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Turned in for one republican senator today. it was a surprise because we're still a month from the deadline, and they got all the signatures together and got them in a month early. if the wisconsin state senator republican recall efforts succeed, recall elections for state senators in wisconsin won't be held in november, they will be held sooner than that. recall elections start six tuesdays after the signatures on the recall petitions are verified, so they could be held in the next couple months. but even sooner than that is this upcoming tuesday, when what would otherwise be a sleeping wisco...

The situation seems to be that the police and the army here have restored security to that area right now. >> nick, whatever security is restored there, it's going to be tenuous. this is a country that has had tension for some time, different than that in egypt. a lot of it has been sectarian. you have the shiite population, influences of saudi arabia and iran that thought of bahrain as a state. an iranian state at one point. where are these tensions lying now? the government may have things under control but does this feel like a sectarian proxy battle going on? >> it doesn't feel like a prox...

A state. an iranian state at one point. where are these tensions lying now? the government may have things under control but does this feel like a sectarian proxy battle going on? >> it doesn't feel like a proxy battle just yet. the dynamic is still evolving here. i was talking to a government official who is not allowed to go on camera, go on the record either and speak his mind. what he was telling me was that the government is shocked by what has happened and meetings are going on late into the night. they really don't know how to handle this. it's not clear which will come out ahead. the p...

And in 20 years seeing a totally different form of government throughout the middle east? >> i think we are beginning to see the end of the monarchies as executive rulers and what you are going to probably see i will predict in bahrain and other places is monarchies that are reigning monarchs and stay out of the business of executive governance. the prime minister probably in bahrain not a member of the royal family down the road. and the government will not be appointed necessarily by the king but will reflect the majority in parliament. you will have a more participatory and accountable syst...

Arabia. >> much of the at least is a proxy battle between the saw-american side and the iranian-syrian-hezbollah side. the nationalists and the iran n iranians with them and lebanon, iraq, bahrain, almost all proxy bot battles and the united states has been losing so i think people have to wake up and come to grips with this new reality. democracy is good for americans. arabs, americans, iranians, israelis. everybody benefit ice what affect if any do these protest movements have on the power of al qaeda? >> they're a huge problem for al qaeda. al qaeda plays on grievances widely expressed in t...