early detection can save your life. give to save lives and reach for the cure. call now or log on to childrensdiabetesfoundation.org. we are back live our special 2 our coverage of the chaos in cairo and egypt. we were talking about how many of the christian communities there have played an integral role in modern egypt. former prime minister high ranking officials and now they are feeling the war rethat change might affect their status in the stunity. here to discuss how the surpr u rising might effect the scores of christians there. nice to see you. thank you.
generation and mubarak s class, if you will, in the military, who described mubarak as a civil servant with a rank of president. this is long gone now. 12 good years he rendered service to the egyptians, then finally he put together this unbelievable autocratic state. the minister of interior has 1.7 million people working for it. the whole treasure of egypt and egypt and mubarak has not been about developing egypt, solving the poverty of egypt, dealing with problems of egypt, been about simply the police state he has put together. there was a demeaning of egypt to insist that a son of his would have to be president, to be tempted to go that i dynasti route, over 80 million people, the palkt hct has been served a broken. he can only step aside. when you see these crowds saying
reporter: most egyptian analysts believe if there were free and fair elections the muslim brotherhood and similar groups would win around 30% to 35% of the vote. but certainly not only has the mubarak government exaggerated the so-called islamic threat in egypt to the united states. but did that to a great extent to the egyptian people, as well. every time elections would come around, they would send out a message. either vote for mubarak who will protect secular liberal christian egyptians or vote for the muslim brotherhood and you will pay the price. that sort of blackmail, so to speak, doesn t really work anymore among ordinary egyptians. they see that the muslim brotherhood isn t the sort of threat that president mubarak and the government always said it was.
the country s opposition group, the muslim brotherhood. the obama administration is alarmed at the growing intensity of the crisis but reacts with caution. i want to be very clear in calling upon the egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters. reporter: as the unrest spreads beyond cairo in the days to come, protesters take to the streets in qatar and jordan. mubarak goes on television to tell egyptians his government will resign but he will stay in power. his offer does not quell the angry and growing crowds. thousands of inmates break out of a prison outside cairo. and looters ransack businesses. and vandals tear off the heads of mummies at the egyptian museum. journalists report a dangerous power vacuum. the army is sort of controlling the street. politically, there s a complete vacuum. reporter: president obama is trying to focus on some key
that is certainly something mubarak has used over his reign to support western security and to garner support here. how realistic is that? what sort of power do they have here in moving forward if mubarak left? what sort of power would they have? reporter: most egyptian analysts believe if there were free and fair elections the muslim brotherhood and similar groups would win around 30 to 35% of the vote, but certainly not only has the mubarak government exaggerated the so-called islamic threat in fwp egypt to the united states but did that to a great extent to the egyptian people as well. every time elections would come around, they would send out a message, either vote for mubarak who will protect secular liberal christian egyptians or vote for