safest to be in tahrir for journalists. are the mubarak loyalists growing in numbers or diminishing in numbers? today we saw running battles, a lot of rocks around the periphery of one of the entrances to tahrir, and the protesters here were actually gaining ground on the mubarak forces, is what i saw. and so the numbers of the mubarak forces seem to be dwindling. so it s unclear what s happening on the outskirts. as you know, ed, i can only know what i m seeing on the ground right here in tahrir, but it seems that they re dwindling, from what i can tell. sharif abdel, senior producer of democracy now, you are brave along with all the other journalists who are there trying to do the job for the world. thank you, sharif. thank you for having me. stay with us for our continuing coverage of the crisis in egypt. you re watching msnbc. g to own my own restaurant.
so i would say tahrir, it s safest to be in tahrir for journalists. are the mubarak loyalists growing in numbers or diminishing in numbers? today we saw running battles, a lot of rocks around the periphery of one of the entrances to tahrir, and the protesters here were actually gaining ground on the mubarak forces, is what i saw. and so the numbers of the mubarak forces seem to be dwindling. so it s unclear what s happening on the outskirts. as you know, ed, i can only know what i m seeing on the ground right here in tahrir, but it seems that they re dwindling, from what i can tell. sharif abdel, senior producer of democracy now, you are brave along with all the other journalists who are there trying to do the job for the world. thank you, sharif. thank you for having me. stay with us for our