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High tomorrow. as many as 1 million egyptians demanding the ouster of president hosni mubarak. but after 30 years, why now? richard lui is here now with the details. good morning, chris. as we try to answer that question, there s also the composition of the protesters out there right now. they are the middle class, the educated elite, the poor and the young. the egyptian middle class, they feel they don t have real freedom. that s why they re out there. the educated elite feel they re being blocked and cannot take their rightful place as leaders. then there s the poor with one in five in 2005 living in poverty. they only see the rich getting richer. and then finally, the youth. the country with an average age of 24, they are the twitter and facebook generation that have mobilized wanting a better future. those are the protesters. i m getting phone calls from young egyptian activists whose voice, i can hear the excitement. they put me to tears who are telling me mona, this is beauti ....
Enormous stake in the future leadership of egypt especially in the nation s assistance with u.s. counterterrorism. president mubarak has been an important partner in combatting terror in the region. and they get more money from the u.s. than any country but israel. evan coleman is an nbc news terrorism analyst and senior partner at flash point global partners. our company is back with us. reza aslan and colonel jack jacobs. let me pick up on what we were talking to congressman schiff about, which is you can open the door to democracy. the question is, who s going to walk through it? and how much likelihood, how much concern do you think there is, evan, given what we know about the situation in egypt and in the middle east in general that some radicalized dissidents are going to walk through? hopefully not. i think what we have going for us here is that the major opposition party, the muslim brotherhood. al qaeda has attacked the leadership of the brotherhood, has said they re sellout ....
There was so much organization being done on facebook and twitter before people started demonstrating. yesterday, everything was cut off. now, the internet is still shut off in egypt. none the less, mobile networks are on again. it s trending. we look at trends map now, one of the key topics on twitter, the tweets appearing. this is a user in chi owe. vodafone is back again. because it s intermittently working, signs across cairo with graffiti. this says down with mubarak. this is a theme with this morn. this one, down with mubarak. on a carrier, graffitied up with ....
Poverty, frustrations and now everyone is seeing what happened in tunisia, taking look at what s happening in egypt. it could be an effect on what s happening in the whole middle east. what s happening is going to be an indicator of a domino effect that s very uncertain now. elise, mubarak, the face of a u.s. ally who supports the peace process. supports peace with israel. in fact, he didn t sign it, but his pred assessor before he was assassinated signed it. what does this upheaval have on the u.s. sponsored middle east peace, the palestinians, the israel israelis. that s the major thing. president mubarak was here in september to launch these peace talks between the israelis and ....
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