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President has been to some degree a pawn of america, and they would like a more assertive and more nationalistic foreign policy. and that is going to present complications for america. >> nick, thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate it. >> my pleasure. a short time ago, i talked with former british prime minister tony blair where he just got back from the middle east where hes a peace envoy. i asked him what happens now amid president mubaraks decision to step down, be it eventu...

You agent of america," and i think that does reflect a deep feeling that for 30 years, their president has been to some degree a pawn of america, and they would like a more assertive and more nationalistic foreign policy. and that is going to present complications for america. >> nick, thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate it. >> my pleasure. a short time ago, i talked with former british prime minister tony blair where he just got back from the middle east where hes a peace en...

Critical of that kind of behavior by any government, wouldnt you? >> of course i dont want to see that in any government. but i think, you know, theres nothing that is going to be done now thats going to put this particular genie back in the bottle. its out there and theres going to be change. so whatever people say now, at some point in the next reasonably short period of time, theres going to be change. the question is how -- as i keep saying, is how we get from here to there. when we come b...

Think, has been met. 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 mome...

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 region. but thats not possible to do. and whats happened with egypt, particularly with the army playing the role its pla...

Putting it together, there is an amazing amount of security and protection. to get into the square, you have to pass through level after level of security, youre frisked, you have to present your i.d. and in fact, someone very close to me as i entered today was found with a gun. they were grabbed by a bunch of volunteers, a protective cordon was formed around him so he was not beaten up, and then he was taken over to the soldiers. for a grassroots effort like this, it was very, very impressive. ...

Unpleasant regime through the past few years in his police force. 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 embarra...

So israel, having got somebody who they know is very much on side with the peace process, now thats going to be replaced by uncertainty. whether it turns out to be better for israel, better for the region, we just cant tell at the moment. thats why its perfectly natural, by the way, for the american administration, the british and others and people like myself say, yes we have been to have change, that change should result in free and fair elections, but its a process of transition thats got to ...

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. ♪

This would happen in egypt. but the scale of it probably surprised a lot of folks. i think the administration in their earliest comments were caught a bit off guard. >> if youd been asked as vice president biden was asked, is he a dictator, what would you have said? >> im not in the vice presidents shoes, so im not going to -- >> let me ask you as governor romney, is he a dictator? >> hes the leader of his country, hes a monarch-type figure -- >> lots of monarchs have been dictators. >> i would ...