george mitchell helped broker peace in northern ireland. he also tried his hand in the middle east, serving as u.s. chief envoy to the israeli and palestinians under president barack obama. >> for both sides, the disadvantages of not getting an agreement are much greater than the difficulties that will come with getting an disagreement. >> he spent 15 years in the senate, first representing maine and as majority leader. but he says money and rigid ideology have changed the political landscape. >> it is dysfunctional. i hope very much that the american people will demand clearly and loudly change and we will have the necessary change. >> the man who has played mistaken roles talks as well about one of the people who most affected his life. >> i am certain that but for her, i would have led a very different and probably much less meaningful life. >> i caught up with the senator recently in new york. >> can we span the globe a bit? >> go ahead. >> i want to hop scotch a bit. >> okay. it. years. >> what, if anything, has surprised you about the

the first is a guy named george mitchell, not related to the senator. george mitchell was a texas guy. he is son of an immigrant from greece. his father's name was thomas periscope allies. he was born in a little town increase in didn't have much of a future. a little town. no kind of business going on really care. so they got on a boat, came to ellis island, god often they said hey go work the braille system for mark to texas. he needed a job, when it did that. so he is working on the rail system one day and his paymaster came and looked really unhappy and kind of said what is with his name up yours? i can't ballot. i can't write it out. he looked really unhappy. suicide with your name? he said my name is mike mitchell. he said i'll be mike mitchell, too. and he took his name and he became mike mitchell and his son is towards mitchell. so i went to talk to george mitchell. i love this story because it really connected with me. my great-grandfather brought up the boat and i said what's your name? they said we cant spell that. take the last guy. his name

george mitchell helped broker peace in northern ireland.e also tried his hand in the middle east, serving as u.s. chief envoy to the israeli and palestinians under president barack obama. >> for both sides, the disadvantages of not getting an agreement are much greater than the difficulties that will come wiet

george mitchell helped broker peace in northern ireland. he also tried his hand in the middle east, serving as u.s. chief envoy to the israeli and palestinians under president barack obama. >> for both sides, the disadvantages of not getting an

. >> we conclude with a look at baseball, with senator george mitchell, peter gammons and richard sandomir. >> i have worried for a long time one of the reasons baseball is in so much trouble attracting a younger audience is it clings to the barnacles of the past but look at this season and we see the two great cuban players, plea, we see tanaka come over from japan, the two best players in baseball both under 25 years, carlos of the martins and mike trout of the angels, barely 25, 26 years old. this generation of young players i think is, has attracted not only a younger audience but a very diverse audience. >> hunt: conversation about nigeria and libya, politics and baseball when we return. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the >> there's a saying around here: you stand behind what you say. around here, we don't make excuses, we make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll stil

joining us is a former senator george mitchell, a former u.s. er special envoy to israelis and palestinians. mr. mitchell, thank you so much for joining us this morning. wolf is joining me as well. i want to just first get your take on where you think things stand and trying to break the impasse, trying to break through, especially with this in mind. secretary kerry, he was over there and working as hard as he could to try to broker some sort of a cease-fire, a seven-day cease-fire but he's come under withering criticism for his work including this in the israeli press and i want to receipt you one quote. wolf red this as well. there coming from "haar yet." over the weekend u.s. secretary of state john kerry ruined everything. very senior officials described the proposal kerry put on the table as a strategic terrorist attack. did john kerry do something wrong here? how do you break through after that, senator? >> well, i think the secretary is trying real hard in obviously a very difficult situation. in both sides they know this conflict is going

served as a senior advisor, and was the deputy secretary assistant of state and a member of george mitchell's middle east delegation. we spoke before president obama called binyamin netanyahu. so much anger on both sides, it escalated so quickly since the killing of the israeli teenagers and the palestinian teenagers, do you see a chance of a quick fire truce here. >> there's a lot of factors going on. the anger is high on both sides. the normal levers of influence that we bring to bear is decreased. at a moment the israelis have been subjected to a horrible crime. emotions are cry. the palestinians are reconciling two dispirit political factions, their ability to move political leverage is low. the normal areas in which we try to engage the parties, security for the israelis, are not as available as they usually are. >> and you have anger on the palestinian side. >> yes, and you're in tel aviv, you hear the sirens going off. a peace conference. they had to evacuate. now. >> what about the u.s. role. reports are that it's a thursday afternoon, president obama had not spoken to binyamin netany

