if hurts them in their primary districts or whatever it is, they should vote for it because it's the "p.t.i." -- right thing. >> very important. all these things we said about what the president should do, could do, might acquit him. but his opponents, you talk about taking them out to dinner and making nice, but these people politically want to cut his heart out abandon throw his live tore the dogs. that does make it very difficult to come on nice to them. chris: troubling suggestion over dinner, right? i do think he doesn't enjoy the company of his fell oy politicians. excuse me, mr. president, you are one of them. >> it's too late in the game to start being charming when he is to -- so transparent. if the strategy is to go over the heads of the american people -- of you and to the american people, you've got to do it. >> who's been quoting them? kelly or iota. they make their points out of beating people. this week hollywood tries again -- the latest movie version of the great american novel, f. scott fitzgerald's masterpiece, i think, "the great ghatsby. " for many, including me, this n

the p.t.i. with 27. so those are the numbers. >> the independents? >> the independents are 31 and a lot of them are flocking to the government party so that's going to give them the edge. on the presidential election and what the possibilities are aybe they can answer that. >> i would be getting in touch with my travel agent. >> i think there are a couple of statements which have been made, one before the elections he said if his party become it is ruling party at the center, he become it is prime minister he will take oath. if i'm not mistaken there was a statement by him that he should complete his term in office. and that term i think is going to end in september. so i don't think there should be any ground for creating friction on this count. >> it is whether he can marshall the numbers to get re-elected aand the answer is no. there is no question. >> that's why a travel agent would be a good idea. >> let me go to the other questions if you don't mind so we can move along. >> i'm a member of the board and the executive committee here. i'd like to

not not even being the second party in power now we have the p.t.i. which is a monster party suddenly coming and emerging to the forefront and i think that is a great development for pakistani democracy and party politics and you said some radical factions what are those kind of well what we have in the last reef is that he's he's very business oriented so when you think about his platform and his manifesto we see a lot that has to do with money money money and and that can be a little marginalizing especially because he talks about building airports in small villages they don't even have airports and when you use that kind of monetary rhetoric you have appealing to causes that are struck with poverty and i think that's definitely what got him to win but it's definitely not the right to go down necessarily and let's talk about the other opposition party that was running led by former cricket player to come on a really interesting guy who was saying that he would shoot down u.s. drones i mean really radical stands there how did that perspective resonate

cricket legend turned politician an anti drone activist in ram can with his movement for justice or the p.t.i. supported by pakistan's military our correspondent catherine off went to pakistan to see how the country's been approaching this landmark election. week after week these are the images the world has seen coming out of pakistan victims of a brutal wave of violence bomb blasts rippling across the country this is supposed to be a time of triumph for a country that's gearing up for its first ever democratic transition from one elected government to another that reason bomb and gun attacks by militants against religious minorities and secular politicians have called the country's stability into question and sown fear among pakistani voters. everyone is scared of bombs and nobody feels safe so very few people go and vote because they're scared and go to be the women. the pakistani taliban has vowed to target the country secular parties and they've made good on that threat the national party or the and p. has borne the brunt of the attacks forced to campaign in the shadows. we can't campaig

not not even being the second party in power now we have the p.t.i. which is a monster party suddenly coming and emerging to the forefront and i think that is a great development for pakistani democracy and party politics and you said some radical factions what are those kind of well what we have in the last sharif is that he's he's very business oriented so when you think about his platform and his manifesto we see a lot that has to do with money money money and and that can be a little marginalizing especially because he talks about building airports in small villages they don't even have airports and when you use that kind of monetary rhetoric you have appealing to causes that are struck with poverty and i think that's definitely what got him to win but it's definitely. the right to go down necessarily and let's talk about the other opposition party that was running led by former cricket player connie really interesting guy who was saying that he would shoot down u.s. drones i mean really radical stands there how did that perspective resonate with t

the p.t.i. with 27. so those are the numbers. >> the independents?>> the independents are 31 and a lot of them are flocking to the government party so that's going to give them the edge. on the presidential election and what the possibilities are maybe they can answer that. >> i would be getting in touch with my travel agent. >> i think there are a couple of statements which have been made, one before the elections he said if his party become it is ruling party at the center, he become it is prime minister he will take oath. if i'm not mistaken there was a statement by him that he should complete his term in office. and that term i think is going to end in september. so i don't think there should be any ground for creating friction on this count. >> it is whether he can marshall the numbers to get re-elected aand the answer is no. there is no question. >> that's why a travel agent would be a good idea. >> let me go to the other questions if you don't mind so we can move along. >> i'm a member of the board and the executive committee here. i'd like to

question are here for a political solution i think it's not entirely de the in the police actions piers next p.t.i. which kenyan second nationally actually came in first in the in the provincial election. khyber indicate the problems. with which borders when serious tensions. in the tribal areas so. i think that could help. graeme the conditions under which there could be a broader political rather than military solution to the internal conflict with the pakistani taliban robert naiman we'll have to leave it right there thank you very much from just our foreign policy all. the syrian crisis has taken a deadly new twist says twin car bombs a read through a turkish town just across the border killing forty three and injuring more than one hundred others side towns in an entry point for refugees and radical rebels but turkey has been quick to blame syrian intelligence for the attack while stopping short of saying damascus is directly responsible a middle east correspondent policia has more. two car bombs have exploded one was in front of the city hall the other was in front of a local post office in

millions of pakistanis who want to see real change in the entrenched political system they were counting on cricket legend imran khan and his p.t.i. party he had rallied massive support here in the country with calls to end corruption and to end u.s. drone strikes especially among young voters but it wasn't enough to put him at the top still a significant victory for his party now the pakistan people's party which form the outgoing government took a beating in the polls paying a price for being seen as failing to tackle corruption unemployment and violence while in power of course this in many ways is a historic election it's the first time a democratically elected government is replaced with another the first time that a staggering sixty percent of voters turned out but also in a darker note the first election to go down as the bloodiest in pakistan's history now a string of bomb blasts disrupted election day killing dozens of people the violence came on the heels of a bloody intimidation campaign by the pakistani taliban which is claimed one hundred thirty lives leading up to the vote the group is fighting to topple poppy stand