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There are more and more reports the muslim brotherhood is behind this or at least fueling it in large measure. my last guest says what do you expect when you have essentially a dictator who doesn't allow democratic reforms or voices to be heard for 30 years. on the other hand, what is the alternative we are look at if egypt's government falls? >> the muslim brotherhood are a sunni-based group. hamas is an offshoot. their goal or vision about a nation state would be some long along the iranian-taliban-islamic state. we cannot ignore the idea that egypt has been the largest opposition to iranian...

Cairo in these demonstrations on friday. 870 protesters were wounded throughout the day. it's not exactly clear how they died, though the situation has been chaotic all day long. the united states state department is warning against non-he accepting travel to egypt by all americans and warning americans in egypt to stay inside and not go out in the midst of these protests. we are reviewing our aid policies towards egypt. we give them billions in aid. we are now reviewing that. you can understand why. who is going to be running the country soon? who is going to be in control of the billions of ...

They don't want to get out in front of him. the president of course has asked for multiple briefings a day on the situation in egypt. we know he has had two including one that lasted about 40 minutes with most of his national security team. folks at the state department cancelled their briefing. they say it is possible that the president will want to talk about this. folks here are non-committal on that. and we are told by experts that if the president does want to talk, it's because he has something to say directly to mr. mubarek. that until the president of egypt needs to hear directly from ...

Least according to the reports. there is a possibility now that we and others around the world have underestimated how close to revolution these people in egypt have become. >> it will be interesting to read the history of this period and look back on it. president bush did talk about the freedom agenda and that grated on a lot of people's nerves. political prisoners felt that the democracy of the world, america, was standing with them. it's not that it don't think president obama didn't want that, but they didn't talk about it as much. they wanted to come in and be the open of george bush. i ...

Opportunity for the army to come in, take over, then essentially have regime change, but not for the purpose of changing the regime in terms of changing it to an islamic state, but changing it in term of putting in their version of the guy they want instead of gamal mubarek. megyn: could you have another gradual more democratic shift? something where we don't wind up with radical members of the muslim brotherhood who hate america in control of egypt. but something less than that. but perhaps somebody who is more open to democratic ideals than hosni mubarek has been? >> why we are seeing what w...