the muslim brotherhood enjoys huge support, the salafists which are a harder line version of the muslim brotherhood also have huge support and it is a very, very powerful political machine with a lot of money behind it. they've brought out to bear and that is what high school driven him into the president-elect seat here in egypt and this is going to be a very quick transition. supposedly, the army is supposed to swear in president-elect morsi stooimenometime in the ne days before the end of the month. >> eric: a few minutes ago, we had a staff representative to benjamin netanyahu, and he called the muslim brotherhood win, the arab winter. when will they bring him to the white house to meet president obama. >> reporter: it certainly changes the dynamic in terms of, you had hosni mubarak a strong u.s. ally and all of a sudden you have mohamed morsi and if the army gives up control of foreign policy in terms of allowing him to be the form representative for this country, which, because he is president now, conceivably is something that is on the table, this will change the complete struct

>> 7 million. >> muslims? >> yes. >> because we are kind of a christian country, anything different, people are a little uncomfortable. certainly, some women are you breaths -- some women argue threats of being called terrorists. i read a sentence that i just kind of cringe that, you know? someone after 9/11 saying that you should wear an american flag around your head so that we can know what side you are on. those kind of comments have to hurt. those kinds of comments are bigoted, are they not? racist? at least in some way. >> unfortunately, yes, it is very sad, what they have faced. sometimes women wearing the hijab are presented in the media -- sorry about that -- and sometimes there is a misconception about muslim women. that is why this organization is open to all religions. we want to a firm understanding. >> your organization? >> yes. as a member, we invite our friends from all religions to learn more about islam. >> so that is the idea of friendship and understanding? >> tolerance and understanding th

the muslim if you think. like something between algeria and iran again we're in uncharted territory they don't know but one thing is for sure they don't want to know they're very frightened of the idea of the muslim brotherhood running the most influential and powerful state in the arab world they don't know how the muslim brotherhood would run the economy they don't know how the muslim brotherhood would handle relations with israel and other countries in the region and of course they also have their own vested interests which have been mentioned fairly in this program but i also think that they're very frightened by the possibility of the muslim brotherhood and islamist organization with a very problematic. running such a vast and important country in the middle east i think that they're scared of the results of that. stay with you i mean ok granted they're afraid but the more they're denied legitimate power the more they should be afraid you see what i mean i mean if it comes push comes to shove i mean thes

muslim brotherhood. they've seen them in control of parliament for the last several months and they haven't achieved much to be proud of or much to make a meaningful difference in people's lives. so i thin tt for the people here, this has been kind of a bad choice/bad choice election. >> it certainly has. i mean, i'm just looking out. it's 4:00 p.m. in cairo on a sunday afternoon. the roads should be full of cars. it should be rush hour. and what we're seeing is actually very few cars on the road. because i think -- i think despite the disappointment, many people feel that it was a choice between the lesser of two evils. i think people are very aware of the mistor chistorical signific this. that is why in the city of more than 18 million people, it appears most of them are watching television at the moment. >> i'd like to say that the atmosphere must be electric there, but i imagine it is simply hot. you're standing over the square. you say it's not as crowded as it used to be. tell us who's there. tell

can we look at a deal between morsi or the muslim brothers and skaf where the muslim brother cans accept shafiq as president in return to, for example, appoint a prime minister, a few min ters, more powers. is this possible? again, we can hope. however, i think given the history we've been seeing by the muslim brothers i think this is a possible deal. however, i think in what we've been seeing since today's morning is the muslim brothers are interested in establishing some bridges with other forces in society. with this, stop, and thank you very much for listening. >> thank you very much, mohammad. you raised a lot of interesting questions that will affect egypt in the weeks and months ahead. now i'd like to open it up for questions from the audience. and please raise your hand and identify yourself and we'll try to get to as many questions as possible. yes. >> hi. carolyn with voice of america tv. you all mentioned how low the turnout was around 50%. even you, mohammad, said it may go as low as 35% affecting the credibility of a new president. why do you think not that many came out in

