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President mubarak was going to speak at some point. the military stepped up its presence around the square. they are trying to keep pro-mubarak demonstrators away from the area. it's far more elite troops that are down there. they have a better grip of the situation. the other thing that's happening is a sense of normalcy is coming back to central cairo now. you have an area that is taped off. now, it's full of cars, the usual cairo traffic flowing through there. it appears many people are trying to get on with their lives as the large demonstrations continue and the protesters tell us they ar...

That's more of a problem. >> nbc news chief foreign news correspondent richard engel reporting from somewhere in cairo. stay safe. get some sleep. thanks again. >> my pleasure. among the forensics yet to be done on the american reaction to what's going on in egypt is how on earth we had no clue it was coming. the answer is actually the same as it has over and over and over again. america is not very good at spying. the history and present of that coming up. ♪ [ woman ] when i grow up, i want to take him on his first flight. i want to run a marathon. i'm going to work with kids. i'm going t...

About. that's as close as we could get to broadcasting from the most populo populous arab nation on earth. today, the live shots are back. take that. violence is the strategy that the government of egypt has been using to try to stay in power. as people of egypt try to topple that government. violence against protesters and against journalists. arab journalists, egyptian journalists, western journalists, the strategy they use is pitiful but it is sort of effective. yesterday at least it kept us from being able to show you live tv from egypt. it was not however able to prevent another massive d...

Egyptian vice president omar suleiman blames the muslim brotherhood for the violence in cairo but who are they? how dangerous are they? i'll ask peter bergen, cnn national security analyst and the author of "the longest war." peter, what are the answers? tell me about the muslim brotherhood. i hear all sorts of opinions about them in your expert opinion how extremist are they, how dangerous are they? >> well, i don't think they're very dangerous at all, piers. you know, this is a group that's been around since the 1920s, certainly when it was founded in opposition to the british and certainly ...

Needs to come from president obama and other western leaders. they need to be sending the same message that human rights groups and others in the country are sending. he needs to step down. >> nic, how popular do you think this judge's sentiments are? >> reporter: oh, they're widely popular. they're widely popular with everyone here that wants to see mubarak step down. no one is in any doubt that responsibility goes to the top, and for the actions they've seen here, the way that they see the police in plain clothes, security forces, whatever, have been coming on the streets, pretending, if you...