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Yemen reaching it could turn into the next afghanistan. whats your view of the yemen? >> you know, piers, it could become the next afghanistan. its one of the poorest countries in the region. its running out of oil. its running out of water. it has two wars going on. it has al qaeda. but the one big difference between egypt and yemen is that president saleh, dictator as it were has allowed a little more political parties to function and so were not seeing the same violence in yemen because there...

That wield as club or a knife or a gun. and weve today seen the impact of that. >> and because of that, because of the repression of the journalists, not only from cnn and western outlets but egyptians and all over the world. because of that, are we losing a bit of the sense of whats happening? the government did make some concessions, offering to bring people in for more dialogue. making it clear president mubaraks son would not run. do we have a greater sense of whats happening on the streets ...

Outlets for political parties to do what they do. >> peter bergen, author of "americas war in al qaeda," thank you very much. >> thank you. when we come back, an egyptian judge who says president mubarak should stand trial for crimes against humanity.

Yemen, because it has a much poorer populace, extreme faction there, and there is a tipping point which if yemen reaches it, could turn it into the next afghanistan. whats your view of yemen? >> piers, it could be the next afghanistan. its one of the poorest countries in the region, running out of oil and water, two wars going on, al qaeda. but the one big difference between egypt and yemen is that the yemeni dictator, as it were, has allowed a little bit more political parties to function. so w...

To be fair to you, you said this would be a tenuous calm on the best of days. what is gone on now? >>guest: look, what we see now is almost a mid-evil scene but with modern outlets. yesterday was a benchmark. the united states talking to the egyptian ministry to be in control of security inside egypt and they were talking to the president of egyptian asking him to tell the world and the public how he intends to exit which he did in a speech but the opposition was in the very happy with mubaraks ...

Scenario is chaos and no one wants chaos. it is a fine line that the administration is trying to balance here. >>shepard: a lot of the reporting in the united states from our domestic outlets seems to be great concern over the muslim brotherhood and they will start a war with central and that is getting way, way ahead of ourself. this story is still about people who for decades have been screaming "we have no freedom." "we cant stand on a street corner and talk about politics." it is very basic ...

Media and not from traditional outlets. >> shepard: rick leventhal live in new york tonight. thanks. about to wrap things first. first we want to update the other top stories today. a movement on dont ask, dont tell today. a decision for a former bush administration official charlie sheen with a big move. the actor from hollywood. and 25 years ago today, slipping to surly bonds to touch the face of god. [ man ] ♪ trouble

Tanks. >> as our own correspondent has been tirelessly coveringing this for hours now throughout the day, ben wedeman put it, the riot police much hated in egypt. this is not, of course, the first time. they have a long record of cracking down on demonstrations like the ones weve seen today. youre lock looking at a live picture here. things appear to have calmed down somewhat. were about 100 meters there from one of the outlets of egyptian television, state run television, and an important site ...

Embassy in cairo or outside or any american institution, there are quite a few american outlets, and even mcdonalds, and that did not happen. it might have and i missed it. but could that happen? >> im sorry? >>neil: is the antiamerican rap as strong as you experienced in iran? >>guest: certainly there are many more institutions in place in egypt in cairo that in tehran at the time the ayatollah took over and the shah want into exile. we will see a lot of uncertainty the next few days. it is imp...

Blogosphere and elsewhere. for the lame stream media to pick up and run with that without getting facts, that perpetuates the problem we have with some negative discourse in this country. i would like to see a lot of that hypocrisy in the media cleaned up on all sides. that certainly would help in our country. >> had a chance to go and watch all the repeats, thats the beauty with snow. and other outlets have their pom-poms back out. its like 2007 back out again. theyre cheering for him. standing...