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Crowds met, and -- >> did you ever see soldiers trying to intervene one way or the other? >> not at all, no, not at all. initially the two crowds were coming together and talking to one another, shaking hands, arguing, but there was no violence. >> this was early on around 1:30, 2:00. >> briefly before the camels and the horses showed up. >> that surreal moment. were going to take a short break. our coverage continues to midnight. well be right back. [ female announcer ] enjoy a complete seafood...

He was going through, trying to get medical aid to the demonstration site. he said ambulances were being stopped and turned away. so he had to hide medics just to get them on site to get them treated. >> ben wedeman, at one point it looked like buses or trucks were front in, in front of the egyptian museum to create barriers. i assume that was military doing that, but i never saw where they ended up going, because some of those vehicles ended up being turned over. >> i wasnt in that position. i ...

Clear that bush had it right and the abandonment is nothing short of a tragedy. >> once you get something started like a democracy movement, you have to keep it going. now, the movements might have been small, fledgling. it might have only been a small amount of people. but that can certainly grow as weve seen over the past month and even if you look back to the iranian revolution and one of the great things fueling this is technology and its something that our government continues to help foste...

We are hearing much more arguing in the streets between the people that are gathering around. i think that the -- that we have seen where ordinary citizens have had to go out with even kitchen knives to defend their shortness of breaths, homes and businesses that that has perhaps dispelled some of the -- >> once again, a measure of the satellite problems we are having as we try to report the story. jon, we heard from ivan watson some protesters are getting ready to pray. we have spoken to people...

The "new york post" arguing that the president misunderstood egypt and miscal calculated in a couple of with ways that his freedom agenda was a mistake in need of repairing and he concluded there was no chance of reform under mubarak. is there a sense perhaps the administration mismisread the situation? >> that is certainly you are hearing from critics. what we have seen, gregg, its very clear that there have been a series of very carefully calibrated statements. the obama administration both th...

Sarah palin isnt president obamas only critic on the state of the union. shes not the only one causing a fuss, either. must be congressman paul brown of georgia didnt attend the speech. he says out of respect, though she didnt exactly explain what he meant by that. she watched it from his office and tweeted about it, first saying good speech, but long on hope, short on reality. then this, mr. president, you dont believe in the constitution, you believe in socialism. as the matter of opinion, the...

Obamas only critic on the state of the union. shes not the only one causing a fuss, either. congressman paul brown of georgia didnt attend the speech. he says, out of respect, though he didnt explain by that. he watched it from his office and tweeted about it, saying good speech, but long on hope and short on reality. then this, mr. president, you dont believe in the constitution, you believe in socialism. saz a matter of opinion, theres no arguing with that. but keeping them honest, as a matter...

He says out of respect, though she didnt exactly explain what he meant by that. she watched it from his office and tweeted about it, first saying good speech, but long on hope, short on reality. then this, mr. president, you dont believe in the constitution, you believe in socialism. as the matter of opinion, theres no arguing with that. but keeping them honest, as a matter of fact, it doesnt hold water when we asked him to justify his statement, heres how he answered. >> mr. obama believes in a...

$2 trillion that big business is sitting on. >> i dont think the state of the union speech is about the state of the union, in the traditional sense. its about the state of the president and the state of the presidents thinking about what the people need to hear. yes, i think the president thought, and i know his advisers think that after a couple years of really hard news and hard slogging, lots of arguing about health care and stimulus and t.a.r.p., and all the details that we had to focus on ...

I think he believes its psychological now. business has to believe theres consumers out there to dump that $2 trillion that big business is sitting on. >> i dont think the state of the union speech is about the state of the union, in the traditional sense. its about the state of the president and the state of the presidents thinking about what the people need to hear. yes, i think the president thought, and i know his advisers think that after a couple years of really hard news and hard slogging...