debbie wasserman shultz did go to the state but they gave her minimal resources. there will be head scratching and finger pointing later on. democrats did nothing to change that dynamic by saying with a wasserman shultz said this morning instead of on monday morning. >> let's talk about virginia, despite a victory by terry mcauliffe and we'll get the final numbers, the bottom line, you have some democrats wondering why this race was so close. let me read from your article on politico on why he barely won. it blunts the narrative that this was a clean win for democrats going into 2014 and guarantees an intense blame game among republicans about what might have put cuccinelli over the top there. what are the republicans saying today? >> i spent all day on the phone with republicans across the spectrum from the cuccinelli campaign to the republican establishment nbc to other outside groupz and there is a lot of finger pointing going on wouldn't necessarily have had if the race was the blowout that people suspected. but because it was within three points and the fact

democratic debbie wasserman shultz and lance pref previous. and what do they use flash point legislation with no chance of passing? election oon. abortion gay rights, minimum rights, immigration, our political panel suits out the doable from the political. plus -- >> we are obligated to be sure they get everything they need. >> a reunion with former republican senator, presidential conditioned date and world war ii veteran bob dole on the two things he knows best, veterans and politics. good morning. i'm candy crowley in washington. three days of intense negotiations failed to produce that hope for interim deal to freeze iran's suspected nuclear weapon programs in exchange for easing the sanctions. but the united states, european allies and iran are expressing hope an agreement can be reached. so leading up to the past three days were close. we're going to do it and then nothing. what happened? >> there was clearly d disdisappointment last nightment you had the secretary of state from all the key players flown in. everyone is at the table. the

. >> your buddy eddie shultz there. obama care is so wonderful the media is atrade. i afraid.who gets the award for suck up and head up the you know what award. either him or his colleague, chris matthews. one of them gets it. let's roll tape. >> do you know what? i think network reporters throughout the industry may be caught in a dilemma obama care is so positive, and going to have such a tremendous impact on american skplif society, and setting foundation for better changes in the future, i i think network reporters are having a tough time saying something nice bit because they might be viewed as journalistly compromised. they're not really showing a great deal of integrity if they say something positive about obama care. >> is that is true it doesn't extend to everybody? >> there is -- i'm reading the sentence again. that obama care is so positive, dot, dot, dot, network reporters are having a hard time saying something nice about it or positive about it. someone needs to get medication to msnbc reet prety fast that. is the opposite of the truth this, is the problem they'r

and martin bashir certainly should have been at least suspended as ed shultz was. >> dana?n't know. i happen to see infinity times more abuse directed towards conservative women. i don't like -- i don't like that sort of discourse anyway. because init takes attention off of -- >> are you kidding? >> no, why don't you try listening to the show one time. but i think it takes attention off the substance of the point. but every single day, i'm constantly fielding insults, not just towards me for what i do and for speaking out, but i setons of other conservative women. women on this network who take abuse from progressive men. this is farr the course. this is one of the reason why i left the left. i left the democratic party because of people like martin bashir and alec baldwin. i said goodbye to the party and that's one of the big reasons. >> leslie, last word. >> i don't have that sexism is in this party and quite frankly or the republican party, dana. i wasn't talking about your show when i said that you can't ignore the fact that hillary clinton has been abused by both left

coming up next "the ed show" with my good friend and this network's offensive lineman, ed shultz. ♪ > good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. good afternoon, everybody. >> you can't fix this government-run health care plan called obama care. >> i said that i would do everything we can to fix this problem. >> there is no way to fix this. >> and today i'm offering an idea that will help do it. >> i don't think this is ever going to work. >> we actually have a political party and a force in this country that thinks it's the right morally correct thing to do, to take insurance away from a fellow american. >> people want affordable health care. >> there is no way to fix this. >> i'm willing to work with democrats and republicans to fix problems as they arise. >> frankly, i don't think is there way to fix it. >> insurance is real important! >> it's certainly up affordable. >> the original market was not working well. >> this is going to destroy the best health care delivery system in the world. >> i ask the doctor in new york caring for my wi

it is very hard for me to speak about debbie wasserman shultz and a forgettable way. i met debbie in the late 90s. i matter at a place where i think she did almost all of it is as. it was the superstore baby loud in broward county. debbie spent a lot of her time they are in a few years that followed because she was having a little kid, as was i. i joined her in the legislature must immediately and became close friends with her because frankly, she led a battle against so many things that are wrong headed in the day. for me, having her around was an incredible opportunity. i've always viewed debbie as both a younger sister and i molders history. what i mean by that is the yonkers sister or little to her because she's younger and littler. but i viewed her as a big sister because of early the kind of role model she's been to me in any public servant who wants to fight for progressive causes in the country. this is a person of incredible passion and principles. that's why it always looked up to her. i can tell you a watch during so many battles. i watched her fight jeb bu

