took advantage of sadat's willingness to talk to the israelis.k he thought he might be able to do something that his predecessors couldn't. it was a huge gamble. >> good afternoon, the stage is set and the participants are now beginning to arrive here in the washington area. president carter, egyptian president, anwar sadat and, president begin will sit down in the solitude of camp david. >> failure here would increase the impression that is being reflected in the public opinion polls thlt mr. carter is a nice man but inept president. >> hundred of reporters here, interviewing each other. what the three are discussing whether the talks are friendly, intense, we don't know because of unprecedented secrecy. >> bite end of the second day, rosalynn says you could hear them screaming at each other at the top of their lungs. cart heard to fizz like separate them. block them from leaving. >> the middle east summit at camp david is a week old and no official word on how the talks are going but how they might end. their length has given rise to reports of

sadat hoped to make enough money to send to his mother. he realized he would barely have enough for his own rent. >> i can't support my family. i can't run my life here. one day i will be hopeless, sleeping on the chairs of the parks, i will be sleeping beside the roads. people find it surprising that you're under such fear and threat, that you apply for a special visa to the u.s., you get it, which is not an easy process, you fly all the way to the u.s. and then decide no, and come back. why? >> if you die in afghanistan, that's one time you'll die one day. if you go to u.s., you will be dying every day. if you are receiving phone calls from your family hey, we need money, we have to pay the rent, we have to do this, but you cannot pay your family. this means that you are dying every day. that's better if you die in afghanistan. the helmand province is the most dangerous place in afghanistan, which i live there. i took the risk. >> that risk is still too great for many interpreters who dream of making it to the states. like hadat who just

a stronger military presence than at any point in the last 40 years since egypt's president anwar sadatelled the soviet military advisers in the 1970s and brought egypt into the western orbit. we're now almost back to where we were in the depths of the cold war in the middle east. and that doesn't even bring us to the threat of iran's nuclear weapons program, the vienna deal that the administration negotiated and signed last summer is the worst diplomatic failure in the history of the united states. [applause] but make no mistake. make no mistake. the diplomatic strategy that john kerry pursued was written by hillary clinton. this is her policy. this is the policy we will see all across the world. and yet we've seen as i noted before our missile defense systems gutted right along with our national defense budget. now, i could go on at great length but i think the point here is clear. that hillary clinton is a threat to national security roughly equivalent to barack obama. and the greatest proof of that threat is her utter otele disdain for the protection of classified information entrus

his forces but he has solidified in the middle east in a way the russians haven't had since anwar sadathrew him out of just a minute in 1973. so vladimir putin is succeeding. you will see a ratcheting up of the conflict in ukraine now that he has gotten most of his goals achieved in syria. so all i can say is that, vladimir putin has helped the iranians. he has helped hezbollah. and he has established his position and propped up by bashar al assad and none of that can be in the united states' interests. >> as we are speaking to you, we're getting word of a partial evacuation of denver international airport including the main terminal. we don't know anything outside of a possible security threat there. these things happen a lot so hopefully it is nothing more than just a threat. the height of the busy that easter travel season. as someone who has known duress, the psychological fear, just advise americans on how to deal with all this. >> well, i think we have to convince the american people that we are taking the necessary took prevent those things from happening. right now that's not th

she thought is a dat -- sadat had been murdered, the pope had been shot, her husband almost died.was a very hard discussion of whether he should run for re-election and obviously it was a campaign i'm in. i was very involved in that. at the end of the day, she made up her mind it was the right thing for the country. he wanted to do it. the interesting thing was the ranch that raegan loved so much in california was not this big glamorous texas ranch with beautiful scenery but a very small little place, had lots of snakes and mosquitos and what have you. she would let him go there whenever he wanted to. she was always concerned about his health as any great wife does, and i think to a certain extent she was the reinforcer to him. she didn't play around in public policy. she always thought he was the man to make those kind of decisions. she cared about staff in the sense that she wanted to make sure the staff was loyal to him and the staff basically was serving him well. she had a great sense of p.r., and i think the team, meaning her and the president, were inoperable and extraordin

