greta: the cry is escalating in egypt. mike, what the crisis is escalating in egypt. mike what can we expect? reporter: we just her the call to prayer. it is a tense day as you know the anti-government demonstrators have called for this day of departure. they are going to get to the street in large numbers. many have spent another sleepless night in tahrir square trying to hold that ground. with the goal of bringing the of breaking the will of hosni mubarak to stay. all of the 10s aggravated by the fact this has been all of the tensions aggravated by the fact this has been going on for 10 days. one of the more ominous signs we ve seen is the harrassment of the world media. widely interpreted as an orchestrated effort to prevent images from getting out to the world. begging the question, what would they be trying to cover-up on a day that can so
anti-american feeling that existed before these demonstrations started. i spent 16 months at the united nations. the biggest problem, not the biggest, there was competition. one of the biggest problems for the united states was the position the government of egypt took on issue after issue. there s already a lot of anti-americanism there, whatever we say about hosni mubarak. greta: i guess we should brace ourselves for whatever the future may bring. it is uncertain mixed in with violence. it is complicated. in life sometimes your most profound moral convictions conflict. that is what is happening here. demonstrators urge for democracy, ours or peace in the mids in the mideast. this is a very complex situation we are operating
congresswoman gabrielle giffords will announce friday if he plans to lead the space shuttle mission for april. kelly his wife is getting better everyday. his astronaut twin brother scott is currently on the international space station. i m marianne rafferty. now back to on the record. greta: right now it is morning in yemen. protests are erupting there. today is a day of rage in yemen. first egypt, now yemen. more than 20,000 chanting in the streets, down, down, down with the re . they want their president to step down after 32 years as their president. the yemeni president is responding saying he will not seek another term that is not enough for these protesters
other issue the president will get blamed, not for egypt but if there s an economic cost. and he can worry about that. he has to do what he thinks is right to the best of his ability and history plays out and policy makers in the future can look back and decide if he did the right thing. right now he has to trust his principals the people around trust his principles, trust the people around him. get grow he has no control over these people. he believes greta: he has no control over these people. he believes mubarak should leave now. he can have that principle all he wants, mubarak is not going any place. you can have your principles but you can get other people to respond card accordingly. a lot of these situations the one thing you need the most is something you cannot have, more time. democracy takes a while to build, you need space and time for there to be a third choice
they want him out now. remember the christmas day bomber? he trained in yemen. now al-qaeda is active in this volatile country. yemen has been an ally in the war on terrorism. trouble in yemen is big trouble for us. what is it like now and what will a change in leadership mean to the united states? john bolton is back. 25 million give or take a million, 65% unemployment, they want their president out, they ve got al-qaeda, u.s. operating drones in yemen infuriating many now people are taking to the streets. this is not a good not many good signs there, sir. neither is it a cookie-cutter situation with egypt. the most recent state department human rights report under president obama and secretary clinton, described the 2006 presidential election in yemen as free and competitive.