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Building. >> all right. ramy, thank you for your continuing coverage and well be chatting with you in days ahead. >> stay safe. >> all right. this is a day that began with exuberance and excitement and ened with rage. what does it mean and what happens next? >> i think the most important thing is that the army has decided to side with mubarak. there was this question of where the army stood. and by making this decision, what the army has decided is that in order to consolidate its own power, rem...

The army saying that they will protect us and that wait for an announcement. wait for an announcement? it is 3:00 in the morning. what kind of announcement will be made now. >> you raise the military and the relationship between the protesters and the military. again, there will be this enormous credibility gap because as jim traub refer to earlier, the senior military spokesmen visited tahrir square and that your demands will be met. building this sense throughout the day that there would be a ...

Weve been silent. mubarak has arrested a number of the other real democracy activists. and as a result, the institutions arent there on the other side that we can turn to quickly. fareed mentioned the philippines. but we had a candidate on the other side. a democratic structure. so were not that lucky in egypt now. it is a much more difficult situation to hold on to a moderate change long enough to complete manifest itself in constitutional change, elections, and the rest. we have to try and we ...

Especially in battle against al qaeda in trying to preserve stability with lots of insurgency groups. sort of a complication in the region. it is interesting. so much of this is a matter of the western democracies not wanting to admit t way they do business in this part of the world. and suleiman is their broker, their fixer. i think basically what happened, suleiman promised he can manage the transition and the exile for mubarak. thats probably what hes been working the last couple days. a plac...

Regime. so people believe that the national tv channel is one of the main enemies we are facing. they are spreading lies and rumors. so for example, if you went to national tv, you will find a picture of tahrir square which is totally em. now they are trying to be more neutral and trying to picture whats happening. but i think it is too late for them. >> you say there are hundreds of protesters there. what kind of security presence is there? >> caller: an extreme high presence of army tanks and ...

I dont want to sow seeds for anything. what will happen between the protesters and the military? >> reporter: well, it is really hard to say. the military until now has not done anything to harm the protesters. of course, we did see those two days when they sort of stood back and let the pro mubarak thugs go after them. by and large, theyve got along well. the protesters continue to chant. the people in the army are one, one hand together. but i think tomorrow is going to be decisive in terms of...

President obama thought the president was going to step down. >> we got that impression, too. here in new york, i would lake to know that if, back to your reference. your wonderle reference of being punked. if the military punks the demonstrators tomorrow by turning violent on the demonstrators, how are the protesters going to deal with that? >> i think a lot of people right now are hoping, no, this isnt going to happen. a lot of people, if youre looking at twitter. a lot of people have been mak...

Is playing a strong part. the fact after the president, there were no more jokes. you know that beyond furious, if egyptians arent joking anymore. throughout this, he was one has been joking all the time. and the people are extremely furious. the compromise should have been today. he should have been, if he had stepped down things would have more or less calmed down perhaps. and things would have started to get work back on the country. but this is just really enraged the people. and i dont thin...

Your main demand by tomorrow morning at the latest. so that can be forgiven, perhaps they were misled in a way. but i think the biggest way that the army will show that they are with the people or against them is their reaction toward, if the people actually do decide to go to the presidential palace. there are arent that many now. but tomorrow, not tomorrow. i guess in a couple hours now, will show us. this will be the definitive moment. if people do decide to actually take action, no more. peo...

Protesters. >> earlier we were talking amongst ourselves. you mentioned the possibility that the government may be trying to radicalize the crowds by taking this route. would you explain that? >> since it is so clearly something that unless they are really living in a kind of bubble that they dont understand, they are clearly going to radicalize the crowd. it will make them angry. i wonder whether they are baiting them in a sense. hoping to set off some violence. hoping to get some of these prot...