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Omar suleiman, the vice president now will not stand but the military will oversee a process of democratic evolution. >> martin, thank you so much. visit our website for an exclusive op ed by martin. it's on our website. martin, thank you. i also had the opportunity to speak to "new york times" columnist tom friedman. i began by asking him how we go to this moment? >> we got to this moment, basically, because our concern about having a stable egypt first and foremost to preserve the peace treaty with israel and later after 9/11 to be a partner in the war on terrorism. basically let us give mub...

Ambassador to israel under president clinton and mid east negotiator. martin, good to have you here. here's the map of the flash points here. it begins with tunisia, egypt on tuesday. why is this so important, why is this such a big story? >> you can see on the map, david, egypt is at the epicenter. but not just geostrategically central, it's the largest militarily most powerful by far the most influential country. where egypt goes will have a tsunami effect. it may start in yemen but the if it end up in egypt this is very profound. because american interests are so tied up with egypt, what ha...

Pause in the peace process here. is the future of the peace treaty between egypt and israel in doubt and all the ramifications as well as the potential islamist flavor of any new government in egypt. these are the huge factors here. >> as martin said it depends on the next era, next generation of leadership. there's a risk and martin made the point that we have to be on the right side but there's a risk in moving too fast. i thought hillary clinton handled about it as well as she could this morning. one of the fascinating things about these moments and this protest is that in the past in the m...

Pause in the peace process here. is the future of the peace treaty between egypt and israel in doubt and all the ramifications as well as the potential islamist flavor of any new government in egypt. these are the huge factors here. >> as martin said it depends on the next era, next generation of leadership. there's a risk and martin made the point that we have to be on the right side but there's a risk in moving too fast. i thought hillary clinton handled about it as well as she could this morning. one of the fascinating things about these moments and this protest is that in the past in the m...

Ambassador to israel under president clinton and mid east negotiator. martin, good to have you here. here's the map of the flash points here. it begins with tunisia, egypt on tuesday. why is this so important, why is this such a big story? >> you can see on the map, david, egypt is at the epicenter. but not just geostrategically central, it's the largest militarily most powerful by far the most influential country. where egypt goes will have a tsunami effect. it may start in yemen but the if it end up in egypt this is very profound. because american interests are so tied up with egypt, what ha...