we will hear directly from ahmed maher. then we will do a question and answer.please join me in welcoming ahmed maher. [applause] >> i am very happy to be here. i am thinking the arab-american institute for the invitation. it is a good chance to talk with you. informal meetings. so i want to share our ideas with you. and discussing about the future of egypt, of retribution, and -- after the revoluation, and american rules and. the admiration between our nations of youth. the american youth, our brothers. we started as a group after establishing a movement towards the modern movement in egypt. towards the beginning of the struggle of the mubarak regime, we were a group of the people. the majority -- about 3000 or 4000. after the parliament elections, we continued our activities in egypt. they banned any activities in egypt in the street at that time. we started to use social media, the internet. at that time, there was no facebook. we tried to reach more people, to organize our group, to spread our ideas. the main aim of our speech or our message was how to conne

please join me in welcoming ahmed maher.ause] >> i am very happy to be here, and i'm thanking the arab immigrant institute for the invitation. i think it's a good chance to talk with you and any formal meetings, in the formal meetings. so, i am going to share our idea with you and discussing about the future, and discussing also about what is american rules. they complain -- [inaudible] and the american youth, our brother. so, we started as a youth activist in 2005 after establishing movement towards the movement in egypt, and towards the beginning struggle and against mubarak regime at the time. there were a few number of people, 100. the majority of, about three or 4000 a day of the elections. mubarak elections. after the parliament elections, we decreed our activities in egypt. and security was banned any activity in the street at that time. so we start to use social media. we start to use internet and blogs at that time, 2006. there is no facebook. but we use the internet to reach more people, to organize our groups, to

it will take time. >> if you could join me in banking ahmed maher -- in thinking ahmed maher. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> tim geithner was on capitol hill today talking about the jobs package and the economy. that is next on c-span. there is something in congress that would limit the obama administrators octants for terrorist detainee's. then we will hear from senate republicans to oppose the administration's position on that detainees. tomorrow, an oversight hearing on property that contains half of the substances are contaminants. the epa estimates there are more than 400,000 of the sites across the united states, called brownfield sites. we will look at the effectiveness of the program. live at 10:00 eastern. later, a senate panel will look at concussions in sports. and those for marketing confession -- concussion- producing sports equipment. that from the senate commerce committee on c-span. >> because i am a businessman, of which, incidentally, i am very proud. i was connected with a l

. >> if you could join me in thanking ahmed maher. [applause] >> on today's "washington journal," a discussion of state and federal education funding with randi weingarten. then we will talk with tucker carlson of the "daily caller" about the republican presidential race. and then a look at the largest banks. yalman onaran of "bloomberg businessweek" is our guest. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. janet napolitano will testify about homeland security oversight. live coverage from the senate judiciary committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern. after that, natalie cole will be at the national press club talking about hepatitis c. the singer was diagnosed with the disease during a recent blood testing 2008 -- during a routine blood test in 2008. that gets underway at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> because i am a businessman, of which incidently i'm very proud, and was formally connected with a large company, the subsequent errors of the opposition have attempted to picture me as an opponent of liberalism. but i was a liberal