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Often the last vacuum that clings on to power as those in rule try to do what they can to show they are still in charge, there is not much credibility behind the information ministry and has not been for quite a few days and not many believe what is coming out of what is a government voice box so whatever is coming out, the people are taking it with a pinch of salt and they believe because of the disarray and the mixed messages, the conflicting messages, we get that, really, hosni mubarak is no longer if charge so until they get a clear, definitive message they think they have the upper hand a...

Stepping down tonight. we were supposed to be, right now, seeing hill on television announcing his resignation and that has not happened and now there is disappointment that the expectation all evening that, indeed, he would appear as early as two hours ago and tell the people exactly what they wanted to hear. people are now saying, who exactly is in charge? it is not clear. is it the military? is it hosni mubarak? until we get the announcement and we see the tv pictures and get the announcement, we are not going to know. >>shepard: has word reached those in the square, dominic, that the infor...

>>shepard: a lot of things are unclear. what is clear is the people in cairo, in tahrir square, are of the belief that they have scored a major victory and created what would be the greatest transition of power in the middle east in decades. they believe the president of 29, almost 30 years now, who has ruled with dictator hype, will now be stepping aside to make room for something else. we know not what. and if he doesn't, tonight, as his information minister has just told the reuters news agency he will not, we have no idea what would happen then. it is widely believed this speech could be p...

>> we are getting out of focus. this has been nothing but focusing on the egyptian --. >>shepard: no here, no question that part of it, they have a treaty with israel, but have you thought about what binyamin netanyahu is thinking? >>reporter: the concern should be there but we have a point how we can move and accept and if our government and the arab world reach out to support the new free elections, israel will, and we will see a different reaction from the arab, from the generation population. >>shepard: are there moves to sure up the border between israel and egypt? >> i am not sure any su...

It is hard not to think of the fall of the berlin wall and here is a reporter from the wall street journal, assistant managing editor and we talked about this during the break, jennifer griffin mentioned this as similar to the fall of the berlin wall transported to the middle east on day one of this she reported that. we were talking during the break about the stark similarities. >> remember the change. dramatic. fascinating. messy. uncertain. on those days when the berlin wall was falling and the soviet union was crumbling. >>shepard: we did not know that was happening. >> we did not know whe...