former secretary of state madeleine albright and former national security adviser stephen hadley, tondividuals who need no introductions, individuals who know a little more about individual security. we are delighted to have them on our program. with tomorrow about the report. secretary albright will present some introductory remarks and then we will turn it over to the panel. the, we will invite audience to contribute and ask your questions and engage in the discussion. thank you so much, and welcome, secretary albright. [applause] thank you very much, suzanne. it's a pleasure to be here to have the opportunity to share this with brookings, thank you very much for hosting this. i think, as you pointed out, one of the things that really distinguished the atlantic council plus italy strategy task --ce is the way in which atlantic council's middle east strategy task force. it truly is a collaborative effort and i think that as we talk about it today, i think that will become even clearer. really was terrific in terms of just working together. i enjoyed it very much. engagedalso, just a

former secretary of state madeleine albright and former national security advisor stephen hadley ledssion last week at the brookings institution about the politics and security of the middle east. of this is an hour and a half. >> good afternoon and welcome on behalf of the brookings institute foreign-policy program and the atlantic council. i'm suzanne maloney deputy director. i would like to extend a special welcome to my counterparts from the atlantic council who has joined us including brett and deputy director and ambassador richard lebaron and i would also like to extend a special welcome to our distinguished guest including his excellency ambassador. we are here today to launch a report commissioned by the atlantic council middle east strategy task force and written by my colleague who over the past year has convened a task force working group on politics, governance and estate society relations. this is one of five such groups organized by the middle east strategy task force launched in february, 2015. brookings foreman-- foreign-policy has been proud to contribute to the pro

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stephen hadley says he's not participating in the transition at this point. >> we also want to bring in political senior white house reporter edward isaac dovair. welcome to the broadcast. we just want to update everyone on some new math. actually, a projection election night style two nights of a tafe election, just tonight nbc projected donald trump the winner in arizona, picks up 11 electoral votes additional, adding to his total giving him 290 to clinton's 228. while she won the most votes overall, that is not of course how we award presidential elections. and much has been made of donald trump flipping parts of the rust belt, specifically, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. all three states were called for trump on lks night and will stay in his column. at this point the combined vote difference between trump and clinton in those three states out of more than 13 million votes cast is 107,330. if clinton had won all three states, she would have won the election. back to our conversation. kristin welker, a couple of observations. number one, the digital photography era was suppose

insiders like stephen hadley, who could be secretary of defense, along with bob corker of tennessee andohn fulton. who has the inside track? john: one thing we know about donald trump is that loyalty grammatic -- really matters to him. chris christie got a little bit of a demotion today, but i think he will be paid back in some way. mark: i disagree, i think he will get no job. john: on what basis? --k: that jerry krishna jared kushner does not want him in the government. john: explain to the world why he would be opposed. mark: when chris christie was the u.s. attorney, he indicted and convicted jared kushner's father. chris christie got shut out of being vice president because of this and i think he may be shutout of any job in the administration because of this. john: he will still go to mcdonald's with him, though, right? rudy giuliani, secretary of state? john: attorney general appeared mark: i don't think he will be attorney general. john: rudy giuliani is probably senate confirmable. mark: i think he wants to be secretary of state. john: this is one of the things donald has to co

3:00 p.m., former secretary of state madeleine albright and former national security adviser stephen hadley discuss middle east policies -- middle east politics. communicators,he former ftc commissioners robert mcdowell and michael cox on how the fec could change under the truck administration and a look at telecommuting asian issues facing the country. >> will start to tackle what's the future of the internet going beyond network neutrality, what does it mean. with artificial intelligence, what does it mean for jobs, the consolidation and commercialization? -- thense what plans set-top box item weather was not any sort of unanimity. probably also not going to get off the ground. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> steve fox, cofounder of the national kennebec's industry association talks about the future of the marijuana legalization efforts and regulation of cannabis. later, adam brandon, president and national republicans hope to achieve next year in fiscal and regulatory policy. we will take your calls. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter.

it features people like the former bush national security adviser, stephen hadley, whose name had been floated by some as a possible sec of defense, along with bob corker of tennessee, and the formeren ambassador, john bolton. so, john heilemann, who's got the inside track on these biggest jobs right now? >> well, the one thing we know about donald j. trump that we've seen over and over again, is that loyalty really matters to him. so these folks, especially folks like chris christie, obviously it doesn't look like loyalty is ironclad. you know, he got a little bit of a demotion today, that's a significant thing. but i think that chris christie is someone who will be paid back in some way. >> i disagree. i think he may get no job. >> really? no job whatsoever? on what basis? >> that jared kushner may not to see -- >> oh, the kushner veto. i want you to explain to the world why jared kushner would be opposed to -- not a lot of people know this story. >> when chris christie was a u.s. attorney, he indicted and convicted jared kushner's father and then made sure his sentence didn't get re

certainly, all those names are folks who we have heard -- >> how about reasonable people like stephen hadleyhat's what's so -- you raised the contrast between the -- >> or richard haas? >> these are all neocons. these are folks that are going to -- the other folks, we just talked about. john bolton, jeff sessions. these guys who are being considered for secretary of defense. traditional republican hawks. >> you've been great. come back and tell me something i don't know. we'll be right back. >>> we're back with the "hardball" roundtable. jay, tell me something i don't know. >> the people who really delivered this election for donald trump were surprisingly women. noncollege-educated white women swung very hard for donald trump. he was tied with hillary a month before the election. they swung and he won them -- >> near the end, too, i think. >> talking to folks inside trump's transition team, and they are absolutely relishing getting to people who opposed trump in the primary to go pound sand, from everything from inauguration tickets to lobbying contests. >> that's really going to help them.

