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It? >> it's a pretty good analogy, yes. because they see one as the other. it's very clear here. in this country there's a leadership class that's been in power for a long time. one young man that i was talking to when we talked about the possibility of mubarak leaving, he said, you know, that's not even going to be enough. we want the regime gone. they want to see every face, every remnant of what they've seen in power here for the past several decades, gone. they, interestingly, they trust the military. some people were hoping that the military was going to take over. there's some divide on ...

Carefully. governments are very carefully watching this. ruling families are at the edge of their seat and everybody is taking a different message from this. >> we are joined by ammonia, an egyptian born journalist, and an egyptian american writer who has been active, quite so, in fact, during this crisis. you heard an american congressman describe the mubarak news cycle as sadistic, as bringing the crowd to a breaking point. what is your view of the news of the day? >> i think sadistic is a wonderful word, dylan. we've all been sitting on the edge of our seats all day with all these rumors fl...

A change of government. there's two prince pal people involved in the military. the old corny defense minister tantawi, and then suleiman closer to the united states. what i think was happening here is there was at least some pred leccion on the part of the military they would be able to announce a transition which which mubarak would depart, somewhere. this crowd was ready for a wheel's up party. what happened between the time when these -- >> we want to know. everybody in our newsroom wants to know what happened today. that's where we were headed today. >> i think what happened is that the m...

Department. we expect 1,400 more to leave in the coming days. vice president suleiman, the newly appointed vice president, went on television yesterday talking about economic reforms and elections. we're seeing today that the opposition has asked that he take over mubarak's responsibilities. but the question is will that pacify the people? we spent all day out speaking with the people yesterday. it seems there is little that will pacify them short of president mubarak leaving. i told you yesterday that we're waiting for someone to blink, whether it's the military, mubarak or the protesters. we...

This crisis, especially how explicit to make their support of the protesters and how explicitly to call for president mubarak to leave. and so what you have yesterday was secretary clinton, is the needle moving several notches in favor of mubarak leaving, but still a hedge. of course, there are fears about who may take over. maybe there will be some radicals that we don't know of yet beyond the muslim brotherhood who could take power in cairo. of course, there is this deep conflict in the heart of american foreign policy for this administration and the last one. both wanting egypt's support an...