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Thought okay, im really now in trouble. rick: colleagues reporting from the front lines in egypt, they were attacked trying to capture the story that america is watching slowly. greg palkot, olaf reid. well speak with them and talk about their terrifying ordeal overseas, when we come back.

In connection with all of those stolen documents. martha: sarah palin slamming president obama, going back to a controversial ad from the campaign to make her point. >> 3:00 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep but there is a phone in the white house and it is ringing... >> it seems that that call went right to the answering machine. martha: was that fair? a fair and balanced debate, after the break. rick: the interview the world is still talking about today. president obama in the "no-spi...

Say that our only two options are either the muslim brotherhood or a suppressed -- >> bill: but you want -- dont want the muslim brotherhood. >> what i want is a representative government in egypt and i have confident if egypt moves in an orderly transition project well have a government in egypt that will work together as a partner. rick: middle east analyst and author of "the coming revolution, the struggle for freedom in the middle east", wally, good to talk to you. bill started his question ...

Start. but well see whether or not politically this kind of thing can happen. steve moore, always good to talk to you. >> one last point, $500 billion is a lot to cut but lets for the forget, we have a $1.5 trillion decifit. so this is just a first step to get back to it balanced budget. rick: good reminder, steve. thank you very much. be sure to watch "americas newsroom" because senator rand paul will join us live and of course well have more questions for him about his plan and where congress ...

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Spend to now save, save, save, just look at what rand paul has proposed. now, i read through this entire proposal that he came up with. i dont agree with everything in it but i think most of the ideas are very sound. i like what hes talking about with education. look, we created the department of education back in 1979, weve spent hundreds of billions of dollars at the federal level on the schools, and the schools are worse today than they were when we created the agency. so what hes saying is g...

$500 billion is a lot of cuts, rick. even in the house where youve got the tea party candidates, theyre only calling for $100 billion of cuts. so this is a big, big reduction in spending. now, youre right, a lot of the spending, about half of the budget, is social security and medicare right now. eventually, were going to have to do something about trimming those costs. i think that leadership for that has to come from the white house. i think once the white house comes up with some proposals fo...

Pointing out, are crying uncle as well. good to talk to you, have a great day. >> thank you martha. martha: there is very tough news to america pts -- americas unemployed, a new report says the jobless are struggling to find work and thats not being alleviated in any way. out of the 14 million people who are unemployed, close to 2 million of them have been out of work for almost two years. meanwhile, those who do have jobs are likely to get laid off than at any point in the last 14 points, so it...

Started talking about it and it is hard to talk about it because it is a... a wonderful human being. that you love. >> his memoir, "known and unknown" comes out this week and there are many, many other revelations in it, especially about who he liked and did not like. theres a lot of people in the other category that will raise eyebrows in washington, martha. martha: doug, thank you so much, reporting from washington. rick: were waiting for word on the fate of the wikileaks founder, julian assan...

Agreement to protect, the suez canal, we have the training of the egyptian army, and we have a lot of economic issues. but at the end of the day, mubarek says hes going to be leaving and he would have to sign a lot of of decrees before he leaves. so hes going to be on his desk, but not with full power. rick: when we think of what a democracy is, the infrastructure for that does not exist. realistically, weve got a couple of seconds, how long would this transition need in order to get to where ev...