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Elected president, al hadi. but im not sure the saudis want to get involved in yemen. its a tough fighting environment. other countries have tried and been unsuccessful. so its a real tough decision for the saudis but they dont want to see control of yemen to what they believe is a proxy group for iran their major rival across the persian gulf. >> looks like irans making a major inroad in yemen as they have in iraq in syria, in lebanon and other places as well. thats a great concern to the saudi...

>> they have an inroad in yemen right now. >> yeah. the iraq war had the consequence of giving iran a lot more space to -- >> look at the map. you can see the potential that the iranians have. they are smelling victories. >> they are. look how quickly this is changed in a couple years. if you put baghdad at the center of a map and look at influence in syria and lebanon, now extending into iraq going south into yemen, you start to see influence thats not only significant for iran its significant ...

Martha: barack obama didnt spend a lot of time in the senate and he was able to go on. >> i think relationship is right, i think bob dole is a man who is out of touch with where the new republican party is going. it is true hes quick to jump on those on the right of the republican party like cruz and rand paul. but i think what hes starting to see is thats a constituency he didnt have to deal with as much when he ran. and they made inroad. when i first heard he was going to be here i thought i h...

Newspapers and television actually edited the comments o so not everyone in china even heard them. what kind of difference does this make, this kind of soft diplomacy? >> it has a huge impact not just in the words of michelle obama but in the model. coming to china where first ladies dont traditionally have a role in public life and taking part in this kind of open conversation, encouraging people power. some of it is the substance, some of it is the style but it makes an inroad into the chinese...

We dont know the impaskt how social media has changed all this. they have this perceived social isolation. i am alone and dont necessarily want to be this way. >> how do you fix it? is it as simple as just saying hello? >> you need an inroad into those people. you need to be sort of empowered as a greeter to reach out to that person in some way. the hello is the beginning of that. its not the end. hopefully that will lead to more meaningful relationships. but right now, again, as opposed to avoi...

Im like, where is he from? because you nailed the baltimore, american accent in the show. how much vocal work did it take to get that specificity in this role? >> to be honest it was an ongoing process. i didnt stop doing it until the very last day, you know. i worked twice -- i worked with two voice coaches, a woman who worked on mandelas, you know, original tongue, his original language. then there was a woman called fiona, who worked on sort of the technical aspects of what mandelas doing wit...

Youth, because on the african continent, the average age is about 15 years old. the president is developing programs that will focus on the next generation of political leaders, next generation of entrepreneurs, the next generation of legislators and civil society leaders. and thats a different kind of relationship than the u.s. has had in the past. >> there is, of course, ron just alluded to this and we heard this from earlier from kristen welker as well. significant challenge from china, speci...

Year is a kind of republican hispanic candidate who could hold off this move by democrats if its successful. if not, then you see democrats moving, and i think ultimately it will happen, if not in four years, certainly six or eight years, when democrats will begin to win again big time in texas. >> you mentioned george p. bush, jebs son running. what about the hopes of jeb. when this country thinks of tex athey think of that as bush country. what about jebs hopes for 2016 if something like this ...

System of rules that allows high capacity magazines and clips. nobody is talking about universal bans on handguns, when we think of what common sense regulations that there can be, that actually doesnt do anything to sort of address what happened in december, which is, you are right, a lot of people got scared and wanted to arm themselves. we do live in a culture that is far too violent and full of fear. >> one thing that came out of the listening sessions in the white house with the vice presid...

Inroad, if it ticks upward, its an inroad for the president to lose ground. >> absolutely. or to gain ground. ive been saying for almost a year, for all the story lines it will come down to how you feel going into the voting booth. do you feel richer? do you feel poorer? do you feel confident about the state of the economy? so, if we get a good unemployment number, a good jobs report on the friday before that tuesday, i think thats a huge boon to the president, and conversely if that numbers bad...