so as you just heard, this book is about the middle east. i'm into the middle is 20 years ago. i graduated college from stanford university in 1996 and the idea was i was going to go to a place where thought there'd be a lot of news that the middle east seemed like a good choice. i was going to start on my way and i was going to become the great foreign correspondent for at least a working correspondent. i moved to cairo and i really looked at the map. i had a map of the middle east in front of me and i said when i going to go. saddam hussein's iraq, not too many options. serious, not much going on. jerusalem, yes lots going on, are probably oversaturated market to cover the israeli-palestinian conflict. outside egypt, okay. if it doesn't work out, we are doing egypt, which is great. i packed up a couple suitcases and took a little bit of money, some savings and i arrived in rented an apartment there. i had an incredibly rich experience. people were very welcoming to me. they wanted me to convert to islam constantly. they would bring me to their homes. they would feed me things.

so as you just heard this book is about the middle east, i am at the middle east 20 years ago. i graduated stanford university in 1996 and the idea was that i was going to go to a place where i thought there'd be a lot of news, the middle middle east seem like a good choice. i was going to start on my way and i was going to become a grape or correspondent or at least a working foreign correspondent. so i moved to cairo, i really looked at the map. i had the map of the middle east in front of me and i thought where my going to go? saddam hussein is a in iraq, not too many options there, syria, syria, jerusalem lots going on but probably oversaturated market to cover. and i thought egypt and its egypt so even if it doesn't work out i'm in egypt which is great. so i packed up a few suitcases and took some money and i arrived and rented an apartment there. i had an incredibly rich experience people untran. people were welcoming to me, they, they wanted me to convert to islam constantly. they would bring me to their homes, they would be me things, i was never ever alone. while that c

the middle east has problems. asia has challenges, north korea and the rise of china but it also has huge opportunities. he came to fix the economy so where do we sell stuff? it is there. he doesn't feel like, i am the inheritor of the post-world war ii alliance that harry truman built. he knows that europe is an important and stable platform for america but there is no romance. charlie: and then there is a vladimir putin. >> you play this game where it is like rank the challenges and he always resisted but it became clear in talking to him that he sees china as the most important bilateral relationship going forward, the biggest challenge and the biggest possible upside and russia he sees as a declining power. he is not want to generally take potshots but he has referred to russia as a regional power which gets under putin extra skin. charlie: at the same time he describes him not as a caricature but a person that i have serious conversations with. not some bully demanding and threatening me and he shows up on tim

the first is that he doesn't believe that the middle east is important as it used to be for the united states. the obviously reason is energy independence, right? and the second thing even if it were important i think he is fatalistic enough, he would say realistic enough, but fatalistic enough, even if it were important we don't have the ability to shape history. >> rose: but that's the limit of power, isn't it? >> that's not only the limits 0 -- that is learning lessons from iraq and that is learning lessons from liberty, i can't and saying just because we want an arab country to be organized a certain way means it will be. >> rose: so you are saying it is his analysis and understanding of that world, not any understanding of america? >> i think it is also an understanding of america. he watched -- i don't think he believes that bush lied us into war out of some malevolent impulse, i think he believes america is not capable andvehe , doesn't have the knowledge to reshape middle eastern societies so therefore the best thing to do when you have this multitiered crazy kind of civil war

we still hear about the instability in the middle east is the result of the palestine conflict. you can't stabilize the middle east. it was ridiculous in the past, it's ridiculous today. what is the linkage between the uprising? the revolution in egypt -- what is the connection between the ongoing civil war? almost half a billion casualties. this is because of israel. the sectarian violence in iraq. there is a conflict between us and the palestinians and there are many misconceptions. does it cause a problem whether it is occupation since '67 or the reluctance to recognize our right to exist as a nation state with the jewish people. it has been proved many times, rejected in the last several years, otherwise talking about settlements and borders. why? in this case, just to get, not to give anything. let's talk about everything. when he closed the door in front of both secretary of state february 2014 and president obama march 2014, he wasn't blamed. why? he's too weak to be accountable. the issue of accountability -- what is the most important value which is missing in the middle

