00:00You know, that doesn't mean, as our news commentators say every day in the United States,
00:04it's because someone's name is there they committed a crime.
00:06But I think there's a lot of very troubling and really horrific information coming out.
00:13I've called for, you know, many, many years for everything to be put out there
00:18so people can not only see what is in them, but also, if appropriate, hold people accountable.
00:25I'd like to ask you, I'm the mother of a daughter, and it absolutely horrifies me
00:31to see what the Epstein files have brought out.
00:34And I wanted to ask you, what does it say about Western values
00:37when Western leaders have perpetuated and participated in these horrific abuses of minors and girls?
00:46Thank you very much. We have gone everywhere from Newstart to Epstein.
00:53Via some fundamental questions of the critique of rules-based order from the left
00:58of civilization versus values of conservatism versus liberalism in the U.S. and other things.
01:07Secretary Clinton, is there a couple directly to you?
01:09Let me start with you, and then everyone else gets about a minute, and you get a minute and a
01:14tiny bit.
01:15Yeah, I heard three in particular. To the last question, it's horrifying,
01:20and we're hoping that, you know, there will be continued release every day that passes.
01:28You know, that doesn't mean, as our news commentators say every day in the United States,
01:33that because someone's name is there they committed a crime.
01:35But I think there's a lot of very troubling and really horrific information coming out.
01:42Today, it came out that Steve Bannon was trying to get Jeffrey Epstein to help him overthrow Pope Francis.
01:48I guess that was part of the civilizational effort.
01:51True conservatism.
01:52True conservatism.
01:53So it is something that, you know, needs to be totally transparent.
01:58I've called for, you know, many, many years for everything to be put out there
02:03so people can not only see what is in them, but also, if appropriate, hold people accountable.
02:11We'll see what happens.
02:13On the New Start Treaty, which we were, the Deputy, the Foreign Minister and I were talking about this just
02:19backstage,
02:21we actually signed, President Obama signed the New Start Treaty in Prague.
02:27And it was, you know, one in a series of efforts to restrain the proliferation of nuclear weapons to control
02:35the U.S. and Russian arsenals.
02:38And I think it's a very big mistake for it to have been allowed to expire.
02:44I know that there was an offer, apparently, from the Russians to extend it a year, during which there could
02:51be some negotiations.
02:53The Trump administration refused that.
02:57And their response was that they wanted to try to get China and other nuclear weapons countries into a regime,
03:06which more power to them if they could ever manage that and if it could be achieved.
03:13But I am very worried because Trump also, you know, he tweets or I guess he Xs or whatever he
03:20does on social media late at night.
03:21And one of his recent ones was to resume nuclear testing, underground nuclear testing.
03:26And I think that would be a terrible development.
03:30So I'm hoping that doesn't happen.
03:31And I'm hoping that there can be some efforts to reinstate some kind of nuclear arms agreements.
03:39You know, with respect to this question, you know, if you think about the 13 colonies, you know, that was
03:47a creed.
03:48It was an idea.
03:50It was a philosophy.
03:51It did not include the entire continental United States, let alone Alaska and Hawaii.
03:55It was based on the founders' deep understanding of human nature, of philosophy, of what we might call liberal thought
04:04as they created a new country.
04:07And, you know, when I hear President or Vice President Vance say things like that about how, you know, it's
04:14a nation, it's blood and soil and all the ways that he talks about it,
04:18I think to myself I never knew he was such a firm advocate for Native Americans because the idea that
04:25you would have an approach toward the United States that ripped away our founding documents, our founding philosophies, is so
04:37contrary to the way I understand American history.
04:40So I think that it is not only wrong historically, it is a political device that I think is very
04:49dangerous and should be rejected whole cloth.
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