Secretary of state. Just a short time ago Hillary Clinton bid farewell to the department and the diplomats she has led for the last four years visiting more than 100 countries and becoming one of the most respected figures around the world in that process. I knew there was something really special about this place and that having the honor to lead the state department and usaid would be unique and singular, exciting, and challenging. It has been all of those things and so much more. As kerry prepares to take over, he may look back on this week as the last time he got a full nights sleep with a full roster of International Crises awaiting his urgent attention. Just today a suicide bomber at an entrance to the u. S. Embassy in ankara, turkey, killed himself and an Embassy Security guard. The white house said its working closely with turkish authorities to investigate what its called a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, violence escalated in egypt as thousands defy a curfew throwing molotov cocktails at the outer wall of the president ial compound. Police have responded by firing water canons, rubber bullets, and tear gas at protesters. Clashes this week have left dozens dead and prompted president morsi to declare a state of emergency in three cities along the suez canal. All of this in a nation that john kerry in his confirmation hearings declared crucial to our objectives in the region. Joining us now from cairo, nbc news Foreign Correspondent ayman mohadine. I apologize, go ahead. You go ahead. Tell us whats the latest from egypt . Well, is just going to update us really quickly on the news were getting about the rise in casualty figures. Class slashes ha clashes have been taking place outside the president ial palace. There have been fatalities. The riot police have been firing tear gas to keep the protesters pushed further back. We also under the profetesters have been fired molotov cocktails. It is a very chaotic situation that is still developing at this hour. Ayman, our relationship with egypt obviously very critical. One of the things that has been our point of leverage is the aid that we provide to the military, but these clashes, as you mentioned, are with the police forces. Whats happening in the relationship between the police and the military as this goes on . Well, right now egypts police and particularly the ministry of interior in general is widely despised here in egypt because it used to be the strong arm of the previous regime. Right now there have been calls by protesters and Opposition Forces to reform the ministry of interior to try to bring it up to standards with International Human rights levels at least and more modern equipment and perhaps even better human rights in general. As weve seen some of the images tonight, horrific brutality thats going to raise a lot of questions. Theres no doubt that the United States and other countries that have a tremendous amount of leverage here in egypt have the ability to push the Egyptian Government to reform its security services. The military since pulling back is still respected, although many people blame many of the countrys problems on the military for that twoyear period it led after the fall of president mubarak. But many people are looking for more International Support in helping egypt through this transitional period. Nbc in cairo, thank you. Lets get right to our panel. With us from washington, Michael Ohanlon of the brooginoo brook institute and heather holbrooke. Theres a fresh terrorist attack in turkey, a developing situation there. Obviously the situation in egypt seems to be deteriorating. What do we know about who is behind those threats though in turkey and what kind of threat that may pose to our interests. Its a great question because for john kerry, hes going to have to learn how to handle mull. Proble multiple problems and this is a good case study. The short answer is he doesnt know, he wont know for a while, and its not really his job to find out. Intelligence is going to have to work that problem, and well have to learn. In the interim he haings to stay on top of it obviously and worry about security for any other people who might be nearby who are americans. Otherwise, thats a problem he has to stay on top of but not necessarily lead to any big rethinking in policy. By contrast in egypt you have very fundamental questions about our policy that are being raised right now by the street protests and the degree to which we try to work with president morsi, the degree to which we think of him as a person we can work with taking in all the new information and figuring out how well we think hes responding, what kind of legitimacy he has, whether he can work with his own population. So that requires a lot of thought, and senator kerry, secretary kerry, is going to have to figure out how to make time to have that kind of thought process and not get overwhelmed by the problems like the ankara bombing, while theyre important and he has a role, his role on those is not necessarily as fundamental as it has to be on this egypt issue. Heather, it just goes to show ou how agile the secretary of state has to be. Case in point, we have the threat of ji hassists in north africa. We have heard secretary clinton mention the threats in Northern Africa and mali. Wrf does the secretary begin . Some have suggested syria should have been