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Breaking news coming from egypt where tens of thousands of protesters are gathered now in cairo's tahrir square, reminiscent of the egyptian revolution nearly two years ago. now the protesters are denoun denouncing president morsi. in the draft constitution, his islamic allies approved earlier today. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel brings us. the chance of the regime echoing throughout the square, what exactly in the constitution are they so upset about? >> reporter: they are upset not only at the constitution, but also because president mohamed morsi, last week, gave himself ext...

Has stepped up seemingly to form a dictatorship and the people are rebelling. now, michael singh former senior director at national security council, currently the managing director of the washington institute. where do you see things today, michael? >>guest: well, the reaction you see in tahrir square is against morsi eliminating the last check on power, the judiciary. what is at stake is the future direction of egypt and the constitution. the constitutional assembly writing the new constitution is dominated by islamist and what it has done in the draft constitution, it concentrated power in ...

Happened just last month. >>shepard: thank you, dr. nearman. >> it has been speculated that israel may have actually had something to do with this but whether this is going to prove anything is another matter. egypt is blowing up tonight, more than 200,000 egyptians are said to be packing the streets of cairo with president morsi's power grab issuing several decrees last month, including an order that all decisions he makes are final. no review by the judges. that is over. despite the constitution. a protester died of suffocation after inhaling tear gas. another said a car flipped and set on f...

revolutionary biometric id for every one of india's citizens. >> also, the housing bubble caused the crash. will a coming housing boon finally power this anemic recovery? >> first, here's my take. what to do about syria? western military intervention looked fraught with difficulties. but the situation on the ground is a humanitarian nightmare and is creating greater instability by the week. i have been persuaded they might be a path forward. the pressures on bashar al assad's regime are mountding. it's running out of crash and faces a real military threat from turkey. these pressures...

discuss all this. then we go overseas to egypt's election of muhammad morsi. what can we expect from an islamist president? two of the top egypt experts tell us. next, how do you count and catalog 1.2 billion people? i'll ask the man creating a revolutionary biometric i.d. for every one of india's citizens. also, the housing bubble caused the crash. will the coming housing boom finally power this anemic recovery? first, here's my take. what to do about syria. western military intervention looks fraught with difficulties, but the situation on the ground is a humanitarian night...