that one. >> remnick: just hang on.re out what makes the little time bomb work, meaning the joke, meaning the cartoon. >> mankoff: you don't get it? >> remnick: no. he's very smart. the shell, the outward schtick is... >> safer: weird? >> remnick: comic. ( laughter ) but there's a real mind at work there. >> safer: one of his chapter titles in his book is, "i'm not arguing, i'm jewish." ( laughter ) >> remnick: bob's jewish? i had no idea. that's sweet. ooh. that's a great drawing. >> safer: this time, the cartoons that make the cut include joe dator's beardless tarzan... >> mankoff: i like the tarzan one, it's crazier. >> remnick: crazier is better. >> safer: ...carolita johnson's t.s.a. problem... >> remnick: i think this one >> safer: ...e kong and godzilla-- "i'm telling you, manhattan is over"... >> mankoff: brooklyn is very big. >> remnick: in it goes. >> safer: ...and a cat and mouse joke by sam gross. "have you no shame?" don't get it? you're not alone. >> remnick: at least five times a week, somebody will come

david remnick with us. when michael mccaul came, putin took him on. >> his political career was all about democracy building. he was a democratize her. -- democratizer. he thought he was going to be continuing the reset. just as things turned to the worse and he became a target of putin's program from day one. >> i questioned hillary clinton about the reset to russia. when medvedev was there, the reset really took place. >> it was better. it was far from perfect. there were many issues and we were still at loggerheads with russia, but it was a heck of a lot better when medvedev was there. there was no way on the world that putin agreed with medvedev's decision to not veto the nato incursion into libya. >> thank you for coming. >> david remnick from "new yorker" magazine. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ >> idina menzel is here. she's a tony award winning actress best known for her powerful voice. she was part of the original run on broadway of "rent" and "wicked." "let it go" from "frozen" won the academy

david remnick, let me begin with row. prime minister netanyahu says he'll do this on his own terms.his might be the beginning of the end of the end game. hard to see where this leads. >> the only end game, let's not get into the back and forth about tunnels and the brutality of the horrendous deaths of civilians in gaza. it is horrible. and hamas is a contemptible organization. you can -- i think we can say two things in one. but this cycle, these cycles are not going to end until occupation ends. as difficult as that is inevitably going to be. and it's not going to bring immediate peace by any stretch of the imagination. the only way this story changes and ends is with the end of occupation. that can only begin to happen with netanyahu taking his best interlo interlockuter seriously. a flawed interlockuter. >> after six months with secretary of state kerry? >> israel is where it is. in order for it to have a future, in order for the palestinian people to have a future, this ongoing business of occupation has to find a resolution. it cannot be -- you are not a strategic thinker when

look at how president obama described isis back in january in an interview with the new yorker david remnick he said this is the following he wrote the end now logy we use around here sometimes and i think is accurate is if a j.v. team puts on lakers uniforms that doesn't make them kobe bryant hell do you think president obama underestimated the power of i said no not at all i talked to some iraqi friends. isis is is a loosely knit group they've got some support they are they are extorting money they are stealing money they game some momentum but that momentum has come as a result of some press coverage probably here in the u.s. i think we're not giving enough credit to what the tribes are doing the sunni tribes and we've got to remember this relationship right now between the sunni tribes and isis is one that moloch he has pushed the sunni tribes into a corner where they had to make a deal with the devil when there's some space created and where there's some political maybe acknowledgement of some sunni concerns this will push isis away from those tribes couple that with the airstrikes that

. >> david remnick from "new yorker" magazine. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ >> idina menzel is here. she's a tony award winning actress best known for her powerful voice. she was part of the original run on broadway of "rent" and "wicked." "frozen" wonrom the academy award for best original song. she returns to broadway after a decade off. here is a look at "if/then." ♪ >> here i go oh, here i go i love you so so here i go ♪ amazed that i found her i'm amazed that she gave in win-winit's he walked into her life for a day ♪ choosing the right path >> no turning back ♪ no turning back ♪ wonder what if what if >> what if ♪ [applause] >> oh, my god. here she is. >> hard to hear myself in front of you. [laughter] great to be at the table. wow. >> it can't get any better, can it? >> sitting at this table? no. [laughter] >> you sang the major league all-star game. how big was that? comedy people in the stadium? -- how many? >> i don't know. it's nerve-racking but what's those veryracking is masculine famous baseball players all standing there in fron

