does he want kerry to win? >> doesn't he want to have his cake and eat it too?think? >> i think that deep in his heart, the clintons think that the best thing for the country is a hillary clinton presidency. i think there is also the possibility that that means waiting. >> i think that's too cynical. i think the clintons move in democratic waters. the party is unified and angry at george bush. if both of them don't give this their best shot, it will be noticed. >> hillary is am bive louse about the victory. >> she's doing everything she possibly can. chris: kerry didn't make it, of course. it wasn't about substance. but it was also about style. let's take a look at casual moments in coffee shops in last year's campaign. >> what an honor to say hello to everybody. there are three sisters, four sisters and one little dude. >> go to johnkerry.com and you'll see my plan, cut the deficit in half. people, grow jobs. >> 53-93. you think it's not fair but it is. >> when we come back how this show looked a the second bush term and our third most fascinating character, di

secretary kerry leaving tomorrow on a trip. our own kathryn chomiack is with him. pivotal point on the administration. they have to prove what they are proposing is enough and not too little. >> it is because they have gotten a lot of criticism that arming the rebels is not enough, that it is too little too late. a lot of questions about what the president's strategy is moving forward. >> kristin welker, thank you so much for everything. >> thank you. >> that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tamara hall is next on news of the nation. >> hi. new information on the murder investigation tied to patriot tight end aaron hernandez. we'll have much more on the evidence police say that links him to the investigation and also very interesting day where helicopters literally were following this guy across boston. >>> plus, two senators speaking on the floor of the senate on what could be a break through for comprehensive immigration reform. >>> plus, despite all the controversy over the hpv vaccine, a new study reveals it actually works better th

and other people that john kerry knows, al gore. so, yeah, of course, why would ant secretary of state want to win the nobel prize? >> but he's been a student -- he was chair of the foreign relations committee. he gets his big neplt he wanted very much second only to being president and he's showing early on that i realized i have a small amount of time here, i'm on the road, i'm going to doyf what i can. i'm not interested in simply passing the time looking -- >> he seems almost mess mess cyan nick this approach. >> rose: exactly. >> by the way, a space was created for him by hillary clinton who's very much not interested in pursuing middle east peace. i'm not saying she was wrong not to pursue it, that she saw no opportunities and she had a very close advisor who spent a lot of his presidency trying to achieve the impossible or what became impossible. >> but he's that same person that's fascinated by the middle east. >> oh, he's -- >> rose: he's obsessed by the personalities. >> and making sure that hillary doesn't waste her time.

according to foreign policy magazine, rise along with john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel, will help form the nuke lulls of the foreign policy team that will likely oversee america's strategy. given america's myriad national challenges, the conflict throughout the middle east been and the widen down of theç warn afternoon, susan rice will have her hands full. in the past she's been a strong advocate for humanitarian intervention. last year in a profile in "the new republic" juliaoffry wrote -- push ugh for greater american involvement and humanitarian disasters may be something that aligns rice with, of all people, john mccain, a platinum member of the benghazi brigade founder circle. can bygones be bygones? it's unclear. mccain tweeted this morning, i'll make every effort to work with her on important issues. joining me is michael eric dyson, and correspondent margaret tolub. from the north lawn of the white house is correspondent peter alexander, and we are also joined by "new york times" white house correspondent peter baker. peter alexander at the white house, i go to you f

secretary of state john kerry hinted at possible consequences that russia may face for its response on snowden saying at times russians have criminals in the us there were looking for and he said the u.s. has cooperated on handing over seven of them and it passed two years although if it were a russian whistleblower who stood up for civil liberties in russia it's kind of hard to imagine the u.s. handing them over very quickly especially the us were not legally obliged to do so and in the case of snowden we heard the russian president say russia had no legal authority to stop him from traveling formally he hasn't crossed the russian border is a transit passenger didn't need a russian and he hasn't committed any crimes in russia moscow says russia doesn't want to have anything to do with mr stone but it's amazing how this story which had absolutely nothing to do with russia is all about russia now much of the media here has turned the whole snowden story into a story about putin they invite lawmakers and experts who focus on russia putin here's for example senator mccain weighing in on t

secretary kerry says real progress. you believe it? >> i hope so very much. i believe that secretary kerry truly wants it. i think he is very ambitious about it. i think he sees it possibly as his greatest and only real challenge in foreign policy. there is very little where he can have an impact, peace in the middle-east or resolving the israeli/palestinian conflict is one of them. i know he has put enormous effort and many, many hours of blood, sweat and tears into this. however, we just mentioned -- or you just mentioned nelson mandela. what the palestinians really need, what you need without equating the conflict with south africa is a de klerk and a mandela. israel has produced five de klerk who is reached out to the palestinians, willing to go a very long way. the tragedy of the palestinian people is that they were unable to produce a mandela. >> jamie: yet, secretary kerry met with abass, and met with prime minister netanyahu. if the talks were to get going, is israel prepared to make concessions? >> israel is prepared and the prime minister has said t

