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President, and that will be something to behold for the world. i want to, again, join walid phares. this is just crossing our wires. the director of national intelligence here has referred to egypt's branch of the muslim brotherhood, "a largely secular group." is that true? >> reporter: no, that is not academically true. you have to read what the muslim brotherhood say about themselves, which is the truth, in their agenda and on-line materials for the last many years. they call themselves islamist. why know where the notion of largely secular comes from. muslim brotherhood are known to be cent...

>> they were trying to kill him. >> reporter: as president mubarak would mediate the conflict, cooperate on the war on terror and check the rising power of iran. inside egypt he used strong man tactics to crush radicalism. >> his tremendous mistake was not to take care of his society, make concessions, make reforms that's why egypt is against him. >> if you talk to egyptians they all reacted with disgust to their political system. what has taken everybody by surprise is not the people who were unhappy, but they could do something about it. >> reporter: one figure who may emerge as the leader i...

>> they were trying to kill him. >> reporter: as president mubarak would mediate the conflict, cooperate on the war on terror and check the rising power of iran. inside egypt he used strong man tactics to crush radicalism. >> his tremendous mistake was not to take care of his society, make concessions, make reforms that's why egypt is against him. >> if you talk to egyptians they all reacted with disgust to their political system. what has taken everybody by surprise is not the people who were unhappy, but they could do something about it. >> reporter: one figure who may emerge as the leader i...

Egyptian vice president omar suleiman blames the muslim brotherhood for the violence in cairo but who are they? how dangerous are they? i'll ask peter bergen, cnn national security analyst and the author of "the longest war." peter, what are the answers? tell me about the muslim brotherhood. i hear all sorts of opinions about them in your expert opinion how extremist are they, how dangerous are they? >> well, i don't think they're very dangerous at all, piers. you know, this is a group that's been around since the 1920s, certainly when it was founded in opposition to the british and certainly ...

Have secretary of state clinton saying that. you have at the same time vice president omar suleiman coming up blaming the media for inciting the riots to start with. he's the guy we're about to put in charge apparently. >> well, and that is why there is profound reservations and anxiety at the highest level of the administration tonight because secretary clinton delivered that message because just as she you said in a conversation with nick kristof and anderson and they have a parallel in not so distant history and it's called tiananmen square. the chinese kicked everybody out and horrible thi...