October 30, 2009

Interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

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MARGARET WARNER: Secretary Clinton, thanks for being with us. Now you've been to Pakistan many times but never as secretary of state, never at such a volatile time.

SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON: Right.

MARGARET WARNER: Was there anything unexpected that you found here? Something that you didn't imagine?

HILLARY CLINTON: Well, Margaeret it, it wasn't that I found here anything unexpected. It was that I knew before I came that we had our work cut out for us, that there was a level of mistrust and misunderstanding that I wanted to tackle head-on. I have a great deal of admiration for the culture and the history and the struggle of the people of Pakistan. But what became clear in the time that I've been secretary of state, is that there was an enormous number of...

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