dana, 2012, the winner, general david petraeus. >> well deserved.010. >> a little trivia there. >> how about that? >> and kim kardashian. >> michelle obama, barack obama, nancy pelosi, lance armstrong, mother teresa, prince william, greenspan, and nelson mandela. barbara will pick a winner again this year. >> and kim -- whatever her name is. >> kimye. >>> a disturbing new poll shows americans don't trust each other very much anymore. we'll try to figure out why when "the five" returns and greg will be cheerful. >> not true. >>> one of the nutty things that makes america great is we're >>> one of the many things that makes america great, for the most part, we're friendly people. easy to get along' with, trusting and trustworthy. according to a new ap poll, surprisingly one-third of americans say people cannot be trusted -- can be trusted as opposed to 72. and almost half of the country felt that way. record high say you can't be too careful in dealing with others. it's interesting, too, this is when the crime rates are down, which i think would be on

. >> david petraeus even .ommunicated with him it is said that he is frequently in damascus. >> i can'tpeak for that. what i do know is that one of the concerns throughout the middle east is that this web of extend incontinues to many different places in the middle east. and creating instability. >> this is an orangutan. >> at as part of the issue. >> he has only one boss. the ayatollah. >> i can't comment on the innerworkings. i couldn't tell you that for certain. >> but you're fascinated by his operion. >> and it is something but you have to be aware of. us, for me, for this is about instability. is it creating more instability. >> i will leave you with this, i know you have meetings to get to. it is interesting that we have ,ow and play diplomatically russia,, palestinians, and it ran in negotiations with the -- the p5 lust one taking at the same time. these parties are somehow connected. hezbollah, them to who was fighting in syria. and the saudi's are watching with great concern. it just goes on and on. all those forces, which have -- but things are in motion now which would seem t

dana, we know a lot of these people. 2012, the winner, general david petraeus.was a great choice. >> well deserved. he'd won it before as well in 2010. >> little trivia right there. >> now you got kim kardashian. what a comparison. >> j.k. rowling, nancy pelosi. laura bush. karl rove. hillary clinton. lance armstrong. mother theresa. very good choice. prince williams. the royals. and nelson mandela. barbara will pick a winner again this year. good choice. >> -- whatever her name is. >> kim-ye. >>> coming up, a disturbing new poll shows americans don't trust each other very much anymore. okay: . >>> one of the nutty things that makes america great is we're for the most part friendly people. easy to get along with and trust worthy. that may be eroding. according to a poll, surprisingly one-third of americans say most people can be trusted as opposed to '72 when almost half the country felt that way. a record high say you can't be too careful in dealing with others. this is when the crime rates are down all over. there's got to be a reason for this. what do you thi

i believe this may have been from david petraeus but eventually that unit was shifted out of the area of the neighbor heard they were patrolling and replaced with a unit of a conventional approach of kicking in doors in the middle of the night. i think we don't consider there are people of both sides of the gun. would you agree? what about society at war? >> let me focus on the first part. it is true. petraeus in the immediate occupation, i was not there. based on reporting come in rupert -- appears to other commanders of his grade he had a more pro-active approach to try to rebuild rebuild, prevent the complete disintegration of civil society. i am not in a position to evaluate the facts. but i will say i am not sure how much effort along those lines would have been necessary to achieve the objective of preventing an insurgency to have a peaceful occupation for this reason, the people did not want us there. they did not want to be occupied. they did not want to be tutored how to run their country or put it together again. if on the one hand we could say his approach is a bit more and

military medal, the equivalent of a silver star to some of our people with ambassador crocker and david petraeus and that is the only thing that ever appeared in the state department publication was a thank you from the ambassador and not the state department. >> first of all, thank you for your service to the country. my question is should we have even been in iraq to begin with? i can say now that iraq is lost. we've lost it to completely the iranian influence. they did kind of a 11 lebanon the midst of the last election they had won their reelection in his party. one a slim majority of the vote. they maintained his post at the prime minister so that's why you talk to the disenfranchised voters. he squeezed this out and now we are voting with car bombs. i'm not a practical guide and i understand why the mentality of going into iraq happens when you have a terrorist cell and buildings in new york to pull off that kind of attack and all of the costs. now you have a nation state that has proven to use chemical biological weapons and its still pursuing the weapons of mass destruction i interest an

rejected them despite the advice of secretary clinton who told me, secretary gates who told me, david petraeus told me. >> i don't want to get into it where various people stood. but there wasn't an obvious military way forward. >> rose: you disagreed with them and they had a recommendation to do something and you just, and the president chose not to. >> president makes the decisions. >> rose: but you advised him. >> yeah, that if you looked at the situation in sir ya, i think if you had had general dempsey and others here right now there was not a clear path forward in terms of military intervention by the united states. in lib ya, for example, we could see in front of us a military approach that we had a pretty high degree of confidence would work. we never had that with respect to syria. >> rose: is there a difference in terms of foreign policy from ot bama administration, from the time that you were there, you just left six months ago, the new national security advisor, susan rice, a new secretary of state, john kerry. >> there is a new guy at cia, john brennan the national security team h

david petraeus -- people from all walks of life. including hollywood. the oscars of science. why does it need to be so glamorous? he says that scientists should be honored. i asked why the prize needs to be $3 million. that is three times the size of the nobel prize. it is far less than bonuses that people get on with wall street. people have money to work on future innovation. it certainly was a glamorous event and it was exciting. a lot of people turned up for their friend mark zuckerberg. >> i loved the answer that conan gave you. they are scientist, of course you can make fun of them. >> it is funny. he said that when he was growing up, the jocks were cool. now the nerds are cool. it is all coming back. he said something like i guess i will be on the wrong side of history. now, people are having a lot of fun. we talked about how these companies compete. they compete so fiercely in silicon valley all the time. but really, they do often come together to work on things like this. i asked surrogate brain about that. -- sergey brin about that. he said he

david schweikert tweeted this. of theacting director cia and a member of obama's task force said the nsa should expand to e-mails. this is mikerel -- whenl, who took over general petraeusp down. on one of the sunday shows, said the nsa should expand data collection to include e-mails and that that could prevent the next 9/11. david -- david schweikert tweeting that with the hashtag #nothanks. edward snowden telling "the washington post" i won. what do you think about those comments? i want to show you nasa tv live. showing a christmas eve spacewalks. we will tune in and listen to a little bit of this. [video clip] [no audio] host: this is a live stream of nasa tv. mission control. nasa has planned a christmas eve spacewalk at the international space station to repair work on a faulty cooling line. the astronauts working there. this is live on nasa tv. we will show you a little bit more coming up after today's "washington journal." for all of topic you. edward snowden telling "the washington post" that he won. duty, new york, republican caller. caller: thank you for c-span. snowden is adward hero. he let the public know what our government is doing to us. the president