. >> rose: and we turn to foreign policy with former national security advisor general brent scowcroft. >> it's just a practical fact of life that you have to deal with countries as they are not as you would like them to be. and iran is one of those difficult ones and the recent events in iran have... may have made it somewhat more difficult for both sides to engage in a dialogue. but i think... i think that it's so important that we ought to bend every effort to see if we can't succeed. >> rose: we conclude with with technology in a conversation with michael arrington of techcrunch. >> what is google becoming? it's almost like everybody's chasing twitter right now. and facebook clearly is. but when it comes down to it, the social aspect of facebook, where your friends are recommending things to you which could be products or news items and the constant loging into the site 25 times a day ising? google needs to address. >> rose: peter orszag, grent scowcroft, michael arrington next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new rk city, this is charlie rose. >> ro

the most collegial and smoothest, at a cabinet of heavyweights and among those of course, was brent scowcroft a small and gracious and respect romantic who is known as the enforcer and teaches us something about how it is possible to succeed and have a gracious character in washington at the same time. of course, two characters were heavyweights during the administration are whiffs us today. >> i have lost weight since then. [laughter] >> one is secretary lawrence eagleburger in addition to being a heavy weight of this time he was irreverent then and irreverent now and will continue to be which is why we invited him because he keeps us entertain but also smart in his comments secretary eagleburger rose to secretary of state having been a career foreign service officer. idle think anyone has ever done that? that is a unique park in his career. he has been ambassador, foreign service officer in the sense that of someone who had expertise are engaged in policy that understood what it meant to move issues to the bureaucracy and get things done. and with secretary eagleburger is eric edelman new-l

. >> since you ask me to make a quick comments, i am probably quite publicly aligned him with brent scowcroftand the number of other people, carla hills, even a paul volcker and others have not called for the united states necessarily to buy latter linkage with hamas right away but to end the isolation of hamas and the penalties and other allies of the french come to mind in particular. my view is in the political terrain in the region want to allow one not to enjoy deal with this sort of -- it doesn't mean you abuse bad behavior's but not to have engaged and to me doesn't make sense in terms of driving our policy for the so i do believe in ending the isolation of a hamas. of me say one thing about the obama administration, the folks that matter in making these are struggling over this themselves and a lot is going on right now this week as we speak. some have come from the center of american progress, folks want to try to make others have illegitimacy and looking like winners because they have been so undermined whether israeli governments or the u.s. and various points, the legitimacy and c

. >> since you ask me to make a quick comments, i am probably quite publicly aligned him with brent scowcroftand the number of other people, carla hills, even a paul volcker and others have not called for the united states necessarily to buy latter linkage with hamas right away but to end the isolation of hamas and the penalties and other allies of the french come to mind in particular. my view is in the political terrain in the region want to allow one not to enjoy deal with this sort of -- it doesn't mean you abuse bad behavior's but not to have engaged and to me doesn't make sense in terms of driving our policy for the so i do believe in ending the isolation of a hamas. of me say one thing about the obama administration, the folks that matter in making these are struggling over this themselves and a lot is going on right now this week as we speak. some have come from the center of american progress, folks want to try to make others have illegitimacy and looking like winners because they have been so undermined whether israeli governments or the u.s. and various points, the legitimacy and c

. >> since you asked me to make a quick comment, i am probably quite publicly aligned with brent scowcroft in speaking of brzezinski and a number of people, tom pickering, paul volcker and others have not called for the united states to necessarily bilaterally engage with hamas right away. but to end the isolation of hamas and the french come to mind in particular. my view is that the political terrain in the region won't allow one not to eventually deal to sort that out doesn't mean you appease bad behaviors but not to have an engagement to me doesn't make sense. it doesn't make sense in terms of driving our policy forward. so i do believe in ending the isolation of hamas there. and let me say one thing about the obama administration. the folks that matter in making these decisions are struggling over this themselves and a lot of that struggle something going on right now this weekend as we speak. some who have come from the center of american progress folks want to try to make mahmoud abbas and fatah and give them another chance at legitimacy and they have been undermined whether by isra

. >> since you ask me to make a quick comments, i am probably quite publicly aligned him with brent scowcroftand the number of other people, carla hills, even a paul volcker and others have not called for the united states necessarily to buy latter linkage with hamas right away but to end the isolation of hamas and the penalties and other allies of the french come to mind in particular. my view is in the political terrain in the region want to allow one not to enjoy deal with this sort of -- it doesn't mean you abuse bad behavior's but not to have engaged and to me doesn't make sense in terms of driving our policy for the so i do believe in ending the isolation of a hamas. of me say one thing about the obama administration, the folks that matter in making these are struggling over this themselves and a lot is going on right now this week as we speak. some have come from the center of american progress, folks want to try to make others have illegitimacy and looking like winners because they have been so undermined whether israeli governments or the u.s. and various points, the legitimacy and c