republicans here but also democrats on the house foreign affairs committee. that iran remains the top state sponsor of terrorism in the world, continues to support hezbollah and the brutal assad regime in syria, continues to engage in systematic violations of human rights, continues its efforts to destabilize a number of persian gulf states and continues to imprison innocent americans. all of this under the so-called moderate rouhani government. i hope you ll leave here today with a sense of confidence that we know what we re doing. our eyes are open. we have no illusions. it s a tough road. i don t come here with any guarantees whatsoever. so kerry says he has no illusions about iran, but he says this interim nuclear deal will force tehran to prove it s not cheating. and secretary kerry restated that iran will not, i repeat, will not acquire a nuclear
persian gulf states are preparing to pour billions of dollars into egypt trying prop up a collapsed economy as the military attempts to transition away from the morsi government. so far saudi arabia, the uae and now kuwait have announced a total of $12 billion dwarfing america s foreign aid to egypt. they claim that deposed president morsi is safe under house arrest. more arrests of his muslim brotherhood supporters have caused outrage in the streets. a man m we have the report. that is the perspective of the opponents of ousted president, muhammad morsi, who are behind the campaign to get him removed from power. they have expressed satisfaction with the interim prime minister s appointment.
more importantly they have expressed some reservations but have endorsed the constitutional declaration that has come out essentially paving the way for egypt s transition to democracy. more importantly, the supporters of the ousted president, they remain very bitter about what had happened to him. more importantly, angered by the killing of more than 50 people. most of their supporters. they will continue their sit in. in fact, later this evening we understand they will be holding a symbolic funeral procession for the palace. they are angered by what happened and demanding that he be reinstated. thank you so much, ayman. jeffrey goldberg is here with me. he joins us in the studio. jeffrey, this is such a difficult crisis in egypt obviously, but for the united states, the u.s. really has very few office and is not wielding as much influence as you might expect. the people who are wielding the influence are the gulf arab states who are overjoyed. let s put it bluntly, they re
laden is killed. looking to north africa in the persian gulf states. we either have al qaeda with a safe haven or, indeed, more activity. at least, too, what happened last 9/11 in benghazi and the ongoing questions about what the united states knew about, what the administration knew, did they do enough to stop it. now now hearings coming up. new details being reported on, mr. mayor. is there something here that somehow gets to why we re more vulnerable now and whether the administration has done enough in your estimation? well, i don t know. that has to be investigated. i think it would be wise if the administration would kind of ratchet up its focus on this. because i think that since the capture of bin laden there s been a kind of sense that al qaeda s on the run. the threat is less. the threat isn t less. the threat is actually more diverse now and maybe even more complex. you can detect through the benghazi defense which, of course, did come about during the election, and even d
missiles that have range from southern lebanon to hit tel-aviv. this is a big, escalated problem. i wish we had acted sooner. i would just say boots on the ground now is not the question. the question now is imposing a no fly zone, using aircraft and using naval gunfire. as senator leahy said the israeli strikes over the last 48 hours have indicated those russian air defense systems are not as robust as they re sometimes reported to be. we can stop bashar al assad from killing his own people. we can stop some of the worst violence in syria if we use aircraft i want to move on. i want to bring mayor giuliani in here. i want to widen this out a little bit. i think there s the broader topic we re broaching here about national security, about our own personal freedoms in america coming out of the bost boon bomg is in part ongoing concern about terrorism. graphic this week in the wall street journal about that growing al qaeda threat even a couple years now after osama bin laden is