Reflecting on bill clintons vision of america. The goal of the symposium is to drill down on the vision that helped bring him to the campaign and to office and we couldnt be more excited to start that this year. It is important to look at the Historical Context of bill clintons election and what happened in the 25 years between his graduation from georgetown and is election. Before we bring everyone up i ask you to sit back and enjoy what those 25 years were like. Coming out of arkansas in the postwar area, civil rights, caucasian boy who had an abiding sympathy to injustice, to go to georgetown happened to him. Behold he aspired to be like a king and john f. Kennedy. These delays he was moved by their power of words. He got some scholarship money, made his way to georgetown, fell under the tutelage of j william fulbright, fulbright in the 1960s was a powerful us senator, not only a leader in education but a great talent scout. He saw in bill clinton the best arkansas had to offer. Bil
Our trade architecture which had been a winning architecture since the end of world war ii was to make wins and increase the econom it is also timely because we are in imminent danger of dismantling the north american t and its predecessor. Those rules of the road have brought us to the kind of economic level that we have had today. Instead of tension and rekrim nation and reproach. T has fossterd a safe boundary and 1. 5 billion crosses. Reyeoh grand. The past two decades created a unique era of trust between the nation that has brought unprecedented security cooperation, intelligence sharing, antinarcotics enforcement, antiterrorism security, happened daily. Proof of the reality of this partnership is found at mexicos askedwith guatemala where our request mexicos efforts to stem the flow of essential american refugees take an enormous burden off our order control. Todays rhetoric is forcing mexicans everywhere to question the unquestionable. Did the country make a mistake 25 years ag
Our trade architecture which had been a winning architecture since the end of world war ii was to make wins and increase the econom it is also timely because we are in imminent danger of dismantling the north american t and its predecessor. Those rules of the road have brought us to the kind of economic level that we have had today. Instead of tension and rekrim nation and reproach. T has fossterd a safe boundary and 1. 5 billion crosses. Reyeoh grand. The past two decades created a unique era of trust between the nation that has brought unprecedented security cooperation, intelligence sharing, antinarcotics enforcement, antiterrorism security, happened daily. Proof of the reality of this partnership is found at mexicos askedwith guatemala where our request mexicos efforts to stem the flow of essential american refugees take an enormous burden off our order control. Todays rhetoric is forcing mexicans everywhere to question the unquestionable. Did the country make a mistake 25 years ag
State of depression. They moved through the stages of grief with regards to the death of the recall referendum from mourning to anger to bargaining and now i think were in a situation of pretty much depression where there does pt feel like there doesnt feel like there is a sense of possibility or hope about political change. Hockenberry we conclude with William Cohans conversation with journalist vicky ward. Her new piece is called the blow it all up billionaires. Whats really different about the mercers is not only did they lobby very hard the to have their preferred candidate and their and people they knew very well to then work with him, they actually want to blow up the system, the whole political system. They wanted to blow up the republican establishment. Hockenberry mark landler, chris chris, michael mccarthy, and vicky ward when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services
Times joins me now from washington. Would you say this is a test of the relationship between merkel and trump . It seems when i look at the body language of Angela Merkel, that she from the beginning has not known what to make of this man. Is there more clarity here . I think Angela Merkel is someone used to dealing with testosteronestyle men. She has dealt with Vladimir Putin in russia, bruce ghani in italy, erdogan in turkey. Now she is dealing with donald trump in the United States. The u. S. Is such a Major Trading partner and ally of the u. S. That she has to figure out how to work with the new american president. I think that is what you saw today whenever she may make of him and it would be wonderful to know what her inside thoughts are, she was going to make this relationship work. She came to washington to try to find common ground. I think the News Conference they held together was an illustration of two people literally poles apart on crucial issues. But at least from her pe