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Truly the united states' only ally and only democracy in the region and the only one the united states can always rely on. the big question is, who can the united states allies rely on? the very immediate, and i believe hasty, dismissal of president mubarak from day one of these by president obama did, i think, send shockwaves and concerns throughout the region. america's allies, whether it's the saudis or others, were asking themselves, can they count on the u.s.? what will happen with the chips are down in their own regimes? that has to be considered very carefully by the united states. the ...

Region. megyn: thank you so much, catherine herridge. we are getting closer to those remarks from president obama at the white house. we are told to expect it within the next half-hour or so. after the president speaks robert gibbs will give his last media briefing in the west wing. it will likely be dramatic. we don't expect the president to take questions but we expects robert gibbs to and he speaks for the white house. alan colmes joins us next. ♪ [ upbeat instrumental ]

Reserves. and of course pakistan has nuclear weapons. each those countries is important to u.s. interests in the long term. while i think we should be happy for the individual level of egyptians, the reality is at a regional level and strategic level u.s. interests are in disarray right now. megyn: what can we do? obviously the politicians are going to argue and those who both don't like president obama will criticize his behavior. but reality seems to be we the united states were powerless to stop this. we could have come out for strongly on mubarak's side. but could we have stopped this? >> ...

The planet and he's an idiot. he can't be allowed out in public. this is embarrassing. megyn: this is not an enemy. egypt is our ally. we have diplomatic relations with them and should have a direct line of communication and yet you have our director of national intelligence making comments like this about the muslim brotherhood and the president making a speech that sounded like he expected a resignation. you have leon panetta suggesting that mubarak would go and then c.i.a. had to clarify that they were relying on news reports. why is the c.i.a. director relying on news reports? >> you menti...

Military transition. it's very hard to call it a coup because they've been negotiated, dealing with mubarak in all this time. there was always going to be a crunch point, a moment where the handover came and today, today, today, is the day that happened. meg? megyn: thank you, dominic, we'll be back to you often as the newsbreaks. we're awaiting the announcement by the army, which is the group that's in control in egypt. it's a group that's been friendly to the united states. one assumes given the potential outcomes here, with the united states' perspective, it's not among the worst. now the q...