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Time to go. demonstrators have summoned their followers into the streets, asking 20 million egyptians to join them in the streets for more protests after friday prayers. this time they hope president mubarak will listen. aaron katersky, abc news, cairo. >> our thanks to aaron. the mubarak bombshell brought an impatient response from the white house. president obama issued a statement last night saying in part, we urge the egyptian government to move swiftly to explain the changes and to spell out in clear and unambiguous language the step-by-step process to lead to democracy. there must be r...

Statement has indicated that he does so because of his recognition of the very sensitive and volatile nature of the times that we are going through. >> shepard: did anything about the speech today, its tone, it's narcissism, if you will, did any of that surprise you? >> the tone, know think was conciliatory. it expressed sympathy for loss of life. it indicated a commitment to hold responsible those who have been advocating violence or had committed violence against the demonstrators. and, again, reiterated the importance of the process be undertaken within the constitutional legitimacy. >> she...

President, suleiman, were clear in their statements yesterday and since those statements were made, where mubarek said i'm not going to give into outside pressure but i am handing off power to my vice president, and the vice president said i'm calling on the protestors to go home, and by the way, don't watch the news, because they're just trying to drive a wedge tkw us, so bottom line, the white house has been pushing for the egyptian government to get out and say something clearer to those protestors who have only grown in size, as the hours have gone by. a paper statement issued by the presi...

Close relationship. the government hasn't changed much. president mumbarak has moved a little bit to say he is he giving up powers. the same people we have been dealing with for decades is in power. ability for the united states and imperative to convince that government to move faster on the reform in the sense that they have got to open up the process is so that some of the democratic parties and some of the protesters on the streets who have ideased ideased into to be included in the process of deciding what egypt is going to look like. because, if that doesn't happen. and if the egyptian g...

Something that is dictated to me from the foreign source. >> shepard: in other words, foreign sources were telling him to leave? and he refused? mumbarak spoke after a flood of reports that indicated he would, indeed, step down tonight. disappointment, anger, rage shot through the crowd in the wake of those comments. some held up their shoes, a sign of contempt and you see them there. among those watching on the video screens and listening on the wide speakers, the google executive ghonim who many credit for this protest. ashley, describe the change in the mood during that process. >> it was r...