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world heard of osama bin laden there was shake omar, a blind egyptian cler irk who was the spiritual leaders of the 1993 world trade center bombers. he was later convicted of plotting to blow up other new york city landmarks and is serving a life sentence in the u.s. but now a surprise development. egypt's first democratically elected president, who will be sworn in tomorrow, is vowing to free him whom he calls a political prisoner. our cnn senior international correspondent, dan rivers, is in cairo. dan, tell us about this speech in general by president-elect mohammad morsi. >> repo...

Call came from jay carney to my house. he said, you should get in the chair. i said to my wife, it must be gadhafi. this was out of nowhere. no one was thinking bin laden. it's why seth myers' joke at the correspondents dinner that weekend, we found bin laden anchors a show on cspan from 4:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon. that's why it was funny. it had fallen off our collective radar. >> yeah. absolutely had. >> so you heard, i guess, from everybody inside that room, which what i think is so fascinating is what joe biden had said before, that the president really was at the end of the day alone. ...

This issue to who functions that way at the national level? who republicans might be afraid of crossing on this issue at the national level? >> i think at the national level the republican party is still the main enforcer on that issue. but things are changing fast. even governor christie of new jersey who is a smart politician, very smart politician is not opposing gay marriage per se. he's saying, you know, he's got the fallback position i want to put it to a popular vote and not let the legislator decide. on this issue the conservatives and conservative republicans are swimming against a fa...

Who functions that way at the national level? who republicans might be afraid of crossing on this issue at the national level? >> i think at the national level the republican party is still the main enforcer on that issue. but things are changing fast. even governor christie of new jersey who is a smart politician, very smart politician is not opposing gay marriage per se. he's saying, you know, he's got the fallback position i want to put it to a popular vote and not let the legislator decide. on this issue the conservatives and conservative republicans are swimming against a fairly fast movi...

National level? >> i think at the national level the republican party is still the main enforcer on that issue. but things are changing fast. even governor christie of new jersey who is a smart politician, very smart politician is not opposing gay marriage per se. he's saying, you know, he's got the fallback position i want to put it to a popular vote and not let the legislator decide. on this issue the conservatives and conservative republicans are swimming against a fairly fast moving tide. >> i think the contours of that tide are underappreciated but i think your piece this weekend will hel...