Page 7 - Inside Egypt News Today

At this point we, frankly, do not know, nor does anyone, i think, how much money the mubarak family may have been able to amass over the some 30 years of his reign. >> reporter: no, and i think one of the things that another woman i was talking to just now and she was out with her daughters out celebrating an american-egyptian woman, dual national said she tried to start up business after moving from the u.s., tried to start up a commercial business but was stopped at almost every juncture in a ...

Military -- number one. they remind me of what befell the arabs, the soldiers coming and conquering power, breaking down ancient and proud societies, whether in iraq or syria or egypt or libya. so i dont like the military in politics, but we have to take the world as it comes. and if the military is the transitional force that will take the egyptians from this sordid autocracy from the house of mubarak to a democratic possibility, fine. so be it. im encouraged by one thing. im encouraged by this...

Eliminated any opposition, eliminated any real democratic institutions of the country, that those need to be built up in order to have real free and fair elections. dow agree with that? >> well, in a sense i do. but also, you know, a lot of things have been said and you really dont know what youre capable of until youre put in it. the vice president said a couple of days ago he didnt feel egyptians were ready for democracy. this is again speculation, but it all depends on how people, if people w...

Society should address the key questions confronting egypts future. protecting the fundamental rights of citizens, reviving the constitution and other laws to demonstrate irreversible strange and clear road map to elections that are free and fair. the white house statement goes on to read, we, therefore, urge the egyptian government to move swiftly to explain the changes that have been made and to spell out in clear and unambiguous language the step-by-step process that will lead to democracy an...

The old guard, the old leadership here or over there, i should say. i just got back and still saying here, frederik. so looking forward then, we heard from mohamed elbaradei that a year sounded to him like a good kind of length of time before elections could take place in the country. do protesters want elections earlier than that, though? >> reporter: i think a lot of people would like to have elections earlier than that. i think right now we can see the mood going on on tahrir square and peopl...

Eventually brought down the strong man president who had ruled over this country for 30 years, people who at the beginning were laughed off. young people on twitter and facebook posting things on the internet who ultimately then started this thing that snowballed so i believe this is going to go on for another couple of days and certainly the celebrations down there in the street are going to go on, as well. it might be a little slower in the morning but certainly this is going to go on for quit...

Really have organized opposition political parties. how do you turn people power into a pluralistic democracy by september? >> by september it will be hard. there are some groups, but youre right. most of the organized opposition movements other than the muslim brotherhood, which is banned, most of the legal ones, are phony, quite frankly, or are very, very fragile. many of them were created as almost official opposition parties, to run against mubaraks main party. but i think you might be surpr...

Do not turn on the people. and im sure thats another avenue where the united states has influence because we do have a close military relationship. >> nicholas burns very good of you, live tonight in newton, mass. we thank you. coming up, the man who says todays actions on the egyptians government part were political suicide. >> i got into one of the best schools in t country! [ both screaming ] i got into one of the most expensive schools in the country! [ male announcer ] when stress gives you...

On tuesday apparently the finance minister in switzerland asked the banks to look into mubaraks assets that might be held in that country. but apparently according to him the banks yet do not have a clear picture of what kind of money is being held and here we see a group of people, the egyptian flag walking down the street. pity anyone stuck in traffic tonight in cairo. they are not going anywhere for quite a while. ivan watson is standing by. ivan, weve just heard that swiss authorities are tr...

Which dictator s in the region should be nervous? anyone in dicta torial power should be nervous. each country is different. but i was thinking this morning as i was watching this unfold of robert kennedys words almost 50 years ago, maybe more than 50, he said that each time a man stands for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each other from a million different centers and daring these ripples can build...