anti-american feeling that existed before these demonstrations started. i spent 16 months at the united nations. the biggest problem, not the biggest, there was competition. one of the biggest problems for the united states was the position the government of egypt took on issue after issue. there s already a lot of anti-americanism there, whatever we say about hosni mubarak. greta: i guess we should brace ourselves for whatever the future may bring. it is uncertain mixed in with violence. it is complicated. in life sometimes your most profound moral convictions conflict. that is what is happening here. demonstrators urge for democracy, ours or peace in the mids in the mideast. this is a very complex situation we are operating
more al-qaeda radical islamists influence in these demonstrations in yemen than we ve seen in cairo. i want to come back to what i think is an important point. despite similarities of people this streets, i think the political realities in yemen are different from egypt. not to say one isn t affecting the other. i don t think you respond in a knee fashion equally in both. greta: thank you. only one day since senate republicans lost the vote to repeal the entire health care law. they are not throwing in the towel. go to capitol hill to hear the next step from republicans. mitch mcconnell went on the record. nice to see you. senator, i came to talk to you about the health care law. let me first ask you about egypt. i imagine you have some attention on what is going on overseas? yeah, like others i ve tacked to the administration about how they are handling this. i have no particular
they don t want to be surrounded on every side again. greta: did you see this coming? you were in israel for so long or in the mideast having moved back to the united states, see this coming in egypt? reporter: no, i didn t, particularly here in he . i looked at the mubarak government has having an iron fisted control and the prediction was that his son would succeed him and everything would remain constant. it is remarkable that this has been such a grass roots movement that has sprung up with so much emotion and up through social media. it is remarkable that social media and the modernization of everything is dragging the arab world in particular into the modern world. what is really interesting here is just to see the potential that a secular organization could really come to relevant power right now. and the world that is watching this needs to think about the potential of grooming a leader out of this secular movement. they are so young and disorganized and they are at a
the violence on passive observer to the violence on the streets. it is still not clear what role the army is playing. greta: here in the united states, especially since two of our colleagues were hurt, we have enormous amount of concern not only for the people in egypt but for the journalists. are the journalists specific targets or one of many who might be caught in the crossfire? reporter: no, it appears they ve become definitely specific targets. a lot of the propaganda bent coming out of the government is to blame this on foreign agents, meddlers who are using the media to destroy egypt s reputation and image and make it look bad and misrepresent the truth to the world. the media appears to be paying a high price for that.
don t forget this, egypt is israel s major middle eastern ally. what can and should we expect? john bolton joins us live. good evening. the last guest said mubarak, president mubarak is not going any place. let s assume he leaves tomorrow. then what? i think the military s plan has been for these last two weeks that omar suleiman, the vice president takes his place. there may be a constitutional glitch in the way. do you that i is going to trouble the military? they will find a way through it. i want to emphasize, i don t think that you can examine this or understand what is happening without appreciating that the regime in egypt is the military. it is the embodiment of the state. mubarak is the head of the government to be sure. but i think these decisions are being made in a collective bar beginning kind of way among several key players in the military, of which mubarak