. >> shultz worries that the mistakes of the past could be repeated during the new recession. >> one or two bad buildings can have a very bad effect on surrounding buildings and on a neighborhood. you don't want to have all the investment that's been made by both the city and private entities to improve many of these neighborhoods to, in effect, be wasted because people did stupid things like over mortgaging their buildings. >> predatory equity deals aren't inevitable. when the bank forecloses, the court sometimes appoints a receiver who is supposed to collect rent money and use it to make repairs on the building until someone new buys it. sometimes, receivers make a big difference. other times, they don't. >> we receive a paper from, uh, the receiver. a court decision. it said that the building is in foreclosure. i was surprised because, uh, no one said anything. but when we received the paper we, uh, just called the landlord. >> adama and his family also live in a foreclosed apartment building. >> [speaking english] you know, sometimes the building is dirty. before, you know, we ca

with the president of the european parliament martin shultz saying the e.u. may have underestimated the drama of the domestic political situation in ukraine that the country is economically and above all financially in the deepest crisis for decades and he goes on to say kiev needs money and a steady gas supply suggesting that's why they're leaning towards russia at this time publicly the e.u. continues to cool kiev the agreement will remain on the table into the eleventh hour allowing the end of the opportunity for an improbable late u. turn but we kiev requesting more money and brussels finances already strained it could be a while yet before ukraine starts taking e.u. advances seriously got r.t. in the meantime leaders are now saying that an agreement could be possible when a new president comes to power in ukraine and even planned to hold meetings with ukraine's opposition on the sidelines of the summit in lithuania but little which they've done an aide for the leader of france's national front he says the e.u. simply put should not be meddling in kiev's

outside testing for ten years we'll sign off on eliminating nuclear weapons and reagan refused to do it shultz and the others were so heartbroken because they saw how close we came but reagan would not let go of that and gorbachev was furious i mean let's go right to now we know that the situation exists now we are back in that position we were nine hundred sixty we have you know the bush father made a deal with gorbachev to that he would not expand nato eastward next nato was originally a defensive organization or put your america into europe and that was a big deal by the way we can't overlook that nato was a huge commitment on our part but then he made a deal that he would not expect that was denied by clinton and by the sun they moved nato and up. all right on the border of russia as you know we're fighting very hard to get into georgia and we find it hard ukraine we're trying to make a split off the ukraine we're constantly undermining the south caucasus the muslim population we don't care if we excited the muslim terrorist we really don't and that's when putin knows that so there's a lot

first we will talk with congressman debby shultzs.s presentat three years to write this. why? >> >> well, about four months after i decided to move forward, obama called me and asked me to take on another full-time job and share the democrat committee. i felt like in order to do the book justice and my job justice coming out with a policy book during the campaign wasn't the best idea. so we pushed it forward and i spent another year researching and writing and came out in october. >> by the time this book is published you write i hope we will look back on the health care reform and debt ceiling and knowledge it was rock bottom. i don't want to imagine how it would get worse. >> well, just when you thought it could not get worse, we end up having the republicans and tea party stopping the government to stop people from getting quality, affordable health care. >> who is the next generation? >> that is our children. i wrote thigs through the lens f being mother. even though politicians talk about the next generation, it isn't abstract co

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton begins now. good evening, rev. >> good evening. and thank you for tuning in. >>> tonight's lead, standing up to the bullies and endsing the right wing's history of obstruction. for a hundred years conservatives used a procedure called the filibuster to block civil rights legislation and for the last five years conservatives have used it to filibuster the first black president of the united states. and tried to deny and destroy this president's agenda. but now that republican strategy is in shambles. this afternoon democrats took the bold step of changing senate rules scaling back the filibuster that republicans have unfairly used to block the president's nominees. majority rule will be the rule of the senate for virtually all the president's nominees. it's a move to undo five years of gop delay and obstruction. a huge moment for the president and his agenda. >> the vote today, i think, is an indication that a majority of senators believe as i believe that enough is enough. the american people's b

