Outlooks and prerogatives that reflects a way that reflects more the grass roots and not so much the gun manufacturers or Big Industries or the manufacturers . First, i reject the claim that there is any guncontrol legislation that will be passed the will be popular among our supporters. What it will do is energize our base. Our base is extremely focused on what is going on in congress. They are extremely passionate and have a lot of energy. They will generate a higher level of interest in the 2014 elections, and we will able to capture that energy and spirit accordingly in the elections steer it accordingly in the elections. Terrific. Well, we have reached the end of our time, so i asked you to join me in thanking our panel sara chieffo, david kirby, brandon davis, and glen caroline. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] coming out in about 30 minutes, we will take you live to the state department, where outgoing secretary Hillary Clinton will deliver remarks on for employees. She officially steps down today. Senator john kerry of massachusetts was confirmed by the senate on tuesday to be her replacement. He is expected to be sworn in the day by the Supreme CourtJustice Sonia sotomayor. In the meantime, we will have live coverage of the secretary clintons earmarks around at 2 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. President obama will honor the recipients of the National Medal of science and National Medal of technology and innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the u. S. Government upon scientists, engineers, and inventors. You will have it for you later in our program schedule. At the white house, jay carney held his daily briefing, addressing a number of issues including a bombing at the u. S. Embassy in turkey today. Does the president considered the attack on our embassy in turkey to be a terrorist attack . That is an excellent question a suicide bombing on the perimeter of an embassy is by definition an act of terror, a terrorist attack. I think this is an incident that has just occurred and i dont want to get ahead of it, is being investigated. We strongly condemn what was a Suicide Attack against our embassy in ankara, which took place at the embassys our security perimeter. Details are still emerging about what exactly happened, who was responsible. It is clearly an act of terror. It caused cost hte life about least one individual, a Turkish Security guard. We are working with the turkish authorities to investigate the incident and bring the perpetrators to justice. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those killed and injured, and we greatly appreciate the support weve received from turkish fans and responding to this terrible tragedy. Turkome turkey remains one of our strongest allies in the region. Weve worked shoulder to shoulder with the turks to Counter Terrorist threats, and this will only strengthen our resolve. The turkish have been a very important ally broadly speaking in the effort to counter terrorism. You can see the entire White House Briefing on our website, cspan. Org. As we told you earlier, we have outgoing secretary of state clintons remarks at the state department at 2 30 p. M. Eastern. Until then, todays washington journal, will ask viewers about secretary clintons legacy. Host more analysis this morning on the secretary of state street we want to hear from you. You can tweet us cspanwj. You want to join us, the phone numbers will be on your screen. Indiana, on our independent mind, rob. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you today . Host fine, thank you. What do you think of this sectarian states performance . Caller a good job. One of the best we have ever had. Host what gives you that impression and what can you point to . Caller [indiscernible] during the Bush Administration host im sorry, go ahead. Caller can you hear me . Our country is more respected now that it was four years ago. I think she is very good in Foreign Policy and i think she will be i think this will help her in 2016. Host we go next to jeff in tupelo, mississippi. Republican line. Caller good morning. How are you . Host fine, thank you. Caller she got sworn in, she looked good in the pictures, she flew around the world a little bit, and nothing that she has accomplished. I dont think our allies are real pleased with. Our enemies in the past belief in the best predictor of i mean, future behavior is past behavior. The only thing that the real bad people in this world understand is force. I dont think talking to them and making nicenice with them is going to do anything except emboldened them. Host you made a statement about our allies and their perception . Could you expand on that . Caller well, the lead from behind strategy of this administration got two diplomats killed and three brave americans killed in libya. As far as her taking responsibility for that, what responsibility is it that she has actually taken . None she actually said to the American People what difference does it make now for that information to be dispensed to the public. Host you can go to cspan. Org to watch those hearings for yourself. On twitter a little bit of background, or at least overall background of what she did during her time as far as major accomplishments she traveled to 100 of countries, according to businessweek, 975,000 miles logged, and her first trip was in february 2009 to japan, south korea. Her 79th trip was december of last year to the czech republic, belgium, ireland, and northern ireland. Stella on our democrats line, asking you to raided the secretary of states performance. Caller i would give her a 10. She is a fabulous woman representative of the United States. As far as 9 11, bush