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For the most part when i speak with people who have spoken to and been in touch with their loved ones, they say they dont want to tear down their country. theyre trying to protect it in many ways, but there are people who are doing it just because and there may be elements who are watching these people doing it so that they can be viewed as doing a bad thing. >> i have no doubt in my mind there are genuine people, christians and muslims, who are -- who want to see a change. they want to see demo...

27 past, we have new details emerging out of egypt right now. al jazeera is reporting moment elbaradei reportedly saying the only way to end the unrest is for mubarak to resign. he ask calling the presidents promise to form a new government disappointing. al jazeera reports protesters are 50,000 strong in cairo. so what are the right moves for president obama? what is the best and worst case scenario? richard wolffe, good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> we had the president noticeably quiet u...

Dana, it wont be republicans on one side, democrats on the other side, but they are together on this night. >> they absolutely are together, and i keep scanning the crowd and im kind of taken aback myself to watch and look at the pairings and the groups of democrats and republicans together. but the other thing that really is striking sitting here, wolf, is looking at all of the new faces. john mentioned that there is a net 63 new republicans, but there are actually 96 new members of the house, ...

Congresswoman gabrielle giffords, who is still in the icu but could leave it to head to rehab sometime today. and the mood was a little different in that chamber and the theatrics a little different as well. you had some strange seat fellows last night. democrats and republicans deciding to sit together rather than sit on separate sides of the aisle as they traditionally do. the president calling on the group to seize this sputnik moment. >> the future is hours to win. but to get there, we can...

Possibly reigning in the unions. >> thats what youre going to be talking about a little bit later, very special guest michelle rhee will be joining us live. what i thought was interesting is prior to the president saying rich people, give up your tax cuts in a couple of years, he was saying we got together on a tax cut. ok, so you have one hand him saying one thing and on the other hand, him saying something else. the other thing that i thought was exceptional about the bite that we started the ...

Im encouraged by that. listen, the president has a lot of on plate right now. it is very early as far as the bill was only introduced about a week ago. im going to be working this hard. yesterday we had mayor bloomberg endorse my bill. we had the conference of mayors, 1,500 of them endorse my bill. i have 63 co-sponsors. every day we are getting more and more support. that is what my job will be and what i will be doing. >> if the president remains afraid to talk about it in the state of the uni...

Next weekend in philadelphia. trying to rally the base, close that enthusiasm gap. but independents are another matter. polls show that theyre trending republican and that spells trouble for the president. >> not like the presidents resting up there at camp david. isnt the vice president joining him? this is a working weekend, right? >> absolutely. and they always are. the president doesnt have camp david as much as his predecessors. he has his children here. the president stays in town. but it ...

Of fine words and lots of >> lasting peace is a peace between peoples. between israelis and palestinians. we must learn to live together, to live next to one another, and with one another. president abbas, you are my partner in peace. >> but the challenges are very tough. the issues the two have to agree upon, the same issues that have defeated all their predecessors. what to do about jewish settlements, particularly with the current building freeze due to expire in a few weeks. where to draw th...

Talks. right now hamas is having other ideas about the relaunch of peace talks, launching two attacks in the west bank in as many days. the latest is a shooting attack, wounding two israelis as they drove in their car, this is following tuesdays blood bath, a shooting of -- sorry, a shooting death of four israeli settlers, including a pregnant woman. this is on the eve of the peace talks. so can these negotiations bring peace with so manyo when so many others have failed? this is something presi...

Hoping for and wanted to hear. tried to do a two-for. im not sure if it worked. hes trying at least the very least to reassure americans that he does get it and knows what they care about. >> like you said, there are a lot of people talking about that, a different and even an odd transition to kind of make last night in the speech about iraq and about afghanistan and about war. way from the speech now, if you didnt have enough on the plate the president trying to do what all of his predecessors ...