growing al qaeda threat even a couple years now after osama bin 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
you had people like donald rumsfeld who once tried to bomb reporters saying they re doing the best coverage. hillary clinton chided the media by saying they were able to make me look bad. they ha had boots on the ground. they had bureaus overseas and they were able to bring the story to america. yes. it s not just creativity. and will. and later not coveraging the persi persian gulf states. more on this as soon as we get back. i promise. but you re progressive, and they re them. yes. but they re here. yes. are you.? there? yes. no. are you them? i m me. but those rates are for. them. so them are here. yes! you want to run through it again? no, i m good. you got it? yes. rates for us and them now that s progressive. call or click today.
in fact, if anything, since it does show weakness, as i think governor romney correctly pointed out it will only encourage them to do more, the harder they push, the more we apologize and they ll push more. eric: talk about apologizing, here s a shocking analysis from the new york times, this past week about the president s foreign policy: what makes egypt s uncertain course so vexing for the white house is that mr. obama, more than any other foreign leader, has sided again and again with the arab street in cairo. even when it meant going expressly against the wishes of traditional allies, including the egyptian military, the persian gulf states and israel. i mean, what do you make of that, when the president of the united states, sides with the, quote, arab street? some would say he s promoting democracy and those are the forces of democracy. what is your view of that? usually forces of democracy don t express themselves by engaging in seizing embassies, conducting terrorist att
overwhelmed. i spent almost the past decade in solitary confinement. so i m not used to being around anyone, much less this many people. it s kind of overwhelming. it s not perfect. it s not perfect by any means. but at least it brings closure to some areas and some aspects. you know, we can still bring up new evidence. we can still continue an investigations we ve been doing. we can still try to clear our names. the only difference is we can do it from the outside instead of sitting in prison and do it. even when you re in prison, you have to worry about your own safety. it doesn t matter what crime it is, you got to worry about your safety regardless. jason, how about you? i didn t worry about someone else would do. i worried about people who loved me and care about me and trust. we can t live our lives in fear. this was not justice. in the beginning, we told nothing but the truth that we were innocent and they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives for it. then
well, that is a statement that may or may not be true right now. i don t think you know that, i don t think i know it. and the world doesn t let me ask you, if we look at the map of the broader middle east here, we ve talked about tripoli and libya, but as you look across the map, and particularly the persian gulf states, there s a lot of anger at this administration. the saudis in bahrain and the uae, where you ve got sunny sunni governments, where they say we re not going allow a shy eat government to take over. this is a sectarian president in the middle east. do they understand the limits? and the limits are the realities of our oil interest and stability in that part of the world? the president what s been amazing about the changes going on in the middle east is they truly are bottom-up. they re not top-down. the president went to cairo almost two years ago and laid out his principles on reform in the middle east. a rather courageous statement