idea what it s doing in egypt. it will occasionally stumble on the right idea as it did after the coup when it did nothing, at least that was a smart thing to do. but, as you said, for the year of the morsi administration where it was dismantling the democracy, declaring the ruling by decree, we did nothing. we actually supported the government, our ambassador spoke out against these demonstrations which are the largest demonstrations in the history of egypt, perhaps it happened under ramsey s ii against sphinx building, i m not sure. you had the whole country rising up saying we don t want the brotherhood. the only hope for a good outcome in egypt is supporting the interim government. and what does the administration do? send a signal it s not happy. send a signal that the brotherhood will read as a measure of support. stupid mistake. bret: strong letter to follow. i didn t even start to articulate my feelings. bret: that is it for the panel, but stay tuned for some horseplay at
leave and his ambassador on the ground is issuing pro morsi statements. that s what the analyst are all saying. the people in the square, many of them believed that the united states stands with morsi and should we be leaving them, mark with that belief as opposed to we stand with the democratic pushing protestors such as they are in egypt. and similar to what president obama suggested we felt in the a rab spring back in february of 2011. yeah, this is a huge lost opportunity. the protest are one of the most promising developments in the middle east since the a rab spring began. you have people out in tar i square and protesting against the muslim brotherhood. the largest protest in the history of egypt and who should america side with?
continued to say we re in the taking sides in this. and i know you were critical of the president making the call to then president morsi, communicating a legitimacy to what he was doing. i think it s not that complicated. something like we regret the developments. he was the first elected president of egypt. but we also regret that he did not respond to the overwhelming expression of the peaceful demonstrations. look at those scenes. those are the largest demonstrations in the history of egypt. larger than mubarak. it s a country of 80 million people and perhaps a quarter are out on the street and that doesn t account children. this is an unbelievable wall to wall coalition. i think he would say we regret the fact that because he was acting tact tie ran tie ran he cannily, we
put aside. and to also to cancel these votes of this ballot box. and since the results came to the commission, before it s received any challenges to starting to the votes, starting with the subcommittees, and after examining this, there were some mistakes. in addition, six committed. there were three committees in one province who did not had nobody voting there. committee number ten. and subcommittee three. 12 and 14th, subcommittee four. there was only one person who voted in this committee. if you re just joining us, we are hi a listening to a long, dail and sometimes plaintive announcement from the egyptian electoral commission whose chief is slowly describing the electoral process while the entire nation waits and while we wait to hear who egypt s next president will be. we re waiting for the announcement of the election results of egypt s presidential runoff while thousands gather in tahrir square. the entire country waiting to find out where a year and a half of
factory floor asia has fewer things to manufacture. china, an economy second in size only to that of the united states, or of europe, has slowed. india has slowed, too. that means more than 2 billion people in the fastest growing nations in the world are buying less. this is one big storm. what is america doing about this storm? well, we ve got umbrellas. what we need are hurricane shelters. but you can t go out and build an economic hurricane shelter yourself. that s something you need help with. government help. congress, for instance, could help stave off the effects of the storm, but they won t because that would mean being honest with you about things that are getting potentially worse and not better. and that kind of talk doesn t win elections, so congress sticks to what it does best these days partisan bickering and blame. and then, there s an entirely different storm brewing in washington. not the election, it s the so-called fiscal cliff. series of tax increase