What you think of its performance over the past few days . And has done many things. They also have attacked china and arrested many people in the media. Thank you. Now, every time they dont like something, i dont think they would do this again. But as i said, you know, i dont think that this could happen again. But of course, people will refuse any dictatorship. Today we have a past president and ousted president and no president. The country will where we always have one president , it is either worthy either. Everything is new for us. For the first time we see that. And, you know, in regards to the revolution, what did you say . You trust it . Well, i do not agree. There are many things at the army has done in the past few days. But there are conflicting reports for what has happened in the people who have died. I do not think the army would have gone and just like that. But there was something happening the revolutionary guard or something. This is the physical process today, to tell them not to use Excessive Force is one. Especially if there is no evidence. It was taken in custody and he was the one who incited all of this. Anyway, i do not want to go into many names. You never know, they might come back. [laughter] but i am against it, i am against this kind of, you know, but you must expect wonders to happen. Things would be restored once we put down the foot and the military will take a step back. I know all of these people who are in government. They are all excellent. For the time being it is a very good picture with egyptians. Is a roadmap for the economy when you have two thirds of the population almost under the age of 30, and about 90 unemployed. How do you deal with this, as each of you have a lot of resources, corruption, a lot of other things that go with it. The time that i spend, we are not very familiar with certain aspects of it. But they said it is done in the United States where you buy shares and whatever. No, there was never some serious thought given to the economy, where as it is the main problem that is almost on the brink that has gone down by half the foreign currency also. All of what you are saying is true. Inflation is part of the economy and it can be hard time the first thing, you know, the third thing is a topnotch economist she is the vice Prime Minister for economics. People must get better they must get their house in order it is the time to be behind the government in order to get the consensus that permits them to get things done. But you have to explain to people that you never treat people as if they are people. You treat them as children. So you have to tell them the truth. What we need today is transparency especially if they dont a deliver or perform. I think that this would be in the cards in the future and it has to be in any case. Thank you were speaking. I have a relative that was just sentenced to five years in prison in egypt. I work with the National Democratic institute and you mention that tomorrow could develop into a grassroots organization. What do you think are the chances for someone like me or an institute to be able to return to egypt to do the work that we do to help parties. I have worked with them and i have defended them. I have been attacked for defending them. I believe that the sole judgment was politicized. So i believe that the people in charge now know what the ngos are. I think that what we need are ngos that must abide by the law. That is that. No one should violate it at all and the rule of law should apply to everyone. I believe it is very possible that this law will be passed an amended and you will be able to follow the law. Im with the American Chamber of commerce in egypt. Id like to ask you about economic assistance and your views about that. You talked about the need for this charity and perform on the ground in egypt because of the perceived austerity would have that would have to happen. What are your views on that and also a bandaid rather than anything significant carrying a political influence. Now the tables have been turned, you have seen the united arab emirates. And how they should act responsibly in terms of supporting egypt. They give. Today is a very serious transitional time. In particular for the economy. Because the unrest and calm in this we must put a stop to it. At lease create jobs, that is what you dont have. The creation of jobs, you dont have Productive Industries that are laborintensive. So i think that the economy is the number one priority. But i have reservations about the imf. Because it is the thing to do and as it is with social unrest as it is in egypt, i dont think that this is the best recipe for chaos. As the recipe for another resistance movement. More people would be affected by that than lack of democracy. We would actually have to think twice to go by the book, it is to see what is the social effects of austerity measures. In 1977 they did the same thing. This is the right thing to do. The reluctance was not so much those measures, but it was a government and they didnt trust and whom they knew didnt have the support of the people and now it is going to be different with the new minister of finance and the new feeling in the country and of course they would be worried about the security. They would be worried about the violence. Thank you very much. We have had an extra 15 minutes of questions and answers. I know that we are exhausted and im afraid there are many questions that many of you want to ask. I apologize if you didnt get a chance to ask. We will have one last question and it will be right here. Thank you for your presentation this afternoon [inaudible] he painted a picture of egypt and this is his style. My question to you is are you optimistic about egypts future. We