. >> john anna nicole smith any cheng liked the idea. >> john anthony cheng liked the idea. "first, you have got to get people to look. i don't really care how then if the art we say we cherish is as good as we think it is, people will be intelligent enough to recognize its qualities and eventually they too will become the hushed, contemplative fogies that museums were truly meant to attract." jonathan robertson is a fan too. "i think it's an excellent idea. once someone gets the light in the eyes from wonderment, however a tour is presented, i believe that person will return and, hopefully, donate via a membership." but more of you were critical. alex lindstrom wrote: "as a 20-something, i find this distressing. do i want people to go to museums more? yes, but i caution what we may lose in emphasizing the pursuit of knowledge as valuable only when it entertains us." rho huang joined in. "this won't make kids like or appreciate art any more or less than they did. all it does is provide legitimate reasons for them to goof around museums and annoy the heck out of people who ar

nicole. hosted by john seigenthaler only on al jazeera america >> taking a live look at gaza during the ceasefire which is holding, good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. >> ahead, that doping scandal that rocked major league baseball taking a new turn with the arrest of the man excused of supplying those steroids to players. we're going to have more on the ripple effects of that arrest when we talk to a sports expert. >> solar power is nothing new in the u.s., but in south africa, it may save lives. >> as you saw from images in gaza, we're nearing the halfway point of the ceasefire. residents in gaza returning home, though, picking through the rubble. >> in cairo, negotiators are furiously working toward achieves a longer term solution to the fighting. james bays is in jerusalem with more. >> we understand israeli delegation, high level delegation is now in cairo, includes officials who are involved in the ceasefire in 2012. the palestinian delegation also in place, but in many ways, this is going to be a tougher negotiation than any previous one, because both sides don't want to return to

john heilemann, nicolle wallace and david ignatius are still with us.ditor of the news website ports, gideon litchfield. in washington pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" and nbc analyst eugene robinson. good to have you with us. >> a lot to talk about. >> let's get some of the major headlines out of the way and have our conversation with gideon. we'll start with the death of actor robin williams. there are updates. investigators in northern california tuesday confirmed early indications of the comedian and actor hanged himself. the sheriff's office is coming under fire for the graphic details they shared of williams' suicide during a press conference as is the media for reporting the information on and on and on, over and over and over again. in california that information is public record, but there's also a matter of respect that we're talking about here. abc news has also apologized for streaming a live aerial camera of williams' home on monday afternoon. what would they see? >> up on the website and a lot

. >> former communications director for president george bsh nicolle wallace. contributor john heilemann, political writer for "the new york times," nicholas poff sorry. i've said it a zillion times. also in washington, white house correspondent for the "wall street journal" carol lee. i want to thank all of you to join us this morning. a lot to talk about. of course, the news out of afghanistan, just devastating for the military and it continues. this is the front page of the "wall street journal." it's the lead there. also the lead story in "the washington post." it's the lead story in the "new york post." everybody talking about that. we've got that to cover and an awful lot more this morning. but this morning let's start with the pentagon investigating that attack in the military base northwest of kabul that left a two star army major general dead. that's the highest ranking american killed in the iraq or afghanistan wars. in fact, you'd have to go back to 1970 in vietnam to have another officer with that high of a rank killed. 55-year-old major general harold green was the

you can see at the bottom of the screen let's go to nicole petallides at the floor of the stock exchange. what are traders saying now? >> we have johnore team now with us, what is the sentiment that this point? we talk the lot about the economy, earnings, you always have a geopolitical story on your brain. >> two political headlines, earnings, economic activity directed the market so we are expecting a quiet day but the headlines we got shook our market. we are bouncing off of the lows and investors are feeling a little bit more comfortable with the headlines we have gotten, we head towards the weekend so investors want to shore up positions. melissa: we are coming off of the lows of the date with the unchanged line and going forward it is hard to know which way to best this market. how do you make money? i heard someone say i am selling treasurys because they're going to raise interest rates and you know what? the treasury, short of getting squeezed maybe not today but how do you make money? >> that mentality is fragile, how quickly it can change. many issues out there change on a quick period, and they take time and we have fomc n

