Moderates. Welcome, everybody. Thank you for skipping lunch and coming to our panel. The subject today is finding a new equilibrium in the middle east and we have a terrific panel representatives of the region and try left, foreign minister of saudi arabia, deputy Prime Minister from turkey, administer secretary defense minister from germany, Prime Minister of bahrain and foreign minister from the uae. I thought i would begin by taking a couple minutes to talk about what i think are the forces of disequilibrium that are impacted in the middle east or impacting the whole world and give each of the ministers a chance to talk about what they see as things that created a disequilibrium but how we stabilize the region. My very short take on the world is we are in the middle of three Climate Changes at once and we are in the middle of the change of requirement of the climate and were going for what i call later to now and i was growing up in america in the 60s and 70s later was when you can
Best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg. Our National Book festival cochair in a very generous supporter mr. David rubenstein. Please welcome both of them. [applause] thank you and enjoy. Thank you veryer much for coming. Thank you for having me here. Thank you for being here. Back. Hard to believe that you have now been out of government for nine years so before we get into your new book on democracy which i highly recommend it will talk about it in a few moments, tell us what you have been doing the left government other than writing three best level selling books. You teach at stanford and what else . Ive gone back toar what i consider my real profession. I hadan that digression into washington but i have been at stanford since i was 25 years old and i started there as an assistant professor and i have returned to stanford. My appointment is in the Business School but i teach both business students and undergraduates and ive teach a course of american policy. I ha
C before we say or do anything else today i want to pause to extend our thoughts and our prayers for the wellbeing of with scalise and our colleagues. Police and staff who were attacked by gunman this morning in virginia. Several members of this committee were there. This is a sad day for our country. We still dont have all the details but we do know that there are those who want to use acts of violence to create chaos , to disrupt our democracy. The American People will not let them when. So after deliberation with the Ranking Member, we have decided to proceed. The secretary has a very challenging schedule. Given the circumstances of the delayed start of our hearing, i want to appeal to members who intend to use less than their full five minutes so that more of our colleagues have a chance to speak and i will be abbreviating my Opening Statement. Today secretary tillerson will testify on the administrations budget and reorganization plans for the department of state. First off mr. Se
C before we say or do anything else today i want to pause to extend our thoughts and our prayers for the wellbeing of with scalise and our colleagues. Police and staff who were attacked by gunman this morning in virginia. Several members of this committee were there. This is a sad day for our country. We still dont have all the details but we do know that there are those who want to use acts of violence to create chaos , to disrupt our democracy. The American People will not let them when. So after deliberation with the Ranking Member, we have decided to proceed. The secretary has a very challenging schedule. Given the circumstances of the delayed start of our hearing, i want to appeal to members who intend to use less than their full five minutes so that more of our colleagues have a chance to speak and i will be abbreviating my Opening Statement. Today secretary tillerson will testify on the administrations budget and reorganization plans for the department of state. First off mr. Se
C before we say or do anything else today i want to pause to extend our thoughts and our prayers for the wellbeing of with scalise and our colleagues. Police and staff who were attacked by gunman this morning in virginia. Several members of this committee were there. This is a sad day for our country. We still dont have all the details but we do know that there are those who want to use acts of violence to create chaos , to disrupt our democracy. The American People will not let them when. So after deliberation with the Ranking Member, we have decided to proceed. The secretary has a very challenging schedule. Given the circumstances of the delayed start of our hearing, i want to appeal to members who intend to use less than their full five minutes so that more of our colleagues have a chance to speak and i will be abbreviating my Opening Statement. Today secretary tillerson will testify on the administrations budget and reorganization plans for the department of state. First off mr. Se