Iowa. We want them to listen to what we are saying. I think they have been in iowa a lot. I think they have been very happy about what they have done. I look forward to the next 78 days and monday, february 1 to get our caucus going. Mr. Kapur mr. K are there any specific issue that the democrats have catapulted t forefront of the conversation . How do you think the primary would be different if i were was not leading . Ms. Mcguire we are having a lot of talk about income inequality. That goes along with equal pay for equal work. Those issues of fairness are in this election. Ms. Swain dr. Andy mcguire joining us from iowa as the countdown to the iowa caucus continues. Thank you for your time. Ms. Mcguire thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. 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And the fact breaking series is another reason why. Says, cspan has performed another valuable Public Service with its series on the first ladies. Nowhere else can one find such a useful and insightful look into the lives of these women who played such a crucial role into the history of our country. Noted thatmpton cook it is an invaluable correction insight onon of rare our first ladies and the role the played in shaping america during their husbands presidencies. Available as as hardcover or the book, from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. Former british Prime Minister tony blair took part recently in a discussion about ending world hunger posted by the museum in washington which opened in exhibit of photography focused on the issue. Antiographer and antihunger philanthropist created the exhibit. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] thank you very much. It is my honor to be here with such a distinguished panel. You could not ask for three individuals who care more about this issue. I know that they all have a lot that they want to say so we will get to it. You. D, i will start with you are the one who was the driving force behind this. Take us back to the beginning. We know that you came from a farming background. Why this . I was teaching warren how to invest. Other than that, not much. Mother who spent her entire life dedicated to helping people. So i think that all of us kids grew up in a household where we were expected to give back to the community. And we had every opportunity in our lives to do what we wanted to do in many ways. And my dad explains it best when he talks about the ovarian lottery. He said he could be born in bangladesh or yemen or mullally, born to parents that are divorced or criminals or handicap with challenges for providing a living. All sorts of scenarios that could develop. But in my case, born a white male in the United States and that gave you every opportunity to excel in life that you could ever ask for. Hopefully those demographics are changing over time. That was the best situation could find yourself in in the world. I think that we knew that and appreciated that. And my parents had High Expectations that we would go in the world and do some things that are productive and positive. The big driver was how i grew up in what my parents expected of me. What was it about Food Insecurity and the african continent that attracted you . When we finally got some real money to spend, i was immediately attracted to trying to figure out where the most impoverished populations, where are those areas where the resources are very scarce or limited. Those are the places i was attracted to. Do a lot of work in Central America and mexico, but africa has some of the biggest challenges, especially Food Insecurity. Unfortunately,y, the kind of populations wanted to try to work with and those particular issues. Aboutre is a lot to talk in terms of your interest in what you have seen and learned. I do want to bring in Prime Minister blair, because it some point along the way, you gotten of the two of them and something grew out of that. Tell me how it got started. I went to go see the mountain gorillas for the first time. It was an incredible experience. Ive taken my son and other people. It is really something. That captured my attention and then i met a great woman who is maybe here tonight and i ran the International Gorilla conservation program. She kept wanting to come have dinner and i noticed that she had phd behind her name. So i kept putting her off. Finally she just showed up. I realized what an amazing job she was doing so that kind of hooked me in the region. Emmanuel, in 2009, we went to the park and in january 2009. The challenges he had but it really brought everything together. It brought the conservation piece in the poverty piece, the conflict peace and the agricultural these because these people had a lot of trouble with product 70 from the park and people were encroaching on the park. Emmanuel has an impossible job. That is the kind of challenge that i love. We really started working with a manual and a doing a lot now and we are doing it because he is there. When i met tony, its funny because kate, who worked for tony for a long time cap sending me these emails like why do i want to meet the Prime Minister, what am i going to do with this guy . And so she would send these emails and say well im busy in october this year. Then i was on this plane and i picked up this article and i read a long article, and i said, this guys doing exactly what has to happen in africa. We can do everything with emmanuel but we dont have rule of law or governance. So everything can be undermined just like that. So i thought i have to email kate and apologize for everything that i said. And tried toout run my combine, tried to ransom corn down. Downy to run some corn for Something Like that and someone said howard, he has not driven anything for 12 years and you will put him in this. [laughter] it is a rare thing to have someone with tonys experience and commitment that they can leaders, he other has been a leader and run a country. Who can show up at the doorstep and share the same experience is really rare. They are both very special people. Cannot wait to ask premised or blair about the combine. He wont tell the truth. [laughter] what did you think when you were approached by howard . You dont have to tell the truth. [laughter] ago, and itwhile came to congo at a very difficult time for us. I will start by state by saying that my function in you thisand who are and who i am as a middle ranking public servant. Dont stress this situation which has management on a national park, but it is a war that has been happening for 20 years. It has turned out to be the most the greatest expression of human suffering since the second world war. And everyone of those wars started inside or immediately around the National Part that we managed. I had only just started and i had not fully gathered the difficulty. Then bets when i realized that my problems were just beginning when howard turned up. It was what happened, did he actually come to you . Historyward had a long of trying to address these fundamental problems in the region. Enormous challenges to overcome. Possibilityust the of summit coming with a certain generosity in terms of resources but also the time to think through the problems that we were. Addressing and willing to come to the field even given the insecurity during times of Armed Conflict and work for these problems with us. That has really been the story working through these overwhelming problems. In eastern congo. I wanted her the beginning of the Howard Buffett story from premised or blairs point of view. Your office was trying to set up an appointment with them. It wasnt working until this article appeared. Iowas study was really keen to meet me. I thought it was the first time id ever been asked, but i did get to see him. And whats more i got to drive the combine harvester which was an interesting experience its the only time of ever seen howard really nervous. He kept telling me that it costs a lot of money. But the essence of it is that for me the issue of governance in africa