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Vice president biden is in louisville, kentucky, and he is the first senior administration official to react to the events on the ground in egypt. let's take a listen to what the vice president has to say. >> this is a pivotal moment in history. it's a pivotal moment in not only mideast history, but in history, i would argue. we have said from the beginning as an administration that this unrest, that the future of egypt will be determined by the egyptian people. >> reporter: now, the vice president said he did not want to get ahead of the president's remarks. we believe the president's team ar...

They've been set for september, but the bottom line is the president wants to see democracy take hold there in egypt. there may also be some, some message to other leaders throughout the middle east who are a little anxious about seeing a guy who has such control over egypt for the last three decades and is now out after 18 days of protest. and so it'll be interesting to see the tone the president strikes in the briefing room, but there we have the first comments from a top administration official in vice president biden from louisville, kentucky. jon? jon: mike emanuel at the white house, tha...

Of egypt now. >> there are real challenges ahead. we are moving into a new phase of egyptian history, and of world history here. there are significant challenges ahead for this country. i think there will be -- the military will have -- provide stability for some time here but i'm not sure the demonstrators are going to be satisfied for very long with vice president omar suleiman as the head of the government or the military. they are going to have to set out a road map here moving egypt in the direction of constitutional reform that will allow at some point in the future, and it may take some...

Especially responsible for egypt staying secular, staying moderate, and at the end of the day what we're seeing in the middle east is, indeed, a battle between the moderates and the extremists. and i think it is in everybody's interest to see the moderates prevail. and if they prevail in egypt, i believe the peace we egypt with israel will be maintained. i think most egyptians want to live in peace. i believe that we will also be able to proceed on the israeli/palestinian track and have peace with the palestinians. and if that is the case, we will see a middle east which, eventually, will be, ...

Many countries there is always a tug of war between our pentagon, our defense department and the state department, and you're suggesting that robert gates will be more like the secretary of state in this case than the actual secretary of state hillary clinton. >> i think he's certainly in a position to convey more messages to the right people. her counterpart doesn't exist right now. there is no ministry of foreign affairs with the legit mass tee to interact with our secretary of state in my view. she gave a pretty disastrous press conference back in november and has been squarely on the side ...