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Be a democratic state. egypt will start a new start and you will be impressed how fast we will be developing. thanks. >> and your thoughts at this moment also must turn to all those who have lost their lives just in the last two weeks. >> absolutely. those people are the real heroes. those people are the real heroes. you know, like there are lots of people that we know that have died and also i wouldnt forget -- there are about a thousand people that no knows where are they right now. we are loo...

Some of these movements. >> they may be beginning to be. i know people who for years now have been trying to get them to help get the right types of equipment and software into places like iran in order to take advantage of peoples desire for freedom. we should have been doing exactly what has happened in egypt. we should have been trying to help foster that in iran and help set up servers, protect their facebook, protect their tritter, everything, and we really have not, but this is a good step...

And his regime operating through hamas and the muslim brotherhood and similar organizations to try to undermine this great and remarkable and wonderful opportunity for egypt. >> it seems critical for that not to happen, i mean the critical steps for that not to happen is try to build up democratic institutions in egypt which mubarak, frankly, systemically dismantled, eliminated over the course of 30 years, so the idea, i suppose it would concern you if there were calls for immediate elections be...

Rest a year and a half ago when all of the brave iranians were slaughtered by the iranian government, but if we can maintain our support for a movement toward democracy and freedom and the rule of law, not just by one quick election in egypt and do the same thing in iran and in the rest of the middle east, i think we can put aside this thing that charles krauthammer this morning, a great son of, he said until a week or two ago it was really just supposed to be george w. bush and a bunch of neoco...

Were mo monitoring the scene right now. im harris faulkner and this is the fox report. its the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. the streets of cairo relatively quiet at this hour just before dawn. but anti-mubarak demonstrators are making their voices heard for outside egypts border. events going on across the globe as well as right here in the united states. our julie banderas has a look at todays rally. >> from downtown cairo to midtown manhattan and all across the country, 12...

Children, women of all ages, all faiths there, gathered to find out what will happen next. so many unanswered questions. >> you know, and, suzanne, theres a lot of speculation, even banners earlier today saying the people are furious and out in the streets. youve lived there. you know the egyptian people, they dont get furious like that. >> and theyre very patient people as well. when i was there some 20 years or so ago, it was one of those things, it was acceptable, especially with the upper an...

Decided that the higher council of the armed forces will lead the nation. >> taking them by surprise. lets see the reaction. many thought that it might be just simply an announcement that he was going for a vacation or a rest in sharm el sheikh, and that certainly is not what they just heard. >> and we know that president mubarak has already left cairo, that he is in sharm el sheikh. and we understand theres -- the statement continues. lets listen in here. >> translator: i, president mohammed ho...

Mubarak for almost 30 years the one man who ruled egypt has now officially stepped down. that statement coming from the office of the presidency. ben wedeman who has covered this story for not just years, but for decades. ben, ive got to hear your thoughts right now. and hear about the reaction. >> reporter: well, jim, you see the reaction just in front of me. what we saw was one man was on his phone. he shouted out, the president has resigned, and the crowd went wild, cheering, shouting. this i...