you well going forward and thank you for spending the time with us today. i m sorry for your loss. thank you. thank you, sir. let s go back to alisyn. i think this is the 20th one of these that we ve covered, and all over the country, different types of communities, usually some unique circumstances in each one, but the same questions, time and time again. and people need to remember the people who are the most hungry for answers about how to stop this, how to avoid it the next time, it s not the media and it s certainly not the politicians, it s the victims families. they are the ones so desperate in their need to not have other families suffer the way they did. of course they are, chris. yet you hear in other people s voices resignation, a face fata a sort of hopelessness of, well, here we are again. everyone is just waiting to somebody to take some action.
one of the things that was not available to secretary kerry and this was widely reported at the time was military options. so when we met with the russians on many occasions, he didn t have necessarily the diplomacy backed up by the threat of force, that leverage to get the russians to take seriously real diplomatic solutions. well that may be different now. i know and it was very clear that secretary mattis very narrowly defined this mission and made it clear that the focus militarily remains on isis, and that they weren t going to expand the mission, but still you ve got to believe that this strike rattled the russian cage a little bit and i think that secretary tillerson should fata advantage of that. general mattis today they would that it s not in russia s best interest for it to spiral out of control. do you agree with that? i think i do, i think that s a very accurate statement.
failure to find a compromise with palestinians. israel s prime minister fired back, calling the speech a biased attack against his nation. secretary kerry did not reserve all his criticism for israel, admitting palestinian officials share blame for tension between the two sides as well. in the most recent wave of palestinian violence has included hundreds of terrorist attacks in the past year, including stabbings, shootings, vehicular attacks and bombings. many by individuals who have been radicalized by social media. yet the murderers of innocents are still glorified on fata websites including showing attackers next to palestinian leaders following attacks. cnn s oren lieberman joins us from jerusalem. the secretary intended for this to be a statement on his vision for peace, but this was received in the prime minister s words as a lecture and one they did not need nor want.
report. they ve been under krscrutiny. he s pulling lower. a lot of it is i think sometimes a candidate is undone when they re proved as totally not smart on issues. how do i say it politely? why don t i let casey take it from here. how did ben carson perform? we ve seen it on the campaign trail. we ve seen national security pop up in the news. he struggled to answer questions about who was advising him and what they were telling him and where he was getting his information. his speech raised a lot of eyebrows. the audience was definitely interested to talk about it on their way out. he read it very carefully. his aids say he wrote it all himself. i want you to take a listen to this one particular section where he was talking about hamas. the challenge is to split between fata and hamas.
those patients face him in federal court for his sentencing. they came here to court to read victim impact statements. it was one emotional story after another. maggie dorsey told the court after chemotherapy treatments she did not need, she s now a shadow of her former self. and another woman read her husband s statement who died. his statement read i believe dr. fata knowingly and purposely treated me for the wrong cancer. i am in hospice. it is my dying wish that dr. fata be imprisoned for the rest of his life. for his part, fata did not acknowledge the patients in court. the patients are dealing with a number of ailments as a result of his malpractice. facing him in court did not bring him peace. i should have never look at him. he just gets me so upset now and