fully accountable. that was in may. by july president obama started referring to serious injuries as phony scandals. joining us our political panel tonight amy walter the hill s manager editor bob cusack and bill garety. comparison between the two. two very different people, of course. the issue, i think, for chris christie is he had very little choice. he had to come out yesterday and show that he was doing something about these people who wrote emails that all of us could see that said i actually was responsible for shutting this down. that was understandable that he did that the other thing it shows too, look. at the end of the day, they are going to be held accountable for the ultimate actions, not just for the press conference. right? so, how is chris christie going to be perceived two months from now versus how was he perceived in the immediate after the press conference. same thing with president obama.
its far more difficult for hour diplomats to know what to do next. jonathan, thank you. compounding all of this. north korea is the most corrupt nation in the world. tied with somalia and afghanistan as the most corrupt. that is according to a brand new survey from the watch dog group, transparency international. let s go over this. the manager editor of foreign affairs magazine is with us. good to see you. he s is going over to a list of the countries and we ll give him a lot to say here as well. we have some pictures i want to bring up on the monster board over here. these are the three countries that are the most corrupt in all the world, according to this list don t have any reason to doubt this. no political overtones. north korea, and how much maui geoff them. $1.2 billion since 1995. somalia $82.4 million per year, and afghanistan, $13 billion to bring $13 billion per year.
have faith that you will do this? there are procedures. not only between syria and the soviet, russia. there are official procedures through united nations agency of thank you very much. so that was the syrian foreign minister talking about his country s agreement to the russian plan to put its chemical weapons under its control. there are a lot moving developments and fast parts to this. our panel is here to tackle it all. joanne reed is the manager editor of the grio. and david corn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones and msnbc political analyst. gang, it s great to have you all here. i want to start with you. you have a piece up today entitled getting behind the russian plan. what s your reaction to the latest development that syria is
and the first category is vastly larger than the second category. there are lots of people who have extremist views in society, all sorts of views, not justicelamijustice la just islamist views. and looking at all the factors of the individual, their behavior, the family situation, how they re interacting, their finances, their communications, you try to predict and get in front of those who will turn to violence, but that is an incredibly hard problem. and the fact is you can t watch all of the people all of the time. you simply don t have the resources for that in the u.s. and our neighbors or our allies in places like the united kingdom have learned that over and over again as well. i mean, what we do know about this family, because there s been a lot of talk about the caucasuses and they were refugees from a brutal conflict in that area. let me bring in justin burke, who is a manager editor at
mike viqueira, thanks very much. a busy political day in nbc. let s turn to our political panel which is here with us. julian epstein is with law media group. here in new york city, joy reed, who s manager editor of the and at the white house, jonathan capehart. you re there at the white house. what do you make of this, another example of utter disrespect? reporter: i was not here for the rose garden ceremony, but i was rather shocked to hear about it. this is a give-and-take between the president and the press corps. here in the united states we value and prize the freedom of the press and the ability of the press to question the chief executive, the ability to question the president of the united states, but as in any place, there are rules and there