and cheney should take responsibility. Host what are the highlights for secretary clinton in your mind . Caller just the weight she has represented women and looked out for women. She is awesome. Host womens programs is something she spoke about at the council on Foreign Relations. If you want to see that on our website, cspan. Org the Video Library is the place to go. In this portion of the speech, she talked about smart power in a world where she says the levels of influence are changing rapidly. [video clip] simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power, not because we have less of it. The might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the Creative Energy of our people remains unrifle. No, it is because as the world has changed, so, too, have the levers of power that can most effectively Shape International affairs. I have come to think of it like this truman and acheson were building the parthenon with classical geometry unclear lines. The colors were a handful of big institutions and alliances dominated by major powers, and that structure delivered unprecedented peace and prosperity. But time takes a toll even on the greatest benefits edifice, and we do need a new architecture for a new world. More frank gehry than formal greek. [laughter] think of it. Some of his work might appear at first haphazard, but it is highly intentional and sophisticated. Where once a few strong columns could hold up the weight of the world, today we need a dynamic mixture of materials and structures. American military and economic strength will remain the foundation of our Global Leadership, as we saw from the intervention to stop a massacre in libya, to the rates that brought bin laden to justice, there will always be times when it is necessary and just to use force. Host again, that is the secretary of state, who spoke at the council on Foreign Relations yesterday. Texas. Ames, go ahead caller i would like to give her a zero, because i think she is personally responsible for the deaths of the americans in benghazi. I watched on your cspan showed her answers to questions, and her answer is that she did not read these faxes or what ever else coming out of benghazi for security. Because she gets i forget the number, 200,000 a year, and it is impossible to read the street you can have emergency faxes and hire a couple of people to read these faxes. They are coming from americans and a war zone. You did not read them so you did not know they needed more security . If you did not read them, you are not doing your job, honey host republican line. Caller i would give her an f. The media mixes up the view that the Obama Administration wants to get rid of fox and talk radio. She has put over a million miles said she has become secretary of state, says i am proud of her as a woman. What, she stuck with clinton with the College Intern and cigars and a thing else, and she would be the worst president i never thought we would have worse than this one host according to the f, what led to your f rating . Ok, he is gone. Democrats line. Caller i would give her an a. She was the president , pretty much. She was constantly on the road. I want to Say Something about the hagel confirmation guesthost which we will talk about at 8 30, just so you know. Caller people have got to understand host if you want to join us at 8 30 to talk about the hagel confirmation, you are more than welcome to do that. Washington post iran to in which more uranium. It is believed to be vastly superior to the clunky 1970s era ir1 machine that iraq releases, giving iran the ability to produce up to four times as much enriched uranium per machine. Iran claims the enriched uranium would it be used exclusively for Nuclear Power plants, but officials suspect that iran is using Nuclear Energy for weapons programs. This from the post, the headline is specifically looking at china. Chinese Companies Invested 6. 5 billion in the United States last year. Thats a record, and a 17 increase over the prior year. But thats also about the same amount invested in the United States by spain. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her performance over the last four years. Giving you an opportunity to assess how she did in the position. Lawrence in st. Paul, an abandoned line. Caller independent line. Caller i think she has done an admirable job to i would not assess how well she did based on how many miles to travel. But here is what bothers me the cheerleading think versus effectiveness. I am not saying she wasnt effective, but i think that Condoleezza Rice was one of the most idynamic individuals to evr serve. She was admirable to me. She was great. She is articulate, very well educated, did some wonderful things, knew how to handle the power of male egos. But the press would not give her the same accolades, the general media would not give for this and accolades, not because she was competent, but because of her political ideology. There is some dispute bi skewed bias rating Hillary Clinton for some of the wrong things. Host on twitter the Washington Post adds this as far as analysis of her time in office many of clintons successes appeared to be due largely to her personal popularity and famous work ethics, attributes that were on display in her final days in office. Nevada. Caller i would like to make a few comments about Hillary Clinton. I think the only reason she ever had her job was because of her husband, bill. She did exactly what she has been told to do by the president s, and a lot of us are not on tune with president obamas schedule, especially this benghazi deal. Whenever a person throws her hands up in the air and is not want to admit to any responsibility of a job done poorly that