tom freedman on whether the american media are losing interest on foreign affairs, whether john kerry is a better secretary of state than hillary clinton and why he hasn't criticized the disastrous rollout of obamacare. i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." on. >>> well before phil robertson was suspended from duck dynasty for his comments in qq magazine, he attempted to edit the family's online prayers. >> they would have me say thank you, lord, for the food and thank you for loving us, amen. i said why would you cut out in jesus name? he said well, those editors are probably doing that this and he don't want to offend some of the muslims or something. >> and talking about body parts as he told gq start with homosexual behavior and morph out from there, beastlty. >> a&e said it's extremely disappointed in robertson's comments and in no way reflect those of a&e networks which have always been strong supporters and champions of the lgbt community. lauren ashburn, amy holmes and chuck lane are joining us now. >> lauren ashburn has a right to say what he wants and a&e has a right to

tom freedman of the "new york times." then, to understand the protests that have royaled in the ukraine over the past few weeks, you have to go back a bit, to 1654. and an execution in the -- why did north korea's kim jong-un have his own uncull killed and what does it mean for the rest of the world? and how well do you know your world? you'll be surprised at what you don't know. but first here's my take, in the midst of the extraordinary spectacle of nelson mandela's funeral, in a stadium with some 9 0,000 mourners including more than 90 heads of government. a small gesture got the world's attention. on his way he shook hands with the return to the right. the focus of that hand shake ricochetted around the world. understandably, because the man obama shook hands with was raul castro, president of cuba. remember the united states does not have diplomatic relations with cuba and has a -- many wondered whether this hand shake was the beginning of a great shift in policy. i hope so. let's begin by asking whether the existing

about a lot of things on this day of many, many developments our friend "new york times" columnist tom freedman, cb i news foreign correspondent, all star correspondent clarissa ward we welcome the managing editor of "time" magazine radika jones. and our friend jeffrey goldberg of the atlantic and bloomberg news. let's start first on iran thing. what do you take from what the iranian foreign minister told liz palmer this morning. >> not much, bob. the fact is that the iranians aren't in these negotiations by accident or tourism. the foreign minister and the new president to power. six men were allowed to run they were called, their names were mr. black, mr. black, mr. black, mr. black, mr. black, mr. light black. it turns out that 61% of the iranians all rushed to the guy who is just a little more moderate than anybody else. actually the word is there were 64% of the government just take this to 51%. what they were saying, tired of sanction, tired of being disconnected from the world. the iranians are in these negotiations for regime survival and the situation. fact that we sent them a little s

and we'll get analysis from a panel headed by tom freedman of the "new york times." it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again, well after ten days of mourning and ceremony nelson mandela was laid to rest today in his hometown of kunu, south africa. we'll have a full report later in the broadcast and the latest on the school shooting in colorado. but we begin this morning with breaking news from iran. earlier this morning our elizabeth palmer interviewed the iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif in tehran, she joins us now from tehran and, liz, he did make some news. tell us about it. >> he did indeed. on friday the u.s. announced that it was freezing the assets and transactions to dozens of companies for evading the sanctions against iran. and just at that time there were iranian diplomats putting the final details to the geneva agreement on iran's nuclear program. when they heard that announcement out of washington they put off the talks

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we have the ceos of pvh, pulitzer prize winning columnist tom freedman and steve swartzman. and yes, we are packaging all of this into the next three hours. it's hard to imagine. joe is going to be here very soon. a little bit of trouble with the tires today. yeah. pothole tied him up. right around new york. >> are you trying to generate some mail? >> andrew, you're standing by, correct? >> i am standing by and i have to admit that i am loving this moment. >> payback, right? >> as somebody who has had trouble once or twice on the george washington bridge getting close to arriving. but arriving on time, i'm now -- well, now we're one for one, i guess, because i had my one incident a couple years ago, and then i got close a couple of times. >> joe looks good. very dapper and he's so quiet. >> what was that, joe? >> keep the camera on me, please. >> that's the joe we know and love. anyway, joe is on his way. again, he had trouble and hit a pothole just outside of new york. he'll be here in just a little bit. >>> the global markets reacting to the fed's decision to begin taperin

we have the ceos of pvh, pulitzer prize winning columnist tom freedman and steve swartzman.nd yes, we are packaging all of this into the next three hours. it's hard to imagine. joe is going to be here very soon. a little bit of trouble with the tires today. yeah. pothole tied him up. right around new york. >> are you trying to generate some mail? >> andrew, you're standing by, correct? >> i am standing by and i hav