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Billion. when you are a military dictator for 30 years, you are access to a lot of cash, including $1.5 billion a year in american aid. and the thinking is that he and members of his family have skimmed some of that away. >> where did he get money from did he cake take it from the pe some come from skimming military contracts, thats the theory, foreign aid. and just the bureaucracy of doing business in egypt there are fees that many say are actually bribes used to keep the economy going, keep ...

Good evening and welcome back to this cnn special "egypt uprising." im suzanne malveaux. wed like to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. the key question tonight, will president hosni mubarak stay or step down? and if he stays, how long? one important question has been answered. his son gamal will not succeed him. he guaranteed that today by resigning his high level post in the ruling national party. in germany today secretary of state hillary clinton backed the transi...

Hikers accused of spying by iran is expected to get underway this weekend. sara shourd was released and returned to the u.s. last year. the other two remain in iranian custody. >> developments in egypt changing by the hour. top leadership resign -- ruling party resigning. including seemingly heir apparent to hosni mubarak, his own son gamal. national security expert at the massachusetts institute of technology security studies program. jim, good to see you. these are two leading figures in the r...

The future that egypt has, that tourism will absolutely thrive. it is incredibly hard to see that right now, because of the difficulty times that the country is going through and the imams. -- and the images but i believe the future going to be great. >> neil: you are putting your where your mouth is you are building, gamal, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> neil: we are seeing the countrys vice president talking to protesters. we are seeing military talking to protesters and opposition groups. what...

To state television there, the new secretary-general ever the party is a gentleman by the name of-- a liberal wing of the party, but nevertheless, gamal were learning-- you know what, im not interested in the presidency, almost as if that didnt happen. now, leaving the leadership. and we have california democratic congressman, demanding that mubarak get out of town right now and the councilman sits on a importan important oversight committee. and what do you make of him getting out of dodge? >> ...

For re-election and his tsonga malwou son gamal would not be running. we are in a tango between the state department, the pentagon and their contacts in egypt. more or less to try to do precisely what i think the president is is trying to accomplish. number one to try to expedite the seventh month time frame by which mubarak would remain in office. number two, to figure out how to form that transitional government and, number three, under egypts constitution there are some impediments. if you wa...

Another day of violence and protests, its now after 10:00 at night there. reports from cairo say that at least ten people have been killed, many others wounded as pro and anti-government groups continue to fight it out on the streets. journalists have been targeted and theyve been told to leave the area while egypts prime minister has apologized for army attacks on the demonstrators. he also said he calls for president mubarak to step down by friday, saying thats unacceptable. egypts state tv re...

Americas long support for less than democratic regimes. the political cost. brutality in the open. journalists caught in the cross fire. and the egypt we once knew, can its battered image ever be repaired? good evening, im suzanne malveaux. welcome to the cnn special "egypt uprising." we welcome our viewers united states and around the world. wed like to give you the very late latest. a large crowd massed in tahrir square but unlike recent violence this remained calm. a heavy military presence k...

Thursday when the president made that speech, clinging to power, it was expected that he was going to resign. now, the arab street expected he would resign but now we are learning that egypts military expected that mumbarak was going to step down. were also learning that the highest levels of the presidents own political party expected that he was going to vacate his position as president. apparently though, he took the advice of his younger son gamal. there are suggestions that he even wrote po...

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