at the top of the list. Where does he start . Well, as mike said, you dont have the luxury of starting in just one place. You have to start everywhere at once, and so kerry is going to be looking at turkey and thinking about syria, think about the nato patriot missiles that are now there. Hes going to be thinking about what the diplomatic and assistance side is of what is going on in mali which he will know quite well because the u. S. Has been trying to support the emergence of a democratic government there for well over a decade. So those two crises are both great examples of where, as senator kerry, he traveled the world. He met with leaders. So the challenge that he has is to go from being someone whos able to drop in and then follow in an oversight role to being the person who really has to make the decisions and who has to say, you know, if mali is a priority, egypt is a priority, turkey is a priority, the conflict between china, japan, and south korea is a worry, the worry about a north Korean Nuclear test is a priority. We could go on and on. A secretary of states job really is to keep all those balls in the air so, frankly, were on tv talking about them as little as possible. Right. You know, michael, the other thing that strikes me that nowsecretary kerry is going to have to deal with is the changing nature of some of these engagements. Its not just drones and deployments but whats the complement of troops we send . Whats the complement of non of folks from the state department that we send . The relationship between the pentagon and the state department seems to have changed as well. How will he weigh in on that . Yeah, those are good questions. I think if i could just take two examples. With syria and also with afghanistan, you have questions of where the United States has to figure out some next policy steps that are pretty big and get to the question you raise, the balance between troops possibly, between diplomatic advisers, development experts, cia operatives, and where policy in the case of afghanistan has to make some changes, but its generally on a predetermined course but its going to have to vary quite a bit because were drawing down troops now. In syria i think what we have is a policy for all the good intentions hasnt really worked. And if i were secretary kerry, i would probably commission my best people to do a two to fourweek study on fundamentally new options in syria. Where i think the United States has to recognize that what its been doing so far hasnt been adequate and yet the country is in no mood for another 100,000 strong invasion and we cant do that. But weve got to find some nice mix of tools thats stronger than what were doing now because the current policy is just not working. Heather, it strikes me, we have sort of an interesting moment in history here. That we have the first time that a man is actually stepping in to feel the heels of powerful and effective women. Madeleine albright, cleeondolee rice, and Hillary Clinton. I remember when secretary albright was first named by president clinton. There were all kind of concerns that people wouldnt meet with her, wouldnt take her seriously. Obviously she got the job done. Now i think we think of diplomacy in a very different way. You know, i worked for secretary albright. I had the great privilege to be one of her speech writers when she came to the state department, and i vividly remember writing speeches about, well, what is it like to be a woman secretary of state. What is it like when you go to saudi arabia and you will she cover herself collar bone to anklebone or wont she. And then condi rice and the thigh high boots. The nice thing at that level is we didnt hear much about Hillary Clinton being a woman. She was an effective secretary of state. And one of the things that it has done, which is great and i do think this is a tall order for secretary kerry but i think hes up to it is its really expanded the idea which frankly we lost in the post9 11 period, that the secretary of states job is to be out there talking to people. That in afghanistan, in syria, in mali, in egypt, our best tools arent the military ones. We went through a decade where the military ones were pretty much the one onlies we saw on our tv screens and its somewhat ironic but also totally appropriate that its time for a man its time for a man to carry the torch of nonmilitary approaches. The fact hes a veteran make it is even better. Thank you both. Next from kerrys plate to the president s, the agenda for the white house on this first day of february coming up. Background checks will never be universal because criminals will never submit to them. Good point. Lets pass laws that only criminals will immediately obey. Lets do that. Whats this thou shalt not kill . Jirtion [ female announcer ] does your color have staying power. Or just seem to fade away, day by day . Dont compromise. The white house on this firs g Financial News of the day. Thats where the dow ended for the week. Moments ago just over 14,000. That is territory that it has not seen since october of 2007. And why not . Todays monthly jobs report only confirmed that slowly but surely were adding jobs to the economy. In fact, those jobs we added in november and december turns out the government underestimated how many there were, and as one cnbc contributor jokingly put it, the u. S. Is threatened