shot off the charts. the state of the union is a tell ashs process because all of the pressures, bureaucratic apprecia appreciate you res come to bear on one point. i think this one, this will be a nonclinton one, i expect. one of the advantages for obama in having lost the house and therefore having lost the chance for any big accomplishments, it opens up more space for a more them attic speech. i suspect we ll get a more coherent literary kind of speech. you ve been in america for a long time but you re british. is this sort of like the queen s speech to parliament? how does this strike you? as a process i would never ever want to be involved with. i think it s interesting that you mentioned the clinton a rifd in 1996 in the clinton era.
receiving row sifrous of each other and that could get out of hand. china is now a global player. the issue is do we go forward together dealing with global problems or do we drift, drift into some sort of increasing confrontation. and one of reasons i wrote the article for the new york times early on was to encourage both sides to address the central question, is there a common agenda for us? i have to say looking at the communicate that they did pretty well. they started to talk seriously. the crucial issue from the american side seems to me was laid out by robert zellic when he was deputy secretary of state. in other words, will it be was it willing to produce global goods rather than just consume them? by that i mean do things on climate change and do things on trade and do things on regional
worried about? it s going to be a careful balance of both the big picture and the kitchen sink. it s going to be a tough one to do. what will republicans be wanting to hear? an apology. i m sorry, i m on the completely wrong track for the past two years. republicans are going to be looking for signs of weakness. there s no way around that. and does he seem uncertain and not seem to have a clear agenda. does he in any way look to beholden to interest groups at the time when republican interest groups are stronger. one very serious one, the serious suggestion, the mood of the country is terrible. you have almost half of americans thinking that china has overtaken the united states as the world s dominant economic power. something that is not true, may happen in the distant future, not true now. words to remind people of the strength and latent power of the united states, all of the sources there.
got to agree to investments and research development and infrastructure and say this is the growth agenda. this is the only way we can grow over the next decade. i agree with that. i think the zakaria agenda is a good one. the difficulty with that. there are two versions. the minimalist version, which is do a little bit tiny kitchen sink things and little bit on tax reform or the max mallist one, really do infrastructure investments and a lot of progress stuff and deal with the median term deficit and something on entitlements too, it s clear that would be a better outcome. it s striking that the u.s. is the one big western economy where we have no idea how the median term fiscal problem will be solved. in an ideal world we would start tackling this now. i think it will be tough for the
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