could be chaos, could be the fact that the left hand doesn t know what the right hand is doing, but i m told that it is actually not that, that they have new information. new information damaging to flynn? potentially. we shouldn t say that it s damaging or not, but i think that the fact that he had full confidence and then it was being evaluated, might suggest that is the case. we ll see where michael flynn ends up. we don t know that right to now. we ll assess that once the situation is assessed. what we do know, what is before our very eyes is a white house process that is not at all buttoned down. a white house process where is the person this has been four days in the news now, that flynnance story changed. who did the president task the moment he learned that the story changed with reviewing everything, figuring out, making a recommendation, what is the process that is happening in this white house? it just doesn t seem what we re seeing in public, that there is a forma
you know, they said, for the last few days now, that there hadn t been a single helicopter or warplane that has flown since the no-fly zone enforcement began. but the french today claim that they shot down didn t shoot it down, that they spotted a libyan plane in the air, or at least awacs. this is a confusing story. sometimes the left hand doesn t know what the right hand is doing, apparently. but this libyan warplane, if it was in the air, had apparently landed on a military airstrip and then it was taken out by french warplane while it was there on the ground. don t know if it was armed. don t know what kind of military plane it was. but if it was in the air it would have been in violation of the no-fly zone. nbc s jim miklaszewski, thanks again for joining us. reporter: you bet. at this hour, jury selection is under way in the trial of dr. conrad murray, personal physician to the late michael
allowing pro-mubarak demonstrators to descend into an area where they could attack protesters, the military finally set a perimeter, a cordon, set out wire and checked people to try to prevent infill traitors from coming in. checking i.d.s, doing body searches. they helped it be a peaceful day. earlier reports of the shooting we heard a short time ago from the square, early reports indicate though i can t confirm it, early reports indicate some demonstrators were trying to get close and the military fired in the air to keep them back. it s been a remarkable 48 hours. i can t remember a situation like this where you have extraordinary violence against the media and protesters and then this eerie calm. do you think that mubarak and his government officials realize the full force against the media and protest rs backfired on them in terms of p.r. around the
interest. i think what we worry about again is where are we headed and how quickly are we headed there? we don t want disorder to see things spin out of control. nor do we want to see a government in place that would be anti-american. egypt has been an important partner to us, to the region and of course if we were to have an anti-american regime that would be a problem especially from a security standpoint. people keep playing down the al qaeda for egypt and there certainly have been links. how seriously should we take the threat? is there one? could it get worse? piers, from what we are see ing it doesn t appear to be going on but if you look at the people around bin laden they have been drawn from egyptian radicals who were enemies of the regime for 10, 20 years and frankly originally focused on
egypt has been an important partner to us, to the region and of course if we were to have an anti-american regime that would be a problem especially from a security standpoint. people keep playing down the al qaeda for egypt and there certainly have been links. how seriously should we take the threat? is there one? could it get worse? piers, from what we are see ing it doesn t appear to be going on but if you look at the people around bin laden they have been drawn from egyptian radicals who were enemies of the regime for 10, 20 years and frankly originally focused on egypt as the location they wanted for the first radical revolution. so i have to believe people around bin laden are looking to