he was senior advisor to george mitchell, special envoy for middle east peace from 2009 to 2011 and author of "the world throughar ab ab eyes,ar ab public opinion." the ceasefire failed. hamas is pushed to accept it. who has the best leverage to implement a ceasefire. >> it's not leverage, each side has to belief something is in it for them. i believe neither side looked for an escall agency, they found themselves -- escalation, they found themselves there. you have heavy casualty ice, on the palestinian tied -- casualties, on the palestinian side 200 dead, destruction. they want to make a statement that there's something they are getting out of it. what happened in the mediation that we saw in this case, i know that a lot of people are paying the point that there's a difference between abdul fatah al-sisi and mohamed mursi. there is, and abdul fatah al-sisi is not a friend of hamas. the truth of the matter is that regardless of who was in power, mostly it was the intelligence and the military who dealt with the gaza issue. that dates back to mubarak, you know, when, in fact, most of the p

were ordered to investigate by this attorney general, the most political attorney general sense george mitchellwould you say? would that be fair? let's turn to darrell i sent indicating the upcoming testimony from the irs commissioner could further incriminate lois lerner. your take? >> it's amazing because he is going to come forward and say she had hard copies of these e-mails and frankly a public servant that has ever taken office generally has hard copies of critical documents. we were both public officials and we know that's the rule of thumb. lou: would he be incriminated himself because he was the one who set up their and basically misrepresented if not outright lied? >> let me back up for a second. lou: if you will answer by the time you get that thing out of reverse. >> can we were why mr. second. the excuse before was it was the dog ate my homework, we can find the e-mails. what i'm saying is now the fact is, of course, she made copies. these were critical documents. >> how could you not make hard copies? >> absolutely incriminating on all sides. lou: lis wiehl, mercedes colwin, think

george mitchell, who rescue the game with his 2007 report on drug use. "the new york times" richard sandomir. i am pleased to have them. welcome. let me start with peter. what strikes you about the 2014 season? what are you looking for? >> what strikes me is the buzz of the young players in baseball. i've worried for a long time one of the reason baseball was in trouble attracting the younger audience is it clings to the barnacles of the past. when we look at this season, we see the gilded players, we see tanaka, were from japan. john carlos of the marlins, mike trout of the angels, this generation of young players is attracting not only a younger audience through a diverse audience, and effect of the game is excepting that -- it's okay to love playing. that is what struck me most. it carries over into the all-star game those people performing. >> what strikes me is the competitive balance that has been achieved. it was 15 years ago that the commissioner seal approached me and others to create a commission on the competitive aspect of sports. since then

conversations and the private conversations with him sitting there and mahmoud abbas sitting there and george mitchellng there and i know that abbas in my conversations was willing to entertain a number of years where there could be some continuing security. remember, the idf, the israeli defense forces, have a working relationship with the palestinian authority security forces which have been incredibly professional. we've helped to provide training, as has jordan and others, and the positions that netanyahu has taken. now once they take a position -- and i know the years that abbas has said are permitted and i know the years that bebe has demanded -- you're in a negotiation. but if there is no process going on, which is why we can't ever leave the vacuum of no process, despite how incredibly frustrating it is -- then of course abbas is going to say never, not under any circumstances and bebe is going to say absolutely forever. >> in 2009 you said that you wanted israeli settlement activity to stop. in fact you were pretty blunt. you said no exceptions. you write in the book that that was a tactical

it was me, paul volcker, rick leven and george mitchell.nion said,t of the what can we expect from him? so i got off the board. >> did you ever find yourself in a conflict where you knew something that you couldn't write about? and do much. >> what did you learn from them? onon the orioles, i was put by a great washington who owned the orioles. --e a year on the padres, we would go to spring training but they did not govern. >> in your book, you write about a man named eugene williams. michiganimming in lake off the 25th street beach in chicago. what is the story? >> he was swimming on these beaches of lake michigan. there was a clear understanding where the white beaches and did and the black beaches began. self segregation. he got confused or got careless and swam into the white area of lake michigan. it is preposterous to talk about now. some whites against throwing stones at him, perhaps it was a stone hit him, he drowned. this was a time of tremendous tension. african-americans who served in the military had come back to chicago. havin

let me just say i covered the senate when bob dole and george mitchell both partisans were the leadersand, boy, did they work together every day they met us on the floor of the senate, the press corps comes out and they would tell us what was agreed on and what was voted on that day and it was heavy agenda. thank you all very much. >> thanks. >> chris cillizza and susan page. >>> now to northern california where a raging wildfire threatens to explode out of control today. four square miles of parkland up in flames. hundreds of firefighters racing against the clock to fact back the spreading blaze. 100 homes also at risk. >>> and in the tinderbox conditions throughout the west, it is the season of mega fires with record-setting blazes across california, washington and oregon so far this state. today alone, 120 wildfires are burning in the region. >>> ebola spreading in africa and likely continue to spread. what you need the know right here next on andrea mitchell reports. avo: waves don't care what age you are. take them on the way you always have. live healthy and take one a day men's

