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This whole 24 hours, its possible to look at in the prism that the thing that the administration and what we were hearing would happen, mubarak would resign, actually was going to happen but perhaps not, as people expected it to. its clear now in retrospect that mubarak went out, made the defiant statement, it was about 30 seconds, as one official put it to me, but the rest defiant ladies and gentleme language. outcome people so badly wanted did come to pass this morning. back to you. >> with th...

We have not extricated ourselves and unless we do well have trouble going forward especially if pro-democratic regimes come into power. >> i want to read to you, ron, a very brief excerpt from a 2006 u.s. state department memo and it says, our intelligence collaboration with omar suleiman is now probably the most successful element of the u.s./egypt relationship and when you read that, is that the key to understanding why we have been so off in understanding what is actually going on inside egyp...

Going to be the third. so what better way to look at this than through the prism of 2012, because, frankly, notice a pattern here of states where hes going. so the first stop right after the state of the union was wisconsin. what do we know about wisconsin? its worth 10 electoral votes, unemployment rate 7.5%. more importantly the president won that state with 56% in 2008. the republican there has 52% so we know why hes got to go to wisconsin. the next stop was last week and that was in pennsylv...

Isnt working and fail to deliver to keep it under 8%. house minority leader nancy pelosi said starting to move in the right direction. but republican leaders shouldnt take risky actions like deep spending cut and jeopardize growth and job creation. what about this report? chris stirewalt, tox news politics editor. niay -- nia malika henderson and charles krauthammer. a lot of people look at the report and say what this >> well, i was one of them for a long time before i drilled down on the numbe...

Characterization. but i think that as you point out, we have to be very cautious right now about causing the events to cycle in a certain direction or to be seen only through the prism of one country. for example, the united states, we cant look at this only through our eyes and not allow that theres many different interests at stake here. we have to be very careful that we do not put ourselves in a position of trying to direct events in egypt. because in some ways, as professor levy has recentl...

Sees it that way. unfortunately, the rest of the world sees us propping up a dictator whos been there for 29 years. is that where the disconnect come? >> its a whole range of policies across the middle east that have stain a terrible toll. we sort of absolve ourselves from it. we see the middle east through the prism of israel or our own needs. we dont see it through the prism of the needs of the people in that rooe john. even the debates here, the crowds in tahrir square, theyre not saying spri...

House minority leader nancy pelosi said starting to move in the right direction. but republican leaders shouldnt take risky actions like deep spendg cut and jeopardize growth and job creation. what about this report? chris stirewalt, tox news politics editor. niay -- nia malika henderson and charles krauthammer. a lot of people look at the report and say what this >> well, i was one of them for a long time before i drilled down on the numbers. i have to look at everything through a political pri...

To say that israel is now in its most dangerous position in recent time? >> well, john mccain is a very strong supporter of israel and he has every right to make the characterization. but i think that as you point out, we have to be very cautious right now about causing the events to cycle in a certain direction or to be seen only through the prism of one country. for example, the united states, we cant look at this only through our eyes and not allow that theres many different interests at stak...

Step down. >> let me go to hashaum on this question. what do you see? bring it home to america. as you watch it, obama is trying to say leave, what is mubarak really saying? is he negotiating or is this his fixed position? where is he at on this? >> if you listen to the much speech in arabic, chris, what you get is a tone of indignation, petulance and defiance. this man still lives in denial. this is a man who still, if he sees a problem he sees it through the prism of security. he doesnt believ...

>> let me go to hashaum on this question. what do you see? bring it home to america. as you watch it, obama is trying to say leave, what is mubarak really saying? is he negotiating or is this his fixed position? where is he at on this? >> if you listen to the much speech in arabic, chris, what you get is a tone of indignation, petulance and defiance. this man still lives in denial. this is a man who still, if he sees a problem he sees it through the prism of security. he doesnt believe that his ...