REPORTER: HE IS THE MOST
POWERFUL MAN IN THE MOST
INFLUENTIAL COUNTRY.
REF
HE IS DUE TO RECEIVE 16, F-16
FIGHTER JETS AND 200 TANKS FROM
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND
MAJORITY OF REPUBLICAN SENATORS
SIGNED OFF ON THE DEAL.
WHO IS THIS QUESTIONABLE ALLY
THAT AMERICA IS HELPING ARM?
HE IS A ROUGH PERSONALITY,
QUITE HOSTILE.
HE DOESN'T LIKE TO ANSWER
QUESTIONS.
REPORTER: WASHINGTON
INSTITUTE HAS STUDIED THE MUSLIM
BROTHERHOOD AND INTERVIEWED
MORSI FACE TO FACE.
SOMEBODY THERE TO ENFORCE THE
BROTHERHOOD'S HARD LINE IDEAS
SAYING WOMEN AND CHRISTIANS
CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF
EGYPTIAN, FOREIGN POLICY IDEAS.
REPORTER: MORSI PUT THAT
HOSTILITY IN A SERIES OF
INTERVIEWS BEFORE HE BECAME
EGYPT'S PRESIDENT.
HE CALLED ISRAELIS BLOOD SUCKERS
AND WARMONGERS AND QUOTED FROM
THE KORAN CALLING JEWS THE
DESCENDANTS OF APES AND PIGS.
MORSI CALLED ON THE MUSLIM WORLD
TO CONFRONT ISRAEL AND BOYCOTT
GOODS FROM ANY NATION THAT DOES
BUSINESS WITH ISRAEL INCLUDING
UNITED STATES AND CALLED FOR FOR
A PALESTINIAN STATE.
IT ALWAYS OVERLOOKED WHAT HE
WAS IN THE BROTHERHOOD AND HE
COULD CHANGE IN WAYS THAT ARE
NOT REALISTIC.
REPORTER: MORSI HAILS FROM
THE BROTHERHOOD'S MOST RADICAL
WING.
YET THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
APPEARS TO BELIEVE HE IS A
POSITIVE FORCE IN THE REGION.
WHEN MORSI HELPED BROKERAGE A
CEASE-FIRE AND HILARY CLINTON
THANKED HIM.
PRESIDENT OBAMA TOLD AIDS HE WAS
IMPRESSED WITH MORSI'S PRAGMATIC
CONFIDENCE WITH SURPRISINGLY
LITTLE IDEOLOGY.
MORSI ISSUED A DECREE BANNING
ANY OPPOSITION.
EGYPTIANS RESPONDED BY TAKING TO
THE STREETS IN VIOLENT PROTESTS
THAT CONTINUED TO RAGE.
NOW MORSI HOLDS ALL THE
POWERS, A JUDICIAL, AND
EXECUTIVE.
NOBODY CAN COUNSEL HIS DECISIONS
REPORTER: FORMER AMBASSADOR
TO ISRAEL AND SEEN THE MUSLIM
BROTHERHOOD UP CLOSE.
THE IDEOLOGY IS SUPERIOR TO
PRAGMATISM.
IT MEANS THEY DO, THEY WILL
PROVOKE ISRAEL AND UNITED
STATES.
LISTEN, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
FOUGHT FOR 84 YEARS TO REACH
POWER.
AND IMPOSE SHARIA.
NOW THE POWER WILL THEY SAY
OKAY, NOW WE BECOME MODERN
PEOPLE?
GOING FOR HIGH TECH AND -- IT IS
IMPOSSIBLE.
REPORTER: MORSI'S GOVERNMENT
IS HONORING PEACE TREATY WITH
ISRAEL.
HE REPORTEDLY JOINED THE MUSLIM
BROTHERHOOD NOT IN EGYPT, BUT
HERE IN AMERICA WHILE HE WAS A
STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ERICK
STAKELBECK, CBN NEWS,
WASHINGTON.