it's ed shultz.mn right dick cheney heart's a political football we ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him. i'm glad he didn't tip over. he's the new poster child for health care in this country. an enemy of the country in my opinion. dick cheney is. lord take him to the promise land, will you? see, i don't wish he goes to hell. i just want to get him the hell out of here. do you know what we're talking about? like this right wing slut laura engram? yes. she's a talk slut. >> i never saw you this shocked. >> well, i heard most that have before. i had not heard the martin basher comments before. >> how do any of these people have a job? i'm not calling for them to be fired but where are the people -- tom brokaw does not approve of this >> they knewbayx this was vette management. as you said before it went on the air. it still went on the air. there is no repercussi repercussions. >> there is a lot of -- it happens on both sides. there should be a stop to it i do think from a b

i'm michael eric dyson in for ed shultz. "politicsnation" with the reverend al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, michael. and thanks to you for tuning in. >>> tonight's lead, worst socialist ever. republicans love to talk about how president obama is a socialist, marxist who doesn't understand capitalism. that's funny. in reality here's what wall street said about that today. >> we are finishing very strong. we will be in record territory for the dow industrial. we didn't see that coming 15 minutes ago. >> that's right. yet another record high on wall street. since president obama came into office, key stocks have soared more than 7,000 points. they're up 90%. and today we got another strong jobs report. 200,000 jobs were created in october. that makes 44 consecutive months of private sector job growth. a remarkable turnaround from the bush recession. and the president did it all with republicans trying to block him every step of the way. even shutting down the government. today he went to the port of new orleans and cal

i'm ed shultz. of course "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. >>> tonight's lead, americans feel the ax. republicans turn their backs. today for the first time in history, every single american who receives food stamps are seeing their benefits reduced. because funding from a 2009 measure is running out. 47 million americans who get these benefits are feeling the pain today. it's happening all over the country. >> absolutely vital particularly for an area like ours and the economic situation we're in. >> i don't look at it as a dollar amount i'm losing, i'm looking at it as two gallons of milk, couple loaves of bread. >> it helps a lot. like, tremendously. usually just about takes us through the month. >> we definitely need it. we definitely use it all. you know, we -- you know, we have to eat. we're not eating better. >> these are people from all walks of life. about 21 million children live in households that count on food stamps. 900,000 military veterans count on food s

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. i'm live tonight from chicago. >>> tonight's lead, out of jail. late this afternoon george zimmerman was released from a florida jail after posting $9,000. earlier he was in a courtroom in handcuffs and a prison jump suit. this time in connection with domestic charges that landed him behind bars yesterday. the judge ruled he cannot have a firearm or leave the state of florida. in a frantic 911 call yesterday, zimmerman's girlfriend said he pointed a shotgun at her. zimmerman denied that today as he faced the judge. >> do you have a question about any of these rights, mr. zimmerman? >> no, your honor. >> do you understand all those rights? >> yes, your honor. >> mr. zimmerman, do you understand that the reason for your arrest is that it has been alleged that there was a domestic violation related aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a domestic violence related battery and criminal mischief. do you understan

. >> let's get to the -- then i want to ask about debby watt zerman shultz comments. >> what's your question? >> anything you want actually. >> no, i mean, these scandals, they come and go. they're like a cold sore strippers lick. that's what he's been doing. we've been doing this show for two, three years. there's a scandal after scandal after scandal. then they just fizzle out. because he pivots to another scandal. the fact is is we could focus on the turmoil all you want. it means nothing if you don't offer something better. these things don't last forever. the republican party has to look at it this way. you can play the worst team in the world and still lose if you don't have any players. as long as you focus on how crappy this health care law -- that's great but you've got to be able to come up with something positive. start thriving on solutions. >> like a cold sore on a hooker's lip, it will keep flaring up. >> i said stripper. >> way to ruin my point. >> now strippers are going to be really mad. >> i'm really mad you ruined my point. it's going to keep flaring up -- >> but they keep

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. >>> tonight's lead, finally a republican plan for health care. after years of attacking, the gop finally has a plan. take it away senator ayotte. >> what is a viable alternative that really solves the problem? >> well, i would say let's get to the table on a bipartisan basis and make sure we have a plan that has more choice, not less. >> wow. how's that for a concrete alternative? senator ayotte's plan also giving every american free puppies when they visit the doctor. and did i mention it also includes world peace. and anything else you can make up. folks, let's get real. the gop doesn't have a health care plan. they have nothing. so they just attack. today the political arm of former senator jim demint's heritage foundation tweeted out this picture with the quote, senators ted cruz and mike lee were correct to make a finalstand against the law. and it's really the president and his policies that are terrorizing

