cities across egypt. new york times columnist nicholas cristophe join us by phone from inside cairo. set the scene for us now. we know that people keep gathering, is the crowd simply getting bigger still? we still zbloeg. it is getting bigger. people are losing their fear. i walked over to the square with my old egyptian friends a couple and they were initially, you know, very nervous the women hadn t really left their apartment very much. and a lot of talk bin filtration they didn t want to go once they started walking and seeing so many people there they kept on going and they stayed for a can um of hours in the middle of the square and i think that is happening to a lot of people. i talked to a lot of parents who have kind of been egged on by their kids to come. so it is a snowball. nick, we had heard reports, i don t know what position you are to verify them or not, that some
but a different day today than there has been throughout. all right, brian williams in cairo for us. thank you, sir, we will see you all day on the air. the white house called today s protest a pivotal moment in the struggle for egypt s future. on monday, long-time diplomatic ambassador to egypt frank whizzer in arrived in cairo to meet with the mubarak government on behalf of the obama administration. today, the figures, elbaradei and the muslim brotherhood said they will not deal with mubarak while he is in power. daniel kurtzer in, a former ambassador to israel and steven cook, senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. let s start with you, ambassador kurtzer, how do you see this playing out? you have mubarak inching forward saying, all right, let s talk, let s negotiate and yet it seem he is the two key opposition leaders at the moment are saying, well, we want change but we don t want to talk to mubarak
of cairo. reports on the ground suggest these crowds are growing now. an army statement makes clear what we ve seen over the last few days that it will not fire on the protestors. these are breaking developments out of egypt. you see those live pictures from al jazeera, big satellite channel coming into our newsroom. based on reports on the ground, this is almost a jubilant crowd. egyptians want to witness history here, not violence at all. some rumors about a march toward the presidential palace. brian williams and nick christof reporting that. we ll figure out how much of that is true today. there is no leader of this movement, which is what makes the ordinarily part of this even more remarkable. we should mention at the white house they are watching these pictures, these developments. they sent from the state department an envoy of sorts to
the republican primary electora electorate? that is the question he somehow has to figure out how to answer. the president actually joked about that when ambassador huntsman was here for the china state visit saying i m not sure how much it is going to help ambassador huntsman he worked in my administration. the real problem he will china. china is unpopular in the populace wings of both the democratic party and republican party because there is this fear china is taking all of our jobs. how does he explain that to the average tea party activist in south carolina and iowa? i don t know it is going to be interesting. i see the general election argument for him. getting there is a whole different ball game. it is interesting. we will get back to our breaking news now. hundreds of thousands of egyptians flooded into the heart of cairo shouting and chanting in tahrir square, the most massive call yet for an end to president mubarak s 30-year reign. hundreds of thousands of people
intermediary step? it is but the supreme court doesn t like to you do that as a practical matter, think maybe next term, the term that begins in october of 2011, maybe decided some time before the summer of 2012. geez, 2012. something about 2012 is familiar to me. would you think of that. i m not sure what. time to wear a hat. exactly what it s. thank you. all right. still to come, vet latest on those unprecedented demonstrations in egypt. we will go live to cairo right into the middle of what s billed to be a million person march. plus, oil prices spiking as the unrest in the middle east continues. we will get a check on world markets just ahead of the bell coming up. but first, warden message, some diplo speak here, a message sent to americans oversbaes safety and travel issues. in the egypt crisis a warden message was sent to american citizens announcing arrangements for evacuations from the country. wardens are actually private u.s. citizens who live abroad an