so a lot of pressure now we are hearing from john kerry.ector, deputy secretary of state, all talking to russia saying this is really important. is there any sense of why edward snowden was not on that plane as expected? are the russians listening or are they thinking this over? >> reporter: well, that's really a tough one. there are so many theories right now as to why he wasn't on that plane. we've heard theories that in fact he was afraid of being turned in, that cuba was a decoy all along, that in fact he had had been trying or did successfully take, depending on the theory, another plane, another connection frto a completely different location, destination, ecuador. it could be all of those, or none of the above. there is that sense also, which i'm sure you picked on -- i certainly did -- that secretary kerry was almost offering a kind of deal, reminding vladimir putin of the good old days two years ago when putin played by the rules of law and in return got seven prisoners that he wanted back, suggesting that that could well happen ag

worth noting john kerry also spoke about iran and hezbollah as well. said that has made the situation on the ground in syria so much worse. u.s. officials i've spoken to were deeply concerned i the fall of that he strategic town -- concerned by the fall of that key strategic town knew the border of lebanon. [inaudible] as being part of trying to get both sides around the table at geneva, while the qatari prime minister and foreign minister said they are not ruling out geneva, but they think there may be a scenario where force and might might be needed, ignoring the united nations security council, going it alone trying to solve the security council in serious -- syria. [inaudible] still have deep divisions have come up with a unified position. we were, i'm told, expecting some sort of communiquÉ. the ministers have been on their own for a long time without their close advisers. it's not clear, i'm being told, by people here, if there will be e, whether they have been able to come out with a .nified position >> thank you very much for that report. the n

what's become of john kerry? does he have a role and syria as well? and we're trying to fix an identifiable problem a different way than we did in afghanistan. >> interesting because john kerry is actually headed to doha right now. qatar. but he's not going to be involved in the afghan-taliban talks that are planned. that will be run by his head, special representative for afghanistan, jim dobbins. but i think that john kerry has put most of his attention and energy into two things. since he's taken office. one is trying to solve syria and the second is trying to revive mideast peace. and on syria, he spent quite a lot of time as we know in moscow. he was there back in may. he met with putin. he met with lavrov. this grand idea of this peace conference they were going to have with syria. >> and russia sold more weapons to bashar al-assad. >> exactly what happened and went back on what he felt their word and felt the americans have gone back on their word by agreeing to do something to arm the syrian opposition more. so a bit of a stalemate on that. gw

nbc's kerry sanders is live in sanford, florida.down there hadn't heard of the case. what is the threshold, kerry, for being permitted on the jury having heard of the case but not having a prior opinion? how do they do that voir dire? >> reporter: exactly. they have questionnaires that they've given to the prospective jurors. the first 100 were called in. there is a total group of 500. if they need more, they can summon more people to the courthouse. but that is one of the questions on the form -- have you formed an opinion on this. the second follow-up question is, can you you accept in the courtroom what is presented to form your opinion or are you already held to the opinion? the judge has made it very clear that she does not want to see a member of this six-member jury to be somebody who has formed an opinion based on what they've heard on television, read on the internet, seen in the newspaper or just heard in conversation, because of course this was locally a very big story and a very big topic of conversation. there have alre

or john kerry or obama or. mccain i just think coming back to what you know in terms of surgeon and what he released him as a whistleblower i think that we're missing the point i don't think the most wanted man at this point in time is going to be so careless as to release all this information to us when the exact leak of what he was saying is that we're being we're being you know. big brother is watching everywhere and i think he's going to be that you know stupid gonna let us know what his is in the hours are going to be i'm just thinking in terms of when this story broke out there was a period where disappeared in hong kong for a couple of days now do we know if somebody did see him on the plane from hong kong to moscow do we know whether the ecuadorian government or the representative who was supposed to meet him here did actually meet up with them this is a d court i don't i don't really believe there what's happening right now is. i don't know he just didn't have his plans to pull out properly i think thi