so many are still suspicious of the muslim brotherhood. cnn's chief international correspondent and abc world news global anchor christiane amanpour in cairo. what is morsi promising the egyptian people and do they believe him? >> reporter: hala, that is the impression for the majority of egyptians. we have so many people in tahrir square still celebrating. this will go on a long time. they have fireworks, people streaming in from all over cairo and other parts of egypt, they're celebrating as well. mohamed morsi was urged to embrace all egyptians and work for national reconciliation. his speech, as you mentioned, did say he would be the president for everyone, christians, minorities, women, listed all elements of society, army, police, intelligence service, teachers, farmers, he went on and on embracing all egyptians. the truth of the matter is half the country did not vote for him. 48% voted for ahmed shafik. they want stability and don't necessarily want an islamist leader. important to note ahmed shafik did send a message of congratula

they hear muslim brotherhood president. we'll get into, you know, his powers a little later with other guests. some of them say we should be concerned. this is an islamist now at head of egypt. should they be? >> i think there's reason for concern, absolutely. i don't subscribe to the level of panic that i think a lot of other people have. i mean, personally having watched the muslim brotherhood operate on the political scene before and after the revolution, i'm not afraid of them imposing. i'm afraid of them being deal cutters and kind of snakes. they're politicians. they're pragmatists to the point of being cynical. i'm far more worried about muslim brotherhood cutting a deal with the military than i am about them trying to create the muslim republic of egypt. >> pleasure talking to you on this historic day for your country. thanks very much for joining us on cnn. well, this did turn out to be a close election between morsi and shafiq. take a look at the official numbers from the electoral commission. morsi with 51.73% of

the constitution and a group of muslims is now suing to states. suing the us state to prove their point we'll tell you all about it. and stopping n.c.a.a. and its tracks a group of lawyers activists and authors are suing president obama over the national defense authorization act and now they've got a u.s. district judge on their side so is this the end to the controversial legislation we'll ask one of the plaintiffs. plus the people of taiwan have some serious beef with the u.s. more specifically our meet standards and it's driving a rift between the two nations we'll tell you what the dangerous ingredient is and what it means for your dinner plate. it's thursday june seventh seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . well spying on people based on their religion may not be legal after all a group of muslims now suing the n.y.p.d. for singling out and surveilling them simply based on their religion this after reports came out that the n.y.p.d. spied on muslim businesses mosques and students in new jersey and buil

the constitution and a group of muslims is now suing the state to prove that point i'll tell you all about it. and stopping in the n.b.a. and its tracks a group of lawyers activists and authors are suing president obama over the national defense authorization act and now they've got a u.s. district judge on their side so is this the end to the controversial legislation last one man who is representing the plaintiffs. and it looks like the occupy movement might be losing its momentum many expected a spring resurgence but it seems these protesters are at a crossroad we'll tell you why the banners may be fading but the occupying message remains as resilient as ever. it's thursday june seventh eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching are. spying on people based on their religion may not be illegal after all a group of muslims now suing the n.y.p.d. for singling out and surveilling them simply based on their religion this after reports came out that the n.y.p.d. spied on muslim businesses mosques and students in new jersey and built up secret files of the complain

brotherhood the muslim brotherhood has been found to be an unguided coconspirator on terrorism cases and yet it appears that there are individuals first proceeded with the muslim brotherhood who have positions in very sensitive positions in our department of justice our department of homeland security potentially even the national intelligence agency. and that wasn't even the first time this month bachmann pushed her paranoid conspiracy theory on june thirteenth she and other house republican loonies wrote to the inspector general of the intelligence community asked them to investigate the agency's ties to the muslim brotherhood and what was the basis for their request a declaration that the brotherhood isn't a threat made by the intelligence director james clapper in february twentieth eleven really evidence that the brotherhood isn't a threat is evidence that it is a threat in michele bachmann's world the question exists the letter stated to what extent of such a statement reflects the direct influence within the intelligence community of brotherhood operatives alternate alternativ

hope is that as the muslim brotherhood, the muslim democrats generally began to go into politics, hadtical roots to express their frustrations and their desires that that would take the violent edge off of islamist movements and they would then have to grapple with the realities of power. how to bring foreign investment, how to get an economy moving. how to get the g.d.p. growth level above 5%. those are the specific issues that now face the likely president morsi. and it was hoped that across the arab world that this process of empowering people who had been excluded by a corrupt essentially police state system would be beneficial. and i think that the obama administration has made a big bet on this process of democracy and empowerment working in the long run for u.s. interests. you have to say this is a really bumpy process. egypt is the best example, but most countries showed the same thing. that shouldn't really be surprising in terms of really horrific outcomes. the main example of that is syria which fouad has written about. but i think, you know, the way i hear people in the ad

