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Putting it together, there is an amazing amount of security and protection. to get into the square, you have to pass through level after level of security, you're frisked, you have to present your i.d. and in fact, someone very close to me as i entered today was found with a gun. they were grabbed by a bunch of volunteers, a protective cordon was formed around him so he was not beaten up, and then he was taken over to the soldiers. for a grassroots effort like this, it was very, very impressive. as for anti-americanism, people go out of the way to say they're not against americans, they're wit...

Unpleasant regime through the past few years in his police force. i don't really understand where he's considered to be acceptable, where someone like saddam hussein had to be got rid of. >> first of all, let's be very clear, piers. hosni mubarak is not saddam hussein. saddam hussein had a gdp roughly the equivalent of portugal and spain and devastated it. hosni mubarak has presided over an egyptian economy that's something like doubled in the last decade. but i don't think the west should be embarrassed by the fact that they've been working very closely with mubarak in the peace process, whic...

So israel, having got somebody who they know is very much on side with the peace process, now that's going to be replaced by uncertainty. whether it turns out to be better for israel, better for the region, we just can't tell at the moment. that's why it's perfectly natural, by the way, for the american administration, the british and others and people like myself say, yes we have been to have change, that change should result in free and fair elections, but it's a process of transition that's got to be managed. >> king abdullah today obviously has moved quickly to get rid of his cabinet and t...

But for people everywhere. >> mr. blair, good to talk to you again. thank you for your time. >> thank you. when we come back, i'll ask a man who wants to be this country's next president, mitt romney, what he would do about egypt. and later, the monster storm barreling towards you. if you're watching this, chances are it's going to hit you very soon. ♪

This would happen in egypt. but the scale of it probably surprised a lot of folks. i think the administration in their earliest comments were caught a bit off guard. >> if you'd been asked as vice president biden was asked, is he a dictator, what would you have said? >> i'm not in the vice president's shoes, so i'm not going to -- >> let me ask you as governor romney, is he a dictator? >> he's the leader of his country, he's a monarch-type figure -- >> lots of monarchs have been dictators. >> i would avoid the word "dictator," but the country has not had the kind of economic and political free...