we begin this evening with tom donilon, former national security advisor for president obama. >> no other country in the world has a global set of alliances that we have that have been put together on a bipartisan basis since world war ii, a tremendous asset. it a big difference between leading and having demand for to you lead, and just having leverage. and the desire for american leadership is, in asia and around the world very high right now. >> rose: and we continue with jonah hill who stars along with leo dicaprio in the wolf of wall street. >> pictures of your whole innercircle. >> okay,. >> you're all right. >> this right here's the land of opportunity. >> you just tried to bribe a federal officer. >> this is america. >> this is my home. >> good four, little man. >> the show goes on. >> they're going to need to send in the national guard to take me out because i ain't going nowhere. >> this movie is about some of the worst people in the world, probably a lot of the reason for the downfall of our economy. >> that's right. >> and our personal morals and everything. and you know, but

." >> tom donilon is here. he served as president obama's national security adviser until earlier this year. the president has called him one of the best national security advisers this country ever had. i am pleased to have tom donilon back at this table. >> glad to be here. >> i want to look back, but at where we are today first. iran and the negotiations -- how do you test the iranians? >> we have an agreement to have a negotiation for at least six months with a good basis, and not having the program go forward during those negotiations. the next phase is to see that they implement that initial phase. that is what is going on now. experts are now saying we get in place the mechanism we need to ensure there is not any more uranium enriched at the end of the six months, that they neutralize the 20%. that will lay the grounds for negotiations in january. >> what is the test going to be? >> it is whether the iranians understand and are prepared to go forward with the rollback of this program. you they really und

>> thank you very much. >>> let's bring in tom donilon. here for his first sunday interview. welcome to "this week," tom. let's begin with that cat and mouse game going on in china. people look at that and say, why should we care about a couple of inhabitated islands. >> you have mjor powers there, china, korea and japan. china have unilaterally undertaken steps that have increased tensions. most importantly, george, they present the prospect of the possibility of miscalculation in the states. remember, in 2001, we had an incident, you had a fighter pilot killed with a u.s. plane that had to land in china. that miscalculation and mistake that we have to be very careful going forward. >> when you were the president's national security adviser, you put a lot of energy and time, your personal time, in this so-called pivot to asia, should americans get used to the idea now that china is really our number one rival in the world? >> i'd look at this way, if asia is a principle opportunity for the united states and the world going forward, our prospects and asia's prospects are link

it seems someone like tom donilon should have been the ambassador to china.f you are interested in continuity of relationships, you were the guy the president sent to meet with these leaders time after time. it was said you carry the china brief. not joe biden. not anybody. you did. >> i spent a lot of time in china. our entire administration did. >> why not name you ambassador to china? >> i have been doing other things. the truth is, the china emphasis and engagement, and the asia emphasis and engagement, was administration-wide. secretary clinton took her first trip as secretary of state to asia. that was the first time the secretary of state had taken his or her first trip to asia since 1961. that was done early in 2000 nine. with respect to senator baucus, i think it is an excellent selection. why? it has the chinese will see it as one of the most senior people in the u.s. government, a person of stature, was close relationships with the president, coming to represent the united states. >> there is cyclical conversation about the decline of america. tell

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and tom donilon hinted at this. i would say this is probably more modest than has been portrayed when you look at not only the fact that the security threats that iran presents to u.s. core strategic interests, their support for terrorist groups and other things, the fact that we've been there for decades in the region i don't actually see us retreating in any way. if we were going to do that, we might have done that in bahrain or other places if we really wanted to make that a clear issue. but even if, and i was talking to people in the administration dealing with the sanctions on iran, they made an interesting point, said even if on the slim chance that we can get to a final agreement -- and i don't think there's any peeve today about that -- the set of sanctions that'll still remain in place because of iran's ballistic missiles program, its support for terror organizations, this is a country we have significant problem with. and i think just from a cool calculus i don't think, again, i think it's portrayed differ

remember, when he was clearly heir apparent, he was vice president of china and the administration at tom donilon'strated a set of meetings or meeting in 2011 with vice president biden, and they just hit it off, to tell you the truth. and biden learned a lot and i think he helped set up the successful meeting with obama. i think administration has its hands full globally, john kerry in the middle east and with iran. you've got chuck hagel dealing with egypt and other places. joe biden is the natural with je and i suspect in the array offal atlanta the obama administration has bide season going to basically be dealing with this region a lot more than we've seen. i think he's going to be the guy to try to talk sense to these different leaders, to try to get the south koreans to deal bet we are the japanese and to try to get both of them to interact in a more constructive way with china. there's a lot of resentment that's built up over thousands of years here culturally, but what joe biden is trying to bring a message is their prosperity regionally is on the line if they don't find a way to fundamenta

and tom donilon hipted at this. i would say it is probably more modest than has been portrayed when you look at not only the fact that the security threats that iran presents to u.s. core strategic interests. there's support for terrorist groups and other things. the fact we have been there for decades in region. i don't see us retreating in any way if we were going do that, we might have done that in bahrain or other places if we wanted to make that a clear issue. but even if -- i was talking to people in the administration dealing with the sanctions on iran even on the slim chance we can get to a final agreement, and i don't think there's any -- the set of sanctions remain in place because of ierp's missiles program. the support for terror organizations, this is kahn we have significant problem with. and i think just from a cool calculus, i don't think -- again, i think it's portrayed differently in the media debate about the interim agreement. i don't think yet represents anything but sort of ab attempt at diplom

and i think i fully agree that i think tom donilon was for a while the point pan for the saudis. and finish man for the saudis. and the system had not been fixed so there's somebody whom they and we view as the key intermediary s. and that's very unfortunate, was we do want to influence them. even punching under their weight, they obviously have a lot ofen influence in, for example, syria. they have an active syria policy. they have a very active bahrain policy, and we want to maximize our own influence, and we're probably not doing it right now. >> yep. and i think to respond to your, the u.s. having an active role in steering the saudi direction, i completely agree with the instinct, but the devil is in the details of how you implement that at time of change in the middle east. what i glided over in my opening statement but quite clearly in the first year of the arab uprise us, the saudis felt like they were on their heels. they lost partners, as they saw it. they thought that the united states and president obama had thrown mubarak under the bus. my personal view is that mubar