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Open fire on the protesters? you say they may stand back and wait it out. for how long would they wait before they do something? >> i dont think theyll open fire on the protesters. the army, what i mean by the army now, i mean the generals. the egyptian protests have been saying the army and the people are one. thats true because it a conscript army. the people and the generals are clearly on a very different page. the generals are with mubarak. what i think theyre trying to do, theyre trying to...

Whether they are the folks who stormed the bastille who stormed iran. it looked like the moderates were going to sgin we were in favor of that. then here come khomeini lying about what he is going to do and kills all of the, a lot of the people who had made the original iranian revolution. so weve got to, i think, understand that we could very much here end up with a situation in which things go well for a while with some of the reformers and the army being sound and the way it approaches things...

To have made a fateful decision, it has becomed hosni mubarak in his decision not to step down and his decision to agree to a cosmetic transfer of some powers. that places the egyptian military in a very difficult place. the crowds have been chanting, the people in the military are one and at some level, of course, thats true because the egyptian army is a conscript army but the generals and the people are no longer one. the generals are siding with mubarak. they are siding with suleiman and the...

Dealing with a largely peaceful movement calling for the ouster of the president. >> jim, it is jim here in new york. the events of the day were really confusing. especially in regard to the fact senior military officials came to tahrir square to reassure protesters that it was all going to be resolved in their favor. i wonder if you see any signs now of splits within the military in terms of how theyre going to react to whatever happens tomorrow? >> reporter: i think that is what is emerging. t...

Whether or not mubarak steps down, that structure of power is what people are really protesting about. they may like the army on the street because its a conscript army. the egyptian army is part of the country. but its the generals on top that are running thing. >> you can catch the rest of the conversation with john king and fa reads interview with the head of the opposition, muhammad al bare ra die. it starts at. >> 100,000 fans make a pretty tempting target. well look at how authorities are ...

Out of the cabinet are the businessmen, the economic reformers, the technocrats, so in a sense the military has consolidating power, perhaps hoping that they can sacrifice ultimately mubarak himself but retain the basic structure of the regime, so when president obama talks about a transition, its very important to understand, this is not a transition just away from hosni mubarak. but it must be a transition to a civilian democratic egypt, not simply of reconstitution of military dictatorship un...

Man is, rinat akhmetshin. he was born in the soviet union. yes, he served in the soviet army as was necessary of all men in the soviet union. it is a conscript army in those days. he moved to the u.s. decade ago and became a naturalized american citizen in 2009. according to a new york district court document from 2012, he introduced himself in response to a subpoena as somebody whose business is strategic communications. he said, some of my clients are national governments or high-ranking offic...