him about it. president obama will be outlining new goals for the middle east in a speech. it will include an economic boost for egypt and tunisia. >> we can expect strong language from him aimed at syria with sanctions for the brutal crackdown on its protesters which we've been following for weeks here. >> let's bring in ed henry live at the white house. why now, and what's the goal of this speech? because it's a complicated narrative why we react in one country one way and in a different country a different way. >> it is. and it's a lot to tackle. they say he wants to tie together the arab spring, all these peaceful protests, the situation in libya, the death of osama bin laden. i mean, that alone is a lot to chew on. you throw in the mideast peace process which has been intractable for so many years and this is very, very ambitious, obviously. two years after that speech the president gave to the muslim