the middle east and in africa. concentrated because that's -- this was our whole strategy -- we cannot provide them a safe haven where they can prepare to attack us. afghanistan, it was formed when all the countries around it decided what territory they did not want, and what was left was afghanistan. but we were willing to go there to make sure there was not a safe place for these people to plan to prepare to attack america. we would go to afghanistan. guess what? they now have a relatively -- sure, we're bombing. scaregiven them a big because we've flown over them. havene now got a safe with the caliphate in syria and iraq. they've got a safe haven until more recently in libya where they can export. the number of fatalities and attacks is going to go up. we don't have effective strategies. the middle east, with syria, iraq, yemen, watch out for turkey. watch out for jordan. watch out what will happen with the saudi's. whatsapp what will happen in egypt and. -- whatch what will happen in egypt and israel. is a roug

i mean, it is a crisis in the middle east, but it's also a crisis from the middle east, and what i thinkple don't realize is the global consequences of this. there are, of course, economic crises, but we have, of course, refugee flows that are taxing neighboring states that are a real problem for the european union, putting enormous stress on the european union. there is, of course, a terrorist problem that is increased with attacks on brussels and paris. so it is a crisis from the middle east, it's affecting the whole country, the whole globe. at the same time, as madeleine pointed out, there are positive things going on. one of the things we noticed was youth are playing a role in their societies. they are empowered, they are connected, they are entrepreneurial and you are seeing commercial ventures starting, you seeing start-up bottom-up community organizations that are trying to solve local community problems. there's a real bottom-up entrepreneurship that is going. >> woodruff: but we don't hear about that. >> we don't hear those things. we want to bring that to attention. there is

there are calls going up for a marshall plan for the middle east. that has been reflected here in the united states and in germany. the program has been launched, of a one belt and one road, as they call it into the middle east. would this not be a time for the world to unite together around us some form of economic development program, which would create conditions in that region which would prevent war in the future? >> thank you for your question. >> i tend not to use marshall plan, as it has been abused and misused by so many people when we had to confront different crises over the last couple decades. didn'tly you know, it quite fit the term marshall plan for many of the situations we were confronted with in the middle east. the difference being that after the second world war there was something to build on in europe. you could build on economic developments and on experiences thatan industrial history has been present until the beginning of the second world war. it was only destroyed because of the second world war. they could only be revived

and i think that's the way he understands the middle east. s, there are things to be done, important things to be done in asia and latin america and africa in particular, in his mind, right. which is, by the way, most of humanity. and if i get sucked, if the united states gets sucked further into the middle east and its- the quicksand in the middle east, there's only so much bandwidth. >> woodruff: if you listen to the republican candidates, you hear nothing but a relentless criticism of this president, that america's much worse off under president obama. what have you seen in talking to him and trying to understand him, to contrast with that? >> you know, whether you agree with president obama's world view or not, if you read this article in the atlantic, you'll see that he's trying to reason his way through a set of very complicated challenges to the united states. i don't see anything resembling that kind of mature reasoning process going on in the debate we're having around foreign policy. on the republican side you have people talking abo

i've seen it in other places, i've seen it in the middle east. when he was elected in 1994 he took others from the network and people who were there to criticize him some of them were my friends. i work for an egyptian television in 2009 after six months i had to leave because the level of abuse was beyond me it was about the people that worked with me and i knew that while the establishment was talking about the transfer of power from father to son the people were talking about three things and these three things exist they were talking about freedom, democracy and dignity and this is what i kept hearing from the ground so the detachment between the base and the establishment is so deep that we need to stay true with a base because the base will lead the change. i don't believe that it will anymore but i believe the base. the millions of people that were neglected step up one morning without a reason. sorry clinton said it's a stable country and the people ignored that and didn't even bother to think or ask what do you want or what do you think?

