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we begin tonight with breaking news. we have new details about satellite images showing earth moving vehicles at irans military site. this is the same site that international atomic energy agency inspectors have tried to visit. iran has indicated this week they may give them access. foreign affairs reporter is following the story from the state department tonight and what can you tell us about these reports? >> well, erin, were talking about this site, this military base that the inter...

lets go "outfront." we begin tonight with breaking news. we have new details about satellite images showing earth moving vehicles at irans military site. this is the same site that international atomic energy agency inspectors have tried to visit. iran has indicated this week they may give them access. foreign affairs reporter is following the story from the state department tonight and what can you tell us about these reports? >> well, erin, were talking about this site, this milita...

And the opposition has not gathered substantial crowds. for the past few nights, syrian state tv said assad is prepared to deliver a speech. every night they have been disappointed, it could be because every time an acrannian leader tried to deliver a speech its been the countdown to end of their regime. >> bret: reena, thank you. opposition groups in yemen today blame president ali abdullah saleh for the presence of militants there, including al-qaeda. protesters are still demanding that saleh ...

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...

What next? both president obama and for the egyptians as a whole. we know this thing as has been stated earlier in your program, its not led by political parties. this is a popular revolt led basically by young people. >> okay, put orn your middle east hat now. think of yourself back in the middle east now. what will be in amman, jordan, right now to this, on all sides? are they scared? >> not just jordan. i mean, the axiom, the conventional axiom is that it may not happen in egypt like what hap...

>> egypt is the biggest country in the region in terms of the population, geographical location. it is the state of institutions governed by the institutions and the rul of law. and we should be cautious and aware of the many examples around us, which drove people to chaos and mayhem where they gained no dplemocracy or stability. joining us now is congressman meeks. hes on the phone, and theres robin wright right there.

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...