but again, hindsight is 20/20. the sad thing is america did have an ally, a decent iraqi city forces and after all that blood, tall, treasure and ever, let it slip away really from i was a diplomatic and difference. >> the gentleman in the back. >> erik, thank you for coming and talking with us. curious about benghazi. i know you weren't involved in the company wasn't involved, but what if you can comment on that was not done properly they are from a security perspective, what should've been done? >> the beginning, the middle and the end. to start with, they depended on basically a local militia, a company that hired local libyans unvetted, and trained, and even ill equipped. there's evidence to believe that some of those alerted people and authority to the impending attack but when the attack actually came, they fled. second, the government imposed, the secret agents who were there were not adequate in many equipment or valor to defend that kind of attack. and third, the response of the attack was even worse. the

. >> hindsight is 20/20. you look back at some of your socially conservative organizations that you look at the trends, some of it is generational and sometimes people change their minds. do you think maybe we should have done something different to persuade people? >> i'm not going to concede this point. ask theds on how you question. a lot of questions are leading in terms of the phrasing. most people are not a criminal. when do you believe the marriage a union of a marriage and a woman, there's almost a 10 point shift. when you see the question of do you believe marriage is a man and a woman, there is roughly 52% to 65% of the american public. that is not that much. there's one thing i probably would've advocated for more aggressively was back in 2004 when the republicans controlled the senate. there was the push for a marriage amendment. there were some that wanted an amendment that included both the definition of marriage and the prohibition that may have been marriage like. i advocated for a one sentenc

in hindsight i think one thing i would have done differently is used outside help more what. my parents worked hard, they saved hard and did all the right stuff and i know that's not common to have the ability to hire out. i would have done that more because what i didn't do was allow myself enough time just to be my mom's a daughter with. i needed to be her daughter because any time she ever introduced me to somebody it was and this is my baby will. and what i have learned is not only did i lose that person, but i lost who i was in relation to that person cannot be introduced as this is mike beebe. and i would have given myself more opportunity to do that. so in hindsight because you wrote about it and thought about it, what would you have done differently? >> along the same lines. i would have asked for more help across the board including putting more pressure on my brothers who were a little bit absent. i would have actually said to them look this is your moral responsibility. there is a change here now. this isn't about being given to by our parents it is about them need

they found that in hindsight. but none of us participated in it. >> tom friedman writes a paragraph here. it goes right to this whole issue. he says, "sharon knew how strong israel was and believed wrongly that this military strength could in an almost mechanical fashion solve conflicts, deeply rooted political problems, the tiny israel could drive the plo out of lebanon, neutralize syria and lebanese muslims, and force the palestinians living in the west bank and gaza strip to accept israeli rule. sharon did not know when to stop. he did not understand the limits of power in a fragmented, unpredictable place such as lebanon." >> i cannot find even one thing that is correct. about the 1967 war, that israel attacked in jerusalem or attack the jordanians as a preemptive strike -- all of us know that king hussein instructed his forces to attack jerusalem. we never thought about crowning the man as president of lebanon. we went to lebanon to destroy the plo, the terrorists headed by arafat. it was a question of life a

she is heading somewhere in a hurry before the special programs hindsight is it's new year's eve here in korea life from seoul i think i have come and thank you so much for joining us. well the word it's time for her regular newscasts rail workers or their staff and a spa three weeks in and out. it is really hot. she was very busy with preparations for the special program. but despite her hectic schedule she does the evening news flawlessly mine only. everyone gathered on the senate for the new year's eve special broadcast unlike the rehearsal every scene is very tense go and open so it goes. we have it's the last broadcast of two thousand thirteen the day she becomes tense as this program is all the more meaningful. ohh. ha ha it out though. good evening and what can i be on tv is new year's eve special bring in two thousand fourteen and you can install them from when they do so much for joining us as we welcome the brand new year two thousand fourteen. greening in two thousand fourteen is the product of a lot of effort by the entire news there is grass. though thanks to everyone's h

