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He has served for many years. he is very close to mubarak. in fact, there was one of those leaked wikileaks cables where the u.s. embassy filed a cable saying that many egyptian military personnel thought of tantawi as, quote, mubarak's poodle. so if there is loyalty to him, it will be interesting to see where it comes from and perhaps many people still very skeptical that as this euphoria, this understandable euphoria perhaps moves into more of the daily routine of egyptian life, skeptical of how fast some of the changes may come. so we'll have to see how some of this unfolds. a little uncert...

Leaders, their travel is being restricted? they're not allowed to leave the country. that doesn't seem to blend together properly. >> no, no, sure, it does. we just saw a statement coming from the military demand here. what they're trying to do is they're trying to have all government officials, including someone who is a minister of interior here 1r5 years ago. they don't want anyone leaving the country. they want people who are in charge to stay in charge and that's anyone who may have been involved in acrossties, corruption, theft, not to be suddenly getting on the plane and leaving the cou...

Still in a state of flux. nobody really knows who is in charge of the country. the military has taken over. it was given power. it took power yesterday but who will run the day-to-day affairs of this country until new elections are held is still somewhat unclear. they are waiting for a new military statement that will assign a caretaker government until elections are held perhaps in the next several months. >> i was listening to our coverage and chris matthews succinctly said look what this does. it shows the power of the peo e people, look what happens to had as opposed to blowing up a plane ...

They're not thinking very much, they say, about who the next president is going to be, about how their country will unfold. i think one of the things that was important in the military statement we saw before was that the military was trying to ensure the people here that things would go in a nonchaotic way, in an orderly way, it would go on, their lives would not be unraveled because that's one of the things the mubarak government was talking so much about in the past couple of day, remember when he was talking about how the foreign media was inciting people, how hosni mubarak there would be ...

Council. they released a much anticipated military statement not long after action heated up in the square. they called on the police to return to the streets. as for now, former president hosni mubarak, he's in the red sea resort city of sharm al-sheikh. the swiss government is moving to freeze any assets that might belong to mubarak or his family. now, let's get back to the amazing scene that's been playing out for a while now. a large monument is being moved into place in tahrir square. a memorial, they say, to the martyrs, those who died in this struggle. human rights watch says as many ...