tonight, a conversation with senator george mitchell, former senate majority leader, former envoy to the middle east for president obama. >> years ago you remember mao tse-tung published a book, a little red book, the sayings of chairman mao. >> rose: right. >> i was senate majority leader even then or shortly after and i read it and i thought "i'm going to write the little blue book, the sayings of senator mitchell." >> rose: right. >> number one, the higher one goes and n life and especially in government-- not only but especially government-- the greater the capacity for self-delusion. >> rose: we conclude with a conversation about the new play "lucky guy" written by the late nora ephron and three people who knew the central character played by tom hanks are eddie hayes, joanna molloy and jim dwyer. >> is that jimmy over there? >> it was, it was breslin himself. do you want to meet him? >>. no >> you don't want to meet breslin? >> i already met breslin. >> when? >> last week. we were both covering that mafia murder on coney island. >> and? >> well, you know -- >> what? come on! >>

i believe this was israel's response to george mitchell to his mission and that was to make sure that the whole world use the language war on terror which now of course it is and it's a very dangerous language indeed congressman because it's perpetual it's it's never ending you are fighting a war against a tactic i mean it's it's completely insane let's talk about hugo chavez and you're about to go on the speaking tour you were in venezuela immediately in the wake of his death what do you think of the media portrayal in the aftermath of his death mocking people mourning him versus what we're seeing in the wake of margaret thatcher's just to look at wolf blitzer and see him in the pops friends and you know i cannot stomach them because of the blather that they serve unfortunately that blather is being eaten in consumed by the vast majority of the people in the united states but a significant number of people an increasing number of people are abandoning cable television because what they're getting is a distraction and just information they're getting anything except information and em

i believe this was israel's response to george mitchell to his mission and that was to make sure that the whole world use the language war on terror which now of course it is and it's a very dangerous language indeed congressman because it's perpetual it's never ending you are fighting a war against a tactic i mean it's it's completely insane let's talk about hugo chavez and you're about to go on the speaking tour you were in venezuela immediately in the wake of his death what do you think of the media portrayal in the aftermath of his death mocking people mourning him versus what we're seeing in the wake of margaret thatcher's just to look at wolf blitzer and c.n.n. and the fox friends and you know i can not stomach them because of the blather that they serve unfortunately that blather is being eaten and consumed by the vast majority of the people in the united states but a significant number of people an increasing number of people are abandoning cable television because what they're getting is distraction and just information they're getting anything except information and empoweri

captioning sponsored by >> rose: this easter marked 15 years since senator george mitchell mediated an end to the centuries old sectarian conflict in northern ireland. in 1998, the good friday agreement stands as a historical example demonstrating that peace is possible even in the most difficult circumstances. such fate has thus far eluded the middle east. in 2009 mitchell took on the challenge of brokering peace between the israelis and palestinians but for both parties peace remains harder than war. president obama's recent visit to israel has renewed hope for resolving the conflict. i'm pleased to have senator george mitchell back at this table to talk about where he sees things today. welcome. >> thank you, charlie, good to be back. >> rose: you just made a speech and and have blilt and you said "i will firmly say that there is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be solved." >> i believe that. i believe that every conflict is created, conducted, sustained by humans and can be ended by humans and ultimately will be ended by humans one way or the other. either through the total

we will ask peace negotiator extraordinaire george mitchell what should be done there. >>> and a judge has ruled in a case in stockton, california, that that bankrupt city is protected from its credit torres. it could turn out to be a devastating precedent for people with public pensions. my partner sue herera is at the exchange. a rally under way? >> yes, and a very nice one indeed. stocks are rising, putting the s&p 500 in striking distance of the all-time intra-day high. we will have more in later in the show. the dow jones industrial average is up 98 points on the trading session. on the flip side, the gold market plummeting, down $25 on the day. the s&p is up about ten points, 0.6 of a percent. the nasdaq up almost a full%. ken kenny, yesterday the market exhaled, today it's rally on again. >> even inhaling considering all the negative news out of the europe this morning. every nation across the zone, right? sub-50, which is typically contraction, yet european marks all rallying. i think what that tells you is they're going to talk about paring back and keep pumping money at it. i

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i will ask the former senator george mitchell what it would take to calm things down. >>> we begin with the white house in hot water for of all things, a compliment. the president called california's attorney general last night to apologize for the uproar after he called her quote, by far the best-looking attorney general in the country. i should point out mr. obama also called kamala harris brilliant, dedicated and tough. but the good-looking comment is the one getting all the attention. so joining me now, jodi kantor, washington correspondent with the "new york times" and woman who literally wrote the book on the first couple. also jonathan chait, a writer for "new york" magazine. jodi, are you as offended as everybody else seems to be the president called an attorney general the best-looking in the country? >> you know, i see why this is not a great story for the president, because kamala harris is a brainy, up and coming politician and it is a little strange that her national introduction to the political stage is a discussion about whether or not it was okay for the president to ca

fell down a huge teaser of ice and snow around just now there's something black lying down there george mitchell. the meteorite exploded high in the sky and the fragments dispersed over dozens of kilometers. moscow scientists are yet to find all of these fragments. so when they do see it and what height was it did it fly right over you and. if the like that i was aiming to lay down like that mighty trying to see anything really to stop the smoke. oh let's. just have a bad. direction of the highway that is no no no not the highway thing like it was right above the school. and this is the reaction of the younger generation as to the incident. today we're trying to figure out the trajectory of the media i. would probably some of the locals have already collected some fragments. so now we're just scouting the central region for the meteorite past and maybe drop something. this is exploration just some simple reconnaissance. ok let's go to. sign. interests of already concluded that about a thousand tons of extraterrestrial material fell to earth after the meteorite exploded the rest turned into dust

