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Government has cracked down so hard on the media, where you have reporters from egypt, sweden, america, turkey, russia, polish, canada, uk, other arab countries all have been either beaten or detained or had their equipment destroyed, as well. one of the reasons is perhaps the egyptian government is simply embarrassed of the coverage it's seen so far of the clashes that have erupted out here that even the u.s. government has suggested might be state sponsored. the egyptian government denying that and promising to conduct an investigation. a more ominous scenario, piers, would be if the authori...

Interview made an important point. they can't dictate, of course, this is a decision for the people of egypt to make. but the administration as we've reported tuesday night is in every conversation and vice president biden had a conversation with vice president suleiman just today suggesting president mubarak has to go very quickly. as soon as possible. you would have a transitional government come into play. it is the administration's hope that vice president suleiman would lead that government. he would have the blessing of the top two military official, the commander and the field marshal, ...

President omar suleiman flatly denied the government had any connection with the violent pro-mubarak actions in tahrir square. a short time ago i spoke with senator bob casey, chairman of the subcommittee that deals with egypt. here's what he told me about the leadership. you met with vice president omar suleiman last july. what were your recollections of meeting? what kind of guy is he? >> well, he's very capable, very bright, a lot of experience and intelligence matters and in matters that are more military and security in nature. as he's a very capable person, i don't think he's the kind of...

Beatings of the journalists, kicking people out, the blackout, if you will, has them incredibly anxious. >> you spoke to senator john mccain earlier. i watched that interview. it was fascinating in many respects, but i was struck by him saying that he felt this was potentially the most dangerous situation we have seen in the middle east for a very long time. is that your reading of what's going on here, john? >> it is and there are people watching out there who are fans of senator mccain and some would are critics of him because he's been so active in politics including being president obama's...

Zawahiri. we may hear from bin laden. in fact, i think we'll hear from both of them trying to take some kind of credit for this or insert themselves in opportunistically, but, you know, their role in what's going on in egypt is zero, absolutely zero. >> what i've been told all week is that the real danger for america as far as the white house is concerned would be yemen, because it has a much poorer populace and much more extreme faction there, and there is a tipping point which if yemen reaches it, could turn into the next afghanistan. what's your view of yemen? >> you know, piers, it could b...