as well as conducting muslim surveillance in the neighboring state of new jersey well during the fox segment several members of the panel seem to think that the n.y.p.d. was in the right for their surveillance except for political analyst juan williams when williams suggested the muslims had valid reasoning for a lawsuit against the n.y.p.d. eric bolling strongly disagreed well that's not fair to people in the muslim community most of whom are not terrorists it is fear to say that when we have a lead we will conduct surveillance how is it that everywhere i suppose every terrorist on american soil has been a muslim not a lead. all right lots of eric right there because he's actually arguing that every terrorist here in the u.s. has been a muslim now obama city bomber timothy mcveigh is obviously the first person that comes to mind but there are so many more people post nine eleven who have committed acts of terrorism who are also not muslim what about the anthrax anthrax attacks in two thousand and one they were carried out by dr bruce ivans a microbiologist for the army's biodefense

egypt will have a president who is a member of the muslim brotherhood.he winner in the election, the run off has been declared, mohamed morsi. a former muslim brotherhood official, gives egypt its first islamist president and you are now looking live in tahrir sq

don't worry about muslims. i am normal muslim. i work in very good organization.tually, i am -- i am good and we go out and go and back. vimy suit. my wife, she is not well. don't be worried, american, don't be worried. >> reporter: that's the message here from down on the square, merks don't be worried. there is a lot of people here in the middle-east who are feeling this election here and if the army turns over power means that today marks the redrawing of the entire strategic map of the middle-east. back to you in new york. >> eric: leyland -- don't worry, american people, says that one man, now that the muslim brotherhood has won. is he correct? we will have a lot more on this historic day and the election in egypt, straight ahead. [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. that's why my doctor recommends citraca

who have the authority of law behind us we don't trust these muslims and that stigmatizes muslims and he in fact is proliferates into their private life such as in their work environment in their school environment in public accommodation and so one of the theories of liability that the plaintiffs are asserting is a sickness is a nation effect in other words what harm was because then why people say we didn't harm you again we didn't stop you from engaging in religious practices but the harm is the stigmatisation effect which has pervasive consequences in all areas of their lives and in fact it's really in peak their ability to succeed impede their ability to climb the social mobility lanner then the american dream that if you work hard and you pay your fair share you'll succeed in this country so these n.y.p.d. strategies and these tactics that target them impede their ability to do so which is essentially what the equal protection clause is all about which is that the government cannot pick on a particular group and discretely adversely. treat them based on their religion race natio

>> well it would mean this arab spring is turning rapidly into a muslim winter. we have to understand that iran has been the extreme radical islam form in the middle east while we had egypt as a counter, of a secular, very moderate regime over the past 35, 40 years. if morsi wins and the muslim brotherhood wins, means we're looking at a radical islamic middle east, full of tensions and will not be a simple situation for israel or the west. >> eric: could it is eventually lead to a scuttling of the peace treaty? >> well, effectively the peace treaty, while formally it still exists, effectively is not there anymore. there is no meaningful economic ties, but, still, we're certainly not in a situation of war and that is good news. we hope in any case the peace treaty will remain intact each under a radical regime, though, chances are low. what it means is america has to stay strong, israel has to stay strong under this very unstable environment. >> eric: do you think the peace treaty and any stability that remains would really stay in place if the muslim brotherhood

investigation types of activities, that this favors the muslim faith.tly, the free exercise clause of the first amendment. when the government targets religion in a way or particular religious faith in a way that interferes with people's ability to worship and practice their religion, that violates the free exercise clause. we most recently seen, tuesday, another nypd document was released that kind of has a spread sheet of the types of infiltration the nypd is carrying out annalists muslim student association, mosques, and as a check for to we have an informant there, doing an undercover officer there. so how can people pray, talk to their imam when the person next to the may be a cop? >> what about the police department, they say this is surveillance by not targeting or prosecuting, just gathering information? publicidea we're just in places observing what anyone else could observe is really a fallacy for two reasons. first of all, nobody wants to think they're being photographed as they go in and out of their place of worship. nobody wants to think p

