marc ginsberg? that: isn't it ironic during the chuck hagel confirmation hearing, the word afghanistan hardly came up. there was courage and bravery in afghanistan, particularly in the situation when the state of u.s. policy is to withdraw. i have always believed that in terms of the military efforts on the ground, we have not achieved what we wanted to achieve. if we are going to have a mission, that mission should be to prevent what we always wanted to do, to prevent afghanistan from becoming a country in which it was a failed state, in which al qaeda and terrorist organizations could read boots and take control of the country. -- reboot and take control of the country. the administration policy is to do what we can to train the afghan national forces to develop a buffer zone between the law less provinces to the east of kabul and hope for the best. is that a recipe for security for afghanistan? no, but that is the reality we have right now and that is the decision of the president. i support him.

our guest is ambassador marc ginsberg. jack is joining us from florida. ler: good morning to you and good morning to you, ambassador ginsberg. i think you are a great american. what i see with the iranian and israeli conflict is the iranians do not want israel to be on the planet. we have a president and a vice president who have said many times and have walked away from the israelis when they have visited here in the united states. the president we have in the white house right now is anti- jewish. you see it and we see it. to have somebody like that representing the united states and is supposedly a friend of israel to side with all of these radicals -- host: thank you and we will stop it there. marc ginsberg, your response? guest: let me try to parse the best out. there is a dysfunctionality between the two leaders of the united states and israel. benjamin netanyahu and brought in, -- and barack obama do not get along with each other. that has caused disconcerted unhappiness on both sides of the atlantic. the israelis are deeply disappointed. that is th

tomorrow, we begin with a conversation with marc ginsberg, who will be here to discuss the increasingnrest in egypt and syria and how president obama's new foreign-policy team might approach these and other global hot spots. we will also have the president and co-founder of the migration pulp -- migration policy institute to discuss the 1986 law to control the flow of illegal immigrants in the country as well as provide a pathway to citizenship for those already in the country at the time. then we wrap up the program with the president and co- founder of women's rights rl