early in her career she was director of scheduling for senator john kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 analysts currently serves on the board of trustees for the john f. kennedy center for performing arts in contributing editor at marie claire. alyssa will find books after she speaks. we have them available for purchase at the front desk of her store. make sure to grab one before you have got to have assigned. join me in welcoming alyssa master monaco. >> it is clear at peak very early. i will read from the book and then we can do q&a and that works for everybody. my selection tonight. over the years, my parents let me hold my own hand a lot. they always just out of a sister now turn out to be good people if they didn't care about how successful, prominent wealthy would be. however, the extracurricular choice or parental pressure for countless young gross to matter or generational heir apparent to tap, ballet, jazz for 12 years and what i lacked in natural ability i've made up for enthusiasm. i rationalize taking in the wings that i've been handling because of my height. i was swea

joining me is john finer who served for secretary of state, john kerry.at to have you with me on a morning like this. what do you think of that speech and the tone the president is trying to deliver? >> thanks. i think the excerpt is fine, in and of itself. we'll see the rest of the speech. there are questions we should look at, one, does he get the tone and the substance right? i think that's an open question. you have talked about the notion whether he uses the phrase radical islamic. saying those words does not end terrorism. there are a number of ways a president could step into a sensitive issue inadd ver tantly, given the people advising him that a not very anced in their views of islam. the second question is -- >> the credibility which the president delivers the speech, how do they negate the rhetoric, knowing it could pop up, we don't have that excerpt. stephen miller, who we are familiar with his feelings, is the author. >> it's people like steve bannon, the president surrounded himself with a number of people with extreme views on islam themsel

campaign and i met him in 2004 when i covered john kerry's campaign and i met him in an alley alley in the campaign where he asked me for a cigarette. and i didn't know that he would run, but i remember him more of a trash talker behind the scene, and rib you and what is your score on this and what is your score on that, and sort of the basketball march madness rankings and he would say, yeah, i see that you are doing badly, and so i remember him as, and i think that you saw it a little bit in public but not so much. >> good press relations. [ laughter ] >> and now, not only showing a personal interest, but you can't beat it. >> and someone who has a docile press of jfk who loved him an worshipped him. >> he could hang around in the underwear and nobody would take a picture or anything. nobody cared. >> and he was protected and flash forward a kocouple of decades, barack obama could not get away with anything like that. >> and a how about franklin roosevelt who fell when he was voting again. and no photographs of the president of the united states in a wheelchair, and that is the diffe

. >> homeland security secretary john kerry testified about his department's budget question. -- request. he talked about home grown terrorism. the homeland security appropriations subcommittee hearing was chaired by senator john bozeman.

secretary john kerry our planet has the greater advocate, no children a foresighted warrior for peacend more prosperous because of your commitment and often of some. [applause] thank you for trusting me enough to visit once when you have to check on paris 38 times. [laughter] this is a night to celebrate politics and family. as my father and uncle taught us it is a family endeavor so i would like if we could offer a round of applause for first lady michelle obama and all that are here tonight. [applause] many of you here in this room cast your first vote for president kennedy and told me how he changed your lives together changed the country.ge tonight we present the profile in courage award to president obama who has the same impact on another generation inspiring us, our children and grandchildren to change the world. i want to thank you for giving me the chance to serve. in japan i saw firsthand whatce american leadership needs to the world. i saw the power of ourur commitment to a rules-based international worker and lifting people out of poverty. i saw the hope and idealism of pe

is this iran the iran that john kerry knew three years ago? is very new of course is john kerry. we have a very different secretary of state. a different approach to diplomacy. iran has wanted to become -- the deal, the negotiations, turning that relationship around. what has really changed is what's going on in washington. remember that tomorrow president trump gets on an airplane. his first stop is in saudi arabia. he made counterterrorism the number one point of his foreign policy agenda. we have to wait and see what happens on this trip at a time when there has been tremendous distraction in washington and i imagine preparation has been less than thorough. so that, in the context of the elections in iran, this is going to be a very interesting and important trip. guy: nice politics for me now for the portfolio. we have problems in brazil. washington is waking up. how big a discount do i need to apply? it has been a significant story over the last few years. i thought it was beginning to fade. i'm not so sure anymore. >> there is economic s

