ambassador madeleine albright joining us from the hague and the netherlands.on that issued this report. thank you for being with us. we have a satellite delay. i want to ask you to outline what you think are the major problems that the u.n. is not equipped to handle. >> it's good to be with you, andrea. i think as ambassador power said, she listed the problems that are out there that require partnership and cooperation and for an international understanding that they are difficult and that the u.n. in fact, needs to be better equipped. what this commission reports a done is look at fragile states and how the disruptions there are creating problems in their regions. then also on the environment and climate change and which needs to be done there and then also the international economy and the connectivity and cyber issues and governance. and what has happened is that i co-chaired this with former ambassador to the u.n. from nigeria who also served on the security council when i did, and we know that we have a lot of work ahead. it was issued to be out at the ti

next, madeleine albright and stephen hadley discussing the launch of their middle east task force. the goal of the task force is to gather information and make policy recommendations. this is an hour and a half. >> good afternoon. on the half of the chairman of the board of the atlantic council, tom huntsman and the vice president and director, frank doney and all of us at the elena kagan, welcome to the launch of the task force. we are pleased to be joined by some of the task force's senior advisers and many of our friends from middle eastern and european diplomatic communities. as you can see, we have a full house and a virtual full house. welcome, also, to viewers around the world. this event is live streaming on our website in arabic translation as well. and a full video of today's event, both in arabic and english, will be posted on the council website following the event. this is the first event we have done with live translation, live streaming, from the center. we now have this capability and will do this more often. we encourage you to interact online by following @acmidea

up tonight for you on c-span 3, including former secretaries of state condoleezza rice and madeleine albrightnt george w. bush and melody hobson. coming up later on our schedule, a couple of panels from the intelligence oversight as the u.s. senate continues to debate nsa surveillance and the u.s. patriot act. the ceo of amtrak and safety board will testify before the train derailment in philadelphia last month. there were eight fatalities and 200 injuries as a result of that crash. live coverage will get under way at 10:00 a.m. eastern. then, in the afternoon at 2:00 eastern, a hearing on the takata airbag safety and recall issues. it's also on c pf span 3. >> remarks now from former secretary of state condoleezza rice as she gives the commencement address at college of william & mary. robert gates who served with secretary rice during the bush administration is the chancellor of william & mary and presented her with an honorary degree. [ applause ] >> condoleezza rice, yours has truly been a life of vast accomplishment and striking service. william & mary is proud to honor you. by virtue of

thank you. [ applause ] >>> another commencement address now from former secretary of state madeleine albright. she tells graduates in massachusetts that the world needs a new generation of leaders. [ applause ] >> president distinguished faculty and trustees, honored guests, most important people, members of the class of 2015 -- [cheers and applause ] -- families and friends good morning. i want to begin by thanking tufts very, very much for this honorary degree. and i know i speak for my fellow honorees for saying how grateful we all are and i'm so honored to be with all of them because they are a remarkable group of people. as the class of 2015 well knows, a degree is a very precious thing. it's very satisfying to work hard and earn one. it's another delight to receive one simply for showing up. but that's not the only reason that i'm excited to be here. although i didn't attend tufts i feel a very personal connection to this outstanding university. back in the 1960s, this is where i met one of my heroes, former secretary of state dean ach chi son, after he delivered a speech. and i never,

like to propose rather than conducting a dialogue with in the panel i would like to turn to madeleine albright and give her a moment to comment and wheat will go right to the audience to our twitter followers and get as many questions in as we can. you want to come in for a moment? >> it truly was a interesting and i made a lot of notes and we have a lot to look at. the question for our task force is to look at the gate and try to figure out how we approach the longer-term course since a lot of the issues have to do with the media polling and the question in terms of security, jobs that cetera and look a little bit, make the suggestion there is the paradox here. we want to know what they want to do and to some extent they want us to have the united states do something they don't particularly like. for the u.s. ban did you do and damned if you don't. what is worth looking at, i have done an awful lot of polling in eastern europe at the time immediately after the fall of the wall and it was very similar to what you were talking about, for writing versus suffering and how people see their own per

