government and its adherents that is a peculiar way to describe it to call it a transition to democracy. so i -- and let's suppose that we ended up with muhammad elbaradei. it looks like it is not as final as it looked yesterday. but here is a man who has been no great friend of the united states. he has been when was head of the u.n. weapons agency he gave us fits in the effort to deter iran from its nuclear program just to cited one example. a kind of international bureaucrat that some people love. there are a lot of bad outcomes here and it is not at all clear to me we can get to a good one but we need to figure out as a nation and as an administration what is going on over here. >> how do you think the president is handling this? >> handling it by not taking