ambassador to nato, nicholas burns, talks about the future of nato and gives a preview of next week's meeting. the atlantic council hosts this hour, 25-minute conversation. >>> good afternoon and welcome. i'm fred kempe, ceo of the atlantic council. we approach the nato summit, and the heads of state and government gathering in chicago for the first nato summit in the u.s. since 1999. the council has been active all year, even a little bit beyond that, ever since the lisbon summit. the forefront of thought leadership on all the issues that will be addressed in chicago including but not limited to the issues of afghanistan, of defense capabilities, and of global partnerships and, of course, missile defense. and those will dominate the discussion. however, as important as those issues are, it was our feeling that something underlies all of this. and the most important thing in the alliance from the beginning of the alliance has been the question of lead ership and all those baskets of issues will be influenced by the kind of leaders who influence them as we go forward. secretary robert

-china relationship. >> nicholas burns, thank you. good to see you. >>> former senator tom daschle is the former majority lead somewhere senior policy adviser at a law firm. thank you. you've been in the situation whereas a senate leader you were in the small group who would get that call from the white house come to the situation room, we have to brief you on an action, on an operation. from your perspective, as a policymaker, we're signifying a very important motion, as nicholas burns, a nonpartisan player arc tested to just now. >> i think each of your guests have offered a very unique and interesting perspective, and i think they're all right. this is a very important moment. it's a moment that i think will be marked in history for generations to come. for us to call attention to it, to learn from it, to recognize its importance, and it really, in many ways, to set policy as we go forward as a result of this experience is critical. that's what we're doing. and collectively, i think, we've learned a good deal. >> what do you think

speakers include former ambassador dennis ross and nicholas burns. you can watch it live starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> over the past year, c-span public local content vehicle has taken booktv and american history on the road. last month, oklahoma city. the crews have the did the places that define a city's bearded and literary life. june 2-third, watch for special programming from wichita, kansas. >> the atlantic council held its annual awards dinner this week in washington. honorees include england's prince harry, who received a humanitarian award. we join the event as former secretary of state: powell gives a speech. this is 10 minutes. >> thank you, very much, for your kind introduction. all of you know him as prince harry. do not forget, capt.. [applause] apart from recognizing his contributions to humanitarian projects, i would be remiss if i did not note that his presence has altered the normal demographic makeup of our audience. [laughter] we have a record number of young, single women attending this year, prince harry. wh

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and nicholas burns had a 27-year career in the foreign service, including as u.s. ambassador to greece from 1997 to 2001. he's now at harvard's kennedy school of government. ambassador burns, you just heard john psaropoulos in athens. if the worst happens, if the greeks can't get it together, is there still this fear of tumbling dominos? is it still the crisis it was portrayed as a year ago? >> well, i thinkso, ray. we're witnessing a political earthquake in greece. the two major political parties that have governed the country for the last 40 years have have been repudiated. as you just heard a new rad al leftist party is ascending in greek politics. there's every reason to believe when they hold this second election in the middle part of june, that party will be the ultimate winner. it will likely be able to form a coalition government. its demand to the european union and the i.m.f. will be that the austerity package, so carefully and laborously worked out over twoyears, wi beradicated. if the european union should give greece a big break i don't think the europ

organizer andy thayer and an anti nato social media expert will take one side former ambassador nicholas burns and a nato spokesperson will take the other attendance is limited to 100 people the latest wgn tv chicago tribune poll asks if people support this weekend's nato summit the poll surveyed people in the city and surrounding counties have found that 59 percent people support chicago hosting the summit 23 percent were opposed when asked if they got the expected protests would be peaceful more than half said yes 32% in the protests will not however people that the protesters have a right to protest about two-thirds say that there should be demonstrating you could read more in today's chicago tribune not all of the nato talking about protests and security some chicago public school students are showcasing their talents in a video that they put together for the summit in the rutledge has that story this is the video from the mellon entry school winner more than 50 videos were submitted from cbs school students this one in particular made the mayor proud: >> people from all faiths and backgro

protest organizer andy.thayer and an anti nato blogger will take one side and former ambassador nicholas burnsato spokesperson will take the other attendance is limited to 100 people ... occupy chicago and several other groups outlined today their plans for demonstrations leading up to the nato summit randi belisomo is live ... this morning's event was held in occupy chicago headquarters here on the 500 block of west the cermak ... they believe nato policies trickle-down to hurt every neighborhood in this city ... they are tired of the spending on the afghanistan war ... sunday may 20th protesters will be gathering to march to mccormick place where the summit is happening ... because the g-8 summit had been scheduled to originally and then move to camp david is tough to ascertain how many protesters will remain prepared to march here anyway or go to maryland instead of coming to chicago ... 99 solidarity bosses are reported to be headed this way ... >>although occupy chicago has not been in the streets here as we were in the fall in such great numbers ... we have nearly 2000 people participati

