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How long he can stay in power and resist and the people that support him. >> i'm surprised he doesn't survive on an emory university salary. i'm sure he's doing okay. but long term egypt has lived under an autocracy since the revolution in 1952. there's been corruption. the politics have been dysfunctional. individuals have not had an opportunity to express themselves. there's underemployment and it came to a head at this particular moment fed in part by what happened in tunisia. >> that's what led up to it? do you see this spreading to other -- lebanon, spoke to people from lebanon. they are ...

>> don, thanks very much. this is a huge breaking story. history is unfolding right now in the middle east, what's happening in egypt as you know and certainly as john knows has enormous ramifications. we have an interview coming up in the next hour with the egyptian ambassador to the united states, he's going to be here on the set. we have a lot of questions for him. i think our viewers will want to hear what he has to say. his government in deep trouble in cairo as a result of the protesters on the streets. we have a full night of breaking news coverage coming up. all of that has enormous ra...

And i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] learn more about the college of education at phoenix.edu. what's happened to our president? he said i will change everything. we don't want him. he's the one -- he should go out. we don't want him out because he's responsible about all this here. >> you know, don, a week ago that woman would have never have said that. welcome back to our continuing coverage of the crisis in egypt. it's clear the government there understands how crucial the

So those people out there who were managing to get out tweets, youtube videos, ireports that they sent to us, people all over the world were then sharing them. this is a sign that no matter how hard some government might try, it's impossible in this era to completely block out that kind of internet access. what gets out will be amplified. the other point to understand really important is technology inside egypt. most egyptians are not facebooking and tweeting. lots don't have that access. but huge numbers of egyptians have cell phones. when cell phone service was knocked out, that can have a h...

International coverage of the crisis in egypt. i'm don lem on. >> i'm john vause from cnn international. >> anti-mubarak protests in egypt have now spread to the u.s. and other countries. take a look. >> impassioned egyptian americans gathered in washington today calling for the removal of egypt's president mubarak. they rallied first at the egyptian embassy and then madder to the white house. inside the white house president obama huddled with his national security team to discuss this crisis. there's a lot at stake for the u.s. because egypt has been one of america's biggest allies in the mi...