the europeans who tried to work with us to diffuse the conflict if not bring to it an end in the middle east but as long as the conflict continues these people from the middle east are refugees concern all of us and i have felt an awareness for that here in the united states. last night i spent part of the evening with secretary of state mr. kerry and we also talked amongst others about the situation in syria and the refugee crisis and the ways in which the united states can help keep that problem manageable and i think the best way for them to do so is the leadership shown by john kerry, the work he's trying to do in order to keep alive the kind of roundtable with the aim of diffusing the situation. i do not know to what extent you are aware of the genesis of this so-called syria support group, how difficult it was to get in countries like saudi arabia and iran and to make them sit down at the same table. you may know it's anything but to be taken for granted that russia and the united states sits down at that very same table or as they do these days and the support group submit different p

are pivoting to the east -- but even in the east -- and this is news that probably though white house should know -- but even in the east are looking at what is happening in the middle east. when you sit with asian politicians, asian they tell you -- i have these conversations, probably we all conversations -- the way the u.s. is behaving tells us that, if we are able to account on american protection. as is the new world order. this is not something related to assad and the family and lebanon. this is planetary. we are redefining the equilibrium public world. forget about the saudi's and .hat turks smallt your week i'm a allies. in every speech, the state department says that our aim in the middle east in syria -- and protect, lloyd and strengthen the fragility of strengths like lebanon, jordan, etc. these states living out of the syrian crisis? lebanon is on the verge of collapse. jordan is on the verge of serious problems. you have more and more sleeping cells. the king of jordan says we cannot breathe anymore. lebanon arers on today really reaching the red line. lebanon has escaped of the searing conundrum so far. at one point, the americans stop. so isis are ap

and now let's turn to the middle east. forum of success for barack obama and hillary clinton's foreign policies. what's happened in the middle east in the last seven years? the fact is the region is descending into chaos. state structures are dissolving. the post colonial post oto mon empire system of boundries and states is disappearing. and you can just run the table right across north africa from turmoil in nigeria, mali, cameroon, ram, the libya having collapsed into cleet anarchy. yemen also in the state of anarchy. the countries of iraq and syria having disappeared as functioning states. isis in control of what they call a new califate. the signi peninsula out of the control of the ejipt and a root for traringts and weapons smugglers right up of course to the nuclear weapons program in iran. and then to pakistan where isis and al qaeda and taliban are all making a comeback. and what is our president's response to this chaos? he wants to close the prison facility at gitmo and release the prisoners to go back to the ba

primarily in the middle east and in africa. as bob will remember, when we were in congress, we said -- and this was the whole strategy about going into afghanistan. nobody know where is afghanistan is, right? right? they were trained to attack us. we're going to go into the end of the world. the joke about afghanistan, afghanistan was formed when all the countries around it decided what territory they didn't want and they drew the boundaries and what was left was afghanistan. but we were willing to go to afghanistan to make sure there was not a safe place for these people to plan and prepare and train to attack america. we would go to afghanistan. well guess what. they now have a relatively -- sure, we're bombing. the problem is our planes fly over and too many times they come back with the bomb still on, but we've given them a big scare because we' gloen over them. but, you know, they've now got a safe haven in somewhat of a safe haven where they've organized with the caliphate in syria and iraq. they've got a safe haven until

so that strategy regarding the middle east. >> last question. you had so much experience what was most important for me because i don't think that wise policy can be made we get ourselves into all kinds of trouble the way we wanted to be rather than the way it is. 68 years after our independence you would have seen a fundamentally different countries and though one that exists today. you are the character of our nation you can make the same argument there is great disagreement among the arab israelis in my question to you in false the impact. i don't know who, including the new in this administration with the credibility was the unresolved resolution. famous were different then better no longer that way. but has the israeli, that is my question. no resolution leads to what? >> that conflict will not be settled in my lifetime. i offered alternative but i tried to avoid wishful thinking. let's imagine that we will not now be deployed. i am sure we would have faced the west they with rockets and ciphers is in jerusalem and so forth. id with that ele

