of view. egypt has 85 million people. i don t know we have an acute sense of public opinion surveying about what the majority of them think. remember, two days ago after mubarak s speech saying he would not seek reelection, the military said to the demonstrators, go home, we going to turn the internet back on. i think they were prepared to have mubarak stay. i think the rubber is going to meet the road friday, egypt time when we see the prospect after friday prayers of the mullahs as they did last friday calling supporters of the muslim brotherhood back into the streets. i think that s where we are going to see which way the military is prepared to go. greta: are the people going to turn on the united states at some point? even though they don t want mubarak and we are trying help them get rid of mubarak are they going to turn on us? i don t think you should under estimate the extent of
more al-qaeda radical islamists influence in these demonstrations in yemen than we ve seen in cairo. i want to come back to what i think is an important point. despite similarities of people this streets, i think the political realities in yemen are different from egypt. not to say one isn t affecting the other. i don t think you respond in a knee fashion equally in both. greta: thank you. only one day since senate republicans lost the vote to repeal the entire health care law. they are not throwing in the towel. go to capitol hill to hear the next step from republicans. mitch mcconnell went on the record. nice to see you. senator, i came to talk to you about the health care law. let me first ask you about egypt. i imagine you have some attention on what is going on overseas? yeah, like others i ve tacked to the administration about how they are handling this. i have no particular
escalating in egypt. mike, what the crisis is escalating in egypt. mike what can we expect? reporter: we just her the call to prayer. it is a tense day as you know the anti-government demonstrators have called for this day of departure. they are going to get to the street in large numbers. many have spent another sleepless night in tahrir square trying to hold that ground. with the goal of bringing the of breaking the will of hosni mubarak to stay. all of the 10s aggravated by the fact this has been all of the tensions aggravated by the fact this has been going on for 10 days. one of the more ominous signs we ve seen is the harrassment of the world media. widely interpreted as an orchestrated effort to prevent images from getting out to the world. begging the question, what would they be trying to cover-up on a day that can so easily turn violent?
and it seems to be also attempts perhaps to sort of get the media off the streets. get the media out of the high floors of hotel rooms overlooking the square. get cameras out of those rooms. we ve had restrictions put on cameras on the upper floors in our hotel and in another hotel nearby. both of which overlook this square. which has become the heart of the act here. greta: charles, thank you. reporter: my pleasure, thank you. greta: mike tobin joins us live from egypt. how is it different in alexandria from cairo? reporter: certainly much more calm here. we ve heard some gunfire. we ve been watching gangs of thugs walking threw the streets, setting up their own check points, which is a bold move, considering the fact there are only they are only a couple hundred yards
responsibility you can stand taller. president bush used to say everybody is dealt a hand and you have to play them, no matter what they are. this white house has a political upheaval in the middle east in which there are pretty much as you have seen on your program, there s no good answers. and they are not going to come quickly. and they are not going to come as quickly as the people on the ground are demanding and the media cycle needs to keep up with. one of the things they have to do is tune out the noise and focus as much as they can and to rely on their cabinet. has a cabinet for a reason so they can help him through these types of things. and focus on health care, unemployment, energy and all the other issues. greta: carl cameron said today, we were tying to figure out where we will be in two years with this issue on egypt. will that affect the presidential race? this there s an economic cost. a problem with suez or some