at the situation in syria being an extremely complex situation where people who are in power and people vying for power each have different goals. what i ve learned in the interview that i did with greg palkott is that pred assad is someone who is fighting not a civil war but protecting his country against a sectarian war that is being visited through the money of saudi arabia and qatar. sunni versus shia. fundamentalists versus secularists. who s his primary backer? iran. no, actually you have to look at the war. wait wait wait. iran is his primary backer and people keeping him alive are iranian revolutionary guards who are actually in syria fighting on his behalf. and then putin is arming him. so these are bad guys. let me take my fox contributor hat off for a second, okay? sure. go ahead. i m about american interests.
at the situation in syria being an extremely complex situation where people who are in power and people vying for power each have different goals. what i ve learned in the interview that i did with greg palkott is that pred assad is someone who is fighting not a civil war but protecting his country against a sectarian war that is being visited through the money of saudi arabia and qatar. sunni versus shia. fundamentalists versus secularists. who s his primary backer? iran. no, actually you have to look at the war. wait wait wait. iran is his primary backer and people keeping him alive are iranian revolutionary guards who are actually in syria fighting on his behalf. and then putin is arming him. so these are bad guys. let me take my fox contributor hat off for a second, okay? sure. go ahead. i m about american interests.
cairo once again. greg, great job. thanks so much. new reaction coming in from the white house just hours after the president met with his national security team to, of course, discuss the chaos erupting across egypt right now. james rosen live at the white house with the very latest. james? juliet, good afternoon. a high ranking egyptian diplomat tells fox news he is unaware of any preparations by president mubarak to resign his office or to flee the country. rather, this official told me, a political solution is in process. the official strongly suggested that mubarak will seek to finish out his term which ends in october. and that in the meantime, the embryonic government mubarak has formed will deliver the necessary reforms and what the obama administration has been advising including policies that take into account the sentiments on the street. white house officials met twice on the crisis today for a total of three hours. the second meeting chaired by the president. there
i m rick folbaum. i m juliet huddy. the events unfolding at a dizzying pace. james rosen is monitoring the ongoing response in the white house and julia on the protests taking place here in the u.s. and live on the ground in cairo where we begin, greg palkott, what s the latest? rick, the latest is the city is eerily calm or at least some of it. curfew in effect for seven, eight hours now. we came in off the cairo street and found very few people around where we are except some tense building owners and home owners worrying about thugs and criminals that are also part of this scene. earlier today, it was another scene entirely. the people were out on the streets again today. protesters very angry, calling once again for the downfall of president hosni mubarak despite an appearance on state television the night before
he is colluding with the soldier that is believed to be behind those leaks so, perhaps, the united states might be trying their own extradition in the not too distant future but again, brian, updating right now assange in court in the dock behind bars in the dock, maybe free by the end of the day. back to you. all right. greg, stay on it. we ll check in with you. thanks. how ironic is this? that he wants his address kept secret. he asked the judge don t announce my address to everybody. don t leak it. we don t want that leaking. judge said forget about it, we re announcing it to the entire court. 24 minutes before the top of the hour on this thursday. other stories making headlines right now. police say the gunman who opened fire during a school board meeting in panama city, florida, had a date with death. about to show you what happened but a warning, the video is disturbing. please don t. please don t. please. police say clay dukes circled the date, december 14th