john kerry has been the point man, i am quoting the article "dealing with russia because of his close relationship with foreign minister sergey lavrov. they meet often without staff members present and talk on the phone regularly. ." it was john kerry and president obama's state department but they are going crazy now with donald trump and jared kushner. jared kushner did this before donald trump was even president. >> eboni: i think the white house is doing a good job responding. anonymous sources most of the time run of credit. if you can put reporting based on anonymous sources but it's all on the reporter's credibility proved we got an update here from catherine herridge. that means something to me. she is saying a prayer at her reporting is very detailed, clear explanation as to who jared kushner allegedly talk to, the point of it, the why, the secure line was requested. by russia, not from jared kushner. all of that makes some sense to me if it comes out to be that way. most born bart, jared kushner's anxiousness to get in front of congress and tell his side of the story, the tr

>> john kerry with 30 years experience knowing every detail, every per am ter was unable to accomplishhis with his negotiator and previous u.s. presidents, those with military experience like colin powell and dealing with at the time sharon, the leader here and others who have had far more experience have had no luck in bringing these two sides together. now you have an aging weak palestinian leader and a historically maybe not strong politically but adept politically prime minister of isreal who has managed to out flank all of his challenges and opponents. hard to imagine. i was really struck by something. you know this region so well. i've visited it for decades. my first assignment at nbc news was covering the camp david accords back in 1978 and 1979. and i know it's before many of you were born. something that comes with experience. it's just stunning to me that the secretary of state on air force one flying to isreal was asked if he'd been to isreal before. he's not a young fellow. he's an experienced man who's spent four decades in the oil patch. >> he knows the broader arab worl

former secretary of state john kerry is here.o he was the former senator from this great state of massachusetts. also, some key obama advisers, including david axelrod and valerie jarrett among others. as you said, the venue and this city holds a significant really important special night. the 2004 democratic national convention in boston, barack obama's passionate speech. >> we are one people. >> seemed to reaffirm the american dream. >> all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the united states of america. >> suddenly, a new political rock star emerged, young and idealistic, with the audacity of hope and early endorsements from ted and caroline kennedy, barack obama became the first black president of the united states. now, as we approach the 100th anniversary of president kennedy's birth, his family once again recognizes obama with this year's prestigious profile in courage award. named after john kennedy's pulitzer prize winning book, it celebrates public service. >> president obama really

for me, it was the day that i misreported that john kerry's running mate was the john edwards who talksghosts. - okay, okay. but what do i do? - the only thing you can do, carol. show her some tough love. - oh, chuck, katie's my baby. i could never be tough on her. - carol, you just have to. - oh. - that's what my mentor, morley safer, did to me. he drove me out to the desert. he said, "you can either die out here or come back a journalist." and i did both. [rousing sting] - so how's the job hunt going? - mm. it's really great. actually, i just applied for a job as a news manager. - wonderful. what network? - oh. i'm sorry. that's confusing. i meant "gnus." g-n-u-s. the job's cleaning their cages at the zoo. i already heard back, though. i didn't get it. - okay, listen up. i know you're my baby, but i am done being soft on you. you need to-- - i need to what, mommy? [dainty music] - you--you need to try more work. - but i got fired. - oh. - i don't know what to do. maybe i'll become a bwand ambassador for a vodka company. - oh, katie, forget it, forget it. you don't need to change anyth

the atlantic and an msnbc contributor, john finer, form earp chief of staff to secretary of state john kerryand gordon chang is a daily beast columnist and author of many books including "nuclear showdown -- north korea takes on the world." gentlemen, good to see you here. thank you for joining us on memorial day. steve, let's start with you. angela merkel said what people have been thinking. there has been an erosion in u.s. relations with our european allies. we have a president who has articulated things other american presidents have been concerned about in the past. but there's never been a question that the u.s. and europe are together when it comes to military mutual defense. >> well, we were joined at the hip. this was a sacrosanct alliance that gave america leverage in key issues and i think angela merkel, while she does reflect at least the private thinking of a lot of people, her comments -- because she is probably the least flamboyant leader out there -- these comments are so important that they, in my view, punctuate just a very different direction for the notion of american lea

