we will speak with aaron david miller, a former advisor to six secretaries of state of. frantic search for survivor after an air strike in aleppo. no word on casualties have been recovered. amateur video expecting a an explosion in homes. it's been a year and a half against the uprising against the syrian president began. nearly 30,000 people have been killed so far. >> gregg: to electoral politics and right now governor mitt romney is in the state of california. he is getting ready for some last minute fund-raisers just added to his schedule. this is his running mate, congressman paul ryan is crisscrossing the country. meeting with voters in the key battled ground state of florida and heading off to his home state of wisconsin. steve centanni has details from washington. >> reporter: the battle for the swing states intensifying now with few weeks left before election day, we have paul ryan -- we have paul ryan is campaigning in florida as you mentioned. he was in miami earlier. he is in orlando now and wrapped up an event in orlando. florida all important because of it'

in the guest spot, aaron david miller scholar at the woodrow wilson sfwernlts and former state departmentofficial. aaron, thanks for joining us. i want to start with the peace you recently wrote about that subject and ask you about your first assertion, which is that under obama or romney, the quote-unquote love affair with israel will continue. i think i'd prefer we call it an alliance, but go ahead and tell me what you mean by that. >> the reality is this relationship, which is now 60-plus years old has proved to one of the most durable and resilie resilient. you have an unfunctional pair with netanyahu and barack obama. they share values, the behavior of israel's neighbors, the strategic relationship with israelis suggest to any and i have watched this relationship under half a dozen secretaries of state. the abrupt contours of the relationship don't change. romney will have a more -- an improved personal relationship with benjamin netanyahu, assuming romney is elected and netanyahu is a prime minister the israel. they're friends, and romney is more in line with bill clinton and george

assembly when he drew a red line on a cartoon bomb. >>> but aaron david miller says by stressing redtens to ir state a close ally and undermine their credibility. >> what do you explain by meaning that that red line drawn was such a bad idea? >> first of all, i don't want to trivialize their concerns. we should not give them the benefit of the doubts. the question is how to deal with it. red lines can be effective if you have three things. number one, a sense of urgency. i think all of the drama was diffused by the take away that israel will not act at the earliest to late spring or summer. red lines work if other people sign up to them. i didn't note a made rush to the exits yesterday for countries wanting to validate what he said. and red lines work if your key strategic partner, your key friend, in this case barack obama, is on the same page as you. and she clearly not there yet. what the israelis need to focus on, and it quoting a former dmi chief, less the zone of immunity and more the zone of trust. in the end, they don't to strike iran, they want us to do it. they know it woul

david allen miller. he advised secretary of states of on the middle east. so aaron, red lines and red lights.king about here and is he talking directly to america? >> i think he is, and i don't want to trivialize that, but there's a debate being exacerbated by personal differences between the two men. the fact is the israelis see more urgency now and a need for a unilateral strike and they believe their interests are not served by waiting. the president, on the other hand, is not convinced and he may be right that this is a war of necessity right now. so the whole discussion, frankly, in a way are needlessly self-inflicted wounds. there's no reason the u.s. and israel should be discussing publically the issue of red lines. they should be trying to figure out a way to stay on the same page on this one. that's one point. second, i've watched israeli prime ministers and american presidents since carter, which is a long time ago. and i tell you, i haven't seen a more dysfunctional pair than these two. the prime minister thinks that president obama is bluntless and doesn't understand israel. and t