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Re-examine lower court rulings, disqualifying hundred of ruling party law makers are from serving in egypt's parliament. the cabinet announced a 15% pay raise for government employees. nbc's ron alan joins us live from cairo. ron, what feeling did you get today from the protesters, the many still trying to hang on in that square? >> reporter: a feeling that they're not satisfied and that they're not going to give up. a couple of things you were talking about, for example, president mubarak chaired that cabinet meeting and people don't want to see that, they don't want to see him in charge or e...

thousands of people who are there keeping up and maintaining a vigil, consistent political protest that shows no sign of going away. people come, people go. it's become a destination here in cairo. meantime, on the political front, there are continuing discussions between the opposition and the government and meetings but the bottom line is that the opposition is maintaining a strong hard line position that, before any progress can be made here, the president must resign. they're sticking to that position and not backing down. so far the government giving no indication that's going h...

walk to speak with members of the chamber of commerce, who spent millions of dollars trying to defeat the president's key policies. in a polite, but pointed speech, the president told members his administration is committed to building stronger growth but business leaders need to meet him halfway. >> as we work with you to make america a better place to do business, i'm hoping that all of you are thinking what you can do for america. ask yourself what you can do to higher more american workers e are, what you can do to support the american economy and invest in this nation. >> chuck ...

Question from the canadien press and one question from the american press, we can be sure the question from the american press will be dealing with the issue of egypt, united states influence, how much is there, how are they using it. the administration is not denying reports that they are talking to omar suleiman and the military about the arrangement that you described there. getting mubarak, hosni mubarak, the 30-year leader of the regime, out of power sooner rather than later, having suleiman lead the transition. what would it look like between now and elections, and when would the electio...

talking about politics, music play, all kinds of things going on that are joyful. bottom line, when you ask what's going to happen tomorrow, no one knows. a lot of people vowing to stay there overnight and stay there until mubarak leaves. they're also talking about taking over or trying to occupy a main train station in town. whether any of that will happen and what extent it will happen is unclear. this was supposed to be farewell friday, that's not happening. the prime minister was on tv. he also said there's no plan for president mubarak to resign. a lot of protestors wondering wh...