we are looking at this through hindsight and it is very easy with hindsight to say, you have should havene to the owner, he has your back, you should have protected yourself. but at the time i still thought i was going to play for the vikings. i didn't know they were going to cut me until april of the next year when they drafted a punter at the fifth round. that's when i put this in the dead spin letter. looking back this is something i shouldn't have been cut for the teem -- team what's the reason here? gathering all the evidence, okay this is the reason. >> john ziggy wolf is the owner. he has now launched a full fledged investigation of the allegations. i asked cluey if he would still be in the nfl if he were gay instead of a straight male in support of the gay issues. >> and you'll explain about the hat too? i wondered about the hat. we'll find out later at 11:00. >>> 76 miles west of new orleans a monster sinkhole has grown to 26 acres. started two years ago in bayou corn after a salt mine collapsed. the huge hole is destroying a levee. >>> coming up tonight on al jazeera america, 1

hindsight is always 2020. and certainly i could be flipping and say the only difference between compromise and appeasement is historical hindsight. but this is one of those issues which most confronted diplomats are you know, back in 2000 can't david, when president bill clinton wanted to finally be the president who ushered in peace between israel and palestine, he came in as the closer and his aides never would have let him do that had been expected that yasser arafat wasn't going to accept the deal that yasser arafat's own negotiators had agreed to. and that's why when we look at a press conference after can't david to fell apart, we see how visibly angry and undiplomatic bill clinton actually was. now, fast forward to 2003 and the breakthrough with regard to moammar gadhafi. before the americans even started negotiating with moammar gadhafi, we went through years of the british, pretty much the british intelligence service, sort of betting the libyan negotiators and those making the outreach to be able to

>> well, i've heard many stories about what went wrong, and i think in hindsight everybody acknowledgedhat i think the u.s. grossly under estimated the importance of keeping that residual force as ambassador jeffrey just pointed out. i think this had direct consequence on what is taking place now. we all know this is not to do simply with fighting terrorism. it is to do with keeping some basic political reactions under check in iraq. and without u.s. presence i think we've unleashed a dynamic that no one expected. politicians in iraq don't seem to be mature enough to live up to that opportunity. political calculus is taking place. and political parties are is the consideration, and i think the dynamic would have changed dramatically if the u.s. had some presence in iraq. again, it's not about the military, but it's about the political clout and the ability to influence and keep some at check. >> you heard the suggestion of lack of political maturity, no matter what the circumstances of the american depasture was, there was iraqi accountability as well, wasn't there, for the way things w

in hindsight, it was an adventure to remember. >> some countries were faster -- slovenia, hungary, czech republic. estonia, i think, as well. but the others -- i think the status of those countries was stimulus for the others to proceed faster. >> for example, cyprus, who caught up as the summit loomed on the horizon. the first task was to meet the economic and political conditions. they needed a solid base camp with stable democracy. their guide, the european commissioner for enlargement at the time knew it was an ambitious climb, and he had to convince the long-term summit dwellers, above all, france. >> the point was not that they rejected the idea of new members or that they wanted to deny particular countries access to the eu. the concern of the french was rather that eu enlargement would change the balance of power within the european union in favor of germany into their own disadvantage -- and to their own disadvantage. >> yugoslavia changed the mission scope and speed. eastern enlargement suddenly meant bringing in 10 countries as quickly as possible. >> the war in kosovo in 1999

. >> with 20/20 hindsight, by the context we're in right now, you can look back and say, okay, it wasetribution, so i think probably all mayors are reflecting right now, and thinking about it. you know, i really hope that that's not the case. >> yet another problem he faces now in hindsight, a whole bunch of mayors like mayor zimmer thinking, well, was i punished for any reason, looking back, and frankly even using the scandal as a way to beat up governor christie. now, when it comes to christie's 2016 prospects, there's a difference between surviving and thriving. even christie's supporters who defended him on sunday are at best making the case that he can survive and get a second look. >> we've got a -- we've got a really smart person in chris christie who's a former u.s. attorney, who understands what's out there. and thousands and thousands of documents have been revealed, and not one single link to chris christie has been found. >> i think that he can now move on, as long as another shoe doesn't drop. he stated very clearly, he should have known. i think he stated it very clearly

