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Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) attempts to procure a nuclear disarmament deal between India and Pakistan. Before the talks even begin, the India Prime Minister and Foreign Minister are apprehensive over working with the United States as “a country that has repeatedly subjected us to barbaric terrorist attacks and endless wars” with a “despicable record on human rights and racism.” Elizabeth and her CIA Special Activities Division head, husband Henry (Tim Daly), for their part, don’t disagree with that description.

Hillary Clinton, secret agent! When the former secretary of state approached Madam Secretary executive producer Lori McCreary about guest-starring on the CBS drama, her first request was to assume a provocative new identity as a spy. But McCreary had a better idea. “I said, would you ever play yourself?” McCreary recalls of the conversation she had with Clinton at a birthday party last August for former President Bill Clinton. “And she said, ‘I’d consider it.’ But it was a party, so you think maybe people are just making small talk. So when we confirmed that she really wanted to do...

The two former real-life secretaries of state will be joined by a third former secretary, Madeleine Albright, on the episode. The fictional secretary of state of CBS' Madam Secretary will turn to three former real-life holders of the post when the show begins its fifth season. Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright will appear as themselves in the episode, set to air Sunday, Oct. 7. The trio filmed their cameos on July 11, Madam Secretary's first week back in production. "We’re delighted to have these three former secretaries of state be part of our season premiere," said series creator...

The intense fear and loathing that permeates news coverage of President Donald Trump is being multiplied on television dramas. Impeachment scenarios and 25th Amendment removal strategies are rolling around in the brains of scriptwriters. Barbara Hall, the creator of the pro-Hillary Clinton CBS show "Madam Secretary," claimed "We just take things that are already in the atmosphere, and if we find them interesting in terms of a civics lesson, we show you what it would look like. We're not campaigning for it. We're not politicizing it, really. We're just saying, 'Here's what the process looks like.'" Agenda? What agenda? It's...

There’s a madman in the White House and they’re trying to impeach him. Oh, we mean on “Madam Secretary,” of course. In Sunday’s episode of the Téa Leoni-led CBS drama, President Conrad Dalton’s (Keith Carradine) uncharacteristically irrational behavior means that he could be removed from office on account of the 25th Amendment.

In CBS’s Madam Secretary episode on Sunday titled “The Detour,” Elizabeth McCord's (Tea Leoni) husband, Henry (Tim Daly), is brought into an FBI investigation of a Christian doomsday cult called the Covenant of John. Raided by authorities in their operation in Bolivia while he was there, Henry has knowledge of the militia group and sets out to determine if Rex Mayfield (James McCaffery), a cult member now living in eastern Virginia, is the bomb-maker responsible for selling a bomb used on an Illinois coffee shop attack on orders from ISIS leader al-Mutaya. Christians working with ISIS? Far-fetched indeed. The raid...

Consistent with its sole reason for existence, which is paving the way for the eventual ascension of Hillary Clinton to the Oval Office, Madam Secretary took occasion to remind us on Sunday night, in an episode titled 'Left of the Boom', that Madam Hillary is the one person in Washington who understands why 9/11 happened, and maybe, no definitely, would have been the only person who could have prevented it. Specifically, the CIA tries to stop Madam Hillary from taking the lead into the investigation of stolen uranium in Moldova:

Recently released emails detail then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's interest in arming Libyan opposition groups using private security contractors before the fall of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011 – though at the time, the opposition was not formally recognized by the U.S. or United Nations, which prohibited arming without following strict guidelines and oversight. The issue remains so sensitive that the emails recently released by the State Department redacted a key line on the matter. But the unredacted version of the same email, released to the congressional Benghazi Select Committee and first posted by The New York Times last Thursday, showed...

When the CBS show “Madam Secretary” premiered last September, there was much speculation [1] and hand-wringing about whether or not the title character, Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord played by Tea Leoni, was inspired by Hillary Clinton, and if this show was meant as a long-running political ad humanizing Hillary Clinton. Such an effort might help make her ascension to the White House seem plausible, if not inevitable. Despite the denials, it seems clear that “Madam Secretary” was just such an effort, and still is. But in the few episodes I’ve watched, I haven’t seen much of what we know...

