the process. and the official stressed strongly that mubarak will seek to finish the term. speaking for the obama administration and harshest term yet was the assistant secretary of state, crowley who tweeted this morning. the egyptian government can t reshuffle the deck and stand pat. mubarak s word must be followed by action. the state department is urging u.s. citizens not to travel in egypt. to exercise caution. harris: i know i mentioned names of the people in the issue and the white house put out a statement to say two was in charge. reporter: i was told by a white house official that president obama made the call to contact mubarak directly
welcome back. let s get you up to date on what s happening in egypt now. dozens of people have been killed in five days of protest. how many, we still don t know. the u.s. state department is urging egyptian president hosni mubarak to fulfill his promise to reform and not simply, quote, resufl the deck and stand pat. the former head of egypt s intelligence service is now vice president and the country s former civil aviation minister who just resigned has been appointed to form a new government. meantime, ben wedeman reports he s been through the city and is now seeing signs of anarchy in some of its further reaches away from the main capital, the main squares and main protests, ordinary egyptians are now seeing that the police have abandoned the streets of their
this morning. the egyptian government can t shuffle the deck and stand pat. pledging reform must be followed by action and the people of egypt no longer accept the status quo, crowley says they re looking to their government looking for a meaningful process to fuel reform unquote. our only citing of president obama came when he and the first lady ventured out to attend a basketball game in which their daughter sasha was participating. kelly and jamie. kelly: all right, james rosen reporting live from the white house. thank you, james. jamie: protesters are swarming the streets of kwai row, a rally is taking shape outside of the united nations, right now here in new york, a show of solidarity for the people of egypt. our julie banderas joining us live from the u.n. right here down the street and it s busy, isn t it julie. yeah, certainly is, with rallies beginning at the top of the hour, at one o clock as thousands are expected to join the millions worldwide and protesting change,
principles committee produced no major changes of the cautious meeting of the day before. a senior administration official sounded unimpressed telling fox news, the issue is what is government going to do. official says sai it s going to take days before we can see what lies being mubarak s personal moves. speaking for the administration, was assistant secretary of state p.j. crowley. he took to twitter to say the egyptian government can t reshuffle the deck and stand pat. mubarak s words must be followed by action. right now are concrete steps that advance the rights of the egyptian people. a meaningful dialogue between the government and its citizens and a path of political change that leads to a future of
first sunday interview since being elected speaker. all, right now on fox news sunday. chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. we ll get to our interviews with secretary of state hillary clinton and speaker boehner in a moment, first the latest on the situation in egypt. for the 6th straight day thousands took to the streets of cairo and other major cities to protest the country s authoritarian government. president mubarak named his intelligence chief, omar suleiman vice president. the u.s. officials say mubarak cannot just right shuffle the deck and stand pat. for more, let s bring in correspondent greg palkot, live in cairo. greg? reporter: this is the 6th day of unrest in egypt and thousands of protesters are coming out in the streets, they are mostly gathering at liberation square, or tahrir square, and the scene of clashes between protesters and police and tonight in the