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Was to asia. Thats the first time a secretary of state has taken his or her first trip to asia since dean rusk in 1961. And from then on she just kept on pushing our efforts and our efforts in asia. You look at her work with as on. You look at her work on the south china sea. You look at her work with burma in terms of bringing burma not community of democracy, potentially. Right . Thats a good list of contributions. Tom donilon National Security advisor to president obama as they enter the second four years of that tenure in the white house. Thank you for joining us. See you next time. Captio...

Face. And that Defense Strategy was comprehensive, and it had various pieces to it that we would look to agile for itses, that we would look to having a global footprint. But with emphasis, reemphasis on asia, continuance on the middle east but innovative partnerships around the world that could involve a lighter footprint in cases. Rose tom donilon for the hour next. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose tom donilon is here, he is the president S National Security advisor...

National security. Joe biden has called him the most important person in the mix this week in the Vice President spoke about Foreign Policy challenges at the munish security conference. We have made it clear at the outset that we would not we would be prepared to meet bilaterally with the irani leadership. We would not make it a secret that we were doing that. We would let our partners know if that occasion presented itself. That offer stands. Nearly all of our partners and allies are convinced that president assad is a tyrant, hellbent on clinging to power, is no longer fit to lead the Syrian...

National security. Joe biden has called him the most important person in the mix this week in the Vice President spoke about Foreign Policy challenges at the munish security conference. We have made it clear at the outset that we would not we would be prepared to meet bilaterally with the irani leadership. We would not make it a secret that we were doing that. We would let our partners know if that occasion presented itself. That offer stands. Nearly all of our partners and allies are convinced that president assad is a tyrant, hellbent on clinging to power, is no longer fit to lead the Syrian...

Rose welcome to the program. Tonight the National Security advisor to the president of the United States tom donilon. At the beginning of 2012, the president after a multimonth review, close consultation with the uniform military, the joint chiefs, Service Secretaries and combatants around the world, put together a new Defense Strategy, that Defense Strategy had to take into account that the budge contl act quir the Defense Budget over the next ten years to be reduced by 500 million or so, a little less than that. And which would require a 5 decrease over what were the plans. And in doing that...