race and writes and in boston to make the call this is a non resident fellow at the tucker institute for middle east policy welcome all of you to the program i want to start with my. how significant is it do you think that given this security crackdowns that we have seen over the last couple of years when it's come to protests that these protesters do seem to be prepared to take the risk of being arrested at the very least in order to make their voices heard. this for thank you for the for the invitation. i think that's what are we watching right now in egypt is very significant sign to which indicating that the state of fear that the egyptian regime is a has sure has already been. has already established since 2013. is not working very well for the sake of the egyptian regime is not bringing the stability that the egyptian regime promised his partners his western partners which so aborted to him in the last 7 years with the political argument that they have been using all the time that this regime is the only option that would bring stability for egypt and it's saying that these protests i mean say

race and writes and in boston to make the call this is a non resident fellow at the tucker institute for middle east policy welcome all of you to the program i want to start with my. how significant is it do you think that given this security crackdowns that we have seen over the last couple of years when it's come to protests that these protesters do seem to be prepared to take the risk of being arrested at the very least in order to make their voices heard. this for thank you for the for the invitation. i think that's what are we watching right now in egypt is very significant sign to which indicating that the state of fear that the egyptian regime is a has sure has already been. has already established since 2013. is not working very well for the sake of the egyptian regime is not bringing the stability that the egyptian regime promised his partners his western partners which supported the him in the last 7 years with a political argument that they have been using all the time that this is the only option that would bring stability for egypt and it's saying that these protests i mean saying that

nonresident at the two rear institute for middle east policy joins us now via skype -- the r institutetheri for middle east policy. how badly are egyptians poverty and poor living standards, particularly in wake of the covid crisis? >> even before covid, poverty was a huge problem in egypt and following the imf program and the austerity measures that were implemented. the world bank estimates -- again before covid -- that 60% of the population was near or below the poverty line, so what we have now are reports that unemployment has risen, invariably pushing more egyptians into poverty. this quite a lot of strain on the economic population. >> how was the government likely to deal with this? we have these protests springing up, but is it likely they will die out, particularly if the government responds with repression? >> we saw protests of a similar nature a year ago. it seems in this case, as well as having a lot of very young people, if you look at these videos, you will find a lot of minors are protesters. i think it's really too early to tell what will happen. last time around, there

alley al ahmed director at the institute for gulf affairs is a saudi dissident and a former political prisoner shareef months or middle east and north africa coordinator for the committee to protect journalists and just show on executive director of the arab center washington d.c. and a former colleague and friend of jamal khashoggi a warm welcome to you all and let's begin with you josh on the saudi say that justice has been served the case is closed pretty much everybody else says actually no it hasn't been served at all including the united nations has justice been served absolutely not this is not just this miami stretch of the imagination and the case is not closed for the most logical reason. number one you know after what proceedings that lasted more than a year and i have we still do not know who ordered the killing in terms of the verdict covers only 8 out of 15 from that team that gave. him the assassination stumbo. seems to me that this verdict i mean the more you look at it with all due respect to the prosecutor's office and riyadh it seems to me it's more politics it's more p.r. than it is justice and accounta

doing anything i would say is riskier thank you so much for talking to us and sharing your views with us paul same president of the middle east institute joining us from washington thank you for your time. in other world news israel has reopened its only border crossing with gaza after reaching an agreement with hamas to end 2 weeks of hostilities along the border the ceasefire deal brokered by qatar will allow for critical supplies including fuel to cross into the besieged enclave as springing harry foster who is live for us from western jerusalem harry tell us more for us about the terms of this deal. well yes indeed both sides i think had short term interests in getting this deal done for israel it brings an end to the in century balloons and rocket fire that have been coming out from the gaza strip at a time when they don't really want to be focusing on a military confrontation they'd rather be focusing on the normalization deal with the united arab emirates and of course for hamas they are dealing with a major covert outbreak the 1st community level covert outbreak inside the gaza strip since the start of the pandemic trying to do

general fear stein he's these arrests of 4 gulf affairs at the middle east institute he also served as the deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs under president obama mr fierstein welcome to the news. if it were possible to talk to your former boss barack obama or any world leader that you have engaged with if they described to me the former. of kuwait's was he an easy person to work with. i think that he was not only the easy person to work with but he was somebody with whom one could find real. a real fundamental understanding and agreement and so for example in 2014 what we saw are. some friction inside of the g.c.c. we work very closely the obama administration worked very closely with the amir on resolving that issue and bringing the parties back together again so he was somebody who we knew well we understood very well and i think he understood us very well it seems to me as if with him running everything it's almost like kuwait was kind of like a scandinavian country almost like for finland is to international diplomacy through european prism kuwait kind of occupy the same space in the middle east t

