about the spring given the fact it s still ongoing and still unsettled in so many places that americans worry about? what s great about doing this book is going wac after the fact and look at episodes that you and i were debating and in that time period images were being or impressions were being established for the president. i think on egypt was on his back for diterring because he didn t call from a bar rack to leave right away. he was both nudging his own government which a lot of people had an interest in preserving the status quo and speak to the aspirations of the people in the streets of egypt and elsewhere that were looking and nine months prior to that he had already talked to people within his administration about looking forward to the changes in the arab world. i think mitt romney will have a difficult indication to make against the president.
impressions were being established for the president. i think on egypt was on his back for differing because he department call from a bare bar rack to leave right away. he was both nudging his own government which a lot of people had an interest in preserving the status quo and speak to the aspirations of the people in the streets of egypt and elsewhere that were looking and nine months prior to that he had already talked to people within his administration about looking forward to the changes in the arab world. i think once he gets out to tell his story, it will be very come peopling. i think mitt romney will have a difficult case to make against the president. david corn. the new book is in stores now. thanks for your time. nice too be with you on a friday night. appreciate it. thank you, rachel. we ll be right back. paperless discount. paid-in-full discount. [yawning] homeowner s discount. safe driver discount. chipmunk family reunion. someone stole the nuts.
despite repeated assurances by many that it wouldn t happen, extremist muslims determined to turn their country into an islamic state, and they are beginning to fill the power vacuum left in the eight months since hosni knew or bar rack was forced out of power. leland vittert is streaming live out of cairo. reland? reporter: megyn, for so long egypt has been considered a staunch ally of israel and the united states, a country in the arab world that the west could count on. but now in these eight months since the revolution, the groups that are rising are anything but friendly. kicked out of the united states for being too radical, this man now runs a small tailor shop in cairo. but his real mission in life is far from making clothes. i m trying to convert as many as i can because this is a war. it s to, you know, to wash the
developments from the middle east at our state department. james and now all eyes are on iran. reporter: yes, megyn. even before the egyptian uprising climaxed with the departure of hosni mubarak, the united states and iran had begun their own war of words to shape the meaning of those events for the greater middle east. the protests in tehran today are not seen as posing any immediate threat to the regime in iran which enjoys access to greater, more powerful, more sophisticated online surveillance software than mr. hue be bar rack s scream did. that factor along with iran s oil wealth and the care and feeding of the revolutionary guard corps may help the regime in tehran to suppress and endure the revolutionary uprising more effectively than tunisia and egypt. obama administration officials are wary of criticism alleging that they did not quickly support the youth uprise anything tehran two months ago, and u.s. officials are today using all the means at their
off-the-cuff at these rallies. and those are the areas where the president has gotten himself into the most trouble with his nfl comments, with his tweets today about puerto rico, his charlottesville comment. all of these things are things that the president does on his own, and no chief of staff, regardless of who it is, is going to be able to stop that. matt, it shouldn t be forgotten. tom bar rack said what he said today, but he did originally say that this president is better than that. he didn t like some of the rhetoric, some of the things this president was doing. and again, i have to mention there s bar rack, tillerson, kelly. this is orchestrated. do you think this is part of a cleanup effort? i don t know about a cleanup effect, but i do think that sometimes donald trump s best friends know how to dpif him advice through the media, you know, and it seems like tom bar rack was doing that when he was saying he s better than this. i think that, you know i think that things