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Newsmaker Interview: Vice President Joe Biden JIM LEHRER: And now to our newsmaker interview with the vice president of the United States.I spoke with Vice President Biden this afternoon in the Secretary of War suite at the Old Executive Office Building in Washington -- the first subject, the protests in Egypt.Mr. Vice President, welcome.U.S. VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Good to be with you, Jim.JIM LEHRER: Has the time come for President Mubarak of Egypt to go, to stand aside?JOE BIDEN: No, I think the time has come for President Mubarak to begin to move in the direction that -- to be more responsive to some of the needs of the people out there.These are -- a lot of the people out there protesting are middle-class folks who are looking for a little more access and a little more opportunity.And the two things we have been saying here, Jim, is that violence isn’t appropriate and people have a right to protest. And so -- and we think that -- I hope Mubarak, President Mubarak, will -- is going to respond to some of the legitimate concerns that are being raised.JIM LEHRER: You know President Mubarak.JOE BIDEN: I know him fairly well.JIM LEHRER: Have you talked to him about this?JOE BIDEN: I haven’t talked to him in the last three days.I -- last time I -- actually, I haven’t talked to him in about a month. But I speak to him fairly regularly. And I think that, you know, there’s a lot going on across that part of the continent, from Tunisia into -- all the way to Pakistan, actually. And there’s -- a lot of these countries are beginning to sort of take stock of where they are and what they have to do.JIM LEHRER: Some people are suggesting that we may be seeing the beginning of a kind of domino effect, similar to what happened after the Cold War in Eastern Europe. Poland came first, then Hungary, East Germany.We have got Tunisia, as you say, maybe Egypt, who knows. Do you smell the same thing coming?JOE BIDEN: No, I don’t.I wouldn’t compare t