The opposition to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi felt a change in their spirits after descending on the presidential palace to protest. Jeffrey Brown talks to Nancy Youssef of McClatchy Newspapers from Cairo about the role of the police and military in the conflict and the upcoming constitutional referendum. ... JEFFREY BROWN ...
GWEN IFILL: Protests surrounding Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's recent power grab and a hastily drafted constitution turned violent again today. Jeffrey Brown reports. JEFFREY BROWN: Police outside the presidential palace in Cairo retreated this evening after a crowd broke through their lines. Officers fired back with tear gas, but ...
... ended. AMR MOUSSA, former Egyptian presidential candidate (through translator): The message is clear. No one should think that the Egyptian people are not capable. The Egyptian people have moved from the level where they were told what to do to the level of real sovereignty. The Egyptian people have to ...
... rule Egypt's politics and society going forward? DAVID KIRKPATRICK: Well, this is it. This is the whole thing. This is the road map for Egypt's future. And I think in the heady first days of the revolution, many people imagined quite a sweeping overhaul of Egypt's institutions ...
Thousands of Egyptians gathered at Tahrir Square to protest President Mohammed Morsi's declaration of new constitutional powers.
Ray Suarez talks to McClatchy Newspaper's Nancy Youssef, who says that at the heart of the Egyptian debate about President Mohammed Morsi's sweeping new powers is whether presidential authority should be wide-ranging, or whether greater accountability measures need to be enforced. ... RAY SUAREZ: A short while ago ...
RAY SUAREZ: And we turn to two stories about conflict in the Middle East, starting with Egypt, where the controversy surrounding the president's recent decrees continues. This morning saw relative calm in Cairo's Tahrir Square, but protesters insisted they will not leave the site until President Mohammed Morsi ...
... it significant that this wasn't just Tahrir Square, but Alexandria, Port Said, even all the way out in Asyut at the other end of Egypt? NATHAN BROWN, George Washington University: Oh, yes. Essentially, most of the non-Islamist political forces in Egypt, that is the Brotherhood, the Salafi movements ...
In the same week as he successfully mediated a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi granted himself new political powers, sparking rallies both for and against him on Friday. The Islamist leader gained praise from President Obama and others on Wednesday for helping broker a cease ...
... of the regime of Hosni Mubarak. They threw rocks at riot police, who retaliated by firing tear gas canisters to disperse the crowds. HAZEM MESHAABIN,Egypt: This is just a new era of dictatorship in Egypt. This is not what the revolution was about. The revolution was about stripping the ...
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