it is looking like apock lip tick and the people are sifting through the rubble of the homes, and looking for the dead. one man was looking for cash, money, jewelry, anything he could sell to keep living. you see the destruction and smell the destruction and smell of the war and the blood that is staining the streets and seeing how devastated that the communities are. >> you talk about the nature of the scene and this smell of blood, we want to look for solutions, what do you think that sek tir kerry is hoping to achieve? >> that is a good question, he's working and the aides are working on trying to convince hamas to accept a cease fire deal and assure hamas that a deal will include what it wants the opening of the border crossing and lifting of the siege and the frustration is now with the israeli government. it was the iz idz cabinet last night that rejected john kerry's proposal and one said look we can't even officially propose it and they have rejected it. and so a lot of frusation last night and today from kerry's staff on what happened. the israelis are continuing to continue atta

the ghost of michael walked the halls of all good, great, funny, incisive, powerful, hard-hitting, apock that limittic, shit-disturbing journalism. [laughter] >> thanks, jeremy. [applause] >> i was going to use this time to talk about what a great friend mike was, but i know he's looking down saying cut the shit, you're there to plug my book, so we'll do that. [laughter] sorry if i read this, because other i'll start crying and swearing. he's right, though, if he's saying that because it's a heck of a book, and as you know by now, he wrote it years ago. i found a message he sent me in 2010. novel is good, need to be in vermont to do an edit, and the bastards at this hotel have his placed my laundry which pisss me off. he'd been writing it in print and in his head. i remember visiting him in vermont one day, the day of senator kennedy's funeral, august 29, 2009. we went out to dinner near his parents' house. mike was chain smoking behind the wheel of his land rover, and when we got back, i wanted to watch the news, but mike, of course -- and this is part of what made him such an essential