of god. work and god will see your work and the prophet and the believers will see, may god s peace be upon thee. all right. so there he is omar suleiman. if there were any doubt about what the president of mubarak said or didn t say, it was all cleared up with omar suleiman. omar suleiman making it clear that hosni mubarak is not stepping down. he s saying go back to your houses, go back to work, don t listen to the satellite tase who are fomenting all these problems, listen to your conscience, we re going to work ahead for an orderly transition, he says to the free elections. he warns against chaos, especially chaos that s being inspired from outside of egypt. anderson cooper, you were there, i can only imagine what s going
anderson, with ben, with ivan the real possibility that president hosni mubarak might say well, i am handing over some of my powers to the vice president to the head of the military but not all of my powers. i will remain the emblematic figure head of this regime. this reem led by president mubarak and his close associates for 30 years. an interesting point there about about the opposition, about the muslim brotherhood, about the youth movement also in the square. what will they do in how will they react if president hosni mubarak does not step down? how will the military relate to the muslim brotherhood? in a system like turkey, the military has always been a counter weight. counter balance to the islamist parties. will they act in the same way in egypt, wolf? it s just fascinating. there s so manying ands. it is so multilayered what could happen in egypt. as you ve been saying, what happens in egypt really
all right. let me tell viewers what they re seeing. you see the big white sheet over there at tahrir square. we re told that s where they will project egyptian state television once president mubarak starts speaking, there will be a projector that will show it on the white sheet you see in the upper lnt corner of the screen right there. halah gorani is watching this unfold together with our correspondent in the square, ivan watson. halah, as we get ready to hear from the egyptian president, we re getting more conflicting word on what he will say, the information minister saying he will definitely not announce he s stepping down but others suggesting he will step down. i guess we have to wait the old-fashioned way and hear what he has to say directly. absolutely because the we re hearing from senior officials that he will announce that he s stepping down. the information minister telling other reporters that he will definitely not step down.
he s been only in a pharaoh-like condition, and only hearing yemen. he didn t seem to understand that the crowd s anger was directed at him. and at the end of his speech, he made the point of saying no one takes decisions for egypt, no one presumably from the outside makes decisions for egypt. hosni mubarak did not say he was stepping down. he came up with all sorts of other indications that maybe he would hand over transfer of p r pourers to his vice president, but he s staying put. he says he will fight for egypt, and some of these people are presumably walking over to the tv station, some are going maybe to the presidential palace. fred pleitgen is down at tahrir square for us. what are the folks saying to you, fred?
foreigners trying to influence events on the ground in egypt. none of that obviously is the case, but he is clearly trying to appeal to many of the egyptians whose voices who have not yet joined these protesters when people are concerned about stability. well call on you to think about the future. there is a deep strange in europe that yearns for stability, and mubarak has provided that for years. he s touching those buttons of national 3r50id, of the desire for stability, and he keeps calling these protesters the youth movement, and keeps and perhaps that s why we had the minister of defense coming to the square saying all your demands are going to be met. as far as the government is concerned, as far as the regime is concerned, their argument is they have met these demands. they have met the youth movement demands, which is a lie, of course, but they claim they have started this national dialogue. they have met with youth leaders, they haven t really met