hadley: i will take that. not the bushtion, administration, not the obama has had anion, effective counter narcotics program in afghanistan. the last people who did was one year when the taliban was in control and seemed through their own inevitable methods to reduce poppy production 20. to zero. it is a problem that has defied us for all the time we have been engaged in afghanistan. day,nk in the end of the the afghans are going to have to decide, what is the right kind of counter narcotics strategy for themselves? and it is important that they do so because it is one of the reasons why the regional states will report a sustainable peace in afghanistan if they can be ensured of two things. this is something china is central asian the states are marine about, pakistan is worried about, russia is worried about. they are worried about terrorism coming out of a guinness tan and narcotics coming out of afghanistan. need towhy those issues be addressed in the inter-afghan negotiations, not just because they are imp

and the first thing i want to talk about is what i called hadley's dictum. steve hadley, in a different context, gave what i think is the fundamental insight about , which is,processes they have to actually suit how the president takes on information, and how they make decisions. is so beautiful, and what i and what i envy so much in listening to the interviews from all of these people. because the nsc found a way to make it possible for the president to make a very difficult, very political to rock decision. about talk a little bit the civil civil problem. which is the secretary of defense. i think it came up in several peoples comments. i'd don't agree that the process was clandestine. secretary rumsfeld knew that the review was going on, he declined to participate because he did not agree with revisiting the strategy. in fact, one of the things i was most shocking to me was, in the aftermath of the attack on the samarra mosque, that is the moment of realization for everybody in the administration. that the strategy is failing if we proceed on this course

the third point, hadley's dictum. what is different between 2003 and 2006 and comes through so beautifully and pointedly in the interviews is that the president took ownership of the process and the president took ownership of the outcome. josh bolton, the white house chief of staff said, the president i saw at those war meetings was noticeably different than the one i saw in every other context. this is before the surge. the white house chief of staff said the president was deferential to the military posey views. -- militaries views. -- military's views. he did not have the confidence and rigor of challenge that he had in other circumstances. the president was solicitous of the military's views. all of this is before the process of the nsc set in motion. i agree with the white house chief of staff josh bolton. steve hadley deserves the credit for making the process amenable to the president to get him wider apertures of information. megan and peter deserve a lot of credit in this as well. i struggle to think at diff

the third thing i want to talk about is hadley's dictum.steve hadley, and a different context, gave a fundamental insight about government processes. they have to actually suit how the president takes on information and how they make decisions. that is what is so beautiful. let me talk a little bit about these. i don't agree that the process was clandestine. secretary rumsfeld knew the review was going on. one of the most things that was most shocking to me was in the aftermath of the samara mosque moment ofat is the realization for everyone in the administration that the strategy is failing. the secretary had a reaction that was an affirmation of the nature of the struggle, not that the strategy is failing. that is a window into why secretary rumsfeld was such an impediment to getting the strategy right. his fundamental job is translating the president's political objectives into military plans. much of the failure sits at his feet. condi rice says in interviews that they plan for the invasion was inadequately resourced. the secretary of d

what scares me, hadley, they say bernie sanders can't win. to give trump a challenge. andrew gillem almost became governor of florida. what are your thoughts? >> the best defense is a good offense. i think the sanders campaign probably has more enthusiasm among his supporters for variety of reasons but i have to give pete buttigieg calling attention to the flaws in bernie sanders "medicare for all" proposal. i give mayor pete credit transissing from politics back to public policy topics. while its an important question, how would we pay for "medicare for all," it is a very expensive proposal, no one is talking about on the right or the left what the cost of "medicare for all" would be beyond the price tag, how it would affect the quality of health care in the united states? how it would affect innovation and so forth. that is the discussion we ought to be having besides myopic focus on the price tag which of course -- melissa: is still important. hardly the biggest issue, there are so many. bernie sanders pushing to ban fracking. he was asked

