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Segment for remarks from hillary clinton, discussing americas role in the world during a recorded Virtual Event hosted by the Atlantic Council. You are watching cspan. The first woman to be the president ial candidate of a major u. S. Political party. One of only three women who has served as secretary of state. She was first lady and has been a u. S. Senator. We are delighted that she is going to have another first with us as she will be the first speaker in our brandnew series, alexion 2020, americas role in the world. Part of the Atlantic Council frontpage series. Leaders, wef global have had heads of state from columbia, afghanistan, and london. We have had the. Ecretarygeneral of nato we are delighted to have former secretary of state, hillary clinton. We will feature the most prominent voices shaping the International Dialogue to explore u. S. Leadership and interests in the world alongside our friends and allies. Secretary clinton knows that this is a [indiscernible] and at the
We can see them as inflection points. Largely inflammation. The best example is in 2016 and the republicans primaries, theres a real civil war in the Republican Party the establishment represented by bush and others, do not denomination, do not get the support of the market people. The god of the revolutionary donald trump. The democrats are going to that right now. Going to have a civil war in their party right now pretty is going to be the traditional, or an outsider or socialist. But that is indicative of the fact, the stuff that is more for the last 40 years in the United States to govern the people, barely has not kept up with the country. I guess at the end of this book, that i realized after a long period of sort of thoughtfulness know until the wilderness died figured out. It is an american ghost of these divisive periods. Danielle we are very dynamic. Demographically, geographically, economically and we are constantly reinventing ourselves not just those individuals but as a n
At the end of this book i realized after a long period of thoughtfulness and i went into the wilderness. Is that america goes through these divisive periods roughly every 40 years. Why . We are a very dynamic country. Socially, economically. We are constantly reinventing ourselves. Not just as individuals but as a nation and government by its nature, its a status quo institution. This is how weve always done things. We will do things the same way again. Its people will then gets dark. America is set up to have these revolutions. Political revolutions. We had one in the beginning but ever since then, weve mostly had the revolutions that have played out and thats what we are in the middle of now. One of the things you said in the beginning of your book. You said without definitions, we are talking past each other or more likely just screaming at each other. Before we spoke, we had a conversation about the idea we can have constructive dialogue across the aisle. Which might make for good
Washington and we the people. Im going to get right into the idea of revolution. You say in the book america has been through divisive. Before, some worse than the ones were iwe are in today with the hindsight of history can see them as Inflection Points, the transitional period between the old system that is broken down and a new one so largely. Are we in an Inflection Point . Guest absolutely. We are in the middle. The best example is in 2016 in the republican primaries there was a real civil war that the Establishment Republicans represented by jeb bush and others didnt get the nomination, didnt get the support of the American People. It was the revolutionary donald trump. The democrats are going through the same thing right now they are having a civil war in their party but is it going to be the traditional democrats, is it going to be some outsider, is it going to be a socialist but that is indicative of the fact washington doesnt work. It hasnt kept up with the country and i gues