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Worrying. it's very important that we get this aspect of it right, too. there are things we can do to forestall the mouz limb brotherhood making a huge gain here. first of all, the majority of the egyptian people do not want to live in an islamic state. they made that very clear. the muslim brotherhood enjoys 15% of support. second of all, the army. the army held together. it will be a major and important institution as a check. and i think what we need to do now this is something the u.s. government can do, is pour democracy assistance into egypt, something that we haven't been doing in the p...

This victory for the egyptian people. but egyptian republic. but the military has a huge assist. i think as we transition from last evening into this morning, there is a recipe for disaster unfolding. with all the unhappiness of a president mubarak's ambiguous speech last night, people weren't going to accept that. and i imagine the egyptian military had to make a fateful decision and that is to encourage president mubarak to exit from the scene. and now they have the power and the transition begins in just a few hours as day breaks in cairo. what kind of transition will the military allow a d...

Still going fairly strong. but despite all of the euphoria here, there is, of course, great concern about what is going to be happening next. a lot of debate about whether or not the demonstrators should stay or leave. i'm joined now by ahmed. tell us how are you feeling tonight? >> i'm feeling very happy for the change that's happen. we came here for the removal of the regime. and the removal of the head of corruption hosni mubarak so i'm very, very happy. this is a historical day in egypt. >> reporter: and what happens tomorrow? are people going to stay? are they going to leave? >> i think t...

The ring. he let the egyptians play this out. we're using our influence. i think bob is right. there are a lot of think tanks that can do to nurture a civil society and help nurture this debate between political and secular and religious parties, left and right, egyptian politics so that they can develop a national conversation towards an election. we could be part of that. but they're in the control of that, the egyptian people as they should. >> nick burns, david gergen, bob kagan, i appreciate your insights. when we come back, more on the global impact. will there be a domino effect?

Although we saw some dangers of this moving in the direction of the muslim brotherhood, that's not foreordained. perhaps what would be the most damaging to their vision of the future of the arab or the islamic world is a more participatory -- >> are they putting economics oil ahead of democracy, human rights, is it over completely? is there some middle ground the united states needs to get to? >> good people from both parties in multiple administrations over the years have had to make these serious kinds of tradeoffs. you asked me about mubarak leaving. and the first is it's hard to imagine an...