speakers include nicholas burns. you can watch it starting at 10:00 a.m.rn here on c- span. >> these men go through things that no one can understand except each other. >> of first thing the startled us was the relationship between harry truman and herbert hoover. they ended up performing this alliance that neither of them would have anticipated and ended up being productive and formed the foundation of what became a very deep friendship. the letters about how important they have become is extraordinary. >> it may be the most exclusive club in the world. the private and public relationships of the american presidents from truman and hoover to bush and clinton. tonight at 8:00. >> of these men go through things anthat no one can understand except each other. >> the relationship between harry truman and hubert to restore told us. there were such a different men who ended up forming this alliance that neither of them would have anticipated. it form the foundation of what became a very deep friendship. the letters between them about how important they had beco

we also have nicholas burns. he is the author of "anchoring the alliance." >> over the past year, c-span's of local content video video store has taken booktv on the road. the cruise -- crews have not visited places. see our visit to wichita, kan.. >> this week on "q & a" nancy gibbs and michael duffy discuss their latest book entitled "the presidents club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." >> nancy gibbs, where did you get the idea for the "president's club?" >> it arose out of research for our last book where we came out of the back channel communications between presidents and president of different parties that we have not heard about. we were surprised by. we were taking mental notes about what is the deal between these men who have all been in this job, learned the lessons, and why are they talking to each other off camera? we got curious about that. >> we know each one of these men as individuals. we watched them. we voted for and against them. what no one had done is look at them in pairs or

nicholas burns, harvard professor, you said the president of the united states had one choice, one choice, to get chen out of china along with his wife. how did we end up here? >> well, john, i think it would be very unfair for me or anyone else to second-guess the administration. we don't have all the facts. i would say this. i think the obama administration did the right thing to protect him over the last six days and the right thing to negotiate privately with the chinese government. i certainly would never second-guess the commitment to human rights of secretary, hillary clinton and ambassador, gary locke. they have proven throughout their careers that that is an issue that is very important. i think the onus should be on the chinese government. they are the ones that mistreated chen and demanded an apology from the united states, an outrageous request from the chinese. if chen is now feeling, now that he is out of the embassy's care and is back. i would think the united states has an ab slight right to go back to the chinese and demand better treatment. they obviously had an arrangem

live pictures from the midlantic council here in washington, as we await remarks from nicholas burns,he former ambassador to nato. he is here to talk about his new report, "anchoring the alliance," looking at the future of nature. this is expected to start momentarily, and we will have it when it gets underway. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> awaiting the starting remarks from the former undersecretary for political affairs and u.s. ambassador to nato talking about the future of nato. it is expected to start hear shortly from the atlantic's council here in washington. ron paul is essentially suspending his campaign. he is done spending money on his campaign for the republican nomination. representative paul issued a statement saying he would continue to fight for the battle, but the fate of the libertarians and those in the tea party, he said he could no longer spend many tens of millions of dollars that simply does not have. mitt romney is shy of those needed to capture the nomination. also, president

[applause] >> former undersecretary of state and the ambassador nicholas burns has authored a new report on the importance of the atlantic alliance for ensuring nato's fidelity. he will speak about his report in the upcoming nato summit in chicago and take questions money at the atlantic council. you can watch it live at 4:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> these men go through things and have scars that no one can understand except each other. >> the first thing that startled us was the relationship between harry truman and herbert hoover who worked to such personally and politically different men and two in the performing this alliance that neither of them would have anticipated and ended up being enormously productive and formed the foundation of what became a very deep friendship. the letters between them later in their lives about how important they had become important one another -- how part of the had become to one another is really extraordinary. >> the private and pr

including the former undersecretary of state nicholas burns live at 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. then live at the atlantic council at 4:00 p.m. to talk about the future of nato on steps that the largest members must take to ensure nato stability. both are tomorrow on c-span. >> cutting back in an age where time is global in ways it was not 10 years ago. by that, i mean organized crime, whether it be cyber crime, white-collar crime, gangs, ms13. there globalized and the entity that has the best chance for dressing globalized criminal activity is the fbi. if you cut us from doing this at a time when much of this crime is globalized it hurts. >> on political correctness and the foreign intelligence surveillance act. pocket online. one of the many committee briefings recovered this past week. all online. you can select portions for email or to blog. c-span.org/videolibrary. >> now i subcommittee hearing on the future of the federal reserve looking at several bills including the federal reserve board abolition act introduced by republican presidential candidate ron paul. this is just

speakers include former ambassador dennis ross and former undersecretary of state nicholas burns. you can watch it live starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> up next, a discussion about the 2012 election strategy, tactics and issues. republican political strategist karl rove sat down with democratic campaign advisor at a forum hosted by "the wall street journal" editorial. this year's presidential election could come down to the state of virginia. from the waldorf-astoria, this is one hour 20 minutes. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. my name is paul gigot. i'm delighted to welcome you all to the inaugural event of the communal defense series. we're delighted you're all here. we hope to do this on occasion three or four times during the year. it is great to have you all here and to turn out for an interesting inaugural event amid the presidential election season. we have two experts here -- karl rove, the star of stage and screen. before that, the deputy white house chief of staff and architect who "of the two winning presidential winning campaigns" and some woul

