month. what would you suggest are the top three that the united states should invest its political capital in? i think the real danger here is actually you have a cross threading of very different issues. you do have the ultimate challenge in the middle east being iran s nuclear ambitions and obviously the potential that military action may be required potentially to deal with that. i think there will be a diplomatic initiative and we hope that will be successful. you have a genuine civil war going on in syria. there is no real military solution there per se. i think the challenge for the international community is to try to contain the violence within syria. we ve seen in recent months shots fired toward turkey. you ve had unrest on the other border with jordan so there is a danger that syria could explode as opposed to implode. now you add the gaza situation. some unrest on the border between israel and egypt. so you have these different
we re not unpopular in egypt because we supported mubarak. he was unpopular because he supported us on iraq. he supported us on the gaza situation. he became a way station on the road to rendition. people knew about that stuff and were resentful. and that created problems of legitimacy for his government, as it has for other governments in the region. so i think we have to start listening to arab voices and understand they re paying attention to what we do and how we treat them. jim zogby, author of arab voices. thank you for coming in. satellite images of the impact of air strikes. a longtime gadhafi insider suddenly quits and flies off to brita britain. what s behind the mysterious defection of moussa koussa?
mubarak, who our favorable ratings go up? i said you ve got it wrong. we re not unpopular in egypt because we supported mubarak. he was unpopular because he supported us. on iraq, he supported us on the gaza situation. he he became a weigh station on the road to rendition. people knew about that stuff and were resentful, and that created problems of legitimacy for his government, it is a has for other governments in the region, so i think we have to start listening to arab voices and understand they are paying attention to what we do and how we treat them. james zogby, the author of arab voices, thanks very much for coming in. thank you so much, wolf. appreciate it. journalists captured by the gadhafi regime, they tell us what they saw and felt and where they were being held and threatened with death. and the president is welcoming the jobless rate. gloria borger standing by.
two dozen americans and who knows how many more, we just don t have the numbers, but the reports were could be 23 americans on the manifest of this plane who were killed in a terror attack less than 12 hours ago. chief white house correspondent ed henry is live for us tonight at the white house. ed. good evening, megyn. the president clearly was not concerned enough about the image of the fund raising to cancel them, but they are clearly worried potentially about the politics, the optics of this, enough so that white house aides were very careful to tell us that as soon as the president landed in new york city a couple hours ago before fund raising that he convened two secure phone calls with secretary of state john kerry and then broader national security team including cia director to get updates both on the gaza situation as well as the ukrainian-russia situation. he did not visit the border in texas because he was not interested in photo ops. today in delaware he kept us his phot