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>> sean: yes they were. >> and lead to what we have now. theres clearly going to be a vacuum there. the people have spoken and they are excited about this opportunity for freedom am i think it is human nature to desire freedom. the pew research center by polling, 59% of the muslim people want a democracy. theres yearning there. >> sean: that same poll shows some 85% believe that islam should have a role in the government. >> and are fond of the muslim brotherhood and shia rhea. -- and sharia law...

Their names and fast forward two weeks later and people are jumping in front of the cameras. they want to tell you their stories and their hopes and dreams. they are truly liberated, not just in word but in mind and in thought. and in their spirit. president obama, quoted martin luther king said theres something in the soul that yearning for freedom and that is what was truly on display in that square for so long. and certainly today there was a power there, there was a spirit there, there was a...

This country over the past couple of weeks. what the opposition calls a revolution. thats a big word. but really, there have been very profound changes here. and some countries where this kind of change has happened or theres been this yearning for freedom and this yearning for dignity and this yearning for change, the military has not been able to control things and theres been chaos and violence thats lasted for long periods of time. and there have been many, many people who have been killed. ...

Freedom, they want free and fair elections. they want a representative government. they want a responsive government. >> not going back to what it was. what will it be in the future? fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. joins us live. we want democracy. thats not a done deal. >> we see the crowds in the square. we say oh, wonderful people are yearning for democracy. theyre going to be free. unfortunately, i dont think theyre going to be free and you have to look at the -- the scholarly resea...

Reagan looks at the hippie and sign and turned to an aide and said from the looks of him, i dont think he could do either. >> reagan supported nicholson. defeated by ford in the gop primaries, reagan seized on the countrys yearning in the post vietnam watergate period. trounced carter in the fall of 1980. >> when ray became president the institution of the presidency was said to be in trouble. there was talk the job was too big for any person to master. reagan restored the prestige of the presid...

Father. he graduated from eureka college and par laid his success into an a career. he became an ardent conservative. his days as a leading man, he turned to politics and won two terms of governor of california. >> he was once confronted by a hippy and the hippy was carrying a sign, make love, not war. he looked at the sign and turned to an aide, from the looks at him, i dont think he could do either. >> he supported richard nixon despite his liberal domestic policies and pursuit of detante. def...

Of these people. are shown again the universality of the yearning for human rights and freedom and we have to make sure they are not hijacked. >> sean: appreciate you being here. coming up, the president may have gone to cairo and denounced extremism. it looks like the acts of his administration undermine his message. what they did in terms of having vaulted extremists in egypt. well explain, next. california governor brown uses the crisis in egypt for his own political gain.

Of these people. are shown again the universality of the yearning for human rights and freedom and we have to make sure they are not hijacked. >> sean: appreciate you being here. coming up, the president may have gone to cairo and denounced extremism. it looks like the acts of his administration undermine his message. what they did in terms of having vaulted extremists in egypt. well explain, next. california governor brown uses the crisis in egypt for his own political gain. you wont believe wh...

Opened up the prisons, allowed thugs that the regime used to rely on to crack down on people during elections and rough up difficult people, allowed them to run loose. this is in order to create a kind of atmosphere of chaos. >> what do they gain from chaos in the streets? >> a yearning for order on the part of middle class people who are probably okay and happy with what the protesters are doing but will be much more desirous of order and calming things down if there is chaos in the streets. >>...

People who are sympathetic of the ally and people question how can the united states support dictator against the peoples free will for self-determination and democracy? >> uma: let me ask you this. when you move forward and you think about the possibility of egypt without mubarak, are you concerned that other extreme factions may try to fill the power vacuum there? >> when you have someone with the tight fisted control over everything in a country that suddenly disappears you are likely to face...