mubarak goes on national television to tell egyptians his government will resign but he will stay in power. his offer does in the quell the angry and growing crowds. 1,000 inmates break out after prison outside cairo. looters ransack prison buildings and businesses and looters tear off heads of mummies at the egyptian museum. >> the army is sort of controlling the street. politically there is a complete vacuum. >> a fascinating look at the roots of all of this, suzanne. there are those who feel the speed with which these protests erupted caught the obama administration by surprise and somewhat flat footed. you worked in the white house for many, many years. what's your assessment? >> covering the white house the obama and bush administrations had similar situations to deal with. mubarak was not a perfect ally but he was a reliable one. president obama on the one hand is threatening to pull aid from one of its closest allies, at
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