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Average citizens in different countries taking to the street to overthrow dictators who had been in place for many years, they would like to encourage democracy and freedom throughout the middle east region, and they believe part of that is economic in terms of providing opportunities for jobs for young people across the region who were unhappy with their political representation but also unhappy with their economic opportunities. the white house sees this as an opportunity, also, because the president is winding down the iraq war. usama bin laden is dead. a recording was released last night p...

So we have the hindsight of near history. was it a good thing that hosni mubarak stepped down? >> well, the outcome was inevitable. the people of egypt had divided themselves from the regime, there was no other outcome that could be imagined. we may have wanted to see an orderly transition, and it was because the army stepped in it is proved to be reasonably orderly, though huge questions remain. as the previous report just indicated, egypt's on the path to democracy, has not fully arrived there yet. jon: all right. so what if democracy in egypt brings us the election dominated by the muslim b...

Mike, i know we're expecting to hear something about the economic aspects of this speech. tell us about that and what else we might be looking for. >> reporter: well, jon, the white house recognizes with these people taking to the streets in tunisia, egypt, elsewhere in the middle east they're, obviously, unhappy about their political situation, political representation, but they're also wildly unhappy about their economic opportunities. a very young population across the middle east, the majority of the people under the age of 30, and unemployment in the region is about at a third. and so the...

Government's elected to its international undertakings. notably, its peace with israel. and its position in the middle east, its historic position on the stage of regional politics means we've got to deal with it. now, i believe personally that the instinct for democracy is now so strong in egypt that whoever comes to power will have to respond to that, and if that party in power does not, it will not survive in power. jon: there's a great deal of concern, obviously, about egypt's peace treaty with israel, the result of the camp david accords. do you see any new egyptian government abrogating ...

To change. he rejected democracy and individual rights for muslims in favor of violent extremism. his agenda focused on what he could destroy, not what he could build. bin laden and his murderous vision won some adherence, but even before his death al-qaeda was losing its struggle for relevance as the overwhelming majority of people saw that the slaughter of innocents did not answer their cries for a better life. by the time we found bin laden, al-qaeda's agenda had come to be seen by the vast majority of the region as a dead end. and the people of the middle east and north africa had taken th...