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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)ROBERT GATES, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: I think that the Egyptian military has conducted itself in an exemplary fashion during this entire episode. And they have acted with Elsa Peretti Open Heart bracelet restraint. And -- and, frankly, they have done everything that -- that we have indicated we would hope that they would do.(END VIDEO CLIP)COOPER: Well, let's talk about that with professor Dr. Fouad Ajami with the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, also senior policy analyst David Gergen and foreign affairs correspondent Jill Dougherty.

Fouad, what do you make of the White House, their moves thus far, how they are playing this with the Mubarak regime?FOUAD AJAMI, PROFESSOR OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: Well, look, I think the White House has bet it all, in my opinion, on Omar Suleiman. This is the Elsa Peretti Double Open Heart bangle they are playing. This is the horse that they are playing.And maybe that's the best they could do. This has always been, for this White House, this was a curveball Tiffany Somerset Bangle at them. Suddenly Arab society came apart. And suddenly the alternatives in the Arab world began to come about. And the White House wasn't really up to this task. I mean, it wasn't really looking for this moment.

And I think they haven't covered themselves with glory, but I think it's a very difficult call for them anyway.COOPER: David Gergen, you pointed out it's a difficult call for them last night on the program. Now Elsa Peretti Open center cuff President Biden has called Suleiman, using the words immediate, prompt, trying to get more of a specific I guess timetable of change.DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Anderson, these demonstrations today, and the fact that there's now this human face on these demonstrators, demonstrations, with that young man from Google who gave that enormously appealing, charismatic interview,