8:15pm

Tue February 1, 2011
Middle East

Obama: Egypt Transition Should Begin Now

President Obama spoke briefly Tuesday from the White House about what his administration wanted to see happen next in Egypt. He stressed that the transition to a new government there should be orderly and peaceful, and that it should begin now. But he did not comment on the role he might have played in urging Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down. NPR's Scott Horsley speaks to host Robert Siegel from the White House.

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