so there was a movement along the driving movement. >> woodruff: michele dunne, how is the official-- what's the official response to this by the monarchy? >> i think on this occasion, they tried not to respond much. there were not arrests today and so forth, unluke a protest that happened like this 20 years ago. this has been going on for a long time that women have been pressing to be able drive in which the women were arrested and treated very badly and so forth. so now i think they try to play it cool. king abdullah has been sending a signal-- this will happen at some point. women will be able to drive. the other issue as hala just mentioned is political rights. political rights are very limited for everyone in saudi arabia. there is no elected legislature, but there are municipal council elections, and saudi arabia is moving towards holding its second set. the first ones were in 20i've. in the fall of this year, in late september. and there is a move on to allow women to vote and to run in those elections. >> woodruff: now, saudi arabia has been relative calm publicly calm, compa