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Resolve this matter and praising the military for the lack of violence on the street, and then you had 24 hours later the statement from mubarak saying that he was going to wait until september. you had the obama administration playing catchup and doing a switcharound, if you will, and had to back plan b, to have the vice president there and give mubarak a little more time. why do they think this might be any different? why do we suppose that they feel this sense of trust now, that this could be the moment that this happens? >> well, this is the first time they would say they're getting specif...

Mcenroe?! mcenroe?! mcenroe?! i thought you retired? this isn't the end! ♪ sprb grappling with the biggest foreign policy crisis to his presidency, 3re7ing for the loss of a key arab ally in 3rd mubarak bracing for a possible domino effect. david sanger is chief washington correspondent and michael sing served as director of international favors and currently with the washington institute. how do you assess the way he's managed it so far? >> you're scrambling for information, trying to figure out what's happening as it unfolds. you're playing catchup in a

Specifically chose not to participate in the protests probably out of fear of what the government response would be and has really been playing catchup and now only, i think, yesterday did they really join in the protests. >> a lot of folks had never heard of the muslim brotherhood until now but you probably would know it in another name, different factions, for instance, hamas and palestine. tell us a little bit about this organization. what are their aims? what are their goals? >> it's an old organization. it's deeply rooted in egyptian politics. it started in about the 1920's and it's gone ...

Because they have been unsuccessful in doing the big threat which they would like to, they decided they can disrupt us this way. >> and they say that there are more and more of these young radical muslims being recruited every day here in the united states, shep. >> shepard: not that surprising we are playing catchup here, jonathan. >> in some of the most blunt language in the report, we are stumbling blindly and they say we have not reacted quickly enough to the growing domestic threat and we should have learned from incidents like the london bombing on the tubes there in 2005. they also say ...

But i think this main problem is he's playing catchup. he should have given the speech a month ago an would be in a better position today. shannon: you think the same thing about the meeting? you think it should have happened a month agree or earlier. >> they are playing catchup. the meeting came when it came. there is a good result on it. i don't think if you had this pete meeting a month ago you would have gotten this escrow fund. this is a significant number. i'm not sure the story needed to be this far along to get that kind of big number. but it's -- i think he has done pretty well the la...