adding to the commentary hadley got for us in riyadh this weekend. >>> well, talking bank krooel changeplenty of it the last couple of weeks. unicredit ceo jean pierre mustier has ruled himself out of taking the reins of rival bank hsbc he was thought to be the ceo of the bank since august when they ousted john flynn. unicredit announced mustier is staying with the bank and fully committed to executing their new strategy hsbc is led by interim ceo, who is also contender for the permanent top job. >>> in financial news, barclays has started its search for replacement for ceo staley they say staley is planning to leave by end of next year. he could stand down at the company's annual meeting in may 2021 sources close to the bank told the ft that the hunt for his successor intensified after uk regulators launched an investigation into his ties with late financier jeffrey epstein. >>> we're going to squeeze in a break now, but coming up on the show, bernie sanders cements his front-runner status in the race for the democratic presidential nomination more in just a few moments ♪ ♪ ♪ don't jus

we have hadley heath manning. i think this could be a double-edged sword. want to see millenials buying houses, starting the american dream but we get nervous when the delinquencies tick up. >> there is a lot of subheadlines on the high personal debt. my family is part of this. we bought a new home in 2019. largely in part due to the fact interest rates have been so low. when we see headlines saying month after month, interest rates, record lows, interest rates record lows. no surprise we're seeing headlines that say personal debt , record highs. price of money. borrowing is cheap. people will do with is rational, what makes sense. you mentioned mortgage debt a big part of this. another part of the story, student loan debt continues to increase. credit card debt this is the part where my generation, millenials doing more borrowing. more delinquencies. that is a problem. don't want to be delinquent on credit card balances s that lack of resources among young people or lack of financial savvy or both? personal debt, not something you want to hit record highs.

for i would like to bring in independent women's forum policy director hadley heath manning.ay, when senator schumer spoke, hadley, the way he spoke as if coronavirus was already in america and we were, in the throes of a worst-case scenario, that we were caught flat-footed, there was nothing we could do. i don't think it helped the stock market at all and i think more than anything else, i'm looking for public officials to sort of be strong now and, you know, give us some confidence rather than fanning these political flames. >> right. and both sides are politicizing this virus and it's shameful but not surprising, charles. is there anything in that day and age people won't poe little size? our leaders have a large mouthpiece and have the opportunity to criticize. it is much easier to criticize than to govern to make the right decisions and it is fair enough to hold the leaders accountable to say i think you're doing this wrong but where we really go south in the political discourse we ascribe bad motives to the political opposition. i don't think anyone in the country wants

hadley, thank you very much.reciate it. >> thank you. >> breaking news, nascar driver ryan newman is out of the hospital. less than two days after that horrific wreck at the daytona 500. this new picture just released moments ago showing newman walking out of the hospital with his two daughters. he was leading monday's race until his car was clipped sending it up in the air at 190 miles an hour. >>> oracle ceo larry ellison holding a fund-raiser for president trump against the 2000 employees are demanding that he cancel it. why not the same thing when he did it for obama. trump is being showered with love from gop voters and it is reflected in the polls. how this might affect the race for the gop to retake the house. i warned yesterday about making knee-jerk investment decisions. later in the hour, i hope you listened. why we're helping you make more money. we'll be right back. t. rowe price experts go beyond the numbers to examine investment opportunities firsthand, like innovations in agricultural research. bec

i want to bring in iwf policy director hadley heath manning. hadley, looking at body language.ooking how everyone is reacting. when the democrats weren't using a hi bahchy or playing bingo, there were times everyone got up in unison. maybe that is what we should be looking. maybe we found common ground with infrastructure where i think i saw everyone in the room get up and clap? >> if two parties agree on what, family leave or infrastructure, they still disagree on the how which makes it hard to pass legislation in a divided washington. the president was wise to focus on areas where there are bipartisan bills, bipartisan areas of agreement. it puts more pressure on democrats to help him achieve some goals which i think are attainable. unfortunately this is reality in two party system. many democrats see any win for president as a loss for him. they don't want to give him credit or make progress on initiative areas, paid family leave, which they see their issue area they consistently tout, desire to make progress on. here he comes with a bill that has bipartisan support in both

we would sometimes write reports and go see steve hadley. i remember steve sent us once, this was before we started the formal review, are you guys sure about this? we said we have really done the work and talked to all these people and this is months of work. we are sure. and i never knew where you stood until the very end, because you held your cards very close. the only time i had ever heard steve say a bad word, he said you better be damn sure, because think about what you are asking the president to do. and he was right. and steve not only drove us, he drove the entire interagency once we began the review. so if we did this, we were all certain that this was the right thing to do. and i feel that that was the right process. i have concluded after working in three administrations that these decisions of war and peace, the model is the surge review. and it is the opposite of what we are seeing now. the night the president made the speech on january 7, we were in steve hadley's office, myself, i think megan, and we watched the speech on tv

