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satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ♪ today, "newsmakers" eliot engelyh congressman followed jack lew's testimony on the debt limit. later, the senate commerce committee examines work functions to stop the government shutdown on october 1. , as wesman eliot engel move beyond the debt ceiling issue we want to focus on foreign policy. writer us as the senior of foreign policy. thank you for joining us. first question. what i wanted to ask you about egypt. elected democratically president overturn in july. he has been held at an undisclosed location. we heard he will be put on trial in november. given the fact this was almost any other country in the world we would have cut off all of our aid, what are you opposed to what the president decided to do? i know you expressed concerns. can you tell us why. >> you have to look about the total picture. egypt has been a strategically important country to the united states for 30 or 40 years. a

eliot engel, ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee, simply is somebody who has tried to work on bipartisan solutions to problems that matter to the country. he became ranking member after howard berman who for many years had been in that position left congress. he's been a member of congress since 1989 and has had a significant record of legislative achievement and commitment. so it's great to have two people who are really trying to do the people's business in congress on foreign policy to talk about syria. and i'd like to ask each of you to begin by setting the scene for us. we've had a turbulent few weeks with syria policy in which it appeared that the united states was going to go to war, was going to launch tomahawk missiles after a very fiery statement by our secretary of state, john kerry. and then the president decided that it was wisest to take this matter to congress and get congressional support. and then lo and behold, the russian foreign minister and then the russian president, vladimir putin, announced a willingness to work with the united states to deal

eliot engel of new york. eliot engel will be our guest ."is weekend on "newsmakers you can watch that at 10:00 a.m. on sunday and 6 p.m. eastern. we heard earlier from the house on some of their action earlier today. we will take a look at what they had to say from earlier this afternoon. >> once again in the 12th day of the shutdown of the american people he 12th day of having people out of work. work, but notto working for that pay. the publicans have refused to put on the floor legislation that will open the people's government. membershad over 150 sign a petition to open the government. and bring legislation to the floor. askingscores of members for unanimous consent of the body to do just that. so that the government could be open today. a point of order was just made. any member of the house would hre been in order to ask for floor.e put on the we will discuss that at greater length. the american people want the government opened. they want us to talk. they want us to reach an agreement. they see no need. we see no need of having liter

eliot engel of new york. eliot engel will be our guest ."is weekend on "newsmakers you can watch that at 10:00 a.m. on sunday and 6 p.m. eastern. we heard earlier from the house on some of their action earlier today. we will take a look at what they had to say from earlier this afternoon. >> once again in the 12th day of the shutdown of the american people he 12th day of having people out of work. worke having to

. >> eliot engel, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> we continue the conversation with our reporters representing foreign policy and cq roll call. let me get my asking about syria. a story that was so front and august has turned to the back of newspapers. >> it is really quite striking. it shows you the short attention span of the political elite and possibly the rest of america has on syria. this reflects too how little the american people really wanted to get involved in syria in the first place. it is something ultimately republicans and democrats have backed off of. it reinforces a lot of that apathy that there was out in the country. >> what did you learn with congressman engel? >> even he did not have much enthusiasm. he was not interested in increasing the amount of weaponry. this is a man who had called for them in the past. he is not so worried about islamist groups being at the forefront in that a man who wanted to fund money to a weaponry to searing rep were -- syrian rebels, you could hear it. >> what is the relationship like between the u.s. and israel

it is an honor to have mike here, for eliot engel the next discussion about the crisis in syria. before beginning this timely conversation i want to welcome everyone watching on c-span and invite you to join the piforum.tion at #fd you can submit your questions at the question box at your table. david ignatius is an opinion writer, and he writes to us with contributions to the for -- post-partisan blog. i thank mr. ignatius for moderating this discussion and ,urn the microphone over to him and those who did so much to advance the debate on syria. >> this will be a good and lively discussion of a difficult issue. you will have a chance to ask your own questions. please be writing on the cards, questions that will be set up so you can play a part in this conversation. let me introduce the panel, starting on my far right thomas congressman mike rogers from michigan. i say the same thing in which is thatm, he has taken one of the most divided and partisan committees in the house, and made them function as a bipartisan that passes authorization legislation every year among any has wor

this week, eliot engel will be on "newsmakers." topics include the debate over u.s. aid to egypt, the lease it grade in u.s. aid -- somalia. here is a brief look. >> this trip has been important to the united states. a lot of the focus of our mideast policy stance with having a good military to military -- with egypt's military to our military. i think when a government or country with which you are allied does something you do not think there are different ways of reacting than just saying, we will punish you and cut this off or that off. from the united states point of view, there are two choices in egypt. the muslim brotherhood or the military. we will not have a western-style democracy any time -- any time soon in. given the two choices and given how mr. morsi under the muslim brotherhood ran in egypt, i think it is more important and better to engage with the military than the muslim brotherhood. >> the white house has been reluctant to say a coup took place in egypt. what happened? you could say it was a coup or give excuses and say it was really that morsi was