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Welcome become to our continuing coverage of the drama and breaking news from cairo. amazing events all day. john king still with us in d.c. we're join as well by james woolsey who was the director of the cia for many years. and i've got to ask you this question. it has been bothering me all day. i want to quote something that leon panetta, the current director of the cia that in testimony before congress this morning. he said, as you can see, i got the same information you did which is, there is a strong likely hood that mubarak may step down this evening which would be significant in terms o...

Your main demand by tomorrow morning at the latest. so that can be forgiven, perhaps they were misled in a way. but i think the biggest way that the army will show that they are with the people or against them is their reaction toward, if the people actually do decide to go to the presidential palace. there are aren't that many now. but tomorrow, not tomorrow. i guess in a couple hours now, will show us. this will be the definitive moment. if people do decide to actually take action, no more. people have been doing very much with gandy's quote. first they laugh ought. first they ignore you, la...

Joined the protests saying that they were fed up with the regime. and with its tactics. those examples are few and far between. the military does appear to be at this point in time, maintaining its neutral appearance, trying to keep the peace, at least keep the people on its side. this is a very complex conflict that is playing out here. and to bring up a point that has been brought up by fareed and the guests out there, that is the issue of state propaganda. the state is running such a propaganda campaign, really feeding the public that only has access by and large to state television. this i...

Something really, really big happens. what don't you see on television? is there something you see that we don't or feel? >> reporter: well, i was trying to think how to explain what's happened here. i thought back to when we first arrived here a couple weeks ago and we were trying to interview people. so many people were afraid. they didn't want to give us their names or tell us a lot about themselves. they didn't want to speak to us and were very cautious. you contrast that with what you're seeing all over cairo and the country for that matter now. people just feeling free, liberated, in spi...

Disgust towards the speech. then aimmediately began chanting "leave, leave." and it has been the slogan of this uprising, calling for the fall of this regime. the people demanding the fall of this regime. that's their slogan. while numt bers have now anyotht somewhat, i can only imagine what tomorrow will bring. tomorrow will be the biggest demonstration in the streets of cairo. not only in tahrir, but all over cairo. they want to make the very earth shake with their feet, because every time this regime refuses to give them any of their demand -- they keep saying they're giving concessions. th...