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And then pay the consequences. now as they lost power, there will be no problem. >> how concerned are you that the apparatus of the state repression, the secret police, the interior ministry are all still there? >> come on. they are not there. we are much stronger. we are much -- we are much stronger than all these guys. were much stronger than all these guys, so i met with the minister of the interior so many times. i speak to him one-to-one. i told him what i dont like so this is what works. y...

They believe that the only good thing thats come out of the situation so far here in egypt is the fact that the army is in control and from what weve seen down here in tahrir square this evening, the people very much support the army soldiers standing atop their tanks, standing at the site of their tanks being kissed by the people, hands being shaken, i saw one little boy with an egyptian flag painted across his face target a soldiers sleeve and he kissed the soldier on his cheeks. thats the sor...

And im not really worried because as i said, i trust 80 million egyptians. >> the question i had was first tunisia, now egypt. whats next? >> ask facebook. >> ask what? >> facebook. >> facebook. >> facebook. you are giving facebook a lot of credit for this? >> yeah, for sure. i want to meet mark zuckerberg one day and thank him. >> tell him why you think mark zuckerberg and facebook helped get people in tunisia and egypt and presumably other countries in the not too distant future -- >> im not t...

And not just for egypt, actually, for the entire region. >> we understand people are shouting, the people and the military are one. they are happy that the military has taken over. it may be too soon to be analyzing some of the long-term ramifications here, but at the same time, theyve got to be thinking about the future, even tonight, in tahrir square. >> reporter: well, jim, at this point in time i really think people are just caught up in the moment and in the reality of what they have accomp...

Crowds were erupting on the streets of cairo and really across egypt. what we heard from vice president biden right there when he talked about the core principles that the u.s. stands for, that mirrored almost exactly what president obama said in his strongly worded statement that he put out last night talking about the universal rights of the people of egypt needing to be respected as well as a key phrase that -- a key phrase calling for concrete and irreversible political change to be set into...

Every single person there. this was a revolution. as i told you guys on my interview this is a revolution 2.0. just like the -- our revolution, everyone is contributing to the revolution and there was no master plan here. >> did you believe this day would come when you set up that first website, when you were in detention and blindfolded and held? >> certainly i fully believed. i knew it. i knew this from the day that i left tunisia. i knew hosni mubarak would leave egypt. >> you knew from the d...

We just lost him again. well try to get another phone in with him. but this is a people who they tried, the state tried everything they could, every playbook they had, as the professor from johns hopkins said on my program many times, they used the playbook of saddam, and they tried all the tricks in the book, and it didnt work. and this work and this message is now loud and clear about what the people in egypt want for their future. the question, of course, hala, is what happens next. >> yeah, ...

They said to themselves, the egyptians, if a small country of tunisia could do it, why not a proud distinguished nation like egypt do it with thousands of years -- >> wolf, stand by. >> yeah. >> because we want to find out, what is the reaction. ivan watson is at the presidential palace where this statement was issued, whether it was a tape recording, it came through state-run television. ivan, hold up your telephone, give us an idea of what the crowd reaction is where you are at the presidentia...

Over. the same thing happened in the russian revolution, happened in iran. the phrase the revolution devours its children is an old one, and we all have to do everything we possibly can to work with the forces of stability and change in a democratic and law-abiding direction in egypt to help them economically, to help them politically and see to it that this does not become an islamist operation the way iran has and gaza has and im afraid lebanon may be on the way to being. >> when you heard wae...

These extraordinary developments. >> maybe jim wants to listen in and get reaction from outside egypt throughout the region. lets go to cnns reza where folks are watching as they are all over the world especially in the muslim world, reza, with keen interest. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, wolf, weve been monitoring reaction from iran, not so much in pakistan, of course, the images weve seen today and over the past couple of weeks in egypt remind many people of the uprising after the d...