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Really is anyone's guess in any of those countries right now whether it would satisfy them. but, again, jordan does not appear to be in the revolutionary situation that egypt is right now. and i keep -- you know, ali, i was thinking as you were talking about hillary clinton's speech just a few weeks ago when she was in doha mentioning some many of these same points. the regional governments that are usually traditionally friends the united states, if they don't begin to address the needs and the demands of their people for more economic participation, political participation, they could be run...

Military guys he's put in again. so you can have this structure continue to crystallize leading up to september. what happens then? how free? how fair will the elections be? it's not what they're asking for. >> i've got john king in washington, jill dougherty at the state department. i want to bring jill into this conversation. jill, this is not the revolution that so many of our viewers and so many in the arab world have been watching evolve or thinking they've been watching evolve. it is a slow evolution of a shift in u.s. policy about egypt and a shift from president hosni mubarak, small st...

Many, many palestinian refugees. it the population is about 6.4 million people including 7 million -- let me show you. 1.7 million palestinian refugees and other displaced persons. 92% are sunni muslim. the official language is arabic, but english is widely spoken in jord nl. let's go to jill doert at the at the state department. jill, does the u.s. believe this decision by king abdullah will satisfy this growing movement in jordan as it may be growing in other countries? >> well, that's the question, isn't it? it's a question in a lot of these countries, in the region, that have continuing pr...

Khomeini, charismatic, regardless of what you think of his politics, he lead a movement. right now on the streets of egypt, you have a coalition. 0 a coalition of at least six different groups and it's led nominally by a man who is not exact exactly charismatic, mohammed elbaradei, he's bookish, that's different. there was an islamic ideology in iran in 1979, there's no ideology per se on the streets at this point. it's really jobs, jobs, jobs, bad economy and pentup demand by people. >> it's remarkable how much we have in common no matter where we are in the world. we want a better chance and...

These people are not replaceable very quickly. again, tom had been there for 36 years, i believe. how do you replace somebody that quickly? that's how the mission will be affected but, i am has been here for 44 years. they say this is not going to stop them. ultimately it's the question of why they were killed. if it were a direct attack by the taliban that targeted them, that would be very bad news. if it's a robbery that happened or the taliban were connected or take responsibility, it's a slightly different scenario. they're going to have to wait for that investigation to see how ultimately...