the interests of the people of syria where do you think that's had you think there will be since susan rice clinton and other diplomats have talked about intervention on site they want to think that's going to happen do you think that's a possibility that the west is looking at there is already intervention underway the western countries have provided the military of saudi arabia the military of culture that's where they buy their weapons from they buy american weapons so it is already western weapons that are going in it's not coming directly from the us but it is weapons of the west the danger of that escalating is very serious the danger of further escalation involving other outside actors is very serious i don't think the us right now in an election cycle i don't think the obama administration wants to engage in a direct involvement in an air campaign for instance against syria of the kind they engaged in libya i don't think they want to whether what is known in the us as the c.n.n. factor the political pressure on a president in this case on a candidate in the election based on what pe

ambassador to the united nations, susan rice. great to have you.n some way, shape, or form in ln on in the olympics. we will get to that, but let's start with syria and how we get to that transition. >> the fighting on the ground is intensifying and the momentum is shifting in favor of the opposition. the defections are mounting and the political isolation is increasing. the aim is to accelerate a peaceful transition, but for that to occur given the failure and effort and russia and china's block of any meaningful security council action will have to come on the ground with the pressure on the regime continuing to mount to the point where it crumbles from within. that's what we are beginning to see. >> how long do you put the pressure on before you start to change? >> we will continue to strengthen the opposition and provide more and more material support to the opposition with communications equipment and medical supplies and vast quantities of humanitarian assistance and strengthening the pressure every day with allies in the region and beyond. s

and as secretary of state you've got susan rice who's now the u.n. ambassador, done lin may want to do that himself and you've got john kerry. again, generational issues there. quite a few. >> kind of a softball question, i guess. do you feel -- >> i take those too. >> okay, good. [laughter] do you feel foreign affairs is getting sufficient attention or will get sufficient attention in this campaign, and if not, um, kind of who's to blame, and are you concerned about it, if not? >> um, i have to be a realist on this. i mean, it does not surprise me that the economy is the main issue in the campaign, obviously. you know, i've written a book about foreign policy, but i have to, you know, have to say i think this campaign will not focus on foreign policy unless there is a major development which could be terrorist incident, something in iran. with those exceptions, i think it'll focus on the economy. my concern, what i'm concerned about is the level of sloganeering in the campaign. i mean, so far it may be because the republicans kind of don't know from

ambassador to the united nations susan rice said some members blocked the security council's actions and caused annan's mission to fail. russia and china vetoed resolutions against syria three times. russia's ambassador to the united nations renewed his criticism of the u.s. and the council's european members. >> some members of the council continue their routine of the past 15 months, the government fighting against the population, using force against its population. this is just a propaganda line. >>> u.s. president barack obama is starting his day off sifting through a mixed bag of economic data and trying to find out how it will affect his re-election campaign heading into the fall. the latest employment data is out. the jobless rate inched up to 8.3% last month. it's been stuck around the 8% level for the last few months. the brighter spot involves nonfarm payroll. u.s. labor department analysts say employers added 163,000 jobs. that's approximately 60,000 more than economists had forecasted. the manufacturing sector gained 25,000 jobs while employment in food services also rose

ambassador to the united nations susan rice said some members blocked the actions and caused annan's mission to fail. russia and china vetoed resolutions against syria three times. russia's ambassador to the u.n. renewed his criticism of the u.s. and the council's european members. >> some members of the council continue their routine of the past 15 months, the government fighting against the population, using force against its population. this is just a propaganda line. >> but the violence seems far from reaching its conclusion. syrian opposition forces have added some of the assad regime's heavy weaponry to their arsenal. they've captured a tank and turned it against government troops in oleppo. a uk-based human rights group says the free syrian army used the tank to attack an army base near the city. opposition forces have been operating with fewer weapons than the well-armed government troops. but they seem to be bolstering their firepower. neighboring countries appear to be sending them arms and funds. elsewhere in syria, government troops and pro-assad militiamen are on the att

certainly has not worked that might be the one hope for a diplomatic and less militarized solution as susan rice and other foreign diplomats at the u.n. said that they are willing or they will withdrew the withdrawal of the monitors if the situation on the ground is does not improve and so far it's not improving so is that is that is that them saying that this is the last time where expanding this mesh that they are saying this is the last time they said that the last time they will change based on political realities not based on the realities on the ground the realities on the ground are not what is determining u.s. positions russian positions qatar's positions saudi positions anybody's positions except for the people of syria what the outside powers are. doing has virtually nothing to do with what actually is going on on the ground so what we're seeing play out of the united nations is a power struggle between the united states and russia between nato and the gulf states on the one hand and other arab states on the other we're seeing a bunch of different battles playing out diplomatically alm

