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Eastern europe. youve got, of course, a government that is not elected according to the democracy that we would -- the system of democracy that we would espouse. thats the first element. so youve got that elite at the top of the country. youve secondly got a group of people that want democracy, that are urging for open democratic change that in a way that we would respond to and we would sympathize with. the third element is islamist groups that would take the situation in a completely different...

Were not doing this for us, were doing this for the generations that come after us so that they can taste freedom and democracy. >> governor romney, the chant from tahrir square in cairo tonight was "freedom, may god make it happen, may it be tonight." president mubarak says hes going to step down, but not for quite a few months. is that reaction tenable, given the situation on the ground? >> thats something his people will have to decide. the real objective has been met, and that is that the pe...

Hundreds of thousands of them died as a result. so that was never going to happen there. i would prefer to see change from the bottom up in iran right now. i mean, that is a country where if you had a free and fair election, ive got no doubt at all youd have a different government and a government that would be for a better for the stability of the region. but thats not possible to do. and whats happened with egypt, particularly with the army playing the role its playing, is that these protester...

Say, the modernizing forces, the people who want the types of things we take for granted in britain and america, whether they are the people that would secede those governments, or whether the very strong islamist movements wouldnt rather take control. >> isnt part of the problem as weve seen in egypt, when you educate your populous the way they have in egypt, but cant give them jobs at the end of it because you run a rather repressive regime, they end up in the situation they find themselves in...

But for people everywhere. >> mr. blair, good to talk to you again. thank you for your time. >> thank you. when we come back, ill ask a man who wants to be this countrys next president, mitt romney, what he would do about egypt. and later, the monster storm barreling towards you. if youre watching this, chances are its going to hit you very soon. ring ring ring ring progresso. hi. we love your weight watchers endorsed soups but my husband looks the way he did 20 years ago. well thats great. ...

Because there is a process of change that, i think, will affect the whole of the region. people want a different system of government. theyre going to get it. the question is, then, what emerges from that? and in particular, i think the key challenge for us, really, is how do we help partner this process of change and help manage it in such a way that what comes out of it is open-minded, fair, democratic government? >> nobody seems quite sure what to say about president mubarak. depending on who...

The fact is there were people in iraq who tried to rise up, if you remember. the kurds in particular, and hundreds of thousands of them died as a result. so that was never going to happen there. i would prefer to see change from the bottom up in iran right now. i mean, that is a country where if you had a free and fair election, ive got no doubt at all youd have a different government and a government that would be for a better for the stability of the rengion. but thats not possible to do. and ...

I dont really understand where hes considered to be acceptable, where someone like saddam hussein had to be got rid of. >> first of all, lets be very clear, piers. hosni mubarak is not saddam hussein. saddam hussein had a gdp roughly the equivalent of portugal and spain and devastated it. hosni mubarak has presided over an egyptian economy thats something like doubled in the last decade. but i dont think the west should be embarrassed by the fact that theyve been working very closely with mubara...

Believe that peace is now more or less likely the way things stand today? >> its extremely difficult to tell. the one thing i do know is that peace between the israelis and the palestinians is of huge importance to the stability of the region, but also to those modernizing and forward looking forces in the region triumphing over those who would take the region and the world backwards. so whatever the next few months brings, weve got to carry on working flat out on this. theres actually, i mean, ...

And that is to the people of egypt are going to have a democracy, an opportunity to vote, to have a say in the course of their lives and government, and hopefully economic freedom as well. and direct hit. the mother of all storms lashes the u.s. how big will this be, but more important, how deadly? this is a special edition of "piers morgan tonight." good evening. president obama was on the phone for half an hour tonight with president hosni mubarak. he called for a moment of transformation ...