is absolutely fundamental. When i was Prime Minister, in true thousand five at the g8 summit we put africa on the agenda and got commitments to give debt relief to african countries. Suit. Countries followed the usa lifted up their rates substantially as well, but i was aware of the fact that it would never be enough on its own. And you had to build the capacity to govern properly. So africa can together with my other passion which is the whole process of governance. I can to office in 1997 and the only job i ever had was Prime Minister. You might as will start at the top. But we know what you werent a farmer. Here is the thing that i discovered about government. In thatt when i came because i was Prime Minister i sat at the front of the table and minds of big chair. I thought that if i took a decision around the cabinet table something happened. This was a big mistake. And i got to realize how the process of government work. You run for office as a great campaigner and you have to become a treat chief executive. You have to be a will to run the organization. I became obsessed with the process of governance. And when i saw what they were struggling with which were the enormous challenges and problems , they often didnt have the infrastructure of decisionmaking around them to enable them to do it properly. So we put teams of people in who live and work in the country and work alongside the president s team, and we go for the the execution and capability within government to get things done which is the biggest challenge. The thing with howard as he got and was prepared to help us with thatd the result is today we are around eight different african countries and we make a real difference with the way they function. Talk a little bit about what you are doing together. Give us some concrete examples. One of the things that is our strength at the foundation is we. Ave flexibility we had given agi some money that was committed elsewhere, and when the ebola crisis came up in liberia, one of the first people they went to was agi for health. This was a disaster for the population, challenging messaging and communication situation. We dont the things get involved in health or anything else like that. We are focused on what we do. But when we talk to the staff at agi, it was very simple decision to say we will move some of that money you move some of that money and use it what you need to use it for in liberia because we cannot judge that. The biggest thing for us is to have flexibility and partners that we trust. Emmanuel can tell you a story atut the water situation scott a funny looking back on how we got it done. Tos really important for us trust our partners. And i realize that governance is such a critical issue. So one of the things we did with agi is we were on a Conference Call talking different options and they brought up this idea of rapid action. It sounded great to me. I thought this is, tony is to do what he needs to do. He doesnt need people like me telling him how to do it. I had great confidence in what he would do and the decisions he would make, so we made a reasonable commitment to fund that can help them go leverage that for additional funding. So the Rapid Action Fund is something where you dont have to go ask a donor for something in the middle of an emergency, you have the money and you can react and he will tell us, but we will never ask him how he used the money. The a bullock crisis, we were in all three countries and they refused to leave and stayed and they helped organize the help coming in. A crisis like this its a but you have to organize it effectively and set up the right centers and make sure people are going to the right and set up the systems necessary for it to function effectively. We do things like that but we deliver Maternal Health care programs and will help with agricultural programs and we will do things like make sure if it is a big Infrastructure Program around electricity that we have them deliver that program. I havent been to liberia for about five years, but when i flew in, it was nighttime, and you do not know at that time, it did not know you were landing in monrovia. You could not see a light. The city did not have electricity. So you are talking about a where, you cannot how a set up a process in an emergency of that scale. Unit of the people the infrastructure or the power. So its a little bit like what we do in congo, you are trying to solve 20 problems at once. You are not just trying to deal with the ebola crisis, but a bunch of crises at the same time. So the thing that i love about that fund is that it gives you tony and his staff the ability to react, go in and do it. I think we need much more of that kind of philanthropy. Our money should be the absolute first risk money. We should not worry about bragging about what we got right. That is the truth. Too many people want to feel good about what they did, and what to tell everybody else about how good they did something. Thats why in certain places, it is the run thing wrong thing for a philanthropist to worry about what the flexibility and money that we have, we should be able to risk capital. Imagine, mr. Blair, that not every a funding you get goes to these places. In the end it is an interesting way of doing it. We say we understand what youre trying to do and we will support it. But frankly you have the freedom to get on and do it. A huge amount of bureaucracy around that. Us in thees mean for countries weve got into his we can work really fast to change the way those countries are run. One of the things that is important to realize about africa is despite all the challenges it is on the move and there is real progress. So the life expect us he is going up. Years, the few middle class is set to double but you still have a situation where two thirds of the population do not have access to electricity. These are fundamental things you can help change that you can only do if the government is operating effectively. Whether it is doing what we do with the government what emmanuel does with conservation. The way that howard does philanthropy is different from anything ive come across and really allows us to operate effectively and react to the need in a more direct way than we would. Help us understand because on the surface you are doing Different Things. Your the chief warden of the park. Or the congo, so help us understand what that means and how it is involved. Do it modestly, because he takes real risks. I can imagine a belgian prints, he has all kind of royal friends. [laughter] dont expect the answer. [laughter] i think that there are always enormous parallels. Monopoly onave a Good Development practice which is what we are trying to do. There are many ways of doing it. There are certain underlying principles. Essentially it comes down to three things. Respectsensitivity and for the rights and the needs of the most vulnerable in the poorest in society. You have to have sensitivity for the rights of our future generations. Our protection of the environment and governance in relation to Natural Resources. And you have to have a respect for the root of law. Thats what holds society together. If he can maintain there are a whole range of activities you can do. What tony has brought out so well is he has maintained these basic principles and it is surprising how quickly he can deal with very dramatic challenges, particularly in places like the great lakes region. Worldperate in a small but its a small world that is extremely intense in terms of the deep challenges that our generation have to deal with to do with violence and the destruction of the world resources. And dealing with how badly we treat each other, in particular those who cannot defend themselves. See what, how do you emmanuel is devoting himself to, you have some Ambitious Goals that you have laid out to do something intangible about Food Insecurity, about a part of the world that has been neglected for generation after generation. Have some important partners in cme at the fo