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Obama gave in cairo and very much like the speech president bush made at the islamic center shortly after the 9/11 attacks. that its outreach to the islamic world. what is so distinct about it and different is that president bush engaged in what he thought was nation building, trying to push a democratic agenda. president obama along with outreach to the islamic world also had a pretty tough message about equal rights and promotion of democracy, and that is what is really missing. this is a spee...

Speech will be in saudi arabia on islam to leaders of muslim countries. saudi arabia is preparing. look at those balloons. >> wow. >> for the presidents visit. you see american flags, billboards, all of this. apparently, theyre having a concert, we hear, with toby keith, for the president? pulling out all the stops. lets pull in our fareed zakaria, host of "fareed zakaria gps." on a much more serious note than that concert that theyre having, do you think that this could be a moment of reset for...

Serious counterterrorism, national security expert, that this action, in fact, will do less to support our safety and security, will cause great antagonism with the countries that we share information and intelligence with. . and to just pick up on what isis has said since the executive order applauding it for helping thunderstorm recruit and inflame the muslim world. we had two presidents with bush and obama both jund that it could view as a wor on islam. . with one, the president trump has cha...

Work more closely with russia. i have with me now jim sciutto, national correspondent, mike baker, former cia covert operations officer, great to see both of you. jim sciutto, just beginning with these two men, tell me more about them and how seriously will they be considered as contenders? >> i think big picture, one, these positionings matter. they are big powerful positions and, two, any sense that donald trump was going to move towards the center as president i think at least with these ea...

She has now been very critical of radical islam and islam in general. her movie was fierce. they wound up pressuring certain schools like the university of michigan to cancel screenings of the film and now for the first time, brandeis university, the one that revoked her honorary, degree, its president fred lawrence is explaining his decision to take away that intended honor. in an e-mail he wrote a select group quote, outside groups played no role in the ultimate decision. that claim, however i...

Hey, parents, you think you know what your kids should be learning in school? shut up and obey. >> these standards, if youre not familiar with them, they are in many ways problematic. chapters in these textbooks that focus on islam and footnotes paid towards christianity. when you say two plus two equals six, theyre not being corrected to get the right answer. thats your problem as your child is not as brilliant as you thought. >> the problem is the secretary of education, former head of chicago...

Stand by for a moment. lets take a closer look at brian todds report on islam and these two suspected terrorists. >> reporter: new information on tamerlan tsarnaevs perspective on islam. friday, a mosque leader is giving a service. according to mosque officials it was too much for tamerlan tsarnaev. >> some people said that he said something to the effect you cannot, you know, compare or make a parallel between our prophet and a nonmuslim. some people said that he referred to the person who was ...

Of some things he doesnt mention in the speech. human rights, democracy, freedom, liberty, choose your term. but what he doesnt ask in this speech is wheres all this extremism coming from? were against it. were going to join together to fight it. but whats our theory of it? why now? whats happening in the islamic world? the answer cant just be jailing everybody. and the president doesnt provide an explanation for why there is so much extremism in the islamist world and how we can address it othe...

Relations. in other words, weve got a lot of brain power and a lot of experience in the middle east to discuss the presidents speech. robin, i want to begin with you. the speech, and we have some excerpts now, speak of something of a different message than weve heard from donald trump before on islam. certainly not saying islam hates america. how is that kind of message likely to be received in saudi arabia today? is it a credible message? >> well, it will depend a lot on what happens after pres...