in a few weeks, a report on global governance will come out and madeleine albright and cobari have coauthored. and i think you probably have been briefed on it. one thing they've talked about in the report is that they ought to take an optic to the 75th anniversary and really work on building support for major changes. and i'm wondering if there was an agenda that you had of perhaps different financial formulas, perhaps ideas for we forming the general assembly that you think should be worked on. and i have to just as a coda say another great gift from argentina to the vatican is he's going to come out with a very major statement and i'm wondering how the united nations is going to capitalize on that. >> sometimes refer to the secretary as a secular pope. so we'll put that in context. >> madam my name is irving and i'm a professor at johns hopkins university of international studies next door. one of the challenges that you mentioned, that of climate change is an area that has led to powerful and i would say transformational change. his leadership which was illustrated last year dramatically

a >> in a few weeks a report on global governance will come out that madeleine albright and ibrahim have co-authored. i think you've been briefed on it. one thing they talked about in the report is we ought to take an optic to the 75th anniversary and really work on building support for major changes. and i'm wondering if there's an agenda that you had of perhaps different financial formulas? perhaps ideas for reforming the general assembly that you think should be worked on? and i have to just as a coda say another great gift from argentina to the vatican is going to come out -- he's going to come out with a very major statement. and i'm wondering how the united nations is going to capitalize on that? >> we sometimes refer to the secretary general as the secular pope. so we will put that in an argentinian context. >> one of the challenges that you mentioned that of climate change is an area in which the leadership and vision of the secretary general has led to powerful and i would say transformational change. his leadership which was illustrated last year dramatically at the u.n. climat

. >> in a few weeks a report on global governance will come out that madeleine albright and ibrahim have co-authored. i think you've been briefed on it. one thing they talked about in the report is we ought to take an optic to the 75th anniversary and really work on building support for major changes. and i'm wondering if there's an agenda that you had of perhaps different financial formulas? perhaps ideas for reforming the general assembly that you think should be worked on? and i have to just as a coda say another great gift from argentina to the vatican is going to come out -- he's going to come out with a very major statement. and i'm wondering how the united nations is going to capitalize on that? >> we sometimes refer to the secretary general as the secular pope. put that in arj tingentinia effect. >> one of the challenges that you mentioned that of climate change is an area in which the leadership and vision of the secretary general has led to powerful and i would say transformational change. his leadership which was illustrated last year dramatically at the u.n. climate summit ac

four to the part of human to in a few weeks of report on global governance will come out of madeleine albright and others have co-authored they think you probably have been briefed on it. one thing to talk about in the report is that we have to take an opt in to the 75th anniversary of will that work on building support for major changes. and i'm wondering if there was an agenda that you had of perhaps different financial formulas perhaps ideas for reforming of the general assembly, that you think should be worked on? at have to just as i coda say that another great gift from argentina to the vatican is going to come out come he's going to come out with a very major statement, and i'm wondering how the united nations is going to capitalize? >> we sometimes refer to the section as a secular pope so we'll put that in an argentina context. gentleman in the back. >> my name is -- i'm a professor at johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies next-door. one of the challenges you mentioned that a climate change isn't very which the leadership and vision of the secretary chu has

we'll have a brief conversation among the three speakers with madeleine albright and myself presiding, and then we will bring our in-house and twitter audience into the conversation for a q&a session. so let me first introduce the panel that you will see on this stage after the video. first is james zogby who has had a four decade career working on u.s.-arab relations, and bringing an arab and arab-american perspective into the washington policy conversation. he is the managing director of zogby research services author of the book "arab voices" and founder of the american -- arab-american institute. next will be mohamed younis. he is the glop organization's subject matter expert on the middle east and north africa. his research at gallup focuses on employment in the muslim world and focuses on relations between the muslim majority and western societies. and finally, coming with us from cairo will be rabab el madi. she is associate professor of political science at the american university in cairo. her research interests cover the areas of state civil society relations, social movemen

