it was the clinton administration, however, that made rogue regime part of washington's lexicon. when the defense secretary left aspen unvails proliferation initiatives in december 1993, he warned that the new nuclear danger we face is perhaps a handful of nuclear devices in the hands of rogue states or even terrorist groups. speaking in 1994 to politicians in brussels, clinton, himself, described iran and libya as rogue states. sec tear of state kris tosser rougherred to iran and iraq as rogue regimes in an address at georgetown university later that same year. in each case, the clinton administration focused more on rogues towards the yaits than the danger of rogue leaders posed to their own people. saddam hussein was a rogue leader pursuing nuclear weaponry and invaded kuwait. he was not a rogue because he gasessedded kurds and massacred shiites. tony lake, clinton's national security adviser, thought to define the concept, we've been together all parallelled definition using the term "backlash," the concept was the same. their behavior is often aggressive and defiant, ties be

in the clinton administration sent the clinton administration to have dinner with the senior pakistani military individual. >> guest: it was the tunnel and then it ended up being someone else. >> host: okay, i just thought it was fascinating so that we could be there and he could tell them, oh, by the way -- >> guest: in about 10 minutes, missiles will flatter your space. i understand. >> host: if you think it was on during this time. not, do you think it would be making sense of the obama administration would be part of his leadership during or right before this? do you think this is part of a? >> guest: i think from the point of view of normal practice between allies, it would have been prudent to have an arrangement with the pakistanis and we are told that we are conducting this operation in the territory. but by 2011 at art the party reached a conclusion and they made this to try to -- they tried to make an effort of a grand bargain in a big deal. pakistan's problems with india and afghanistan being addressed. some kind of an arrangement and backed was part of this. the military an

jon: he was at the white house when the monica lewinsky mess was plaguing the clinton administration. maybe that's a connection there. he comes also as a guy named pete rouse is leaving the white house. he's been the president's adviser for, well, back to the time when he was an illinois senator. here's a picture of rouse. "the new york times" points out mr. podesta and mr. rouse share some similarities. both are older than the 52-year-old president, mr. rouse is 67, mr. podesta nearly 65, and are said to be able to speak candidly to him, much like party elders. both also have far more experience, washington experience, than mr. obama. so this is a case, maybe, of a gray beard coming in to steady an administration that's a little shaky? >> possibly. john podesta is certainly a washington insider. he has great connections both from his nonprofit which has been able to be successful because of those connections but also through the relations he established under the clinton administration. someone who has connections where the president doesn't that he could reach out and maybe help par

on the role intelligence played in the clinton administration's policy decisions during the 1992-1995. these documents tell three important stories. first is one of presidential leadership. armed conflict broke out in bosnia after declaring independence from yugoslavia in 1992. the documents depight a newly elected president eager to address the intensifying conflict which showed no sign of resolution. in 1995, they led to the dayton accord that led to ending of fighting in the region. the second story is one of intelligence support. in june 1992, the cia created the dci bulkan task force under rapidly bulkan conflict. the clinton administration informed by the bulkan task force chartered a strategic policy melding humanitarian aide, economic sanctions, force, and diplomacy, but the path to peace, as these documents make clear, was treacherous, and the administration relied on accurate intelligence to make difficult choices. the last story is the uniqueness of the documents themselves. this collection has a portion of the bosnia wars, the youngest collection ever released in the 20-ye

in the case of the clinton administration when we worked with them, from 1993 to 200, one of the very four people of poverty left poverty, and huge economic growth. about 3 1/2, 4 million people, xw a million and a half people, lost their jobs. why is it so hard to look at the things that have work. try to find a way and say, which of these pieces really worked. find out what are their patterns? and how can we replicate it. >> do you remember you swore me in? >> i did. >> and we got a lot done during that period. maybe you ought to come back. i know exactly what works. i remember clearly there was a surplus when president clinton left. when president bush came in and the two wars and the economic policies and tax cuts for the welte. that surplus went down down down. thanks god he put forth the recovery plan. not one single remember voted for it, but believe you me, it turned the economy around. and he compromised, he worked with republicans. i wanted more in that, and it worked. >> let me ask you one specific idea, which i'll confess up front, i have a personal interest in this. just

