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That egypts going to continue to honor its commitments. in the long run the treaty is not popular among the egyptian people. the treaty is certainly not supported by the muslim brotherhood. the treaty certainly is -- is one of those treaties that is going to be debated within egypts political circle in the years to come. >> im sure it will be. thank you for joining us, u.s. ambassador marc ginsburg. thats a wrap. we are out of town. ill look forward you tomorrow morning, well wrap things up at...

Generals since 1952. and i think now this movement should keep the pressure on the army in a variety of ways, not necessarily by the streets. but they should hold them responsible for their commitments now publicly that they are going to allow a transitional period in which they will be free and fair elections. that they are going -- i think the first thing the people should ask for is to get rid of the emergency laws. that will be one of the indication thats the military is serious. another ind...

Peaceful transition until september. this dialogue, this national dialogue has also come out with the formation of a committee that will study the amendments of the constitution and what should be -- and if the amendments also, and we also formed another follow-up committee that will also be responsible for the implementation of the commitments that i have made upon myself to the people and i am also very interested -- committed to form these two committees of some very well-known, rely-reputed ...

A democracy of people being elected to positions by the people themselves. >> well, to step down and transfer power to the military means theyre not operating now under the constitution in egypt. -- in egypt. so the question is how long will this transitional period when the military is dominant last, what will follow it and what will the transition look like, whos going to be writing the new constitution, what voice will the opposition have. so i think now the united states is going to be press...

I talked to two veteran diploma diplomats, secretary of state james baker and george schultz about the obama administrations role in egypt. >> now the question is whether or not those commitments will hold, whether you can believe the words, but, you know, i think were too quick to say that the whole issue here is whether he steps down or doesnt step down. but i think we have focussed a little too much here on the one single question of should he step down, should he not step down, hes gone a lo...

They trashed president of the united states obama. hes going to talk to them on tuesday. is that smart? >> smart. right now he is as far as he is going to possibly be from the date of his reelection. lets start checking off some of the boxes now. he will not probably meet with the chamber a year from now. lets go do it now. you get to say that you did. hell invite them for a dialogue. if nothing comes out of it, he can say look, i tried. >> i think theres a strategy going on here. is there someb...

Street. nic robertson is in alexandria for us. it looks like there was a huge crowd on the streets today, nic. >> reporter: wolf, as big as any other day. the message was interesting. the imam giving the prayers was talking about unity, about not giving into the government, about demanding not only that president mubarak steps down, but the whole regime, and reminding everyone gather ad t the mosque that they werent there representing a religious interest or a political group, but they were all ...

These are our traditions. >> give me an example of a good arab country that knows how to do it. jordan, is it peaceful? is it democratic? >> no, no, and we have had. weve hads various periods. the king has changed the government, these were necessary decisions to take. we have plans that have been developed in the past for a reform process, a gradual reform process, and perhaps now they can start to implement it. >> i went through the list, jordan, yemen, different kinds of countries, the west b...

>> its important to keep your commitments to the american people. this is what we told them we would do and we are doing it. they voted for us, we had a very good election in 2010, they expect us to keep our commitments, and we intend to do it. bill: well, the cbo, theres an opinion from the cbo that suggests that repealing health care now would cost the government $230 billion. i know you disagree with that number. why? >> well, let me explain to you, the cbo can only do what we call store what...

Decisions to take. we have plans that have been developed in the past for a reform process, a gradual reform process, and perhaps now they can start to implement it. >> i went through the list, jordan, yemen, different kinds of country, west bank, palestinian authority, syria, sudan, im not sure what you would call that. are these countries watching this and thinking about things that will really matter and will keep their countries from going radical? >> god willing they are. god willing that w...