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Obama Receiving âMultiple Updatesâ on Egypt Situation

   Dan Robinson | White House  January 30, 2011
   President  Barack  Obama is briefed on events in Egypt by his national
   security  team  meeting  in  the  Situation  Room  of the White House,
   Washington, DC, January 29, 2011

Photo: AP

   President  Barack  Obama is briefed on events in Egypt by his national
   security  team  meeting  in  the  Situation  Room  of the White House,
   Washington, DC, January 29, 2011

   President  Barack  Obama  and his advisers continue to closely monitor
   the situation in Egypt.
   With  events  in Cairo and other cities being broadcast globally on TV
   screens  and  on the Internet, the president continues to keep a close
   watch on developments.
   A White House aide said President Barack Obama was receiving "multiple
   updates" from his staff.
   The  aide  said  Obama  would  not be holding another meeting with his
   national  security team in the White House Situation Room as he did on
   Saturday, and was unlikely to issue any new statement.
   Others  in  the  administration  were doing the talking amid the fluid
   situation in Egypt.
   Secretary  of  State  Hillary  Clinton,  in  an appearance on Fox News
   Sunday, stepped up a call for change in Egypt, while stopping short of
   calling for President Hosni Mubarak's resignation.
   The  White  House  also  said neither President Obama nor his national
   security  adviser  Tom  Donilon  had spoken with Egypt's ambassador in
   Washington, Sameh Shoukry.
   The ambassador told ABC'S This Week program that his country is "going
   through  a difficult time" but stressed Egypt was already on a path to
   reform before protests began.
   President  Obama  left  the  White  House  for a couple of hours early
   Sunday  to  play  basketball at a nearby gymnasium with his daughters,
   Sasha and Malia, and their friends.
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