perspective, our guests. gentlemen, i want to get perspective here and then in our next block about what's happening. i want to start by zeroing in, nick burns to you first, on bahrain. because of the importance to the united states, when you hear people killed two days in a row in bahrain, you hear nic robertson saying there was a lesson learned from egypt getting police into the street quickly and using force and proving it will continue to use force, what does that tell you about the regime's stability or nervousness? >> it tells me they are very nervous because you have a situation where this minority sunni led government faces a majority shia population that's very upset. they haven't had access to power. they haven't had jobs. they haven't had many rights in bahrain and now they think they have an opportunity based on what happened in cairo and i think that the administration, our administration in the united states was absolutely correct in