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Unexpected contentment that is settled upon me like an ancient ceremonial robe, warm and splendid, mislead but valued all the more for its belated retrieval. Randall robinson, thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. On this weeks newsmakers, dana rohrabacher. Hes chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on europe, eurasia, and emerging threats. We discussed a variety of Foreign Policy topics, including israeli and Israeli Palestinian peace talks. These makers is sunday on cspan at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. We wrote this about a year and a half ago, its called 10 letters. Its letters that president obama reads and i went back and found 10 of them who had written to the president. It has been a pretty good read. When that is done, then we go on to act of congress and another guy at the Washington Post and back in the 1970s there was a big difference between then and now it is just that these guys have written. Collision 2012 is written and there was a similar wri