many occasions. did i 600 fundraisers and house parties for him to get him elected. and i headed up the finance committee. i was in charge of fundraising. do you i didn t have a problm with his politics back then. i didn t have a problem with his politics. he was elected mayor. you know, i was the first lady. i served in the city in the capacity of working with children. working with community groups and neighborhood groups. and i enjoy doing that very much. giving back to the city. so the greater good was served. absolutely. newsome is related to nancy pelosi, right? yes. interesting. so at our wedding, nancy pelosi and barbara boxer and dianne feinstein, the governor of california, gray davis. it was practically the democratic national convention. yeah. a lot of people were there and heavy in politics. newsome is what to pelosi? they are related through marriage on his father s side. okay. so, now, very close with
groups that are waging open insurgency against egyptian security forces. there have been more deaths in the last couple of days and could that spread now? you have closed the door to the democratic process to the preeminent islamic political force in egypt. what other avenue does it have? arwa, we don t have arwa anymore, now you have neighborhood groups which is something we saw in 2011. it seems to be fracturing more and more in to groups taking the law in to their own hands. it s frightening when you see the cycle of violence and the fabric of society starting to fray. that was kind of knit together in 2011 after there was a crime spree and people were very worried and they took charge of protecting their own neighborhoods and things like that. that was followed by an historic period of elections and things that had egyptians very excited.
they got the freedom to vote. how are you going to follow this crackdown when you have had hundreds of people killed, not only today but in previous bouts of violence in the last six weeks. do they have a role in the elections? are they able to run. how can they? the president is in prison. the first democratically elected president of egypt. most of the leadership is under arrest and now this carnage. we have arwa back. the situation you described, the neighborhood groups, it seems it is fracturing by the hour almost. it does really feel as if one is slowly beginning to watch the unraveling of society. and we need to look back at how we reached this point in time. on june 30th there were an unprecedented number of egyptians that took to the streets demanding the resignation of mohamed morsi calling for early elections and that then gave the military the
groups waging open insurgency against egyptian security forces. there are more death there is in the last couple of days and could that spread now? you ve closed the door to the democratic process to the pre-eminent islamist political force in egypt. so what other avenue does it have? and arwa, the situation we don t have arwa anymore. the situation she was describing, now you have these neighborhood groups, something we saw back in 2011, it just seems to be fracturing more and more into disparate groups taking the law into their own hands. it s very frightening when you start to see the cycle of violence and the fabric of society starting to fray. that was kind of knit together in 2011 after there was a crime spree and people were very worried and they took charge of protecting their own neighborhoods and things like that. but that was followed by an historic period of elections and
but that was followed by an historic period of elections and things that had egyptians very excited. they got the freedom to vote. how are you going to follow this crackdown when you had hundreds killed not only today, but in previous bouts of violence. does the muslim brotherhood have a roll in elections? are they allowed to run again? how can they? the president is imprisoned. the first democratically elected president of egypt. most of the leadership seems to be under arrest and now we have this carnage. we have arwa back. the situation you described, these neighborhood groups, it seems it s just fracturing by the hour, almost. reporter: it does really feel as if one is slowly beginning to watch the unraveling of society. i ve been referring to it right there. one also needs to go back and see how we reached this point in time. on june 30, there were an unprecedented number of egyptians that took to the streets demanding the