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Hands are dirty. but i think that -- a lot of what they've done is forgivable. what bothers me about them is not what they did leading up to the crisis, it's that they backed themselves that this situation where you couldn't reform the system where they essentially said these banks are too central to the economy to allow them to fail, we're going to subsidize them back to health and in doing so created these monsters that were able to prevent themselves from being reformed that were able to exert political influence on the reform process so i feel like they were both geithner and bernanke's bi...

Will undertake their responsibilities to express their opinions in a peaceful manner and the voice of the people has been heard and will continue to guide the reform process. >> do you believe that your foreign minister, that the u.s. administration is improperly interfering in domestic egyptian affairs? >> i'm sorry, my position here as ambassador necessitates that i maintain channels of cooperation and consultation, and this is our interests to maintain our special and strong relationship to the united states, the u.s./egyptian partnership is an enduring one, one important to both sides. >> ...

No one. >> what about the ability to end the state of emergency, which has been around since 1981? who canened that? >> that of course is the authority of the de facto president. >> in other words, if omar suleiman wanted to end the state of emergency tomorrow, he could sign a piece of paper and that would end it. >> he has 5u89 authorities under the constitution to act on any matter. >> do you have any indication that he will end the state of emergency? >> there were references in both speeches tonight that the reform process is under way. >> that they were thinking about doing it, but he mad...

On capitol hill. they all believed mubarak was going in some form. they don't believe that's what happened tonight. now they're trying to scramble and figure it out. we know that vice president biden and vice president suleiman talk a lot. no one will confirm they talked today, but it's clear they did. >> according to the white house point of view, who is president of egypt right now? >> right now, they want to believe that suleiman is in charge. that would be the thing to expect in the statement. everything in the last 72 hours has been every time suleiman has said something about the reform ...

When it comes to egypt. how big of a deal is it? >> well, this is a significant factor in any administration's calculations about whether to support the reformers and how fast to go ahead with the reform process. egypt used to have a nuclear weapons program, they gave it up in 1981 when they signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but they quietly were doing some experiments on the edges of this kind of weapons program until as recently as 2005 when it was discovered by the international atomic energy agency headed, ironically, by mohamed elbaradei, an description who figures prominently ...