expediting his departure? i think when you re seeing the number of people surrounding mubarak who are nowhere else keeping their distance or increasing their distance, the defense minister who visited the demonstrators, the prime minister, omar suleiman and this interesting group of behind the scenes activists, the former ambassador to the united states, who are proclaiming roles to help if a till tate some sort of accommodation agreement on a transitional government. i suspect that what is really happening here is that mubarak drew a line in the sand, but if he s able to be convinced that there is some peaceful methodology in place by which he can step asine side that would lead to a transitional government sometime in the next few months with the constitution being rewritten by this group, i think he would be willing to expedite his departure. that s his perspective. let s get the other perspective