, president obama and to the first american of visitors to vietnam and to senators john mccain, john kerry, hillary clinton, jim webb and those near and far. [speaking in native tongue] i can see here many failure faces, good friends of vietnam for many years. [speaking in native tongue] looking back at the history of upheavals in our relationships, the past 20 years of corporation i would like to say to you and to also president trump that we have thrived beyond ourselves having not only risen above the past but look toward the future but embarked upon a journey together to shape a brighter future and write a new chapter for our relations. we contribute to peace and prosperity in asia-pacific and beyond. [speaking in native tongue] almost a year ago, the unprecedented and a very successful visit by party general secretary set a milestone and a critical turning point in our bilateral ties. this is now visit by my first visit to us as prime minister. [speaking in native tongue] just before coming here i held talks with president trump and prior to that had a series of meetings with american

simply either cavalierly treated as a conversation between a man and a foreign minister who moved john kerry around for 4 years without any real progress being made in syria, in my judgment, at least, and to invite him to the oval office and give him some information, which may or may not jeopardize other people i think that is pretty serious. katty: bill cohen, i want to take you back in history in 1973 you were a republican comes men from maine, you are one of the first republicans to break from your party and call for the impeachment of president nixon. do you think this republican party is capable of investigating this president and standing up to the president over incidents like this? mr. cohen: i have not seen evidence that there is enough support to really investigate in a serious way. i think the house was set back , and now reconstituting. i think the senate has an opportunity, and there are members of the senate i have confidence in will pursue this. and i want the president to succeed. i want him to be successful for our country. what i don't want him to do is be successful shutt

the former us secretary of state, john kerry, took a shot at president trump on wednesday when he suggested speech to students, mr kerry said it was the secret to having an impact on the current white house. so what is actually the best language for american students to learn? the bbc‘s rajini vaidyanathan has herself been learning. what is the secret to having a real impact on government? by a rosetta stone and learn russian. he may have beenjoking about stone and learn russian. he may have been joking about current going on is in washington that there is a strong correlation between global politics and the languages that americans learn. we have not seen an uptick in russian classes just yet but when the soviet union was the enemy, the language was in demand. china's rise has been a number of american children learning the language. president 0bama set a target of 1 language. president 0bama set a target of1 million. if our countries will do more together around the world than speaking each other‘s language, truly understanding each other, is a good place to start. in a decade after 9/11,

are going to raise the bar for generally speaking aviation security much higher than it is now. john kerry. the incident occurred at about 3pm at the sainsbury‘s superstore in bangor, county down. a man is being treated at the scene after he was reportedly hit several times. northern ireland police have launched a murder investigation. six men who accused the late lord janner of sexually abusing them as children, have abandoned their civil case. lord janner was charged with 22 sexual offences dating back to the 1960s, but the 87—year—old was found unfit to stand trialjust days before he died in 2015. the men had been seeking damages from his estate. the criminal case against lord janner was dropped because he had dementia. it was decided he could not follow what was going on in court and then he died. six men wanted to take it further and launched their own civil case at the high court. that has now been dropped. a lawyer representing the men said the reason for that is there had been a long period of time between the claim being launched and the alleged abuse. lord janner‘s family said th

believe that when john kerry made his 12 that happen. >> but they're more committed to a relationshipn kerry. >> the israelis certainly are. >> the saudis too. >> i think it's too entrenchedle that's a step too far. if trump can just get through the meetings. i don't think this is a president we're saying can you get a nobel peace prize. we're saying, can you get through the trip. there is also a lot to be said for his own base in going after "i'm going to make you secure." the saudis are a good place to do that. they don't have to worry about internal ratings. there aren't going to be demonstrations at all. they're going make it a very comfortable place. he's going to give a great speech and they're going to say that was a great speech. >> ian bremmer, thank you. we'll be following it closely. >>> the two leading presidents havefe rope with the west and the 2015 deal to limit the nuclear program. elizabeth palmer is there this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. voting is well under way here in iran. long lines outside the polling stations. to some extent this election

in fact, john kerry obama secretary of state developed those back channels. every president there have been back channels. the kennedys as well. >> guest: that's right. the obama administration went to extraordinary lengths to appease the government. there was not the same kind of scrutiny of the obama administration's action. when you look at obama's track record with russia and iran. it's a track record and with hillary clinton as well when she was secretary of state. there was not this kind of tremendous scrutiny. >> eric: why? >> guest: that's a tremendous question. there is a double standard applied. when you look at the policies of trumped -- trump administration to russia they are tougher than the obama administration. the russians are not gaining anything from the new trump presidency. the trump presidency talked about expanding sanctions against moscow over ukraine. this was tougher language coming from president trump. >> eboni: i am not impressed with tough language. i am impressed with tough action. too little and too late. i hope for america's sa

