he's replacing mouhammad hussain tantawi. he's also canceling constitutional amendments that gave the military power. is the muslim brother hood playing a clever game of tactics here? >> i think, well definitely politics is some kind of a game. and he's shown himself to be very shrewd and clever. the conversation with the top brass was inevitable. what happened in sinai last week, 16 egyptian soldiers killed on the border with israel and whose fault but that if not the army leader? he sees the opportunity, at a time where people are growing sort of critical in the army and the way they handle this crisis and it was an on tune moment to do sooner what he would later. >> is he squaring up to the institutional court, all of the constitutional court? >> that's the next battle he has in his hands. he seems to have been preparing well for that. he apointed a senior judge, very respective judge as his vice president. that is the first time it happened in egypt, to have a vice president, and egypt had not had a vice president for man