the egyptian people s hunger for change. but this is not the end of egypt s transition. it is the beginning. i m sure there will be difficult days ahead. many questions remain unanswered, but i am confident that the people of egypt can find the answers and do so peacefully. constructively. bret: president obama on the shift in egyptian today. charles, your thoughts? impressive speech about the glories of democracy, dignity, freedom and et cetera. a speech you wonder why hadn t he given in the last two years. he had half a line in the cairo address about consent. the government should probably consent and he coupled it saying however, america doesn t want to impose itself. he dissed the iraq war and made it clear he was not interested in the bush freedom agenda, strong element of the bush administration. including a speech even in
june, and trump called the father and offered $25,000 a personal check to help the family. they said they never received that money. tonight the white house reported that check is in the mail. i think this reporting brought something to fruition. there are about 20 of them, interviewed 1, and only half of them have received phone calls from the president. remember the president said on monday he called all of these family members. kimberley, this is getting litigated and relitigated on shows like this one like this one tonight is all on the white house. it is. the initial question he was asked as phil said is why hadn t he commented about this mission? he himself brought up these
one tonight is all on the white house. it is. the initial question he was asked as phil said is why hadn t he commented about this mission? he himself brought up these families, these gold star families and the way he contacts them, you know, as if it was some sort of contest the previous presidents in the way he did it. that s what stroke a sour note from the beginning. we know the president is counter puncher. and we saw him counter punching congresswoman wilson today. it s one thing to counter punch if you want to even gin up his base. but to use these gold star families, that video was just so heart breaking. how you can keep that going after seeing that, there s no political goal here. there s no win, and we know he likes to get wins. charlie sykes, i want to play
up again. perhaps a million, a number of the media, have been reporting that a million people did descend on the streets today. we ll have to see what the next step is in the continuing saga. with me now for more p perspective on the developments, fellow at the brookings institution and joins me now via skype. let me ask you, first of all, your reaction to the news that president mubarak will in fact address the country there and he s looking at some kind of a good solution. well, he done have much of a choice now, he has to address the nation in some way. the pressure s on him at this point. hadn t he says he has a good solution, there s reason to be skeptical. he has offered solutions over the past few days and none have satisfied the protesters. there s a good chance what he ll propose is that he won t run for