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Beyond, if you have a sunni led government, the fear would be that iran has an influential foothold on this side of the persian gulf. if you have a revolt in saudi arabia -- [ inaudible ] it threatens the oil fields in the east of saudi arabia, as well. this raises many, many questions, not the least of which the -- [ inaudible ] it's huge, far-reaching question. >> nic robertson, arwa damon, stay safe. miguel marquez, glad you're doing well and stay safe, as well. >> you can weigh in on what you're watching, a live chat is up and running. coming up, the violence in libya and the crackdown t...

If you have a revolt in saudi arabia -- [ inaudible ] it threatens the oil fields in the east of saudi arabia, as well. this raises many, many questions, not the least of which the -- [ inaudible ] it's huge, far-reaching question. >> nic robertson, arwa damon, stay safe. miguel marquez, glad you're doing well and stay safe, as well. >> you can weigh in on what you're watching, a live chat is up and running. coming up, the violence in libya and the crackdown there. did the united states miss warning signs about what's going on not just in libya but bahrain and other places and have there bee...

Discontent. that's what you witness in egypt. >> do you know anybody, whether it's some celebrity or just anybody that would sit in a restaurant with any son of moammar gadhafi and entertain them or be in their company is a sickening thought. >> well, that's it. >> what do you think is going to happen? with the bahrain government, will the crackdown work there? >> i don't know. i agree with fouad. it's a bad government, we should have been taking a more principled stand, but it's where the fifth fleet is located and we really need to be able to keep iran from dominating the gulf, this business...

Misdiagnosed and are good parents paying the price? sanjay fills us in on that? we begin, as always, keeping them honest. the brutal crackdowns in libya and bahrain, a new wave of violence against peaceful protesters, violence justified by regimes using the same old lies. in bahrain, the regime there is claiming that this ambush in the middle of the night on sleeping protestors, including women and children in tents, was a case of meeting force with force. [ gunfire ] these protestors were peaceful and the government responded with tear gas, flash grenades and buckshot. there are first hand ...

>> the key thing is it's the fleet headquarters. this is a difficult situation, but i think the administration hasn't gotten this right yet. ronald reagan got this right. if it's an evil empire, you call it an evil empire, but at the same time you can shake hands and smile and work with it. but you don't cut back on your defense of the principles of equality and law and rule of law and so forth. and we have tacked so much toward accommodating verbally and not criticizing at all, not only egypt and bahrain, but iran, that -- >> you think we should have been much more aggressive back in 2009 in ...