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Presidential campaign end? will trump or clinton be the next leader of the free world or somebody else entirely? will isis be defeated in 2016? the iraqi p.m. says his forces will do just that in the coming year. also events in the last due days suggest tensions between iran and saudi arabia will ratchet up in 2016. will that cold war become a hot one? and speaking of cold wars, what of the u.s./russian relation, will they further sour or improve over syria. emery slaughter, she and richard hass are former directors of policy planning at the state department. he is, of course, now the presiden...

Read it. >> the atlantic has done very well with their longer, deeper narratives, their article that emery slaughter wrote, for example, can women have it all prompted huge traffic both with the magazine and print and online and all of the conversation after ward. what exactly -- what kind of stories in the political realm do you most want to see yourself engaged in? >> well, i think there's more accountability, investigative reporting, more deep memorable profiles around subjects who are shaping the national conversation in a way that is faded away so much now basically you have a small handf...

It doesn't -- it's amazing to me how much it's not in the conversation. >> let me throw something out that's a little more shocking. the median wealth for african-american women, $5. $5. so you know, perhaps one of the reasons that it doesn't quite have traction is everybody thinks it's someone else. when in reality, the declining income for the middle class means that many of them have fallen below the poverty line and don't see themselves as that group. >> we are the 46 million. emery slaughter, what should people know? >> colin powell says occupy wall street is as american as apple pie. tha...

A matter of years. >> can you see a situation where gadhafi remains in power and this operation ends? >> sure. he could hang tough, by and large if the government stays in tact, and are willing to kill their own people, he could remain in place. we don't know if the europeans and the united states would be willing to escalate. the president said he wants gadhafi to go, but no american boots on the ground. we have a disconnect between the ambitions of our goals and the means that we have. you could imagine libya fight thing out for some time to come. >> richard haass, appreciate you being on. j...

Ea-6-b. those aircraft will be needed in scores to effectively suppress the enemy air defenses of libya. they will have to be either stripped off of current aircraft carriers, out of training or out of afghanistan. those aircraft support maneuver schemes for the united states army, united states marine corps in afghanistan. when they come out, if they come out, we're only going to increase the risk, particularly for improvised explosive diseases. so i want our other guests on the panel to understand that we're going to increase a lot more risk in areas that are probably more strategically impo...