park with all these aging leaders across the arab world and change is sweeping across the region now. >> just a look back a few hours, what was it in that -- was there a kind of conversation going on between the protestors as a mass movement and the people in the military council, were they listening to the crowd and deciding that mubarak wasn't going to be able to get away with giving some authority to his vice president? >> i think from the outset, you've seen a very professional military that was not going to go down with mubarak. the army took the view that it is here to protect the nation, protect the people. and about six hours before mubarak resigned, there was a communique from the high command which said that the egyptian army wants to be the gaurn guarantor of a process that leads to the fulfillment of the people's wishes and spoke of the honest people standing up