Madam Secretary, CBS’ 100 million dollar Hillary infomercial, wasn’t doing too well with younger viewers to begin with. You would think that 60 Minutes with its senescent cast of droners would have less younger viewers than Madam Secretary, but don’t count out the Hillary magic.The current ratings show that Madam Secretary lost 4 million 60 Minutes viewers and lost half of its younger 18-49 viewers. That’s the demo prized by advertisers and Madam Secretary is going to have trouble staying on the air if it can’t get them to tune in.Younger voters are also an obvious target for the Hillary...

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I have a couple of audio sound bites I'd like you to listen to: Condoleezza Rice, addressing the staff of the state department today. You know, before we get to that, just a couple of observations here. Remember, Colin Powell was actually the secretary of state when he testified before Congress and the UN, and what did he say? He said emphatically the same things that Condoleezza Rice and the president and Prime Minister Blair and Bill Clinton said about weapons of mass destruction. Yet, Democrats in Washington would never call Colin Powell a liar, nor would they mount a...

The first black woman and the second woman to occupy such a high position in a president's cabinet, Condoleezza Rice deserves praise for remaining dignified and calm in the face of blatantly racist, envious and old-haggish attacks on her character and intelligence. She's a better woman than I. I could use some serious counseling on how to control my temper in case my integrity is ever questioned by the likes of Ted "water torture" Kennedy or John "war hero" Kerry. And if I weren't a Christian woman, the things I would say to Barbara Boxer... I know you were expecting...

Madam Secretary Reviewed by Christopher Caldwell NYT Wednesday, October 8, 2003 Nonfiction. By Madeleine Albright With Bill Woodward Illustrated. 562 pages. $27.95. Miramax Books. Madeleine Albright remembers nodding in agreement last year as President George W. Bush made the case before the United Nations for disarming Saddam Hussein. "It was, after all, similar," she writes, "to speeches I had made time and again during my years as UN ambassador and secretary of state." The Bush foreign policy, often derided as arrogant and arbitrary, differs little, in fact, from the Clinton administration's, which was seen at the time as compassionate and...

Morning after morning and evening after evening, the wrecking crews of the TV news have their brass knuckles out for the Bush administration's handling of Iraq and the war on terrorism. The starting point of any conversation is the assumption that at best, we've made no progress at all, and at worst, everything the president has done has only made terrorists stronger.So where was this frenzy of "accountability" during the eight years of the Clinton administration, where every foreign policy failure, every diplomatic vacillation and empty military gesture was greeted with either a hallelujah chorus or a defensive group chant...

<p>I was never supposed to be what I became," writes Madeleine Albright in her new memoir, "Madam Secretary" (Miramax Books, $27.95).</p> <p>Albright frankly relates how she survived a painful divorce, chauvinistic statesmen and political foes to become the highest-ranking woman in American government.</p>

Madeleine Albright, America's first female secretary of state, has revealed the personal heartache behind the sudden break-up of her 23-year marriage.In her memoirs, published in America yesterday, she writes frankly about how her husband left her for a beautiful younger woman, utterly shattering her confidence and her dreams of being the perfect American wife and mother.   Madeleine Albright's memoirs His announcement that their marriage was over was a "thunderbolt", she says. Afterwards, she went through agony as he kept changing his mind about whether he wanted to return. When she realised that the marriage was over, she was able...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unable to go to Pyongyang in his final days as president because of preoccupation with the Middle East, Bill Clinton invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to Washington in hopes of closing a missile deal, but was turned down, his former secretary of state says. In her new autobiography, Madeleine Albright reveals that Clinton later regretted investing his last days in office pursuing an elusive Israel-Palestinian accord rather than a possible agreement with the isolated communist regime. In the book, "Madam Secretary," and during an interview with Reuters, Albright made clear she believes President Bush has squandered...