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Taxes in a fragile economy, still you want to emphasize your ideological stance. and that right now is you have to have them so-called paid for by spending cuts. >> shepard: this went through the senate. they couldn't get the year deal. >> right. >> shepard: republicans to the tune of 80% agreed to two month extension so they could get it done after that. >> right. >> shepard: everybody was cool with that in the house. all of a sudden for political reasons, the house said no, we have got to have a year. knowing the senate has already gone and they can't get a conference. what are they doing? c...

Consensus. you try to ensure that there is a majority rule but also a clear protection of the minority rules. as you know, we have quite a lot of violence between christians and muslim which some say should not happen, but it's the result of many factors of 60 years of repression and total chaos. people now, after the revolution, think revolution means curse. right now socially we are disintegrating. economically we are not in the best shape. and politically, it's like a black hole. we do not know where we are heading. >> are you hopeful still that egypt's revolution will be successful and tha...

and finally, the two top presidential candidates in egypt, two former office mates now rivals. let me first give you some of my own thoughts, having spent some time in cairo and actually listened to president obama's speech from here in tahrir square. the president's speech was remarkably comprehensive. it described the events that we now call the arab spring, explain their causes and consequences. he placed the united states squarely behind the democratic wave everywhere. though he didn't specifically mention one country. saudi arabia. the place where america's interests and value...

ironic story about egypt's plummeting economy. and finally, the two top presidential candidates in egypt, two former office mates now rivals. let me first give you some of my own thoughts, having spent some time in cairo and actually listened to president obama's speech from here in tahrir square. the president's speech was remarkably comprehensive. it described the events that we now call the arab spring, explain their causes and consequences. he placed the united states squarely behind the democratic wave everywhere. though he didn't specifically mention one country. saudi arab...