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That this was about not talking about extracting himself from his businesses and delaying that press conference. you buy that? >> no, i dont. i mean, there were a lot of wayses to avoid that, but showing up with kanye west is not one you would pick out of a hat. look, this is very trumpian. the man knows how to put on a show and he knows how to write a script. what i liked best about today is that he gives the energy department to a man whose campaign died because he couldnt remember the name of...

That this was about not talking about extracting himself from his businesses and delaying that press conference. you buy that? >> no, i dont. i mean, there were a lot of wayses to avoid that, but showing up with kanye west is not one you would pick out of a hat. look, this is very trumpian. the man knows how to put on a show and he knows how to write a script. what i liked best about today is that he gives the energy department to a man whose campaign died because he couldnt remember the name of...

That this was about not talking about extracting himself from his businesses and delaying that press conference. you buy that? >> no, i dont. i mean, there were a lot of wayses to avoid that, but showing up with kanye west is not one you would pick out of a hat. look, this is very trumpian. the man knows how to put on a show and he knows how to write a script. what i liked best about today is that he gives the energy department to a man whose campaign died because he couldnt remember the name of...

That this was about not talking about extracting himself from his businesses and delaying that press conference. you buy that? >> no, i dont. i mean, there were a lot of wayses to avoid that, but showing up with kanye west is not one you would pick out of a hat. look, this is very trumpian. the man knows how to put on a show and he knows how to write a script. what i liked best about today is that he gives the energy department to a man whose campaign died because he couldnt remember the name of...

Surrounding those talks and everything fell apart. things were much more delayed in that scenario and negotiators are saying its hugely significant that every country agreed at least to the draft text. ive been parsing through this document and you see phrases and brackets throughout the text and the negotiators will be choosing between sets of brackets as they try to come up with a deal they could agree to as soon as friday. >> as i mentioned, most of the heads of state have left but many celeb...

For "the new yorker." and newly appointed dean of school of journalism -- a long title for you. you have a piece in "the new yorker" magazine about john kiriakou. why he is in jail? >> he is a former cia officer that retired in 2004 and went into consulting and hollywood script writing and became a source for journalists. in the course of a very complicated investigation that the justice department ran at guantanamo bay looking into how al qaeda prisoners there had gotten pictures of former cia ...

>> go in like hollywood script writing. of course, president obama is going after governor romney and whoever the republican nominee will be on the economy. we are still not where we should be with job growth. clearly 22 months of private sector job growth, two million jobs created in the last few years, some private sector companies but the reality is mitt romney has stepped into it. when me puts out a claim that he created 100,000 jobs, that no fact checking organization can back up and his ow...

nato command center were targeted. youre going to see rooftop to rooftop fighting, today in kabul. >> these are u.s. security forces that are returning fire from what were told was a well-organized taliban attack ugz rocket-propelled grenades, also machine guns. street fighting lasted several hours. it is over now, and there were casualties. want to go straight to the capital of kabul where our own suzanne malveaux has been there for a better part of a week and a half. she has now deta...

>> wait, wait, wait, wait. >> here we go. mrs. huxtable wants to speak. >> who-who. can we just be human. >> teach awes lesson. >> you know, this is what acting does. this is what script-writing is about. this is what direction is about. this is what production is about. what were doing is presenting the picture of human existence. >> right. >> what were doing is to quote that line from shakespeare, to hold the mirror up to nature. thats what were doing. >> but have we failed? you know, pardon m...