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Interested in seeing any measures used to suppress those threats. but in fact, those dangers have not existed in any serious levels for some time and most importantly, this law has been used against political opposition of any sort for a very long time and what you just heard from ivan is a description of what's being done to people who really are peaceful protestors, using this emergency law and using the ideas and philosophy that have been perm mating this government for 30 years, that they can do anything to anybody to keep the streets safe. >> christopher dicky, i appreciate you being on. ...

There was a serious attempt to overthrow the government by the number two in al qaeda. i think there were times when the egyptian people were interested in seeing any measures used to suppress those threats. but in fact, those dangers have not existed in any serious levels for some time and most importantly, this law has been used against political opposition of any sort for a very long time and what you just heard from ivan is a description of people that really are peaceful protestors using the ideas and the philosophy that have been permeating this government for 30 years, that they can do ...

Two nights. and they were interrogated, asked why they were attending these protests and at the end of the two nights and three days, basically their phones seized, just left with an i.d. card. so we're following these cases to try to understand what exactly is the sincerity of this government that is claiming suddenly in a span of two weeks, transparency and the types of activities they've been carrying out for decades. >> christopher, since mubarak has been in power, he's operated under emergency rule. essentially anybody can be arrested at any time, taken out of their homes and they have be...

>> lot to talk about tonight. joining us from cairo, ivan watson and christopher dicky. ivan, what was it about that interview which helped the turnout today into the digest turnout we have seen in this entire protest? >> reporter: i'm not sure strictly that interview alone pushed these record numbers in. there was also a lot of people who felt perhaps more safe after several days of relative calm to just go, but there's no question that that interview was a powerful motivator, as well. and that when he stepped up on the makeshift stage there, it was -- he was treated as a hero of the egyptian...

>> lot to talk about tonight. joining us from cairo, ivan watson and christopher dicky. ivan, what was it about that interview which helped the turnout today into the digest turnout we have seen in this entire protest? >> reporter: i'm not sure strictly that interview alone pushed these record numbers in. there was also a lot of people who felt perhaps more safe after several days of relative calm to just go, but there's no question that that interview was a powerful motivator, as well. and that when he stepped up on the makeshift stage there, it was -- he was treated as a hero of the egyptian...