Washington Week with The Atlantic

Obama Administration on Egypt, Syria & NSA Surveillance

Special | 25m 26s  | Video has closed captioning.

US economic and military aid to Egypt in question as Mubarak is released from prison; allegations of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government; the NSA illegally collected thousands of US emails; and a March on Washington retrospective fifty years later. Joining Gwen: Alexis Simendinger of Real Clear Politics, Tom Gjelten of NPR and Michael Fletcher of the Washington Post.

Aired: 08/23/13

Rating: NR

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10 big stories Washington Week covered

Washington Week came on the air February 23, 1967. In the 50 years that followed, we covered a lot of history-making events. Read up on 10 of the biggest stories Washington Week covered in its first 50 years.

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