by job inflation. Its good news for the white house, right . Yes, but between gun safety, Immigration Reform, the sequester, the budget, and a number of the International Crises, there is no rest for the weary. In fact, theres a phrase the white house likes to repeat to describe this very fact. Certainly in my job but i think congress as well, theyve got to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. So we can focus on jobs. We have to both walk and chew gum at the same time. Walk and chew gum at the same time. All right. Joining us now, michelle cottle, d. C. Correspondent for the daily beast and newsweek whose latest issue profiles Hillary Clinton, and julian epstein, a democratic strategist. Welcome to you both. Thanks. Good afternoon. Julian, how is the white house successfully managing each of these policy fronts and sort of making sure that they are putting out a consistent message both on the issue but then also making sure that supporters of each of those issues continue to be confident that theyre going to stay at the top of the list . Well, i think theyve done a brilliant job of doing that. If you look at all the major issues, budget, immigration, gunsdown the list, the president is winning the Public Relations battle on all the issues. I think the president has to get away from the idea that he will be the national solve for our partisan divide and embrace the idea that hes really the usher for a new progressive era. While i think the president will never find the bipartisanship in the halls of congress, he is finding bipartisanship in the streets, and the question for the president and for the white house at this point is how do you begin to marshal that bipartisan support that youre getting in the streets. Look at the numbers on guns. Were between 6 and 9 out of 10 americans are supporting the president s gun proposal. How do you marshal that support to make the republican obstructionists in the congress to pay a severe political price . I think the white house can do it if they do a few things right. One of the ways the president will continue to marshal support and i think julian is right if you look at the polls, most of the American Public seem to agree on the president on the things hes out there pushing. His last valuable asset is his time. On monday hes headed to minneapolis to talk with Law Enforcement. Then speak about gun violence. How important is the president s actual time in terms of going to the events, getting out there, and selling his proposals to making sure these things he keeps the pressure on. If you talk to pretty much anybody in the white house, they will tell you that the outside game needs to be played by him. You know, the lesson they learned in the First Administration is that you can try to play nice and you can talk a good game and you can try to work around inside, but they think that getting public support and, you know, he has that lincoln quote he likes. If you have Public Opinion behind you, you can achieve almost anything. If you dont, youre not going to get anything done. I think that doing forward is the big message that theyre just kind of pushing on everything. You know, julian, talking about immigration, obviously one of the top priorities, weve seen kind of a bit of a fracturing within the Republican Party over Immigration Reform, specifically the path to zin, but obviously some other issues. Is that going to create leverage for the president , an ability to pick off different members to get something done or is that going to make it harder to get legislation through. This is what we call a wedge issue. The democrats know this and the smart republicans know this. The republicans cannot, will not win. They will continue to be a Permanent Minority Party if they continue to do as poorly as they are with hispanics. Look at the comments vitter made about rubio the other day. I think what the white house is doing intelligently is building this left, center right coalition and watching the republicans twist in the wind. Same on guns to your question you asked michelle. What president clinton did in 1994 was to principally build out a coalition with Law Enforcement, with teachers, with parents, and they occupied the Political Center which is exactly what president obama is doing right now while the nra occupies the extreme political fringe opposing common sense things that 9 out of 10 americans support. Julian, let me follow up on that. I agree with you. At the same time at the same point were going to need a cadre of republican votes to get these things done. The more they fracture, yes, we can stand back and kind of let it happen. At the same time, weve got to make sure were able to get the republican votes that we need to make sure we actually deliver on the promise. And i think thats exactly right, karen. And i think what you do to my earlier point is you begin to identify those 30 to 40 republicans that you think you can get, and you build out these coalitions in their districts. That can be done in a number of places as we have seen from some of the polling data, a number of republican districts. On guns you do exactly what you did, what mothers against drunk driving did in the 1980s when they flipped president reagan on drunk driving laws. This is oldfashioned retail political organizing in republican districts where their numbers are weak and where they