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Ever. this is the power of human dignity and it can never be denied. egyptians have inspired us. they have done so by putting the lie to the idea that just to us is best gained through violence. for an egypt it was the moral force of nonviolence, not terrorism, not mindless killing, but nonviolence, moral force, that bent the arc of history toward justice once more. and while the sights and sounds we heard were entirely egyptian, we cant help but hear the echoes of history, echoes from germans t...

The egyptian media for a long time. just to see that unfold and if you had watched, if you had watched the egyptian media over these past 18 days, anderson is right, and ben wedeman has reported extensively for us about some of the outrageous allegations they were making against these demonstrators at tahrir square, allegations saying the u.s. or other foreign powers were funding them, were responsible for them and it was, you know, just wild, wild accusations. lets go back to tahrir square righ...

That on monday. >> when is the last time president obama spoke with president mubarak? >> i have to double check but i believe it was ... i think it was right before he spoke -- monday, right? the monday he spoke? the last one was then that i am aware of. >> under the obama administration the state department changed the way the civil society in egypt was funded. it did not directly fund civil society groups or democracy groups as the bush administration did? (inaudible) and it lowered how much ...

At the center of the world in hundreds of countries all over our planet, in living rooms and news studios, the world is watching now, the center of cairo, egyptian, where an unthinkable revolution has take were place over the past 18 days as the government fought back against its own people, as the government tries to keep them from demonstrating, to keep the pictures from getting out, and they could not be stopped. the egyptian government has been overthrown! in just a moment as mime mentioned ...

>> few questions on egypt. was president obama surprised by the news this morning? >> well, look, i think throughout the morning we got last night indications that the last speeches may not have been given and the last changes, particularly this morning when, with the, with everybody reporting that there would be a statement from the office of the president. so the president, as i think many of you have reported, was in a regularly scheduled meeting in the oval when a note was taken into him to ...

In terms of the transmittal of the message. i have the statement in front of me in black and white. but categorical indicates that the president has transferred the authority of the office of the president to the vice president suleiman. he has effectively done so, related to all presidential authority, and not some. >> shepard: a protest leader in the streets there earlier spoke on al jazeera satellite television, mr. ambassador, and said omar suleiman is worse. he is the one who did the tortur...

Nation in ghana while trying to perfect his own, theres something in the soul that cries out for freedom. those were the cries that came from tahrir square and the entire world has taken note. today belongs to the people of egypt. the american people are moved by these scenes in cairo and across egypt because of who we are at a people, and the kind of world we want our children to grow up in. the word "tahrir," means liberation, a word that speaks to that something in our souls that cries out fo...

The government and take hosni mubarak out. we are close to dawn just a few hours away. who knows what the 18th day of protests will actually bring to egypt who have been on the brink today. shep? >> shepard: our correspondent dominick dinatale live for us in cairo. and now the protesters are chanting in tahrir square. our interpreter tells us their words are as follows. "what does mubarak want? does he want us all to die?" the white house says it watched president mubaraks speech on air force on...

Answers and do so peacefully, constructively, and in the spirit of unity that has defined these last few weeks. for egyptians have made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day. the military has served patriotally and responsibly as a caretaker to the state and will now have to ensure a transition that is credible in the eyes of the egyptian people. that means protecting the rights of egypts citizens, lifting the emergency law, revising the constitution and other laws...

Contacts that many of you all have that seem to tell everyone that a different speech might be what we would hear. we didnt hear that last night. and the statement was at that point it was a missed opportunity for the government of egypt to take the necessary steps toward that orderly transition. that was, quite frankly, that has been true throughout the week. you have seen as the government has taken the necessary steps to broaden the coalition and make the fundamental reforms that signals to t...