are all optimistic. But how long . How long when the clouds are over when the sky is clear, you mean. We cannot say more than that. Nobody can predict or hope and we can be wishful so it remains for me to thank everyone what i like best is the questions. Youre watching cspan2 with politics and Public Affairs featuring live coverage of key Public Policy events and the latest nonfiction authors and books. Join in the conversation on social media sites. In a few moments, domestic counterterrorism. In a little more than three hours, the Senate ForeignRelations Committee on state department nominees. After that, we will reair it the middle east is to form. On our next washington journal, we will talk with tom price of georgia about the oklahoma administrations oneyear delay of the employer mandate portion of the Health Care Mandate law. And steve cohen joins us to discuss immigration legislation and other items on the congressional agenda. Later the chaplain of the National Center for Education Statistics and Barbara Weller will discuss education priorities. Plus your phone calls and emails and tweets. Each morning at seven eastern on cspan. We wanted a representative look at american life. I also was interested in the recurring pattern that you see with opera and jc and sam walton, people who really began in very humble places and they are not unlike the main ones that reinvent themselves as something new and finding new language that is riveting to americans. Through that, they build an empire and they cannot stop that. It is almost like you have to keep growing as a person or a brand. Eventually it sort of sets in order becomes a parody of itself and in the longer seem to be producing something good. They just continue to produce book after book. Oprah is on the cover of every issue of her magazine. So they become this celebrity that we are familiar with, those that dominate our imaginations in a way that come to replace institutions that have faltered in its period of time. George packer talks about free americans whose american way of life has failed on sunday at 8 00 p. M. On cspan2 q a. Now a House Homeland Security hearing on the Boston Marathon bombings and the domestic counterterrorism efforts are among the witnesses include Rudy Giuliani and director michael leiter. This is a little bit more than three hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting of Homeland Security is meeting today to continue our series of hearings examining the boston bombings of april 15, 2013. I recognize myself in opening statement. I want to thank the witnesses were clearing the today. This is an open hearing and today we will vote to receive classified testimony from department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism center. Unfortunately the fbi has refused to appear in continuous reviews this committees appropriate request for information and documents crucial to investigation into what happened in the city of boston. Three months ago there was a terrorist attack in our country. It is this committees responsibility to find out how we did not the it coming. It concerns me greatly and the problem at preventing the boston bombings includes being witnessed here in this room. The information belongs to the American People. It does not belong solely to the fbi and i sincerely hope that they do not continue to stonewall our inquiry into how this happened. As i said when i started the investigation and we are going to find out what happened and what went wrong and how to fix it. I will not be satisfied until we get the answers to the American People deserve. Justice is just beginning. Today we turn to making sure what he did is prevented from ever happening again. Just weeks ago i walked the streets of boston with my colleague and while the citys resilience and strength were obvious everywhere we went, and this includes our counterterrorism efforts into 9 11. We will look at how far we have come in what is changed to better protect the homeland. Today by looking at other domestic terror attacks on our soil in addition to the boston bombings, we seek to identify systematic vulnerabilities in our defenses could help to prevent these attacks. Since 9 11 the great challenge for Homeland Security are gratis remains. Much information is available and we must make sure that we have the best information for sharing intelligence. In this case, the fbi had investigated the older suspect and his travel overseas to a hotbed of geodesy terrorism ultimately, this type of failure to follow up must now continue this is not what the United States faces today. Al qaedas magazine encourages other extremist to conduct similar attacks. Terrorist within the u. S. Who are inspired by jean hottest rhetoric present a new threat and must be looked at as any less deadly but those abroad. In light of boston, it is more important than ever to find weaknesses that can be fixed for before another attack is attempted for june of 2009, killing one soldier and wounding another, Carlos Bledsoe spent 16 months in yemen added to hottest training camp. He had been interviewed twice before the shooting. Law enforcement agencies were concerned that he may have ties to extremist groups that did not pursue the matter, this shooting at fort hood in november of 2009 is another example of government officials either failing to recognize or failing to pursue a credible threat. A year prior to the terrorist attack, where he killed 13 people and wounded 43 others. Ultimately this information was not shared with fort hood. It is another example of the agencies failing to connect the dots. His father reported his sons extremism and hatred of the west to the u. S. Embassy but one agency failed to alert another. However this Computer System