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thank you for joining us. we'll start with the brutal meetimee beating of protesters in cairo fueling the fury in egypt. the violence means all bets are off for egypt's political future. we spoke yesterday, mohammed. this video and the fact that people are -- it's being caught on tape, it's really fueling what's going on there? >> well, since we spoke, don, the clashes have still been on going between the protesters and the police and the army. today the video we acquired -- the video of the woman that was beaten severely and stripped of a substantial amount of her clothes, i spoke t...

>> he's tyler perry. actor, director, play wright, screen writer, producer, his films have grossed $500 million worldwide. perry's atlanta based production company produces blockbusters like 2005's diary of a mad black woman. the critically acclaimed precious. and the highly popular madea movies. and he's one of tv's busiest producers churning out hit comedies house of pain, meet the browns and starting next month, a new tv show called for better of worse. >> but, you know, i stopped off real quick to get something and then got back in the car and she was butt naked. >> and what did you do? >>...

I think if you do something that has some ambition and some integrity, you are not going to please everybody. if you do try to please everybody, you get junk. >> sound advice for candidate running for office, but it's not from a politician. it's from a play wright. he wrote "west side story." he died thursday in new york. he wrote the first broadway play in 1945 after serving in the u.s. army in 1942 and later created an award for emerging play rights in honor of his late

Get ahead and succeed but others who work just as hard struggle to just get by. i saw it in previews on tuesday night. i want dylan's audience to learn about it. joining me is one of the lead actors along with the play wright. welcome, guys. david let me start with you. tell us about the steern what got you to take this on. >> it's about south boston where i grew up. a woman let's get go from her minimum scene. for me he grew up in the neighborhood i've never written about my home town before. i kept hearing over and over again that british play wrights write about class. >> now your character...

Ultimately create a powder keg? >> dylan i like richard used to live in egypt many years ago and there was a play wright that wrote a famous play in egypt until he was banished by mubarak. it was a play about a man who lost his home because he couldn't afford the bribe to get the fire engines to dome his house to put the fire out. that encapsulates the resentiment, the anonymity that exists towards the government. the corruption from the bottom civil servant to the top is rampant coupled with the statistics that you just mentioned. i was just in egypt about three months ago and when i was ther...