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Afghanistan was the issue that paul ryan was confused and did not realize he was giving an incoherent answer. he may not have understood what the words meant. he was repeating things he had been told so he didnt get the incoherence. that was my take on it last night. my take on it changed when i went back and looked at the tape of dan seynor before the debate saying the same thing. what does it mean to have as their on purpose, overt, not screwing it up strategy that theyre going to leave in 201...

Basically warning shots as the violence has escalated. as were watching this unfold, what is going through your mind? >> first of all, when we talk about whether the military will step in at some point to quell this escalation between the protesters, its important to be clear that the pro mubarak b protesters are some order of organizing function of the egyptian government. as i was saying earlier, it seems that the egyptian government has some sort of strategy now, b provoke something so it is ...

That this would be going nowhere and they would he not wouldnt be caught by surprise. where else in the region should we be looking, then? where do we think that its quiet but it may not be quiet? where could things bubble up and spiral out of control? >> and would that potentially lead to growing terrorism concerns that the united states needs to be critically worried about snm. >> absolutely. the number two of al qaeda, squ zawahiri is egyptian. you can just imagine now how some of these group...

The other one id keep an eye on is libya. ka defini kadafi has been in power for decades. it is extremely poor, and i think the countries id be keeping an eye on are libya, syria, possibly algeria. >> hang in if you will, dan. i want to go to cairo again. lester holt is standing by. lester, give us a sense of where you are and how youve seen this developing. >> we are just a few blocks into tahrir square. we dont want to give the exact location because journalists are being targeted here. safe t...

Big choke points. there are several thousand people who are -- who have arrived today to clash with the protesters and another choke point and during into tahrir, there is another group of several thousand protesters. so the demonstrators are in the middle and apparently surrounded. >> all right, richard engle, thank you very much. as he continued to watch for us and check in with us about this rapidly developing situation. lets bring in dan seynor, senior fellow for middle eastern study at the ...

Observation point? >> well, we can see a lot of people that are still on the streets in defiance of this curfew that is in place. as i step aside, you can see some of those fires right on the nile river. there appears to be a police vehicle that has been set on fire. it is billowing black smoke. people are gathering around it. the air here in cairo is still very thick with tear gas. were not hearing as many pops and explosions of people firing tear gas as there were before, but still, as that ve...