expectations. secretary kerry continues to work with the russian foreign minister lavrov on making arrangements for what would be a peace conference on syria in geneva, maybe in october. so all those things go forward. they re not flashy. they re not loud. i found in obama friday on the news conference this almost endearing naive faith that if he just keeps plugging away at governing and the other people keep making noise, that the governing side wins that, that americans are sick of partisan politics. i sort of like the smackdown of putin this week. i thought it was good. canceling the summit finally. we ve had enough, sir. he s got to save some face. we ve been slapped in the face by putin. before the election, he was sending messages he was going to have more flexibility. putin s an e egomaniac. there are two ways to process the egomania. he can say i stood up to the u.s. or, hey, i m essential to the world order. which one are rewe going to
the bored kid in the back of the classroom. a ruptured relationship with russia, as well, and the debate over nsa. here was the president making wisecracks about the leader of a major country, calling him a slouch in his posture. is there a strategy is the question. is there a big strategy? i think the strategy here is the russians signaled, according to people in the white house, that they were going to find some accommodation that would get edward snowden out of moscow. the u.s. was led to believe that, and then suddenly that changed, and that upset people. i think that obama s challenge because he has some big foreign policy issues coming at him is to keep momentum, and he s trying to do that through secretary kerry s tireless travel. secretary kerry has made six trips to the middle east and he actually has gotten arab/israeli peace negotiations started, contrary to many people s expectations. secretary kerry continues to work with the russian foreign minister lavrov on ma
not asked employees to sign separate nondisclosure agreements regarding events in ben ghazi. reporter: the state department says they are making arrangements for george bristol to answer questions about the defense department s response on that night in ben ghazi. john kerry is saying israel and the palestinians will meet again soon in washington to finalize a deal to resume their talks. kerry spoke with mahmoud abbas in ramallah. palestinians had been demanding geographic preconditions. those are preconditions which israel rejects. agreement that establishes the basis for resuming direct final status negotiations between the palestinians and the israelis. this is a significant and welcomed step forward. also in the middle east, several thousands protesters hitting the streets of egypt again today. this time to protest the ouster
save his own skin. what kind of hero is that? listen, he is going to be back here whether he likes it or not, this charade of him running around like a james bond will come to a swift end, you re not having friends with the russians and chinese, they re going to suck it out of him and find a reason to expel him. they don t have any need for him now that they have the information. speculation about what information he has. he says the nsa is spying on americans unconstitutionally and that we re spying on allies. the ambassador business. and run from the u.s. and run around with this game, save the best information to cut deals with russia and china and find people to help him out. don t crucify him for what you think he may i don t think you can call him two sides of the same coin, i don t think you can call him a hero without knowing what he was talking about and say it was unconstitutional, that we don t know either. i know his dad is making
save his own skin. what kind of hero is that? listen, he is going to be back here whether he likes it or not, this charade of him running around like a james bond will come to a swift end, you re not having friends with the russians and chinese, they re going to suck it out of him and find a reason to expel him. they don t have any need for him now that they have the information. speculation about what information he has. he says the nsa is spying on americans unconstitutionally and that we re spying on allies. the ambassador business. and run from the u.s. and run around with this game, save the best information to cut deals with russia and china and find people to help him out. don t crucify him for what you think he may i don t think you can call him two sides of the same coin, i don t think you can call him a hero without knowing what he was talking about and say it was unconstitutional, that we don t know either. i know his dad is making