as aipac members, you understand that while the turmoil of the middle east presents enormous challenge complexity, walking away is not an option. (applause) candidates for president who think the united states can outsource middle east security to dictators, or that america no longer has vital national interests at stake in this region are dangerously wrong. it would be a serious mistake for the united states to abandon our responsibilities, or cede the mantle of leadership for global peace and security to anyone else. [applause] as we gather here, three evolving threats iran's continued aggression, a rising tide of extremism across a wide arc of instability, and the growing effort to de-legitimize israel on the world stage are converging to make the u.s.israel alliance more indispensable than ever. [applause] we have to combat all these trends with even more intense security and diplomatic cooperation. the united states and israel must be closer than ever, stronger than ever and more determined than ever to prevail against our common adversaries and to advance our shared values. [appl

but no, we're talking about the only democracy in the middle east, the only democracy in the middle east end up there's a virtual tour of those congressmen who would never come to listen to me and will never let me take them around, i would end this tour like the israeli propaganda machinery which started in the holocaust memorial museum a. i would have taken in because it all started there. because israel would've never been established without the holocaust, and it should be remembered, absolutely. but then i would ask my guests who will never come, what is the lesson of it? never again -- never again in any prize to the jewish people, which gives the jewish people the right to do whatever they want after the holocaust is delayed. golda meir once phrased it, anything. or should the lesson be never again to any other people? [applause] i believe that most of the american legislators are a big part of them know the truth. they know what is being done with their money. they know that the idea which is based so much on american money in training and equipment above all, they know very well

nothing more important than the middle east with respect to foreign policy these days. i want to go to you will be ron. what are your thoughts with respect to the solution near the middle east? for years, for decade to the point made here, it always centered around israel. israel being safe, maybe a two-state solution. but now apparently it spread. what is the solution? not on is israel safe, but the world is safe. > >> if it was easy i think we would be getting there. the people want peace. i think the leaders in israel want peace. in palestine the people want peace but the leaders want war, they want terror. hamas who controls through fear hold the country hostage. their people want peace. charles: i hate to say this. but it's hard for me to believe it. it's hard to believe necessity want peace when the unprovoked knifing attacks we see daily. it's absolutely amazing in my mind. over the years the more israel has given the more dangerous it's become. >> there are a large group of terrorists in palestine. and hamas is a large group, they are terrorists. hillary clinton

we still hear about the instability in the middle east is the result of the palestine conflict. t stabilize the middle east. it was ridiculous in the past, it's ridiculous today. what is the linkage between the uprising? the revolution in egypt -- what is the connection between the ongoing civil war? almost half a billion casualties. this is because of israel. the sectarian violence in iraq. there is a conflict between us and the palestinians and there are many misconceptions. does it cause a problem whether it is occupation since '67 or the reluctance to recognize our right to exist as a nation state with the jewish people. it has been proved many times, rejected in the last several years, otherwise talking about settlements and borders. why? in this case, just to get, not to give anything. let's talk about everything. when he closed the door in front of both secretary of state february 2014 and president obama march 2014, he wasn't blamed. why? he's too weak to be accountable. the issue of accountability -- what is the most important value which is missing in the middle east is

there are now calls for a marshall plan for the middle east. that.nister has reflected now that china has launched a belt and oneey one road into the middle east with a recent vision of the president, with this not be a time for the world to unite together around some form of economic development program, called a marshall plan or not, which would create conditions in that region which would preventwar in the future? >> thank you for your question. i tend not to: use marshall plan. it has been abused by so many people. we had to confront different crisis in the past two decades. basically, it did not quite fit for many of the situations we are confronted with in the middle east. war, the second world there was something to build. you could build on economic developments. there was a big presence until the beginning of the second world war. withuld be revised american support, financial and other. when you look to many of the regions in the middle east, this is not the case. there inver taken part many regions of the world. and trainingills and m

israel is the only democracy in the middle east with a slant dependable friends. washington insisted on the floor the first triad visited since we were in recession in 15 years and i did it to show my personal respect to the people of israel. [applause] and with the u.s. participation it reaction to the race to the ballistic missile test. [cheers and applause] these are both a violation the spirit of the nuclear deal in the publication that can no longer be ignored. israel must be exterminated in iowa is silly gather the world to reapply the sanctions if iran violates one thought of that deal limas put the sanctions back on to them as a world community together. [applause] let me also tell you no amount of money that was ever made a standing in the way of the security of israel that iran does not have a nuclear weapon and. i want you to be assured in the john kasich administration and there is no more divisional agreements with self-declared enemies. no more. [cheers and applause] as the candidate in this race with the deepest and most far reaching policy ladies an

