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Cairo s tahrir square, liberation square. it s been a sim bomb of defiance for days now against the mubarak residency. people here are still chanting curfew was supposed to be done minutes ago but they re refusing to disperse. i ve been talking with this professor. what do you think when you see these fighter jets overhead? as i said, we re not going to be intimidated by all of these. this is a sign of weakness. it is not signs of change. if he s strong enough, he would face the people, he would change this institution, he would drop down the assembly which have been you think the fighter jets are a warning? no, no. as you can see, the people here are gathering more and more. it makes them stronger and stronger. these people are strong. because they are strong from the heart. their spirit is strong. they are strong by holding to each other, by helping each other out and that s the spirit of the egyptian that has been under this regime for about 30 ....
Years. we so there you hear it there, defiance, ongoing, from people here, demonstrators who have gathered here despite a curfew that the outgoing defense minister called for on state television saying, please, adhere to a curfew that s supposed to have started moments ago and continue until 8:00 in the morning. ivan watson, cnn, cairo. ivan joins me now. it was interesting to hear those fighter jets go over. if it was meant to cow people, if it was meant to scare them, it didn t seem to have that effect. no, just the opposite. it was interesting also that everybody interpreted that as a kind of warning, as a form of intimidation and they refused to follow that, if anything, the chanting accelerated at that moment. there are, as we ve said, soldiers all over the streets and there is this really interesting relationship between the egyptian people and the ....
Mubarak goes on national television to tell egyptians his government will resign but he will stay in power. his offer does in the quell the angry and growing crowds. 1,000 inmates break out after prison outside cairo. looters ransack prison buildings and businesses and looters tear off heads of mummies at the egyptian museum. the army is sort of controlling the street. politically there is a complete vacuum. a fascinating look at the roots of all of this, suzanne. there are those who feel the speed with which these protests erupted caught the obama administration by surprise and somewhat flat footed. you worked in the white house for many, many years. what s your assessment? covering the white house the obama and bush administrations had similar situations to deal with. mubarak was not a perfect ally but he was a reliable one. president obama on the one hand is threatening to pull aid from one of its closest allies, at ....
We hear a lot of this phrase managed transition. and what you hear privately, what s that mean? it doesn t just mean lifting the emergency line and following through with september elections. it means mubarak should really state clearly not only there will be elections in september but that he won t run, his son gamal won t run and that will it be free and fair elections. i problem is i think even with u.s. urging, they haven t seen mubarak do that. maybe if he d vp done that friday after his speech this t would have worked. may have been too late even earlier in the week. we ll continue our analysis, guys. thanks very much. anderson, back to you. we ll have continuing coverage right after this break. we ll show you what s happening away from the cameras in the neighborhoods where residents of cairo are living and some of them living in fear. i m spending time at home now because just the situation in ....
The country s opposition group, the muslim brotherhood. the obama administration is alarmed at the growing intensity of the crisis but reacts with caution. i want to be very clear in calling upon the egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters. reporter: as the unrest spreads beyond cairo in the days to come, protesters take to the streets in qatar and jordan. mubarak goes on television to tell egyptians his government will resign but he will stay in power. his offer does not quell the angry and growing crowds. thousands of inmates break out of a prison outside cairo. and looters ransack businesses. and vandals tear off the heads of mummies at the egyptian museum. journalists report a dangerous power vacuum. the army is sort of controlling the street. politically, there s a complete vacuum. reporter: president obama is trying to focus on some key ....