. >> with 20/20 hindsight, you can always look back and say, was it retribution? probably all mayors are reflecting right now and thinking about it. but, you know, i really hope that that's not the case. >> reporter: in interviews this weekend, zimmer says she didn't mention the sandy threat before because she feared nobody would believe her and she was still in the process of deciding to come forward. christie's camp called her claims categorically false. hoboken got $70 million for sandy recovery on par with other communities, and the $100 million zimmer requested was for future flood control, not sandy relief, and the amount was over one-third of all state resources for a city that is only two square miles. state lawmakers investigating the george washington traffic jam say they are empowered to investigate these new charges as well as any allegation of an abuse of government power. and that could allow new jersey democrats to go after christie for some time to come. lester? >> michael isikoff tonight. michael, thanks. >>> overseas, we now know the identities o

hindsight, of course, 20/20. steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. >>> and a note about california. a new alert about the state's driest year on record. there had been hope that a new storm would bring some relief. as of tonight, it looks as if there will not be enough rain to quench the drought. and now, communities are running dry. less than 100 days from using up all of their water reserves. >>> and next, tonight, we move to an abc news investigation, with those new terror warnings about security during the winter olympics. today, russia arrested two brothers for a link to recent bombings. so, this is the question -- if sochi is such a hotbed for terrorism, why was it chosen as the public site anyway? brian ross, in search of those answers. >> reporter: this year's winter olympics could have been held in the storied villages of the austrian alps. or the mountains of south korea, a snowboarder's paradise. instead, the international olympic committee chose a subtropical city in russia, famed for its black sea summer beaches, where snow rarely falls. and locat a few hundred miles fr

parties boycotted the last lap wants to stay in the room to listen for administration and twenty hindsight. there is no sign that time. if i will be waged anytime soon away from the intensifying on grass in the capital bangkok this situation will parts of thailand is somewhat different. there is business as usual for members of the red shirt until it is among the staunchest supporters of fish and lots the star of the north eastern highlands the majority countries will for our routines are strongholds of prime minister and watch the lights for thai party. made of resin and simple green one province about four hundred km away from bangkok. i dress shirts from dean supporters the email village in the northeastern province but this is not like their feelings as more than fifty percent of the villagers at parks and supporters in the nearby allowed them to the clear based on richard village. since i watched as a symbolic requisite for the western village. a spot for people didn't want to remind us of what she wants the shirts which the one thousand orphans throughout the day. while in ca. you'll

nd i found their originality blinding more than thinking 20/20 hindsight. sometimes people in the press or friends say well what problems does this raise? have we figured this out? i think we have to put this in context. we still don't have the great depression figured out. we know that we're way ahead of where we were when ben wrote his 1983 article, more than 50 years after it happened about the importance of credit and the great depression how that made it last. jeff and others talked about how the gold standard transmit it had great depression after that and i am sure there will be a similar trascombrectry on our understanding of this crisis where people are continually reevaluating, looking at things from a fresh perspective. i would like to see, some day i assume you'll write a book after this. but i would like to see chapter on the whackiest ideas you didn't do that came up. and i think this by the way when you appear on letterman would make a good ten-list for him and you could i suspect probably make a couple of appearances and not go over the same

. >>> they always say hindsight is 2020. when you look back on this redskins season, i'm sure each of us has opinions of what could be done differently or if different decisions had been made. today in an event in dc, where the redskins honored their newest class of legends, we spoke with doc walk ber this decision and the decision to start rg iii over curt cousins. >> had we not had to play him and play curt early on, i think it would have been a different outcome. i think it would have been playoff potentially. >> really? >> absolutely. because he was in a rhythm but he hurt his foot. it wasn't that they didn't play him. he wasn't ready to play. i think that changed the whole direction. >>> and we can put this story in the latest surprising new category -- not really. texas a&m quarterback johnny manziel has declared for the draft. he made the announcement today and posted a thank you letter to the aggie fans. he will be represented by the same by that reps lebron james. no real surprise. >> no, man, he's going to get the

