the gaza cease fire from proceeding with these radical steps. he thinks he has a freehand. what should the administration do? do you think they gave him this so-called freehand that he has now used? i would like to know what the last conversations were with secretary of state clinton in egypt. even if they didn t give him a wink and a nod he clearly feels emboldened. i think the only way to get his attention is to stop economic assistance to forget about any effort at loan forgiveness to call into question whether the imf will approve the agreement assigned to egypt to provide economic assistance. you can see the effect of what morsi did on the stack market in egypt. the 10 percent decline. that should get his attention. seems that is it when you deal with morsi. the economic stick is key.
the last few days was also a demonstration, which i think iran watched very carefully of israel s military superiority, the prrity and the technology of the israeli air force, the resilience of the israeli people and the superb defenses of the israeli air defense. so if iran wanted to learn something from this, i hope very much it learned its lessons and it would stop its quest for nuclear weapons because if it doesn t, i assure that you it will be stopped. if not, by the u.s. and the international community, as i very much hope it will be, then we will stop it a.m. bass dor, you mentioned the international community. let s talk about egyptian president morsi. high did this power grab, as you know, shortly after brokering the truce between israel and hamas. now he is saying we are just reporting that he is saying, hold your horses, everybody, this power grab of mine is only
because at the end of the day, it is the military that is still the most powerful force in the country. and charged with securing and consolidating its stability. eric, i think we have to realize, this is a very long movie. since 1950, only 22 countries in the world have maintained their democratic character, continuously. getting into this democratic club is something that is easily promised, but not that easily attained. and egypt is a long way from that. eric: what do you think the administration should do? i mean they didn t support mubarak and we just replaced one dictator with another? it s an interesting thought. you know, we re caught in the anomalous position. in the last week, muhammad morsi became barack obama s new best friend. the president talked to him six times. morsi did extraordinary work in securing the cease-fire, which will probably last in gaza
it is the most ideological, well-organized and most committed parties that do the best. that happened in palestine, in lebanon and in iraq and it s happening in egypt. we have to figure out a way to keep morsi, with the incentives and dis-incentives we have to push toward a pluralist form of government. i have to actual, eric, it s really going to be tough. eric: yeah. we are going to have troubling weeks with the demonstration this is next week. aaron david miller, thank you for joining us this morning. thanks. we are getting our first numbers in on black friday, shopping. consumer research showed more bargain hunters, heading to the big box stores, but sales have dropped nearly 2% from last year. this as the retail federation predicts 5 million fewer shoppers, compared to last year. what does this say about america s fragile imphee?
mubarek. protestors saying morsi has declared himself the new faro and they are calling for a change in egypt s ruling regime. steve hair again is live from kie rope. the number of protestors building once again behind me. the number of several,000. we have seen squirm michiganis through out t skirmishes toda. it has been a cat and mouse game through out the day with police charging and retreating to come back a short time later. they are using large concrete blocks to build walls and protecting government buildings as well. two things to keep an eye on. they say they will not go back to work until the president repeals his decree a decree that puts him beyond the reach of the court so it could shut down prosecutions across the country.