what is the thomas friedman doctrine moving forward?octrine is just to get elected president. right now everything seems to be ad hoc. so what is the tom friedman doctrine? >> so here's the two conclusions i've drawn from the last decade in iraq. one is, joe, sometimes the necessary is impossible, or it's impossible at any cost that we are willing to pay. that's number one because basically you are having -- you're seeing states fall apart and i think the only way to really rebuild them is an international force to come in and stay for 20, 30 years, okay. so sometimes the necessary is impossible. and the other point you have to take note of is, number two, is that the two most successful arab spring nations are the two countries we've had nothing to do with. tunisia and kurdistan. we helped the kurds early on but the people there came together in a no vanquish formula and they built the politics that could support a state which we can then come in and support. >> tom, let's talk about another ugly reality we've all had to face over the

thomas friedman says the outbreak will get worse before it gets better. the priority is to get good care to those that are sick and protective gear to health care workers trying to save them. a worker was flown back to the u.s. after getting within a few feet of a patient without gear on. >>> now it's 6 abc get to be fit. >> health reporter, and registered nurse, ali gorman is at the big board with tips. >> parents are gung ho getting into shape over the summer, for some it goes to a screeching halt now that summer is back in session. you can see in fitness and you don't have to do it all at once. connie collins is busy, she has two kids and works full-time. once her kids go back to school, the family schedule is hectic, so when it comes to fitness. >> i try to grab time wherever i can. >> karen richards says that is the right idea, she is the chairman of the university of sciences. >> ten minutes a day is all you need. >> she recommends power walking, short trips throughout the day for working parents or -- >> if you are standing at the park watching the

in an earlier interview thomas friedman, president obama rejected the idea that arming rebels could change the course of what happened there. >> with respect to syria, it's always been a fantasy this idea that we could provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to what was essentially an opposition made up of former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth and that they were going to be able to battle not only a well armed state but also a well armed state backed by russia, backed by iran. a battle hardened hezbollah. that was never in the cards. >>> a primary season full of drama and surprises got two more big ones in hawaii. listen to this. we want to start with the senate race. there was the democratic primary and it's still too close to call. voters went to the polls on saturday after the tropical storm blew ashore leaving debris in its wake and impacting two different precincts. brian shots is nearly ahead of colleen hanabusa. fewer than 2,000 votes separate them. about 8,000 votes still have to be talleyed up and neither candidate is willing to concede. the late venera

state said -- syria,n the issue of president obama will be sitting sat down for an interview with thomas friedmanhere is what he had to say on syria and arming the rebels. host: --[video clip] fantasys always been a that we could provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to an opposition made up of former doctors and pharmacists. that they would be able to battle a well armed the state backed by russia, backed by iran , a battle hardened hezbollah. that was never in the cards. host: that was president obama tomis interview with freeman of "the new york times." we want to get your take on what hillary clinton had to say about the president's approach to foreign policy. david brooks, in his column, today, clinton, obama, and direct. here is what he right that here's what he writes -- here is what he writes -- "there is a certain assumption that there will be hostile ideologies that threaten america and the grand strategy to her mind -- what do you make of hillary clinton's misses him this morning? you can send us an e-mail, join the conversation on facebook , you can also tweak at us.

from tom friedman's column, president obama talks to thomas friedman about iraq, putin and israel. he writes: president obama's hair is definitely grayer these days and no doubt trying to manage foreign policy accounts for at least half of those gray hairs. but having had a chance to spend an hour touring the horizon with him in the white house map room last friday afternoon, it's clear that the president has a take on the world borne of many lessons over the past six years, and he has feisty answers for his foreign policy critics. obama made clear he's only going to involve america more deeply in places like the middle east to the extent that the different communities there agree to an exclusive politics of no victor, no vanquished. the united states is not going to be the air force of iraqi shiites or any other faction. he cautioned president vladimir putin of russia could insays ukraine at any time and if he does, quote: trying to find our way back to a relationship with russia during the remainder of my term will be much more difficult. intervening in libya was the right thing

