the middle east. cnn s elise labott joins me from washington. first thins first, they have to find out who they talk to. we spoke to officials and they say it s not all that clear who is running the government. they re really looking for the egyptians to claire th s tto cl. the channels have been clogged as the egyptians have been working this through themselves. they ve been preoccupied with their own situation and not really reaching out to the united states. they know the players on the supreme military council, but they don t know who will be running the show. they don t know who they ll be dealing with. what is the role of vice president omar suleiman? what s his future role going to be? and they want to see what this military is going to do. they said they re going to answer the demands of the protesters. they want to see them lift that emergency law, start constitutional changes and start this real political dialogue with the people so that they can move towards free and fair