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Issue? >> i dont know that, missed in the translation. when i go on arab media, you have saudi arabia, jordan, the uae, kuwait and many other countries who have been asking us, asking the administration for now three years, take action on syria. and because we have not taken any action on syria, we have not been able to form this coalition then. and now on egypt, egypt was our ally but we prepared to be in the muslim brotherhood. so they are very nervous, and secular egypt, very nervous. so our ...

With them. they have to live with them. what happens to israel? what do they do? do they -- do they side with -- theyre not going to side with hezbollah. hezbollah just lost the war. it was on the other side. hezbollah is the with the assad government. >> israel clearly wants some kind of transition, that sees assad step down and secular -- >> we all want that. its called christmastime. >> thats right. thats the problem with syria. this is the strategic center. no country is more important. no c...

Kind of transition, that sees assad step down and secular -- >> we all want that. its called christmastime. >> thats right. thats the problem with syria. this is the strategic center. no country is more important. no country is more divided web it comes to ethnic groups, sectarian division. thats a problem -- >> how do you do no warm? >> how do you do no warm? a and once you cross the tlesh hold and are engraged many military action youre not blamed for everything that follows because of action ...

Al qaeda? how do we know who in fact were arming? >> well we have great intelligence. we have spent a huge amount of money on intelligence-gathering. we have people in turkey and jordan. we meet with rebel leaders. we say we dont know who the good guys are, who the guys are in the free syria army, the rebels that are not allied with al qaeda but we actually do know who they are. president obama said some two months ago he would arm the rebels, the vetted rebels and yet, just this week you had a ...

I think the obama administration must renew its efforts to bridge the divide between two segments. the muslim brotherhood and the secular leaning or position in egypt. >> ambassador ginsburg, to that point in material of the u.s. relationship with egypt, i want to listen to something the president had to say on thursday. >> we want egypt to succeed. we want a peaceful, democratic, prosperous egypt. thats our interest. but to achieve that, the egyptians are going to have to do the work. >> you kn...

There might be a kernel of something that brings them together, perhaps this girls death in some way down the road inspires them to get together. >> extremely symbolic in that way. lets look at the broader picture here. where as you see an increase in the radicalism, extremism and in those influences you see an increase in christians persecution. youre seeing that across middle eastern countries and north africa as well. the silver lining, if you will, the people of the country, 85 million stron...

Of kentucky? >> well, even the energy companies are split on this. exxonmobil support the science standards of the next generation. what is important is that studentsnd -- and these facts arent left or right, they are not religious or atheist or secular. evidence is important and you have to teach what is in there. ive gone through the standards. ive gone through them page by page and looked for everything that could be used to say this is about climate change, humans cause climate change. ive f...

And the morality of our private life. >> thats right. i think for all of us around this table, it has to be a given that there can be no disconnect between sacred and secular, which also leads to all the other disconnects, divisions in society that have to be overcome with the same recognition that the sacred is manifest in every aspect of our lives. there is no sense of being a person of faith, if you are not also a person who is faithful. the very term progressive dignifies and kenotes action....

Federal programs and you cant have it both ways. so while we feel sorry for them they cant rebuild dont think the government should get involved in financing the rebuilding of religious -- wire year watching the pictures right now. thats somebodys faith-based group. >> they suffered. im a resident in new jersey and ive seen what has happened, and i think its perhaps a normal thought that because they dont pay taxes, they should get the benefit. but that has nothing to do with the constitution, a...

Sent 11th, 2012, on, basically decided there wasnt much of a story there we havent seen the kind of investigative reporting from benghazi from many mainstream outlets one might expect to see given the gravity of the situation and all of the unanswered questions and contradictions weve got from the at administration in the months since. bill: what about the irs scandal? what is phony about the irs scandal? >> that in secular will be difficult for the white house to shrug off because the president...