he's made this commission that vice president will lead that's supposed to report backy. and then wayne lapierre came forward and talked about putting armed officers in the nation. he was not aiming for the beltway crowd. that's important to remember. it will be interesting in the next few weeks and months how his comments played in other parts of the country outside the beltway. that's who he was talking to. >> he made the rounds in the morning talk shows and stood his ground despite the backlash. it would cost more than $2 billion to put security officers at every school in the country. does the timing seem odd that this is something that the n.r.a. is pushing for? >> it calls for congress to make this available immediately. congress and the president are in the middle of these fiscal cliff and there's no agreement in sight on that. so the idea that congress could suddenly put forward a lot of extra money for something new is not very real in washington. obviously, guns will be on the agenda next year. the president will be pushing for something very different than what

want to protest a diatorship of sharia which is what we're going to see with te muslim brotherhood backicy and his regime ad his attempt at dictatorshi. it will be crushe the bad news is they will suppress this rebelllon. they will suppress it with the police and thh muslim brotherhood talks. at the end of the day, the chriian movement that used to exist, the coptic christian churches no loger a force to be reckoned with. secular muslims no longer have a role to play in th government, and utimately that rebounds to our disadvtage. our only real ally in that part of the world to my israel. >> and the reason we continue to fund this government cannot to continue the picies of which egypt is simply a part,ibya as well, the dstanceof which we have remained from events in sysyria without a clear cut policy. what are your houghts? >> well, thisserious ituation habecome much more sious simply because we now have evidence that the asie regime is moving the precursors nd emical agents to places we may nato took alook at it today and id, they're going to do something about it. as you and i know, n

meeting with russian counterparts in ireland today saying the united states agrees with russia and backito resolve the civil war. is there movement there or is it simply the perception of a -- of movement? >> i don't buy it. the russians are jalously guarding the port of tartus where they have a significant military and financial investment in syria. they are a patron of syria. it is very unlikely of the russians are going to help dislodge this, and that is a shame, obviously, becase the syrians are loading chemical weapons. we hear dangerous reports command of syria rig now. lou: and we learn that the pen exiles, one of the exile leaders returning to gaza today. well, not returning to, but going from which he had been banned for 45 years. your reaction? and an assessment ofits significance. >> sure. the political leader. this is seen as a victory. i'm not sure why they t him back in. but currently celebrating his 205th anniversary, and they are also celebrating what they describe as a victory over the israelis despite the fact that the israelis really dominated the battlefield during th