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Interested in seeing any measures used to suppress those threats. but in fact, those dangers have not existed in any serious levels for some time and most importantly, this law has been used against political opposition of any sort for a very long time and what you just heard from ivan is a description of whats being done to people who really are peaceful protestors, using this emergency law and using the ideas and philosophy that have been perm mating this government for 30 years, that they can...

There was a serious attempt to overthrow the government by the number two in al qaeda. i think there were times when the egyptian people were interested in seeing any measures used to suppress those threats. but in fact, those dangers have not existed in any serious levels for some time and most importantly, this law has been used against political opposition of any sort for a very long time and what you just heard from ivan is a description of people that really are peaceful protestors using th...

Two nights. and they were interrogated, asked why they were attending these protests and at the end of the two nights and three days, basically their phones seized, just left with an i.d. card. so were following these cases to try to understand what exactly is the sincerity of this government that is claiming suddenly in a span of two weeks, transparency and the types of activities theyve been carrying out for decades. >> christopher, since mubarak has been in power, hes operated under emergency...

>> lot to talk about tonight. joining us from cairo, ivan watson and christopher dicky. ivan, what was it about that interview which helped the turnout today into the digest turnout we have seen in this entire protest? >> reporter: im not sure strictly that interview alone pushed these record numbers in. there was also a lot of people who felt perhaps more safe after several days of relative calm to just go, but theres no question that that interview was a powerful motivator, as well. and that w...

>> lot to talk about tonight. joining us from cairo, ivan watson and christopher dicky. ivan, what was it about that interview which helped the turnout today into the digest turnout we have seen in this entire protest? >> reporter: im not sure strictly that interview alone pushed these record numbers in. there was also a lot of people who felt perhaps more safe after several days of relative calm to just go, but theres no question that that interview was a powerful motivator, as well. and that w...

The compound, phones seized, money seized, just left with an i.d. card. so were following these cases to try to understand what exactly is the sincerity of this government that is claiming suddenly in a span of two weeks, transparency and the types of activities theyve been carrying out for decades. >> christopher, since mubarak has been in power, hes operated under emergency rule. essentially anybody can be arrested at any time, taken out of their homes and they have been. is there -- what is t...

And they were interrogated, asked why they were attending these protests and at the end of the two nights and three days, basically their phones seized, just left with an i.d. card. so were following these cases to try to understand what exactly is the sincerity of this government that is claiming suddenly in a span of two weeks, transparency and the types of activities theyve been carrying out for decades. >> christopher, since mubarak has been in power, hes operated under emergency rule. essen...

Exaggerations in what has been a smear campaign in state media to say were not foreign conspirators, were not spies working for israel, for the u.s. cia, for iran, we are egyptian people who are just fighting for our rights, i think that was an important message to dispel a lot of this misinformation thats been out there. >> christopher, it does seem like vice president suleiman is the one who the u.s. is basically at this point kind of pinning their hopes on and the ones that vice president bid...

Interrogated. asked why they were attending these protests and at the end of the two nights and three days, basically deposited the gates of the compound, phones seized, money seized, just left with an i.d. card. so were following these cases to try to understand what exactly is the sincerity of this government that is claiming suddenly in a span of two weeks, transparency and the types of activities theyve been carrying out for decades. >> christopher, since mubarak has been in power, hes opera...

Cia, for iran, we are egyptian people who are just fighting for our rights, i think that was an important message to dispel a lot of this misinformation thats been out there. >> christopher, it does seem like vice president suleiman is the one who the u.s. is basically at this point kind of pinning their hopes on and the ones that vice president biden called him today, theyre the ones that the u.s. is dealing with, he still is in public statements, hes blaming these protestors for belittling egy...