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Nimble politician. >> bill: you are a presidential observer. was there anything you saw in that interview on the presidents part that went, whoa, i didnt know that? >> i dont think the president ever does that. because if he does, if he gives news in an interview, that means he has made a mistake. when a president has news, he releases it in different ways. i thought what was interesting though was the last question you asked him about fox news. and i was surprised by the tone. it was not just c...

Brown case, mark isley was promoted. now hes under investigation. we wanted to ask him about this. this six-page confession that he says floyd brown dictated to him. verbatim. but isley is not talking. >> over the years, mark isley climbed the ladder at the sbi, and today he supervises other sbi agents in the medicaid fraud unit. and his case wasnt even investigated internally by the sbi until later this summer after our series ran. >> reporter: the news and observer reporters werent the only on...

The violence on -- passive observer to the violence on the streets. it is still not clear what role the army is playing. >> greta: here in the united states, especially since two of our colleagues were hurt, we have enormous amount of concern not only for the people in egypt but for the journalists. are the journalists specific targets or one of many who might be caught in the crossfire? >> reporter: no, it appears theyve become definitely specific targets. a lot of the propaganda bent coming ou...

Banks losses. the consequence, lowering the value of our currency. and commodity prices are soar in correlation to that money printing. corn, wheat, copper, oil, you name it. its not just in those other countries. so whether youre cursing food and gas prices at home this summer and wondering why, or youre a stunned observer of the unrest in the middle east realize are both the direct result of a pay cut from money printing as your government remains hell bent on propping up the mega banks. >> to...

All at once, charging in -- the demonstrators -- the pro mubarak demonstrators were on horses. they had camels. the army as they were moving in stepped back and was not stopping them in any way. the demonstrators and the pro-mubarak supporters were exchanging -- throwing rocks and bricks and bottles at each other. there are at least dozens of injured. all right weve heard a sharp cry of opposition from the opposition leaders. elbaradei just spoke a short while ago and called this a crime and sai...

Observer. they have done nothing. so one opposition leader has just accused the army of police complicity in this, by doing nothing they are actively involved. the army earlier said the demonstrators should disperse. that may have been a warning. it wasnt interpreted that way by the demonstrators. they certainly didnt hepd the call. >> richard, flesh that out a little bit because it seems to me what the demonstrators think is the armys forbearance not stopping the chaos, allowing the two to clas...

Leland who is there. is it a fact that the government has been mum at least publicly? >> very much so, geraldo. in fact, we heard that prime minister netanyahu told all of his cabinet ministers to simply not speak to the media and as you know from covering stories in israel that is an extraordinarily rare occurrence that happened. unofficially and through sources we are hearing that israel is incredibly concerned about what is going on because of what they have seen happen in the past in the mid...

Leland who is there. is it a fact that the government has been mum at least publicly? >> very much so, geraldo. in fact, we heard that prime minister netanyahu told all of his cabinet ministers to simply not speak to the media and as you know from covering stories in israel that is an extraordinarily rare occurrence that happened. unofficially and through sources we are hearing that israel is incredibly concerned about what is going on because of what they have seen happen in the past in the mid...

Is it a fact that the government has been mum at least publicly? >> very much so, geraldo. in fact, we heard that prime minister netanyahu told all of his cabinet ministers to simply not speak to the media and as you know from covering stories in israel that is an extraordinarily rare occurrence that happened. unofficially and through sources we are hearing that israel is incredibly concerned about what is going on because of what they have seen happen in the past in the middle east. remember, t...

They pulled out the israeli businessmen. a source in foreign ministry told me they would wait and see before they pull out the diplomatic mission from there inside egypt in cairo. talked to a keen observer, moment of history in tehran in 79 when the shall fell. the shaw was also an ally of israel and he said the iranian revolution feels like the egyptian revolution. we know how the iranian revolution ended up with the ayatollah taking over a hardcore right wing islamic state in iran. that is not...