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Yet? i don't know about that. christian, you stand by. despite the fact, ladies and gentlemen, we give egypt $1.3 billion a year in aid, do we really have nipaer to control the events in egypt right now?
Statement after that conversation and he was intimately involved with crafting his statement, the president's statement last night. with more on who is doing what in washington, here is our james rosen. >> good evening. what we saw here today was a rotating cast of top civilian, military and intelligence officials gathering throughout the morning and early afternoon. the first session conducted while the president was away on a family outing lasted about two hours. the second session chaired by the president himself. we are told lasted just over one hour. adnistration officials appeared unimpr...
What do you want to see happen to your relatives in egypt? >> i want them to live the same way i live. i want to come out and go to church without worrying something will happen to me and i can act myself without getting judged. >> freedom of religion is all they want. back to you. >> geraldo: give them our thoughts and prayer as well. walid, where do we go from here? >> i would suggest strongly two strategies. one is to separate the regime of mubarak from the egyptian state. engage with the army and bureaucrats and foreign policy people and try to have an exit for press mubarak. on the other ...
Difficult. one, they have never polled more than 20% in egypt. but two, there is still the military and the security factions. they are not going go away. >> geraldo: but there was a great army in iran also. >> but the army was sympathetic to the islamics. in egypt they are not sympathetic to them. >> geraldo: like turkey. >> they will fight to maintain the power of the state and their own poor and privileges and the $1.5 billion that they get from the united states. >> geraldo: a lot of billion dollars. are you surprised that israel has not yet really aggressively spoken out? >> no, i'm not s...
Sliver into the sea, in the mediterranean there. the only two friends, jordan and israel in th egypt in the . egypt, of course, is the first country that ever signed a peace treaty with israel back in the 1970s. a nwar sadat signing that was a historic moment. israel will rely heavily on egypt to try and secure the georgia da border with hamas to try and stop the flow of weapons. they already is relying on president mubarak to try and broker a peace deal with the palestinians and that certainly had a lot of weight on the arab street that you have that peace deal being brokered by the president...