. >> ambassador, richard butler, knows all about negotiations, he served as the chief weapons inspectoriraq. what do you see the key issues here? >> i think there are three, john. a humanitarian crisis. 5 or 6 million people displaced. 100,000 dead. and shortages of food and medicines and so on. and secondly, an end to the fighting, a civil war, it has been going on for too long and too costly, and thirdly, what will run syria in the future? the governance of syria when the fighting has stopped? all three issues are connected and challenges, and what to do with them. >> let's get to the leadership in a moment. but i want to talk about the fighting. can this be a ceasefire before it's the end of the war? >> i'm not sure. i'm not very optimistic about what we're seeing, and john, i must say, i'm sorry to say that. but the reporter a moment ago was saying that it would be good to have people sit at the table. but the opposition is saying that there will be nothing happening here until we get assad to stand down. and assad is saying that we're not going anywhere. and how you can get accepta

host: congressman richard butler on twitter wants to know if you supported george w.ush when he --d his executive power and and his executive pen ignore congress. guest: it would depend on what he was doing at the time, if he had a specific example. i will say this, we supported president bush. even though i was approached -- opposed to the war, we supported the president and we supported our troops during that whole process. during the collapse of this economy, the president had to turn to democrats to help. more democrats voted for the administration's proposal to help the nation out of its worst economic crisis since the great depression, than republicans did. we traditionally worked with the president even though we may not have agreed with him, even though we might have our ideological differences on the war and certainly what led to the -- of thef economy in 2008. and also, even on something like medicare advantage. once it was passed, once ,edicare part d was passed members went out -- i went out in my district and worked to make sure that the elderly were awar

. >> the terror threats richard is talking about are unsettling to olympic athletes and their families who will attend the winter games. within weeks, jim and yvonne butler are planning to cheer their son, 32-year-old cory butler. they just found out their son did indeed qualify for the games. they're proud. they have their tickets, their visas, they are ready to go. but they have mixed emotions about traveling to russia with all the latest terror threats. >> i just was told we're not to sit there and be so flashy in the village. you know, usa and stuff. which i understand. so we're just going to be cautious. >> the family says they don't plan much sightseeing. instead, they're going to stick close to the olympic venue. >>> a state department spokesperson says they're in close consultation with the swedish embassy in an effort to secure the release of an american embrprisoned in north korea. kenneth bae said he wants to return to his family as soon as possible. they apologized and said he had committed acts against the north korean government. he was arrested in november of 2012 while acting as a tour guide. he's accused of using the business to form ant

butlers taking care of me. >> it's going to be on a bar or a beach somewhere in hawaii, that's my next move. that would be nice. >> this is richard'sa look. >> you're hear. it's here now. no man's land. staked by no one and thus available. well, have at it. >> unless now want to load up 100 tons of equipment and do some mining in the hills. why don't you do everybody a favor and go to the other side? >> it will debut on the 20th of january. tell us about the show? >> it's about two young guys who go off to seek their fortune in 1897 as part of the gold rush, but the bigger picture, it's about self-discovery, it's about people in the extreme environments and the decisions being made that decide who they are and what path they are going to take in life. they can hold on to humanity or whether you become a lawn mower in this place. >> has it been interesting to live out on your own devices without any technology and living like these guys live? what's been the hardest part of shooting this show? >> we tried to stay away from cgi and i like to do as much of my own stunts as i can. when we were 9,000 feet on top of the mountain, i was i