c-span: faisal is right there. >> guest: yes, faisal's right there.faisal was later on going to be the king of iraq interestingly enough and lawrence of arabia was his advisor but lawrence was also being paid by the british. and so, what he really was was a british agent trying to push the arabs in a direction that britain wanted. c-span: why do we know so much about lawrence of arabia? >> guest: oh, i think he fascinates people partly because he was so mysterious. lowell thomas, the great american journalist, said lawrence has an absolute talent for backing into the limelight. you know lawrence always said i don't want to be in the center of attention but he often was, and a lot of people have written biographies of him, and i think he's perennially fascinating. you know he was mysterious, all these attempts to enlist in the raf, the royal air force and the army under assumed names. he was a brilliant scholar. i mean he's just one of those people who fascinate you. c-span: you mentioned all the characters. i want to show some of the pictures and just

yeah and i think its i think it saw as an open question of whether faisal -- it's funny with faisal he didn't have great regard for faisal as a military commander but he did as this conciliator and someone who would bring the tribes together. that i don't think he ever imagined himself having a larger role once the arabs had independence. >> we are going to first of all thanks c-span for their presence here and thank thanks scott for this first form of portion of things. >> we were going to do the look after he died but he preempted that and i was horrified quite honestly and then i was delighted. >> i always felt people are more alike than they are different and so the artist in me rose to the occasion, that if i could create something that is so moving and that permits the kind of distance that you sometimes need from what is painful then people will understand and understanding is basically what is fundamental. >> but the point is that no argument is given to that effect none of the relevant facts are considered and this is regarded as one of the half-dozen cases where a just war th

faisal mekdad spoke with the france press news agency in damascus. he said the administration of president bashar al assad has taken every measure to retaliate against an aggression. the state-run news ministry says wael al halki met with the rulirule ing baath party. >>> russian president vladimir putin says his country may resume selling anti-aircraft missiles to syria if western countries attack without u.n. approval. in an interview with the associated press, putin said russia could restart shipments of s-300 anti-aircraft missiles to syria. he added accusations about the use of chemical weapons in syria should be based on solid evidence and not rumors -- not on rumors, intelligence from eavesdropping or chatter. putin said if there's proof that chemical weapons were used by the syrian government, he would not rule out supporting military action, but it would need to be sanctioned by the u.n. security council. >>> syria's government is under fire for allegedly using chemical weapons. now there are fresh claims that it also deployed banned cluster

times square, the heart of new york city -- in 2010, 30-year-old pakistani american faisal shahzad attempts parked nissan pathfinder. the crude device fails to explode and shahzad was apprehended days later. one attack is successful and causes multiple u.s. casualties, the largest u.s. military facility in the world, ft. hood in texas, is the site of a mass shooting by u.s. army psychiatrist, nidal malik hasan, a u.s. citizen. in touch with al qaeda linked clerics online but not formally linked to any terrorist groups, hasan kills 13 u.s. army personnel and wounds 29 others before he himself is shot and paralyzed by military police. but the most deadly post-9/11 terrorist attacks take place oversaes. bali in october 2002. 202 people killed. madrid in march 2004, 191 people killed. beslan in russia, 334 people killed, including 186 children. london, july 2005, 52 people killed. mumbai, november 2008, 164 people killed. none of these major post-9/11 attacks was directly linked to al qaeda. that is if inspiration doesn't count as a link. but one alleged plot to carry out coordinated attacks in

faisal will help us shape the discussion of potential regional implications of whatever it is the united states is about to do in syria. i will ask each of the speakers to frame the key issues as they see them and to do so within about eight minutes each. we will then turn to questions. which, given the size of the audience, will need to be tightly focused. i will attempt to do a brief wrapup at the end and we will make every effort to adjourn promptly at 2:00 p.m. i would ask you to switch off cell phones, and with that i will turn to barry. >> thanks very much, fred. thanks, everybody for coming. i am going to be really brief, partly in the interest of time to hear from you. partly because of lot of what i have said has already been in print. i will be brief and a little provocative and then we can discuss it. i always start with conversations about the u.s. role in the conflict in terms of its military role, what are the mission objectives? i will outline four or five. i did this before some of the leaks came out that described it. it is sort of a ladder. you can see increasing levels

. >> obviously what we saw in 2010 with faisal shahzad trying to set off a bomb in times square. here as well as remote. >> he wasn't on our radar screen. we have to be alert, vigilant. i think we're doing everything we reasonably can do to protect new york. >> thank you. commissioner kelly. appreciate it. >>> this morning, president obama said to make his fifth u.n. general assembly speech, a very big difference this time, new hope for progress with the president of iran and a possible groundbreaking meeting on the highest level between the two nations. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto has been following all this, he's here in new york this morning. >> the u.s. officials tell us there's no meeting on the schedule yet but they're open to diplomacy. they may not know yet. we've begun to see expectations, management on their part. if no handshake happens and no bilateral on the side they don't want the message to be that the new diplomacy has fizzled. i don't think the iranians want that either. we know secretary kerry will meet with the iranian foreign minister on

faisal will help us shape the discussion of potential regional implications of whatever it is the united states is about to do in syria. i will ask each of the speakers to frame the key issues as they see them and to do so within about eight minutes each. we will then turn to questions. which, given the size of the audience, will need to be tightly focused. i will attempt to do a brief wrapup at the end and we will make every effort to adjourn promptly at 2:00 p.m. i would ask you to switch off cell phones, and with that i will turn to barry. >> thanks very much, fred. thanks, everybody for coming. i am going to be really brief, partly in the interest of time to hear from you. partly because of lot of what i have said has already been in print. i will be brief and a little provocative and then we can discuss it. i always start with conversations about the u.s. role in the conflict in terms of its military role, what are the mission objectives? i will outline four or five. i did this before some of the leaks came out that described it. it is sort of a ladder. you can see increasing levels

faisal will help us shape the discussion of potential regional implications of whatever it is the unitedes is about to do in syria. i will ask each of the speakers to frame the key issues as they see them and to do so within about eight minutes each. we will then turn to questions. which, given the size of the audience, will need to be tightly focused. i will attempt to do a brief wrapup at the end and we will make every effort to adjourn promptly at 2:00 p.m. i would ask you to switch off cell phones, and with that i will turn to barry. >> thanks very much, fred. thanks, everybody for coming. brief,ing to be really partly in the interest of time to hear from you. of what iause of lot have said has already been in print. will be brief and a little provocative and then we can discuss it. i always start with conversations about the u.s. role in the conflict in terms of its military role, what are the mission objectives? i will outline four or five. i did this before some of the leaks came out that described it. it is sort of a ladder. you can see increasing levels of ambition, the u.s. is