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Ever. this is the power of human dignity and it can never be denied. egyptians have inspired us. they have done so by putting the lie to the idea that just to us is best gained through violence. for an egypt it was the moral force of nonviolence, not terrorism, not mindless killing, but nonviolence, moral force, that bent the arc of history toward justice once more. and while the sights and sounds we heard were entirely egyptian, we can't help but hear the echoes of history, echoes from german's tearing down a wear, indonesia students taking to the streets, gandhi leading his people down the p...

The egyptian media for a long time. just to see that unfold and if you had watched, if you had watched the egyptian media over these past 18 days, anderson is right, and ben wedeman has reported extensively for us about some of the outrageous allegations they were making against these demonstrators at tahrir square, allegations saying the u.s. or other foreign powers were funding them, were responsible for them and it was, you know, just wild, wild accusations. let's go back to tahrir square right now. arwa damon is on the scene for us. arwa, what's going on? >> reporter: well, celebrations ar...

That on monday. >> when is the last time president obama spoke with president mubarak? >> i have to double check but i believe it was ... i think it was right before he spoke -- monday, right? the monday he spoke? the last one was then that i am aware of. >> under the obama administration the state department changed the way the civil society in egypt was funded. it did not directly fund civil society groups or democracy groups as the bush administration did? (inaudible) and it lowered how much they were funded. in retrospect do they regret that, the obama administration? >> i can give you a l...

At the center of the world in hundreds of countries all over our planet, in living rooms and news studios, the world is watching now, the center of cairo, egyptian, where an unthinkable revolution has take were place over the past 18 days as the government fought back against its own people, as the government tries to keep them from demonstrating, to keep the pictures from getting out, and they could not be stopped. the egyptian government has been overthrown! in just a moment as mime mentioned we will go live to the white house for the last press briefing of robert gibbs who will help us unde...

>> few questions on egypt. was president obama surprised by the news this morning? >> well, look, i think throughout the morning we got last night indications that the last speeches may not have been given and the last changes, particularly this morning when, with the, with everybody reporting that there would be a statement from the office of the president. so the president, as i think many of you have reported, was in a regularly scheduled meeting in the oval when a note was taken into him to let him know what had been announced and since then prior to giving the statement he spent an hour w...