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But she has logged in so many miles i cant begrudge her to want to take igt eat easy for a little bit. but i want the country to appreciate just what an extraordinary role shes played during the course of my administration and a lot of the successes weve had internationally have been because of her hard work. >> robin, as someone whos covered this administration, one of the things you hear from reporters who cover it is that the biggest strategic foreign policy calls have been very tightly held ...

Sent meant there. >> robin. >> chris, can i make a pointing. that is i think we make a real mistake if we look at hillary as a woman and someone advocating some of the social issues and not understanding she was one of the hawks in the administration. she was very much in favor of the libyan intervention, she was for the surge in afghanistan and she backed at one point in the inner discussion a more active role in syria. and i think this is -- we make a mistake in trying to paint her as the peac...

And ambassador swanee hujnt. joining us on satellite is robin wright. and were talking about hillary clintons legacy in the week in which she gave her big headline testimony on benghazi and also a day later or two days later testified at the hearing -- the confirmation hearing for her successor, senator john kerry from massachusetts. talking about the degree to which the first-term legacy of barack obama, what the policy is the first term, the degree to which it is hillary clintons legacy and wh...

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0 appointments to the labor panel are unconstitutional. is this a particular conservative makeup of this court? >> they have some conservative justices and some of the current supreme court justices came from this court. ultimately this is an issue that will go before the supreme court. as your own pete williams reported, and as we reported at the post, there are various courts across the country challenging recess appointments made a little more than a year ago, and, you know, its inevitable th...

Some outcome and not see the endless bloodshed that has cost 40,000 lives so far. i think we are beginning to see a lot of forces come together. not enough but it may well be that kind of turning point we all look back to. >> robin wright, its always good to have you on the program. thank you so much. >> thank you, chris. >> todays tweet of the day comes from reid wilson, our friend and editor in chief of the hot line. i find this fascinating. most looked up word in a single 24-hour period in 20...

In response to what critics call a power grab by president morsi. this amid word today that the muslim brotherhood will hold rallies across the country in support of morsi on saturday. why did president morsi take this action? is it a power gab? can his power in office outlasts the protests were seeing on the streets? robin wright, from wilson center and institute of peace. she spent her professional career covering the middle east as our own judith miller, who was the cairo bureau chief for "th...

Colossal mistake, miscalculation by president morsi. not understanding how deep suspicions run about what the muslim brotherhood would do and it comes ironically and tragically just a week after he helped mediate a cease-fire in the gaza conflict. jenna: judith are those suspicions of morsi valid? >> of course theyre valid if you have to judge the man so far by what he has done. i dont think it is just a coincidence, robin, that president morsi made this power grab after hillary clinton showered...

Much broder than he had anticipated. jenna: so that brings us to another central question, robin. do you think the priority of morsi and who is in charge of forming this new egyptian government, the priority is a stronger, safer, more powerful egypt, or a stronger, more powerful muslim brotherhood? what, where dot priorities lie? >> oh thats the big question. well know more over the next week or 10 days. this is a confrontation that cant endure because it has the potential to do the same thing t...

What we saw in iran in 1979? a post-democratic election power grab by the person elected that led to what some call a theocracy, others call a dictatorship, understanding, robin, theyre very different countries and different people what do you think about the comparisons and likelihood what were seeing in egypt. >> there are more differences than similarities but the reality is the core problem is defining new order. how do you create a different system to replace a dictatorship or autocratic re...