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. >>> welcome to "politicsnation." election night 2013. i'm al sharpton, and for the next hour we'll be covering this big night in american politics. across the country tonight, voters are going to the polls as they have been doing all day. more than 300 mayoral elections races are at stake. and more than 200 legislative offices. and there are several big state referendums as well. but the biggest matchups are the governors races in virginia and new jersey. in virginia democrat terry mcauliffe leads in the polls against republican ken cuccinelli. in new jersey, gop governor chris christie is hoping for a big win by avoiding the tea party. even embracing president obama and working with a democrat. here in new york city, bill de blasio is thought to be the most progressive in decades. but the main event will be in the key bellwether state of virginia. it is where tea partiers like ken cuccinelli became a tea party star with com

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton begins now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. >>> thanks for tuning in. tonight's lead, the gop agony of repeat. republicans keep running to the right and they keep losing the fight. exactly one year ago today just two days before the election, mitt romney was in the great state of virginia telling voters he was going to win. >> thanks so much, you guys. virginia is the best. >> virginia is the best. and it's also the state barack obama won. one year later after a gop autopsy and a vow to rebrand, they haven't learned anything. any moment dozens of senate republicans are expected to vote against a gay rights law that would ban discrimination against gay and lesbian employees in the workplace. that's 39 republicans who didn't get the memo. why? because they haven't learned anything. what about women's rights? republican senator lindsey graham is now launching a new fight against a woman's right to choose. calling for a 20-week abortion ban. >> i've been a pro-life member of congress since da

coming up next "the ed show" with my good friend and this network's offensive lineman, ed shultz. ♪ > show" live from new york. let's get to work. good afternoon, everybody. >> you can't fix this government-run health care plan called obama care. >> i said that i would do everything we can to fix this problem. >> there is no way to fix this. >> and today i'm offering an idea that will help do it. >> i don't think this is ever going to work. >> we actually have a political party and a force in this country that thinks it's the right morally correct thing to ,

as we are waiting for shultz. more of the past coverage of the miami book fair. >> today, all around the world, we will put 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the that thin shell of atmosphere surrounding the planet. and all of that global warming pollution is trapping a lot more heat in the earth's atmosphere. 25 million of those tons going into the ocean every single day. and hethey are making the ocean more acidic and interrupting the forming of coral reefs and everything that has a shell has an osteoperosis now. and the co2, along with methane, black carbon and noxide traps te heat and raises the temperatures. the planet has a fever. if you have a young child and the child starts running the fever, you may think it is a 24-hour bug, usually and often it is. but if it keeps going up, will you go to the doctor? if the doctor says, well we have done the test here. the bad news is it isn't a passing bug. we are going to take action, but we can fix this. you don't say doctor i was listening to talk ri

i stopped to kill time with george shultz. any of you who have sat down with him, it is interesting in general to spend about an hour and a half before we took off. at the time, it was when the debate about syria. i asked him about that. he told when interesting story. many of you know that secretary scholtz was a marine in world war ii. he talked about how before he went into war he went to boot camp. how his sergeant told him and gave from his firearm and said, this is your firearm, it'll be your best friend and you will live with and sleep with it. the most important thing i can tell you is do not point it at anyone you are not prepared to shoot. initially, he did not think about it, is an old world war ii veteran telling war stories. really very profound insight on foreign policy today here and around the globe. what i mean is, one of the biggest frustrations i have had as an american with what is going on in foreign policy is much like obamacare and other issues, a president who spend too much time listening to his politi

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton begins now.>> good evening. and thank you for tuning in. >>> tonight's lead, standing up to the bullies and endsing the right wing's history of obstruction. for a hundred years conservatives used a procedure called the filibuster to block civil rights legislation and for the last five years conservatives have used it to filibuster the first black president of the united states. and tried to

