for more on that situation that we started our broadcast with in egypt is harvard university's nicholas burns. he is the former u.s. ambassador to nato and a global correspondent. gentlemen, thanks for being with us. steve, i want to begin with you if i can. the tension, the frustration has been brimming in cairo and across egypt. how much worse do things get during the following month-long state of emergency? this is really the situation that many people had feared and it really has the potential to become a prolonged civil war. >> i think we've just gone over a very serious cliff. you have the resignation of the vice president, a muslim brotherhood source of mine says that the death count is well above the 149 that has just been announced, and, you know, we just had john mccain and lindsey graham in egypt, both communicating with the command staff, general al si si and others about trying to encourage them to move to a more inclusive process and if that didn't happen they both predicted a real nightmare in egypt. i think we're at the precipice of a real civil war that could become very, ver

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hamid dabashi is at columbia university and nicholas burns is a professor at harvard and former undersecretary of state of the united states. professor dabashi, what did you make of rouhani's "time" magazine article? did it suggest that you that he for one thinks that while iran should have a nuclear energy program, he's absolutely against any kind of weaponization of that program? >> as you know, fareed, no politician, no statesman can be -- can be looked at only on the surface of what he says. there must be measures of checking him and making sure what he says are verifiable within international confinements, but there's no reason to believe that he goes out of his way to publish an article in "time" magazine in which he commits -- if you go down the article, in fact there is nothing other than committing to iran to transparency in multiple number of ways. on the surface, this article has to be taken seriously. as president ronald reagan once said, trust but verify. within that confinement, i think even back in 2006 that statement could have been the beginning of a negotiation. >> nick burns

ambassador nicholas burns. he's now a professor at the john f.nedy school of government at harvard university and senior foreign affairs columnist at "global post." and joe stork, deputy director of the middle east and north africa division at human rights watch. gentlemen, we thank you both for being here. ambassador burns, to you first. what's your reaction to what the president said? >> judy, i think the president had to say what he said today, given the horrish, brutal attacks by the egyptian military on their own people, the president had to condemn them. he had to distance the united states from the military government in egypt, which he did. he had to canc thel very important joint exercise. as you mentioned, what he did not do is sever all relations with the government and he did not announce the united states would cut off aid. here is the dilemma for the obama administration. on the one hand, we have to be identified with human rights. that's the kind of country we are. that's our history. we have to stand up and condemn a government li

now, nicholas burns, former u.s.secretary of state for political affairs addresses past and current u.s. diplomatic efforts, including the israeli-palestinian peace talks, the investigation into the benghazi attack and the civilian civil war. this is an hour and 10 minutes. [applause] glg thank you, mr. president. good morning, everyone. it is a beautiful morning, but i detected very early a hint of autumn in the air. i don't know if you did. you may have seen recently, as i did, a "new york times" article about a sylvan bucolic renaissance throwback to another century, the 19th century, in fact, when families from new york and ohio and pennsylvania and the canadian provinces and elsewhere came to spend a bit of the summer to restore themselves in a place called cha tack qua. and the article described -- chi tack qua. and the article described what qua so unique, at least for me, the spirit of philosophy, the thing that makes life really special and meaningful. it was a great

. >> this weekend on c-span, nicholas burns on the history of u.s. diplomatic efforts in the mideast and his call for a return to diplomacy, today at 10 a.m. eastern. on c-span2's booktv, how would you define the american dream? lawrence samuel later at 7:30, and on c-span3's american history tv, why change the story when the truth is more exciting? be ray rafael on true tales of the founding fathers sunday at noon eastern. >> next on booktv, from the 2013 be harlem book fair, a discussion on the church and political activism. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. thank you, valerie, for that introduction. want to, of course, thank all of our sponsors as well as our hosts for the opportunity to moderate this panel of insightful authors, incisive of commentators and engaged leaders. i want to quickly state the aims of our panel, introduce our paneltists and open us up for conversation. of course, this evening our event is entitled the new jerusalem: black life, the church and the struggle for american democracy. our hosts have given us the charge of t