i remember when bush ran for reelection, they want to john kerry because he had experience in the militaryng the iraq war. it doesn't really work. you need someone the opposite of trump if you are a democrat. to fire up the base and run a country. >> kimberly: who would that be, richard? >> jesse: elizabeth warren. >> dana: we are glad you are here, richard. >> richard: one contender. in november. president joe biden. >> greg: he's going to be quite old. >> richard: here's the thing, democrats -- there's a lot of arguments about why we lost in the election. i can rehash it but i won't. part of it is we lost working-class americans. there's one guy in the country that really gets working-class folk, that's joe biden. he was one. his father was one. talk about electrifying a crowd. if you put joe biden in the room -- -- >> greg: people are touched, literally. >> richard: in philly, there is more applause during his speech. would you vote for him? >> dana: there are some californians on here. >> kimberly: the rumor that i was married to him at one point... >> greg: you win some, it you knew s

. >> there comes these moments in the american consciousness, whether it was john kerry on a surfboarding the internet where the american people go, that's what the left represents. that's what the liberal media think. now we know in our own minds, as grotesque as it was, we know who they are, what they are, what they look like and how they think. it was one of those definitional moments that penetrated the american consciousness. lou: donald trump is close to making the determination on whether to withdraw from the paris accord. >> i think the whole trip abroad was an important america first statement. it was about uniting the rest of the world over principles of fighting terrorism. when it came to nato, it was a you have got to do your share. you have to make this decision for yourself. we are leading but we are not going to do this alone. we are not going to be behold together international community. we are going to do what's good for america first. >> the one for me, the president of the united states stepping in front of that group of nato leaders, and establishing literally amer

. - because you know, i go back to the 2004 presidential campaign when john kerry, i think he was quoting, it was faith without works is dead was something among the things he talked about from the realm of the bible and he was saying, you know, there are a lot of people who vote and on the way into the voting booth, they step over poor people. the reality is there's something fundamentally inconsistent with saying on the one hand i believe in scripture, but on the other hand, i'm going to behave in exactly the opposite of what scripture says. there seems to be a little bit of tension here as well, that people are not as aware of what they think they are beholden to as they actually are. - yes, often our opinions are based on what our thought-leaders tell us because we're all cognitive misers. in other words, i mean, we don't have time to figure out-- - cognitive misers? - yes. - it's a good band name actually, isn't it? (laughs) - yeah, it is. - i'm sorry. - why don't you have 'em on next week? - i will, okay, good. i'm sorry, i was distracted momentarily. - what that means is we literal

john kerry and henry kissinger. a and rick warren in his speech to the ministerial association. conan o'brien, robert renn ford, gloria steinem, john lewis. i wanted to have a dialogue about the meaning of jfk's life now. >> go out and buy the book. it's amazing. thank you, gentlemen. >> that's it for us tonight. i'll see you back here tomorrow night. before we leave you, my favorite moment from the weekend, from the white house correspondents dinner this weekend, in the nation's capital. here's comedian hassan manag. >> when i watch your show, i feel like i'm watching a reality tv show. "cnn tonight" should be called wait a second. now, hold on. stop yelling at each other, with don lemon. [vo] the grille is distinctive. but it's usually seen from the rear. the all-new audi q5 is here. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accid

former president is one of the star attractions ofjohn president is one of the star attractions of john kerry's they have, and my hair has changed also. i was on shift when i found out about the firing of james comey, and now i feel that american politics is mixed up and crazy, and that's part of the democracy. things change all the time. it's not an autocracy, a dictatorship. but i cast my mind back to 1998. bill clinton's impeachment. he had to address the american people where he talked about his sex life! there we re talked about his sex life! there were conversations about the proper use of a cigar. the proper meaning of the words is in depositions. it's got crazier in american politics over this and what will be interesting is what will happen after the firing of james comey. who will be his replacement? that could potentially set the cat amongst the pigeons, and the editor of the us magazine weekday, has suggested that they may not be a quick replacement. the most important thing for america's democratic institutions is who replaces james comey, not the fa ct who replaces james comey, no

