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Either. >> interpret what you think the people in the streets heard from mubarak today and what they heard from obama. what do you think their reaction is? or their interpretation of those two presidential remarks in the last couple of hours. >> you could practically hear the eyes of 8 million people in cairo rolling in their sockets. they heard this many, many, many times from the egyptian president. well do better, more reforms, more democracy. theyve seen from the united states, you know, wer...

Democracy to the extent they have one, at least the government overthrowing king fa farouk. whats your judgment? >> my judgment is they will not want to use violent means against the demonstration. but if the army believes the brotherhood have taken a far more front bench view here, it doesnt make any difference what have elbaradei says. the army realizes that elbaradei is somewhat of a lone wolf politically. he may have the support of the demonstrators in the streets, or at least a significant ...

States like syria? could a country that strong, and dictatorial, you could argue, could they be vulnerable? >> ill give you a barometer. immediately after the president in tunisia left -- fled the country, what did many of those governments, including the government in syria, they increased food subsidies. thats how worried. >> payoffs. >> payoffs. thats how worried everybody is in the leaderships of all these countries. >> how do you believe the united states policy is being read as the preside...

Will support them, too. be nonviolent, but be vocal. >> i think we hear the president -- i think the president is being very transparent. its an extraordinary situation, robin wright, having covered diplomacy over the years, to have the president of egypt say something he didnt really like. he thinks its the old defense arguments of nonchanging, getting on the phone to him, talking to him for half an hour, perhaps pleading with him, perhaps warning him, and then going right on national televisio...

>> given the extent of what has actually happened in egypt, i dont think thats going to be the other leaders top concern in the region. ill tell you why. when president obama told the egyptian government a few weeks ago when they were having elections let us have international observers, and mubarak said what? over my dead body. well, what has happened in egypt actually gives the obama administration added ammunition. >> a hammer. >> right. look, the united states -- >> do you think that people ...

U.s. is losing so much influence. >> youre the best. >> -- in the middle east, the opportunity is that they have seen that the middle east is in a period of transition. its not too late for the u.s. government to actually get on the right side of these movements happening right across the middle east. that will in the long term, in my view, restore credibility to the united states. >> i thought al jazeera had a beat on this guy. were you fantastic. thank you, sir. you are a great colleague to ha...

Jailed by hosni mubarak. it also depends on what other presidential candidates emerge. remember, any call for new presidential elections here is also fraught with all sorts of danger, because the instability of the streets is being fuelled by money, chris. not only from iran, but also from islamic extremists who view this as a momentous status quo in egypt. >> how did you get that report? how do you know about the role of money and what were watching in iran? >> because information that the isra...

Across a lot of bank accounts in order to keep this going. >> are you surprised that our president, barack obama became so interventionist as to tell his partner, as he calls him, president mubarak that they should open up the tefls ovtele over there, open up the internet. are you surprised he got that particular on the phone? sounds like he did with the president. >> well, i frankly find that surprising and disconcerting. i think the president has to be kargful. were not going to earn kudos in ...

Give me your interpretation of who those people are in the streets and what do they want. >> this is a body of people who are nonideological. theyre not reflecting necessarily the muslim brotherhood. they come from the streets genuinely. they cross all society. they dont have a leader. this is whats so striking about they want. they have emerged in partly -- in part because of whats happened in tunisia. its been shown now that people power can make a difference. i think we crossed a threshold to...

Themselves in the middle east, they all want their oldest son to be their successor. whether they call themselves baathist or islamists. the military sees that, they dont like it. he really doesnt have support across the board like he did. is the military lie yal to him n -- loyal to him now in terms of the succession, do you believe? >> thats the question. and the army is not just one body. the leaders may be loyal to mubarak but what about the rank and file who see their cousins and brothers a...