we will speak with shadi hamid about "lessons for the next arab spring." break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we ended today show looking at the 10th anniversary of the 2013 coup in egypt when general sisi removed egypt's first democratically elected president in power, let a purge of muslim brotherhood government leaders in a crackdown on dissent. a new piece by shadi hamid is titled "lessons for the next arab spring." shadi hamid is a senior fellow at the brookings institution and a research professor of islamic studies at fuller seminary. welcome to democracy now! if you can start off by laying out what we now know about the role of the u.s., particularly i've president obama, in response to the coup? >> thank you for having me. washington was directly complicit. i think up until relatively recently, instantly right after the coup 10 years ago, there was a since the u.s. was caught off guard, that the obama administration wanted to do the right thing but did not know how and they didn't real