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Have seen six years of the arab spring, horrific violence throughout the region, terrorist attacks and so many of these countries have now voted in or allowed autocratic leaders like the president assisi who have been running and really governing on a platform of law and order. they are forbidden any more protests. and thats kind of popular. a lot of people here are just tired of protesting. they are tired of the political volatility that is defined in the region for the past six to seven years....

Scholar at the woodrow wilson international center. miller is also the former adviser to six secretaries of state on arab/israeli negotiations and daniel kertzer is a former ambassador to israel and egypt and a professor of middle east policy studies at princeton university. two wonderful minds to come on the show and speak about this topic. we heard from both kerry as well as netanyahu and aaron david miller, i want to start with you. netanyahu says its a shame secretary kerry does not understa...

Violence weve been watching since yesterday which east jerusalem now bears the scars of. take a look at some of these images. the graffiti on this shattered light rail reads death to israel, death to jews, price tag. israel says they are not interested in escalating the conflict. with the military spokesman adding they are even getting messages to hamas through back room channels to des- s ts to d. is the leadership on either side capable of this? how do you go about beginning to break that? for...

Lie -- but the responsibility will really arrest with the two sides. >> there have been some conservative voices calling for secession of aid. would that be a mistake right now? >> it would be absurd. its the wrong time to be punitive on either side. the palestinian authority condemned the kidnapping of the three israeli teens. i understand the palestinian security forces offered to help israel find the three teenagers after they were kidnapped. to punish the palestinian authority now would be s...

Aspirin to thin your blood, eventually it will kill you. it does not affect the taste of the oysters and those oysters are definitely safe to eat. but it limits the numbers that they can harvest. and that will happen for the second year in a row. >> rob, thanks for that. let me bring you up to speed with some of our top stories. the head of the international monetary fund resigned last night right before his bail hearing which is happening today. dominique strauss-kahn accused of sexually assa...

good morning. welcome. its thursday morning, may 19th. we have a lot of news this morning including some breaking news. lets begin with that breaking news. the resignation of dominique strauss-kahn as head of the international monetary fund. this move comes just before a bail hearing today in new york. were seeing this mug shot for first time. the former imf chief is facing sexual assault charges for allegedly attacking a maid in his manhattan hotel room. he says he is not guilty. re...

For that entire region and as egypt weakens, the other major power in that region is, of course, iran. so there is grave concern in saudi arabia that iran will start to exert more influence. and then another thing, randi, they are losing some of their faith in the united states, that the united states is letting mubarak go and mubarak, as we know, has been a great ally many have said to the united states and certainly to israel. >> jill dougherty, we have to leave it there. thank you. the shou...

It has really challenged the armys efforts to try to assert control. >> former ambassador to egypt, daniel kertser, thank you for your time. >> thank you. lets get back to the epi center of the protests. our frederik pleitgen is in cairo and nearby in tahrir square. describe what you are seeing and hearing. set the scene for us. >> reporter: well, what im seeing is that basically this entire part of downtown cairo has been taken over by the anti. mubarak protesters. you will see tahrir square ...

Getting conflicting signals, particularly some of the opposition leaders in egypt. they are now saying if this is what the united states means, if the united states means its okay for mubarak to stay in office, thats a nonstarter. so we want to kind of take a diplomat who is out of office and see if we can get him to be undiplomatic about what they are trying to say. >> im sure. you also have former ambassador kertzer. we spoke with him a few moments ago. he has some great incite on what might h...

Maintaining security along that border. and the israelis will watch that situation quite carefully. >> and just very quickly who do you think is the best choice to lead egypt when it comes to israels interest? >> i dont make that kind of choice. clearly the israelis are going to be comfortable if someone like omar suleiman or a civilian like omar musar were to take over, they have dealt with both men in the past. they are tough egyptian patriots, but they are committed to the treaty. the israeli...