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So since 1952. i remember each time i went to egypt, people being afraid to speak out, to say anything about the president in person, even when things started to open up slightly, they could attack a minister, talk about corruption, but never the president. >> do you believe it will now change for the better from what you have seen? >> i think something's broken and people talk about the barrier of fear having been broken. i sensed that, i saw it with my own eyes, i could hear people attacking the president, calling for his trial. ask for the money back that's left egypt. so a barrier has been...

>> tonight, egypt's military is running the show. will they relen kwish the power to a democratic government. bob is a is this democracy we're seeing here? >> that's not the way i see it. it was a military coup that occurred yesterday or last night in egypt. today the military is fully in control, rather than any of the parliament or anybody else. and right now the face of this military coup is omar suleiman. the question is how long will he last in that role? >> tell me about omar suleiman, you have good knowledge of him, you've been on the ground many times in egypt and you know the region w...

This leads me to suspect that he may be pulling all the strings anyway in egypt. so are we really in a situation where it's just the same kind of thing and a different face? >> he's certainly not a new face to anybody who's followed things closely behind the scenes in egypt. and put it this way, he's not what i would call change you can believe in. he's certainly not a democrat, small d democrat. and critics say he's been very closely associated with the torture of detainees in kind of terrible situations in dungeons in the intelligence agency that he runs. >> but you have said it's a bit like...

Israel -- is egyptians giving more support to hamas, opening up the border to gaza, for instance. right now the only thing the military is concerned about is consolidating power and we're not going to know for several weeks in which way they're going to go. >> we have already sn scene this is evening of hamas on the west banks celebrating what they're witnessing in egypt. they're not doing it because they're pleased to see democracy thriving, they're doing it because they're saying people power overthrowing a regime they don't like. >> what they're saying is that we could overthrow the plo, wh...

Tonight we want to take a moment to watch and listen to the sights and sounds of a country celebrating revolution. >> translator: president hosni mubarak has decided to step down as president of egypt. >> there are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. this someone of those moments. this is one of those times. >> a sense of liberation for me, for every egyptian. a sense of emancipation of the whole egyptian people and for the first time, egypt has a chance to be democratic, to be free.