and with the call by the pla missy and this is actually the off the obama susan rice tony blair crowd the idea that we should move fifty to sixty thousand troops into syria to protect weapons chemical weapons is a pretext for overthrowing the government and the danger of syria conceding at this point is you have a bunch of terrorists and no attempts at all different varieties. who presumably would take over the country and that would be far far more dangerous than what we're seeing now so my hope is that the russians and chinese and other good forces around the world will step in and not allow a regime change to take place well guarded takes over with support from the united states go that would be the worst possibility. the internal conflict is quickly growing into a regional one and later this hour we take a look at how you might be feeling the effects of the crisis on its southern border and many are it's now believed that anchor is links to the syrian rebels out by the firing of ring of the story in just a few minutes. attorneys for inmates had to go on time i'm a big say they've

by outside forces with the express intention of committing acts of terror which then people like susan rice and and the even the white house state department have lauded it with the recent car bombings in damascus now david just briefly reports regulus of surface that there is fighting the syrian army in the flashpoint city of aleppo off foreign nationals how likely is that and who might be who might those people be. that's a good question but the that they are foreign to aleppo is certainly not not debatable even the western media has been reporting for months and months that aleppo is a stronghold of the assad government so by definition the unrest that's happening there is coming from the outside now whether that. be for and with in syria or for and internationally i think there's a there's a mixture in there but it would also include presumably british special forces and others even our team was reporting the other day of the british jihad as to were part of the insurgency on the ground there so i think there is quite a large mixed mixture of international forces on the ground right now

essentially with the sending themselves with nuclear weapons and this is actually backdoor the obama susan rice tony blair crowd as well as people in our own joint chiefs of staff such as general dempsey but on the other hand obama is a neural type candidate personality he's a little bit crazy and he cannot be ruled out that he will take a crazy action prior to the election or even a democratic convention moscow for it's still believes there is a chance of reaching priest it's our top story today and judging by what you're saying though it's a foregone conclusion that's not going to happen it's not a foregone what we're dealing in very dangerous times i mean most people going to election and i stated even in europe now coming back in their vacations they do not understand how serious the world is right now and if you look at iran you look at syria you look at now it's going on in turkey you look at the overall palestinian question you look at the crazies around eighteen yahoo we could be seeing a war and therefore we should be taking action an american citizen should be voicing very clearly tha

susan rice who is saying that the terrorist bombing in damascus was a reason why this u.n. security council should even more strenuously seek to to condemn a solid and his government so it's it's it doesn't seem to follow any rules of logic here and i don't think that this is going to find that the kind of kind of widespread condemnation that we would expect for a terrorist blast like this you know it's only four days before the observer mission's mandate is set to expire and the attack took place near the hotel there located at that how do you think this will affect the mission. well again it's difficult to see how this is a strategic blast in any sense it's difficult to interpret this really as anything other than a parting shot at the u.n. observer mission which everyone i think is expecting to really wind down in four days i don't think anyone is seriously expecting the observer mission to be renewed the mandate to be renewed or for the team to to really stay in syria so i don't know how to interpret this other than is some sort of parting shot on on the u.n. and again

if president obama is reelected, how likely is susan rice or john kerry to be elected?st: this is the fun game we like to play. i indulge in that game. i talked a lot of people about this. what is the handicapped? they would say there are three people on top. susan rice, senator john kerry, and tom donelan, the current national security adviser. the general view is that tom donelan probably does not want the job because he really likes being national security adviser and he has been very effective. kerry is kind of not in the family. people think he is too long winded. he's probably running a little bit behind. susan rice really has succeeded and she has not had any serious failures that are attributable to her. she has been a terrific team player. she does not found her own chest, do victory laps, touchdown dances, or anything like that. she is a very shrewd political player. she even knows she is responsible to secretary of state clinton as a u.s. diplomat. she sits on the cabinet as a member of the u.n. and she has strengthened her ties in the white house on the nati

