met with high level officials such as secretary kerry, chuck kagle and susan rice. he seeks to repair the egypt-american alliance that has gone adrift in the past few years and the mass sentence to muslim brotherhood monday further strained the relationship. el-sisi declared candidacy after three years of war to restore after the turmoil. welcome. >> thank you. >> charlie: what have you accomplished? >> essentially to do two things, one is to try to redirect our relations towards building a better future together because these are indispensable relations for us, and our goals and our objectives, and i believe they are indispensable for the u.s., for your interests in the middle east. secondly, frankly, the transformations in egypt have ups and downs and i believe the ups are more than the downs. in this kind of process, there are always different things needed to be explained face to face, and i felt it was important, occasions like this program, for example, to come out for the people that you're interested in to talk to you directly and to get a sense of whether y