shouldn t attack him on foreign policy because he s done so well. what has he done well with? his foreign policy has been a disaster. the muslim brotherhood has taken over egypt which is as bad as it could get. we give billions and billions of dollars of egypt. egypt was a so-called friend of israel. it s not going to be a frenld of israel now. you hear what they re saying and i mean, overall, the foreign policy of barack obama this is just one of many, many instances it s been a disaster. what do you expect him to do? for example, most people want the group that s been banned for the last 80 years for many elections and they vote for them. are we supposed to put our finger on the scale? no, we re not supposed to do that but we could have helped mubarak stay. mubarak was a friend of ours and he was a friend to israel and we dropped him like a red hot potato. now he s sitting in jail waiting to die. he was dropped so quickly, it was incredible. so instead of supporting people
of view. egypt has 85 million people. i don t know we have an acute sense of public opinion surveying about what the majority of them think. remember, two days ago after mubarak s speech saying he would not seek reelection, the military said to the demonstrators, go home, we going to turn the internet back on. i think they were prepared to have mubarak stay. i think the rubber is going to meet the road friday, egypt time when we see the prospect after friday prayers of the mullahs as they did last friday calling supporters of the muslim brotherhood back into the streets. i think that s where we are going to see which way the military is prepared to go. greta: are the people going to turn on the united states at some point? even though they don t want mubarak and we are trying help them get rid of mubarak are they going to turn on us? i don t think you should under estimate the extent of
of view. egypt has 85 million people. i don t know we have an acute sense of public opinion surveying about what the majority of them think. remember, two days ago after mubarak s speech saying he would not seek reelection, the military said to the demonstrators, go home, we going to turn the internet back on. i think they were prepared to have mubarak stay. i think the rubber is going to meet the road friday, egypt time when we see the prospect after friday prayers of the mullahs as they did last friday calling supporters of the muslim brotherhood back into the streets. i think that s where we are going to see which way the military is prepared to go. greta: are the people going to turn on the united states at some point? even though they don t want mubarak and we are trying help them get rid of mubarak are they going to turn on us? i don t think you should under estimate the extent of
political control they will exercise over this country s leadership. and the other big question that you ve been discussing there with anderson cooper with ben wedeman and others is, will the protesters be satisfied with what they hear tonight? because if they re not, they have vowed in no uncertain terms to continue to come day in and day out to that rear square and continue to demand with this reenergized vigor that hosni mubarak step down, no questions asked. let me bring neends this conversation, as well. it s fascinating to me, anderson, and as our viewers all know around the world, you were just there. i don t see any protesters, maybe i m missing something at least visible protesters chanting mubarak, mubarak stay. pro mubarak protesters were out there briefly, they were causing a lot of mischief and they were