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Security forces and military should be restrained in anything that they do. >> that was white house press secretary robert gibbs urging restraint. but in the face of this crisis, what should president obama actually do? joining me now is former u.s. ambassador to, egypt, frank wisner, and cnn national security contributor fran townsend. it seems that everyone is trying to make out this is a huge surprise and yet resentment towards mubarak has been building for years. president obama warned him many times he must do something about this. so it's not really a surprise, is it? >> i think the slow...

Restraint. i know u.s. officials condemn the violence. is it time to condemn the violence? >> let's be clear, mike. urging restraint and then seeing violence is obviously very counter to what we believe should be had and we would strongly condemn the use of any violence on either side during this situation. absolutely. >> it seemed that you were delayed today because we were waiting to see if mubarak would have anything to say to his people and perhaps a global audience. is the white house troubled that he has not come out, to our knowledge, to say something? >> look, i -- we were delayed for ...

President meets with his counterparts. our belief is, it is important to have those conversations very directly with those leaders. if you walk away from the table of engagement, you can't deliver that message in a face-to-face manner. and the president believes obviously that's tremendously important. >> you talk about urging restraint. has that message been communicated from the united states directly to the egyptian military, to refrain from violence, or is it just from the podium? >> no. it has been communicated not just from this podium, not just from the remarks of the secretary of state...

Respect, u.s. officials condemds the violence. is it time to condemn the violence. >> let's be clear, mike. urging restraint and then seeing violence is obviously very counter to what we believe should be had, and we would strongly condemn the use of any violence on either side during the situation. absolutely. >> it seemed that you were delayed today because we were waiting to see if mubarak would have anything to say to his people, perhaps a global audience. is the white house troubled that he has not come out, to our knowledge to say something? >> look, we were delayed for a whole host of r...

His president daily brief, the p.d.b., as they call it here at the mouse, typically a wide range of topics. today 40 minutes in the oval office on the sole subject of egypt. the president is engaged but has not picked up the phone to call hosni mubarak. we talk to some experts who say if the president were to come out and speak on the matter, in effect he would be speaking through the television, through the internet to hosni mubarak. it's not clear the message he wants to make at this point. i gad robert gibbs about the violence and if it was time to condemn the violence. here is his response...