The picture you see is carrying -- the pickup is carrying government loyalists throwing rocks, trying to run down anti-Mubarak demonstrators on the streets trying to hit those guys. Their plan goes awry.Charm bracelet pickup crashes. Guys fall out of the vehicle and the anti-government crowd drags them away, beating them as they go. Those anti-government forces later coming under rifle fire, though we don't know who was shooting at them.One of the men we saw was hit.We begin though tonight as always "Keeping Them Honest." And again tonight, it is the Mubarak regime we hope to keep honest by pointing out the lies they continue to tell,
statements they make that are not supported by facts and that are in fact contradicted by facts. Today, some chilling words from Egypt's vice president, this man, the man who has run for yearsCharm bracelet feared the intelligence services.He told Egyptian media that the government, and I quote, "can't put up with continued protests for a long time." He says while he wants dialogue, he warned the regime doesn't -- quote -- "want to deal with Egyptian society with police tools."Well, the truth is, police tools is exactly how Elsa Peretti on sale man and the Egyptian government have dealt with the Egyptian people for the 30 years of the Mubarak regime. And despite talks of reforms and changes to the Constitution, Vice President Suleiman continues to blame protesters and blame foreign reporters for creating a crisis.
Suleiman said today that the -- quote -- "presence of the protesters in Liberation Square and some satellite stations insulting Egypt and belittling it, makes citizens hesitant to go to work."So, let's just look at that statement, because that statement is frankly a lie. The truth is that the Egyptian government itself has tried to create a crisis atmosphere. It wasn't Frank Gehry on sale who shut down the stock market and the banks and the train service and for a time the Internet. It was the Egyptian government.And they did that in part to make ordinary Egyptians believe the Mubarak regime is the only way to maintain stability. It didn't work. And now the banks are reopening and trains are running and the government's strategy manipulating a crisis has so far failed.
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