bill i m here to give you ideas. march $1600 an ounce for gold? bill: right. martha: thank you for joining us today, i hope you have your gold christmas tree, happy banks theufg. bill: good luck on greta. march i ll see you tonight on greta for on the record . jon: we begin with happening now with this fox news alert, the associated press is reporting the egyptian military is promising to turn over power to a civilian government by the first of july. there s a live look at tahrir square, 6:00 p.m. cairo time, as you might know, egyptians have been pouring into that square en masse protesting the fact that the government they thought to overturn in the spring has not been delivering on promises, and the changes that had been promised have not been
protect the people. their statement today was interesting, that they were going to safeguard the nation, but they were also supporting the legitimate aspirations of the people. they played this very smart, in a very smart way today. i think they probably have some foreboding about tomorrow, because i think the last thing the army wants to do would be to crack down on the protestors and forfeit all the good will that they have accumulated from those people in the square. mr. hadley, stay with us. we ll be coming back with you throughout the program. we are on until the midnight hour, until 7:00 a.m. cairo time. i want to bring back up dr. fouad ajami now and john king, jill dougherty and anwar damon, who is in cairo. john, you have president mubarak making that defiant speech. then the egyptian ambassador calling to cnn to say that actually vice president suleiman is the de facto president. it s remarkable you can have a dictator and vice president both make speeches and still people
but they were also supporting the legitimate aspirations of the people. they played this very smart, in a very smart way today. i think they probably have some foreboding about tomorrow, because i think the last thing the army wants to do would be to crack down on the protestors and forfeit all the good will that they have accumulated from those people in the square. mr. hadley, stay with us. we ll be coming back with you throughout the program. we are on until the midnight hour, until 7:00 a.m. cairo time. i want to bring back up dr. fouad ajami now and john king, jill dougherty and anwar damon, who is in cairo. john, you have president mubarak making that defiant speech. then the egyptian ambassador calling to cnn to say that actually vice president suleiman is the de facto president. it s remarkable you can have a dictator and vice president both make speeches and still people not understand what they are saying. well, anderson, that is a key
also, i think, because he did not want the scene to succumb to outside pressure. the egyptain people are very proud people and it s a lesson that needs to be learned in the white house in the future. you have to stand by your allies. even if you want democracy to prevail, you have to make sure that it happens in an orderly and managed way. megyn: ambassador gillerman, i m out of town, but i have to ask you quickly what i asked jamie smith. we see joy on the streets of cairo, this afternoon, evening, cairo time. what do you feel when you watch this? i feel a mixture of joy for the people who, i believe, want freedom and food and employment and education and feel they got it. but also great concern because egypt is a very major country in the worrell and it must not
west, opposing freedom, that we see. there is a reason that people are concerned. i think the muslim brotherhood, this is not the march of dimes. we are talking about an organization spiritual guide saying al qaeda s terrorism is justified when it is directed against opponents of islam, and against occupiers. last year the chairman of the muslim brotherhood talked about the camp david accords being against the laws of islam. these are deeply worrisome comments, not just for israel but for the united states of america. thank you very much for joining us. i want our viewers to hear what is happening, literally hear what is going on in the center of cairo. that chanting is picking up, the volume level, the intensity, the crowd level, all picking up, approaching midnight at 11:36 cairo time and the pace, the intensity is picking up. it is still joyous and still a celebration but the intensity is