. >> with 20-20 hindsight and the context we're in now, you can look back and say, okay, it's retribution. so i think probably all mayors are reflecting right now and thinking about it, but, you know, i -- i really hope that that's not the case. >> in interviews this weekend, zimmer said she didn't mention the sandy threat before because she feared nobody would believe her and she was still in the process of deciding to come forward. christie aides called zimmer's charges categorically false. they said hoboken got $70 million from sandy recovery and they said the $100 million zimmer requested was for future flood control, not for sandy relief and that the amount was over 1/3 of allstate resources for a city that is only two square miles. >>> and that was nbc's michael isakoff reporting there. >>> now to russia wherein creased threats are surfacing 17 days away from the start of the winter olympics in sochi. the threats are from a new militant group. they're responsible for deadly twin suicide bombings in volvo grad. duncan, good morning. what more can you tell us? >> good morning, veronic

. >> with 2020 hindsight and the context we're in now, you can look back and say, okay, it is retribution, but i think probably all mayors are reflecting now and thinking about it. but, you know, i really hope that that's not the case. >> reporter: in interviews this weekend, zimmer said she didn't mention the sandy threat before because she feared nobody would believe her and was still in the process of deciding whether to come forward. christie aides called zimmer's charges categorically false. they say hoboken got $70 million in funding for sandy recovery, on par with other communities and said the $100 million zimmer requested was for future flood control, not for sandy relief. and that the amount was over one-third of all state resources for a city that is only two square miles. >> and that was nbc's michael isikoff reporting there. >>> to russia, increased threats are surfacing 17 days away from the start of winter olympics in sochi. the threat comes in the form of a new video released by an islamic militant group. they're claiming responsibility for deadly twin suicide bombings in

in hindsight it was an attention to remember. sometimes it is so water water plus the slovenia hungary poland czech republic to use on the icing has but to name but the others it seemed that the state of soul although skunk this was the stimulus the forty odd that the suit to proceed five cents. once all those cyclists who called up as the summit on the horizon. the frost costs for the braves six must meet the economic and political conditions to its seats to the dizzy heights of eu membership. they needed a solid base camp a stable democracy and respect for the rule small. did i tend to side like in most european commissioner for enlargement it that i knew it was an ambitious going. and he has to convince the momentum summit blunders apostle frauds. nice to see opposing viewpoint was that although they rejected the idea of new members although they wanted to do on a particular country's access to the eu wants to can some of the french was robbed of the eu enlargement would change the balance of power within the european union in

however the company here's the gift of hindsight at times worse. did you become what they go to find new cars. so tune in to score in japan and china relations are concerned. we think they are inseparable bond. that's why we're motivated to do our best to try to come up with ways to use that on a sole shoes. observers say. if you take a long time to mend the sunday times. companies from the two nations. he too cheap to raise sons friend yes access depends on it you see an eagle that age you are. china and taiwan are preferred to hold meetings that could lead to expand the dialogue between the two sides. the taiwanese minister in charge of mainland affairs will visit china next month for the first ever ministerial level talks the head of taiwan's mainland affairs council want you she will make a four day trip to none. jamie and shanghai are from every eleven he'll meet with china's taiwan affairs office director zhang zhi zone to discuss establishing their own heroes on both sides of the taiwan strait. until now cross strait dialogue has been conduc

johns hopkins university's us korea institute report on movements that indicate expansion of these hindsight in front of me. the institute said on its thirty eight north market the modifications should provide north korea with more advanced missile capabilities possibly giving it the ability to eventually strike u s soil. it said that the evidence indicates tell me only be preparing for a more robust market test program in the future the thing tag also said the north may have tested a rocket engine. egypt which road will balik atm elite intercontinental ballistic missile. robert gates the former us secretary of defense is proving to be quite the whirlpool as he did mentioned back in twenty eleven the north korea could develop into continental missile capable of hitting the us pacific coast within five years. south korea's once again urging north korea to respond to scholes proposal to hold a new round of the unions for families separated since the korean war child has suggested holding the remains in the third week the fed every tuesdays after telling him to propose to meetings be held the u

