need proper checks and balances and recalled of law to ensure the first election is not the last. are you saying anti-democratic forces should be banned from democratic elections? i think they have to do it through a legal and orderly process and this is where the administration can play a role and bring the experience it has from eastern europe and east asia to bear in egypt. we have been waiting for the last ten years and after 9/11 said the arab status quo must change and now it is and it is critical for the u.s. to be involved and make sure it moves in the right direction. has the military in your mind been playing a responsible role here. i think it has and has a lot of interests here we don t see on camera. obviously a lot of economic interests, and it wants stability and some sense to keep someone from like jamal mubarak from coming to power and assigning his own version of
captioning by, closed captioning services, inc. welcome to the journal editorial report: the uprising in egypt turned bloody this week as supporters of president hosni mubarak clashed with anti-government protesters in cairo, liberation square, in an interview with abc news, hosni mubarak blames the outlawed muslim brotherhood for the violence and said he d like to step down right away but fears his resignation would plunge the country further into chaos. the director of the middle east studies program at the school of advanced international studies at johns hopkins university and also an adjunct fellow at stanford university s hoover institution and a frequent contributor to the wall street journal. good to have you back. thank you. you have been predicting trouble in egypt for a long time and closely following the country for a long time and now everybody says hosni mubarak has to go, even hp. it is a seminal moment, the house of hp has fallen. the despot has fall