anne gearan of "the washington post" joins us on the phone. front-page story with her colleague adam goldman. it is the headline shared by many newspapers this morning, saying that the report says this attack was preventable. why did they come to that conclusion? guest: well, first of all, thank you for having me, pleasure to be here. the report is broadly consistent with several reports that we have seen about what happened in it goesi to date, but into more detail and sheds light on the way that the cia, which had one of the compounds that was attacked, and the state department, which has a better-known compound, really failed to talk to one another and to understand one another's strengths and vulnerabilities in the weeks leading up to the attack. thee coincided with what cia and other intelligence aencies rightly fingered as considerable rise in the numbers and potency of islamic militants, including at least ,ome al qaeda-linked militants in the city. this wasn't a secret of the state department either -- secret to the state department ei

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i'm joined by ann gearan for the "washington post" who just returned from switzerland and davos where was speaking as well. i have heard nothing but criticism so you were there and just watching the way the u.n. bungled the opening of the talks inviting iran then disinviting iran under pressure from john kerry. and everyone in foreign policy here this weekend from davos and people here on the ground, what is going on, what are we negotiating? >> after a year and a half of effort to get to these talks, it was clear just from the get go and you mentioned the rauk us over ban ki-moon, they are not ready to do business yet. they both agreed to come but they didn't get -- so far they haven't gotten anything done and didn't even want to sit down and directly talk on schedule on friday. they ended up doing it as proxy talks with abram hinny. >> the u.n. facilitator. >> the think that had been precooked, my colleague reported that there was a deal arranged ahead of time to have a humanitarian convoy to go into the city of homs as a confidence building measure. even that has fallen apart. now,

willie robertson, son of the family who made those anti-gay comments last year and ann gearan and angelae with impact strategies. let me start with you. quts duck dynasty is going to be in the house tonight. >> yay! >> you know the guests typically symbolize something. >> the guests typically symbolize either a political statement or strong position of a member on a policy position. this is the gop's way of throwing in their face that money still rules networks and the show didn't lose dispute the horrible comments made by its patriarch. >> the atlanta area woman last year who saved an elementary school, saved an elementary school and talked the 20-year-old into giving up her gun. >> we can make of the fact that there were 23 executive actions that the president put on the table last year to address gun safety and two more at the beginning of this year. so we can did he haefinitely se every intention on moving forward as gun safety and we have a lot more left to go. she's an hero but she's an exception and not the rule. >> we're also going to meet the subjects of that iconic photograph f