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Frank wisner, the former ambassador to egypt who went over there to deliver a tough message from the president to mubarak, wisner said you can t push too fast. there will be changes but we have to figure out how to get from point a to point b. that s a response to what the republican member of congress was saying. on this question of what they knew and when they knew it, there s no doubt having talked to middle east experts and diplomats that they were all surprised that tanisha jumped to egypt as quickly as it did. should they have been surprised? absolutely not but they were. if they had been reading some of the diplomatic cables exposed by wikileaks they would have had reason to know or the fingertip feel they should have it, they probably should have known. the fact is if you talk to people last wednesday, thursday, of last week when all of this was beginning, they were all saying to me, yeah, you know, no big deal. ....
Reporting, on the day of the actual invasion on that day in august 1990, robert gates who was then a top intelligence adviser to first president bush was at a family picnic. a friend of his wife s joined him. what are you doing here, she asked? what are you talking about, gates replied. the invasion. what invasion, gates asked? what invasion says the top intelligence adviser guy. today associated press is reporting on the state of u.s. intelligence in the context of what s happening in tanisha and egypt. unnamed senior source telling the ap that president barack obama sent word to james clapper that he was disappointed with the intelligence community over its failure to provide the information. white house spokesman robert gibbs defended the spe eed the . ....
When you look at what happened in tanisha and egypt and how washington responded, it seems like everyone was surprised. the common wisdom from the beltway is response from washington has been flat footed and whether you think it has been right or wrong. it seems to have caught folks off guard. nobody expected what s happening right now in edgypt to be happening in egypt and when protests in tanisha brought the end of the 23-year reign and when it turned out hosni mubarak was in more trouble than we realized. gathering intelligence making the country not be surprised about stuff in other countries is the job of the cia. the thing they re supposed to do is get useful information about the world that allows us to if not predict events foresee them sometimes. generally speaking we as a country suck at that. ....
The army is fully in charge in egypt. not like tanisha. that s what i was told by middle east experts in and out of the administration in the middle of last week. howard fineman, and richard engel live for us from cairo. thank you both for joining me tonight. thank you. my pleasure. wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas tries to diffuse criticism of her tea party connections. to do that she becomes a washington lobbyist. then she brags about her connections and influence. we expose what s wrong with that picture. later, a new front opens on the fight over abortion. a judge blocks a doctor in wichita from providing abortion services because the very presence of such a clinic would cause a public nuisance. it s the newest and most anti-american judicial activism designed to block women s rights. ....
so and we want to thank tanisha, joyce, and anne for sharing those stories with us. it s not about a poverty line and number there. a lot of families are struggling. where are they struggling necessarily in the country? let s start with the richest and poorest states here. the richest states in the country in the northeast with the census bureau statistics showing mississippi, arkansas, west virginia have the lowest median incomes. the top five rounded out by tennessee and south carolina. families there making in the first three less than $40,000 a year. new hampshire, new jersey, they re around $65,000 a year. and rounding out the top five of the richest, if you will, that s i should say the highest median incomes connecticut, maryland, and alaska. so you see where people are making more money than others. so you know the numbers now. you know the poorest states. ....