we know, we remember the famous statement from madeleine albright back in 1996 when she was asked on"60 minutes" what about the 500,000 children who have died as a result of u.s.-imposed sanctions, and without missing a beat she said, we think the price is worth it. at that moment i think the potential for the clinton administration to win public support in the arab world was gone. when madeleine albright said those words, we think the price is worth it, that 500,000 children's lives was worth overturning saddam hussein's regime, i think -- which at that time hadn't even happened militarily but what was being tried through the use of sanctions -- i think that was when the possibility of winning over support for the u.s. was lost. >> host: don in haiku, hawaii. please, go ahead with your question. >> caller: yes, phyllis, good morning. or good afternoon there, i guess. i had heard you earlier say that iran is in violation of the iaea, and i had recently seen a documentary with scott ritter who said, no, iran is not in violation of agreements, and there's a complete balance of all the

then i wandered into a course of international policy and was a man named joseph cornell, madeleine albright's father to be he taught me about diplomacy and things that are national and soviet, the soviet union and all of a sudden i know what i wanted to do. i went home and i told my parents i want to be a soviet specialist. fortunately they didn't say what is a nice black girl from birmingham talking about being a soviet specialist? they just said to go for it so there's a couple important lessons in their for young folks like you. first of all, nobody is so confident that day at your age or even older that they are just sure they are going to be great and turn out to be terrific at what they do. when people are that confident there is something wrong with them, all right? [laughter] second, you need to find what you are passionate about, not just what you like, but what you are passionate about. what is really interesting to you? and you have a long time to do that. you have a couple more years of high school and then you've got a college so you have time to find out. >> i graduate next year

but there were delays and then finally secretary of state madeleine albright went to north korea in the last months of the clinton administration in 1999. president clinton was just about to go himself and the election was included by the question whether george bush or al gore had been elected. clinton didn't feel he could leave the country with a constitutional crisis, and it all fell apart. when the george w. bush administration came in, they seem to have a policy rule whatever it did, do the opposite. but they found what was probably at the most a laboratory scale investigation in north korea of uranium enrichment, and that became a pretext for basically throwing out all of the great framework that gallucci had previously negotiated. and things went downhill from there. and now finally it looks like they might be coming back uphill a little bit, but not without north korea taking a step of becoming a nuclear power, which is pretty sad and tragic. you know about these points, limitations on the two sides, arsenals, the amazing story of the three countries which were major nuclear pow

we've seen several notable figures, including former secretaries of state kissinger and madeleine albrighth it while longer as their coverage of the state dinner for the president of china continues on c-span 2. again, the theme tonight at the request of the delegation or quintessentially american evening, including american food and american jazz. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >

former diplomat, henry kissinger and madeleine albright, christiana report from abc news and businessabout from walt disney, goldman sachs as well as members of the diplomatic community. former governor jon huntsman. what stands out from these 225 people who are in the list for tonight's dinner and what does that tell you about our relations with china? >> guest: actually i think, as steve mentioned earlier, this is a fairly typical list. your cultural luminaries, often people -- jackie chan is on here. a popular figure. >> host: barbra streisand. >> guest: barbra streisand well known in relations -- you have big business people. some are friends of the president and others are just there because of their major roles in china. so jeff and now from ge. ge has an enormous set of businesses in china. yet some people from the u.s. administration to deal with china. of course you have a lot of chinese who are at the dinner. what struck me and this is a minor point come but what struck me as there are no former u.s. ambassadors to china with the exception of winston board who served in the

others in attendance include former secretaries of state madeleine albright and george shultz. of china. congressman chris smith and frank wolf held a news conference yesterday on human rights in china. you are going to from former chinese political prisoners and human rights activist during this news conference. they talk about various issues including religious freedom and the rights of women and abuses in chinese labor camps. it runs an hour and 20 minutes. we will show you a good bit of it until the event at the state department officially gets underway. >> first of all, thank you for coming out this afternoon. my name is chris smith. i served as chairman of the africa global human rights, global health subcommittee on the foreign affairs committee. i've held the position of the human rights chairman and several previous congresses, and i just, a little bit of background, i been in congress for 31 years. been to china many times come and personally chaired 27 hearings on human rights abuses by the people's republic of china over these many years. today we're here with some

former diplomat, henry kissinger and madeleine albright, christiana report from abc news and businessabout from walt disney, goldman sachs as well as members of the diplomatic community. former governor jon huntsman. what stands out from these 225 people who are in the list for tonight's dinner and what does that tell you about our relations with china? >> guest: actually i think, as steve mentioned earlier, this is a fairly typical list. your cultural luminaries, often people -- jackie chan is on here. a popular figure. >> host: barbra streisand. >> guest: barbra streisand well known in relations -- you have big business people. some are friends of the president and others are just there because of their major roles in china. so jeff and now from ge. ge has an enormous set of businesses in china. yet some people from the u.s. administration to deal with china. of course you have a lot of chinese who are at the dinner. what struck me and this is a minor point come but what struck me as there are no former u.s. ambassadors to china with the exception of winston board who served in the