marvin kalb. [ applause ] >> thank you all very much. it's a pleasure for me to be back. i was here last year, not in this building. somewhere else. and it was a good experience for me and when steve called and invited me back i said, yes, immediately. my pleasure. what i know about you is that there are about 130 of you here and you're here for a week or two and i think you're extremely lucky. and i wish that when i were in college i had the opportunity to sit in on a group like this and meet people like p.j. crowley who, in fact, are terribly important in the fashioning of american foreign policy. he's one of secretary clinton's closest advisers. what i would like to do is divide this hour in two. i'd like very much to hear your questions and i would like to have the opportunity of talking about a few issues that i consider very important within the framework of what steve bell has outlined, which is the media, how it's evolved into its current shape, and power and importance. and then the impact that it has upon public policy. let me start by just asking you a couple o

eastern tonight, a journalist marvin kalb takes a look of the new york times. we will bring you live coverage starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> german chancellor angelo merkle spoke at the world economic forum. she said she stands behind the strength of the euro, but warns that more regulation and transparency is required to rebuild the european economy. this is half an hour. >> ladies and gentleman, i very gladly accepted your invitation to come to gatos -- davos. this year, the theme -- i think that it describes a reality. i think that you need to look at neiman brothers and the aftermath of that to understand what was at stake. there is close integration and i think we learned that something like that should never happen again. for the past two years or so, it has been very comforting because politicians have demonstrated that they are capable of acting in the international community has proved that it can't actually work against the crisis. we have had the first meeting of the 20 in washington. we have made quite considerable strides in regul

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. >> and we appreciate -- [applause] >> we appreciate so much his participation and we have marvin kalb coming up next who will keep us in our foreign policy theme for the date at least in part. i haven't talked about his remarks with him. but don't you notice the intersection between politics and the process of foreign policy. and how not only it separates the left and right into warring factions, but how it also -- when you become the president and you're looking out through those windows in the oval office, it in a way brings us together because it has to be a unified foreign policy. and, therefore, it is a very worthwhile discussion for politics in the media. thanks again, p.j. crowley. >> okay, we'll take a quick little 1-minute break. really quick before -- i guess before we do that break. i've lived in washington now for several years. and coming from montana, you don't see a whole lot of television cameras out on your front lawn every day. and a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago i was on my way to work. running a little late. i had my ipod ear phones on the way on the metro