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i don't know what john kerry thinks about that.ure john kerry is happy with the job he has but she's definitely kept her power, maybe consolidated her power and is the person that the president wants in that role and it's a good day. it's a good day when we saw him appoint three -- >> judges yesterday. >> nominate three judges yesterday and it's a good day that he stuck to his guns and appointed susan rice in the face of all this. >> and samantha power is being nominated as her replacement. she's going to have a relatively uncontroversial confirmation and she's a journalist and pulitzer prize winner and american -- authored an enpsych low paidic history of genocide and america's roll in it and the president read if and now look wherey where she is. >> she's been a little too pro intervention over the years but she's backtracked and she's brilliant and she'll do a great job. >> it's interesting how the syria conversation will go as we go forward. >> and we don't get to discuss libya -- >> lord knows what susan rice's politics are, b

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those were the words of the speakingreign minister in washington in his meeting with john kerry. that came in response to a emergency by russia to sell an system to ssile damascus. foreign minister and kerry were united in the the plan to sell arms to the syrian regime. >> it is not helpful to have the to the region ed while you are trying to organize peace.eace and create it is not helpful to have a lot f other ammunition and other supplies overtly going in, not just from the russians -- and that kind of ying thing -- but also from the iranians and his mr. >> the aircraft maker plans to fighter jets to the assad regime. >> that is why russia must efrain from activities connected with arms delivery. that could jeopardize the peace conference. we also urge the syrian opposition not to boycott the agreement erence so can be reached. >> kerry and westerville said it will show which have a will to find a peaceful solution for syria. monsanto says it is giving up trying to market its genetically plants in europe. it says there is not enough among for the products farmers here. this am

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now secretary of state john kerry has urged russia to be calm and reasonable. so far, no signs of any progress. >> the fox report's jonathan hunt is in studio with us. u.s. officials are unhappy, but you know, i wonder what we would do under the same circumstances. very much the same thing. >> well, u.s. officials say -- in fact, john kerry said it today, on seven occasions over the past few years we have done the precise opposite. when russia asked for somebody accused of a crime in russia, we have handed them back. but if you thought relations between the u.s. and russia cooperate get any worse, think again. they are rapidly deteriorating because the u.s. wanted and expected the cooperation of the russians in handing over that man, ed snowden. clearly they're not getting it. the secretary of state, john kerry, was pretty diplomatic in his choice of words today. listen. >> we simply call on them to know they don't have to enforce the law but they certainly can allow him to be subject to the laws of our land and our constitution, which he is a citizen of, and t

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secretary of state kerry said people may die because of snowden. what's that all about. i think from i would say this again i i think what snowden done is important level i think it's also pretty clear that you know when you when you governments in general including the american governments have an important role to play in national security some of that requires secrecy it's certainly true all governments around the world look at it that way including the governments to which snowden has gone. when you reveal information it has potential for negative consequences certainly in the case of wiki leaks. the leaks had negative consequences all those people who had been talking to the american government a number of them human rights workers were revealed to their own governments for talking in a number of them suffered as a result so i think i think there are positive consequences or negative consequences to what snowden has done and it's pretty clear that there are potential negative consequences including potential security consequences on terms of w

and so for john kerry to say we're coming to this late, well, yeah. >> yes.> i think a little humility is called for, we can't control what's going on in that part of the world and when we do step into it, boy, we make a mess of it. >> i agree it is a very, very thorny situation and i will, i will lump syria in this question here, katty. you look at the carnage on the ground, the 80,000 people who have been killed in syria alone. the humanitarian crisis that is 1.5 million refugees pouring into borders and u.s. strategic interests, independent of the humanitarian question. the region is becoming destabilized. the question is as john kerry said moments ago, we're coming late to it, where is the plan? what do we do, and the spector of iraq looms large. >> of course the spector of iraq looms large and the desire or lack of desire for any kind of intervention. after iraq there's so much skepticism in this country about getting involved and in syria, you have to say, this point, maybe if there had been involvement a year and a half ago. maybe if the west had colle

i i i i in two thousand and eight a former cia officer named john kerry aku made national headlines so he had blown the whistle on the u.s. government's secretive torture program to the media and in the process he revealed the name. the covert cia officer the move turned kiriakou into the target of a federal investigation with government prosecutors alleging that he had violated the intelligence identities protection act and he was found guilty and sent to prison making him the first cia officer to ever serve jail time for leaking classified information yet no one else that was actually involved in the torture program was ever punished point made himself right here on the show shortly before getting his prison sentence. i can't help but think if you had been in the media supporting waterboarding would this be happening i've always thought that if i had actually tortured someone i would be free today. just hit the three month mark it was two and a half year sentence at a federal prison pennsylvania and recently he released a disturbing letter describing his experience and treatment and