. >> there were those that thought it was a great deal and those in hindsight do not think that. >> yeah. now that we look like the price of a two bedroom condo -- >> right. 1440 harrison is a very long deal and there are a number of sites at the bottom if you look on the list there are four sites including the old downtown high school site that were leased to city college for instance for a up front lump sum payment of $10 million or whatever it was some years ago so there's a number of those that are floating out there where all the money was paid and the lease is good for another 50 years. one of them is the old polytechnic high school for instance. >> out on waller there. >> right. so we're no longer getting revenue from the sites, the money was paid up front, but we still own the land and will eventually. >> okay. >> downtown site was for -- i don't know if this will work but we got the money up front and used to build betty carmichael. >> yeah, that was that campus. >> and i think that we are concerned about our employer housing; however, through conversations with teachers though

to be honest i think it is hard for me to say what i would've advocated in 2003 with 10 years of hindsight. >> can you talk about your effort to get these vehicles for the troops in iraq? you are surprised to learn that there were these vehicles and developments in these mine resistant ambush and so how did you get that? a noted that senator biden was a target of much of your criticism. >> yes, and i give him credit for it. and actually it is a lesson that i tried to hammer home to the military leaders with when they read criticism in newspapers want to go into eight defensive mode but to find out whether the newspaper series in "the washington post" had put me on to the problem of wounded warriors and let me to fire the secretary of the army. he was a newspaper story that i first read about this. and the marines had about 300 vehicles and he was riding in one of these vehicles. and i wanted to buy these things in large numbers. and so i basically said, well, we are going to do it. and this is one place that i'm very critical of the congress in this book are that this is the one place that

there are many people who have, think they have 20/20 hindsight and see clearly things the fed could have done better. i certainly can think of a lot of people and things that could have been done worse, and i found their originality blinding, thinking of 20/20 hindsight. sometimes people in the press or, you know, friends say, well, what problems has this raised? have we figured this out? i think you have to put in context. we're in a research meeting here. we still don't have the great depression figured out. we know that we're way ahead of where we were when ben wrote his 1983 article more than 50 years after it happened about the importance of credit in the great depression, how that made it last. jeff sachs and others talked about how the gold standard transmitted the great depression after that, and i'm sure there'll be a similar trajectory on our understanding of this crisis. where people are continually reevaluating, look at thing, looking at things from a fresh perspective. i would like to see someday -- i assume, ben, you're going to sit down and write a book at some point

a kind queenscliff community and high temperatures and enforce chilly temperatures remain on the hindsight in l a after twenty eight degrees on friday and a twenty six degrees on sunday so much higher than average temperatures than springtime aliens will continue to close to commit tee will remain quiet little between circling be quite strong leading up to one hundred forty km run faster so it's a critical situation will not will continue for the time being across the south western portion only. on the other hand it in quiet duplex and a quite cold in the north. we have elmo apprentices and creating blizzard conditions over the east and parts of the dakotas in western minnesota. bullies and warnings are in place if you hide your parents take us nearly so going to be too heavy but gusting up to one hundred ten km are traveling is impossible. they have a high wind warnings in place a wide area as well. the system will likely affect the north eastern us. mind you we can see least likely in the new state. i new york city on saturday and swallow sunday that the pictures are going to be as follo

three days after he was kidnapped three and trade official hindsight less the three rescued with the help of the libyan government korea's foreign ministry said thursday that behind the head of the korea trade investment promotion agencies unique in the bmt is in good health and has been handed over to the korean embassy in tripoli. you know time will see the tree by the libyan government at around midnight thursday it's free it's time to this policy free free by the leading government at around midnight thursday three a tough one and a korean embassy received around four am. no health problems have been detected the rescue operation was led by libyan security forces and the ever rested for kidnappers who are reportedly part of islam and the shia the identity and motives of the kidnappers remain a mystery. and while there were reports that they ask for as much as two million us dollars. the foreign ministry said. nomads the money left handed over. we drove across the front rescue operation freedom of all the smokers will not be missed and became the first ones in humans after being a

exercise that hindsight and you should have warned and because you didn't, ww're fining you.'re basically saying we indicted you. we're not going to make it public or prosecutor on the indictment if you cough up 2 billion. you know what that's called? bribery. >> j.p. morgan stock hit a new high this morning. >> it's obvious thaa the investigators don't look at this the same way that i do. i am making a moral, a legal and constitutional argument, but not a financial one. j.p. morgan stock would go up if janet yellen gave them a wheel borrow full of cash. >> j.p. morgan stock would go down if jamie dimon took on the government and took on tens of billions of dollars. >> even though that might be the right thing to do, you're exactly right and thattshows you how, not based on morality is the up or down of the stock market and charles will agree with me on that. >> happy it's over with. and just happy the news is done. they don't care about. >> don't care about right and wrong. >> the wild success with the stock market predictions. it was immoral, charles? >> no, no, no. welcome

