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Government and then a new society together. >> geraldo: judy miller, final thoughts? >> i agree. i think what the united states does now in the next 48 hours is going to be crucial. what the crowds do will be crucial. i dont think that the egyptian people have really had a chance to speak about what they want and i just hope they get a chance to do that. >> geraldo: ambassador walker, does a secular egypt an inclusive multireligious egypt survive? >> of course, it does. the basic issue is how mu...

Society together. >> geraldo: judy miller, final thoughts? >> i agree. i think what the united states does now in the next 48 hours is going to be crucial. what the crowds do will be crucial. i dont think that the egyptian people have really had a chance to speak about what they want and i just hope they get a chance to do that. >> geraldo: ambassador walker, does a secular egypt an inclusive multireligious egypt survive? >> of course, it does. the basic issue is how mubarak leaves the scene. yo...

He was head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog agency based in vienna. but he is probably better known in many western capitals than on the streets of cairo. and i think he would probably be a transition figure. hes an older generation politician. hes been out of the country most of the time. the united states would probably welcome elbaradei as an alternative, but were not there yet. i think this is likely to be a very interesting period in egyptian history. in middle east history, the fact is weve c...

Figure in washington. he was head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog agency based in vienna. but he is probably better known in many western capitals than on the streets of cairo. and i think he would probably be a transition figure. hes an older generation politician. hes been out of the country most of the time. the united states would probably welcome elbaradei as an alternative, but were not there yet. i think this is likely to be a very interesting period in egyptian history. in middle east histo...

Is weve crossed a threshold of change in which the majority of the people who are out in the streets are not ideological. this is not a group aligned with any secular or islamist party. and because it is a body without a head, we dont know who is likely to fill the vacuum in the meantime. there are a lot of different possibilities. elbaradei, but these are also an older generation. what were seeing is something entirely new in egypt, in yemen and tunisia and elsewhere as well. >> i think thats t...

Any secular or islamist party. and because it is a body without a head, we dont know who is likely to fill the vacuum in the meantime. there are a lot of different possibilities. elbaradei, but these are also an older generation. what were seeing is something entirely new in egypt, in yemen and tunisia and elsewhere as well. >> i think thats the key part of this because certainly theres no doubt that there are vastly larger numbers of young people in these arab cities now, including cairo and so...

Aer who who was secular. has ties to india. during the campaign he spent a lot of time pushing back on that and gave an interview to news week and talked about jesus and prayer and they spent a lot of time talking about this. they have made the decision now as a sitting president because of the reverend wright controversy i think he doesnt want to publicly go to church every sunday some where and doesnt want to disrupt services is what he says. i think the effect of that is that it leaves this c...

Aer who who was secular. has ties to india. during the campaign he spent a lot of time pushing back on that and gave an interview to news week and talked about jesus and prayer and they spent a lot of time talking about this. they have made the decision now as a sitting president because of the reverend wright controversy i think he doesnt want to publicly go to church every sunday some where and doesnt want to disrupt services is what he says. i think the effect of that is that it leaves this c...

He wanted to make a $40 donation, the equivalent of $40, to some relief organization and he kept driving around from village to village, town to town and the only charities he could find willing to take his money from taliban-operated charities. this is a guy who doesnt support the taliban. hes a secular pakistani, he didnt want to have to do this. but he said thats all there was. >> yeah. i mean, theres certainly -- islam has charities who have links to terrorist groups. basical basically salli...

Started, he dropped to his knees and began reciting islamic declarations of his muslim faith. he said the medics and interpreters were lined up close to their vehicles and shot dead. >> i understand that he started quoting from the koran. have you heard if theyre putting any more security around these missions? >> the nature of these missions that doctors for more than three decades, medical missions, humanitarian organizations have managed to operate across the front lines in some of the most v...