u.s. administration about the reliability of this information, and as it seems, there are some differences within the security services on the reliability of the information, and of possible conclusions that should be drawn. >> let's assume that chemical weapons have been used. what does president obama have to do next? >> i think he is caught in a dilemma. it has been obvious in recent months that the obama administration does not want to intervene militarily in syria. it does not want to send weapons to the insurgents, but if this is really a red line for the obama administration, as the president has said, he would have to. either he loses credibility or he does something that he does not want to do. >> all the while, you get the feeling that president obama -- he is struggling not to look like george w. bush. if intervention has to happen, he wants it to be done with facts that we can believe in. >> yes, and i think that is a good idea because you never know where this information comes from. i think the u.s. administration should take its time just to find out if this really is reliab

u.s. administration about the reliability of this information, and as it seems, there are some differences within the security services on the reliability of the information, and of possible conclusions that should be drawn. >> let's assume that chemical weapons have been used. what does president obama have to do next? >> i think he is caught in a dilemma. it has been obvious in recent months that the obama administration does not want to intervene militarily in syria. it does not want to send weapons to the insurgents, but if this is really a red line for the obama administration, as the president has said, he would have to. either he loses credibility or he does something that he does not want to do. >> all the while, you get the feeling that president obama -- he is struggling not to look like george w. bush. if intervention has to happen, he wants it to be done with facts that we can believe in. >> yes, and i think that is a good idea because you never know where this information comes from. i think the u.s. administration should take its time just to find out if this really is reliab

u.s. administration had with some very dictatorial regimes back in the one nine hundred seventy s. we've got franco's spain pinochet's chile the genitor ruled greece they're all known to have committed appalling crimes with the support of the american administration and perhaps the most illustrative quotation within this huge release of cables comes from henry kissinger himself now he's quoted as saying the illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer in a conversation with a turkish from a separate official now so many critics that's one line that will. speak volumes about us foreign policy and we've already seen reports actually that site wiki leaks saying that the vatican may have collaborated with the us in supporting the pinochet coup in chile which we all know saw a very bloody regime come to power there's already a scandal in india over the release of the new cables as the late prime minister rajiv gandhi may have been a middleman for a swedish company trying to sell weapons to india there are also unconfirmed reports that cables are going to reveal t

u.s. administration so russia did not make it worse russia. took the only possible step from a country that is a great power and member of the security council so if people saw it in washington that russia would not react that is all just words and that america do whatever it wants or it's russia without russia responding it was a very wrong calculus now the u.s. administration is also saying there is a secret black list that has not been published yet but there are reports it contains a more serious names are for example the head of russia's chechen republic but i'm saying cut it off what do you what you know about that it almost an overhanging threat. while i sing that the meaning of the blacklist is to forbid it. the entrance of the united states. to a certain number of russian citizens and what i have heard about mr goodere if it is only what was published in the new york times is that there are some important personalities following the blacklist but the irony of all of this is that to my mind president obama has become hostage to this li

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u.s. administration seizes it to improve u.s. chinese relations maybe dealing with some of the cyber issues some of the economic issues, some probably issues, conceive my climate issues and i think it is potentially a fertile time for u.s. chinese diplomacy. >> rose: didn't the president say he would pivot to the united states to the east. >> pivot was unfortunate word but to place greater emphasis on the -- on asia, and then used the word rebalance, a better word, a more gradual adjustment. the analogy i use though is to michael and in godfather three, at one point he complains, i they keep pulling me back in and the administration is they want to rebalance towards asia, it is just -- in the business literature there is always a conflict or tension between the urgent and the important, and there is all of this urgent stuff coming from the middle east and i am not saying it is not important but there is truly important strategic stuff going on in asia and north america and at home and the challenge for the president is going to b

u.s. administrations have used corrupt language to manipulate the israeli palestinian track but is that the hallmarks for the u.s. foreign policy for that entire region or is it just exclusive to the israel palestine issue well i mean i think this kind of language is not exclusive to this conflict or to the united states i think. i was thinking that syria without what i want is that everything i give it i can think of many many instances i think that the arab israeli conflict and especially the palestinian israeli component of it which is the core is particularly susceptible to mis making and to language which is really fundamentally false i mean israel is a democratic and a jewish state where there are all kinds of rights that are denied to non jews so how much can it be democratic but we say it's a democratic state to be are we are with other countries for i understand that but those those critiques i think if you if you say x. x. country or y. countries democratic supposedly we should examine that in this case it tends to be passed over similarly people talk about security israeli securi