should be according to all Public Opinion surveys, they should be bucking the republican leadership, which is still beholden, which is still being held hostage by this extreme tea Party Minority that has very little public support out there. So, michelle, the president , hes doing well in the polls, they know they got to fight the outside game, they seem to be ready, the American People are with them. Hes handling the fight over chuck hagel. It looks like hagel, despite the sort of abuse he got yesterday will be confirmed. But then its also jack lew. We have heard that may be contentious, john brennan. Steven chu announced hes stepping down. Thats another opening to fill. Not to mention susan rices. At some point how much of a distraction are these fights and how much Political Capital do they eat up that sort of takes away from some of these policy things were talking about . Well, its always a risk and its become obviously a bigger deal in recent years and this is one of the reasons why i think rice stepped out of the running there because she didnt want to become a distraction. Obviously any post that has to be filled up will eat up a little bit of your capital, but tames there are a lot of issue that is cant be ignored. The sequestration battles and unlike julian, i do kind of think thats a difference between the gun and the immigration battle in that republicans themselves really want this immigration issue off their plates, and i do think youre you already see in the house the talk about theyre putting together a bill as well with bipartisan support that they want to kind of get this taken care of. So i think there are a couple big issues that even with the nominations that have to be dealt with are going to be front and center going for the next few months. I think thats right. Michelle cottle and julian epstein, thanks so much. Thank you. Thanks, karen. Coming up, scott brown out, geraldo . . Stay with us. All right, geraldo. As always, youre on the top of the news chart. You just have a flair for doing that. Good to see you. Have a super sunday. I will, i will. I look forward to the chicken wings. Justin owns city aquariums in brooklyn. 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Now, this comes one week after brown unleashed a string of late night head scratching tweets, whatever. He announced the decision by text message to the boston herald. He said, quote, you are the first to know. Thats right, more cyber shorthand brought to you by the letter u. More formal statement soon followed in which brown explained his decision in further detail saying that three Senate Campaigns in four years might not be the best option for continuing in Public Service. Brown also la mented the bittery partisan atmosphere on capitol hill. It sure sounds like a 2014 gubernatorial run for us. Lets fire up that pickup truck. Stay with us. The days top lines are coming up. Victor victor i got your campbells chunky soup. Mom . Whos mom . Im the giants mascot. The giants dont have a mascot ohhh eat up new jammin jerk chicken soup has tasty pieces of chicken with rice and beans. Hmmm. For giant hunger thanks mom see ya whoaa. Oops mom . Im ok. Grandma . 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Insulted him a little bit. Fox news has the best reporters, the best commentators. Without a free fox, theres not a free america. Theres no crying in baseball Tennessee State senator stacey campfield, im not sure he did that well in school. The kids have to become rocket surgeons. Laying out my ideas for Immigration Reform. Wants to be part of the solution. Or he can decide he wants to be part of a political issue. Is that guy good or what . Marco rubio. Why the sudden change, republicans . Perhaps you looked into your hearts. We were losing dramatically the hispanic vote. Or that. What is that supposed to mean to somebody . Why wont the black man half the country lives in fear of release a picture of himself holding a gun. We may end up in a situation that does threaten the rights of lawabiding americans. We must do something. First bullet went into gabbys head. Bullet number 13 went into a 9yearold girl. For women guns are grat equalizer. Lets get serious about this. Crazy. Looting and robbing. And raping. There are marauders out there. Overall world view has never changed. America must engage in the world. I would like to answer wlt youre right or wrong. Its far more complicated. You created quite a firestorm. Youre about to witness a Live Television event. A nameless, faceless, anonymous youve got to come back. All right. Lets get right to it. Joining us now is toure, cohost of the cycle here on msnbc and krystal ball, also a cohost of the cycle looking so lovely in red. Ened you a look nice in red. Thank you so much. Heart health. Its all about the heart. Thats right. Krystal. Were going to get to geraldo i promise but lets start with scott brown. If we must. So much speculation. He was the original tea party darling. Hes apparently not headed back to washington. In a statement he released today, he says i was not at all certain that a third Senate Campaign in less than four years and the prospect of returning to a Congress Even more partisan than the one i left was really the best way for me to continue in Public Service at this time. And i know its not the only way for me to advance the ideals and causes that matter most