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Spoke out and gave some chilling words on television in the last 24 hours. before the fall of egypts president, protests were hitting libya because of low quality housing and high unemployment as well. hosni mubaraks ouster lit the fuse for libyas demonstrators who seemed to grow intense and determined as each day passed. don lemon looks at the timeline. >> reporter: february 14th, peaceful demonstrations, fueled through facebook are planned against moammar gadhafi, who supported mubarak before ...

Large and unsustainable. >> dana? >> well, its curious to me how senator schumer comes to the conclusion that shutting down the government is going to hurt the creation of jobs. and then why werent they worried about that in the last two years? thats what the republicans are trying to fix now. and in some ways, theyre trying -- the republicans are trying to force a point but again, as you said earlier, elections have consequences and i would also say that the senate is -- all the members that wo...

>> i will sue your [ bleep ]. youve got to [ bleep ]. >> okay. ouch. the 72-year-old bus driver gets smacked in the face -- not once but twice but the angry woman. police say the passenger was provoked when the bus door hit her in the back when she tried to exit which sent her into a fury. the bus driver said the enraged woman appeared between 25 and 30 and 59". shes got long, wavy hair but a short fuse. more surveillance footage. this ones out of florida. no slapping but a buck naked burglar. a...

Under the same exact economic situations as the people in egypt and tunisia. the same exact combination of economic and political grievances. and all these countries need at the this point is just a fuse to be lit. >> we were talking about how this is so driven by the youth. such a large portion of the country is youth, 60% are under 30. now obviously thats true in a lot of other middle eastern countries. in egypt, they happen to be secular. obviously every country is different. but overall, wha...

Sadistic move. the rumor that was going around that he was going to make an announcement that everybody seemed ready to accept as his final good-bye, was, instead, a sadistic tease up to the crowd to make this announcement and it seems to me like he just might have lit the final fuse. this thing has been on a slow burn for quite a while, and now i think the situation is going to border on the explosive over the next 24 to 48 hours. >> as one of our legislatures, our governors in this country, su...

Protesters. but the fuse was burning long before that. lit, in fact, by decades of oppression and poverty. and on january 25th, the anger finally exploded. the pro-at theres call it the day of rage. a rage regime of president mubarak. u.s. officials watch and wait. >> our assessment is that the egyptian government is stable. >> within hours, its clear that is not the case as the protests and violence intensify. the egyptian government moves to shut down the social media site that the young demon...

Experts say hosni mubaraks family fortune could be as much as $70 billion. that would make him richer than most anybody in all the world. richer than bill gates. word of that kind of money in foreign banks international rae. according to one report he owns properties on riew deo drive and beverly hills in manhattan and paris and other cities. $70 billion corruption? hmmm. couple weeks ago life was normal there. tourists were visiting the pyramids. shop owners were selling their goods. regular eg...

>> this was just one of many shocking scenes on camera all day. here the questions i want to drill down on tonight, has mubarak lit a fuse that can lead to the radicalization of the protesters or even to civil war? will todays violence undercut popular support for the protest? will evidence emerge to definitive link mubarak to todays thuggery and would that be the final nail in his coffin? meanwhile, there were hundreds of casualties today and no one can say for sure how many are dead. a number ...

>> well, you know, the congress, the government gave a green light to the big financial firms in this country and said, do what you want to do. we wont look. well put regulators who are willfully blind in place and you do whatever you want to do. the result has been unbelievable speculation in the commodities. weve seen oil go to $147 a barrel on day trading. had nothing to do with supply and demand. had everything to do with greed and speculation. same is true now with food and the interesting ...

>> well, you know, the congress, the government gave a green light to the big financial firms in this country and said, do what you want to do. we wont look. well put regulators who are willfully blind in place and you do whatever you want to do. the result has been unbelievable speculation in the commodities. weve seen oil go to $147 a barrel on day trading. had nothing to do with supply and demand. had everything to do with greed and speculation. same is true now with food and the interesting ...