with us, the professor of middle east studies at johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. professor, if the president of the united states called you right now and said, professor, what should we do, what would you tell president obama? i have a feeling this president would not call me because i have been very critical of him. i think there is something wrong wit our posture toward egypt. there is something wrong with the american inability to connect with the aspirations of the egyptians for a change. there is something wrong with our secretary of state saying the egyptian regime is stable when she knew better. there is something wrong with our vice president biden saying that hosni mubarak is not a dictator when every child i egypt we see and every reporter is showing you hosni mubarak is a dictator. so, i think there is some real chaos. not only on the streets of cairo but chaos on our end, what to do
region? that s the big question. the next domino could be syria where a restrictionist baathist regime has been in charge four decades now. you can bet syrian leaders are watching events in egypt very carefully tonight. now, back to anderson in cairo. a show of force by fighter jets, around liberation square. beginning with curfew, around 4:00 this afternoon. we ll show you what impact it had on the protesters in the square. probably not the impact president mubarak hoped it would have. also, in the hour ahead, we re going to look at the roots of this uprising. roots that started not in egyptian, but elsewhere in the region. we ll explain ahead. [ male announcer ] in the event of a collision, the smartest thing you could do is cut the fuel supply. .unlock the doors, and turn on the hazard lights. or better yet,
suleiman takes over, as president, they can say we are moving forward and made a concession. i don t think that would be accepted. people are calling for remufrl of mr. mubarak and total change of regime and justice. if the social protest were to continue and overwhelm the regime, you would have an interim government and mr. ale baradei would be a part of it. i heard mrs. mubarak has already left egypt, in london and the son, gamal, in london. i don t know what you ve heard. but there are a lot of reports that they have left. what are you hearing? i m hearing the same thing from multiple sources, from british sources as well as arabic satellite sources, they are in london right now. we also heard yesterday and this, i think, was confirmed there were 17 or 18 private jets that departed from egypt and landed in the emirates. they included a number of very prominent businessmen including the 64th richest man in the world, telecommunications mogul, as well as a hated national democrati