susan rice, been basically going from astronaut strength. rice has really. everything she has done so far at the u.n. has succeeded. she hasn't had any serious failures. the failures are not attributable to hear. she's a terrific team player. he doesn't pound her own chest. she's a very shrewd political layer. even though she is responsible to secretary state clinton as a u.s. diplomat, she sits on the cabinet as a member of the u.n. and really strengthen her ties in the white house. that's to say the national security counsel. i would say she would have the shortest odds so far. >> host: she served in the clinton administration. glrg the did. she was the football not the youngest assistant secretary of state when she was apounded to the position in 1997 at age i don't know 34 or something like ha. she was darn close. before then in 1993, she was in the national security counsel. so yes, she served eight years in the clinton administration and so then became obama's kind of the coordinator of his foreign policy advisory team when barack obama was running for

. >> explain to me exactly what it is that you think barack obama or susan rice or secretary of state clinton, what could they be doing differently knowing that russia and china are vetoing anything and everything that we do against iran? >> first of all, they vetoed in the united nations. i'm not worried about the united nations. i'm worried about our greatest ally in the middle east, israel. >> so is barack obama? >> if you talk to the israelis, they don't feel like the united states is fully with them on this issue. if i was the president or the secretary of state, i would make it clear in no uncertain terms to iran f you continue this, we will do whatever it takes to protect our ally, zblirz and to your point, barack obama has done exactly that. and so has secretary clinton. >> it's interesting you say that. but the israelis don't feel that way. >> let me move to afghanistan and iraq. if he's so focused on foreign policy and has stellar plans ahead, why on this day that you've got these troops talking about iraq and the end of official combat there for our troops didn't we hear fr

susan rice said the obama administration will likely back a different u.n. mandate in syria following the inability of monitors to carry out their duties. >> as we have said repeatedly, conditions, particularly the extreme use of violence and heavy weapons by the government do not permit the monitors or any monitors at this time who are unarmed to do the job they were sent to do. there is no cease-fire or cessation of violence for them to observe and report on. >> in afghanistan, a gunman wearing an afghan army uniform has shot dead three u.s. soldiers in southern helmand province. it was the latest in a series of deadly shootings by apparent members of the afghan forces against troops with the u.s.-led nato occupation. the shooting followed a suicide bombing that killed three u.s. soldiers and an aid worker in the eastern province of khadr. in mexico, the dead bodies of 14 kidnapped victims were found in an abandoned van thursday in the latest of a series of drug- related killings. it was at least the fifth incident in recent months to involve the exact num

ambassador susan rice about what russia has done in the security council. >> indeed, we have witnessedhat. this is why i took advantage of opportunities in moscow to forge a different path in which we work with russia, in which there was experience in working with russia to destroy weapons of mass destruction. we have a lot of experience doing this. we're committed both of our countries to get rid of all of our chemical weapons and we've helped the weapons at suchra, a big plant now, from going through tons of the stuff even as we're speaking today. therefore, leaving aside all of the debate which has proceeded, it seemed to me this was an opportunity for a breakthrough and at least the reaction of some russians was that this is very interesting. others said, after all, syria is not a member of the chemical weapons convention. they own the weapons and so they do. but i think there's a general fear, and president obama expressed this, that red line is there. if weapons get used or if they're moved or what have, the united states might take military action. that would be a unilateral ste

the structure of the campaign, he had a whole host of campaign advisers, foreign policy advisers, susan rice, dennis ross, who were there greasing reporters, and they're on the ground in case something went wrong. and romney did not have it. and it shows part of the problems and difficulties his campaign is having in getting up and running. >> schieffer: well, i mean, i think that's a very good point because romney went with just basically a skeleton staff. they augmented it even after he got there and after he got into trouble with all the olympics. you kind of wonder did they really understand what they were getting into. >> and particularly at a time when romney was already having trouble defining himself, he comes away from this, particularly, with the olympics remark, looking like he's out of touch, and he just doesn't get it. one of the thresholds for him here was to be able to go and show he could be a leader on the world stage. that's something that obama was able to do four years ago. and the gaffes really overshadowed that for romney. >> incidentally, i'm not sure romney's entire s

