also this evening, egypt and the future of the arab spring, throughout the middle east with david kirkpatrick. new york times bureau chief in cairo. >> among the people who think about how to write a constitution for a new republic rule number one is get the civilians in control. because when the military is controlling the government, that gives them a lot of different ways to influence the writing of the new constitution and that could have deleterious impacts down the road. it is clear in this case the military wants to be in charge when the constitution is written, probably because they want to protect themselves. they want to protect their privileges, they want to protect themselves from criminal prosecution, paragraphs for past corruption or other misdeeds. >> rose: finally this evening, mexico where they have a new president recently elected, we talk about the future of that country and also narcoterrorism with randal c. archibold of "the new york times", william finnegan of the new yorker magazine and ioan grillo, author of el narco, inside mexico tease criminal ininsurgency. >> every

help in a democratic transition i am pleased to have david kirkpatrick here, i thank you because withon egypt, you and i got to know each other when i was in cairo inner the we are square, where is egypt at this moment .. there is quite a bit of uncertainty as you say about the military and about elected president mohammed morsi, i mean, it would not be an exaggeration to say that egypt today has two heads of state, and no one really knows who is running the country. there is the elected president, morsi and on the eve of his election, just as they were about to start counting the votes the military issued a decree that deprived him of almost all of his power, and so the real power remains in the hands of the generals, and it appears that they are determined to continue to hold on to the essential state apparatus until a constitution is written, until they can lay the ground work for egypt's future. >> rose: and who will write the constitution? >> who will write the as soo constitution, that's a very good question, right now the islamist dominated parliament reached an agreement with

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we begin this evening with rob malley, richard haass, david kirkpatrick and janine di giovanni and the consideration of the implications of a dramatic day in damascus syria. but first this report from the cbs evening news. a funeral turned to celebration when mourners learned the defense minister was dead. across the country in this savage civil war, activists celebrated today's bombing because it struck at inside the syrian regime. the dead men were like everyone else in the room master minding the plan to crush syria's uprising. they were meeting in the national security headquarters near the center of damascus. even though fighting has come uncomfortably close these past four days, it still should have been one of the safest buildings in the country. the opposition free syrian army has claimed responsibility for the bombing. there is information blames arab and weren't governments, their intelligence agencies and spies are responsible he said. a syrian official did tell me tonight the government is horrified how easily the bomber appeared to have entered the building. almost immedia

and what you see is a lot of formerly democrat intellectuals life, jeane kirkpatrick, norman powe boreas, david horwood. you see them leave the democrat party because the kooks have taken it over. and what are good for them was their opposition to the vietnam war because the democrat intellectuals is responsib to mainstream democrats that were fighting against communism. this is a work to pull in the kooks didn't want to hear it and the kooks took over the party. and from that point they started nominating kook after kooks for the president be. walter mondale. you had al gore, john kerry and they could never win with the kooks. the only time the democrats could not put up a kooks they won. he was kooky in other ways. but when it came to ideology, he was a relatively mainstream democrat. he was a pragmatist. he was a political animal. he wanted to win and thrive in office more than anything else that he was going to compromise. he was head of the dlc, democratic leadership for a long time which is now extinct because there are no more moderates. so the democrats didn't put up a kooks they actual