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York in times square a rally in sympathy with those rallying in cairo and they are arguing for the same thing: hosni mubarak to step down, and to step down now. continuations have risen in the region, putting it mildly so the issue is back to, with the rising tensions, is this a type to be cutting defense spending? well, i asked senator coburn saying, yes, now is a if time. and my gift says we need more efficient spending in the military and he has fought in iraq and afghanistan, and now a retired captain in the u.s. marine corps so you do not mess with this guy. congressman, good to have you....

Hinderland? is that true or is this by and large a cairo event as it would be in this country if there were protesters in washington? >>guest: by and large the focus on the protesters are in tahrir and the main squares but through in the neighboring areas there are two bridges that connect tahrir and on the bridges there are small protesters going on. and in the neighbors. but for the most part there is a gift town feel even during the daytime when the curfew is not in force. >>neil: and the prime minister of canada said the president will not step down immediately, how did that go down? >>gue...

Praising the uprising saying it will spell defeat for the u.s. and more than 160,000 foreigners have been evacuated and men armed machetes at cairo's international airport and the united nations estimates 300 petroleum have been killed since the silencer -- the eruption. and up day at 28.5 points for dow, up 250-plus points on a week when the world was shaken but we are little stirred. and now from cairo, ashley, are they stirred there? >>reporter: this was the day of departure, the day the antiregime protests were going to march to the palace and sweep hosni mubarak out of office.

>>neil: the scene in cairo right now and earlier in cairo, and they are not going. they are not going. they are refusing to leave. the protesters and the guy they are protesting is refusing to go, as well. hosni mubarak who by their math has half an hour or less to step town. i can assure you, he is not. and mike is in alexandria, egypt, with the latest. what can you tell us? >>reporter: we have thousand on the street but they are concentratessed in a couple of areas demonstrating outside the court louse and the main train station and that is where we have masses of people on the street. outsi...

Less safe and have the republicans in congress jump on that bandwagon. it is the wrong move. >>neil: thank you very much. very good to see you. thank you forgiving us the time. and the scene in cairo where folks are not leaving and it is getting later and later and later and this with a lightened curfew but like regular curfews they do the same thing: they hang out. without much tension.