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Israel. let me ask you straightaway. what is the mood like in israel about what's going on in egypt? >> the mood is very sober, very skeptical, skeptical of and skeptical of the united states' power in this situation. the -- obama actually in my view has really very little standing in the arab world and it's because he cosseted them as soon as he got into power. he went to cairo in june of 19 -- of 2009, praised them to the skies without ever really

Book for this but if there's representation by the military, representation by civilian authorities and especially representation by the pro-democracy forces working so hard to bring about this change, if you have a coalition of folks to come together and begin this process right now and, of course, president mubarak has to get out of the way and allow this process to take place so they can transition. >> omar suleiman said earlier today that he firmly blames the media including western media for inflaming the rioting that we've seen in egypt. seemed a pretty ridiculous statement to me. what w...

Gaue grmatains heyesy.rc g going straight back to nick robertson in egypt. nick, you spoke to a local judge who wants president mubarak criminally charged. tell me about that. >> reporter: he's a judge that's come out on the streets here with the anti-mubarak protestors. he is a well respected judge who's gone toe to toe here with the regime. he told me he was incredibly proud of the youth for doing what his generation couldn't do. but when he watched what happened in the center of cairo, when i asked him if mubarak should go before an international tribunal for crimes against humanity, he a...

That will descend the country into chaos. i mean it seems a pretty ironic statement given what we're witnessing today. we've seen scenes chaotic, to put it mildly. >> i mean for 30 years mubarak's systemic policy has been to prevent any kind of a secular reasonable opposition so that he can stay. if it's not for me, we'll have chaos in egypt. and at times, american officials have kind of believed that. but in the last few days, i think that has lost all credibility, because we've had a peaceful, secular -- largely secular democracy movement that was actually quite well organized and certainly ...

They hope that doesn't happen, they say in their conversations they're getting back from the egyptian military that the military wants to play a responsible role. so they say what they're herring before the overall picture, keeping stability is incouraging, but the actions, especially the beatings of the journalists, kicking people out the blackout, if you will, has them incredibly anxious. >> you spoke to senator john mccain earlier. i watched that interview. it was fascinating in many respects, but i was struck by him saying that he felt this was potentially the most dangerous situation we h...