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Arabs. >> i should point out professor ajami is a professor at johns hopkins and hoover institution. mubarak and i believe his vice president were two men who came to believe, it seems to me, they were egypt. it seems to me the message from the protestors from day one, the message especially from the millions we are seeing now, is that they are not egypt, we are egypt. these people are egypt. >> yes. >> this is egypt. this is it the future of egypt. and this is what egypt needs to be. >> well, a...

Secret police. so theres a lot of unanswered questions about what will happen in the hours and the days ahead. but, again, for the people right now who have suffered for so long, perhaps those questions can wait just a few more hours to be answered while they celebrate freedom, something they are tasting really for the first time in their lives. frederik pleitgen is in liberation square, as well. frederik, from your vantage point, what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, what im seeing, anderson,...

System of graft and corruption, you can just imagine how the money would flow upwards to the pharaoh who sat at the top of that financial economic pyramid. >> and its said the sons of mubarak have a number of companies that basically kind of get money through links with other foreign companies that do business in egypt, perhaps through the military, as well, but, again, a lot of this will no doubt be investigated down the road as already this regime in the last few days and weeks, we have seen t...

Crucial and essential country in the arab world, what are the chances that the military, this institution in egypt, will lead the country to democracy? >> i think right now you have to be hopeful because the power that this tahrir square has shown, the power that the egyptian people have shown, is so dramatic, is so strong that i think it would be very difficult for a general to be sitting there watching this and think about subverting it, think about blocking it, think about obstacles to it. yo...

Egyptian people can enjoy the fruits and benefits of a prosperous and democratic society. >> i think we have some reaction from ban ki-moon, the united nations secretary-general. if we have that clip ready, lets roll that now and then well continue this conversation. all right. well get that queued up and play it for our viewers. let me ask you, mona, what i asked mohammed elbaradei, what do you want to hear from the president of the united states from the white house in about an hour? >> i want...

People of egypt, reaffirming what we had been told was happening, that the egyptian military specifically, the higher council of the egyptian military would now run the affairs of the nation. obviously this is a new development for the egyptian military, something theyre not necessarily used to. theyre going to have some serious meetings now on what that means, i was intrigued and, hala and anderson, if you want to weigh in on this on the appreciation that officer expressed to president hosni mu...

On the side of democratic change and using whatever authority we have or persuasion or suggestions we have to keep down that path towards this ultimate goal of free and fair elections. we shouldnt expect it to happen quickly. and we should signal to the egyptian military perhaps more privately than publicly that we are going to be watching that carefully and hoping and expecting -- i think the key word is "expect" here -- them to do whats necessary to allow a broad dialogue, to allow a discussio...

The white house. hell speak out on his reaction to the historic moment in egypt right now, the revolution, which has succeeded. at 3:30 p.m. eastern, a half hour later there will be a briefing at the white house, as well. well, of course, have coverage here on cnn, anderson, all of this unfolding very, very rapidly. >> very rapidly and a lot of unanswered questions and, again, i mean the story obviously of today and tonight is this extraordinary celebration and the pictures tell that story, extr...

Of people absolutely excited. one of the questions many people ask, when these democratic elections are going to be taking place, obviously a lot of people that ive been speaking to, hala, say that theyre quite happy with the military taking over control of this country, at least for an interim period and then they want to see democratic elections. one of the things that i find the people who were down in tahrir square all this time had very little thought about was who their future president is...

Thank you. >> reporter: and what is your emotion right now on this night and what are your worries for the future? what direction does the country need to go in? >> i think it will be a very good future and the country will be a developed country and there will be good education and good health and everything in egypt will be very, very good. old people also and -- and i cant describe. i very happy. im very happy. i cant tell you about my feeling. im very happy. thank you. >> reporter: thank you...