with the palestinian authority and make greater concessions. definitely. i said the following. had i been prime minister, i would have blown hamas very strongly, but i would have gone to ramallah where mahmoud abbas is, knocked him in the door, looked him in the eye and start negotiating an agreement between us and the palestinians. the exit strategy for this crisis should include the following. very strong involvement of egypt. and very strong involvement of aabbas. as we speak, abbas the president of egypt. they are the axis of moderate forces in the region, together with the jordanian king who can be partners in con fig rating a peace agreement between us and the palestinians. it s a must. the only exit for fostering security in the region is to
and it is not just because of anything barack obama has done within exclusively his administration. what was the plan coming out of the bush administration for iraq? what would it look like? i know many of us asked that question then, and still asked that question of this president. and we re seeing the results of neither administration effectively being able to answer that question. e. j., in dick cheney s mind, it seems that the mission accomplished banner was unfurled at a perfectly fine moment. that the bush administration had done what they wanted to do, to say nothing of the point that michael steele brought up, that there was no exit strategy. the chutzpah of the cheneys to opine on iraq at all is noteworthy. the errors he has made with respect to iraq or self awareness or honor. i wonder why dick cheney is
mounting. cnn s diana magnay is near the border and we understand president obama spoke on the phone with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and said he s willing to help negotiate a cease-fire. reporter: he did, and this is clearly to try to facilitate some kind of exit strategy for benjamin netanyahu before he decides, if he decides, to send in ground troops. we ll see whether that attempt to broker some kind of deal comes to anything. for now we ve seen various rockets already this morning come from gaza and go over our heads and being intercepted. there have been various intercepts over tel aviv already. the mayor of that area telling people to stay inside for ten minutes because even if there is an intercept the slab nell can call for another ten minutes afterwards, but, of course, the comparative security provided to people here by this iron dome missile defense shield is a very different story to the reality playing out across the border in gaza.
poibts, if republicans take the senate tlb a lot of pressure to extract policy concessions. this to me sounds like a war without an exit strategy, which is something we know republicans are very good at. thank you both for your time. thank you, alex. just ahead the gop s long national nightmare in mississippi to be specific is far from over. david corn weighs in on the big old mess in little ole miss. f provokes lust. it elicits pride. .incites envy. .and unleashes wrath. temptation comes in many heart-pounding forms. but only one letter.
many and bill clinton was asked about that and responded with this. mr. cheney has been incredibly adetroit for the last six years or so, attacking the administration for not doing an adequate job of cleaning up the mess that he made. and i think it s unseemingly. and now, dick cheney has responded. here you see him. there s somebody who knows something about unseemingly, it s bill clinton. well, they re in the sand box. sure. but that s forgive me. that s not funny. it s not funny what dick cheney did. it s an insult to the men and women he put at risk all these years. cheney was criticizing obama for not having the right exit strategy in iraq when it s clear