well equipped and well organized. it s a completely different force than we saw in egypt. this is, you night say in some ways, a mercenary type force, anderson. and nic, the face they show in washington is very polished, very nice in suits. how difficult are they making life on the ground for reporters trying to document what is happening there? reporter: well, as we approach that area where the people were gunned down today, there s two tall buildings. we were there at the same time as arwa, just a few meters away, but in all the chaos we didn t even know that until we ran away and were trying to gather our breath from the tear gas. there were other journalists there telling us there was a sniper on the roof of one of the buildings there. this is in contrast to what the government said. it s not just the envoy of the
he also has savings. we do have a very large deficit. that doesn t mean that we should have sort of radical reshaping of things. we shouldn t do extreme things. i think what s very interesting about the debate and what s very interesting about the debate today and over the last week is that republicans who came into office saying they were focus on jobs and the economy and economic growth have really spent most of their time re-fighting the health care fight that we ve had for two years and talking about abortion. this is not what the election was over and i think really it s testament to how they are engaged in politics as usual and that s really going to be rejected by the american people. at the moment we re in what i will just flat out call a game of chicken. republicans say they won t raise the debt ceiling and give the government more money to operate in a short-term check to keep
something that people behave very differently than the normal times. they actually are willing to sacrifice their lives for a common cause. i would like to bet that the iranian regime will not be there in a year s time. that s a bold bet, nick burns, and a hope that mean people have voiced since the iranian revolution back in 1979. is there anything in the facts to suggest that the regime in iran is at risk of toppling? there isn t. i wish i could agree with george. all of us want to see that brutal regime topple in tehran but i don t see that happening. i see a government that s strengthening its military power trying to push out and become the dominant military power in the middle east and they have brutal security forces willing to take on protesters in the street and willing to kill people for the right to protest.
forward once again, and then there was a second round by the police, military. they were firing tear gas. that taking place right after we were talking to another man who was just saying to us, yes, i am willing to die for this, for freedom in my country when that barrage broke out. it was so chaotic. people were running, screaming, shouting, bodies were being thrown into the back of ambulances. and everybody repeating, and the use of force they were coming under by their own troops, their own army. it really seems, anderson, as if the government has given orders to the military and to the police, no matter what, don t let them take the streets. were they shooting as far as you know directly at the protestors or will the government say we were firing in the air and some people were accidently hit? that man is saying he saw them firing directly at protestors. reporter: anderson, it will
supporting the right of those people to demonstrate peacefully and in criticizing the excessive use of force by that government of bahrain over the last two days. the key question is that government going to learn from the mistakes of hosni mubarak? will they open up a line of communication that s meaningful to these reformers? we haven t seen that yet. in fact, we have seen the iron fist. that may be a mistake by this government. ken, i want to bring you in but first listen because the government is getting tough words from the obama administration. i want you to listen to the special enjoy talking about how his king in bahrain values the relationship with the united states and hopes this can be resolved. this relationship we value and the king is really committed to democracy. democracy is a trend that we