“I think there is enormous amount of American influence, not so much public diplomacy, what the President says, but behind the scenes, the message has gone out to the regime in -- in Cairo and to Hosni Mubarak as to what the U.S. can and cannot bear.”
Discussion on the influence of the U.S. on the Egyptian regime during protests.
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