in hindsight it is almost tragic because this administration has abused the rule of law more than anyther for decades. lou: president obama has asked attorney general holder and the intelligence community to devise a way to create stories for all of them at a data is being aggregated, collected and aggregatd faugh. that understand quite how the government and they support -- important national-security agency can be effectively ordered to have her in the sorts of private orporations for storage of highly classified and personal and private information by the way, those companies and corporations are ccused of greater intrusions and violations of privacy that has the nsa to this point. >> and that is just one of the many crazy thingsabout his announcement. he was horizon to be this storekeeper of national security , but he comforted us by saying, well, don't worry about it. ifany of this information gets out first of all, national security car will have to approve. guess what, ove the last five years the special security court has approved almost every request to press confirmation. so

. >> we'll see what hindsight looks like. i knew this was going to be a good conversation. thank you to you both. have a great weekend. >> we'll be back with "bloomberg west" after this quick break. >> welcome back. i'm emily chang. at&t is trying to coach t-mobile customers. the competition is heating up. at&t is offering up to $450 bucks to woo t-mobile customers. the deal comes today. jon erlichman has been tracking this and back with more. t-mobile is making strong moves. $450 back. that is a pretty big deal. >> i love this story in the sense that t-mobile next week has a press event scheduled in las vegas. a lot of people think it's something similar, they are going to go after customers of larger carriers, come on over to us. at&t does the exact same thing and sparked a response from t- mobile, the c.e.o. saying it is a desperate move by at&t. it tells you t-mobile's strategy is getting under the skin of larger carriers and all of a sudden as they fight more, that cuts into profitability. kind of thing that plays into the bottom line as well. >> jon ledger has been on

you cannot analyze them without the benefit of hindsight.they knew what was going to happen. nobody is talking about it yet. >> you are the only one. congratulations if you are right. and a bummer for all of us. thank you so much for joining us. we are back in 30 minutes. "bloomberg west" is up next. ♪ >> live from pier three in san francisco, welcome to the the early edition of "bloomberg west ." i'm emily chang. is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. snap chat users exposed. hackers say they posted user names and phone numbers for millions of users. it was a security flaw that they have been warned about. 2013 was a huge year for netflix with soren shares and hit

but, in hindsight and in retrospect, maybe it's a blessing, because it -- it relieves me of that secrecyg around through life living behind a facade. which is what you do. >> reporter: she says the alcoholism stems in part from another struggle, one that has shadowed her since her childhood growing up in a military family, severe, crippling anxiety that set in the day her father was called to duty in a far-away war. >> my dad went to vietnam when i was 6 years old, and i had panic attacks every single day when my mom would leave for work. >> reporter: her mother told me, she remembers that panicked little girl. did you see the anxiety attacks as a little girl? >> yes, i clearly saw them. and every morning when i would leave to go to work, she would cry and beg me not to go. >> reporter: and all of these years, even with her steady hand at the anchor desk, elizabeth revealing the anxiety and panic were always close behind. >> i should have realized it was a problem way back when zachary, my oldest son, was born, and he used to call my nightly glass of wine "mommy's juice," you know, and i

think that history is not so generous to claims of national security they always look overblown in hindsight i think that mr snowden will be seen as a visionary and as someone who really bent history in a better direction thanks thanks to ben watching for joining us today and giving us insight into edward snowden coming up next a debate on the year ahead a new year's resolutions for the president and congress stay right with us. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got this huge you're covered. i got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. stay where it's not story. get this guy like smear that done stead of working for the people most issues the mainstream media were rich on the right time just as you. did rather it was. love like money now to politicking favors amy holmes independent anchor of the hot list done glenn beck's the blaze t.v. she joins us from blaze newsroom in new york and in d.c. is richard fowler host of the richard fowler show we thank you both let's pick up on the earlier discussion amy what do you make of edward snowden the hero or villain well

