. >>> and the mayor of atlanta, representative bobby schilling of illinois. former clinton white house press secretary, dee dee myers. >>> columnist for "the new york times," david brooks. >>> and "time" magazine's mark h alprin. >>> after 18 days, president mubarak of egypt is gone, in a revolution that sent shock waves around the world as they partied in the streets. we'll get the latest this morning from cairo with nbc's richard engel. plus insights in washington for what it means for the rest of the middle east with the former u.s. ambassador to israel and the u.s. correspondent, robin wright. >>> first to richard engel who is in cairo as he has been throughout the story. richard, first, tahrir square, the heartbeat of where the revolution has happened. there's an attempt i understand this morning, to get back to normal. how has that played out? >> there were some people that were resisting this. the step to reopen tahrir square. the military police went in and briefly clashed with some of the demonstrators who don't want to leave the square. but in gener