. >> want to bring in david rohde.eling with secretary kerry to these regions. he's made more than a dozen trips to try to move the peace process along. is it fair at this point to characterize john kerry's middle east mission as a failure? >> i think so. he is completely committed to this personally. and there's one person who can stop john kerry from continuing to pursue these peace talks. and that's barack obama. kristen mentioned these signals from the white house. there was a quote from ben rhodes for the president who said the white house only had so much bandwidth. it can't keep pouring time into this peace process. it's worried about three things -- a nuclear deal with iran, what is vladimir putin going to do in ukraine and i think afghanistan. this is a historic, a very positive vote today in afghanistan. and there will be a new president that obama should engage with. he doesn't want afghanistan falling apart as his presidency comes to an end. >> let's talk about afghanistan here for a second. you spent years

the presidential advisor david rohde said this week during a press briefing and that the ferry disaster it will take priority during a bus trip to seoul. in addition to this of a disaster president obama and president huckabee are also expected to discuss north korea's nuclear program rohde said the door to dialogue remains open for kenya. so long as the regime is ready and willing to be new parents. honey can i be on its. what president obama by this old this friday no after we added showing signs of preparing for the fourth new protests south korean defence ministry spokesperson kim in seoul said tuesday that increased movement has been detected at the north and eighty nuclear test site he added that kenyon is at a stage where he could carry out a nuclear test at any time. south korea and us forces are closely monitoring the situation and a self defence ministry and the joint chiefs of staff have also set up a crisis management task force to prepare for possible tax experts have speculated recently that a fourth nuclear test could be in the words ahead of obama's visit to tokyo and se

and joining us is chief correspondent richard engel, and i would like to bring in david rohde of roeutersnapped by the taliban and held captive for eight months. it is good to have you both here. and richard, i want the take on the election, but there is breaking news that there was an explosion in kandahar? >> yes, it appears that an american convoy was target bade car bomb, and then several afghan civilians, 13 civilians were killed. they were not killed by the actual explosion, but a bus was diverted off of the road after the americans set up a convoy, and then crashed, so it appears that it was a secondary knock-on effect of this official attack by the taliban. a number of afghans thought that the election went better than expected, and they were particularly happy that the aft afghan security forces were able to do it by themselves. a lot of the afghans are worried what will happen to the country in the future as the american troops drawdown and not in evident on the streets across the country, and this time, while the american forces were still providing logistics and intelligence a