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President of the united states at the white house. we'll get his reaction to all of this history. back to you for the time being. >> all right. we've talked a lot about the power of social media in all of this and the massive protest movement that forced the egyptian president hosni mubarak to step down. well, this facebook page in memory of a young egyptian businessman killed by police sparked thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets on january 25th. i'm talking about a facebook page, if we can get it up, that's fine. if not, a quick description. there we are. we are all -- this is a...

Their american equivalent but this is the egyptian armed forces coming through for thorren people with no help whatsoever basically realizing it was a case of egypt on one side and hosni mubarak on the other side and they chose the right side. they did the right thing. and hosni mubarak was trying to dig in his heels, it showed how out of touch he was with what was happening in the country because of touch he was with what was happening in the country. the more stubborn he became, the more people pulled out into the streets in the hundreds of thousands. i don't think he was courageous. i think...

>> reporter: thank you, dina. sir, come forward, please. your thoughts today right now? >> yes. i think that we have changed the history of not only that of egypt but all over the world. many courses will be changed and even the egyptian people will change. now strongly in the political life in egypt and we will rebuild egypt. i repeat, we will rebuild egypt. >> reporter: what is the most important thing for egypt moving forward after today? >> okay, from now on, we will concentrate on building first of all a political -- so it can be build on political -- we can build a strong economy and we ...

Their country. egypt now has a really precious moment of opportunity to have a government that can bring the country together and as a friend of egypt and the egyptian people, we stand ready to help in any way that we can. we believe it must be a government that starts to put in place the building blocks of a truly open, free and democratic society. and, of course, what has happened today should only be the first step. those who now run egypt have a duty to reflect the wishes of the egyptian people and in particular there really must be a move to civilian and democratic rule as part of this im...

>> you can see these live pictures from tahrir square, those flames there are flares. people are celebrating, they're dancing, they're singing on the streets. it's just after 9:00 p.m. there. they're only beginning to taste freedom right now, real freedom. they're not worried about secret police. they're not worried about security services. they're going about, just thrilled that the egyptian president, now the former egyptian president, hosni mubarak is gone. we're not exactly sure where he is. he might be in the resort town in southern sinai right now, but he's gone and we've received offici...