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. >>> i'm live tonight from chicago. just a few moments ago at the white house, president obama sat down for an exclusive interview with nbc news. he talked about the new health care law, and he had surprising comments about his relationship with vice president biden. we'll have that interview later in this hour. you won't want to miss this one. >>> but we begin with politics. and tonight's lead, republicans still haven't learned a thing. voters have sent the right wing a message. they're sick of the party's hostility towards women, minorities, and the lbgt community. but so is the republican establishment. today "the new york times" reports the gop is trying to limit the clout of the far right of the party. so now let's see how this latest rebranding is going. today the senate voted on the employment non-discrimination act. a bill that would protect gays from being fired due to sexual orientati orientation. and it

is it what debbie wasserman shultz says? >> it will be a wipe out. the republicans will gain enormously. look, obama has this problem. i don't believe the democratic party can permit him to bring them into the next election in '14 with 50 million people losing their coverage and another 80 million seeing premiums jacked way up. i don't think they can do it. if obama rescinds cancellations which he could do by executive order because the statute doesn't require them, his regulations do, nobody will sign up for this turkey. he'll be embarrassed by the low turnout. did you see reuters reports that the 12 state exchanges have had a total of 50,000 sign-ups? if experience is a guide, 40 of them are probably medicaid. if you have a quarter of the country with 10,000 sign-ups, you're talking about 40,000 in the whole country after a month and a half of this turkey being out there. the only way he can generate enrollment is to throw people off their health insurance so they have no alternative but to come into the exchanges. >> welcome back. it's been a whil

i'm ed shultz.rend al sharpton starts right now. >>> welcome to "politicsnation." election night 2013. i'm al sharpton, and for the next hour we'll be covering this big night in american politics. across the country tonight, voters are going to the polls as they have been doing all day. more than 300 mayoral elections races are at stake. and more than 200 legislative offices. andhe

you had ed shultzs making comments about ingrid.hey trying it say if a most makes at a statement about gay people that is horrific. but conservative woman no. >> maybe women in general? >> the silence is deafening here. in 2008, david shoester was disciplined for saying things about hilary clinton that were unacceptable. so i do think women in general do have to deal with these attacks more and are not protected by the networks. but for some reason they don't like sarah palin and they will let him say it. that is not right. they should say something and suspend him. >> the interesting thing is that wyou see a war on women by republicans. and republicans have a problem with women and want to prevent them from getting access to contraception and the republican party is anti-women. >> they do enact a lot of laws like that. >> if you are going elevate host who have a problem with republican women and in some cases woman -- women -- in general. what do you say? >> msnbc is in this for a business. they are not the democratic par party. >>

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts now.evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. >>> i'm live tonight from chicago. just a few moments ago at the white house, president obama sat down for an exclusive interview with nbc news. he talked about the new health care law, and he had surprising comments about his relationship with vice president biden. we'll have that interview later in this hour. you won't want to miss this one. >>> but we begin with politics. and tonight's lead, republicans still haven't

i'm michael eric dyson in for ed shultz. now. >> thanks, michael. and thanks to you for tuning in. >>> tonight's lead, worst socialist ever. republicans love to talk about how president obama is a socialist, marxist who doesn't understand capitalism. that's funny. in reality here's what wall street said about that today. >> we are finishing very strong. we will be in record territory for the dow industrial. we didn't see that coming 15 minutes ago. >> that's right. yet another record high on wall street. since president obama came into office, key stocks have soared more than 7,000

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now.ing, rev. >> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. i'm live tonight from chicago. >>> tonight's lead, out of jail. late this afternoon george zimmerman was released from a florida jail after posting $9,000. earlier he was in a courtroom in handcuffs and a prison jump suit. this time in connection with domestic charges that landed him behind bars yesterday. the judge ruled he cannot have a firearm or leave the state of florida. in a frantic 911 call yesterday, zimmerman's girlfriend said he pointed a shotgun at her. zimmerman denied that today as he faced the judge. >> do you have a question about any of these rights, mr.

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. >>> tonight's lead, finally a republican plan for health care. after years of attacking, the gop finally has a plan.

i'm ed shultz. of course "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now.u for tuning in. >>> tonight's lead, americans feel the ax. republicans turn their backs. today for the first time in history, every single american who receives food stamps are seeing their benefits reduced. because funding from a 2009 measure is running out. 47 million americans who get these benefits are feeling the pain today. it's happening all over the country. >> absolutely vital particularly for an area like ours and the economic situation we're in. d

i'm ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton begins now.. >> good evening, ed. >>> thanks for tuning in. tonight's lead, the gop agony of repeat. republicans keep running to the right and they keep losing the fight. exactly one year ago today just two days before the election, mitt romney was in the great state of virginia telling voters he was going to win. >> thanks so much, you guys. virginia is the best.

