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Bahrain and across egypt today. >> and the white house has reprimanded bahrain for its harsh crackdown on protesters. abc's lama hasan has the latest live from cairo. hi, lama. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. it's still early in the morning here but we are expecting a big turnout later today in cairo. pro-democracy protesters have planned a million person march, a victory march to celebrate new egypt and egypt without hosni mubarak as its leader. it's been a week since the former president stepped down. we're expecting the protesters to march their way to tahrir square, liberation s...

So, you know, particularly, if you look at my statements, i started talking about reform two weeks or two and a half weeks before mr. mubarak ultimately stepped down, and at each juncture, i think we calibrated it just about right. and i would suggest that part of the test is that what we ended up seeing was a peaceful transition, relatively little violence, and relatively little, if any, anti-american sentiment or anti-israel sentiment or anti-western sentiment. and i think that testifies to the fact that in a complicated situation, we got it about right. my message, i think, to demonstrators...

>> regardless of whether he steps or stays, remnants of the regime will stay. his departure would be a major symbol to the -- >> where would he go? >> stepping down, one way or another. >> i don't think he wants to -- >> if the protesters managed to get him to step down that would be a strong symbol. >> stepped down. i think we are finding people moving to something here in the center. thank you for your expertise. good luck with the book. >> "the longest war." >> my new friend, thank you for joining us again. up next, senator rand paul, he is unleashed. tea party favorite cast noteworthy vote...

Members are not taking each marks. the effect is to say there is a lot of problems with the system and it needs to be fixed and we are not going to take ear marks until it is fixed. >> your decision was a temporary ban. >> we refused to take ear marks because the system is broke. >> we had a moratorium about a year ago. >> chris: we have less than a minute left. congressman van hollen i want to ask you one question that involves ethics. when congressman foley stepped down, the democrats demanded that the house ethics committee investigate whether gop leaders tried to protect him b him. now, it...

Here. we took a significant step in our conference and said we will not be seeking any ear marks. a total ban on ear marks this year. whether chris says democrats make the rules and not republican, fine, republican members are not taking each marks. the effect is to say there is a lot of problems with the system and it needs to be fixed and we are not going to take ear marks until it is fixed. >> your decision was a temporary ban. >> we refused to take ear marks because the system is broke. >> we had a moratorium about a year ago. >> chris: we have less than a minute left. congressman van holl...