appeared before the armed services committee in recent months, henry kissinger george shultz, madeleine albrightbrzyzinski and others, and against the advice of both his secretary of secretary of state and secretary of defense the president has refused to provide defensive legal assistance to ukraine. the president's continued inaction for fear of provoking russia was seen by putin as weakness and invites the very aggression we seek to avoid. the ukrainian people aren't asking for u.s. troops. they are simply asking for the right tools to defend themselves and their country and those are the tools that this legislation would provide. mr. president, we have seen vladimir putin commit aggression draw barks commit morigeration,with we are in the phase where he will seek continued aggression and territory grabbing by vladimir putin as he establishes his land bridge to crimea and puts additional pressures on baltic companies, moldova. meanwhile, we refuse to give the ukrainians weapons with which to defend themselves. this bill doesn't force the president to provide lethal assistance to ukraine. trus

talked about big issues with people like henry kissinger and bring disin i ask and madeline madeleine albright. we had lengthy subcommittee meetings and subcommittee markups. for me one of the most satisfying parts of my legislative hearing here has been the markup of this bill where we met as a committee where we argued and debated and voted and had a lot of amendments and tried to deal with it for two solid days and came to a conclusion whereas i recall the vote out of the committee was something like 22-4. a very powerful vote. so i am in total support of this piece of legislation. however, my problem with the legislation is that it attempts to avoid the impact of the sequester through the use of the overseas contingency account money which is not paid for. we've had hearings. every hearing we've had this year has been talking about the danger of the sequester to national security. and indeed, i've been working with a number of of my colleagues to try to find the solution for the sequester but the solution for the sequester is not simply to borrow the money from our grandchildren. what both

some of the most sophisticated and experienced individuals in the country -- henry kissinger madeleine albright and a host of others. gave us the perspective to begin to look at the issues we face in a much more comprehensive and a much more thoughtful way. and i have had the privilege of serving on the committee for many years. no one has done that, no one has set the stage so well. and then to bring our d.o.d. witnesses together for the strategic vision and the observation of the budgetary requirements were absolutely incredible. all of this has made us better prepared on the committee to write this bill that is before us today. let me also take a moment to thank the work of the professional staff on both sides of the aisle. their willingness to work together to tackle the hard issues has been the key to this authorization bill. and i want to thank them in advance because their work has just begun. the hours they will spend over the next several days to go through the significant number of amendments, all of that will be unnoticed by many but appreciated certainly by myself and the chairman a

into a course taught by a czech refugee a man named joseph korbel whose daughter was named madeleine albright without one class i was hooked. i discovered that my passion for things that are national, things fresh and in diplomacy. needless to say it's not exactly would a young black girl from birmingham was expected to do in the early 1970s but it was like finding love. i couldn't explain it but i knew it was right. you know something else several years later as i was taking off from a helicopter from the south lawn of the white house serving president george h.w. bush i sat there with mikhail gorbachev, his wife, the secret service and mean and i thought i am really glad changed my major. [laughter] it just shows you your passion may be hard fought. so keep an open mind and keep searching and when you find your passion, it is yours. not what someone else thinks it should be. don't let anyone define your profession for you because of your gender or the color of your skin. [cheers and applause] the second responsibility of an educated person is committed to reason. here at william and mary yo

we'll have a brief conversation among the three speakser with madeleine albright and myself responding and then we will bring our in-house and twitter audience into the conversation for a q&a session. so let me first introduce the panel that you will see on this stage after the video. first is james zagbi, who has had a four-decade career working on usair rab relations and bringing in arab and arab arab-american perspective into the washington policy conversation. he is the managing director of zagbi research services, author of the book "arab voices" and founder of the american -- the arab-american institute. next will be mohammed unis, the gallop organization's subject matter expert on the middle east .north africa. his research at gallop forces on employment challenges in the arab world and relations between muslim majority and western societies. and finally coming with us from cairo will be rabab el madi. she is associate professor of political science at the american university in cairo. her research interests cover the areas of state civil society relz relations, social movements