john, thank you so much. always great to have you on, hear your thoughts. very provocative. appreciate your time. >> bye-bye. melissa: u.s. stocks fighting to extend last week's gains. let's go to nicolee floor of the new york stock exchange. you're watching tesla right now. >> right now, a great performer on the nasdaq 100. look at tesla which is a winner. up over 5% at 260.67. positive comments echoed last week from pacific crest, those firms looking trajectory going forward for tesla motors, production of vehicles, amount of vehicles they put out over next couple of years. 60,000 and 100,000 respectively for 2015 and 2016. those are gains of 18% and 67%. that is more than they expected. don't forget the gigafactory producing the batteries, lithium-ion batteries. that is big deal for tesla. buy rating and 310 price target from deutsche bank. melissa: nicole, thank you so much. iraq on the brink. the crisis there reaching a boiling point. listen how the u.s. is most likely in for the long haul. >>> the surprised state where it is hardest to get work. why many might want to consider crossing state lines to get a job. ♪ (trader vo) i search. i research. i dig. and dig some more. becaus

nicole johnston. >>> the senate approved $225 million for weapons for iron dome. house will take it up later tonight. hamas has fired nearly 3,000 rockets at israel since the fight began. jonathan betz has more. >> john, frustration grows in washington. on capitol support for israel and age are towards white house. >> and when i see john kerry going out there trying to broker a ceasefire we should all be supporting him. there shouldn't be a bunch of complaints and second-guessing. >> reporter: after a ceasefire quickly collapsed lawmakers aimed their criticism squarely at secretary of state john kerry. >> he's trying to make the world a better place but quite frankly he's tone-deaf at times. >> i think his first attempts by bringing in parties that are clearly not unbiased. was a predictable total failure. >> reporter: the president was quick to defend efforts for peace despite several failures. but the president also questioned whether another truce is even possible at this time. >> i think it's going to be very hard to put a ceasefire back together again. if israelis and the international community can't feel confident that hamas can follow through on a ceasefire commitments. >> are meanwhile the s

nicole mitchell's tracked the storms. where are they now? >> one is more targeted toward the islands than the others. i want to reiterate a point that john just made. it has been quite a while. it was 1992 when a hurricane hit hawaii with $2 million in that day's money. thousands of houses were damaged. they were wrapping up filming on jurassic park, so steven speilberg and the crew had to hunker down. you can see this darker, that's dry air blending into the storm, helping to minimize it. it still looks like it will be a hurricane at landfall overnight tonight. >> how rare is it to have two hurricanes coming in and honing in on thized at the same time? >> in the eastern pacific, it's an active basin, so two aren't unusual. it is very unusual, it's been over 20 years since any hurricane made landfall here. they have to go through colder water, more wind shear and that tends to knock these storms down, it's rare to stay together like this. >> thank you. >> a new wildfire threatening a mountain town in oregon, forcing residents to evacuate. firefighters have been working through the night battling the fire. the 200-acre blaze broke out tue

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john kerry has been trying for a couple of weeks, no success. qatar and turkey have been trying, no success. who is going to bring them to the table? >> nicole only point a month ago hamas was dying on the vine. they were isolated and dying on the vine. >> exactly. >> the israelis have played into their hands and every time a 5-year-old girl, 6-year-old girl, every time a grandmother is blown up in a public market, every time they blow up a u.n. school when the u.n. says 17 times this is a u.n. school. >> i agree with you. >> who does that help? who does that help? that terrorist group you're talking about, the terrorist group we all hate. that's my only point. let's go to al hunt. poor john kerry. he gets kicked around, you know? even netanyahu now is saying leave us alone. i don't think that is going to happen any time soon, do you? >> no, i don't. i want to go back to david's point, because i think that is relevant here, which is that if this very, very difficult dicey situation could be improved by the palestinian authority taking over gaza, netanyahu has got to deliver something to the palestinian authority. in the past, he really hasn'