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Their motivations. what they want is power thattive been marginalized for a long time. the president before 2011 had waged six wars against them and pushed them into isolation up north. and you are just talking about the humanitarian crisis. where the houthis come from was one of the worst underdeveloped areas in yemen and that's saying a lot, just to put that into context. and so the houthis have been trying to be part of the political process since 2011 after the revolution but obviously -- and the victim becomes a victimizer as well. so now they're doing the exact same things across yemen t...

Facebook, went out on twitter but also went out among the activist community. and a lot of people thought this is just another call, and who sends out a facebook invitation anyway for a revolution? >> reporter: the organizers are stunned by the response. more than 10,000 egyptians answer the call, filling cairo's tahrir square. >> and they started chanting anti-mubarak when they saw mubarak's police go out there and beat people brutally and start shooting people dead. and so you had ordinary egyptians going out there and say mubarak must go. >> hosni mubarak is egypt's president, who's held po...

Going on? you wrote a wonderful book about saudi arabia. >> i think they have given up on us. they understand in a tribal society like saudi arabia weakness brings not only contempt, but the risk of aggression. and they don't want to walk around that nasty neighborhood holding hands with the cowardly united states. i mean, that's their view. we haven't -- we let mubarak go. we ditherred for weeks over was the coup in egypt that threw out the muslim brotherhood a coup, and should we end military assistance. and then, finally, did. and then, in syria, we sort of said we're going to help them, bu...

Facebook, it went out on twitter, but it also went out among the activist community. and a lot of people thought this is just another call, and who sends out a facebook invitation anyway for a revolution? >> reporter: the organizers are stunned by the response. more than 10,000 egyptians answer the call, filling cairo's tahrir square. >> and they started chanting anti-mubarak when they saw mubarak's police go out there and beat people brutally and start shooting people dead. and so you had ordinary egyptians going out there and say mubarak must go. >> hosni mubarak is egypt's president who's h...

>> hasn't stopped the president from doing what he wants anyway. problem is the muslim brotherhood is obama's team. that's who he supported. the military came in there. best thing that ever happened to the country. problem came when this government, when president obama stood up, and urged hosni mubarak to step aside in 201 and ally to us and a key, key person in holding the middle east together and especially relating to israel. >> big mistake. >> muslim brotherhood will rally again. they are going to run for these elections. what mohamed morsi was doing. we invited them to the white house a ...