. >> steve huntsman, i'd like to thank the panel for the insight and ask a brief question which is are there any useful lessons we can draw from the south african experience? >> sanctions work. >> so does regime change. >> right. thank you, thank you, yes. >> i think -- let me -- short question, short answer. okay. >> and it looked so complicated 90 minutes ago. >> that's right. >> okay. let me ask you to than join me in thanking the panel for the presentation today. >>> today from the national press club, watch a discussion with john pistol, head of the transportation security administration on the future of aviation security. that will be live on c-span2 at 1:00 p.m. eastern. coming up on c-span3 at 3:00 p.m., an overview of the federal trade commission budget request for 2013. we'll hear from john liebowitz, chairman of the federal trade commission. >>> president obama has requested $51.6 billion for state department funding in 2013. secretary of state hillary clinton defended this request at a house foreign affairs question. she answered questions on iran, iraq, oil prices, pakista

joining me steve kornake of salon.org, the legendary former rnc chair michael steele, formerly of the jon 2012 girls, abby huntsmanhugo lind gren of "the new york times" magazine. four hours ago, the headline was mitt romney won illinois. so what? that was the washington post. but in the last hour with jeb bush now in romney's pocket, the party appears to be coalesce. joining us now from washingtoning is "time" magazine senior political analyst the cheshire cat of american politics mark halperin. thanks for joining the program. >> meow. thank you, alex. mark, this morning your headline in "time" magazine read, romney's illinois victory signals an end to the gop primary. very final. it was changed a few hours later to say romney's illinois victory may signal an end to the gop primary after jeb bush's endorsement. are you guys ready to change the "time" magazine headline back? >> we are not. the internet is not that fungible. we were only allowed one change according to the rules. look, it's over unless something intervenes. something could intervene. it's hard to come