i'm going to talk to lori first, i lamberto little bit on the comment that the clinton administration was able to implement -- i don't know if i wrote this down correctly. did you say 130 trade agreements without fast-track authority? and i am interested in how those are defined. and then to both of you, there is lot of press lately at the wto having finally reached an agreement. a package of fairly modest agreements, although i have not seen any text chat. wondering what you think of that is that the tide of trade agreement that we will see implemented here without fast-track authority since no one seems to be talking about fast-track authority? >> no 1203. -- trade agreements, the united states trade representative who served as an major chunk of the clinton administration. she said that in a speech here at the national press club in describing why it was not an impediment to her getting trade expansion and a way to not have fast track. there is a congressional record reference to 138 cheered agreements by congressman the seraphs from the ways and means committee. if you look at the

. >> you worked with john podesta when he was the first in the bill clinton administration. he's now coming back. the cavalry, they need help. >> john and he's bringing back fill sher repair row, a well thought of guy with terrific experience on the hill. it was very good for the president to add those. >> you were there for tough moments in the clinton administration. >> you made them tough. you could have gone easier on me. >> paul begala coming back to the white house helping this president get through the remaining lee years. >> he's doing great without me. >> oh, you've got that one to yourself, paul. you've got that one all to yourself. >> ben stein, paul begala, thanks very much. still ahead, what would you do if you were stuck in the freezing wilderness with little kids and just a little food? family was stuck in this jeep for days. you're going to want to hear what our own dr. sanjay gupta's survival tips for sub freezing weather are. that's straight ahead. orbiting the moon in 1971.as ead afghanistan in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male announcer ] once

she went from there to serve in president clinton's administration in several roles and then she went back to teaching at harvard and was subsequently named as dean of harvard law school, first female dean of the law school there. in 2009, president obama nominated her for solicitor general of the united states and she served in that office for a year and was then nominated as an associate justice of the supreme court. she took that position in 2010 and filled the vacancy of justice john paul stevens who, after his retirement, was our last lecturer here at the law school. those are the vital statistics. i want to tell you something personal about her and i brought this along so i could read it. this year in "time," she was named as one of their 100 most influential people in the world. i want to read to you what they had to say about our speaker today. "elena kagan the persuader. a lot of people like to talk about the swing court but every supreme court justice has one vote to cast and eight colleagues. what makes a justice particularly influential is the ability to persuade the other

back in the '90s, he file at least 18 suits against the clinton administration. he's also taken on former vice president dick cheney, facebook, opec, even his own mother. he is a professor of bjorntown university and a former member of george bush's senior staff. he too has been clued by mr. klayman. >> i think larry is a professional claim dlanl. he pretends he's fighting for the little guy when he is really fighting for himself and his own, in my opinion, delusions of grand you're. >> he has been at it for years. he founded the conservative government watch dog group, a group he later sued. yesterday's nsa ruling was a huge victory for klayman. a victory applaud by edward snowden who said, quote, today a secret program authorized by a seek court was when exposed to the light of day, found to violate americans' rights. it is the first of many. but his critics are quick to point out this battle isn't over. >> he may have won a battle. he has not won the war. there is a lot more to come in the appellate courts. this court could reach the supreme court. i don't thi

serve infrom there to president clinton's administration in several roles and then she went back to teaching at harvard and was subsequently named as dean of , first femalehool dean of the law school there. in 2000 nine, president obama nominated her for solicitor general of the united states and she served in that office for a asr and was then nominated an associate justice of the supreme court. 2010ook that position in of filled the vacancy justice john paul stevens who, after his retirement, was our last lecture here at the law school. those are the vital statistics. i want to tell you something personal about her and i brought this along so i could read it. this year in time, she was named as one of their most -- 100 most influential people in the world. read to you what they had to say about our speaker today. "elena kagan the persuader. a lot of people like to talk about the swing court but every supreme court justice has one vote to cast and eight colleagues. what makes a justice particularly influential is the ability to persuade the others to agree and that depends on the effectiven

