syria conflict hasn t just cost 260,000 lives, hasn t driven 4 million people into the neighboring states. there is no political process of real heft and power to bring a diplomatic solution. we have a very committed u.n. envoy working on his own. where is the international effort from not just the u.s. and the u.k. but russia as well regional powers, to recognize the common enemies that exist. the problem in seer wra is a worse problem than a year ago. in a year s time it will be worse again because the humanitarian catastrophe is feeding the political instability. that s the cycle we re stuck in. i think we in the media have some responsibility for this. if you look at past humanitarian crises, like the balkans, that was in part because television brought horrifying images into everybody s living room. that s much likely to happen in 2015 when news media organizations are struggling for a new business model that doesn t involve sending cameras
his lawyer. the lawyer asserts show that. however, we don t have anything corroborating these documents, do we? i think the question is going to be now from this tulsa newspaper report saying they have these five sources that these documents were falsified as e we look at these documents, if that report is true what we re looking at it s hard to say whether we re looking at something that s fully accurate. clearly he and his lawyers believe that is the case. they have taken with quite exception the allegations made in the newspaper report and very frustrated by the way it s been reported by other news media organizations. but that is still the allegation that is out there. mr. bates and his lawyers are going to say this proves that mr. bates was properly trained.
why do you believe this was not a coup? well, let s look at the facts. you had very large numbers of people demonstrating against morsi. you had close to 15, maybe more than 15 million people in the streets and squares. and then, the president at the time, he had the choice. he could have said i hear you. and i m going to talk with you. and i m going to do what you want. but instead, what he did, he started mobilizing his own people. and together wind advisot with muslim brotherhood leadership, what happened is they were actually inciting their people, their supporters, to violence. so egypt, as a country, was facing a very serious situation. will morsi remain under arrest? will his supporters in the muslim brotherhood remain under arrest? will their news media, the
muslim brotherhood news media organizations, will they are silenced? their leaders under arrest? what is going on? first of all, regarding putting people under arrest, that is a legal issue. we have been very unhappy with president morsi s neglect of legal matters. he has not been adhering to orders by the courts. and now we want to go back to good legal practice. you re the ambassador to the united states. and you re in touch with u.s. officials here in washington all the time. you saw the president s statement that was released last night. and in that statement, he said i now call on the egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return the government back through a transparent process and to avoid any arrests of morsi and his supporters. but there have been a lot of
tightened. so that was the thrust of the conversation. one other thing we talked about in the immediating i attended yesterday the backlog of freedom of information request, another concern, a separate concern, for a lot of news media organizations, including my own. the bottom line, your takeaway, was this about the attorney general trying to save his job? well, i think the i don t know what their motivation was. i think it was as we saw wall street journal say, a starting point, a first step. it s valuable to have conversations. we ll see what happens, conversations i guess are going to continue july 12th is the deadline that president obama gave the attorney general for giving him a report on what to do going forward. so it s a first step. but there s a long road ahead before we get to some resolution that we can judge, whether it made a difference or not. okay. andy in today s weekly address, the president said congress still has a lot to do but he touted five items on th