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President mubarak was going to speak at some point. the military stepped up its presence around the square. they are trying to keep pro-mubarak demonstrators away from the area. its far more elite troops that are down there. they have a better grip of the situation. the other thing thats happening is a sense of normalcy is coming back to central cairo now. you have an area that is taped off. now, its full of cars, the usual cairo traffic flowing through there. it appears many people are trying t...

Thats more of a problem. >> nbc news chief foreign news correspondent richard engel reporting from somewhere in cairo. stay safe. get some sleep. thanks again. >> my pleasure. among the forensics yet to be done on the american reaction to whats going on in egypt is how on earth we had no clue it was coming. the answer is actually the same as it has over and over and over again. america is not very good at spying. the history and present of that coming up. ♪ [ woman ] when i grow up, i want t...

About. thats as close as we could get to broadcasting from the most populo populous arab nation on earth. today, the live shots are back. take that. violence is the strategy that the government of egypt has been using to try to stay in power. as people of egypt try to topple that government. violence against protesters and against journalists. arab journalists, egyptian journalists, western journalists, the strategy they use is pitiful but it is sort of effective. yesterday at least it kept us f...

Egyptian vice president omar suleiman blames the muslim brotherhood for the violence in cairo but who are they? how dangerous are they? ill ask peter bergen, cnn national security analyst and the author of "the longest war." peter, what are the answers? tell me about the muslim brotherhood. i hear all sorts of opinions about them in your expert opinion how extremist are they, how dangerous are they? >> well, i dont think theyre very dangerous at all, piers. you know, this is a group thats been a...

Needs to come from president obama and other western leaders. they need to be sending the same message that human rights groups and others in the country are sending. he needs to step down. >> nic, how popular do you think this judges sentiments are? >> reporter: oh, theyre widely popular. theyre widely popular with everyone here that wants to see mubarak step down. no one is in any doubt that responsibility goes to the top, and for the actions theyve seen here, the way that they see the police ...

Police van mowing down several pedestrians without stopping. and theres a second deeply disturbing video. we dont know precisely where it was shot or precisely when but its consistent with other recent skaens in central cairo begins with demonstrators throwing rocks towards armored vehicles. and a siren can be heard as a fire truck approaches rapidly from the right. as the crowd scatters, a man is run over by the same fire truck which doesnt appear to slow down. straight to anderson cooper in hi...

Packed into cairos tahrir square the site of bloody confrontations and calling it a day of departure not backing down on efforts to oust president mubarak. today, the atmosphere is more relaxed. none of the violence we have seen over the past two days. military forces have surrounded the square keeping out mubarak supporters who instigated this weeks street battles who is calling the shots there with the egyptian military? their presence is strong today. not so much yesterday. the u.s. considers...

Believed that, but in the last few days i think that has lost all credibility because we had a peaceful secular largely secular democracy movement that was actually quite well organized and certainly very peaceful and then kind of erupted in chaos in the last couple of days because the president has sent his thugs to try to crush that movement. >> its 4 a.m. on friday morning in cairo. i wish i could show you live pictures from tahrir square, but there are no cameras left there to record whats g...

Are looking at the very same television pictures were looking at. today, they see tanks on the move and see egyptian army troops trying to restore security in central cairo and they are not sure what at all means but its the central question. who is controlling the egyptian army? did mubarak send them out there? probably not likely, we are told. is the egyptian army doing this on its own? trying to restore security, or some of the new egyptian leaders like the vice president trying to take contr...

I think they expected more people. they drew lines on the asphalt for people to kneel much further out. you can see for about 50 yards the area is empty. its important to note that we have reports of a pro-government prayer service under way at another mosque in cairo and that gaerkting is being dubbed the day of loyalty while this one is called the friday of farewell. the young man i talked to who were doing this, setting up these defenses around the prayer ceremony insist this is a defensive p...