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Has. >> i want to go to marty in israel. let me ask you straightaway. what is the mood like in israel about whats going on in egypt? >> the mood is very sober, very skeptical, skeptical of and skeptical of the united states power in this situation. the -- obama actually in my view has really very little standing in the arab world and its because he cosseted them as soon as he got into power. he went to cairo in june of 19 -- of 2009, praised them to the

Tension there? because we keep hearing that the reason the media is being brutalized is because of fears there may be something appalling about to go down. >> reporter: we really dont know what could happen next. we dont really know why the government has cracked down so hard on the media, where you have reporters from egypt, sweden, america, turkey, russia, polish, canada, uk, other arab countries all have been either beaten or detained or had their equipment destroyed, as well. one of the reas...

Were in the other side of this wire fence lies the sinai peninsula. behind me you can see the egyptian military watch tower. 26 miles in that direction lies gaza. 85% of this desert is used by the israeli military for training purposes. and when the uprising began in egypt just over a week ago, the concern on both countries parts was there might be potential instability on the sinai peninsula. >> violent protests in egypt, tunisia and yemen and the unrest appears to be spreading. what does this ...

To come together and begin this process right now and, of course, president mubarak has to get out of the way and allow this process to take place so they can transition. >> omar suleiman said earlier today that he firmly blames the media including western media for inflaming the rioting that weve seen in egypt. seemed a pretty ridiculous statement to me. what was your take on that. >> well, i think its not just a misreading of what happened on the ground but i think it indicates sometimes what ...

Prevent any kind of a secular reasonable opposition so that he can stay. if its not for me well have chaos in egypt and at times american officials have kind of believed that, but in the last few days i think that has lost all credibility because we had a peaceful secular largely secular democracy movement that was actually quite well organized and certainly very peaceful and then kind of erupted in chaos in the last couple of days because the president has sent his thugs to try to crush that mo...

Liberation square do not have the capabilities or possibilities of getting on an airplane if one is able to actually get to the airport. you know, they believe they are fighting for life and death, and, you know, its important to remember that as we watch what happens over the next several hours. >> anderson, thank you very much for this report. please stay safe there. we know its incredibly dangerous. youre doing an extraordinary job for us. we appreciate it. thank you. earlier today egyptian v...

Is profound reservations and anxiety at the highest level of the administration tonight because secretary clinton delivered that message because just as she you said in a conversation with nick kristof and anderson and they have a parallel in not so distant history and its called tiananmen square. the chinese kicked everybody out and horrible things happened. the tanks rolled in. that is the fear of the administration that theyre friends in egypt, their traditionalal lies have taken a turn to th...

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Enough. >> so would you imagine that we may see yet more dramatic twists and turns here? i mean, would you think from what you just said that mubarak may be lucky to survive even the week? >> i sure wouldnt want to make a prediction about how long mubarak is going to last, but i what i do think is that right now, he has become an impediment to stability in egypt. and that the road to restoring stability in this country involves his departure. and economic pressure, the social pressure, the need ...

Agreement eed es with us to pro our ally. so we cant say were going to rip everything apart and fashion your nation the way we would like to be. but were not going to go around the world and change every government to fashion it after our always and in some cases well be dealing with representatives who are less than the representatives we would like to have. but in each case, we need to let them know that we stand for freedom and to have a government that will be stable. >> youve just been in t...