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He would agree to that himself. it's a tough spot he's in because he does not want to be said to not agree to talks and be perceived as moving towards another war in the middle east. >> it's very striking that all of his surrogates from marco rubio to the other foreign policy advisors, dan senor, were not attacking the notion of talking with iran. they did say and have said before that the president was not supportive enough of the students in the green revolution, but they did not really come out attacking. bruce, what about back channels to iran? you've been involved in some of those in the ...

Being asked today. what question would they ask? i'm posing that to our foreign policy experts who are joining me now. "new york times" correspondent elizabeth bumiller. nbc's chief foreign correspondent, richard engel and bruce rydell, former long-time cia officer now with the brookings institution. welcome, all. first to you, bruce. what questions would you want asked? i suspect from what you've been writing about that it might be pakistan. >> absolutely. pakistan's the most dangerous country in the world today. it has the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world and in many ways, we are...

So they are under intense pressure and the more clear communication that you can stand with our ally in the region, israel, the better off both of us are. i think that miscommunication is causing problems and may, in fact, make israel make a decision based on their own security interests and not mutual security interests. >> congressman mike rogers, thank you very much. >> thanks, andrea. coming up, our foreign policy gurus, bruce rydell, and nbc's chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. send me your thoughts on facebook and twitter. this is "andrea mitchell reports." wooohooo....hahaaha...

It might be willing to do which is come to the table, negotiate, potentially give up part or all of its enrichment program. that is certainly the u.s. preferred option. it can try and take the opposite approach, the extreme opposite approach, and rush towards some sort of weaponization and a nuclear capability. that would be a far more risky approach, could even inspire an israeli military strike. there's a lot of negative consequences for that scenario. or something a little bit in the middle, which would be to try and start a diversionary conflict, to use its proxies potentially in syria, in...

I was covering that in geneva. first of all, isn't the issue whether the ayatollah who has sole control over nuclear decisions, really signs off on this, and speak for a moment about the fact that ahmadinejad is so much losing his power that today, he tried apparently to visit one of his former aides in prison and was denied access. >> ahmadinejad right now doesn't have very much authority at all. as you said, the revolutionary guard and it's the office of the supreme leader that call the shots. they really always have called the shots but they allowed ahmadinejad to be their surrogate and he ...