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Breaking news into us at msnbc. as you look at live pictures coming out of egypt. it is 5:30 in the afternoon. we are hear frg egyptian tv that we will get a statement from the office of the presidency there in egypt. very, very shortly. we had heard in about ten minutes. five minutes ago, so it could come up any moment. we're also hearing from u.s. officials here at msnbc that the vice president, omar suleiman, who was given powers according to president mubarak yesterday in his statement, although there's been some questions, some haze around exactly which powers were then provided, he is go...

As long as mubarak's still in the country, he's still the president as long as the vice president is a former general in his 70s, the intel chief, the prime minister's a former general. the general is in his 70s and a general, i would be very dubious there's any real trans sigs to democracy going to happen in egypt. the key to this i would suggest is the younger generals, general anan is the chief of staff the egyptian military. he's 63. they're watching this scene and they're going the try and be on the right side of the movement. but i don't think we yet know whether the military can split o...

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I think that's what we should be focusing on. i think and hope and pray that's what would be the focus of different governments and people and parties in our region as a whole. how can they expand or develop dialogue in the first instance, for example, in egypt we're seeing the first dialogue with varies political parties, and i think that these -- this moment presents enormous, as i said challenges, but opportunities that should perhaps excite and mobilize all our resources. >> should somebody who lives in america and has never left the country, maybe, should they be worried? should they be s...

Power. they enormous privileges, but the street is very tired of that. >> talking to queen noor was fascinating. she's been steeped in the history for a long time through her marriage to the king. she was like we must be excited, along thinks a great revolution of young people saying we want something better in our lives. >> frankly i've been troubled with the way i've had so many comments on facebook and twitter saying democracy is great for americans, great for israels, but dangerous for egyptians. if egypt, the most populist country in the world can move toward a democracy, it's going to be...