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Minister. what else can you tell us? >> reporter: what i can tell you is i spoke to somebody very close to the thinking within the inner circles of the national democratic party, the ruling party. and he explained the decision to appoint omar suleiman, the intelligence chief, as vice president may well be as a preparatory step for a transition of power for the resignation of president mubarak and to ensure that there is somebody in control, that there's a system of transition of power from mubarak to his vice president in the event -- and this is very possible -- that the president does in one...

>> reporter: you know, john and fredericka, people here are very passionate and are very energized about getting their message out. the bottom line is this. it doesn't matter who president mubarak tries to name as part of a new cabinet, they said. none of it will work until he's gone. they want him gone and anyone else even vaguely associated with him also out of the picture. they say that's the only way that egypt can move forward. here to get some perspective on this is a political activist and young filmmaker as well. you even brought your camera to document some of that. do you really thin...

Welcome back. fredericka whitfield along with my colleague john voss. there are a key questions. a lot of questions. one in particular for middle east watchers will be the open defines and the public clashes that we've been watching in egypt. what kind of ripple effect might it have on the entire region? >> it started in tunisia. protests in other countries like yemen and disruptions in jordan. all of this a major concern for the obama administration. let's go to our state department producer standing by at the state department with more on this. just explain to us how important is egypt to th...

Society, he has resigned. you just need to look down the road, john. the headquarters of that ruling party is charred. it was burned down last night. it is still smoldering. if you go through the streets of cairo, what is apparent is that there is really no going back. that basically, the people have made it clear. one of the demonstrators i talked to today said, we have fired president mubarak, so it's time for him to move on. the army is controlling the streets, but the army is very popular. it's backed by the demonstrators. there's very little in terms of real power that the president still...

Mechanism be created -- according to the constitution, the egyptian constitution, the speaker of parliament takes over for six weeks and then that would be followed by presidential elections. we haven't gotten to that. but clearly within the ruling elite, they are thinking of a mechanism to transfer power from president mubarak. john. >> and that in itself is a significant development, ben. but you have being on the streets for the last couple of days, ever since this started about five days ago. so the question has to be asked, would this be enough for the protesters still out on the streets ...