. >> this weekend on c-span, nicholas burns on the history of u.s. diplomat in the middle east.c-span2's book tv, how would you define the american dream? lawrence samuel traces the dream the great depression through the 21st century. on c-span3 is american history tv. why change the story when the truth is more exciting? "true tales of the founding fathers." sunday on noon eastern. >> what's interesting about washington in this age is that once you have that title, even if it's a very, very short title, even if you've been voted out after one term, you can stay in washington and be a former chief of staff, a former congressman, a former chief of staff to congressman x or y. and that itself is marketable. you are in the club. and that's a striking departure from the days in which people would come to washington to serve, serve a little bit and then go book the farm, which is as i guess, how the founders have intended it. there's a new dynamic and a lot of it starts with the money and the resources available for people to do very well well here. >> an insider's look at business o

diplomat nicholas burns picky addresses past and current u.s. diplomatic efforts for an hour and 10 minutes. >> thank you, mr. president good morning, everyone. it is a beautiful morning. but i detected very early a hint of autumn in the air. i don't know if you did. you may have seen recently, as i did, a "new york times" article about our renaissance throwback to another century, the 19th century, in fact. when families from new york and ohio, and pennsylvania, and the canadian provinces and elsewhere came to spend a bit of a summit to restore themselves in a place called chautauqua. and the article describes what makes, if he didn't sit you should google it. it describes what makes chautauqua so unique, at least for me. this pursuit of beauty, of truth, of spiritualism, of philosophy, the things that make life really special and really meaningful. it was a great tribute, this article, to what generations of chautauquans have done to build this in the theater and this extraordinary campus. and the only surprise for me in the article was the re

. >> this weekend on c-span, nicholas burns on the history of u.s.diplomatic efforts in the middle east. saturday morning at 10 eastern on c-span2's booktv. how would you define the american dream? the dream from the great depression through the 21st century saturday at 7:30 p.m. why change this to the truth is more exciting? true tales of the founding fathers sunday at noon eastern. >> now a discussion on the public health care system and whether it can handle a disaster either man-made or natural. representatives from the centers for disease control and prevention, and the american public health association joined state government officials in this hour and 40 minute discussion hosted by the alliance for health reform. >> good afternoon. my name is ed howard. i'm with the alliance for health reform, and i want to welcome you on behalf of senator rockefeller, senator blunt, our board of directors to this program on how well america is prepared to deal with both natural and man-made disasters. and i should say up top, this is not an intellectual exer

. >> this weekend, nicholas burns on history of u.s.diplomatic efforts in the mideast and his call for return to diplomacy saturday morning at 10 eastern on c-span2's booktv, how would you define the american dream? on c-span3's american history tv, why change the story when the truth is more exciting? true tales of the founding fathers sunday at noon eastern. >> the american enterprise institute held a discussion yesterday looking at the 2008 financial crisis. j. richards, a fellow at institute for faith, work and economics outlined his book which proposes that washington insiders and activists laid the foundation for the economic crisis. after his remarks, several financial experts give an analysis of mr. richards work. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for coming. please have a seat, finish conversations and wrap up. we're going to get started right now. i appreciate everyone for coming to aei today for discussion of the book "infiltratred." this is an event of the culture of competition initiative here at aei which is what my job

nicholas russian orthodox church. >>> back to our continuing coverage of the rim fire. here are the latest numbers regarding that wildfire. it is 7% contained this morning. so far it has burneds on the northwestern edge of the yosemite national park. more than 2600 firefighters are trying to put that fire out. this fire is reminding long time residents of the sierra foothills of a nightmare they experienced a quarter of a century ago. a rash of wildfires scorched hundreds of thousands of acres throughout the state in 1987. four firefighters were killed battling various fires. one firefighter was crushed by a falling tree. the yosemite park officials are urging potential visitors not to let the rim fire scare them off. labor day week is typically a pretty busy time for the year for the park, about 12 to 15,000 people are there this weekend. a handful of people who reserved lodges, though, have canceled, but so far the fire's impact on tourism has been minimal. as an added incentive the park is waiving its visitor fee. >>> firefighters are gaining ground on a wildfire burning in el dorado county near georgetown. the empire fire is 70% contained. it started about 3:00 yesterday

national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> today, nicholas burns, former undersecretary of state for political affairs, discusses past and current diplomatic efforts and foreign policy issues. hat's at 10:00 a.m. eastern. current and former directors of the national counterterrorism center discuss threats, civil liberties, and data collection and surveillance. that's at 8:35 p.m. eastern, also here on c-span. >> secretary of state john kerry at the state department thursday as part of a political and diplomatic joint coordination committee talks. the two countries agreed to boost cooperation to keep iran from flying weapons over iraq. friday, the ministers talked about iran, syria, and u.s.-iraq relations at the center for strategic and international [applause] thanklcome to all of you. you so much for your great introduction. thank you, john, also for him csis.ng us to the i have worked with all of you and i'm honored to be here today on this friday. i am honored this could be the last lecture here in this building. theve the honored to have befor