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Responsibility you can stand taller. president bush used to say everybody is dealt a hand and you have to play them, no matter what they are. this white house has a political upheaval in the middle east in which there are pretty much as you have seen on your program, theres no good answers. and they are not going to come quickly. and they are not going to come as quickly as the people on the ground are demanding and the media cycle needs to keep up with. one of the things they have to do is tune...

This we dont like the guy. >> because he stayed too long. theres a natural term limit if you will for a leader. mubarak extended it way beyond the real. >> greta: is he likely to go? >> no. >> greta: what is going to happen? >> this is a military man. he loves his country but hes stubborn as hell. he told me once that hes a bomber pilot. he goes to his target, deposits his bombs, he comes home. he is not a fighter pilot he has no flexibility. he has his idea fixed. >> greta: the "new york times"...

With a high degree of uncertainty. sometime when we act in a particular way we produce the opposite result. as i think we did urging mubarak to leave and seeing him dig in, in response. >> greta: ambassador, thank you. coming up, what do you think it is like at the white house tonight? everyone fears daybreak in egypt. now protests in yemen. then problems we have here at home. our unbudging high unemployment rate. now the presidents health care law declared unconstitutional. the is it rough at t...

Of view. egypt has 85 million people. i dont know we have an acute sense of public opinion surveying about what the majority of them think. remember, two days ago after mubaraks speech saying he would not seek reelection, the military said to the demonstrators, go home, we going to turn the internet back on. i think they were prepared to have mubarak stay. i think the rubber is going to meet the road friday, egypt time when we see the prospect after friday prayers of the mullahs as they did last...

More al-qaeda radical islamists influence in these demonstrations in yemen than weve seen in cairo. i want to come back to what i think is an important point. despite similarities of people this streets, i think the political realities in yemen are different from egypt. not to say one isnt affecting the other. i dont think you respond in a knee fashion equally in both. >> greta: thank you. only one day since senate republicans lost the vote to repeal the entire health care law. they are not thro...

Escalating in egypt. mike, what -- the crisis is escalating in egypt. mike what can we expect? >> reporter: we just her the call to prayer. it is a tense day as you know the anti-government demonstrators have called for this day of departure. they are going to get to the street in large numbers. many have spent another sleepless night in tahrir square trying to hold that ground. with the goal of bringing the -- of breaking the will of hosni mubarak to stay. all of the 10s aggravated by the fact ...

And it seems to be also attempts perhaps to sort of get the media off the streets. get the media out of the high floors of hotel rooms overlooking the square. get cameras out of those rooms. weve had restrictions put on cameras on the upper floors in our hotel and in another hotel nearby. both of which overlook this square. which has become the heart of the act here. >> greta: charles, thank you. >> reporter: my pleasure, thank you. >> greta: mike tobin joins us live from egypt. how is it differ...

Responsibility you can stand taller. president bush used to say everybody is dealt a hand and you have to play them, no matter what they are. this white house has a political upheaval in the middle east in which there are pretty much as you have seen on your program, theres no good answers. and they are not going to come quickly. and they are not going to come as quickly as the people on the ground are demanding and the media cycle needs to keep up with. one of the things they have to do is tune...

A high price for that. and it seems to be also attempts perhaps to sort of get the media off the streets. get the media out of the high floors of hotel rooms overlooking the square. get cameras out of those rooms. weve had restrictions put on cameras on the upper floors in our hotel and in another hotel nearby. both of which overlook this square. which has become the heart of the act here. >> greta: charles, thank you. >> reporter: my pleasure, thank you. >> greta: mike tobin joins us live from ...

Instances of corruption. but there was a relatively open political system. more open than this egypt. nonetheless, i think that the risks of president salem falling are very reel in terps of an al-qaeda presence in yemen that we have not been able to deal with effectively. when there were two yemens during the coal war, north yemen was a to have -- during the cold war, north yemen was a soviet ally. the risks of this regime collapses and radicals taking control is very significant. >> greta: you...