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Arabs. >> i should point out professor ajami is a professor at johns hopkins and hoover institution. mubarak and i believe his vice president were two men who came to believe, it seems to me, they were egypt. it seems to me the message from the protestors from day one, the message especially from the millions we are seeing now, is that they are not egypt, we are egypt. these people are egypt. >> yes. >> this is egypt. this is it the future of egypt. and this is what egypt needs to be. >> well, anderson, the truth of this country, the truth of egypt, is that there's a fault line. there are peop...

Secret police. so there's a lot of unanswered questions about what will happen in the hours and the days ahead. but, again, for the people right now who have suffered for so long, perhaps those questions can wait just a few more hours to be answered while they celebrate freedom, something they are tasting really for the first time in their lives. frederik pleitgen is in liberation square, as well. frederik, from your vantage point, what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, what i'm seeing, anderson, is how people are turning this main road, this main bridge that goes over the nile more and more ...

System of graft and corruption, you can just imagine how the money would flow upwards to the pharaoh who sat at the top of that financial economic pyramid. >> and it's said the sons of mubarak have a number of companies that basically kind of get money through links with other foreign companies that do business in egypt, perhaps through the military, as well, but, again, a lot of this will no doubt be investigated down the road as already this regime in the last few days and weeks, we have seen this regime turning on itself already starting to investigate itself, kind of throwing former minist...

Crucial and essential country in the arab world, what are the chances that the military, this institution in egypt, will lead the country to democracy? >> i think right now you have to be hopeful because the power that this tahrir square has shown, the power that the egyptian people have shown, is so dramatic, is so strong that i think it would be very difficult for a general to be sitting there watching this and think about subverting it, think about blocking it, think about obstacles to it. you just look at these people. for $18 day they have been able to do this. they have brought this extr...

Egyptian people can enjoy the fruits and benefits of a prosperous and democratic society. >> i think we have some reaction from ban ki-moon, the united nations secretary-general. if we have that clip ready, let's roll that now and then we'll continue this conversation. all right. we'll get that queued up and play it for our viewers. let me ask you, mona, what i asked mohammed elbaradei, what do you want to hear from the president of the united states from the white house in about an hour? >> i want president obama to say, i salute the egyptian people for showing the world they have led a peace...