weinstein one of the founders of the national endowment for democracy explained to the washington post in one thousand iu one a lot of what we do know was done covertly by the cia twenty five years ago and like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress millions and millions of us taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote us agenda and most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home congressman ron paul once wrote it is particularly orwellian to call u.s. manipulation of foreign elections promoting democracy how would we americans feel if for example the chinese arrived with millions of dollars to support certain kennedy to deemed friendly to china when you're terrible we used taxpay

it's documented from the records of the national endowment for democracy which is a washington government financed goal that's all over the place in russia their financing activists in. several different cities in russia i think really their expectation is to create as much internal unrest in russia as possible to distract the prospective new putin presidency at a time when you russia is going to face challenges with the missile defense with the destabilization of the assad regime in syria the attempt to create regime change in iran and throughout the middle east and you raise or to try to divert any russian any incoming russian government from dealing with these crises they're trying to do the same template they used in ukraine with the orange revolution in georgia to bring saakashvili into power as a. president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever mistakes the. ten year has brought with it whatever discontent is i think there are a lot of things that have significantly improved over the last years since the time of the yeltsin era. but that that really isn

the pro israel lobby in america through its components such as you know the ned the national endowment for democracy you've got a former a.d.l. researcher there karl. gershman who's into troll that again go to that post israel lobby's role in pushing for regime change in syria let's look at the target it's not about dot com let's talk about israel nic do you see that the israelis have a huge interest in seeing the assad regime go down because i find that a bit dubious i mean they preferred that to deal with the devils that they know ok they liked working with the they like you language i mean let me finish a question they liked working with a mubarak in egypt because he was he was the devil that they knew go ahead nick what do you think absolutely and look at the situation in egypt now the israelis absolutely not very happy about this they don't know what's going to happen they don't know if israel if egypt below its base to to hit israel and afraid and for good reason that is assad goes in syria and there is a sunni dominated government there's really more aggressive toward israel and will probably

oh no question there's bases it's documentable from the records of the national endowment for democracy which is a washington government financed. that's all over the police in russia they're financing activists in. several different cities in russia with their finance and people like the famous blogger alexei. point volved and this is meddling with the russians with. all right we lost your signal briefly there but hopefully available to stay with us for this interview so thinking back to the latest public scandal over the video showing russian opposition leaders leaving the u.s. embassy reportedly after meetings with the embassador do you think that for involvement in fact could turn a public mood against the opposition. if the opposition if the public informs itself on what's going on i think it quite well could backfire on washington they're trying to do the same template they used in ukraine with the orange revolution in georgia to bring saakashvili into power as a. president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever mistakes the. ten year has brought with

very unhappy as americans are about the treatment of our ngos and freedom house and national endowment to democracy but forinvolved in the world.... >> sean: the "new york times" reported over the weekend that in fact the muslim brotherhood is seeking to out of the military leaders. they were now elected as islamic radicals have been elected by the people and preparing for war with israel and implementing sharia law as the law of the land. don't we recognize the danger of giving money that could be used against our closest ally there? >> there is significant risk. in tunisia it's a muslim government. they are moderate and they are friendly to the united states of america. that is the case where our assistance and their moving forward with free and fair elections, they don't have a dictator ruling them again. in the case of egypt the muslim brotherhood is split. they have not obtained power yet. there are groups that want to have good relations with us. israel is a jewish state. so let's wait and see and hope that we can guide them on the path to a country that is not ruled by a brutal dictator but has a de