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Under the same exact economic situations as the people in egypt and tunisia. the same exact combination of economic and political grievances. and all these countries need at the this point is just a fuse to be lit. >> we were talking about how this is so driven by the youth. such a large portion of the country is youth, 60% are under 30. now obviously thats true in a lot of other middle eastern countries. in egypt, they happen to be secular. obviously every country is different. but overall, wha...

Hetrogenus group, largely secular, win of was decried al-qaeda as a perversion of islam. theyve pursued social ends, betterment of the political order in egypt, etc., and then the other -- >> im interested in their nonviolent side, which is what i was talking about. >> and they -- in other countries, there are chapters or franchises of the muslim brotherhood, but there is no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence, at least internationally. megyn: deputy assistant secretary of de...

This is a conventional military force. the dirty work was the secret police and the regular police. >> in the military, is there an attitude -- tell me about their attitude toward the muslim brotherhood. by the way, lets go back to who killed sadat. whats their feeling about the role of the muslim brotherhood and the assassination by uniformed people in the military parade in 81? >> weve seen this in the countries, the pakistanis, counting people wearing beards in the graduation exercises. they ...

Nonetheless there was some eye-opening testimony from our director of intelligence jim clapper to a house intel committee. he was asked about the muslim brotherhood, what this group is about. i want to play what he said to the house intel committee. we were told earlier the fbi director roberdirector robert mr contradicted him. but that does not appear to be the view of the director of national intelligence who said this. >> the term muslim brotherhood is an umbrella term for a variety of moveme...

Looks like he kowtowed to the administration. >>governor huckabee: that he would not let a foreign entity tell him what to do. >>neil: people do not know what he is up to? the top aides were sending out mixed messages and the people in our country are saying he will step down. >>guest: when the c.i.a. director is supposed to have better insight mucks what has happened that is scary. but we have a director of national intelligence who says that the muslim brotherhood is a secular organization, fo...

Megyn: the full quote is, "muslim brotherhood is an umbrella term for a variety of movements. in egypt, its a homogenous group, largely secular, which has decried al-qaeda as a perversion of islam. in other countries, there are also chapters or franchises of the muslim brotherhood, but there is no over arching agenda, at least internationally." your thoughts on that, walid? >> reporter: i dont know where this information is coming from. i call for the congress to call on the muslim brotherhood. ...

Secular. >> reporter: that is terrifying. >> and then the fbi director, robert mueller jumped in, he said, outside egypt, its a different story. he said, elements of the muslim brotherhood have supported terrorism overseas and the in the united states. so im passing along to you whats happening almost at this moment on capitol hill, richard. >> reporter: its not al qaeda, its not the taliban, but it is not secular. and that is a wild misreading of this organization. >> i know youre going to be f...

What about the muslim brotherhood? >> he was asked about whether hes concerned that the muslim brotherhood could be using unrest in egypt to gain a foothold, whether it is a danger. what he said is that, the muslim brotherhood is prominent and whats going on in egypt but that it is an umbrella term around the world for a variety of movements. in egypt, he said, it tends to be a relatively heterogenius group, largely secular, which has a assuaged violence as a perversion of islam. he believes it ...

Comfortable with its relations with its neighbors, felt it had gotten past this era of wars, just the uncertainty will be very discomforting for them. for arab leaders, particularly our arab allies who are also not democratic leaders, this will again produce lots of anxiety. theyll worry about their own populations. theyll worry about u.s. policy and whether they can really count on the united states to support them, as they thought they could. so i think well see big ripples coming from this. i...

>> i doubt that they well compromise. the protesters will dwindle, but the military, i think, is willing to outwait them. the tricky thing comes as -- there has to be a transition, and we do want a transition. the situation is deeply unstable. 6 we need the help of mr. mubarak and the military to make it work. its not fashionable to say that. its fashionable to say get rid of these bad guys. but they have the power. not the people on the trestreet. >> nobody thinks theocracy is where it will go....