what i learned about mohammad morsi in the course of studying him, before becomes the president of egyptthe muslim brotherhood's internal enforcer. in other words he was the one responsible for pushing people who disagreed with some of the organization's ideas or disagreed with some of its tactics he was responsible for pushing them out. this is someone very undemocratic in the way he behaves within the organization. therefore it is not surprising at all once being elected he would act undemocratically. melissa: what was he like face-to-face? tell me me about the m meeting and how he based a what happened. >> sure. i actually interviewed him before the revolution face-to-face. i interviewed him a number of times over the phone before the revolution. face-to-face in august 2010. i asked him a number of personal questions, buy graph call stuff. where he went to high school. what his father did for a living and he refused to answer. the reason he refused to answer he said all muslim brothers are effective the same. i didn't need to know about any one individual brother. it ges you a good se

mohammad morsi said today there's a possibility of a cease fire soon. negotiations are in high gear with israel i'ming high. hamas wants israel to stop killing its leaders to end the blockade to gaza, but people are both sides of the border are living in fear. >>> president obama made his first public comments about the crisis today while overseas on a historic three-nation tour of southeast asia, including the first-ever visit by an american president to myian mar. chuck todd is traveling with the president. >> reporter: the president touched down at bangkok on sunday on a three-day whirlwind trip to east asia. he used a joint press congress fence with the prime minister of thailand to strongly support israel's right to defend lisits. >> there's no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside it's borders. we fully support israel's right to defend itself. >> reporter: the president issues a plea to allies of the palestinians playing on their hope that including a palestinian state next to israel. >> if we see

what have mohammad morsi done mubarak in the height of his power could not even dream of achieving morsi is part of the muslim brotherhood and islam or fascist group they have control over their members and their supporters it is very simple in a country with more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion gyptian is are now seeing clearly they have replaced the military fascist style regime of hosni mubarak into the religious fascist regime of mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood egyptians and they have undertaken a revolution back in january twentieth levon calling for three simple things bread freedom and social justice neither of these three. calls demands that they have called for and in their revolution have been achieved this state of the egyptian of qana me is in shambles this state of freedoms it's been marginalized people wanted to establish a democracy they wanted to establish solid at the here and to human rights they wanted to have social justice applied and not to turn it from the military to the religious fascism. s

embassy meantime in egypt now closed amid protests in the country against president mohammad morsi. voting has started on the new constitution. kc mcfarland, formerly distance secretary of defense and fox news national security analyst, great to see you. he is in the catbird seat because he inserted himself into the peace agreement between israel and hamas. >> he negotiated a cease-fire between israel and hamas, the words were not out of president obama's mouth praising him for this, offering to help him with half a billion dollars of aid, convincing the imf to give him almost $5 billion of aid and what did morsi do? e seized all the controls of power. already got the parliament and the presidency, put his guys in the military and taking over. connell: in the old days they used to say hosni mubarak was not the best guy in the world but the u.s. can work with him. what about now? >> that is an important difference to make because he was a dictator, hosni mubarak was that he was our guy, pro-american and kept peace with israel. the new guy is a dictator too but not necessarily our guy

tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in egypt after president mohammad morsi granted himself opponents storm the party headquarters and set fire to his offices in several cities. the cia, nasdaq, looking to speed up the information since the traders using microwave links report by the wall street journal said a microwave networks under consideration will only send market data and not actual offers. and closing nearly half of the bank branches in greece two years after they decided to exit retail banking. 170 employees are expected to lose their jobs. pharmaceuticals recalling generic versions of lipitor after pieces of glass were found in the hills. and that is today's speed read. dave: an awful story. holiday box office season, much better story, already off to a great start with movies like twilight and -- said disagree on that one bringing in big bucks. can we expect hollywood to keep turning out big hits through the season? dave: we have to have a discussion about that. you didn't like it. i love that. joining us is chairman and ceo peter guber, our best friend in the mov

