Good afternoon. Good evening, good morning. Wherever you are in the world, welcome back to this session on democratic backsliding and u. S. Global leadership. We are honored to have former u. S. Secretary of state Madeleine Albright and the Senior Editor at politico. Welcome. Good morning. Very good to be with you. Absolutely. Pping and will be if we can kickoff with a question about the pandemic. It feels like authoritarians are getting a free pass to implement more of what they would like to impose on their citizens. From surveillance to military tactics. Reference tos a china. Feel free to correct me. Situation where many countries believe china has been handling this pandemic better than the u. S. What is the outlook there . Where do you think that leads china . Clearly, china made a huge mistake from the perspective of the United States and democracy from the beginning by keeping andrmation about the virus arresting those that were coming forward with the truth. Whats interesting
Very good to be with you. Absolutely. Pping and will be if we can kickoff with a question about the pandemic. It feels like authoritarians are getting a free pass to implement more of what they would like to impose on their citizens. From surveillance to military tactics. Reference tos a china. Feel free to correct me. Situation where many countries believe china has been handling this pandemic better than the u. S. What is the outlook there . Where do you think that leads china . Clearly, china made a huge mistake from the perspective of the United States and democracy from the beginning by keeping andrmation about the virus arresting those that were coming forward with the truth. Whats interesting is, this is the real paradox, clearly societies need to have some kind of rules when the virus has taken over. There are rules about social distancing and Wearing Masks and things. That means theres a role for government in terms of creating the rules. Making sure they are carried out. The
Pandemic. One of the changes we need to make today to ensure that nato will be relevant and effective over the coming decade and in 2030 . To answer these questions, we will begin with saving remarks from the secretarygeneral. Then, my wonderful colleague in who works with, the alliance for securing democracy, will moderate a conversation with the secretarygeneral. She will start with fred and me and then take questions from you. Fred will close us out. Now a word about the secretarygeneral of nato. At a time when citizens in nato countries are looking for leadership, they need look no further than nato headquarters. Where secretarygeneral stoltenberg is providing strong principles and decisive leadership. It is my sincere pleasure to stoltenberg, secretarygeneral, to the stage. Mr. Secretarygeneral, over to you. Sec. Gen. Stoltenberg that afternoon from brussels. To karen anding fred in washington and welcome to all who are following us online. Last december nato leaders asked me to m
Im. Rather like a bloke into this thing or things freak me out terms of running discussions that move in its life like you have us and our Like Community today having that here pack on like my laptop and this is what we will often ask is there a story or if she think we should cover out in a scaled down haze and you can see clovis run to nelly and claim he says that in parts of government surveillance on its citizens the same rhetoric and euphemism used the war on terror to justify and president to present day to covering all the citizens is being developed around pivot 19 to track peoples movements so we want to discuss in National Today is being personally safe and healthy wolf giving up your personal data do you have to do that if your new chief jumping the comments that has that your opinions and your takes your experiences but you have to include them so you too can be in the street. Let me introduce you to the guests who introduced themselves to you got to run it welcome to the s
An awesome day i wanted to get with you first so thanks so much. Youre very welcome look forward to talking in the future. David, well see you later. Thanks for that. Good morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt coming to you live from separate locations. Interesting price, but not dramatic, another alltime high on the ndx for a second day. S p really about 100 points from going green for the year vix below 25 the 10year yielding 0. 8 very busy morning in terms of critical levels, morgan. Absolutely. I think the headline numbers are milestones you put out there, put night focus in terms of how swift the selloff was and plunged into a bear market and now how swift this rebound, this rally weve seen in recent weeks, has been as well. That being said, there is a lot and i feel like we say this every day, but so much for the market to digest right now, whether the ecb and the Bond Buying Program announced this morning, whether the initial jobl