prime minister and ask if demilitarizing gaza would require another occupation and i'm joined by george mitchellin a special two-hour edition of "360." hope you join us for that. what we know about three israeli teens found dead that started the conflict. there are two different versions of what happened and who did it and sanctions placed on russia by the united states and up of. the panel weighs in. >> we'll see you? a few minutes. >> three months ago a teenager hitched a ride to hawaii by hiding in the landing gear of a passenger jet. he lived to tell about it. that's not the case of a stow away in a u.s. military plane. tom foreman is in washington with this story. >> reporter: when the air force c 130 j landed in germany, the ground crew discover add terrible surprise. >> the body of an apparent stow away was found trapped in a compartment above the aircraft's rear landing gear. the deceased was an adolescent age possibly of black or again. >> reporter: the nationality is a mystery about the security breach further. the plane left on july 19th for an eight-day mission, although they wouldn'

that, another interpretation of events is that, as you say, after these efforts, john kerry, george mitchell, hillary clinton, barack obama taking a bit of a different tone that is previous u.s. administrations, that none of that engendered a greater cooperation from hamas. what do you say to that aspect of this? because hamas is noti welcoming any kind of two-state solution. >> really, in a way, you can look at hamas as, in fact, the other side of the coin. the ultra conservative shift in israel itself. you have hamas and you have the ultra conservative right in israel. two sides of the same kind. ask an ultra conservative right wing in israel if he or she believes in a palestinian state. hamas would tell you the same way. we're talking here not about the ultra conservative hamas and the ultra conservative right wing within the government of netanyahu. we're talking about majorities in israel and palestine who believe in a two-state solution. the question on the table here is that the netanyahu government caters to the ultra conservative right. the netanyahu government is more interested in

special envoy to the middle east and former senate majority leader george mitchell joins me now.rrent conflict, senator, what do you make of it? here we are three weeks in and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. >> well, i think that both sides are calculating their gains and losses. and i think fairly soon the time will come when they'll coincide in deciding that it's in their interests to end this round of the conflict. both are suffering some losses. both are making substantial gains. and so when that balance is achieved, that they both decide it's time to stop, i think there will be a ceasefire, as there has been in the past. >> what is in the interests of both of them that would make them stop, in the interests of israel and in the interests of hamas? >> well, israel's gains are substantial in terms of degrading hamas's a capability, first through the tunnels to have its fighters enter israel, and then secondly its capacity to launch missiles to israel. and the disadvantage to israel, of course, is the increasing outcry around the world over the large number of palest

but, again, i heard george mitchell tonight on cnn.ou do not play the role of mediator without getting beaten down. in fact, the reality is when both sides don't like you but need you, you know in fact that you're actually beginning to accomplish something. >> you're probably doing the right thing at least in the moment. you have advised six secretaries of state on this conflict whom. had the most successful approach? >> you want me to make tories unhappy. look, i work for rs and ds, republicans and democrats. all of them had very special qualities. if you ask me flat-out, i worked from schultz to colin powell. if you ask me who had the best negotiating skills, who had the support of the president, frankly, who was the best negotiator that we've had since henry kissinger, it would be one guy. it would be james baker. and baker worked on this problem. he was a great actor. the president had his back. he knew how to be tough. he knew how to be fair. he knew how to be very reassuring, developing a relationship with yitzhak. circumstances

the original nominees were henry kissinger and george mitchell. and both of them had to step aside because of conflict of interest. so tom and i were second stringers. tom and i met, and i've told the staff last night, almost the first thing he said to substantively was, lead, we're going to make every decision jointly. well, having come from the congress where the chairman has all the power and the ranking member has none of the power, and where partisanship is very strong, and staffs are chosen on a partisan basis, i was somewhat flabbergasted. it was an extraordinary gesture on tom's part, just extraordinary. and i look back on it as one of the most important decisions in government that i have encountered. because when you think about all the things that flows from the fact we had a unanimous report and were able to work together and all the legislation passed and all the changes in the institutional structure of government, of all the budget changes, all of that flowed from tom's initial offer. and i think it's quite extraordinary. so i becam

original nominees were henry kissinger and george mitchell. and both of them had to step aside because of conflict of interest. so tom and i were second stringers. tom and i met and told the staff last night that the almost the first thing he said to me substantively was, lee, we're going to make every decision jointly. well, having come from the congress where the chairman has all the power and the ranking member has none of the power, and where partisanship is very strong and staffs are chosen on a partisan basis, i was somewhat flabbergasted. it was an extraordinary gesture on tom's part. just extraordinary. and i look back on it, as one of the most important decisions in government that i have encountered. when you think about all the things that have flowed on the fact that we had a unanimous report and were able to work together and all the legislation passed and all the institutiona structure of government. of all the budget changes. all of that flowed from tom's initial offer. and i came -- i became acquainted with a man who had vision

