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Hosni mubar because hosni mubarak selected him as vice president. they want a clean slate. now, they will, they do understand they will need the army to actually, they do need the army to hand hold them but if they hear it is suleiman it will turn nasty. >>shepard: thank you, like, over tahrir square are they are chanting a number of things. what was the last one? "leave, leave, leave, hosni mubarak leave." and "we will stand until all of our demands are met." demand one: hosni mubarak is in lon...

>>shepard: the egyptian national anthem "my country, my country, to you belong my love and my heart." from tahrir square today. its 10:30 at night in cairo. many here believe that 2 1/2 hours ago the president would resign. we were led to believe 30 minutes ago the president would resign and now we have conflicting reports. the information minister said there will be no resignation much the people in the square are expecting it. and people of the world are watching for it. and imagine sitting in...

Has an impact on each and everyone of us. >>shepard: the world is clearly watching to see what will happen next. watching and listening.

Organize themselves. that is not a bad thing. >>shepard: a moment ago the crowd was chanting "leave, leave, leaf mubarak, long live egypt." and now they are singing popular music on the day that could be the greatest transformation in the country in decades. >>shepard: hard to imagine anything that could bring up more passion than a people who have been oppressed and

Get. they dont know what they will get. >> >>reporter: the crowd is chanting hosni mubarak, leave, leave, leave, but president obama is chanting that along with them, israel, saudi arabia, and jordan are saying "hosni mubarak, stay, stay, stay," we need the stability of a guy we know that we have done deals with. we need him to stay. that is a huge tension that will be played out in diplomatic affairs between us and our allies in the middle east for years to come. >>shepard: egypt has been the r...

Often the last vacuum that clings on to power as those in rule try to do what they can to show they are still in charge, there is not much credibility behind the information ministry and has not been for quite a few days and not many believe what is coming out of what is a government voice box so whatever is coming out, the people are taking it with a pinch of salt and they believe because of the disarray and the mixed messages, the conflicting messages, we get that, really, hosni mubarak is no ...

Stepping down tonight. we were supposed to be, right now, seeing hill on television announcing his resignation and that has not happened and now there is disappointment that the expectation all evening that, indeed, he would appear as early as two hours ago and tell the people exactly what they wanted to hear. people are now saying, who exactly is in charge? it is not clear. is it the military? is it hosni mubarak? until we get the announcement and we see the tv pictures and get the announcement...

>>shepard: a lot of things are unclear. what is clear is the people in cairo, in tahrir square, are of the belief that they have scored a major victory and created what would be the greatest transition of power in the middle east in decades. they believe the president of 29, almost 30 years now, who has ruled with dictator hype, will now be stepping aside to make room for something else. we know not what. and if he doesnt, tonight, as his information minister has just told the reuters news agenc...

>> we are getting out of focus. this has been nothing but focusing on the egyptian --. >>shepard: no here, no question that part of it, they have a treaty with israel, but have you thought about what binyamin netanyahu is thinking? >>reporter: the concern should be there but we have a point how we can move and accept and if our government and the arab world reach out to support the new free elections, israel will, and we will see a different reaction from the arab, from the generation population...

It is hard not to think of the fall of the berlin wall and here is a reporter from the wall street journal, assistant managing editor and we talked about this during the break, jennifer griffin mentioned this as similar to the fall of the berlin wall transported to the middle east on day one of this she reported that. we were talking during the break about the stark similarities. >> remember the change. dramatic. fascinating. messy. uncertain. on those days when the berlin wall was falling and t...