have waited two months, because every day, during these two months, putin was looking weak. he was looking humiliated. and that is a very dangerous thing for a strongman dictator to look like. 50. very dangerous thing for a strongman dictator to look like. dictator to look like. so, in your assessment. dictator to look like. so, in your assessment, why dictator to look like. so, in your assessment, why do dictator to look like. so, in your assessment, why do you - dictator to look like. so, in your assessment, why do you think | dictator to look like. so, in your i assessment, why do you think you dictator to look like. so, in your - assessment, why do you think you did wait two months, if indeed, it turns out, as the kremlin are denying, that they had anything to do it, but if your assessment is true, why did they wait two months? i if your assessment is true, why did they wait two months? if your assessment is true, why did they wait two months? i suspect that yevaen they wai
nobody is allowed to challenge him. and the way that he has succeeded in staying in power is by showing everybody that if you do anything that s a challenge to his power, anything disloyal, that bad things will happen to you, terrible things will happen to you, that you ll die and that that s the way he s gone about things. and so he now had a person who challenged his power in the most profound and dangerous way. and there s no chance that he could just forgive him, because by doing so, whether prigozhin was going to be around or not, somebody else would have come and said, well, you know what? it s not so dangerous any more. look, they let prigozhin off the hook. and that s why in my opinion, they had putin had to do something. and and it s just unusual that he would have waited two months, because every day during this two months, putin was looking weak, he was looking humiliated. and and that s a very dangerous thing for a strongman dictator
here, they have pushed out the president, a strongman dictator for 30 years in just 18 days. there is a lot of emotion that they re getting out here, and we can still now hear another roar going up from the information ministry and also from this side of the river as people are breaking into song. harris: yeah. you talk about the size of that population, one in three people who live in the middle east live in egypt. leland visitor, thank you very much. jon: one hour and 20 minutes ago we got word that hosni mubarak who had tried to cling to power precariously over these last, really, 12 hours or so, that he is absolutely stepping down. harris: all right, jon. i m drawing your attention to something that s crossing the reuters and associated press wires now. switzerland has frozen assets possibly wronging to egyptian belonging to egyptian president mubarak, that crossing the news