work after the revolution to get out so egypt can return to normal and they can start rebuilding a new country now the army which is running the country right now has done a couple of things to try to pacify the protesters still in the square. today they announced they had dissolved the parliament. they had suspended the constitution. both key demands of the protesters. they also, announced they are going to rule here as the army council for six months while there are free and fair elections. the question has been how do you have free and fair elections in a country that her had them? shannon? shannon: quite the challenge. leland thank you very much for the update. as egypt celebrates the resignation of mumbarak. some in the intelligence community are worried about terror groups taking advantage of the delicate political climate. joining us is nunez and adam shift. both are members of the house intelligence committee. welcome to you both.
them. but the real test is going to be what comes in the weeks and months ahead. do they honor the requests of the people who have been in the streets for the last several weeks in egypt and actually make changes that give the people of egypt a greater voice? you know, there has been a certain amount of enthusiasm that you know, stability has reigned, mumbarak is gone. but the changes that the people in egypt want weren t just to get mumbarak out of there. they want a more representative government that gives the people of egypt greater freedom and greater opportunity. and the egyptian military is going to have to deliver on that or those people will be right back out in the streets and they there will be further instability? egypt. shannon: we have heard from the white house that the president has talked with leaders in turkey and general. we know admiral mike mullen is meeting with other key allies in the region. secretary clinton has a lot of work managing those relationships as w
analyst juan williams. so i think it s fair to say in these first hours after the fall of mumbarak, everyone is saying it right thing. the government is saying it is going to turn over power to a democratically elected government, that they re going to honor the peace treaty with israel and the demonstrators say they are going to go home. how confident are you that this is going to work out and how much influence does the obama administration have to try to shape events? well, confident would be an overstatement, i think. it s the middle east, after all. you would have to be foolish to be confident that anything would work out too well and revolutions do often go off the rails for various reasons. having said that i think basically for the last three or four weeks the skeptics have been proven to be too skeptical. the nay sayers who have said oh it could never happen, it s going to be violent, his departure will mean the muslim brotherhood taking over the next day or chaos in the str
it really was a very serious threat today. if mumbarak hadn t resigned, i think the whole country would have transsended into absolute pandemonium. it s a good outcome for u.s. and israel. he it s probably test they don t have to deal with that imbecile hosni mubarak. shepard: what s left after mumbarak? a look at the big picture of the middle east and entire world for that matter. that s next. anks to the venture card from capital o, we get double miles on every purchase. so we earned a trip to new orlns twice as fast! bebebebebebaaa! we get double miles every time we e our card, no matter what we re buying. i ll take it. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang. fire! [ garth ] it s hard to beat double miles! have you seen garth? oh! [ male announcer ] get the venture card from capital one. moey magazine be rewards card
bill: chavez is really. chavez, i covered the elections. twice elected. you may hate the guy, but a majority. bill: you know what happens there. i want to get back to israel for a moment. there have been not the israeli government, netanyahu told everybody shut up. but there have been people in israel who have said the united states should have backed mumbarak. they have you had have, you know, try to prop him up, so did saudi arabia. they were both wrong. tense conversation between president obama and the king of saudi arabia who said you can t throw mumbarak under the bus. he helped you out. is he looking out for his own turban. he may be the next to go so brutal in saudi arabia. wear turbans. bill: everybody thinks this is domino. let me deal with israel. i don t think this meaningful effects israel s security at all. their relationship is with the