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In our country? right now its all happening in the u.s. its a wonderful thing because we will be able toç sort of spearhead this thing. just like the internet happened here first. it created transformation to the entire planet. but a lot of the big companies in this area are all here. we want the same thing to happen in the u.s. when it comes to driverless cars. we want the first driverless cars to appear here. we want to have the big businesses around us evolve here. we want to sort of set th...

Agree. but on the issue of the syrian president bashar al assad, there is absolutely no consensus with russia seeing assad at least temporarily as part of the solution and the united states and france seeing him as part of the problem. its very important to focus on what happened here today. its a microcosm of this entire conflict. how all of these different groups are fighting their own agendas with real power and the danger of escalation. a russian plane today, actually two russian planes, bri...

Be punished by them and the democratic party. they are stepping back. >> that explains why martin omalley was so tender to her. he wants a future in the party. >> hho secretary. >> what about joe biden? the conventional wisdom is that hillary clinton boxed him out from getting in. do you agree? >> i think he may need another event, a new disclosure to have a pretext to get into the race. >> times running out. >> i dont think hes necessarily out of it. what that did is clarify for him the opportu...

He says this deal is about irans nuclear program, nothing more. brett? >> rich edson live in vie evenee vienna thank you. republicans say the president values his legacy above all else. heres more from the white house tonight. >> todays announcement marks one more chapter in this pursuit of a safer and more helpful, more hopeful world. >> reporter: a more hopeful world. for president obama, that was the pretext for the iran nuclear agreement. a world the white house says that looks forward rat...

Power politics of the region. thats what makes it so complicated. >> are you among those who believe that if we had left at least 10,000 u.s. forces in iraq that isis would not have achieved a foothold and that iran would not be running the show right now? >> well i dont think that would have actually done the trick because what happened was that iran wanted the united states out. there was always going to be pressure and even if president obama had given in on the status of forces agreement and...

Renounced even the pretext of a two-state solution -- has he won hi campaign at the expense of israels diplomatic future? eyen joined by jonathan alter, who was just in israel for several weeks in the run-up to the election. great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> you were talking before we went on air, and you said this is not over despite what certain entities may want you to think. everything is very unclear at this moment neck and neck. >> if you real twitter or whatever, you will se...

On the heels of his speech, the u.s. congress programs no figure is more polarizing than netanyahu. he is israels george w. bush. the stakes could not be higher either for israel itself or american interests in the middle east. most of the region is in chaos, shia militia fighting in iraq, syria in an intractable warrick, governments topped in yemen and parts of libya, and a nuclear deal with iran possibly on the horizon and hanging in the balance. meanwhile, gaza is still in rubble after the ...

Now that netanyahu has shown his trau color -- true colors does a possible israeli government led by a man who has renounced even the pretext of a two-state solution -- has he won his campaign at the expense of stills diplomatic future. im johned by jonathan alter. great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> you were talking before we went on air, and you said this is not over despite what certain entities may want you to think. everything is very unclear at this moment, neck and neck. >> if...

Gitmo. it makes sense to me. >> a number of people suggest maybe the real goal here was just shutting down gitmo. maybe the goal wasnt to get bergdahl back. that was a pretext to help get the guys out of there president obama, when he wanted to shut this down back in 2009, he appointed his own task force, even president obamas own people, they identified 48 guys that were too dangerous to let go under any circumstances. and these five were among those 48 at gitmo. we released some of the most da...

Chinese. we passed a law against something chinese people do. we didnt make smoking opium in general all across the country illegal, we only made it illegal in california. it was legal everywhere else. it was legal to to other things with opium that americans did widely at that time. so we found a very selective way of putting chinese folks in jail. >> which is how we use crack laws. >> we use drug laws as thinly veiled laws against racial group ls. and what were announcing is we just removed th...