Cycle of violence, the escalation needs to stop. Nobody is safe we begin today with an update on the events in egypt where the bloody standoff between Egyptian Military and the Muslim Brotherhood continues. Earlier today, Egyptian Security forces stormed the cairo mosque, arresting hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters. Military officials also announced they are considering banning the Muslim Brotherhood. It was previously banned in just a minute for decades during the reign of former president Hosni Mubarak. This comes amid suggestions that the military has intentionally provoked the Muslim Brotherhood to demonize them in the eyes of the egyptian people. In washington there are new questions being asked about the u. S. Role in egypt and particularly the stand that president obama has taken when it comes to the push for democracy in that country. Lets bring in my guest. Foreign correspondent in cairo, and the professor of International Relations at the London School of economics an
Straits. Tonight, we begin with syria. President obama is trying to rally congressional support for a u. S. Led strike on that countries military. He met this afternoon with two leading republican senators, john mccain and Lindsey Graham. Both have been pushing the president to take a much stronger stance on syria. They say the stakes are high for both the u. S. And the syrian people. If the congress were to reject a resolution like this after the president of the United States has already committed to action, the consequences would be catastrophic in that the credibility of this country with friends and adversaries alike would be shredded, and it would be not only implications for this presidency, but for future presidencys as well. The president has no one to blame but himself about the lack of public understanding of whats at stake in syria. We talked about the past, the present and the future. Two years ago, with an opportunity to get assad out when there were dozens of alqaeda in
Against syria. He arrived today in sweden ahead of the g20 summit in russia. At a joint News Conference with swedens Prime Minister, obama called the alleged chemical attack by the assad regime barbarism and said the credibility of the National Community is at stake. My credibility is not on the line. The interNational Communitys credibility is on the line, and america and congresss credibility is on the line because we give lip service to the notion that these International Norms are important. For more were joined by mike in stockholm traveling with the president. This is supposed to be a ceremonial stop. Its turned out to be so much more than that. Talk about what happened at the press conference. Reporter youre right. The president left that drama c dramatic and we did just lose mike. We will try to get the signal back up in sweden. Hes traveling with the president. In the meantime a House Committee will hold a hearing shortly about authorizing the use of force against syria. Even
Earlier today the president and first lady volunteered at a school in the washington, d. C. Area, nbcs ron is standing by the national day of service day tent at the mall and you have a special guest there with you as well, good day to you, sir . Reporter hey there, craig. My special guest is being mobbed by the crowd behind me. Its the Senior Adviser to president obama. She will make her way here in a second. As she comes up, we will give her a big welcome. Welcome, valerie. Pleasure to see you. Pleasure to be here. Can you believe the crowd . Its amazing. Reporter the president and first lady created this to really hopefully make it a standing tradition for inaugurations going forward. Not just inaugurations, my message is lets do it every day. Lets make service a part of our life, we will have a big celebration for inaugurations when people go home on, we want them to find a way to serve in their Home Community and that is what makes the fabric of our country stronger. Its exciting
Plan for gaining control of those chemical weapons. The matter is also supposed to go before the united nations. The french reportedly are working on a resolution, along with china. Russia and china here to for have not permitted any retaliation against syria. The skeptics are still wondering whether russia is serious, or whether it is just helping its ally syria buy time. And that is the reason, as you have pointed out that president obama is keeping the possibility of the use of military force and military strike against syria on the table in retaliation for the use of those chemical weapons that killed more than 1200 people. We saw an interesting image coming out of washington, that being all of the members of the house and senate coming down the steps to observe september 11th, 12 years ago. It seems Like Washington is welcoming the pause is well. Is that a safe assessment . Well, certainly today everyone is taking a pause to remember the tragedy back in 2001. Whether that moment o