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access, is america exceptional? we will look at reproductive rights. all that with two top journalists. then president biden is in germany today for the meeting of the g7. will the worlds advanced economies ramp up pressure on russia? will it work? israels government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macrons centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left ma...

will it work? israels government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macrons centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. whe...

Nuclear issue in a way biden and the obama administration tried which was some kind of deal and placate saudi arabia or are those two contradictory goals? >> ultimately they are contradictory. even if we were able to get back into the agreement with the iranians it would simply buy a little time on the nuclear side. it wouldnt buy you anything on the missile side. it wouldnt buy you anything on the regional destabilization side. that said i think the odds of getting back into it are long. i thin...

Which was some kind of deal and placate saudi arabia or are those two contradictory goals? >> ultimately they are contradictory. even if we were able to get back into the agreement with the iranians it would simply buy a little time on the nuclear side. it wouldnt buy you anything on the missile side. it wouldnt buy you anything on the regional destabilization side. that said i think the odds of getting back into it are long. i think this becomes part of the new axis in the middle east, fareed. ...

>> they want to control gaza, the people, the economy, they want to control everything. >> welcome to the great palestinian divide. ramallah is hardly boomtown but a galaxy apart from gaza. the market is busy. coffee shops are packed. and nine different arab banks compete for customers at this ramallah mall. stan helped build the mall. he says better than gaza isnt good enough. and, again, he blames israel. >> israel now has the leisure to be able to pick and choose how much restrictions it puts...

Here, though, proof gaza doesnt have to be so bleak. this man says those with jobs are less likely to choose hate and violence. 600 workers here at the plants hay day. just 300 now. most of them part-time. >> weve got actually five lines and we used to have three shifts a day. now we have only one shift for three days a week. >> reporter: it is the price gaza pays for israels anger at hamas. the plant once shipped to and through israel but is now limited to selling locally. this truck once drove...

That is the rule there. they are keeping things calm. they will keep the peace because they wont be able to pay the money from the outside sources. >> got it. >> one of the things we pride ourselves on over the decades coverage of this is the relationship we have with people on both sides of the israeli palestinian divide. you are about to meet one right now. he is a palestinian legislator. she is a friend i have known her for decades. the doctor joins us from ramallah in the occupied wealths ba...

That is the rule there. they are keeping things calm. they will keep the peace because they wont be able to pay the money from the outside sources. >> got it. >> one of the things we pride ourselves on over the decades coverage of this is the relationship we have with people on both sides of the israeli palestinian divide. you are about to meet one right now. he is a palestinian legislator. she is a friend i have known her for decades. the doctor joins us from ramallah in the occupied wealths ba...

That is the rule there. they are keeping things calm. they will keep the peace because they wont be able to pay the money from the outside sources. >> got it. >> one of the things we pride ourselves on over the decades coverage of this is the relationship we have with people on both sides of the israeli palestinian divide. you are about to meet one right now. he is a palestinian legislator. she is a friend i have known her for decades. the doctor joins us from ramallah in the occupied wealths ba...

Elsewhere in the region on the palestinian-israeli front? you negotiated for i think a dozen years, trying to win progress there under different presidents. and you know how difficult it is. but now it really is fraught with palestinian divide, merged hamas and fatah. netanyahu arriving tomorrow, refusing to sit down, understandably, some would argue, with hamas, as long as hamas threatens israels existence. how do you bridge that gap? >> well, in the last 20 months, clear, you dont. harry truma...