host: sen a terror roger wicker -- senator roger wicker, he has now moved on to armed services. he is a part of the leadership team for the senate. a want to start with your perspective on egypt. as you sit and watch this water your concerns for u.s. interests in that region? >> actually, egypt has been a linchpin in our policy toward israel. that is my major concern. of course, we do not want to see what happened in iran three decades ago happened in egypt. it is clear to me that president mubarak is on his way out. the question is who is going to replace him. this may happen today. it would be a member of the military, someone who is in charge of this vast military establishment that controls 40% of the gross domestic product of egypt. in that case, i think it would be a stabilizing transition period to the extent there is a group that takes over including the islamic brotherhood, then we have real trouble. and i think we have yet to see what is going to happen there. but i do know this. egypt is right next door to israel. they signed the camp david accords back in 1978. since

in a few moments, we will have the latest on unrest in egypt and talk with republican senator roger wicker of mississippi. an hour-and-a-half, senator jeff an hour-and-a-half, senator jeff

st: sen a terror roger wicker -- senator roger wicker, he has now moved on to armed services. he is a part of the leadership team for the senate. a want to start with your perspective on egypt. as you sit and watch this water your concerns for u.s. interests in that region? >> actually, egypt has been a linchpin in our policy toward israel. that is my major concern. of course, we do not want to see what happened in iran three decades ago happened in egypt. it is clear to me that president mubarak is on his way out. the question is who is going to replace him. this may happen today. it would be a member of the military, someone who is in charge of this vast military establishment that conols 40% of the gross domestic product of egypt. in that case, i think it would be a stabilizing transition period to the extent there is a group that takes over including the islamic brotherhood, then we have real trouble. and i think we have yet to see what is going to happen there. but i dknow this. egypt is right next door to israel. they signed the camp david accords back in 1978. since tha

[applause] [applause] [applause] >> on tomorrow's washington journal, mississippi senator, roger wicker, jeff bingaman and stephen rose. >> a new senate homeland security report claim the army and fbi are not doing enough to prevent the 2009 fort hood shootings that killed 19 people. they criticize the fbi for failing to notify the army. the committee investigated on its own. ranking member susan collins presented their findings earlier today. this is 40 minutes. >> this is a copy of the report which i believe has been distributed to you. we're very proud of the report and grateful to our bipartisan staff that carried out the report which we embrace today. the staff was led my mike alexander and his team led by gordon letterman, there were full partners in this endeavor and i think senator collins will name others in her statement. they worked long and hard on this investigation. the product of their labor, this report, presents, i believe, the most comprehensive understanding yet of the massacre at fort hood, and enables us to make recommendations particularly to the department of defe

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