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Leadership internationally starts at home, believing that democracies also have to deliver for their people. this is why, of course, the build back better bill is so important to get across the finish line because there is so much in that for the american people. but that is also evidence of democracy working for the benefit of citizens. and what you see around the world, unfortunately, is particularly among younger people, lawrence, is faith and democracy having declined over time. commensurate, really, with the decline in freedom that we've seen over this last 15 years. many young people don...

Leading off our discussion tonight is samantha power, the administrator of the u.s. agency for international development. she was president obama's ambassador to the united nations. ambassador power, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. >> great to be back. >> what is your ambition and the president's ambition for this summit on democracy? >> well, i think it is snuck up on some at home and abroad that we are in the 15th straight year of freedom in decline around the world, and president biden with the summit is going to issue a wake-up call to anybody who's sti...

Within the amount of time that they've got, and they may not have any time after the midterms next year because the republicans if they win will presumably dissolve the thing. so they seem to have -- they seem to understand both the stakes and the pacing necessary to get it done, which is sort of the most you could hope for when this is what you're up against. >> yeah. they have enough experience, they know how it works. we'll see how it turns out. thank you, rachel. thank you. at its founding, the ideal of the united nations, not its stated objective, was that it would be a sort of ongoing ...

In the rest of the world. we also need to vaccinate the reflect world. america has, in my view, continues to lead in that effort. let me be clear. not a single vaccine dose america ever sends to the rest of the world will ever come at the expense of any american. i'll always make sure our people are protected first. but vaccinating the world is not just a moral tool, a moral obligation that we have in my view, it's how we protect americans. as we've seen with this new variant, america is doing our part and will do more. >> in the op-ed piece cowritten by yellen skbrenl samantha power, they wro...

Now the head of the united states agency for international development in the biden administration, coauthored an op-ed piece in "the washington post" with treasury secretary janet yellen saying this week, representatives of more than 100 nations will gather virtually for president biden's summit for democracy. the gathering is a recognition that the world's democracies need a new strategy. for the past 15 years, the number of people living under authoritarian regimes has been rising, while leaders of many democratic countries have been chipping away at fundamental rights and checks and balanc...