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Ethar. you sid last night the mubarak speech made you feel punkd. how do you feel now? >> i feel the opposite way now. maybe we punkd him. you never know. things change so quickly. 24 hours and things have changed 180 degrees again. tomorrow they could change again. im guessing right now all people are just celebrating tonight and tomorrow well wake up and think of what this all really means and if this is actually a good thing or not a good thing. so well see. well see tomorrow. >> do you worry...

Away the world would know exactly what it i was doing, according to experts. meantime, new concerns have arisen in the last week or so about other dangers which are not just related to proliferation in irans nuclear program. they are that accidents could happen. now, lushare, its electrical plant which is not yet online and another one thats announced, both sit on the gulf itself, and its worrying, also, that if iran wants to push ahead and make some higher enriched fuel for this tehran reactor ...

Treaty. they are not going to get rid of it and theyre not going to be as well known to the israelis and dont perhaps have some of the history that mubarak has. but im very, very confident the next egyptian government as it emerges will be supporting that egypt/israeli peace agreement. so those are the key security issues and then, of course, theres the wider subject that this is the last part of the world where democratic values have not come and where they have come to asia, to latin america, ...

Be little presence of islamic fundamentalism in egypt, on the streets in these protests. what ive been told is that for a more worrying to the white house would be if a similar situation were to arise in somewhere like the yemen, where that could very quickly deteriorate into another afghanistan. what would you say to that? >> well, i think its true. i dont think theres a majority for the muslim brotherhood in egypt. on the other hand, what youve always got to watch is that they are extremely we...

What ive been told is that for a more worrying to the white house would be if a similar situation were to arise in somewhere like the yemen, where that could very quickly deteriorate into another afghanistan. what would you say to that? >> well, i think its true. i dont think theres a majority for the muslim brotherhood in egypt. on the other hand, what youve always got to watch is that they are extremely well organized. you know, well organized and well funded. whereas those people who are out ...

What ive been told is that for a more worrying to the white house would be if a similar situation were to arise in somewhere like the yemen, where that could very quickly deteriorate into another afghanistan. what would you say to that? >> well, i think its true. i dont think theres a majority for the muslim brotherhood in egypt. on the other hand, what youve always got to watch is that they are extremely well organized. you know, well organized and well funded. whereas those people who are out ...

Jonathan hunt has the news from new york city. jonathan this is getting serious, they are blocking message delivery systems. >>jonathan: very serious. what is serious about this is there is a link from tunisia to egypt to lebanon. that link is the outcry over years of the government, years of poverty, and years of the young people there suffering with for job. that was the driving force in tunisia and that is what sparked the flames if egypt but another link, and that could be more worrying. tha...

Left who see in this president some sort of a shift toward the center and worrying -- you hear the complaints sometimes that hes worrying more about himself in the long-term than us in the short-term? >> i guess so, but you know, i dont think hes in that much danger as a result of this poll. my favorite part of this poll is the fact that tea party candidate -- people who identify themselves as tea party supporters say they support mitt romney. and thats great. the group that came together becaus...

Afghanistan? is it leaving, or is it staying? >> i think you have to ask the administration. ill give you my sense which i think actually is the sense of the taliban, which is perhaps the most worrying. and that is we are leaving. we are leaving if not exactly a year from now, then shortly thereafter. and we are leaving it in the hands, at least in part, of at least some of the taliban. that i think is going to auger very badly for our interests, for the friends weve tried to cultivate there and...

Fair enough. but what is this administration? is it hawkish or dovish on afghanistan? is it leaving, or is it staying? >> i think you have to ask the administration. ill give you my sense which i think actually is the sense of the taliban, which is perhaps the most worrying. and that is we are leaving. we are leaving if not exactly a year from now, then shortly thereafter. and we are leaving it in the hands, at least in part, of at least some of the taliban. that i think is going to auger very b...