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Known as egypt's jon stewart. after issuing an arrest for basram youssef who is out on bail for criticizing egypt's president morsi. youssef told nbc that he's taking the headlines in stride and refusing to change. >> people have said that you are carrying the torch of free speech for egypt. giving a lot of very significant -- >> i would love to be called any of these things. i mean at the end of the day it is a political satire show, we try to talk to people in a different tone, in a different style of things. i mean if you watch or television that's a lot of talk shows and people talking str...

Ayman joins me now, i want to talk about this interview. the level of ridicule involved in this. we've seen jon stewart blasting president morsi for what he has done. but at the same time, there is a more serious situation here. which sin creasing censorship and increasing crackdown on free expression by the muslim brotherhood and the new regime. >> that's absolutely correct. in fact you know, youssef is perhaps the most high-profile case, but he's one of several media personalities and activists who have been called in by the country's authorities and have really been read the riot act and in...

Private citizens are allowed to bring cases against individuals who may have offended them and that's exactly what has happened with this case. he's being charged by a private citizen and that's why the presidential office is distancing itself from the case. but there are critics who say there's no way the general prosecutor would have brought these charges against youssef or allowed the case to go forward, had he not had some kind of tacit approval from the leadership of this country. it is very convoluted. but nonetheless, it is an example of the shrinking freedom of expression in egypt. >> ...