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You have a population 70% shi'ite protesting against the rulers, the monarchy, that's sunni. there is a lot of concern that iran is trying to manipulate this discontent. if they were able to overthrow the monarchy in bahrain, that that could have spillover effect into saudi arabia. i think that's the principle point of concern and something to be legitimately concerned about. megyn: it started in tunisia, went to egypt, and there was an assumption it would happen in the poorer countries and we didn't have to worry about it spreading to areas where living standards weren't as much of an issue. ...

And she said there was no sign of anything going on a week before the 25th. so, the timing is something that nobody's going to be able to predict, but the underlying tension, how things might go, if things go sour, that reasonably should expect intelligence to be on top of. >> clayton: i don't have much time at all, but i want your comment. seeing the spillover effect, algiers, jordan, seeing many riots and protests on monday in iran. anything from the intelligence community suggesting this is going to happen somewhere else. >> i don't know about the intelligence community, i'm not part of it ...

Now it has a republican u.s. senator for the first time in basically a generation. and you throw all that in there, and they picked up, i think, a couple house seats in wisconsin. it is a state that republicans kept -- keep believing they can someday win on the presidential level. they come close and never quite get there. bush never carried wisconsin. came awfully close. both in 2000 and 2004. never had it. the president won big. the midwest was a huge center of power for the president in 2008. but his approval ratings really dipped harder there pretty much than anywhere else excluding the so...

A socialist or communist in much of the media. wall street hates him. >> and yet they're his biggest donor. how do you explain wall street hating a man where goldman is his biggest donor. lloyd blankfein was at dinner tonight? >> the market is doing wonderfully. what are these people complaining about. and yet still in the entire media -- and not just fox. they have a spillover effect. the entire media, he's got to appoint bill daley to be chief of business. he's got nothing but to shore up the business, the banks. the financial reform had a few good measures in it but 90% of it is stuff the b...

Speech to the financial titans. there may have been some of them in the audience like lloyd blankfien of goldman sachs but trying to reach out to middle america and saying the stakes are high for you. this is not just about cleaning up wall street. but we all saw over the last two years that has a dramatic impact on main street. people not getting, you know, their homes refinanced, et cetera, that tight credit market. there's been that massive spillover effect. what i was struck by here at the new york stock exchange is maybe this being my first time i thought there would be more people kind o...