to john, kerry, heather, kate, andrea and the entire kelly family, today 300 million american heartsr you. we pledge to you that we will always remember robert and what he did for all of us. thank you. [applause] the kelly family represents military families across the country who carry the burden of freedom on their shoulders. secretary kelly is joined today by his son-in-law, jake, a wounded warrior and the secretary's son, johnny, will soon leave on his deployment. it is because of families like yours that all of our families can leave in safety and live in peace. to every gold star family, who honors us with your presence, you lost sons and daughters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers. they each have their own names, their own stories, their own beautiful dreams. but they were all angels sent to us by god. they all share one title in common. and that is the title of "hero." real heros. [applause] so they were here a brief time before god called them home. their legacy will endure forever. general douglas mcarthur once said that the soldier that is called upon to give his li

cardinal o'malley, wheoneof finest secretaries of e ever to represent america around the world and john kerrypplause] and the best vice president the country has ever known, joe biden. [applause] i also want to thank michelle obama for after the presidency sticking with me. [laughter] i think she felt an obligation to the country to stay on. but once her official duties were over, it wasn't clear. [laughter] i love my wife, and i'm grateful for her and do believe that it is the good fortune to have her as first lady. i am humbled this evening to be honored by a family that has given the country so much, a family that has challenged us to ask what we can do for our country to dream and say why not not, the secret cause that endures a. that is what this family has done for america and all of the families that are here tonight, thank you. i couldn't be more grateful to the profile in courage award committee would dishonor. i'm also grateful that unlike the prize committee, you waited until i was out of office. [laughter] how fitting that we gather here this month, the 100th anniversary of presid

and the new special counsel is former fbi director and macho john kerry robert mueller, who is done all's worst nightmare, a competent adult who owes him nothing and who i am guessing has not seen "the apprentice." but trump should have seen this coming, okay. this should be no sur prietion to him,-- surprise to him, especially because after all it is just keeping one of his campaign promtions from the debate. >> if i win, i'm going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. >> stephen: yeah. (cheers and applause). >> stephen: he's a man of his word. >> jon: he keeps his word. >> stephen: he's a man of his word. and there's going to be no shortage of stuff for mule tore investigate because the man is he center of the scandal is former national security advisor and father-in-law who won't set foot in your foreign carmichael flynn. and we just learned that the trump team knew flynn was being investigated for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for turkey during the campaign. well, they should have suspected something when they saw what he wore

john kerry and henry kissinger. ve the dalai lama and rick warren in his speech to the ministerial association. conan o'brien, robert renn ford, gloria steinem, john lewis. john mccain. i wanted to have a dialogue about the meaning of jfk's life now. >> go out and buy the book. it's amazing. thank you, gentlemen. >> that's it for us tonight. i'll see you back here tomorrow night. before we leave you, my favorite moment from the weekend, from the white house correspondents dinner this weekend, in the nation's capital. here's comedian hassan manag. >> don, every time i watch your show it feels like i'm watching a reality tv show. "cnn tonight" should be called wait a second. now, hold on. stop yelling at each other, with don lemon. >>> house republican leaders making another big push on health care. even as questions swirl over coverage for people with preexisting conditions. the president's comments ob this issue undermining the bill. >> this white house defending president trump for extending a hand to authoritarian

to a relationship with trump than they were to john kerry. >> the israelis certainly are, i accept that entrenched. a step too far. if trump can get through the meetings. this is -- i don't think this is a president that we're saying, can we get a nobel peace prize from? can we have a good trip? i think as question saw with xi jinping he has real vulnerabilities on islam. there's a lot to be said for his own base in going after i'm going to make you secure. the saudis are a good place to do that. the saudis don't have to worry about internal sort of ratings whatsoever. there aren't demonstrations at all. they'll make it a very comfortable place, he'll give a big speech. >> ian bremmer, thank you. . >>> as president trump prepares for the trump, the iranians have voting for a new president. the two leading candidates have different views on the west and the 2015 deal to limit the nuclear program. labz, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, voting is well under way here in iran. long lines outside the polling stations. to some extent this is a referendum on the nuclear deal. mill

