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Has not happened yet. that is obviously complicating the situation because if it knew inside the white house what president mubarak was telling his people right now, they'd have a better handle on exactly how they wanted to react. the last thing they want to do now is come out and then have president mubarak speak a short time later. >> ed, i've got to ask you. this is the u.s.'s most important ally in the middle east. has the president called his counterpart hosni mubarak? >> reporter: i was asked about that, and i was told by officials president obama has not called president mubarak yet. th...

Itself is on fire and there are xurmishes going on there as well. right now in front of our own building, as you can see, the crowds are sort of dispersing somewhat. we of course had some massive scenes here throughout the evening until the military finally rolled in. that really dispersed the situation. i can tell you i was on the ground for aloft the time when the fighting was really going on. there was really a sense by a lot of the demonstrators that i spoke to that the egyptian security forces are not invincible. it really was interesting to see how these people were galvanized, how they ...

Ed henry, what is the latest? when can we expect this briefing to start? >> reporter: well, hala, we don't know. the white house has said basically they've delayed it indefinitely. earlier when i spoke to robert gikz he was going to have the briefing at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. he pushed it back to 2:00 p.m. because he was hoping to get a senior national security official or another high official to join him at the briefing to talk about egypt. he knew he would get a lot of questions on this. but then right before the 2:00 briefing was supposed to start, they delayed it again. our understanding...

Believe that the egyptian government needs to engage immediately with the egyptian people in implementing needed economic, political, and social reforms. >> so not saying that president mubarak has to go, but that he has to implement some reforms immediately. the message right now to the egyptian government is, even if you can weather this storm, if you do not take some reforms, you are going to face a permanent resistance that is not just going to be the muslim brotherhood as we have seen but a permanent resistance. these groups could align together and really be an unpredictable situation. e...