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To do a better job of addressing than we have in the obama administration. >> greta: is it right now -- because of what is going on in syria and because iran gets its weapons to hezbollah through the transit point of syria and they are up to their eyeballs with syria? is the area more of a powder keg than, let's say, a year ago? >> absolutely. a year ago, iran was a year further away from nuclear weapons capability. and obviously, the situation in syria had not deteriorated to the point that it is now. this question of gas masks and concern in israel for syria's chemical and biological weapons...

Dead even. but the enthusiasm level on the romney side is significantly higher than the enthusiasm level on his side. and romney is outraising him in terms of money. i think they are panicking. i think that's why the president said something stupid like chavez is not a threat to our national security. why does somebody say that, except that they are panicking and not really focusd? that's an absolutely unrealistic, dumb comment, but as dumb as he would negotiate without pre-condition, which hillary clinton said, indicated he was naive, immature, irresponsible. >> sean: then, you go back to 200...

gripping a huge part of the country right now. hot and hotter. that's what the national weather service says that we can expect for the next several days, and you need it know this. at least 16 states under heat advisories or warnings today. adding to the misery, nearly 2 million people without electricity in the d.c. area and surrounding states. deadly storms battered that area over the weekend killing at least 16 people. our brian todd is outside in that heat in the d.c. suburb of wheaton, maryland. brian, what's the biggest problems you're seeing right now? >> reporter: right now ...

The high peace council has given support for an office of the taliban to be opened. that's been quite controversial. we believe the afghan government didn't support this. because they weren't in the direct negotiations about the office. but they have put some strict pre-condition pre-conditions for that office opening. that of course includes the taliban stopping killing civilians, and also other attacks, heather. >> reporter: what is the likelihood of these talks starting or working? >> reporter: well, it's very early days at the moment. this does seem to be some movement by the afghan govern...

Signature part of what you want to do we do not accept as a pre-condition of negotiations. >> not that i want to disagree with you at this time of day because it's very difficult to do that. have enough caffeine i system, as i can tell. >> let me give you another example. on thursday night in the major debt ceiling crisis, okay, there was a tentative agreement between john boehner, representing the republicans, and the president, to take $800 billion out of the tax code for all special privileges and use that to simplify the tax code. that was the preliminary agreement. the next morning the pr...