. >> i applaud secretary of state tillerson for the apology today he made, can you imagine john kerrying a public apology equivalent? and i think to a certain extent it was a positive step. i think the president had a great trip, but he needs to come back now and straighten out the team around him. trish: well, we're getting word of that. there's a report today that three people have been identified by the white house as leakers. and they're supposedly going to be fired. >> well, i would fire them in a heartbeat, and i think at the end of the day there's probably 10, 20 more. a lot of these stories have 12 sources, 15 sources, and the information is very damaging -- trish: have you ever seen anything like this? >> i've served in two white houses, and there's a lot of leaks, but never like this. this is just ridiculous. this stuff in manchester, there's no need for "the new york times" to basically be reporting this stuff, and i think to a certain extent you've got to crack down and have a heart to heart with the media that we're not going to, basically, diminish your freedoms of the p

you could point to any democrat, they went the full john kerry where they were for jim, being fired before they were against it. so that's horrible and that's in plain sight when you see that but from a media perspective again, it's the media that cries wolf. they cried every day since june 2015 went trump down the escalator and every day it's a crisis on this case, a constitutional crisis trade but i hear someone i don't see anybody doing in terms of reporting what the american people think this firing. harvard university and harris provided a pole exclusively to the hill, my publication in march and april talking about favorability of jim call me. what you think of jim comey in terms of favorability, on favorability? 17% said in march and 18% in april, when u.s. democrats that same question, it becomes 12%. let's add it all up pretty of deputy attorney general just appointed two weeks ago, 94-6 votes recommending that comey be gone. you've politicians on both side of the isle recommending that comey be gone. you have most importantly because we've heard media members and were not going t

i mean nancy pelosi, hillary, john kerry, barack obama. they all went there and told them that we're going to pass cap and trade here in the united states, so they all needed to follow. this was interesting because of the 192 countries that he was talking to, most of them didn't even know our form of government. they didn't know we had a senate that had to confirm these things or that we even had a legislature. they assumed that was going to happen. i remember right after they left, i went to copenhagen. i had to go in the morning and get back there time for votes all in one day. and i did that. and i felt at that time, they termed me as the one-man truth squad. and i told them under no circumstances -- this is 2009 -- were we going to pass any kind of cap and trade in this country. and i was right. they were shocked over there because they assumed if the president said we're going to do it that we were going to do it. you know, the legislation was estimated at that time to cost between $300 billion and $400 billion. that's a year to imple

when obama was in office, between the foreign secretary, secretary of state john kerry on the one hand and, of course driving figure, feting that nuclear agreement passed, the one between iran an other world powers, including, of course the united states that really forms the basis of what many people thought would be better relations between the united and iran. it's not something that normally happens, especially with the hard liners, doing things that made it difficult for these two nations to get close to each other. pliska missile tests being one of them. i think many here in ierp are quite surprised at the top line the trump administration is taking, especially if there was another iranian pliska missile test and they flattened sanctions on the iranians, that was certainly something here, who thought there would be a pragmatic relationship, realize that most probably the trump administration had a fairly hard line. i think that's something that they are now also witnessing by the fact that this is the first foreign visit the president is conducting is to saudi arabia, which of co

and it is a plaits that a lot of secretaries of state and presidents have visited with delight, john kerryparticular used to love going there and his brother-in-law was the ambassador to rome, to italy, so that was one of his frequent stops. . it was a family occasion. now president trump, his first visit to italy. rst he goes on to ussels, kelly o'donnell, will you will be covering nato. they are awaiting the president's visit with a little trepidation because they are notoriously borning and very details and according to a lot of reports, the various foreign leaders have been told to prim their speeches and try not to be so much in the nuts and bolts -- >> it is not his thing. >> of the stops, of the five stops, probably the nato meeting is where there will be the least war reception. the countries that hosted him, now italy and the vatican, there is great significance to the american president making his first overseas trip to their places. it is a coming together of the alliance and one that the president has been very critical of. he walked it back. asking for the member states to pay

and even president obama got the same back in 2013 with then secretary of state john kerry, and he doesn'tn make an exception for royaltiy. prince charles, there you go. well, camilla is matching right there. yeah, it's like the pope, like, oh, another one. will the mainstream media give it a rest now or will trump continue to be targeted because he's trump? in other words, dan, the pope has pulled a s so you are face for everybody because, unfortunately, that's the way his face rests. but apparently when donald trump comes to town, it's all donald's fault that he has upset the vatican. >> yeah. donald trump is just a target here. the poor pope has the same problem that actress anna kendrick has, which she calls resting witch face, but uses a different word. we have to blame because that's just social media craze. that's all media are interested in now. not facts. ashley: no. it's unfortunate for the pope. but there you go. but not for us to have dan with us tonight. dan, thank you so much. appreciate your comments. really appreciate it. by the way, i should also mention we are waiting the

