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>> you were out there in the crowd today. you got roughed up in the crowd, as did we, and we'll show you some of the video coming up. but i think one of the most disturbing things from my perspective is watching the egyptian troops standing by, these are troops that had controlled access to the square for days now. they had been searching anti-mubarak demonstrators. i didn't see any troops patting down pro mubarak demonstrators and they clearly had weapons with them and they started launching -- >> what was interesting is you have to rely on ordinary people, the kindness of strangers to protec...

Democracy demonstrators. >> you have no doubt this was state sponsored? >> it's been going on 15 hours. mang in times -- imagine in times square if you had two gangs fighting together for 15 hours and the government didn't intervene. there's no other explanation. when demonstrators come out on the streets in normal times, you'll have 500 riot police around them. this has been going on for 15 hours. the army stands by, and these men are allowed to come and go, and i've seen them walking up and down on their way to and from the square. it's been a constant refreshment of the troops -- excuse me,...

Others are party members. i can tell you that i've seen many times this sort of dynamic of the sort of the so-called pro government people going into demonstrations. back in 2005, when there was a surge of democracy, pro democracy activism here, there was demonstrations where these men would show up with the police and they would be plain clothes. they were paid 20 pounds and a pill of viagra. that was their pay to go out and beat the crap out of people, including dragging women out of the crowd, into back alleys and sexually molesting them. basically to teach these people a lesson not to do t...

The beating heart of this region, it cannot fail to have an impact on the rest of the region. this is so strategically crucial region. that's what struck me. seeing the faces of 18, 19, 20-year-olds, regardless of what side they were on, determined the future of an entire region on this planet, that really matters politically, militarily, strategically, to all of us. >> when we come back, we're going to also talk with john king and dr. ajami and show you some of what happened on the streets today. halla was roughed up. my team was attacked. we're going to -- we're getting new pictures i'm told...

600 plus. what's going to happen tomorrow? because still the egyptian military, as far as we know, has not moved in in any way to separate the two sides. >> it appears that the pro-mubarak people have pulled back to some extent. we could expect a repetition of what we saw today. >> there's nothing to stop it? >> no, nothing at all. nobody is stopping it. >> we're hearing more gunfire. ivan watson, you are in the square in the area where the anti-mubarak supporters have been for this entire period, and have been fighting today to maintain their position in the square. they are clearly still the...