i don't think that's -- but maybe john bring in some people to our clinton administration. i have to give van a little, you know. >> they're planning the president's library. i know what the first term room is going to look like, osama bin laden here, and obamacare here. what do you think the second term room looks like? >> it's very sad and quiet, and jeff zeintz still writing code. what is the second term room of every presidential library look like? they are not traditionally successful moments. i haven't been to either the clinton reich braer or bush library, but there's a moment from the second term that he doesn't want to remember. >> the nixon library has a good second term. think nostalgically about the old man. i think obama can aspire to a nixonian level of the second term. >> the serious answer to the question is -- get obamacare better launched. number two, work really, really hard on the one thing that might be legislatively possible other than not continuing to shoot ourselves in the head, which is immigration reform. john boehner has just hired somebody who h

it was the bill clinton administration in 1994. >> and as an activist, who went over to help train many of the political workers, president mandela wanted us to be there to help them with their transition, to encourage people who had never before ever voted to get comfortable with the process. it really was a very special moment. >> i remember when i interviewed him in cape town, mr. ambassador, you'll remember there, in march of 1998, bill clinton was there the day before, nelson mandela took him as president of south africa on a tour of robin island where he was in the cell for, what, 16 years. >>> and there were reports during that time on robben island, there were reports of that. he said that's ridiculous. this is a new south africa. he was totally confident in the face and people of south africa. >> el had had -- if you had just done the greatest negotiations ever, to hand over power peacefully, without undue compromise, but with sufficient compromise, i think that he understood that he was giving those generals more than a place in the sand. he was giving them the freedom to be h

administration, congress started legislating much better protection. but it has the dysfunctional outcome that you say. it's actually not making american diplomats safer, because it's so difficult to get into an american embassy that today go out to have their meetings -- that they go out to have their meetings. so they are less well protecteddal hoe they're doing their jobs well. they're out and about in foreign societies being the america that people see. >> host: i'm going to read a quote you have here in your book, tell us who this is from. washington awoke, a capital at war. the indecisions, hesitations and doubts of the past year, the pretenses and fumblings were gone. argument other the country and its capital turns to what americans like and do best, action. in a few months, half a continue innocent and 130 million people were transformed into the greatest military our the world had seen. >> host: what is that from? >> guest: yeah. it is dean acheson writing on december 8, 1941, right after pearl harbor. he was at that time the assistant secret

that's why we had surpluses at the end of the clinton administration, because we had growth. part of the reason the deficit is likely to come down the future to some degree is because the economy looks better over the longer term than we thought it was going to be. but you still have to make these tough political decisions. if the president had early on taken the bull sense proposal which is deficit reduction group that he had appointed and headed from the state of the union message okay they've given us this proposal. congress, go to work on it and get me a budget by july, six months from now. early in his career as president it might have changed the paradigm. >> one thing that was in the congressional in-box, you're going to tell us, may not be there any more. have they come to an agreement on the military appropriations. >> they have the national defense authorization has come an agreement. they announced they're going to fast track it to get it done before the house leaves at the end of the week. that means none controversial things that were agreed upon with this agreem

in the year two thousand he shook females hand but again i mean under the clinton administration the blockade against cuba was tightened and the policies were made even more aggressive you know it doesn't really mean anything it's part of the insincere diplomacy that occurs in these kinds of world events that unfortunately have little impact on our day to day reality thanks for the good to talk to a lot of your a military thank you. the chemical agency overseeing syria's toxic disarmament says there's a high chance the next phase won't be completed on time under the most critical chemical should be transported out of the country by the end of this year but since the route from damascus to the port city of the takia runs through rebel held areas there are fears the weapons could end up in the hands of extremists before syria has complied with all the deadlines and he's expected to finish the process in the middle of next year french journalist says that even though the rebels may follow the mission it's the government which we throw into the dogs. the big danger of course is that they

administration. it was abolished in the back administration. she also asked or top officials to fully prepare for any contingencies. the proprietor charge the so they can continue want to curtail the brick he's now worry credit records related to the streets to keep a close eye on the situation unfolding in the north and the fetus from security posture. and particularly she cursed them illustrate to closely cooperate with us four cents a share for a chat with neoprene nations and international community earlier that day tour to the director senior secretary president have warned of possible provocation. don't get between incheon and package a premium. hamilton and compare that with an onion little teeny the secret to helpful. more money to buy the pack and put that tactical pt has gone nine to nineteen. the session off the south china and other offices or early on emergency standby with president beck calling for nationwide efforts to prepare for any possibilities. consider the ship called the graphi

