every year, 12 million girls are married before they reach the age of 18 a practice the un has said will take 300 years to eradicate. now, three of the world s most high profile humanitarians have vowed to tackle the issue together. but is this an impossible task? i have come to join michelle obama, amal clooney and melinda french gates on their first field visit together to malawi, a country where 42% of girls marry under the age of 18, to ask them how bad the issue is and if it can be turned around in a generation. michelle obama, thank you so much for speaking to us at bbc 100 women. thank you for being here, it s my pleasure. we re here to talk about the work you are doing to end child marriage along with amal clooney and melinda french gates. why is that an issue that is important to you personally? 0h.i have said this time and time again. i see myself in the girls that we are fighting for. you know, i see my daughters in those girls. if we just.put ourselves in those
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. Right . The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islam phobic, you name it. But those other basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures. And they are just desperate for change. Clinton said in a short time ago, quote, let me read you part of it. Last night i was grossly generalistic. Thats never a good idea. I regret saying half. That was wrong. She goes on to say its door morible that trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a National Platform to hateful views and choices. Now to trumps latest attack on clinton, the republican president ial candidate last night speaking at a rally in florida suggesting clinton could commit an act of violence in public and not face any consequen
news cycle, democrats. to overwhelm political appointments in republicans. that nothing is really sticking to him. he calls himself had it stable genius. if there is anything politically genius, is that he does so much that people forget how he works. . advisorer to mccain and romney wrote an opedtitled how i missed barack obama. which is crazy for somebody like max boot to write that. you mention obama s mandel a aspeech over the week. it can be depressing to thing it about our current predicament under a president whose loyalty to america is suspect but whose racism and kpeen phobia and obama s speech gave me optimism. can you believe it was so
romney wrote an opedtitled how i missed barack obama. which is crazy for somebody like max boot to write that. you mention obama s mandel a aspeech over the week. it can be depressing to thing it about our current predicament under a president whose loyalty to america is suspect but whose racism and kpeen phobia and obama s speech gave me optimism. can you believe it was so recently that we had a president whom we could disagree without ever doubting his fitness to lead. we can have one again. you think back to the presidents we ve had in the past and their policy disagreements from one side to the other. no one is perfect.
made in the bush administration. how is this any different? what happened back then, there was this incremental approach. the north koreans would give some concessions and we give sanction relief and food aid, fuel aid and other pieces, this administration, what gives me optimism, a few things. president trump has extracted concessions that military exercises will continue. sanctions will stay in place and that i think the biggest piece is that he has indicated he will walk away. i can see that being framed out in three different circumstances. one, if kim jong-un is just trying to use this for symbolism to be seen as on part with the president for his own domestic propaganda reasons, two, if he s he s taking a play out of the old north korean playbook, let s drag this along. i m concerned about that, if we get bogged down when the