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ayman thinks these numbers have strengthened the president's hand here. i guess continuing in the vain of what's up is down and down is up, in some ways doesn't it sort of hurt the broader argument, though, from the left regarding unemployment benefits and the payroll tax cut? these are parts of the fiscal cliff negotiations we have not paid a lot of attention to, and also the white house's argument about further stimulus spending, undermined by this notion out there based on these numbers that the economy is recovering? >> yeah. i think that's right. i think the problem with a good number and decline in the unemployment rate it takes away from the argument that the fiscal cliff would be this ultimate disaster, we can't afford to do it, look at these jobs numbers they're terrible, need to move to make sure there's no austerity, no big spending taxes. that argument is less powerful when you see a report like this. to ayman's point, it's right to say that every jobs report can be off by hundred thousand jobs. the trend is 150,000 per month for two years. th

ayman, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. a series of rapid developments inside and outside the country. inside syria, first of all, rebels announced they made very important gains on the outskirts of the city of aleppo and the capital damascus. in aleppo they're reporting to have taken over a military base belonging to the regime and in damascus, they've taken over a military installation on the outside of that country's airport. that also links to the issue of outside support for the syrian regime, including russia which says it will stand by president bashar al assad despite comments yesterday from a senior russian official acknowledging that in fact president ais losing control of that country to the opposition. as you mentioned today, the united states sent a symbolic show of force to turkey and nato member along with the dutch government. they have now deployed patriotic missiles, a defense system that will include 400 american operators to work that system for the turkish government. lynn? >> ayman, thanks so much. >>>

nbc's ayman mohyeldin is joining us live from cairo monitoring the situation. let's start with egypt. how much more trouble is morsi in there? >> reporter: well, he's definitely politically isolated because all of egypt's major political factions have really come out against him for both the constitutional decree that gave him absolute powers nearly two weeks ago and kicked off all of these protests, but more importantly, they're very upset with him that he's trying to ram home this constitution that was drafted by an assembly made up mostly of islamist parties loyal to the president within just two weeks. so, that's fueled a lot of the street anger, left six people killed. it also brought out the military outside of the presidential palace. today, the opposition is calling for another million man march. no doubt, though, that the president's politically isolated and under mounting public pressure. mika? >> let's go back to syria. you've been following that situation since it began last year. assad's grip obviously slipping, but what about the potential of the

ayman mohyeldin is in cairo.president obama also called or talked to president morsi yesterday and was calling for more dialog but morsi gave a speech he's really not backing down and the protests will continue. what is going to happen next is. >> that's correct. well, in fact, let me start with breaking news that we're learning here at nbc, president morsi and the vice president have confirmed actually that egypt's election commission has delayed the vote for expatriate egyptians living abroad on the constitutional national referendum scheduled to start tomorrow for three days in countries all around the world at egyptian embassies around the world. we'll learned the government here has instructed the delay in that vote. why that's so important is because it is, perhaps, an indication what could come here in the coming days. one of the main demands of the protesters outside the presidential palace and tahrir square the president delay the vote on the constitution that was scheduled for december 15th. they've bee

ayman, we got word there were some considerations there to issue a new koconstitutional declaration oft all this? >> reporter: sure. it's important to set what triggered these protests two weeks ago, a constitutional declaration by president morsi that was seen as a power grab, gave him sweeping powers through the transitional period. it triggered protests. one of the central demands of the protesters and the opposition to the president has been that he rescind that dec e decree. for the past several days the p president has been trying to figure out a way to kind of minimize the scope of that decree. i has not worked. it has not pleased the opposition. today he met with some of the opposition forces, and what we're learning from egyptian state television, an official government news source, is that the prime minister has suggested that the president is considering a new constitutional declaration and perhaps in light of that new constitutional declaration he would mitigate some of the new powers that he has assumed and perhaps meet the demands of the protesters on this one central iss

daniel ayman and dr. mark highman. oz said, you have to know your height, your weight, your waist and your cholesterol and your blood pressure. we set up a booth in our church and let people take those numbers. we opened a website called danielplan.com where they could follow it. i thought maybe 200 people would show up. 12,000 of my members signed up. as you pointed out, we lost over 250,000 pounds. i'm looking for the day our church says we lost the equivalent of a jumbo jet liner. diets are diets and there's a lot of similarities. but the number one thing is this, we do it in community. most people don't understand that saddleback is not the sunday service. anytime a journalist comes to saddleback, they come to the service, they come on a weekend and see 20,000 people. they think that's in. that's the tip of the iceberg. the real church happens during the week in 6,000 small groups. we're the only church in america that has more people in bible study than on sunday. 20,000 come on sunday. 32,000 in small groups. the

