consider you will conclude that he s had quite a good run, and the score is very high on the positive side. .. [applause] [applause] [applause] tony blair was british prime minister from 1997-2007, and had the tony blair foundation. for more information visit tony blair office.org. former secretary of state condoleezza rice recalls her childhood in birmingham, alabama, in the 1960s, and profiles are parents, john and angelena. ms. rice discusses her memoir with her cousin constance rice, codirector of the advancement project at the millennium biltmore hotel in los angeles. the program runs close to one hour. spent we re going to reflect a bit for people. we are not sisters. we are cousins. we are related because our fathers are first cousins, and we are very, very close, both as children and as adults. and, indeed, connie and i did not meet until i was provost at stanford and she was be at the stanford law school. i had met her father many, many times as a little girl,
with canadians who were involved, and ingrid s parents were very vocal, unlike the parents of the americans. ingrates parents she was already a public figure and they went everywhere to try to get someone to agree to a negotiation. they also did not want to see ingrid rescued because they thought it was too dangerous than many of the families did not want a rescue. at the time uribe, the president was saying the only thing we are going to do is a rescue. we are not talking to the farc on this case, and so because ingrid s family had a lot of political poll in france and in colombia they were able to get a lot of meetings. however in the end uribe put a stop to any kind of sort of one-on-one negotiations. he would say okay will negotiate but, and i m not blaming uribe. the other side was just as bad. the farc would say we want basically half the country to be to mobilize before we vote even talk to you. and so it was really ridiculous posturing going on back and forth it never