let s hope he makes a rational choice. we ll continue this conversation with the deputy national security adviser. we ll talk about the other big foreign policy story of the day. former secretary of state madeleine albright daying at the age of 84. talk about her legacy, her work, about how you believe she ll be remembered. i think she s a transformational figure in the history of american foreign policy. both because of the trail blazing aspect of her career as the first woman to be secretary of state. the period of time of support for democratic values that were spreading across the world, particularly in eastern europe. i think personally though as someone who kind of came of age in the early 2000s in democratic foreign policy circles, i cannot overstate how much she mentored everybody. thousands of people. i remember being invited to her home in my 20s. shocked that i could even be there.
question reflecting on. if we look at this question through a geopolitical lens, question through a geopolitical lens, it question through a geopolitical lens, it is question through a geopolitical lens, it is all about the nato expansion and russia s security concerns, expansion and russia s security concerns, ratherfrom expansion and russia s security concerns, rather from the perspective of those countries that ithink perspective of those countries that i think madeline albright understood very well, i think madeline albright understood very well, that wanted to join nato, mavbe very well, that wanted to join nato, maybe because they knew the kremlin better maybe because they knew the kremlin better than we did. i think it is precisely better than we did. i think it is precisely what is happening at the moment, precisely what is happening at the moment, that in many respects actually moment, that in many respects actually proves that madeline albright s line was r
medal of freedom in 2012. i was not born in the united states and so for a naturalized citizen to have the opportunity to represent this amazing country abroad and to be a part of history is unbelievably moving for me specifically. albright was 84. thanks for joining us. ac 360 begins now. good evening. we begin tonight with perhaps a clearer sign yet not only are ukrainian forces making progress in the counter offensive, it is tangible progress that in some places can be measured literally. tonight according to a senior defense official, fighters east of kyiv have managed to push russian troops 22 miles farther from the city than they were days ago. a little more than 12 miles to the east of kyiv yesterday to 34 miles today.
his nominee for the supreme court, judge ketanji brown jackson is facing her second day of questioning before the senate judiciary committee. we re going to break down what happened later in the hour. and the other big story we are following today. the death of a pioneering figure in global democracy. former secretary of state, madeleine albright, who served for four years under president clinton. the first woman to hold that position. she came to this country as a refugee herself at the age of 11 when her family fled from the nazis. evo dalder said of her, quote, when it came to the need to protect people from dictators and genocidal wars, she was the conscious of the clinton administration. she was 84 years old. we turn our focus to the attacks on ukrainian civilians. kyiv is still facing brutal
Late one night in 1995, in a cramped airplane cabin high over the Pacific, Madeleine Albright put down a draft of a speech I was set to deliver in Beijing at the upcoming United.