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. >>> and joe kleine will be here in defense of brian williams. uncer ] if you don't think "i've still got it" when you think aarp then you don't know "aarp." life reimagined gives you tools and support to get the career you'll love. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities. >>> welcome back. republican mike huckabee hasn't officially announced but it seems pretty clear he intends to run for president. he's made some stunning comments recently that have certainly raised eyebrows. he's tangled with singer beyonce, made controversial remarks about same-sex marriage and even titled a chapter in his new book "bend over and take it like a prisoner." it's not the conventional type of discourse of a potential presidential candidate, but huckabee has never shied away from controversy. joining me now is former governor mike huckabee. governor thanks for being here. >> delighted to be here michael. thank you. >> you're off to israel. >> yes. >> will you see prime minister bibi netanyahu? >> that's the intention. i normally do when i go. i was there three times last year and saw him

whether joe klein of "time" magazine there has not been any notion of giving williams the benefit of the doubt. i'm not talking about places like "new york post" whom schadenfreude is a given. >> sure. >> but in the people you've talked to at the networks legacy media, who don't seem to feel that there's any chance that there's a relatively okay explanation. what kimberly dozer said, and this is somebody who almost lost her life in combat is what you hear general belief general impression given even by elite media is this guy is a fab allows at best. that's what he has to overcome if he's to survive. >> you mentioned joe klein, let me read his column shauden floyd circus overwrought and unnecessarily brutal. he went on to say the judgment whether he should be fired from pundits who never saw inside of chinook helicopter he finds to be self-righteous and gagging. none of us are wearing pitch forks. is it possible the collective amount of saturation coverage causes a bunch of pitch forks to be up in the area. >> here you are 33 minutes into your broadcast and this is what you've been d

marissa guthrie and joe klein, columnist for "time" magazine. marissa, john sturltn stewart became a cutting edge social and media political critic. how did he do that? >> he came along at the right time. he could -- and cable news had ramped up and was 24-hour talking headfest. so there were always going to be times when these people put their foots in their mouths and so he had these huge targets in which to expos hypocrisy which really epndeared him to his young audience which was already suspicious of media. >> stewart is upfront about leaning left and mostly skewers republicans and fox news and bill o'reilly but it's all cloaked in comedy. >> this is one of my big problems with him. he is constantly lecturing us about the tone of our politics, but he was a big-time political commentator himself. what he added to the conversation -- >> oh, no, no no. he says i'm just the media. >> this is the game he would play. he would want to be taken seriously at some level. if you caught him in something being wrong about something or dishonest, it's ju

we go further, so you can. >>> inning us you, interview political columnist for "time" magazine joe kleinratched the surface. you were in the middle east for two weeks. there's so much we need to cover. i want to start though by talking about something you brought up the other day, the strange reality. it reminds me of that "ghost busters s busters" line, dogs and cats living together how strange things have become. israel and egypt now tighter militarily than egypt is with a lot of other arab countries. >> that's right because they have a common enemy in hamas. ever since general sisi and the military overthrew the muslim brotherhood, they've been on a campaign to get rid of the muslim brotherhood as much as possible. hamas is the palestinian branch of the muslim brotherhood. and just last week sisi announced that hamas would now be considered a terrorist organization by israel. >> are you surprised how quickly sisi has been able to consolidate power? >> no, the military always wears the seat of power. >> muslim brotherhood rises up after the arab spring. >> allegedly democratic election

amy chozick from "the new york times" political beat, and joe klein, from "time."come back to all of you. and bill, let me begin with you. rudy giuliani stirring things up. questions the president's love country. doubles down on that. what is he up to? >> i think he's driving the liberal media into a frenzy. i don't know. i think he said what he believes. he decided he believed it so he wasn't going apologize. >> and joe klein, we saw scott walker trying to make the point that all the republican candidates shouldn't have to be asked this question on principle. then saying he doesn't know whether president obama is a christian. is he trying to play a double ere? >> i think he's trying to send two messages. i think with rudy and the other wild statements we've been seeing, it think it works for the disadvantage. one thing i know after 11 presidential campaigns. people don't like to elect an angry president or an angry party. they sound very angry. >> they do sound angry, keith ellison. but the point that marco rubio was making. the point that scott walker was trying

we have a star studded line up and people from former abc director david weston and joe klein and piers morgan and look at the shifting media landscape. >> thank you so much. we'll see you in new york. >> and valentine's day is expensive and people spend 2 billion on flowers for the day every year. 90 percent of all of the flowers imported to the u.s. comes through miami intll airport. and every flight is checked out to keep pest and plant diseases from entering in to the country. steve? >> reporter: one of the busiest weekends of the year in miami international airport. four times as many flowers as usual. 22 million come through miami international airport and they are shaking out bouget and coming out with slugs and beatles and cockroaches. >> if you find one at home. you are grossed out and not pleased at all. but when you are looking for it. you are mentally prepared. >> and what they are looking for is anything unusual. pest or disease that could cause harm in the u.s. most flowers came from colombia and they have a cool and humid climate. but recently ecuador has been producing t

. >> when you talk about them being radicalized, we had joe klein yesterday from "time" magazine talking about it. the saudis our so-called allies that have played a massive role over the past two decades into radicalization by funding schools that promote the most radical form of islam. bhuto said she used to walk aside in her jeans and she couldn't anymore. he asked why, she said because of the saudis. the saudis are funding this radicalism across the globe and unfortunately, a lot of people a lot of sunni, a lot of shia a lot of christians across the region are paying for that. >> when you speak with people who have a tremendous amount of knowledge, both on the ground knowledge as well as contemporary only in of what is going on in the world right now especially with regard to this. with regard to isis it's so complex, tribal wars lack of govern fans hopelessness -- governance hopelessness about 19 years ofably you want so set your hair on fire. >> it is complex about who is joining isis there are some wealthy people attracted. there are a lot of europeans from middle class to upper m