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Drive world war i and the balkans, the bad fit between state boundaries and nationalism, the popular forces of identity, culture, language, we see that all over the middle east today and that's driving a lot of conflicts. >> the -- >> the sunni/shia divide and kurdish question. nationalities whose identities are weak. syria and iraq are both multi-communal states and they're not holding up well. we see these forces ripping them apart in the same way they were ripping apart the great empires at the start of world war i. >> and yet there's a kind of indifference on the part of the great powers r...

Drive world war i and the balkans, the bad fit between state boundaries and nationalism, the popular forces of identity, culture, language, we see that all over the middle east today and that's driving a lot of conflicts. >> the -- >> the sunni/shia divide and kurdish question. nationalities whose identities are weak. syria and iraq are both multi-communal states and they're not holding up well. we see these forces ripping them apart in the same way they were ripping apart the great empires at the start of world war i. >> and yet there's a kind of indifference on the part of the great powers r...

Have to worry about the politics so i'm going to implement it fully. is that the calculation? where did this come from? >> well, i think you basically got it right. steve beshear has been slightly left of center but still well within the kentucky political mainstream. and in the current political environment he's really had to walk a fine line. once he got re-elected in 2011 and is term limited, he was free to do what he wanted to do and here is an important point that didn't apply in many other states, kentucky had statutes that allowed the governor to create an independent exchange without l...

Now -- >> right. >> utah would have been sort of standing out there as the one state where the -- all of these things didn't apply. so the government almost had to move in the direction they did, i think, suzanne. >> all right. joe, stay with us. jim, stay with us, as well. want to talk more about governor chris christie spending nearly two hours yesterday telling all of us here in no uncertain terms that his aides went rogue on him. that he didn't know he might have created this traffic nightmare to punish a mayor who didn't support him. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in this issue. the...

The philadelphia d.a. who september a catholic priest to prison in a first of its kind child sex abuse case says he'll probably appeal a higher court's decision to throw that conviction out. monseigneur lynn could go free as soon as today in light of a three judge decision that the law he was convicted of violating didn't apply in his case. cnn's miguel marquez has the details. >> reporter: monseigneur lynn's child endangerment conviction was overturned. they're calling for his immediate release. he spent the last 18 months behind bars for the way in which he handled sexual abuse complaints. a...