you ll experience all of that in the hour ahead through the eyes and minds of my colleagues and friends, where it happened right from the start. january 2011, the first rumblings of an uprising in cairo. crowds began to gather in the city central of tahrir square. a revolution has begun. what is your message to president mubarak? he should leave tonight. hosni mubarak should be egypt s dictator for 30 years, and the growing crowd of protesters want him out. but mubarak digs in, and the once-peaceful protests turn violent. oh, my god! this is an unmistakable show of military force. firefighter jets flying low over cairo s tahrir square, liberation square, which has been a symbol of defiance. what you re hearing them saying is in arabic it means, go, go. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. reporter: pro-mubarak forces target the unarmed protesters. journalists also come under attack. i m a little bit scared, because i got
things of which he didn t agree. and a holiday special. the best of our getting to know series. i didn t want to be a nun and i didn t want to be a congress wam. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. the politician of the battle over the extension of the payroll tax goes something like this the president, one, republicans lost. may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world, but let me tell you what, i think our members waged a good fight. we were able to come to an agreement. some democrats suggest the payroll tax cut battle was a turning point for the president they feared had lost his magic and his chance for re-election. republicans worry their tea party win, which wanted to fight this one out, has become a weight. earlier, i spoke to one of the longest serving republicans in the senate, dick lugar of indiana, who faces a tea party challenge in his re-election bid. let me talk a little bit about this new deal that has been made
both the fictional and nonfictional varieties with columnist and novelist david ignatius. then a look at innovation with the master architect frank gehry. finally, why president bush might have offended some italians onnationrati inaugurat. first here s my take. many talk about the absence of leadership, especially those who oppose president obama. many democrats believe that president obama head doneas bee leader. the conventional wisdom is that he doesn t have the leadership he needs to be the leader that we need, the leader that we have had in the past. such as bill clinton, a gifted leader, a legendary player. now, i have a huge admiration for clinton. i think he was a very good president, and he s almost prenaturally a politician. let s recall what his first few years looked like. he began his presidency with the fiasco of gays in the military and moved to two failed nominees for attorney general. remember zoe baird? then went on to try and failed spectacularly to pa
dick cheney. i think the vice president was disappointed that in the second term we did a number of things with which he didn t agree. and the best of our getting to know series. i didn t want to be a nun and i didn t want to be a congresswoman. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. the politics of the battle over the extension of the payroll tax goes something like this the president won, republicans lost. may not have been the politically smartest thing in the world but let me tell you what i think our members waged a good fight. we were able to come to an agreement. some democrats suggest the payroll tax cut battle was a turning point for the president they feared had lost his spine, his magic and his chance for re-election. republicans worry their tea party wing which wanted to fight this one out has become a weight. earlier i spoke to one of the longest serving republicans in the senate, dick lugar of indiana, who faces a tea party challen
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