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Organizers not leave under any circumstances and will not disperse. one of the leaders said they will die and if they die more people will come back and try to retake the center of cairo tomorrow. >> richard engel, thank you. you know better than i, the first order of business is to stay safe. thanks, richard. >> thanks. joining us now is mark lander, diplomatic accordance for "the new york times" and mark, first of all, your extraordinary reporting today on the front page of "the new york times" with behind the scenes story of exactly what is happening in our government leads one with the i...

>> mark, what is most surprising to you as they try to get on top, one could sympathize, not only a rapidly moving events over there, but also the fact they don't want to publicly be seen pushing an ally of 30 years? >> i think what surprised me is that every time that something unexpected happened, like a full-blown upriseing in egypt, you then see a contagiocontagio. they go to another country. yemen three days ago was experiencing protests and now suddenly the president of yemen said he won't run for re-election either. that can't have been on anybody as radar screen. three weeks ago i was ...

Make, and in the end, all seven signed off on it. and then suddenly, the president at the last minute, unsigns off on it in effect. so what trust do you have in a negotiator other than the president? what that tells you, the only person that can make a deal on behalf of donald trump is donald trump. and that's why this summit is so important, because you're going to have the two leaders, side by side, not just pompeo with his counterpart in north korea, not some lower level negotiators the way it would normally work. only one person can make a decision in this administration, and that would be...

I want to make sure that we keep it. okay? mark lander? >> thank you very much, mr. president. yesterday admiral nick raven testified before congress that he was concerned that there wasn't a clear procedure to be followed if a terrorist were captured alive abroad. the administration has also been clear it doesn't want to continue to send suspected terrorists to guantanamo. what message do you have for american men and women in uniform who are undertaking missions like the very risky one to capture and kill osama bin laden, about what they should do in the event they capture someone alive? and...