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Egyptians are preparing to go to the polls in a few weeks, but the country is hardly a beacon of democracy these day. it does bring me to my question. an egyptian pop star was recently sentenced to prison for a joke about what? the nile, the pyramids, the sphinx or the suez canal. stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. my book of the week is "five days in london: may 1940." if you watch "dunkirk" or "darkest hour" and want more, this say short compelling case that adolf hitler almost conquered europe in 1940. britain alone with its entire army surrounded by nazi forces on the fren...

For his role. do you think this could signal an oscar? >> i think he's all but got the oscar in the palm of his hand with a performance as churchill as the statesman at a pivotal moment in british history, may 1940. interesting that both "darkest film" and "dunkirk" celebrated this, who led britain so well which paid tribute in a very moving speech. but it's a superlative performance. the makeup was extraordinary. there has never been a churchill like this. he really did deserve an award, which i think that means he will definitely win at the oscars. interesting, though, to see the baftas as a...

Protection and use the argument they used in ukraine to start to move into western european countries. that's really why so many nato countries want donald trump to continue to reassert this mutual defense that's article 5 of nato, right? >> that's certainly right. estonia has one quarter and latvia about a third. they were incorporated by invasion into the soviet union in may 1940. they liberated themselves at the end of the cold war and joined the eu and nato. our article 5 protection extends to them. that's why it was so important that president trump finally reaffirmed today in a speech in...

Stage and he's taking the opportunity. >> george, is this administration, do you think, going to add air power to this situation, to back up the iraqis? >> i don't know. we just heard i think the president draw another of his red lines, or at least pastel line in this case, because he said somehow we cannot tolerate isis achieving a permanent foothold. well, they've got hundreds of miles of territory. they have the city of mosul, which has 2 million people. that's the population of the metropolitan area of kansas city. it's a big deal. the army, the iraqi army, is melting away in the face of t...