daniel serwer is with johns hopkins. he served in the balkans earlier and had other diplomatic assignments. we will detail those when he gets out here. first, this news update from c- span radio. >> leading to our next guest, egypt's islamist president says his country's people were just, what the president calls, unlawful acts like embassy attacks. mohammed morsi is not going to allow a tax on the foreign embassies in cairo. protesters clashed with police near the u.s. embassy in cairo for a third day and hundreds of protesters stormed the u.s. embassy compound in the capital of yemen. that country's president has apologized. the number of americans seeking unemployment benefits jumped to a seasonally-adjusted 382,000 last week, the highest level in two months. labor department says applications increase in part because of the impact of hurricane isaac. lawmakers will kristen executives of two major chinese technology companies to date -- will question executives as part of a probe of the firm's and if they pose a threa

daniel serwer, a professor of conflict resolution, adds this. >> we're often grateful to our military. we often forget the civilians who serve abroad and marines' primary responsibility is to protect the information in the embassy. the prime responsibility for the physical protection of the embassy under international law belongs with the host country. >> professor serwer has been to libya twice since gadhafi was overthrown and says most libyans love americans, but there are lots of guns and rockets still in the streets and right now the libyan government cannot seem to control the situation. >>> we've got an update on a story you saw on 9news last night at 6:00. today the culpeper county medical examiner released preliminary findings in the death of gary cook, widower of patricia cook, the woman shot and killed by a former culpeper police officer in february. the medical examiner said gary cook died of natural causes, no word yet on services for the 62- year-old. >>> prince george's county police were out in capitol heights today working to protect kids walking to and from central hi

. >> reporter: daniel serwer is a proffer of conflict resolution at hopkins. he's been in afghanistan, the balkans, iraq, the sudan and libya twice since the revolution. >> whoever did this is a small group and whoever made the film in the u.s. states is that's offensive to muslims, that's a small group, too. the difference is that what the group in the united states did was protected. >> reporter: the school has produced hundreds of diplomats now serving the world over including tunisia, kosovo and malta. the current ambassador to syria, robert ford, he's also a graduate here. he's been called back to the u.s. because it's too dangerous there. >> for take lot of students thinking about going -- a lot of students thinking about going into this line of work, we realize this is a potential hazard of the job. >> reporter: these two students are in their final year of study at hopkins before joining the foreign service and say the killings have not changed their career plans. >> i know that libyans and americans alike were fighting in arms against the insurgents t

host: daniel serwer thank you for being on the open -- "washington journal." house of representatives is now in session. thank you for being with us. a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker, thank you very much. first, i join the american people and members of congress in extending my deepest sympathy to the families of the four americans killed yesterday in libya. it was such a tragedy. mr. speaker, there's another tragedy. it's called afghanistan. like most of my closing last month, i was home, been here in washington three days and back home as well as the last three days here, more and more people coming in concerned about budget cuts, worried about sequestration and we are all hearing it. and yet there's no debate about afghanistan. it just keeps going on and on and on. i'm pleased to say next thursday, a group of democrats and republicans have joined me for a press conference. the author of this book called "funding the enemy." subtitle, "how u.s. taxpayers bank roll the taliban." t