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Cleptocracy. that they have watched mubarak, watched suleiman join him as a hack, and said, enough of you guys fighting for the skin, were going to fight for the country. and optimistically, looking at this for america, what you have to hope for is that the military is coming to the alliance of the people. they see it as a nationalist revolution, they want to be part of it, theyre tired of mubarak trying to stop it. and suleiman, i believe, is looking more and more like one of mubaraks people, n...

Farouk. of course, anwar sadat fought nobly in that war with israel in 1973. the army has tremendous prestige with the people of egypt. they dont want to see it atrophied. so what i see happening is something very good happening. i can understand why people are yelled "god is great," because it looks like the military has come to the aid of people so there wont have to be a bloody revolution and chaos. i think its a good day for america too. >> chris, to your point, i think when the book is writ...

joins me. brian, i know you were just in cairo leading the coverage there. lets go to richard engel first. richard, set the scene. what have you learned and what does the crowd expect out there? >> reporter: the crowd is very excited. people are already starting to cheer. some people are heading to tahrir square right now. the leaders of this demonstration are telling the people to calm down, to not get too excited yet. they want to hear exactly what president mubarak says. we are told...

apparently met with vice president suleiman, who is expected to take over, at least for a transition. our coverage continues with nbcs richard engel, "nbc nightly news" anchor and managing editor, brian williams, and nbcs rachel maddow. we begin in cairo with nbcs chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, who broke this story earlier today. richard, can you bring us up to date? >> reporter: we are waiting now for president mubarak to speak. weve been told that he will make an announc...

keep his power to some degree. what can you tell us regarding these reports at this point? >> reporter: yes, im here. >> ron, are you able to hear me? >> reporter: yes, i hear you. do you hear me? >> i got you now. can you tell me what reports you hearing? any confirmation we can be hearing from president mubarak in a few minutes or so? >> reporter: i dont know the timing of it. weve been hearing some time tonight hes going to address the nation and weve been trying to pin down the tim...

I think its time that he puts his mouth -- puts his money where his mouth is. and just one example from each history. when king farouk was confronted by the illegal military court led by colonel nasr, the royal guards were better equipped than the army. he could have called upon the british to help. he didnt. he ordered his guards not to resist the officers, and he said he would not go down in history with egyptian blood on his hands. he sacrificed for the welfare of his people and his nation. i...

hosni mubarak said he would form a new government, dumping most of his cabinet and leadership. here, president obama spoke with mubarak on the telephone and moments ago went in front of the cameras with this message for that man, hosni mubarak. >> our first concern is preventing injury or loss of life. so i want to be very clear in calling upon the egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protestors. >> joining me right now is the american bass tor to morocco....

you are an honored guest. the third time youve share a cup of tea, you become family. this is the 12th annual fall for the book festival here at george mason university, what started as a two-day today literary event in 1990 -- 1999 has grown into a weeklong celebration spending weeks instead of days and it is all about wonderful things called looks. [applause] one of the highlights of the presentation of the mason awards named after one of our founders, george mason. he recognized ach...

>> yeah.lavender. 44 at national airport. mid-40s to low 40s in arlington, fairfax, prince georges and montgomery county. weather watchers elsewhere checkingn. reporting a clear sky. its near freezing in the central shenandoah valley and blue ridge. low 40s to mid-40s. out of the mountains, much chillier on this tuesday morning. western maryland, much of west virginia in the 30s. and the storm system that whipped us with wind yesterday is drifting southeast of nantucket off thnew engla...

november 9th, 2010. it is 49 degrees. skies lit up at the beautiful nations capital. its chilly but were getting the sun so not all bad. >> we may make it to 606789 probably not as much wind as we had yesterda we had the little tornados with leaves in them swirling around yesterday with the gusts we had nearly 30 miles per hour. they did settle down overnight. right now temperures are generally above freezing except shenandoah valley, western ryland and west virginia. as we look at the...