it is a 5-store hotel, the sinai of the riviera. it is very removed from daily life. but he came here, went to a mosque, broke through the town, and arrived at the university and jumped out to people -- it's but the people that he wants to see who they are and what they are about. host: what is expected from his meeting later today? guest: he visited the president first straight from the airport. the state welcome included an honor guard flanking the motorcade -- not the usual reception. all the pomp and circumstance was brought out here -- they did not have much time together only a couple of minutes. the talked about different issues with lots of details. host: thank you for helping us to see the scenes that we cannot. we appreciate

basically a five-star hotel, the riviera, you know, very remote from the daily life of cairo. the fact that he came here, went to the mosque, drove through the town and came to cairo university show to people that he wants to see who we are and what we are about. >> host: later today he is expected to travel to the presidential palace. what is expected at that meeting? >> guest: well, he did that first to visit president mubarak and even that shows the level of importance. the state welcome included a worse and flagging the motorcade. all of the circumstances. they didn't have much time together. a few minutes, a little bit of press available afterwards and not much to it. working on this, working on that, weren't a lot of details. >> host: thank you for helping us see the scenes weekend on the coverage. appreciate your time. >> guest: sure thing. >> host: howard schneider on the ground in cairo watching will collection in a coffee shop. >>> the national governors' association says states are facing their steepest budget cuts in 30 years, spending is projected to fall for the

which is also known in our parts as the redneck riviera. la, lower alabama. americas albania. mean, the names go on and on and on. but a republican had not been elected their since 1872, and i think they own the last one that they sent up to washington. so when i ran, i couldn't run as a republican. i could not go out and run the party line. that was a damn good thing since the republican party on the local state and national level was trying to kill my candidacy every step of the way. but i got up to washington, d.c., and i was fascinated by my experience of their. and i write about it in my book that actuall y

from operation over-lord that there would be a complementary invasion of southern france along the rive riviera beaches. churchill was against it but it was august 15, 1944. by then the swaituation had improved in normandy, the eastern front so the invasion of south france helps outflank the german position in france. at that point the allies are in the campaign they want, especially the americans. it is a mobile campaign, heavily mechanized and dependent upon vehicles, which the u.s. army was the most mechanized in the world at that time. designed to fight, slash and maneuver. sour seeing that by august of 1944. then paris is liberated which is a great political moment for the allies. and the whole advance was just rolling across france. the germans are in retreat. there is a lot of excitement that the world could be over by christmas. but this is too good to be true because of supply issues. the soviets had run that supply issues the farther they advanced in poland, parts of the balkans and the western allies had the same issue once began to advance across france. they had the material but th

in victor cha is in the former asia director at the national security council and professor at georgetown university. evans riviera is the president of the three a society and former deputy assistant of east asian pacific affairs. if leon sigal is professor of social science research council in new york and author of disarming strategy is, of a agreed framework, and that nancy lindborg is president of mercy corps and work inside the north korea to help deliver food aid to women and children in many parts of the poorest parts of the country. they are greatly appreciated for their expertise being here and i just introduced ambassador bosworth, as many people know he is one of our most distinguished veterans of the diplomacy in the united states. served in many different posts. i had the pleasure and senator lugar did also way back -- way back in 1986. i were two recklessly with ambassador bosworth and senator lugar was then chair and worked very closely with him on the philippines and we had many meetings in many visits to the philippines as we transition to the democracy from the marcos regime and it was a really a

published by a fellow -- written by a game named ernst hofer of 1957 with the intriguing title of "arctic rivierabook talking about how warm it is in eastern greenland. he did aerial photography. he assisted the expeditionary and scientific crews that would go out to greenland, you know, it's a lot clear up to go to greenland than it is to antarctica. you still see a lot of ice and it's real thick and you can do a lot of scientific work in greenland. well, anyway, so "arctic riviera" contained a map, which i would like to show to you. here's northeast greenland. if you read closely that's carls bad fjord and if you look closely, oh, my god, there's the three-fingered island in a book published in 1957. nobody bothered to check on this. and it was covered not in the "new york times" print edition when this map was uncovered by my assistant but in a blog. and mr. schmitts response is his map has to be wrong. well, i haven't seen another map yet. things that we say are true go unquestioned in this climate and like i said, it's not just one party. i'd like to close with the red red koyapigaktoruk com

riviera contained a map, which i would like to show to you. here's northeast greenland. if you read closely that's carlsbad fjord and if you look closely, oh, my god! there's the island from a book published in 1957. nobody bothered to check on this. and it was covered not in the "new york times" print edition when this map was uncovered by my assistant but in a blog. and mr. schmitt's response was his map has to be wrong. well, i haven't seen another map yet. so things that we say are true go unquestioned in this climate and like i said, it's not just one party. i'd like to close with the red red koyapigaktoruk comes bob, bob, bobbin along. robins in the arctic. you've all heard this. senator john mccain, 2004, the language 10,000 years never had a word for robin and now there are robins all over their villages. the bbc program on climate change title, no word for robin, climate change in the canadian arctic. okay, where are the fact-checkers on this one. come on. there are staffers over here on the hill that had to have had a computer, which would be connected to the library of congress. there are fact checkers at the bbc who could connect with the british m