as well as the central government in baghdad both have interest in kirk cook. i think the best people on both sides are trying to find a path toward some kind of joint administration for kirk cook. i've -- i've heard people on both sides caution americans and other coalition members that there's significant payroll for the entire country if that joint administration agreement is not reached. and i agree with them. but none of this is possible until the new government in baghdad has been fully formed. so this is a story that's yet to be written. some reasonable, mutual hi acceptable joint administration kirk cook, if it's created, will send a very important signal across both the country and the region that if we are to prevent a return of the islamic state or something like it, there has to be a different political outcome in this part of the world than we've had previously. >>> i just returned from israel. more than spitting distance from gaza. sitting in that chair about six weeks ago, seven weeks ago was a woman who said to us, $250 million into gaza a year

once it is in place, kirk cook will be in early new place for the government. kurds in the north, and central government have interests in kirkuk. the best people on both sides are trying to find a path towards some kind of joint administration for kirkuk. i have heard people on both sides caution americans and other coalition members that there is significant peril for the entire country if that joint administration agreement is not reached. i agree with them. untilf this is possible the new government in baghdad has been fully formed. this is a story that has yet to be written. mutuallyonable acceptable joint administration will send -- if it is created, will send a very important signal across both the country that if we are to prevent a return of the islamic state or something like it, there has to be a different political outcome in this part of the world than we have had previously. >> i've just returned from israel, it has been three weeks. my brother's farm was in spitting distance of gaza. a few rockets came over close to us. chair, in that "irresistib