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Muslims. the legitimacy of egypts future riding on the elections despite the flaws. they are correct. there those who started to boycott and feeling that this wont have the teeth or the power to challenge the military rule that is currently in the hands of the supreme council. >> live for us in cairo. thank you. joining me now is christopher dickey for news week and the daily beast is reporting elections and violent demonstrations that appear in the weeks magazine. what are your thoughts on what...

anderson. >> he was giggle. >> thats the first time i have ever seen him completely lose it. it was funny. >> a lot to talk about this morning. we have breaking news. a suicide truck bomber targeting the u.s. military base in afghanistan. it happened in the city of gardez a few hours ago. officials say the truck ripped through the main security gate. killed two afghan guards. nine others were hurt. and the taliban is taking credit for the attack. >> less than two weeks after downgradin...

ironic story about egypts plummeting economy. and finally, the two top presidential candidates in egypt, two former office mates now rivals. let me first give you some of my own thoughts, having spent some time in cairo and actually listened to president obamas speech from here in tahrir square. the presidents speech was remarkably comprehensive. it described the events that we now call the arab spring, explain their causes and consequences. he placed the united states squarely beh...

Demonstrations leads to something more. what happens in saweddive arabia if the eastern province of saudi arabia which is where all the oil is with a large shiite minority. the royal family is sunni. but if there are demonstrations shiite-sunni what does that do to the stablization. megyn: in egypt we were able to understand one of the strongest factions was the muslim brotherhood and a lot of folks said thats not who we want running egypt and at americans were able to understand what the risks ...

Demonstrations. >> on this dating web site, its not a man talks to man web site. men talks to women web site. >> all right. just trying to get all the facts. now your headlines and a fox news alert. iraqi official says the top military leader of the terror group linked to al-qaida is now dead. his name hes not the same one thats currently running egypt. iraq says he was killed during a raid and he was war minister of a group called the islamic state of iraq responsible for bombings across iraq. ...

Ras lanuf and there is a smattering of oil fields there, and this is a significant development, production there is running at 25% of the unusual capacity and you can understand what the capacity will be on the oil markets when they get the news and all the momentum building to punish muammar qaddafi. lieutenant colonel oliver north joins me, host of ""war stories"" and the fox news military analyst who had his own dealings with muammar qaddafi over the years. welcome and good to have you here. ...

So thats really all to the plus. and thats certainly what the pentagon wants to take advantage of right now. but these older men that are at the top, field marshal tantawi, general enan, names that we will come to know and recognize said to be running egypt, at least said to be before there are election, what pressures will be on them? how much will they really be able to satisfy the demands of the protest ers and get egypt through this transition period? a lot of uncertainty. and uncertainty st...

Obviously mubarak is gone. that is a huge change. but this control structure is basically what has been running egypt since the early 1950s when they overthrew the king. they said they want a transformation to democracy but the military thinks it is the central source of order and stability in the country and i could -- do not believe they will withdraw from the scene. who can tell how this will work out? >>alisyn: it sounds like this egyptian military counsel in charge is not known for being gr...

Week when they allowed the pro-mubarak thugs into tahrir square. it seems like a while ago. the question now it seemed earlier today like they were kind of tilting in the direction of the protesters and now were going to test that proposition. now that mubarak has said what he did, are they really tilting in the favor of the protesters or continue to act in this neutral manner? >> can i just -- >> i was going to ask you a question. i always say stop worry about things that wont matter a month fr...

That shows a breakdown of local control, of sight control. but the army has remained steadfast. and this is going to be the ticket to stability no matter who is running egypt later on. if the army starts to fall apart, if the crowd then starts to turn on the army, if there is a tiananmen square-type event, then youre in big trouble and all bets are off. >> reza, you were talking earlier about how you were on your way to egypt, literally on your way to the airport on friday and you got the call f...