wonderful and very strong conveners of others who are like-minded in terms of this fight against terrorism broadly, but specifically iran s role in supporting extremist organizations. mr. secretary, and i have a question for you, good to see you, secretary tillerson, two questions, will you ever pick up the phone and call iranians s foreign minister? have you ruled out diplomacy with iran? secondly, on yemen, how does pouring in more weapons via saudi arabia actually hasten an end to that brutal war. mr. james come mr. jubeir can i get your reaction to the election of hassan rouhani? well, in terms of whether i would ever pick the phone up, i ve never shut off the phone to anyone that wants to talk or have a productive conversation.
counter iran s extremism and its export of extremism, in particular its support for foreign fighters, its payment of foreign fighters, its support of militia that are operating not just in yemen but in iraq and in syria. we are coordinating carefully around how we view the nuclear agreement, the jcpoa, to be used in containing iran s nuclear aspirations. it s not just between ourselves and the kingdom of saudi arabia, but as you re well aware, we have a group of like-minded that is focused on yemen, a group of like-minded that is a coalition of countries focused on syria. so i think the leadership really starts here in the kingdom with the strong leadership of his royal highness as well as the crown prince, the deputy crown prince and certainly the foreign minister. they have been wonderful and very strong conveners of others who are like-minded in terms of
jakes is one of the conveners. what can you do that you re not already doing? what we can do is highlight best practices. for example if we come together, we can touch a city. there is a group called somebody cares tampa. which at a certain day comes and gives food in poor communities. there are other examples of people that are reaching out in orlando where we met, there is a transitional housing police for people place for people coming out of prison that s up and operating. what we have is all these tremendous works that are being done, but they need to be focussed like a laser beam at a-risk communities. right now, a team of people willing to come and support the faith community here by rebuilding some of the businesses that have been torn up and really being service to the church, but, one church doesn t have it all. one church and one voice, but with all of you together, i wish
michael brown and the families of all of these victims. so 2013 is going to be a year of action. no doubt that what we re announcing today, the march along with the summit are but two first steps, two first steps on this important move to bring about meaningful and substantial change in this great nation. so let me introduce one of our conveners today we re just hearing from the president of the national urban league, president marc morial. there s been a meeting of the civil rights organizations today in harlem. they re working on a plan of action, announcing a call for action in 2015, a year, as he
critical coverage. but the, again the intensity and the desire to cover her is always tougher. and those analyses are always difficult. i will tell you as somebody who has worked for both president clinton and secretary clinton over the years, i was the press secretary at the dlc who took president clinton to his first new york times editorial board. those were great moments, i ve seen them engage in the press and recognize the role that they have. i think it s one thing that secretary clinton and president clinton admire and respect, is the role that the press plays in our democracy as a catalyst, as conveners to move the country forward. and that s something they care about. but just like any other group of people, under any other conditions, there are good days and bad days. so speaking of bad days, glenn thrush, in politico, hillary and me, the 2008 campaign was a nightmare, 2016 will be, will 2016 be as bad? it sounds like you had a lot of bad days covering hillary clinton, te