Inside the White House-Egypt experts meeting - Laura Rozen

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It was a good, serious meeting, an attendee said afterwards.

They rolled key ideas around and know there is no quick reform package that really works with Mubarak, he summarized.

While the administration is considering various options -- including the possibility of at some point telling Mubarak privately it's time to leave -- "I don't think they are there yet," he assessed.

"We do think-tank sessions on an almost weekly basis," a senior administration official told Playbook Monday after POLITICO reported on the planned meeting Sunday, downplaying the off-the-record and short-notice discussion. "The goal is to bring in some of the top opinion leaders and thinkers on a given subject and have a candid conversion. We’ve done it with China, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Today’s topic is Egypt.”

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