think that history is not so generous to claims of national security they always look overblown in hindsight i think that mr snowden will be seen as a visionary and as someone who really bent history in a better direction. thanks thanks to ben wise to for joining us today and giving us insight into edward snowden coming up next a debate on the year ahead on new year's resolutions for the president and congress stay right with us. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge only in the cherry said they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that. the genetically modified products are a priest tool tool that there is no. evidence to this any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a mouse trap i don't believe that that destroyed poor and that free. enterprise might have more is profit. for you my need. for social justice golden rice. he survived war atrocities. to make a final decision. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving. hope. and love to so

you want to start an argument talk to lincoln scholars about this subject, but it is obvious in hindsight that there are serious moral and practical implications, problems with that and even some of his contemporaries called mnemonic. seward said, i'm always in favor of bringing men into this country, never for sending them out. that was an error in judgment on lincoln's bar when it came to foreign affairs. it also risks antagonizing the colonial powers in europe which was the last thing the lincoln wanted to do in the middle of the war. some of point is not that lincoln did everything right in international affairs. he did not. and he probably would have a balance as much. when it comes to foreign affairs that in itself is important. the great observer of international affairs likes to say that our greatest error in international relations is the error of forgetting that we are men and thinking where guns. we are not. lincoln was not either and need that in his bones. he could not forget it. and so now 150 years later when our ability to act in the international arena seems limitless i h

think that history is not so generous to claims of national security they always look overblown in hindsight i think that mr snowden will be seen as a visionary and as someone who really bent history in a better direction. thanks thanks to ben wiser for joining us today and giving us insight into edward snowden coming up next a debate on the year ahead a new year's resolutions for the president and congress stay right with us. you cannot preemptively restrict your freedoms because of the fear of what something or how something might be used everything that has ever been developed has been used for a bad purpose baseball bats which are fun for you know for baseball players to hit balls you know they've also been used to be people today or do i mean we just cannot restrict ourselves because something might be yours and they were in the wrong way. he survived more atrocities. to make a final decision. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving. hope. and love to so many children. nikolai the american worker on the ati. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each day. what

think that history is not so generous to claims of national security they always look overblown in hindsight i think that mr snowden will be seen as a visionary and as someone who really bent history in a better direction. thanks thanks to ben waters of the for joining us today and giving us insight into edward snowden coming up next a debate on the year ahead on new year's resolutions for the president and congress stay right with us. iraq is clearly again falling back into extreme civil strife washington says it wants to help but most iraqis appear weary of any more american assistance then there is afghanistan washington plans to fund we leave for this year the sad reality for all involved is the fact that launched in may never be able to leave. by changing their mandate from prosecuting law offenders or forcing them forcing laws to enforcing national security quote unquote it just means that they give them the right to break the law for corporations security agendas written by corporations in the energy policy written by energy companies the agricultural policy written by monsanto the su

hindsight is always 2020. bill where bob gates said this about harry reid. on the hill to vote on bills you haven't read and it's perfectly clear senator reid has not read the book. up toe. >> it's a pretty good burn for a former secretary of defense. i have plenty of people who gave life and limb in fall surks jah jahd -- in fallujah. harry reid was the guy on the senate floor saying mitt romney didn't pay taxes with no evidence whatsoever. so the fact he wants us to be careful about what we say about him in public. i believe bob gates an honest guy. >> i think there is another exception in addition to harry reid and that's vice president biden. generally speaking the book goes all over the line with regard to a lot of people. he find good, bad, indifferent. while there are critical statement about president obama. he's extremely supportive in the totality. the same thing is true of secretary clinton who he endorses. bill: gates' book goes on to tell. >> the question does arise. lawyers have been fighting for decade to stop this kind of conversation from be

. >> hindsight is 20/20, always accurate and easy to do that.e to run an agency of 116,000 people. we do the west we can. >> on the website i was not informed directly that the website would not be working. the way it was supposed to. had i been informed i wouldn't be going out saying, "boy, this is going to be great". >> those are the top five losers of 2013. we'll list the winners in the next segment. you can continue to facebook and send your comments, tweets, # hannity and allison, who is the biggest loser? >> out of them the big loser is the american people. this was a revelation to them. to see the same president that was willing to see the government shut down because republicans in congress were going to delay obamacare turned around and delayed obamacare himself alone without congress, bamboozled people. you wonder why we have disapproval ratings of the president. no one trust it is government. 2013 was a rough year for the station. the american people lost. >> we were talking about whether or not obama was the biggest loser, is collaps

