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This is getting play. the world is watching this sort of thing. i wonder how much you think theres a foreign policy implication that weighed into the presidents decision in coming out and making the statement on friday? >> i think there are foreign policy implications, but i think whats ironic is that previous -- prior to this happening, the arab world is the arab and muslim world is actually very disappointed with president obama. they feel like he hasnt met up with the expectations set in his ...

Protected that you dont like. especially whether it comes to the first amendment, which protects hateful speech. even setting aside hateful speech, you might say to me, chris, do you support the conservative weekly magazine, "the national review"? what would i say? i dont really agree with much of what they publish. in fact, some of it is downright awful. but i certainly dont want anyone attempting to stop them from publishing. support just isnt the right verb to use. do i support justin biebers...

Very imperative responsibility if we want to be able to talk to muslim majority countries and to muslims around the world. so the speech of obama talking to americans is very important but us together, at our level we should be much more committed to change these mentalities of victimhood. >> this is a discussion that is going to go on for a long time, clearly. tariq ramadan, james zogby, thank you both so much for joining me. >> thank you. and to join another discussion about a claim that vic...

Criticism towards the american policy in afghanistan and iraq and what i called the unilateral support towards the israeli government, not respecting the palestinian rights. so, it was at that moment, under the bush administration. >> why are you back and taking such a public profile, high profile? >> look, because, in fact, this story with the previous administration is over. now, its really for me to come to the essential and the essential is to say, for example, as a european and as a western...

Living together. >> so president obama, as we mentioned, as the world knows, has sort of charted a different course toward the muslim world. that speech in cairo was quite revolutionary. has the promise of that speech been fulfilled, even in part over the last year? >> i think that we have to be constructively critical. many things are the same and remain the same. what he came with is a new vision and new discourse, a new way to talk to the muslims and talk about our diversity and living togeth...

Megyn: the white house is ticked off because they dont want i will raise building more settlements. and building settlements in jerusalem. thats where the showdown got off the rails on policy. is the white house policy such a departure from what we have seen under past administrations? >> absolutely. this goes back to last years cairo speech. will president obama attempting to appease muslims in the middle east and he raised palestinian-arab expectations. and in the past under president clinton,...

Most important issue is the voting rights act? not any of the things that bolling picked on? >> there would not be opportunity for blacks to get the unemployment they have, education they had, if not for voting rights. and what eric gave you, if you look at virtually any demographic group, theyre doing worse in terms of economics in the last ten years. the question is -- >> thats not true. >> do you believe blacks in this country are worse off than they were when martin luther king gave that spe...

When president obama takes the podium tomorrow. i did a lot of homework today. over the last 50 years, since 1963, since martin luther kings speech, lets see where we are in the black community. socioeconomics in the black community. theyre six times more likely to be incarcerated than whites in federal prison. 25.8% of african-americans live below the poverty line, more than double the white population. if youre african-american, youre six times more likely to be a victim of homicide in america...

Act of aggression against the united states by a hostile power. >> but the rise of barack obama was an emphatic turning away from the bush foreign policies. bushs global war on terror vanished from the presidential vocabulary. the middle east and all its problems would be managed through smart diplomacy. >> thank you. obama began what his critics called an apology tour. in a june 2009 speech in cairo, he suggested that bushs freedom agenda for the muslim world had been a clumsy overreach. >> no ...

To hell. we didnt. where does if -- it stand now? >> the things you quoted from carnet and administration... this has nothing to do with us or our policies, its about a video is either willfully obtuse or simply clueless. what has happened is, as you pointed out, beginning with the cairo speech, obama changed american policy on the theor theatreason that people hated us was because we were tough. they hated us because of iraq and because of guantanamo. they hated us because of the torture -- he ...