bush, stephen hadley. later in the broadcast we'll examine other potential nominees to trump's cabinet. but first, we turn to his incoming vice president, mike pence, who is often portrayed as a counterbalance to trump and called a "bridge to the establishment." but our guest today says there is every reason to consider him even more terrifying than president-elect trump. the intercept's jeremy scahill writes that pence ascendance to the second most powerful position in the u.s. government is a "tremendous coup for the radical religious right. pence and his fellow christian supremacist militants would not have been able to win the white house on their own. for them, donald trump was a godsend." on friday, pence attended a performance of the broadway hit "hamilton" in new york city. at the end of the show, actor brandon victor dixon, who plays aaron burr in the rap musical about america's founding fathers, had a message for pence. >> we had a guest in the audience this evening. feist president-elect pence,

but it department say -- there's no option there for moderate, like richard haass or, you know, stephen hadley-- he's not even fishing in that stream. maybe bob corker, the senior guy on foreign relations. but what do you make of this? >> well, with you know, we don't really know a lot about where donald trump stands on foreign policy -- >> who's leaking this stuff? >> he's made a lot of very vague sort of generalities that allow people to see what they want to see about him. but now that it's his time to governor, he's actually got to make some real decisions about what kind of person is going to lead him and lead his foreign policy team and is going to advise him. and, you know, rudy giuliani is not somebody that comes to the table with a lot of foreign policy credentials. he was -- >> but he has -- >> the mayor on 9/11. >> he has an attitude. >> very aggressive. >> you get the message watching him, this guy's tough. >> yeah, he's tough. here's what is so striking about this. as the president gets ready to leave his presidency, think about 2008, when he came and he was senator-elect in 2007,

earlier stephen hadley, former security adviser to president bush was named because, in part, he was in the never trump movement. and is widely respected for his knowledge of the world. you've got these different ways of trying to float names. some are real, some are not. some are people trying to get a job, some are people trying to bring names into the conversation. my new reporting says donald trump has not been presented with any names for cabinet positions yet. the team has been working to identify three to five potential candidates for each of the cabinet positions. those people on the list have not been contacted to determine if they'd be interested or available or anything like that. that's not how the process would work. once presented to trump he could have interviews with those he would like to speak to and jobs could be offered going forward. everything that's been talked to related to who might be on the list is in that very early stage. i'm told that vice president-elect mike pence, his senior team, they'll be getting access to this new information as well as the family

panelists, former secretary of state madeleine albright and former national security adviser stephen hadley, two individuals who need no introductions, individuals who know a little more about individual security. we are delighted to have them on our program. we will speak with tomorrow about the report. secretary albright will present some introductory remarks and then we will turn it over to the panel. finally, we will invite the audience to contribute and ask your questions and engage in the discussion. thank you so much, and welcome, secretary albright. ms. albright: thank you very ms. albright: thank you very much, suzanne. ms. albright: thank you very much, suzanne. it's a pleasure to be here to have the opportunity to share this with brookings, thank you very much for hosting this. i think, as you pointed out, one of the things that really distinguished the atlantic council's middle east strategy task force. it truly is a collaborative effort and i think that as we talk about it today, i think that will become even clearer. but it really was terrific in terms of just working together

later today madeleine albright and stephen hadley will discuss the politics of the arab world. that will take place at the brookings institution. it serves starts at 3:00 p.m. eastern. a little bit later another event. the council on foreign relations host a program and it features several former chief of staff. it is live at 630 eastern time. eastern time. it will also be in c-span. i live look outside. the potential cabinet members. it has been a busy scene outside trump tower today. there has also been a lot of traffic. the hawaii democrat kelsey gabbard. that is trump spokeswoman. we missed kelly and conway there. she is being considered for an ambassador post. she released a statement. we discussed of riley variety of foreign policy issues. you can read the impact tire statement online. go live now back to trump tower to hell hear from kelly and conway. they went against the party quite broadly -- boldly early on. he was quoted as saying that he thinks that they should stop the identity policy. i think there is a recognition at this. there are a lot of voters that feel lik

we will be hearing from madeleine albright and former national security advisor stephen hadley. he will be at the brookings institution. live from the council on foreign relations, the conversation about presidential transitions with former white house chief of staff from the obama, bush and clinton administrations. >> follow the transition of government on c-span as donald trump becomes the 45th president of the united states and republicans maintain control of the u.s. house and senate. we will take you to key events as they happen without interruption. watch live on c-span. watch on-demand at c-span.org or listen on our free c-span radio app. up next on c-span, a conversation about what to expect in a trump administration foreign-policy. we hear from journalists, authors and a college professor, all speaking recently at the city club of cleveland. this is one hour. >> good evening. i am stephanie damsky, director of programming, and it is my privilege to welcome you to the special edition event discussing foreign-policy issues facing our 45th president. these events are prese

panelists, former secretary of state madeleine albright and former national security adviser stephen hadley, two individuals who need no introductions, individuals who know a little more about individual security. we are delighted to have them on our program. we will speak with tomorrow about the report. secretary albright will present some introductory remarks and then we will turn it over to the panel. finally, we will invite the audience to contribute and ask your questions and engage in the discussion. thank you so much, and welcome, secretary albright. [applause] ms. albright: thank you very much, suzanne. it's a pleasure to be here to have the opportunity to share this with brookings, thank you very much for hosting this. i think, as you pointed out, one of the things that really distinguished the atlantic council's middle east strategy task force. it truly is a collaborative effort and i think that as we talk about it today, i think that will become even clearer. but it really was terrific in terms of just working together. i enjoyed it very much. i think also, just as we engaged a m