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Year there will be no peace unless the united states gets in the middle of it, grabs both sides and forces them to the table. >> but you look at the polling on it. two-thirds of the country thinks that peace process should be left to the guys involved in it which is israel and palestine. i think it's also worth noting, joe, this is the tenth anniversary of us deciding to go to war in iraq. it can't be underestimated. he does not want to get involved in another situation in the middle east that doesn't have clear end points and broad national support. >> joining us now live from jerusalem, nbc ...

Compromise, negotiation, and working towards legislative end points. right now the senate, and i've never really seen it as intense as it is now, is not about conversation, it's not about coalitions, it's not about legislative end points, it's about legislative non-action. and having your party defined by the lack of action -- >> by what you can block. >> -- not by what you do. and that's been true -- that was true with democrats at times, against president bush, and it's absolutely true with republicans against president obama. >> i was really struck by one of the things she said to me yester...

>> you have so much more regulation it's difficult to get into new areas of medicine because you need the government's approval? >> and a bureaucrat will decide whether it's cost-effective. provain for prostate cancer and you've got people, you don't add enough with that. well, i don't know if their end points are accurate. >> are you as aggravated as your colleagues that the president bombed libya while you were away from congress, that he consulted foreign groups? >> at the very least he should have made his case with the american people. the people are not irrelevant. he should have stayed ...

Because the mainstream media really have put the focus back on the idea that all of these fights, and the fights on which both sides are obsessed. those fights have to do with a total of 12% of our national budget, that the big four, the defense spending and social security and the medicare and medicaid, that those represent the great bulk of what we're spending. it also seems to me that the question that you played about the deficit commission is an entirely fair question. i mean the deficit commission had a great deal of attention to it. this was supposed to show us the way forward and it ha...

First up, is there a link between avandia and heart attacks? yes, the panel said. a higher risk of death? no. not enough evidence. >> it's disturbing to be this late into the process as to how many people have been treated for how long they've been treated to have the information that we actually have on these major end points such as death, stroke and mi. >> and then the big one. should avandia be taken off the market? the panel was split. 12 members voted to pull the drug. 17 said to leave it. but with tighter controls like a stronger warning label or limits on who can prescribe. three wante...