. >> we talk about people like susan martinez, condi rice familiar to a lot of people but is out there who are we still going to be talking about in 2016 or 2020, do you think? is there something that's going to emerge from this big time? >> yeah, i think you'll probably hear about nikki haley even more. first of all, governor are wildly popular, right? governors really have a history of being ceos. she can be an antagonist inside her own party. and condi rice in a different way. condi rice has been gone away. she's been the quiet professor we all know and assume her to be, but she stepped out on the stage in a more political arena than we've ever seen her. that coupled with the announcement of her joining augusta as a golf member has really kind of changed the frame around her just slightly, a more consumer oriented frame as opposed to an elitist frame. i do have to tell you one of the losers out of this deal was the undecided voter. i think that republicans had a great convention for their base, and i don't think the undecided voters got to see what they need to really make their dec

including the prime-time network, covering that hour of the convention, condoleezza rice, followed by governor susanartinez, and then paul ryan, who was on the stage, making sure the camera angles were right, and then family members on the podium. we will continue to cover every moment of the convention, it is on our website, c-span.org, and you can look at our video library. let's take it down to the floor at the tampa bay times forum. the gavel will be coming down in just a couple of minutes.

former secretary of state condoleezza rice and new mexico governor suzanne that martinez will also speak tonight during the televised portion of the convention. susan mcginnis, cbs news, tampa. >>> the republican national can convention has also had its share of protesters and at least one arrest. tampa police say 24-year-old dante seem was charged with aggravated battery after he hit a 60-year-old man breaking his jaw. earlier in the day police had to break up a brief fight between antig.o.p. protesters and members of the woodsboro baptist church. that's the kansas-based church whose members often picket u.s. army soldiers' funerals. >>> today president obama will continue his campaign push with college students in charlottesville, virginia. he spoke to students at iowa state university and colorado state university yesterday. during the stops, the obama campaign also announced a road to charlotte tour. the president will campaign in several battleground states in the days leading up to his convention speech next week. >>> supporters of maryland's dream act and the same-sex marriage law are joining forces trying to convince voters to support their

heard leaders look governor marry fallon, governor nikki haley, governor susans martinez, and former secretary of state condoleezzaa rice with barack obama isn't that he's a bad person, okay. by all accounts he too is a good husband and a good father, and thanks to lots of practice a good golfer. [laughter] >> our problem is not that he's a bad person. our problem is that he's a bad president. >> it's important that you realize that you're the best in the world. whether you're a democrat, or whether you're a republican, or a libertarian or whatever, you're the best, and we should not ever forget that, and when somebody does not do the job, we've got to let them go. >> if i'm elected president of these united states i will work with all my energy and soul to restore that america, to lift our eyes to a better future. that future is our destiny, that future is out there, it is waiting for us. our children deserve it. our nation depends on it. the peace and freedom of the world require it, and with your help we will deliver it. let us begin that future for america tonight. thank you so very much. may god bless you. may god

mayor, i would suggest that you listen to mayor mia love and susan a martinez and to former secretary of state condoleezza ricerty that represents small business owners and everyday people, and may i say, i think the democratic party is looking like the protector of special interests and big bloated government bureaucracy. take a look at what the republican party actually represents and maybe provide some ideas of your own. >> my advice, not that anybody asked, for the media and politicians who win. i never liked rick santorum or anything he said, but two days ago i sat next to karen santorum who was lovely. got to meet rick later. the media is separated, politicians separate us to win elections. we have common humanity. republicans work hard, democrats work hard. liberals are addicts, conservatives are addicts. everybody here can love their family. doesn't matter what your political background. the way they divide us is wrestling. like wrestling versus mma. mma is real and so are we. >> i am just going to say my advice is for all my dear liberal friends. after van's advice, my advice for van jones, stop prete

her and a lot of people didn't know governor ryan governor susan martinez most republicans didn't know much about her. >> brian: condoleezza riceked about foreign she talked about you can't lead from behind. it is impossible and america can't be second. it is not good for the world. >> gretchen: and that little snippet before she become secretary of state, she said become president of the united states . i wonder if that was a glimpse in the future of what condond rice hopes to do with her life maybe in eight years. >> steve: maybe. and suz an martinez was one of the featured speakers. if you didn't know much about her, a lot of people know about her today. she gave a earth delivery and very comfortable in her own skin here is a mon tage of miss martinez. >> i was a democrat for many years and so were my parents. before i ran for district to lunchh. and i knew a party switch was exactly what they wanted. so, i told chuck. we'll be polite and enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. but we talked about issues. they never used the word republican or democrat or conservative or liberal. we talked about many issues like welfare. is