to me. That sounds like a run for governor, doesnt it . Ding, ding, ding. Absolutely. You could just shorten that to, you know, it doesnt sound like that much fun. And it doesnt. Tough get elected now, have to run again. And its a very difficult place to be a republican and be tied to the National Party in the way that you are when youre running for senate. And it is different when youre running for governor, when youre running for a state office. You can differentiate yourself from the National Party, be the politician he wants to be, the more moderate massachusetts republican. Thats right. I think that probably does make more sense for him. And i think this makes for sense for the democratic party. The ball bouncing the rye way for the democratic party. With the kerry pick were po worried about the most popular republican in massachusetts will have a chance to replrekerry. Scott brown wont be taking a seat in the senate, if i could just read this, but her ral low rivera running for senate in new jersey. Do you see it happening . No. Come on. Not own a run . I think hes going to run but is he going to win . Is he going to matter . I disagree with krystal, her ral low rivera is a joke, especially going to a serious political context. A total joke. You talk about proimmigration, promarriage equality, prochoice. That doesnt sound like a republican to me. I dont know how he even gets off the ground. Just in general as a person for what hes been in American Public life for 20some years, hes been a punch line over and over and over, and i think this makes a distraction the process into a total distraction. You make a very elegant argument but he did not sound like he was joking in this clip. Lets play it. He was i really do believe as a modern republican that there is a point of view that is unrepresented in states like new jersey. Youre right. There can be a new vitalization of the Republican Party. You got a republican governor in the state, a very popular republican governor. I mean, it sounds like his chances are a little bit more likely than toure suggests. I mean, hes not unlike chris clity in his demeanor, right . Brash, direct, straightforward. I dont know that he would win. But i do kind of like the idea of him being out there. I like the idea of having more voices of republicans who are prochoice, which used to not be an unusual thing in the Republican Party. ProImmigration Reform, which is becoming more common, and progay rights which is also becoming more common. Having those voices out there vocally in the Republican Party, i think its a good thing, and im not going to be the arbiter of who deserves to run for office or not. If you have that passion, he already has fame and attention, he doesnt have to run for office, if you want to get in there and serve, god bless you. You dont seriously think geraldo can turn the party around on issues no, but i think he can be a voice out there, and maybe slightly shift the party. Thats not a bad thing. Lets be honest, it could make for so much fun oh, oh, oh, it will be fun for this show, for the cycle, but, you know, its a side show. So lets stay in new jersey more serious matters. We have story on the front page of the New York Times today about new jersey senator Robert Menendez and his ties to a florida eye surgeon whose offices were reportedly raided by the fbi this week and it comes just as senator menendez is taking up the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations committee. Hes also part of the Bipartisan Group on Immigration Reform. You know, to some degree this is going to go its course in serms of an ethics investigation if thats what happens but to some degree what strikes me is this is just the kind of distraction democrats in the senate do not need when they have such a full plate in terms of the policy agenda theyre trying to push through. Absolutely. Senator menendez was standing out in front in Immigration Reform push. To see him distracted in this way is really disappointing because we need Immigration Reform. We need to get america straight on this issue, and this sort of this side show were full of side shows today on this segment, this side show is not helping with that. We should just call it the side show. Then the cyclists would be on the side show. Really . Okay. Well be serious. It is a very serious investigation, and i do think krystal, it could create you know how these things go. Things leak out, that creates the opportunity for lots of stories coming out. Regardless of whether or not half the time its true or not, its the distraction, right . Its the feeding frenzy that it creates that really becomes a problem. Its that endless drip, drip, drip of allegations, whats true, whats not true. Lets face it, the American People do not really trust politicians so they are apt to believe whatever they hear, and as toure is pointing out, it is damaging to democrats. Its damaging to the democratic brand and its a distraction not just from the policy agenda now but democrats are going to have a hard time holding onto the senate in the next elections. Republicans have a lot of seats that they could pick up next time. The last thing we need is snore se another seat that could be vulnerable. Anytime you have Corruption Associated with a particular party, the republicans will certainly try to make it about a culture of corruption within the democratic party. How much thats not a fair argument. But they will try to make that argument. I think a lot of it in the end will depend on how the par party so far senator reid is standing by nen mendez. How the party handles it is a lot of whether that becomes part of the brand of the party or not. We have to leave it there. Thank you toure and krystal ball. Thank you. Neck, the president prepares to take his message on guns straight to the heartland. Stay with us. 