s this week yesterday the former clinton administration labor secretary blasted republicans for blocking every attempt by president obama to do something about america's ongoing poverty program. years of president barack obama we see the issue the problem worse well the problem is worse i think it has something to do perhaps with the intransigence of the speaker's party because every time there was a jobs bill every time there was an effort to expand a low income housing every time there was an effort to provide a better it in modern times for united states we're talking about equal opportunity and where russia is fellow guest former speaker of the house newt gingrich tried to blame democrats for poverty in america right back pointing out that any quality is a problem everywhere. what's happening in america is happening all over america and it is happening in a way that has to do with the fact that that wages median wages are going nowhere and rents are going up and there is absolutely no response in washington or elsewhere particularly particularly newt i'm surprised you are not here as

government the clinton administration then could be ever committed but we don't ever have that kind of discussion because could after it was created as this incredible bogeyman like i said the devil of all devil because he's an arab it works very well for the anti arab. right narrative onslaught that's going on the global are just arab countries for example an arab civilization so what went down in libya was a massive us french backed invasion us troops all over the place committing massive atrocities that were all covered up and did they achieve their aims yes they remove gadhafi even though he was our man even though we had business deals with because duffy throughout the two thousand and five six seven years and they destroyed the country destroyed the infrastructure absolutely destroyed the systems that could not be had put in place and whether you like the guy or not it created some systems in his own country that some autonomy that were effective and useful and the people of libya many people in libya appreciated the guy and i'm not calling him a hero in any sense of the word

government the clinton administration then could not be ever committed but we don't ever have that kind of discussion because it could after it was created as this incredible bogeyman like i said the devil of all devil because he's an arab and it works very well for the anti arab. right narrative onslaught that's going on the global are just arab countries for example an arab civilization so what went down in libya was a massive us french backed invasion us troops all over the place committing massive atrocities that were all covered up and did they achieve their aims yes they remove gadhafi even though he was our man even though we had business deals with because the feet. up to two thousand and five six seven years and they destroyed the country destroyed the infrastructure absolutely destroyed the systems that could us he had put in place and whether you like the guy or not it created some systems in his own country that some autonomy that were effective and useful and the people of libya many people in libya appreciated the guy and i'm not calling him a hero in any sense of the word

government the clinton administration then could be ever committed but we don't ever have that kind of discussion because it could after it was created as this incredible bogeyman like i said and the devil of all devil because he's an arab and it works very well for the anti arab. right narrative onslaught that's going on the global are arab countries for example an arab civilization so what went down in libya was a massive us french backed invasion us troops all over the place committing massive atrocities that were all covered up and did they achieve their aims yes they remove gadhafi even though he was our man even though we had business deals with because the feet throughout the two thousand and five six seven years and they destroyed the country destroyed the infrastructure absolutely destroyed the systems that could be had put in place and whether you like the guy or not it created some systems in his own country that some autonomy that were effective and useful and the people of libya many people in libya appreciated the guy and i'm not calling him a hero in a sense of the wo

administration we saw this massive deregulation the economy. why is twenty sixteen the next date i mean obviously we're in this right now but why is that the peak or are right now and and it is both an economic cycle and a political cycle the crash really began and late two thousand and six and those people within the bush administration had any sense saw it coming and did everything they could to keep it from happening before the november two thousand and eleven they were not successful and i think that's part of why we have president obama rather than president mccain president obama and his staff are looking and the fed they're all looking at the same thing not my watch we don't want to happen on our watch and so they're doing everything they can to try to push that crash back to november twenty sixth and that's why we chose that book. title you know betty for the book title. the thing that obama has that bush didn't and the negative thing that obama hasn't pushed it is bush didn't have the entire democratic party trying to make the crash ha

administration. and they felt that the military's covert unit would be the best weapon that the u.s. could use in a discreet global secret war. and so they injected jsoc with steroids. and general stanley mcchrystal ran jsoc for much of the bush era, and they began operating what was effectively a global hunting organization. and they weren't hunting deer, they were hunting people. and they did their own interrogation. they have their own secret prisons. it was a whole parallel apparatus to what the cia had traditionally had sovereign realm other. >> host: how did you get involved in this line of work? >> guest: purely by accident. i went to university thinking i wanted to be a middle schoolteacher. and i discovered very soon after i got to the university what it meant to be on academic probation. i was a terrible student. so if i'm a horrible student, i don't know how i'm going to teach the youth of america to do anything. [laughter] it's not that i was screwing around and out partying, i just wasn'

