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At this point we, frankly, do not know, nor does anyone, i think, how much money the mubarak family may have been able to amass over the some 30 years of his reign. >> reporter: no, and i think one of the things that another woman i was talking to just now and she was out with her daughters out celebrating an american-egyptian woman, dual national said she tried to start up business after moving from the u.s., tried to start up a commercial business but was stopped at almost every juncture in a way by a system of corruption and graft she said that made it impossible to try to build something h...

Military -- number one. they remind me of what befell the arabs, the soldiers coming and conquering power, breaking down ancient and proud societies, whether in iraq or syria or egypt or libya. so i don't like the military in politics, but we have to take the world as it comes. and if the military is the transitional force that will take the egyptians from this sordid autocracy from the house of mubarak to a democratic possibility, fine. so be it. i'm encouraged by one thing. i'm encouraged by this. that the military have watched the spectacle and they have seen the courage of the egyptians, t...

Eliminated any opposition, eliminated any real democratic institutions of the country, that those need to be built up in order to have real free and fair elections. dow agree with that? >> well, in a sense i do. but also, you know, a lot of things have been said and you really don't know what you're capable of until you're put in it. the vice president said a couple of days ago he didn't feel egyptians were ready for democracy. this is again speculation, but it all depends on how people, if people will be able to create committees, to create the demands and create people who will be able to se...

Society should address the key questions confronting egypt's future. protecting the fundamental rights of citizens, reviving the constitution and other laws to demonstrate irreversible strange and clear road map to elections that are free and fair. the white house statement goes on to read, we, therefore, urge the egyptian government to move swiftly to explain the changes that have been made and to spell out in clear and unambiguous language the step-by-step process that will lead to democracy and the representative government that the egyptian people seek. going forward, the statement reads, ...

The old guard, the old leadership here or over there, i should say. i just got back and still saying here, frederik. so looking forward then, we heard from mohamed elbaradei that a year sounded to him like a good kind of length of time before elections could take place in the country. do protesters want elections earlier than that, though? >> reporter: i think a lot of people would like to have elections earlier than that. i think right now we can see the mood going on on tahrir square and people i've been talking to really in this sort of i would say democratic mood. they want elections. they...