ayman? >> carl, this is actually breaking political news. today announcing new regulations on so-called 501 tax-exempt organizations that engaged in electioneering under federal law as it stands right now, they're allowed to engage in electioneering and not reveal who their donors are. now schneiderman in new york saying the state is going to require them to reveal if they spend up to $10,000 in that state. the groups that spend at least $10,000 to influence state and local elections in new york will be required to file itemized schedules and disclose their donors. potentially interesting move here by new york state. we'll have to see if other states follow this one, carl. >> nonprofits have a lot to deal with. >> oh, boy. >> thank you for that. before we go, jim, tonight -- >> first time since the cooper acquisition, they've become a power management company. mark papa, he's been on my show. he's at the heart of why we're becoming a great energy producer again, because he's got both eagleford and -- you've got to listen to him. this guy is

we will go to ayman an john. the framework but the language here may be extremely important. what are we listening for? >> what i expect from the president is to try to keep the pressure on negotiators to get a deal. he will have middle class families around him. to some degree this is a pr event. it is possible and the republican aide i mentioned earlier who confirmed details on the agreement of middle class taxes said the president may mention that agreement in his appearance to try to celebrate it. i have to say that democratic aides, because they are resisting where republicans are on the automatic across the board spending cuts, the sequester, are pushing back and saying nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. we do not have a deal yet. i referred to the interplay among various factors. you tweet a threshold or tax rate and if you don't get what you want on something else, you may tweak it more. that's some of the give and take. it is a positive sign there a tentative deal on the middle class tax

. >> you talk about the constitution, if you could, ayman.ility of this passing in the second round? two hours of voting to go. >> reporter: all indications are that it is going to pass. the first round of voting took place and in that first round of voting nearly 56% of egyptians voted yes in favor of the constitution and close to 44% voted no. this second round was actually expected to favor the islamist parties because it was in country side governors so they feel in the second round they'll have a higher turnout and higher vote in support of the constitution, but the constitution itself has divided the country into two camps. those who argue the constitution does not represent all of egyptians and it is dominated by islamist political currents and then you have the opposition and the salvation front and others that say it does not protect the rights of minorities and women and takes the country back to an authoritarian regime under this new constitution. richard? >> you'll be visiting with us a little bit later in the evening there for yo

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joining us now from cairo is ayman mohyeldin, foreign correspondent for nbc news. thank you. it's great to see you tonight. >> thanks, ezra. >> give me your broader take for a minute. where are we on the scale of regime collapse? >> wow, that's a very tough question. i think by anyone's estimates including intelligence analysis and even opposition activists it's very difficult to gauge that. those who are fighting on the ground will tell you that in the last few weeks there have been significant gains and many people have used the expression "this is the beginning of the end," not the end but the beginning of the end. how long that lasts for depends on all kinds of variables. but the term is being used more frequently among opposition activists and those players here in the region. >> are these defections, are they and we have one. joining us now for ren correspondent for nbc news. thank you it is great to see you tonight. >> give me the broader take. where are we on the scale of the regime collapse? >> that is a tough question. by any one's estimates. it is difficult to gaug

ayman, on the surface, it didn't seem to be going very well at all. >> on the ear fuss and below theurface. that may help negotiations because they don't have random members of congress milling around these halls spouting off and perhaps causing a problem for negotiators trying to get to a deal here. but we did play another round as we say, of press conference ping-pong. we had democrats, republicans, democrats back again. let's play a snippet so you can get a sense of the tone of what is going on, on the hill today. >> republicans want to solve the problem by getting the spending line down. the president wants to pretend that spending isn't a problem. that's why we don't have an agreement. >> speaker boehner can't ignore the american people forever. at some point reality should set in. the only question is how much financial stress middle class families and our entire economy will have to endure during this process. >> so sue and tyler, senator lindsay graham wandering by us in the hall and i just asked him, where do you think things are right now? he said, look, i don't know if we'

. >> ayman, before we go, how do egyptians feel about america intervening in their domestic affairs?ook at whatsoever the role the president played with the ouster of hosni mubarak, would they be comfortable with americans taking a more vocal role in terms of managing or weighing in on morsi? >> well, there's been substantial polling done about egyptian attitudes towards the united states by several credible international polling organizations, including gallop and others. many of them have cited that the overwhelming majority of egyptians reject any type of american interference in domestic ejust a minutian politics or affairs. they have said that over the past 30 years. the united states has lent a hand to the dictatorship that was propped up here. they want to see america stay out of domestic affairs. in some of the recent comments that have come out of some of the more secular oppositions, including mohammed elbaradei, they want the united states to use their lerchlg on shaping poefs, including the constitution. alex. >> it is certainly a fluid situation. thank you, as always, fo

now there's a plot to attack ayman, jordan.ordanian officials say it was first coordinated bombings at large shopping malls in ayman. almost simultaneously, machine gun and bomb attacks on cafe and hotels frequented by diplomats and tourists. with the city's police responding to those attacks, jordanian officials say the terrorists plan to launch the main assault on the u.s. embassy in amman. it's one of america's biggest embassies in the world. tom sanderson says the motivation for the attack was to show p capability. >> to inflict damage on the united states, inflict damage, physical and reputational, on the jordanian government in an environment in which all other governments are certainly dealing with their own difficulties right now. >> reporter: all 11 suspects were rounded up by jordanian security forces in mid october. jordanian officials say they'd planned to strike on november 9th, the seventh anniversary of the last al qaeda attack in jordan. when suicide bombers struck three hotels in amman, killing about 60 people.

