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of the turmoil on wall street has been triggered by fears over the european debt crisis and the anemic economies. and richard quest, one of the best people to turn to when we want perspective on the global economy. he joins us from london. what happened in the european markets today? >> reporter: the europeans went down initially and then down further and they rallied with wall street. we closed down 1% in london, and paris 1%, and frankfurt, once again the german market is being creamed by what is happening at the moment, by far and away being breutally attacked. and the german indu...

Them unless the government starts to intervene and get egyptian military troops involved which they haven't at this point. but there's nothing to stop pro-mubarak forces from regrouping, from rejoining and continuing the battle all throughout the next day. >> anderson, what do you think is the purpose of these pro-mubarak supporters? are they acting at his specific order, do you think? i mean, what are you picking up here? >> well, look, there's certainly people who support mubarak, his regime has many people who benefit off the state. there are many people employed by the state. the intore yo...

Told mubarak that his time is up. i think senator mccain gave the president kind of a lot of support for doing that today by coming out publicly and saying, mubarak should step down, that kind of eases the way for the administration. but the reality is, we got to be sure there's a plan in place when and if mubarak leaves to have a stable situation over the next three to four months. you have hanging in the background the muslim brotherhood. they've been very careful. i think they've been very smart. they do not appear to be part of these protests. i have no doubt they're part of it and i have ...

Pro-mubarak supporters, who sent them out there? did mubarak himself? did they all wake up and say let's go out in the streets. if they are directed by mubarak or whoever his underlings are who said this, why? what is the purpose of attacking primarily western journalists? why is this being done? >> presumably it's because they're bringing the wrong message to the world which is that mubarak's thugs and i have to assume they're ordered by him or his people, they are trying to get rid of these protest, trying to top this. >> but they're also saying that the american government can't totally aba...

Secret police, informant, agents and the like. so there's a lot of people who depend on the mubarak regime for their livelihood. there are also people who are upset these pro-tests have continued. that the economy is in shambles that they're losing money and they're living day to day and they're angry so that anger has been building and according to the demonstrators, they have found plainclothes police officers in the mix of people that they have apprehended. whether or not that's true, i can't independently confirm it. but it certainly does seem like there are instigators in the pro-mubarak ...