that government refuses to let them go. just yesterday egypt sent the state department more than 100 pages of criminal charges against the group, and the egyptian government is refusing to budge on the issue of releasing these u.s. citizens. trace gallagher is following these developments from our west coast newsroom. trace, despite the threats we're making toward them, they say we're not going to kneel down to you. >> reporter: no. and, you know, now we're learning, megyn, these 19 americans could be facing years in an egyptian prison which is why many of them now, including sam lahood, the son of transportation secretary ray lahood, are now holed up in the u.s. embassy in cairo, because they fear they're about to be arrested and put on trial. the egyptian government is accusing these nongovernmental organizations of using foreign money to gin up these protests to destabilize the government. the u.s. state department, as you said, has now gotten the charging document. it lays out exactly what they're facing somewhere between 100 and 175 pages, but it's written in