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In the near future, address the egyptian people if he hopes to diffuse the crisis. >> secretary cohen, stand by. i believe we have -- >> nick robertson, these protests for all of you watching in the united states and around the world have taken place over the last few days, not just in cairo but in alexandria and in suiz. the world is watching and also waiting for president mubarak. secretary cohen mentioned that you would like to hear from the president. we would also like to hear from the president because we were told about an hour ago that the egyptian leader would address his people on st...

Secretary cohen. >> we can confirm that that was gunfire. that was from our live position in cairo. of course, we don't know where the gunfire is coming from but we know that the egyptian military has been on the streets there for at least an hour or two. >> uh-huh. >> even if the military is calling for all of us to go home, barricade our sefts at home for the next 13 hours, we are not going to do it. even though they are welcoming the military units in the streets of cairo, it's anyone guesses how this will evolve. because this is not just three, four days of anger. this is years and years o...

Obviously, but they're also not going to rush to judgment right now. i mean, the most important thing is to have some calm, some reasonable judgment and figure all of this out. i was talking to a white house official a short time ago, talking about the fact robert gibbs moved his briefing from 1:00 p.m. eastern to 2:00 p.m. eastern. i understand from the official the reason is they're considering bringing in maybe one of their national security officials to be with robert gibbs to talk about this. they realize they're going to get a lot of questions, all of these questions we're chewing over n...

Single demand, that president hosni mubarak leave power now. >> ben, i know it's difficult for you to speak because you're breathing in all of that tear gas and the other things in the air. we appreciate your staying with us. reuters was reporting there was smoke coming from the ruling party's headquarters in cairo. do you was reporting that there was smoke coming from the ruling party headquarters in ki row. do you know anything about that? >> well, i can see down the road in that direction and there appears that there were cars on fire in front of the ruling party headquarters but from my va...

And we're following this breaking news out of egypt. a curfew now in place ordered by the president there, president hosni mubarak. thousands of people still in the streets. the egyptian military called out. trying to get people off the streets. the riot police are there, much hated by the protestors. we've seen violence against the demonstrators and riot police, some of the protestors calling for the ouster of president hosni mubarak. this all has great implications for the united states and how it deals with egypt. egypt is a close ally with the united states. we want to go to capitol hill a...