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District attorney for six years and appalled to hear that, so antithetical to how the justice department is supposed to work. po more than that, i remember countless times part of a delegation meeting with retti e representatives of new fledgling democracies and not threatening to jail opposition if you win the election. that's what third world countries do. and to hear the republican nominee for the presidency say that's what we ought to do was just a shocking ignorance in terms of how our democracy works. >> i want to play a clip. mike pence, the vice presidential running mate moments ago bl...

Many people have compared the arab spring with what happened in eastern europe after the fall of the berlin wall and basically the end of the soviet empire, and one of the things the president wants to ask and bring up is sort of this idea of best practices. what worked best. how did the western world back in the early '90s best support these fledgling democracies. what worked in the best ways when it came to developing the economies there and that's part of the conversation. of course, it's a continuance from what took place the last two days in france with this issue of trying to get money f...

Chuck todd is traveling with the president. bonjour, chuck todd. >> reporter: bonjour. >> how are they doing? there's a lot to deal with there, the economic issues, the political issue, libya, to say nothing of the rest of the arab world. what is going on? >> reporter: where to begin. the president is rappi inwrappi meeting with the prime minister of japan where nuclear safety topic one in that conversation. then the wig woorking dinner wit started among all the nations of the g-8. and in those conversations, there's stuff at this g-8 that's precooked. the precooked stuff is new aid to egypt a...

Place -- about a protest that was agriculture place of a group that was supportive of the first world trade center bombing, the infamous blind shaikh was behind and tried for in the united states back in 1993. and, you know, of course there's a lot of worry that in these new fledgling democracies that what rises up and the powers that rise up will not be very friendly or receptive to the united states. so you bring up the obvious point. obviously they feel as if they assume that things will go pretty well in egypt, and that whoever eventually comes out on top will be somebody that they'll be a...

They do this. they love american political consultants. a ton of them have made money over there. mark pence, stan greenberg and, of course, they go from them, a lot of these consultants go on to other fledgling democracies and make a heck of a lot more money overseas and that they do sometimes in american elections. >> interesting "2010" international style. thanks. coming up, who is calling mississippi governor haley barbour a fat red neck? plus, how times have changed. u.s. troops are surging into afghanistan but president obama and president karzai seem to be at odds these days. will the w...