as mike hirsch said, it's fascinating to watch with each visit the change.e and more high rises, more and more fancy restaurants, beautiful new contemporary art museum down by the harbor. all the signs of modernity and success and by western standards and affluence. yet, at the same time, with these successive trips i've made, more and more women are veiled, more and more piety in the streets, more and more attendance at mosques, which the secular people in istanbul used to not like. you don't hear that anymore. how prime minister erdogan has tried to bridge that duality is with economic growth, with prosperity, with new development, with a new subway system in that beautiful city. now he finds something that he thought of as a piece of economic development is having perhaps been one bridge too far. richard engel and others would know better where it's headed. i can tell you president obama and secretary kerry are monitoring it closely. this is an absolutely crucial moment in the middle east. if it's just an occupy movement that fades, everybody back in wash

mike. >> good morning, mika. >> all right. national journal michael hirsch, we haven't gotten to the snowden story yet today.hy putin is loving it. whatever putin may be saying now about not wanting to harm the business-like character of our relations with the u.s., it is evident that russia's foreign policy is largely shaped by its leader's desire to meddle with america and its power around the world. he has hilt business entire rise to power on the idea of resurrecting the prestige and geopolitical impact of his former employer. some russia experts say the truth is even simple plefr than that. putin is essentially still the street tough he was when he was raised in the poor section of st. petersburg. his world view has been mostly shaped by that upbringing and his career in the kgb when his job was to oppose u.s. power and influence. >> everybody that knows putin says he is driven by resentment of the united states. this snowden situation is absolutely a dream come true for him. >> sure, it's back to the future for putin. he's a guy whose entire life is shaped in the '60s and the '70s. the ussr as mika jus