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Were not dealing in bribery anymore. so the police in egypt have been put on notice. of course, the abuses are typical of the abuses of the police across the middle east. so all of them must be looking at this situation and thinking, hmm. >> some celebration. certainly theres a hangover. its easy to get swept up in this at the moment. the euphoria. this is just the beginning. theres a long ways to go. theres no guarantees. there is a long way to go. you have the results of the last two and a hal...

Military in place and the vice president in place to then have a transition to some form of democracy and elections hopefully in september, some have said sooner if they can pull it over. remember, president obama bush and clinton -- president bush said past u.s. presidents had too much of a premium on security and on oil and not done enough to push for democratic reforms in the middle east, and then theres some criticism that president bush didnt follow through on that. this is a long legacy of...

>> president obama has been calling for a transition to begin now. on the other hand, we heard secretary clinton a couple of days ago saying we support the process laid out by vice president suleiman which is not a process that the opposition has agreed to at all. >> reporter: there is growing concern the man the u.s. is supporting, the new egyptian vice president, is not on the same page. >> up till now the obama administration was saying that this had to be a negotiated transition, that the eg...

The egyptian military is acting properly. they are not talking about any abuses here. there is concern, however, certainly by many analysts, many egypt-watchers, that as this situation unfolds now, and there isnt a lot of progress forward on getting it resolved, these protesters in the street are in the ultimate danger, the secret security services know who they are. they have now seen their faces in public for days. a lot of fear that many of these young people, many egyptians are facing a crac...

Shined a spotlight on the notorious jails and the chilling abuses that happened inside. brian todd is working this part of the story. what did you learn? >> reporter: many of the journalist who is have been treated the worst are from egyptian news services or other arab outlets. as for the others some are just now getting the chance to describe their detention after spending days trying to get to safety. beaten, harassed, threatened and some journalists are giving the first real detail of experi...

In. we have an incredible task of were going to talk about business. far too often democrats dont talk about business enough. were going to have our business group come in and continue to talk about jobs and the economy, something that blue dogs have stressed from the very beginning, talked about it well before it became a popular view about how we get our country back on the right track. >> governor, are blue dogs good for the democratic party? >> absolutely. we were talking backstage about the...

>> peter, intriguing stuff. we are hearing reports from egyptian television that vice president suileman is meeting with the head of the military and the interior minister to evaluate the situation. we heard about the president meeting with suileman. whats your take on this? >> well, you know, the military, of course, egyptian society plays an important role. mubarak himself is a former military officer. the military is not tainted with the same abuses of the egyptian population that the securit...

Among al qaeda leaders that this is not just going to be an incident for the change of government in egypt to a democratic government but to a more muslim or to a more islamic government. of course, there is the muslim brotherhood in egypt which is one of the major opposition parties. and the muslim brotherhood, while not friendly to al qaeda, certainly is looking for more conservative view of government. so the question is, is the egyptian government host hosni mubarak if he steps down or is re...

From the military. and state security forces are really the ones who are most associated with the abuses that the egyptian people have suffered. the military is not, i think, necessarily associated with those type of activities. now, that doesnt necessarily, again, mean that the military is going to continue to sit idly by. i think right now it really could turn either way for the military. they seem to be standing back. we dont know what orders they have been given and whether theyre following ...

Are your thoughts on taking the new york city crime fighting model of comp-u-stat, and basically try to get in front of it? >> first of all, the cost of health care, there are a lot of different things. to says most of the care was to a small percentage of patients, and as we age action we consume more care, and is that appropriate or not? we need to look at that, so when there are abuses or inappropriate care, we do something about it, but let me address the whole issue. if we change how we pay...