u.s. administrations have level threats and taken hostile action against my people including the imposition of sanctions this is especially true for the past two years they themselves have openly said that they are trying to impose crippling sanctions however they have seen for themselves that arabian people have managed to transform those threats into opportunity and at the moment iran is the seventeenth largest economy in the world regardless of sanctions or rainy and scientists have managed to build a rocket ship and send live creatures into space these are indications that the path of sanctions has been very much of what in actual fact they've done is deny an opportunity for their citizens and businesses and corporations to do big. this was a very lucrative radian market and i think we also have to note that these sanctions have no legal base to standoff because many countries including russia and china time and again have expressed their opposition to the sanish adds a lot of that wealth or it is at the guantanamo bay prison camp acknowledged this week the hunger strike among the camps

u.s. administration claims to be a fair broker to resolve the israel palestine conflict after forty four years of occupation and colonization of palestinian land what can we expect if anything from the obama administration is it time to reckon with the reality on the ground that is the one state solution. to cross-talk the john kerry visit to the middle east i'm joined by. dina friedman in washington she is a professor at the american university school of international science also in washington we have jason isaacson he is the american jewish committee director of government and international affairs and in philadelphia we cross the susan she is a writer political commentator and author of the book mornings in janine ok crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want susan visit by the u.s. secretary of state to the middle east anything new did you hear anything new anything promising. unfortunately no peter and frankly i think we need to stop talking about this fantasy peace process. you know twenty some years ago palestinians made an unprecedented compromise to relinqu

u.s. administration claims to be a fair broker to resolve the israel palestine conflict after forty four years of occupation and colonization of palestinian land what can we expect if anything from the obama administration is it time to reckon with.

u.s. administration cannot be trusted weave its control of the past. now some documents reveal the u.s. got itself dirty backing some regimes known to have committed brutal crimes including franco's spain and junta ruled greece but also wiki leaks says the vatican and washington supported the nine hundred seventy chill a coup that saw the bloody pinochet regime come to power the documents also reveal the late indian prime minister rajiv gandhi could have been a middleman for a swedish company selling arms to the country two big scandals threaten to blacken sweden's name as its secret police were reported to be spying on leftist citizens under a orders and that's amid reports the current swedish foreign minister could be our cia informa and we could weeks spokesperson christian hunston says the u.s. should thank asuncion for his efforts because he is dedicated to bringing historical records to the public attention when there is an attempt to keep them hidden although these documents have been declassified to be extremely difficult to approach them and assess them in their current form of

u.s. administrations have level threats and taken hostile action against my people including the imposition of sanctions this is especially true for the past two years they themselves have openly said that they're trying to impose crippling sanctions however they have seen for themselves that arabian people have managed to transform those threats into opportunity and at the moment their brand is the seventeenth largest economy in the world regardless of sanctions or rainy and scientists know how to manage to build a rocket ship and same life creatures into space these are indications that the path of sanctions has been very much of what the actual fact they've done is deny an opportunity for their citizens businesses and corporations to do business with a very lucrative the radian market we also have to note that these sanctions have no legal basis to stand all because many countries including russia and china time and again have expressed their opposition to this. so the u.s. china russia the u.k. france and germany have been opposed to easing economic sanctions in return for iran stopping

u.s. administrations have leveled threats and taken hostile action against my people including the imposition of sanctions that this is especially true for the past two years they themselves have openly said that they're trying to impose crippling sanctions however they have seen for themselves that arabian people have managed to transform those threats into opportunities at the moment iran is the seventeenth largest economy in the world regardless of sanctions or rainy and scientists had managed to build a rocket ship and same live creatures into space these are indications that the path of sanctions has been very much a fire you know.

u.s. intelligence shows the assad regime has used chemical weapons. the obama administration says intelligence officials have a varying amount of confidence syria twice used sarin gas dufring the civil war. the president asserted that syria's use of chem wall cal weapons would cross a red line. john mccain says now is the time to ask. >> now, i hope the administration will continue c.what we've been recommending now for over two years of the blood letting and massacre and that is to provide a safe area for the opposition to operate. >> mccain wants the u.s. administration to establish a no-fly zone and provide weapons to groups in the resistance that the u.s. can trust. he says he's not advocating routes on the ground. officials say the u.s. is not ready to escalate in syria and more proof is needed. >> new at 4:00 an emotional memorial in waco, texas to honor those who died in the fertilizer plant explosion. >> bells rang out for the first responders and two honorary first responders. the president attend tended today's memorial at baylor university thanking the people of we