does not share information effectively among databases and consequently he fell off the radar screen to prevent the bomb from going off. Finally the Boston Marathon bombings. When agencies failed to share critical information about terrorists, they fail to see the full picture that appointed could point to an imminent attack. We still do not know if the fbi is was alerted, but we do know that no action was taken. And the Deputy Director of the fbi said even if they had been notified about the travel, the case was closed and it would not have been reopened. These events bring to light two areas that deserve scrutiny. The first is being stoked by between agencies and the second for whether our agencies need to update their policies in order to be noble enough to correct the dynamic threat to this country. It is easy to see why this must be done. Especially when we read the words of our enemies in the most recent issue of the magazine. A poem written declares in what is part of your goal. Whenever i move around around my waist, i wish that i am in america. Chilling words make it clear that enemies applaud the actions and they will try again and again. And we must be better prepared. The chair now recognizes the Ranking Member of the committee. Thank you for calling todays hearing. I want to thank the witnesses for agreeing to appear. We will explore five terrorist incidents that have occurred within the United States since the attack of september 11, 2001. In june of 2009, Carlos Wetzel shot two people at an Army Recruiting center in larocque, arkansas. He was found guilty and is serving a life sentence. In november 2009, a major in the u. S. Army opened fire at at fort hood, texas. Jury selection for his trial begins this week. In december of 2009, a Christmas Day bomber was arrested in michigan after trying to detonate an explosive aboard a plane and he was convicted and is serving a full life sentence in a super max prison in colorado. In may of 2010 he tried to detonate a bomb in times square and he was convicted and is serving a life sentence in federal prison. In april of 2013, two bombs detonated during the Boston Marathons killing three people and wounding 260 individuals in one suspect dead and the other macs in turn makes his first public appearance in federal court today. So i would like to begin todays hearing by pointing out the similarities in the limited selection. They have been convicted and are serving sentences. It appears that the people who committed these attacks were radicalized throughout the United States. In at least two cases the primary means appears to have come from homeland contact. At least three cases they were young men and it was seen that these cases stood for several propositions. First, the federal court system is perfectly capable of handling terrorism cases. As a matter fact, in 2009 alone, department of justice saw more terrorism related charges and any other federal crime. Second, is none of these cases were carried out by an organized group, it was seen that terrorists had changed their methods and they had shifted their focus to identifying particular individuals. A change in tactics that cause us to change our response. Here the response should focus on acts perpetrated by extremist. Because none of these attacks were carried out by an organized group, we can conclude that our efforts abroad have been successful in disrupting their networks. Because these attacks involve violent radicalization of disillusioned young men beyond teaching and Community Leaders to effectively engage in these situations which may cause these routes of anger to grow. Prevention is likely to be more Cost Effective than surveillance or trials or wars. While this focuses on attacks carried out by muslim americans, these lessons we should take from this hearing and should not focus on any particular religious group. We must expand our focus. By now we should know that terrorist violence is not limited to any ideology or nation. As the law center reported in march of 2013, the number of conspiracy minded patriot groups on the american radical right reached an alltime high in 2012. The fourth Consecutive Year of growth. They concluded that these groups will continue to grow and become more militant during president obama second term and due to the National Debate we have applied them to the evolving face of terror, both at home and abroad. Additionally, we are here to be proactive and we should focus on the vulnerabilities that remain in the construction contract constructive accents available to the congress. We need to understand why one of the accused bombers was listed on to federal databases but available to travel to russia and we need to understand the vast and most costeffective way to fix that problem we can find a solution to point the finger. The choice is ours. The Christmas Day bomber even though terrorist do not board the flight in the United States, the government spent about 800 million and today those machines have been removed from the airports because americans decided that they were not willing to give up their privacy for security. A few years and 800 million later, we have found a solution that allows us to preserve privacy while maintaining security. Also we are here to be proactive and we need to understand that solutions could not be reached with dialogue and an open discussion of the facts. In the least at least two of the cases we are here to examine and they have yet to be tried in a court of law. What a verdict has been rendered, i hope that we can look at the Boston Marathon cases and it may include words spoken in this room. Since september 11, we look forward to a full discussion of actions in a bipartisan manner. I yield back. I think the Ranking Membe