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Happen, if moubarak were to step down because of a popular up rising it would be an unbelievable moment in the arab world. he was thought of as sort of the ultimate strong man in this part of the world, someone who has held onto power through thick and thin and been a huge ally to the united states. its a very interesting situation as the united states monitors this. what it means for a strategic ally here. of course the biggest question is, when one, does he step down, two, what happens to egyp...

Essentially unknowable. jon: very quickly, mr. ambassador, what is the best possible outcome that you see here? >> i think a return to stability, and the creation of real political parties that can contest free and fair electionses, and the development of democratic institutions. i dont think that is going to happen in the next 60 days, it may not happen until september. i think its critical from our point of view we keep terrorists and extremists masquerading as political parties from participa...

Watched, and our two employees, greg palkot and his cameraman were given an absolute beating. just about a week ago. >> but, everything -- the security force, bill -- i was referring to the fact that the people, great majority of young people in the streets have been protesting peacefully and some of the egyptian security forces, you are exactly right. have attacked media, and protesters, and that is reprehensible. bill: do you believe that the military is firmly in control if hosni mubarak made...

Hed be a lot of fun, hed be great for people like me, great for my business. i dont know how seriously republicans would take him as a presidential candidate. you know, they have got a long list. in fact we have 19 candidates on our crystal ball who are either running or in a position to run and seriously considering it. hes got a lot of money, hes got a hundred percent name id, hed be a lot of fun, but i wouldnt go further than that right now. jenna: all right, larry sabato we appreciate the cr...

That he is already left. that he is in the resort town of sharm el-sheikh in southern egypt or perhaps elsewhere. meantime the crowd continues to grow. there are hundreds of thousands of protesters already in tahrir square. but it is not so much a protest as it is a celebration right now. you can see the banners waving. people continue to stream in. one indication that things have definitely changed is that the curfew which is supposed to take effect about 12 minutes from now, there are no polic...

How or why president mubarak may step down, or, if he may not step down, there are rumors about this before and he certainly seemed to be much, much more serious and concrete reports about what is going on here and the possibility of president mubarak, stepping down and the other thing to keep in mind, to watch for is that tomorrow, was scheduled to be the biggest of all of these protests, the day of martyrs, remembering dozens and dozens of people who died for the cause and for these protesters...

Eastern thinking. jenna: we are going to go to cairo to leland vittert. lets talk more about what youve heard about president moubarak, his movements potentially this evening and what we might see. >> reporter: it is an electric moment here in egypt, a watershed moment in the arab world. you can see the crowd going absolutely crazy. this is a crowd that for 17 days has camped out in that square. a lot of them have been injured during these protests. they had all sorts of things done to try to ge...

Those who thought it died down, it has not, from the associated press the head of the egyptian ruling party expects hosni mubarak to respond to protesters demands and what does that mean? the demand from day one is hosni mubarak step down immediately and will that be the case, one report from the bbc suggesting that hosni mubarak will do that, that, however, is not a confirmed report, bus drivers and public transport workers today in cairo are joining the thousands of state employees in the stre...

Presidential palace, which some of the things weve been hearing were that he actually left the castle, and in the south of the country. however, were also hearing from different parts, people at nile tv, that the message was actually recorded yesterday, and that it will actually be a playout from tapes that we hear. very conflicting reports. were not entirely sure. but it seems that, indeed, within the next 60 minutes, that may take place. thats a quarter past 7:00 in the evening here in cairo. ...

About, there have been worries that there could be some kind of renewed violence. the big question is what would the army do after tomorrows protest. there hasnt really been any violence so far in the past couple of days. it has been very, very calm and peaceful. what happens if these reports are untrue? that is another big question mark. it seems like this protest, since it began 17 days ago has been a surprise every day. theres been something new thats happened every day thats taken everyone f...