you mentioned interview the president did with "new york times" thomas friedman. regret foreign policy not preparing for basically a post-qaddafi libya. see similar candor from you. you've taken a lot of heat over the years not preparing bell enough for postwar iraq. that is maybe part of the reason we're in this boat. president said he learned a lesson, do we have a answer day after. has he learned from that lesson and what lessons did you learn from your mistakes? >> same lesson if you go into country like iraq, libya or syria you have to have a postwar plan, that involves first and foremost adequate security. we didn't have adequate security in iraq until the surge. we never provided security in libya. those are the absolute prerequisite for any political development. in fact you say the same thing today in iraq. if we can provide security for the iraqis it is more likely we have a broad, unified, democratic iraq. ed: can that happen without u.s. ground troops though in 30 seconds? >> i think it probably can. i would never exclude it. i don't think it's a good

. >> president obama spoke to thomas friedman.said if we left troops in iraq it would not have made a difference really to what he's going on now. listen to this. >> if they had done what they did and had 10,000 troops there it would not have presented the kinds of problems we have seen. we would have 10,000 troops in the middle of the chaos. >> let me ask you. do you think that staying in iraq for years or even decades was a valid solution? >> i do not. the president is right. the reason for this, and evan is right as well. the malaki government pushed out the sunnis and pushed them into the arms of the most radical terrorist group out there. he said the enemy of the enemy is my friend. those willing to take on al malaki they were willing to support. no amount of u.s. troops would change the internal strife. even while we have well over 100,000 troops there, brutal sectarian violence took place in iraq when the sunnis and shias were going at each other. they couldn't stop that level of violence. even in those numbers. look, this

>> well, president obama basically gave an interview to thomas friedman of the "new york times" where he said, outlining his iraq policy, other foreign policy, they chunked that up and put that on the "new york times" website. meanwhile, the white house aides briefed reporters on background and a lot of what we call in the business ticktock stories came out, in the "new york times" and the "washington post," and in politico as well. so what they're doing right now is they are trying to canvass everybody, get all of the word out. and that is good for the media. that is good for the public. they should have been doing this a long time ago. >> there are always the identical details that come out in these background discussions like joint chief chairman dempsey getting in the limo with obama. the president was late for his georgetown dinner with michelle. and details like that. >> remarkably similar. imagine how that happens. >> are the media hawks, amy, who are filling the airwaves now and saying obama's doing too little and too late, are they in any way out of touch with public opinion

seeing over is a spillover from syria, but if you look at the interview the president gave to thomas friedmandn't feel he had the confidence and the right people to arm, that they weren't going to be able to make a difference there. but i think rather than looking back, you have to look forward right now. we're in an emergency military situation. isis has already set up it's own mini caliphate in this region. it's completely lawless there, and he's got this proximate reason for engage with trying to save the yazidis but andrew is right, the peshmerga will have to be our allies. i expect what we're sogoing to e is huge armaments going to the peshmergas. the iraqi army are either being executed or fleeing battalion by battalion. >> hillary clinton says great nations need organizing principles and don't do stupid stuff is not an arguing principle. don't do stupid stuff is something that came out as part of president obama's foreign policy. you could replace stuff with another word. for the sake of live tv we'll say stuff. is she right frankly and why are we in your opinion and some people might

real serious policy debate, hugging aside, between president obama, he did an interview with thomas friedman trying to defend his foreign policy, and hillary clinton, who if she runs for president is primarily going to be running on her tenure as secretary of state. >> well, she'll also be running on how she can do foreign policy better than president obama. now, she did annoy the white house, i've been told that, with her comments. but, joy, don't expect things to be patched up tonight. just a quick little bit of background. vernon jordan's wife is valerie jarrett's cousin. and that's a strong connection there with the obamas. and vernon jordan himself has a strong connection to bill clinton and hillary clinton. he's one of the figures that stood with bill clinton during the worst days before impeachment and the stuff leading up to it. so i'm told that it's just as likely that they'll talk about chelsea's pregnancy and what sasha and malia did this summer rather than use this as an event. what the white house wants to do is try to move this story along, which is why some of the extraordinar

