ending this elife of several americans including a u.s. ambassador. your mom told you not to do the sunday shows. she said i smell a rat. softball question. is that why she sent you out there? susan: no. she didn't send me out. the back story is, horrible week. we had lost four of our colleagues in a terrible tragedy. many of our other embassies around the world had been subjected to violent attacks, demonstrations, it's about 10 days before the opening of the u.n. general assembly. i'm the u.n. ambassador. and many of the issues that i work on from syria to palestinian statehood to the iran nuclear issue will be at the fore. and the white house calls me on a friday afternoon. and says you know, we've asked secretary clinton if she would go on the sunday shows. and we're waiting to hear from her. but if she can't, would you consider doing it? we need somebody to go on. and i said well, call me when you hear back from her. a couple of hours later they call back and say she's not able to do it. that was mption was because she was emotionally spent after