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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

Ukraine, China, And Gun Violence, With Condoleezza Rice

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

News Commentary, Government, News, News:news Commentary, Politics

4.8658 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

As the Russia–Ukraine conflict approaches the 100-day mark, is any kind of resolution in sight? Condoleezza Rice, former US secretary of state and the Hoover Institution’s Tad and Dianne Taube Director, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane for a conversation encompassing the war in Eastern Europe, its impact on US-Sino policy, plus what the scourge of gun violence says about America’s social and cultural divides.

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, June 1st, 2022, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast

0:13.1

examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

0:17.2

I'm Bill Whalen, I'm a Hoover Institution Distinguished Policy Fellow.

0:20.0

I'll be your moderator today. I'm glad to announce that I'm joined by our usual suspects. Three Wise Men we jokingly refer to as the Goodfellows. That would be the historian Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran, and the geostrategist, Lieutenant General, HR McMaster. Now, one thing you should know, this is our last Goodfellas episode for the season. We're going on something of a summer hiatus.

0:38.8

We had to figure how to end the show on a high note.

0:41.2

For Goodfellows, there is no higher note than the guest we have today.

0:44.3

She needs no introduction, but she gets what anyway.

0:46.4

That is the director of the Hoover Institution, former Secretary of State, former National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice.

0:52.1

Hello, Condi.

0:53.8

There we go.

0:54.7

Hello, Bill.

0:55.2

How are you?

0:56.6

Smooth.

0:57.6

Yeah.

0:58.7

And away we go.

1:00.3

Condi, I don't know if you had a chance to see our latest episode of Goodfellas.

1:03.2

Victor Davis Hansen was the guest, and the conversation was, Neil, what adjective would

1:07.4

you use for that conversation?

1:09.4

And amazing.

1:11.2

Thoughtful. Thoughtful.

1:12.5

Thoughtful.

1:13.5

I was going to say harmonious.

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