in the coming in the coming years and they see as a viable option and when it comes to morsi the muslim brotherhood has a wide base of support in the country and they've been you know a key component of the transition process and you know they were able to mobilize a large segment of society to vote for them and in both the parliamentary and presidential elections so i mean although you know hardcore revolutionaries and. time disappointed by these choices you know i don't think it's time yet to call the egyptian revolution failed over ok michael if i go to you in austin people are excited about the democratic process or either candidates democrats in your mind. well the democrats for the time being whether they have political democracy in the d.n.a. is quite another matter. from washington vantage point at this stage you know into thinking about the arab spring and the revolutionary changes in arab societies certainly the obama administration's sort of primary concerns less about realizing democratic ideals then they are. you know hopefully seeing these stable regimes unstable regimes t

so for perpetuating lies and trying to trying its best to make muslims the target of america's hate eric bolling is tonight's tool time winner. alright it's thursday and it's time for happy hour on tonight's show before we get to all of our good topics we just want to give everyone a heads up that alona will be doing happy hour from murphy's pub she'll be joined by david pacman and julia for a lot oh so you won't want to miss that let's get back here to d.c. and hey guys it's a ladies night joining me tonight producer adriano saddo and that is the money roll calls heard on the hill reporter the right guy has a what do you think of when i say nine nine nine herman cain herman came down six is how we are how we've missed him and guess what we want to miss him for of much longer because guess what he is back with a new radio show. these balls went on a profound prove allegations continue to be spin in the media. and then book cork. so as to create a crime go. all right so that was herman cain you may remember and he is suspending his campaign speech blaming the media guess what now he'

muslims have long been a part of spanish history. in the eighth century, muslims from north africa conquered large parts of spain and ruled it for century. during much of the sun, it is believed moslems, christians, and jews lived in relative harmony, but today, the situation is different. with tensions on the rise between and within communities. the perception some muslims have of women has fuelled anger in spain with people saying such views have no place in spanish society. >> friday prayers -- the highlight of the muslim week. this is where it happened. the imam of terrazzo gave instructions of how to beat a woman without leaving any traces. the police reported the sermons. >> it is bad. there is no room for this kind of preaching. every person deserves respect. if this man does not like the laws in europe, he should go back to his own country. he can have his own way there. but beating up and abusing women is not reasonable anywhere. not where he comes from, either. then let a judge summon him in march. he made use of his right

fa dual who broke off from the muslim brotherhood about a year ago to run as an dehn candidate. the high elections council announced the final results of the first round yesterday, and as greg mentioned, there have been some very interesting developments in the last 24 hours. with demonstrations in tahrir square, the torching of ahmed shafiq's campaign headquarters. so i think what we have now is a very highly dynamic situation heading into the runoff of these elections. so what i thought i'd do just to set the scene is to talk not about the candidates but about the broad context of these elections and what we can expect to see in the second round or in the run to have these elections, but also what they signify for egypt's posttransition politics. the significance, of course, of these elections, as greg mentioned, it really is the first time in egypt that we have a real contestation for political power in the office of the head of state in the egyptian republic. that is a truly historic development. these elections also mark the end of the transition, the postrevolutionary tran

the country's first democratic presidential elections and hosni mubarak was ousted last this as the muslim brotherhood declares and on the still believe. greece grounds the euro a stay of execution that's after a probate party takes the lead in parliamentary elections but the debt crisis will still be giving the g. twenty leaders a headache as he meets in mexico. russia seeks to break the iranian nuclear standoff by hosting an international conference in moscow all sides are dug in deep with tough sanctions in the air as iran refuses to relinquish its right to atomic energy. ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now ballots are being counted in egypt after voters hit the polls to elect the country's first president since former leader hosni mubarak was forced from office last year the muslim brotherhood is claiming the lead based on a count from ninety percent of polling stations wired to suppose we are joins us now from cairo paul what more can you tell us about the latest situation in cairo. well people are beginning to gather in tahri

live pictures from egypt as thousands gathering caro's revolutionary tahrir square to prop up the muslim brotherhood. calling him into his square was growing louder as protesters make the minute the latest grab of power over details in just a few moments. also this hour global fears over eurozone fallout at the gathering of the world's top twenty powerhouses in mexico. the g. twenty leaders seek to boost growth and moscow and washington pledge common efforts to prevent a civil war in syria the details just ahead. on screen online this is r.t. with international news and opinion live from new center here in moscow so we start with our breaking news here on r.t. the world's top whistleblower. asked for political asylum in ecuador and songes currently in the latin american republics embassy in london ecuador is currently deciding whether to grant the wiki leaks chief's request it says it has informed the british government about the matter under the supreme court granted his extradition to sweden at the end of may where he is wanted on sexual assault charges sanchez always denied the charge