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Its briefing today. if you we are awaiting just the president. he's in the white house situation room. he's been getting briefed and we are told his remarks will come at 3:00 p.m. eastern. you can expect a substantive comment today. we did not get that yesterday because he was waiting for the egyptian president to speak. now that's happened and we'll hear from our own president. first we go to the state department with the latest from there. >> reporter: the briefing has been cancelled it was pushed back again and again, now the state department has allowed the white house to take the lead. th...

Fall into the hands of the extremists. i hope for everybody's cake, and for the people that are jubilant in cairo, that they will, indeed, see a better future, one of democracy and moderation, rather than hypocrisy and extremism. megyn: ambassador gillerman, thank you so much. all the best. there's a very fluid situation unfolding in egypt. mubarak is out. military council is in. and we're waiting to hear from president obama, now expected next hour. the white house delaying a bit. why? we don't know. up next, a look at how the administration handled the events of yesterday and the past 24 to ...

Meeting that president mubarak was stepping down. he stepped outside the oval office to the outer oval and watched some television coverage, seeing a very different reaction inside tahrir square, jubilation on the faces of the egyptains. and now president obama will make remarks to an american audience as well as our allies in the region. megyn: there was criticism for the white house of being out of touch, because of the comments we heard from the president, the administration yesterday, anticipating that he would step down when he did not. and the question was, are we no longer in touch with...

Plan over the next unspecified period. what did he guarantee? >> you called it ambiguous and it is it's more noted for what it does not say. it says the high council of the high forces confirmed mubarak stepped down it says the army salutes the president for what he has done for work in war and peace. that's hugely important. it was important for mubarak as stepped down to save face. this high military body has seen to it with that statement. they said they salute the marters who died during the demonstrations and there will be a series of reports as a followup. that's the void that needs to b...

Talking about transformation and witnessing history before our eyes, and a new day for the people of egypt and then hosni mubarak pulled a fast one on this white house and the u.s. government and said, not so fast. i'm not leaving just yet. there will be time to go over the politics. we expect that robert gibbs will get questions on that at his final briefing here. at this point, u.s. officials are thrilled that this guy's gone and the people seem to be happy in egypt so far. megyn: they certainly do. mike emanuel, thanks so much. we're getting a view now from the streets of downtown cairo. wa...