the middle east. we need more debate about this situation. mark: our political journalists can probably comments better on but how this iran situation will affect the middle east, and some natural interests in other parts of the middle east. we need more debate about this situation. mark: our political journalists can probably comments better on that. i do want to say one thing before everybody leaves, and that is, if you talk about the rise of populism, it is on the left and on the right. another thing i am toying with, you have an avid socialist running and an avid capitalist running, and what do they have in common? what they have in common, is an attack on capital. you can talk about it in terms of physical capital or financial capital. what is particularly intriguing, is the young people's attitudes toward that. you have peggy noonan, an adviser and speechwriter for president reagan, who basically said these young kids adjusted don't know anything about socialism or capitalism. and they need to be

mosul is one of those diverse cities in the middle east. it had a rich tapestry of vibrancy of various faith traditions. christians, yazidis, muslims. differences of religious perspectives, sometimes tensions, but found a way to continue to contribute toward the well-being of that community. ut they were invaded by eighth century barbarians with 21st century weaponry, isis. the christians who were there convert or ave, die by the sword. many fled with just what was on their back. the remaining christians in their homes had this painted on their door. this is the arabic symbol for the letter n, it stands for nazz recent, which is a derogtory term used by some in the middle east to describe the christians. this was painted on their door as a sign that it was time for them to go or they would die. except it wasn't painted in nice gold like this. it was painted in red, blood red. now, we can -- we have so many tragedies and difficulties facing humanity. we can sometimes become numb because it's overwhelming. to the violence that's happening in s

but in fact, this is not a lesson learned in the middle east or in africa among. think about what happened in brussels last week. following these tragic events, the e.u. coordinator that only five countries out of the e.u. are really, really sharing of permission and classified information that is needed in order to fight terrorism affect deadly. it is a necessity. a globally. by the member states of the antenna as this coalition is growing every single day to reach 66 countries right now. it is because countries are realizing more and more that they cannot cite terrorists on their own. lesson number two and a native expand its better than than me because i'm a civilian. our army forces are designed, structured and trained to fight conventional wars. but decide against terrorism terrorism is a nonconventional war. what you come in the u.s. has learned after 9/11 is exactly what we are trying to learn right now in the region. and here comes the lesson that we should not start from scratch. we should not reinvent the wheel. we should start from where you have ended a

the ability in the middle east -- you can't stabilize the middle east.was ridiculous in the past. it is ridiculous today. what is the linkage between the uprising in tunisia and israeli-palestine conflict? a counterrevolution in egypt. what is the connection between the ongoing civil war, almost half a million casualties, countless. this is because of israel, this is because of the israeli-palestinian conflict. the sectarian violence. so this is, that is a conflict between us and the palestinians. and the army misconceptions. first of all what was the cause of the problem, whether it is occupation since 67 or the reluctance to recognize our right to exist as a nation state of the jewish people. in any boundaries. and the second is the right analogous. [inaudible] rejected in the last seven years to sit at the table with us. otherwise talking about settlements and borders. why? not to give anything. let's talk about everything. and when he closed the door in front of both secretary of state february 2014 and president obama, 2014, he wasn't blamed. why? h

but, no, we are talking about the only democracy in the middle east, and the only democracy in the middle east has the right to do whatever it wants. and then to end up this virtual tour of those congressmen who would never come to listen to me, and will never let me take them around, i would end this tour like the israeli propaganda machinery would start it, in the holocaust memorial museum. i would have taken them because it all started there. because israel would have never been established without the holocaust, and it should be remembered, absolutely, but then i would ask my guests, who will never come, what this lesson of it? never again does israeli mean it, which means never again in any prize to jewish people, which give this jewish people the trying to do whatever they want after the holocaust, as the laid golda meier once phrased it, anything? or should the lessen be never again to any other people? [applause] i believe that most of the american legislators, at least big part of them, know the trouble. the know what is being done in their money. they know that the idea of which

