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Right now all indicators are that this is the work of extremist elements, those that really -- ultimately came into the being after the fall of president morsi. so a lot of people are saying sths as a result of what happened back in june with the removal of the president morsi. but today's attacks were extremely symbolic. they happened on third anniversary of the january 25th revolution and happened in the heart of cairo targeting buildings that were supposed to be particularly the headquarters supposed to be heavily guarded. they carry not only a strategic significance but symbolic one. >> th...

Spike in violence in iraq where we're now back to levels from 2008 in terms of violence. what is the connection there? >> the connection is awful. bottom line is prime minister maliki, a shiite, instead of sewing sectarian reconciliation, he's exacerbated a tax on sunnis and arrested and roundup prominent sunni politicians and as a result basically pushed most of the prominent sunnis into the hands of more extremist elements in western iraq. that's given al qaeda a base once again which to launch attacks into syria as well into iraq. moreover, maliki is facilitating iranian arms transfers into...

In the 2000s, particularly if you look at iraq and libya. i think that's part of his motivation is to make russia relevant to ensure it has a leading role. now, he is also concerned about instability in the region. the russians would not like president assad to step aside unless they know that whatever follows him is going to again ensure stability and prevent radical jihadists coming to power. i think the other goal is to ensure that doesn't happen, because if you did have extremist elements come to power after assad, then that could have a major impact on the region and on russia itself, whi...

Moral support, physical support, supplies going at lest ast off the moderate group of the free syrian army. we have been talking over the last several day thousands. who are the rebels? who is actually fighting against bashar al assad? and there is a war within the war. half of the rebels pretty much are moderates. perhaps the other half are groups that scud be extremists. al qaeda among them. and the moderates had been putting their hope and their faith in the united states. and they had been telling their own constituents, help is coming. and if help doesn't come, they're going to lose a lot...

Here it is. who winds up being benefitted by this? who takes over? do you improve the situation? are you helping al qaeda or having extremist elements? >> that gets to the obvious question that we don't know why this is being done. this is no stated intended outcome. we know about these unintended consequences being thrown around. how do we want this to end? over a year and a half ago when the death -- or around a year and a half ago when it was around 10,000, there was a meeting and the russians said there is one inevitable question, we never had an answer to that and that goes to the fact we...