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Himself, looked at his values and said this is where i stand. now, the question is going to be, if we end up with the muslim brotherhood in charge of egypt, then the president is going to be called to account for the commitment he made. but he's hoping, and he's got to have some kind of end game here. they've got to understand where this is going. if mubarak is out, who's in? elbaradei probably doesn't have the public support. the ambassador would know better tharn i, b. is there somebody in the army that we don't know about. the american military and israelis and everybody else is looking at ...

Washington is talking about are eform. many of the demonstrators in cairo are talking about mubarak actually leaving. so that's the first thing. and then there are the two different political clocks. president obama is here in d.c., the demonstrators and president mubarak in cairo. the way i read it, being here in d.c. is that i know that a lot of people are calling ining fo political head and they want you to leave in ej i want. i'm going to do you one more favor and i'm not going to call for that. but at the same time, the president is asking -- president obama is asking president hosni muba...

You meet in the streets of egypt if you travel there as a tourist, visiting egypt. you meet a lot of working people. they wear western clothes. they don't seem particularly religious in their politics. they have jobs but they don't make enough to really make it in the world. do they have an alternative in their minds as they demonstrate. they want him out, they want him gone. they want his posters down with their faces on them. do they have another face they want up there? >> not necessarily. i expect you'll see a wide va rye variety of opinions. egyptians are sending a president they don't wa...

And suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. what's needed right now are concrete steps that advance the rights of the egyptian people -- a meaningful dialogue between the government and its citizens, and a path of political change that leads to a future of greater freedom and greater opportunity and justice for the egyptian people. >> there he is, calling upon our ally, a partner, mubarak, to make political change. he's telling him to not be who he is. >> yes, but the potential problem is that mubarak could call his bluff here. t i'm not a close student of this, but the presid...

United states has a partnership with egypt and we clabed on many issues including to advance a more peaceful region. but we've also been clear that there must be reform, political, social and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the egyptian people. in the absence of these reforms, grievances have built up over time. >> the middle east, of course, our long-time ally egypt. chuck todd's white house correspondent. chuck, you're very good as a reporter. is this too hard to report right now? what is the inclination of our president with regard to this turmoil? in egypt? >> the white house...