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remember, when the president wanted the middle east on his -- he forced the george mitchell appointment. these weren't hillary clinton ideas -- >> as special envoy. >> middle east policy was being run out of the west wing. now there is more space, you do see a difference. i think part of this is nothing to do between kerry and clinton, more sort of the white house realizing the limits to what it can do inside the nfc, verdict what is a better job for maybe the state department. >> and the president can always swoop in if there's success and claim the victory, but chris cillizza, josh rogan on his blog just yesterday was reporting that john kerry has not been able to fill assistant secretary posts there's sort of a lot of vacancies, and part of the speculation is there's tension between the white house and the state department over who gets to fill those jobs. hillary clinton had gored a deal where she could name that team and bring her people in, and john kerry doesn't have that kind of clout. >> right. that's what's fascinating. to kim's point, john kerry sort of politically speaking h

the ira that came, that brought to fruition the good friday agreement, of course, with senator george mitchell. it was not margaret thatcher. margaret thatcher campaign organizer and manager was killed by the m in 1976. so, she was not that effective. that that kind of iron lady stance seemed to work in some sectors, but didn't work so well domestically. that was very difficult for her, i think. >> well, you know, i do think that in retrospect, the unions and the breaking of the unions given the state, don't you think, martin, that the country had been in in the 1970s with the power outages. you know, you couldn't get your dead bodies buried in cemeteries. >> nothing was collected. it was terrible. >> the supporters today would say that the union husband tos broken and she did it. >> ushered in some fairly brutal attacks on the business of journalism through rupert murdoch's work. i remember becoming a journalist professional in 1984 just as that began to happen. she was not very kind to journalists at all. >> well, i'm going to leave it a pause there. shockingly, world leaders being unkind to

george mitchell from texas, all the engineers told him, including governor engineer, you couldn't dot. he's the one that pushed it and made it happen. >> i want to say, i know we have to get out. i know there is not one transformtive economic phenomenon in our or any advanced technology that doesn't have government's footprints on it at least at the beginning. >> the model came out of the department of energy, wow. electricity, same thing. >> that's it. no one denies government should have schools, should have roads, all that. >> student: that's there. that's a huge fingerprint. but this is not the proper role where government should be in. fisker, cylindra. >> you can talk about basic reserves. >> al gore did not invent the internet. >> the point is there is a big difference here between generic bake research, which in some cases does. >> yes, that's correct. >> this is a good point. >> and investing directly in commercial ventures. that's the difference. commercial ventures, no. the biefk research, if from is agreement on that, fine. i got to get out. we got much more. hang on. >>>

>>reporter: 54-year-old george mitchell got work directing cruz traffic. ronda guided him in each step of his job hunt as he recovered from drug and alcohol abuse. >> she just gave you that drive, you know, that nothing can prosper if you don't go out and prosper yourself. >>reporter: ronda inspires veterans to believe their lives can change and she rejoices in each success. >> my god, we did it again. i want to make sure she gets what she needs. so for giving homeless veterans in richmond a second chance, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to ronda harris, sharon chin, kpix5. >> wow! we need a few more of her around. you can nominate your local heros for a jefferson award online at kpix.com. click the connect button at the top of the page and then jefferson awards to find the e- mail nomination form. >>> an ugly piece of san francisco's past is now being dug up and the final pieces of the old embarkdaro freeway are being tossed out. crews are ripping up the location where the broadway and anthem on ramp used to be. part of the freeway was da

senator george mitchell about our strategy and the magnitude of those threats. >>> a judge's ruling mayar y jeopardy. we'll tell you exactly how. >>> plus, are you a fan of footies? we're sitting down with liverpool's managing director. i'm not talking about the pajamas here. i'm not talking about the pajamas. liverpool, the soccer team, the football team and the big business of soccer. how did the english premier league or barclays league get to be such a global player? now back to scott and the "halftime" team. >> thanks so much. >>> is it time to go bargain hunting in europe? katrina dudley manages the five-star rated mutual european fund and think it's time to start buying beaten down names. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> why is now the time when there's still so much concern about what's happening there? maybe another shoe dropping, especially after cyprus. why is now the time to get in? >> because europe is a cheap market. if we look at it plastic free cash ploe flow, dividend, price to earnings. cheapest developed arkt market out there. >> for a reason out there. >> ther

