get that, but that guy has to pay for it. that guy has to pay the difference on the fact while he is not getting a fraction of what our state and local government employees are getting he has to pay the bill for everybody else. it s a basic issue. i m going to let other people ask. what is that? question is inaudible). the exit strategy is for the people of the state, particularly in those 14 state senate districts regardless of how they feel about the bill whether expectation whether their senator was klktd last november or two years prior had a sincere expectation that serve ultimately will show up and do their jobs. people talk about democracy. you can t participate in democracy if you are not in the arena. the arena is not in rockford,
our own in this regard. i think what the protestors are saying, they use facebook and twitter just like plenty of people in the west do. what they were saying, they want the same kind of freedoms and rights that people in the west of. i think one sort of cultural aspect which is interesting is sort of culture of the strong men who head some of the regime, think president obama appointed to it that president mubarak is very proud. he said he is going to die on egyptian soil. we have to take into account that level of pride and the need need to be seen externally strong in any kind of exit strategy we have for president mubarak. michael, been listening to you over the last couple of weeks as you help this understand this. thanks so much for coming in today. jamie: not that easy to get where you need to go.
bottom in and out of government. shep: we do give them a lot of money each year, it gives united states a little bit of a push, doesn t it? before the wars in iraq and afghanistan, egypt was the second biggest recipient of foreign aid. most of it was military aide so most important talks is going on with gates and mike mullen and his counterpart in egypt. both them and the president making it clear that continued aid depends on the egyptians getting it right. also today, democratic senator bill nelson of florida says it s important the egyptians get right the transition of the change of government and prevent a collapse that could put a more radical group. mr. mubarak will have to go but not without an exit strategy without opening the door for
law is unconstitutional. now what? good day, i m andrea mitchell live in washington. in egypt today, night has fallen, hundreds of thousands of people are still camped out in cairo s main square and insists they will not leave until president mubarak is gone. similar protests have drawn tens of thousands of people into the streets in alexandria, suez and a half dozen other cities. the u.s. is trying to broken an exit strategy for mubarak. ambassador to egypt margaret scobie has spoken to mhomed elbardei. richard engel is live in cairo. what is the latest? you ve been out on the streets all day. reporter: right now people are still out on the streets. the mood is quite happy. the people believe this was a successful protest. the demonstrators are not just in tahrir square.
be safe out there. it looks miserable. thank you very much. breaking news in egypt, hosni mubarak will give a speech on tuesday after 1 million people rallied across the country for him to step down. that will be some time today. there is no official confirmation. the channel said vice president suliman started meetings with other representatives. lester hot is live in cairo. this is all developing as we speak. there s a rhythm to these things and clearly something is about to happen. i don t know how long mubarak can hold on but there s an exit strategy in place and a lot of diplomacy. reporter: it has been a very interesting response by the government to today s massive protest, what was billed as this march of a million, whether it s a million is anybody s guess. the square was clearly filled. the largest protest we ve seen. the government, the military was in place to seal off the square