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World today. what is it. >> greatness in russia he must defy the biggest power in the world, the united states. he has to demonstrate democracy is function institute. he is sick and tired of playing window politics, he doesnt demonstrate that democracy doesnt work elsewhere. almost every major country supporting all groups trying to destroy the political status quo are creating a mess all over the place. >> if you were trumps friend what would you tell him that he may react to that had he is bei...

Al qaeda and every jihadist group will use syria as an example to tell young desperate muslims, democracy doesnt work, peaceful protests doesnt work. only violence works, and asaad will go down the history as a monster of the century, actually as worse than any other arab tyrant, as the butcher of the century. >> i have to go. it is unbelievable to see, and especially if you look at the pictures of aleppo and as you said, a scar on the obama presidency. well continue to discuss more of that. tha...

Us, i mean, there is a responsibility of the international community to protect civilians. theres actually a united nations resolution. this is about all of us who must demand that this carnage must end. this must stop. and the regime has already won and the fact that they are already escalating even more after basically they won everything and they want to crush aleppo, because basically they want to send a message, never question the regime, never challenge the regime, never ask reform. but wh...

Democracy doesnt work unless the media does its job. the media doing its job means a free media. its protected in the first amendment. a free media. >> you know what? the media is already talking about this. how much more do they want to hear on tv? if you turn on msnbc and cnn every day they are talking about global warming. this is november coincidence that every day the viewer ship gets smaller and smaller. miles per hours are tired of hearing about this -- americans are tired of hearing abou...

Leadership. >> its against democracy and freedom. >> when are people going to learn. democracy doesnt work. >> lets get to our panel. joining us now, the latino and democratic strategist. part of the presidents problem is hes not fighting so much the republican party as he is fighting almost the republican media establishment. almost a tv version of a political party. >> first of all, i have to give kudos. one of the favorite movies. i like the way you get them into the dialogue. we often forget...

Walks of life, minorities, women, all kinds of representatives both on the political spectrum and on the demographic spectrum. thats going to be very difficult. thats not something that egypt historically has been used to because really the bottom line is egyptians havent been used to practicing politics. that in itself is ground breaking for egyptians. how to compete for power peacefully, how to share it, how to use it with a lot of responsibility. thats on one hand. worse case scenario, we can...

Groups. in the last couple of weeks in egypt after this military coupe, we are hearing groups like al qaeda and other extremists saying we told you democracy doesnt work, if you are an islamist political party the west and backers will never let you come to power. thats why theyre calling on supporters to take up arms. theyre taking root in the northern part of sinai in egypt. were not saying its al qaeda. al qaeda inspired ideology is on the rise. that has egyptian officials and western officia...

This day will kind of last in islamist mythology as the day that their democratic gains were reversed. im worried about the implications of islamists saying we tried democracy, they wouldnt let us govern, maybe we have to try something else. and we have to be very concerned about how radicals will use this to justify their argument. al qaeda and others have been saying for years that democracy doesnt work, violence is the only way. so its worth being very concerned about the implications. >> yea...

Thats whats happened. the negative mess sthage is tha other extremists told you democracy doesnt work and here is the evidence. >> they hoped for the renaissance a year ago when they took power. compare for me as we finish up, july 4th, 2013, the day after, compare that to february 12th, 2011, the day after hosni mubarak resigned. >> the day after hosni mubarak resigned i think there was real joy across the country. egypt was a much more united nation. today, two years on, egypt is a deeply divi...

Public administration wouldnt it be different? >> eric: ill say it three times in the show. democracy doesnt work until the media does its job. the reason why that is important -- thats one. >> dana: im writing it down. >> eric: only one career, only one job description in the constitution. its freedom of the press. why? so we dont have tyrant governments taking over. the media needs to do its job. when white house leans on a reporter, especially one like bob woodward who has been around 50 year...