but you could talk a little bit about mohammad morsi.u look at the arab spring because the protesters were the winners of this front page cover for having inspired this arab spring. now we're starting to see what it wrought and perhaps mohammad morsi might be a good pick in change of -- in terms of world dynamic and what he might represent. melissa: i think mohammed morsi might be international person of the year. person in america i would pick the data miner. people figured out ways to manipulate information at a such low level, narrow, pointed level they were able to in a lower turnout election, six or seven fewer million people out there able to cobble together the obama coalition to give him the win because they were able to target people so carefully. martha: i get what you're saying, but i don't like it when they don't pick a person. i like it to be a person. i don't like when this group or whistle-blowers. i hope they pick a person. melissa: nate silver over at "new york times", the guy who picked the election and uses that data m

president mohammad morsi whom america rae lies on to be a regional peace broker but last week he granted himself unchecked power. him if leaving to bloody clashes. the crowd is planting leave. these are the seam chant 2 years ago during the refuse lugs except that they have substituted mubarak for morsi. the egyptian topple president mubarak. dictator who ruled for 3 decade. they then held a historic election. voted in the new president. now fichlt he's like a super power. >>reporter: the office says the move is just temporary. side lined remnant of the era app put he script on the right track. it's far from within who will win the show did you know but certainly more bloody days ahead on egypt bumpy road to democracy. this is cairo. >> president obama today signed a law that requires u.s. airline to be secluded from fe fees for european carbon emission. air leaps fought the program saying it with add billions to airfare over the next decade or so. officials estimate it could add 30 dollars to each round trip ticket to europe. environmentmentist traimd the bill as first test on climate a

. >> egyptian president mohammad morsi will scale back the decree he issued last week he says which wouldgiven him sweeping judicial powers. he will reach new agreement and potential against the new rules. upped the agreement the court has the power to rae view more edict. dairy farm intereurope took anger to the street today after low milk prices. sfichlt farmer from several country soaked police with mike outside the area pine headquarters in russell today. the currently being hold at low prussia cost tlat being the survival of the mark. well lack at further rae form on wednesday. >>> it was a year and a half ago when osama bin laden was kill. we now we learn about central character would made it possible and she's the central figure in a new movie. martha has an exclusive interview with film director catherine bigelo bigelow. >> the story everyone thinks they know. stealth nighttime raid by the seal team 6 subpoena sweeping into the bin laden compound in pakistan. >> you are in the elements you are you can't see anything. >>reporter: zero dark 30 has it all. but oscar winning team behi

. >> i want to ask you specifically about egyptian president mohammad morsi. wanted to play you a brief clip from a campaign rally. in may of this year. this was a rally mohammed morsi was at. i wanted to play for you what it said. [ speaking foreign language ] >> again, that was a rally for mohammed morsi. and he was saying that the united states of the arabs will be restored by this man. the capital of the united states of the arabs will be restored by this man. come on you lovers of martyr dom. do you trust morsi? >> we focus on deeds rather than words an egypt has filled a constructive role in the past and we hope egypt will continue to fill that role. >> do you think this could if you do have a deal, lead to a real working relationship with the morsi government, where the treaty isn't in jeopardy, or do you think that is something way too pie in the sky? >> we're always welcoming of an improvement with egypt. we've had a peace treaty for 34 years. that is essential for us, but no less crucial for the egyptians. we all need stability and particularly, egyp

prime minister benjamin netanyahu before jetting to cairo for talks with the president of egypt, mohammad morsi. the urgency underscored by the carnage in benghazi. rockets are lobbying back and forth. israeli air attacks killing 27 more palestinians bringing the death toll to 137 just in the last week. >> now a spokesman for hamas sounded cautiously optimistic that a cease-fire could be at hand telling cnn we are close, we are on the edge. cnn has reporters blanketing the region to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of this crisis in gaza. fred pleitgen is in ashkelon, ben wedemans in gaza city. ben wedeman, good morning, set the scene for me. >> reporter: yes, brooke, it was a noisezy night and we saw intense bombardment just behind where i'm standing. that was proceeded by increasing sort of mounting reports that a cease-fire was about to be announced or a period of calm. but it appears that there were problems within the israeli government that prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his foreign minister lieberman didn't see eye to eye with the defense minister who was leaning towards

