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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> michael: welcome back to "the young turks." cenk is not here because hes interviewing the 39th president of the united states james early carterarsenalearlcarter. that interview will air tomorrow. im excited about that. john fugelsang back now with "viewpoint." [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> john: good evening. mark sanford is headed for a run-off election for the congressional seat in south carolina. i want kate to see when he runs off for his other election. the pres...

Reports from last night indicate multiparty talks are taking place in egypt. even the nature of the meetings is unclear. president obama who is traveling in asia, had this to say about the ongoing conflict. >> theres no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. so we are fully supportive of israels right to defend itself from missiles landing on peoples homes. >> firm word from president obama. but president obama knows that any mandate ...

The editor in chief of the jewish daily forward and mark quarterman, research director at the enough project. thank you all for being here. so this is -- as i was saying earlier this morning, this is going to be a pretty sober conversation. i want to be clear that sometimes the topics we take on, on mhp are my wheelhouse and the things that i sort of have my fundamental point to make. today i feel more like the audience in that i feel overwhelmed by this -- these developments. i feel distressed ...

calling for the creation of separate arab and jewish states. fighting broke out between the two groups and israel declared independence in may 1948. the next day, israel was invaded by jordan, egypt, lebanon, syria and iraq. but the fledgling country survived. the u.n. passed resolution 194 in december 1948 which allowed ref are geez who wished to live peacefully the right to return home at the earliest practical date. nearly 20 years later in 1967, israel pre em tifl struck egyptian f...

up along with $500,000 in taxpayer loans. and in special elections, republicans win two congressional races. senior political editor mark preston is in washington for us. carville says its time for the white house to panic. he made a lot of news yesterday and since those remarks, a lot of response from within the beltway. >> yeah, no question about that, kyra. in fact, i think the white house pushed the panic button probably several months ago, they just havent telegraphed to us yet. y...

pushed the panic button probably several months ago, they just havent telegraphed to us yet. you have to look no further than a poll out in virginia that shows president obama has a 62% disapproval rating with independents in that state. that is devastating to him. remember, virginia was one of the states that he flipped back in 2008 to win the presidency. not just virginia, north carolina is another state that theyre concerned about. then go out west to colorado, another state that th...

Purposes as much as president obama and the congress. >> this is, in part, jane, i think what happens if i begin to sort of walking back to tell the story and like if we sort of all the way back, it feels like incompetent tractable and its about peoples. it is about politics. >> it is. you brought up a really good point. that theres been tremendous amount of division within the palestinian people. the palestinian authority in the west bank, hamas in gaza. there was a brutal civil war some years ...