[laughter] ayman georgia. i have a strange accent, a weird name. this was beyond not clever. [laughter] this is light don't give me money, pay for the therapy. [laughter] in december of 1974 the republican party i.t. was at 17%. and the serious talk was the party going to be replaced? it was nonsense that was serious talk and i was a part of the group that came out of the wreckage and began reading the republican national committee and doing national analysis of what went wrong. there's the commercial called republicans are people, too peery when you are in that troubled the commercial says i am a person, too, you know that you are deeply moving. it was in this environment ronald reagan went and said we need a bold colors, no pale pastels and he was throwing down a ball side. he said don't tell me you have a sellout, don't tell me you have a case, don't tell me you are going to do whatever the left wants. there are moments in history when you draw the line and fight we have a huge number of state legislatures. we are supposed to create a caucus in order to be socially accepta

sorry it sounds strange but i am walking down the street in the verrazano bridge from whatever borough ayman and i think oh wow that is where i would have seen the entire british fleet right there but the best line in the best thing that people note is they talk about the forest at math. i love that. i love it for two reasons. one because can't you see a forest of math and two because the british had run out of timber to make a mast so they would either, i read about them slicing trees together from the north of germany or they would have use trees from maine and new england and new hampshire. it is not a tree place any more. they have cut down a lot of trees so this forest is an american forest coming into the harbor. but the thing about saying that you know, i'm sort of having a hard time because i don't want to say -- do i want to say hey look, all this happened here and just as so many things happened everyplace, but i don't want to champion probably a the chair will be thrown. i don't want to say the new york landscape is more important than any other landscape. i want to say that it wa

ayman, what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning, kelly.re's been a series of attacks that happened about 1:00 a.m. or 2:00 a.m. local time. it attacks a that have been camped out in tahrir square over the last couple of weeks. this comes after protesters were planning a march. the anti-government protests have been very disenfranchised by a constitutional referendum schedules to take place on saturday. they are very critical of that referendum. they are more disappoint the with the constitution and the president and want another one drafted up. but for his part, president morsi who is from the muslim brotherhood, they will hold their own rallies later today. to so there's a tremendous amount of tension between these two groups. meanwhile, the president has given the military in this country law comfort powers and essentially that gives them the ability to and authority to arrest civilians in the meantime, that is through the referendum. they are doing it, they say, to ensure security and stability throughout the votes, but many human right

ayman has the latest from cairo. >> millions of egyptian voters turned up on saturday to cast their ballots on a historic referendum on the country's constitution. local media was saying based on exit polling, that the constitution was passed by 57% in favor, 43% opposed the constitution. now, over the past several weeks, the country has been polarized over the debate whether or not to actually approve this new constitution that crickets say curbs individual freedom and more importantly paves the way for islamic sharia law to take over the state. supporters of the constitution say this is the only way to get the country's transition back on track and to get democratic institutions up and running. for their part, though, egyptian civil size and human rights organizations criticized first round of voting. the voting that took place on saturday only happened in 10 out of the 27 provinces and only half of egyptians eligible to vote participated in the first round. that is because the second round of voting is scheduled to take place next saturday, december 22nd. as we were saying, human rights

ayman has more from capitol hill. >> good morning, guys. not a lot of progress on wednesday on capitol hill. we had a press conference from speaker of the house john boehner. he doesn't sound all that optimistic the. >> i remain the most optimistic person in thoun, but we've got some serious differences. >> also on wednesday, jpmorgan ceo jamie dimon said that the economy, if washington can get a deal here is poised to rocket. >> the table is set very little right now. small business in good shape. 5 million more people working than four years ago. housing has turned the corner. let's just keep it going. >> so what were they doing up here on capitol hill? well, they're holding duelling press conferences with images for the tv cameras, one of a group of adorable young children and another one using a santa claus here, everybody trying to make their point, everybody trying to grab the camera's attention, but not a lot of negotiating progress here, at least in public. that's where we stand for now. >> eamon there from washington with the lates

ayman al zawahiri knows what he talking these talking about when he says that democracy is -- and it'sading through the muslim body politic and that it is perhaps the number one thing they do. the ayatollah in iran knows when he says we have to kill off democracy because in iran, where they have a fraudulent democratic system, the process of actually going out to vote created the earthquake in 1997 and created even greater earthquakes in 2009. there is not a single cleric, single first-rate cleric in iran with the exception of him, who will argue against democracy now. he is the only one. i do not have enough time here to explain all the individuals who were die hard, revolutionary, die-hard anti-american islamists in iran who have fallen away because of the practices of the theocracy. now we don't know what the evolution will be entered democratic system as opposed to a dictatorship that under a dictatorship, we have seen a complete falling away of the intellectual class towards the democratic ethic. if there had been a pre-election 2009, we would not have to worry about iran today. w