. >> i heard debby shultz talking saying the idea is terrible because it would allow people without insurance? >> why not allow people more choices or options? particularly as it relates to their own pocket book or health care needs. >> that is a good question a. lot of people might say that is the plan i want. but the president said even if the house republicans pass it he is going to veto it. so how much democratic support is there for your bill in the house? they are coming up with an alternative. >> i don't know what their plan is. i know they were working on something but even the democrats didn't know what it was. my guess is we will get 40 democrats. but at one point it looked like hundred democratic votes were going to be on the table and that is when the president decided to do something. so he was content with messing up the lives of millions of people. our bill brought it back and brought the attention pack and yes we can resolve the issue for millions of folks who found their premiums are going up and being stuck with a policy they don't want and can't afford and wabt want to reta

even though ed shultz was suspended for calling someone an right wing bleslut. >> when we tacked aboutrning it was like how do you verbalize what they are saying? i am not sure why martin is getting treated differently. especially given the fact it is worse than what these two folks said on these shows. how is this he is able to keep doing the show? can you imagine if someone of the caliber of his competitors said anything like this about hilary clinton and what would be going on in his country. >> msnbc would be jumping up and down about this all day long. and sarah palin gave a speech and likened the national debt to slavery. i think it is fair game for criticism but this wasn't an offhand remark you might make. this was a long scripted read off from a tell prompter and talked about the way slaves were punished and wished sarah palin was punish would the same way and that is defecation. it is amazing msnbc hasn't done anything about this. i cannot figure it out. >> it suggest they don't think it is a big deal. when it comes to certain people all bets are off it and it okay to pick on

i stopped to kill time with george shultz. general toresting in spend an hour and a half before we took off. at the time, it was when the debate about syria. i asked him about that. he told when interesting story. maybe you know secretary schultz was a marine in world war ii. before heabout how went into war he went to boot camp. at how his sergeant told him and gave from his firearm and said, this is your firearm, it'll be your best friend and you will live with and sleep with it. the most important thing i can tell you is do not point it at it when you are not prepared to shoot. inc. abouthe did not it, is an old world war ii veteran telling war stories. really very profound insight on foreign policy today here and around the globe. what i mean is, one of the biggest frustrations i have had as an american with what is going on in foreign policy is much like obama care and other issues, a president who spend too much time listening to his political team and not policy team. and pushing things that may not in terms set reality

. >> i was going to tokyo and stopped to talk with george shultz and that is interesting to talk to him in general. we talked about an hour & half. it was at the time the debate with syria and i asked him it. if you know he was a marine in world war ii and he went through boot camp before going into the war. his sergeant told him this is your firearm. it is your best freiend and you will live and sleep it. but don't point it at anyone you are not prepared to shoot is the most important thing i can tell you. you might say this is an world war ii vet telling stories. but per my assessment, one of the biggest frustrations i have as an american with what is going on in foreign policy is you have a president who spent too much time listening to a political team and not a policy team and pushing things that might not have full set of reality in terms of policy implications but might sound nice at the time. and i think that is dangerous whether you are a democrat or republican. i am not ad voluntevocating abo read line. but when you say something it has to mean something to your allies. i ment

i was recruited privately to the state department in 1985 with secretary shultz wanted to start a publiclomacy campaign against terrorism. one of the things we found this especially in europe in the middle east coming people tend to claim rights terrorist. the media sometimes plays the role of mess. sometimes inadvertently coming sometimes by carrying portentous claims with the counterbalancing. and when this initiative, it's always very difficult because reports come out sometimes. reporters are reporting that they hear from police officials are local officials who only have part of their story. outsiders often so much confusion around. for example, there were attacks on one hand. i believe the embassy and press were showing whether scott and wired people were stationed et cetera. they were trying to restrain the press reporting information things that might be useful. it's happening in dubai, to where they pick up radio or tv reports or were security forces. there's this issue of restraining the press. it's much more difficult in this country than say the u.k. because you have so many

glamorization of romantic freedom fighters, and was recruited to the state department in 1985 when secretary shultz wanted to start a public diplomacy campaign against terrorism. one of the things we found is especially in europe and the middle east people tended to glamorize terrorists and the media plays a role, sometimes inadvertently, sometimes by carrying, reporting the claims with -- without counterbalancing and when there is an incident it is always difficult because reports come out sometimes, reporters reporting what they hear from police officials or local officials who only have part of the story which is why there's so much confusion around and another aspect which we ought to deal with at the state department. there was an attachment in london, the libyan or iranian embassy, the press, the tv was showing where scotland yard people were stations and there have been issues and trying to restrain the press from quoting information or reporting thing that might be useful. in mumbai there are picking up radio or tv reports wherever the security forces were. there is an issue of restraining