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Say we're not foreign conspirators, we're not spies working for israel, for the u.s. cia, for iran, we are egyptian people who are just fighting for our rights, i think that was an important message to dispel a lot of this misinformation that's been out there. >> christopher, it does seem like vice president suleiman is the one who the u.s. is basically at this point kind of pinning their hopes on and the ones that vice president biden called him today, they're the ones that the u.s. is dealing with, he still is in public statements, he's blaming these protestors for belittling egypt. he's bla...

Watson and christopher dicky. ivan, what was it about that interview which helped the turnout today into the biggest turnout we have seen in this entire protest? >> reporter: i'm not sure strictly that interview alone pushed these record numbers in. i think there was also a lot of people who felt perhaps more safe after several days of relative calm to just go, they were driven by curiously, 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 revolution. but w...

Liberation square by that television interview. i just want to play you a small portion of it. just for background, he was held since the 28th of january, freed yesterday. he's the administrator of the facebook page and credited with sparking the first protest on the 25th. here's what he said on egypt's dream tv. >> translator: the thing that tortured me the most when i was in detention is people would find out that i was the admin of the page. i didn't want people to find out that i was the admin because i'm not the hero. i was writing with the keyboard on the internet and my life was not exp...

Smear campaign in state media to say we're not foreign conspirators, we're not spies working for israel, for the u.s. cia, for iran, we are egyptian people who are just fighting for our rights, i think that was an important message to dispel a lot of this misinformation that's been out there. >> christopher, it does seem like vice president suleiman is the one who the u.s. is basically at this point kind of pinning their hopes on and the ones that vice president biden called him today, they're the ones that the u.s. is dealing with, he still is in public statements, he's blaming these protesto...

There have been and were crushed in the 1990s. 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 ...