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we're looking at live pictures of tahrir square where it turned violent. earlier today in yemen, protesters stemmed the u.s. embassy in the capital city of sanaa. security forces used tear gas to disperse demonstrators after fires were set and rocks were thrown at the compound. we are going to keep monitoring this situation for you throughout the show tonight. if anything happens, we'll go to it live immediately. but as the situation becomes increasingly volatile and traumatic overseas, the stakes have been quite raised for the presidential candidates here at home. this is actually...

>> the collapse of washington mutual. part of our booktv weekend on c-span2. >> james mann talks about president obama's foreign policy decisions and profiles the people who advise him now on booktv. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thanks to brad and lissa and everyone at politics & prose. this is, actually, the sixth book i've talked about at politics & prose, six out of six, going back to a book called -- my first book, "beijing jeep," in 1989 when politics & prose had just opened, and i had brown hair, and newspapers were thriving, and barack obama was a second-year law stude...

>> so, picture this: a political candidate running in a national race with this kind of approval rating plummeting over the last year from 24, really crummy to a measly 10% today. that is a lower favor ability rating than paris hilton, lower than the iraq war. the only person who has got a lower approval rating is fidel castro. this is not a winning candidate. political advisors would probably say to this person, maybe you should consider another line of work. so who is this deeply flawed mystery candidate? da-dah da-dah: congress since the tea party took the house in 2010, congress ...

Involved in supporting hundreds of thousands of people in the streets in tehran. and then a year and a half later they turned around on egypt and so they were much more willing to support democratic forces. >> but, james, i think what crystal is getting at it's been hard to pin town the obama doctrine, and i want to bring up another example which is sir why by some accounts more than 13,000 people have died and some argue we haven't done enough there. president obama stood at the holocaust memorial museum in april and said about elie alluded to what we feel as we see the syrian people subjecte...

Like say indonesia as the chinese do and in the middle east. we don't have as much money to throw around as the saudis do. our economic out is way down. >> james, i was wonder if you could kind of take us behind the curtain on two different decisions that this administration made. the first one was the decision not to get involved on behalf of the pro democracy movement in iran and the second was the decision to get involved in libya. how were those made and why did they go in different directions there? >> the main reason they went in different directions is they occurred at different times o...