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Came, it was erupting, everyone singing, chanting, waving flags. pure happiness. >> has there been any sign of the pro mubarak forces who were so menacing in staging the attacks last week? have they simply melted into the wood work? >> they really organized themselves. it's a volunteer force to stop people that they don't deem peaceful to enter this square. it is an egyptian party celebrating democracy in the square tonight. >> chapman bell reporting from central cairo, thank you. we have a former nfc director

The -- after the soviet empire fell. it's a very mixed picture. today is a great day of jubilation. and now the hard work begins after the hard work of the revolution. it can go in any kind of direction. what does this mean for the united states in terms of how the rest of the arab world is going to react? the rest of the arab street is going to react to these events. is it going to keep focus on democratization or is it going to become obsessed again with israel and zionism and the devilish united states? it's both a great opportunity for democracy, for human rights. and it also is fraught. a...

Are doing. nor do i assume that that military supreme council has thought through what are they going to do next. this is a pretty staggering problem. 80 million people impoverished, 350,000-person secret police and police force that is despised. what do you do next? >> and, you know, at the beginning of this a lot of us were saying how important the military's role would be in all of this. have they really kept a lid on? >> well, i mean so far. to be honest, it is astonishing to me. i repeat, 18 million people in cairo, a lot of them incredibly impoverished and desperate. the police have disa...

Bill: he's one of more than 30 officers sleeping on a house cot. the watchdog group wants the government to crack down on them, claiming they're violating the rules and possibly violating federal law. give me break. martha: i don't think that's what they intended, right? for the guys to sleep there? i don't know. we just saw him, he's a big budget cutter. i think he's making a statement on that as well, right? well, thousands of protestors gathering in cairo there. there is a the current live shot out of tahrir square, but here in the united states, fear that the muslim brotherhood too take ...

Resigned. nbc's chuck todd is watching events at the white house where we expect to hear from the president. chuck, has this become the orderly transition the white house was looking for or is this something much different? >> reporter: they're hoping it is. it was interesting this morning, lester, when word came out that hosni mubarak left cairo, a senior official made it known publicly that the white house believed this was a great first step, almost getting ahead of the eventual event that, of course, we saw happen break out frankly just moments later when the announce p was made that he ha...