00:00I think this is a moment where we are seeing our presidential administration tear apart the
00:08transatlantic partnership, rip up every democratic norm, and really calling into question, as was
00:21mentioned by David Carney at the World Economic Forum, the rules-based order, that we have or, question mark, do
00:31we have?
00:33And so I think one of the reasons why, not just myself, but many of our colleagues here, in fact,
00:39Democrats, many Democrats that are here as well, is because we want to tell a larger story that
00:47what is happening is indeed very grave. And we are in a new era, domestically and globally.
00:55There have been many leaders who've said, we will go back. And I think we have to recognize that we
01:01are in a new day and in a new time. But that does not mean that the majority of Americans
01:06are ready
01:07to walk away from a rules-based order, and that we're ready to walk away from our commitment to
01:15democracy. I think what we identify is that in a rules-based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability.
01:24And so I think what we are seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies
01:31around when too often in the West, we'd look the other way for inconvenient populations
01:40to act out these paradoxes, whether it is kidnapping a foreign head of state, whether it is threatening
01:50our allies to colonize Greenland, whether it is looking the other way in a genocide. Hypocrisies
02:00are vulnerabilities, and they threaten democracies globally. And so I think many of us are here
02:06to say, we are here and we are ready for the next chapter, not to have the world turn to
02:11isolation, but to deepen our partnership on greater and increased commitment to integrity
02:18to our values.
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