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Message was sent out early on in the obama administration we do not interfere in the internal affairs of this autocracies but we are invested, our treasure is invested in egypt, we have this long standing interest in egypt and we are very timid because we insist should the despot fail, it be removed, he and his family removed, we insist egypt has no other option but islamic. kind of interest electedal poverty. its hard. >> if president obama is watching cnn right now and we dont know if he is, l...

Government to flee. in algeria, riots break out over a food crisis and housing crisis. in yemen, students take to the streets. emboldened by its neighbors in the region. on tuesday, egypt erupts. angered by the alleged corruption, police brutality and lack of reforms in their own country, thousands pour into the streets, demanding egyptian president hosni mubarak, whos held power nearly three decades resign. protesters are met with tear gas and violence. the next day, the violence escalates ...

>> 8 or 9 already. the consequences of instability in egypt to the united states are very important. this is the most important partner in the middle east. the strategic interests of the united states are on the line. as you know and president obama and secretary clinton have been saying, we are a democratic country, we affirm our own democratic values. we have to support the right of egyptians for freedom of speech and assembly and demonstrate peacefully. weve seen a very difficult balancing ac...

One word, it means be gone, leave. this is really what -- the moral pact of mubarak is severed. >> stunisia, egypt, look ahead the next six months, what do you see? >> its really hard to predict particularly the future. we dont really know. we dont even know if this upheaval, this tsunami that hit the arab world, a man in tunisia sets himself in a blaze in a forgotten for lone tunisia town and you see the ton indonesian envy in every arab county, you have ea aracratic regime whether its egypt or...

Generation and mubaraks class, if you will, in the military, who described mubarak as a civil servant with a rank of president. this is long gone now. 12 good years he rendered service to the egyptians, then finally he put together this unbelievable autocratic state. the minister of interior has 1.7 million people working for it. the whole treasure of egypt and egypt and mubarak has not been about developing egypt, solving the poverty of egypt, dealing with problems of egypt, been about simply t...

Kaopectate stops it fast. powerful liquid relief speeds to the source. fast. [ male announcer ] stop the uh-oh fast with kao. at the beginning, i thought tuesday was the happiest day in my life. there were people for the first time gathering in huge numbers. this is the start of the rest of my life, of a new happy life, honestly, as cheesy as it sounds, thats exactly how i feel right now. >> im ayesha, at cnn headquarters joined by anderson cooper and wolf blitzer. we continue to follow the re...

Seems to rain. cnn, cairo, egypt. >> it is incredible just how you drive through neighborhoods and literally every block, you are stopped by six, a dozen young men, old men, armed with all sorts of weapons, makeshift weapons, clubs, kitchen knives, they check out who you are, want to see some sort of identification. then, when they realize youre not a looter, theyre generally friendly and tell you to move on. but its block after block after block. its very difficult now just getting anywhere in ...

Dominance. you have intellectuals, students, the muslim brotherhood, who are seen out now corralling the demonstrations, a bigger presence in the demonstrations. even one neighborhood, i show you this here we picked up, a flyer, driving through one of the neighborhoods past the vigilante group, they handed this out to us this evening, this is for an islamist group way more radical than the muslim brotherhood. theyre demanding an islamic state in egypt. you have all these different groups. its qu...

Connect with the aspirations of the egyptians for a change. there is something wrong with our secretary of state saying the egyptian regime is stable when she knew better. there is something wrong with our vice president biden saying that hosni mubarak is not a dictator when every child in exwi egypt we see and every reporter is showing you hosni mubarak is a dictator. there is chaos not only on the streets of cairo but chaos on our end, what to do about egypt and how to understand egypt. >> wha...

About islamists gaining power, taking control in egypt if mubarak left. that is certainly something mubarak has used over his rein to support western security and to garner support here. how realistic is that? what sort of power do they have here in moving forward if mubarak left? what sort of power would they have? >> reporter: most egyptian analysts believe if there were free and fair elections the muslim brotherhood and similar groups would win around 30 to 35% of the vote, but certainly not ...