administration to be able to manage something like that. >> ifill: dennis ross, daoud kuttab, and ari thank you all for sharing with us. 3-r >> woodruff: maybe you can go home again. actor jeff daniels did it, and even built his own professional theater company. jeffrey brown visited daniels in his michigan home town. >> he's going to insist that if you want the part, you audition together or you go home. >> brown: in the new play, "casting session", two actors vying for the same role, desperate for any role, await their auditions. >> brown: the playwright is hollywood and broadway actor jeff daniels, who's known both the highs and lows of his profession. >> i've been in this waiting room where you're just trying to get the next gig, the next job that pays $125 a week, and maybe someone will come and see it and get you a better job, but you've got to get this one. >> brown: that was you. >> oh, god, that was me for years. the board believes you're no longer needed. >> brown: at 60, daniels is seemingly everywhere now, with major roles in two big new movies: "steve jobs" ... >> he's go

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join me to welcome dennis ross. [applause] he wi >> the shrieks are fromhat members of my family.l appoine r [laughter] i had then a political mor appointee for herb to republican and two obam and l presidents. the book is called "doomed to succeed" i will explain the sense of irony when inted ti began writing it i had a t different frame in mind io it wanted to write about the u.s. relationship with israel from a perspective of what iti told us about our approach to the middle east. tha i thought i would do a summary and then describei had the recent ones and talkifferent about the implications for the future. i of still drawing out the lessons from the past but it ends up, i do a chapter on every administration from truman through obama.bama when i was beginning to do the research and what i numof thought was a historical summary, i had a number ofhat w foments. recycli o what worthies wow moments?pris >> there is a recycling of the arguments but that did an not surprise me. whoking at the scenes with kissinger of

book just published the institute's counselor and strategic fellow, mike colleague, ambassador dennis rossme in celebrating the publication of his new book. [applause] dennis brings an entire professional career as academic and policy-making to the writing of this book. dennis has the last quarter century, more than a quarter-century, in public service dating back to the creditor administration. he has served in senior white house positions in the administrations of ronald reagan, george w. bush, and couldn't build clinton. barack obama. he has been the envoy for middle east peace and the coordinator for american foreign policy in east that isiddle known in the obama administration in the central region, especially focusing on iran policy. especially the u.s.-israel relationship. in republican and democratic presidencies. there is no other american that has the deep inside, personal background, expertise, and experiments to bring to bear on the history of america process relationship with israel -- on america's relationship with israel going back to the founding of the state in 1948. tonig