activists have accused al sisi of human rights violations including torturing his own people. he s holding tens of thousands of political prisoners. for more on that, trace gallagher with the news. why was she detained in the first place? a few years ago, bill, during the arab spring, she started a foundation with her husband that affected as a safe haven and rehabilitation center for homeless children in egypt. in may of 2014, she and her husband were arrested and charged with child abuse and child trafficking. now, u.s. officials and human rights groups dismissed the charges apartment bogus saying the egyptian government presented no evidence and postponed hearings and trials for now reason. experts say hijazi became the face of egyptians crackdown of
a 30-year-old u.s. citizen is reportedly back on american soil after being held for three years by the egyptian government. according to the washington post, the trump administration has been working for weeks with the government of president al sisi to free aya hijazi, her husband was released as wealth. their couple and co-workers had been incarcerated since may of 2014 on child abuse and trafficking charges that were widely dismissed by human rights workers and u.s. officials as false. according to the post, virtually no evidence was ever presented against them. as their hearings were postponed and trial dates canceled, the obama administration was unable to secure their release. willie, it was obvious from the very beginning the trump administration was going to take a turn away from obviously iran and start having better relationships with a lot of the sunni arab states, saudi arabia,
may of 2014. the obama administration had also pushed to get her out. what is the difference here? the obama administration had a very different relationship with the egyptian government. the president of egypt had been barred from visiting president obama because that administration had of his human rights abuses. president trump trying to reset that relationship. he invited president to the white house at the beginning of april. the thinking is that pace paved the way for the white house tout as a victory as the president approaches that 100-day mark that you have been talking about. this reset with egypt has already been the topic of debate and that is going to be a conversation that continues. we know that she is going to be here at the white house a little bit later on today to meet with the president, as well as jared kushner and ivanka. trying to nail down the details of when that meeting will take place. kristen, thank you. we are talking about the man who used to live in t
let s try to ratchet this down a little bit. let s see what steps we can take. we need to get assad out of power. the only way i think we are going to get assad out of power is to involve the russians in that the russians are going to have to remove assad from power. pete: to remove a vacuum that islamists exploit? absolutely. steve: you were originally booked on the program to talk about your new book the name of it is? make your bed. steve: actually based on commencement speech you gave. commencement speech i gave in may of 2014 in texas. steve: if you want to be successful in life there are certain tenets you should follow the one of them is make your bed. trivialial about making your bed after the events of the last 48 hours. but the point of the speech and the point of the book really is, lesson number one was make your bed. get up every morning, find something that you accomplished, that you do well, and that will give you some incentive to do the next
it was donald trump himself who said prior to becoming a presidential candidate back in may of 2014 that if i run, i ll absolutely produce my tax returns. those were his words, not mine, not yours. this is one to the the degree to which we can look at donald trump s words is is he going to deliver on the promises he s made? it s about that and i think it s about this process we ve had in place for 50 years. presidential nominees on both parties have released their tax returns. that s been the tradition in this country. the question is do we want to continue that? this isn t ultimately about donald trump s tax returns. do we want him to allow him to kill off something that s been in place for 50 years? i was once governor of south carolina. i had to release my tax returns. it s a tradition in our country and in many states is because the president releases their tax returns, executives in other roles release their. that s going to go by the wayside. and you still supported