i believe that the many people in the middle east have been put under tremendous pressure, so it seems to me, because with all these stories coming in about the circumstances of this incident, it seems to me that the man is mentally disordered. he must have been very traumatised in order to commit such an act. if to ask the pilot to deter just to get to speak to his wife, he must be very disorderedisordered >>> looking at what is happening right now on the ground, if we flip that around, the way the world is monitoring one aeroplane, it highlights the tension in the middle east, another week, another bomb, another week, another e.u. meeting, another week they're trying to storm the border, the border between greece and ma macedon macedonia. there is this bubbling anxiety and people feel under threat, something might be happening tomorrow. friends of mine, journalists, look on the media to see what might have happened. we are all using the phrase "stoft target". what i'm saying is there is that awareness that there are bad people out there who want to do bad things and that has changed

but discussing how this iran deal will affect the situation in the middle east, the security in the middle east, and the u.s. interests in the middle east. i think we need more debate about these issues. mark: our political journalists can probably comments better on that. which of the driving issues. i do want to say one thing before everybody leaves and that is, if you talk about, as i alluded to, if you talk about the rise of populism, it is on the left and on the right. another thing i am doing with is, you have an avid socialist running and an avid capitalist running. what do they have in common? what they have in common is an attack on capital. talk about in terms of physical capital of financial capital. what is particularly intriguing is young people's attitudes towards that. any noonan,gy newnan adviser and speechwriter for president reagan, who basically said these young kids don't know anything about socialism or capitalism. they need to be educated on the merits of both. and on the other side, you have on the center-right, you have bill gholston, who was an adviser to bill clin

so in the middle east, what's going to happen here? what are our predictions at the investigative project in terrorism for 2016, 2017, 2018? number of fatalities and attacks is going to go up because we don't have effective strategies. the second thing that we predict is that in the middle east, you know, with what's going on with syria, iraq, yemen, watch out what's going to happen with turkey. watch out what's going to happen with jordan. watch out what's going to happen with saudi. watch out what's going to happen in egypt. and watch out what's going to happen in israel. it is -- it's a rat's nest right now. and we don't have effective strategies to confront it and contain it. so it's going to grow and get more dangerous in the middle east. the second thing is, take a look at africa. nine of the countries now, there's, you know, back in 2000, one of the couldn't -- it was one or two countries dispersed widely. now there's 18 countries where terrorist activity is consen tritted. 18 countries in africa. that number is going to grow bec

the instability in the middle east is the israeli-palestinian conflict. you can't stabilize the middle east. it was ridiculous in the past. it is ridiculous today. what is the linkage twiege the uprising in tunishia and the israeli-palestinian con applicant? the revolution and the counter revolution in egypt? what about the ongoing civil war, countless refugees? is it because of israel or the palestinian conflict? . e sectarian violence in iraq so this is a wrong diagnosis. there is a conflict between us and the palestinians. and meanwhile many misconceptions. [inaudible] build it was -- whether it was occupation since 1967 or the reluctant to recognize our right to exist as a nation state of the jewish people -- [inaudible] -- and the second is the right -- [inaudible] -- it has been proved many times. rejected in the last seven years, to sit to the table with us. otherwise talking about settlements and borders. why? in this case it's going just to get, not to give anything. let's talk about everything. when we close the door in front of both secretary of

throughout the middle east and europe. ter in paris, and the downing of a russian airliner. isis also came to america with a

and why was that time to could inside with john kerry in the middle east with $47 million in the middle east that would end up with hamas terrorists? when i asked that question, the state department was being asked, is this an economic boycott of israel. the state department said that is ridiculous and we refuse to answer. so i responded fine, i will place on hold every nominee to the state department. [applause] senator cruz: shortly thereafter, michael bloomberg demonstrated saying it was safe o fly to israel. and as a result of mayor bloomberg's efforts and my efforts and the heat and light and attention became too much on this administration and within 36 hours, the administration lifted its ban on civilian air flights to israel. [applause] senator cruz: looking forward, as president, i will lead very, very differently from the current administration. [cheers and applause] senator cruz: imagine just a few years ago if i had come to an aipac conference and suggested that the prime minister of israel was going to come to america and address a joint session of congress and would be boy

