ryan, will this be an example of the president trying to deflect, coming from the bad news, of course, of a cabinet resignation. and also to criticism about america s response to puerto rico, as far as federal aid? reporter: i mean, martin, this is a pattern that we ve seen with this president. when he feels that he is under attack. when he feels that there are people criticizing his response to a situation, he doesn t take responsibility for that, or try a way to make the situation better, he usually goes after the people criticizing him. he was very critical to the mayor of london, if you may remember, a few months ago regarding his comments about terror taxi in that city. so, this is a president that never backs down to his critics. this is another example of this morning. but it doesn t really do all that much to fix the problem in puerto rico. the president also saying in his tweets this morning that he s going to travel to the region on tuesday which we knew.
rights of the egyptian people and work with their government in pursuit of a future that is more just, more free and more hopeful. let s go ahead and bring in nbc s white house correspondent, mike viqueira. what s the reaction out of washington today especially with this announcement that hosni mubarak has announced the swearing-in of his vice president? reporter: richard reporting the protesters on the streets in cairo are unimpressed. so, too, is the united states government. by virtue of a tweet from the state department spokesman p.j. crowley, remember, this after the cabinet resignation was announced by president mubarak last night, a subsequent 30-minute telephone conversation between president obama and hosni mubarak. and that, in turn, led to the president, our president s, appearance in the state dining room just behind me before cameras where he delivered the remarks you just saw. now a new vice president being appointed today. and here coinciding with that move, p.j. cro