stuff we eat the vegetables situation is so dire that speaking about antibiotic resistance dr thomas friedman director of the c.d.c. said that if we don't act now our medicine cabinet will be empty and we won't have the any box we need to save lives. if twenty three thousand americans are already dying from superbugs and antibiotic resistant infections every year and they are just imagine how much worse it could get if this antibiotic abuse continues we could soon of full blown pandemic on our hands but it doesn't have to get worse we can stop this farm grown terrorism right now and save millions of lives big agriculture says the slashing its use of antibiotics will hurt all of us in the form of higher prices at the supermarket but that's simply not the case as ruth reichl points out over the new york times although many industrial farmers claim that cleaning up their act will cost the rest of us at the cash register responsible producers from missouri to denmark are already raising healthy livestock and poultry at competitive prices without the use of unnecessary drugs michael highlights the

. >> director for centers for disease control thomas friedman says virus can be controlled but there is troubling timing here because african leaders are in washington for an administration led summit. while there are fears that air travel could represent a vulnerability, he says summit should not be canceled. >> absolutely not: we are depend event and part of the world, 50 million travelers around the worldcom to the u.s., each year and they are essential to our family, economies, our communities. we will not seal off this country. >> reporter: he does say we need effective screening to make sure that the virus does not spread, around the globe. chris and kerry. >> that is paramount consideration at this point, doug luzader live from washington d.c., thank you. time is 7:13. man who recorded video after a fatal police choke hold in new york city has been arrested on gun charges. >> 22-year old ramsey orto was arrested just a couple blocks from where officers confronted his friend, eric gardener, on july 17th. his arrest comes one day after the city's medical examiner ruled garner's

in this interview with thomas friedman yesterday, president obama also compared our current domestication to what's happening in the middle east. >> our politics are dysfunctional and something that i said earlier serves as a warning to us and that is societies don't work if political factions take the maximum positions, and i have to say here i've been speaking in generalities and trying not to be too political, but that ideologicalec treatmentism and max malist position is much more prominent in the republican party than the democrats. democrats have problems, but overall if you look at the democratic consensus it's a pretty common sense, mainstream consensus. it's not a lot of wacky, ideological nonsense and by the way, is generally fact based and reason based. >> the president went on to say that he thinks the republican party will free itself of extremist ideology, but is that a reason-based claim snz do you see signs that the two parties will work toward the middle on any issue right now? >> not right now. not in an election year and when we've got these serious divisions over

thomas friedman warned it's a brutal battle in an interview.> this is an absolute emergency. we have never seen anything on this scale of ebola before and, unfortunately, it's going to get worse before it gets better. we have not yet turned the tide. the outbreak is ahead of our skpo response and the critical block now is getting treatment centers up around the country as rapidly as possible, but ensuring safety at all steps. >> the outbreak is ahead of our response. that's what he said. the ebola virus has already killed more than 1,400 people in west africa. liberia is the hardest hit nation. the government is struggling to stop the spread of the disease. in the capital of monrovia, an entire neighborhood has been quarantine e quarantined. more than 17,000 people are trapped with no way out. the military is blocking them. many people are angry, scared, hungry. strict measures put in place after they looted an ebola treatment center, saying it was all a government hoax. it is no hoax. the world health organization warned today that an unpreced

you also need to look at what barack obama said to thomas friedman where he basically said hillary clinton'srgument on syria was fantasy. a lot of people would disagree with that. it's going back and forth, both ways. >> i always sort of -- ever since that exit interview which i think we have the sound bite of where she left as secretary of state and they sat awkwardly next to each other, the whole thing spoke to me as a deechlt they're both unwilling prince pants in the deechlt ron fornier writes in the "national journal," clinton's risky hedge against obama. i'm reading the public correctly. americans want somebody they feel they can be proud of who puts them first and keeps them safe. they want what obama promised to be. clinton may be aiming for that sweet spot between bush's bell lidge rens and obama's neglect, i could think of safer more calculated of going about it than stiff arming the democratic base. in her memoir "hard choices," clinton apologized for her support of the iraq war but made no secret of her interventionist streak, she wanted more troops in afghanistan than obama, for