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President, and that will be something to behold for the world. i want to, again, join walid phares. this is just crossing our wires. the director of national intelligence here has referred to egypts branch of the muslim brotherhood, "a largely secular group." is that true? >> reporter: no, that is not academically true. you have to read what the muslim brotherhood say about themselves, which is the truth, in their agenda and on-line materials for the last many years. they call themselves islamis...

>> they were trying to kill him. >> reporter: as president mubarak would mediate the conflict, cooperate on the war on terror and check the rising power of iran. inside egypt he used strong man tactics to crush radicalism. >> his tremendous mistake was not to take care of his society, make concessions, make reforms thats why egypt is against him. >> if you talk to egyptians they all reacted with disgust to their political system. what has taken everybody by surprise is not the people who were un...

>> they were trying to kill him. >> reporter: as president mubarak would mediate the conflict, cooperate on the war on terror and check the rising power of iran. inside egypt he used strong man tactics to crush radicalism. >> his tremendous mistake was not to take care of his society, make concessions, make reforms thats why egypt is against him. >> if you talk to egyptians they all reacted with disgust to their political system. what has taken everybody by surprise is not the people who were un...

Egyptian vice president omar suleiman blames the muslim brotherhood for the violence in cairo but who are they? how dangerous are they? ill ask peter bergen, cnn national security analyst and the author of "the longest war." peter, what are the answers? tell me about the muslim brotherhood. i hear all sorts of opinions about them in your expert opinion how extremist are they, how dangerous are they? >> well, i dont think theyre very dangerous at all, piers. you know, this is a group thats been a...

Have secretary of state clinton saying that. you have at the same time vice president omar suleiman coming up blaming the media for inciting the riots to start with. hes the guy were about to put in charge apparently. >> well, and that is why there is profound reservations and anxiety at the highest level of the administration tonight because secretary clinton delivered that message because just as she you said in a conversation with nick kristof and anderson and they have a parallel in not so d...

President mubarak has to go very quickly. as soon as possible. you would have a transitional government come into play. it is the administrations hope that vice president suleiman would lead that government. he would have the blessing of the top two military official, the commander and the field marshal, the defense minister and army field for schell and also would bring in some outreach to the opposition for immediate consultation in the government and then a dialogue about elections and politi...

Indicates sometimes what happens to leaders when theyre -- when theyre not observing what is plainly evident. this was a movement that came from -- it came from the hearts of a real people in egypt to who have been suffering for so long without those basic rights. the world has changed, and we have to be i think here in the united states, both the administration and the congress, have to continue to be constructive. i think the president has by pushing but not trying to dictate to the egyptian p...

All now from tahrir square. we have no idea whats going on. we have no idea what is happening to these protesters, and that is censorship of the worst kind of a totalitarian regime. what concerns me is that you have secretary of state clinton saying that. you have at the same time vice president omar suleiman coming up blaming the media for inciting the riots to start with. hes the guy were about to put in charge apparently. >> well, and that is why there is profound reservations and anxiety at ...

Yemen reaching it could turn into the next afghanistan. whats your view of the yemen? >> you know, piers, it could become the next afghanistan. its one of the poorest countries in the region. its running out of oil. its running out of water. it has two wars going on. it has al qaeda. but the one big difference between egypt and yemen is that president saleh, dictator as it were has allowed a little more political parties to function and so were not seeing the same violence in yemen because there...

Case kidnapped and threatened with beheading. have you ever known the collective media come under such an attack? >> in such a large-scale systemic way, no, ive been at the fall of president mew bute tu in zaire thats now congo when soldiers who werent paid were running riots and beating up reporters and grabbing kamras. we have the vice president of egypt today on the television saying that satellite channel, news channels were part of some sort of foreign conspiracy against the egyptian people...