we have tony morrison and david remnick, the editor of the new yorker, and skip gates from harvard, andpeople who come from all different industries and academics. george stephanopoulos and anthony apie ya previously of princeton, major school, one of most recent additions to the board, with beth kojima in the investment world. it's a great mix, which is what you would want it to be. let's put it this way. what makes new york amazing? what makes america amazing? is the mix of people. the mix of background, of talents, of experiences. the library is the place where that mix of people comes together with all the information and ideas of the world. it has always been most explosive of combinations. it's where creativity comes from. the library is the foundation of that. it's where everyone can do that and does do that. in new york, as in elsewhere in the country, and the trustees similarly are this great mix of experience and bring their ideas to provide the stewardship and leadership of this institution. >> host: president tony marx, you talked about new york city being at its apex, et ce

. >> and mike finally seven months ago, president obama in an interview with david remnick compared the islamic state with a junior varsity basketball game. how is the white house responding to that now? >> and that's thrown back on their team, just because they put on basketball jerseys doesn't make them kobe bryant. that's a very, very serious threat david. >> mike viqueria, thanks as always mike. >>> the islamic state group is no different, the way it's getting its money is presenting a special challenge to the united states and countries in western urine. paul beban joins us with that. paul. >> the islamic state has become very versatile. the u.s. says the sex declared islamic state is gathering steam and growing increasingly dangerous. >> they marry ideology, sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. they are tremendously well funded. oh this is beyond anything that we've seen. >> reporter: the group has money, weapons, battle experience and brains. using high resolution videos and hashtag campaigns it broadcasts its message worldwide. a quantum leap over the grain

you've been warning about it, but in january, president obama told the new yorker magazine's david remnickhat isis which was then still considered a part of al qaeda cardiofighting in syria was like a jv basketball team. he said the analogy we use around here sometimes and is accurate is if a jv team puts on laker uniforms, that doesn't make them kobe bryant. how badly did president obama underestimate it the threat of isis. >> there are two different things going on. one is the question of the threat that isis poses to us here in the homeland. unlike core al qaeda, right now their focus is not on attacking the u.s. homeland or our interests here in the united states or abroad. it's focused intently trying to create a caliphate in iraq and a base from which over time to operate. that's what we're focused on. we're focused on making sure we can help empower the iraqis and others to prevent them from doing just that. the president was right. they did not pose a threat like al qaeda central to us in the homeland. we want to make sure they don't get to the point where they can pose that threat

. >>> david remnick is here, editor of the new yorker magazine, putin is featured.e writes quote the russian president sees himself as leader of a new anti western, conservative axis and his actions in ukraine have made him a hero at home. so tell me who is vladamir putin >> when he arrives as president in 2000 literally new years eve, the state is in a complete disarray, state institutions are reeling, really, russia has not recovered from economic collapse, privatization which is chaotic and worse, the place was a mess, terrible mess and putin came in at a time, pledging nothing about ideology and certainly nothing about democracy in any serious way but nor was he terribly anti western he was pledging order, and an end to ai don't say, and a rebuilding of the -- chaos, and a rebuilding of the economy. luckily for him price of oil and gas shoots up. by 2006, his popularity is through the roof. salaries are being paid, middle class is developing, people are travelling abroad, getting a mortgage for their apartment. this is unprecedented in russian history and the de

it was just in january when president obama asked by the new yorkers david remnick about the threat of isis said something along the lines of just because a jv team puts on lakers uniforms doesn't mean they're kobe bryant. he was saying that just because a group acts like it is as horrific as al qaeda, that does not mean that it poses the kind of threat that al qaeda in the past has posed. now we see that those who were sounding the alarm back in january and even before that, president obama has come around to their way of thinking as isis has made huge gains in the region, not just in syria, but also in iraq. it's quite stark. just in the matter of seven or eight months that president obama would go from comparing them, comparing isis to a jv team to actually ordering potential air strikes on them by the united states air force. so that's one point i wanted to make. the second point, wolf and alisyn is the idea. and alisyn, you were touching on this just a second ago of how president obama has come to approve the using of force. and it really is in a distinct and discreet way. he came