Cochair of our organization, Condoleezza Rice. [applause]er you will be hearing from secretary rice in half an hour she is one of the conversationalists. The other chair could not be here but he is very much a part of this effort perk i want to pay tribute to former secretary of defense mr. Bill and janet cohen. Welcome secretary. [applause] and i also want to paid tribute who embodies bipartisanship every effort across partisan lines is a National Security advisor as well. My close friend as one of the people doing the interviews the subject is china. All of us agree our relationship is the greatest challenge that we face as a country in the next several decades. It is an important moment in that relationship jimmy carter and deng xiaoping. For most of that time republican and democratic administrations. We all felt that we felt we wereth seeking cooperation with chinese and they felt the same way. In recent years there is no question that both countries have swung from cooperation to
This is how the debate is playing out in the papers starting with the Washington Post. Democrats hang up on Bernie Sanders in South Carolina debate. Ruckus york times, democratic debate yields no clear challenger to sanders. The wall street journal frames it this way, rivals focus on sanders at South Carolinas debate and the Washington Times this morning, not so friendly fire at sanders. What are your thoughts on it this morning . We will show you one of those moments where the Democratic Candidates go after senator sanders and his electability. The only way you can do this is to actually win the presidency. I am not looking forward to a scenario where it comes down to donald trump with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950s and Bernie Sanders with a nostalgia for the revolutionary politics of the 1960s. This is not about the 1970s or the 1980s. This is about the future. This is about 2020. We are not going to survive or succeed and we are not going to win by reliving the cold
Subject a very important subject as you may know i am a pharmacist currently the only pharmacist serving congress of healthcare something extremely important to me. It is also important to the american citizens and everyone would agree with that. I thought it was interesting that you start by you start the book with the premise that the Healthcare System is broken. And if we look at the polls, think the polls would indicate that. Almost 70 of the people in america say the Healthcare System is broken. Right, i really think that healthcare is going to be the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll just came out from dallas it said 35 of the American People polled rate healthcare is extremely important as one of the issues. We have seen in the polling, 53 of americans support a singlepayer with no private coverage at all. But now 65 are supporting the public option which will be a Government Insurance plan that would compete against private insurer
That. 70 percent of people today say the Healthcare System is broken. Right. I really think it is the number one domestic policy issue and in our recent poll from gallup said 35 percent of American People pulled Way Healthcare is extremely important and 53 percent of americans support singlepayer with no coverage but now 65 percent support the public option which is a Government Insurance plan to compete against the private insurance and that is what i call a steppingstone approach. You would think the proof is in the pudding if you look at the last election cycle two years ago, i guess one year ago, my party, the Republican Party was ousted as the majority in the house many people would make the argument the reason why is healthcare. Many of us campaigned on repeal and replace unfortunately we did not get that done for ago that showed at the ballot box. It was unfortunate because in the house and the senate to say it is access to obama care and it is a disaster turning the Healthcare
Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all get cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch a very important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say word about that but first i want to recognize some very distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of our Organization Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice who was here with us. [applause] and youll be hearing from secretary rice in about half an hour. She will be one of our conversationalists. Our other cochair, harvard ever does professor, could not be here with his buddies very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill cohen and mrs. Janet cohen. Welcome secretary. Janet, welcome. [applause] i want to pay tribute to one of i think one of the people who for me a bodies bipartisanship whos involved in every effort to