bush often does not. but tonight we bring you the story of a bipartisan effort, a battle to make a difference. it started prior to my run for president. i was caulking to conde about talking to conde about foreign policy and said would you be course of the team? in the course of the discussion she said i expect you to focus on africa. once you make the decision to focus on africa, then you have to focus on aids. it s by far the biggest problem on the continent of africa. bret: after that conversation, governor bush who would become president bush, lifted fighting global aids epidemic on a focus on sub africa. we hold beliefs beyond ourselves. you have to belief in one thing.
package there. but we closed with hillary clinton, the secretary of state saying that she has not heard any concerns expressed from her summit partners in kazakhstan, where he was attending a security summit that the wikileaks damaged u.s. relations with foreign nations. bret? bret: thank you, james. up next, a special segment on this world aids day. how the american taxpayer has changed the global fight against aids. exclusive interviews with president george w. bush and rock star bono. and a message from president obama next. /ñh]ñ/ççw?vñuóy[óñwlk
bush often does not. but tonight we bring you the story of a bipartisan effort, a battle to make a difference. it started prior to my run for president. i was caulking to conde about talking to conde about foreign policy and said would you be course of the team? in the course of the discussion she said i expect you to focus on africa. once you make the decision to focus on africa, then you have to focus on aids. it s by far the biggest problem on the continent of africa. bret: after that conversation, governor bush who would become president bush, lifted fighting global aids epidemic on a focus on sub africa. we hold beliefs beyond ourselves. you have to belief in one thing.
responding. i think it s a priority to save lives. and just not let people die. so you would say to president obama he should continue it. absolutely. i think he shares the same concern i have. i would hope he does. so far, he has. president obama taped this message. on this world aids day, we pause to remember all those who have lost their lives, both here in america, and around the globe. it is a time when so many men and women are living with hiv and aids every day. let s also recommit ourselves to building on the tremendous progress we ve made. both in preventing and treating the disease, and ending the stigma and discrimination that too often surround it. that s why as president, my administration developed the first comprehensive national hiv aids strategy for the united states. and increased funding to fight hiv aids around the world to record levels. because it s my hope that together we can move closer to the day when we eliminate this disease from the face of
how bono was circumspect with his praise to obama. president obama, that red ribbon today was so striking against the white house. but the same time, the global aids alliance has given president obama middling grade on the aids program saying yes, he made the first ever presidential multi-year commitment on funding but the same time, they feel like it came up short of the money that america should be giving, which reflects the economic conditions. bret: jonah? i agree entirely with two legs of charles stool but this is a third leg he left out. american business. these pharmaceutical companies which are consistently demonized by democrats and demonized by the left as the horrible rapacious institutions are the ones who carried a lot of generic government-funded research but there was also amazingly nimble response by the free market to produce these things and we re one of the only countries in the world that can do this stuff. so i think, i m a softy on the foreign aid stuff. i