Im David Rubenstein coming from the library of congress, the Jefferson Building and its part of our National Book festival and have a pleasure of interviewing richard hoss who is the president of a foreign relation and ive written a new eczema book called the world a brief introduction by richard hoss, thank you very much for coming today. Great to be with you. For those of you that dont know your background, i want to talk a little bit about the bo book, you are native of new york and went to college in ohio and became a Rhodes Scholar, what did you do to become a Rhodes Scholar and for those of you who are not aware there is only 32 people picked every year in the Rhodes Scholar and youre one of the top 32 students, what did you do to be one of the top 32 students when you graduated. My children would claim it was an administrative error i did nothing to confuse the scholarship, i could also answer i was one of 32 people who peaked young and peaked at the right time, my own guess i h
And actually like jacksons founder, john jackson who is joining us today, secretary kerry, john kerry at the time, left new haven to serve in vietnam. He then served more than two decades in the u. S. Senate before becoming the 68th secretary of state under president obama. You probably know all of that, but what you might not know is that secretary kerry continues to pay it forward, helping to train the next generation of leaders here at the Jackson Institute and across yale and in many schools. Its my pleasure to welcome secretary kerry at this time. Sector, rapture might offer some initial perspectives on how you assess the global ramifications of covid19 and then introduce our panelists. Thanks. Thank you very, very much, and ted, both of you, thank you for organizing this event, particularly gym in the Jackson Institute, the jackson school. Its really the underwriter of what were doing here today and its a privilege for me to take part in this with a very distinguished group of di
I just connected a dot just by you asking that question and me sitting next to megan. So i did a little bit of work on the 2000 campaign for some of the Foreign Policy advisors. And in exchange the guy said you get one bullet who is an interview with richard hoss. I flubed the interview and he. And it is remarkable how little domestic politics intruded into these clip rations. I have a specific memory, very well, i can remember the president s face exactly in the oval office during this time and i forget what i said exactly, but it was something about the policy in iraq, and then i made a comment about politics and how it would play at home. He was like i dont need your political advice. He said just think in terms of policy. So the domestic piece, i think, was incredible how little it intruded into our deliberations. But it was not a big driver. I didnt feel the burden of putting forward something in a would be domestically palatable. So i had a slightly different role. I had more int
Ill get reaction from the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States. She joins us live this hour. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt, and youre in the situation room. We begin with a historic show of unity from the United States, japan, and south korea. President biden hosting his asian allies at camp david with an eye towards the military and economic threats that theyre all facing in the Pacific Region right now. Cnns Paula Hancocks is standing by in seoul. First lets get straight to cnns Arlette Saenz at camp david. What came out of this summit . Reporter President Biden hosted his first leaders as president here at camp david, and the president is hoping that the symbolism of this location of the pezs retreat will lend itself to this moment as two u. S. Allies with decades of fraught history have come together with the u. S. To enter this new trilateral agreement in part as they are dealing with gr
arguments in the defamation damages trial, and how much he should pay. meanwhile trump continues to work behind the scenes and on social media to tank a deal on border security and foreign aid in the capitol. we will show you the latest post. we will play for you the handful of gop lawmakers standing up to the former president. also ahead, president biden hits the road following a surprisingly strong economic report. the data is so good, even a former trump adviser had to admit the president should be dragging about it. we will go through a significant development in the hostage negotiations with israel and hamas as the cia director will now travel abroad in the hopes of closing a deal. willie, you know, in washington, the big question is if the republicans are going to stab keep stabbing ukraine in the back, keep stabbing israel in the back, and calling for open border until donald trump is the president of the united states. the lead editorial in the wall street jo