k. t. mcfarland, i feel at some of the spirit of the iron lady, the toughness, the wisdom, the fighting spiriting channeled and we're very grateful for you, k. t. >> thank you. cannot tell you a great margaret thatcher star? >> please do. >> margaret thatcher and i got to know each other during the reagan administration. i knew her better than she knew me but when i ran for the senate in new york and 2006, she gave me some insight. she's somebody go to an interview, take two dresses. this is margaret thatcher, right? the one who brought down the iron curtain but she said here's why. because you never know what kind of background you can have and you want to make sure you look okay. i had a blue dress on earlier and i just changed. thank you, margaret thatcher. [applause] thank you, john. thanks very much. >> thank you, k. t. mcfarland. >> a house panel will work on resolutions to address the israeli-palestinian conflict. one measure would condemn the killing of israeli and palestinian children. the other would condemn the use of civilians as human shields. watch live market -- markup coverage

k. t. mcfarland joins me for what the bigger picture is taking place behind the scenes. >> the fight has gone0 years, the cycle of violence, the response, it escalates, who eventually wins? who is doing this now? is the timing? why not six months from now? i think it is because guess what else is happening to get there are talks in geneva about iran's nuclear program and the supreme leader of iran said not only are we dismantling their nuclear program, we want to wrap it up ten times bigger than it already is so those negotiations the administration profited six months ago, it is likely to go to an extension and what will happen is the market forces will pressure pressure pressure, those sanctions get lifted whether iran gets a bit snooks or not. melissa: in iraq, the extremist group basis for ending al qaeda's reviewed asian as the top terrorist group, seizing control the largest oil refinery robbing the country bank of nearly half a billion dollars, the un confirming the militant groups seize control of iraqi chemical weapons sites. what do you make of this? is isis eclipsing al qaeda? >> i

k. t. mcfarland about it. in order to get a real cease-fire each side has to feel like they got something and in that case israel wants to shut down the tunnels and demilitarize gaza. doesn't look like we are anywhere near that kind of resolution. how far would you allow israel to go in this? how far would you encourage them to go if you were in john kerry's position? how would you be doing things differently? >> i would not be trying to broker a cease-fire. i would be encouraging israel to do what it needs to do to eliminate the hamas for at. when you are attacked the right of self-defense doesn't mean simply responding for a little while. includes up to destroying the adversary that has attacked you and i must say the attacks on the tunnel's the israelis have carried out, the infiltration tunnels into israel are obviously important to protect the civilian population but that is not the main threat. people have to stop focusing on the infiltration tunnels. the real issues the longer-range missiles that iran h

k. t. mcfarland talked about recent events in the mideast, ukraine, iran and iraq, also the illegal immigrationon at the southern border. she spoke at the sink unit institute's annual western conservative summit in denver. she spoke for about 20 minutes. ♪ ♪ >> alyssa, i got together what about that column about president obama's west point speech and compared it to krispy kreme donut, krispy creme doughnuts roll back and said no way. i was first year two years ago him and my dear friend ambassador maryland where entities be. noted any idea any idea who i was and i got up and i said, right, who here wants -- who watches fox news? i said i'm the brunette. and they all got it. but i am -- by the eglin's to watch fox news? regime's. they have now started hiring brunettes. you just saw, we have kimberly, andrea. you just heard from my new colleague, brunette, and even katie pavlik who is a new fox news are, she's a blonde but she's a dark blonde. so we are very excited that this is a new trend. i was really very -- john andrew wanted to come back and talk about foreign policy. i started writing my