thursday when the president made that speech, clinging to power, it was expected that he was going to resign. now, the arab street expected he would resign but now we are learning that egypt s military expected that mumbarak was going to step down. we re also learning that the highest levels of the president s own political party expected that he was going to vacate his position as president. apparently though, he took the advice of his younger son gamal. there are suggestions that he even wrote portions of that speech. of course, 24 hours later, mumbarak resigned as president. shepard? shepard: david lee miller live in cairo. a fox urgent now. the u.s. house of representatives just voted to extend certain controversial parts of the u.s.a. patriot act. a live look at the house floor. the extension deals with the controversial aspects of the law, wiretaps, the right to seize a wide variety of
bill: the arm of the jihad in egypt. so, he is this is a win for us all across is there anything bad about this guy? he is not corrupt, is he? as far as i know. but we have no way of knowing that. but he has been a very respected military leader in egypt. people come out in the streets as colonel peters has pointed out courageously and boldly have supported the military. i would assume that would include him. bill: okay. he is an older member, so we might see some younger officers come up and assume that role of the future. bill: i just want to i m glad you are on the program. i m glad you are telling the american people this is a solid guy. now, one more question about mumbarak. had you to deal with mumbarak. all the secretaries of state and defense had to deal with mumbarak. when you were dealing with this guy, did you know that he was a corrupt dictator? did you know you were dealing with a bad guy? i had no information he was corrupt. in fact, there would be no way
after president mumbarak left office, tahrir square is still rocking tonight with another celebration. in addition to the fireworks the rallies and rock concerts going on. also traffic in tahrir square. that s because early this morning, sunday morning, the first dave the workweek in the arab world, the army moved in and pushed protesters out of the way to allow cars to come back through. businesses have started to reopen. they are really looking forward to trying to get back to a normal life. mostly the protesters have left the square saying their demands have been met. especially now that the army governing body has dismissed the parliament, they have also suspended the constitution. those are two key demands of the protesters. there are still a few protesters left here in the square saying they are going to wait until there are free and fair elections. on the other hand, there are counter protesters in the square asking all those folks to get out. the big issue, of course, for the a