From Arab Spring to Fundamentalist Autumn?

With Michael Walsh, Katharine Gorka, Rowan Scarborough, and Fred Fleitz.

Filling in for Frank Gaffney, Fred Grandy speaks with MIKE WALSH, a writer from the New York Post and author of The People v. The Democratic Party, about the appointment of John Brennan as director of the CIA. They discuss his alarmingly wrong intelligence predictions in the past, and his schizophrenic past policies towards interrogation issues and unmanned drone warfare.

KATHARINE GORKA, executive director of the Westminster Institute, reports on recent conference “Amplifying Muslims Voices for Reason and Reform.” They discuss how the Arab Spring movement must be supported with intellectualism and education to avoid turning into a Fundamentalist Autumn.

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ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, writer for The Washington Times and author of Sabotage: America’s enemies within the CIA, discusses Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense, his relatively isolationist views and the effect that his presence on the cabinet could have for America and her allies.

FRED FLEITZ, managing editor of lignet.com, reviews a recent speech from President Assad in which he expresses somewhat delusional confidence in his quickly crumbling regime. The wisdom of continuing to send military aid in the form of tanks and small weapons to a radical leading Egypt is also discussed.