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>> i think at the time it wasn't big news. the meeting that happened -- last meeting that happened was december of 2015, am bass der samantha power took the counselors down to washington to meet with president obama and susan rice did the same thing a few years before that. and it just didn't make news -- >> because the obama administration did not really take a stand that felt that the united nations was wasteful and ineffective. >> right. on the contrary, obama administration viewed mul multilateralism as a corner stone to its objectives. >> so the u.s. ambassador to the united nations is ac...

Women are clearly going to be commissioned into a world that is still very uncertain, very unknown and we need you to be prepared and we need you to be focused. we need you to be able to do the nation's bidding. for the president to come out and talk about the right to self-defense and mul multilateralism, transparency and support for democracy and human right, i would say, great, mr. president, that's what you're supposed to do and clearly they get it. what i would like to hear from you, help me define what our core interests are. what our national interests are so as we move forward, we get ...

This. after all i think one of the messages of this whole experience so far that the president is trying to convey is that europe so close as it is to libya has a strong stake in this and really ought to take a lead role along, of course, with those countries in the arab world that are interested, as well. so i think this is a very interesting experiment, if you will after having been the united states having been accused of unilateralism all these years he's trying to make a real multilateral approach work, i think -- i think it's worthy of our attention and support >> well, look, there's a d...

Democracy in north africa. this critical moment in history when finally the awakening of the arab soul and spirit and letting russia and china say no. isn't that problematic to those of us who think we stand for something? >> i thought "the wall street journal" in its editorial made an important point the other day, this is what the world is going to start looking like without american lead areship. >> that's right. >> that we have to step up as a country and we've got to renew and revive ourselves at home so we can be that superpower again. >> we can't live in fear of mul multilateralism so w...