princeton university's daniel kurtzer who served as u.s. ambassador to israel and egypt as well. niel, the u.s. special envoy to the talks arrived in cairo today. realistically, what can the u.s. do to hammer out any deal here? especially as you know the israeli and u.s. relations are less than ideal. >> egypt certainly has the lead. and they were successful a couple of weeks ago in getting israel on board an initial ceasefire. i think what the united states can do in a helpful role is to address some israeli concerns kind of off the table. the israelis don't want the united states in the room. they think that we've tended to be a little bit too balanced in this case. but at the end of the day, the egyptians are going to have a hard time themselves addressing the requirements of the two sides. and i think the united states can play a helpful role particularly with the israeli side in dealing with some of the security issues. >> aaron, in your latest column, you gave a letter grade. you gave the u.s. a c. why? >> if you look at the last four weeks of u.s. diplomacy, and look, as da

we also have daniel kurtzer, former ambassador to israel and egypt. and former general wesley clark, retired general wesley clark. gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us tonight. ambassador kurtz, i want to start with you. israel has had some tough things to say to u.s. official, most notably programs when prime minister netanyahu reportedly told the u.s. ambassador to israel that he should, quote, never, ever second guess him again when it came to dealing with hamas. have you heard that kind of talk when you were ambassador here or when you were ambassador in egypt? >> well, we've experienced tough talk in the past. i dealt with ariel sharon as prime minister. he was quite tough on occasion. so it's not unusual when the united states and israel get into these spats. what is unusual is the fact that we've had these recurring fights for the entire period of the obama and netanyahu administrations. and the tenor of the discussion has really gotten nasty. so it's the length of time that these two sides are fighting with each other that makes this

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. >> daniel kurtzer, thanks for your inside. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> thank you. >>> ukraine is fighting for its life and anticipating a russian invasion. those 20,000 russian troops still poised along the eastern border within ukraine. the fighting has become so fierce between the military and pro-russian berebels, international investigators say a cease-fire around the mh-17 crash site has now been scrapped. in the meantime russian vitriol directed at the united states and president obama has intensified. first the foreign minister tweeted pictures of president putin holding a cheetah, and president obama holding a poodle, and then there is this, a laser light show in moscow showing president obama eating a banana, and also wishing him happy birthday. putin's government did not put this out but the u.s. embassy this is projected onto the u.s. embassy in moscow, and president putin slapped sanctions on the united states and other countries, in short he says, keep your food. we don't want it. phil black is in moscow