this, we hear from secretary of state, hillary clinton, and joint chiefs of staff chair admiral mike mullin this lasts about 35 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. i just concluded a phone call with president medvedev us. after a year of intense negotiations, russia and the united states have agreed to the most sweeping arms control agreement in decades. one of my missions has been to address the threat of nuclear weapons on the american people. that is why last april, i stated that we sought a world without nuclear weapons. a goal that has been embraced by presidents like john f. kennedy and ronald reagan. this will not happen in the near future but i put together an agenda to pursue it. to secure formal materials from terrorists and reduce nuclear arsenals. a fundamental part of that was the negotiation of a new treaty with russia. furthermore, since i took office, i have been committed to a renewal of our relationship with russia. we can work effectively in the interests of our two nations and the prosperity of the greater world. we have worked together on afghanistan. we have coordinate

you heard mike mullins said what he had to do with his counterparts. had to talk to my counterpart many times. because president obama and president medvedev's directions were very clear. we want to do this, and we want to get it done in a timely manner. but it took a lot of work. just a few weeks ago, i dispatched under secretary to geneva because we needed to make it absolutely clear that this was a priority at the highest levels of our government. the russians responded to that very positively, and we began to just work out the last details. in addition the though, it is important to note that we made a decision that we wanted not just to add to the treaty agreed to. we wanted the protocols agreed to. sometimes the treaties and the past have been submitted while the work on the protocol still goes on. but we thought it was important that we go through all the work and the protocol so that when we went to our senate or when the russian government went to their counterparts, it was not just, what will be in the protocol, but it was that we can look to