the staging and be very disruptive. it will create a much larger middle class in the middle east. untries in the middle east are known as start-up nations, not in the traditional industries but in a new era of applications and health care and education. i'm the optimist of the middle east, but it requires the citizens coming together behind the next revolution. >> fundamentally it's the implementation of academies where people get easy access to the education and training required to introduce them into this world in which they can be in start-ups and developing apps? >> exactly. i think each of the countries need to think about retransforming their education system. france is doing that, which hollande, his president, is berth the future of his country on a digital france. moda india the same thing. so it does require a different education reset and more of a start-up nation mentality. network academies for cisco train a million students around the world for network academies. they use 92% of them say they use what they learned there every day. if they complete the whole program s

daniel pipes in the middle east forum in place for 26 years. mort klein at the zionist organization of america 23 years. now the average tenure of a corporate ceo is less than 10. the college president less than eight. i would say the rotation in governance kind of reflects the stagnation of lack of representation of many of these organizations. another false concept is that christian evangelicals are a major portion of building the israel lobby in america. and yes, there are 80 million christians who are evangelical. they been courted by the lobbies since the 1960s, almost constantly. many of them of course do vote about their vision for israel and american election but when you peel back the layers, you see organizations like christians united for israel received their seed funding from large israel lobby donors to install their fundraising software, to pay for massive public relation campaigns. and that they are really not very big. $2 million in 2007 revenue before it went dark under regulations and in 2012 revenue with international fellows

ya'alon: i'll take the first question in the middle east regarding the occupation nation states, it's a matter of democracy. there is a great description of winston churchill as secretary , talking about the boundaries of the region, straight lines, looking to jordan as an example, very nice example for the straight line to the east. the iraqi petroleum company pipelines to be defended on both sides, that was recommendation of the british office. on each straight line you can two things. we believe look to the future autonomous whatever demography,rals you like in syria or in iraq or other countries, this might be a kind of allow stability. enjoy the autonomy in iraq and syria, we believe they should enjoy autonomy, the decision whether to be an infeint state or not should be considered regarding other considerations of -- in the region, internal consideration, external consideration, this is the way to bring about stability for the region. hat's why we do support. mr. miller: back here on my left. >> eric rosenman from the committee on accuracy on the middle east reporting in america

you're going to destabilize the middle east. i was totally right. i'm not like this big wart hog. you have people chopping off heads, drowning people in steel cages. now we have to do something. the reason we have to do it is because of the power of weaponry. they're looking to get weapons, and they're looking to acquire weapons that are going to be very, very horrible for our country if they ever do it. we have to eradicate these people. >> i have two final questions i want to ask you. trump university, i don't have to tell you, has become something of an issue on the campaign twral some former students -- trail with some former students saying it's a scam. here was one of them. >> i was trumped by trump. i was duped by the donald. >> but you put out a video this week in which you showed that same man's report card about trump university. >> here's his report card on the school. quality of presentation, quality of everything, excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent, all excellents, 100%. >> now "the new york times" reports that that man, robert guillo, says that he was pressure

ally in the middle east. this is 25 minutes. ♪ sen. cruz: god bless aipac. d to be here with you today, and let me say at the outset, perhaps to the surprise of the previous speaker, palestine has not existed since 1948. [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: on wednesday night at cross the country at senate -- on wednesday night at synagogues across the world, jewish people will read the mcgill and. which tells the story of the miraculous rescue of the jewish people from the hands of a wicked persian king. when the evil-doer haman plots to kill the jews, tds grabs him as a nation that is scattered and spread out. the tell what it teaches that the jewish people at the time were divided amongst themselves. the lesson is when the forces of good are divided, evil can prevail. but, when we come together in unity, together, we can defeat tyrants. [applause] sen. cruz: today we are reliving history. facing a similar time of challenge for america and for israel. but today, i give you a word of hope. in the next few months, we will bring this country together. first by uni

