steve hadley, thank you.ry leon panette we thank you. >> woodruff: battling high unemployment and punishing austerity measures, greeks are headed to the ballot box this weekend. leading the polls is a radical leftist party that wants to renegotiate its bailout deals, sparking fears in europe that other eurozone countries will follow suit. >> sreenivasan: it's the election that many in greece don't seem to want. >> elections should not be happening now. it's the worst time for the economy, for security, the people are not in a good mood, no one is spending money. >> ( translated ): i wish we were not going to elections. we should have left the government to continue its work and see what it would do. >> sreenivasan: but the greek parliament failed to elect a new president back in december, so a snap election is set for this sunday. it comes as many voters are still struggling to find work after six years of deep recession and government spending cuts. the unemployment rate remains above 25% and among young peo

if you look at this picture, it's coni did rice jim baker, sandy burger steve hadley, you know, thiso's who of american foreign policy over decades. republican and democratic. and significantly it's the republicans who have had really closer relations with the saudis. the saudis have been very dismissive of especially the obama white house. >> and that goes a very long way in a place where relationships matter. the fact that you have this bipartisan relationship and delegation coming to saudi arabia to pay tribute to the late king, try to restart the relationship with the new king i think, is a testament to the long-standing relationship between saudi arabia and the united states. as you said when you're able to bring that many people from a diversity of political spectrums and ideas and administrations here in the u.s., it speaks a lot. i know that's definitely not lost on the saudis. they will certainly appreciate that in a culture that's steeped in tradition. that goes a long way. >> and angry that we haven't done more against assad and mubarak. let's talk about jordan. jordan has

advisers with whom i worked did that very effectively, two brilliant advisers in condy rice and steve hadley. now for the obama administration, i mean i tremble to give add views because having within -- advice because having been there i know how difficult the situation is, and people on the outside are always giving advice that's usually at best useless. [laughter] but i'll hazard a couple of things. one is that -- and this comes out well in your book, david -- is that i think this administration has defined itself far too much on being not the previous administration. now, i happen to think being the previous administration is not a bad thing to be. but regardless of how you feel about that each presidency each administration needs its own focus, its own strategic priorities, and it can't be with a strategic priority to be not like the other guy. and i think that's led us into a lot of difficulties and problems. the other is turn down the politics a bit. every administration is very political including the one in which i served. it's actually one of the charms of our system. it works pret

at the white house i saw it happen time and time again at the national security council, both steve hadleyid this while they were national security advisors and i think it's great secretary kerry is doing it again. bill: hillary clinton said she'll testify before the house committee again when it comes to benghazi. you are putting 2 and 2 together, is what we are seeing potentially the reason why thee wants to come back to defend herself publicly? >> benghazi has become a up stone for both sides republicans and democrats. ever since what happened in benghazi in 2012 when we lost an ambassador, chris stevens. people on both sides of the aisle have been heated up with this issue. it's personal for hillary clinton and also personal in some respects. for her part of paving the way forward if she is going to run is going to be trying to clear -- sort of clear the past and clear her name and try and create her own story line what happened. bill: that's not an easy thing to do. a couple more thing now. today gaffey'sqaddafi's son was argue the other side was gangsters and and terrorists. you know

steve liesman on the employment report. >>> two hostage standoffs this morning in france. cnbc's hadleyvery latest. good morning. >> good morning, simon. we have a third day of terror here in france. there are two hostage situations. there are three gunmen. two of those gunmen the kouachi holed up in a printing business in the village behind me. police surrounded that building. french authorities telling nbc news they believe there is a link between these two brothers and a shooter at a grocery store in paris. earlier a gunman came into a popular grocery store in the eastern part of paris. held people hostage. we don't know how many are held hostage in that incident. you have to remember also police releasing photographs of the incident that took place yesterday. that was in the southern part of paris. three incidents in three days. all linked to terror. we understand these three gunmen nbc news reporting by french authorities, they knew about these guys. intelligence networks were aware of these guys and they may all be linked to that same cell and it may be linked to al qaeda. these t