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west bank and will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and egyptian president mohammad morsier on today, a continuing effort to end the violence after more than a week of quieting. here is the price of oil right now. i believe we're around $87 a barrel. 87.42, up 67 cents, that's where we are. we call this on "varney & company," we call it a renewed push for action due to climate change. now, the u.n. is joining in the dire warnings. coming up new at 10. find out exactly what the united nations plans to do about it. can anybody say carbon tax? yeah, you can. back to nicole, today, what have we got. best buy a loser? why? >> well, yesterday we talked about their numbers. they were a loser yesterday about their same-store sales for yet another quarter. nine of the last ten quarters have shown decline. today, well, let's see, one analyst downgraded best buy. how about deutche bank? yep, how about bernstein. >> yep, jeffers, you get the point. and while they're doing well with mobile phones, appliances, tablet computers and e-readers, no on notebooks, gaming products. they're mis

protesters have been gathering at that square since president mohammad morsi granted himself new sweeping the same square that was the center of the uprising that toppled hosni mubarak nearly two years ago. >>> today, the grave of yasser arafat was opened in an attempt to determine whether he was poisoned. this is video from ramallah today. it shows palestinian leaders paying their respects after arafat's remains were returned to his mausoleum. samples were given to french, swiss and russian experts for testing. earlier this year, the detection of a lethal radioactive substance on arafat's belongses sparked a new -- belongings, sparked a new investigation into his death. >>> back here at home, san jose firefighters think eucalyptus oil forced the evacuation of 100 people last night at a local gym. several people complained of breathing problems. it happened at club one. ten people complainedsh -- ten people complained of breathing problems and irritated throats. >> one of my other clients said there's something really strong in the bathroom. really strong and burning sensation. her eyes w

leaning on mohammad morsi to stop hamas.ut rockets continue to terrorize citizens in southern israel. the capital of jerusalem also coming under wire. secretary of state hillary clinton is e to meet with benjamin netanyahu and palestinian leaders and egyptian president morsi. >> reporter: the president as you know just left asia. he was in cam bode what wrapping up a trip to asia and the violence in gaza was overshadowing that trip. that's yes had to dispatch secretary clinton to the region. the president we are told has been on the phone three times in the last 24 hours top officials say with egyptian president morsi to try and help broker a cease-fire, deescalate the violence on the ground. secretary clinton will be going on to ramallah to meet with president hah bass, the palestinian president. then on to meet with president morsi. >> her visits will build on the engagement we have under taken the past several days with leaders in region to support a de-escalation of the violence and durable outcome that ends rocket attac

obama discussed deescalating this gaza-israeli conflict to in a call to the egyptian president mohammad morsi today. the president making a trip to my far -- makinga trip to myana call to morsi in a an a -- in an attempt to stop the firing. the president trying to do what he can, morsi wants to send his prime minister over to hamas to try to get them to back off, we are told. yet the rockets continue to rain. and now the palestinians today are showing a heartbreaking video of young children having been hit by the israeli defense. so both sides are suffering casualties and trying to fight not just an actual war, but a propaganda one. >> hamas is very, very good at propaganda side. they hide behind human shields. they shoot rockets from playgrounds. they put headquarters bunkers under hospitals. so naturally there are civilian casualties. it's tragic but hamas welcomes that as an effective cool of warfare. they know the hostile to israel global media will eat that up. in the past hamas has faked casualty pictures as well in the 2006 war and hezbollah was faking casualty pictures right and left.