kerry sanders is outside the courthouse.his is going to look weird to people that robert zimmerman jr. stands up during the middle to give a press conference. how is this able to happen? >> reporter: in florida, everything is open. they he knew a tremendous amount of attention here during this trial so they have established what is a rather orderly setup here where there is a portion of the courthouse where a camera is set up and those who want to address the camera can do so as we saw with trayvon martin's parents now and now seeing with george zimmerman's brother. it's sort of an open opportunity for people to speak. of course, it's our choice at msnbc and other places to determine whether we are going to cover what people are saying but clearly today we are hearing from as close as we can get to the main player here because marco mayer, the attorney, himself is tied up in court. one thing i want to point out and that is what you were discussing with our guest herein and that is keeping the identity of jurors a secret. tha

i can tell you president obama and secretary kerry are monitoring it closely.s is an absolutely crucial moment in the middle east. if it's just an occupy movement that fades, everybody back in washington will be greatly relieved, i can assure you. >> howard, you touched on israel. israel is central in the region in the american point of view. as they're watching, what is their hope, what is their biggest worry? i think the israelis would much rather have prime minister erdogan as a tenuous but real partner than anything else that would come after it. i think the israelis are way too sophisticated to be hoping for some kind of right-wing coup by the military, and they're too knowledgeable to want the kind of disruption in the streets that could lead to some kind of even more directly islamist government in that country. >> howard, stay put, if you would. i want to go back to tony shaffer. earlier this week, syria came out to say$s don't travel to turkey. it's too dangerous there right now. i'm wondering if you can get into a little bit about the relationship bet

>> kerry raises some terrific points. it does help to tell the jury at the beginning you're going to have access to all of the transcripts, all of the evidence so they don't feel they have to be stenographers taking everything down. it's hard for jurors to understand in our system sometimes why a witness is being called, why they're hearing eight different witnesses telling very slightly different versions of the same thing, why the same questions are being asked of witnesses over and over again when some things have clearly been established. i can tell you that john goode is the witness that kerry just referred to who i aglee was an extremely important witness today. called by the prosecution but on cross-examination by the defense he established that george zimmerman was on the bottom. trayvon martin was on the top, straddling him. george zimmerman was screaming for help. and this was in the final moments before the gunshot rang out. so really at the most pivotal point in the time line of this case. that witness was cal

john kerry, by the way, made a statement in guatemala, had a news conference in guatemala where he's at the organization of american states tonight, was not here for these announcements and described her as brilliant, top diplomat, someone who he is quick to point out has worked for him and supported him in his 2004 presidential race, so he is applauding these new colleagues. >> in terms of the samantha power nomination, u.n. ambassador is a high-profile job, not as high profile as something like secretary of state, but she will have to be senate confirmed. she has been a blistering critic of previous united states decisions to intervene or not intervene on the basis of humanitarian concerns in other conflicts abroad. that's really sort of where she made her bones, won her pulitzer prize, do you think it's going to be a difficult confirmation for her? are you seeing how those lines are shaping up around her nomination? >> it could be, and not because, necessarily, because what she has done, but as a proxy fight over susan rice, over whom they have no control. so they could go after s

john kerry got a little affirmative action to get that position back. so i want to make that clear. >> until this position, which i think is also fascinating about the twists and turns of the susan rice and the ups and downs of her career in this, she's been very promising and ambitious individual, real washington star for quite some time. she took a real risk by endorsing barack obama very early on and now she ends up in this position which is in some ways more powerful. it's a good argument to be made, in this white house than john kerry himself. >> yeah. she's close to the president already. she's there. she is -- he's traveling the globe and sure she'll do some of that but basically her job is to be at the president's side. >> she greets him every day. >> every day. she wound up with the most -- they helped give her the more powerful position. i'm sure john kerry is happy with the job he has but she's definitely kept her power, maybe consolidated her power and is the person that the president wants in that role and it's a good day. it's a good day w

. >> does that now make john kerry odd man out?samantha power, a former ointoa foreign policy adviser and human rights, who famous oy clashed with hillary clinton during the 2008 campaign. >>> weathering the storm, the new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll showing that -- but there are warning signs for the white house. >>> christie's choice, was it a move to avoid cory booker? new jersey's governor defends his decision to spend millions just three weeks before the general election. >> there's no political purpose. the political purpose is to give the people a voice. i will not permit the insiders and few party leaks to determine who the nominee of the republican party and the democratic party will be. >> and remembering a liberal lion. vice president biden and hillary clinton just among the many mourners eulogizing frank lautenberg at his funeral in new york at this hour. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington, with president obama is turning to susan rice. a trusted adviser whose comments did take her out of contention