joshua landis is an expert at the university of oklahoma.aying there is evidence that saudi nationals are involved in the syrian war. >> there's supposed to be between 7,000 and 11,000 foreign fighters. there's a debate whether there's more foreign fighters fighting on the side of the syrian government, including several thousand hezbollah and many iraqis and some other shiites who come to fight on the side of the syrian governments. as opposed to a real international pot puree coming to fight on the side of the rebel forces. many saudis, and we have seen videos of saudis engaged in suicide car bombs, who made preliminary videos before blowing themselves up. there's quite a few sawedies. fund raisers and so forth who made a name for themselves in syria. >>> the trial of osama bin laden's son-in-law has begun in new york. he's accused of conspiring to kill americans in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack. he's the highest ranking to be taken to court. >> we know that the government has photographs and videotape of osama bin laden's son with him

from norman, us oklahoma, is joshua landis, the university of oklahoma center of muslim -- of middle tudies. professor landis, welcome. guest: it is a pleasure being with you. host: today marks the three-year anniversary since the uprising in syria, and we wanted to get your sense on not only reminding viewers of what happened to start the uprising, but where we are now. guest: right, well, this uprising began three years ago in march as part of the arab theng, and the syrian -- arab spring really stalled in syria. people expected bashar al-assad, the president of syria, to fall rapidly, and that these small clique that was around him, largely brand by alan wites, the religious group he belongs to, they thought he would collapse. but bashar al-assad turned out to be much tougher, his military fought hard for him, they did not abandon him, and the russians and iranians stepped up and began to give him money and arms. -- has law and lebanon been law -- hezbollah and lebanon has come over to help them out too. besides the united states, turkey, saudi arabia, the gulf countries trying to

joshua landis, the university of oklahoma. you can also read his work on his blog. thoughts and his philosophies about >> on newsmakers, adam, the member of the intelligence committee on search or find sent allegation that the cid at search senate computer filers your monitoring of e-mail and the latest on syria and ukraine. sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. fee towill take over the died last october after doing this. he was greeted by several members of the florida delegation and spoke briefly. this is about five minutes. y, be permitted to take the oath of office today. his certificate of election has not arrived, but there is no contest and no question has been raised with regard to his he election. the speaker: without objection. will representative jolly and the entire florida delegation come to the well of the house and face me. all members will rise. and will representative-elect jolly please raise his right hand. do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domest

yet so typical of international cookies nuts since been withdrawn doing let me get your reaction joshua landis for seoul the u s aspect of what we saw we heard. john mccain there the republican senators say that the russians played the secretary of state. like the like of violin and that with what's going on both in syria and in crimea. the us is quote on the wane. i don't think that's true it's the us succeeded. it's got sixty percent of chemical weapons to syria had been destroyed now of course. obama has not changed the balance of power in syria. three rebels and serving people are beginning our continued to be killed. i never ending war goes on. so in that sense. obama has not entered into a theater in the civil war although he did destroy chemical weapons and over the stalled in the air there is a promise. and this is obama cause it's not the end the civil war. she is and he succeeded. i staying out of the series the morning getting out of the middle east which is its stated policy they are warts in the middle east is what he said when he came in eight years ago or six years ago and when

joshua landis of the university of oklahoma looks at the war between the syrian government and rebel groups would've cost the lives of over 140,000 people since the conflict again over three years ago. after that, you'll university graduate student -- yale graduate student on a field experiment he conducted. plus, your phone calls and basil, ask -- plus your phone calls and facebook comments and tweets. challenges in defining war in cyberspace. what war is. from a policy's, we are trying to work away through those issues. the tenant that are applicable is that whatever we do within the cyber arena, international law will pertain. if we find ourselves getting to will point where we believe that cyber is taking us down in armed conflict scenario, that the rules and law of armed conflict will pertain as much in this domain as it does in any other. i don't think ciber is inherently different in that regard. i think those sets of procedures, the sets of policies and law as a nation have stood as in good standing. they represent a good point of departure. >> senate armed services takes up

joshua landis talks about serious, the effectiveness of u.s. policy. and josh describes his field experiment to test whether the offices of members of congress are more likely to grant access to contributors. we'll take your call and you can join the conversation on facebook as well. live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> the tenets that are applicable are the fact that whatever we do in the cyber arena, international law will pertain that if we find ourselves getting to a point where we believe that cyber is taking us down our armed conflict scenario that the rules and the law of armed conflict will pertain in this domain as it does in any other. i don't think cyber is inherently different in that regard. i think those sets of procedures, those sets of policy and law as a nation have stood us in good step. >> this weekend on c-span, senate armed services takes up intelligence and military nominations, saturday morning at 10:00 eastern. and on book tv. amy parents and jonathan allen take a look at hillary clinton's career since her defeat. on c-span 3