nonpartisan, bipartisan think tank founded by four former majority leaders, baker, daschle, george mitchell and bob dole who today we're here to celebrate the birthday of not only the commission report but i would be remiss if i didn't say it was bob dole's 91st birthday as well. >> on behalf i want to say thank you for coming. i want to think annanberg policy center. we have representatives here as well. i'm not sure where in the room. right over there. we'll hear from kat line hall jamison and the team. we thank them very much for the support. without them we simply could not have made this report happen. thank you very much to the annanberg policy center. i'm going to take my bpc hat off just for a second. as many of you know, my mother was killed on september 11th, 2001. so 10 years ago today was a bit of a different day for me and the other 9/11 members many of whom are in the room. my mother was lost. janice's mother is here. abraham scott who lost his wife is here. for us the 9/11 commission report was a bit of the end of a journey, not just the beginning.

the original nominees were henry kissinger and george mitchell. and both of them had to step aside because of conflict of interests. so tom and i were second stringers. tom and i met and i told the staff last night, almost the first thing he said to me substantively was, lead, we are going to make every decision jointly. well, having come from the congress where the chairman has all the power and the ranking member has none of the power among and where partisanship is very strong and staffs are chosen on a partisan basis, i was somewhat flabbergasted. it was an extraordinary gesture on tom's part. just extraordinary. and i look back on and as one of the most import and decisions in government that i have encountered. because when you think about all the things that flowed from the fact that we had a unanimous report, and were able to work together and all the legislation passed in all of the changes in the institutional structures of government, of all the budget changes, all of that flowed from tom's initial offer. and i think it was quite extrao

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. >> reporter: modern family's mitchell and cameron take lily on play dates. prince william and date took baby georgeheir trip to new zealand. pennsylvania stay at home father of three, chris bernholts using his blog, dad in charge, to call on parents to ban it, the play date. >> play dates take away creativity that kids are going to learn from playing on their own. bernholts is nostalgic for his childhood when play time was more organic. >> when i was a kid my mom didn't organize everything. she would tell us to go outside and play. if there was no within to play with, we invented games. >> reporter: he says he worries parents are dumbing down kids' ability to be independent thinkers with all this scheduled activity. and then wrongly blaming themselves when kids have nothing to do. >> in my experience it means that when they get bored they are going to constantly come back to you and say "i'm bored." >> reporter: bernholts wants to make sure his children, ages 3, 6, and 9 are learning how to make friends on their own. but parenting experts point to the benefits of play dates. helping kids grow intel

. >> mitchell and cameron take lilly on play dates. and william and kate took baby georgelog, dad in charge, to call on parents to banish the play date. >> play dates take away the creativity that kids learn from playing on their own. >> reporter: he is nostalgic for his childhood when it was organic. >> my mom didn't organize everything. go outside and play. if there was no one to play, we invented games. >> reporter: he worries that parents are dumbing down kid's ability to be independent thinkers with the scheduled activity, and then wrongly blaming themselves with kids have nothing to do. >> in my experience, it means when they get bored, they are going to come back to you and say i'm bored. >> reporter: he says he wants to make sure his children, ages 3, 6, and 9, are learning how to make plans on their own. >> the little girl over there, a little boy over there that i'd like to play with. it's up to you to go and introduce yourself. >> reporter: but parenting experts point to the benefits of play dates, helping kids grow intellectually and socially. learning how to s

mitchell) oh. if i could get everyone to raise their glass as i quote from one of our nation's great fathers-- jefferson. georgeferson. "i never dreamed that one of my own "would be going off to a university, "but here i stand, a proud black man, knowing that all those hours i put in at the dry cleaner--" - phil. - not now, weezie. - where was i? - quoting that president. okay, if she's the future of america, we should start using chinese money now. (scoffs) we already are. my arm is tired. to haley. - to haley! - (glasses clink) and before everyone puts their glasses down, uh, uh, we're also very proud of lily. tomorrow is her first day of kindergarten. - to lily. - (gloria) oh, lily.

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george w. bush and invading iraq in the first place in 2003, which they say as a root cause of the current crisis. as you just heard, blair has no apologies and no reports. david. >> andrea mitchell to home american muslims are concerned about it as kevin tibbles found when he visited dearborn, michigan, outside of detroit, a city that muslims make up more than a third of the population. it's this week's "meeting america." >> reporter: dearborn, michigan, is the home of the american automobile. it is also home to the largest muslim population in the nation. the city's vast and impressive islamic center of america, the iraqi-born imam sounds the warning against religious extremism. >> i'm worried about my original country, which is iraq. i'm worried about this country, my second country, the united states. it's not a foreign issue. once they have their lemone state, they will launch attacks against us again. >> reporter: as people go about their lives, they are touched, even horrified by the seemingly unchecked violence in the middle east. still, this is middle america. and what could be more american. >> aly center field. other ali, other field. >> reporter: kids obsessed with th