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Building. >> all right. ramy, thank you for your continuing coverage and we'll be chatting with you in days ahead. >> stay safe. >> all right. this is a day that began with exuberance and excitement and ened with rage. what does it mean and what happens next? >> i think the most important thing is that the army has decided to side with mubarak. there was this question of where the army stood. and by making this decision, what the army has decided is that in order to consolidate its own power, remember, egypt is a military dictatorship. the army has enormous privileges, economic, political, soc...

The army saying that they will protect us and that wait for an announcement. wait for an announcement? it is 3:00 in the morning. what kind of announcement will be made now. >> you raise the military and the relationship between the protesters and the military. again, there will be this enormous credibility gap because as jim traub refer to earlier, the senior military spokesmen visited tahrir square and that your demands will be met. building this sense throughout the day that there would be a resolution. some overarching agreement. and then all those expectations dashed and destroyed. how ca...

We've been silent. mubarak has arrested a number of the other real democracy activists. and as a result, the institutions aren't there on the other side that we can turn to quickly. fareed mentioned the philippines. but we had a candidate on the other side. a democratic structure. so we're not that lucky in egypt now. it is a much more difficult situation to hold on to a moderate change long enough to complete manifest itself in constitutional change, elections, and the rest. we have to try and we have to try to then forces for stability in egypt which rith probably going to be principally the...

Especially in battle against al qaeda in trying to preserve stability with lots of insurgency groups. sort of a complication in the region. it is interesting. so much of this is a matter of the western democracies not wanting to admit t way they do business in this part of the world. and suleiman is their broker, their fixer. i think basically what happened, suleiman promised he can manage the transition and the exile for mubarak. that's probably what he's been working the last couple days. a place where mubarak could get out of the country with his assets and get to some cushy place in some o...

Regime. so people believe that the national tv channel is one of the main enemies we are facing. they are spreading lies and rumors. so for example, if you went to national tv, you will find a picture of tahrir square which is totally em. now they are trying to be more neutral and trying to picture what's happening. but i think it is too late for them. >> you say there are hundreds of protesters there. what kind of security presence is there? >> caller: an extreme high presence of army tanks and soldiers. they are everywhere. the building is an o-shaped building. there are army and fences ever...