government the clinton administration then could not be ever committed but we don't ever have that kind of discussion because it could after it was created as this incredible bogeyman like i said the devil of all devil because he's an arab and it works very well for the anti arab. right narrative onslaught that's going on the global are arab countries for example an arab civilization so what went down in libya was a massive us french backed invasion us troops all over the place committing massive atrocities that were all covered up. did they achieve their aims yes they remove gadhafi even though he was our man even though we had business deals with because duffy throughout the two thousand and five six seven years and they destroyed the country destroyed the infrastructure absolutely destroyed the systems that could not be had put in place and whether you like the guy or not it created some systems in his own country that some autonomy that were effective and useful and the people of libya many people in libya appreciated the guy and i'm not calling him a hero in any sense of the word i

administration we saw this massive deregulation the economy why is twenty sixteen the next date i mean obviously we're in this right now but why is that the peak or are right now and and it is both an economic cycle and a political cycle the crash really began into late two thousand and six and those people within the bush administration had any sense saw it coming and did everything they could to keep it from happening before the november two thousand a to like they were not successful and i think that's part of why we have president obama rather than president mccain president obama and his staff are looking and the fed they're all looking at the same thing not my watch we don't want to happen on our watch and so they're doing everything they can to try to push that crash back to november twenty sixth and that's why we chose that. title you know betty for the book title. the thing that. obama has that bush didn't and the negative thing that obama hasn't pushed it is bush didn't have the entire democratic party trying to make the crash happen worse and faster and obama has virtually t

administration we saw this massive deregulation the economy why is twenty sixteen the next day to i mean obviously we're in this right now but why is that the peak we're in a right now and and it is both an economic cycle and a political cycle the crash really began into late two thousand and six and those people within the bush administration had any sense saw it coming and did everything they could to keep it from happening before the november two thousand a to like they were not successful and i think that's part of why we have president obama rather than president mccain president obama and his staff are looking and the fed they're all looking at the same thing not my watch we don't want to happen on our watch and so they're doing everything they can to try to push that crash back to november twenty sixth and that's why we chose that book. title you know betty for the full title. the thing that obama has that bush didn't and the negative thing that obama has supported is bush didn't have the entire democratic party trying to make the crash happen were and faster and obama has vi

and i want to ask lori first to elaborate a little bit on the comment that the clinton administration was able to implement -- i don't know if i wrote this down correctly. did you say 130 trade agreements without fast track authority? and i'm interested in how those are defined. and then for both of you, there's a lot of press lately about the w.t.o. having finally reached an agreement in bali, a package of fairly modest agreements -- although i haven't seen any text yet -- but i'm wondering what you think of that. is that the type of trade agreement that we will see implemented here without fast track authority since no one seems to be talking about fast track authority for bali? thank you. >> the source for the 123 trade agreements is charlene the nited states trade representative who served for major chunk of the clinton administration and she said that actually i think in a speech here at the national press club in describing why it wasn't an impediment for her to get trade expansion under way to not have ast track. the -- now, there is a congressional record referenced 138 trade

during the clinton administration mandela praised fidel castro, and he referred to dibban dictator moammar qaddafi as a brother and a friend. when criticized of his phrase of qaddafi, mandela hit back calling the administration arrogant. by the time president george w. bush entered the white house mandela was out of office in south africa but still an annoyance to the bush administration. after president bush said the iraq war was about liberation mandela famously said was all he wanted was iraqi oil. now, however, the for nelson mandela the flags have been lowered to half-staff and a reminder that a string of u.s. leaders at some moments in time a subversive threat. vet often sometimes the administration treaded carefully with mandela. after the comments regarding the iraq war, h president bush said that he was a great leader but on iraq they have a disagreement. >> thank you. more than a thousand african-american brokers have won a multi million settlement against bank of merrill lynch, one of the largest race-discrime cases ever, john, i don't know if there is an appeal to come, but at

