. >> joining me now msnbc's richard wolf and time international editor jim frederick. is the new calculus? >> it goes back to the fact that before the arab spring you had dictators who might be bad guys but they had hold on their countries. what we're looking at is these democracies have flowered but they don't have good control, security apparatus, things are changing all the time. even obama said today he doesn't know whether he considers egypt an ally or an enemy. so now you have a much more chaotic environment where you really don't know where the attacks are coming from and the local security apparatus can't really stop local and spontaneous demonstrations like these quite as well as they used to. >> richard, what is your sense of how spontaneous this was? first of all, very few people could possibly have seen this movie. but still, there's hundreds of people there. at most. reacting to this. and the vast majority, 99% of the people in these countries are not at all perturbed by this movie they're supposed to have heard about. >> you don't get many spontaneous demo

joining me now, jim frederick, "time's" international editor who worked with president clinton on thetaking time. i want to start with bill clinton's amazing political staying power and the latest nbc/"wall street journal" poll, 59% of people had a favorable opinion of bill clinton, the highest ever measured in the poll. what -- what is it about bill clinton that he retains a hold on the american public in a way that few politicians, barack obama included, struggle to meet? >> yeah, i think they he has an extraordinary charisma. people talk about his personal magnetism that comes through in the way that he speaks and enthusiasm that he has for life and for democracy and for global philanthropy and that's one of the things that people love in politicians, even when things seem at their darkest, clinton has a very fundamental optimism at his very core, which is very american trait. he really believes that tomorrow is going to be better than today and the day after's going to be better than tomorrow. i think people really respond to that. it's an infectious enthusiasm that he has about m

. >> this is jim frederick, international editor of "time" magazine.is is the cover here. agents of outrage, diplomats murdered, the new calculus of violence against america. many points you make, from this film from some american to this sort of collective -- i don't know if i want to say the perfect storm that led to some of what's happening the past couple of days. please jump in this conversat n conversation. >> because of the industry of outrage on the internet there's a million and one blaspheomous things that muslims could get outraged by. it's not a global conspiracy, but there are interested parties in whipping up a kind of outrage into a toxic mix of these protests worldwide. i think that's what we're seeing here. i think that's one of the reasons we call it a new calculus of american danger, because these things are so asymmetric, not planned by states or dictators, the way that they were even before the arab spring. through the global mind of the internet and communication between some of these parties you do have this global eruption of an

editor of the huffington post and allison kill kenny coe host of -- civil rights advocate and jim frederick, editor of "time" magazine who wrote the story, cover story of the agents of outrage. thank you all for being here. >> good to be here. >> i want to start with you, jim. because my primary feeling was that this was a complicated moment. a difficult moment. americans dead in a foreign country on their mission for their country. it somehow became about politics instead of about any of those issues. >> yeah. i think it's pretty clear that romney didn't do himself any favor and knocked the national conversation off track. i think the thing we need to look at is not so much this round of protests. this round of protests is going to blow over. i think what we need to look at are the protests next time and the time after that. because we're seeing a real political shift in the middle east where historically you would have these dictators who would put these types of protests down by stepping on people's next. >> right. >> now you have a new genre of democracy. you have weak leadership and i

jim fredericks.e is an entomologist an the districtor of technical services with the national pest management association. dr.fredericks, are you there? >> good morning. i'm here. >> good morning. >> did you ethe picture? >> i did. and i know exactly what it is. this is one of the coolest caterpillars that you will find. >> a caterpillar. what kind is it? >> this is a spice bush swallow tail caterpillar. >> the spice bush swallow tail caterpillar. >> it is native to the eastern united states. it is actually related to a butterfly that many of you have probably seen, the tiger swallow tail butterfly which is the state insect of virginia. >> oh! >> okay. >> the thing about this particular caterpillar is they are hard to find. these are masters of mimicry. you can see this caterpillar at first. i heard someone mention that it kind of looks like a snake with these eye spots on its thorax. that is not actually its head. the head is at the very tip of that critter. this is are just to fool predators like b

jim frederick is international reporter for ti"time" magazine. bibi said the hour is getting late, very late. he pulled out a diagram and talked about iran's uranium enrichment program. is he saying it' time to target, to bomb those cili? aiey vra they're able to see. what does he mean the action should be now that there's a literal red line that he's drawn on this dry gram? >> clearly what he marked out was second stage uranium enrichnt. his time line thathat procsing will bonete next spring or summer at the latest. >> according to information they've obtained? >> right. according to netanyahu. it sounds like until that time that is the threat thatnless diplomacy and sanctions work, up kee efel reserving und m the right to bomb facilities after that point. >> you mentioned sanctions. the prime minister said that under the obama ainistration strong sanctions have been put into place, and to date they have worked affecting the economy ofan aithey've not stopped in deterring the nuclear program that that country is pursuing. he spent much of the sp

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. >> for insight, i want to bring in jim frederick, international editor for "time" magazine. the cover story is about the anti-american protests. the agents of outrage. also, shira tchtupplet, also joining us. long time aide for senator john mccain, wrote something in real clear politics. saying in part, quote, the rush by republicans including mitt romney, sarah palin and scores of other conservatives to condemn president obama for policies they claim helped precipitate the attacks is as tortured in its reasoning as it is unseemly in its timing. we just heard from rick santorum there, as well. how has the romney campaign responded to the backlash over his comments? >> well, initially they didn't even blink. they held a press conference, they doubled down on the issue, they didn't see anything wrong with it. and in the following day, you saw some of his senior advisers speak out and further emphasize their point. they didn't back down at all. but towards the end of the week, we saw them change the subject slightly, we saw romney and paul ryan return to issues like the economy

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