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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...

The day before, anderson, at the suez canal, once egyptian state media began showing positive images of the protesters and once the military began making statements that maybe, maybe mubarak should step down, he lost that entire base, and it was only going to be a matter of time before the situation would unfold. let's go back to ben wedeman in cairo right now. the crowd, i take it more and more and more people every minute are showing up in tahrir square, even though it's getting late into the evening right now, ben. tell us what you're seeing and hearing. >> reporter: well, it's an hour and ...

Authoritarian rule with other people in office. obviously the united states has an interest in seeing that the voices of these people in the streets of cairo are still heard inside the corridors of power in cairo. that's the contribution that the u.s. has to making to encourage the egyptians to open that up. >> nick burns, thanks very much. former undersecretary of state. now at the hard yard university helping us appreciate the history of what's unfolding. these are live pictures from tahrir square. folks there are so excited. teps it of thousands of people are gathering there. they want to h...

Who was in charge of the intelligence services all of them in egypt would be named the new vice president. this was the first time that egypt had a vice president since mubarak hipz as a former vice president took over when president sadat was assassinated in 1981. a new government was sworn in on january 31st, but tens it of thousands of people were swarming tahrir square in downtown cairo. they were not backing down at all in the face of what was going on. they were certainly not satisfied. they were moving ahead with their demonstrations. they wanted dem creation, they wanted democracy now....

The egyptian leader. we will have live coverage here on cnn and cc international. we just got a tweet by the way, halah, you'll be interested that we'll gee people in, the google executive arrested in cairo spent about ten days in a prison, but then spoke so passionately and dramatically about what's going on, he has now just tweeted he's heading towards tahrir square right now. he's a familiar face to the people who have gathered there. i'm sure they will be inspired once he gets there. anderson cooper is joining us right now. anderson, only a few days ago, you were down in tahrir square. you...