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Mubarak. mubar mubarak. >> who do you think should be the next president of egypt? >> anyone who the people here look to him. we have to have elections. we have to have democracy. our rights. we have no rights here in egypt before. but i think from this square, tahrir square, that freedom and justice and liberation and social -- >> reform? >> yes, all things come the first time. >> so are you sure that today hosni mubarak will go? >> hosni mubarak will go. but leave egypt. leave egypt egyptians.

Anderson, i can only imagine, i can only anticipate what that crowd would do if mubarak goes on television shortly and comes up with some sort of story explaining why hes staying as president and until the scheduled elections in september. >> lets look whats just happened in the last couple days. earlier this week, the biggest protests weve seen in more than two weeks. and just yesterday, we saw the protests growing to areas outside the parliament, outside the health ministry i believe. not just...

>> theres no doubt there will be an explosion i think its fair to say, an explosion of anger if in fact mubarak goes on television in the coming minutes and announces hes not stepping down. these folks who are dancing in the streets right now, theyre chanting and theyve got the music going. they will be so angry, and i suspect folks all over egypt, this is a huge country of 80 million people. the anger level will just be huge right there. fred pleitgen is our correspondent. hes inside the square...

Leaving. >> reporter: no, he didnt say that, wolf. he set that he had del grated some of the presidential powers to the vice president omare suleiman, but lets keep in mind that it was only the 29th of january when he appointed suleiman as the vice president. therefore naturally he will have some of those powers. what we heard was a president speaking in the first person as the president, saying i will do this, i will do that, i will form committees, i have instruct instructed there was no hit w...

States handled this up to this point. as you can see, those messages that the obama administration has been sending so far this evening and the past couple days is something that was noted here on tahrir square among people. we have to note again and again who have been camping out here for a very long time but still have access 0 communication and know exactly whats going on. >> when the protester says we want our money back from president mubarak, he was talking to the reports that mubarak has...

Potentially and its not impossible we might see a combination of both things, that heal hand over some authority to the vice president and the military but remain the figure head of the regime. this will not satisfy protesters because ivan watson is joining us live from tahrir square. they are expecting this egyptian ruler to leave at this point, arent they? thats what theyre expecting to hear in that speech. ivan watson, can you hear me? >> hala, were looking out. well show you a little bit of ...

Live images of tahrir square there in the center of the egyptian capital. over the last 2 1/2 weeks, history making developments in egypt. the most populace arab nation, what happens here will have an impact in many other countries in this region. we are still waiting for president hosni mubarak to address the nation. we expect that speech to be live. but it is very difficult to predict the timing of hosni mubarak addresses as ben wedeman who joins us now live can tell us. ben, i imagine the moo...

Probably the most organized nongovernmental group in the state. that obviously causes concern among a lot of people. people in the square say they were not the ones forming this revolution. they got on board to it late. they are playing a role, yes, but this is not about, you know, islamic fundamentalism. this is about democracy, about people wanting to express themselves and wanting a government which actually does represent them in which their rights are respected. so what form of government m...

Very interesting question. remember, this is a military dictatorship. the military has enormous privileging, from economic, military, political. they may bhe trying to preserve their regime and manage this as tightly as they can, but certainly its not what the protesters wanted. they wanted a much more rapid and complete transfer of power. >> he said a lot of nice things. he called for democracy, he said he wouldnt run in december. but he made it clear, hes staying, honest, president, until sept...

To happen in the coming hours, but especially tomorrow after friday prayers in cairo, when all of this is absorbed by the pro-democracy protesters. >> its going to be an extraordinary -- the next 12 to 24 hours will be an extraordinary 12 to 24 hours to witness and well bring it to you all. but what we have just heard from vice president suleiman -- i point this out to people who havent been following this closely -- his closest confidant. hes run the feared intelligence services, a man who save...