think that history is not so generous to claims of national security they always look overblown in hindsight i think that mr snowden will be seen as a visionary and as someone who really bent history in a better direction. thanks thanks to ben was the for joining us today and giving us insight into edward snowden coming up next a debate on the year ahead on new year's resolutions for the president and congress stay right with us. since what you're arguing for is that courage should put that african identity above that national identity let me ask you a personal question. occurred first or and iraq it first occurred first then i'm iraqi i am not iraqi that i'm a kurds because let me ask you that question i'm from holland been bombarded you know i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so what iraqi identity brought to meet iraqi and it brought to me the killings of people mass graves four thousand five hundred villages were destroyed. think. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical t

they found that in hindsight. but none of us participated in it. >> tom friedman writes a paragraph here. it goes right to this whole issue. he says, "sharon knew how strong israel was and believed wrongly that this military strength could in an almost mechanical fashion solve conflicts, deeply rooted political problems, the tiny israel could drive the plo out of lebanon, neutralize syria and lebanese muslims, and force the palestinians living in the west bank and gaza strip to accept israeli rule. sharon did not know when to stop. he did not understand the limits of power in a fragmented, unpredictable place such as lebanon." >> i cannot find even one thing that is correct. about the 1967 war, that israel attacked in jerusalem or attack the jordanians as a preemptive strike -- all of us know that king hussein instructed his forces to attack jerusalem. we never thought about crowning the man as president of lebanon. we went to lebanon to destroy the plo, the terrorists headed by arafat. it was a question of life a

schools and at some point along the way realize very quick way and it strikes one is obvious in hindsight is things often do that in fact the key to this was providing some sort of this is infrastructure. suddenly he began to old to figure out a way to get this is up and running. the only way to create long-term wealth as melton said earlier as well is to create businesses. for africa as you say as from many countries that remain poor and mired in poverty it's often one discovers there's enormous amount of regulation strangling places or the corruption is so intense you can start a business must you pay off 10 people or there are no roads to get your product out. naturally that's a terrible problem. >> in your book you document that early on jeffrey sachs wanted deregulation for russia. he wanted deregulation basically for capitalism for some of these other countries. he has been accused of being oddly inconsistent and he didn't think the african should have deregulation. he didn't emphasize that the way he had for some of these others. >> i think to be fair, that was not where he began h

. >> which would not have been the right thing to do to leave my family in hindsight. >> but it beats >> reporter: our interview finally ended and as he was being lead away, larry conceded to his guard that we weren't buying his story. >> they think that i'm a lying scum bag and i was. >> reporter: while he admitted to being a liar he never admitted to the bombing attempts and even connie didn't believe her husband of 25 years would try to kill her. not until larry called her shortly after he was arrested when connie was still in the hospital. >> he said i want you to know i have been having an affair before it gets out and he said since the accident i've been dedicated to you. and then he said i didn't do it. and when he said he was dedicated to me it's like a lig lightbulb went off like he's lying and i knew, you know what, he did it. >> just from that one phrase that he was dedicated to you. >> right. weird. because i knew he wasn't. it's like my mind was open at that time. it was like, whoa, it's you. >> reporter: 19 months later, connie painfully pulled herself into court and tes

. >> hindsight we had 30 to 340 million who didn't have insurance. >> 48 million. >> it would have been better to figure out what to divoo with them instead of turning everybody upside down. >> of course this raises the whole promise if you like it you can keep it because abyron points out, you are actually -- the people who are mostly signing up didn't get to keep it there was a survey by that kinsey and company that is part of this report that shows that only o11% of those signing up, this is survey but still only 11% were uninsured. others, they have lost their insurance because a small companies in particular saying just goen o00 exchange. or they find out they qualify for a taxpayer subsidy so they go on the exchange. or they have been kicked off. they have lost their insurance because it doesn't meet obamacare standards. that doesn't really where does it get you the point of obamacare is to reduce costs when is one of the things it was supposed to do. it was supposed to cover the uninsured, not all of them but at least half of them. and, of course, that would mean people aren't go