i think charm goes it alone and that may be a mistake on his part but i can't see him standing on stage with w. and i can see him standing on stage with the most recent nominee mitt romney oh that's going to hurt him badly isn't it because they certainly mean votes well i know that. i look at michelle obama and i know that she means votes among women i know that any of us see can be very helpful to joe biden among voters

host: over the years you spent time with president george w. bush. this next piece of video we want to share with our audience is a familiar moment. it was an impromptu moment a couple days after the september 11 terrorist attacks in lower manhattan. let us watch and get your reaction. >> i want you all to know that america today -- america today is on bended knee in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, the workers who work here, the families who mourn. this nation stands with the people of new york city and new jersey and connecticut as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens. i can hear you. [cheers and applause] >> i can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. and the people who knocked these here all of us. crisis --a moment of host: in a moment of crisis, many people compare where we are to 9/11. guest: what was so powerful at that moment, it was a time of great fear, a time when people felt paralyzed. at that moment, when someone in the crowd said i can't hear you, he said he does not matter. i can hear you. he made peopl

george bush, bill webster and mike pompeo.i will talk about mike pompeo in a second in the way he was a restorer. the first three are here to stabilize the ship in periods of controversy. when you think about bush becoming head of agency after the start of the scandals of the mid-1970's in the congressional investigations winding down, he is there to make the agency seem like it is not the ogre it was being portrayed to be in the media and in some sectors of congress. initially, as a politician, agency professionals did not like this appointment because we did not want the agency turned into another cabinet office with a political hack or donor running it. bush was able to relay those concerns quickly because he was a nice guy. everybody could get along with him. he was honest about his agenda. by the end of his months, he had accomplished what president webster gets appointed right after the iran contra scandal. you can see why having a former judge and a senior law enforcement official after all of those illegalities are per

had problems speaking we can agree peter that jawbone george w. bush looks like you know more raider george w. bush will take in order to joe biden ok let's go to jan that's going to jenna new york what was hang on it's going to come on no no doesn't listen heard it was that he couldn't speak don't. go ahead go ahead. jason is absolutely wrong here if you want to suggest that debates don't matter ask mike bloomberg what happened and the bad i mean look mike bloomberg should have never agreed to be on the stage. this isn't that bad debate. look no but look at debate that proves that debate elizabeth warren became the defacto moderator of that debate debates do matter it's a it's an unscripted moment anything could happen on the debate stage i generator for a presidential debate for a major t.v. network and look if you think debates don't matter look back at the aug 2015 debate where meghan kelly went up against donald trump he ended up winning that he won every debate since that he became the nominee because of it so debates do matter they might not mat

next up, george w. bush. 20th spot. it will be interesting when we do the next survey at the end of the trump presidency if whether george w. bush moves up at all. he passed away. we had three days of celebration in this country of presidency and reminders of the things he accomplished. that has an impact on our historians, too. bill clinton we just talked about in 15th place. george w. bush, 33rd. the first time we had him right after he left office, he was one point lower. we added another president so he moved up one. but he is pretty close to the bottom 10. not only -- certainly the reaction to 9/11 is an important part, but the economic crisis, the wars that ensued, his response to hurricane katrina, are all things that over time, we will see how historians rate his presidency. finally, barack obama, his debut in the survey, he came in 12th place. not a bad place to start. just a couple more of these. here are the top five in 2017. dwight eisenhower, as we talked topre, making it into the five for the first time. th

bush. just as the current incumbent could be said to be the un-obama. and in fact, perhaps george w. bush was the un-clinton. we have developed this curious habit, which i don't really associate with early stages in our history. irst of all, not since jefferson, madison, monroe have we had three presidents, successive presidents elected to two terms. only once before. but the paradox is we elect this person to a second term, and then we look for someone who is the diametric opposed lternative to take their place. i don't know if there is logic to that. susan: how much do you think it might be due to overexposure? richard: oh, god. [laughter] you know, it is true. the cult of personality, even those who do not have any personality. [laughter] victims of a cult of personality, the white house is ringed, figuratively, by satellite trucks. we have 24 hours. there is not enough news to fill 24 hours. in fact, if you watch it, you are not seeing news, you are hearing "analysis." hich is another word for opinion, depending on which station you tune into. the fact is that the assumption is ev

he served in the george bush administration from 2006 to 2007. mr. mcnulty: good evening.me to class number two. great to see you all here tonight. last week we looked at the history, a brief look at history that led to draftihe

george w. bush is a bit with the war on terror and i think most of them supported that from much of the administration but once he leaves office during the obama ayers you are back to the period that the conservatives are asking what now. the big surprise in my opinionn of 2016, 2015, 2016 in the republican primary was not a candidate could win the republican nomination, in fact the presidency campaigning against the internationalist tradition going back to the 40s.ti donald trump really led a frontal assault on the conservative internationalist tradition going back decades, and he one which was astonishing. he sort of turned things upside down. thene groups that have been marginalized folk that they were underrepresented and those that were in charge were deeply concerned. but i think what he was doing in a wacom and i' way, and i'm notg that he personally read these older documents, but by the suggestion instinctively as a kind of american nationalist who draws from the older traditions to maintai

look, step back, president george w. bush threw his homeland security adviser fran townsend did extensive work to prepare for pandemics. preoccupation of president bush. president obama dealt with ebola, left behind a pandemic preparedness position. the obama team briefed the trump team when they were taking office about the risks of a pandemic. you had the trump hhs did a huge pandemic preparedness exercise that showed that they weren't prepared. all of that preceded what happened with covid-19 and peter navarro. now we know someone as close to the president as peter navarro, he's very close to him, was warning in january that the u.s. population lacked immune protection from this virus and that put millions of lives at risk. he sharpened that warning in february at a time when the president was downplaying the risk, saying this was under control. so the idea that the trump white house did not know how bad this could get, when people like peter navarro, not to mention alex azar and tony fauci and others within the government

to mark the tradition, we will feature past speeches from presidents ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. white house correspondents dinner speeches tonight on c-span and c-span.org. or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> former secretary of state john kerry and former u.s. ambassador and state department officials talk about the global impact of the coronavirus. this is hosted by yale university. >> welcome to the more than 1000 registered attendees at this jackson virtual discussion forum. this is the fifth of these discussions. these discussions have tapped the exceptional leadership in knowledge that resides in the jackson network. today is no exception. all of our panelists today are senior fellows who teach here at yale. our moderator today, secretary john kerry graduated from yale, and like jackson's founder, john jackson is joining us today, secretary kerry, left new haven to serve in vietnam. he then served more than two decades in the u.s. senate before becoming the 68 secretary of state under president obama. you probably kno