and doctor walid phares. former pentagon official kt mcfarland.nging you up-to-date on what is happening in washington and the middle east. two of our outpost attacked on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks 11 years ago. in egypt, the american embassy staff were assessing reports of a possible demonstration outside the embassy in cairo. the embassy sent out a message, that was sympathetic to muslims, upset by the movie, tweeting that we condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of muslims. just before 5:00 p.m. eastern, they rioted, breaching walls and tearing down an american flag and replacing it with a black flag that is in favor of radicals in the region. including elements of al qaeda. the embassy again tweeted, this morning's condemnation, issued before this began, still stands, as does our combination of the unjustified breach of the embassy. a little over an hour later, reports began to surface that the u.s. consulate in benghazi was in flames after being stormed by armed gunmen. moments later,

. >> kelly: and we are going it talk about this later on with walid phares with a terrorism expert. a case that stumped the fbi nearly 15 years. find out how you can help track down the person police say has been sending out hundreds of powdered filmed letters, claiming to be laced with anthrax. >> jamie: here we go again. more anguish or the duke and duchess of cambridge and another tabloid publishing topless photos of princess kate sun bathing with her husband she thought privately in france. >> and coming up on washington, whether the initial attacks in libya could have been prevented. >> welcome back everybody, it's time for a quick check of the headlines, there are tens of thousands marching on moscow. it's the first major rally against vladimir putin and opposition to putin remains strong, despite government crackdowns. and in chicago, there are signs of hope, the teachers union, school board are saying they do have a frame work now to wrap up contract negotiations, after the teachers have been on strike all week, affecting 350,000 student. and the british royal family not so

story a changing story every hour we seem to learn new details appreciate having your insight here walid phares advisor to the antiterrorism caucus of the u.s. congress also author of the coming revolution struggle for freedom in the middle east thanks so much thank you well earlier today the house of representatives voted to reauthorize the foreign intelligence surveillance act or face the sense of what this does it extends the government's power to warrantless wiretap americans for another five years the vote was three zero one two one eighteen mostly along party lines but with more than seventy democrats voting in favor of it and fewer than ten republicans voting against it the bill was discussed for about an hour today under close rule which means that no amendments were able to be offered and there's a minor issue that there's a whole lot that both we and they don't know about it a couple questions how many americans will be surveilled or how who is surveilled is determined earlier i was joined by alan butler appellate advocacy council with epic to talk more about that recent. basically wh

we have fox business middle east expert, walid phares. thanks for joining us. >> thanks.issa: more evidence it had nothing to do with the movie but an organized attack tied to 9/11. what do you think? >> basically 2 you look at perpetrators now in libya and yemen, it may grow as you said to multiple countries are known as the salafist. in egypt they are allies of muslim brotherhood president unfortunately did not stop them. in libya they are not allies of the government but they have al qaeda connections n yemen they have al qaeda connections. now the united states and its allies including in the arab world need to basically dismantle the network of salafists because they are waging a war against american interests. lori: the protest we're seeing in cairo, walid, plug that in for us. seems the anti-american sentiment is growing, it is snowballings do you agree. >> that is what the propaganda of jihadists want us to believe. these are civil societies rising up against america because of a movie. that is not the case. these are war rooms of networks that take people to the

walid phares joins us now to weigh in. walid, thanks a lot for joining us.ve been predicted. the muslim brotherhood and a number of countries in the middle east. should we have expected anything different from them two years ago when this all began? >> absolutely not. actually it was projected ac books the coming revolution before the arab spring where we saw there is going to be a struggle, tucker between the forces of civil society those who began the arab spring, workers, women, students, muslim brotherhood. unfortunately the muslim brotherhood was win. part nerd with them. the muslim brotherhood have allies. they are behind the attacks the attacks embassies. >> you are mitt romney's middle east advisor. if mitt romney were president romney today, what would you tell him to do about all of this? >> well, that's is a very difficult question because have got to look at the situation at the time. talking about next year for now basically any sitting president should be taking immediate decisions number one to work with the libyan government to go after that