. >>> hadley sat down with u.s. secretary treasurer steven mu chin hadley, is it concerning for the treasury secretary >> reporter: no doubt about it, dom. this was concerning not only for the u.s. treasury skts in our interview, it was concerning for all central bank governors at the g-20 over the weekend. it was a major point of concern for all of them. major focus. when i asked the treasury secretary about that, he said it's too soon to say we need two or three weeks to understand what the economic impact is going to be, just on the united states. to give you a bit of perspective, a week ago when i sat down with the managing director of the imf it was too soon to make any moves over the last hour the imt said we're taking off ten basis points, half a point for chinese growth this gives you a sense of how quickly the story is moving. listen in to what the treasury secretary had to say about what this could mean for phase two of the trade deal. >> there's no question china's major focus is now controlling the virus

the distance it was more of a thought he can now we are looking at things the way i do wish and mr hadley in doing it i mean with us where we have a way to scale by which we we are looking at things and we want to help move things in a positive direction or it would have to leave it there well lead to madiba thanks very much and i'll only will join is there from jerusalem in ahead you can we appreciate it very much thank you very much indeed thank you to you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion just go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from a nic luck and the whole team here it's goodbye for now. in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world where digital communication technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face harassment states of aliens increasing restrictions on the other hand digital platform

the distance it was more of a thought he can now we are looking at things the way i do wish and mr hadley in doing it i mean with us when we have it when it is scared by which we we are looking at things and we want to help move things in a positive direction or it would have to leave it there well lead to madiba thanks very much and i'll only will join is there from kuka we appreciate very much thank you very much indeed thank you to you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion just go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from a mcloughlin the whole team here it's goodbye for now. when the news breaks. when people need to be heard general situation of course is affecting both of any of the land syrian refugees and the story needs to be told with exclusive interviews as a country that is used to mean polaroids and in-depth reports who have i thought fight this out as iraq has teams on the g

. >> is with great pleasure to present this year's hadley editor of the year award. [applause].bviously as a cheering section. miami harold media company, according to the judges, commitment to accountability journalism, brought jeffrey epstein to justice. laser focus. [applause]. laser focus on the hurricane victim in puerto rico. revealed have gun violence forever changed the part in school community. many story is truly one of the local world makes good. as this video portrays. >> was amazing, she truly is the heart and soul of this organization. she has come up through the ranks of the miami herald in a way that you just don't care about anymore. she started here as an intern. she is miami. >> i started in high school and she and i were from the same bureau. i just remember seeing her work and work hard, so imagine your 14 year teenager, and you think this would want to do so you're really impressed by that. >> in the year of the many is an editor, we have even been a finalist out almost a year. if you look at news organizations, of our sites, there really is no one with us

let's find out more from tom hadley, director of policy and campaigns at the rec. good morning.crease in confidence first of all? it's a fair increase in confidence first of all? it'safairjump increase in confidence first of all? it's a fairjump so employer confidence and making hiring and investment decisions is up 10% points in the last quarter, which is significant, so demand is strong. the emerging challenges one of supply, the emerging challenges one of supply, so employers are saying to us supply, so employers are saying to us how are we going to find the staff we need over the coming months and years? isn't the point that they have been able to recruit people and pay lower salaries, lower wages, and actually now if they want to attract people to do these jobs, they will have to offer higher pay? recruitment has been difficult for a number of years. candidate availability has been decreasing month on month, so every month our members are saying it's harder to find stuff. starting salaries have been increased, so that's one response is to pay more, but there's only so far y

