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>> and jonathan alter joining us. obviously, "newsweek's" jonathan alter and nbc news's jonathan alter, what are the political pitfalls here for president obama today, if any? >> you know, with only a couple of questions, andrea, the pitfalls aren't that great. but he is in a tight spot on libya. they want gadhafi out, but they do not believe that military intervention is appropriate at this time, because what it might do, potentially, is strengthen gadhafi, because that would validate gadhafi's claims that this is western influence that's behind these rebels. so he's walking a very fine line ...

Region a region are paracisitical. we know that. they weren't elected by the people. for us to say it's somehow all we have to do is love america and we can solve our problems is not accurate. we have to think through these deals that were made and figure out the right ones we're proud of and are essentially to our interests, and then try to work our wait through the tricky our way through the tricky stuff. last word, bob. >> i had two problems with what we just heard. one was the question. we don't get to decide whether egypt is going to deal with the muslim brotherhood. the government has ac...

People. for us to say it's somehow all we have to do is love america and we can solve our problems is not accurate. we have to think through these deals that were made and figure out the right ones we're proud of and are essentially to our interests, and then try to work our wait through the tricky stuff. >> i had two problems with what we just heard. one was the question. we don't get to decide whether egypt is going to deal with the muslim brorp. the government has actually talked with them for years and years at the same time they have suppressed them. secondly, we don't run egypt. the pres...

Those countries. some of those laiders are paracytical. we know that. they weren't elected by the people. for us to say it's somehow all we have to do is love america and we can solve our problems is not accurate. we have to think through these deals that were made and figure out the right ones we're proud of and are essentially to our interests, and then try to work our wait through the tricky stuff. >> i had two problems with what we just heard. one was the question. we don't get to decide whether egypt is going to deal with the muslim brorp. the government has actually talked with them for ...

Wants what she called order lly transition. that sounded like an eventual power. not pushing out president mubarak in the short term but the u.s. wants him to institute some reforms and if he can't do it, someone else should. so i think the u.s. is still, as you say, walking a very fine line here. they are edging more and more on the side of the protesters andless and less on the side of president mubarak. >> we are hearing criticism of the u.s. from mohamed elbaradei, the pro-democracy leader there. how is that playing at the white house? >> reporter: inside the white house it is easy for an ...