bush and clinton administrations as they discuss the effects of the north american free trade agreement 20 years after its implementation. and later, the senate returns at 3 p.m. eastern for debate and votes on executive branch nominations including homeland security secretary and assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. >> also today the chairman and ceo of general motors, dan akerson. he gives an update on his company's progress and investment plans as well as the state of the auto industry. he'll be speaking to a luncheon at the national press club in washington d.c. you can watch it live at 1 p.m. eastern over on c-span. >> now, a look at the role and influence of the federal reserve in global markets. you'll hear from a former director of the federal reserve's international finance division who's now the global head of international economics at citigroup. he's joined by former officials with the central bank of cyprus and the bank of england. this event was part of a symposium held recently at george washington university. it's about an hour. [applause] >> well, than

you know, i worked in the clinton administration so i had all these friends from, there and then in democratic politics in new york, so that's what we kind of bonded over. that was our religion to a certain extent. >> that was your religion. >> yeah. so now suddenly i had different interests and was moving in another direction. not that there was a falling out or they were mean to me or anything, just we started being interested in different things. >> as you went public with your beliefs, what was the reaction of your family? >> they were not very happy about it. i come from a very intellectual family, very liberal family that's, you know, my parents are professors, and they thought it was extremely odd and didn't like it very much. i remember tell mig mother i'm going to a bible study and she said, okay, and then she said, well, that's good, that's a nice education, you know, for literature and things like that. and i said, no, i believe it. and she sort of said, okay. >> the reactions to your piece and whether it surprised you. >> very positive. yeah, i was surprised. i got so many e-mails.

that relates to the bush administration, the clinton administration. all the way through. it is beyond me why they pay more attention to that particular issue. we have are is great little bit of a program problem -- a little bit of a software problem. i think eventually, that problem gets work out. i think thet, republicans will rue the day they made that a central issue. it will be working for millions of people. right now, it is a plus for them, but they cannot count on computers to be troublesome a year from now. >> [inaudible] it was a caucus that was quite rambunctious when you were trying to lead them. does this strike you as a smart leadership move to get control back? but the budget issues on the back burner, but the committees work their way and put the spotlight on what is the underbelly of the democratic troublesht now, the that obamacare is having? >> that was part of the strategy. republicans had to get off the crisis to crisis management. they received most of the blame for the shutdown. it was not fair, but they did receive most of the blame. now the slate i

i read about her policy leadership in working out the deal with north korea under the clinton administration, which rovided them nuclear power plants, fuel. got them up and going and also agreed not to inspect their nuclear facilities, which gave north korea time to develop nuclear weapons. and in order to get us to give them nuclear power plants and all they needed to make nuclear weapons, mostly what they needed, all they had to do is promise they wouldn't pursue nuclear weapons. they got to be thinking, these americans are the most stupidest people in the world. we'll make nuclear weapons. and we have the same people involved in the obama administration want to do the same type of thing with iran. the trouble is, this time it really is a threat to the united states. it's a threat to israel and we have betrayed ourialy, unfortunately, in israel. any way, here's the people in whom the clinton administration and numerous people in the obama administration have such faith in. this article today, 5:07 p.m., rth korea state media says cle of kim jung inch l was executed. and wendy sherman persi

ambassador to brazil during the clinton administration. >> good morning. good morning to many good friends in the audience. i am jane harman, president and ceo of the wilson center. i am delighted to welcome you to this just before the christmas holiday important event. the wilson center knows a lot about brazil. and so does our keynote speaker and good friend ambassador tom shannon. our brazil institute led by paulos otero is this from your place in washington for dialogue on u.s./brazil policy. we were the first to honor dilma rousseff when she became president of brazil. we regularly host brazilian governors and legislators and are trusted platform to air the good, the bad and ugly in our relationship. tom shannon qualifies as part of the good. i hope he's relieved to hear that. as thelose to four years highly regarded u.s. career foreign service ambassador to brazil he is back in washington as senior advisor to secretary kerry. there are lots of rumors about ... brazil is the be brics. to introduce him is former brazil ambassador, u.s. ambassador to br

administration. we look forward to those remarks. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. it is great to be here. thank you for the introduction. also, thank you to my friend carol browner for taking care of the easy things and leaving me with a more complicated work. thank you for your years of service. you do tremendous work at epa. first, i want to congratulate everyone at cap. i understand you are 10 years old. congratulations on the anniversary. it is an incredible achievement to be the place where the best minds come to work and look at opportunities or how we can get together and take action on opportunities to strengthen our country. it is great to be here. i cannot thank all of you enough for the work you are doing on issues like climate change that go to the heart of asking ourselves the question of what kind of a country, and what kind of a world, do we want to leave to our children and grandchildren? these are big issues, and i am glad to be here to talk about them. certainly, i want to get

