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Takes before the sanctions start to be suspended. >> theres already talk of john kerry for the nobel peace prize. ken pollock in an article said kerry will be in line for the nobel peace prize. >> this is still just a frame work. >> assuming you get to something in place. >> this is way more promising than anything i had anticipated. >> james? >> before we give the peace prize to kerry, obama has already got one, you cant give him two. but lets remember that from the first days of his tenure bar...

On thursday, u.s. officials were saying they were confident that u.s. troops that are already on the ground in iraq in the embassy compound, some of which are going to be retasked with this surveillance mission, theyre okay. but that new troops were coming in, u.s. officials said they were confident the iraqis would give them that protection. i asked secretary kerry today do they have that protection, i asked other officials, they said it is still being worked out. still a question to be worked ...

Government that is incredibly corrupt as well. so there is a hope that if he steps aside that a better government could be replaced, a more effective government could be created. but, no, people dont think that a new government is going to erase the deep-seeded sectarian problems that this country still has. >> all right, richard engle in baghdad for us. richard, thanks very much. joining me now ken pollock, former cia military analyst. hes currently a senior fellow at the brookings institute....

Part of a country that they dont want to be part of. the problem was always that we worried that if the kurds declared independence, baghdad would fight them. baghdad is not in a position to fight them. >> so the kurds are out so that means this becomes pure sunni/shia. >> correct. >> this is a regional civil war at this point. >> absolutely. its syriaque. partition is not what any iraqi wanted and it will be a sad outcome but may be the de facto outcome of this. >> ive seen a lot of the word st...

Of iran and you see that live on your screen there well bring you any headlines that come out of this pros conference. as we understand it fox is not allowed into the press conference to ask questions but that doesnt mean we wont keep you posted about any headlines that come out of it. well watch it from the u.n. as we speak. recap of the last 24 hours. it has been an interesting one. high-level meetings between the united states and iran happened. the first meetings of their kind really since 1...

Crazy like president rouhani is not crazy or everybody is not crazy because some of those things might sound crazy to our viewers. >> im sure there are crazy iranians. what im saying iranian government what weve seen from their behavior is not reckless and not crazy. im glad you brought up the plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador which at the time i thought was really striking. the more we dig into it, the iranians probably did know what our red line was. we didnt retaliate for that. i think...

Long-term, is not going to be anything significant. people will continue this rushr their shoulder over it. >> thank you for joining us. leon panetta warned his team that al qaeda will almost likely retaliate for bin ladens death. ken pollock is director of the sa vaughn center for middle east policy at brookings and serves as an analyst with the cia in the past. do you think it really matters in terms of the threat who -- whether or not we got bin laden? does it matter or is the real threat n...

Whether or not bin laden is with them or not. >> ken pollock, thank you very much for being with us up next what does the daring raid tell us about intelligence and threats to come? the man in charge of the house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers joins us next. if i ask sheila out? of course not. we broke up 6 months ago. but i dont think shed go for a guy like -- [ ping! ] she says shed love to. [ ping! ] she cant wait to see me. [ ping! ] shes wanted me to ask her out for over a year...

Situation abroad. ken pollock worked as director for the national security council and joins us this morning. ken, nice to see you. right now i want to talk about yemen. i want to talk about these other hot spots. and theres always a major uprising under way in yemen. many experts have said theres a lot of instability there. also all of us in the united states say its a proving ground. i think all of us remember what happened to the "uss cole" so why would he get involved in libya instead of doi...

Mubarak himself and his sensitivities. they had to be much more direct, i think. its the conclusion that people i have interviewed today, nicholas burns and ken pollock, people far more experienced than i am in foreign policy, because they actually practice it for a living, they are saying that the administration has to move more quickly on that. at this stage, though, now that things have turned and become violent, and you have in the last 24 hours a completely different situation starting at a...