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Use social media to rally their forces. here is our peter docy wit dooh the details. >> most egyptian homes, banks and businesses remain offline after president obama said this. >> i call on the egyptian president to reverse the actions that they have taken with interference to the internet and cell phone service and social networks that do so much to connect people in the 21st century. >> and this graphic gives you an eye ke idea of how fast intt activity fell off. there was almost no online ac...

Yearn to do it. in lebanon is as much about sui shia strife than anything else. the one thing we always learn too late is when the united states wraps its arm around whatever dictator in the name of stability we make a mistake. we should have higher aspirations. >> we have to be careful. we have given $3 billion a year to egypt. the congressman is right. it the primarily military aid. we thought he is a dictator but our dictator so that is good for us. may not be in the long-term we have to deal...

Towards stability by sitting by king, a rival. to my right, the former governor of mike huckabee. these are troubling times, governor. do you fear for your foreign policy in the mid east because of what is happening in egypt? >> it is one of the two book ends that surround israel with stable partners and partners who have been good allies. the security of israel is of great concern to me. i will be there all of this next week for the next ten days for about my 15th time. im pretty sure that the ...

It is not owned by any one else. it is owned by the 80 million egyptians. educated, wealthy, uneducated, poor, everyone here, muslim, christian. i have to say muslim and christians. we are standing side-by-side fighting the regime. we will protect ourself. they have put the security and all of the forms of security needed have disappeared. there are no police officers in the state and i can tell you i have lived in this country for my entire life and i know what kind of police are there and i kn...

It has absolutely got no leadership. talk about iran. ayatollah k could mess mercedes rise home. there is no equivalent in the muslim brotherhood in egypt. it may be a part of a new parliament or a political landscape. it is not going to take over. i think this is a cue national guard. cunard. mubarak always tried to contend this is the great risk. i think it is time to say we will support egypt and the egyptian people and it is time for mubarak to go. >> geraldo: whawalid phares, we is the revo...

It has absolutely got no leadership. talk about iran. ayatollah k could mess mercedes rise home. there is no equivalent in the muslim brotherhood in egypt. it may be a part of a new parliament or a political landscape. it is not going to take over. i think this is a cue national guard. cunard. mubarak always tried to contend this is the great risk. i think it is time to say we will support egypt and the egyptian people and it is time for mubarak to go. >> geraldo: whawalid phares, we is the revo...

A photo posted on twitter of the tahrir square. many had mobile phone service disabled for 24 hours and the private sector complied with the government shutdown. british company vodafone wrote they restored voice services to the customers in egypt this morning as soon as we were able. we would like to make it clear that the authorities in egypt have the technical capability to close our network and if they had done so is t. would have taken longer to restore services to our customers. it has bee...

For years mubarak has been unwell. we have to some degree been buying the problem for a time. egypt gets the same amount of aid that israel gets. egypt, military aid. year after year more and more military aid going to a country that yes, they are partner with israel for peace but problematic. their press more and more antisemitic all the time. the one surprise here is this did not come from the muslim brotherhood. this came from the average rank and file person yearning to be free and be treate...

Ram. >> geraldo: back live, everybody. the president of the united states and many others in this country and civil libertarians across the planet are extremely critical of egypt for shutting off the internet in egypt. they shut off the social networks, facebook, twitter, all of them. just shut them down. no more instant messaging on blackberry and all the rest of it. shut them down cold. i think however hideous that may have been that is run of the reasons the crowd shrunk on the streets of cai...

For years mubarak has been unwell. we have to some degree been buying the problem for a time. egypt gets the same amount of aid that israel gets. egypt, military aid. year after year more and more military aid going to a country that yes, they are partner with israel for peace but problematic. their press more and more antisemitic all the time. the one surprise here is this did not come from the muslim brotherhood. this came from the average rank and file person yearning to be free and be treate...