this after mubarak's to my demise?- mubarak's >> i am interested to know what role the military will play in facilitating elections in september. >> i think that last one is a great question. i would certainly look to where the military has been, and what it is doing so far. the military is not expert on constitutional law, so it got the committee, and the committee is doing that. would we expect that the military would try to run elections themselves, when there is already a system for running elections in egypt? the system for running elections, conducting the elections, counting the votes and that sort of thing, operates and has operated. the real issues involving elections have been more about

harassing the candidates as they were trying to campaign, and thugs coming out to try to prevent people from voting. does the military need to run the system? i am not sure it would say it really does. >> the transition from military to civilian -- how do you guarantee it? >> the question is has the regime changed, and will it change if the military is still there in place. i think the change will come to egypt. the question is will it be the change that everybody wants. will it go as far as we want? it is certainly not going to end up to be a jeffersonian democracy. it is good to be something the egyptians evolve on their own that meets the needs of their citizens. i think what you should hope for is that the military goes back, lives in isolation, and sits on the sideline in case things fall

apart, and comes things down again. what you do not want is the military running day-to-day life. you want a president who is a civilian. you want the prime minister and cabinet responsible to people, who runs the daily like to address the problems of the country, with the military on the sidelines, developing a relationship with the rest of society. is it going to lead to everything we want? no. can you tell us where the wisconsin state legislators are right now? >> jeff white, from the washington institute. could you talk a little bit about the snc, how it works, what the relationships are at the top, who the key people are, how the dynamics are operating? it is a big question, at least

in my mind. this is the group that is supposedly run in egypt now. who are they? how are they operating? what should we expect from them? >> who is on the council? we can go through that pretty easily. the head is the minister of defense. there is a chief of staff. in addition, you have force commanders, the second army commander, the third army commander. you have the western command and the central commander. in addition, you have the head of military intelligence on the council. you also have the head of the operations authorities. you have the had the financial authority. you have a legal representative from the department of justice. there are two advisers to the minister. that makes up who is on the council. the field marshal is in charge. there is no question about it.

this is not a democratic group. they are making decisions. there are tasks and responsibilities. it is assumed that if general so and so is good at leading the people, he can address the protesters, because he is good at that. you are the lawyer, and therefore you will sit on the judicial council. they have responsibilities that are assigned. >> i am an independent. i have a question. if in one year there is parliament in place, the government there, and the parliament is 75% in favor of sharia law, the think the military is going to be a good guy or bad guy? will they be a bad guy because of falling parliament, or a good

guy for following washington? >> i talked about predicting the future. >> this is when you cannot predict. that is pure speculation. you just hope it does not happen. you see people on all sides of this question having good will. if we all can design scenarios we would be terrified by -- we can. but we have to realize we are looking at the system from the outside. >> my name is kamal. i just want to ask this question. in africa, people go to the military because they want to be the president. is that not the case of egypt? >> i can tell you it is not the case in egypt. they join the military because

they want to be in the military, and that is where they stay until they retire. senior officers very often, just like senior officers in washington, get jobs either in government enterprises or in civilian enterprises. that is where they are pointed. we always said there is a field marshal's baton in every private's knapsack. what is not there is the presidential seal. >> it may have been true at one point. but if you sit down with these people and spend time talking to them -- i have met with a range of officers. they never talk about anything but the national interest. it is incredible. it is a very interesting group of people. they have devoted their lives to this. are there people coming along somewhere in the ranks that we do not know? we do not know.

that is the answer. it is really interesting. >> what is the relationship now between the supreme council and the mubarak family? >> i do not know. [laughter] >> that is a question that remains to be seen. clearly there is a lot of skepticism here about the egyptian military handing over the reins of power easily. but i guess we will just follow developments for the next six months and watch and see. thank you all so much for joining us today. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> my question cannot all wrong. i was talking about the turkey

model. kantor to be a model? the have this military-civilian stuff. >> in his weekly address, president obama discusses the need for improving education for the u.s. to compete globally in new jobs and industries. he gives the week's address from the intel facility near portland, oregon. he is followed by republican tom price with the gop address. representative price talks about the 2012 budget request and the need to cut government spending to create a better environment for job creation. his remarks followed a series of amendments passed by house republicans earlier this morning that would reduce 2011 federal spending by $61 billion.

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