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And this is where this revolt now ends up. it ends up in a way that hosni mubarak, in a manner he truly understands, a language of violence, and he wants to sully the honor, to sully the honor of these people in this square. that's what the game is all about. >> christopher dicky, you've spent a lot of time in this city and region. what are the ripple effects of this? not only in the hours and day ahead, but in the days and weeks and months ahead, do we know at this point? >> well, i think, anderson, your introduction was extremely good when you talk about the fear that exists in this country....

journalists don't like to become the story but they have been made the story here in the last 24 hours. systematically, we have seen journalists attacked, cameras taken down. we would like to be showing you instead of this strange image of us sitting on the floor in dim lighting, we would like to be showing you live pictures of what's happening in liberation square right now, but we can't because our cameras have systematically been taken down through threats, intimidation, through actual physical attacks. there are no live cameras that we can get access to right now. we do have eyes...

detained or had their equipment destroyed as well. one of the reasons is perhaps the egyptian government is simply embarrassed at the coverage. it seems so far the clashes that have erupted out here, even the u.s. government has suggested might be state sponsored. the egyptian government denying that, and promising to conduct an investigation. a more ominous scenario would be if the authorities here wanted to stop the video transmissions ahead of some kind of tiananmen square style massacre of the demonstrators in this tahrir square. >> ivan, do you feel apprehensive about your own s...

who have gone to ground here in cairo and that's the situation we're facing. journalists don't like to become the story but they have been made the story here in the last 24 hours. systematically, we have seen journalists attacked, cameras taken down. we would like to be showing you instead of this strange image of us sitting on the floor in dim lighting, we would like to be showing you live pictures of what's happening in liberation square right now, but we can't because our cameras have systematically been taken down through threats, intimidation, through actual physical attacks. t...

Welcome back to "news nation." moments ago, the white house again called ford nonviolent transition to democracy in egypt. robert gibb is stressing egypt needs to hold cred ibl presidential elections but the white house is not taking a position on whether mubarak should be on the ballot. >> the united states government does not determine who is on the ballot. the question is whether or not elections are free and fair. that's what we would weigh in on and weigh in on strongly. >> let's bring in "newsweek" magazine middle east editor and paris bureau chief, christopher dicky, trying to make his ...