Right, weve got to get almaliki. My view, my experience and the experience of every one of the american ambassadors who succeeded me in iraq is only the americans can actually be there and broker a political reconciliation. It cant they cant do it themselves for a whole lot of reasons. No other country can do it. I think that secretary kerry ought to be in baghdad. He ought to go there and he ought to go there and show that we really mean it. That almaliki is going to have to broaden and in effect the americans have got to get act i have active on the ground. Thats how you do it, its called diplomacy. Should Nouri Al Maliki go . I dont take a position. This is a democratically elected Prime Minister. He actually won the election just a couple of months ago. I dont think i dont think Public Comments he made yesterday critical of al maliki strengthen our hand in trying to persuade them to do the right thin thing. I would like to see an official trying to talk with al maliki, the sunnis a
A lot of selfies. Including one with the shows star, steve bushemi. I to this take think those were only flashes. None of those cameras had any film in them. When you walked the red carpet . Yes. And to get that many people to cooperate, to pretend they were not pretending. Well, they werent, but we did get introduced and they were like because what happened is you were so late because you didnt know where the bridge was, you were so late that all the stars arrived and they all go in last. So we walked through with them. So they were confused. They were like, theres a lot of customers. They thought we might be part of the andrew it served you well in that case. It did. Otherwise we would have been welcome but then you left and i walked the whole premier alone. He was this is what a the mandate. It wasnt a mandate, but theres wing men and theres buddies and i was there. I was there for you. You were there for ten minutes, andrew, and then he left and i sat for a hour at boardwalk empire
They can make a guest they can make a recommendation. If an ambassador makes a recommendation like that i have never seen anybody resist that. Where you get more friction will be if you get people who are nervous in washington saying everybody should go home and the ambassador is saying we can handle this. It is too important to leave. That is one of the big dangers of in what has gone on in the discussion of benghazi. To my mind, that will make senior politicians in washington, not in the field, so afraid of having a casualty and their being attacked politically that they will force our diplomats deeper into bunkers where we will not be able to do our jobs and we will be functionally stupid and well will not we will not be given good advice. Host this is one of the issues you brought up at the benghazi hearing. Guest i think it is one of the biggest dangers, that we will treat security as an absolute. That this will happen whether future administration is republican or democrat the da
Hoping well keep the world at bay, hoping we will sustain ourselves with a reduced presence in the world and a radically reduced capacity for defending ourselves, defending our allies and projecting our power. So that would be sort of an an litic way to present why we are in decline. Its not a conscious choice. I dont want to play the amateur psychiatrist or even a professional one in this. I dont want to look in obamas soul but if you look at where modern liberalism is taking us, it is to recreate the choice the europeans made in the late 1940s after the second world war. The problem for us, and i think the problem for the west is if we decline and use our resources internally, who will protect us, who will protect the free world, who will keep open the sea lanes and who will prevent the rise of a hegamon like china or the chaos that will ensue if theres no leader or dominant power in the world. Its a very long answer to a short question. And the reason i did that is because on televi
Deal with help deal with the humanitarian crisis. Meanwhile, the sixth air drop by u. S. Military plans near mt. Sinjar was conducted tonight. Are we on the verge of getting in deeper in iraq . And in the wake of a shooting death of an unarmed teenager Michael Brown by a Police Officer, what will black parents tell their sons, and how will we all keep them safe . All right, don. But we begin with reaction to the death of Robin Williams from two of his best loved costars. We talked about this last night. He teamed up with Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg, you remember, to raise some 80 million for people in need with a series of those comic relief specials. Billy crystal tweeted these words, which were simply no words. And then Whoopi Goldberg, she agreed, tweeting Billy Crystal is right there. Are no words. We will have much more tonight on cnn spotlight, Robin Williams with Nischelle Turner at 11 30. Right after this broadcast. Were going to begin with breaking news out of iraq. The