waco was supposed to be a way for the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms and the clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons. by accusing the president of working with the u.n., the united nations, in an effort to confiscate our guns. quote, there's no doubt president obama and his anti-gun pals believe the timing has never been better to ram through the u.n.'s global gun control crown jewel. registration is the first step towards outright confiscation. and this treaty sets the stage for confiscation on a global scale. he's referring to a treaty signed by the u.n. that will represent global arms trade in an effort to stop military equipment from getting to the terrorists and dictators. it does not require regulation inside countries. meanwhile he compared to president saddam hussein with children in the audience. here he is. >> we're asking the president to go through the process if he thinks his bills are good, his law is good, then he should go through congress. he's not a king. using children, that reminds me of saddam hussein when he used kids. >>

during the clinton administration mandela praised cuba's communist dictator fidel castro and referred to libyan dictator muammar qaddafi as a friend. president bush said the iraq war was about liberation. mandela said all bush wanted was iraqi oil. now the flags in washington have been lowered to half-staff. the icon, whose legacy was at times considered a subversive threat. >> u.s. administration always seemed tread very carefully with mandela. and many officials who served as president throughout the years are even more delicate saying this is not the time to r relitigate those old conflicts. >> for more on the mood in south africa let's go to my colleague, mike hannah. he is in soweto, and it's great to sue you. how would you describe the mood on that street in that neighborhood this evening? >> well, it's a very strange mixture, tony. it's a deep sadness among many here. but there is also an insistence that there must be a celebration of his life. throughout the day here we have seen people dancing, singing, moving up and down. it's way past 1:00 in the morning local time. that th

you were at the white house during the clinton administration, and you talked about, you know, it's not quite the same, i suppose, hearing your father speak, with his booming voice and that of nelson mandela's. but their presence is similar. >> their presence. their presence is very much similar. i mean, i remember when he was in my mom's office at the king center. my mother hosted the trip that he took to atlanta. and he came to the king center, and our family had an opportunity to sit with him just a little while. where just remember that his peaceful presence filled that room. and he didn't have to say a whole lot. i mean, because his being just spoke so much. then again, when i was at the white house during the clinton administration, you know, you want to hear what he has to say because it's like, this man has paid a dear price. and he has conducted himself, as my father would say, on the higher plain of dignity and discipline, and you can't help but want to hear what he has to say. >> everyone knows, everyone knows who dr. martin luther king is. but i tell you, bernice, there are

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i think the last thing i noticed , just the council itself, i was honored to serve in the clinton administration as well whenever something called the president's working group. two secretary geithner's leadership, this council has come together, a place where we can collaborate them a have honest discussions, and when we disagree, we disagree agreeably. and i think the sign of that is that tomorrow we will, as i can predict -- keep fingers crossed -- i think we will bring an important role across -- rule across the line, the vocal room -- volcker rule. again, thank you. not have a statement. i want to thank you, mr. secretary, for those kind words, and thank my colleagues on the council. very rewarding working with all of you, and i think the council has served its purpose of helping us work together better and to better coordinate our efforts. very important that we recognize the financial system is a system. we cannot look at a piece by piece, but as a whole, and the council has been effective in promoting that holistic approach to oversight and regulation. so thank you, and again, it is been

gretchen, bringing in john podesta, an old hand from the clinton administration to be the chief counselor for president obama, do you think that can help turn thing around this year? >> yes. i think podesta has a great history in washington at being able to create relationships on capitol hill. he is known for processes and systems he put in place in the white house and i think that's what we've seen the obama administration needs because time and time again the president has found out about things about reading the headlines on things he should have known about, things his secretaries and administration should have made him aware of. having said that, one person can't solve all of the problems this administration has had especially when you're looking at the problem of trust, trust and credibility are something that is suffering very much with this administration. and those things are very hard to rebuild with the american public. >> doug, potential glimpse into how this white house might operate in the next year or two came back in 2010 when the center for american progress, which john