can other tea party candidates struggling, do they somehow get a burst of grass roots momentum. let s continue the conversation that brooke and chris and michaela with me this morning, washington post, politico. what s next and who is next for the big question for house republicans and for the republican party because they choose a replacement for eric cantor and temperament ali what will the leadership be like? will they have the courage to bring i m gragmmigration to the? on the way out yesterday cantor was asked about who he would like to take his job as majority leader and he endorsed kevin mccarthy. i can tell you if my dear friend and colleague kevin mccarthy does decide to run he will make an out standing majority leader and i will be backing him with my full support. i don t know that the day after the grass roots beats you and when you have the tea party
have the opportunity to voice themselves? we ll find that out the answer to that. here s secretary of state hillary clinton on the situation. they deserve to have the same rights that they saw being played out in egypt and that are part of their own birth right. nearby, bahrain having its own dave rage. thousands of protesters greeted with rubber bullets as they demanded creating political freedom. demonstrators in yemen. algeria, trying to squash a growing demonstration. our bureau chief on the phone, ali what can you tell us? reporter: good morning. things started out fairly
peacefully, tens ever thousands of iranians took to the streets but it didn t take long before the scene turned ugly and violent. the riot police came out. they dispersed the crowd. the crowds just wouldn t disperse. as night fell the riot police steamed disappear and the very feared militia came out in full force. we saw in the early ending many iranians were trying to make their way to a place called freedom square. the militia beat them back, arrested people and just wouldn t let them have the sit in. i got to tell you, this was very unexpected. nobody expected this many people to come out in the streets of iran after such a severe crackdown last year. back to you. any sense, ali, as to what we re looking at tomorrow? reporter: well, if we look at the track record of these events
past? absolutely. i really expect the attacks of egypt reach tehran. long before cairo and tunis, it was iran that spawned many riots. the crisis is will the iranian population be able to do what the egyptian. will the revolutionary st. guard crackdown brutally. i would argue the egyptian and tunisian revolution could be heard on the iranian streets. the question is what will the revolutionary guards known for their brutality what will they do to the iranians if and when they rise up. ali, what s the answer to that question? the iranians are facing a