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I think that boehner is backing away from that. >> big surprise, medicare is popular. i don't know why their polls didn't tell them that already. >> the odd thing, lawrence, is that one year ago republicans remember they were claiming that the democrats' health care bill was going to wreck medicare and destroy medicare. they were using medicare to clobber the democrats and to think that the americans have such a short attention span. how can they possibly believe that the attention span is that short? >> they very specifically rose as the defenders of medicare posed as the defenders of medicar...

Probably took no more than, well, at least the initial part, took just not very many minutes at all. and i had gone through the same experience of coming up against that full body scan. >> yeah. >> about three months ago. >> so let me backtrack here. you have had the full scan before. what made it different this time around? why didn't you want to subject yourself to the pat-down that we know is mandatory if you're flagged and it's designed obviously to keep our airports and airlines safe? >> well, and it happened again, partially because i was hoping that it was just an oddity, that maybe it ...

I don't know whom he would appoint. if it's a reshuffling of the deck, i don't know whether it would work. the odd thing, of course, is many of the people in his government, the prime minister, the trade minister, the finance minister, these are young reformers who have reasonably clean records. the problem the egyptian public has is with mubarak, not with his government. >> fareed, don't go away. hold on one second. fred pleitgen is on the scene. tell us what's going on. i understand some protesters are really close to you. >> reporter: yeah. they are really close to us. you can see them sort...

Wherever they were. in this were small breakout groups through cairo. hundreds of pro efforters. the tv building was surrounded by riot police. the biggest demonstrations took front in front of the lawyer and journalist unions where police freely beat them with truncheons. protesters burned tires and threw rocks and fought off police. two civilians had been killed yesterday. they were communicating on twitter but access to that has been blocked and now they're forced to distribute instructions by facebook. the message is huge protests are planned for this friday after noon prayer services. >> ...

Create new jobs. but it takes time for those jobs to work themselves through the economy. >> you're talking about other shocks to the system here, which really are undermining people's confidence in the economy. talk about some of those. >> well, you know, the odd thing is that if you look back a month, two months ago, the economy was really braced for a recovery that was more robust than most people had predicted. then all of a sudden at the beginning of may we seem to have run into a brick wall. we saw a precipitous decline in consumer confidence and in business confidence. and a lot of it i...