Ambassador Susan Rice on Her Career, U.S. Foreign Policy and America's Role in the World
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Susan Rice, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor to President Obama. Rice discusses her career trajectory and some of the major foreign policy decisions she helped inform while serving in the Obama administration. Morell and Rice discuss the value of alliance networks and America's global leadership role. Rice also shares anecdotes from her new memoir, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For.
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| 0:28.0 | This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell. |
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| 0:35.3 | Your mission is ours. |
| 0:37.2 | I believe in a strong, principled, engaged American global leadership. |
| 0:42.6 | I think we're safer and richer and better as a country when we are active on the world |
| 0:49.4 | stage. |
| 0:50.4 | And I'm a strong believer that the United States has to have, you know, the greatest military |
| 0:55.6 | in the world, the greatest intelligence community in the world, the greatest diplomats |
| 0:59.3 | in the world, the greatest development workers in the world, the freeest press, the best |
| 1:03.2 | universities. |
| 1:04.7 | We have the capacity to be and remain all of that if we don't squander it. |
| 1:10.8 | And I worry that we're at risk of squandering it. |
| 1:16.4 | Would you list this as the biggest efficiency, this is administration, which you just talked |
| 1:20.7 | about? |
| 1:21.8 | What I would list is the fundamental deficiency is the denigration of our alliance networks |
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