killed some of our americans i am not happy with her performance. She is just a member of president obama and bill clinton mirror of president obama and bill clinton. Host on twitter he goes on to make other comments. Even make comments on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan is how you do so. Lets give some history. This is from her 2009 swearing in. [video clip] when i came into this building for the first time all week or so ago now, i told the assembled state Department Employees and i repeated again at u. S. Aid, that we are all on the same team, and it is americas team, and we have with the leadership of president obama someone who wants us to reach out for the world, to do so without illusions, understanding that the difficulties we face will not be wished away, but meeting them forthrightly and smartly, and that we want to seize the opportunities that exist as well. I talked in my confirmation hearings about smart power. Well, smart power relies on smart people, and we have an abundance of them in this building and at usaid. But i have also pulled my teammates in the state family that we will have to be smarter about how we do what we must for our country. There are many ways we can improve what we do on a daily basis, and i want to work with my friends in congress on behalf of our administration to really look for those efficiencies and those changes that will make what we do more effective, more costeffective, so that we can be out there around the world delivering americas message. Certainly doing all we must to protect and defend our security, but also advancing our interests and furthering our values. For me this has been an amazing personal journey. As joe laughingly referenced, neither one of us thought [laughter] that we would be standing here together doing what we are now doing together. Life has a funny way of unfolding, and politics is even stranger. Host that is Hillary Clinton from 2009. This is the Associated Press story concerning an event that took place moments before the start of this program in turkey, saying that a suicide bomber has detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the u. S. Embassy in the turkish capital, and at least two people are dead. An Associated Press journalists on friday saw body in the street in front of an embassy side entrance. The bomb appeared to have exploded inside the security checkpoint. Ntv television said two security guards were killed. Phones were not being answered at the embassy. Democrats line. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I think hilary did an awesome job. I would give her at least a 9. Had a daunting task ahead of her when she was confirmed, because this country did not look good to our allies and the rest of the world, after the debacle that we went through with the former administration. She hit there road running, and thanks to her, we got back a lot of support that we needed, especially in these trying times ahead of us with iran. We needed to gain a lot of that support back. Host is it about Hillary Clintons role in that position that helped that along, in your opinion . Caller during the clinton administration, she was an ambassador anyway, and the leaders of the world out there just had a lot of faith in her and her husbands administration, and she had a lot of convincing to do that the United States could get through these hard times, and things are going to change, and it looks like she has done an outstanding job, because we certainly have a lot of support back now and confidence that we did not have. Host next up is lafayette, louisiana. Peggy, republican line. Caller thanks for taking my call. As a woman to another woman, i think she failed women in the United States. I have so much to say about the crime against women in this country, especially a woman that lives alone. There is no advocate program in the United States of america. She had the ability, the power to get so many Great Programs done in our country, and she failed. I dont see how the previous caller could say that she has restored respect in our country to other countries. That is phenomenal. What a statement. So anyway, that is what i have to say. There are so many avenues that this country, our country, the United States of america, has failed american women, the elderly women that live alone, even the men that live alone. We have no programs that we advocate for them, and that is my statement. Thank you so much for taking my call. Host in the usa today write up of the speech she made to the council on Foreign Relations, there was a little bit on the body language of the speech. They talk about john kerry as he assumes the position today, will be sworn in today. John kerry, whose nomination to be the next secretary of state was confirmed by the senate on tuesday, will be sworn in to office today and takes over as the Obama Administration faces several hotbutton issues, including civil conflict in syria, the president must decide whether to leave residual troop presence in afghanistan beyond 2014, Al Qaedalinked groups and africa are a growing threat. Some of the analysis being done with the outgoing secretary of state and now with the john kerry coming into the position. It is the outgoing secretary of state we talking about for the remainder of our time, 20 minutes or so. Ohio, independent line. Hi, mark. Caller thank you for cspan. I would give her a 10. She is one of those kinds of people that no matter what job he is given, she is going to do an excellent job. All the people attacking her benghazi . What about iraq. Give me a break who cut the funds for benghazi . The republicans . The republican neocons needed to. Lay down and go away host what are her accompl