in 1984 after he was shot, almost mortally wounded their friend sadat was murdered, the pope was shot she was reluctant to run a second term and there were other health problems and at the end of the day she gave up the request to him and said, fine, if you want to go, let's go and she want forward and you think of everything that happened the second term she had great people instincts and from political instints. the president understood big pictures. he was not a guy interested in the minutia as bill clinton and bush bush but he understood the big picture. she understood p.r. and kept a from relationship with friends in hollywood and across the country knowing what people were thinking and was a valuable asset to me as political director. she always asked tough questions and you had to response tand i n working for her and with her and to a certain extent the country lot a great patriot and one of the greatest couples ever. >> we talk about the love, the bond, the political bond, as well, and she was also a mother, obviously, to patty and ron, a step mother to maureen and michael an

stooge lavrov as they continue to place russia in a position of influence they have not had since anwar sadat threw them out of egypt in 1973. they now have a major role to play in the middle east. they have a military base, they have a naval base, they have upgraded airfields, and of course they have now solidified bashar assad's position in power. is there anybody that believes that russia will agree to an arrangement that bashar assad or his stooge doesn't remain in power? of course not. aren't we tired of begging punitive punitive? aren't we tired of watching the united states, the young men that we trained and equipped being bombed by punitive -- vladimir putin and killed and murdered? don't we sometime grow a little tired of that? it's no wonder that the united states of america has no standing and no influence in the region. and may i just -- i don't often quote from the "new york times". i just would ask my colleague if he has seen the russian move may be a reflection that mr. putin is now extremely confident in mr. assad's renewed stability and can afford to step back a bit and play

egypt during the masters and egypt during the anwar sadat you. professor beattie is that same as college -- siemens college specializing in comparative politics with regional expertise in middle east and less european politics. just taught at harvard and the university michigan. use recipient of numerous scholarships including a fulbright's grant and international rotary foundation fellowship and american research center in egypt grant and a center for arabic study abroad fellowship. [applause] >> thank you very much. i like to thank the people of the washington report for inviting me here. i've benefited tremendously from their work over the years and from the ability to interview some of them are actually the book that i completed not long ago. i am by formal training a middle east specialist, and has granted you said, my first two books wondered whether to egypt. my children were at a certain age where didn't think it might -- it made much sense to take him out of the country again, ripping them out of the school system to maybe a more dubious

in her opinion piece she pushed back against republicans claims that president sadat historically nominatedominate supreme court justices during an election year. according to her quote 14 presidents have been appointed 21 justices during presidential election years. 14 out of 44 presidents have appointed supreme court justice in an election year. that's about a third of all u.s. presidents have appointed nominees during an election year. an expert and editor of something called scotus, supreme court of the united states blog agrees the past presidents of since have selected nominees. she writes historical record does not reveal any instances sense 1900 of the presidential -- to nominate or the senate failed to confirm the nominate in a presidential election year because the impending election. they are using one inappropriate statement or excuse after another to explain why they shouldn't have to do their jobs. taxpayers sent them here to washington to do that instead of making excuses wouldn't it be easier to do the right thing? the right thing would be to give president obama supreme cou

if we had solved the problems in the middle east that i remember going up, i remember anwar sadat andr and trying to deal with this intractable problem, occupied lands. if we had solved that would this have emerged at this point? would islam, would that religion have gotten so anti-western or part of it. is that where the disenfranchisemen has come from. is that the root cause? >> there's no one root cause but can you go back to 1950 where people drew lines in the sand that beared no relation to the "entertainment tonight ethnic and tribal lands. >> we got ghettos with people who aren't assimilated. >> it's going to take -- >> how do you change hearts and minds. >> takes that whole quiver of arrows from military to intelligence to public diplomacy and propaganda and you're not going to solve it. it's like the cold war. it took 50 years to solve that. we're in for a long twilight struggle. we have to put tools in our tool box. >>> counting down to janet yellen. fed chair set to speak about the economy and monetary policy hours from now. wall street on edge ahead of her remarks. >>> mov

joining us is shibley telhami, sadat professor per piece -- for peace. good morning.e will get about to that topic. could we start though with your thinking on what happened in brussels and how that affects not only sentiment over there about muslims but my -- might affect sentiment here. guest: public opinion is very sensitive. when you track it, there are spikes up and down. in my own opinion, as for american public opinion, i think it's likely not to have a huge effect on it. remember, we gone through 9/11. -- had a lotormed of impact on americans of islam and muslim people. i don't think it's substantially changed in the last decade. really, the first couple of years of changed a little bit, but we haven't changed all that much. in addition to that, i think what we see now, because we have such a polarized debate, that you are going to see intensification of the polarization rather than a significant shift in overall american public opinion. as for europe, that's a different story. i think it's a different story not because they are more used to it in some ways th