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Visit a sprint store, or call 8558784biz. President obama travels to minneapolis on monday to meet with Law Enforcement officials and deliver an address on guns as he continues to follow through on his promise to make sure that the issue doesnt fall far from the headlines after the massacre at newtown. This week is senate gun hearings on capitol hill as a backdrop, the president stood firm. If were not doing something to try to have an impact on that, to lessen it, even if its not perfect, even if it doesnt work every time, even if it doesnt save every person whos a potential victim of gun violence but we save a few, you know, if we dont do that, shame on us. Nbc News White House correspondent Kristin Welker is live at the white house. Kristin, well get to the trip to minneapolis in a minute, but i understand youve got some breaking news from the white house. Reporter thats right. According to multiple sources, secret Service DirectorMark Sullivan will announce his retirement later today. He has served with the secret service for more than three decades. I am told by sources that this decision comes after the inauguration. This is something that he has been thinking about given the length of his tenure at the secret service. Of course, during sullivans time at the agency, he had that scandal, the prostitution scandal with the agents in cartagena who were accused of soliciting prostitutes while they were there. It led to a dismissal of a number of agents. Sources tell me he believes this is a good time to leave. It is after the inauguration. Remember, you just had that dhsoig report which found that the secret service handled its own internal investigation of that cartagena scandal properly. That they followed all of the measures that needed to be followed. So, again, this decision to retire i am told by my sources who are close to this announcement say it comes after what sullivan believes was a long career and one that he is ready to step down from at this point in time. Kristin, switching gears to the president s trip on monday, what was it about minneapolis its a great thing obviously that theyre making sort of the outside game. We know thats been part of the strategy, but what about it specifically in minneapolis . Reporter right. Well, its no mistake that the president is traveling to minneapolis because Law Enforcement officials there have actually started to enact some of the measures that president obama would like to see enacted nationwide, including a Violence Prevention Program for youth, but more broadly they have expanded and improved their background checks, including information that they collect at the state level of people who are suffering from mental problems, people who have criminal records. So president obama will go there on monday to talk about some of his own proposals to stem gun violence, which, of course, include reinstating the ban on assault weapons, limiting high capacity magazines and universal background checks which then n recently said that is something they oppose. President obama and Vice President biden we expect them to hit the road to talk about this issue of gun safety. Its a part of their broader plan to get congress to sign on with some of the legislative changes they would like to see happen. Well, clearly as you point out, it does not seem theres a coincidence to going to a place where were talking about background checks given the attention that background checks and that issue received this week end. That seems to be where the white house is going to really have that and a high capacity magazines, those may be the two issues the white house has to fight the hardest on. Reporter absolutely. Because the ban on assault weapons is something that i think if you talk to folks on the white house and the hill, they tell you thats going to be the most difficult piece of legislation to get passed. The white house believes that they will have a better chance in terms of limiting high capacity magazines and getting universal background checks. That seems to have more broad bipartisan support. Having said that, of course, all three will still be a challenge to get through congress and then, of course, you have president obama signing those 23 executive actionself weeks a sv ago. Thats also part of his tactic in this case. In order to get those legislative changes enacted, he and the Vice President will be leaving the white house and taking their message on the road. Nbc News White House correspondent Kristin Welker, thank you. Reporter thanks. Next, whats next for former secretary of state Hillary Clinton . But first, amanda drury has the cnbc market wrap. 