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Jenna: the president is back at work after he left through the back gates of the palace yesterday, after thousands of angry protestors stormed the palace grounds, as youre seeing on your screen here. they are angry over president morsis latest move, some calling it a power grab. part of i it was drawing up a draft constitution that many disagreed w. they are calling for morsi supporters to stage a counter demonstration today, and what is next is the big question. steve harrigan is streaming live...

Egypt. this is substantial. it looks for right now as your reporter pointed out, it look like the referendum is going through. >>shepard: do you get the sense that president morsi will retreat? >>guest: the reporting suggests he is moving ahead and he feels he has enough support in the muslim brotherhood and he has, now, a draft constitution, and that enough judges will be there to sanctify this referendum and they can codify the gains the muslim brotherhood made. the opposition is concerned tha...

>> right now protests are set up outside in egypt. we will talk about the increase in protests and what it all means. terrorism analyst dr. alid ferris. thanks for coming in today. >> thanks for having me. >> this is coming from reuters. the judges in egypt are being asked to comment on the legitimacy of the new draft constitution and the new draft referendum scheduled december 15th. and the body representing the judges, we are told, will urge their members not to supervise the december 15th ref...

Courts or anyone else, pledging himself above the law. today we saw step two in the maneuver, and it was the supreme constitutional court when the judges were headed to the building which was surrounded by a crowd of demonstrators loyal to the president and judges felt intimidated physically and mentally and now they are on strike refusing to work in this atmosphere, judges unable to get into their court to do their job, the next step is this national referendum on a draft constitution, a consti...

Egypt to back their enbattled president. thousands lined the streets near cairo university in a show of support for president morsi. the islamic parliament approved a draft constitution that gave morsi vast power. well have a live report from cairo at 1:00 p.m. eastern. a strike you may never have heard about thats sending a ripple across this nation next. also whats wrong with this picture? even one republican says a lot. it is coming up in strategy talk. plus willie geits on office politics ...

Morsi supporters. their show of support was big, at least in the tens of thousands, perhaps 100,000 or more outside cairo university and it really had the feel of a political rally. there were people waving flags, carrying banners and chanting pro-morsi sloegers. there were some clashes reported, not in cairo, but in the north in alexandria between pro and anti-morsi groups. overall, however, the day was peaceful. thats because the muslim brotherhood is much more focused on politics than on prot...

Even if the opposition wins and egyptians reject this draft constitution, morsi can start the process all over again and stay in power another five or six months. the bottom line is that morsi and the muslim brotherhood are holding most of the cards here. >> thank you very much from cairo. a potential big fight for the department of defense as it is being sued by members of the armed oses. four female soldiers who served tours in iraq or afghanistan have filed a federal lawsuit on tuesday tryi...

But today belonged to morsi supporters, really. that show of support was big. at least the tens of thousands if not 100,000 outside cairo university. it had more of a feel of a political rally with people waving flags, carrying banners, chanting slogans. again there were some slashes but it was overall a peaceful day. the muslim brotherhood is must more focused on politics than on protests. it wants to ratify that new draft constitution as quickly as possible. of course the opposition says its i...

Today at that rally kind of to stem the momentum of the opposition, which, as we have reported, has seen hundreds of thousands of secular, moderate egyptians, leftists, christians all turning out in that iconic tahrir square on at least two occasions this past week alone. and which tonight, by the way, is continuing its ten-city occupation of the square. but today really did belong to morsi supporters. their show of support was very big in the tens of thousands, perhaps 100,000 or more outside c...

Rallies today in approval of a draft constitution that passed yesterday. opponents of that measure have held protests and remain in tahrir square. south korea calls north koreas announced plans to fire a long-range test rocket a grave provocation. north korea says it will fire the rocket between december 10th and 22nd. recent satellite photos appear to show launch preparations. mexico has a new president, enrique pena nieto assumed that office in a small ceremony after midnight and will be s...