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Know, within reach of a peace deal but they ran out of time. i think this is an effort by secretary kerry to show how he sees a deal playing out and i think everyone knows what pretty much the parameters of a deal are. really the question is whether the party is willing to make the compromises to make that deal. i think that's another thing secretary of state john kerry will get into. when i interviewed him a couple of months ago, that's exactly what he said. he said i didn't fail, the u.s. didn't fail, the parties failed to make the necessary concessions. >> it is so consistent, every preside...

They like seeing stamper his assistant being invincible. if it was easy for frank, if he didn't stumble, didn't fail, then the show would become a parody of itself. i'm not interested in that." the way you're portrayed in the new series is being president creates a lot more challenges than getting there even for the machiavellian way he got there. what does tell you about what we're watching in washington now, how difficult it is for obama to get things he wants? >> i think it's interesting in case of looking at frank underwood and claire underwood, we now in the third season have a chance to ...

Not being deferential, that's a different story, what secretary gates seemed to be alleging now is that even there, though, the president didn't believe in his own strategy. he did the surge, he knew he had to do the surge, he did not believe in it, and in fact secretary gates suggests he may have known -- he may have been convinced that it was going to fail, even though it didn't fail, he may have thought it was going to. >> you're absolutely what you just articulated, the difference between a politician as opposed to a leader. someone that's looking to be a commander in chief that's going to...

Not being deferential, that's a different story, what secretary gates seemed to be alleging now is that even there, though, the president didn't believe in his own strategy. he did the surge, he knew he had to do the surge, he did not believe in it, and in fact secretary gates suggests he may have known -- he may have been convinced that it was going to fail, even though it didn't fail, he may have thought it was going to. >> you're absolutely right, what you just articulated, the difference between a politician as opposed to a leader. someone that's looking to be a commander in chief that's g...

>> source in the spirit of compromise, we started with a compromise position, where is where the house of representatives was, that it should be defunded. that went over, passed the house. >> failed in the senate. >> it went to the senate, and majority leader harry reid said, no, absolutely not, no discussion, we vote it down. it then went back to the house. the house compromised again. they then came back with a one-year delay. that was a promise from defunding. >> but it failed against in the senate. >> let's be clear, it didn't fail. >> you didn't have the votes. >> it didn't -- >> the repu...