And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

Madeline Albright is not only a great American stateswoman, she's a great American story.

And given recent events and the unsettlement in the world, it seemed like a good time

to sit down and get some of her wisdom.

So I visited with her in Washington the other day.

Secretary Albright, welcome.

It's always, always good to see you.

Wonderful to see you.

Thank you.

But particularly in these very interesting times, and I really think, I always start these

conversations by asking people about their journeys.

But yours seems particularly germane, given some of the issues that have arisen in the

last few months, because no one really understands the path of refugees and the experience of

being driven from one's country more readily than you.

That was your childhood.

Well, it definitely was.

I can identify myself in many ways.

One is, and the most important one, a grateful American, because what happened was my father

was a Czechoslovak diplomat.

I was born in 1937, two years before the war really started.

And he had been somebody that had been in the government.

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