. >> as john kerry said over and over we are more engaged with the world now than maybe we have evern. look at his flight schedule. we were talking to everybody. the obama administration was the engagement this idea of diplomacy that we need to talk to people. we should be shup be send missiles to folks, we should be talking to him. >> open hands -- something about open hands and fists. >> one of president obama's trips was to cairo, he gave a speech. an open hand to the world. he did not did to israel. >> a senior administration official described the ordering of this trip in part to be a trip designed to deliver a message of tolerance. i thought that was an interesting acknowledgment that perhaps they sent a message of intolerance with the muslim ban. >> as much as the relationship between barack obama and netanyahu was not good strategic relations between america and israel remained as strong as ever. military funding remained in place, defense relationships remained in place. even with respect to the iran deal that netanyahu was angry about, the americans and theis reels had cont

john kerry wasn't, he went back that senate and -- >> but -- >> -- she's going to be out there but inyone is inclined to dwell on the what ifs. >> i assume she's going to do some what ifs. because jason, do you buy that it was up until october 27th they were going to win and it was only just in the final stretch that she lost? >> no. not at all but i have to take my hat off to brian. this is something that losing political candidates do after every presidential election. doesn't matter if they're democrat, republican. part of their grieving process is to blame other people. but it's the lack of awareness we're seeing from secretary clinton. no one else told her to avoid campaigning in states like wisconsin. i mean the reality is that donald j. trump was the perfect candidate for this election. he was the ultimate outsider, probably the biggest we've seen whereas secretary clinton was the ultimate inhadicisider and a good campaign and the rights man for the right time. let's just be real about this. donald j. trump is a closer. he closed out this race -- >> it was unprecedented interf

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let me bring in right now joshua walker, former aid to john kerry and a fellow of the german marshall fund. and a former u.s. ambassador to the association of southeast asian nations. thank you so much for being here, you guys. we're keeping an eye on the coast guard ceremony, so just keep that in the back of your mind as we're watching and waiting -- this offer from the russian president to provide a transcript between the president and the russian foreign minister. do you believe the russian president? >> i don't believe much that president putin says, it's clear that he's enjoying all of this immensely, which should sadden all of us. and i think he's just trying to insert himself into this situation. i mean we're really through the looking glass when president putin is offering a white house transcript. it's just a sign of how down the rabbit hole we are. >> on a basic level, there's been a question as to if there's a transcript or isn't there a transcript. we have reporting from an administration official that said full transcripts are not traditional of meetings in the oval offic

you were working for secretary of state john kerry at the time, and it was no secret that kerry wantedl weapons attack. senator corker, republican chairman of the foreign relations committee, obviously still frustrated by the decision of the president to not conduct a military strike against assad. how frustrating was it for secretary ker? >> well, i think secretary kerry was somebody who was traveling around the world and hearing from a lot of partners and allies around the world who really wanted the united states to act and really felt this emotionally raw response to what they had seen assad do in 2013. now, secretary kerry felt strongly at the time about moving forward, but he also came around to the reality that there wasn't a good next step, and what president obama often asked was what then? what next? how will -- how will we end this? right now obviously arming the kurds is something that president obama supported. many people in the administration supported. i think there will be widespread support for that here, never mind turkey, but the question is what's the diplomatic pl

hillary clinton talking about it more than al gore or john kerry at this point.here and bring in the panel. jonah goldberg, senior editor at national review. susan page, editor in editor-in-chief of lifezette laura ingraham and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> there's a lot to focus on. short of getting five clock shadow and wearing wingtips on the beach, her transformation into full nixonian bitterness is incomplete. the idea that literally every single possible variable was to blame except her and her actions was remarkable. mesmerizing watching it. we forget that this is a side of hillary that's always been there. in her memoirs, she writes about a vast conspiracy that chief justice rehnquist was leading against her and her husband. this was a woman whose captain sidney blumenthal employed for decades, conspiracy monitor. it is this worldview that she is a force for truth and justice at all of these evil forces are to blame for anything bad that ever happens to her. >> you have to wonder who this does any good for. doesn't do any good for hillary c