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As we can see it's had just that effect, anderson. >> fred, i have a quick question. where are all those tanks that were in tahrir square -- >> hold on one second, everybody. the vice president of the united states, joe biden is in kentucky and we're told he's speaking right now about egypt. >> and we continue to stand -- >> sorry, just -- >> a set of core principles, the first is that violence and intimidation against peaceful demonstrators is totally, thoroughly unacceptable. secondly, that the universal rights of the egyptian people must be respected and their aspirations must be met. and, ...

Really reaffirming what we have heard from this president all along that the future of egypt lies in the hands of the egyptian people but as one white house official has told our john king that's an unpredictable chapter that we are now entering. i'm looking forward to hearing from president obama in about an hour on what he sees as the path forward could be. >> as they celebrate in cairo in tahrir square, we'll be getting ready to hear from the president of the united states. we'll have live coverage here on cnn and cnn international in one hour or so from the white house. let me bring back h...

Clearly we know that secretary gates has been on the phone in contact with his counterpart, the military leader there in egypt. but who are they going to be able to rely on. >> we talk about the supreme council. you know, they talked about the supreme council, he's passing it off to them. does that include omar suleiman? the vice president. he's a military man in the past, but it's not entirely clear to me that he's on that council. we'll try to get answers to that question, and so many more, about what lies ahead for egypt. you know, go back in history, also on this date 32 years ago, there w...

That was in power. >> it took 18 days, basically. there was some violence, but it was largely peaceful. and they managed to do in these 18 days what few thought that they could do, remove hosni mubarak as president of egypt. he is now gone. we believe he's in sharm ll l l sheik, and we heard them say he is no longer the president. the egyptian military who is highly respected basically across the board will take charge. there are a lot of details that need to be fleshed out now, how long do they do that, how long does the military take charge, what is the process leading towards free and fair ...

Mubarak, and now they are gathered in front of the barbed wire, the six-foot-high wall of concertino wire, the ropes are roped off in front of the palace. now the soldiers, they've got a loudspeaker here, and they're playing a message to the crowd. everybody trying to quiet down to hear it. and just scenes of rapture. you know, when the statement first went out, i saw two men drop to their knees in the street immediately in prayer. this is an arab revolution. >> ivan, stand by right there, as we're looking at scenes playing out on the streets of cairo. we've got more news coming in. suzanne? ...