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Time to go. demonstrators have summoned their followers into the streets, asking 20 million egyptians to join them in the streets for more protests after friday prayers. this time they hope president mubarak will listen. aaron katersky, abc news, cairo. >> our thanks to aaron. the mubarak bombshell brought an impatient response from the white house. president obama issued a statement last night saying in part, we urge the egyptian government to move swiftly to explain the changes and to spell ...

Statement has indicated that he does so because of his recognition of the very sensitive and volatile nature of the times that we are going through. >> shepard: did anything about the speech today, its tone, its narcissism, if you will, did any of that surprise you? >> the tone, know think was conciliatory. it expressed sympathy for loss of life. it indicated a commitment to hold responsible those who have been advocating violence or had committed violence against the demonstrators. and, again, ...

President, suleiman, were clear in their statements yesterday and since those statements were made, where mubarek said im not going to give into outside pressure but i am handing off power to my vice president, and the vice president said im calling on the protestors to go home, and by the way, dont watch the news, because theyre just trying to drive a wedge tkw us, so bottom line, the white house has been pushing for the egyptian government to get out and say something clearer to those protesto...

Close relationship. the government hasnt changed much. president mumbarak has moved a little bit to say he is he giving up powers. the same people we have been dealing with for decades is in power. ability for the united states and imperative to convince that government to move faster on the reform in the sense that they have got to open up the process is so that some of the democratic parties and some of the protesters on the streets who have ideased ideased into to be included in the process o...

Something that is dictated to me from the foreign source. >> shepard: in other words, foreign sources were telling him to leave? and he refused? mumbarak spoke after a flood of reports that indicated he would, indeed, step down tonight. disappointment, anger, rage shot through the crowd in the wake of those comments. some held up their shoes, a sign of contempt and you see them there. among those watching on the video screens and listening on the wide speakers, the google executive ghonim who ma...

Egyptians for the welfare of my country. and i am concerned that if it continues to reform and to develop within the context of constitutional process and the rule of law. >> shepard: prior to president mubaraks speech on state television this evening in egypt, the military announced that it was supporting the people as the world was led to believe that president mubarak was about to not just effectively and not just in a de facto way but in a very real constitutional way resign the presidency o...

Change. >> and then he watched the speech on board air force one while playing back to washington from michigan and later issued a sternly worded statement which in part called for clarification. 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 democrat a and the representative government that the egyptian people seek. going forward it will be essentia...

>> richard, as you speak, were looking at live pictures, cairo, 1:00 in the afternoon, thousands upon thousands of people crowding the city and tents still up. >> richard mentioned the statement that came out of the white house. i want to read it because it is strong. president obama said the egyptian people have been told that there was a transition of authority but its not yet clear that this rans six is immediate, meaningful or sufficient. we therefore urge the egyptian government to move swi...

Last night, about 7:52, it came out of the white house press office, saying we 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 and the representative government that the egyptian people seek. one wonders whether or not that statement might have had some effect. we got skwr*ut statement just this morning from the supreme council of the armed forces of egy...

Words that this -- were witnessing history unfold before us. kind of giving a hopeful kind of sense that change was imminent. then by the time they got back here to the white house, decidedly different tone. the president moving from that cautious, very calculated, measured tone that theyve used all along this unrest, coming out stronger and more forcefully than they really have before. the president basically saying in a lengthy statement, what youre giving the egyptian people and what youre gi...