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Said that, waleed, we need to keep up the pressure on al-qaeda to keep disrupting and dismantling that. walid phares, thank you, jamie? >> we hear about the amount of intelligence that's been collected from the compound and now the process is sifting through. joining me now, chad sweet former chief of staff for former homeland security security michael chertoff, former cia official as well and managing principal of the chertoff group. thank you so much, chad. >> thank you. >> jamie: you're joining us on the phone and you appreciate it and it's important to get the perspective of how big a task...

Threatened or better part of valor and wisdom to get out. that's what they do. what does that tell you? >> i think there's two things there, mr. cavuto, i think that clearly mubarak wants his family to be safe and go to london and secondly, i would say that he's sending a signal that we're going to have a new kind of-- if not a new government, but a new kind of succession process. but, i would worry that what it means, they're going to fight and he wants his family out of harm's way when the violence comes. >> and you were arguing just yesterday this is an ominous sign for the whole region, wh...

Yong bong nuclear reactor and make more weapons grade plutonium. only have enough for a few bombless at moment and one thing they haven't done and they could also as a mentioned stage another nuclear test or find another way to ratchet up tensions without targeting the exercise itself. they've shown themselves to be pretty clever at sort of assemmetrical warfare. so i wouldn't rule out an increasing tensionings in the coming weeks. >> and so what does north korea achieve by this? it's already very isulated but whether it is to bluff or kind of flex the muscles, what does it really achieve? >> ...

Senator robert byrd. law makers finalize the succession process. a general election on november 2. also in about two hours, vice president joe biden will swear in senator byrd's temporary replacement, cart goodwin. as soon as cart becomes senator, democrats will have enough votes to end the filibuster. republicans and one democrat here, ben nelson, balking because the bill cost $33 billion, a vote to extend benefits could come as late as this afternoon. let's go to luke russert on capitol hill. which republicans are now crossing the aisle to support the benefits extension? >> reporter: that wo...

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