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Surrounded by colleagues, she reflected on her time leading the state department while joke being how much shes going to miss them. I am very proud to have been secretary of state. I will miss you. I will probably be dialing ops just to talk. I hope that you will continue to make yourselves, make me, and make our country proud. Ann guerin is Diplomatic Correspondent for the Washington Post and kiki mcclain is a strategist. Nice to be here. Here is what vuk me in that speech. We both worked for Hillary Clinton. When she talk eed about callingn to ops just to talk. What is she going to do next week . Shes really been in the spotlight since 1992 going from first lady of arkansas to first lady of the United States to running for the senate to running for the presidency to being secretary of state. Come monday what is she going to do . I think shes going to sleep a little. Shes been pretty clear about that. I mean, one of the great things about Hillary Clinton is her dedication to Public Service. And she has never been without the understanding that there are many ways to serve and it may come in small moments and big lenses like shes just experienced. I think the chance to refresh herself a little bit, both physically and emotionally and frankly intellectually will lead her to make decisions about the role that she believes is the most important one for her to play in the community in which she lives, be it the small neighborhood or the large world shes a part of. I would like to think shes going to sleep in, but knowing hillary i think shes going to wake up early and start take a walk. Maybe shell take a walk. She might take a walk. She used to love to do that in the white house with her little cap on. Ann, you wrote a piece looking at the legacy of Hillary Clinton and one of the things you talked about was the personal stature versus her diplomatic skills. Talk a little bit about that. Well, i mean, she brought both to bear in this job. She leaves Office Without huge accomplishments like a middle east peace deal or an opening to china but with enormous goodwill around the world. Higher probably personal ratings than any secretary of state has had for a long time. Certainly the highest in the obama administration. Shes one of the most recognized women in the world, one of the most admired. Some of her greatest accomplishments really were just showing up. The old woody allen line. She went to places no secretary of state had gone. She went bucketing about back roads through africa and all kinds of places that a secretary of state might not necessarily be seen to do kind of retail diplomacy. She brought i think a politicians flair to this of kind of glad handing and handshaking and doing a personal style of diplomacy that people around the world and certainly people at the state department really appreciated. Now, kiki, i know we dont like to speculate about 2016. I know. I know. Why not . I know, i know. Its so fun. Kiki, i want to ask you a question. One of the things that strikes me, everybody sort of says, well, if she gets in, shell be the nominee. This idea of inevitability i actually think was harmful to her the last time, and so i really personally dont like that conversation, but it seems like it is not going to go away until she herself makes the decision or makes a formal announcement about 2016. Well, i think youre right in your analysis its not going to go away, and i think the good news is regardless of what task she takes on, Hillary Clinton understands better than anybody that its hard work. I would push back a little on anns story and say this is a woman that helped lead the restoration of our image around the world. She brought diplomacy and smart power and Technology Together frankly in a way that helped lead the charge that everybody on the face of the earth can live up to their god given potential. That is an argument that she made and a challenge that she met and when you look at that kind of work, that describes the kind of stick to ttoativeeness. Two things that have struck me as hillarys tenure. Number one, really elevating the role of usaid and development as part of the tools of diplomacy. Thats something she did as first lady. That seems to have been a hallmark. Number two, here she is one of the most popular women in the country, one of the most Popular Figures around the world. She has really elevated the conversation about women and the role of women around the world in a way that i think we have not seen previously and i certainly hope Going Forward well continue to be a part of our own diplomacy. She lost no opportunity to really bring the cause of women to the fore in just about every ven sue, and she also made it kind of a habit to say the state department and usaid, all one sentence, all together. Those things do go together. The Development Community loves her and certainly womens organizations are very grateful for the spotlight she trained on the plight of women around the world and the Success Stories where there are some. I personally will never forget being with her in china when she talked about womens rights being human rights and seeing that come to fruition has been quite wonderful. Ann and kiki, thank you so much. Thanks so much. Thank you. Well be right back. And. Done. Did you just turn your ringer off so no one would interrupt us . Oh no, i. Just used my geico app to get a tow truck. Its gonna be 30 minutes. Oh, so that means that we wont be stuck up here, for hours, with nothing to do. 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