bill: we are just hearing the egyptian president, mohammad morsi, the man who took over for hosni mubarak is telling reporters an ending to the conflict between israel and hamas but he has nothing to back that up. hillary clinton is travel together region. >> ultimately what we want to achieve is two states living side by side in peace and security. that its going to be much harder to achieve if you will have conflicts like what we have seen in gaza which make i'd much more difficult to pursue what is already an incredibly difficult challenge. we need to walk through the door of restoring calm to the region and restore the underlying challenges. nafhali bennett, thank you for being here. is there a cease-fire that's imminent? >> not yet. we have thousands of soldiers on the border ready to go in to defend ourselves from the rain of missiles that have been hitting our cities, including here in jerusalem. we are ready to defend ourselves. the only acceptable resolve to this situation is the total inability of hamas to fire missiles on our cities. bill: what does it mean that hillary clinton

the president also speaking with the turkish leader and with mohammad morsi from the muslim brotherhoodgypt, asking them to reach out to hamas, to engage them, to try to work on some sort of truce. and one final thing, alex, the u.s. official says the israelis, if there is to be an israeli ground offensive, possible israeli ground offensive in gaza "israel can make their own decisions about tactics and operations." alex. >> from there to what did the white house say about the benghazi investigation? >> reporter: well, this is all springing from david petraeus, of course the former now dci, director of central intelligence. his closed door testimony in that subterranean secure room in the east front of the capitol where he evidently told members of congress his initial assessment was after the september 11th attacks in benghazi there was a terrorist element. the question becomes did the white house get to that and edit that assessment? they said absolutely not. they said it's only natural in days after the attack the intel community would sort through different pieces of intelligence. th

and that could be an early indication that this government led by president mohammad morsi is going toured and diplomatic approach in an effort to maintain the alliances they have with israel, with washington, with western powers. that obviously is going to come as relief to israel and washington. but that could anger the egyptian public, the arab world. that is increasingly frustrated and impatient as the violence escalates in gaza, wolf. >> all right, reza, thanks very much. our correspondent in cairo watching all of this unfold. >>> there are major implications for the united states in all of this. and the white house is certainly closely watching the crisis play out. we're going to tell you what president obama is doing about it right now. plus, a look at the likely consequences of an all-out ground war in gaza. they are very disturbing. i don't spend money on gasoline. i am probably going to the gas station about once a month. last time i was at a gas station was about...i would say... two months ago. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. i go to the gas station such a small amo

mohammad morsy has broadened his powers less repair john mccain says that while the u.s. is thankful for his help facilitating the cease-fire between israel and the gaza strip, he criticized his decision, which has prompted days of violent street protests in egypt. another senator, max baucus, the chairman of the senate finance committee, says that he wants to preserve the estate tax break, which is important for farmers who want to pass down land to their children. he hopes to expand the production tax credit for wind energy. watch the senate live on c- span2. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> you listen to their member, who said the damage was unprecedented, that it may be the worst storm the city has ever faced, and that the tidal surge was 14. governor christie said the damage was unthinkable. we had fires, hurricane-force wind, massive flooding, deep snow. you look at that and the flooding into the subway systems, the shut-down of the stock exchanges, you get a sense of the massive scale and scope of this storm. yet the networks perform. i ha

democratcly elected leader from brotherhood morsi declaring all presidential decisions are xem from appeal or review by lawmakers if through the courts. protest mohammadapped did the twee tweeting he upon atheed himself egypt new pharaoh. >> more power. the then mr. power. >>reporter: most ago he was obscure. before being elect entered may. he slide if i himself as key u.s. al lay. >> i want to thank president morsi for his personal leadership to de-escalate the situation in gaza and end the violence. >> it put united states in an awkward position to criticize a part earner that it is clearly now has to rely on in the region. >>reporter: state department says this is an issue of international concern but morsi is saying this is only temporary. he will relinquish the powers once constitution is completed but extended the deadline until late february. >> u.s. airway made detour when the plane hit by bird. you can see part of the wing is crack. indicator lights went off in the cockpit and craw knew only that something had happened. shortly after take off. flight was head from key west, florida to charlotte, north carolina. diverted to fort myers, florida