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Imminent level. the washington institute's managing director michael sing is here with me and a former senior director of middle eastern affairs at the national security council. thank you for joining us. north korea calling it unprecedented critical level, imminent. these are very strong words. are they terrified by this? is that what you get from that? sometimes it seems like we americans are alone in our alarm over what's going on. >> i think you see a tremendous level of concern as the secretary general's remarks show. i'm not sure the u.s. has ever forgotten about the nuclear threat we fa...

Morallies. joining me now, managing direct, at the washington institute for near east policy, michael sing. welcome. ambassador begi begithe muslim brotherhood declared a terrorist group. dozens of arrests and government seized land, stocks, vehicles belonging to the islamic movement members. where do you see the situation headed and how volatile might it become? >> well, alex, it's going to be a zero sum game. it's quite clear that general assisi and the provisional government in egypt determined not only to eradicate any vestige of political islam in egypt under the muslim brotherhood, but b...

Total opposite direction. if the fire happened today it would have burnt the little stand and that would be it. started at the south end and the winds took and it it went amazingly fast. amazing how fast. all around me. >> trace: we're your place. give me an idea of how heartbreaking this is for you and how long do you think it will take you to rebuild this again? >> um, we'll be open -- downstairs does not have a lot of damage. the upstairs has quite a bit of damage as far as smoke and everything else. but who knows, get people in there and start checking it out and as soon as we get rebuilt,...

Today a state department official says the two are able to talk straight to each other, they're talking one-on-one and leaving the technical advisers to hud until small groups. what they're looking for from the syrians and russians are, first, international inspectors would be allowed to visit the relevant sites in ear ya, and secondly, how honest bashar al-assad is when it comes time for him to declare what is in his chemical weapons arsenal. >> trace: james, thank you. with me is michael sing, the former senior director for middle east affairs at the national security council and is manager ...

Director muller denied knowledge al -- >> what i'm telling you is i am not personally familiar with any effort to recruit anwar awlaki as an asset. that does not mean to say there was not an effort at some level of the bureau or another agency to do so. >> in a letter to new fbi direct, this new information merits a lot of additional explanation, trace. >> trace: on top of that, there's evidence al-awlaki had a relationship with nadal hasan, a relationship the fbi also denied. >> right. they're asking the fbi director to respond to those allegations that are contained in a new book called "dir...