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Choice and conceived lack of trust in the way the syria situation played out, that did not look well for allies. i give kerry high marks on continuing a bush administration policy on iran to get them to the table whether or not a deal happens or a good thing well debate. if you asked me marks to give kerry on do israel a bunch when it wont happen and no one cares, i wouldnt give them high marks. >> we care. >> south korea and japan is something more. his asia focus isnt there and thats a serious...

We still havent had that real acceleration that we want and in part because of the mess in washington again. its been a recovery held back by stupid fiscal policy. we have discussed this before. cuts, sequestration, short-term fiscal tightening, 1.75% of gdp could drag a stronger economy down. it was a stupid thing to do. >> we have to wrap this up. well ask you winners or losers. i will point in one direction but you can take it where you want. putin, has he played a weak hand pretty well? his ...

>> anne marie, the obama administration would say we got a deal to get chemical weapons out of syria. were trying to get a deal to get iran securely on a nonnuclear path. >> you just took my lines. those are hard accomplishments. i have been very critical of our syria policy and the optics of focusing more on chemical weapons than the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of deaths was bad but the fact remains that we are getting chemical weapons out of syria and the framework agreement with ...

And certainly hurt american allies in different parts of the world. snowden issue had a major impact. impact of the government shutdown and obama not showing up at the summit hurt americans on the partnership and wont get done by the end of 2014 as the signal accomplishment that obama could have in foreign l policy. one thing we havent said yet which is also important is the second term team. hillary clinton is not there anymore. geithner is not there anymore. gates isnt there anymore. dael is n...

Ian bremmer looks at political risk around the world. how do you think president obama did for a completely fair and unbiassed assessment? >> about as well as president bush did at a similar time in his tenure, 2005, which is to say it has not been a good year for him domestically for all of the reasons that we know since the disastrous rollout of obama care which i think will be a rolling disaster. we havent seen the end of it by any stretch. in foreign policy, this has been a year of american ...

President obama did for a completely fair and unbiased assessment? >> about as well as president bush did at a similar time in his tenure, 2005, which is to say it has not been a good year for him domestically for all of the reasons that we know since the disastrous rollout of obamacare which i think will be a rolling disaster. we havent seen the end of it by any stretch. in foreign policy, this has been a year of american weakness. we saw it in gyrations about what to do with syria and the assa...

Has been in perception a disaster. unmitigated disaster for the u.s. and ability to stick with promises that they make. and certainly hurt american allies in different parts of the world. snowden issue had a major impact. impact of the government shutdown and obama not showing up hurt americans on the partnership and wont get done by the end of 2014 as signal accomplishment that obama could have in foreign policy because one thing we havent said yet which is also important is the second term tea...

Not only can you not run your economy, you dont have a functioning democracy. not his fault but its there and second is nsa spying scandal which no one pays enough attention to. if you think of the internet as its own realm of diplomacy, we did very badly this year and talk about damage to our you european allies, to brazil and other countries that one hurt us. he hasnt fixed it. >> what do you think about this idea that americas standing, for whatever reason, has diminished this year? >> americ...

Correspondent and member of the editorial board of a newspaper and has a new book called "my promised land." lets start with this boycott. this is something -- the kind of thing that people in israel have talked about and worried about which is a campaign that delegitimatizes which is the phrase i often heard. what do you make of it? >> when i heard this news i was filled and am filled with outrage. there is a limit to the hypocrisy regarding israel one can accept. you mentioned syria and egypt....

Fault. one not his fault is the congressional display of shutting down the government. our standing was weakened after the financial crisis. not only can you not run the economy, you dont have a functioning democr functioning democracy. not his fault but its there and second is nsa spying scandal which no one pays enough attention to. if you think of the internet as its own realm of diplomacy, we did a lot of damage this year. that one hurt us. he hasnt fixed it. >> what do you think about this ...