when he works on peace agreements in the middle east and actually achieve something this i think is a loser for him all right to doug bandow from the cato institute in washington d.c. doug thank you for that. straight to north carolina now where president trump is addressing our audience listening to what he's saying the hello. great we have great republican senators we have great people and we have a great country that's really we have and we're going to keep it. so we went in election and those are the consequences you know it's called fill that seat and that's what we're doing the supreme court was a very central issue in both the 2016 presidential election and then the 2018 midterm elections where by the way i didn't run you know we had a lot of people a lot of people said oh he really took a little bit of a shellacking not nearly as bad as others in fact we gained seats in the senate but they never talk about that they don't talk about that we gained nobody talked about it but we didn't run and i heard a lot of people heard sure will never voted 28 he voted no no vote everybody vote they just didn't i think we were like 9000000 people decide

institute. he says most analysts argue that u.s. foreign policy is disastrous at worst and ineffective at best. set aside for the moment the recent middle eastdo you draw from our diplomatic history that should inform our foreign policy starting next january? >> i think in some ways president trump is the exception as opposed to the rule. others have commented on this, it's a very transactional foreign policy. what we've talked about alliances and rules and frameworks, he tends to look at things in a case-by-case dealmaking manner and obviously relates a lot to his own sense of position and how he gets treated, sometimes sad to say more by authoritarians than with his democratic partners. i think also this part isn't unusual but helps one understand his foreign policy is very much connected to his domestic political base. if you think about the wall with mexico, we talk about north america, that was one of the ways that he connected with his political supporters from the start. i always knew that issue would never go away. even when he couldn't get funding he takes out the defense department because he couldn't walk away from that. similarly

applaud the president for instituting sanctions against countries that are going to go ahead and sell arms to iran, because i think the last thing that we want in the middle eastah. that u.n. embargo expires, as you point out, next month, in october. your take on the obama democrats for years downplaying, undercutting the potential for peace in the middle east where president trump has won historic peace deals with israel, the uae and bahrain, now five more mideast countries could potentially follow. we don't know yet. watch this. >> there will be no separate peace between israel and the arab world. i want to make that very clear to all of you. i've heard several prominent politicians in israel sometimes saying, well, the arab world's in a different place now. we just have to reach out to them, and we could work some things with the arab world and we'll deal with the palestinians. no, no, no and no. elizabeth: okay. john kerry clearly is wrong there. the washington examiner points out democrats like tim kaine, john kerry, susan rice shouted catastrophe,s apocalypse, war in the middle east when the trump administration moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem, when

institutions. financial windfall for terrorists and authoritarians is approach. mr. speaker, i was honored to attend the signing of the at the abraham accords white house, which represents an historic breakthrough for peace in the middle east. the in and the u.a.e. are first arab countries to normalize relations with israel decades. i applaud president trump, prime shaikh netanyahu, mohammed, and the king for to achieve this critical milestone and step forward. achievement provides the success of president trump's stateable support for the of israel and dedication to u.s. leadership in the region. look forward to continuing to work with the administration and our allies around the world to upon these agreements, evelop deeper diplomatic ties, and strengthen our relationships. mr. speaker, i rise today to candace the career of franks who's retiring as commissioner of the arkansas 13 e bank commission after years in that top position, and ore than 40 years with the arkansas state bank department. i'm proud to have known and for d alongside candace over a quarter century. candace franks has been a many regards. the first woman to serve as arkansas bank commissioner in history.ear the first professional bank regulator to serve

of afghanistan and the middle east and to promote education and literacy for the millions to whom alphabets or industry and basic edition is a complex puzzle. through the institute we will help to promote basic human freedom for these women and their families. but as much as i treasure my public life, i also treasure the quiet of my private life. sometime during that first spring and summer back in texas, i began to feel the buoyancy of my own newfound freedom. after nearly eight years of hypervigilance, of watching for the next danger or tragedy that might be coming, i can at last exhale. i can simply be. when i raised my eyes to this ty commits to see the drift of the clouds, the brightness of the blue or the moon and the ever-shifting arrangement of the stars. look up, laura, i can still hear my mother say with a hint of all and wonder, and i do. [applause] >> thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you all so much. you are watching book tv on c-span2. tonight we are looking at books written by former first ladies. up next is michelle obama. she was first lady from 2009 to 2017 and her memoir "becoming" was the best-selling book of 2018 and still remains on th

afghanistan in the middle east and to promote education and literacy for the millions for whom alphabets are a mystery and basic addition a complex puzzle. and through the institutewill help to promote basic human freedoms for these women and their families. but as much as i treasure my public life i also treasure quiet of my private one. sometime during that first spring and summer back in texas i began to feel the buoyancy of my own newfound freedom. after nearly 8 years of hypervigilance, of watching for the next danger or tragedy that mightbe coming , i could at last exhale. i could simply be. when i raise my eyes to the sky it's to see the drift of the clouds that the brightness of the blue or the moon and the ever shifting arrangement of the stars . look up laura, i can still hear my mother say with a hint of off and wonder and i do. >> thank you so much, i really appreciate it. thanks so much. >> watching tv on c-span two and tonight we're looking at books written by former first lady. of next is michelle obama. she was first lady from 2009 2017 and her memoir becoming was the best-selling book of 2018 and it still remains on bestseller lists today. accord