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Open fire on the protesters? you say they may stand back and wait it out. for how long would they wait before they do something? >> i don't think they'll open fire on the protesters. the army, what i mean by the army now, i mean the generals. the egyptian protests have been saying the army and the people are one. that's true because it a conscript army. the people and the generals are clearly on a very different page. the generals are with mubarak. what i think they're trying to do, they're trying to run out three clocks. the clock out on the protesters. at some point people have to get back t...

Whether they are the folks who stormed the bastille who stormed iran. it looked like the moderates were going to sgin we were in favor of that. then here come khomeini lying about what he is going to do and kills all of the, a lot of the people who had made the original iranian revolution. so we've got to, i think, understand that we could very much here end up with a situation in which things go well for a while with some of the reformers and the army being sound and the way it approaches things, and then everybody relaxes and then realize, let's say, iran working with the muslim brotherhood,...

To have made a fateful decision, it has becomed hosni mubarak in his decision not to step down and his decision to agree to a cosmetic transfer of some powers. that places the egyptian military in a very difficult place. the crowds have been chanting, the people in the military are one and at some level, of course, that's true because the egyptian army is a conscript army but the generals and the people are no longer one. the generals are siding with mubarak. they are siding with suleiman and they are siding with something that the protesters in tahrir square do not want. why they made that de...

Dealing with a largely peaceful movement calling for the ouster of the president. >> jim, it is jim here in new york. the events of the day were really confusing. especially in regard to the fact senior military officials came to tahrir square to reassure protesters that it was all going to be resolved in their favor. i wonder if you see any signs now of splits within the military in terms of how they're going to react to whatever happens tomorrow? >> reporter: i think that is what is emerging. that there is some sort of division between president mubarak and his vice president suleiman on the...

Whether or not mubarak steps down, that structure of power is what people are really protesting about. they may like the army on the street because it's a conscript army. the egyptian army is part of the country. but it's the generals on top that are running thing. >> you can catch the rest of the conversation with john king and fa read's interview with the head of the opposition, muhammad al bare ra die. it starts at. >> 100,000 fans make a pretty tempting target. we'll look at how authorities are securing the super bowl. r g. safe driver, online, homeowner's -- more discounts than ever befor...