affairs. great to have you come with us. great to be with you. shannon: if you were able to hear the interview, i continually pushed dr. erekat on the idea that this administration, the trump administration, was leaving up in the idea that all the parties there are the ones who will decide the borders, the nuances, the custodianship of the holy sites, that kind of thing won t change. he said it didn t matter, what they heard about jerusalem, the headline wasn t the u.s. is recognizing it as a capital, moving the embassy, and the new ones didn t mean anything beyond that. he s a professional and he should know better. what i was disturbed by in that interview is the fact that saeb erekat is talking about bloodshed, violence, and that is not the way to conduct a public that is not the way to speak to the american people. if america decides next, the palestinians are going to explode and have some kind of reaction of rage. i think he asked to answer, specifically, the concerns, th
and wine. it s incredible to be be like rome and make a universal system for the entire planet. i think they re intrigued by that it s scary though. that s the point. rome won t change. we are not rome. we re a democracy. a rome-like power sitting in the middle that has the power to alter what people see at the flip of a switch to raise up media entities or absolutely throttle them and choke them off like they re now doing in the news feed that, power is hard to square with basic fundamentals. i was struck with the hearings about the meddling in the election by russia. it was senator klobuchar who said we take seriously our elections. we re a representative democracy. it s not optional that we very elections that are free and fair. almost like she was instructing google, facebook and twitter, their lawyers, this is a nonbreakable commitment. you have to figure out how to make your sites not commitment. you have to figure out a way to make your sites not challenge our democracy. t
be the biggest hinge in history, better than alexander the great, better san caesar. in my book, the know it alls i talk about the scene in life of brian where they say what have the romans have done for you and it s like the roads are great and wine. it s incredible to be be like rome and make a universal system for the entire planet. i think they re intrigued by that it s scary though. that s the point. rome won t change. we are not rome. we re a democracy. a rome-like power sitting in the middle that has the power to alter what people see at the flip of a switch to raise up media entities or absolutely throttle them and choke them off like they re now doing in the news feed that, power is hard to square with basic fundamentals. i was struck with the hearings about the meddling in the election by russia. it was senator klobuchar who said we take seriously our elections. we re a representative democracy.
real departure of what we are used to. the immediate politics of this won t change. thank you for your thoughts. you can read the rest of stephen s analysis at cnn.com. up next, here in the newsroom, secretary of state rex tillerson speaking out in a rare cnn interview, what he is revealing ability hess plans for 2018. why he says he has never questioned the president s mental fitness. you are live in the cnn newsroo
do you feel like the scope of his responsibilities was appropriately defined? when you look at that ard, is it the name if there s any question about any of it. it would be very hard to say no under i think by virtue of the. i think he will have all the discretion that he needs. in terms of your own investigation at the house intelligence committee and the otherville tim many. do you think it will change what you get access to and when? it won t change in the sense that our investigation will