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Her comments as lending legitimacy to the presidency of mohamed morsi saying he was democratically elected, but more importantly, he was capable of getting the job done. so a lot of local media took her to task. more so, the protesters and activists have been very critical in terms of how the united states has not exercised more influence over the course of the last year in trying to make sure this country takes proper transitions to democracy. >> nbc's ayman mohyoldin. thank you so much. really appreciate it. more on the u.s. role in egypt and the question of whether we are in danger of, as...

Feelings are correct because here we have a paradox. we have a supposedly democratic movement calling for the military to intervene to oust a democratically elected president in order to restore egypt on the right path to democracy. clearly there are some difficulties here. the difficulty is not only with the idea that morsi might be removed but then what happens to the muslim brotherhood and other islamist groups in the future? now, i share the feelings completely with regard to morsi's abysmal leadership and presidency. she also mentioned the economy has deteriorated. there are daily fuel sh...

Egypt, but when a military pushed aside democratically elected islamists, the salvation front, that led to a civil war of horrific proportions. that's not going to happen in egypt. how do you integrate the muslim brotherhood into the politics? >> here's the thing i kept thinking about, i would not want to be the person who wakes up every morning for the egypt portfolio for the u.s. government. if i could get in a time machine now and talk to some american in 2003 and said, check this out, in ten years the u.s. government will be viewed by the most populist arab nation in the world being close ...

Streets, both sides, opposition protesters and pro-muslim brotherhood supporters called to be on the streets. what played out on the streets of egypt today? >> reporter: there have been a few different pockets of protests taking place across the capital and other parts of the country. in cairo, itself, the main anti-morsi protest has been in tahrir square. there's been one also outside the presidential palace. and in another part of town, the supporters of president mohamed morsi have held their own rallies. now, in and around the areas between these two major gatherings, there have been scrim...

Here we have a paradox. we have a supposedly democratic movement calling for the military to intervene to oust a democratically elected president in order to restore egypt on the right path to democracy. clearly there are some difficulties here. the difficulty is not only with the idea that morsi might be removed but then what happens to the muslim brotherhood and other islamist groups in the future? now, i share the feelings completely with regard to morsi's abysmal leadership and presidency. she also mentioned the economy has deteriorated. there are daily fuel shortages. electricity outages....