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Proud egyptians, the largest of the arab countries, militarily they say the most significant. why can't we stand up to a dictator and they did, in fact, do that. halah gorani and ben wedeman are here. anderson cooper is here as we await the president of egypt. we think hosni mubarak is going to be speaking soon. that element of pride, hala, when you were there a week ago, the element of pride when they were saying if to younecians can do this, we can do this. i assume that came out in a lot of conversations you had. >> it did. even the most hard-core protesters in tahrir square right now would...

Or many people want to be in tahrir square for what they expect to be a historic moment when president mubarak makes his speech. >> it certainly will be. do they have some sort of speaker system? i assume they do, ben, that they he will be able to hear mubarak as he speaks? >> why, there are many speaker systems down there playing at the moment, music. others making speeches. but we've seen in the past that there is a big screen down there where people will be able to listen to whatever speech comes out, and i would like to be down there myself to see what the reaction is. >> yeah, i'm sure a ...

We thought was so solid, so strong, so entrenched is being shaken by what's really limited protests limited to the heart of cairo. that's really sort of what inspired me to send that tweet at the time. and i did think afterwards, maybe i may have jumped the gun, but by the 28th when we saw the army come in and the police pull out of cairo, i thought i was probably right. >> you certainly were right. ben wedeman is going to stay with us. anderson cooper is watching what's going on. halah gorani is watching what's going on. we have all of our reporters and anlis analysts working the story. we're...

Military is willing to allow to happen. i will note that amar moussa although he has a reputation of a political opportunist, i think on the street of egypt, he's very popular. >> tarek has to go, he's an assistant professor of public policy at harvard.thanks very much. you can see the crowd, still so excited there in egypt right now, tahrir square. they've heard all the rumors and reports saying that president hosni mubarak is getting ready to go on egyptian television and announce that heal step down. we'll have to wait for the official statement, presumably it's going to be live. halah gora...

People talking to relatives. but in total, the internet has been working fine as has mobile phone and sms. that was not the case a couple weeks ago when everything was cut off as the regime attempted to cut down these communications thinking that it might stop people from coming here but of course, it never had, wolf. >> halah gorani, you were just there in egypt. they have a very sophisticated mobile phone network in egypt, don't they? all right. well, i continue to watch these pictures. just a few days ago, the square was reenergized after that live interview with wael ghonim, the google exe...