. >> more now on at nato's future, from nicholas burns, the former ambassador.he upcoming nato summit is in chicago on this sunday and monday. >> good afternoon, and thank you for coming. i am fred kempe, and we are approaching the nato summit, the gathering in chicago for the first nato summit in the u.s. since 1999. the council has been active all year. but ever since the lisbon summit and remaining at the forefront of thought leadership on all of the issues that will be addressed in chicago, including but not limited to the issues of afghanistan and defense capabilities and of global partnerships and, of course, missile defense, and those will dominate the discussion. however, as important as those issues are, it was our feeling that something underlies all of this, and the most important thing of the alliance, from the beginning of the alliance, has been the leadership question. all of these will be influenced by the kinds of leaders into influence them as we go forward. secretary robert gates made that clear in his farewell remarks in brussels last june, wh

. >> nicholas burns, the former u.s.olitical affairs, talk about the future of the north atlantic treaty organization on monday. he's recently written a report on nato titled anchoring the alliance. the u.s. will host a nato summit next week in chicago. from the atlantic council, this is an hour and a half. >> sent by president elect to tehran today to have conversation with the iran government on the nuclear issue. i have no idea, of course, what was said in those meetings. i think it would have been preferable if he come to washington to talk with leading allied friends first a that iran before jetting off to tehran. we, of course, also mentioned germany in this report. and in many ways we have so much respect for germany, for its historic leadership of europe, for the role that chancellor merkel is playing in the euro debt crisis, and we hope for sustained germany -- german energy a nato, but i must as a winner at talked to scores of people on both sides of the atlantic over the last seven months, damon and myself and

ambassador to nato, nicholas burn, releases his report on relations for insuring the long-term violent of the alliance. -- viability of the alliance. this comes ahead of this weekend's summit in chicago with president obama and other nato leaders. ambassador burns will speak at the atlantic council here in washington. you can watch his remarks live beginning at 4 p.m. eastern over on c-span. >> now, assistant secretary of state rick barton lays out several approaches for how the u.s. can maintain stability areas of global conflict by being what he calls a pivotal player, but not necessarily a dominant force. he recently spoke at the u.s. institute of peace in washington d.c. this is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> well, thank you. thank you, pamela, and thanks to all of you, all friends. i do feel as if i am home, and i do feel as if usip is our home. and be so it's just a great, great pleasure to be among so many peace builders. all of you have dedicated so many wonderful years and superb efforts to this, and so as i look around the audience i just see people that i've admired for a l

. >> ambassador nicholas burns. valuable papers ask act acus.or. very important discussion. what is most import about the discussion, these are all issues that are going to stay with us. very glad you touched on them because it is all about leadership. on behalf of the audience as well. [applause] >> reading has become over the last two hundred years the ultimate democratic act of the ultimate democratic country because it makes it possible for the many to teach themselves what the a few once held close. the president can quote mark twain because he has read huck finn and the postman can the understand reference because he has read akin too. the demagoguery those still possible require a lot more self and cleverness because with careful reading of books and newspapers and material on the internet, their flaws are revealed to ordinary people like us. wasn't for nothing that the nazis made bonfires of books. >> in 1992, anna quinlan won the pulitzer prize for her topics. you can talk to the best-selling author on booktv sunday june fare on c-span2's in death. get a head start

later this afternoon on c-span former undersecretary of state nicholas burns speaking at the atlantic council about his ideas strengthening nato and european relations. that starts 4:00 eastern, live on c-span. >> we have a real demand for spectrum but we would be foolish if all we did was rely on things like incentive auctions and the auctioning of spectrum. >> i think it is important to have technological neutrality with respect to the commission rules in order to assure everyone is competing on level playing field. >> last week, vladmir putin was inaugurated to a third term as russia's president. at atlantic council a member of rush shells opposition movement spoke about fraud in russia's election. he said he doesn't think president putin will serve out his full six-year term. >> david, could you pull the door shut a little bit. let me begin today's event. my name is ross wilson. i'm the director of the eurasia center here at the atlantic council. on behalf of the council i want to welcome all of you here today for another a series of council events on developments in russia. other