special envoy to the middle east george mitchell says the obama administration must be ready. >> i think a high level of concern without creating any new pressure or tensions, and i think the person is handling it about right in that regard. this is a totally totetalitarian state dominated by the military with a young untested and probably lacking in knowledge leader who has to prove himself. he's trying to show the military he's a tough guy. we've been through this before with north korea and with others, but absurd as some of these claims sound coming from them, they must be taken seriously and the administration must be prepared to act. >> washington is deploying missile defense systems in guam where u.s. bases are located and south korea is sending destroyers to guard its coast. >>> secretary of state john kerry is headed back to the middle east. his first stop in istanbul and six more cities on his itinerary before returning to washington april 15th. the tour includes stops in jerusalem and ramallah where he could urge both israelis and palestinians to return to peace talks. >>> som

what tony blair was later able to accomplish as prime minister dealing with northern ireland, george mitchell. because it made it in some ways a bipartisan pursuit in britain, that no matter what the government was, it could try to broker peace in northern ireland. and today it's an enduring accomplishment that the british government, the u.s. government and the irish government should all have reason to be proud of. martha: lots of lessons in her life. thank you so much, richard. good to see you this morning. >> thank you. gregg: the fight for stricter gun control, president obama heading to connecticut today to talk about it. but is the white house now downplaying expectations what can really get done? we'll be right back. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much. i appreciate it. i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. your money needs an ally. martha: well, the white house now concedes that president obama knew s

after four years of almost nothing on the middle east peace process, they tried with envoys, george mitchellt if the white house gives him enough running room, enough leash. >> talk about his transition into this. he comes into a couple of ongoing crises and tries to maybe reset the priorities in the state department a little bit. how is it going? >> people thought he would be more of a stay at home secretary of state. working on his political ties to the white house. not so. he has been three times to the middle east just in the last couple of weeks. and he's really trying to quietly do something between israel and the palestinians and turkey. make sure that the deal that the president brokered back between erdawan and netanyahu is finalized, completed. ambassadors exchanged. this is a really big venture. it could fall flat on its face. he says he has no illusions about it. but he's not afraid. he ran for president and lost. he's not going to run again. he has no political aspirations. he's not afraid to invest his life and whatever -- you know, his political career in this. and he's wanted

senate, howard baker, bob dole, george mitchell, and tom daschle. it was formed with two republicans and two democrats specifically to be bipartisan. differences. despite the differences that we have, there is common ground on which we can agree. no, we do not call for privatization of medicare. i actually do not know very many groups who are in favor of privatization. and i do not know how that would work. no, we are not for it. voted 19-0 onthat of away froman was mark morial on the left to keating on the right. and no privatization was ever contemplated. diana, a democrat. go ahead. caller: i'm thinking how much i would be able to squeeze into my9 sure it's not as much as i would like to say. i'm on social security and medicare. we did have an increase in our medicare payments and with the tiny bit of cost of living, we do not get that all the time. it looks like we're always getting, but we do very seldom. we are not getting any interest. and we are taking out for these huge payments that are legislature let the insurance company rates on our ho

of the campaign a year or so ago, i also realized i was not only succeeding olympia snowe but george mitchell and ed muskie, two of the greatest legislators of the 20th century. so it's with some trepidation to be standing on the shoulders of those great members of this body. now, most speeches that we hear in this hall are on a topic of the day -- taxation, gun control, fairness of the marketplace, but i think that in order to understand the issues that we're debating, the issues that are coming before us on a continuous basis, we have to have some context. we have to look back to the history of this body and the history of the country. my favorite quote from mark twain -- and there are lots of them -- but my favorite is history doesn't always repeat itself, but it usually rhymes. and in this case, i believe that's true. let's start with the very basic question. why do we have government at all? why are we here? why do we have this grand edifice? why do we have the rules and laws and all of this panoply of the constitution? well, it's all about human nature. unfortunately, as part of human n

mitchell reports," the president's' club. all the living presidents, current and past gathering in texas, dedicating the george w. bush presidential center. >> we also know something about george bush the leader. as we walk through this library obviously we're reminded of the incredible strength and resolve that came through that bullhorn as he stood amid the rubble and the ruins of ground zero. >> mr. president, let me say that i'm filled with admiration for you, and deep gratitude for you, about the great contributions you've made to the most needy people on earth. >> starting with my work with -- president george h.w. bush on the tsunami and the aftermath of katrina, people began to joke that i was getting so close to the bush family i had become the black sheep's son. my mother tolde not to talk too long today. and barbara, i will not let you down. >>> it's a great pleasure to be here. and to honor our oldest son and this is very special for barbara and me. god bless america and thank you very much. >> i appreciate my fellow members of the former presidents' club. 42, 41, and 39. i'm going to thank you all fo

mitchell reports," the president's' club. all the living presidents, current and past gathering in texas, dedicating the george w.omething about george bush the leader. as we walk through this library obviously we're reminded of the incredible strength and resolve that came through that bullhorn as he stood amid the rubble and the ruins of ground zero. >> mr. president, let me say that i'm filled with admiration for you, and deep gratitude for you, about the great contributions you've made to the most needy people on earth. >> starting with my work with -- president george h.w. bush on the tsunami and the aftermath of katrina, people began to joke

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