we're coming on the news with breaking news out of the middle east. >> an egyptian airplane was hijacked while flying from alexandria to cairo. it was forced to land on cyprus. >> abc's terry moran is live for us in our london bureau for the breaking details. a press conference wrapped up just moments ago in egypt. what did we hear. >> reporter: they're managing this situation right now, as you point out, began a few hours ago, a plane egyptair ms181 taking off from alexandria although that flight on ridge nated in sab saudi arabia. they don't have the name of the hijacker but the crew taking all precautions when confronted by a man who said he had some kind of explosives on him. he informed the pilot. the plane diverted to cyprus. most passengers have been taken off that plane and we should say it happened in a very calm manner. there was no panic, no running. it's not a militaryized situation. they have taken that plane to a part of the airport, away from term analysis, away from other planes. and right now, we're told there are still several passengers on that plane, four passengers a

try to bring some peace to the middle east. rgy and some other things. >> we will have available for public scrutiny and congressional action by april the 20th, a comprehensive long-range energy policy. >> the winter of 1977 is one of the worst the country had experienced and this comes at a type the economy is still doing poorly. >> the severe weather has already led to a serious shortage of natural gas. >> federal power commission estimates at least 200,000 layoffs due to industrial gas curtailments so far. >> in the dayton area, school districts must close for 30 days. >> congress will kid this week emergency gas legislation. >> good evening, president carter is about to speak to the nation from the white house on the subject of energy. >> tonight i want to have an unpleasant talk. the energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us. we need to shift to plentiful coal while taking care to protect the environment and to apply stricter safety standard to nuclear energy. this difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war. >> the

isis growing throughout the middle east. nobody is saying we should go build a new nation for every country. but there's a role for the united states to be involved in pushing back against this. when you hear donald trump speak, you have to look past what he says that feels good, which is spend it all here at home. and you have to look beyond that and say what are the ramifications of that. pulling out of afghanistan and iraq because you -- or pulling out of nato has devastating long-term consequences. >> i just read a report from the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction. the u.s. some five years ago committed to spending about $50 million to build a new defense ministry structure or building in kabul, afghanistan. since then it's gone up to about $150 million with no end in sight. why are u.s. taxpayers building a defense ministry building in kabul? >> they shouldn't be a building three times what it was originally estimated. but you see that in domested contracts. any time the government builds something

you've talked about north asia, north atlantic treaty, the middle east, mexico, the ability to walk, the ability to say no more trade, the ability to say we're not going to buy your oil. it's always leverage, it's always i'm going to walk. what is your leverage are republican bosses when you get to cleveland when they try to keep you from winning the nomination on ballot? >> first, the voters. i have millions more votes than anybody else. it's not even close. you know, you've reported on it. we're setting records in terms of republican primaries. if you look at new hampshire, if you look at south carolina, no matter where you look, we're setting records. that's my leverage. and these are people that are really -- they really like donald trump. they really like what i'm saying. people that -- we're going to make america great again. that's what it is and what my leverage is. now, without me, they lose millions -- i think millions of people and nobody's going to have a chance. i will beat hillary clinton. and i haven't started that process yet. i have two people left. we started off wi

there are now calls going out for a marbshall plan for the middle east. ut here in the united states it's been reflected. now that china has launched their program of a one belt and one road as they call it or new silk road into the middle east with the recent visit of president see jing ping to the middle east, would this not be a time for the world to unit together around some form of economic development program, call it is a marshall plan or not, which would create and undermine and create conditions in that region which would prevent war in the future? >> thank you for your question. >>. [ speaking in germany ] >> very right in making that point, although i tend not to use marshall plan as a heading, it's been abused, misused by so many people when we had to confront different crises in the course of the last two decades. basically, you know, it didn't quite fit the term marshall plan for many of the situations we are confronted with the in the middle east. the difference being to be found in the frank after the second world war there was something to