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Work on this kind of issue, make sure to fund those agencies in order to give them capacity to do so, but also, i think that we should also retain our anger at some of this. i dont think that we should just learn to accept that this is the new way of life. i dont want there to be more attacks like manchester and i dont want to see it in the u.s. either. leland: we keep hearing it every time in retrospect, if you see something, say something, a neighbor said i didnt say anything about it. rob rob...

Post" column this week. lets get started. so lets make sense of all of this turmoil in the middle east and where its likely to lead. joining me now to do just that, robin wright is a longtime foreign correspondent having reported from an astounding 140 countries. her latest book is rock the casbah, and farwaz gerge is tis london school of his latest book is "the knew middle east." welcome back to both of you. rob robin, let me start with you. you had a terrific peet in "new york times" a year ...

Not necessarily the situation on the ground with many of their supporters. so it is an indication that the leadership of the organization still subscribes to peaceful demonstrations, although there are now some cracks within the organization, and weve seen a rise of some of the militancy in the sinai peninsula. but as a civil war in a pure sense, that is very difficult to project right now, given the fact that you still have a very strong functioning central government, security forces, and stat...

candidate for the republican nomination for the president, has been kind enough to join us in our studios in washington, d.c., and hes joining us live this morning after what was surely a very stressful and busy day yesterday. i do hope you got some sleep, and thank you for being with us. our viewers do thank you, too. >> thank you, robin, and it was a busy day but i survived. >> this is why it was a busy day, and were going to talk about many issues, but lets start with whats at the t...

Professor nasr, thank you for coming on joining me. >> thank you. >> robin, steve, you both were listening to his assessment. he sent a signal that a lot of people say, just because khaddafy is gone doesnt mean the job is done. >> i think hes right. as i just tweeted a moment ago youre going to see a real power struggle. i think this was a very big accomplishment. remember when president obama decided to support the no-fly zone and he went down to brazil. it was the first time in history -- >> u...

Enforcement experts determine what exactly unfolded. if you were still working at the white house right now, what would you want to know as far as a federal official reporting to a president of the united states is concerned? >> talk to the secretary of homeland security. transportation security administration, are there random measures we can immediately put in place until we better understand the facts. the answers to the questions tom mentioned. and we can put them in place right now to give ...

Anymore. thats protected quite differently than the rest of the country. typically, anywhere else in the country, it is very difficult to stop a pilot that would want do this. >> hold on for one moment. we have an eyewitness to the plane crash joining us now who is also involved in the rescue efforts. rob robin, lets talk a little bit about what you saw. pick up the story. where sxwru what were you seeing? >> okay. i was -- doing my normal workday. i was heading north to do a -- replace window i...

To get everybody down. in the process we broke out another window to a better spot where we could do this. and then we moved the -- ladder to a secure area near a ledge and appropriated against the building and helped all five people out of the building. physically held their waist and when i put their arm around their back. so they would not fall out as they climbed out the windowsill which was maybe waist high. they had to climb up over a windowsill and on to my ladder. >> robin, tom fuentes, ...

Actual photograph or first-hand report from a u.s. asset they will not confirm anything. there are celebrations in the city of sirte this morning. it has been quite the last six months if you think about when all this started. i want to bring in two people here that are great experts on this stuff. steve clemmens and robin wright, from the woodrow wilson center. rob robin, you have sat face to face with moamar khaddafy. you were telling me you remember interviewing him back in 1980. this is a ma...

Is that technically overstepping what their mission was? >> natos mission is to basically help protect the people of libya and to deal with command or control. if you have a very libyan view of what control it is, attacking a convoy would make sense. i think it is controversial. right now when something like this happens i completely agree with robin. gives the country to develop a new narrative. sort of a post moment thinking about what happened in romania. the down sides are and i think it is ...