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>> i think vice president cheney may have played a significant role here. they both worked together back during the ford administration. he had a friendship that has endured over the years. and i think that vice president cheney had much to do, i'm speculating, in terms of the recommendation. >> i think that's probably true. now you're just back from the security conference in munich and you were witness to all of the drama, all of the conversations about what's happening in egypt. and one of issues was frank wizner, the special envoy who went over last week. we were told by the white house, a...

And very astute observers talking about egypt and also talking about afghanistan, hamid karzai was there. but on egypt, everyone was clear that mubarak has to go. but that the structure of the transition has to be very carefully arrived at. the u.s. cannot control that. the egyptians have to control that. and the egyptian street is diverse. there are some folks who want to tear the whole place down. and there are other who is want to preserve the institutions that they revere, like the army and some of the well-known official who is are part of the transition. but i think it's very good that t...

Turn-out, whether there were a million people or close to a million people on the streets today. i don't know. but it is clear that the rallying cry is that the egyptian people want this president to go. so i think the real key is, how you put a process in place with time deadlines, that moves along. and provides a new government at the end of the process. as quickly as you possibly can. >> do you think that that can be done? that those guarantees of something, so that there isn't a total vacuum and there are political organizations and a process for election, can that happen within weeks? or ...

Good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in egypt, hundreds of thousands of people have now gathered for one of the largest rallies yet in cairo's main square. renewing pressure on president mubarak. meanwhile, vice president biden reached out again to his counterpart, vice president suleiman today, to go over the precise steps that the u.s. wants to see to make sure that the reform process is credible. we just heard from white house press secretary, robert gibbs, who said the president's focus is on those reforms and he has no stay on whether mubarak stays in power. nbc's ron allen i...

And as a matter of fact, i don't believe there was any intelligence on what was happening on facebook or twitter or the organizational effort to put these protests together. now the protest has been amazing. it's certainly the strongest, most prolonged i think that i have ever seen. the key, i think is where does this go. and what should the role of the you state be. >> are you satisfied, that, that the message from the administration has been consistent? there's a lot of criticism that it has turned and twisted and that mixed signals have been sent. >> i haven't seen that i think both the sec...