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host: does he vt power if he turned to hosni mubarak and said, you're out? guest: he has the power. he would have to know that his fellow officers were behind him on thafment but i've talked to a lot of experts on egypt. and they think that before the egyptian army would turn its guns on its own people in mass, they would probably tell him it's time to go. host: our guest, james. writes about military matters. has for years. 6737-0002 democrats. you can send an email at journal@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/cspanwj. first is up renee from tennessee. democrat. hi renee. caller: good morning peter. how are you today? host: good. caller: i wanted to comment on the in the egypt. it seems to me he is a dictator hiding behind a ei was wondering where those poor people are going to stand with all this going on and what not? you know? with the military -- i was watching the news last night, and they were saying there was shooting and what not going on. and i'm just wondering where those folks are going to stand right now? host: all right. james kitfield? guest: she is right. this is

on a cable network in toledo, ohio, and burlington, vt. but they don't have their own channel. on random channels. i think it is absolutely essential for us to be able to get information to pull from many different resources and many different sources. we need to have that in the united states and be able to get different perspectives breed it is absolutely critical. i think we have a problem in our national media in the united states, what i would call the corporate media. i won't even call of the mainstream media. i don't think it is mainstream. those who are opposed to war and those who are opposed to torture are not a french minority. they are not even a silent majority but the silenced majority, silenced by the corporate majority. host: this is from 20 -- twitter -- guest: we have been covering egypt intensively over the 18 days of the rebellion and even now. yesterday, friday, was the first week anniversary after the mubarak resignation. i believe something like 1 million people came into tahrir square in cairo. time remains liberation in arabic. t --ahrir means liberatio