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Intelligence? we seem to have no idea about tunisia. we had even less idea about what would happen in egypt. today we have this farcical side of the director of the cia telling us he believed mubarak was stepping down when he didn't. >> well, i don't think these things are that easy to forecast. and hindsight always 20/20 vision when you look at these things. so you miss signals but at the time there's a lot of noise. when i was in egypt three weeks ago, it was not at all obvious this would happen. events were happening in tunisia. there was a spark. tunisia was the spark. and then off the sit...

And paul. let me turn to you first. what is happening with intelligence? we seem to have no idea about tunisia. we had even less idea about what would happen in egypt. today we have this farcical side of the director of the cia telling us he believed mubarak was stepping down when he didn't. >> well, i don't think these things are that easy to forecast. and hindsight always 20/20 vision when you look at these things. so you miss signals but at the time there's a lot of noise. when i was in egypt three weeks ago, it was not at all obvious this would happen. events were happening in tunisia. the...

I think it is a problem that the people and the government of egypt have with the adequacy of their government which has been in power for 30 years and an authoritarian regime, which they would like to see changed and what we're watching is a rather messy process by which this now seems to be unfolding. >> paul wolfowitz, if you were still at the defense department, what would you be advising president obama right now? >> well, first of all, i think to recognize this is very much in the hands of the egyptian people. and they have behaved, i would say, remarkably. it's not a surprise that they ...

Carefully followed the state and federal permitting systems and addressing environmentalists complaints, he added, it's hard to imagine anyone who knows the facts or the history of this project would make such a claim. but after the gulf oil disaster, federal and state regulators aren't so confident in bp's plans to drill out here on liberty island. now they're taking another look. one of the reasons? environmental groups say mms approved bp's environmental review in 2008 with minimal changes. we asked the interior department for comment, twice, in fact. they declined to answer only saying, qu...

One of the reasons? environmental groups say mms approved bp's environmental review in 2008 with minimal changes. we asked the interior department for comment, twice in fact. but they declined to answer only saying, quote, in light of the bp oil spill in the gulf and new safety requirements we will be reviewing the adequacy of the current version of liberty project's spill plan. there is something else you should know about this so-called onshore drilling project. bp's plan calls for drilling two miles under the island and then going sideways to drill six to eight miles offshore. it's called u...