dr. zogby will be signing books after his presentation. the need a copy, in the barnes & noble town. dr. zogby is attested clinical consent consultants lecture and recognize international policy expert and founder and president of the washington d.c.-based arab-american institute. he is a scholar on middle east issues and not unrelated to the book we are here to discuss today's senior analyst with for the polling firm zogby international. he writes a column that appears in 20 arab newspapers and hosts a weekly column discussion program on abu dhabi television in addition to a blog on "huffington post" and regular appearances on most network and cable news programs. as a member of the council on foreign relations and the democratic national committee he is presented with the public service work by secretary of state powell in 2003 and served in the aclu nationally -- director and the national immigration forum as well and testifies before the house u.s. house, u.s. senate and the u.n. as well. h

and dr james zogby president of the america of the arab american institute welcome gentlemen thank you very much. question just in general to either or both of you was there really anything new in the speech what was what was in your minds dunes. so i think if if the speech was directed at an american audience what was what was important is the president reframing the democracy debate and challenging congress in particular to step up to the plate this is a slash and burn congress but it's a congress that says they support democracy and transformation in the middle east president said that's going to cost us there's a lot we have to do if we want this to happen and that aid and trade programs that he talked about are going to require congress not to cut programs that the very programs that congress wants to cut so he's asking for money i think it was a very well crafted appeal to congress that if you want to see tunisia and egypt move forward please don't do some of the things you want to do so that was part of it may think it was it knew as much as it was him trying to take the ground

thank you for having dr. zogby. what amazes me is is like having someone misdiagnosed.information in the media is amazing. it is very unfair. 80% of the oil comes from canada, mexico, and venezuela. 8% or less comes from saudi arabia. the arab world is like another planet out there, some people say. only 8% comes from the middle east for arab world. about 1/3 of the arab nations are actually catholic, greek orthodox, or christian. the terrorists represent less than 1% of the world. the more they make them famous, the more they make them more powerful. the media talks about how much they will do to us. the paranoia is not healthy for the world war america. it plays to their ego and makes them more dangerous. host: we will get a response. thank you for calling. guest: the last point is so critical. it is so important. there was no question about the degree to which our country was traumatized by the horrific act of terror on 9/11. we made bin laden larger than he needed to be. we begin talking about global caliphates. listening to the last administration talk about the mo