. >> looking forward to that one that is hadley live in meunich >> that's it for the show.bercetche "worldwide exchange" is coming up in a few moments. >>> it is 5:00 here is your "five@5." wall street looking to end the week on the note of another holiday weekend. and massive uptick of the number of coronavirus cases and deaths. and trying to get back to business on the retail front no laughing matter, an investigation into smile direct club has shares sinking. the top love songs of all time ranked on this valentines day, february

hadley spoke to u.s. defense secretary mark esper. >> what i mean is what i outlined in my speech earlier today. as we look at our national defense strategy it says we're in this era of great power competition. that means we need to focus more on high-intensity warfare going forward and our long-term challenges are china, number one, and russia, number two. and what we see happening out there is china, continues to grow its military strength, it's economic power, commercial activity and doing so in many ways illicitly or it's using the international rules based order against us to continue this growth, to aconveyor technology and to do the things that really undermine our nations', i say that plural, sovereignty, that undermine the rule of law. >> when we talk about what happens next within the 5g sectors, a lot of governments say to us, listen, if there was a better, cheaper alternative to huawei, we'd be using it, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case what is the u.s. government planning to

and i think we run the risk right now of -- well, in every election, i think it was hadley stevenson who said that anybody can become president of the united states. it's a chance we take in america. and our party, we need a candidate that can pull people together and i believe that we have a number of candidates who would -- could do that. i think we run a risk, however, if bernie sanders were to become our nominee, of really heading into the fall with a candidate that alienates more people than he unites. >> anna marie, thank you for joining us. i want to ask you, there's a movement, a hashtag called vote blue no matter who, stick with your candidate, but whoever gets it, everybody is going to have to come out and vote in november. do you see that happening? because people are mad on all sides of the political spectrum, both sides of the political spectrum. will they vote for somebody who doesn't align with their world view or is beating trump just more important than any of this? >> well, i think democrats will probably align behind a democratic candidate because that's what democ

government officials, including stephen hadley, on the situation in afghanistan. on c-span2 at 9 a.m., u.s. health policy, including the impact of the opioid epidemic, vaccine hesitancy, the u.s. hiv epidemic plan and e-cigarettes and vaping. at 5:30 p.m., bernie sanders is at a rally in las vegas. >> democratic presidential candidate pete buttigieg spoke to caucus-goers at a town hall in nevada's capital carson city on presidents' day. he mentioned the recent trial senate impeachment trial and took questions on finance, education and water rights. >> oh, my goodness. my name is brady hill. brady like tom or "the brady bunch." i am the carson city organizer for the mayor pete buttigieg campaign here. i am so thrilled to see each and thrilled to see each and every one of you here taking the time

bipartisanship involved in every effort to go across bipartisan lines former national security advisor steve hadley is here as well. [applause] rama manuel you will see him on stage during the interviews. the subject is china. all of us agree that our relationship with china is the greatest challenge we can face as a country in the next several decades and it's an important moment in that relationship from march 1979 jimmy carter and ping from the democratic administration, we all felt that we were seeking cooperation with china that was a basic strategy and the chinese felt the same way. in recent years there is no question that both countries have went from a strategy of competition. that gets to the heart of the vital national interest oversea overseas. we are competing for military predominance in the indo pacific with the allies japan and south korea and australia for 75 years ago but the chinese make a concerted effort to cut into that military power. we are competing to see who will dominate the next generation of military technology in two years the aspen strategy groups was thinking about

bipartisanship who's involved in every effort to bring people together across partisan lines and that's steve hadley, our former national security adviser who was here today as well. [applause] our director is anja manuel, my close friend. we work together. you will be seeing anja on stage is one of the people during the interviews. our subject is china. i think all of us agree that our relationship with china is going to be the greatest challenge that we face as a country in the next several decades. it's an important moment in that relationship. we establish full diplomatic relations and march 1979. jimmy carter and deng xiaoping. for most of that time in both republican and democratic administrations we all felt in both administrations that we were seeking cooperation with china. that was the basic strategy and the chinese felt the same way. in recent years there's no question that both countries have swung from cooperation to a strategy of competition. that competition gets to the heart of our vital national interest overseas. we are competing for strategic military dominance in the indo-pacific