host: jon alterman came to this career with a long resume. he has been a professor at harvard university where he attained his ph.d. he's been a scholar at the u.s. institute of peace. he was an advisor to the baker-hamilton commission. he was an assistant secretary of state. and he was a member of the policy planning staff at the state department. his focus now is organizing all the thinking by the various scholars at the center for strategic and international studies. what started your interest in this? guest: i had an internship working at the state department in 1986. i kept doing what i was interested in, and before you know it, you are a middle east expert and no one will hire you to do anything else. host: what is your big-picture thinking about the amount of change happening now? >> there are two elements going on. one is that in the immediate term, there is going to be much less fundamental change than people think. the status quo powers, the militaries in these governments haven't gone away. so what's going to happen in the next six

we will talk about the government's decision to use unmanned drones in libya with jon alterman. washington journal begins live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> two-thirds of the american people dependent on the network news see those networks as the primary source of their news and information. all were hostile to richard nixon. >> bill inside pivotal moments in american history online at the c-span video library. share every c-span program from 1987 to today. it is washington your way. >> former new mexico governor, gary johnson, announced today that he will seek the republican nomination for president. he served as gunner from 1995 until 2003, advocating in favor of legalizing marijuana and gay rights. after the announcement, he is introduced by the former new hampshire state representative. this is a half an hour. [applause] >> thank you and good morning. this morning i am here to introduce what i hope will be the next president of the united states, gary johnson. he is a former two-term governor from new mexico. during that time he cast more vetoes than any other governor