Opportunity to be here at the Capitol Hill National security forum. Im grateful to my cohosts. Marco rubio and i are the senate cohosts. The four of us represent, i think, the best in bipartisan support for u. S. Foreign policy. Im grateful for this broad audience of folks from across the spectrum here in washington as well. I am particularly thrilled to have the opportunity today to talk with my dear old friend secretary madelyn albright. You are probably better known to this audience than any audience in the world. I think it bears repeating before your service, you worked in the United States senate as a staffer to senator ed muskie of maine. Shes the head of the truman Scholarship Award and the National Democratic institute and contributes to our National Life and dialogue in remarkable ways and is a tireless advocate for america around the world. Thank you, madam secretary, for joining us. Were going to talk broadly about six different themes. I cant think of one we left out, but
Accomplishment. Later in 2011, a successful drone strike took out an american cleric, anwar al awlaki, who was the First American targeted for death by the c. I. A. And was the first of the digital jihad. And im reminded its one thing to kill a man and another thing to kill his ideas. Here we are today in a threat environment which is extremely dynamic and extremely diverse. And the topic of our panel today is whether the i. C. Has the tools it needs to blunt this terrorist threat. And i would like to introduce members of our panel. I would like to begin with jane harmon, on my far left. Jay harmon is a very familiar face here on capitol hill. She resigned from congress in february of 2011 to join the Woodrow Wilson center as its first female director, president and ceo. Representing the Aerospace Center of california during nine terms in congress. Jane served on all major security committees and has made numerous congressional factfinding missions to hot spots including north korea, a
Well thank you all very much for joining us today. Im so grateful for the opportunity to be here at the Capitol Hill National security forum. And im grateful to my cohosts, republican senator marco rubio and i are the senate cohosts, chairman mccall and congressman are the house cohosts and the four of us represent i think the best in bipartisan support for u. S. Foreign policy and im grateful for this broad audience of folks from across the spectrum here in washington as well. Im particularly thrilled to have the opportunity today to talk with my dear old friend secretary madeleine albright. Ill greatly introduce you. You are probably better known to this audience than any other audience in the world but i think it bears repeating on taking the prerogative of a senator to say that before your distinguished service as ambassador to the United Nations and the 64th secretary of the United States, you worked in the United States senate as a staffer to senator ed mucsky of maine whose desk
Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. While the Health Care Debate has been divisive to say the least the American Public is pretty clear on what theyd like to see. A little unity. A new Kaiser Family Foundation Poll shows 71 of the public want a bi partisan solution to that break down includes 41 of, and 72 of independents. Hope of a gop only bill is fading away despite the efforts of Senate Majority leader, mitch mcconnell. Showing his frustration, mcconnell delayed the start of the august recess by two weeks in hopes of getting to a cons we simply, as a result of all this obstructionism, dont have enough time to address all of these issues between now and the originally anticipated august recess. Soledad ezekiel emanuel, an architect of the Affordable Care act, says the law needs an upgrade, but not a repealandreplace. Dr. Emanuel outlines his ideas in his book, prescription for the future. Thanks for joining us. You have been in meetings at the white house while the
We split the panels up so that this panel will address the papers on u. S. And chinese strategy and interests in the asiapacific region. And also u. S. China military issues. And the next panel will cover economics, global issues and politics. Scott kennedy will chair that session. We had a number of participants who helped write the papers or who joined us in study groups to review the papers. So this is a representative group, its clearly not everyone who was involved, but some of the key authors in each of the papers were going to address in the panels, body glazer, my colleague at css, senior director of the China Project will talk about the asiapacific papers. Were going to ask the panelists not to summarize the papers but to identify between the american and chinese papers the issues of convergence, divergence and some recommendations. My friend will present on the asiapacific strategy after bonnie. Then well shift to the military relationship, David Finkelstein and the member fr