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The former foreign u.s. ambassador is here. they opened up saying the president must go. he thinks he is winning the war and the opposition is broke and divided and short on weapons. do you see any sustainable resolution? >> no, not through this peace conference. i think it is doomed to failure. i think in fact, you can make a case that the administrations policy on syria has been based on illusions for three straight years. the most important of which is the illusion that the united states and ...

They obviously cant find somebody on the streets to hook up with. and then i would play them to get some money. >> then what? >> i would continue to get money. >> then shed have them fired. >> devon believes that the officers she seduced deserved their punishment. >> i have no remorse when it comes to that. i feel as though its some type of perverted injustice when you come in here and think you can get a free lick off of an inmate when you have access to the free world. ive gotten a lot of mone...

To israel as secretary of state, john kerry is trying to prove its not mission impossible to get a peace agreement between israelis and palestinians. >> i come here with no illusions. i know that there are many who are skeptical of whether or not the two parties can achieve peace. >> reporter: kerry wants what he calls a framework. its not a final deal, but a guideline for a permanent status negotiation, addressing all the thorny core issues. borders between israel and a proposed palestinian sta...

Kerry, he has just wrapped up a meeting with benjamin netanyahu, in the middle east to propose a new framework for a middle east peace deal. yer plans to meet with the palestinian president abbas and those is kerrys ninth trip to the region. the proposal is based on five months of extensive consultation with leaders since the peace process resumed this summer. >> the time is soon arriving where leaders are going to have to make difficult decisions. we are close to that time, if not at it, and i ...

Lets do that with our panel. steve hays, senior writer for the weekly standard, columnist for fortune magazine and column insist charles krauthammer. she talks about positive things or tries to highlight positive things. steve, how would you give them a report card at this point? >> its a disaster. take a step back and think t about the fact she sited the israeli conflict as the high point for the obama administration and syria as a high point. we should be under no illusions. president barack o...

In an interview with me and in the speech he gave, he made these veiled illusions to hillary clinton, both her vote for the iraq war and just the fact shes been in politics for so long. it was surprising that people in the room, ive got to tell you last night, thought he was going to talk about economic issues, incomee inequality and thing like that. people were surprise head brought up iraq war vote over ten years old. she voted for iraq war in 2002. as secretary of state she helped wind down t...

And i was struck by how calm his demeanor was, how often he spoke of forgiveness. if there was any sense of revenge or pay back in the man, it was not apparent. i dont think there was any. now, he was the first to say -- and he said that night and he said continually after, he was an imperfect person, an imperfect leader. he had made his mistakes. but he was all about forgiveness. my most vivid memory of him that night was his absolute determination for reconciliation in his country and a sense ...

Hemorrhoids. and the second comes to us regarding art. this is a fairly boring looking hotel in germany. he transfers them through different keys on a piano, i guess. i think that is the point. but as real as they all seem, each of these photos is individually creative. they are all just illusions, that is real, i am pretty certain that is. and the psychological term here, the phenomenon of seeing significant images in insignificant places, like

Republicans here but also democrats on the house foreign affairs committee. >> -- that iran remains the top state sponsor of terrorism in the world, continues to support hezbollah and the brutal assad regime in syria, continues to engage in systematic violations of human rights, continues its efforts to destabilize a number of persian gulf states and continues to imprison innocent americans. all of this under the so-called moderate rouhani government. >> i hope youll leave here today with a sens...

With him and hes talked eloquently about the desire of south africa to move forward in the future. he had no illusions that it would take time but he accomplished that after his death. >> running against the man who released him from jail, was it obvious to you back then that nelson mandela was going to win that election? was the future of south africa clearly written? >> no. first of all, it was not you a assured that mandela would be elected. beyond that, there was no certainty that he would b...