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Movement to an extremist element and move toward elections. and now people are asking, what happens with to u.s. aid to egypt? i think it's premature right now until we see how this is moving forward to make sure that the safeguards are in place so that true democratic leaders are the ones that will be in place in egypt, and we want to make sure that egypt conforms to their international obligations and the treaties that they have signed including peace with israel and making sure that they don't take any hostile actions against other countries. so the time for calmness is now, and the time fo...

Senator harry reid saying i am pleased that president mubarak has heard and heeded the voice of the egyptian people who have called for change. it is crucial that mubarak's departure to be an orderly one. and it goes on. and then in the house, house speaker john boehner also making a statement about mubarak's resignation not too long ago. he's saying, i hope this will lead to an orderly transition to a more orderly government. end quote for john boehner. and so this, obviously, making news around the world, but right here at home as we await for president obama to make his comments coming up i...

Up. could see see mohamed elbaradei who said this was the happiest day of his life who was formerly a watchdog for the u.n. on nuclear republicans? who do you think? >> you have to include the the muslim brotherhood it's the most organized organization. for years they have been governed by dictators, and kings and generals. now it's a democracy government. we don't know who the leaders are. there is no one charismatic leader that stood up above all others. this is a grass roots movement, the egyptian tea party. we'll have to see in the next few days. when i was in the reagan administration and...

President of egypt, who took power and held onto it with an iron grip, the only president that most of his people have ever known is now gone. he has seeded power to a military council omar suleiman who you just heard there the vice president who was supposed to take power in a weird arrangement that lastess less than 24 hours. suleman is shutout, the military will be taking over in egypt. >> reporter: we are hearing from our own correspondents who are there saying that many much the military personnel are outside their tanks,hat if they are not taking part in the celebration they are standing...

Wires on the associated press and reuters. that's interesting news. jon: the military, it has been said, is going to be taking over power, and there you see some of the fireworks going off. that may have been the sound of the explosion that was heard over tahrir square just a few minutes ago. the military has very close ties to the united states. the u.s. gave egypt $1.3 billion in military aid just last year. there are slightly fewer than half a million members of the egyptian military and about another half a million members of the reserves. military leaders control or ex-military officers c...